Collared by a Sly Older Woman

Sui Youyou transmigrates.

The good news: She has a System.

The bad news: She's turned into a cat.

System: To become human again, you must stay by the side of the strongest person and steal the magic power in their body.

Sui Youyou: Understood!

So she schemes her way to the feet of the great mage, the mother of the Chosen One, and meows incessantly at her.

The elegant, dignified woman grabs her by the scruff and holds her up for inspection.

"Where did this stray cat come from? So dirty."

Sui Youyou: Meow, meow, meow! (You're the dirty one!)

"So worked up. You must be in heat."

Sui Youyou: ******...

That night, Sui Youyou stretches contentedly in her golden bed.

The old woman may be sharp-tongued, but she's rich. I'll put up with her!

But the woman who scorns her all day cuddles her at night, shamelessly burying her face in Sui Youyou's fur and inhaling deeply.

Sui Youyou: *** Which one of us is in heat?!

Unable to bear the harassment from this cat-obsessed maniac, Sui Youyou starts planning her grand escape.

Step one: Make the old woman realize how dangerous cats are!

So she attacks in a fury, scratching a group of respectable-looking visitors until they howl in pain.

Sui Youyou: Well? Scared yet?

She leaps proudly onto the table, and just as she puts on a disdainful look, the woman pulls her into her arms and rubs her head.

"Well done."

Sui Youyou is stunned.

After much soul-searching, she decides to run away for real!

But as soon as she turns human, all 1,052 watching maids spot her and report it on video.

The beautiful silver-haired girl has only gotten halfway dressed when the woman rushes over, grabs her ears and tail, and corners her step by step.

"Little wildcat, won't you stay?"

The woman personally fastens a fluffy magic collar around her neck. The surging magic power leaves Sui Youyou staring in awe.

If she wants to become human again, she'll have to give it her all!

Several years later.

When Sui Youyou, the youngest Grand Mage on the continent, is asked the secret to cultivating magic power, she blushes for once.

"I just... cultivated normally."

How could she admit that a certain scheming woman thought the time she spent human each night was too short and had gradually "fed" her magic power?

A proud, easily flustered catgirl X a cold-blooded, scheming mage

Warnings:

1. The gong is only the Chosen One's mother in name. Both leads are each other's first and only.

2. Ten-year age gap.

3. Mostly sweet, with a little bittersweetness now and then, because the gong is a jerk (emphasis added).

Theme: Care for animals