?Announcement: h.e.l.lo, I'm @angelyay29, someone who has started to help Miraisaesang translate a few occasional chapters for MMM, I've been reading @MiraiSaesang translations for a while since I first picked up novel reading in English so I prefer to read in English rather than Chinese, but I wanted to pick up translating so MiraiSaesang has kindly let me join her in translating MMM (≧∀≦)

Everyone looked at us with astonished eyes as we were the center of attention, I couldn't return to reality for a long time.

"I saw that you were cute, hope you don't mind the joke" The handsome guy reluctantly parted and once again gave a charming smile then turned around to greet everyone "h.e.l.lo senior brothers and sisters, I am Xiao Mao, a freshman in the History department, please take care of me"

"It's fine" Hugging is quite common overseas so I casually laughed it off and did not blame him.

Xiao Mao turned around with a cheerful smile and introduced himself to everybody, closing the distance between them, his speech eloquent and smooth comparable to the finest pearls, even the guys lost their prior jealousy and very quickly became familiar with him.

**(In the raws it says, 口中妙語如珠高帽戴得比天高博得陣陣笑聲 which roughly translates to his speech eloquent, enough to have the beaded/pearl hat reach the sky/heaven, however, that doesn't really make sense in English so I improvised.)**

"How come your name is so ancient...not cute?" Cheng FanFan the gossip queen eagerly asked.

"My mother didn't read many books." Xiao Mao wistfully scratched his head with a face of helplessness "She said that my eyes were like a cat's so she named me Xiao Mao, but I grew up in China so it's fine to just call me Xiao Mao"

**(It said that in the raws but it basically means uneducated)**

"The girl you just hugged is called Lin XiaoMiao, her name really makes it sound like as if she's your sister" A girl said "Xiao Miao and Xiao Mao, both are cats."

**(Miao is the the chinese version of Meow and Mao means cat in chinese)**

"That's such a coincidence, we must have some chemistry" Xiao Mao looked towards me and once again joked but I couldn't feel any joking tone in that.

Cheng FanFan also joined in and joked "You only hugged her but didn't hug us, how unfair is that, is it because we aren't pretty enough"

"How could that be it!" Xiao Mao raised his hands in surrender "It's just that she looks just like someone important to me, that's all"

"Who? Your girlfriend?" The gossiping soul of everyone there pa.s.sionately ignited.

"No, you all guessed incorrectly, it's my mother" Xiao Mao cheekily looked around at everyone's expression after being tricked.

All the girls observed my face and shamelessly said "Your father must be handsome, you take after him"

"No, I took after my mother" Xiao Mao's voice became gentle as he said that.

I looked at the face which held no similarities to mine, stunned and involuntarily asked "Your mother?"

"Yeah, she was a beautiful and gentle person" Xiao Mao softly said "But when I was still small, she left with my father, leaving me"

Looking at the pitiful Xiao Mao who had lost his parents at a young age, the girls with a motherly spirit exploded into tears. They didn't dare to continue with their gossip and only wanted to carefully comfort and love him in their embrace. Even my heart was moved, I suddenly got an inexplicable feeling of sadness choke in my throat. Wanting to speak but not being able to say it aloud, only able to watch him leave. In the end, I said with a rare gentleness "I'll take you to the university"

"Then I'll trouble Senior to do so then" Xiao Mao ignored the other girls' dispute on who will lead. I picked up my backpack that was on the ground and placed in on my shoulder then went into a taxi, heading towards the university. After the admission procedures were complete, I was about to bid farewell when Xiao Mao, when he grabbed my hand and lowered his head to gently caress the red birthmark. Looking up towards me, he pleaded "Senior sister, do you know where there are houses to rent? I heard that the school dorms aren't very nice so I want to live somewhere else"

I thought for a bit then said "There are quite a few houses near the school that I could take you to take a look... but if you don't mind, there's a single room below where I stay that's pretty cheap"

"Then I'll go there" Xiao Mao seemed to have been waiting for me to say that and without caring about the eyes of others, he dragged me away.

"The rental fee for that single room is four hundred yen" It can only accommodate one bed, one small cabinet, and a computer desk, hot water is available, but there's no air conditioning so it'll be hot in summer and you will have to go to the sixth floor to hang the clothes to dry. Xiao Mao did not care about the price and environment, giving a year's rent in one go, making me suspect that he's a rich young master who can't see that there are better options available to him.

When I asked why he wants to live here when he clearly has better options, Xiao Mao put on a serious expression and said "It's because your temperament is like my mother's, you give me a nostalgic feeling"

His answer gave me the sudden impulse to hit someone, I don't know how it spread but eventually, the entire university knew about it and people would greet me with "h.e.l.lo, cat mom"

Xiao Mao did not know shame and dared to cheerfully bring a carnation to my cla.s.s and say it was to express his love for his mother, causing my low-keyness in the university to be ruined and I even became famous in the university. On the forum, a prankster even posted

During cla.s.s, Xiao Mao could recite China's past 5000 years of history and even managed to state the famous celebrities of various dynasties, he could remember any book that he has read and even write them beautifully with a brush pen, winning over the teachers. Not only was his studies excellent, during the sports compet.i.tion he performed a magnificent slam dunk causing the basketball team to bang at his door every day, trying to rope him into the team. Apart from that, his martial arts was amazing too, when they went to drink to celebrate their victory in the sports compet.i.tion, they got hara.s.sed by hooligans and it did not take him half a minute to 'sort them out'.

**(In the raws it says 挖角 which is a idiom of sorts but it means to rope someone in so I didn't use the idiom.)**

A lot of girls from outside the university come here just to get a glimpse of the famous legendary perfect gentleman that seemed to have popped out from a romance novel. All of a sudden the school was filled with love-filled pink bubbles that burst in the air.

Due to this, Xiao Yu was regretful that it was not her who picked up the freshmen that day, she was about to renege on her promise about the squid but finally abided by her promise under the threat of violence. (T/N: Miao Miao is still as violent as ever, Lol)

Xiao Mao's love towards me was out in the open, making others envious. Every day after school, he would wait outside my cla.s.sroom, no matter how long the wait, to walk back together and helped me carry my things on the way. He completed all my requests and even took the initiative to go get me all sorts of fish...When I cook it for him, no matter how disgusting it is, he always finishes all of it, then once we finished eating he even helps me to wash the dishes. This kind of behavior that was even closer than between lovers made everyone sneakily talk behind our backs about it, but no one dared to come up to my face to say anything, what a bunch of cowards.

I don't like others paying attention to me but whenever I hardened my heart and confronted him about it, his sad eyes make me unable to ignore him. As time went by, I even suspected if his fondness and affection towards me was due to love at first sight.

When I stuttered this question out, he laughed like a child and as if stroking a cat he pet my head and said "It's not like that, don't think too much about it"

After finding out that I misunderstood it, I was very embarra.s.sed and never mentioned this again but felt a tenderness towards his plight. I cared for him like he was my blood related brother. Xiao Mao did not make a big deal out of my care towards him and only acted as if it were to be expected. He kept on intimately hugging me, covertly kissing my cheeks and even sleeps in my room, his entire existence seemed attached and reliant on me, only willing to go when night fell.

What's strange was that I didn't find his overly intimate actions out of place and thought it was only natural. Just like...just like I had a filial son...

I must be going crazy when I'm thinking about things like this when I haven't dated yet.

I didn't go mad from Xiao Mao's weird behavior because something even crazier happened, my peach blossom tree that hasn't bloomed once in the past 19 years, suddenly got completely swept away before eyes in a flash and it was in the most excessive kind of way...

**(Peach Blossoms are used to refer to love affairs/romance)**

MiraiSaeasang's Notes: Officially Back!!...and as you have read at the top, we have a second translator a.s.sisting with this, so a BIG Thank You to Angelyay29 for volunteering her time and effort to do this...

...???THANK YOU!!!???...

...Also, the schedule going forward will be 4 chaps/per week (Mon-Thurs)...