[Pure Yuri] [1v1] [Yuri] [Happy ending, sweet romance]
[Cool, mature caretaker × adorable, seductive stray cat | Bad woman × clingy little yandere | Mutual salvation through control and surrender]
Shen Qie was sixteen, an orphan, and someone had trampled her books into the schoolyard. Lu Yu'an happened to pass by, handed her a handkerchief, and took her home.
From then on:
When she was afraid to eat too much, Lu Yu'an ordered her to finish her food and sat beside her, reading to keep her company.
When she was afraid to say she was in pain, Lu Yu'an held her ankle so she couldn't pull away. “Don't move.”
When she was afraid of being abandoned, Lu Yu'an stuck a list of rules on the fridge. The last one read: You are not allowed to think I don't want you.
She thought she was hiding her feelings well. But the first time she deliberately put on Lu Yu'an's white shirt and, with wet hair, tilted her face up to ask for attention, Lu Yu'an gripped the back of her neck, leaned close, and whispered in her ear, “If you want me to do something from now on, just say so. You don't need an excuse.”
Only then did she realize that Lu Yu'an had seen through every little scheme of hers from the very beginning.
Later, she asked Lu Yu'an why she had taken her in. Lu Yu'an said, “That day, you were kneeling alone on the ground, your knees scraped, with tears in your eyes that you refused to let fall. I thought, this person is a lot like me. I grew up alone, too. So I told myself, ‘Come with me.’”
A stray cat abandoned by the world is taken in by another lonely person, who teaches her how to be loved again with firm commands, gentle control, and unconditional companionship.
