Chapter 27 A Thief

That night, Yin Jiu did not sleep well and had a lot of disorganized dreams.

He dreamed of the day he brought Ruibao home. He had just opened the cat cage and was about to take it out when it bit him.

It was clearly trembling with fear, but it pretended to breathe at him.

So he didn't get angry, but smiled and said, "Look at you silly, I'll call you a little idiot from now on."

But soon, he felt that the name was not formal enough, so he changed it to Xiaorui. It does not mean anything auspicious, but it is the same as the Rui in the musical scale of Do-Re-Mi, which still means two, but it is a little more elegant.

Later, he began to call it Ruibao.

The salesperson did not lie to him at all. This cat really had a bad temper. It was unfriendly and would not let people hold it. If you reached out to touch it, it would either bite you with its teeth or scratch you with its claws.

Until the day before leaving Yin Jiu, it had not become docile and was still grinding its teeth on Yin Jiu's fingers.

It will parkour around the house 24 hours a day, regardless of day or night, making a mess of the house and knocking down all obstacles.

When Yin Jiu was working, she would linger on his keyboard and hide his shoes and watch. She would drink water from his cup and would deliberately push his cup to the ground and break it if he was not allowed to drink.

It would also suddenly drop from the sky when Yin Jiu was sleeping soundly and step on him, causing internal injuries. If you lose your temper with it, it would be even more ferocious than Yin Jiu. If you say something mean to it, it would meow and scold you from day to night.

Yin Jiu was thinking of raising a cat with a bad temper so that he could tolerate everything about it, but he didn't expect that a cat could have such a bad temper.

What can I do? Just bear with it. Is it possible to get rid of it?

I was able to quit smoking because of it. Every time Yin Jiu smoked, it would jump onto the computer desk and bite Yin Jiu's hand. It was quite painful, but hardly any skin breakage. Scolding it was useless, but I couldn't bear to hit it, so Yin Jiu usually just let it bite him.

Perhaps it felt that this trick was useless, so it simply sat down on Yin Jiu's hand. It could no longer smoke, and the hair on its tail was also burnt. It was a case of injuring the enemy but suffering a loss of 1,000 of its own.

From then on, it hated Yin Jiu's smoking even more. Whenever it smelled smoke, it would rush over and sit on the cigarette butt.

Of course it is not stupid, it just knows that Yin Jiu will not really let the cigarette butt burn it.

Later, Yin Jiu smoked and dared only hold the cigarette in his mouth. But even so, the bad-tempered little cat still had to puff his face to pry his cigarette away.

There was no choice, Yin Jiu quit smoking.

The day before he sent it away, it was still playing with Yin Jiu's finger with its teeth. Yin Jiu let it bite and just looked at it with his eyes downcast. He said to the cat with some sadness: "You said you have such a bad temper. Is it your nature or is it because of my habit?"

"My Ruibao, what will you do in the future?"

Yin Jiu had no idea what happened to it afterwards.

What Yin Jiu can know now is that he is in a dream, and this is a lucid dream.

He saw his cat again. It was the first time he had dreamed of it in all these years.

But soon, he couldn't find it. He searched everywhere and finally found Ning Changyue in front of the window.

Yin Jiu felt very strange. He was clearly looking for his cat, so why did Ning Changyue appear?

He was still awake, but his dream was not under his control. In the dream, he was driven to Ning Changyue's side. Everything in the dream seemed dark and gloomy. This person's face was shrouded in shadow, blurry and abnormal, but Yin Jiu knew it was him.

Then, the man turned around and looked at him, carefully examining him from head to toe, and then, as if confirming something, he said grimly, "Who are you? You are not Yin Jiu, you are not him."

You are not him...

You are not...

“Yin Jiu…Yin Jiu!”

Yin Jiu woke up from his dream with a splitting headache and a sticky feeling all over his body.

The system flew to the bedside, and when he finally woke up, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Yin Jiu, you have a fever."

It was still dark outside the window, obviously daybreak had not yet begun.

Yin Jiu's throat felt dry and his body felt cold. He asked in his mind, "What time is it now?"

The system said, "It's almost five o'clock. Were you having a nightmare?"

“I guess so.”

"Host, hurry up and take your medicine. I've detected that your temperature is over 39 degrees."

This is also the reason why the system woke up Yin Jiu.

Ning Changyue was still sleeping in his arms. Yin Jiu said, "Let's do it later."

If he gets up now, the person in his arms will definitely wake up.

It's a very strange thing that if Yin Jiu gets up at a normal time, Ning Changyue will not react at all, but if he goes to the toilet in the middle of the night or gets up early, Ning Changyue will always wake up first.

It was as if his vigilance was only directed towards variables.

Perhaps it was because of the fever. Although Yin Jiu was hugging Ning Changyue tightly, he could not get any warmth from him.

Enduring the biting cold, Yin Jiu lay down for more than an hour, until six o'clock, when he got up to take medicine.

The system watched him swallow the pill and said, "Host, it's not good to take medicine on an empty stomach, right?"

"Well, it's okay once." Yin Jiu just said that.

His voice was a little hoarse due to the fever, and his lips were rosy but unusually dry.

He lowered his eyes and drank the water, slowly drinking half the cup. After stopping, his eyes fell on the remaining water in the cup.

He always drank half a cup, and the remaining half cup of water was left for the cat. Later, the cat died, and the remaining half cup of water was also drunk by him.

After Ning Changyue moved in, he resumed his habit of only drinking half of his water.

It’s no wonder he thinks Ning Changyue is like a kitten. Many of his behaviors and habits are really like a cat.

But he is much more obedient than his Ruibao. Yin Jiu's cat is probably the cat with the worst temper in the world, but Ning Changyue is very obedient and has always been very obedient.

So sometimes Yin Jiu would feel that Ning Changyue's personality was like a cat, but he would not think too much about it.

At this moment, Yin Jiu looked at the remaining water in the cup and thought, isn't it fair? He became interested in Ning Changyue because his personality was like a cat.

Ning Changyue, because of some memories from her previous life, treated him as a family member and paid a lot of attention to him.

You see, they were not pure at first.

It’s fair, really fair, isn’t it? Yin Jiu was almost convinced.

But...it's not like that.

Because even though Yin Jiu loves his cat very much, he feels that Ning Changyue is very similar to the cat he once raised. But no matter how much he loves his cat, that is not love.

As a human being, he certainly would not fall in love with a cat.

And Ning Changyue regarded him as her life.

Such abundant emotions are obviously not directed at Yin Jiu now.

They had only known each other for a short time, so how could they have such deep feelings for each other? Yin Jiu should have realized it long ago.

The visual template of love will not be false. Ning Changyue's current emotions are invested in Yin Jiu, but the reason is just because he is Yin Jiu. │

He is the one Ning Changyue has chosen, so he regards him as his life and lets the flowers of love bloom in his heart.

But from the beginning, it was all wrong.

Ning Changyue would never know that the person he initially regarded as his life is long gone.

Yin Jiu was initially apologetic for replacing the original owner, but after the system appeared, he felt relieved, because in his opinion, the original owner probably didn't want to be controlled like this, living a life like a puppet, so he was pulled over to take the blame.

It was an equal exchange. Yin Jiu helped him break the impasse, and he gave Yin Jiu a new life.

But now, Yin Jiu suddenly disliked this person.

Because if he and Ning Changyue were lovers in the original world line, how could he bear to abandon his lover.

After losing him, his lover would rather die alone in the deep sea than let him be buried with her.

How could he bear to give up Ning Changyue, who is like this?

Yin Jiu couldn't figure it out, nor did he want to figure it out.

Yin Jiu lowered his head and slowly drank the remaining water in the cup.

Putting down the cup, he went to the bathroom in the gym to take a shower. The system watched him go in and swallowed back the words of dissuasion.

Something was so wrong. Ever since the conversation on the plane yesterday afternoon, the system had sensed that something was wrong with Yin Jiu.

Why? The system didn’t figure it out for now.

After taking a shower, Yin Jiu went downstairs to buy breakfast as usual.

He packed up and was about to go out when Ning Changyue came out sleepily and smiled. Yin Jiu went to the entrance to change his shoes.

After changing, he waved and said, "Come here."

Ning Changyue walked over obediently and was held in his arms, but the expected kiss did not happen.

Yin Jiu coughed and apologized, "I seem to have a cold. I can't kiss you today to avoid infecting you."

He lowered his head and kissed Ning Changyue on the forehead.

Ning Changyue looked at him carefully. His lips were very red, and his eyes were tired and bloodshot. He looked sick. Pursing his lips, Ning Changyue asked, "Have you taken any medicine?"

"Yeah, I've eaten." Letting go of his hand, Yin Jiu said, "I'm going to class first. If you're bored at home, you can come find me at school."

Saying the same words as usual, Yin Jiu opened the door and left. Before closing the door, he looked back again.

Perhaps out of worry, Ning Changyue frowned and his face looked a little gloomy.

He seemed to be the same as in the dream.

That question is still ringing in my ears.

——Who are you? You are not Yin Jiu, you are not him.

The door closed slowly, blocking each other's line of sight.

Yin Jiu smiled silently.

It seems that he is not wrong, he is indeed not that person. He is just a thief who stole other people's identities.