About

I was living the life of a typical office worker. Office, home, office, home—it was a boring daily routine that repeated endlessly. Meeting friends occasionally for a drink was the extent of my excitement. Then, a major turning point occurred in my life. It happened on a day like any other, as I was heading home after working overtime. I was venting for a moment at a park near my house, cursing the team leader who had dumped his work on me and run off. "Meow." I heard a strange sound coming from the bushes behind a bench and headed toward it. Behind the bushes, there was a large tree, and there sat a cat shivering inside a carrier. I wondered for a moment if the owner had just stepped away, but then I saw a note attached to the carrier. "I'm sorry. I can no longer raise this child. He is a male. Please take good care of him." Come to think of it, I remembered the sanitation worker saying that more people were abandoning their pets in this park at night lately. "Tsk, tsk... If they can't take responsibility until the end, they shouldn't have started in the first place. There are so many pet shops popping up everywhere these days. They look cute and easy to care for on the outside, so young kids just take them home, can't handle it, and then throw them away." It seemed this cat had also been abandoned by someone. I was struggling just to take care of myself and felt I couldn't take him in, so I tried to leave after offering a quick apology. But as I turned to leave, the sound of the cat's pitiful crying made it impossible to just walk away. I finally decided to take him, and as I lifted the carrier, the cat began to purr happily as if he had been waiting for me. Since I didn't have any cat food at home, I boiled some meat from the fridge and served it with water, which the cat devoured hungrily. I gave him a new name and stroked his head. I decided to go out the next day to buy food and other supplies, and we fell asleep together on the bed. The next morning, when I opened my eyes in a daze, I screamed. A man, not a cat, was lying in the spot next to me. To make matters worse, the man claims that he is that very cat.