When Zheng Qing arrived beneath the Cat Fruit Tree, there were still five minutes until three in the afternoon.
So he hid in the bushes not far from the great tree beforehand, carefully surveying the surroundings and trying to find the figure that had left claw marks on that letter.
With the school term approaching, students gradually returned to campus, and their pets reappeared throughout the academy. The Cat Fruit Tree had shed its winter-break "withering" and was once again laden with "cat fruit."
However, unlike before the New Year, the cats' standing among the branches had shifted slightly this year.
For example, that tiny Ragdoll Cat from last year had grown from barely a foot long to over a meter in body length in just a few months, likely weighing more than ten pounds. He didn't know what its owner had been feeding it. If not for those round, expressive eyes remaining as vivid as ever, Zheng Qing might not have recognized it.
The change in size had affected the Ragdoll Cat's position on the Cat Fruit Tree—it had moved from the lower branches to higher ones, where the sunlight was stronger and the air fresher.
Then there was the cat group's former leader, the Norwegian Forest Cat. Compared to last year, it now had a scar across its face, making it look much tougher than before.
Zheng Qing stared at that scar for a few moments and strongly suspected that the Forest Cat's owner was a student of Starry Sky Academy. Only students from that academy would treat scars on a pet's face as medals instead of using potions to erase them.
The Norwegian Forest Cat's spot had not changed much from last year. But from Zheng Qing's observations, the big cat had been greedily eyeing the best