Wang Ke was in a daze when he left, even more upset than his parents who had just been frightened.

An Rugu was a little curious and looked back at Shang Yue, “What did you say  to him?”

Shang Yue was holding her phone and looking at the blogger’s ancient-style photo, blushing and covering her face. She said casually, “It’s nothing, he seemed to want to develop a human-ghost relationship with me, but I didn’t agree.”

An Rugu: “…”

Why were people today so courageous?

An Ru pinched her chin and closed her eyes; she recalled Wang Ke’s face and horoscope, and came to some understanding.

This Wang Ke has strong metal and water elements, and people with strong metal and water elements were like emotional poets. Others may think something is impossible, but there was no romantic thing that they couldn’t do. Such a person may indeed be willing to fall in love with a ghost.

Out of curiosity, she calculated this person’s marriage with her fingers. With a rather playful personality, his marriage to his current girlfriend would not last very long, and his subsequent marriage would also be quite bumpy.

Just as she was calculating, there were sudden footsteps outside the door, and two men walked in.

An Rugu saw the middle-aged man among the two and felt that he looked somewhat familiar. In the blink of an eye, she recalled his identity, “Dr. Sun.”

Dr. Sun was the doctor assigned to their village. She saw him once when she passed the health station.

Dr. Sun was in his forties. He wasn’t wearing a white coat but a simple T-shirt and trousers. The man next to him was younger, about thirty years old, and handsome. However, the circles under his eyes were very dark, and his hair was messy, as if he had not rested well.

When the two heard her call out his name, they both looked at An Rugu.

Fair face, clear eyes, bright red lips. She was extremely beautiful, but there was a distance and indifference between her eyebrows, which made people afraid to approach her.

Dr. Sun remembered what the villagers said and asked to confirm, “Are you An Rugu?”

“Yes, what do you want from me?”

Dr. Sun felt like he had been granted pardon and quickly grabbed the arm of the young man next to him, pulling him to stand in front of him. “My friend encountered something strange, and I don’t know who to see to solve it. I told the village chief about it today, and the village chief said to ask you for help, so I brought my friend here. Do you think his matter can be solved?”

Before this, Dr. Sun—who firmly believed in science—had never thought that one day he would pray to God and worship Buddha.

But what’s been happening to his friend recently was so strange that even he had to believe that there were mysterious things in the world.

In fact, Dr. Sun didn’t have high hopes. After all, he had the impression that An Rugu had always been a good student and had nothing to do with exorcism.

When the village chief told him to go to Cloud Rise Temple to find An Rugu, he was sincerely surprised.

But he really couldn’t think of any other way, so he went to see his friend in a hurry and brought him to Cloud Rise Temple.

An Rugu put down the book in her hand. “What’s going on?”

The young man scratched his messy hair and said in a very distressed voice, “I must have had an evil accident. In fact, I am a veterinarian and I have an animal clinic in the town. I am usually too busy at work, and I am too lazy to go home late only to come back again so early the next day, so I usually just sleep in the animal clinic.

“About a month ago, at midnight, I heard a shrill cat meowing very close to me, which woke me up.

“I thought it was just a passing cat meowing and didn’t take it seriously, so I tried to go back to sleep. However, the cat started meowing again and kept meowing for more than an hour. I couldn’t sleep at all.

“Cats make sounds like babies crying when they are in heat. I thought that there were probably some male and female cats around.

“Because the sound was too noisy, I couldn’t stand it, so I got up and tried to drive the cats away.

“But I looked around the clinic and there were no cats at all. “

An Rugu was thoughtful, “Is that so? Could it be that the cat ran away after it saw you coming out and was too fast?”

The young man said, “I thought so too! But at midnight the following night, a cat started meowing again like a baby crying. It didn’t seem to tire. I was really disturbed and couldn’t sleep, so I had to go out and try to catch it, but… I still couldn’t find even a hair or shadow of the cat.

“In this way, day after day, a month passed—and at midnight every night, the cat would meow right on time. “

An Rugu thought for a moment and asked, “Do the cat meows only happen in the clinic?”

“No, it was still there at my home. I was really exhausted by this incident, so I went home to sleep. The result was exactly the same as when I was at the clinic. At midnight, the cat would meow around my house.

“I feel like… this weird cat is haunting me.”

The young man crossed his arms around himself. He had goosebumps all over his body, feeling that things were more than a little scary. He was actually quite a courageous person, but this incident was so supernatural that he inevitably felt panicked.

An Rugu had a guess, “Could someone be playing tricks on you?”

The young man sighed, “I have also thought about this kind of thing. When I was in the clinic, I asked the people around me to help me see if there were any strange persons approaching my place, but they all said ‘no’.

“I also looked carefully to see if there was any equipment dedicated to playing recordings, but found nothing.”

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

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T/N: 貓 ‘mao’ means cat. The title of this chapter is 貓貓 or ‘maomao’. Which means I completely missed the chance to title this chapter ‘Kitty Cat’. Tsk, my past self.  🤭

It’s also probably a play on words because 貓 ‘mao’ also means ‘to hide oneself’.