A lively, unruly, mischievous cat bottom & a cool, dog-like top who loves cats (though the top is a dog on the cover, he's really human 👉🏻👈🏻)
Xiao Ming is a little cat who dreams of becoming human.
But the Spirit Management Bureau requires passing an exam to become human. Xiao Ming fails every year, so the Bureau has no choice but to send it to live with a human family and learn how to behave like a person.
After a six-year-old boy rescues Xiao Ming and takes it home, Xiao Ming learns to give mice to the person it loves.
Two years later, Xiao Ming thinks it has learned everything it needs, so it fakes its death and runs off to take the exam again. As expected, it fails again.
Devastated, Xiao Ming returns to the boy's home to keep learning. Two years later, it thinks it's ready, fakes its death again, and runs off to take the exam. It fails again.
The big exam takes place every two years. Xiao Ming sits it for ten whole years, and finally becomes a seventeen-year-old human boy. With his backpack on, he strides proudly into high school.
But why do humans still have to take exams?!
And why does his cold, fierce desk mate look so familiar...?
It's him!! The culprit who made him fail the exam!!
When Pei Jingqiu was six, he found a cat. His parents were absent throughout his childhood, and the cat became his only companion. He named it Xiao Ming.
But cats have short lives. It stayed with him for only two years.
He buried Xiao Ming himself, on the hill behind the villa.
Three months later, in the same place, Pei Jingqiu found the same little cat again. Even the orange heart-shaped mark on its ear was exactly the same.
Pei Jingqiu was overjoyed. His Xiao Ming had come back.
Two years later, Xiao Ming left him again.
Over the years, one tiny grave after another appeared on the hill behind the villa, but Pei Jingqiu knew his cat would always come back, in that same familiar spot.
When he was seventeen, Xiao Ming died and never showed up again. Pei Jingqiu searched the familiar spot where the cat always reappeared, over and over.
Three months, six months, nine months. Nothing. Nothing. Still nothing.
Then a transfer student joined his class. Pei Jingqiu thought he must be going crazy. Why did he keep thinking his new desk mate was a cat?
...And how could it be that his new desk mate had a heart-shaped birthmark behind his ear, too?
Bonus Scene:
Pei Jingqiu's habit of petting cats never changed as he grew up. Even after Xiao Ming turned human, Pei Jingqiu often held him on his lap to kiss and pet him.
He had to pet him while doing homework at school, while reading files at work, while eating, while sleeping, and even when they went out. He had to hold his hand every moment, like someone with skin hunger.
Lin Mingzhao thought something was wrong. It was normal for humans to like petting cats, but he was human now. Was this still normal?
Pei Jingqiu fooled the cat without batting an eye. "Of course it's normal. I've been petting you since you were little."
Lin Mingzhao nodded. "Okay. I turned down the cat cafe job yesterday, so I'll go accept it now."
Pei Jingqiu (calling to buy the cat cafe): Who the hell let my cat get a job?! He's just a little cat! What does he need a job for?!
★ All logic serves the romance
★ Not suited for fans who only like one member of the couple. The couple is 1v1, no breakup and no role reversal
★ Both leads are each other's first love. Happy ending
Theme: Protect animals and live in harmony with them.
