Ugh, I Hate That I Ran Into a Cat

On his way back to the hotel after a night shoot, Yue Xingchen came across a pitiful stray cat. It rubbed against his pant leg and refused to leave, rolling onto its back and meowing.

He was terrified of contact with small animals, but couldn't bear to leave it alone. And so began a life where other people hooked up in the middle of the night while he fed cats.

When filming wrapped, what to do with the cat became a problem. Yue Xingchen didn't want to keep it, so he looked for someone to adopt it in the production team's group chat. When he met the prospective adopter, the cat dug its claws into his sweater and staged a heartbreaking farewell. The adopter couldn't get it to let go, so Yue Xingchen had no choice but to take it home.

The cat never bothered him, except at mealtimes, when it would appear from some unknown corner. Yue Xingchen decided to take better care of it. He looked up plenty of guides on how to raise cats properly and planned to get it neutered first.

On the day of the procedure, the cat vanished.

After several days of searching without success, Yue Xingchen went into his new production full of worries. But that very night, he saw the missing cat in his room, curled up on the sofa and using the remote to flip through channels.

The cat immediately stretched out with its paws splayed when it saw him, then spoke in a grown man's voice that was nothing like its cute little cat face: