Quick Transmigration: The Sweetheart Everyone Loves Is Stuck in Romantic Chaos Every Day - Chapter 137

Lang Jin turned back and saw Ruan Tang’s eyes squeezed shut, her tiny fists clenched as she tried hard at something.

“Miss?”

Ruan Tang opened her peach-blossom eyes and first reached to touch the top of her head. The instant she felt her cat ears, she drooped sorrowfully and let her tail sag behind her.

“Wah… I failed again…”

So she’d been trying to push her ears back in. Lang Jin’s heart softened so much he wanted to scoop the little kitten into his arms and both pamper and torment her.

“It’s okay. Don’t worry too much—maybe they’ll tuck back in by themselves soon.”

Lang Jin lifted a hand and stroked Ruan Tang’s soft hair. With the callused fingertips of a man accustomed to hard work, he idly brushed the sensitive tips of her ears.

Ruan Tang gave a small, helpless sound, flushed, and burrowed into the sofa. For some reason, this half-beast form made her far more sensitive than usual—especially her ears and tail, which were exquisitely responsive to touch.

Seeing the shy red at the corner of her eye, Lang Jin’s breathing tightened. He hurriedly turned aside, pinched his own thigh to steady himself, and forced his breath to slow.

“Miss, you should put on a hat to hide them.”

Her catform was dangerously alluring. If she went out like that, trouble would follow.

“Okay…”

Ruan Tang hung her head and went to change.

She came out in a sleeveless white dress that fell below the knee, exposing a delicate collarbone and rounded little shoulders. The fitted waist made her silhouette even more svelte and charming. She wore a fluffy white beret slanted on her head, tucking her ears neatly beneath it.

Even with ears and tail hidden, she looked both pure and enticing. Her peach-blossom eyes were innocent and simple, but the little reddish beauty mark at the outer corner of one eye lent a hint of allure.

On the way to class, she turned more than a few heads.

If Lang Jin hadn’t been keeping a feral, killing-intent glare sweeping the surroundings, someone would have dared to approach her.

In the classroom she noticed a familiar figure. Ao Yue—heterochromatic eyes, roguish handsome, hair tips dyed white—was staring out the window, frowning and deep in thought.

“Huh, weren’t you—”

Ao Yue looked over and blushed awkwardly, suddenly turning red in the face. He rushed forward, clapped a hand over Ruan Tang’s small mouth.

“You’ve got the wrong person!” he whispered urgently into her ear.
“Don’t tell anyone or I’ll get punished!”

After all, he’d trespassed into the girls’ dorm; if the strict Professor Baihe found out, Ao Yue would certainly be punished.

Ruan Tang, seeing Ao Yue’s striking heterochromatic eyes up close, felt inexplicably afraid—like seeing a natural enemy—her fur prickling. A flush rose around her eyes; she looked almost ready to cry, aggrieved and small.

Ao Yue smelled the sweet scent on her and felt his heart pounding. He’d barely suppressed his dog-tail impulse and almost let it out again. He swallowed hard—then got kicked and rolled three desks before stopping. Dogs have tough bones: he got up and glared furiously.

“Which clueless bastard kicked me—”

He looked up and met Lang Jin’s cold, murderous gaze and swallowed the rest.

Almost had me again! Too dangerous—Ruan Tang really lives up to the rumors! He blushed, then forced himself to sit and, sheepishly, called:

“Cousin.”

Lang Jin had come late because he’d fetched a book for Ruan Tang from her dorm. Seeing that foolish dog provoking the young miss again, he’d been about to act—but remembered their shared past and restrained himself.

Lang Jin looked at Ao Yue flatly.

“If I see you within a meter of my Miss again, I’ll break your dog leg.”

Ao Yue blinked, a bit stunned—didn’t Cousin get forced into the Ruan family? A wolf king bought by the cat tribe and turned into a guard dog… such humiliation had to be part of some plan of revenge, right? So the threat must be a deliberate distancing to avoid implicating him—clever, right? He misread the scene through rose-colored logic and howled internally with loyalty.

Ruan Tang flinched at the sudden “wolf howl,” stepping back. She looked at Ao Yue, timid.

“What… is wrong with him?”

Lang Jin shot a disdainful look at Ao Yue, pretending not to acknowledge knowing him.

“Nothing. I’ll get him neutered another day; that should fix him.”

Ruan Tang tilted her head. “Oh…”

Because Ruan Tang transferred mid-semester, she had no assigned seat and ended up in the very back corner. Lang Jin wasn’t technically a student; he stood behind her out of habit and duty.

Ao Yue sat diagonally in front of her; with one glance he could see his cousin silently guarding Ruan Tang. The sight made his chest twitch with unease.

Other students stared at the timid girl in the corner with curiosity and admiration.

“She’s the transfer student? I heard she’s from the Ruan family…”
“So different from rumors—she’s so docile and pretty!”
“She even has a bodyguard—so cool!”
“How can you tell? That man looks like more than a bodyguard—look how tenderly he looks at her!”
“Soft heiress x muscular hot bodyguard—this ship has sailed straight into my heart!”

A ripple of displeased snarling came from nearby. The gossiping students glanced up to see the classroom’s notorious delinquent Ao Yue bare his teeth and glare at them until they fell silent.

Ao Yue scratched the desk with his claws and muttered angrily.

“Hmph.”

He was annoyed—ships (pairings) were dangerous. Cats and wolves don’t match—dogs and cats do! Wait, why did he just think of pairing with that girl?!

He panicked at the thought and began clawing the tabletop, furrowing deep grooves into it.

(t/n: “Miss” is used throughout as a natural English equivalent for 小姐; terms like “Cousin” and playful animal nicknames are translated into familiar English expressions to preserve tone and relationships.)