I Picked Up a Cat with Social Anxiety

Coming soon: "I Couldn't Get into College, So I Became a God" Because she was poor, Bai Jie moved into a dilapidated apartment block said to be haunted. On the first day, the water in her cup mysteriously vanished from an empty room. On the second day, the wardrobe door silently swung open, and a pair of eyes glowed in the dark. On the third day, she found a severed hand under the bed. Looking closer, she realized it was a shabby doll. Bai Jie understood. A shy little cat must have moved in, afraid of people, greedy for food, and fond of playing at night, just like her. It was another insignificant nobody in this city. Bai Jie decided to adopt the little cat. Every day, she brought food home from work for it. Whenever a package arrived, she saved the cardboard box and tucked it into a corner for the cat to find and play with. Bai Jie was very content with her life now. Although she'd never seen the little cat, at night she felt something warm and furry against her. Sometimes she heard meowing under the bed, and she no longer felt lonely when she got off the night shift. They were like two dandelion seeds, drifting through this lonely city until they finally found somewhere to settle. Then one day, someone told Bai Jie that monsters had taken over the entire city. She was one of the few normal people left and had to escape immediately. Bai Jie thought for a while. So the world had gone mad, just like her. But a good owner would never abandon their pet, no matter what. Bai Jie rode her bike across the empty city to fetch the little cat, only to see a mass of shadow spreading through the room and quietly creeping onto her bed. It turned out that what she'd picked up wasn't a little cat, but a monster. * Set in a wasteland. Coming soon: "I Couldn't Get into College, So I Became a God" Le Xiao transmigrates into a book as the villainous female lead. She maintains excellent grades by cheating, mocks everyone, and constantly targets the female lead, until she's exposed during the college entrance exams and punished. When she arrives, the story is already nearing its end. Le Xiao looks at her total score of less than two hundred and her mother, who is about to go mad, and decides to trust a pop-up ad on her computer. She buys a fake college admission letter, hoping to bluff her way out and escape the plot. But that night, Le Xiao really does receive the admission letter. She looks at its gold lettering and bright red seal, then casually tosses it into the trash. What kind of proper college has no entrance requirements? There's a knock at the door. Her mother is home. Le Xiao goes to open it, but just then, a message arrives on her phone. Her mother says she's working late and won't be home for dinner. Le Xiao: ?? So who's standing outside the door? The gold lettering on the admission letter in the trash falls away, revealing a dark gray layer underneath. [The Strange Tales University entrance assessment officially begins. Those who pass will enroll. Those who fail will die.] Le Xiao: Wait! Isn't the entrance requirement a little too high? I was just saying that casually. I don't really want to take the assessment! * A strange tale is when you sleep in bed and it crouches beneath it; when you stand in the light, it hides in the shadows; when you look ahead, it lurks behind you. It is always there, unseen. Until one day, you open the unspeakable forbidden mirror and see another version of yourself inside. Welcome to the world of strange tales. Theme: Rely on one another through the cold winter