Chapter 22: – A Good Cat
Lin Jin walked on the street, as if walking on a runway. The word "elegance" kept repeating in his mind as he tried his best to take graceful steps forward.
He felt like a fool, utterly embarrassed.
As Lin Jin reached a slightly bustling area, he could clearly sense the collective gaze of the people around him focusing on him.
It seed like the task was definitely going to be accomplished.
However, Lin Jin felt sowhat awkward, his face slightly blushing. But that awkwardness was quickly replaced by the joy of completing the task. Finally, in the last minute of the task deadline, he managed to complete the attention-grabbing task. The phone in his hand trembled as if a savior had arrived.
Ever since that mysterious black cat appeared in his phone last week, Lin Jin had never felt so exhilarated by the vibration of his phone.
Without even checking his phone, Lin Jin, for the first ti, imdiately sprinted towards the small inn. The wig on his head and the gazes of the passersby made him constantly yearn to leave this place and take off the heavy wig. It had only been less than ten minutes of pretending to be a woman, but he now urgently wanted to return to his original self.
Luckily, the task was completed; otherwise, being a woman for an entire week would definitely not be a good thing.
When Lin Jin returned to the inn, the voices of the couple next door were no longer audible. He didn't know if they had checked out or if they had finished their business and gone to sleep.
Lin Jin forcefully removed the wig and tossed it onto the bed. He took off the hairnet and shook his head, allowing his hair, which had been confined for a long ti, to fall freely. Finally, he could release the suffocating feeling in his throat. He packed up the makeup and wig with the intention of throwing them away when he left.
"Fortunately, I didn't run into anyone I know." Lin Jin had already imagined how he would explain himself if soone recognized him. But luck was on his side; he didn't see a single familiar face.
He collapsed his body onto the soft bed. The bed was pink and unbelievably soft, almost engulfing half of his body with a slight push. Lin Jin had never encountered such a soft bed before.
"So tired." He rested the back of his hand against his forehead, feeling the warmth radiating from it. As he muttered to himself, he calculated, "Although I've used the wig, I should be able to return it, right? Returning it would get
back sixty yuan."
As the tension in his mind finally loosened, Lin Jin now felt a strong wave of drowsiness rising from the depths of his heart. In just a mont, he was so sleepy that he couldn't even keep his eyes open.
"So sleepy..." His sluggish brain recalled the remaining ti in the hourly room. After so consideration, he rolled over and buried his entire body in the astonishingly soft bed. "I'll sleep for an hour and then go back when I wake up..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Jin felt a nerve in his brain suddenly snap. His eyes went black, and he instantly lost consciousness.
When he woke up again, exactly one hour had passed.
As he just woke up, he felt sothing strange in his pants, but his head was still groggy from just waking up, so he didn't dwell on it too much.
"Need to pee..." With half-opened, listless eyes, Lin Jin climbed out of bed, feeling his way around while squinting ahead.
As he entered the bathroom, his legs suddenly gave way, causing him to step back and fall directly onto the toilet seat.
"Why do I feel so uncomfortable?" Lin Jin touched his forehead and realized he had a slight fever. "How did I get a fever? This shouldn't be happening, right?"
Without thinking too much, he took off his pants and didn't bother to touch his private parts. He simply leaned against the backrest of the toilet, tilting his head and staring blankly at the ceiling.
"Sothing doesn't feel right."
His head was still spinning, but it had improved compared to when he first woke up.
As the water drained from his bladder, Lin Jin suddenly realized that the sensation in his lower body seed different from when he relieved himself before.
He lowered his head...
"What the hell..." his body trembling. With shaky hands, he tore off a roll of toilet paper hanging nearby and wiped himself. His voice was filled with anger, trembling and suppressing his tone, gritting his teeth. "What the hell, where is my... you know! I clearly completed the task!"
Lin Jin felt that no matter what language it was, it couldn't describe the anger in his heart at this mont. He was so furious that he had the sensation described in novels as "a sweet sensation in the throat followed by a spray of blood."
Taking deep breaths, he tremblingly pulled up his pants and walked out of the bathroom step by step. He approached the bed and stared at the phone lying on it with eyes filled with animosity.
With his eyes closed, he tried to calm down, attempting to communicate with the black cat in a negotiating tone. However, scenes of being toyed with by the black cat flashed through his mind, starting from last week.
He was so overwheld with frustration that he almost picked up the phone and threw it against the wall.
He stood still in front of the bed for a while, finally calming down. His body went limp as he sat directly on the bed, mockingly talking to himself, "But I still have to keep smiling."
"Hey, Black Cat." Lin Jin flipped the phone over, placing it face-up without unlocking the screen. In a calm tone, he asked, "Why did I suddenly turn into a woman? I've already completed the task."
As expected, the phone automatically unlocked and directly entered the goddess app. The black cat was looking at Lin Jin with a sowhat angry gaze.
"I've given you so many chances! I've even told you to learn makeup to attract n's attention! I even prepared a teacher for you." The black cat moved around on the screen with so excitent. It was not speaking through the dialogue bubbles on the screen, but its voice, sowhat hoarse and deep, neither male nor female, directly played from the phone's receiver. "But what about you? It's been a whole week. I assigned you the task of learning makeup, not just casually applying so concealer. Do you still need to learn that? My task was for you to attract n's attention, not to draw awkward attention to yourself, understand?"
The black cat also looked furious, and four intersecting black lines ford a well-shaped pattern on its forehead. "Look at yourself! With a wig and so concealer, you sowhat resemble a woman, but you're still dressed in n's clothing and wearing canvas shoes. You even walked with cat-like steps?!"
"Do you think I can complete this task for you?!"
Startled by the enraged black cat, Lin Jin froze. His heart, filled with anger, cald down sowhat. He swallowed saliva and cautiously asked, "You arranged a teacher for ?"
"Of course! Didn't you see that I asked you to flirt with that girl nad RuiQiu? It would have been so easy to learn makeup from her!" The black cat spoke with an irritable tone, as if teaching an incorrigible student.
"Oh, I see." Lin Jin pondered for a mont. He had indeed wondered why the black cat wanted him to flirt with a girl, but he never expected there to be such a aning behind it. However, he suddenly realized that he had almost been fooled. He unleashed a series of scathing remarks and then raised his voice, asking, "I at least completed the task of attracting the attention of fifty people! You didn't even specify how to attract them. If I wanted to, I could have gone out and perford a striptease! Is it a problem to consider it as halfway completed and give
half the reward?! Are you intentionally trying to provoke
by turning
into a woman?!"
The black cat was taken aback, thinking that Lin Jin wasn't frightened by its outburst. However, it still angrily shouted, "Half the reward?! If you only complete half of your tasks at work, won't your boss fire you?!"
"Forget it, consider this a lesson for you. Don't fail to complete your tasks next ti!" The black cat turned around and walked away, no longer giving Lin Jin a chance to ask any more questions.
Why do I suddenly feel like... the black cat seems to care about ? Isn't it just a stray cat?
Lin Jin felt that the last sentence from the black cat actually made so sense, furrowing his brow in distress.
However, what Lin Jin didn't know was that as the black cat left the screen, it kept on celebrating, thinking, "Luckily, I managed to fool him. Otherwise, he would have been endlessly nagging, more annoying than Tang Sanzang."
Translator Note: Tang Sanzang is a monk and one of the main characters in the story Journey to the West.
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