Gentle Beast Novel Chapter 63

Gentle Beast Chapter 63

【她的秘密 – Her Secret】

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u accompanied her mother in the hospital for a day and returned ho that night. When she opened the door, out jumped a figure.

Gǔn Gǔn ca over to her feet and took advantage of the owner who hadn’t returned in so long, acting spoiled for a long ti.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u was stunned and didn’t respond. After such a long ti, she had quickly forgotten she had a cat at ho.

She stooped and rolled him in her hands, scratching under his chin. “Gǔn Gǔn, did you miss ?”

The cat owed twice and lolled out his tongue to lick Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s palms.

Usually Gǔn Gǔn wasn’t happy when Jǐ Xiǎo ??u touched his chin, but today, he actually didn’t resist at all.

Probably because his owner had been gone for so long, the proud cat had also been afraid of being abandoned.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u teased him for a while, playing hard before going to take a bath.

Her clothes were wet and sticky, clinging to her body. She stood in front of the bathroom mirror and felt embarrassed. She was dirty and ugly.

This appearance was even unacceptable to her. She did not even know how Gǔn Gǔn had bared with her embrace.

After a long, serious shower, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u dried her hair and took a bottle of milk from the refrigerator.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u originally planned to go back to the hospital to accompany her mother in the evening, but Mrs. Jǐ felt that she had only just returned and had a high fever. She told her to go back ho and rest.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u was really tired but was reluctant to agree with her mother and father.

In the end, her father promised to pick her up the next morning, so she was willing to go ho.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u drank her warm milk and Gǔn Gǔn was on the table, his eyes staring at her hand. “ow,” he cried twice.

She startled, “Do you want to drink it?”

He bounced twice, his front paws grabbing her arm.

Because she had been gone for so long, he probably wanted to show their closeness more than ever before.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u hesitated for a bit then took a small bowl from the cupboard and poured in a little milk, pushing it in front of him.

“Don’t drink too much, ” she muttered.

Letting her hand go, he buried his head in the bowl and stuck out his tongue, lapping it up.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u quietly watched him drinking so milk, suddenly rembering another small figure.

Round ears and blue eyes, a dark spotted pattern, and devouring the milk delivered by her hands. So clear even after a long ti, every scene was engraved as fresh a mory as yesterday.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u blinked her sore eyes and rubbed at them with her eyes to ease off so of the uncomfortable feeling.

She took away the bowl and said sternly, “No more. It’s not good if you drink too much.”

She looked down at his plaintive amber eyes.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s heart was ruthless and she ignored him, washing the bowl clean. She poured so food for the cat then went to her room.

She didn’t have a good rest for two consecutive days and finally laid down early today.

She thought she would fall asleep quickly, but after lying in bed for two hours, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u was still very much awake.

She turned over and looked at the empty bed.

It was only then that she found she had unconsciously slept on the innermost side.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u bent and slowly shrank in on herself, her body trembling.

Why?

She had obviously co back. There was a comfortable bed and warm air conditioning. Why does she feel so unaccustod to it?

That unpredictable shift from day to night, the rapidly changing weather, the hardwood beds, and the dangerous carnivorous beasts were all far away from her. They could no longer threaten her.

She should be happy, but there was one place in her heart that was empty. Like the missing piece in the middle.

The eternal puzzle that could never be forgotten.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s wide awake eyes stared for a long ti, until the latter part of the night. Her body gradually beca unable to support her and she finally fell asleep.

*

Over the next few days, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u accompanied her mother at the hospital.

Her physical recovery was rather good. There was no other problems except for the right leg that wasn’t healed.

The driver who had caused the crash compensated a certain amount of money and expressed his apology for Mrs. Jǐ.

Mr. and Mrs. Jǐ had just had their daughter returned and were in a cheerful mood. They didn’t give him a hard ti.

The matter was happily settled.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u was not bored during her days at the hospital. Sotis she sat at the bed and talked to her mother, and she could stay there the entire day.

The old lady on the other bed t her and praised, “Teacher Hé, that daughter has great filial piety.”

The old woman was sixty this year and she had both a son and a daughter, but her children were busy at work. They only ca to see her once.

Sotis, since her children weren’t there, when the elderly woman encountered sothing inconvenient, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u would help her out. During the three months that Mrs. Jǐ had been in the hospital, the old lady rather liked her very much.

When she was discharged from the hospital, Mr. Jǐ drove by and picked them up.

On the way her father told Jǐ Xiǎo ??u, “I’ve already gotten in touch with your school. You’ve fallen too far behind with your howork so you may not be able to understand your original classes. You may as well go back a level. These basic skill can be learned solidly.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u sat in the backseat, silent, then she nodded.

She returned to her school life again, attending classes daily and leaving class like all the other busy high school students.

She studied much more diligently than before, seed to devote her entire energy to it. There was no ti to think of the other world.

At the end of her fist sester of sophomore year, her grade was ranked third in the grade.

Her father took her out especially to celebrate, and in the restaurant, they happened to et Lù Qí Chāng’s family.

The two parents gathered together to talk, and Lù Qí Chāng and Jǐ Xiǎo ??u were sat to the side.

Lù Qí Chāng asked her, “Are you free the day after tomorrow?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u blinked and turned in confusion.

He explained, “My birthday, I want to invite you to go out and play.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u smiled a little and pretended to not know why, “Why do you want to go out and play for your birthday?”

“. . .” Lù Qí Chāng glanced at her and stopped talking.

On the day after the next, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u went out. Not with Lù Qí Chāng, but by herself.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u went to the city’s largest zoo and bought tickets, following the flow of people.

She did not have a clear purpose, walking and stopping here and there, seeing the animals and taking photos of the ones she liked.

She walked to the front of a reindeer herd.

Through the gauze net, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u looked at the slapstick reindeer and watched them collide into each other with their huge antlers. She unconsciously rembered Eric.

He was the first one on the continent to shoe her friendship. Now she didn’t know how he was doing.

After Laurence appeared, she and Táo Táo disappeared for seemingly no reason. Was he worried about them?

Did he succeed in returning to his race?

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u stood in front of the herd and raised her cara to take several pictures then she went on to the next place.

The Tibetan antelope, foxes, brown bears, gray wolves. . . Jǐ Xiǎo ??u one at a ti was able to see individuals of the past and there was an inexplicable feeling in her.

In the past, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u looked at these as “animals,” and could only see the eyes of animals.

Now though, she looked at them and felt that they would change at any mont into a human shape.

Unfortunately, they didn’t.

Regardless of how many tis she looked at them, they were still standing behind an isolation net and didn’t even look at her.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u picked up her mood and was finally ready to leave.

She approached the area for the wild beasts. Where the tiger enclosures were. There were lions and other large beasts, and leopards were among them.

Two leopards were basking in the sun under a tree, one was covered in black markings lying in a tree. His tail hung freely behind him and it shook slightly.

He was probably sleepy. He yawned his large mouth and revealed sharp teeth. His eyes turned slightly and looked in Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s direction.

His eyes were sharp and straightforward, and without warning. In a flash, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u almost thought that she saw Ryan again.

Unfortunately, his eyes were amber, and Ryan’s were the sa blue as the deep sea.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s heart had risen high and was sunk quickly. She didn’t stay long and left in a hurry.

After returning ho, her father asked where she went and Jǐ Xiǎo ??u answered truthfully.

Her mother and father didn’t think much of it. They thought that the pressures of her study were too strong and she wanted to relax, so they didn’t detain her.

After that incident, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s life continued on as usual.

She didn’t seem to have any life-changing events in her life quite like the other continent.

On her third year, her studies beca even heavier.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u buried herself in her studies and her results were stable and she at the very top.

On the day of college entrance examinations, the sky that had been overcast for two full days finally cleared. The sun shone through the black clouds and onto the earth.

*

When Jǐ Xiǎo ??u applied for university, she didn’t report to a local school and instead chose T University that was closest to S City.

T University had a long history and was rich in teacher resources. Most importantly, their physics departnt was famous throughout the country.

At the beginning of the year, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u specifically selected two minor courses, the restricted sense of general relativity and the parallel universe theory.

College life was much easier than high school, and she had a lot more leisure ti. However, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u never allowed herself to be idle. In addition to studying, she also joined several organizations.

Yoga club, dance club, music club. . .

every day was busy.

At the sa ti, she was growing up at a rate everyone could see.

Like a blooming flower, experiencing wind and rain, she finally blood on a sunny morning.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u looked lovely when she was a child, but as her childhood features faded, she beca even more beautiful. She also grew a few centiters taller. The pair of small peaches on her chest also grew with her height. She had beco so beautiful that people couldn’t shift their eyes away.

In the physics departnt, the ratio of n to won was even more out of balance than in the leopard tribe, and Jǐ Xiǎo ??u was without a doubt a flower.

One day, when Jǐ Xiǎo ??u and her roommate were returning from the library, there was a boy with a blushing red face that walked over. He said, “Elder sister, can I have a few words with you?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u had just beco a sophomore that year and it was just after her nineteenth birthday.

Her roommate was accustod to this, so she winked at Jǐ Xiǎo ??u and retired to the side.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u stood still and looked at the boy before her.

When she was working with them, she was always professional and she had helped this one several tis.

The boy was thin-faced and when he saw Jǐ Xiǎo ??u, the words he had prepared in advance were forgotten, and he said incoherently, “Sister, I . . . thank you for helping

the other day, I. . . I wanted to ask, do you have a boyfriend?”

This question was very abrupt and Jǐ Xiǎo ??u originally didn’t want to answer, but the boy’s anxiety infected her and she shook her head.

The boy’s face was happy and he asked anxiously, “That. . . Can I confess to you? Sister, I like you. . . you, could you be my girlfriend?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u still shook her head and broke the boy’s fragile heart.

He didn’t give up, “Can you tell

why?”

Why?

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u thought for a mont, then her eyelashes drooped slightly. The dimly lit streetlight shined over her cheek.

After a long ti, she raised her eyes and smiled slightly. She said to him, “I’m sorry, I have soone I like.”

He finally gave up and left, dejected.

Her roommate heard the conversation from the side and caught Jǐ Xiǎo ??u to gossip as they went up the stairs, “Jǐ Xiǎo ??u, you have soone you like? Who is it? How co you haven’t ever said?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u said: “You don’t know him, he isn’t from our school.”

“Not our school. Then does he work already?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s eyes curved and she said mysteriously, “Not at all.”

Later, her roommate asked again but she was tight-lipped and said nothing.

In addition to knowing they wouldn’t believe her, there was another, more important reason.

She didn’t want to tell anyone.

About her experiences, about her Ryan.

That was a secret she hid deep in her heart. Where no one could touch it.