My Roommate Got Weird After I Turned into a Cat

A little over two months after starting her first year of college, Lin Mingxi was reported by her roommates for being mentally unstable and bullying people on campus. After her counselor “tactfully” advised her to do so, she chose to take a year off.

After having her work plagiarized with no one to turn to, enduring public attacks and pressure from the faculty, Lin Mingxi decided to go home and rest for a while. She would paint and gather inspiration in the countryside, while collecting evidence to fight back.

A bizarre car accident happened on a country lane. Before she could dodge, Lin Mingxi was struck and sent flying onto the deserted road.

When she woke up, she was horrified to discover that she had become a cat. A month-old kitten was being carried along by someone. She rubbed her eyes, only to be brought into the dorm she had moved out of not long before.

Looking up, she saw her roommates. Her scalp prickled, and she kept backing away. As soon as they stepped into the dorm, she heard them arguing.

“I absolutely won’t allow a cat in the dorm. You brought it back, so you deal with it.”

“I’m a clean freak. You’d better keep it away from me.”

Furious, Lin Mingxi darted out of the dorm in a flash. But with nowhere to go, she was left hungry and cold outside, and was abused by strangers.

Fate took a turn the next day, when she returned to the dorm, covered in wounds and crawling desperately, and someone gently picked her up.

When she opened her eyes, she saw the very roommate who had said the day before that they should get rid of her.

To avoid becoming homeless and returning to Cat Planet, she pulled out every trick she had, playing cute and pretending to be clueless as she sparred with her roommate.

Along the way, she gradually realized that her roommate had been acting strangely all along.

For example, he was the wealthy patron who tipped her art account. The abs she had drawn were his phone wallpaper. He had secretly gathered evidence to clear her name. He let little hints of his feelings slip when they spent time together, and his photo was in her album.

Something was off. Very off.

But as Lin Mingxi was pampered until she lost the ability to fend for herself, she gradually stopped noticing these strange things in her blissful, carefree days.

Until...

The cat who had made herself at home turned into a person on her roommate’s bed.

Coming soon: The Fifth Year After the Playboy's Death

I was a playboy, a rich, irritating young man from a family with money. I teased cats and walked dogs, could barely recognize a handful of characters, and spent my days throwing my weight around and doing whatever I pleased. I had no rivals.

One day, a few of us obnoxious playboys made a bet and went to watch the capital’s famous young nobleman bathe. We were still splashing around in the water when we were caught in no time. I looked up, but none of my comrades in arms were anywhere to be seen, and I was the one who took several heavy blows from a board.

But that was fine. I didn’t hold a grudge, because I was smitten at first sight with that aloof, proud young nobleman, as austere as a pine and as pure as snow.

I pursued him day after day, sending flowers and gifts, only to be thrown out again and again, leaving me filthy and disheveled.

The young nobleman stood several steps above me, looking coldly down as I was beaten to the ground like a dog. He said he could never love me in this lifetime, that a toad like me was dreaming of eating swan meat.

As I lay battered and bruised in the winter snow, I wondered why I had to keep chasing after him. My father, who was so exasperated with me he could barely stand it, sighed all day long.

Then my stubborn streak kicked in. I refused to give up, joined the army, and trained hard every day until I finally became someone respectable.

But when I saw the young nobleman again, he had fallen for a refined young lady from a respectable family. The feelings were mutual.

I had waited for years, and I turned dark.

When he fell into misfortune, I announced to the world that I would marry him, forcing him into it. Then I used a secret drug from Nanjiang to bear him a child.

He hated me. I knew it, and so did the whole world. But I didn’t care. I only wanted him.

Nothing good lasts forever. Perhaps Heaven thought I was too wicked, because my entire family was caught up in a rebellion and executed.

Wounded and gravely ill, I was escorted from the border to the capital.

At the very end, the only thing I could do was trade my military merits for his life.

In the depths of the dungeon, the last news I heard before I died was that he had divorced me and married the woman he loved. After all those years of mistakes, everything had finally returned to where it started.

How wonderful.

Unfortunately, I didn’t die.

Five years later, I came back.

This time, I don’t want him anymore.

[Reading Guide]

1. The blurb is written in first person, while the main story is in third person.

2. The blurb is entirely from the bottom's perspective and does not represent what really happened in the past.

3. The story begins five years later.

Theme: All things have a spirit, and cats are the greatest.