Strange Life of a Cat

Chapter 315: Chapter 308: Coming to See the Arctic Cat Chapter 315: Chapter 308: Coming to See the Arctic Cat Isn’t that Zhong Yan, who used to always zone out in the corner, carried bricks on construction sites behind his family’s back even in his senior year, and then like a dark horse upset the whole school in the college entrance exam? Thinking back, this guy should be a junior in college now.

Zheng Tan really hadn’t expected to bump into this kid here.

In Zhong Yan’s eyes, however, confusion prevailed. Even if he thought the person seemed familiar, given the distance between Chuhua City and Beijing, he didn’t recognize the person with the backpack and the bad attitude. Besides, Zheng Tan was dressed like a white cue ball, which didn’t make recognition any easier. Now it was even harder to be sure.

Actually, Zhong Yan didn’t really think that this was the cat he knew, but the cat’s expression was too familiar. Even though he hadn’t seen it for more than two years, out of all the cats Zhong Yan had seen, that one was the most special. Look, it was even waving its paw at him, wasn’t it?

Could it really be that cat?

Should he ask this person?

While Zhong Yan was hesitating, Fang Wenjie, who had just gotten his reference book, turned around and saw someone standing behind him staring at the backpack. He glared and said, “What are you looking at! Haven’t you ever seen a cat before?”

Fang Wenjie turned to leave, but after just a couple of steps, he heard a voice from behind him say, “Black Cat?”

Hearing this, Fang Wenjie paused in his tracks and turned back to look at the person he had just seen.

“Is it really Black Cat?” Zhong Yan’s eyes lit up, and the irritation from the books getting squeezed out of his hand dissipated.

“You know it?” Fang Wenjie asked in bewilderment, pointing to the backpack behind him.

“Yeah, but, isn’t it supposed to be in Chuhua City?” Zhong Yan wondered if the cat could have been sold to Beijing. But didn’t they say back at the construction site that the cat had someone powerful looking out for it?

Hearing “Chuhua City” from Zhong Yan, Fang Wenjie’s guard went down a notch, but he still wasn’t sure. He pulled out his phone to call Fang Mengmeng, asking her to come over. The bookstore was too big and there were too many people; he couldn’t find her immediately, so calling was more convenient.

But even the Jiao Family wouldn’t necessarily recognize everyone Zheng Tan knew. There were many people he knew from his walks that the Jiao Family was unaware of, let alone Fang Mengmeng. These two, surnamed Fang, could only judge whether the person was an acquaintance based on Zheng Tan’s behavior.

Fang Wenjie’s plan for the afternoon was to buy books and then take a nap at the bookstore because it was too cold outside and he didn’t want to move. When it was time, he would head straight to the restaurant for a meal. Now that he had run into Zhong Yan, he dragged him into a conversation out of boredom, curious about how Zhong Yan knew the Black Cat. As for Fang Mengmeng, she came and then left again; she had found a few books that interested her and wanted to read them longer. When a seat in the corner’s rest area became available, Fang Wenjie quickly claimed it before someone else could sit down, marking the four seats with his bags and books.

Zhong Yan had come with a friend today. He met two friends while working part-time at a fast-food restaurant during his freshman year—they were from different schools. One of them was the friend he was with today, and the other had graduated this year. Zhong Yan’s tutoring job was introduced by this friend. He went to tutor a high school senior in the morning, and since there was nothing to do in the afternoon, he came here with his friend, who also tutored, to look for reference books for high school seniors.