The Cat Above the Law

After awakening as a guide, Lin Ying is always sleepy.

He can sleep for more than ten hours a day without getting hungry. Instead, the more he sleeps, the healthier and more radiant he looks, as if he is well nourished.

He is an orphan who did not awaken as a guide until he was twenty. Before that, he was always going hungry, and looked like he was still a child.

Even after awakening as a guide, his rank was only F, so Lin Ying could not get much in the way of benefits.

So for Lin Ying, sleeping is a low-cost, high-value activity.

But Lin Ying is troubled.

He thinks he must be dreaming, but he can never remember. Every time he wakes up, something strange will be inexplicably caught in his spirit animal's paws or mouth.

Sometimes it's scales, sometimes feathers, and once it was even a huge clump of fur.

A really huge clump.

Lin Ying doesn't know why, but whenever he holds that clump of fur, guilt wells up from deep inside him.

Oh, right.

Lin Ying's spirit animal is an extremely, extremely adorable silver tabby Maine Coon.

Because he was malnourished before, something went wrong with his spirit animal, leaving the cat with a slightly short tail, but it's still adorable.

Although it keeps getting bigger as it eats, Maine Coons are big cats, after all.

Nothing unusual about that.

The days passed one by one.

One day, the Federation's nine major powers suddenly issued a joint bounty of up to 900 million federation credits, seeking a dark guide whose rank was at least 3S and whose spirit animal was a lynx.

It was said that this guide was not only an attacker but also possessed the ability to steal powers. He had attacked and provoked nine 3S sentinels, and had repeatedly tried to break into the Archon's forbidden sleeping grounds. His attitude was extremely arrogant and his conduct utterly vile. He had to be delivered to the Interstellar Court for trial and severe punishment.

The entire star region was in an uproar.

900 million federation credits. Who wouldn't be tempted?

Holding his spirit animal's enormous head, Lin Ying looked at its catlike face, so similar to a lynx's, and joked with a grin, "Tell me, baby, what did you go and rob those sentinels for?"

The big cat, with its short little tail, looked completely innocent.

Later, the Archon Ming Jian, repeatedly harassed during his hibernation period, awoke and came to Lin Ying with evidence.

The cat in question, dressed up as a little maid cat, looked bashful and shy beneath its furry face.

Clutching his spirit animal, Lin Ying felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

M-me?

The outlaw cat with a 900-million-credit bounty?!

Reader's Guide:

⭐ 1v1. The Archon is the pursuer. Lin Ying's spirit animal really is a lynx, disguised as a Maine Coon.

⭐ At night, Lin Ying sleepwalks and controls his spirit animal to eat jellyfish, tease tigers, and kick lions. Getting wanted is what the cat deserves, hahaha.

Blurb dated 2025/12/7, screenshot saved as evidence

What should I do after being reborn as a fish in the pond in the Elf King's garden?

Urgent, waiting for answers online.

Jiang Nuo, who had cancer and spent most of his life trapped in a hospital room, closed his eyes, then opened them again to find himself somewhere completely unfamiliar.

There was a sparkling light above him and sparkling light below, warm, bright light all around. He alone drifted with the current in the still water...

Water?

Jiang Nuo whipped around, only to discover that he wasn't at all familiar with this body.

He couldn't move at all.

How were fish supposed to swim, again?

Jiang Nuo sank into deep thought in the water.

Whether he knew how to swim before wasn't the point. Fish had no arms or legs, just a big tail and short fins.

Jiang Nuo kept floating in the water, and before long, he drifted off to sleep.

Belly up, he gradually floated to the surface.

The little fairy in charge of tending the garden let out a piercing scream.

Jiang Nuo woke with a start and opened his eyes, only to find himself being lifted out of the water by a pair of hands.

Curiously, though, surrounded by golden bubbles, he didn't feel short of breath or water.

He struggled to lift his head, his body curving into a plump U shape.

The newcomer had pale golden hair that seemed woven from moonlight, brushing past beautiful pointed ears. It flowed over his shoulders like water, its ends dipping into the lake and sending ripples across the surface.

His features were strikingly handsome, his eyes a deep green, and the brilliant crown in his hair shone in the sunlight.

The merfolk had completely severed contact with the mainland five hundred years ago. In all that time, not a single merperson had appeared before the living creatures of the mainland.

Until one day, a little fish appeared out of nowhere in the Elf King's garden.

The elves gathered at the lakeside, their beautiful faces full of worry.

Elven children were born from the World Tree of the Elves and grew up on milk-fruit and flower nectar, but how was one supposed to raise a mermaid child?

What did it eat? What did it drink? Did it need to sun itself? Did its scales require special care?

In the end, the well-informed Elf King scooped the little fish up and brought it back to the palace.

The days passed, and Jiang Nuo grew from a little fish into a merperson.

On the very day he came of age, he swam down through the lake in the Elf King's garden and unexpectedly discovered a current flowing toward the roots of the World Tree of the Elves.

He saw the reflection beneath the surface: the World Tree of the Elves, completely decayed and withered.

Jiang Nuo: ?

Jiang Nuo hurried back. He turned his head and crashed right into a familiar embrace.

"Teacher, I saw..."

The Elf King, with ink-black hair half tied behind his head and pale shoulders and neck, held the merperson and asked softly, "What did you see?"

Jiang Nuo: "..."

I-I saw the Elf King with two sides.

⭐ Child-raising in the early part, romance after he comes of age. The little fish is adored by everyone. The love interest isn't split into pieces or multiple personalities, and isn't confused or irrational. He's the dignified, cool, and aloof sort of Elf King.

⭐ Archived 26/11/04

Theme: There will always be someone in this world who becomes both your weakness and your armor.