Chapter 44.1 – Once turned into a cat, you can just arbitrarily cry? Crybaby cat?

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“…after squatting for this many days… finally could be…”

“…finally we can report back to the boss. Celebrities sure are difficult to catch…”

“…go to the warehouse the boss had designated first. Master Wang has to inspect the goods before transferring it to the boss’s basement…”

“…tut, the people in this circle and their many rotten regulations…”

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Waking up from his faint, Xia Rong subconsciously managed to pick up on the intermittent movements in his surroundings.

The first thing he felt was the jolting, and in his ear, he could hear the low hum of a running car, which basically confirmed his assumption that he was in a car that was driving to some destination. It was also baking hot and super noisy right next to him. From the voices that had spoken in the conversation, he could infer there were already at least three or four people crowded together in the back seat. The capacity of this car wasn’t small.

After trying to move his body within an imperceptible range, Xia Rong found that his hands had been tied behind his back and that there was also a layer of black fabric covering his eyes. But he didn’t dare to open his eyes too obviously and soon closed his eyes again after a slight flutter of his lashes.

At the same time, he also attempted to infer in his mind what was the aim of this group: His own black powder, anti-fans? Or avid, passionate fans? A business adversary in conflict with Father? Or… Judging from how the kidnappers mentioned “Master Wang” and “the people in this circle,” could it be related to the reason why he and Su Chi have again and again turned into cats recently?

He and Su Chi had analyzed before that it was very likely Glass had been constantly changing him into a cat in order to protect him. However, since he had been successfully protected so many times, those forces hidden in the dark would also have come to notice how all their previous actions yielded no effect and were just a waste of effort. Was it because of this that they now could no longer continue sitting by and decided to use another method to deal with him and Su Chi?

If this had only been an ordinary kidnapping, Xia Rong wouldn’t have been as nervous, since he could now freely control the shifting between human form and cat form. So when the time came and the situation turned bad, he could just immediately “poof” into a cat and slip away. The probability of the kidnappers being able to stop him wasn’t significant.

However, if the other party’s “boss” was the “original culprit” who caused his situation of turning into a cat again and again, the situation would then be different. The other side may have some even more mysterious and fantastical means that could be used to deal with him. He should first observe the situation well, take both caution then prudence before acting.

Right now, the space inside the car was too narrow and there were many people around him, so it really wasn’t a good opportunity to go head-to-head with them. It seemed that he could only wait for the car to arrive at that “warehouse” they had mentioned, then decide according to the situation then.

With his eyes closed, Xia Rong thought of all these things, but on the surface, he was still unconscious, without a hint of movement. And this appearance caused doubts to arise in the kidnappers’ minds

“It’s already been more than 20 minutes, why hasn’t he woken up yet?”

“Did Qiang-zi mix the ether concentration too high and over-snuffed him?”

“F★rt, I know exactly what I mixed, it’ll take him at most 30 minutes before waking up! Give it five more minutes, if he’s still not up then he’s just pretending!”

“Forget it, forget it. Whether he wakes up or not has nothing to do with us. If he wants to pretend to be asleep and not flail about, that much the better and we’ll have less trouble on our hands.”

“My younger sister likes him.” Someone beamingly said, “Can you wake him up and let him sign a name for my sis?”

“Get the h★ll out with you!” Everyone else laughed and mocked, “Can’t you have a better understanding of the current situation!”

“Ah一” someone suddenly said, “Why do I feel as if there’s a cat chasing our car?”

“How could that be possible?”

“It’s true, look at that white thing over there… Ah, I can’t see it anymore. Did you guys see it?”

“Didn’t see it, maybe your eyes were just mistaken! Why would a cat chase our car even if they have nothing to do? It’s not like there’s a female cat in our car, right?”

Still with his eyes tightly closed, almost immediately after Xia Rong heard that “there’s a cat” chasing the car and moreover that it appeared white, his heart throbbed and he seemed to have thought of something. He did his best before being able to suppress his breathing that was starting to quicken but then following right after, his attention was caught by the kidnapper’s words—

“Say, it really is just too hard to find a person who has a Pure Yin fate¹Raw: 命格 [mìng gé] Which I translate as “fate.” In one(?) of the lines of Chinese fortune telling is the reading of the eight characters (which is very similar to the western full astrology birth chart), which is comprised of the year, month, day, time of one’s birth (lunar year). From this reading, a person’s life could be foretold… Certain combinations would yield specific ‘fates’… A Pure Yin by standard portrayal should be someone born when all four “time points” align with yin. A rather standard example given in books like these is during the time where yin is greatest during the 15th of the seventh lunar month (which is known to be the Ghost Festival). If we go by standard play… This people tend to attract ghosts and relevant entities, may be able to see the other side, tend to die young, and would be particularly vital during certain practices/processes involving the other side/bridging the two sides.. Even now, after such difficulty of finding one, they just had to be such a popular celebrity star. We’ve been squatting outside his villa for three or four days already, right? All this time before finally seeing him come back for a night, tut, the people in the entertainment circle really are a mess…”

—’Pure Yin fate’? What does that mean?!

“…Aren’t the children with this fate not usually immediately schemed and taken away by those people over there as soon as they are born. Those to be used to extend life would be used to extend life, those to be used for evocation would go be used for evocation. Either way, there are who knows how few had actually been effective, but for certain, there’s a pile of those children that died.” Someone sighed, “Truly, the more those people play with these gods and ghosts all day long, the more inhuman they are.”

“Do you have no shame saying that about others, you’re a kidnapper yourself. Isn’t that also something that harms karmic virtue?” This group of people seemed to hold these things as quite taboo and didn’t continue to mention it anymore. “As for this big star, I heard that his family is very rich. He should have been well protected since he was a child and after he grew up, there were always bodyguards and fans surrounding him at all times. That group of people probably wouldn’t have started directing their aim at him until they no longer had the choice.”

The kidnapper had no intention behind their words, but Xia Rong contrarily became more and more frightened as he continued listening. At the same time, he also recalled many details that he had inadvertently ignored over the years during his long-term adamant adherence to a scientific outlook of this world—

When he was a child, he really was rather empty-headed but wasn’t it very common for children to be forgetful? To the point that mother, who was very busy with the company at that time, would have to personally hand-sew his little cloth pocket²Remember that one that was dug out who knows how many chapters ago when our two cats needed something to put the cell phone in after turning into a cat? with her own hands? Moreover, because that baggie was feminine and no other children in the kindergarten had one, he had protested many times against it but still he was forbidden to take it off no matter what.

What’s more, he had been weak and sickly since childhood, and aligned with his abnormally stringent upbringing, even when he entered the entertainment industry, though his parents hadn’t opposed, they still strictly grasped and controlled all his movements…

When he had been absentmindedly negligent in the past, he hadn’t ever paid attention to this, but now, when all this connects with the gloomy and ghastly term ‘Pure Yin fate’, he’s beginning to feel a kind of sincere fear from the bottom of his heart.

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Sorry that this was a bit short but there was no other natural sectioning. 🙏

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  Raw: 命格 [mìng gé] Which I translate as “fate.” In one(?) of the lines of Chinese fortune telling is the reading of the eight characters (which is very similar to the western full astrology birth chart), which is comprised of the year, month, day, time of one’s birth (lunar year). From this reading, a person’s life could be foretold… Certain combinations would yield specific ‘fates’… A Pure Yin by standard portrayal should be someone born when all four “time points” align with yin. A rather standard example given in books like these is during the time where yin is greatest during the 15th of the seventh lunar month (which is known to be the Ghost Festival). If we go by standard play… This people tend to attract ghosts and relevant entities, may be able to see the other side, tend to die young, and would be particularly vital during certain practices/processes involving the other side/bridging the two sides. ↩︎
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  Remember that one that was dug out who knows how many chapters ago when our two cats needed something to put the cell phone in after turning into a cat? ↩︎