When Wen Zheng was still a baby, his birth mother abandoned him at the entrance to an orphanage. From then on, he grew up wild and untamed, like a weed.
On his seventeenth birthday, Wen Zheng thought that maybe this was all his life would ever amount to.
His only obsession was to see the heartless woman who had abandoned him. For that, he was willing to become anyone, to change himself into whatever she wanted.
The next day, the doorbell at Wen Zheng's house rang.
A cardboard box sat outside the door. Written on it were four words: "This is your mom."
Wen Zheng was about to ask who was pulling such a stupid prank. He raised a hand to throw the box away, but a furry head suddenly poked out from inside.
The little cat stared at Wen Zheng in terror and asked, "W-who are you? Did you kidnap me?!"
Wen Zheng: ...
The cat could talk?
Then Wen Zheng learned something even more shocking. In all his seventeen years, he'd never known that...
Holy crap, he wasn't human. Holy crap, he was a cat!
Even though he hated the birth mother who had abandoned him, Wen Zheng still brought the poor little kitten home.
Wen Zheng: "Want some dried fish?"
Wen Li: "Mm-hmm!"
*
Wen Li was a tiny cat demon. She had only just cultivated enough to take human form when, for no apparent reason, she ended up more than a decade in the future.
Everything here was strange to Wen Li. A two-legged ape she didn't know appeared before her and told her, "I'm your son."
Looking at the boy in front of her, who had no round, bright eyes, no fluffy fur, and no soft, swishing tail...
Wen Li let out a meow and burst into tears. "I would never have such an ugly son! Waaaah!"
Wen Zheng: ...
It seemed he would have to teach his mother to see him properly, by human standards of beauty.
Later...
Wen Li learned that her son would go astray, become a sinister and ruthless villain, and ultimately die a miserable death after losing everything.
On the day Wen Zheng was cornered by bad people in an alley and had his hand broken, setting him on the path to darkness, a pretty, spirited girl charged into the crowd. She bit down hard on the arm of the thug raising a club against Wen Zheng, drawing blood.
Wen Li: "Nobody's allowed to bully Xiao Zheng!"
Looking at the small figure standing in front of him, Wen Zheng shouted through the blood in his mouth, his voice hoarse: "Mom!"
Little scene:
One day, one of Wen Zheng's good friends came to visit.
As soon as he stepped inside, he saw their usually cold and ruthless Brother Zheng crouching in front of a strange girl, holding a cute cat-paw slipper.
Wen Zheng: "Put your shoes on, or you'll catch a chill."
Wen Li stood on the floor with one shoe on and a sock on the other foot. She looked up at Wen Zheng pitifully. "Can't I leave it off?"
Watching Wen Zheng coax Wen Li like a little kid, his good friend was stunned.
Had their Brother Zheng... been caught in someone's grasp?
Core theme: Building a harmonious family starts with me