[ILivestreamDivination] Chapter 52.4 — My Cat Harmed Me

Zhao Ye was truly speechless. It took him a long time to find his voice again, “It hates me so much. It actually beat me for two hours.”

No wonder this cat, which was usually very active, was now fast asleep. It seemed that it was too tired from its ‘exercise’ last night.

“Have you bullied it recently?” An Rugu asked.

“It’s my master. If it doesn’t bully me, I’d light incense in gratitude. How dare I bully it? I’ve just been a little busy recently and don’t have much time to accompany it. Does it lack love?”

The more Zhao Ye thought about it, the more likely it seemed, but An Rugu shook her head slightly and pointed to her ear, “Listen carefully, isn’t there sound coming from the TV?”

Zhao Ye: “?”

Zhao Ye pricked up his ears and listened, but he couldn’t hear anything except the cat’s meowing and the sound of its paw hitting him.

He turned up the volume on his cell phone, and a sound could suddenly be heard from the speakers. In addition to the sounds of the cat meowing and slapping him, strange voices—male and female—reached his ears.

“Welcome everyone, to the ‘Moving Forward to Love’ show, which is currently the most popular love variety show. There are more than ten guests from all over the world…”

Zhao Ye: “???”

What the hell? Who turned on the TV at night?

Zhao Ye quickly turned his head and looked at the TV in his room, “Could it be that… my cat turned it on?”

After all, his cat could beat him for three hours straight. In comparison, it wasn’t difficult to press a button to turn on the TV.

As he thought about it some more, he realized that the pain on his body was caused by the cat. If the TV was also turned on by the cat, then it meant that his house was not haunted.

He patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief. As long as it wasn’t a ghost, everything would be fine.

However, An Rugu had a feeling that things were not that simple. Thinking of the strange ghostly energy she felt earlier, she already had a guess in her mind, “I’m afraid your cat didn’t turn on this TV. The ghost in your house did.”

Zhao Ye took a breath of cold air. “Host, is there really a ghost in my house?”

“Has there been anything strange happening in your house recently?” An Rugu asked.

Zhao Ye suppressed his fear and thought hard for a long time and said, “It does seem a little strange. It’s been quite a hot autumn these days, but I don’t need to turn on the air conditioner at home.”

“Yin qi makes the air colder.”

Zhao Ye suddenly felt chilly and rubbed the goosebumps on his arms, “Hey, stop talking, I’m scared. My cat beat me so much but I still didn’t wake up. Isn’t that weird?”

The thought of being in the same room with a ghost, who even turned on his own TV, made the burly man—who was over 1.8 meters tall—tremble in fear.

An Rugu hummed agreement, already having a guess in her mind, “That ghost probably came to your house to watch TV at night and had the volume turned down very low. Your cat may have sensed that the room was very dangerous, so he wanted to wake you up and get you out of the room.

“But the ghost may have used some small spell to make you sleep for a while, so you didn’t wake up despite the cat’s efforts. “

Zhao Ye had mixed feelings in his heart when he heard this, and his heart and eyes were filled with the words ‘f*ck’. For a moment, he didn’t know whether to complain about this ghost’s weirdness or feel moved by his cat.

There was a ghost in the bedroom, but the cat refused to abandon him, and even wanted to wake him up…

The resentment of being beaten disappeared instantly, leaving only deep emotion.

He no longer blamed his cat—his cat was actually too good to him!

He immediately turned around and ran into the guest room, picked up the sleeping cat, and put his face close to it, wanting to give the cat a loving kiss.

As a result, this good cat—that was fast asleep—was woken up and became very upset.

When the cat saw that it was Zhao Ye who woke him up, a hint of disgust flashed in its eyes, and it raised its paw and slapped Zhao Ye on the face, leaving a faint red mark.

“Meow!!”

Zhao Ye: “…”

… …

An Rugu opened her bag and took out the Inquiring Mind Sword. It’s made of peach wood and was one of the five great treasures of Cloud Rise Temple.

Peachwood was the essence of wood itself and was also called immortal wood. According to legend, when Kuafu chased after the sun, he eventually died of thirst and finally turned into a peach tree. In ancient times, during festivals, many people would hang peachwood on their doors to bring good luck to their homes.

The Inquiring Mind Peachwood Sword was large and made of high-quality peachwood. It has undergone eighteen processes including fireworks and steaming. It had a color like deep copper and exuded a pleasant fragrance.

After seeing the ghostly aura around Zhao Ye back at the temple, An Rugu decided to bring the peachwood sword.

That ghost has been coming to Zhao Ye every night recently, and the ghost would very likely come tonight too.

An Rugu sat on the sofa and wiped her peachwood sword. The fragrant scent of peach entered her nose, making her feel relaxed and happy. It was obviously a wooden sword, but when the sunlight hit it, it reflected a dazzling light like it was metal.

She had brought out the peachwood sword many times—but most of the beings she encountered were not evil ghosts and had to be dealt with through negotiation. As a result, she has never killed any ghosts with the peachwood sword.

After all, ghosts were also spirits of dead people. If they were not evil spirits with malicious intentions, it would be unethical to kill them at will.

Thus, this magic weapon had been of no use until now and could only collect dust, making her hands feel itchy.

—It would be a shame if no evil ghost came tonight.

I Livestream Divination to the World translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

T/N: Those who guessed that it wasn’t the cat’s fault won this round 😂

A peachwood sword is the traditional weapon of Daoists against demons/ghosts. It features in many, many stories where it is wielded to fend off evil. This is because the word for ‘peach’ (tao 桃) shares the same pronunciation as the word for ‘flee’ or ‘run away’ (tao 逃).

Peachwood is also carved as talismans to bring luck and ward off evil. Conversely, because of the auspiciousness of the peach tree, other materials are also made into peach-shaped charms.

Kuafu is a mythical and legendary character from ancient China. He has a huge body and controls snakes in his left and right hand. The story of him chasing the sun is one of the many adventures he featured in.