Chapter 25 Long live the Cat King! Long live the Cat King! Long live the Cat King!
A dull and monotonous school life is perfect for spreading gossip.
He Yi's story quickly spread throughout half of the campus, and even the first-year high school students who were still undergoing military training on the playground had vaguely heard about it.
After marveling at He Yi's utter depravity, most people turned their attention to another gossip subject they were more familiar with.
—Jiang Yingxu
Consistently ranked first in the grade, and won the national competition gold medal for two consecutive years.
Even the first-year high school students know him.
The boy who gave the speech on behalf of the senior year at the opening ceremony.
With his blue and white school uniform, black hair and fair skin, and a clear, deep voice, he was like the embodiment of the white moonlight on campus.
That's him, the one picked up from school by the cat?
As a result, the school gate was unusually crowded when school let out today.
The boarding student pretended to be nonchalant and wandered casually along the school gate railing.
The day students also slowed down, showing none of their usual impatience, and slowly moved out of the doorway.
Soon, a long-haired kitten suddenly burst into view of everyone who was watching the doorway.
The orange-yellow and pale purple sunset became her backdrop, giving her long, soft fur a shimmering glow.
The kitten jumped onto the stone lion's head and sat there with great poise, its amber-green cat eyes gazing intently into the school gate.
"!!!"
Cats really do come to pick you up from school!
Many people raised their phones, snapped photos of the cat king's heroic figure, and posted them in group chats.
A large number of people immediately emerged.
Is it true or false?
Is the rumor actually true?!
Wow, a cat picking me up from school? That's so cool!
Long live the Cat King! Long live the Cat King! [kneeling]
Shi Miao straightened her chest and raised her head, feeling countless gazes falling on her, and even licked her paws with a reserved elegance.
You're a big fan of cats too, aren't you?
She waited a moment and soon saw Jiang Yingxu walking over at a leisurely pace.
The boy was tall with long legs, and his school uniform jacket was zipped up to the top. Among the colorful and vibrant outfits, he had a particularly dashing and refined air about him.
Shi Miao glanced back and, sure enough, saw the dog acting suspiciously among the group of students from Class 1.
Xia Hui and Xiao Pang charged ahead, their expressions resolute, making eight hundred feints per second, as if they were staging a spy thriller, about to conduct an underground rendezvous.
Ge Sitong and Zou Yuanyuan stood side by side, the only two normal people.
Ren Ze darted around like an excited monkey, running left and right, circling around the group, never still for a moment.
Shi Miao: "."
It's a bit embarrassing.
Thank goodness I wasn't with them.
Jiang Yingxu, seemingly unaware of the group following him, calmly swiped his school card at the gate and walked out of the school.
Shi Miao was already prepared. As soon as he approached, she jumped and landed steadily on his backpack.
The kitten's paws, resembling mangosteens, stepped on the boy's broad shoulders, tilted its head, and affectionately rubbed against his hair.
Jiang Yingxu's expression softened, and he calmly straightened his shoulders, making the kitten more comfortable.
He walked through the crowd with the cat, looking completely nonchalant.
Xia Hui put down her phone, which she had been holding all the way, stretched her shoulders, and sent the video she had just recorded to the class group chat.
【？】This refers to someone who is engrossed in studying things outside the realm of Bagua (the Eight Trigrams).
【Holy crap, cat!】 This is a C language description.
【The Cat and the Boy】This is by a great writer.
[Hehe, who knows if they bathed the cat with catnip, who knows if they drugged the cat, who knows if they were secretly meowing like a cat] This is a cat owner's seemingly broken and impotent rage.
[Is that the Maybach in the background that belonged to that rich kid in the second year of high school? What's the point of all this fancy stuff? In the end, it's still no match for the kid's wheel.] This is anonymous.
【？】
Is there such a complete idiot in our class?
[The class monitor has turned off anonymity. Let's see if anyone dares to claim this comment. If you're so capable, don't hide behind anonymity and whine.]
Xia Hui readily agreed and used her group owner privileges to disable anonymity within the group.
That person is quite patient.
Despite the ridicule and sarcasm from many people, I endured it for more than half an hour until the group started to covet Jiang Yingxu and his cat again, at which point I couldn't help but jump out.
[Cai Wenguang: They're bragging again. I can't stand it anymore. I'll just say I'm the anonymous person from before.]
[Cai Wenguang: I didn't say anything wrong. He's always giving me the cold shoulder, acting like everyone owes him something. We're all here to study, why does he think he's so superior?]
[Tsai Wen-kuang: What are you pretending for?]
Film and television dramas often portray women as driven mad by jealousy. In reality, however, this universal human emotion of jealousy is often even more pronounced in men.
It's the age when they love to show off the most.
Jiang Yingxu was good-looking and academically excellent, naturally attracting a lot of attention. However, he was aloof and cold, preferring to stay alone, and was not a friendly or warm-hearted person.
Boys like Cai Wenguang wouldn't think that Jiang Yingxu was like that; instead, they would project their own feelings onto him and naturally assume that Jiang Yingxu was just pretending, deliberately putting on an aloof act while secretly enjoying the attention he received.
They felt their limelight had been stolen, so of course they had to stand on their self-proclaimed righteous side and point fingers.
The more confused question marks the group chat displayed, the more he felt the thrill of being the center of attention, and he became smug and proud.
[Cai Wenguang: You can fawn all you want, he won't care in the end anyway.]
A short, small-print, light gray notification to join the group was lost in a string of question marks.
— "Zou Yuanyuan" invited "Cat King" to join the group.
[Cat King: ?]
[Cat King: I know you, you aloof and independent guy, you exceptionally clear-headed guy, you with unique insights, you think you're the only smart one, you've seen through everything, and you believe truth is only in the hands of a few.]
[Cat King: I bet you're thinking, "Why did fate create both Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang?" But don't worry, you're nothing, you're just an idiot.]
[Cat King: Thinking he's an ancient pine tree on a cliff, he's actually just a weed growing in a crack in the wall, about to be pulled out in a second. Not only does he not recognize his own worth, but he also increases the workload for sanitation workers.]
[Cat King: [Middle Finger.jpg]]
The group fell silent for a full minute.
Then came a burst of laughter, like an explosion of laughter.
[So satisfying to be cursed!]
[Whose friend is this? They're so good with words! I'll borrow their tongue next time we argue.]
[I laughed so hard. No wonder he slipped to last place in the final exams; turns out he was just being cynical about Jiang Yingxu all day.]
[Fun fact: No matter how much you criticize, it won't change the fact that Jiang Yingxu was awesome.]
[Fun Fact: If you say you have a driver who takes you to school in a Maybach, we'll politely say, "Wow, that's great, bro/sis." But if you say you have a cat that picks you up from school on time, we'll jump up, grab your neck, and demand to know how you do it! It makes all the brothers and sisters jealous.]
Please!
Many people drive Maybachs.
But this is really the only cat that comes to pick me up from school!
So stylish and cool, which high school student wouldn't be envious?!
Cai Wenguang was so angry that when he reappeared in the group chat, he looked furious.
[Cai Wenguang: Are you all fucking idiots? What good does it do you to fawn over Jiang Yingxu? He's dirt poor, wears that shabby school uniform all day long, and his phone is an ancient model that's probably so laggy it can't even connect to the internet. Besides, he doesn't even see you guys licking his boots.]
[Cai Wenguang: I've never seen anything like it before. So many people are willing to be Jiang Yingxu's dogs.]
[Cat King: Why do I need to introduce myself?]
A seemingly casual basic attack provoked Cai Wenguang to unleash his ultimate move.
[Cai Wenguang: ?]
[Cai Wenguang: You son of a bitch, I'll f*** you, *********]
[Cai Wenguang: *******]
[Cat King: Rebound!^^]
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