After Turning into a Cat, I Rule the Roost on My Archrival's Head

Yu Yao is a thousand-year-old spirit cat who has lived as a great demon. She spends her days carefree, and her favorite thing is lazing in the sun.

Then she fails her tribulation and wakes to find herself turned into a tiny kitten.

Fluffy and round, and... almost exactly like the one raised by her nemesis, Snake Lord Yan Qi.

Yu Yao turns her head and meets Yan Qi's distinctive dark green, slit-pupiled eyes. She realizes she's in the man's palm, being idly toyed with.

Yu Yao: Oh, right, take out the "almost":)

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She doesn't know how to change back yet, but Yu Yao has no intention of passing up this chance to get revenge on her nemesis up close. So...

She raises a tiny paw and swipes Yan Qi across the face. "Meow! (Let's see how I scratch you to pieces today, you little punk!)"

The Snake Lord, who was just considering how to deal with the boring little cat: ?

Yan Qi lowers his gaze and narrows his eyes at the kitten in his palm, who used to do nothing but tremble in fear around him.

A few seconds later, he wipes the blood from his face with his fingertip, the corner of his mouth curling into an amused smile.

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Rumor has it that Snake Lord Yan Qi is cold-blooded and merciless, with an unpredictable temper. A while ago, on a whim, he took in a kitten barely two or three months old.

The little demons of the demon realm wager that the poor kitten won't last a week in the Lord's hands.

What's more, a reliable source among the demons says:

The kitten shredded the Snake Lord's letters the day before yesterday.

Yesterday, it broke the Snake Lord's jade thumb ring.

Today, it knocked over the furnace he uses to refine pills.

The little demons: Oh no, is the kitten going to be grabbed by the Lord today and used as fuel for refining pills?

But months later, a little demon accidentally catches sight of the Lord holding the kitten in his arms, his long, pale fingers tapping its nose.

"I've fed you so many spiritual pills and medicines. How come you still haven't learned to take human form? Are you stupid?"

Yu Yao: Why would she take human form? So he can do this and that to her, and even that? Who's the stupid one here?

[Reading Guide]

1. One-on-one romance, both leads are virgins. A sweet little story without much complication.

2. My own setting, with a mountain of original details.

3. There are countless good stories out there. If this isn't your cup of tea, please click the X. No writing advice, please. Sending love~

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Coming soon: Hearing My Nemesis's Inner Thoughts After Rebirth. See my author page, and please add it to your collection.

Blurb:

The day Jiang Qianhua died, snow fell in June, and strange signs filled the sky.

Before her body had even grown cold, the man she was about to marry embraced her younger sister and softly comforted her, promising he would take good care of her from then on.

On the day Jiang Qianhua was buried, her parents personally gouged the divine bone from her body and respectfully offered it to her enemy, all to keep the immortal sect safe.

Jiang Qianhua believed she'd devoted herself wholeheartedly to her immortal sect in her previous life, and had done nothing to wrong her fiance or her parents.

She never expected to meet such an end after her death.

When she opened her eyes again, Jiang Qianhua found herself back on the day her parents discussed her marriage.

The Jiang family's eldest daughter, who usually obeyed her parents in everything, barged into the meeting hall without hesitation and coldly tore up the marriage contract sent by her fiance from her previous life.

Under her parents' utterly astonished gazes, Jiang Qianhua declared, "In this life, I will marry no one but Meng Li."

Everyone in the immortal sect thought the eldest daughter had gone mad.

After all, she and the Demon Lord Meng Li, the man she wanted to marry, had been at odds for centuries. Everyone knew they were sworn enemies.

But Jiang Qianhua clearly remembered that when she died in her previous life and her soul left her body,

Meng Li had led a hundred thousand demon soldiers in a furious assault on the Immortal Capital, sparing no cost. After avenging her, he took his own life and was buried with her, joining her in the underworld.

On the day Jiang Qianhua was brought back to the demon realm by Meng Li in a grand bridal sedan, with a thousand miles of red wedding finery,

her nemesis, dressed in a bright red wedding robe, looked down at her and said coldly,

"Jiang Qianhua, I never thought you hated me this much. You'd even go so far as to marry me just to make me sick."

At the same time, however, Jiang Qianhua heard another voice: [Oh my god, Huahua really married me! I wouldn't even dare dream this big!]

Jiang Qianhua: "?"

She quickly realized it was Meng Li's inner voice.

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On their wedding day, Jiang Qianhua laid down three rules.

The first was that they could share a bed, but Meng Li wasn't allowed to touch her for the time being.

Meng Li scoffed. "You think I want to touch you?"

That voice: [It's fine, it's fine. As long as Huahua doesn't kick me out to the study, that's already great. I have to take it slow, or Huahua will think I'm a pervert!]

The second was that Meng Li could no longer refer to himself as "this lord" in front of her.

Meng Li sneered. "The eldest daughter of the immortal sect sure is demanding. This isn't allowed, and neither is that."

That voice: [Ahhh, Huahua, I'm sorry! It's my fault for getting used to putting on airs in front of my subordinates. I deserve to die!]

The third was that Meng Li had to tone it down a little.

Meng Li narrowed his eyes. "Tone down what?"

That voice: [What, what, what? Huahua, can you be a little clearer? I really don't understand!]

Jiang Qianhua: "...Sigh."

At first, Jiang Qianhua thought she and Meng Li would be sworn enemies for life, constantly at each other's throats until one of them died.

Later, she learned that even before her heart had been set entirely on her fiance in her previous life, Meng Li had already fallen deeply in love with her.

Theme: Always have hope for life.