A predecessor once said: Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what the next one will taste like.
Just like Xu Yinsheng now, you never know if the person standing outside your door after you pull it open will be Zhao Yicheng or someone else entirely.
In the living room, strands of tea fragrance drifted through the air. Xu Yinsheng personally poured a cup of fragrant tea and handed it to the visitor.
The guest appeared to be in his early thirties, with clean-cut, short black hair. He wore a white shirt and white casual pants, with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses perched on the bridge of his nose. He looked both young and steady.
He was also an old acquaintance of Xu Yinsheng.
The man in white took the tea Xu Yinsheng handed over, but he did not drink it. Instead, he lifted a plastic-coated iron cage, placed it on the coffee table, and unlocked it.
He rapped his knuckles heavily against the top of the iron cage.
“Yan Qing, come out.”
His words were brief, devoid of any discernible emotion.
The iron cage was not large, only big enough to hold two pairs of adult slippers side by side. From the corner of her eye, Xu Yinsheng looked inside and saw a small, blue-and-white ball curled up.
As if sensing something, a pair of orange-yellow eyes opened in the darkness. They were large and beautiful.
Stepping out on four fluffy, short legs, the kitten emerged from the cage. Its head was not even half the size of an adult’s palm, and its body was only three or four months old. With its snow-white fur, it looked incredibly well-behaved and obedient.
This was also an acquaintance of Xu Yinsheng. No, it was a cat acquaintance!
It was none other than the kitten, Yan Qing.
Xu Yinsheng glanced at the blue-and-white striped tea-cup cat on the coffee table, then looked at the man in white sitting on the sofa with his arms crossed. She was a bit guarded and even more confused.
‘How did he find me?’
If Zhao Yicheng had found her, Xu Yinsheng would not have been too surprised. That man was wealthy, powerful, and knew her true identity.
But the man in white… to this day, Xu Yinsheng did not even know his full name, only that his surname was likely Zhang. ‘How on earth did he find my current address?’
“Ms. Mu, or perhaps I should call you Miss Xu now.” As if sensing her confusion, the man in white adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses. He looked gentle as he proactively explained. “I have accumulated quite a few connections in the past. It was simply a matter of being well-informed.”
“However, Miss Xu, you do not need to explain anything to me. I do not care for explanations. I have only one request: Can you change my young boy back?”
Xu Yinsheng pursed her lips and looked down at the kitten on the table. She had already guessed the general situation, but she still played dumb. “Sir, you have the wrong person. What young boy? I don’t engage in human trafficking.”
The man in white smiled faintly. “It is the same thing, as long as you can change my young boy back.”
Then, he stood up, his gaze sweeping over the surroundings before landing back on Xu Yinsheng. “May I ask where the restroom is?”
Xu Yinsheng pointed in a certain direction. The man thanked her and walked toward the bathroom.
Once she was certain he had fully entered the restroom, Xu Yinsheng crossed her legs. Her scrutinizing gaze fell upon the shivering kitten on the coffee table.
“Little guy, did you sell me out?” She pinched the back of the kitten’s neck and lifted it into the air. Yan Qing whimpered and begged for mercy, looking at her pitifully.
The kitten meowed and whimpered, its pleas for forgiveness carrying a hint of guilt.
Xu Yinsheng raised an eyebrow. “Your teacher isn’t here right now. Speak human to me. If you meow one more time, I’ll turn you into cat meat hotpot! Do you believe me?”
“I believe you…”
“Then tell me exactly what happened!” Xu Yinsheng let go and placed it on the floor. The cat flipped over and stood up, its two paws clinging to the edge of the coffee table, its large eyes watery.
“It’s like this, meow—” Yan Qing scratched its head with a paw and began to recount the story of the past six months after its transformation into a Cat-eared Adult Woman.
At first, after she turned into a Cat-eared Adult Woman and returned to her teacher’s side, he was confused by the change but did not think much of it.
Yan Qing, taking advantage of her new status as a big sister, tried to sleep with her teacher every night and clung to him constantly. She even insisted on following him when he went on blind dates.
But slowly, Yan Qing the cat began to feel her teacher distancing himself from her.
Not only did he stop hugging and kissing her like before, but he even prepared a separate room for her. He made her, a cat, sleep in a room alone. He even made her bathe herself and stopped brushing her fur or scrubbing her back.
Hearing this, Xu Yinsheng’s lips twitched.
She really wanted to tell the kitten in front of her that it was not called “distancing”; it was called “boundaries between men and women.”
“Meow, meow.” Yan Qing looked at Xu Yinsheng, its eyes red as if tears were welling up. “Big sister, can you change me back?”
“I feel like if this continues, Teacher will definitely send me to a Pet Center, meow—”
“I can indeed change you back into a boy.” Xu Yinsheng poked the kitten’s head with her fingertip.
Yan Qing seized the opportunity and happily rubbed its head against her palm. But immediately after, Xu Yinsheng’s tone shifted as she grabbed its fluffy cat ears.
“But how are we going to settle the matter of you selling me out?”
Xu Yinsheng did not mind concocting a few more doses of Gender-swapping Potion. After all, it cost her nothing to make. However, the leak of information was a serious matter.
Up until now, only Zhao Yicheng knew about her many forms. Although Xu Yinsheng’s evaluation of Zhao Yicheng was that he was a scumbag, he at least would not leak her secrets.
After all, would a person choose a private car or a public bus? The choice was obvious.
But the man and cat before her, while perhaps not knowing the full extent of her transformations, had more or less learned of her supernatural abilities. A flash of killing intent crossed Xu Yinsheng’s eyes.
She currently possessed a dozen or so forms, with the Magical Girl having the highest combat power. Aside from the principles she had to follow, she could likely destroy a city if she went all out.
However, even that was not enough to face the machinery of the state.
While getting a government job was the dream of countless ordinary people, Xu Yinsheng was used to being free and easy. With her power and wealth, she had no desire to be someone else’s subordinate.
“Meow, meow. Sister Xu, don’t worry.” Yan Qing patted its chest with a paw and lifted its head. “Teacher said beforehand that after making his request, he would hide in the restroom to ensure he hears nothing. As long as he doesn’t hear any information, there will be no leak. And I’m just an ordinary cat. Who would suspect a cute cat?”
“Oh no, meow. I let it slip again.” Yan Qing hurriedly covered its mouth, its eyes darting around.
Xu Yinsheng: “…”
Such a stupid, cute creature did not look like it would intentionally leak secrets no matter how one looked at it.
Since things had come to this, Xu Yinsheng reached out and pulled a pharmacist’s cauldron from the void. Her beautiful eyes glanced casually toward the restroom.
No sound came from within. The man seemed to have a decent amount of self-awareness.
One cup of tea, two cups of tea, three cups of tea, plus a little bit of cat fur.
With a *plop*, the potion was successfully brewed. The liquid was a pale blue, shimmering with a soft and enchanting light under the lamps.
In any case, “a firm will can change everything.” As long as Xu Yinsheng and Yan Qing firmly believed this was a Gender-swapping Potion, then it was a Gender-swapping Potion.
Yan Qing jumped up eagerly and transformed into human form on the spot.
Long legs, a slender waist, a pert rear, and waist-length black hair. Coupled with that pair of adorable, fluffy cat ears on her head, she was enough to make the animal-ear fanatics on internet forums howl in excitement!
The Cat-eared Adult Woman took the potion and, without a hint of hesitation, chugged the entire thing.
After drinking it, her face flushed red then turned pale before returning to normal, as if nothing had happened.
But then, the transformation began.
Her waist-length hair slowly shortened into a black bob. Then, her figure began to shrink; her curves vanished, and her previously slender waist thickened slightly…
In just a few moments, the Cat-eared Adult Woman had completed the transformation into a cat-eared boy.
“I’m back to normal!” little Yan Qing looked at himself and shouted happily.
Beside him, Xu Yinsheng rubbed her chin.
‘He actually chose to be a boy over an adult woman. I’m starting to wonder about his teacher’s sexual orientation.’
‘Tsk. Then again, as expected of a man who’s birds of a feather with Zhao Yicheng.’
Xu Yinsheng was about to tell the cat-eared boy to call his owner out from the restroom, but before she could speak, she saw Yan Qing looking at her with curiosity in his eyes.
“Sister Xu, did you have a fight with Brother Zhao? When Teacher and I found him, he was covered in blood. If Teacher hadn’t had a first aid kit in the car, Brother Zhao might have died before reaching the ICU.”
“What did you say?!”