After discovering this novel way to start the game, Liu Liang became engrossed in playing as a cat and couldn't pull himself away.
As he unlocked new equipment, his interactions with the cat also increased.
Previously, Liu Liang could only exchange glances with the cat during the game's flow and couldn't control the cat or have much intimate contact.
But after a critical plot event where a human and cat save each other, the bond between Liu Liang and the cat clearly grew stronger, and as he carried the cat to seek medical help, their distance rapidly closed.
By the time the cat was healed, it had become a Cat Virtue Academy graduate fit for petting, holding, and smooching.
However, the attributes of being mischievously destructive were still retained.