Chapter 1: She's turned into a cat! Great Cat God, please bless her...

"Reincarnated as Various Animals After Death" / by Ying Ci

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Does it hurt when a person dies?

No way.

When the car ran over her, Cheng Shiyun didn't feel any pain.

My eyelids feel very heavy, and I really want to sleep.

She heard someone calling her name repeatedly.

Tell her not to sleep, not to sleep...

But she couldn't hold on and closed her eyes.

— Cheng Shiyun died in a car accident at the age of 16.

*

Tick-tock—

Tick-tock—

It's raining.

Cheng Shiyun stuck out her tongue and licked the raindrops from her lips.

Tongue?

How can fish have tongues?

Cheng Shiyun opened her eyes and saw a narrow alley.

She was lying amidst a pile of beer bottles, with a yellowish wall behind her, and a faint smell of urine in the air.

Cheng Shiyun looked up, and the residential buildings in front of her were so tall...

It wasn't raining; someone was watering the potted plants on the balcony.

Water stung her eyes like needles, and Cheng Shiyun raised her hand to rub them.

It was damp and had a fuzzy texture.

Cheng Shiyun lowered her hand, or rather, her claw.

She has claws!

Four still!

It had rained last night, and there were many puddles on the ground. Cheng Shiyun crawled towards the one closest to her.

The puddles were as bright as a mirror, reflecting the azure sky and dilapidated residential buildings very clearly.

Cheng Shiyun looked at the reflection in the puddle and tentatively tilted her head, causing the fluffy shadow to tilt its head as well.

"Meow?"

A soft, childlike voice rolled out from her throat, and Cheng Shiyun belatedly realized that she had turned into a cat!

"Wow!!!"

The kitten in the puddle was covered in unknown filth, its original fur completely obscured.

Her head was tiny, her body was like a ball of fluff that hadn't fully grown, and her paws were soft.

Judging from its size, it's a kitten that's not even a month old.

Cheng Shiyun curled up by the puddle, lowered her head and licked the two small mangosteens covered in mud, calmly accepting reality.

Since she died, she has been able to transform into various animals; last time, she turned into a fish in the market.

Grass carp is still the best choice for making sauerkraut fish, boiled fish, and fish porridge!

To avoid becoming someone's meal, she would turn belly up and play dead whenever someone came to buy fish, escaping many times with this trick.

Later, the market lost power, and on the third day after the fish was cooked, Cheng Shiyun died from lack of oxygen.

What an unfortunate life for a fish.

Now, she has become a cat again, and a stray cat that looks like it's struggling to even find food and shelter.

However, Cheng Shiyun was well received.

Cats it is.

Becoming a stray cat is better than becoming a fish in the market, at least you don't have to worry about being caught and eaten all the time.

And kittens are so cute!

Cheng Shiyun raised her little paw.

She has four of these adorable little mangosteens! Four!

Cheng Shiyun buried her face in it and took a few deep breaths!

Of all the small animals, Cheng Shiyun likes cats the most, but her mother is allergic to cat fur and the family doesn't allow pets. She can only pet the stray cats downstairs on her way to and from school.

Her head is so small, her paws are so pink, and her paw pads are so round. She's so cute, I want to kiss her to death!

"Meow~"

Where is this place?

Cheng Shiyun looked at the mottled brick walls in the alley and felt that they looked somewhat familiar.

But she couldn't remember.

She didn't even know how long she had been dead.

I have no idea how my parents are doing now.

Wait, becoming a cat has its advantages besides being cute!

The cat has arms and legs, she can go home now!

Cheng Shiyun excitedly wobbled to her feet, but before she could even stand up straight, she fell to the ground with a "plop".

Her limbs were so limp they felt like they had no bones, and she couldn't muster any strength at all.

Could it be... could it be that she is a disabled kitten?

"Meow!"

Cheng Shiyun cried out in alarm, looked down and scratched her paws, then looked at her shrunken belly.

It's not a disability.

She's doing fine, she just hasn't eaten for several days.

The most urgent thing is to find something to eat to fill her stomach, otherwise she will starve to death on the way home.

Just then, voices suddenly came from the alley entrance.

"Really, I just saw that dead cat stand up!"

Cheng Shiyun had a bad feeling.

Dead cat... could that be her name?

Another voice chimed in sarcastically, "Six stories high, even a person would die if they fell from there, how could a cat survive? Don't exaggerate."

Cheng Shiyun's heart sank.

She remembered.

She has a mother.

She was the kitten of a stray mother cat.

But recently, the mother cat scratched someone while protecting her kittens and was poisoned to death. Without her mother's protection, the kitten was left to be easily manipulated.

So a few junior high school students threw her off the sixth floor.

The grime on her body was a mixture of ink, glue, and mud.

These are not "flowers of the motherland," they are clearly man-eating flowers of the motherland!

That's outrageous!

If Cheng Shiyun were a human being, she would definitely educate them properly.

Cats are so cute, how can you hurt them!

But right now she's just a kitten that hasn't been weaned yet, and she can't do anything.

The voices grew clearer and clearer. Cheng Shiyun didn't dare to think too much and hurriedly looked around, quickly spotting the abandoned water pipes piled up in the corner.

The water pipe was only as thick as a fist, just big enough to fit her tiny kitten.

Cheng Shiyun quickly shrank back and squeezed inside after a couple of gulps.

At the same time, three junior high school students, around ten years old, walked into the alley.

They looked around.

"Where did that dead cat go? I just saw it here. Did someone pick it up?"

Suddenly, a person pointed to several plum blossom prints on the ground and said excitedly, "Look, there are footprints here!"

Cheng Shiyun glanced at her dirty little gloves.

We're doomed.

There was mud around the puddle; she got some on her face when she looked in the mirror earlier.

"Look carefully."

After a shout, someone kicked over the trash can and used a stick to dig out the garbage inside.

Cheng Shiyun's hair stood on end.

If they catch her, she will surely die.

She absolutely must not be discovered.

However, a problem arose: her tail fell out!

As we all know, cats and cat tails are two different things.

Cheng Shiyun, who had just turned into a kitten, had not yet mastered the skill of taming her tail. Her tail dangled outside the water pipe, a fluffy little thing, wagging happily.

It was practically beckoning to those middle schoolers: "Hey, I'm here, come and catch me!"

She can't control her tail!

Cheng Shiyun's heart sank to the bottom, feeling that her cat life was coming to an end.

The footsteps beside me grew closer and closer.

Snap—

Snap—

...

A pair of faded canvas shoes stepped over a puddle of sewage, splashing water and leaving mud on the edges of the shoes, but the shoes did not falter for a moment.

A tall boy led a chubby little boy wearing shorts into the alley.

To be precise, the chubby boy grabbed him and ran inside while crying, "Brother, I have lots of pocket money and New Year's money, I'll give it all to you, please, you must save that cat."

"Mimi? Mimi, where are you?" the chubby boy called out everywhere.

Cheng Shiyun was hiding in the water pipe, so her field of vision was limited. She could only see a pair of short legs and a pair of long legs walking back and forth in the alley.

"Mimi, come out quickly, I'll take you to buy dried fish."

Dried small fish!

Cheng Shiyun's ears twitched.

Damn it, that chubby boy actually tried to seduce her.

But she's no ordinary cat; she's a cat that can resist temptation!

Unsure if the chubby boy could protect her, Cheng Shiyun dared not go out rashly.

The middle school students turned to look at them, smiling as they asked, "Kids, are you here to find the cat too?"

The chubby boy shrank his neck: "Brother, it was them..." He saw them throw the cat down from the sixth floor.

He was still clutching the unfinished ice cream in his hand, his hands covered in melted cream. He hadn't even bothered to eat the ice cream because he was so focused on finding an adult to rescue the cat.

Faced with a middle school student wielding a stick, while he was only a third-grade elementary school student, he could only cling tightly to the hand of the person beside him, placing all his hopes on that person.

In summer, the weather after the start of the dog days is so hot and humid that it feels like a steamer.

The tall boy next to the chubby boy was wearing a white long-sleeved T-shirt, and his bangs were long enough to cover his eyes, revealing only a bit of his pale brow bone.

His exposed wrists and ear tips had an unnaturally pale complexion.

The oversized T-shirt draped over his body, barely managing to support his outline with his shoulders, yet he still appeared thin, his shoulder blades pressing against the fabric, their shape subtly revealed with each movement.

On his left ear, a hearing aid rested quietly against his auricle.

A middle school student muttered, "This person looks kind of familiar."

"Nonsense, that's him on the honor roll for the college entrance exam that you just saw at the school gate. His name is Xie something."

He whispered, "Xie Shijin."

Go through this alley and you'll find Yichuan No. 7 Middle School. A couple of days ago, the college entrance examination admission notices came out, and to celebrate that the school produced the provincial science champion, they set off fireworks all night long. Everyone in the area knows about it.

A middle school student asked Xie Shijin, "Senior, have you seen a cat?"

They were students from the junior high school section of No. 7 Middle School, and the cat was also from the school.

Xie Shijin raised his eyes, his voice flat: "I saw it."

He saw it as soon as he entered the alley.

Among the piles of abandoned water pipes at the base of the wall, a dirty tail protruded, its sparse hairs tangled together, covered in mud and ash, almost blending into the equally mottled and filthy wall, swaying back and forth like a wriggling caterpillar.

Cheng Shiyun: "!"

The caterpillar paused for a moment, then shook itself even faster.

Cheng Shiyun: "..."

What a rebellious tail!

Now she's going to let Tail know who the true owner of this body is!

A small, dirty glove-like creature emerged from the water pipe, its claws scratching wildly, until it dug its tail inside.

The middle school student pressed further, "Where?"

He hadn't intended to kill the cat, but he didn't expect the dead cat to dare scratch him, so he threw the cat off the sixth floor.

The boy's thick, dark eyelashes drooped: "Someone picked it up."

Upon hearing this, the other two junior high school students cursed, "I knew it! Someone must have picked it up."

"Damn, all that searching here for nothing."

"Let's go, let's go."

There are plenty of stray cats. If this one is gone, just find another one to play with. It's a waste of time to search aimlessly.

The group walked away, grumbling and cursing.

The chubby boy clutched his half-melted ice cream, his brow still furrowed: "Brother, was Mimi really taken away? Those people were so mean, there were so many bad guys..."

He muttered under his breath, "Our teachers all teach us to love and protect animals. Didn't they take those lessons? Why are they hurting Mimi?"

Xie Shijin glanced at him and suddenly asked, "Why did you come to me? Aren't you afraid I'm a bad person too?"

"I've seen my brother feed the stray cats in front of the supermarket!" The chubby boy immediately looked up, his eyes sparkling. "My brother is a good person!"

This road is called Xuefu Road, and there are several schools around it.

Students usually feed the cats, but once winter or summer vacation starts, no one feeds them.

Xie Shijin would come every two or three days, carrying cat food and sitting on a bench outside the supermarket, quietly watching the kittens eat.

The chubby boy licked his ice cream, leaving a ring of white cream on the corner of his mouth: "Does your family have cats, brother?"

"I won't raise them."

Xie Shijin handed him a tissue to wipe his mouth and said calmly, "There are many good people in this world, and there are also many bad people. Don't go with strangers in the future, understand?"

"knew."

Xie Shijin: "Let's go home."

After the chubby boy left, the alley became completely quiet.

Xie Shijin raised his hand to adjust the hearing aid hanging on his ear. He was about to turn around and leave, but his gaze fell on the pile of abandoned water pipes at the base of the wall, and he stood there for a long time.

Sixth floor...

A person would die if they fell from that height, let alone a cat.

Like humans, cats sometimes experience a final burst of energy before they die.

If no one finds it, the cat will rot and infest with maggots in the water pipe until the stench spreads and it is finally discovered. Then, it will be picked up in disgust and thrown into the filthy garbage dump.

He walked over and squatted down.

It was completely empty inside.

The cat is missing.

*

That was close!

Cheng Shiyun ran away.

Taking advantage of everyone's inattention, it quietly slipped out of the water pipe and ran away, successfully escaping the pursuit of the evil two-legged beast.

Clever cat, overcome difficulties!

Emerging from the alley, Cheng Shiyun found herself on a street she knew well.

On this side of the road is Yichuan No. 7 Middle School, and on the other side is Yichuan Experimental Primary School.

For Cheng Shiyun, the transition from primary school to junior high and then to senior high is just a matter of crossing a street.

Summer vacation has started, and the surrounding shops are much quieter.

The math tutoring center where Cheng Shiyun received extra lessons is still open, as are the Typhoon Shelter restaurant, fried food stall, and Xinhua Bookstore that she frequented.

Further on, Cheng Shiyun saw the small supermarket the chubby boy had mentioned, and the bench at the entrance where she used to feed the cats.

The blazing sun beat down on the supermarket's faded facade, while the radio at the entrance played today's news intermittently.

"Today is July 17, 2018, the fifth day of the sixth lunar month. According to the meteorological observatory, the highest temperature in our city is expected to exceed 37℃, and in some areas it may even reach above 40℃..."

2018...

How come it's been two years already...?

That's not surprising.

One second she was a fish, the next she turned into a cat.

She died in 2016. If she hadn't had that accident, she would have been taking the college entrance exam this year.

College Entrance Examination!

It's already July, the college entrance exam results should be out by now.

Behind the Seventh Middle School is a pedestrian street called Xuezi Road. Cheng Shiyun's home is on that pedestrian street. If she wants to take a shortcut home, she has to go through the school.

It was summer vacation, and apart from the teachers on duty, there was basically no one on campus, and the school gates were naturally closed.

The electric sliding gate couldn't stop a brave and fierce little cat.

Cheng Shiyun, with her tail held high and her cat-like steps, walked into the Seventh Middle School with her head held high.

At the entrance, Cheng Shiyun saw the honor roll for college entrance examination candidates.

The honor roll was huge, a festive bright red, covered with countless names and photos.

Cheng Shiyun, now transformed into a kitten, was too short and had to strain to stand on tiptoe to look up.

This year, 33 students from their school were admitted to Tsinghua University, and 21 students were admitted to Peking University.

The province's top science student is from their school.

— Xie Shijin, Class 21.

727 points.

The city's top liberal arts student is also from their school.

— Ni Jiaqi, Class 10.

681 points.

"Wow, that's amazing..."

Cheng Shiyun let out two sighs.

If she hadn't been in the car accident, she could have gotten into Tsinghua University.

Don't underestimate her, she's very capable.

"So what if I'm a top science student? I'll take it!" — The cat's smugness.

But now...

Cheng Shiyun looked down at her two pairs of dirty, unrecognizable gloves.

A good woman doesn't dwell on past glories; go home, go home.

She misses her parents.

She walked through the school and went home.

Great cat goddess, please bless her so she can get home safely.

Cat Door!

A note from the author:

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My next book to write: "The First Year of Rebirth"

A sweet romance novel featuring a naive and innocent girl and a rebellious young master!

Text: Zhao Mengjin, a 27-year-old doctor, died of cancer.

When she opened her eyes again, she was locked inside a sports equipment room.

She had her hair tied in a high ponytail and was wearing a clean blue and white school uniform. Her asthma medication, which she always carried with her, was also gone.

The equipment room was dimly lit and covered in dust.

Zhao Mengjin covered her mouth and nose, trying her best to remain calm and prevent her asthma from flaring up.

As she was trying to save herself, a boy burst open the door to the equipment room, sending dust flying everywhere.

Zhao Mengjin weakly raised her head, saw his face clearly, and asked in a daze, "Chen Bozhou? What are you doing here?"

The boy's hair, ruffled by the wind, fell down as he breathed heavily.

Zhao Mengjin looked behind him.

The boy's melancholy gaze was fixed intently on her.

"Chen Bozhou, who are you looking for?"

Chen Bozhou walked towards her step by step, bent down, lifted her legs, and said in a hoarse voice, "Zhao Mengjin, hold me tight."

Zhao Mengjin fell into a warm and clean embrace.

She was stunned for a while before she came to her senses.

Wasn't it He Chengyang who saved her in her past life?

*

The day Zhao Mengjin passed away was the same day she filed for divorce from He Chengyang.

She sent the divorce agreement to He Chengyang, but it's unknown whether he signed it after her death.

Twenty-eight-year-old He Chengyang does not like Zhao Mengjin.

Eighteen-year-old He Chengyang still doesn't like Zhao Mengjin.

On the day the mock exam ended, He Chengyang confessed his feelings to his first love.

He turned off the classroom lights and celebrated his first love's birthday in class.

Today is also Zhao Mengjin's birthday.

He Chengyang had never celebrated her birthday before, and she had never seen him so happy.

Everyone surrounded them, offering their blessings and watching them make a wish and blow out the candles.

Naturally, no one noticed that in a corner where no one paid attention, a flame had sprung up.

The handsome young man clasped his hands together, carefully protecting the flame, and said softly, "...Zhao Mengjin, happy birthday. Actually, I'm not bad either."

Stop liking him and look at me more.

*

At the graduation banquet, everyone got a little drunk.

Chen Bozhou was also drunk, and was dragged by several boys in his class to play Truth or Dare.

He, who was usually invincible, lost several times tonight.

"Tell me the truth, how long have you liked Zhao Mengjin?!"

Chen Bozhou nestled obediently on her shoulder, his head slightly slurred with alcohol, like a big dog. Zhao Mengjin's face flushed red.

Amidst a chorus of cheers from the surrounding crowd.

Chen Bozhou said, "Sixteen years."

*

In the first year of Zhao Mengjin's rebirth, she discovered that Chen Bozhou had loved her for sixteen years.