At that moment, countless sealed memories in Fang Xiaoxia's mind suddenly surged forth like floodwaters bursting through a dam.
The figure wearing a Naked Apron, leaping down from upstairs.
The cat's shadow that had leaped onto the window ledge, then jumped into the magnificent, brilliant sunlight.
The two gradually overlapped.
Black Cat's eyes that seemed able to speak, Black Cat lazily waving his paw with his back to the Maiden, and the ribbon fluttering above Black Cat's head.
The way Black Cat had dragged the video's progress bar on the phone and frozen the image.
The fragments of memory came flooding back, finally freezing on the anime character's question in the video: "Even if I go to hell, would you be willing to come with me?"
Fang Xiaoxia had forgotten all of it.
But at this very moment, when she saw Black Cat, when she saw Bai Zhou shed his human form before her and turn into that elegant, mysterious shadow—
She remembered.
The cat she could never forget—Black Cat!
Her kitty!
Fang Xiaoxia's eyes flew wide open. Then her face flushed red, and steam practically rose from her head.
Embarrassing, embarrassing, embarrassing, embarrassing, embarrassing—
Because she suddenly remembered how she had held Black Cat in her arms, hugging and kissing him; how she always placed him on her bare legs beneath her nightgown; how she always affectionately petted him; and those nights after bathing when she had forcibly made the disgusted kitty warm her feet—
Aaaaaah!
She couldn't think about it anymore!
Kitty! How could her Black Cat possibly be Bai Bai Bai Bai Bai—Bai Zhou!
Even so, Fang Xiaoxia's body overruled her brain, and her fingers moved almost instinctively.
Just like the countless times before, when she came home from school and immediately scooped Black Cat up into