“Is it really that comfortable?”

I was skeptical that my massage techniques were able to make Xiao QIn moan to this extent–I’ve at most only given my dad shoulder rubs before.

“Food job master…”

Xiao Qin, who had both her hands covering her mouth, gave a muffled reply while sprawled on top of the bed.

Stop covering your mouth! You can’t stop your moans even with your mouth covered, so what’s the point! Also, you misspoke and said food instead of good! Are you a pig who only thinks about food?

I momentarily stopped my massage, “Xiao Qin, move your hands away from your mouth and stop speaking in a muffled voice. You can chat about anything you want.”

Xiao Qin hesitantly shifted her hand away a bit, “But didn’t you say my moans are obscene…”

“So it’s not obscene if you cover your mouth? When you moan with your mouth covered, outsiders will think I blocked up your mouth!”

“If that’s what you want, it’s fine to block my mouth…”

“…..”

“I’m sorry! You’re mad, right? I also feel like I’m reverting to my old ways…”

Xiao Qin quickly apologized after I stayed silent for a few seconds and I waved my hand to say it was fine.

“You naturally like to make jokes, so you will get sick if I force you to act serious all the time. Didn’t you say before that your new trait was to be a manga cat-girl and that when you’re drawing manga, you’re the literary celery-sensei, but when you’re a cat, you would become cat Qin? As long as you don’t harm anyone else, it’s fine to joke around or make some harmless pranks.”

“Ah, so you actually still remember…” Xiao Qin rolled up her hand into a cat’s paw, then scratched her non-existent cat ears, “Actually, my current character is: childhood friend manga cat-girl–once I get my cooking skills near the class leader’s level, I can level up and become a childhood friend manga cook cat-girl…”

Are you trying to challenge Winnie’s long-winded title of “If I pay I would never lose, but if someone else pays then I may intentionally lose”?

“Oh right, have you ever raised a cat?”

“No.” I replied honestly, “But my grandmother had a lot of cats and I’ve taken care of them before.”

“Um… will you be troubled if you raise me as a pet cat in your house?”

“Of course it would trouble me! Who would raise their childhood friend as a pet?!”

“Hehe… I was only joking, don’t get mad!”

Along with Auntie Ren’s recovery and my increasingly gentle attitude towards her, Xiao Qin gradually returned to her usual energetic self. Although she was suffering from menstrual cramps, she still seemed to be free of any worries.

Currently, I was squatted over Xiao Qin with both my hands lightly pressed against her hips. I tried my best to not touch her with any other parts of my body, but it was a bit tiring to maintain the same posture. Xiao Qin, on the contrary, was very calm and even suggested for me to sit directly on her legs.

“It’s fine, you can sit on my thighs, otherwise it would be tiring and I would know since I’ve ridden Ye Lin classmate before…”

Are you referring to the time when we were kids where you rode on top of me and hit me? I’m sorry! I’m sorry I made the one hitting feel tired, it’s all because I wasn’t strong enough as the one who was getting hit!

Back then, I would have never expected I would be riding on top of the Little Tyrant, not to repeatedly hit the Little Tyrant with my fist, but to help her relieve her menstrual pain with a massage.

Now it no longer felt wrong to sit on Xiao Qin’s legs. Thus I lowered my butt and tried to make contact with Xiao Qin’s thigh.

Xiao Qin obediently let me sit on her as if she was a pony who had been waiting with a new saddle.

Since the mattress was very soft, my weight was distributed evenly across the mattress and Xiao Qin wouldn’t suffer from my weight. I was able to find a stable position where I could also continue the massage, so I relaxed and brazenly sat down on top of Xiao Qin.

“Tell me if I’m too heavy, okay?”

“It’s fine, if I can’t even handle your weight, then how could I hope to be your girlfriend again in the future…”

Hey, hey, in your eyes, do all girlfriends need to pass the test of being squashed by their boyfriends?! I think only blow up dolls need to pass that test! Blow up dolls that can’t pass the test can be recycled, but what about girlfriends who can’t pass the test, are they going to be cruelly abandoned?

Damn it! Even if your girlfriend can’t bear a lot of weight, you can’t heartlessly abandon her! Are you looking for a girlfriend or for a jack? If you have to do it, why not just let your girlfriend be on top?

I thought it was about time to continue the massage or I would simply be conducting a test on Xiao Qin to see how well she holds up weights.

But I only massaged Xiao Qin a few times before she began to moan again.

“Mhmm… Ahhhh… Oooh…”

I could only put down my hand and look at Xiao Qin with a frown.

“I, I’m sorry. It’s because it feels too good, so I can’t hold myself back…” Xiao Qin apologized, “Should I cover my mouth again?”

“No, covering your mouth up isn’t really effective. Why not talk to me about a random topic to shift your attention someplace else.”

I was thinking if Xiao Qin wasn’t only moaning, but had moans interspersed between her words, then it wouldn’t be as awkward?

“Okay, then I’ll have a chat… Mhmm…”

I tried to overlook the end of her sentence even though it was a sound very hard for men to overlook.

“Since I’m a childhood friend manga cat-girl, I can’t lose any of my characteristics… Oooh… In the past couple of days, I’ve completed a shoujo manga and sent it to the editor of u17’s original manga section…”

“Huh? Is it the one you talked about before where it’s a romance between cavemen? I thought you already submitted it on u17 once and you didn’t pass because the editor said they couldn’t tell what you drew?”

“That, that’s because that editor had poor tastes!” Xiao Qin puffed out her cheeks, “I sincerely redrew it and mailed it to the head editor… uwah…”

Hmph, you didn’t have another choice but to mail it. Last time, because your manga didn’t pass, you used your author account on u17 to leave negative comments on other manga which caused you to get banned.

“Did the head editor respond?”

“They responded… they are quite quick.” Xiao Qin replied in disappointment, “But they recommended me to switch genres and stop drawing shoujo manga…”

“Huh? They recommended you to switch genres but not switch careers? What exactly did they say?”

“Mm… Ah… the main editor’s exact words were: Celery-sensei, your art style is indescribable and your story exudes a sense of weirdness–for example the part where the cavemen propose with clubs–instead of drawing shoujo manga, you might as well draw horror manga. I think the Cthulhu series really suits you…”

That’s supposed to be an insult! It’s even harsher than what the last editor said! The Cthulhu series is a famous horror series that’s filled with octopus, leeches, and other indescribable and disgusting creatures. The head editor is insulting you and saying after you added eyes and mouths to your potatoes and eggplants, it’s almost catching up to those creatures from the Cthulhu Mythos!

“The head editor spotted my talent, so after he recommended me to switch genres…”

Who recognized your talent! It was supposed to be a shoujo romance manga, but they saw it as a horror manga… so how scary were the shoujo you drew!

“I thought it wouldn’t be an awful idea to first begin with the Cthulhu series… Ahhh…”

“So I looked online for information about the Cthulhu series. I planned to take Cthulhu along with Hydra and turn it into a romance manga…”

Why is it still a romance manga! Where is the horror manga! How weird do their tastes have to be in order to read that manga! You might as well draw a romance manga for the zombies from Resident Evil!

I read a Cthulhu story that talked about how the Hydra was Cthulhu’s subordinate and they were all incomparably hideous. But the main point was that Hydra has a husband, Dagon!

Hydra, does your husband Dagon know about your love affair with your boss?

I told Xiao Qin about it, but didn’t expect her to reply: “There’s tension in the story exactly because Hydra has a husband! It has a lot of selling points like office affair love triangle extramarital affairs…”

The three monsters who live on the bottom of the sea are all vomiting out blood in anger! If you keep damaging their reputation, then you better watch out when you’re asleep because they’re going to come on land to get revenge!

“Ah… yeterday I made a new account and uploaded a draft of ‘Cthulhu also wants love’ on u17…”

What a crappy name! Hurry up and apologize to Cthulhu! Also, apologize to Dagon and Hydra for breaking their relationship!

At this point Xiao Qin furrowed her brows, “Although I finally met an editor with good tastes and let me pass, but when I went to read the comments filled with hope before I slept last night, realized they weren’t reviewing the story from the perspective of a romance manga…”

“No **! If you’re using scary characters, then of course they would review the story from the perspective of a horror manga!”

“It’s also not from the perspective of a horror manga.” Xiao Qin also seemed like she didn’t understand, “I realized the editor changed the category without my approval and labeled ‘Cthulhu also wants love’ as a comedy…”