The girl was startled and fell to the ground, but she wasn't angry. She just stood up and ran away, a little frightened.

The cat quickly grabbed her arm and said unhappily, "Why are you running? Do I look scary?"

The girl turned to look at her, wary, but she still shook her head.

"Then don't run away. Running away means you're lying."

The girl froze. She didn't run away because her mother had said that a child who lies is not a good child.

The cat sat on the grass and tugged at the girl, "You sit down too."

The girl obediently sat down, but she did so in a very defensive posture, hugging her knees and curling up into a ball.

The cat looked at her. "Why aren't you going to the banquet?"

The girl didn't speak, she just shook her head.

The cat was speechless. "If you don't speak, and I can't understand what you mean, why won't you talk to me? Am I not worthy?"

The girl quickly shook her head. She finally looked at the cat, then shook her head again.

What do you mean by shaking your head?

The girl remained silent for a long time before picking up a twig from the ground and writing a few words: "I don't want to go."

The cat asked in surprise, "You can't talk?"

The girl simply leaned back silently on her knees.

The cat handed the branch to her again, saying, "If you can't speak, then write it down. What's your name?"

The girl wrote her name on the ground—Ding Chu.

"You are Ding Yongchun's granddaughter!"

Ding Chu nodded slightly.

"Why are you unhappy? Today is your birthday, and your grandfather invited a lot of people to celebrate with you," Maomao said. Of course, she could see that the girl was shrouded in a sense of sadness.

The girl slowly wrote on the ground: They weren't celebrating for me.

She paused, then wrote: I don't want to celebrate my birthday.

The cat glanced at it and said, "Maybe they're not celebrating for you, but your grandpa is."

Why don't you want to celebrate your birthday?

The girl fell silent again, and the feeling of sorrow emanating from her intensified. Her small face was quite pretty, but it looked as if she might cry at any moment.

She wrote: Mom and Dad are gone.

The cat understood: because her parents were gone, she didn't want to celebrate her birthday.

The girl was clearly traumatized by the death of her parents, but Old Zheng didn't tell her that.

Just then, several people suddenly ran over from a distance.

"Have you found Miss? She's supposed to be cutting the cake! Where did she go?"

"Forget about cutting the cake, if we lose Miss, we're doomed!"

"Go look over there quickly."

"Let's split up and search."

Two people walked towards them.

The girl suddenly hugged herself tightly and huddled behind the tree.

"You don't want them to find you?"

The girl nodded.

But they've already come this far; if they get here, they'll definitely find her!

The cat suddenly stood up.

The two maids were taken aback. "Miss Jiu, have you seen our young lady?"

The cat shook its head. "No, I've been here for a long time and haven't seen anyone."

"Oh, then we won't bother you any longer."

After they finished speaking, the two people quickly ran away.

The cat sat back down on the grass and looked at the girl. "Do you want your parents to celebrate your birthday?"

The girl nodded silently.

The cat said, "But they've gone to a very far place and won't be able to come back. Does that mean you'll never celebrate your birthday again?"

The girl suddenly became angry. She picked up a branch and wrote several words deeply on the ground: You lied! They're dead! They won't be coming back!

The cat blinked, looking into the girl's angry eyes.

How did I lie to you?

Is the underworld not far away? You won't be able to go there for at least another seventy or eighty years.

However, the cat decided not to upset her.

"How about this, I'll have your parents come over to celebrate your birthday."

The girl suddenly looked up, staring intently at the cat, her eyes filled with tears, anger, expectation, and urgency all conveyed in them.

The cat snorted, "I'm not lying to you, close your eyes."

Although the girl didn't believe it, she missed her parents so much that she immediately closed her eyes.

The cat made a hand seal and inserted a rune into the girl's forehead.

The girl sat quietly, but soon she burst into tears, tears streaming down her face. Yet she also laughed, a mixture of crying and laughing.

The cat leaned against the tree, waiting for her.

She heard a suppressed, struggling sound coming from the girl's throat, intermittent, like she was crying, but after a while, she giggled.

After a long while, the girl staggered and fell to the ground. She opened her eyes and realized that her parents had disappeared!

She stood there stunned for a long time, then suddenly got up, grabbed the cat's arm, and pleaded with her in an urgent gaze.

"What are you doing?" the cat asked her.

The girl picked up a twig and quickly wrote: Dad and Mom!

Cat: "Oh, you still want to see your mom and dad?"

The girl nodded quickly.

Cat said with difficulty, "No, I already told you, your parents live far away and it's difficult for them to come. If you really miss them so much, I'll bring them over next year for your birthday."

The girl's expression was tense. Suddenly, she hesitated and wrote on the ground: Are you an angel?

The cat blinked. "I'm the devil!"

The girl shook her head, then pointed to the words she had just written. She seemed to trust her own judgment more: You are an angel.

The cat asked her, "What did your mom and dad say to you?"

The girl suddenly burst into tears again. She squatted on the ground, crying harder and harder, making hoarse sounds in her throat.

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