The coconut milk had a new brand now. It was called coconut goat milk.

But Gu Chuan didn’t think it was a big deal.

Buying sanitary pads wasn’t embarrassing for him either.

Instead, when he checked out, the young cashier looked at him with surprise and envy.

Maybe, in a girl’s eyes, getting this kind of care from a handsome boyfriend during her period was pure happiness. Having him run out to buy pads was even more satisfying.

Before the class bell rang, he delivered the Little Cutie and the coconut goat milk to An Qianmeng’s desk.

They already broke up, and he’s still running errands for her? Is he trying to get back together...?

Quite a few people whispered their guesses.

Gu Chuan ignored them completely. He went straight back to his seat and continued researching the key points of raising a catgirl.

If he had something convenient like a system, he wouldn’t have to search for everything himself like this.

That said, while searching through courseware just now, he found a god-tier book.

Its title was The Postpartum Care Manual for Catgirls.

The name sounded ridiculous at first.

But after flipping through the few preview pages, Gu Chuan’s breathing stopped.

Then he bought the book without hesitation.

It was only available as an e-book. The seller was mysterious. She added Gu Chuan as a friend, and only after taking a full one hundred yuan from him—a price that even made him wince—did she send him the PDF of The Postpartum Care Manual for Catgirls.

Her name was Yan Ran. Her profile picture was a white ragdoll cat that looked proud and aloof.

Yan Ran: “You really are a hentai.”

Other than “selling book” and “send money,” that was the only thing she said to Gu Chuan.

Strangely enough, he was too embarrassed to argue back.

Maybe, in her eyes, he was just another old-school otaku dragging fantasy into reality.

A catgirl and all that... how could a creature like that possibly exist?

As for why she had such an even stranger book, who knew where she dug it up from.

Anyway, judging from the product list she sent him, she sold all kinds of bizarre stuff. Fox-fur dusters, beauty serpent sheds, young dragon claws.

No matter how you looked at it, that was weird...

But that had nothing to do with Gu Chuan. After buying The Postpartum Care Manual for Catgirls, he was ready to delete the seller.

Then he hesitated.

What if, by some absurd coincidence, she ended up selling something he needed again in the future...?

His hand paused. In the end, he didn’t press delete.

And in the future, Gu Chuan would be very glad he hadn’t pressed that red delete button.

So just like that, Yan Ran became one of the very few people on Gu Chuan’s QQ friends list.

This weird book used fairly rigorous language, with just enough scientific flavor to sound believable, to explain a whole series of things one had to pay attention to when raising a catgirl.

It started with the differences between a catgirl and her cat form, as well as the similarities she shared with humans. It covered everything from diet and sleep to teasing, play, and what to watch out for when going out.

It even defined the boundaries of intimate behavior—what was allowed in cat form, and what was allowed in catgirl form.

In short, some parts were recorded in such excessive detail that even Gu Chuan’s heart started racing.

He even learned the bizarre fact that “a catgirl’s menstrual period is also her heat cycle”!

But catgirls weren’t like human women, whose periods came so often, every month with those inevitable few days...

Their cycle was roughly once every six months. Two periods a year, which also meant two heat cycles.

A cat in heat would go from a little cutie to a noise machine, mewling pitifully day and night.

If cat language were translated into human speech, would that mean they were crying things like, “I want it so ba—mmph! (Kitties can’t say dirty words),” “Big brother, I’m okay with it!” or “Any tops here?”—that kind of vulgar nonsense?

Gu Chuan didn’t know. He only knew that a kitten in heat had an almost infinite chance of getting dragged off for spaying.

He just didn’t know what state a catgirl would be in when she entered “heat”...

Gu Chuan swallowed unconsciously. In his mind rose that fragrant, provocative scene he had seen in the kitchen that morning.

Petite and adorable Xuechun had stood on her bare, slightly reddened tiptoes, wearing an apron that did absolutely nothing to hide her lovely, youthful figure.

The ribbon-tied parts looked as if one light tug would rip that soft, useless piece of cloth right off her beautiful body. And the look in her eyes had been so pitiful, so tender, full of refusal and invitation all at once...

What bad intentions could a little catgirl possibly have?

Gu Chuan didn’t dare think any further. He quickly forced his attention back to the e-book on his phone, hidden beneath his textbook.

Using a textbook to hide a phone was practically a required skill for every student who brought one to school.

Gu Chuan, however, was even bolder than most. It just so happened that this last period was English, a subject he had never cared much about.

He had directly cut a neat rectangular space into his English textbook, just enough to fit a smartphone. Then, using the advantage of sitting by the wall, he stacked his books at the upper left corner of his desk, the side facing the teacher.

That created a perfect blind spot.

Outside that blocked area, the teacher would only see Gu Chuan reading his textbook with complete seriousness, so naturally she wouldn’t grow suspicious.

At the front, the English teacher was clearly explaining the text from the book. As usual, she was going through it in detail. At this stage, she paid less attention to the students, which made things very safe for Gu Chuan.

Meanwhile, below the podium, Gu Chuan sat alone at his empty desk. Looking at the last few lines at the bottom of the final page of the chapter titled “Catgirl Menstrual Period,” the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

Note 1: To avoid unnecessary trouble for the owner during a catgirl’s menstrual period, the author suggests giving your catgirl one gentle night. She’ll repay you with ten months of peace. Only then can this book achieve its greatest value.

Note 2: Catgirls inherit the trait of multiple births from their cat form. Even triplets or quadruplets are very common.

Note 3: After becoming pregnant, a catgirl will remain in catgirl form for a long period of time, until the birth is complete.

Closing his phone, Gu Chuan rubbed at his throbbing temple.

This book... was cursed in every possible sense.

Still, Gu Chuan really wanted to meet the author of this book. He had no idea whether she had actually come into contact with a mysterious creature like a “catgirl,” just like he had.

Or maybe this book was nothing more than the product of her delusions and fantasies.

And yet she wrote with such certainty, as if every word were true.

He could only wait until he had spent more time with Xuechun, then verify things one by one.

But one thing was certain.

This book had given Gu Chuan a lot more confidence that he could take good care of Xuechun.

He looked up at the wall clock hanging above the blackboard. There were less than five minutes left before class ended.

Gu Chuan had pretended not to notice for so long, but now he couldn’t help turning to look out the window.

There, in the bright sunlight, a girl looked at him with puppy-like eyes and gave him a radiant smile.

Qiu Muzhe.