Chapter 36 The Truth

Selene came back to her senses and realized that she had been carried into the elevator by Rowan.

Although she had often justified asking her sister for a hug, and as a rule had long gotten used to the feeling of being hugged, she was still a little embarrassed for some reason at this moment.

Especially ... As long as she breathed she could smell the odor of him.

Everyone has a smell that is uniquely their own, which she only discovered after she became a cat, because Faye had it on her. It was a kind of sweet aroma like roasted chestnuts by the fireplace in winter, and every time she smelled it she would feel warm.

Rowan's scent may be related to the fact that he has always worked with flowers and plants, or his own personality is gentle, but his body is a light woodsy fragrance, at first glance, only feels slightly cold, but after smelling more and more feels refreshing, attracting people's imagination.

However, his heartbeat is not beating a little fast.

Has been thumping like a small drum in her ears.

I didn't realize that someone who looked so smooth had a very energetic heart.

In the midst of Selene's wild thoughts, one person and one cat finally arrived at the underground parking lot.

When Selene returned to her senses, she was already placed on the passenger seat.

Rowan skillfully opened the driver's door, fastened the seatbelt, and started the car.

He also purposely turned his head to look at her and seriously instructed, "We'll be at the hospital soon, so bear with me."

... Make it seem like the cat understands human language.

Oh, also right ... She is a kitten that understands human language.

Selene finally remembered with hindsight her own cat persona, a highly intelligent kitten that understands human language.

No wonder Rowan didn't even take the suitcase and just carried her away. It seems that her career as a cute pet blogger has been quite successful, and her genius cat persona is deeply rooted in people's hearts.

While Selene was still reviewing her blogging career, the car had already stopped.

Selene was picked up again.

When she looked up at the pet hospital, she realized that it was the same old place.

The last time she brought her dog to the doctor was this place.

Coincidentally ... even the doctor was the same one.

Maybe it was because she had left a deep impression on the doctor last time. Dr.Alex recognized her right away.

He also took the initiative to strike up a conversation with Rowan: "Yo, isn't this the talented little orange cat from last time? What happened to it?"

Rowan placed the orange cat in her arms on the treatment table, and although her tone was still calm , her speech was faster than ever.

"She's been stung by something on her left paw, doctor hurry up and see what it is."

Dr. Alex collected the smile on his face and bent down to start checking the cat's paw, "Okay, okay, don't worry, I don't see her showing any symptoms, her mental state is quite good, it shouldn't be anything serious."

Selene obediently stretched out her left paw which was swollen like a pig's hoof.

Only Dr.Alex studied it for a moment, "It was stung by a wasp, the whole stinger went in, I'll have to get some tweezers to try and pinch it out."

Dr.Alex nudged the orange cat's head with his hand, "I can't tell, you're quite the tiger, you even dare to mess with wasps."

Selene gave Dr. Alex a disgruntled "ha".

Dr.Alex shook his head helplessly, "Oh wow, what a temper and you can't even talk about it, boy your girlfriend is really spoiling the kitty."

"... 'Rowan was stunned for a moment, and quickly explained, 'I don't have a girlfriend."

"Eh? Then the one who brought the little orange cat here last time was a girl ah, she also brought a golden hair, that dog was so fierce that I'm a bit scared even now when I think about it."

Rowan slightly skimmed his head, and said with a little bit of weakness, "The cat is my neighbor's, and that dog ... is mine."

Dr. Alex gave a subtle smile.

"Alright, never mind whose it is, let's heal the cat first."

"This process should hurt a bit, I'll go find a towel to wrap it in, so I don't have to get a few more cat claw marks on my face later."

Although Rowan was tempted to say that it shouldn't be necessary, cats wouldn't hurt anyone, but after all, the one operating it was Dr. Alex not him, and without protective measures, it was expected that Dr. Alex wouldn't dare to get his hands on the cat.

So Rowan opened his mouth and still didn't say anything.

Selene didn't move either, and was honestly wrapped up in a ball of towels and laying on the table.

She didn't know if it hurt to take this sting, in case she couldn't resist scratching the face of this talkative doctor that wasn't out of the question.

Five minutes later.

Dr. Alex let out a long breath and straightened up.

"There, it's okay, the stinger's out, I'll put some more ointment on it and wrap it in gauze, it'll heal in two or three days if it's quick."

When everything was over, Selene looked at her left paw, which was wrapped into a "dumpling", and felt a great deal of emotion.

She had never thought that she would limp when she was a human, but never thought that she would limp when she was a cat.

By the way, when she changed back in the daytime, her feet wouldn't be swollen either, right? That would also be too miserable.

While Selene was secretly feeling sad, that Dr. Zhang who talked a lot spoke again.

"By the way handsome, your neighbor's cat is about to reach the age of neutering, go back and tell that little girl that we have a discount for neutering recently! 70% off it, cheaper a few hundred, come this is my business card, there is a need to let her add my WeChat, book a time ..."

Sterilization? Sterilize your ass!

Selene raised her head, staring fiercely at the back of Dr. Zhang, who was explaining the benefits of sterilization. If not for her injured paw, she really wanted to go up and give him a cat punch.

On the other hand, Rowan, who was listening to the doctor on the surface but was actually observing Selene, almost couldn't hold back his laughter when he saw Selene's reaction.

The puffing up was too cute.

Causing him to not even hold back his desire to tease her, he purposely picked up Dr. Alex's words, "Oh, I know, I'll go back and remember to persuade her to bring a cat."

As expected, Selene looked at him all of a sudden, her eyes filled with shock.

How could someone be a cat and have such a vivid expression?

The heart was going to be adorable.

Rowan just hated that he couldn't take out his cell phone at the moment to record the scene in front of him.

Dr. Alex also noticed that the youth in front of him was wandering off, and he raised his voice in dissatisfaction, "Ahem, young man, did you understand what I just said?"

"Huh? I heard you." Rowan retracted his eyes from the orange cat and nodded unabashedly into Dr. Zhang's face.

Hearing this, Dr.Alex finally revealed a satisfied smile, "Hear me then come with your neighbor, bring the golden fur over for neutering as well, you two only need to make one trip, two together is even better, I'll give you a six point five ... Eh, why are you leaving? "

Rowan held the orange cat in his arms and walked as if he were flying: "Doctor, I'm in a bit of a hurry here, I'm going to the front desk to pay first, we'll talk some other time."

The back view of a man who had always been calm and steady at this time was quite like a sense of fleeing.

Dr.Alex stood in place and sighed: "The youngsters nowadays, they are not at all composed."

-

10:30 PM.

Selene watched Rowan leave her house after she finished eating the late night snack he had finished steaming.

She relaxed into a roll on the floor.

Not to mention, it was pretty hard to pretend to be a cat all the time.

When her sister was around, she didn't have to worry about falling off her horse, but with Rowan around, she had to be a little more considerate and not act like a cat.

Now that it was finally just her, she could come as she wanted and get up and do ballet all right.

... also wondered how things were going with Bella and Oliver.

Selene sat up with a star and immediately headed towards the bedroom, grabbing her cell phone and starting to check her messages.

Linda had definitely sent her a lot of messages.

[Linda: Ahhhhhh Selene! Bella and Oliver are back! No injuries! Back in one piece!]

[Linda: oooooooooooh they came back on their own, I was really crying, I thought I'd never see them again, thank goodness, thank goodness they came back on their own or I really wouldn't have forgiven myself]

[Linda: Thank you, thank you for giving me so many tips, thank you so much, I'll treat you to a big meal when you come back (cat.jpg)]

I can see that Linda is really happy to have her lost and found.

But Selene is not happy.

Because Linda did not know the truth of the "lost cat", and thought she was careless.

Although the world always says that it is better to tear down a temple than to ruin a marriage, for the sake of the safety of the two little ones and Linda's happiness, she felt that she had to be the villain of "beating up the lovebirds".

Now she could hide the loss of her favorite cat from Linda, and there were even more things she could hide from her in the future.

But how can she expose Linda's boyfriend's evil behavior?

Selene thought about it and started to message Linda back.

[Selene:Great! It's good to be back! How are they doing?]

Linda replies back in seconds.

[Linda: spirit is quite good, do not know where to run to play on the body and grass and soil, is probably hungry for a long time, came back to eat a long time things, see my heart ache dead, my baby when I swallowed a lot of food, I'm really a unreliable master, too sorry for them, the more I think the more difficult].

Selene also looked a little heartbroken Linda. She then sent a message.

[Selene: Then you can use the button to talk to them, say what you want to say to them, also listen to what they want to say to you, maybe the mood will be better].

[Linda: Yeah! I forgot about that! I'm going to go talk to them now, and you're here, so I'm going to start a video, and you can translate what they're trying to say.]

[Selene: Okay, it's just that I can't turn on the webcam and voice over, so I'll text it to you.] [Linda: Uh-huh.

[Linda: Uh-huh, understand]

After a while, Selene answered Linda's WeChat video call.

The blue cat and the Ragdoll cat appear in the shot, and the two little ones are chasing and playing.

And Linda supposedly walked over to the buttons and pressed "Bella," "Oliver," and "Come."

After a while, the two cats came over to Sophie.

Bella even went to press "yes".

Selene was still pleased to see this. It seemed the button teaching had not been wasted.

Linda pressed the button again.

"Mom." "Sorry."

"I'm sorry" was a word Selene had taught her two little ones last time, explaining to them what it meant, and that they could press it if they felt they had accidentally hurt a human.

But I don't think Linda had ever used this button, and I don't know if they could understand what Linda meant.

Out of Selene's expectation, the two little ones seemed to understand Linda's meaning.

They immediately ran to Linda's side and rubbed their heads against her to show comfort.

Without any words, Linda's eyes immediately turned red, and she hugged the two cats and howled.

It wasn't until a while later that she calmed down a bit.

While sobbing, Linda said into her cell phone, "Selene I'm sorry, I couldn't control it, I made you laugh."

[Selene:It's okay, I understand.]

[Selene:Look, your cat loves you, don't blame yourself."]

"Hmm." Linda petted Bella and Oliver's heads again, "I won't lose you next time."

Bella's head snapped up at the sound of those words.

The Muppet cat ran to the buttons and pressed a bunch of them.

"Mommy." "Good."

"Nasty." "Shovel."

Linda froze for a moment and asked in confusion, "Selene, what does Bella mean? Why did you say Mommy is good and then press hate shoveling shit."

"Bella hates it when I clean the litter box?"

Bella looked even more anxious as it pressed three more buttons.

"Bella." "Orange." "Help."

Selene did understand what Bella was trying to say. She hadn't even known that Linda had a boyfriend before and hadn't been taught the relevant words, and now Bella was probably in a hurry.

Selene could only try side baiting.

[Selene: Does anyone in your family clean the litter box besides you?"]

"There is, like when I travel, I always call my mom to shovel it, or sometimes when my boyfriend is over here, he shovels it."

... Line, I guess, also involves Linda's mom. There's no way to point it out directly. Selene can only translate the next line.

[Selene: Then it's not quite clear why it's said that way, the one after that, I think it's Bella trying to get Orange to do the talking for it.]

"Hmm? Does Bella have something to say to mommy?"

Bella immediately went and pressed 'yes'.

"Selene when can you get back over here? I see that Bella seems to be in quite a hurry and I don't know what she has to say to me."

[Selene:I shouldn't be back until after vacation ... Otherwise wait until tomorrow night, at night when my neighbor is free, I'll ask him to help me bring the oranges to your house].

Linda was a little confused, "Huh? That's not very nice, it's better to wait until you get back."

[Selene: It's okay, just tomorrow night. Maybe what Bella has to say is important? Don't you want to know what it wants to say sooner rather than later?"]

"Ooohhh ... Thank you Selene, that's very kind of you. Tomorrow night then, please, you and your neighbor, by the way who was your neighbor again?"

...

Selene hung up the video call and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Now there was a way to get the truth out of Linda. If she could just get Rowan to take her to Linda's house tomorrow, she could tell her the truth with the push of a button.

Until then, she had to get her strength back.

I don't know if it's because of her injury, but she's so sleepy right now ...

Let's sleep first.

Selene burrowed under the covers, rolled over and went to meet the Weekender.

A dreamless night.

"What time is it now? Why is it so bright?"

Selene didn't resist raising a hand to shield her eyes and rolled over again before slowly opening them.

The sun was shining on her quilt, so it was obviously late.

But...

Selene stared incredulously at "her hand". It was still a furry cat's paw!

She rolled out of bed and rushed to the full-length mirror.

The orange cat in the ... mirror fell to the floor.

It's over, she can't even change back into a human?

This condition hadn't occurred before, and if there was any variable, it was only her swollen paw.

Could it be that the cat couldn't turn back into a human because her body was injured?

It's highly possible, but it could be that it's fixed in cat form ...

Selene thought left and right, and finally decided to give up thinking about it, because this kind of thing was force majeure, and she hadn't even figured out why she had changed into a cat, much less why she couldn't change back into a human now.

One could only go with the flow and be optimistic.

She got up off the floor, went back to bed, and yanked her cell phone over.

The first order of business was to eat first. The cat was starving.

She tapped Rowan's WeChat window again.

[Selene: That, I still can't make it back today. Can you go on and take care of the oranges for me?"]

Rowan had been waiting for Selene's message for a long time.

According to his experience last time, Selene probably won't turn back into a human this time, and she didn't notify "Selene" of her injury but asked him to take care of her. "Selene can't come back in time.

If Selene couldn't come back, she would still be looking for him.

But I waited from the time I woke up in the morning until 2:00 in the afternoon.

Finally, the news came.

Rowan sat up straight and tapped on his cell phone.

[That's fine, but I won't be back until after 6:00 p.m., so I'll leave Mason to feed him lunch?]

[Selene:That's fine, too.]

[Selene:By the way, I wanted to ask you for something else]

[Neighbor: What is it?]

It's complicated. What should she tell him?

She wanted to call Rowan during the day to talk to him about it, but now not only could she not call, but she had to type with one claw, making it difficult for her to explain the cause and effect clearly.

Selene hesitated to simply summarize.

[Selene:You should know that my tangerine understands human language, right? Recently, I've also been working as a pet interpreter on the Internet. 1802's Linda is a friend of mine, and she lost her cat yesterday, and it was hard for her to get the cat back, and it seems that the kitten has something she wants to say to her, so she wants me to bring tangerine over there and help translate it, but I don't have the time right now, so I'm just going to have to ask you to help me bring tangerine over to 1802, around night time. At about seven o'clock in the evening, do you have time?]

[Neighbor: Yes, I know.]

Selene was a bit surprised that Rowan didn't ask anything and just agreed to something that sounded so out of the ordinary.

Thanks to that, she had made several plans to use to convince him, but she didn't think she would be able to use them.

Alright, let's start preparing the buttons then.

Selene took a few buttons out and used her cell phone AI voice to start replacing the words in them.

-

Seven o'clock in the evening.

Rowan showed up on time at Linda's door with his orange cat and a canvas bag with buttons.

He rang the doorbell.

After a while, the door opened and Selene was greeted by a tall, thin man who looked quite elegant and refined.

He pushed up his glasses and looked at Rowan with a hint of caution in his eyes, "And you are?"

Rowan just said flatly, "I'm from 1901 upstairs, is Ms. Linda home?"

"Linda, there's a man here to see you." The man turned his head and called out.

"I think it's Selene's friend who's here!"

Before the words left her mouth, Linda appeared in the doorway.

At the sight of Rowan, she visibly froze for a moment before saying, "... Are you little Rowan?"

But before Rowan could say anything back, Linda let out another gasp, "What happened to Orange's paw, why is it wrapped up like that."

Rowan smiled down, "The kitten was active and got stung by a wasp."

... What a lively and active, bending over backwards to say that she is naughty.

Selene didn't hold back and let out a low "ow" in protest, she was obviously being a good kitten before she was stung by a wasp!

"Sorry Orange, my sister kind of wanted to laugh." Linda didn't resist touching Orange Cat's extraordinarily huge paw, "Why is it swollen like this ..."

Shame on you, cat face finished.

Thankfully this public execution was soon over.

Rowan carried the orange cat into the cat room at Linda's house.

Bella and Oliver can't tell you how excited they are to see Selene.

Oliver: "Orange! You're finally here! I've missed you so much meow."

Bella: "Pissed off, help me talk to mom, it's all because of that stinky man who dropped us off, I'm sick of seeing him now."

"Don't worry, I'll help you guys talk later." Selene calmed the two little ones and walked over to Rowan's side.

Rowan was still helping her lay the buttons and should be ready soon.

Only when everything was in place did Selene step up to the button.

Not only were Rowan and Linda present, but even Linda's boyfriend was there, standing right next to Linda.

Still believing that after all those years of books."

Linda turned her head and said seriously, "It's true, Orange really listens and expresses himself with the button."

"OK, OK, OK, as long as you're happy." Linda's boyfriend helplessly spread his hands, "All as you wish."

Linda didn't bother to get involved with her boyfriend, she focused her attention on the orange cat.

All she saw was the orange cat and Bella meowing a few times before walking over to the buttons and pressing a few of them.

"Daddy." "Bella." "Oliver." "Go outside and play."

Linda froze, "Daddy? Does that mean my boyfriend?"

"No, I have to call Selene and have her translate."

Selene had forgotten there was one and she immediately turned her head to look at Linda.

Just as Selene was getting a headache, she heard Rowan speak up.

"No need to call her, I'll translate for you."

"Eh?" Linda turned her head, "You will too?"

Rowan nodded and looked over at Linda's boyfriend and said thoughtfully, "Well, what Orange means is that your boyfriend took the cat out of the house."

"How did I not know that." Linda was baffled as she looked over at her boyfriend, "Really? When?"

Linda's boyfriend instantly broke out in a cold sweat and stared at Rowan with spite in his eyes, "Don't you be ridiculous, okay? I'm not!"

But Rowan didn't pay any attention to him at all, just proceeded to look at Linda and said with certainty, "Your cat said so."

"If you don't believe me let's ask Orange again." Rowan raised his finger to Linda's boyfriend and asked, "Orange, are you trying to say that this man took Bella and Oliver out of the house?"

Selene hadn't expected this kind of surprise, and Rowan was so on board with it, it was a real hit and miss assist.

She pressed the button immediately.

"Yes."

Selene went and pressed a few more buttons.

"Dad." "Bye."

"Bella." "Oliver." "Scared."

This didn't even need Rowan to translate. Linda understood immediately.

She turned her head and stared at her boyfriend, her face so cold that it could freeze, "Tell me the truth, did you take my cat out yesterday afternoon?"

Linda's boyfriend still refused to admit it, he just shouted furiously, "Said no, how could you believe a cat blindly pressing a button, we've been in a relationship for so many years, why don't you believe what I said?"

"Linda you really are fiendish! We're getting married and you'd rather believe that than me wouldn't you? You're really breaking my heart."

The scene was at a standstill.

Rowan was pretty much sorting out what was going on by now.

No wonder Selene was stung by a wasp herself yesterday after asking him where in Morningside City they planted osmanthus flowers in one foot, and he thought it was strange that there were no wasps in their neighborhood at all, so he probably went to the parks to look for these two cats.

Those few parks are not close to the neighborhood, the cat can't run that far by itself, most likely it was taken by the man in front of him and abandoned.

Thinking of this, Rowan's face became even colder.

He looked at Linda and seriously suggested, "Go check the surveillance, did you check the surveillance of the elevator when you were looking for the cat yesterday?"

Linda shook her head, "I thought the cat ran away from the safe passage, I only checked the surveillance of the safe passage and the inside of the cell."

"Well, let's go then."

Seeing that things were about to fall apart, the man could only resign himself to confess, "Don't go, I threw the cat."

Linda's steps toward the outside stopped.

She turned her head incredulously, "Why? Didn't you tell me before that you liked cats too?"

"Linda, I did it because I love you, my parents don't like girls with pets, having pets is bad for having kids and a waste of money, they didn't approve of me marrying you, so I had to do it."

Linda heard, all of a sudden fire: "Your family has a throne to inherit, put here to choose a consort? I see in you still know to say a few words of human language, only did not face and your mom argued. I use my own money to raise cats in the way of your family . What happened?"

"Then we are getting married, in the future all the money you earn is common property ah, surely you have to use it for the right things, look at how much money you spent for the cat, this ..."

"Bah, roll calf, the whole world of men die finished I will not marry you, but also common property can give you a beautiful bad, I tell you this thing I'm not finished with you."

Linda people are to be angry at fainting. She never thought that after the cat is lost to comfort her, but also to help her together to find the cat's boyfriend is the cause of everything. How can there be such a hypocritical person?

"You wait, old lady will call the police later."

Hearing this, the man was dumbfounded, "... No, call the police? I just accidentally lost two cats. What law did I break?"

"Recognize reality, it's my cats you lost, it has nothing to do with you."

Linda rolled her eyes on the spot and emphasized word by word: "The cats are my personal property, according to Article 264 of the Criminal Law, the act of secretly stealing other people's property is an illegal act, and the two little ones are both of high value, especially Bella, who is a regular cattery purchased race-grade Ragdoll cat, and the two together are worth 40,000 yuan, obviously you have been suspected of theft, and unsurprisingly If you do, you will be sentenced to imprisonment of not less than 3 years but not more than 10 years and a fine."

The man realized the seriousness of the matter at that time. He was very confident that Linda was the person who could do such a thing. She always kept her word.

"Linda ... you Listen to my explanation!"

"We're not related right now, take your stuff and get the hell out of here, go talk to the police about the rest of this crap."

Selene then watched as Linda, usually a sweet softie stormed into a couple of rooms, packed up her stuff on the fly, and finally threw her male ... no, ex-boyfriend out with her suitcase.

As soon as Linda closed the door behind her, she realized she had an outsider in the house.

She turned around, her decent smile still vaguely murderous, "Little Rowan, want to sit down and have a cup of tea before you go?"

Rowan: ...

Not to mention Rowan, even Selene felt herself sweating.

"No, we'll go first."

Rowan decisively chose to pick up the cat and escape from this place of wrongdoing.

When they entered the elevator, one person and one cat still had palpitations.

"You can't tell the difference between a person and a cat."

Selene nodded with deep empathy.

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