Always Ending Up as an Animal Cub

The system laughed wildly in his mind, while Yu Tong lay on Yun Mingchen's face, completely hopeless, like a dead cat.

The second time he leaped onto the antagonist, he felt that his fate with the antagonist had come to an end.
Yun Mingchen sighed deeply and raised his hand to grab the little cat by the scruff of its neck. After feeling around for a while, he realized it was a paper cat.
In just a few seconds, the antagonist sighed three times, making Yu Tong feel uneasy in his heart.

Before being grabbed, Yu Tong made a move, turning his head to target Old Master Yun and once again initiated a flying pounce like a cat.
Yun Mingchen reached out to grab it, but the cat was much faster than him. It was as if it had blinked, and he couldn’t catch it at all.
Yun Mingchen lowered his head, looking at his hands with a bit of suspicion.

He remembered that when he first saw the little cat, it had pounced on him twice in a row.
If the previous times were because he wasn’t on guard, what about this time?
A cultivator at the early stage of the meditation realm couldn’t even catch a little cat? Could it be because he was dreaming? Did the cat’s abilities get enhanced?

Yun Mingchen retained some of his thinking ability while dreaming.
He looked up, and the paper cat was now lying on top of his father, gnawing away. In just a few seconds, half of his father’s head had been chewed off.
Yun Mingchen:!

“Shut up, you little mutt!”
With the ‘heart-to-heart’ item in place, Yu Tong could feel that at this moment, the joy in Yun Mingchen’s heart far exceeded his anger.
Heh, a man who is all talk and no action.

Yu Tong ignored him, continuing to gnaw at Old Master Yun’s head, complaining to the system as he did.
‘What is going on with Yun Mingchen’s dream? Why is Old Master Yun’s head made of iron? It’s hurting my teeth so much.’
System:…

[Compared to Old Master Yun, I think you’re more of a weirdo. How could you start gnawing on him? This is a person! Aren’t you worried about his brain matter splattering in your face?]
Yu Tong fell silent for a moment, then gave it a brilliant smile, ‘You’re right, I was too hasty earlier, didn’t think it through.’
[...Something’s not right with you.]
‘Why do you say that? Do you suspect that I ate people before I died? Ugh, how could you have such disgusting thoughts?’

This was something said by 8102 before. Yu Tong flipped the words back at the system.
The system was speechless. Just as Yu Tong was about to change the subject, Yun Mingchen suddenly grabbed his hind leg and lifted him up.
It was clear that Yun Mingchen was letting him off. Yu Tong finished gnawing off Old Master Yun’s entire head, and only then did Yun Mingchen look concerned and step in to stop him.

Without the head, Old Master Yun couldn’t keep nagging at Yun Mingchen anymore.
Only the still-present Madam Yun on his left kept repeating, “You need to revive the Yun family, you need to revive the Yun family.”
The dual voice effect turned into a single loop. Even without the item, Yu Tong could feel that Yun Mingchen was much more relaxed than before.

He shook the paper cat back and forth, tentatively calling, “You little mutt?”
Yu Tong disliked the name. He pretended not to understand, gagging and spitting out screws.
The people in the antagonist’s dream were all fake. Gnawing on them felt uncomfortable.

He really didn’t know what Yun Mingchen had gone through to have such a dream.
Yun Mingchen was getting ready to study the paper-eating little cat more thoroughly when Madam Yun, who had been chattering in his ear, suddenly appeared behind Wen Yingying.
Before either person or cat could react, Madam Yun raised her hand sharply, pushing Wen Yingying’s body uncontrollably toward Yun Mingchen.

Yun Mingchen, holding the cat, could have avoided it, but the thin lines binding him in the dream suddenly started tightening.
He was tightly bound to the spot, only able to watch as Wen Yingying fell into his arms.
Then, the peaceful dream began to distort.

The surroundings shifted from a school classroom to a wedding scene.
Yun Mingchen remained in his previous posture, but his clothes had transformed into a bright red wedding outfit.
Wen Yingying, also dressed in a wedding gown, stood rigidly across from him.

The sudden change in the environment caught Yu Tong off guard.
Just then, Wen Yingying pulled off her red veil and angrily shouted at Yun Mingchen, “If you like men, why did you marry me? I told you I have someone I like, why do you still force me?!”
Upon hearing Wen Yingying’s question, Yun Mingchen subconsciously struggled, trying to break free from the control of the thin line.

Yu Tong’s leg was held in Yun Mingchen’s hand, swinging back and forth with his movements.
Sensing the antagonist’s anxiety and frustration, Yu Tong couldn’t help but sigh to the system: ‘Even the antagonist can’t escape the pressure of parents pushing for marriage. At least my parents are good, they never rush me to get married.’
The system was shopping for temporary tattoos and casually responded, [Your parents are so open-minded? They respect your personal ideas?]

‘Not really. They don’t speak up, and that’s much better.’
[...?]
Yun Mingchen and the metal-version Wen Yingying were forced to go through the wedding ceremony by the thin lines. A crowd of guests, all with faces resembling Old Master Yun and Madam Yun, urged them to hurry up and enter the bridal chamber.

Madam Yun, who had been whispering in Yun Mingchen’s ear, returned to his side and started nagging again.
“Mingchen, don’t worry, your father and mother have already found someone to share the bridal chamber with Miss Wen. Your little boyfriend is waiting for you in the room. You’ll sleep together and treat today as your wedding.”
Even in a dream, Yun Mingchen, who was pushed to the limit, still felt suffocated and unable to breathe.

The thin lines pulled him into the room, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw Miss Wen crying uncontrollably. His heart turned cold.
At this moment, amidst the noisy dream, a cat’s meow suddenly rang out.
Yun Mingchen felt the paper cat, which he had been holding by the hind leg, struggle forward with a force. With a meow, it pounced onto Madam Yun’s head and began gnawing on his mother’s head.

After finishing with his mother, the paper cat, now missing a leg, stood on Madam Yun’s metal body and roared at the guests below, “Meow! Meow!”
The latest gossip came from the Six9 Book Club!
For some reason, even though the little cat’s meow was sweet and looked cute, Yun Mingchen felt that the little mutt now truly resembled a little tiger.

Perhaps it was because this was Yun Mingchen’s dream, a world constructed from his consciousness.
After the little cat finished meowing, Yu Tong felt his body start growing rapidly.
In the blink of an eye, he transformed from a palm-sized paper cat into a ten-meter-high paper giant cat.

After staring at the enlarged paper cat paws for a while, Yu Tong suddenly had an idea.
He turned his head toward the thin lines tangled around Yun Mingchen and viciously bit down.
At the moment the thin line snapped, Yu Tong saw the antagonist look up and stare at him blankly.

In those ink-black eyes, it seemed that a glimmer of starlight had appeared.
A complex emotion surged from Yun Mingchen’s heart into Yu Tong’s body through the heart-to-heart tool. His heart started to beat violently, and even his breath became uncontrollably rapid.
Yun Mingchen, like a beast imprisoned for a long time, stiffly moved his limbs. A faint smile gradually appeared on his face, which had been tense since entering the dream.

He smiled naturally and beautifully, and Yu Tong couldn’t help but glance at him a few more times.
Until the antagonist straightened his face again, Yu Tong finally pulled his gaze away. Ready to strike, he prepared to tear apart Yun’s family and stomp on the ground full of metal people.
At that moment, a loud knocking sound suddenly rang in the dream.

Yu Tong felt his vision blur, and the next second, he was ejected from the dream.
In the real world, it was already 7:00 AM.
The morning sunlight filtered through the window, casting over the bed ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) in the dormitory.

The system, still remembering the previous bet, secretly checked the backend information as Yu Tong was still regaining his senses.
[Current deviation of Yun Mingchen’s persona: 3/100]
The knocking sound echoed in the bedroom. Yun Mingchen, who had been sleeping soundly, suddenly opened his eyes wide.

Thinking of the dream he had just had, he instinctively searched for the little cat.
The little tabby was lying on his pillow, fast asleep, seemingly bothered by the knocking sound, covering its ears with both paws.
The knocking grew louder, and Yun Mingchen temporarily suppressed his doubts.

He waved his hand, and the door automatically opened under the influence of his spiritual power.
A humble-looking male servant stood awkwardly at the door, “Young master, the student council is having an emergency meeting. The vice president is waiting for you downstairs.”
Yu Tong, pretending to be asleep, secretly opened one eye.

Yun Mingchen was the president of the student council, but according to the plot, he would be replaced by the male lead in half a month.
After becoming president, the male lead would gradually add the female vice president, a junior, and a female teacher to his harem.
Yu Tong didn’t feel much for the antagonist, but he disliked the male lead who was stepping on multiple boats.

He perked his ears and listened for a while, hearing that seven students had died in the school overnight. The teachers were having a meeting and needed the student council to help maintain order.
Seeing the antagonist getting dressed and preparing to leave, Yu Tong quickly meowed and chased after him, wanting to be taken along.
Hearing the cat meow, Yun Mingchen looked down at the little cat at his feet for a few seconds, “Xixi? I almost forgot about you.”

He pulled out the cat cage brought by the servant, opened the cage, and looked at the kitten, “Go in, you little mutt.”
Yu Tong:…