After Turning into a Cat, I Was Taken in by My First Love

[Completed]

Coming soon: the yuri novel The Moon Tide Won't Fade. Frail, cool, and aristocratic bottom x beautiful, unhinged top who seems sweet but is secretly a schemer. If you liked High Society, don't miss it~

Yun De has severe social anxiety. The kind where making eye contact with a stranger brings on cold sweats, a pounding heart, and the urge to throw up. She doesn't want to change. She just wants to stay tucked away in her neat little world, cut off from everyone, earning money by writing, passing the days with games, and knowing time is passing by keeping odd hours.

But one day, Yun De realizes that the cat she accidentally brought home has a problem.

Yun De: You're acting weird.

Cat: ...Meow? Mrow?

The cat understands human speech and can do human things. It spends all day hogging the keyboard, leaving a line in her document: I believe you can definitely go outside with me and help me find my past! You are electricity, you are light, you are my only hope!

Yun De looks utterly despondent.

No, she can't.

The cat yowls and starts rolling around on her keyboard.

Yun De: ...

What a mess.

Later, the cat's owner, She Xiaoshe, finally regains her memories, and her consciousness returns to her own body.

She Xiaoshe eagerly starts a video call. Yun De, whose social anxiety is severe, hits decline, swallows, and types: Maybe we shouldn't meet again.

She Xiaoshe: ?????

You practically licked the top of my head bald, and now you're saying we should just leave it at that?!

Reader's Guide:

* Yun De is the bottom, Xiaoshe is the top.

* Because of childhood trauma, Yun De is sensitive and insecure, and her emotions can become exaggerated. If you can't accept Yun De's problematic characterization early on, please click away. You don't have to force yourself to keep reading while cursing the bottom~

* At its heart, this is a sweet, everyday story. They heal each other and grow into better versions of themselves!

Coming soon: the yuri novel The Moon Tide Won't Fade

1.

On the Four Scenery Continent, a vast chasm separates great demons from commoners.

Chun Yan has a face of dazzling beauty, yet was born into lowly circumstances. Without the power to protect herself, she fears her fate will be as tragic as a wilting flower.

So she enters the Qi residence, hoping to win the heart of the Qi family head and secure her own future. But there she sees Miss Li, whose status is exalted and the envy of everyone in the household. Miss Li's gaze briefly falls on her.

From then on, Chun Yan's heart is in Miss Li's hands, her life and death at her whim.

2.

Word has it that Chun Yan, the sickly Miss Li Yue Shen's maid, died in the Battle of Chu Mountain.

No one says it's a pity. Only Li Yue Shen keeps a lamp burning for her, afraid she won't be able to find her way home.

Four years later, Chun Yan returns to her homeland amid repeated cries of "Lord Chun." The shackles imposed on her because of her weakness have finally fallen away.

The first thing she does is lock the moon she has yearned for so long in her arms. Tracing Miss Li's lips, she says, "The more something is out of reach, the more I want to taste it."

The pure and humble maid of the past is gone.

3.

Li Yue Shen is stabbed to death by the Qi family head. When she opens her eyes again, she is seven months before the Battle of Chu Mountain.

She thinks of "Lord Chun," the alluring woman whose every word is a teasing invitation, and decides there's still time to change everything.

She will teach Chun Yan to wield a blade with her own hands, so Chun Yan can point its tip at anyone who dares to hurt her.

Li Yue Shen believes that if she can prevent the tragedy of Chun Yan being abandoned at Chu Mountain, Chun Yan's eyes will remain as clear as they once were.

But she doesn't know that Chun Yan's madness, malice, and cruelty were buried in her soul from the beginning. The Battle of Chu Mountain was not what brought them out.

It was Li Yue Shen herself.

2022.5.14. Screenshot taken and uploaded.

Reader's Guide:

* Li Yue Shen (shen).

* Frail, cool, aristocratic bottom x beautiful, unhinged top who seems sweet but is secretly a schemer. The top really is crazy and holds herself to a double standard. She's not a good person, so don't read if that bothers you. No need to tell me if you drop the story, thanks~

* The romance is bittersweet, satisfying, sweet, and thrilling. It's exactly the kind of thing the author likes.

* A fantasy continent with a demon-clan setting. The various worldbuilding details are just for fun, so please don't overanalyze them. No rankings, please.

Also timidly asking you to check out my upcoming romance novel, The Ultimate Virtue of a Cannon Fodder (Transmigrate into a Book)

Ting Xu transmigrates into a third-rate male-protagonist harem cultivation novel, becoming a minor cannon-fodder character who loves someone she can't have and ultimately dies a gruesome death.

The original owner falls in love with the male lead at first sight and insists on marrying him. The sect leader, who dotes on his daughter, uses benefits as leverage, forcing the male lead to marry her.

The result of being forced is that the male lead not only rids himself of the deadly poison in his body, but also obtains countless rare treasures from the sect. After the sect leader dies, he even takes over the sect and builds it into his own power base.

As for the original owner, he looks down on her, treats her coldly, and finds her annoying and loathsome. When she is eventually trapped and helpless, he walks away with a sweep of his sleeve, leaving her to die at the hands of the demon clan.

Ting Xu: Ugh, what a stupid plot.

The System in her mind tells her coldly: Host, please maintain your character. If you go out of character, you will be punished by Heaven.

Ting Xu: Okay, fine. (smiles.jpg)

It's just one face to someone and another behind their back. Who can't do that?

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On the day they marry, the male lead, Gu Qiao, hates her touch. He drinks himself into a stupor, then wakes up frozen, only to find himself lying in the snow in nothing but thin underclothes.

His wife, Ting Xu, opens the door and sees him, tears glistening in her eyes. "It's my fault. Even if you didn't want to share a room with me and insisted on sleeping in the courtyard, I should have let you stay inside and gone out to sleep there myself."

Gu Qiao, nearly frozen stupid, stares at her in bewilderment. "Did I choose to lie out here?"

Ting Xu nods firmly. "I couldn't stop you!"

-

Later, Ting Xu fakes her death and takes on a new identity, living freely beneath the heavens.

She never expected that, even after her death, rumors would claim Gu Qiao had gone mad looking for someone in the demon clan's lair, and had slaughtered the entire place when he couldn't find her. Clearly, he had loved her deeply.

Ting Xu: Pah. The scumbag is putting on quite a show, using a dead person to make himself look devoted.

Later, she hears another rumor: the blind little follower she'd picked up was actually a powerful figure in the demon clan. Not only had he regained his sight, he'd also run the male lead through with his sword and demanded his life in payment.

Everyone is curious: what could Ting Xu possibly have done to make the greatest sword cultivator and the Demon Lord fight over her like this?

Ting Xu: Don't believe rumors, don't spread rumors.

It isn't until one day when both the scumbag and her little follower show up at her door that she realizes...

Maybe all those rumors are true???

Bonus Scene:

Xiao Mu loses his memory and is taken in by Ting Xu. After living with her for a while, he realizes she's a very strange person.

Ting Xu says she's completely in love with her husband, Gu Qiao, but behind his back she drags Xiao Mu to martial arts tournaments hosted by various sects. Munching on seeds, she critiques the chest muscles, shoulder width, and waist-to-hip ratios of every male contestant (?).

Ting Xu even has a whole theory about it: "When you smell the flowers at home too often, you stop noticing their fragrance. Sometimes you have to look at the wildflowers outside."

Xiao Mu gets the idea and immediately signs up to compete.

He hears the jeers around him, rising and falling as they call him "little blind man," and, as if by instinct, turns toward a quiet corner.

He wants her to know that none of these men she praises so much can compare with one little blind man like him.

The blurb was screenshotted and uploaded on 2024.5.4 as proof.

Reader's Guide:

* The heroine is Ting Xu, and the hero is Mu Tingsheng. The hero is blind early in the story, so don't read if that bothers you~

* This is not a traditional leveling-up cultivation story or a strong-female-lead story. The romance and plot are split sixty-forty. It's all about being clichéd, melodramatic, and delightfully old-school.

* A story where a love that goes unreturned puts the hero through the wringer. Hero-focused readers, beware. The heroine is neither a devoted wife nor a lovesick fool.

* I'll add more when I think of it...

Theme: Even when you have to struggle through hardship, don't give up. There is always hope for the future.