Little Kitty's Thoughts

It was still the same bed.

Chu Miaomiao suddenly opened her eyes.

It wasn't the look of someone just waking up. There was no daze, no sluggishness. Her eyes were excessively clear and unnervingly calm.

She was like a completely different person from the timid and introverted little girl she usually was.

Her expression was charming, but her eyes carried a trace of coldness.

With a flip of her left hand, the Divine Brush materialized out of thin air and fell into her palm.

She sat cross-legged, slowly absorbing the spiritual energy contained within the Divine Brush bit by bit.

For a whole hour.

Chu Miaomiao finally let out a long breath. Then, her entire body fell backward, her head smashing into the pillow, and she stopped moving completely.

She had fallen asleep again.

At this moment, a figure slowly appeared in the room, looking thoughtful.

Lin Mo saw it very clearly: Chu Miaomiao had awakened.

As everyone knew, the awakening of a Spirit Root came with special abilities or powers.

And Chu Miaomiao's Spirit Root was called the Heavenly Soul Root.

He was very familiar with this Spirit Root.

Its cultivation speed was relatively fast. The Nascent Soul stage, which was an unattainable threshold for others, was practically a built-in feature for the Heavenly Soul Root.

But everything has its pros and cons. Walking down this path, soul splitting was an unavoidable hurdle.

If split well, there would be a primary and a secondary, with a clear distinction between the two. The secondary personality would follow the primary personality's direction, just with a different behavioral style.

If split poorly, it would truly become an illness.

The essential difference between the two lay in who was at the helm.

The Chu Miaomiao from just now was obviously the secondary personality.

Lin Mo pinched his chin, finding it a bit tricky.

It wasn't that there was a problem with the secondary personality itself; the issue was that Chu Miaomiao herself didn't know about it yet.

Upon waking up, she would most likely think she just had a strange dream, or perhaps be completely unaware of what had happened over the past hour.

He had to explain this clearly to her and see what she wanted to choose.

Therefore, Lin Mo stood by the bed and reached out to shake Chu Miaomiao awake.

"Mmm~" Chu Miaomiao let out a confused and lazy sound.

Without opening her eyes, she only murmured a vague protest and burrowed her head deeper into the pillow, showing no intention of waking up.

Lin Mo shook her again, using a bit more force.

"Meowmeow."

After two seconds of silence, Chu Miaomiao finally opened her eyes. Her gaze met Lin Mo's, freezing in a groggy daze for a moment.

She rubbed her eyes and saw Lin Mo standing by the bed.

Then, she stretched out both hands and said directly, "Brother, hug."

Lin Mo looked down at her, leaned over, scooped her up, and pulled her into his arms.

"Sorry about that, I interrupted your sleep."

Chu Miaomiao pressed her face against his chest. Her consciousness hadn't fully returned, and she instinctively nuzzled deeper into him.

Smelling Lin Mo's scent, Chu Miaomiao's senses gradually returned.

Only then did she realize that she was actually hugging Lin Mo.

"It's okay. Being able to hug you makes me very happy." Her voice was still lazy and soft.

Lin Mo was speechless. He looked down at Chu Miaomiao, who was clinging to him, and thought back to the Chu Miaomiao who had been sitting upright on the bed just moments ago, unnervingly calm.

The contrast between the two was so stark that he didn't know where to begin.

"Miaomiao, while you were asleep just now, something happened."

Chu Miaomiao lifted her eyelids. "Hmm?"

"You just sat up and cultivated."

"..."

She was silent for three seconds, then looked up at him with a confused expression. "Cultivated? How did I cultivate? Why didn't I know?"

"That's why I'm here to tell you now."

"Oh..."

She rested her head back against him, her tone very calm. "Then tell me, Brother. I'm listening."

Lin Mo just stood there, holding a half-asleep person, and seriously explained the principles of the Heavenly Soul Root.

Chu Miaomiao listened very carefully and sobered up significantly.

When Lin Mo finished explaining the part about the secondary personality, she paused for a moment and gave a soft "Mm."

"So the one who was absorbing the Divine Brush's spiritual energy just now... was me, but not the current me?"

"Right. The primary personality is always you. She will follow your thoughts, but her way of doing things might not be the same."

Chu Miaomiao thought for a moment and asked, "Then does she like you, Brother?"

Lin Mo paused. "That's not the point."

"It is the point to me."

He couldn't refute that.

"If the secondary personality is left unchecked..."

"Brother."

Chu Miaomiao interrupted him, looking straight up. "What I want to ask is, if she also likes you, and both of us pester you together in the future, will you be able to handle it?"

Damn, how could anyone withstand that?!

Lin Mo fell silent.

This matter was far more complex than he had anticipated.

"She is cultivating. As her cultivation progresses, the time she stays awake will become longer and longer, while your waking time will become shorter and shorter."

"So the time I get to pester you will become shorter?!"

Chu Miaomiao suddenly realized the implication.

"Then what should I do?"

"You need to cultivate too."

Lin Mo raised his hand, and the Divine Brush appeared in his grasp.

"She can only appear for an hour. She wants to extend her existence through cultivation, but as long as you also cultivate, you can counterbalance her time, even shorten it, and control when she appears."

Chu Miaomiao's eyes lit up as she listened.

However, after a moment's thought, Lin Mo still told her the things Xie Yuling had shared with him.

"In other words, when something happens, I can let her protect me, right?"

Chu Miaomiao's eyes sparkled; she didn't seem to mind at all.

Deep down, she even harbored the thought of suppressing the other two and turning the tables to become the master.

Lin Mo saw through Little Meowmeow's thoughts, but he didn't stop her.

"If you don't want to possess the Heavenly Soul Root, I can help you extract it. That way, another you won't appear."

Chu Miaomiao immediately refused.

"No way. I want to cultivate too. If she cultivates for one hour, I'll cultivate for two."

Lin Mo nodded. "Then after you cultivate, you should gradually gain her perspective and memories. That way, even if the personality switches, you will still be you."

Lin Mo also began to teach Chu Miaomiao how to absorb the power of the Divine Brush.

As for the cultivation method, she could start by practicing the Yellow Court Spirit-Nourishing Scripture.

After all, she had already awakened.

Once Chu Miaomiao began her cultivation, Lin Mo slowly backed out of her room.

In the living room, the central air conditioning was blowing softly.

Chu Lintian was curled up on the sofa, covered with a blanket. A half-finished glass of red wine sat on the table.

A late-night program was playing on the TV.

Seeing Lin Mo come out of Chu Miaomiao's room, Chu Lintian wasn't particularly surprised.

Because just earlier, Lin Mo had already given Chu Lintian a heads-up.

He just didn't expect that Chu Lintian hadn't gone to sleep yet.

"Why didn't you go back to your room to sleep?"

Lin Mo casually sat down by Chu Lintian's feet.

Chu Lintian pulled her feet back slightly, then sighed. "I originally wanted to wait for you to come out so we could chat about what happened before, but I didn't expect you to stay in there for so long."

After saying this, Chu Lintian also froze for a moment. She felt like something was a bit off with herself, though she couldn't quite put her finger on what it was.

"Miaomiao had a little problem and needed some help adjusting. In common terms, it's a split personality."

I haven't been able to release extra chapters due to health reasons. I'll try my best to give you all extra chapters next month; I'm still feeling a bit weak this month.