The Tiger-Striped Cat Boss Hunts to Feed His Family

Su Chi transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a dying little tabby kitten. Luckily, kindhearted Su Xiaomei takes her home and nurses her back to health.

Su Chi thinks she's about to become the pampered master of the house, spending her days eating, sleeping, and sunbathing, punching anyone she doesn't like.

But the Su family is poor. Forget being treated like royalty, her eldest brother even expects her to catch mice!

She's not catching mice. They're filthy. She'll make Big Yellow next door do it. He loves catching mice!

So the Su family witnesses the following scene.

Their cat sits beside the table, licking her paws, while Big Yellow runs all over the yard chasing mice. Every time he catches one, he takes it to the cat, wagging his tail like a propeller and looking like a fool begging for praise.

The Su family's main breadwinner, their eldest brother, falls ill. They were already short on food, and without the money he earned from his work and hunting, the family can no longer afford to eat.

With the eldest brother down, the second brother, who had been preparing for the imperial exams, has to take his place at work. But he's a frail scholar with no strength to kill a chicken, and he's fired on his very first day.

Their mother takes on twice as much laundry to help make ends meet, leaving her so much work that she sleeps only two hours a day.

Su Xiaomei can't help and is so upset that she hides under the covers with the cat and cries.

Su Chi worries along with them. The Su family is hardworking and kind, and treats her especially well. She wants to help, but unfortunately, she's a cat now.

Meow? That's right! She's a cat, and not just any cat, but a tabby, the boss of the feline world! The whole street is her turf. She can go hunting and feed all five members of the family. That'll be a piece of cake!

Master Wang has been losing things lately. One day it's a piece of meat, the next a bag of rice. Even the inkstone in his precious son's study has gone missing. Master Wang is so angry his whiskers are practically standing on end, but then he sees his precious son carrying a box of pastries toward the study with a cheerful smile.

Master Wang: ? Has all that studying driven his son mad?

Master Wang hurries after him, only to find his son smiling at a tabby cat.

"Take your time. I'll get you more when you're done. These papers are a bit heavy. Why don't you give me an address and I'll have someone deliver them to you?"

The tabby meows, and his son reaches out to stroke her head fondly. "All right. If you don't need them, that's fine, too."

Master Wang: ! That's it. He's really gone mad!

Theme: Love can give you flesh and blood.