Chapter 31.2

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Xia Rong felt a bit more relieved. {{How many days will you be staying? I’m sorry about this, I had originally said I would try to find some time to search for clues with you, but I didn’t expect to be unable to find any time at all recently.}} Zhang Youying’s frequent NG-ing had caused the filming schedule to become tighter than expected. Moreover, she sure could pester people. Sigh, it was impossible to express it in a few words.

Su Chi: {{It’s okay. I just happened to have some time these few days, so I came over myself. I’ll have the crew arrange for me to be in the room next to you. At that time, it would be more convenient for any shifts or other matters.}}

Xia Rong: {{Mm-hmm! Perfect, these few days that you’ll be here, I can say that I’ve already eaten with you. Then I won’t have to suffer through Zhang Youying yelling at me to wake me up every morning. The lack of sleep has been killing me.}}

Su Chi: {{[Usami-chan’s gaze has sharpened¹Raws: 兔美酱的眼神犀利了起来 [Tù měi jiàng de yǎn shén xī lì le qǐ lái] It references a rabbit detective from an anime whose eyes become sharpened or incisive whenever she sees a clue is was ready to solve the case… I think? Here’s the picture of what it would look like….jpg]}}

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Although Su Chi had rescued Xia Rong from the public’s discussion this time, Zhang Youying’s offensive was not limited to attacking his spirit… there was also **²Not sure what was censored… It might’ve been something along the lines of seduction, harassment(?).. Ever since Xia Rong had managed to avoid her ‘eating breakfast together’, she started putting even more effort into seizing every minute and second when she was with Xia Rong. Just like today, after all the scenes for the day were finished being shot, she still went and dragged Xia Rong to attend some ‘business dinner’.

Seeing that Xia Rong wanted to refuse, she then brought out ‘Uncle Xia’, saying that Xia Rong’s father and her father would both be attending. So if she went alone, then when Uncle Xia asked, she couldn’t just say blabla…

And so, Xia Rong was dragged and pulled to the dressing room by her, to which she then went into the changing room inside to change. Meanwhile, when the rest of the crew saw them come over, all of them consciously withdrew. Because of this, the dressing room became completely deserted, such that there wasn’t even a person around for him to talk rubbish with.

Xia Rong was so bored that he could only lean on the side and play the mobile version of ‘You Draw, I’ll Guess’ with his friend, Cheng Yu. Just as it was his turn to draw the keyword ‘Transformers’, he suddenly felt a wave of pain from within his head.

This headache felt very familiar, just as if he had gone through it once a few days prior…

Just as Xia Rong had this thought, he experienced a flash of blurriness.

By the time he managed to crawl out of the pile of clothes with great difficulty, the expression on his face was already as if there was nothing left to live for—

Before a transformer made its transformation, there would still be some duration of ‘ka-kacha³SFX before transforming. In any case, there would be some warning period and wouldn’t be as instantaneous as his change.’. Meanwhile, Su Chi was becoming more and more capable of predicting when he would transform and for how long the transformation would last. So why was it that, even though he had already changed twice, there were still no warnings at all, such that he could only be caught off-guard?

He felt this failed to be just! Really not OK!

Although there was still indignation on the small orange cat’s face, the most pressing matter right now was still how to resolve the current situation: while there was no one else in the dressing room at this moment, inside, there was Zhang Youying changing her clothes. Whereas outside, there was the production staff walking to and fro. The door was also not locked, so someone was bound to see him. To just sit here and wait for death was impossible, but if he were to immediately run away, the clothes underneath him would then be another problem—

If he walked away, carrying it in his mouth, he would definitely attract everyone’s attention and be gloriously caught before he managed to find Su Chi. But if he were to not bring it and to just rush away himself, he was afraid that Zhang Youying would find this pile of clothes – complete, even including underwear – and decide to report him missing while suspecting that someone had molested him. It would cause his long-standing good name to be destroyed all in one go!

But Xia Rong had only really struggled for a second before deciding to take a gamble: if he brought his clothes to run away, it would be a 100% chance that he would be caught. So it’d be better to toss the clothes into some hidden place as soon as possible. If he moved fast enough, perhaps he would be able to have them hidden before Zhang Youying came out. Then if he were to send her a message with his phone after he has escaped, while she may become upset, she would probably not think too deeply into it.

Okay, then it’s decided!

The little orange cat decisively lowered his body to bite and dragged this pile of clothes towards the cabinet on the other side… It was only when he really went to implement this plan that he found a fatal problem—

It seemed that he couldn’t quite drag it!!

If it had been like the last time with that pile of junk, which had been only a few steps away, then it would’ve still been okay. He’d just have to grit his teeth, put a bit more strength in his claws, and it’d be soon over. But now that he had to drag a large pile that consisted of a number of separated pieces across the entire floor of the dressing room to reach the cabinet at the other end, the difficulty was increased several times over.

The little orange cat subconsciously rubbed his head with his paws, wiping off the nonexistent sweat, as he decided to start with the larger pieces first, carrying them over in batches.

He could only pray for heaven’s blessing that he wouldn’t once again ‘die in the middle of his endeavors’.

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Who would have thought that just as the orange cat version of Xia Rong had just finished praying twice in the bottom of his heart and started wheezing after he sent one item over already, right in the middle of the route when he was dragging the pants of the second batch, the door of the dressing room was pushed open with a ‘squeak’.

Xia Rong quickly scolded, ‘This sabotaging Heavens!’ in his heart before immediately reacting. He released the clothing from his mouth and laid down on the spot showing his soft belly—

I’m just an innocent kitten that was passing by, none of this had anything to do with me!

This inverted world was tranquil for two seconds. Then what finally appeared in his field of vision was a silver gradient British Shorthair that had soundlessly walked over with cat-like steps

The silver gradient British Shorthair looked down at the other from up above and slapped his paw on the other’s face. “Meow ao!”

—“What kind of time is it already? Still trying to act cute!”

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  Raws: 兔美酱的眼神犀利了起来 [Tù měi jiàng de yǎn shén xī lì le qǐ lái] It references a rabbit detective from an anime whose eyes become sharpened or incisive whenever she sees a clue is was ready to solve the case… I think? Here’s the picture of what it would look like… ↩︎
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  Not sure what was censored… It might’ve been something along the lines of seduction, harassment(?). ↩︎
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  SFX before transforming. In any case, there would be some warning period and wouldn’t be as instantaneous as his change. ↩︎