[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m":3,"chapter-simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-chapter-541":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Simultaneously Transmigrated: My Cheat Skill Is Myself",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2315796,4528,"Chapter 541: Automatic Household Troublemaker","simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-chapter-541",541,"\u003Cp>There was a time when rats plagued the neighborhood, so the property management hired several stray cats to serve as Black Cat Police Officers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This cat was one of those cats, and because of its gray-black fur,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it was naturally named Xiao Hui.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie occasionally tossed it some cat food or sausage,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and the little creature naturally regarded his residence as its territory, coming by almost every day to patrol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie didn’t blame the cat for interrupting his cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On one hand, his daily cultivation didn’t cause him to lose control or suffer major Qi damage from minor disturbances,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and he could resume sitting and refining Qi at any moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other hand, cats, by nature, are restless creatures,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>famed as “automatic household troublemakers”—so for it to do this was entirely within Zhang Jie’s expectations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cat: Alias: Automatic Household Troublemaker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>1. Six a.m. smart alarm (?);\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2. Voice-controlled? No;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3. Floor cleaner (?);\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>4. Sofa antiquer (?);\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cats were not only automatic household troublemakers in modern times; their antics in ancient times were no less notorious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As early as the Tang Dynasty, cats had become household pets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Zizhi Tongjian records that Wu Zetian kept a cat, which coexisted peacefully with her parrot,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>so she proudly showed off her pet to her ministers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before she could finish, the cat, perhaps feeling hungry,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>ate the parrot it had been displaying,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>leaving Wu Zetian deeply embarrassed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Nan Tang Shu records that Li Yu’s son, Li Zhongxuan, was playing in the Buddhist hall\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>when a large cat passed by, knocked over and shattered the glass lamp before the Buddha statue,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>scaring Li Zhongxuan into illness, and he died shortly after.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Wanli Ye Mao Bianzuan also records that during the Ming Dynasty, the imperial palace kept many cats, which ran, jumped,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and fought noisily, terrifying newborn princes and princesses into “convulsive illnesses.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Zhuozhongzhi even claims that many imperial infants died from fright caused by cat cries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides controlling the population of royal heirs,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>cats also interfered with cultivation and alchemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sun Sheng Tan Pu records that Su Zhe, on a whim, decided to pursue immortality and set up a large furnace to refine pills,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but his cat walked over, urinated on the furnace, and strolled away calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Zhe lost all motivation and abandoned cultivation forever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What ill intent could a little cat possibly have? It just wanted him to focus on advancing his official rank\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>so he could rescue his unlucky brother Su Shi—who kept getting exiled~~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ming official Hu Shi also kept a cat, but this little cat didn’t catch rats; instead, it ate his chickens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furious, Hu Shi summoned the cat before him and recited a “Cat-Scolding Essay” that survives to this day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cat-Scolding Essay”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have had a white rooster for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recently, it perched on a tree top and was devoured by a cat. I called the cat forward and scolded it:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hey! You cat! You have no other duty but to catch mice—that’s the ancient way,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet you neglect your duty to catch mice, and instead devour the bird that crows at dawn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Your crime is not merely negligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hey! You cat! Rats have their kind, and so do you—numerous. Some climb ceilings,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>some shake door hinges, some climb beds, some sip from cups, some overturn boxes, some tear paintings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At such times, if you merely waited a moment, you could have satisfied your hunger without leaving the room, and removed the threat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if not, you just lie on the ground howling—though you fail to exterminate rats, your cries still frighten them into hiding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet you pay no heed, vanishing without a trace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I never imagined you would sneak through high walls, leap over fences, climb through kitchens, scale branches, snap twigs,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and expend so much effort to kill one chicken. Rats harm people, yet you protect them;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the rooster possesses five virtues, yet you slaughter it. What fortune for the rat, what injustice for the chicken?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An old monk at Wanshou Temple in the Ming Dynasty also had insights on keeping cats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He told guests that his cat possessed five virtues:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not catching mice—that’s benevolence;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even when mice steal his food, he ignores it—that’s righteousness;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He won’t appear when guests arrive, only emerging when food is presented—that’s propriety;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how well-hidden the food, he always finds and eats it—that’s wisdom;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every winter, he curls up under the stove for warmth—that’s faithfulness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only a cat could earn such a weary yet affectionate evaluation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The famous poet Lu You wrote many mediocre poems complaining about cats, then wrote many excellent ones praising them,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>such as the famous line: “The fire is soft, the wool blanket warm—I won’t leave the house with my cat.” He felt guilty for not feeding his cat well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Late at night, lying awake, I hear wind and rain; iron horses and icy rivers enter my dreams.” Looking back now,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>did Lu You get stepped on by his cat running back and forth while he slept?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, from the consistent behavior of cats, their contribution to the low survival rate of ancient porcelain is undeniable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Daoist emperor Jiajing also loved cats. He kept a lion cat named Qing Mei, said to be exceptionally beautiful,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>adored it while alive, slept with it, let it lead him outside, ate with it—he was utterly devoted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When it died, he wailed and wept, buried it in a golden coffin, and ordered court ministers to compose memorial essays in Daoist verse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Wei’s line “transformed lion into dragon” rocketed him from Hanlin Academy straight to Grand Secretary of the Jianji Palace in seven years,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>making him the fastest-rising chancellor in Ming history—clearly, Jiajing’s love for cats ran deep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When an animal has many flaws yet endures, you know its strengths must be extraordinary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s just too cute—cats truly deserve to bow to their modelers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, ancient people kept and loved cats—first, because their models were perfect; second, because they were excellent rat-catchers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today’s house cats rarely catch rats, so their only remaining virtue is their model.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Zhang Jie himself felt the deaths of princes and princesses couldn’t be blamed entirely on Haki Mi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Haki Mi isn’t the kind of creature that easily dies from fright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, saying cats scare people to death is exaggerated—but their mating cries are genuinely terrifying,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and with ancient superstitions, those cries in the dead of night could truly unsettle the mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for why such records exist, it’s likely they were blaming Haki Mi to shift responsibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a palace full of people and gossip, blaming an animal for nonsense was perfectly normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a world without surveillance, after killing someone, you could claim they went mad and jumped into the water—you’d have the final word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, more scientific research showed that those infants\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>mostly died from their own illnesses or unsafe medicines (such as those containing lead or mercury).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you must blame the cat, it was only that its cries startled the child, accelerating death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, if cats could scare children to death daily, they’d have been exterminated long ago—how could they have multiplied?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, palace cats in the Forbidden City have lived well for centuries, and many descendants of Ming palace cats still exist today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But this constant interruption of my cultivation won’t do.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie stroked his chin, his gaze toward Xiao Hui growing dangerous:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Should I have him neutered?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d heard neutered cats become much calmer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie picked up his phone and searched online—and found exactly as he expected:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neutered female cats no longer howl cyclically, become agitated, or try to escape to find mates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Male cats’ territorial marking behaviors, like spraying urine everywhere,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and aggression or tendency to run away due to seeking mates, greatly decrease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced down and behind Xiao Hui, realizing it was a male kitten,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and removing those two little balls would turn it into a gentle little cat…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Meow!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Hui sensed the impending danger—his eyes sharpened, fur bristled, and he entered Spine-Drake Mode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, it was not the Elder Emperor, and could not escape Zhang Jie’s grasp, seized instantly by the nape of fate.\u003C\u002Fp>",1373,"2026-06-20T14:22:37.780Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","40c0132824be94002cb8e002897ec4300f276bfb00e26c597270b6ca4ae781ce","simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-chapter-542","simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-chapter-540",601,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsimultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-cover.jpg"]