LOGINMy husband, worried I might be lonely, gifted me a little female cat. I turned around and found 50 feral toms to breed her with, making her birth litter after litter until she was utterly spent. It was all because I had been reborn. In my past life, I adored this little cat so much I could hardly put her down. I wanted to eat and sleep right beside her. In just one short month, I aged rapidly into an 80-year-old woman, and the child in my womb withered and died along with me. No medicine could save me, and I simply died of old age. After death, my soul lingered. I saw that the sickly, frail mistress in our household had somehow become radiant and glowing, and pregnant on top of it all. I overheard her chatting in bed with my husband. "Thank goodness I bound myself to the Life-Drain System. I separated my soul, possessed the little cat, and sucked away Leah's life force. That's the only reason I survived." "She should count it as a blessing that you could drain her at all. It's better that she's dead. This way, the position of first wife is yours." I was reborn into a new life, and I smiled. Selling off a mistress would get me accused of treating human life carelessly. But she was merely a cat now, and surely it was perfectly reasonable to breed her for eight or ten litters and produce a hundred-some kittens.
View More"I'm what?" I looked down at Edmund from above."My father is one of the highest-ranking officials in this country, and my mother is the daughter of the wealthiest family in the southern area. Did you really think a minor official like you could touch me?"Edmund was trembling from head to toe, his lips quivering, but he could not manage a single word.From inside the cage, Josy shrieked like a thing possessed. "Edmund! Kill her! Kill her!"I ignored her and turned to leave. At the doorway, I paused and glanced back at him."Oh, and one more thing. I have already asked my father to file a formal petition against you. Embezzling your wife's dowry, conspiring with a mistress to murder the lady of the house, plotting to kill your wife and seize her assets. Those charges alone should be more than enough to bury you."Edmund crumpled to the floor as though every bone in his body had given out.I walked back to the main hall and Ember came to meet me. "My lady, the letter has been del
Josy had seven kittens, every single one a stillborn. I pulled on my outer robe and went to the shed.Josy lay in the cage, drenched in blood, her belly deflated. Beside her were seven tiny, purplish-black kittens, completely motionless.When she saw me come in, she strained to lift her eyelids. Her mouth opened and closed weakly."Leah... You... You're heartless..."I crouched down and looked at her calmly. "Heartless? All I did was find you 50 toms. And that makes me heartless?"What about you, in my last life? You latched onto me day and night, draining my life away. You made me watch myself age a little more with every passing day, and watch my own child die inside me. What would you call that?"Tears spilled from Josy's cat eyes. "I... I didn't have a choice... I was dying... I...""You were dying, so I had to die instead?" I cut her off. "Your life matters, but mine doesn't?"Josy's mouth moved, but nothing came out. I stood up and looked down at her."Don't worry. I won
I turned and walked toward the door but stopped just before stepping out. I glanced back at him. "Oh, one more thing. I've already had the cat sent back to the shed. She's still carrying kittens, so she needs to be looked after properly."Edmund opened his mouth as if to speak, but not a single word came out. I stepped out of the bedroom and Ember hurried over, lowering her voice. "My lady, something seems off with the cat. She's been crying since last night, and the sound is absolutely chilling.""Let's go have a look."In the shed, Josy was curled up in the corner of her cage. Her belly was even bigger than the day before, swollen so tight it looked ready to burst. The moment she saw me walk in, she let out a shrill hiss and scrambled as far back as she could."What are you so afraid of?" I crouched down and peered at her through the bars. "I'm here to check on you today, not to find you more husbands."Josy was shaking from head to tail, her cat eyes filled with nothing but fea
"My lady, Mr. Hughes has taken a lantern and headed for the backyard. He's carrying a shovel."I set down my comb, put the false skin mask back on, draped my outer robe over my shoulders, and made my way slowly to the backyard.The night wind was bitterly cold.I stood in the shadows of the covered walkway and watched from a distance as Edmund knelt before Jocelyn's grave. He stuck the lantern into the ground and drove the shovel into the earth, one stroke at a time.Moonlight fell across his face. His expression was a tangled mess of shock, fear, and guilt.The soil came up layer by layer. He dug for a long time.Finally, the shovel struck something solid. Edmund tossed it aside, dropped to his knees, and clawed the loose dirt away with his bare hands. The coffin came into view. He took a deep breath and shoved the lid open. Inside was nothing but a single white porcelain urn.Edmund lifted the urn out and removed the lid. Inside were pale gray ashes, still faintly warm from th


















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