Chapter 159 – The cat transformed into a human

Translator: ChuRen/ YuQiChen

“Honey?”

Lu Zeyu pushed open the door to the lounge, but there was no sign of the little golden gradient inside.

He walked over to the window, thinking the little cat might be sunbathing on the window sill.

But the window sill was empty.

He searched around, even checked under the sofa, making sure there was no trace of the cat.

How could this happen?

Movie Emperor Lu paced around the room, calling out the cat’s name, hoping it would suddenly leap out from some corner, looking at him with its big round eyes.

But after another round, the cat was still nowhere to be found, a strong sense of unease creeping over him.

“Have any of you seen my cat?”

He stepped out of the lounge, urgently asking the nearby crew members.

“No, we haven’t.” The crew member, seeing Lu Zeyu so anxious, replied nonchalantly, “Cats and dogs like to wander around, they’ll turn up if you keep looking.”

It was already time to leave work, and people on set were leaving in small groups, leaving Lu Zeyu and his assistant searching everywhere for the cat.

They searched every corner of the set, even turning over every nook and cranny.

Lu Zeyu, with Xiao Li, walked out of the set, beginning to search outside the filming area.

“Honey?”

He walked to a few storage rooms further from the set, continuing to search. The set was large, and these storage rooms were quite far apart and usually deserted.

At this moment, Lu Zeyu caught a faint smell of something burning.

Without bothering to call out to others, he quickly rushed over, seeing wisps of black smoke billowing out from under the door, sensing the heat of flames inside.

“Honey!”

The room was sealed with no windows, making it impossible to see inside.

Lu Zeyu reached out to open the door, but the high temperature of the doorknob burned him.

The doorknob had warped due to the intense heat, making it impossible to turn.

In such a dangerous situation, a normal person would seek help from others, but the man had completely lost his rationality.

He was unsure of what was behind the door, various possibilities flashing through his mind, the most unsettling being that the little cat was trapped inside.

But the thought that there was a one in a million chance of finding Honey inside made him unable to calm down.

Anxiety and worry drove the man to stop hesitating. He exerted all his strength to kick open the door, causing the lock and the door frame to emit a piercing, cracking sound.

After kicking the door a few times, he then used his entire body’s force to crash into the door.

Despite the thick suit, he could still feel the heat from the door, scorching his skin.

But the man paid no heed.

Continuously using his shoulder to forcefully hit the door, the door, warped by the high temperature, remained unmoved. Movie Emperor Lu felt increasingly irritated, paying no attention to the door, which was already beginning to heat up, continuing to strike it with force.

“Lu-ge, why not go call security?” Xiao Li, watching the man madly pounding on the door, was sweating from fear.

The man, however, ignored him.

His body repeatedly collided with the door, making a loud “bang” sound, the wood on the door starting to loosen. Lu Zeyu was drenched in sweat, feeling a dull pain in his shoulder, but the thought of what might be happening inside made him completely lose his sanity.

Gritting his teeth, he used all his might to relentlessly crash into the door like a madman.

Finally, the door lock couldn’t withstand the heavy blows. With a loud “bang,” it was kicked open, revealing a blaze inside, shooting up into the air.

Thick black smoke instantly obscured his vision, the high temperature making it hard to breathe.

When his sight was blocked by the billowing smoke, Lu Zeyu felt surrounded by rolling flames. But when he saw the fire already raging inside, his panic far surpassed any instinct to escape.

“Lu-ge, I’ll go get security, don’t act recklessly.”

Assistant Xiao Li was startled by the scene before him.

This row of small rooms was just a temporary two-story structure, with a thin partition in the middle.

In such a place filled with flammable materials, once it caught fire, the spread would be explosive. Right now, the room was burning, but once the partition melted, the entire small building could collapse into a sea of flames.

Xiao Li ran in a panic towards the security room at the door, which was quite a distance away.

The scorching heat made Lu Zeyu’s skin feel like it was about to burn instantly, but when he realized that the little cat might be in the midst of this blaze, all the discomfort in his body became insignificant.

Ignoring Xiao Li’s advice, Lu Zeyu was only worried about his little cat in danger.

He had to go inside to make sure his cat was not in there.

A second later, the cat could be in even more danger.

Covering his nose with his sleeve, he walked into the room, maneuvering through burning furniture and various clothes, trying to find the silhouette of his cat amidst the smoke.

The wooden walls, floors, and furniture burned like tinder under the fierce flames. Sparks flew, igniting everything flammable around and intensifying the fire. The thick smoke made it almost impossible to breathe, and the scorching heat caused his skin to ache.

“Meow…”

A faint meow.

Lu Zeyu looked closely and saw a small figure struggling in a corner of the room, seemingly pinned down by something.

“Honey!”

It turned out that the little golden gradient was trapped under a few fallen formal dresses on the sofa, gasping weakly due to lack of oxygen.

Ignoring the burning debris around him, Lu Zeyu ran straight towards the little golden gradient, lifting the cat wrapped in heavy dresses.

Although the fire was still spreading, the moment the door was opened, fresh air rushed in.

“Meow.”

Struggling to open his eyes, the cat weakly meowed at the man.

Tang Qing breathed heavily, gradually regaining consciousness. He had just been napping in the dressing room, thinking he would return to the lounge before Lu Zeyu finished work.

Unexpectedly, due to the lack of oxygen and high temperature, he found it increasingly difficult to keep his eyes open.

The flames reached the ceiling, and the thin plasterboard of the dressing room had a certain fire resistance. As the fire grew, large chunks began to fall off, with ceiling materials coming crashing down.

Cracks appeared on the walls and ceiling as the flames licked them, accompanied by a rumbling roar. The fire grew louder and louder, with burning debris everywhere, making crackling noises.

With a loud bang, something hit Lu Zeyu’s head.

The man’s shoulder and forehead were constantly brushed by falling debris, with a corner of his forehead smashed by the ceiling, causing bright red blood to flow out, running past the corner of his eye.

“Meow!”

Tang Qing looked at the bloodstains on the man’s face, his heart feeling as if it had been gripped tightly.

Who would see a fire and still desperately run inside?

Tang Qing’s eyes immediately turned red.

“Honey, don’t be afraid.” Lu Zeyu reached out to soothe the little cat in his arms.

He took off his outer garment, wrapping it around the cat, then tightly held the cat in his arms, using his body as a shield to prevent the cat from being hit by falling debris, and slowly walked towards the door.

Once the door was opened, the air allowed Tang Qing to breathe again, but the oxygen in the moving air caused the room, already filled with flammable materials, to burn even more fiercely.

The ceiling of the dressing room was thin, with a storage room above the flimsy partition.

Suddenly, there was a strange loud noise, and the fire suddenly intensified. The rudimentary room had already been eroded by the fire, with its structure becoming unstable.

A beam on the roof suddenly broke.

Lu Zeyu, still holding the cat, unable to avoid it in time, felt a sharp pain as something heavy hit him, causing him to fall down heavily on the ground.

The beam had collapsed!

Lu Zeyu’s legs were pinned under the beam. He tried to lift the weight off himself with all his strength, but the beam was too heavy. His shoulders were aching, and the intense pain returned, making him groan.

He tried again to lift his body, only managing to shift a little but couldn’t move his legs.

He pushed the cat he had been carefully protecting away, pointing towards the door, “Honey, you go first!”

Fearing that the small dressing room was about to collapse and might hurt his cat, he urgently urged the cat to leave.

As the fire in the room grew larger, and with Lu Zeyu staying in the fire for a longer time, he began to feel a lack of oxygen, his consciousness starting to blur.

“Honey, get out.”

When he had bravely entered to find the cat, his body had already been scratched by flames in many places, blood still oozing from his forehead. The bright red blood trickled into his eyes, making it impossible to open them.

“Honey, get out.”

In reality, Lu Zeyu didn’t care if he could get out.

After all, there was no one waiting for him.

But if Tangtang lost his beloved cat, he would definitely be very upset.

It’s just a pity that he couldn’t see him one last time.

As the man continued to call for the cat to leave, the small golden gradient wrapped in a suit suddenly disappeared.

In its place was the teenager he had been looking for.

“Lu Zeyu!”

Tang Qing, wrapped in the man’s just discarded suit, crouched down and approached Lu Zeyu.

The teenager’s face was filled with anxiety, his originally fair complexion now red and white from the smoke, his hair wet with sweat, clinging damply to his forehead, looking extremely disheveled.

“Lu Zeyu, what are you standing there for?”

The man looked at the teenager in disbelief, wondering if the smoke had damaged his eyes.

Otherwise, how could he be hallucinating?

“Tangtang…?”

Tang Qing didn’t bother explaining, urgently saying, “On the count of three, let’s lift this up together.”

The teenager placed his hand on the beam, immediately getting burned and reflexively pulling back.

But despite the heat, he reached out again.

Lu Zeyu watched the teenager’s actions, putting aside his astonishment, and quickly extended his help.

With their combined effort, the beam was finally moved, revealing the man’s legs that had been trapped for so long.

Lu Zeyu staggered as he tried to stand up, his thighs sore and numb from being pressed by the hot beam.

The teenager immediately placed his hand on Lu Zeyu’s shoulder, using his slender shoulder to support half of the man’s weight.

“Lu Zeyu, hurry.”

Tang Qing didn’t care about anything else, pulling Lu Zeyu towards the door. The billowing smoke and scorching heat made the process extremely difficult. Tang Qing was almost suffocating in the smoke, but he persisted, finally bringing Lu Zeyu to the door.

The doorway was already covered with thick smoke.

Tang Qing looked at the billowing black smoke, feeling a sense of fear creeping into his heart. He remembered that when they entered, there was a long narrow corridor outside the door. If the thick smoke had filled the entire corridor, moving forward would undoubtedly be very difficult.

In the midst of his hesitation, Lu Zeyu noticed his reluctance and stepped forward to the smoky doorway.

“Tangtang, don’t be afraid.”

The man’s voice cut through the smoke, giving Tang Qing great comfort.

Lu Zeyu stepped out of the smoke first.

“Give me your hand.”

In the next moment, a pair of blood-stained hands reached out through the smoke, firmly grabbing onto Tang Qing.

Lu Zeyu held Tang Qing’s hand, and together they moved forward, step by step, leaving behind this dark and desperate space.

Finally, the two of them emerged, breathing in the fresh air deeply, exchanging a relieved glance as if they had survived a disaster.

Gu Minghao, who had already returned to the hotel, upon hearing about the incident, rushed over in a hurry without even changing out of his pajamas.

As a result, they saw Director Tang Qing, who had been on leave for several days, and Movie Emperor Lu, hand in hand, running out of the fire scene.

Amidst the gaze of the onlookers, they embraced tightly, disregarding everything around them.

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