Chapter 51: As for now… let’s eat first.

I was in utter despair, collapsing on the floor like a puddle of mud, my tail limply slapping against the bed surface.

It’s official! This crappy system is a total scam! It specifically targets weak, pitiful, and helpless catgirls like me! I can’t get rich, I can’t be healthy, and I can’t get lucky. It only finds new ways for me to be unlucky and suffer social death!

Wooo… I can already see that my future is a pitch-black darkness…

I was so insulted by this crappy system that I started questioning my life. I lay paralyzed on the ground, my tail like a dead snake, not wanting to move at all. But that absurd thought, carrying a hint of final resistance, sprouted tenaciously like the last straw for a drowning person.

“W-Wait!” I suddenly sat up, feeling my cheeks burning, but I still summoned the greatest courage of my life to cautiously propose a hypothesis in my mind with as “majestic” a tone as possible (though it probably still sounded thin and weak):

“Um… System… Since status and events can both be realized… then, what if I draw… draw me putting someone else… like, Ning Dongya or Sister Yue Ran… down… (voice getting smaller) and then… well… being the top once… this kind of status and event… there should at least be some possibility… right? This isn’t too outrageous, is it? This counts as a combination of status and event, doesn’t it?!”

After asking this, I felt my whole body emitting steam. My claws nervously scratched the tatami mat, and the tip of my tail trembled slightly due to shame and a faint, unrealistic expectation. What if? What if there’s a loophole in the rules of this crappy system? Just let me succeed once! Just once! Then I can prove I’m not the one who always gets bullied!

My mind fell into a dead silence.

Rarely, the system didn’t respond immediately.

Is there a chance?! Is it seriously evaluating?! My heart couldn’t help but speed up.

However, the next second—

【Pfft… Is the host serious?】

Then, there was a faint sound, which sounded like… a forcibly suppressed laugh?

“Of course, otherwise did you think I was joking with you!” My heart tightened, giving me an ominous premonition.

Immediately after…

【Pwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!】

Like a volcanic eruption, or a galaxy pouring down, a sudden burst of wild laughter exploded in my mind! That laughter was completely detached from any cold mechanical feeling and was full of relentless mockery!

【Oh my—Hahahaha! Host… you… you really are the most imaginative host this system has ever been bound to! Hahahaha!】 The system’s voice was distorted with laughter, coming out in fits and starts, 【Holding back laughter… this system is professional… I usually don’t laugh… Hahahaha… unless I really can’t help it! Hahahaha!!! How… how did you think of that?! Hahahaha!!!】

Meow-aaaaah! It—it, it, it actually laughed like this?!

Being mocked like this, my small face immediately turned red to the roots of my ears. I was so ashamed it felt like ten thousand ants were crawling on me! “W-What are you laughing at! What’s so funny! I-I’m serious!” I tried to argue back with a tough tone, but my voice was shaking uncontrollably.

【S-Serious?! Hahahaha!】 The system’s laughter became even more arrogant, 【Just based on you, whose whole body goes soft just from Ning Dongya pinching your ears, whose brain freezes up just from Yue Ran kissing you, and who can only frantically complain in your heart when being teased by Ling Xiaoxiao? Your weak bottom essence is engraved in your very soul! Who do you want to be the top for?! Hahahaha! Do you want to kill the other person with your cute cat ears, or die of shame with your tail?! That might actually succeed! But probably not in becoming the top, but in successfully making the other person excited. Hahahaha!】

“N-Nonsense! I just didn’t want to lower myself to their level! It was a tactical retreat!” I was so angry that my fur stood on end, and my claws thumped the ground (of course, I didn’t dare use too much force for fear of pain QAQ), “If… if I get serious, I’m also very, very amazing! Don’t you dare look down on me!”

【Oh? Really?】 The system’s laughter subsided just a little bit, but that malicious sense of fun almost became tangible, 【Then please explain, host, when you were kissed a bit forcefully by Miss Yue Ran last night, that state of passive endurance, blurred eyes, forgetting to breathe, and finally softening into a cat pancake—in your understanding, does that count as a preparatory posture for being a top? Does the system need to help you recall it properly? Tsk tsk, those curves…】

Waaah—! Shut up! Stop talking!

Its words were like a red-hot knife, not only tearing away my fig leaf but also stabbing my ashamed heart over and over again! I opened my mouth, but I didn’t know how to refute it. My entire face was so hot it felt like it was about to burn.

My tail tightly wrapped around my legs, wishing I could strangle myself, and my ears were pressed flat against my head, trying to block out this cruel reality.

“T-That was an accident! I was drunk! It doesn’t count!” I struggled desperately, a clear crying tone already in my voice, “And… and as long as I draw it! The Law of Causality will help me achieve it! Yes! As long as I draw it! I can…”

【Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!】

My pale argument was once again ruthlessly interrupted by the system’s louder, more sustained, and more joy-filled burst of wild laughter! It laughed as if it were holding a solo concert in my mind—a rock version at that!

【Draw? You’ll draw?!】 The system said while laughing, 【Hahahaha! Even if you draw a book called “The Bible of the Invincible Universal Top,” the Law of Causality can at most let you… achieve it in your dreams! Hahahaha! Essence! Host! Your essence determines the upper limit of cause and effect! Defying heaven to change your fate? Hahahaha! You’d better think about what to do next time you’re bullied so that you don’t make the other person even more excited! Hahahaha!】

It didn’t give me any more chances to argue. It just kept laughing wildly. That laughter was like a demonic sound piercing my ears, full of lethality, dealing blow after blow to my young soul.

“You… you bastard! Crappy system! Stinky system! I’ll fight you!” I let out a non-threatening scream in my heart, feeling my sanity being crushed bit by bit by this laughter.

【Hahahahahahahahahaha… A pitiful little fry who has to rely on making a wish to me to be a top can only get angry at me.】

In this deafening mockery, all my resistance and arguments seemed so pale and weak.

I had a total breakdown. Like a punctured balloon, I flopped down dejectedly, burying my burning cheeks in the cold bedding, my heart filled with endless shame and despair.

Wooo… Could it be… in this life… I really… don’t have even a little hope of being a top… QAQ

N-No, it must be this hateful system talking nonsense, trying to destroy my ideal of being a top!

The way Ning Dongya bullied me, and the advantage that bastard Yue Ran took of me—sooner or later, I’ll make them pay it all back!

As for now… I should probably eat first.

I haven’t even had breakfast yet, meow…