No wonder she was the only true cat lover he'd encountered so far.
Adele was clearly in terrible shape, but at the sound of the meow, she still lifted her head as if awakened and looked over.
Fu Qian only held Henry up for a second before slamming the door shut.
From that last glimpse, he saw Adele leap to her feet and charge over. Then came the sound of the barricade being knocked down.
It wasn't that he was being cruel and playing hard to get. They simply didn't have time.
By the time Fu Qian showed her the cat, the audience he'd led on a roundabout route was already so close he could practically see their nose hairs.
And Adele had no doubt spent a long time piling up all those obstacles. Even if she was now tireless and full of energy, clearing them would still take a while.
As it turned out, the power of love was strong. After leading the audience around in two circles, Fu Qian was pleased to find that Adele had made excellent progress demolishing the barricade.
Without hesitation, Fu Qian pushed open the door and squeezed through the rough passage between the obstacles. He tossed the crazed cat to Adele as she pounced toward him, then shut the door behind him.
It had to be said: even as walking corpses, cats were still formidable.
The moment Henry left his hands, it was already writhing and thrashing wildly in midair.
But perhaps because it had been tormented the whole way here, it didn't try to turn on Fu Qian for revenge. Instead, it immediately tried to escape.
Unfortunately, Adele seemed to prove that women had a catlike nature, too. She was every bit as agile, and soon she and the cat were