Twenty-Eighth Meow

Just a little bit, Huo Zheng was about to touch He Yunzhou’s lips.

However, Huo Zheng didn’t notice that before he made such a move, all the cat toys that He Yunzhou had piled on Huo Zheng’s body had rolled down from the folds of his clothes.

“Meow…”

In the next second, a certain fluffy and heavy ball of meat jumped onto Huo Zheng’s body.

At that time, Huo Zheng was still captivated^[1]Literal translation: spirit and soul upside down(idiom) which means being infatuated and head over heels in love. and pink dream rippling in his mind. But that meowing, and ball of hot furry thing completely crushed Huo Zheng’s pink dream love into pieces directly.

It was Nan Gua^[2]T/N: Since Gua Ji is in two words, Nan Gua will be used too from now on. I’ll just edit them when I have time. Thanks. who attacked Huo Zheng and interrupted his love.

When He Yunzhou and Huo Zheng exuded the smell of alcohol and rolled into a ball on the wide sofa, Nan Gua still behaved very calmly. It even kept raising its leg composedly, licking the balls skin that had no balls.

If nothing happens, it actually didn’t want to get close to the two drunk men. But fate let it see a brand new furry mouse rolling out of Huo Zheng at a glance.

Nan Gua was instantly spirited and it even didn’t have the time to dislike the smell of wine on the two humans. Directly wiggling its butt, it jumped from the cat climbing frame next to the sofa happily and jumped directly onto Huo Zheng’s body.

In fact, if in normal times, Huo Zheng can naturally avoid such a powerful gigantic bomb creature calmly, but now he happens to be in a confused and restless state; how could he expect Nan Gua, this fatty to drop today?

In addition, Huo Zheng had drunk wine tonight and was dizzy. At this time, he stepped on and bumped into Nan Gua, and couldn’t help but slip. The whole person rolled down the sofa heavily like that.

“Bang—”

There was a loud muffled noise on the back of Huo Zheng’s head and the carpet.

“Meow?”

Nan Gua seemed to be startled and swept away in a panic without choosing the way. Its hind feet stepped on Huo Zheng’s face one after another, and then instantly burrowed under the sofa.

Only Huo Zheng was half lying on the ground with an aching face, then he was silent for a long time.

“……”

In this way and in this night, Mr. Huo finally had a brand-new life experience of being stepped on by a cat and suddenly sobering up.

Huo Zheng stared at He Yunzhou’s ceiling, doubting life in this small gap, and the nervous Nan Gua slowly relaxed its spirit. It didn’t remember its previous reckless actions at all. The strong curiosity and desire for the furry mouse made it slowly squeeze back to the edge of the sofa. Then it poked out a fat cat face and peered at the silent Huo Zheng. Seeing that the man was still pressing its toy under his body, Nan Gua’s whole cat shrunk into a ball, lying under the sofa, contentedly^[3]To enjoy oneself quietly. stretching out its paw and constantly hooking Huo Zheng’s clothes, trying to take the furry mouse that it anxiously longing for from under the man’s ass.

Huo Zheng: “……”

As for He Yunzhou at this moment, he is completely unaware of what was happening around him. The previous tossing thoroughly exhausted his physical strength. Even if he saw his most beloved Gua Ji in his misty drunk eyes, wanting to pour out his thoughts, his consciousness was eventually swallowed up by drunkenness completely.

Huo Zheng just rolled down the sofa full of bits and pieces, and He Yunzhou over there found that the sofa was finally not so crowded. He immediately hugged a fluffy blanket contentedly and rubbed it against his cheek, then fell into a darker and sweeter sleep.

And Nan Gua is still stubbornly pulling out the furry mouse.

After a long silence, Huo Zheng sorted out his mood. He held onto the sofa and slowly sat up.

Then, Huo Zheng sat cross-legged next to the sofa, staring at He Yunzhou’s side face for a long time.

“Seriously… What the hell ah…”

The next second, he covered his face, then let out a low curse.

It would be ridiculous if he had to deceive himself at this time and say that he wasn’t tempted by He Yunzhou at all.

For a moment, Huo Zheng even wanted to ignore it and completely let go of everything in the past, and be with He Yunzhou like this.

However, the dark picture created by “love” that he saw with his own eyes when he was young, lingered in his mind again at the same time, and it hasn’t subsided for a long time.

“I’m sorry, I can’t accept you. You’re a very good person, but it’s a pity…”

It’s a pity that I’m not the right person.

He clearly knew that He Yunzhou couldn’t hear his refusal at this time, but Huo Zheng still stared at the other party’s sleeping face, word by word, and said these words with extreme bitterness.

Of course, the more likely reason is that it was only when He Yunzhou couldn’t hear him that he finally had the courage to say it in front of the other party.

“Don’t… go…”

But Huo Zheng didn’t expect that as soon as his voice fell, a sad expression appeared on He Yunzhou’s originally calm face.

His brows furrowed, a line of tears slowly flowed down the corner of his eyes, then he let out a broken murmur.

“Without you, I can’t almost hold on anymore…”

Listening to He Yunzhou’s hoarse and vague sleep talk, Huo Zheng’s heartbeat was extremely fast and his breathing was rapid.

He stared at He Yunzhou deeply, then leaned over tremblingly, nervously, and shakily like a primary school student, and gently kissed the tear away from the corner of He Yunzhou’s eye.

The next second, he suddenly got up, covered his mouth, and staggered back several steps.

Huo Zheng never knew that he would one day be so clumsy, so helpless, so… sad.

“I’m sorry.”

Huo Zheng heard himself say to He Yunzhou again in a voice as thin as a mosquito.

And He Yunzhou’s eyes closed tightly, sleeping soundly.

……

He Yunzhou had a very beautiful dream.

He dreamed of Gua Ji.

In the days when Gua Ji had just passed away, he had been silently praying to the heavens so that he can dream of Gua Ji.

But the strange thing is that he obviously missed it so much, but he never saw his most beloved cat in his dreams.

This may be because the place where cats go after they die has nothing to do with humans.

The god responsible for managing the soul of cats should also be the god of cats. There is probably no way for human prayers like He Yunzhou to be passed on to the god of cat, so Gua Ji didn’t appear in He Yunzhou’s dream in time…

Editor Xiao Xi once comforted the depressed He Yunzhou.

In the following time, He Yunzhou kept praying hard to the cat god, but as Xiao Xi said, he still didn’t dream of Gua Ji.

Until this day, Gua Ji finally walked very slowly from the other end of He Yunzhou’s dreamland.

Even if he was late for so long, Gua Ji still took it for granted, very proud and lofty. The Gua Ji in the dream is the same as He Yunzhou remembered. The coat color was bright and smooth, and the dark green eyes are crystal clear, like a good emerald inlaid on the upright furry face.

He Yunzhou rushed over in his dream, crying and laughing, and constantly caressing the other party. Because he was so happy, his mind was confused, and he can’t completely remember what he said to Gua Ji—If he had to try to recall it, it’s probably the kind of stupid words that don’t make any sense like “Don’t go”, “Don’t leave me” and so on.

When he was still saying goodbye to Gua Ji in the pet hospital, he had already tightly hugged Gua Ji, who was dimly colored and deflated body, in his arms. Those words were constantly churning in his chest as if he was about to explode, but he didn’t know why. At that time, He Yunzhou didn’t say a word.

On the contrary, it was at this time He Yunzhou found that he could finally tell Gua Ji those words in tears.

The Gua Ji in his dream was much more gentle than when it was alive. It still looked a little disgusted and a little reluctant, but after He Yunzhou’s fingers touched its beautiful and smooth hair, it still raised its head as before, then purred from its throat, a very happy purr.

At that moment, He Yunzhou felt unprecedented happiness.

All the sadness and thoughts seemed to be held by the fluffy cat’s paw and covered under the cat’s soft belly. Of course, all the sadness and loneliness are there, and they will always be there. But because of Gua Ji’s comfort, those places with intense and sharp emotions seemed to be safely wrapped in something warm and secure.

They^[4]Refer to animals in plural form.still weigh heavily on people’s hearts, but they no longer stab the fragile hearts of the two-legged beasts until they’re bleeding.

He Yunzhou was like a child, crying and laughing in his dreams.

Stupidly saying words that others will laugh at.

Then, Gua Ji suddenly raised its paw and gently touched He Yunzhou’s face.

It looked straight at He Yunzhou, as if a little helpless.

Meow wuwu.

(Useless human, don’t always do this kind of stupid thing to make the cat uneasy ah…)

He Yunzhou always felt that he could understand what the meowing sound it made actually meant.

Even if the cat whispered impatiently and reprimanded in this condescending tone, the warmth in his chest never faded at all.

He Yunzhou couldn’t help but rub his face against Gua Ji’s chest, then hugged it a little tighter.

(The weight is a little light…)

This thought slowly slipped through his mind, and only after a while did He Yunzhou realize that Gua Ji had become very light.

When he lowered his head, he found that Gua Ji’s figure had become hazy.

It was at this moment that he had a strange premonition—Gua Ji was leaving.

The deep pain instantly filled like a tide, He Yunzhou subconsciously wanted to hold Gua Ji a little tighter.

“Don’t go… Please, don’t go…”

He Yunzhou felt that he seemed to be directly in front of Gua Ji’s face, and cried out hopelessly.

“I’m sorry.”

The arrogant, beautiful, but particularly caring cat in some places, stared at He Yunzhou with some disgust but then still leaned on its furry forehead and gently rubbed He Yunzhou’s chin.

It suddenly opened its mouth and said in a human voice.

Before disappearing in He Yunzhou’s chest, the last words it left were:

“I really want to stay by your side too ah…”

……