Comrade: Almost a Cat-astrophic Love Story

“There had been an accident in the city center recently. Fortunately, no one was hurt. It was a pastoral dog that saved his owner’s life…”

In the picture, the thin pastoral dog was lying in a pool of blood helplessly. It whimpered and then weakly shut its eyes for the last time. The pastoral dog’s owner was shocked speechless, and then started crying.

No one could have predicted the ending.

Even if the dog’s owner finally understood the fact that there were no class differences among dogs, so what? The dog had lost its life and was gone forever.

How regretful.

“Let’s stop watching this.” Fu Sichen took over the remote control and turned off the television, sighing as he looked at the unhappy Persian cat. “At least during the few days that he was safe with us, he was happy.”

In the pastoral dog’s short life, he’d been through many ups and downs. Everything about him was good except his luck.

The news was two days old, yet Pei Zhen couldn’t help but kept going back to it. Knowing that watching it would make him sad didn’t stop him; it was as though he was out to torture himself.

“Pei Pei.” When Pei Zhen was unhappy, it would worry Fu Sichen. The latter turned around and knelt in front of the Persian cat, comforting him. “What you did wasn’t in vain.”

Besides being sad about the pastoral dog’s fate, Fu Sichen was certain that Pei Zhen was also blaming himself for being incapable.

It was as though no matter how much effort he put in, it wouldn’t make a difference. There were still scores of people in the world who don’t care for little animals.

Fu Sichen understood what Pei Zhen was upset over.

“At least Lin Xuan admitted his mistake; at least it made an impact on some people,” Fu Sichen looked straight into the Persian cat’s eyes and said sincerely, “Pei Pei, you have done all you could.”

Pei Zhen looked at Fu Sichen. He opened his mouth but didn’t know what to say.

“Thinking that everyone in the world would be kind towards living creatures is only being idealistic. We can only hope that more and more people will learn to value life and treat animals kindly.”

Fu Sichen’s voice was naturally hoarse; but when he was gentle, it took on a mesmerizing quality and amazingly, it calmed the cat’s anxiety and comforted his sadness.

The Persian cat’s eyes lit up a little and acknowledged and responded with a slight meow, signaling that he understood.

“You care so much about other animals?” As the cat’s mood gradually lightened up, Fu Sichen was being himself again, and couldn’t refrain from teasing the cat. “What about caring for this higher being before you?”

Pei Zhen looked at him in disgust.

Fu Sichen had not been able to focus on filming those few days; in-between, he’d run home. Although Pei Zhen mostly ignored him, he was very patient with the cat and gave him gentle counsel.

Even if the consoled Pei Zhen didn’t want to admit it, he could feel Fu Sichen’s goodness. Only, he’d get agitated the minute that Fu Sichen showed off.

Higher being? Care?

Care my foot!

Pei Zhen couldn’t care less about hurting Fu Sichen. Whatever the case, he could only put on a smirk when he was facing his sworn enemy, whom he believed had many ill intentions.

Ignoring Fu Sichen’s hopeful gaze, Pei Zhen snatched the television remote control and turned on the TV. He started to watch television programs.

They were playing a series starring Pei Zhen himself.

The youth in the drama was high-spirited and quite good-looking.

Before Pei Zhen could even bring out the narcissistic side of himself, the television channel changed.

First Love.

It was known to be an entry level BL anime. The soundtrack was great, and the plot was ambiguous. It was said that one wasn’t a real Fujoshi until one had watched it.

Speechless.

Pei Zhen wanted to puke!