Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Three: Discovering the Mystery of Life (1/2)

Xiao Yu had not stepped into this place for a long time.

He actually felt nervous when he pressed the doorbell as he stood before the house with a fruit basket in his hand. After that short episode of nervousness, he was overwhelmed by a sense of self-mockery that almost drowned him.

It was supposedly his house.

“Come on in.” Mdm Fang opened the door, took the things in his hands, and scolded him. “It’s just a trip home, why do you have to bring so many things. I can’t even finish them by myself.”

“I bought them on my way here.”

Xiao Yu gave a very polite excuse, and Mdm Fang did not probe further.

After all, they were not a real mother and son.

Mdm Fang did not even serve him any drink and brought him directly to the long forgotten study room.“No one has used this room since your father passed away. I did some simple cleaning yesterday. Those things that were worth some money were sold off these past few years when our situation was tight. You can take anything you want here. If you are looking for something, then make it quick. I have a tea party in the afternoon.”

“Sure, sure. It won’t take too long, I – “

Xiao Yu said as he looked around the unfamiliar room. He was about to talk more but stopped when he heard the dull thump of the door and realized that Mdm Fang had closed it as she left.

Although he was disappointed, he did feel thankful. He was thankful because Mdm Fang had not probed further about the very eye-catching cylinder-shaped workout bag that he had carried.

After confirming that Mdm Fang was far away, Xiao Yu pulled open the zipper and took out the little fellow who was hiding inside.

“Meow – “ Faye was suffocating to death.

“Shhh!” Xiao Yu put his finger to his lips: “Aunt Fang doesn’t like small animals. If she finds out about you, you’ll become an ingredient for hot pot, got it?”

Faye shut her mouth feeling wronged.

Xiao Yu helplessly rubbed Faye’s little head. Initially, he did not plan on bringing Faye along. He had even declared that last night but changed his mind right before he left when Faye tried to act shameless with him. Fearing that he may be further delayed, he had no choice but to bring Faye along.

Thankfully, he still had the workout bag that he had won last year in a raffle at a company gathering. Otherwise, he may not have even found a suitable way to bring the cat along.

“Be nice. I have important things to do. Go play on the side, be gentle.”

Xiao Yu settled Faye on the side as he took off his jacket and rolled up his sleeves. Then, he began to start a blanket search of the room.

A week ago, when Xiao Yu had been reborn into a human again, he thought that his incident of turning into a hamster could only be an accident – a small joke that God played on him.

However, after he had experienced the series of events the day before yesterday, Xiao Yu had not slept the whole night contemplating this question.

He finally concluded that he may not be a human.

More accurately speaking, this conclusion was what made Xiao Yu unable to sleep that entire night.

He, whose surname was Xiao, whose gender was male, aged twenty-six, marital status single, race… unknown.

Living with such an upsetting conclusion that was both funny and extremely embarrassing, Xiao Yu was faced with the question of whether there was something wrong with his parents’ race.

Ever since the experience of turning from a hamster to a human and vice versa, this was the first time Xiao Yu started to ponder about the philosophic question of ‘who am I’, a question which he gave up trying to figure out very quickly. It was, after all, a difficult question that had existed over several centuries.

Later, he had called Mdm Fang while feeling grief and indignation. He planned to start off by asking if she had known anything about it. However, due to his inability to speak clearly whenever he spoke to her, Xiao Yu could only attempt his final plan – looking through his late parents’ belongings.

Despite the feeling that there was a very low possibility that he would find any clue after so many years, it was still better than doing nothing.

This room was his father’s study room when he was still around. Xiao Yu should have been here before when he was a child. But because he had still been too young back then, and adding in the fact that he had never been inside ever after it was locked when his father had passed away, he ended up not having any impression of what the room looked like.

Regardless, familiar or not, he had to start searching.

Xiao Yu had referred to detective fiction. He removed the dust-covered books on the shelves and looked through every one of them, but there were no letters; he opened the empty glass cabinets and felt every inch of them, but there were no secret buttons; finally, he even went under the bed and searched, but there were no new discoveries except for his head being covered in spiderwebs.

No, it was all for nothing. The only bonus he had was Faye when she went under the bed with him because she thought Xiao Yu was being very happy, jumping up and down the room.

“Heyyy, what are you doing, you just bathed this morning!”

Xiao Yu quickly reached out to grab that little white cat who was capable of getting extremely filthy. He did not expect Faye to suddenly jump to the side and dodge his grip and as she ran towards the door in an unglamorous manner.

Very coincidentally, at that moment the door was slowly opened.

“You’ve been at it for two hours…”

Faye ignored the obstacle that was in front of her as she ran with all her might. She fully utilized the climbing ability that she had gained as a stray, by grabbing Mdm Fang’s clothes and climbing onto her neck in an instant.

“What is this?!”

Mdm Fang was suddenly attacked by the blurry white furball and subconsciously raised her hand to fling it away.

Faye screamed as she flew. Luckily, she was caught by Xiao Yu who had sharp eyes and agile hands and she landed in his embrace without mishap.

“What did you bring here?” Mdm Fang studied Faye in her panicked and doubtful state. Then she asked unsurely: “Why is it a white cat? Don’t rituals normally use black cats?”

Xiao Yu: “……”

He had only heard of using black dogs. The use of black cats was really unheard of.

“Hurry up. Don’t make a big mess everywhere. It’s not easy to clean up.” Mdm Fang said as she closed the door again and left.

Xiao Yu: Wait, you really misunderstood, I didn’t, I’m not, I don’t know what ritual you’re talking about.

Thump.

Forget it.

“What did I just say!” Xiao Yu gave Faye’s little head a knock. “I told you to be good. Are you scared now?”

“Meow.” Faye used her adorable big eyes to stare at Xiao Yu, looking absolutely innocent.

She had gotten forgiveness for worse things from her current owner by using cuteness to seek for forgiveness.

“Never mind. Are you hurt?” Xiao Yu gently rubbed Faye’s left paw that had been curled up since earlier.