It was a girl who looked only fourteen or fifteen years old - although Shen Cheng knew that cat-eared girls couldn't use their appearance to infer their age.
She was unusually thin, with long milky white to brown hair that almost reached her calves, making her look like a small furry ball, with a pair of chocolate-colored cat ears on top of her head.
The thin white dress on her body and her face were all dirty and covered with dust, so that Shen Cheng couldn't even see her specific appearance.
However, Shen Cheng could see clearly the glittering sea-blue gemstone-like eyes half-hidden by the hair.
"Will you...take me away?"
The somewhat childish girl's voice was very consistent with her appearance. This voice, which in Shen Cheng's impression should always be light and cheerful, was now full of pleading, hope and even humility.
Based on the girl's hair color, Shen Cheng easily deduced that it was a ragdoll cat.
At this moment, Shen Cheng felt a huge sense of strangeness and incomparable chill towards this world.
Their original way of survival could have allowed them to survive normally even if they just wandered around, but suddenly they were changed in a way that completely violated biological evolution and were forcibly thrown into this society that is completely unsuitable for survival.
If you are wandering outside, you have to avoid people and rely on your body's functions to survive on leftovers.
Moreover, it is early autumn now, and winter will come soon. When that time comes, what will they rely on to resist the cold?
Another thing: if a pet cat changes...
Shen Cheng couldn’t help but shudder all over.
After all, there is no guarantee that everyone will treat cat girls as thick-skinned as he does.
The answer was obvious. Throwing out those spine-chilling thoughts, Shen Cheng looked directly at the delicate figure in front of him and took a deep breath: "You..."
The words stopped abruptly.
A sense of guilt arose in my heart.
Shen Cheng thought about it and realized that he was just a poor man with no place to live.
For him, Lin Yuhui even renovated the first floor of the house her parents left her into a cat cafe.
Lin Yuhui has already given a lot for him.
This guilt came from Chen Cheng's behavior of making decisions on his own without Lin Yuhui's consent.
Perhaps Lin Yuhui wouldn't say anything if Chen Cheng took the cat girl back, but doing so would only increase Chen Cheng's guilt, and even... create estrangement.
However, looking at the pitiful cat-eared girl, Shen Cheng still smiled and said, "I do. You... come with me."
However, the girl still saw Shen Cheng's hesitation at that moment. Seeing that all the expressions in the girl's eyes turned into relief and loneliness in an instant, she whispered: "I know, I'm sorry, and... thank you."
It was obvious that the girl did not want to make things difficult for Chen Cheng, or in other words, she did not want to become a burden to Chen Cheng.
The desolate words echoed in Shen Cheng's ears for a long time. When Shen Cheng came back to his senses, the ragdoll cat girl had disappeared.
Only Shen Cheng was left in front of the alley, speechless for a long time.
Glancing at the bag of cakes at his feet, Shen Cheng gave a wry smile.
"I probably won't eat it anymore."
At this moment, Chen Cheng felt as if something had been taken away from his heart, leaving him feeling empty and uncomfortable.
With a glimmer of hope, Shen Cheng still put the bag of cake there and walked back to the cat cafe with heavy steps.
It was already late at night when I opened the door, and the bright moon outside the living room window filled the entire living room with moonlight.
Chen Cheng sat on the sofa like a zombie, in a daze, with a layer of confusion covering his lifeless pupils.
From time to time, Shen Cheng laughed lightly, a self-deprecating laugh. He laughed at his unrealistic ideas, his naive kindness, and himself...a sense of guilt that clearly had nothing to do with him but could not be erased no matter what.
"Senior." Suddenly, the landlady's voice came from behind Chen Cheng. Chen Cheng's whole body froze for a moment, and without turning his head, he said: "Hui Hui, you haven't slept yet, go to bed early."
"You're hiding something from me, why don't you tell me?" A little head popped up in the field of vision. Seeing Lin Yuhui approaching, she gently grabbed Shen Cheng's hand and said with a smile: "After all, I'm the only person closest to you in Mio City, isn't it?"
Perhaps Huihui had already noticed something unusual since the day she met the third cat-eared girl.
She might have been…waiting for him to speak to her.
Shen Cheng's heart palpitated violently.
Maybe... I should have told Huihui a long time ago...
The sofa sank slightly, and Lin Yuhui sat down on the right side of Shen Cheng, her beautiful eyes staring straight at Shen Cheng's profile.
The old-fashioned wall clock in the living room made a regular ticking sound, which seemed particularly abrupt in the quiet living room. The two sat like this for a long time before Chen Cheng slowly said, "On the night I bought clothes for Shatang, I met..."
The minute hand on the pendulum clock moved slowly, symbolizing the passage of time. Shen Cheng sat on the sofa, as if telling a story that had nothing to do with him, while Lin Yuhui sat quietly beside Shen Cheng, acting as a silent listener.
Until Shen Cheng finished telling the story, the atmosphere fell into silence again.
"You want to take her away, right?" After a while, Lin Yuhui broke the silence first.
“…” Shen Cheng nodded silently.
The next moment, he felt his right shoulder sink, and a light and elegant fragrance climbed to the tip of his nose.
"I'm glad that you care about me so much." Leaning her head on Shen Cheng's shoulder, Lin Yuhui smiled and felt warm in her heart.
After playfully rubbing it twice, Lin Yuhui whispered, "But you don't have to respect my opinion. This isn't just the house my parents left me, it's also your cat cafe and the dreams you've placed on it... So this is both my home and yours."
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