The brown Coke swirled into the glass, creating a layer of bubbles.
Looking over the cup, you can see a pair of trembling cat ears.
An Baizhi poured the drinks for the guests, sat down on the side of the coffee table, then lowered her head and picked up her phone to continue playing the unfinished movie.
"You're angry?"
Zhu Yu's eyes followed the girl's round and small human earlobes, and then moved to the fur on the top of her head that was definitely not a pendant.
At a glance, Miao Niang identified it as a four-channel type.
"No."
An Baizhi didn't even raise her head, "Although Zhu Yu forced your way to the door and suddenly knocked off my hat, I wasn't angry."
"Did you overlook something more important?"
"Ah, don't make any noise now, the movie is getting to the fun part."
"That's the angry reaction! You don't want to talk to me at all!"
Zhu Yu felt weird after blurting it out.
Why does he act like an unreasonable and seductive girlfriend?
The annoyed girl sighed and clicked on the phone screen to pause the screen.
"Really not. Although when I first discovered the truth, my mind went blank; but then you didn't show any strange attitude, so I thought it was no big deal."
Zhu Yu stared at the triangular object that was shaking as she spoke, and felt the urge to reach out and touch it.
That's the truth about An Baizhi's absence from work today and her "severe cold".
"How exactly did this thing appear?"
She put down her phone and thought for a moment.
"When I looked in the mirror in the morning, my hair suddenly grew."
"...Mushrooms?"
If these cat ears are cut off and planted in the ground, will there be more cat-eared girls next year?
Perhaps his eyes revealed the desire in his heart. An Baizhi shuddered, stretched out her hands warily, and covered her new pair of ears.
Of course Zhu Yu would not really do such a cruel thing, but further sighed: "You actually accepted this fact and even watched the movie at home?"
This has gone beyond the realm of calmness and reached the point of rudeness.
"I have no way."
An Baizhi pursed her thin lips, showing a hint of grievance, "I definitely can't go to school like this. I don't know how to tell my parents, so I have to lie about being sick first."
Then when she was idle at home, she started doing things she liked.
Until someone came to the door with review materials.
"However, I discovered that there are actually ways to hide it."
The girl closed her eyes and meditated, trying hard to focus on the strange-feeling new organ.
The cat's ears trembled twice like dandelions, then popped and disappeared as if they were burrowed into the ground.
Is there such an operation?
But within a minute, they grew back tenaciously like weeds among stubborn rocks.
"Just like this, it can last quite a long time during the day, but now it can only last for such a short time."
An Baizhi picked up the beret that Zhu Yu had swatted away from the coffee table and put it on herself again, "I'm ready to wear the hat all the time in the future."
After Zhu Yu observed it for a while, he asked seriously: "Wouldn't it be uncomfortable for the cat's ears to be pressed by the hat?"
An Baizhi's eyes lost their sparkle a little.
"Is this what you care about?"
The main reason is that he is personally curious, but he won't ask if he doesn't want to.
An Baizhi stood up and poured him another drink that he had finished.
When the cold liquid filled the cup, she suddenly said: "I also want to ask, does Zhu Yu know anything related to it?"
"I apologize in advance if I guessed wrong, but usually if someone sees me like this, they will think that I am a monster, right?"
She closed her knees and sat back down, with the ends of her hair hanging into small hooks beside her ears. "But you asked me directly when these ears appeared."
"Besides, when we had dinner together before, you also said that if I encounter any difficulties, I can come to you, as if I already knew that something like this would happen."
An Bai Zhi looked into his eyes: "Is that so?"
Although she didn't expect it to come true in the form of growing cat ears, this was probably the consequence of the wish she made at that time, and Zhu Yu naturally knew this.
So he nodded.
The girl lowered her cheek in the direction of her toes.
"So, it's actually because of this kind of thing that you said you want to be friends with me."
There was clear sadness in her plain reaction, "I'm sorry, when I told you to accompany you as a friend at the aquarium, am I too self-aware?"
"I know that supernatural things may happen around you in the future, but I will never approach you just for this reason."
Zhu Yu didn't want her to show her emotions because she would be hurt by him.
"At first, the encounter was completely unexpected. Later, it may have been mixed with some impure factors. But when I went to eat xiaolongbao with you, there was nothing planned about the days we spent together as tablemates."
He guaranteed with his utmost sincerity, "Didn't you once ask me what my wish is? At least becoming friends with An Baizhi is completely based on my own wishes."
"Maybe you will think that I have ulterior motives or that I have no credibility now, but this is indeed my true thought."
"Sorry, but the word 'maybe' can be omitted."
As expected of An Baizhi, she couldn't even be moved by such sincere words.
"It's normal to be suspicious of me now, but I wanted you to tell me this kind of thing at the time. Even if you use forceful methods today, you have to visit me. I want to help you solve your current problem."
"So it can be solved?"
"Yes, you don't want to wear a hat when you go out all your life, right?"
"Why do you have to use a threatening tone..."
He was obviously talking nicely.
The girl put her hands on her knees and rocked her body back and forth, as if thinking.
"You should be very angry at being deceived, and you have enough reasons to break off the relationship... But seeing you convey your inner thoughts so solemnly, I feel that it's okay to forgive you."
"Are you too generous, saint?"
"I'm still angry now, classmate Zhu Yu."
Zhu Yu stopped teasing her and obediently picked up the glass and drank the happy water.
"How to do it……"
An Baizhi straightened the ends of her hair that formed small hooks, rolled them up to her ears, and stared at his face.
She stood up, her skirt hanging down to her knees, and the skin of her calves looked white and firm with the light flowing on it.
"I'm going to cook."
"Why did the topic suddenly jump to dinner?"
An Baizhi had already walked to the kitchen door of the apartment, took off the apron from the hanging nail on the wall, and tied the back strap with her back to Zhu Yu.
"Because it's almost time. Are you hungry? It's just a good time to chat while eating."
After tying it into a bow, the girl turned around lightly.
"Anyway, it was Zhu Yu who said he wanted to be friends with me, so we should be able to stay together, right?"
