Chapter 3

Kittens easily became sleepy after eating their fill. Yu Chen watched as the kitten swayed from side to side with exhaustion, its head repeatedly drooping forward.

She carried the black kitten into her bedroom.

“You’ll sleep with me.”

Fu Xin was too sleepy to hear what this strangely minded human had said. Her eyelids slowly drifted shut. Nothing was more important than sleep.

While she slept, the mechanical voice sounded once more, notifying her that her affection points had increased by another two.

After a good night’s sleep, Fu Xin woke feeling refreshed and invigorated.

Upon awakening, Fu Xin discovered that a trace of magic had actually returned to her body. Although it was only as thin as a strand of hair, the discovery was enough to fill her with excitement.

“It’s because of that kind stranger, isn’t it?”

The system in her mind replied, “The affection points did indeed come from her.”

The kitten tilted her head in thought and quickly made her decision.

“If staying beside her can restore my magic, then I’m going to cling to her and never leave.”

Besides, while she had been delirious with fever yesterday, she seemed to recall the woman asking whether she wanted to go home with her.

“Meow!”

She accepted!

The little black cat bounced on the bed.

Fu Xin did not know what the mattress beneath her was made of, but it was extremely comfortable to lie on. Whenever her paws pressed against it, they left tiny indentations behind.

“So soft~”

She played alone on the bed for a while before raising her head to search the room.

Strange. Why was that human nowhere to be seen today? Fu Xin had been planning to ingratiate herself with the woman and raise her affection rating.

Fu Xin jumped off the bed and began inspecting Yu Chen’s home as though patrolling her territory.

A mobile camera in the corner detected the kitten’s movements and immediately began operating. It followed behind the kitten, constantly keeping her in the center of the frame.

Far away at the office, Yu Chen leaned closer to the screen. She stopped working and focused entirely on the little black cat shown on the camera feed.

Its tail was held high, making it look as though it was in an excellent mood as it curiously explored its new living environment.

It was not as though Yu Chen had never seen a kitten before. There were adorable cats online, pitiful strays downstairs, and even the pet cats that her coworkers occasionally brought to the office to accompany them while they worked.

But none of them could hold her attention every moment the way the little black cat she had personally rescued did.

It was practically a little succubus kitten.

Yu Chen had no interest in working. She stared at the surveillance feed with a foolish grin.

The moment the workday ended, she immediately rushed home.

Her coworker found this strange. “Why is she in such a hurry to leave today?”

Ten minutes later,

Yu Chen appeared outside her front door, entered her fingerprint, and went inside.

Fu Xin was wandering around the living room. Perhaps because her body had become smaller, she had only taken a few steps before growing so tired that she collapsed onto the floor and refused to move.

To her current self, the spacious living room seemed to stretch endlessly into the distance. The long journey from the bedroom to the living room had nearly exhausted all her strength.

Only one person’s scent lingered in the home. The owner of the house clearly lived alone.

“Does one person really need such a large home?”

Fu Xin walked a few more steps before lying down completely.

She sprawled lazily across the floor with all four limbs extended, her belly pressed intimately against the marble tiles. They were a little cold, but once Fu Xin lay down, she no longer wanted to get back up.

A sound came from the entrance. Her upright black ears twitched, but the rest of her body remained sprawled where it was.

“Why are you lying on the floor? It’s so cold.”

Yu Chen was changing her shoes in the entryway, but she did not even have time to slip on her slippers before hurrying over and picking up the kitten.

Sure enough, its belly was icy to the touch.

She carried the kitten over to its bed and felt the surface with her hand. The electric heating pad was switched on, radiating a cozy warmth.

After laying a soft blanket over it, Yu Chen placed the kitten on top.

“Lie here from now on. Don’t lie directly on the floor.”

She lowered her head and glanced at the marble tiles beneath her feet, slightly regretting ​stolen content​that she had not covered them with a carpet.

Yu Chen turned to pour out some cat food. She had only taken a few steps when she heard movement behind her.

When she looked back, she saw the kitten following closely at her heels.

She bent down and picked up the clingy kitten. Without caring whether it could understand her, she explained, “I’m going to get your cat food. I’m not leaving.”

Fortunately, Fu Xin was not a real kitten but a succubus, so she understood every word.

Cat food?

Her food?

Fu Xin jumped out of Yu Chen’s arms and looked at the fresh little pellets in the bowl. They resembled something a sheep had only just excreted, and she simply could not bring herself to put them in her mouth.

You expect me to eat this?

Yesterday, she had been given fragrant, delicious goat’s milk, but today read the original at bailiantales.comshe was expected to eat…

Fu Xin was so angry that she turned her rear toward Yu Chen.

Yu Chen pushed the cat food closer to the kitten. “Try a bite.”

She was puzzled. Why was it refusing to eat?

“Do you dislike this brand of cat food?” Yu Chen could not make sense of it. “Or are you too timid and haven’t adjusted to the unfamiliar surroundings yet?”

She muttered to herself, failing to notice that the kitten had begun headbutting her.

Only after ramming her several times did Fu Xin’s anger subside.

That’s what you get for trying to feed me something like that!

But then she remembered that the trace of magic restored within her body had come from this woman. Belatedly deciding to show her gratitude, Fu Xin stopped headbutting her and began nuzzling instead, affectionately rubbing her head back and forth against the woman’s calf.

Human, give me some more affection points.

“You won’t eat the cat food in your bowl, but you keep rubbing against me to scratch an itch.”

Yu Chen frowned and searched online.

[The kitten I rescued keeps rubbing against me. Does that mean it’s itchy and has fleas?]

But the veterinarian had given it a comprehensive examination yesterday. Aside from the injury to its front paw, it was a very healthy kitten and had no parasites.

Replies quickly appeared beneath the post.

1F: OP, you and the person in the next thread asking, “Why does my cat keep making noises?” should sit at the same table. The kitten is acting cute and affectionate with you!!!

2F: Stop whatever you’re doing immediately and pet it!

What did they mean by a cat constantly making noises? Fortunately, her little black cat did not make noise all the time.

The kitten was acting affectionate with her?

Yu Chen looked at the cat vigorously rubbing against her calf and decided to follow the other users’ advice. She reached down and stroked the kitten’s head.

“Meow~”

Fu Xin let out a deliberately sweet meow, her voice clearly conveying her pleasure.

As soon as she became comfortable, the tail behind her slipped beyond Fu Xin’s control and took matters into its own hands, curling around the arm that was making it feel so good.

Having instinctively learned how to ingratiate itself with the woman, the tip of the tail gently brushed across Yu Chen’s skin, leaving behind a pleasantly tingling itch.

Yu Chen treated the particularly enthusiastic fluffy tail equally, stroking it with her other hand.

At that,

the black kitten beside her leg reacted much more intensely. The cries emerging from the depths of her throat grew softer and sweeter, like a feather landing upon Yu Chen’s heart.

“Meoww~”

Accompanied by contented purring, Fu Xin narrowed her eyes and devoted herself to enjoying the human’s touch. But the hand on her head abruptly stopped and withdrew.

Fu Xin: ???

Why had she stopped? Was she playing hard to get?

Fu Xin’s appetite had indeed been whetted without being satisfied. She braced her front paws between Yu Chen’s legs and leaned her entire upper body against the woman’s calf, trying to attract her attention.

Yu Chen ignored her and concentrated on writing another post. She had only just resolved the previous question when she discovered a new problem.

[The kitten I rescued keeps making a purring sound. Does it have a respiratory problem?]

1F: Its throat is itchy. It wants to blow up a balloon.

2F: It has no manners. It’s simply cursing at you.

3F: OP, if you don’t know how to care for a kitten, you can send it to my read the original at bailiantales.comhouse. My address is…

Besides the people merely joking around for amusement, some kindhearted users naturally offered serious explanations.

23F: She feels comfortable and is expressing her affection for you.

“Affection?” Yu Chen was taken aback. “But I only found her after work yesterday. We barely know each other. How could she already like me?”

24F: The kitten hates that you’re such a blockhead.

25F: OP, was your heart poured from concrete? What an unfeeling, hopelessly unromantic soul.

Yu Chen put down her phone and looked at the new ornament attached to her leg. Soft paw pads pressed against her skin, leaving slight indentations.

Her head began to ache. “If you don’t want cat food, what am I supposed to feed you?”

Fu Xin immediately became excited. Yesterday’s goat’s milk had been delicious. She wanted more today!

All Yu Chen saw was the kitten meowing ​read the original at bailiantales.com​several times at her before hooking its long tail around her fingertip and tugging her hand downward.

She followed its lead and crouched, allowing the tail around the back of her hand to coil more comfortably.

The moment the tip of the tail touched her hand, Yu Chen felt as though something small and sharp had pricked her knuckle. The fluffy black tail wound around her arm abruptly became cold and smooth.

The warm fur covering the tail receded as it continued to lengthen, transforming into a sleek, slender line with a plump little black heart at the very tip.

The pointed end continued playfully poking Yu Chen’s finger.

“Am I seeing things?”

Yu Chen rubbed her eyes and opened them again.

The tail before her was clearly still black and fluffy. At some point, the black kitten had pulled its tail away, and it now hung obediently behind her against the floor.

Had it been an illusion?

Had she been working too much overtime lately? Perhaps all the exhaustion had caused stolen contenther eyes to hallucinate.

She knew it. How could a kitten possibly have a heart-tipped tail?

Whenever Fu Xin became excited, the tail behind her slipped beyond her control and always seemed to develop ideas of its own. She had almost exposed herself as a succubus in front of this ordinary human.

Thanks to the Demon King System’s explanation, she knew that succubi did not exist in this world.

She, Fu Xin, would become the one and only existence of her kind in this world.

Fu Xin raised her head and gazed up at Yu Chen with wide, grape-like eyes, blinking repeatedly.

After that, how could Yu Chen possibly spare any thought for whether she had been working too much overtime? Her mind was completely filled with the little black cat’s round head.

“You really are the most adorable kitten in the world!”

Fu Xin retorted inwardly, “I’m clearly the most adorable succubus in this world!”

Since the kitten refused to eat Read on BaiLianTales cat food, Yu Chen prepared another bowl of the goat’s milk from yesterday and placed it in front of her.

Fu Xin noisily lapped it up in great mouthfuls, clearly having been hungry for a long time.

“You’re already a grown cat. Why will you only drink powdered goat’s milk instead of eating cat food?” Just as Yu Chen was beginning to worry, the doorbell rang.

Fu Xin raised her head and looked toward the sound.

“At this hour, it must be the housekeeper coming to make dinner.”

Yu Chen went to open the door. Fu Xin also abandoned the goat’s milk beside her mouth and followed on her short little legs.

“Oh, you have a cat now!”

The housekeeper entered carrying the ingredients she would cook for dinner that evening.

“What a beautiful little black cat.”

Hearing herself being praised, Fu Xin [stolen content]proudly raised her head and graciously accepted the compliment.

Curious, the kitten began sniffing the bags in the housekeeper’s hands. Unable to identify what kind of food they contained, she started pawing at the plastic.

Yu Chen picked up the kitten before its sharp claws could tear the bags.

“This is the food I’m having for dinner. Don’t cause trouble.”

“Meow!”

Fu Xin: “I want some too!”

One hour later,

the aroma of cooked food filled the house.

Yu Chen was curled up on the sofa with Fu Xin lying in her arms. The kitten against her chest immediately brightened, gazing curiously toward the kitchen.

“It smells so good!”

“Does this human eat food this delicious every day?”

“She’s so fortunate!”

Yu Chen did not understand why the kitten kept meowing excitedly at her. It looked as though it were trying to have a conversation with her.

Unfortunately, she could not understand it.

Their close proximity allowed her to discover a faint trace of violet deep within the kitten’s pupils.

“What an unusual color.”

Yu Chen was unconsciously drawn to that hint of violet. Her body seemed to have fallen under some kind of enchantment, and she involuntarily leaned closer to the kitten.

Only when the tip of her nose touched its fur and the faint ticklish sensation jolted her back to her senses did she stop.

How could she have such a thought?!

She had actually wanted to kiss the kitten just now!

Yu Chen abruptly sat upright. The kitten that had been lying peacefully against her chest immediately slid downward, its four limbs frantically clutching at Yu Chen’s clothes to keep itself from falling.

Fu Xin: ???

The kitten tilted her head. “Meow?”

Yu Chen anonymously sought help online.

[Is it normal to want to kiss your own kitten?]