The Failed Stalker

Black Cat left the hunting ground with a belly full of rage.

All along the way, all sorts of dreadful ideas churned through his head—buying Zhang Jixin breakfast tomorrow morning and slipping in some croton seeds or cockroach droppings, for instance. Or asking Teaching Assistant Hilda to put him and Zhang Jixin in the same group during tomorrow afternoon's practical class, then using his newly learned evil curse to teach that red-faced male wizard a proper lesson. Or writing love letters to the bad-tempered Li Meng in Zhang Jixin's name, making them as indecent as possible, preferably with a few vulgar words thrown in.

With this multipronged approach, the young scholarship student believed that even if the red-faced male wizard survived, he would lose several layers of skin.

Imagining Jiang Yu leading a furious mob of witches all over campus in pursuit of Zhang Jixin, Black Cat couldn't help chuckling "heh heh" as he slipped through the bushes. Somehow, his mood improved considerably.

But that change soon came to an end because of something else.

Zheng Qing had originally intended to head straight back to his dorm, but he didn't want to take the main roads and have passing witches or wizards call out "meow, meow" or "here, kitty, kitty" at him. So he chose a roundabout route—sticking to lawns, woods, and bushes the whole way, and picking places that were usually deserted whenever possible.

While crossing a covered walkway, however, Black Cat unexpectedly caught sight of a rat in a blue vest hurrying past.

Although their encounter had been brief, Black Cat's intuition told him that this rat in a blue vest was Ding Dang Ear, whom he had parted ways with not long ago—as a cat, he had great confidence in his intuition.

Where was that rat rushing