The Cats Are Still Coveting Humans Today

Synopsis:

In Blue Star year B-325, a magnetic-field disturbance drove many species to extinction and caused a small number of humans to evolve spirit forms.

These spirit forms were based on flying insects, birds, and beasts that had perished in the disaster. Humans with spirit forms naturally acquired some of their abilities. They could soar through the sky, swim through the seas, and even summon their spirit forms to raise them or transform into them.

But blessings and misfortunes go hand in hand. Because spirit-form humans were so rare, they were often used as experimental subjects by people seeking a way to resurrect extinct creatures.

The beastfolk suffered terribly. They would rather kill one another or hide away.

By Blue Star year B-622, beastfolk and spirit forms had become little more than urban legends.

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Waking from a bout of agony, Ji Yunzhuo discovered that his spirit form, a lionhead cat, was missing.

He had to find it quickly. As a beastfolk, all his physical abilities would decline noticeably without his spirit form. That was the difficulty of being beastfolk: they had to keep their spirit forms safe. Only by depending on each other could they keep life flowing.

He had spent nearly eighteen years living at a special survival base. Although it was much like ordinary human society, he still felt out of place as soon as he stepped into it.

But he had to learn to adapt,

and find his runaway spirit form as soon as possible.

Thanks to his powerful empathic abilities, Ji Yunzhuo soon discovered that the spirit form he had worked so hard to find was living the pampered life of a pet at some prospective university student's home.

Kitty: Meow~

That human: What a precious baby^^

Ji Yunzhuo: ...

Stay away from me.

And so, Ji the cat had to face the greatest challenge of entering human society: socializing.

Approach this human when he's alone. Bump into him when he doesn't know what to do. When he's feeling down... comfort him.

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Xie Chen had a beautiful lionhead cat with one yellow eye and one blue eye, and a snow-white coat that radiated elegance inside and out.

He had raised the cat for six months.

Until one day, he met a young man whose air reminded him of his cat: fair-skinned and aloof, speaking with utter seriousness.

"Hello. Could I sit beside you and eat?"

Xie Chen: Of course^^

He thought it was a chance encounter, but then the young man kept appearing in his life so often that he began to wonder if some scam ring had targeted him.

But, but, but...

He's so cute TT I love him so much QAQ

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Devoted puppy, hopeless romantic, veteran fluff lover, top

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Soft-hearted, black-turned-white, flirtatious lionhead cat, bottom

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#Can I pet my cat?#

#Someone's always after my cat#

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·Fictional setting, completely made up, with lots of original worldbuilding. The fantasy setting isn't explored in depth. The original idea was to pet cats and ship the couple.

·Content warnings are in the author's note for Chapter 3.

·20250520: The blurb may change, but the central premise will stay the same.

Synopsis:

As an illegitimate son, Shi Jinyou never received special treatment, even though he was one of the top students at an elite academy. Worse still, he had died and come back to life three times.

First life: He was assigned to stay after school and clean. A classmate forced him to wipe a high window, then tripped him up, and he fell from the top floor. Game over on the spot.

Second life: A traffic accident. He knew it wasn't an accident, because just before closing his eyes, he saw his disabled half-brother, by the same father, smiling with satisfaction from a window in a nearby building.

Third life: A bug in this life made him realize that everything was fake, so he chose to take his own life.

Fourth life... That's right, he was alive again.

When he woke up that morning, Shi Jinyou found himself back on that first Monday. If nothing went wrong, there was another death waiting for him at school.

After everything he'd been through in his first three lives and all the times he'd been forced to sit things out, he knew he couldn't escape his inevitable death. He might as well stop trying and use his limited ability to foresee the future to avoid some trouble.

He also knew that each life had slight changes in its storyline. For instance, a new NPC had just appeared in his class and immediately asked, "Who's Shi Jinyou?!"

A classmate in the back corner of the classroom: "...Me."

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Shi Jinyou really was a heaven-blessed favorite, a child of destiny. He was kidnapped as a child and, after many twists and turns, grew up overseas. The middle-aged couple who took him in loved him as their own. At eighteen, after learning the cruel truth about his adoption, he crossed the Eurasian continent to return to his wealthy birth family. His able-bodied brother, who doted on him, personally came bearing flowers to welcome the second young master home.

Through all those years of flowers and applause, he discovered that the most sincere person who had pursued him when he was a young doctoral student was someone he'd met briefly as a teenager and fallen for at first sight.

He loved the mountains. He longed to conquer them. But fate's brightest moment was ultimately buried beneath the very thing he had always loved. The man who was rescued had lost most of his soul and remained unconscious.

He was trapped in the world of his dreams, dying and coming back to life again and again.

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Xiang Man first met Shi Jinyou in an ordinary coffee shop on a London street.

The Chinese man before him wore a simple, open trench coat, but his watch was every bit as elegant as its owner. Even the newspaper he casually flipped through looked like a professionally arranged prop.

He walked straight up to him. No matter how many empty seats there were, he was determined to meet this beauty from the East.

"How are you?"

The other man caught on to his flirtation and replied, "I'm fine, thank you. And you?"

Xiang Man smiled. He thought he finally understood love at first sight.

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The avalanche on Everest buried two hearts full of passion. Every time Xiang Man saw the figure in the intensive care bed, he wished he could turn back time.

After waking from a three-month coma, Shi Jinyou had forgotten almost everything about his past, apart from basic life skills and two languages.

The aftereffects of severe traumatic brain injury were bad enough. Worse, during treatment to restore his memory, the injury could bring back some of the earlier, deeper pain he had forgotten.

Whether he could overcome it... depended on fate.

On whether fate had left him the chance to keep living.

Modern medicine had advanced to the point where a volunteer's consciousness could be guided into a patient's dream as a form of treatment. It was expensive, had very few documented cases, and was almost unheard of worldwide.

But Xiang Man said he wanted to try.

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Fake universally hated, heaven's favorite and beloved by all, bottom

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Genuine mood-maker, extremely two-faced but pretending to be proper, top

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[Please read before starting]

◆This isn't a romance-focused, universally beloved-by-all story. The characters' affection for the bottom may take the form of family love, romantic love, or friendship. If that's not for you, please skip it.

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·Content warnings are in the author's note for Chapter 1.

·Fictional setting, completely made up, with lots of original worldbuilding.

·20250708: The blurb may change, but the central premise will stay the same.

Theme: Things and living beings, love and mutual dependence