Reincarnated as a Tabby Cat: Daily Life with the School Beauty Empress

Yichen was so frightened that he quickly withdrew his paw, jumped off the bed, and crawled into his cat bed to continue sleeping, pretending that nothing had happened.

My heart was pounding wildly.

Oh no, oh no! If I wake her up, with her explosive temper, she'll definitely hang me up and beat me!

However, after waiting for a long time, the expected storm did not arrive.

Su Qianxue simply turned over and went back to sleep.

Yi Chen finally breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling as if he had just escaped from the brink of death.

The sky was beginning to lighten with the first hint of dawn.

A new day is about to begin.

The first rays of morning sunlight shone through the gaps in the curtains, illuminating the dust floating in the room.

Su Qianxue slowly opened her eyes, her hangover-like headache causing her to unconsciously frown.

Last night, devastated by the failure of the contract, she fell into a deep sleep after refining the essence of the Thunder Tiger King, even forgetting the consolidation training that was required after the awakening ceremony.

She shifted her body, preparing to get up, but noticed something amiss in the cat's nest not far away.

A tiny kitten, entirely black except for its four snow-white paws, was curled up inside, fast asleep, its little belly rising and falling with its breath.

"This is……"

Su Qianxue's first thought was, "Has a stray cat gotten into the house?"

But she quickly recognized it; the cat had a distinctive crescent-shaped white tuft of fur between its eyebrows, just like the tabby cat she owned.

But... the body types don't match!

She remembered her tabby cat, which weighed at least four or five pounds and was about half a meter long.

The one in front of us weighs at most a pound, is about the size of a palm, and looks incredibly cute.

Moreover, its fur color has completely changed.

"evolution?"

A word that even she found absurd popped into her mind.

She immediately got out of bed, grabbed the still-sleeping Yichen, and held him up to her eyes for a closer look.

Yichen was startled awake by this sudden "attack," opened his pair of bright green cat eyes, looked at Su Qianxue in confusion, and made an innocent "meow" sound.

"Pretend! Keep pretending!"

Su Qianxue wasn't buying it at all. She stretched out her fingers and forcibly pried open Yichen's mouth to check his teeth.

Sure enough, all the baby teeth had fallen out and replaced with a set of sharp little fangs. This is one of the most obvious signs that the contracted beast has completed its first evolution!

"It has truly evolved..."

Su Qianxue muttered to herself, her expression incredibly complex.

Shock, confusion, bewilderment, and a hint of ecstasy that she herself was unaware of.

How is this possible?!

According to the theory of Beast Taming, any contracted beast needs at least seven days to adapt to its master's spiritual power and become familiar with their soul connection after completing the contract before it can trigger its first evolution.

Some less qualified individuals cannot even complete the task in a month or a year.

But she and this cat have only been together for less than twelve hours since they signed the contract!

An evolution was completed in just twelve hours?

This was completely beyond her comprehension! Even the top geniuses with noble bloodlines she had met in her previous life could never have done something like this!

"Could it be... an effect of my rebirth?"

Su Qianxue immediately thought of her biggest secret.

But she quickly dismissed the idea.

Rebirth changes her soul and memories, but it cannot directly affect her contracted beast.

"No, there's something else that's strange."

Su Qianxue's brows furrowed tightly.

"Why did your size decrease after evolution? This doesn't make sense! Could it be that evolution failed, resulting in a malignant mutation?"

She reached out, and a wisp of icy blue spiritual energy overflowed from her fingertips, carefully probing into Yichen's body to check his physical condition.

Yichen felt a cold sensation coursing through his body, which made him very uncomfortable, but he dared not resist and could only obediently let her examine him.

A moment later, Su Qianxue withdrew her spiritual power, her expression of confusion deepening.

"Strong meridians, vigorous blood and qi, smooth flow of spiritual energy... There are no problems with the body, and it is even several times stronger than a rare contracted beast of the same level."

"What exactly is going on?"

One mystery after another gave this former empress a real headache.

Having lived two lives, she considered herself well-informed, but this cat in front of her was a completely peculiar creature that defied common sense.

Just then, her gaze inadvertently fell on the torn wardrobe next to her.

Three deep and neat scratches, as if cut by some kind of sharp weapon.

Su Qianxue's eyes instantly sharpened.

When she went to bed yesterday, the wardrobe was perfectly intact. There was no one else in the room; the only variable was the cat.

She grabbed Yichen again, turned him over, and carefully examined his paws.

The pinkish paw pads look harmless.

Su Qianxue pressed it tentatively, and the sharp claw tip instantly popped out.

She compared Yichen's claws with the scratches on the wardrobe, and they didn't match at all—how could those little claws have caused such extensive damage!

But... Su Qianxue gasped.

【Who else could it be but this? This isn't an ordinary physical attack!】

"you……"

Su Qianxue looked at Yichen, opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say.

[Hehe, surprise you, right? This cat has huge potential! I can evolve indefinitely!]

This cat exudes an eerie aura from the inside out.

It evolved overnight, shrinking in size and gaining terrifying destructive power far exceeding that of its peers...

Could it be that I've really struck gold?

A bold idea took root and sprouted uncontrollably in her heart.

Perhaps... the tabby cat she contracted wasn't as bad as she imagined?

Meow~

Seeing that she didn't speak for a long time and just stared at him with the eyes of someone looking at a monster, Yi Chen felt a little uneasy. He tentatively called out and rubbed his little head against her palm.

The soft touch brought Su Qianxue back to her senses.

Looking at the tiny creature in her palm, no bigger than her hand, the coldness and despair in her eyes gradually faded, replaced by an unprecedented curiosity and desire to explore.

"No matter what you are, now that you've become my contracted beast, you'd better put yourself to use."

Su Qianxue snorted coldly and put Yichen on her shoulder.

"It's first day of school, so behave yourself. If you dare cause trouble, you'll see what I do to you!"

After saying that, she got up from the bed and began to wash up and change her clothes.

Yichen sat steadily on her shoulder, looking at the dashing young woman in the mirror and the tiny black kitten on her shoulder, and breathed a sigh of relief.

It looks like I barely made it through the first hurdle.

However, he had a feeling that going to school today would definitely not be peaceful.

After all, the news that a campus beauty has signed a contract with a tabby cat is enough to cause a sensation anywhere.