Chapter 4: Gifted

Li Xuan stared with a pair of big eyes, full of shock, but he soon understood what was going on.

"This is my..."

As soon as the thought came to his mind, he shook his cat head violently and denied it categorically: "No! This must be my extraordinary talent."

In the two and a half years of unemployment in his previous life, Li Xuan was not idle at all. He read countless online articles and naturally understood one truth.

"If I, Li Xuan, achieve something in the future, it must be because of my extraordinary talent!"

He thought so, but he couldn't suppress the corners of his mouth.

"Eh ha ha ha..."

In the middle of the night, a strange laugh sounded in the Daxing Palace, waking up many people's dreams.

From that day on, rumors of evil spirits in the palace spread like wildfire.

...

After returning to Jingyang Palace, Li Xuan couldn't wait to find a corner in the yard and practice the ten tiger forms he had just learned in the moonlight.

The long shadow was reflected on the courtyard wall. As the moves were practiced, the outline of the shadow gradually blurred, making it difficult to tell whether the owner of the shadow was a diligent warrior or a tiger roaring in the mountains.

A quarter of an hour later, Li Xuan sat on the ground, panting with his tongue sticking out.

He finally finished the Tiger Form Ten Styles, but found that he was getting more and more tired this time, and he didn't feel as relaxed as the first time.

And the progress in his mind was also a bit disappointing.

[Tiger Form Ten Styles: 4%]

He tried hard to practice it once, but only increased by 3%.

"This is too slow!"

"And it seems a little wrong..."

Li Xuan was panting, feeling that his whole body was hollowed out, and his stomach was rumbling.

"Is it too tired?"

Tonight, he was inspecting the imperial kitchen and practicing martial arts by chance. He was really busy.

Li Xuan gathered the last bit of strength and dragged himself into the house.

A bamboo cage covered the plate of food on the table.

Ankang, who had eaten her fill, had already fallen asleep. Looking at the bed, she was curled up in the quilt with a satisfied smile on her face. The corners of her mouth were still a little shiny, and she smacked her lips from time to time to savor the taste.

"It seems that this girl can have a full meal in her dreams."

Li Xuan looked at this scene and felt relieved when he heard Ankang's steady breathing at this time.

It was worth it to be busy all night!

"Gurgle..."

His stomach growled louder and louder. Li Xuan didn't care about anything else and jumped onto the table, pushed open the bamboo cage, and wolfed down the remaining food on the plate.

In a short while, Li Xuan had already started licking the plate.

When he came to his senses, he couldn't help but be shocked by his appetite tonight.

He is now a kitten less than one year old. His appetite is much smaller than that of ordinary people. Even the frail Ankang can eat more than him.

Li Xuan's usual meal size is only about a quarter of Ankang's.

But the food he just ate was not only large in quantity, but also contained a lot of meat.

Li Xuan, who was licking the plate now, only felt full.

As for the reason for this abnormality, Li Xuan could not think of any other reason except that he had practiced the Ten Forms of Tiger twice tonight.

"Do martial artists eat so much? Then I will be a glutton in the future..."

The amount of food tonight made Li Xuan a little worried.

There was already a lack of food and clothing in Jingyang Palace, and they had to eat porridge every day.

If he wanted to continue practicing martial arts, Jingyang Palace would definitely not be able to support him.

"It seems that I can only eat outside before going home in the future."

Li Xuan licked the plate and thought about this, his eyelids became heavy and drowsy.

His head was even more out of control, and it slammed on the plate with a bang, almost making him fall asleep.

But Li Xuan forced himself to sleep and staggered to raise his head.

"No, I can't just sleep like this..."

Li Xuan, who was feeling sleepy, put the cleaned plate and bamboo cage back to their original positions, then picked up the remaining bones and hid them under the bed.

After crawling out from under the bed, he no longer had the strength to climb back on the bed, and fell to the ground and fell asleep.

...

Early the next morning.

"Meow!!!"

A shrill cat cry opened the curtain of a new day.

"Ah, Xuan, why are you sleeping on the ground?"

Princess Ankang asked innocently, silently retracting her feet.

Li Xuan was so painful that his hair stood on end, and he hid aside, covering his tail.

"This damn girl! I worked so hard to find food for her last night, but I didn't expect her to repay me with evil as soon as I got home."

Being stared at by Li Xuan, Princess Ankang smiled embarrassedly.

"I didn't mean it."

"Come, Xuan, I'll blow on you, and it won't hurt anymore."

Princess Ankang reached out to pick up Li Xuan, but was hit by two meow punches instead.

She knew she was in the wrong, but she just smiled and took the two punches and begged for mercy.

"I was wrong, I was wrong, Ah Xuan, please forgive me."

While the man and the cat were playing, the door opened and Yu'er came in with a copper basin filled with warm water.

"Your Highness, it's time to wash up."

Yu'er knew that Princess Ankang had woken up when she heard the noise outside.

Looking at Princess Ankang who had been playing with Ah Xuan, Yu'er couldn't help but show tenderness in her eyes.

"Sister Yu'er, good morning." Princess Ankang greeted first, and then said to Li Xuan in her arms: "Ah Xuan, as an apology, I will help you wash your face."

After saying that, she rubbed Li Xuan with her cheek, looking expectant.

But these words immediately scared Li Xuan to break free from her arms, jumped onto the table and looked at Princess Ankang with an extremely distrustful expression.

The last time this girl washed his face, because she was weak, she didn't hold him, and let Li Xuan fall directly into the basin, almost drowning him.

After this loss, how could Li Xuan dare to let Ankang wash his face again?

Princess Ankang looked at the expression of her cat and couldn't help feeling guilty.

"Don't worry, I won't give you a bath this time."

Even though Princess Ankang patted her chest to promise, Li Xuan still had an expression of "I don't believe you".

"Sooner or later, I will be killed by this girl."

Li Xuan thought to himself, turned his butt, stretched out his cat's paw to scoop into the copper basin, dipped some water, and then wiped his face randomly.

Cats wash their faces in such a simple way.

"Ah Xuan, use your own basin, not the princess's!"

Yu'er saw that Li Xuan used the clean water in the copper basin first, and immediately pointed at a shabby wooden basin on the ground with dissatisfaction, wanting to lift him off the table.

Although the cat in this family is well-behaved, cute and human, it is a little weird.

Other cats lick their paws with their tongues and then wipe their faces.

But Ah Xuan had to get wet with clean water like a human.

He was also unusual when bathing. He never licked himself. Instead, he rubbed his paws with clean water like an old man from the north.

He even asked the princess to help him rub his back and head that he couldn't reach.

Although Yu'er was used to this strange cat, she couldn't help but give Ah Xuan a lesson every time she found out that Ah Xuan secretly used the princess' washbasin.

After all, it was too unruly for a kitten and the princess to share a washbasin.

Li Xuan nimbly avoided Yu'er's magic hand, ran to the side, and gave Yu'er a look of contempt.

"What do you mean my basin? It's obviously a basin for washing rags." Li Xuan despised in his heart.

Sometimes, eyes and expressions alone are enough to convey a lot of information.

Yu'er, who was despised by a cat, was so angry that her chest was heaving.

Sometimes she thought that it was not a good thing for the cat at home to be too human.