AMTBYIGA Chapter 85

Chapter 85: Black Cat

Lin Sui felt like he was seen through, but the person who saw through him was gently comforting him instead, making him blush and lose the courage to retort. He pushed Gu Nian forward slowly through the rain.

However, after only a few steps, Lin Sui still took out a blanket from his backpack and wrapped Gu Nian into a furry ball before he felt at ease.

Gu Nian was a little helpless, and his heart ached as he squeezed Lin Sui’s somewhat cold hand. “If you’re cold, cover yourself first. I’m not cold.”

“It’s okay, I just feel cold to the touch.” Lin Sui didn’t care. He wasn’t lying either. He was naturally warm, and even in this kind of weather, he didn’t feel cold. At most, he would occasionally shiver from the cold wind mixed with raindrops.

Compared to Gu Nian’s weak body, this was nothing.

Gu Nian didn’t think so, forcefully pulling Lin Sui’s hand into his arms, caressing it as if it were a treasure. Lin Sui struggled unsuccessfully and let him be. He had no choice but to get closer. The large black umbrella enveloped the two of them, the noisy sound of rain outside the umbrella, but inside it was warm and quiet, as if isolating a small world.

Lin Sui stared at his toes for a long time, the tips of his ears under his black hair were flushed red. He belatedly realized that it wasn’t the umbrella that was hot, but he was burning up from embarrassment.

Fortunately, Gu Nian couldn’t see it from this angle, otherwise it would be too embarrassing.

Lin Sui secretly rejoiced in his heart, but he didn’t know that Gu Nian had taken it all in.

The man’s lips, which seemed a little unfeeling due to their pale color, curved almost imperceptibly, and a happy emotion spread in his eyes.

Gu Nian slowly and deliberately stroked Lin Sui’s slender and delicate fingers, his movements so gentle that it didn’t seem like he was just warming his hands. Lin Sui felt a little itchy, and his mind was in a mess. This kind of action was clearly more like…more like doing something that couldn’t be described in detail with words.

Lin Sui secretly glanced at Gu Nian. The man’s face was indifferent and showed no unusual emotions, as if he was really just warming his hands seriously.

His serious and focused appearance made him look like a social degenerate whose head was full of yellow thoughts.

Lin Sui cursed himself fiercely in his heart, warning the little deer that was always jumping around to be more well-behaved. He was a serious person.

He finally calmed down when he suddenly heard Gu Nian ask, “Why is your face so red? Do you have a cold?” His tone was full of concern, and the look in his eyes was pure and without any impurities.

Lin Sui’s face flushed instantly, even redder than before, especially when he met Gu Nian’s pure eyes, he felt even more like he wasn’t human.

“It’s nothing.” Lin Sui said in a very soft voice, “I’m just a little tired from walking too long.”

“Is that so?” Gu Nian narrowed his eyes meaningfully, but the look vanished the next second, turning back into that innocent boyfriend. “Then I’ll take your bag for you.”

“Oh.”

Lin Sui handed over the bag, worried about how he would explain it later if Gu Nian discovered that he was still blushing. Fortunately, they finally saw the subway station not long after.

Lin Sui breathed a sigh of relief, and his steps became visibly cheerful, pushing Gu Nian a few steps faster.

At this time, the rain had begun to lessen, and the deafening sound of rain had also weakened, gradually revealing the sounds hidden within. Lin Sui suddenly stopped at the subway station and turned his head around, as if searching for something.

“What’s wrong?”

“Did you hear a cat meowing?” Lin Sui perked up his ears and listened carefully for a while, becoming more certain. “It’s a cat meowing, and it sounds like a kitten.”

It was as thin as a silk thread, and it felt like it would merge into the boundless rain in the next second, turning into a pile of yellow earth.

Lin Sui couldn’t help but feel pity. Perhaps because he had personally experienced death, he always had more empathy for the passing of life. But he was a little hesitant. He wanted to find the cat, but the weather was really not suitable for finding things. He would understand if Gu Nian didn’t want to.

“Let’s go,” unexpectedly, before he could figure out how to ask, Gu Nian took the initiative to break the silence.

“What?”

“Find the cat.”

Gu Nian uttered two words succinctly and as a matter of course.

Lin Sui blinked, unable to resist showing a silly smile.

“Gu Nian, you’re so good.” Lin Sui rarely forgot to be shy, grabbing Gu Nian’s arm, his voice soft, like he was acting spoiled.

Gu Nian hummed pretentiously, but the corners of his mouth rose wildly, and he almost revealed a smile when he spoke. “Let’s go quickly, the sound seems to be getting weaker and weaker.”

“Okay!” Lin Sui nodded vigorously, pushing Gu Nian in the direction the sound was coming from.

Soon, he saw a dying kitten in a cardboard box next to the trash can. The pure black kitten was lying in the soaked cardboard box, skinny as a rail, covered in dirt and grass. Its black eyes were open turbidly, and only its mouth was still making gradually inaudible meows, using all its strength to struggle.

Lin Sui immediately picked up the cat, not caring about whether his clothes would get dirty, quickly wrapping it in his clothes to keep it warm, and checking its nasal cavity at the same time. He breathed a sigh of relief, thankfully it hadn’t choked on water.

But even so—

Lin Sui turned his head and said apologetically, “We might have to go to a pet hospital, or…”

He wanted to say that otherwise, he would send Gu Nian back first, but Gu Nian seemed to know what he was going to say, and without thinking, he decisively said, “I’ll go with you.”

Gu Nian looked at Lin Sui’s eyes, which were still shining brightly in the dim light, and said word by word, “Don’t even think about leaving me behind again.”

There was a faint hint of condemnation in his words. Lin Sui was stunned and didn’t have time to ask him when he had left Gu Nian behind, because the kitten in his arms looked like it was about to die.

“Okay.” Lin Sui put this matter aside for the time being, and he and Gu Nian took the subway to a nearby pet hospital as quickly as possible.

There were almost no people queuing up in the hospital in this kind of weather. Lin Sui quickly had the kitten do all the examinations. He only relaxed when the final results came out—it only had skin disease and malnutrition, and its vaccinations weren’t complete. None of them were major problems.

While waiting for the hospital to deworm, bathe, and feed the kitten, Lin Sui and Gu Nian sat on chairs in the corridor, and Lin Sui thankfully said, “Luckily we found it. The doctor said it definitely wouldn’t have survived these few days otherwise.”

Gu Nian nodded in agreement seriously. Lin Sui propped his chin on his hand and looked at the kitten gorging itself in the glass, unconsciously revealing a smile. “I’ve only just realized that I actually have a cat. And it’s such a—cute cat.” As he said this, he couldn’t help but grin, revealing his neat white teeth.

Gu Nian also took a few glances, but he couldn’t really see where this skinny cat was cute. But since Lin Sui said so, he must really like it. “Yes, very cute.”

After thinking about it, he added, “It will be even cuter when it gets fat.”

Lin Sui’s brain automatically translated this sentence into—”You like it very much, right?”

“…” Gu Nian: “Yes, I like it too.”

Gu Nian thought that at worst he would hire a nanny who specialized in taking care of cats, and pamper it with money every day. He didn’t believe that any cat could be ugly.

Lin Sui didn’t know that Gu Nian was launching a looks anxiety attack on his cat son, and he gleamed as he happily imagined, “Then we need to give it a name. What do you think?” Lin Sui paused, glancing sideways at Gu Nian’s expression. “How about the name Niannian?”

After he finished speaking, he felt a little nervous in his heart. Gu Nian, Niannian, cough, this was definitely not because he wanted to use the cute kitten as a shield to call him the nickname he wanted to call him.

Gu Nian didn’t react at first, but then he frowned. “No.”

Lin Sui said “Ah” in disappointment, and continued to try and recommend it. “But Niannian sounds very nice, and Niannian has fish (There are fish every year, a homophone for “abundance every year”), that’s a good omen.”

Gu Nian shook his head with determination.

But not because he had discovered Lin Sui’s little scheme, but because his online nickname was Suisui Niannian (Year by year, meaning “Year after Year”). This was his carefully thought-out couple ID with Lin Sui. Why should it be taken away by a cat for no reason?

No way.

Gu Nian made up his mind, but he overestimated how hard he could be in front of Lin Sui. Lin Sui only said a few kind words to him in a soft voice, and his original firm thoughts wavered.

Anyway, he and Lin Sui were closer than gold and stone, and there was no need to be attached to a name, it would make him seem petty.

Moreover, Lin Sui had begged him so much, it wouldn’t hurt to be generous once in a while.

A series of self-persuading processes flashed through his mind, Gu Nian’s face remained motionless, looking like he was iron-hearted and would never agree. But Lin Sui knew him too well, and immediately noticed the room for maneuver, immediately stepping up his efforts to crazily flatter him, even saying the flirty words he had learned from the Internet, until his mouth was dry.

In the end, the effect was very significant. Gu Nian was praised until he felt lightheaded, and he agreed without really knowing what was happening.

Just at this time, the kitten was washed clean and brought out. Lin Sui learned the movements from the doctor and held it carefully, and carefully wrote down all the precautions, and bought a bunch of cat supplies along the way.

While waiting to leave, Gu Nian looked at the cat litter and cat food on his legs, and then looked at Lin Sui, who was busy holding the cat and had no time to hold his hand, and suddenly realized that things were not quite the same as he thought.

Why did he feel like Lin Sui liked the cat more than he liked him?

Gu Nian doubted his life all the way. This doubt reached its peak when Lin Sui’s first thing upon returning home was not to accompany him to change clothes, but to set up a cat nest and put out cat food for the cat.

He hinted overtly and covertly, but the other party told him to go upstairs and change on his own first.

In the past, he would have worriedly helped him find clothes, and then handed him a cup of hot ginger water to ward off the cold!

Gu Nian looked at the empty bedroom and gritted his teeth, picked a piece of clothing at random and put it on, and returned downstairs in a fit of anger.

As soon as the elevator door opened, the first thing he saw was the black cat that didn’t sleep in the cat nest and had to openly lie on his sofa. Hearing the sound of the elevator, the black cat lazily flicked its tail, not even bothering to lift its head.

Gu Nian didn’t want to admit that he was angered by a cat. He told himself that as a higher being with an independent personality, he must not argue with this little animal that was useless except for being cute.

That would make him seem very childish. Who would compete with a cat?

Gu Nian snorted disdainfully in his heart, while quickly turning the wheelchair and charging to the side of the sofa, rolling up the cat and throwing it off. In the blink of an eye, the black cat, which had been leisurely lying on the sofa just a second ago, was lying on the carpet with a confused expression, arching its body and meowing angrily at Gu Nian.

This human is too stingy!