The Cat Is Still King Today

[Sweet, innocent bottom who tempts a doting daddy-type top | A kitten's daily routine of training her husband | The long road to the emperor pampering his wife]

[80% of the book is now protected from spoilers]

Upcoming story, A Life Spoiled by My Daddy-Type Childhood Friend. Blurb at the end.

Mingya is a kitten just one step away from becoming a divine beast. But spiritual energy has grown scarce in the Yuan Dynasty, and it can no longer take that final step.

Cat: \(`Δ’)/ No way!

To speed up its cultivation, Mingya travels a thousand miles to the emperor's side. Human, let the cat have a little of your dragon qi!

The kitten discovers that the closer it gets to Chu Xianqing, the faster it can absorb his dragon qi.

Once it gets as close to Chu Xianqing as possible, it will become a divine beast!

When Chu Xianqing reviews memorials, Mingya leaves paw prints on them. When Chu Xianqing sleeps, it kneads his chest. If Chu Xianqing likes cats, then he has to kiss the cat. When Chu Xianqing goes to court... Hm?

Mingya hides inside Chu Xianqing's sleeve, curiously watching the hats below. Suddenly, it is lifted onto the emperor's lap, appearing before all the ministers with great fanfare and sharing the emperor's power. Waves of voices rise from below:

"Greetings, Lord Divine Cat!"

Mingya: ?, (*￣︶￣)/ What's human is cat's!

From then on, everyone in the palace and beyond knows just how much the once cold and ruthless emperor, who ascended the throne after defeating his brothers, dotes on this cat.

The emperor even seems to wear crimson court robes and a jade-bead sash for days on end just to win the cat's favor and attract its attention. He takes the cat everywhere he goes.

Everyone: He's a total cat slave! Look how spoiled that cat is!

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Mingya finally succeeds in cultivating a human form, just one step short of godhood. On a whim, it temporarily takes the cat's place at Chu Xianqing's side, smug that it has kept its identity secret for so long.

Then an accident reveals the truth. Mingya looks at Chu Xianqing pitifully and says guiltily, "Don't blame the cat. The cat didn't do it on purpose..."

The other man smiles. "Then how should Mingya make it up to me?"

Mingya: Mm.

"I know a... good way to cultivate."

In a flowing hot spring, damp heat fills the air as two figures entwine.

Red marks spread over snow-white skin. Helplessly draped over the edge of a stone ledge, a supple back arches as the body trembles faintly. A large, bony hand strokes along it, making him shiver at the touch.

Chu Xianqing presses against him and whispers with a coaxing, seductive lilt.

"Baby... let your tail out, okay?"

"I want to touch your tail."

Mingya cries until his eyes are red, his soft white tail swaying in the air.

Human cultivation is so weird!!!

#Shocking: The price of becoming the emperor's favorite is...!

[Reading Guide]

* One-on-one romance. They are each other's one and only in every way.

* Self-absorbed, spoiled, scheming little brat bottom x mature, steady, wife-obsessed older daddy-type top.

* Everyday life with a mature, gentle husband soothing his wife. He's only gentle with the bottom.

* The top has no harem. The bottom is a cat at first and takes human form later.

* Loosely borrows some concepts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas. A slow-burn, sweet, lighthearted romance, with pretend-play court intrigue. Mostly about a couple being sweet and falling in love.

1. There is a beast shaped like a wildcat, with a white tail and a mane. It is called Feifei, and keeping one can banish sorrow., Classic of Mountains and Seas, Volume Five: The Classic of the Central Mountains

Blurb for A Life Spoiled by My Daddy-Type Childhood Friend:

1.

Le Zhi was raised by the older boy next door.

For some reason, everyone praised him for being beautiful, sensible, and lovable. Only his parents were exceptionally cold toward him.

As a little kid, he would cry in the older boy's arms and tell him his woes. Lu Guannan, who wasn't much older, would clumsily wipe away his tears and say in his tender voice, with utmost conviction, "It's enough that Big Brother loves you."

As he grew up, he ran wild in Big Brother's room and threw his weight around over him. Lu Guannan would just quietly clean up the mess, then coax him to sleep.

Le Zhi naturally thought they were meant to be together.

So on the night he came of age, he secretly climbed into Lu Guannan's bed.

Then, when the covers were pulled back, he saw the ugly look on Lu Guannan's face.

"...Get dressed."

2.

Le Zhi had always been sensible.

So sensible that when he found out he was the fake young master who had been switched at birth, he quietly left home on his own.

He didn't want to make things difficult for the parents who had found their real son, or for Lu Guannan, who had rejected him.

When Lu Guannan found him,

he saw the beloved child he'd raised lying on a narrow bed with a hard wooden frame. A fan spun feebly overhead. Le Zhi's delicate, pale skin was covered in red insect bites, scratched raw and bleeding.

Cramped, dark, damp.

"After leaving me, is this how you treat yourself?"

Lu Guannan's gaze was cold and dark. His scrutinizing eyes missed not an inch of Le Zhi's skin.

"Baby, come back with me."

Le Zhi sat miserably on the creaking bed, head bowed, his whole body trembling faintly.

After a long while, he gritted his teeth. When he spoke again, his voice was choked with resentful tears.

"...You were the one who rejected me first."

"You were the one who didn't want me!"

*

Lu Guannan had held himself back for more than a decade. He thought his restraint was for Le Zhi's sake, but he never imagined he'd hurt him so deeply.

If he had another chance, Lu Guannan would no longer suppress his desires.

He would spoil Le Zhi for the rest of his life.

[Reading Guide]

A short story. Not long. The early chapters include some childhood-friend raising-the-kid scenes.

* One-on-one romance. They are each other's one and only in every way.

* Sweet, innocent, strong-willed, adorable, pampered bottom x controlling, possessive, daddy-type head of the family.

* Eight-year age gap. Older top who pampers the bottom.

* A resilient, delicate flower in front of others, a clingy little brat in front of her husband.

Core theme: Someone will come from far away just to love you.