The System Teaches You How to Be Human

The stick behind Ma Anning was raised high by Jiang Lian and brought down with a fierce blow!

Jiang Lian used all her strength, and her previously numb eyes were now filled with rage! Trembling, she slammed the wooden stick onto Ma Anning’s head. A dull thud echoed as his body tilted violently from the impact.

“Hiss!” Ma Anning felt a sharp, intense pain in his head, and a swelling immediately appeared.

“You bitch—!” Ma Anning staggered, clutching his throbbing head with his hands. Jiang Lian, whose bruises from her earlier beating hadn’t healed yet, had not managed to knock him unconscious despite hitting him with all her strength!

But at this point, Jiang Lian couldn’t stop. If she hesitated now, he would be her and her daughter Wenwen who would die this time!

Her hands trembled, but she swiftly pulled out a pepper spray canister from her pocket and sprayed it directly into Ma Anning’s eyes!

“Ah!” The pepper spray hit Ma Anning’s eyes full force, and he screamed in pain. One hand desperately clutched his burning eyes, while the other flailed wildly, trying to grab that damned woman.

Just as Jiang Lian raised the stick for another strike, Ma Anning’s flailing hand accidentally caught her wrist!

The natural disparity in strength between men and women became painfully clear. Jiang Lian used all her might but couldn’t shake him off!

“Thud, thud, thud!” Jiang Wenwen, wearing slippers, burst through the door and hurried toward them.

Jiang Wenwen tried to pull Ma Anning away, hoping to help her mother!

But how much strength could a young girl like her muster? Wenwen was so malnourished she was little more than skin and bones, far weaker and shorter than children her age.

While Ma Anning was crazily shoving Jiang Lian, he felt a scrawny little brat pulling at him. His eyes, already blood-red from the pepper spray, turned even more vicious as they locked onto Jiang Wenwen.

“Ah!” Jiang Wenwen’s frail body was rammed by Ma Anning like a bull charging its target; she couldn’t withstand the force and was knocked backward!

“Wenwen!” Jiang Lian let out a scream of terror and despair!

At the critical moment, the fat orange cat, Si Yisi, dove forward. His body stretched out like a spring, and he used himself as a cushion to stop Jiang Wenwen from hitting the ground!

Jiang Wenwen, terrified to the point of tears, realized she had landed on something soft and warm. The golden fur beneath her shimmered like bright silk, filling her with an unprecedented sense of safety.

I’m okay… so warm.

Si Yisi, who had served as the cushion, wasn’t hurt at all. Once he confirmed that Jiang Wenwen was safe, he used his paw to help her up and dragged her to the sofa to sit down.

Jiang Wenwen stared blankly at the highly human-like, incredibly chubby orange cat. It’s comforting weight seemed to radiate security. Si Yisi gave her a ‘take care of yourself’ look before launching himself at Ma Anning like a cannonball, brimming with killing intent!

The fat orange cat moved so fast that only a blur of an afterimage could be seen. In the blink of an eye, he was in front of Ma Anning!

Si Yisi’s fur bristled, standing on end, and his narrowed pupils radiated a deadly aura!

His golden eyes resembled those of a cold-blooded predator, exuding the essence of a hunter!

“Mraaaooo—!”

Si Yisi pounced, swiping his claw across Ma Anning’s face! Several deep gashes appeared at the corner of Ma Anning’s eye, tearing the skin open and compounding the fear caused by the pepper spray!

“Ah! My eyes! My eyes!”

Ma Anning let out a blood-curdling scream, but then he heard the sound of bones cracking next to his ear!

What… broke? The delayed realization of pain almost drove Ma Anning insane. His whole body felt as though a truck had run over him, and every slight movement threatened to make him fall apart.

Si Yisi, his tail swishing, landed squarely on Ma Anning’s abdomen. The sheer weight of the hefty cat pressing down on him was suffocating! Gradually, Ma Anning’s cries of pain grew weaker, replaced by gasping breaths like a broken accordion.

“Help…” Ma Anning, astonishingly, still had the gall to call for help from time to time.

***

The neighbors, of course, heard the miserable screams coming from next door, as well as the desperate cries for help, loud and clear.

A little girl with a ponytail asked her mother, “Mom… why is it so noisy?”

The housewife clicked her tongue in disdain. “It’s probably that shameless woman getting beaten up again. Be good and go back to your room to sleep.”

The little girl responded obediently, but in her heart, she wondered… Shouldn’t those screams be coming from an uncle?

Ma Anning had always been pleased that his neighbors avoided meddling in others’ affairs. Domestic matters, after all, were none of their business. But now, he finally understood what it meant for fortune to take a turn!

The once-victimized had now risen, and the oppressor had become the one to be punished!

Jiang Lian clutched her throbbing arm, staring blankly at the orange cat that had unexpectedly saved her. Snapping back to her senses, she quickly used a rope to tie up the now-helpless Ma Anning!

Si Yisi leapt off Ma Anning, his movements so light and agile it was hard to believe he was the same round, balloon-like fat orange cat.

Jiang Lian tightly bound Ma Anning, tying him up like a pig for roasting. She even stuffed his mouth with the socks he’d once made her wash.

With a resolute expression, she coaxed Jiang Wenwen back into her room and then dragged Ma Anning, like a dead dog, into her own bedroom.

Si Yisi had already guessed what was about to happen.

Awkwardly opening the door with his paw, he saw Jiang Lian hesitating, whip in hand, as she prepared to lash Ma Anning!

Jiang Lian hated Ma Anning so much she was willing to transform herself from a victim into a perpetrator; for Wenwen, for her parents, she needed to break Ma Anning mentally!

Otherwise, if anything went wrong, she and Wenwen would undoubtedly become Ma Anning’s first targets for revenge!

Jiang Lian had absolutely no faith that the police could help them resolve this. Their country was great, but when it came to legal matters, there was no effective way to deal with scum like Ma Anning!

She had called the police once before. When they arrived, they dismissed the situation as a domestic matter and left after attempting “mediation.”

Mediation? What good was mediation?! Could it make a piece of trash grow a conscience?

That time, after the police confidently declared the matter “resolved” and left, Jiang Lian had been brutally beaten by Ma Anning, who yanked her by the hair.

So…

Jiang Lian bit her lips until they bled. The veins on her hands bulged as she tightened her grip on the whip. A fierce determination surged within her, accompanied by an unstoppable force that seemed ready to destroy the bound Ma Anning!

***

“Stop.”

Si Yisi couldn’t bear to watch any longer. He immediately activated a translation device he had purchased from the system’s store and began using it!

Who’s talking? Jiang Lian instinctively flinched, trembling as she searched for the source of the voice. She was so terrified that even the smallest sound made her as tense as a bowstring stretched to its limit.

Her eyes landed on the fat orange cat her daughter Wenwen had insisted on keeping.

The only creature standing at the door was this cat.

The fat orange cat stood at the door in a human-like posture. Its plump, round body was covered in warm, golden fur that radiated a soft, comforting glow.

“You… you.” Jiang Lian’s voice trembled, though it wasn’t entirely because her worldview had been shattered.

She remembered how this fat orange cat had taken down Ma Anning! If it was truly an intelligent, extraordinary being, then every action it had taken was to help her!

For a moment, Jiang Lian felt no shock, only gratitude welling up in her heart. The whip in her hand had only left faint red marks on Ma Anning’s skin before Si Yisi’s sudden intervention froze her mid-motion.

“Don’t turn yourself from a victim into a perpetrator,” Si Yisi said softly. “You don’t really want to, do you?”

Listening to his words, Jiang Lian suddenly felt her eyes grow wet. The tightly wound string in her heart finally snapped… No, I don’t want to! But what can I do? Who could help me?

Jiang Lian let out a hysterical cry, pouring out all her resentment and helplessness.

When no one could save her, she had to act on her own!

Si Yisi moved closer and gently patted Jiang Lian’s hand with his paw, offering her comfort.

Then he gave Jiang Lian a cat-like smile and firmly declared, “I’ll take care of getting revenge on him for you!”

You don’t want to turn from a victim into a perpetrator, so stay clean and innocent, just like this! You’ve done nothing wrong. The only one in the wrong is that piece of trash!