With you for thirteen years CH4

Chapter 4: The Fourth Year

Staying at this house, accompanying Hai Ruo's life, counting up from the first winter, it's already been four years.

If he were to convert his cat life's age into humans, he is about thirty-three/four years old, which happened to be about the same as Hai Ruo.

Of course, time seems to be especially tolerant with her, it might also be that her circle has always only been connected to the relatively simple academic world, all contacts being with other lively young people, and her, being of thirty-three years old, yet always living like a little girl. When happy smiling widely, wearing skirts of fresh colors, sometimes watching animations, and when aroused, liking to hold DongDong while twirling all around the house, humming songs, reciting her most favorite poems to him.

Every time when it's like this, DongDong, no, it is Chu Chengyu who is a human being would actually feel that he was once a human and has lived through life, this romantic reality for him is an immense attraction.

To Chu Chengyu who is living inside the black cat's shell, it is an immense attraction.

 "This senior sister, hello."

DongDong turned around with uncertainty, today once again he followed Hai Ruo right after finishing an elective course given to the freshman at a College of Science, after goddess Hai Ruo and cold wisdom bearing cat got through a bunch of idiotic iron-willed fans, the hungry human and cat were ready to rush home and fix up something to eat.

If nothing out of the ordinary pops up the recipe today, is tomato sirloin.

Dongdong gulped subconsciously.

But, the reverie for tonight's dinner was interrupted by a magnetic yet bright voice, Hai Ruo turned around, finding that it was a person in a loose tee, a beautiful face, along with white wide-rimmed eyes a ...... short hair girl carrying a handsome aura.

"This senior sister......it should be, senior sister right." The girl bent back sightly, hands staying on her thighs, and head raised up to look at Hai Ruo.

She has a pair of heroic spirited eyebrows, this was Hai Ruo's first impression of her.

Seeing that Hai Ruo didn't say anything to retort, the girl with a handsome aura asked again: "That, excuse me, senior sister you know the apartment building where many of our professors live, if you want to walk there which way do you go?"

Hai Ruo blinked a bit, bent down and stretched out her hand, DongDong quite tacitly jumped into her arms, that girl seemed to abruptly realize that there were other creatures, shoulders trembled, and got startled a bit.

"Follow me, I also live there." Hai Ruo smiled.

The girl opposite was dazzled by her smile, subconsciously revealing two rows of white teeth, also smiling back.

"Then I will follow senior sister, ah, senior sister where do you live, is your family a professor that teaches at S university, senior sister looks very awesome at first sight. By the way, what major does senior sister study, feel like you have a super disposition."

No woman doesn't want to be praised for being young and beautiful, Hai Ruo also cannot ignore etiquette, one hand not puncturing this "junior sister's" misunderstanding,  one hand scratching underneath DongDong's jaw.

DongDong comfortably released out purring noises, squinting his eyes, sizing up this girl who claimed to be Xu Jing. The statue is quite tall, being half a head taller then Hai Ruo who is 165cm tall, the skin white and tender, looks to have a little muscle, ah, didn't notice ha, when smiling there was even a little dimple. Even as a girl, being the type that could kill hearts around the campus.

DongDong (Chu Chengyu) instinctively felt a crisis.

So even though it felt a bit stupid, he still stretched out his two front paws, hugged onto Hai Ruo's neck, rubbing his jet black head on her cheek.

Such a good owner, will not let you snatch her away.

And on the side Xu Jing, from that moment on saw DongDong as unpleasant.

"What, you are a professor at school, already an associate professor!!!" Xu Jing couldn't hide her shock and admiration, "Holy, so awesome, indeed scholar lord species really do exist."

Yes, the end of the semester during the first half of this year, Hai Ruo was officially promoted to being an associate professor of ancient literature, a thirty-three years old associate professor, in the field of ancient literature where it requires accumulation and seniority it is indeed really rare to be young, a shining identification photo placed on the wall next to other old men and women, was simply extraordinary.

Not only is her research contribution outstanding, also writing several best selling ancient Chinese literature study books evoking an upsurge in the ancient community, considered as giving quite a lot of effort for traditional literacy, university being the icing on the cake.

Hai Ruo herself is naturally really happy, after hearing the news not showing many expressions, being extremely humble, afterwards being alone with DongDong becoming as happy as a kid that received a new toy, dancing with joy, hugging him rolling about on the wooden floor.

This is the Hai Ruo only he knows.

Usually in other's eyes Hai Ruo is refined, gentle, looking at her would make your heart calm, just like the girl right now, looking at Hai Ruo looking at her, her smiling eyes seem to remind her that, her words are too offensive to the ears.

"Sorry, the way I said it......was a bit rough." Xu Jin touched the tip of her nose, feeling embarrassed.

"No, I am just thinking I really am someone already in their thirties." Hai Ruo led her towards the downstairs of her house, "Can't keep up with young people's conversations." After saying so even pretending to let out a slight sigh.

The two looked at each other, then laughed out.

"If I guessed correctly, you should be looking for me, I am Hai Ruo, you are the tutor for next year, you should have just come back from an exchange in Japan, director Sun told me about you a few days ago, do you want to have a meal at my house, can be considered as professor welcoming you back."

Seeing that Xu Jing's chin was about to fall off, Hai Ruo laughed, and pulled her upstairs.

DongDong followed behind them, having the feeling of anxiety and discomfort rise as his cat territory was being invaded. 

The plot after was as he expected.

The girl called Xu Jing had not one bit of resistance against Hai Ruo, not only coming over often to eat and drink, but also wistfully thinking of entering the room.

Towards this type of shameless behavior, DongDong only had one action——resist.

"DongDong, why are you jealous." Hai Ruo looked at DongDong's awkward action, although feeling it was really cute, she still gently comforted him.

"Let's not talk about how she is a girl, DongDong, my most dear family member is you, what are you worried about."

Yes, what am I worried about.

Worried about how in the near future you will one day, open up your heart, accepting someone else's existence other than him.

Worried that one day he won't be the only one that she cares about, loves, even with a cat's identity, he doesn't want this to be snatched away by someone else.

Worried, that in the approaching days, you will slowly become conscious of the hot emotions behind that girl's eyes, that seems like it could burn through you.

Yes, don't know at what point but that Xu Jing's feelings towards Hai Ruo slowly deteriorated, first it was admiration, then it was worship, finally birthing something similar to an infatuated love.

In her eyes, there is something that will never be in Chu Chengyu, what he lacks, a youth's vitality and passion.

The same kind of heat as a sun, forever chasing after Hai Ruo's figure, this way of having her smile shine. This is something that neither Chu Chengyu nor DongDong can do.

He felt his heart being seized, it starting to hurt. Do you know the feeling of what it's like to be bitten by ants, the acute but tiny pain, accompanied by the injection of formic acid, the soreness spreading continuously, swelling so much that he wants to cry out.

Finally he knows, the thing he has always ignored, or the answer to the question of something that he didn't want to think about.

He has committed original human sin, being hopelessly jealous.

He once thought, being a cat, there would be no way to meet a better owner than Hai Ruo.

But he only understands now, his life, including the few years being a cat, Hai Ruo is the best woman he has ever met.

From his subconscious, he was yearning for a woman to save him from in his inner heart that is desolate and an alien-like place.

This wish was buried too deeply by him, even when Chu Chenyu was a boy, he buried it deeply, never having this type of physiological and psychological impulse.

Before, his impulse, did it not just expose the deeply buried part in his heart。。hope?

He finally met that right person.

Unfortunately, he met this a bit late, and it was beyond logic and above reason a bit. But now, he is thankful to learn this not too late.

His whole life, no matter the being he is, he was able to at least fall in love with a person, not having any regrets.

But at this moment, watching Hai Ruo tie up her black hair, rolling up the hair in the back and tying it into a loose bun, humming a tune while cutting up vegetables, her student sitting in the living room sofa browsing through her notes, and from time to time looking over towards the kitchen.

DongDong stood up, went back to the room, jumped on to the place yesterday night where, every night Hai Ruo fell asleep, the area where a little nest was pressed out, and closed his eyes.

For the first time, feeling disconsolate for himself as a cat.

Please, Hai Ruo, as a cat, how long can I be by your side. Being a cat owner, how much percentage of time in your life can you spend on me.

Just stay like this with me for a few more years, don't accept others, don't need others.

Just a few years, this request shouldn't be too excessive, right.

"Dinner time, DongDong." Pushing the door open, Hai Ruo saw DongDong curled up on the bed, going over and tapping him on the nose.

I love you, he was saying.

"Meow"

Really love you.

"Meow"

Don't accept others ok, just living like this for a few years is good.

"Okok, I know you are hungry, I am also hungry, let's eat, there's your favorite today." Hai Ruo smiled sweetly.

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