But he had no intention of telling the little kitten about these dark things.
For such a soft little cat, it was best if she could just be held in his palm, untouched by the darkness and wind outside.
Li Wan didn’t notice anything wrong. After getting excited by herself for a while, she plopped back onto the bed and lazily flicked through Weibo with her small, pouting feet.
When she came back to her senses, the man was kneeling beside her with a foot bath, holding her ankles and guiding her feet into the water.
The little kitten was startled and nearly jumped up. After realizing what was happening, she stared blankly at the man crouched in front of her.
Her two-legger really wasn’t suited for doing things like this.
He gave off the impression of a dignified winter night, his whole presence noble and composed, as if it were perfectly normal for him to stand on a spotlighted awards stage or in a luxurious restaurant.
But now…
No matter how she looked at him, it felt strange.
Yet the man’s thick, black eyelashes drooped slightly, and his fingers moved gently on her ankles, as if handling a rare treasure.
“Boom,” Li Wan felt as if a sudden flame had ignited inside her. Her delicate, translucent earlobes turned a messy pink, and she stammered as she spoke, “You… I—I already took a bath!”
Chi Yan seemed not to notice the little cat’s panic. He submerged her feet in the warm water, his voice still calm.
“Weren’t you weren’t running around barefoot just now?
“Dirty.”
Li Wan froze even more.
Perhaps because all her attention was focused on her feet, her skin suddenly felt extraordinarily sensitive. Every movement of his hands felt unusually noticeable.
A little ticklish.
But this ticklishness wasn’t like usual. It seemed to radiate from her blood, flowing into her heart and making her entire face flush.
“I…”
The little kitten didn’t realize that her voice was soft enough to almost squeeze out water, like she was being coquettish. “I can do it myself.”
Chi Yan didn’t lift his eyes.
So the little kitten didn’t know that his deep peach blossom eyes were filled with dense desire.
His voice was low.
“It’s fine.
“It’ll be done soon.”
The girl’s feet were fair and delicate, her soles tinged with a soft pink, as if lightly blushed.
Chi Yan could clearly sense her reactions. Though he liked it, he restrained himself and worked faster.
He was on the verge of losing control.
But for now, Wanwan was still too young and naive. If he acted on impulse, she would definitely be scared.
It really finished quickly.
But when Li Wan heard him say, “It’s done,” it felt to her as if a century had passed.
A thin layer of sweat formed on her skin, her face burning red. If she were a marshmallow, she would have melted into sweet syrup by now.
She lifted her head to look at Chi Yan, her almond-shaped eyes misty, the corners red, looking pitiful yet carrying an indescribable aura.
Perhaps it was her imagination, but Li Wan felt the color of his eyes seemed especially deep at this moment, like an unfathomable deep sea. One glance could drag the soul straight into a whirlpool.
Li Wan pressed her lips together, her ears burning even redder.
It felt strange.
They hadn’t even spoken, yet the atmosphere in the room was like water in a pot, heating higher as time passed.
It felt a little…
Ambiguous.
The moment the word popped into her mind, Li Wan felt her chest seared, and she didn’t dare think any further.
How could she… think such messy thoughts? That was her butler, after all.
Fortunately, the man didn’t look at her. Carrying the foot bath, he returned to the bedroom, letting Li Wan finally breathe properly.
She tried desperately to calm herself, but because this was Chi Yan’s room, filled with his unique presence, the more she tried, the faster her heart raced.
“Mmm.”
She pressed her lips together, hesitated, then suddenly “popped” into little kitten mode and darted out the door.
It was already quite late. Everyone had returned to their rooms, and the villa’s first-floor living room became the quietest place.
Li Wan jumped onto the cat climbing frame by the floor-to-ceiling window, lying in the capsule like a salted fish, staring blankly at the garden outside.
It wasn’t until the evening breeze blew through the window that she felt the warmth in her feet slightly ease.
Just then, she heard a sound from the platform above the capsule. Looking up, she was startled.
It turned out she wasn’t the only cat here.
Xixi was a little exasperated: “I got here first. Didn’t you see me?”
Li Wan, still in a daze, apologized: “Sorry.”
Xixi clicked its tongue lightly.
It was a sensitive cat and noticed that this little white kitten seemed to have some trouble, so it pricked up its ears unconsciously: “What’s wrong with you?”
Li Wan: “Huh?”
Xixi flicked its tail: “Are you upset?”
It thought, since this little white kitten was still young, if she really was upset, as the older one, it could try to guide her.
Li Wan stayed quiet for a moment, slightly touched. She climbed out of the capsule and tried to nuzzle it : “Uuuu, Xixi, I thought you didn’t like me very much, but you’re just like Mama Qingqing, such a good person… no, you’re a good cat!”
But Xixi took two steps back: “What are you doing?”
The little male cat seemed a little angry: “I don’t mean anything like that! You smell too strong. Don’t get it on me!”
Huh?
What smell?
Li Wan stared at him blankly.
Seeing her expression, Xixi realized that this poor little kitten had been separated from her mother from an early age and probably had no idea what was going on now.
He pouted slightly, thinking as an older cat he should patiently explain: “You smell… like you’re in heat.”
In heat?!
“!!!!!”
Li Wan froze even more, and her mind flashed back to the scene of the butler washing her feet just now.
The man’s fingers were clearly jointed, with faint calluses on his palms, and wherever they touched, a shiver ran across her skin. His hands were beautiful; veins subtly traced across the backs, and even when he held her ankle, there was an air of lofty elegance.
Very… sexy.
“!!!”
Realizing what she had just been thinking, Li Wan’s head went *boom,* and it felt as if both her cat ears were on fire.
Xixi took two steps back repeatedly: “Control your thoughts! So disgusting!”
But Li Wan couldn’t hear anything anymore.
Her mind was left with only one sentence: ‘The scent on you is… making me aroused.’
Aroused!!
The little kitten felt like the sky was collapsing!!
Could it be that she was really this… desperate? Chi Yan was her two-legger! She was his little kitten!!
How could she have any improper thoughts about Chi Yan!!
Wuwuwuwuwuwu!!!
Seeing her on the verge of breaking down, Xixi roughly guessed what she might be thinking and comforted her.
“Don’t worry too much.
“All kittens go through this stage, and given your age, it shouldn’t be true estrus—it’s probably pseudo-estrus.
“Hang in there; this feeling will fade soon, and you’ll return to normal.”
After a long while, Li Wan finally drew a bit of strength from its words: “Is… is that really so?”
The little kitten tilted her head back in despair, looking at Xixi.
This expression was indeed cute.
No wonder Mama Qingqing always liked to pet her.
At this age, still an undeveloped kitten, having a sudden pseudo-estrus panic was perfectly normal.
Thinking this, Xixi’s tone softened with some indulgence: “If it really can’t be helped, find another male cat to mate. That’ll fix it immediately.”
The cat didn’t have a concept of random mating, nor did it think ‘mate’ was something too awkward to say. It spoke as if it were perfectly natural.
Li Wan: “……”
She was stunned, unable to respond for a long while.
By the time she recovered, Xixi had already jumped down from the cat tree after dropping that line and quietly returned to Du Qingqing’s room.
“Or you can just go get some fresh air.
“You’re so annoying. Absolutely do not come near me these two days!”
It wasn’t that smelling such scents would make it physically restless; its… bits were long gone.
It just reminded it of the fact that they weren’t there anymore.
*Meowww…*
Truly a sorrowful matter for a cat.
After it left, the living room fell silent again.
Li Wan sat alone for a long time before slowly accepting the reality of her pseudo-estrus.
It was fine.
She tried to console herself.
She was already a little kitten, happily eating her cat food—what was wrong with having a pseudo-estrus?
Ha, ha.
Her little cat face looked pitiful as she cried a bit, and though her mind was still a mess, the scorching heat in her body gradually cooled under the night breeze, perhaps dulled by the sheer shock of the words pseudo-estrus.
Once she calmed herself down, she cautiously returned to her soft, plush kitten bed provided by the production crew.
Perhaps her mind was too full, because she didn’t have insomnia and soon fell into a deep sleep.
But she didn’t know that…
After hearing the kitten’s breathing gradually steady, the man who should have already been asleep on the bed suddenly opened his eyes and quietly sat up.
Chi Yan silently watched the small white fluff in the kitten bed.
He still remembered what this little kitten looked like when she was first sent to him.
Her fur had been cleaned, but her chin was still dark, whiskers uneven, and the rest of her fur messy and dull. Some parts were badly matted, and during the production crew’s bath, it couldn’t be combed out, so it had to be cut, leaving bald patches here and there.
Thin, little meat on her bones—such a pitiful little kitten.
Now, she looked completely different.
The missing fur had grown back, and after a few trims, she looked perfectly neat, with some meat on her body. Sleeping there as a tiny bundle, she looked like she had been carefully nurtured.
Adorable.
He had raised her to be this way.
Possessiveness silently spread in the man’s eyes.
How could he allow anything else to take his little kitten away?
She was born to stay with him forever.
Chi Yan closed his eyes, forcefully suppressing the intense, dark obsession in his peach-blossom eyes, and returned to his usual calm, composed appearance.
He moved very lightly as he walked over to the sleeping little kitten and picked her up.
Kittens were alert creatures, especially those who had once been strays, but once Li Wan sensed his scent, she merely shifted in his arms, curling herself into a more comfortable position. She didn’t even open her eyes before sinking back into deep sleep.
She trusted him that much.
The man’s gaze clung tightly to the little kitten. After a long while, a short, indistinct chuckle floated out from the darkness.
“Heh.”
“Mm…”
A girl’s voice drifted out from within the foggy bathroom, inevitably tinged with damp heat — sounding as if in pain, yet also like she was drowning in pleasure.
The voice felt strangely familiar to Li Wan. The kitten’s strong curiosity pushed her to slowly part the mist and move forward step by step.
Finally, the ambiguous sounds grew nearer.
She followed the sounds and froze on the spot.
It was a large bath.
A girl was pressed against the cold wall of the bath by a man. She faced away from him, and her fair, delicate back was marked all over with bluish-purple kiss marks.
She seemed to be suffering, yet also deriving intense pleasure. Her swan-like neck arched back uncontrollably, and her body trembled finely as if unable to endure it.
“Mm… Brother…”
She made a sound involuntarily, and Li Wan froze. The voice was exactly like hers—
And the man moving behind the girl… his face finally emerged through the heavy steam.
It was Chi Yan.
With a loud *boom,* Li Wan’s world collapsed. She jerked awake and realized she had been dreaming.
A spring dream.
She had had a spring dream.
And the subject of that dream was the last person she should have such thoughts about. Her butler, Chi Yan.
Her eyes widened. Her chest rose and fell violently until her breathing gradually steadied. Only then did she notice her current situation.
Last night, she had deliberately slept in her cat bed to avoid any suspicion. Yet somehow she’d woken up back on the human bed.
Her butler’s familiar scent surrounded her, strong enough to make her feel safe. And at the same time, made her whole body feel feverish.
“……”
Li Wan bit down hard on her lip. Finally unable to handle it anymore, she let out a soft, wet sob and scrambled out of the room as quickly as she could while still trying not to make noise.
It was barely dawn. The villa hadn’t yet woken.
The little cat sat beside the cat tower for a long time before she finally sorted out what she had just done.
She…
She was a kitten raised by the two legger. And yet she had such bold, ridiculous thoughts about the two legger.
Far, far out of line.
Back when she was human, she had never liked anyone. But now, as a cat, she had fallen for her butler instead.
…Or maybe she didn’t actually like him.
Maybe she was just horny.
Thirsting after her butler’s body.
Realizing this made Li Wan even more distressed. Her gaze turned empty as she licked her dry lips.
She absolutely could not face the two legger.
How could she be like this?
If Chi Yan knew what kind of unspeakable thoughts she was having, he would definitely think she was a pervert.
…She wasn’t even the same species.
Li Wan felt like dying.
Her little brain was a jumbled mess, like a ball of yarn hopelessly tangled around her paws, no matter how she tried to sort it out.
After two hours of thinking, when people in the villa were starting to wake and begin their day, she finally managed to piece together a plan.
No matter what—
She needed to stay away from her butler for now.
…Maybe if they kept some distance, her bold, shameless impulses would settle down.
So when he woke and tried to find her, she hid, secretly watching him from afar.
And honestly, it wasn’t entirely her fault she had such shameless thoughts about him, Li Wan thought. She couldn’t take all the blame.
Chi Yan was simply too good-looking, every feature perfectly aligned with her tastes.
What was the little kitten supposed to do?
The little kitten was helpless too!
After a while, when more and more people filled the living room, she finally emerged into his line of sight, reluctantly informing him that he didn’t need to keep searching, the kitten was safe.
But she still deliberately ignored the human.
Even during breakfast, when some of the canned food smeared onto her whiskers and Chi Yan tried to wipe it off for her, she immediately jumped away. Instead, she walked over to Du Qingqing and let her do it.
Li Xiaoyun blinked in surprise.
“Hey!
“No wonder something felt off this morning! Wanwan didn’t glue herself to Brother Chi today!”
Du Qingqing raised a brow.
“What’s going on?
“Did Brother Chi and Wanwan have a fight?”
Li Wan felt so guilty she wanted to bury herself alive. She hugged her burning cat ears.
Chi Yan simply smiled. “Probably upset I offended her somehow. She’s sulking.”
His tone was light, but to Li Wan it sounded loaded with meaning.
Thank goodness she was a kitten right now. Her face was covered in fur, so no one could see her true emotions. Otherwise, she really would bang her head on tofu and die.
Xixi, however, seemed to notice something. When the guests were busy with a task, it asked, “What happened between you and your Papa?”
At the word ‘Papa’, Li Wan’s whole cat body jolted. Her shame skyrocketed.
Right. Lots of furry babies saw their owners as parents, and many humans saw their pets as their children!
Using human terms, Chi Yan was basically her adoptive father…
And she had impure thoughts about her adoptive father?!
Even worse!!
Li Wan was on the verge of tears, her apricot eyes shimmering with intense moisture as she cried out in despair:
“Xixi…
“I… I actually like my Papa… Wuwuwuwu, I actually want… forbidden… love… wuwuwuwu…”
Xixi tilted its head, and after some effort, managed to pick out a few words from the little white kitten’s muffled, hiccupping voice, at least piecing together what she was trying to say.
It had seen the world and casually flicked its tail.
“It’s okay. Don’t cry.
“It’s just your Papa, so what’s wrong? We cats don’t have incest laws anyway.”
“……”
Li Wan completely broke down, letting out a loud “Waaah!”
Xixi’s eyes widened. It couldn’t understand why its comforting didn’t help, and why the little kitten seemed to be getting even worse?!
It perked up its ears and spun its head, thinking quickly, but didn’t think for long. It saw the little kitten’s human coming from a distance.
Xixi thought for a moment, then leapt aside twice, deciding to leave the space for them.
After all, humans have a saying: ‘He who tied the bell must untie it.’ Let them solve it themselves!!
When Chi Yan walked over, his kitten had buried her face in the fluffy mat, softly whining, sounding just like she was imitating a human crying.
He couldn’t hold back and a smile immediately appeared in his eyes. He didn’t speak, just quietly watched her from the side.
After a little while, the kitten seemed to notice something. Her pitiful *wuwuwu* gradually quieted. Like a little turtle, she slowly lifted her head, revealing her clear, dual-colored eyes on the fluffy mat.
They looked at each other.
It felt like time had stopped.
And Li Wan: “….”
“….”
“….”
What… what… what is happening?!!!
She had been crying seriously just now and had no idea when this annoying human had crept up behind her!!
The things she just said… there’s no way he heard them, right?!
Just thinking about it made Li Wan feel like the sky was falling TAT!
Her little kitten self could never be human again in this lifetime!!!