My name is Xiaohei. I just celebrated my fifth birthday the day before yesterday. I live in the palace of District 14. I have a fanged guard, a personal butler, several maids, and countless slaves.
Every morning, I wake up in my golden-rimmed cat house, wash up under the assistance of my personal butler, and then head to the dining room for breakfast.
For breakfast, I can choose from canned food, fish, and biscuits.
After breakfast, during my free time, I let my fanged guard out for some morning exercise with her.
After that comes the time for a walk. A maid will accompany me to the garden for a stroll.
However, compared to the maids, I prefer being accompanied by my personal butler.
Occasionally, the worst-case scenario happens when both the butler and the maids are busy, and I have no choice but to go to the garden with the slaves.
During those times, I always feel very upset. When I return, I summon my fanged guard and relieve my frustration by sparring with her.
Enough said; soon it will be time for my personal butler to wake me up.
Putting aside a ball of yarn, the black cat lies in its cat house, waiting for Xia Yu’s arrival.
Time slowly passes, the sun rises outside, but the door remains still.
The black cat lifts its head.
Lately, my butler has been somewhat lazy, spending time sleeping with the maids instead of coming to kneel and greet me.
But there’s nothing I can do about it. The butler sleeping with the maids is for the purpose of producing more maids for me—it’s for the prosperity of my kingdom.
As a master, I must display a broad mind at times like these.
Fine then, I’ll just get up by myself.
This situation has persisted for five consecutive days now. Those maids have become too audacious, even daring to compete with me for my man. I must let them know who the true master really is!
Climbing out of the cat house, the black cat stretches lazily and walks out of the room.
First, it heads to the dining room. It doesn’t see Xia Yu but encounters other women instead.
After carefully looking at each woman’s face, the black cat quickly determines that one woman is missing.
That missing woman is Xu Youxiang.
So it heads upstairs and opens Xu Youxiang’s bedroom door.
“Meow!” The black cat jumps onto the bed.
It lands precisely on Xu Youxiang’s lower abdomen, startling the still-sleeping Xu Youxiang.
Seeing that it’s just the black cat, Xu Youxiang relaxes. With a hint of morning grumpiness, she shoves the sleeping Xia Yu beside her.
“Hmm?” Xia Yu opens his sleepy eyes.
“Your little lover has come to get you,” Xu Youxiang says to Xia Yu.
“Oh, come here, Daddy will hold you,” Xia Yu, thinking Xu Youxiang was referring to their daughter Yinyin, closes his eyes and opens his arms, ready to hug Yinyin and continue sleeping.
“Meow!” The black cat angrily swats Xia Yu’s head.
It uses quite a bit of force, causing Xia Yu to open his eyes again and fully awaken.
The first thing he sees is Xu Youxiang’s disgusted glare.
“I didn’t expect you to still want to be a mother cat’s daddy,” Xu Youxiang says expressionlessly.
“Still? Why say ‘still’?” Xia Yu smirks as he wraps his arms around Xu Youxiang.
Xu Youxiang immediately blushes with embarrassment and kicks Xia Yu off the bed with one foot: “Pervert, don’t touch me!”
Xia Yu stands up laughing and leaves the room holding the black cat.
Before stepping out the door, the black cat, perched on Xia Yu’s shoulder, glances at Xia Yu hugging it, then looks back at Xu Youxiang lying alone in bed, its eyes revealing a sense of triumph.
After washing up together with the black cat, Xia Yu heads to the dining room.
When Yan Wei sees Xia Yu enter, she immediately brings the prepared breakfast.
“Meow, meow, meow!” The black cat carries its bowl to Xia Yu.
Xia Yu first puts down his chopsticks and goes to prepare breakfast for the black cat.
Soon, a bowl of cat food is placed in front of the black cat.
With a show of restraint, the black cat takes a bite, then glances at Yan Wei’s breakfast for Xia Yu and then at the breakfast Xia Yu prepared for it, finally directing a look of disdain at Yan Wei.
After finishing its breakfast in front of Xia Yu, the black cat goes to the hamster’s cage, releases the hamster, and begins its morning exercise.
It first lets the hamster loose, then catches it again.
By the time Xia Yu finishes eating, the hamster is nearly exhausted.
The black cat carries the hamster back to the cage, locks it in, and then goes to Xia Yu’s feet, waiting patiently.
Xia Yu stands up and takes the black cat along to the garden for a walk.
Along the way, he meets Yuxue.
Dressed in a maid uniform, Yuxue has just finished cleaning the pavilion and is sitting there resting.
Seeing Xia Yu, Yuxue enthusiastically waves: “Brother!”
Entering the pavilion, Xia Yu sits on the wooden bench.
The black cat also jumps onto the bench, lying beside Xia Yu’s legs.
Yuxue tosses aside the rag in her hand and sits next to Xia Yu: “Brother, brother, guess what I just saw?”
“What did you see?” Xia Yu asks while stroking the cat.
“I saw two maids trimming the bushes together, and then while they were trimming…” As Yuxue speaks, she leans closer to Xia Yu.
“Meow.” The black cat growls in dissatisfaction and extends its paw to push Yuxue away.
“???” Yuxue looks down at the black cat, which lowers its paw.
“The two maids…” Yuxue continues, this time not leaning toward Xia Yu but reaching out to take his arm.
“Meow.” The black cat extends its paw again, pressing down Yuxue’s hand.
Yuxue looks at it, and it looks back at Yuxue.
After ten seconds of staring at each other, Yuxue concedes. She no longer makes physical contact and simply continues her story: “The two maids kept trimming until they held hands!”
“That’s quite something,” Xia Yu muses as he strokes his chin.
“Exactly! How could they hold hands while doing physical labor? Sure enough, one of them tripped shortly after, and both fell down,” Yuxue concludes, “When working, one must stay focused.”
So that was the main point? Xia Yu momentarily doesn’t know how to respond.
“They fell right there,” Yuxue points at the location of the incident and instinctively reaches for Xia Yu’s arm again.
“Meow!” The black cat smacks her hand away with its paw.
“What are you doing!” Yuxue can’t stand it anymore. She glares angrily at the black cat.
The black cat ignores her, leaps onto Xia Yu’s shoulder.
“Brother, you have to discipline it!” Yuxue complains to Xia Yu.
“What’s the big deal with a cat?” Xia Yu tries to pacify Yuxue.
“Meow.” The black cat pats Xia Yu’s head with its paw, pointing toward outside the pavilion, signaling it’s time to leave.
So Xia Yu stands up and continues his walk.
Perched on Xia Yu’s head, the black cat turns back at Yuxue and sticks out its tongue.
Rubbing Xia Yu’s hair affectionately, the black cat feels satisfied.
Did you all see that, you disrespectful women who don’t know your place? I am the true mistress here!
After walking around the garden and returning home, the black cat goes to the nursery to check on the baby in the crib.
It decides that this little girl must be personally trained by itself to become a proper maid, ensuring she doesn’t turn out as disobedient as her mothers.
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