While the headmaster of Jiuyou Academy and two witches discussed in the office whether Zheng Qing's punishment had been too severe, the central figure of the whole matter, Zheng Qing himself, turned into a cat again and slipped off to Beta Town.
Having been slapped with probation by the school, Zheng Qing felt a little wronged. Especially when everyone around him was speaking up for him, he felt even more aggrieved.
So he planned to let himself go today.
Since being human was so miserable, then he would stop being human and become a cat.
With that thought in mind, after the regular meeting ended, Zheng Qing returned to the dormitory, hid in his tent, drank a vial of Transformation Potion, then quietly slipped out along the balcony while the others were not paying attention—not everyone had failed to notice Zheng Qing leaving. Fat Cat Tuantuan, sprawled across the fat boy's bed, caught sight of the black cat sneaking out.
But as an idealistic and moral Spirit Cat, Tuantuan disdained betraying his own kind and becoming a snitch cat.
So he merely twitched his whiskers, flattened his ears slightly, then narrowed his eyes and continued meeting the Duke of Zhou in his dreams.
After leaving the dormitory, Zheng Qing first took a stroll around the Cat Fruit Tree.
Perhaps because the atmosphere near Linzhong Lake was tense, only a few stray cats hung scattered across the Cat Fruit Tree. The pet cats Zheng Qing knew were nowhere to be seen.
Catching that damp scent in the air and hearing the gurgling waters of Linzhong Lake behind the nearby bushes, Zheng Qing decisively turned around and left that heartbreaking place.
There were not many places a black cat could go. The Cat Fruit Tree was one, Feiyuan was another, and when