The Black Cat I Picked Up Is a Reborn Dragon-Protagonist

Rebirth-style domineering dragon versus a little companion raised from childhood

Jin Xiaobao is the son of a minor family in Bao'an City, East Continent. But he didn't inherit the Jin family's golden leopard beast form. Instead, he inherited his adoptive father's leopard cat beast form.

According to the Jin family rules, descendants who don't inherit the golden leopard beast form aren't entitled to use any of the family's resources. So, in order to grow stronger, he has to hunt wild beasts to obtain cultivation resources.

He wants to become strong enough to fight back against his adoptive older brother, who bullies him. He wants to prove that leopard cat beastfolk can defeat golden leopard beastfolk, too!

Before he could grow stronger, an ordinary hunt threw his plans into disarray.

In the sixth month of Beast Year 8960, Jin Xiaobao brought home a gravely injured black cat cub.

He never imagined that this black cat cub would become the biggest cheat in his cultivation journey...

Bai Mosheng is the young master of the White Tiger Clan, one of the top powers on the Beastfolk Continent. He was born to be exceptional, and by all rights should have inherited the clan leader's position and led his people to even greater heights. Unfortunately, the current clan leader wasn't his father, but his uncle, Bai Ya.

To get rid of Bai Mosheng and clear the way for his own son, Bai Ya accused him of betraying the clan. He broke both his legs and destroyed his beast core, turning him from a third-tier Spirit Emperor into a cripple. Oh dear, that was Bai Mosheng's fate in his previous life.

Thanks to the Beast God, Bai Mosheng returned to the time before that tragedy.

Reborn, and determined to change his fate, Bai Mosheng decided to lie low. He came up with a plan to marry into another family and leave his clan, surrendering his status as heir to lower his enemy's guard.

But even after he agreed to become a live-in son-in-law, Bai Ya still wouldn't let him go and tried to kill him.

Bai Mosheng was no match for Bai Ya and could only flee in disgrace. He escaped, but Bai Ya had badly wounded him...

To stay alive, the gravely injured Bai Mosheng had no choice but to swallow his pride, transform into his juvenile form, and cling to Jin Xiaobao, a female beastfolk heading out of the city to hunt.

Bai Mosheng fell for this handsome, resolute female beastfolk at first sight. As they spent time together, he was won over by Jin Xiaobao's kindness and gradually fell in love with him.

On the Beastfolk Continent, where strength reigns supreme, Bai Mosheng wants revenge and wants to protect the one he loves. He has only one choice: train relentlessly by any means necessary and become an unparalleled Great Spirit Saint!

In the end, he got his wish.

He became the most solid support his beloved could ever ask for...

[PS: The values in this story are not the author's values.]

[PPs: A traditional cultivation-leveling power fantasy, with steady progression from weak to strong.]

[PPPs: I jumped on a trending meme. I had no choice.]

Contains many original worldbuilding elements, not a traditional beastfolk story.

-- Upcoming story: The True Young Master Becomes a First-Rank Grand Tutor

Synopsis below

Yu Xun (Yu Xun) is the legitimate young master of the Ningping Earl's household, deliberately switched at birth by a farmer's husband. He grew up in a farming family, but was born with a talent for studying.

He began his education at seven, passed the county-level student examination at twelve, and became a licentiate at fifteen.

At seventeen, the county school instructor declared that he was sure to become an Imperial Scholar!

When the news reached the Yu family, Father Yu cheered, while Papa Yu wore a worried frown.

Papa Yu feared that once Yu Xun became an official, he would reunite with the Earl of Ningping, and his own son would be thrown out of the earl's household. So he made up his mind, bought a beautiful young man who had not yet been forced to entertain clients from a brothel, and claimed that the young man was his distant nephew.

Papa Yu bought the young man from a brothel to tempt Yu Xun into indulging in pleasure, so he would neglect his studies and fail the provincial exam.

As it happened, Dingdang was the young man Papa Yu had bought.

PS: Set in an imaginary dynasty.

In this world, there are three genders: women, men, and ge'er.

Girls come of age at sixteen, ge'er at seventeen, and boys at twenty.

PPs: Contains many original worldbuilding elements.

The official ranks will probably be based on those of the Ming Dynasty.

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