Chapter 6
No, that wasn’t right.
She was the only succubus in this world. Could the scent belong to someone from another species?
Succubi were highly possessive. They liked leaving their scent on their masters or prey to prevent a target they had set their sights on from being tainted by another demon.
Perhaps other species did the same thing. Fu Xin did not know much about them, much less about this world.
If this human had already been claimed by someone or something else, then she would…
“What’s wrong?”
Yu Chen had never known that a kitten’s face could display so many different expressions. Her nimble fingers stroked along the kitten’s fur several times. Only when she saw the kitten comfortably narrow her eyes beneath her touch did she laugh softly.
“All a kitten needs to do is wait at home for me to pet you every day. You don’t need to think about anything too complicated.”
Fu Xin purred comfortably while the tail behind her made a tentative move. Taking advantage of its owner being too immersed in pleasure to spare it any attention,
it cautiously hooked itself around Yu Chen’s wrist little by little, climbing her arm as silently as a snake.
The sight of that familiar fluffy tail brought a smile to Yu Chen’s eyes.
She freed one hand to stroke it in greeting. Then she divided the work clearly: one hand stroked the tail while the other smoothed the fur on Fu Xin’s head.
With pleasure coming from both sides, the kitten in her arms instantly melted into a flat puddle.
Yu Chen had heard that cats generally disliked having their tails touched, but her kitten was different. Whenever Yu Chen touched her tail, she reacted intensely, becoming so comfortable that she began whimpering.
Hearing the kitten’s soft cries, Yu Chen worked even harder, wholeheartedly determined to serve her properly.
She casually began chatting. “Why don’t I give you a name?” Then she hesitated. “But I don’t know what kind of name you would like.”
“If only you could speak. Then you could tell me your name yourself.”
Fu Xin gritted her teeth and suppressed the low moans in her throat, completely failing to notice that her tail had been the one to seduce the woman first. She only resented herself for carelessly allowing the woman to catch her tail again.
Humans could sometimes be so wanton that even Fu Xin, a succubus, felt inferior.
At the moment, she could only be grateful that the kitten she had transformed into had black fur, perfectly concealing the flush on her face.
The affection points inside Fu Xin continued rising, and the desire deep within her gradually awakened. Reason urged her to withdraw her tail, but the tail itself refused to leave the human’s touch and instead coiled even tighter.
Whether it was to restore her magic or indulge in physical pleasure, she could no longer leave this human.
The lingering perfume at the tip of her nose was like a grain of sand inside her shoe, constantly irritating Fu Xin. Yet beneath that perfume, Yu Chen’s own scent attracted her with fatal intensity.
Fu Xin rubbed her head forcefully against the woman, breathing all over her body. When she sniffed again, the faint perfume had finally vanished.
Only the kitten’s subtle medicinal scent mingled with the fragrance of goat’s milk remained around Yu Chen’s neck. Fu Xin was finally satisfied.
This person was hers!
She would choose this human as her master!
Only Fu Xin’s scent would be allowed to cling to her.
The blushing succubus made her decision. So what if someone else had claimed the woman first? Fu Xin would simply steal her. Succubi did not care who arrived first.
After petting the kitten, Yu Chen used the remaining ingredients to prepare herself a simple meal. Once she had filled her stomach, the moving crew arrived with boxes of all sizes.
Most of them contained her clothes. The house already had every other daily necessity, so nothing else needed to be brought over.
Yu Chen worried that the kitten would be frightened by strangers, so she only allowed the movers to stack the boxes in the living room. She did not ask the housekeeper to come and organize them either, instead hanging each piece in the walk-in wardrobe herself.
When Fu Xin saw this, she came over to help.
The tiny cat jumped into a box with a thump. Her tail gently swept across every article of clothing, determined to leave her scent on all of them.
She had not completed even half of her grand undertaking when Yu Chen lifted her out by the scruff of her neck.
“Stay over there by yourself. Don’t come over and cause trouble.”
How could she accuse Fu Xin of causing trouble? Fu Xin wrapped herself around Yu Chen’s calf and became a fashionable leg accessory, preventing the woman from walking.
For some reason, she felt especially clingy toward this human today and did not want to be apart from her for even a moment.
With the succubus deliberately seducing her, how could Yu Chen possibly concentrate on organizing her clothes? She had barely hung up two garments before she became absorbed in playing with the cat instead.
They dawdled from early evening until bedtime. The boxes of clothing in the living room remained unpacked, while Yu Chen had already given up and carried the kitten to bed.
The refrigerator here was considerably larger than the previous one, and it contained a much richer variety of food. Having done this once before, Fu Xin expertly opened the refrigerator and helped herself to that night’s late-night snack.
Her ravenous stomach was soon filled, but another kind of hunger began sweeping through her body.
The heart-tipped tail behind her swished impatiently, trying several times to abandon its owner and return to the bedroom to cuddle with Yu Chen.
The moment Fu Xin finished eating, the tail could no longer contain its impatience. It curled around in front of her and returned to the bedroom before its owner did.
Taking advantage of Yu Chen being fast asleep, Fu Xin did not transform back into a kitten. At the risk of being discovered, she lay down beside Yu Chen. As for why she did this, even she could not explain it.
She was merely obeying her physical instincts, which urged her to move as close to the woman as possible.
Although Fu Xin had only just filled her stomach, wave after wave of hunger assaulted her from within. The tail trapped beneath her thrashed even more energetically, and she could not tell whether it was agitated or excited.
Fu Xin recalled what her elders had told her: after reaching adulthood, a succubus needed to feed on lust or obtain nourishment through sex once a month. Otherwise, her magic would deteriorate, and she would become restless and irritable.
Her heart was currently pounding. Could her monthly heat have arrived?
But Fu Xin had never experienced anything like this before, so she had nothing to compare it with. There were no other succubi around to guide her either.
She could only search her memories for some way to deal with it.
Her clanswomen and seniors had all called it “feeding,” so it was probably the same as eating. While making this guess, her body acted at the same time. She leaned toward the sleeping human’s neck—only to become stuck there.
How was she supposed to eat?
Should she take a bite, just as she would with ordinary food?
Fu Xin straddled Yu Chen’s body, bracing her arms against the pillow as she bent down and pressed her head closer. The tender pink tip of her tongue slipped from her mouth.
Her wet, soft tongue licked across Yu Chen’s skin, immediately raising countless tiny bumps in its wake.
Yu Chen appeared to be having a pleasant dream. Her brow relaxed, and the corners of her lips curved upward.
Fu Xin soon lost patience. She felt no sensation of being nourished. After all her efforts, the hunger deep inside her had only intensified.
She gave up and collapsed beside Yu Chen, eventually falling asleep with the frustration of having food right beside her mouth but no idea how to eat it.
When she woke the next morning,
Yu Chen found her arms empty and experienced the inexplicable sense that something was missing. She felt as though she should have been holding something.
The little black cat she had placed in the cat bed last night was somehow sleeping beside her pillow again when she woke, but Yu Chen could not be bothered correcting her.
Every minute in the morning was precious, leaving her no time to think about it. She hurriedly climbed out of bed, washed up, and rushed outside with a slice of bread between her teeth.
After moving, she now lived farther from the office, so she had switched from walking to driving to work.
Yu Chen fastened her seat belt and started the car. For some inexplicable reason, she glanced toward the back seat—and discovered that the kitten she had left inside the house was sitting in the car.
“How did you get in here?!”
“No, when did you get into the car?”
After meeting her gaze, Fu Xin slowly turned her head aside and pretended she did not exist.
Now that she had chosen this human as her master, she needed to pay closer attention to her. She had followed Yu Chen out early that morning to discover who had left that scent on her yesterday.
Completely unaware of the kitten’s thoughts, Yu Chen simply explained, “I’m going to work, not going out to play. I can’t take you with me.”
Fu Xin pretended not to understand. She continued looking away, her bottom firmly planted on the seat as she watched Yu Chen from the corner of her eye.
Unfortunately, she failed to bluff her way through. Yu Chen simply carried her out of the car.
“I’ll come back and play with you after work. Be good and stay at home, understand?”
If she delayed any longer, she would be late for work. Yu Chen rubbed the kitten’s head, locked the front door, and hardened her heart as she left. She stepped on the accelerator and sped all the way to the office, arriving during the final minute before clock-in.
She had barely taken her seat when the kindhearted coworker beside her leaned over. “Well? Did your cat like the homemade meal you made?”
Yu Chen shook her head. “She’s still picky.”
“She won’t even eat cat treats or canned food. She sniffs them, then turns around and walks away.”
Her coworker also found this strange. “There are kittens that don’t like canned food?”
Yu Chen switched on her computer. “She is interested in the food I eat. Whenever I go to have a meal, she stops whatever she’s doing and follows me into the dining room.”
“Then she nimbly jumps onto the table with a longing expression on her face.”
“Did you let her eat any?”
Yu Chen shook her head firmly. “Kittens can’t eat human food.”
Remembering what had happened that morning, she continued, “She even slipped outside while I wasn’t paying attention this morning…”
Her coworker suddenly slapped the table. “I know what it is!”
“She has no appetite and keeps trying to run outside, right?”
Yu Chen nodded.
Her coworker declared with certainty, “Your cat is in heat!”
“In… in heat?”
Those words struck Yu Chen like a bolt from the blue. She had never considered such a possibility.
“In my eyes, she’s still only a kitten.”
Her coworker spoke from experience. “My cat is six years old, and I still consider her my baby. That didn’t stop her from going into heat when she was just over five months old.”
“If you don’t want her to have kittens, you should get her spayed as soon as possible.”
She reminded Yu Chen, “You have to wait until her heat ends before having her spayed. It usually lasts three to seven days.”
Yu Chen quickly made her decision. “Once this heat ends, I’ll take her to be spayed.”
Her coworker shared another piece of advice. “Make sure all the doors and windows at home are locked. Cats in heat are prone to running away.”
Yu Chen was very confident about that. “I locked the door before I left.”
*
Fu Xin was currently wandering through the streets.
The moment Yu Chen left, Fu Xin passed straight through the wall and followed behind the car.
At first, she intended to follow the human and see what she did outside every day. But as she continued, other things distracted her.
Every blade of grass, tree, brick, and tile outside aroused Fu Xin’s curiosity.
The human was not going to disappear. She would return home when the time came. Since Fu Xin had finally gotten the chance to go outside, she might as well explore.
She needed to learn more about this world and find a way to acquire large quantities of affection points.
As she continued walking, her pace gradually slowed.
A massive electronic screen mounted on a building immediately captured her attention.
She had seen something similar in the home of the human she was currently living with: a black screen that displayed colorful images after someone tapped it a few times.
Fu Xin had discovered that the little screen seemed to contain everything in the world. Anything could appear upon it.
That human particularly enjoyed staring at the people inside the screen while eating. Groups of tiny people acted out scenes that Fu Xin could not understand.
But the screen before her was many times larger than the one in her chosen master’s home.
Fu Xin raised her head and stared at it. Quite a few humans happened to be gathered in this area, holding small rectangular devices or long, cannon-like objects high in the air and pointing them toward the screen as images continuously flashed across it.
They occasionally called out as well.
“Our girl is so beautiful!”
“I love her makeup and styling for this event. Praise the stylist!”
Curious about what they were doing, Fu Xin remained where she was.
Someone noticed the kitten and immediately sweetened her voice, speaking several times more gently than usual.
“What an adorable little black cat.”
Someone else asked, “Is she a stray? She’s so adorable—I want to take her home.”
“She must be someone’s pet. There’s still a bandage around her paw, so she probably just escaped from home.”
One fan asked, “Kitty, were you also drawn here by our girl’s beauty?”
Fu Xin looked at the speaker, then raised her head toward the figure flashing across the screen mounted on the building.
Inside, however, she was thinking: So this is how someone earns affection from so many people.
The kindhearted passersby and fans began posting online to search for the cat’s owner. Faced with one unfamiliar camera after another, Fu Xin sat obediently in place without running away, cooperating perfectly.
Someone admired the photo she had just taken while creating her post.
“People say black cats aren’t photogenic, but she looks so elegant and noble—just like a princess.”
“This kitty is pretty enough to become a child model.”
…
While at work, Yu Chen’s coworker liked to slack off by looking at cats online to relieve her stress.
“Huh? This lost cat looks just like your little black cat.”
She held her phone screen in front of Yu Chen.
Yu Chen glanced at it.
That was her little black cat!
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