Chapter 33
“What’s this?”
Her fingers stroked over it, inch by inch. The soft, fluffy fur slipped between her fingers, and she could even feel a subtle tremor.
Ye Qingyu’s movements paused.
This feels like…
A large, fluffy tail.
Moreover, as a red panda enthusiast, she immediately felt that it was extremely similar to a red panda’s furry tail.
But, in the bedcovers where there was only her and her beautiful boss, how could a red panda tail suddenly appear?
Just as Ye Qingyu was shocked, yet uncontrollably rubbing and feeling the fluffiness in her palm, Pei the Little Able Cat was about to lose it.
She was nestled in the human’s arms, and the tide of her mating season had suddenly returned, bringing with it a heaven-scorching heat wave.
A red panda at this time was already sensitive all over, not to mention that her large tail had always been extremely sensitive.
Now, being held and gently rubbed and kneaded in the human’s hand, she felt as if she were about to melt into a puddle of water, her whole body trembling uncontrollably. Her fair teeth bit her lower lip until it was bright red, trying hard to hold back the “ying” sound that had risen to her throat.
The nervousness of being discovered in her original form was also swept up by the tide, turning into a kind of taut stimulation, crashing against the reef layer by layer, splashing up snow-white, foam-like waves.
Compared to the telepathy of the plush toy, the human’s hand directly touching her tail had a feeling that was too real and profound…
“Boss Pei?”
Ye Qingyu noticed that the woman in her arms had suddenly started to tremble, and an occasional uncomfortable whimper escaped her throat.
Her brow furrowed slightly. In her worry, she accidentally squeezed the fluffiness in her hand. “Boss Pei, what’s wrong with you?”
The next second, a sharp sting came from her neck—
Boss Pei had bitten her skin again.
But only for an instant, and then the force was quickly released. The woman then fell limply against the side of her neck, panting, her breath scorching hot.
Ye Qingyu said worriedly, “Are you not feeling well somewhere?”
So much so that she can’t help but bite me to relieve the discomfort.
Pei Rong’s peach blossom eyes were half-closed, a little dazed.
From the moment her large, fluffy tail had suddenly appeared, to being discovered and held in the human’s palm, to being rubbed until she experienced the feeling of fireworks exploding in her head and a white light before her eyes for the second time… the time in between was too fast and too short. She had no time to react at all and could only endure it limply.
Of course, Pei the Little Able Cat did not know that this feeling was summarized by a two-character noun in human society.
Ooh, in short, humans are really so dangerous.
She doesn’t want to play with Ye the Little Tree anymore.
Pei the Little Able Cat’s whole body was limp and weak, with a certain post-satiation languor. A certain part was still throbbing in the afterglow, in sync with the pounding frequency of her heart in her chest.
The unfamiliar sensation filled her eyes with a thin mist. The glistening tears soon accumulated until they could no longer be held, overflowing from her reddened eye rims and falling onto Ye Qingyu’s neck.
Ye Qingyu was completely unaware of what she had unintentionally caused. She only felt a dampness like tears suddenly fall on her neck, and she panicked.
Is she crying from discomfort?
Temporarily unable to deal with the matter of the fluffy tail, she took hold of the woman’s soft and slender waist with both hands and, with a bit of strength, placed her sitting upright on the sofa.
She saw the woman’s face like a peach blossom, her stunning face damp and flushed, a vibrant spring in her eyes, her gaze a little dazed.
She bit her lip and looked at her without a word.
Ye Qingyu’s breath trembled.
She felt inexplicably flustered at the sight.
Her throat tightened. She first pulled a tissue from the coffee table and meticulously wiped the young miss’s tears.
The woman’s damp lashes trembled slightly. Being wiped, she couldn’t help but half-close her eyes, which looked like a lake that had just been washed by a spring rain, rippling with a clear and quiet light.
“Can you tell me what’s wrong?”
After wiping, Ye Qingyu looked at Pei Rong and asked patiently:
“I’m very worried about you. Did you remember your nightmare again, or did you suddenly eat fruit today and your stomach is upset?”
Pei the Little Able Cat blinked her peach blossom eyes. The young woman’s gentle and beautiful face was just inches away, looking completely non-threatening.
Her clear eyes were also full of sincere worry.
But that pair of beautiful hands on the human were so dangerous that she, a little panda, couldn’t even call a stop, let alone run away.
With this thought, Pei the Little Able Cat lowered her eyes sullenly and said, puffed up with anger:
“Ye Qingyu, my special time has come.”
Ye Qingyu should understand, right?
—That during her mating season, she is very fragile and sensitive, and she can’t be casually rubbed anymore.
Ye Qingyu paused slightly.
So it’s her period.
Her heart relaxed. “No wonder. You must be feeling unwell after eating cold fruit today. I’m sorry, I didn’t know about this. I won’t give you any fruit to eat for the next week.”
Pei the Little Able Cat’s ears twitched. She instantly looked up, looking at Ye Qingyu in disbelief.
How can there be such a heartless human.
She, a little panda, has been rubbed until her head exploded with fireworks, and not only is Ye Qingyu not peeling sweet grapes to coax her, but she’s also going to take away her fruit!
Ye Qingyu did not know the thousand twists and turns in the little beast’s heart. She reached out and tucked the blanket in for the woman, saying softly, “Wait for me, I’ll go make you a cup of ginger and brown sugar water.”
After speaking, she got up and went to the kitchen.
Hearing the words “sugar water,” the on-the-verge-of-bristling Pei the Little Able Cat reined in a bit of her mood.
That sugar water should be very sweet.
Ye Qingyu quickly boiled a small pot of ginger and brown sugar water in the kitchen, poured some of it into a cup, and put the rest in a thermos, preparing for Boss Pei to take it home.
The freshly boiled water was too hot, so she took a basin of cold water and placed the cup in it to cool it down quickly.
During this time, Pei the Little Able Cat was confronting her own tail.
She threw off the blanket and saw her beloved large tail, now very disobedient, extending from her tailbone and hanging proudly behind her.
It was the culprit of what had just happened.
After a moment’s thought, she transformed into a fluffy little red panda, and a moment later, transformed back into her human form, trying to restart.
But her large, fluffy tail still hadn’t gone back in.
What to do?
How to explain this to the human?
Ye Qingyu likes the plush toy’s tail so much. If she knows that her human form has a real tail, she’ll definitely want to pet it.
A red panda in her mating season can’t bear it…
Moreover, her large, fluffy tail is much prettier than the plush toy’s. She herself likes it so much that she hugs it and licks its fur for a long time every day.
Pei the Little Able Cat flicked her tail slightly and bit her red lip, her heart burning with anxiety.
…
Ye Qingyu returned with the ginger and brown sugar water, which was at a suitable temperature, only to find the living room empty.
The blanket on the sofa was gone, and only the red panda plush toy was left in a lonely corner.
She was dazed for a moment. Boss Pei didn’t just leave, did she?
The woman’s voice suddenly came from the entryway. “Ye Qingyu.”
Ye Qingyu’s heart immediately relaxed. She walked quickly to the entryway with the cup.
She saw the front door half-open, and Boss Pei standing outside, poking her reddish-brown, fluffy head in. She was still wrapped in the red panda blanket, looking a bit sneaky.
“Is the sugar water ready?” The woman’s peach blossom eyes were fixed on the cup in her hand.
“…” Ye Qingyu’s eyelashes trembled. “Boss Pei, may I ask what you’re doing?”
Pei the Little Able Cat said seriously, “It’s a little cold. I’m just borrowing your blanket to wear.”
One should indeed keep warm during one’s period.
Ye Qingyu said, “Mmm,” and handed the cup over. The woman reached out from under the blanket to take it.
They passed it through the half-open door, like some kind of secret deal.
Ye Qingyu asked again, “Then why is Boss Pei standing outside the door?”
Pei the Little Able Cat didn’t answer immediately. She first tilted her head back and drank the ginger and brown sugar water in one go, the sweet taste making her somewhat satisfied.
Her large, fluffy tail behind her unconsciously and happily lifted, making the blanket arch.
After finishing, she placed the cup back in Ye Qingyu’s hand, licked her teeth, and said matter-of-factly:
“I suddenly remembered I left the gas on at home. I have to go now.”
This was the most popular answer the little panda had found after searching online for “one hundred excuses for a sudden departure.” It was said that it would leave the human with no reason to ask her to stay.
“Ah…” Ye Qingyu’s eyes widened.
“Thank you for your hospitality.” Pei the Little Able Cat showed her human a stunning smile and, after reciting her excuse, directly closed the security door.
Worried that her tail would be completely exposed, she turned in a hurry and fled.
With a click, the security door locked, and Ye Qingyu’s heart skipped a beat.
Boss Pei never cooks. Why would she care if the gas is on or off?
And, she’s still wearing my red panda pajamas, and she’s not feeling well because of her period. How could she go downstairs just wrapped in a blanket like that?
What if she runs into danger on the way and is caught and taken to the zoo as a red panda?
With these wild thoughts, Ye Qingyu casually placed the cup at the entryway, quickly tidied up the house, changed her shoes, grabbed her car keys, and chased after her.
…
A dozen or so minutes later, the reddish-brown SUV slowly drove out of the residential complex.
Pei the Little Able Cat sat in the passenger seat, sullenly wrapped in her little blanket, curled up into a fluffy bamboo shoot.
Just now, she had already escaped to the complex gate, but that annoying little black cat security guard had insisted on meowing that she was being sneaky and must have been kicked out of the house by the human.
She, Pei the Red Panda, a majestic figure of a lifetime, had clearly charmed the human into a daze. How could she allow this little black cat to spout such nonsense?
But before they could confront each other for more than a few minutes, she had been caught by the human who had chased after her.
Just like a little panda being grabbed by the scruff of its fated neck by its keeper, its four fluffy paws hanging helplessly in the air, in the end, with no escape, it could only be carried to the car.
After such a fright, the naturally timid little panda was so dispirited that even the tide of her mating season had temporarily subsided.
She shrank in the blanket, unconsciously hugging her large, fluffy tail tightly.
As Ye Qingyu drove, her peripheral vision caught the arched shape in the blanket, and a thoughtful look flashed through her eyes.
She remembered something and asked casually, “Boss Pei, on the sofa just now, did you feel something fluffy in the blanket?”
Pei the Little Able Cat’s large tail trembled, and her breathing tightened. “What fluffy thing?”
“It felt like a large tail,” Ye Qingyu added.
“…I didn’t feel it.” Pei the Little Able Cat looked out the window, her heart pounding, her peach blossom eyes flickering. “Why would there be a large tail in the blanket?”
“I also think it’s very strange,” Ye Qingyu sighed softly.
She had thought about whether her beautiful boss had some kind of hobby of cosplaying as a red panda or wearing a tail.
But she clearly remembered that Boss Pei did not have a tail when she arrived, nor was she carrying a bag, so it couldn’t have been a wearable one.
But, compared to the possibility of mushrooms sprouting in a damp southern wardrobe, it was absolutely impossible for a fluffy tail to grow in her blanket.
This, just like the extra mantis shrimp that had suddenly appeared in the living room’s fish tank, had become another unsolved mystery in her life.
Pei the Little Able Cat perked up her ears, holding her breath and waiting for the human’s questioning, but she didn’t hear Ye Qingyu continue to ask about the tail, nor did she ask her to lift the blanket to check.
Only a muttered, “I think I’ve been really sick lately. How could I have this kind of hallucination…”
Hearing this, Pei the Little Able Cat’s brow furrowed.
Without thinking, she immediately said seriously, “Ye Qingyu, you are not sick.”
She suddenly felt a sense of self-reproach. Although it wasn’t intentional, she had indeed caused the human cognitive dissonance, to the point where Ye Qingyu was beginning to suspect she was sick.
Perhaps she should just be honest and say that it was her own large, fluffy tail, that she was actually a red panda.
But as a timid little red panda who had had a wretched experience and had once tasted the dangers of the human world alone, her lovely brows furrowed, and she was so at a loss and in a dilemma that she was a little dejected.
In the end, she hugged her tail tightly, lowered her lashes, and said, word by word, “Ye Qingyu, don’t always doubt yourself. You might… you might have just accidentally encountered a very bad little animal.”
Then she said firmly to her human in a soft voice, “But… I will definitely be good to you in the future.”
You like Pei the Red Panda so much. I will quickly overcome my own issues, and in the future, I will reward you by letting you pet my ears, belly, and large tail to your heart’s content.
Boss Pei was suddenly saying these things so solemnly. Ye Qingyu’s thoughts paused, and during a long red light, she turned her head to look.
She saw her beautiful boss nestled in the blanket, her long, curly hair not quite tamed, like a little animal in its spring shedding period, fluffily framing her cheeks, her gaze toward her extremely solemn and serious.
Although the woman’s first sentence of comfort was a little strange, the second sentence warmed her heart. She couldn’t help but smile and said softly, “Boss Pei, you are already very good to me, really.”
Pei Rong’s goodness to her was not just in her generous salary and the relaxed work she was given. More than that, it seemed that as long as Pei Rong was by her side, she could already feel an incomparable sense of peace and happiness.
With these thoughts, Ye Qingyu’s expression was gentle.
She didn’t notice at all that the self-reproachful little beast beside her had opened her phone again, dived into the dangerous internet to surf, and had searched for and learned some strange things.
There were still 30 seconds left on the red light.
While waiting patiently, Ye Qingyu’s neck was suddenly hooked by a hand. With a little pressure, she was pulled to the right without any warning.
With a smack, a moment of warm, damp softness touched her cheek.
“I’m not just all talk.”
The beautiful boss’s peach blossom eyes sparkled. She lifted her fluffy head, a little pleased with herself, and said seriously:
“I’ll start by being good to you like this.”
