Ha, Karma! – Chapter 25

She was delighted by this reunion.

Cheng Hanxi was temporarily tired of dwelling on the grudge between Fu Lianxue and Chu Zhaoqiu. She came today because she had something to discuss with Fu Lianxue.

“For Zhou University’s anniversary celebration, Principal Dong wants to invite you to perform some songs for the students. Will you go?”

“Oh?” Fu Lianxue asked, “Why didn’t she ask me directly?”

Zhou University was the best university in Zhou City.

She and the university’s principal were quite well-acquainted, and they had each other’s phone numbers to contact directly if needed.

Cheng Hanxi said: “Well, since this involves your work matters, the principal thought she should follow protocol and contact me, your manager, first?”

Fu Lianxue stroked her hair and nodded slightly.

Indeed, this human friend of hers was truly rule-abiding.

“When is it?”

“About two weeks from now.”

“Oh… I’m on break during that time, with no schedule, plenty of time. I’ll go then, got to give our little Dong face.”

Cheng Hanxi smiled as she put down her cup, and seeing Baobao jump onto the sofa, she picked it up onto her lap to stroke its fluffy belly while saying: “There are many shows that need you to give them face too.”

Various programs had never given up inviting Fu Lianxue to appear.

However, Fu Lianxue’s appearance on shows depended entirely on her mood, so she hadn’t been on many shows since her debut.

But she didn’t need to maintain her popularity through show appearances, so Cheng Hanxi just let her do as she pleased.

This time Fu Lianxue didn’t care either.

“I declined them all. This elderly person is busy lately.”

Cheng Hanxi: “What are you busy with? Going head-to-head with Chu Zhaoqiu?”

Fu Lianxue raised her eyebrows: “Exactly, she desperately needs me to cause her trouble.”

“Ah, she really can’t manage without me.”

After saying this, she put on a face of “my responsibilities are just too many” distress.

Cheng Hanxi: “…Sure, right.”

After thinking for a moment, she couldn’t help but ask: “But, the matters from your previous life, do they really need to be carried over to this life?”

Fu Lianxue raised her eyes to look at her.

Cheng Hanxi said: “Should past grievances really be held against someone in their current life?”

“Isn’t that… a bit unfair to the person in this life?”

Starting life anew, memories refreshed, personality, identity, and profession could all be different from before – it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call them a completely new person.

So, should a life starting from zero bear the hatred left from a previous life?

“What about me then?” Fu Lianxue suddenly said, “Is it fair to me?”

The person who hurt her died and was done with it, leaving her alone to spiral in this hatred.

After thousands of years, never forgetting.

Finally, they met again, reuniting in Chu Zhaoqiu’s new life, and this hatred should just be written off—is that fair to her?

Fu Lianxue immediately hugged Baobao, frowning at Cheng Hanxi with grievance: “You’re supposed to be on my side, yet you’re not speaking up for me!”

Then lowered her head to tell Baobao: “She’s speaking for mama’s enemy, scold her!”

Baobao looked innocent, blinking and glancing around, but still gave face by meowing once.

Seeing this, Cheng Hanxi quickly clarified: “It’s a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding! I’m absolutely on your side.”

“I’m just curious, after all, I’m human too. What if someday someone comes for me, talking about things I don’t know about, I’d be confused too…”

Yes, although she was friends with Fu Lianxue, she was a genuine human.

As a human, her thinking naturally came from a human perspective.

She was also using Fu Lianxue, this great demon, to re-examine this world and herself.

She was thinking seriously with her chin propped up.

Fu Lianxue suddenly reached out and tapped her head.

“Why think so much at such a young age? Nobody’s come knocking yet, don’t get anxious in advance.”

Hearing this, Cheng Hanxi felt it made sense.

Why worry about things that haven’t happened yet?

But she still couldn’t help asking: “What if someone comes tomorrow?”

Fu Lianxue gave her a disdainful look: “What are you thinking? With your sister here, how could anything happen to you?”

She wasn’t a demon who helped based on reason rather than relationship, she was all about double standards.

With such a powerful friend around, why fear others?

After saying this, she thought for a moment and said: “No, I might not be able to save you after all.”

Cheng Hanxi: “?”

Fu Lianxue: “Because before your enemies find you, I might have already died together with Chu Zhaoqiu.”

Cheng Hanxi: “…”

Cheng Hanxi helplessly held her forehead and let out a deep sigh.

“Please, just stay alive.”

It’s a new era, there should be no more killing. She begged them both to live well and find another way for revenge!

Two weeks later.

Lin Yun brought home a kitten she found outside.

This was the third stray kitten that had appeared near her home and been taken in by her.

However, she felt this one wasn’t the little water ghost either.

She was waiting for the little water ghost to find her.

In her heart, she still hoped the little water ghost could fulfill her wish and truly become a cat.

And she would keep her promise, waiting for her to come, giving her a good life forever.

Although she didn’t know how to identify her, but… trust in feelings!

As for this rescued kitten, she would treat it like the previous two – feed it, take it for health checks, get all the necessary vaccinations, and then look for someone to adopt it.

She knew many people, most of them well-off financially, who could guarantee a good living environment for the kitten.

If she couldn’t find anyone to adopt it, she would adopt it herself.

Their Lin family was wealthy enough, they wouldn’t miss feeding a few more cats.

After learning about her promise to the little water ghost, her parents didn’t stop her from bringing cats home.

One must keep their word and show gratitude.

The little water ghost had helped their daughter, and if she wanted to be their family’s cat in this life, they would be more than happy.

Looking at the kitten her daughter brought back, Mother Lin asked: “This one isn’t it either?”

Lin Yun shook her head: “Can’t say for sure.”

Then sighed: “But I feel it’s not…”

Feelings are truly mysterious things, without scientific basis, but they seem to work.

At least this feeling allowed her to tell whether it was the cat she was looking for when she held it.

She had thought about sending photos to Chu Zhaoqiu to ask.

But then she thought it would be too bothersome, and besides, a demon hunter… probably couldn’t see a cat’s past life, right?

She wasn’t sure, better to settle this cat first before anything else.

She placed the one in her arms into the carrier, then turned to her mother.

“Mom, I’m taking this one for a health check first.”

“Alright, let the driver take you. Be careful on the way.”

“Mm-hmm, I know.”

In the car, Lin Yun sat in the back seat with the cat, holding cat treats to soothe the little one’s mood, listening to it grumbling while unable to resist the treats’ temptation.

Lin Yun couldn’t help but laugh.

Kittens were still the cutest, a hundred times cuter than stinky men, and kittens would never lie to her.

The driver pulled out of the residential area, turning the steering wheel toward the pet hospital.

Just then, he clearly saw the flower bed outside the complex suddenly move twice.

In the blink of an eye, a white kitten crawled out from inside.

Lin Yun in the back seat was busy tending to the cat’s mood and didn’t notice.

The car drove past the white kitten just like that.

After a while, it backed up.

The driver, thinking about how the young miss had been looking for a kitten lately, took the initiative to tell her about this white kitten.

The kitten remained in place, not running around.

It was a bit dirty, with a small leaf on its head, looking around curiously, examining the human world.

Including this massive thing that suddenly backed up.

Lin Yun opened the car door and got out.

Seeing her approach, the kitten hissed while retreating back to the flower bed, its fur all puffed up.

Lin Yun carefully approached, and only then discovered the kitten wasn’t completely white.

It had patches of black and gray fur on its back and legs, like randomly placed patches.

Very similar to a ghost she knew.

That little water ghost who talked about becoming a cat while watching stars that night also wore patched clothes.

Small and pitiful, just like this cat.

Lin Yun’s thoughts suddenly cleared, and she opened her lips, tentatively calling out: “…Meimei?”

The white kitten suddenly stopped meowing and tilted its head to look at her.

This response delighted Lin Yun, like reuniting with an old friend.

Her feelings told her this might be the one.

She reached out her hand, smiling gently and said: “Meimei, come here.”

“Jiejie is here to take you home.”

The white kitten looked at her face, then at her hand, and then gave a soft kitten-like meow, before taking small steps toward her, boldly placing its tiny paw in her palm.

Lin Yun excitedly brought the patched white kitten to see Chu Zhaoqiu.

She felt this was the little water ghost sister, but thought she should ask Chu Zhaoqiu to be sure, and let her see it too.

On the living room coffee table, the two-week-old kitten slowly wandered around, unafraid when people touched it.

Chu Zhaoqiu brought it water.

After lapping up a few sips, the whole little cat stepped into the small dish, starting to play with water, showing no aversion to getting wet.

Another kitten was also let out to play, slightly more timid than the white kitten, but nothing else mattered when food was involved.

Lin Yun looked expectantly at Chu Zhaoqiu and asked: “Well, is it her?”

Chu Zhaoqiu couldn’t answer, instinctively turning to look at grandmother who was playing with the white kitten.

She heard grandmother ask Lin Yun: “Do you think it is?”

Lin Yun, with confidence from somewhere, actually dared to nod and say: “I think so, it seems similar.”

After hearing her answer, Chu Zhaohua kindly curved her eyes.

“If you think it is, then it is.”

“Since you made a promise to her, you must take good care of her.”

Lin Yun blinked, vaguely sensing a gentle power from the elderly person before her, as if whatever she said would be convincing.

This should count as confirmation, right?

Thinking this, Lin Yun nodded: “Don’t worry, I’ll keep my word, I won’t break my promise.”

Chu Zhaohua gently nodded: “Good.”

Then said: “Go get them checked up quickly.”

“Yes!”

Lin Yun carefully placed the kittens in the carrier.

“Sorry for disturbing, I’m leaving now, I’ll visit again when I have time!”

“Take care on the way,” Chu Zhaoqiu said.

Lin Yun nodded to her and happily left with the cats.

Chu Zhaoqiu and Chu Zhaohua stood at the door watching her leave.

They saw the smile on her face, saw her bend down to talk to the carrier—she was delighted by this reunion.

Watching their car drive away from the area, Chu Zhaoqiu couldn’t help but softly ask her grandmother: “Is that kitten really it?”

She was still a mortal, unable to see through a cat’s past and present lives.

She hoped both that the little water ghost could fulfill her wish and that Lin Yun’s current happiness wouldn’t be in vain.

Chu Zhaohua looked up at the azure sky, then turned to her granddaughter with a smile in her eyes, saying meaningfully: “When there’s fate, everyone will meet again.”

Like certain two people.

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