Author: hoenimochi (Page 72 of 95)

MTL and currently learning HSK

Chapter 89

August 14, 2022 / hoenimochi / 1 Comment

Li Zhenruo had little to pack for his move. He had almost nothing to pack, not even clothes, so he moved into the house that Luo Fei prepared for him empty-handed.

The so-called staff dormitory was actually a suite prepared by Luo Fei who didn’t want him to continue to sleep with Feng Junyuan. It was very close to the company and the surrounding environment was not bad.

The room was fully furnished but still lacked some daily necessities. The boss Luo Fei was very considerate and asked the company to give him a month’s salary in advance, and let him buy it himself when he moved in.

Li Zhenruo went to the supermarket and simply moved back to a cat bed so that he wouldn’t have to buy a set of bedding. He wasn’t uncomfortable sleeping by himself.

At night, Li Zhenruo stayed alone in his room reading a book. He asked Song Jun to go to the school library to help him borrow many books related to logistics. He didn’t know anything yet, so he could only quietly study more.

When he was tired of reading, Li Zhenruo went to take a shower, blow-dried his hair, turned into a cat and curled himself up in the cat’s bed to go to sleep.

Luo Fei was generally a good boss to get along with, and he had more than one assistant around him, so Li Zhenruo’s job was relatively easy at the moment.

Li Zhenruo had a lot of curiosity about the identity Luo Fei had. In the beginning, Li Zhenran helped him get his ID card through Luo Fei’s connections.

Li Zhenruo was not without common sense, it wasn’t easy to get a real ID card in such a short time. He believed that there must be a powerful backup behind Luo Fei, or else Luo Fei was not actually a human being.

What was it? A great demon like his master?

For this question, Li Zhenruo asked Feng Junyuan curiously.

With an “Ah” Feng Junyuan said, “Can’t tell you.”

Li Zhenruo said strangely, “Why can’t you tell me?”

Feng Junyuan said firmly, “I can’t say it.” No matter what method Li Zhenruo tried, he couldn’t pry Luo Fei’s mouth open.

That afternoon, Luo Fei went out with another assistant, Xu Shengwen, and left Li Zhenruo to stay at the company.

Li Zhenruo was looking through the documents in the office, and shortly afterwards he received a call from Xu Shengwen, asking him to bring over a document from Luo Fei’s desk.

After he hung up, Li Zhenruo did as Xu Shengwen instructed and found the document inside the kraft paper bag on Luo Fei’s desk.

He took the documents and asked the company’s driver to drive him to the address given by Xu Shengwen, which was a commercial club in the city with a bathing sauna inside. When Luo Fei went out at noon, he said he was doing some business talk, and now Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but silently cursed at Luo Fei’s carefree business talk.

The driver dropped him off at an address, and Li Zhenruo called Xu Shengwen while walking inside after getting off the car.

Xu Shengwen was waiting for Li Zhenruo at the door of the private room. When he saw him coming, he said, “Jason, please send the documents to Mr. Luo inside.”

Li Zhenruo had planned to hand the documents to Xu Shengwen, but at this time he had to withdraw his hand and asked, “I’m going in?” He didn’t understand why he had to go instead of Xu Shengwen, but as Xu Shengwen was a senior and he was still in his internship, he would naturally do what he was told to do.

Xu Shengwen just smiled and patted his shoulder and said, “Go ahead.”

Li Zhenruo then took the document and wanted to walk into the private room, but was stopped by the staff at the door of the private room, and said politely, “Sir, please change first.”

“Change clothes?” Li Zhenruo looked up at the top of the private room door and saw no obvious signs. However, he still obeyed the request of the waiter and went down to the dressing room next to him to change clothes under the guidance of the staff.

When he looked back at Xu Shengwen, he saw that the other party smiled kindly at him, which was a little unclear.

Li Zhenruo was taken to the dressing room and changed into a bathrobe. All other valuables were kept in the wardrobe of the dressing room. He only used a waterproof bag to pack the documents, and then went back to the private room wearing slippers.

As soon as the private room door was opened, the water vapour coming from the shop was wrapped in a familiar scent.

Li Zhenruo sniffed, and he could clearly smell the scent belonging to Li Zhenran.

There was a bath in this private room, and there was a sauna next to it.

There were three people in the private room. Luo Fei was lying on the massage table, covered with a bath towel, with a young man beside him massaging his shoulders, and there was a person sitting with his back to him in the bathtub. He didn’t need to look to know that it was Li Zhenran.

Li Zhenruo just glanced at Li Zhenran’s back, then walked towards Luo Fei and said, “Mr. Luo, I brought the documents.”

Luo Fei raised his head and glanced at him, but only said “um” and said nothing else.

Li Zhenruo looked at the handsome young man who was massaging him and regretted that he had left his mobile phone in the locker in the locker room, otherwise he should have taken some photos and sent them to Feng Junyuan.

Luo Fei didn’t give any orders, and Li Zhenruo stood beside him without moving.

At this time, there was the sound of water coming from the bathtub, and Li Zhenruo subconsciously turned to look and saw that Li Zhenran was about to get up from the water.

Li Zhenruo subconsciously glanced at the young man beside him, then turned to look at Li Zhenran, saw that he stood up and did not come out immediately, but took a bathrobe and put it on before stepping out of the bathtub.

Li Zhenran seemed to have lost weight.

In fact, it was only a month away from the last day he saw Li Zhenran, but Li Zhenruo felt that Li Zhenran seemed to be really thin. He stared at Li Zhenran’s clearly visible collarbone and his increasingly sharp jawline.

It wasn’t until Li Zhenran sat down on the chair next to him that Li Zhenruo averted his gaze.

“Xiao Tuan,” Luo Fei said suddenly, “Read the document to Mr. Li.”

Li Zhenruo nodded, walked to Li Zhenran’s side, opened the waterproof bag and took out the document. At this time, Li Zhenran reached out to him, “I’ll read it myself.”

Without Luo Fei’s consent, Li Zhenruo did not immediately hand him the document but looked at Luo Fei.

Luo Fei said, “Let’s give it to Mr. Li to read for himself. This is the document I told you came out from above. The policy will change, and the price change is natural. You can wait until the official document come down from above, and then consider whether you are going to regret it or not.”

The latter sentence was said to Li Zhenran.

Li Zhenran took over the document and did not rush to open it, but looked at Li Zhenruo and said, “I remember your name is Shen Luming?”

Li Zhenruo said to him, “Now my name is Li Tuan.”

Li Zhenran nodded, “Can you sit for a while and wait for me?”

“Of course,” Li Zhenruo sat down beside him.

Li Zhenran opened the document, but said to Li Zhenruo, “You didn’t study at university anymore?”

Li Zhenruo replied, “I can’t continue to study at university now.”

Li Zhenran asked him, “What about your girlfriend?”

Li Zhenruo said, “I can wait for her to graduate.”

Then the two were silent for a short time.

Li Zhenran flipped through the documents, but Li Zhenruo felt a little bored, so he stood up and pulled the placket.

“Are you used to working here at Luo Fei’s?” In the quiet room, Li Zhenran suddenly asked again.

Li Zhenruo looked back at him and said nothing.

Li Zhenran then raised his head and waited for him.

Li Zhenruo noticed Li Zhenran’s protruding collarbone again, he turned his head and looked forward, “There’s nothing to get used to, you get used to it as you do it, people are like that.”

Li Zhenran said, “But I’m still not used to it.”

Li Zhenruo didn’t answer him.

Li Zhenran said to himself, “It’s like there’s something missing in my life, and I can’t get used to it.”

Li Zhenruo said, “You will get used to it gradually, or you will find something else to fill in.”

The young man who had been concentrating on massaging Luo Fei couldn’t help but look up at the two of them when he heard them talking.

At this time, Luo Fei buried his head and said, “I didn’t ask you to come here to flirt with my guest.”

Li Zhenruo said, “When did I flirt with your guest? Besides, you said it was your guest. I’m helping my boss to accompany the customer, shouldn’t you give me more bonus?”

Luo Fei let out a laugh, “Talking to your boss like that? You think I’m your old boss?”

Li Zhenruo replied, “I’m sorry, you are my first boss, and I have never followed other bosses.”

Li Zhenran had already read the document by now and handed it back to Li Zhenruo.

Li Zhenruo took it and put it in the waterproof bag.

Luo Fei asked Li Zhenran, “How was it?”

Li Zhenran said, “I will seriously consider your suggestion just now.”

Li Zhenruo sorted out the documents and asked Luo Fei, “Boss, is there anything else?”

Luo Fei said, “Wait a minute.”

Li Zhenruo could only wait beside him in silence.

Luo Fei said to the young man beside him, “Call someone to come and give Mr Li a shoulder massage.”

The young man replied, “Okay,” he left Luo Fei and walked outside. When he reached the door, he seemed to remember that there was another person in the room, and turned back and asked, “Only for one person?”

Luo Fei asked Li Zhenruo, “Do you need it?”

Li Zhenruo said, “No need.”

Luo Fei said to the young man, “One person is enough.” Then he told Li Zhenruo: “Don’t be in a hurry, and sit down next to him first.”

There was a small table next to it, with fruit plates and drinks on it.

Li Zhenruo was polite, walked over and sat down to eat a few gr4p3s.

Soon another young man came in, this time he had dyed blond hair and was very handsome. He said with a smile on his face, “Hello, my name is Sammy, may I ask which gentleman needs a massage.”

Luo Fei pointed in the direction of Li Zhenran.

Sammy walked over to the empty massage table and said, “Sir, come and lie down.”

Li Zhenruo looked at Li Zhenran.

As a result, Li Zhenran said, “No need, just sit and massage.”

Sammy seemed a little surprised, “It’s uncomfortable to massage while sitting. Lying on your stomach is the most comfortable.”

At this time, the young man who was massaging Luo Fei couldn’t help but interjected, “Just do as the customer tells you.”

“Oh,” Sammy then walked behind Li Zhenran, put both hands on his shoulders, and started massaging him.

Li Zhenruo looked at them expressionlessly while eating gr4p3s.

Sammy said, “Sir your shoulders are so stiff, you haven’t worked out much lately, have you?”

Li Zhenran didn’t answer.

Luo Fei said, “Why do you ask so many questions?”

Li Zhenruo was a little bored, he stretched out his arms, and the bathrobe was falling halfway down, revealing half of his shoulders and chest.

Li Zhenran suddenly stood up and walked up to him to help him pull up the bathrobe.

“What for?” Li Zhenruo was a little surprised by his sudden action.

Li Zhenran squatted in front of him, helped him pull the bathrobe, and then re-fastened his belt.

Li Zhenruo looked down and saw the top of Li Zhenran’s head, and then saw Li Zhenran raise his head and said to him, “This is the body of the person I love the most, don’t just expose it to others like that.”

Li Zhenruo was stunned and said to him, “It has nothing to do with you anymore.”

Li Zhenran stood up and looked down at him, “Can you tell me what he said to you last?”

Li Zhenruo said, “Do you want to know?”

Li Zhenran replied, “I want to know.”

Li Zhenruo said, “He said he loves you, but he is afraid that you will lie to him.”

Li Zhenran said, “I won’t lie to him again.”

Li Zhenruo shook his head, “How does he know you’re not lying to him with that words?”

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Why does it feel that Li Zhenran didn’t even think Li Zhenruo is dead? Either he’s hoping so much Zhenruo is not dead yet or… He already see through the plan

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Chapter 13

August 13, 2022 / hoenimochi / 1 Comment

The place where they ate was at Fuxiang House, a local restaurant, and the restaurant was on the second floor along the street. The evening was the best time for the business, the lobby was full of guests when they entered, and there was a lively clamour everywhere.

Chen Yuncheng followed Zhang Wenyong through the crowd, and a waiter greeted them halfway through and took them to a private room inside.

As soon as the private room door opened, Chen Yuncheng saw six or seven people sitting around the round table. All of them were young people, two or three of whom he knew.

Everyone he knew greeted him, and some even stood up and called out “Yong ge,” then nodded to him and called, “Cheng ge.”

Zhang Wenyong sat on the main seat opposite the door and said with a smile, “Still remember your Cheng ge, eh.” As soon as Zhang Wenyong sat down, someone handed him a cigarette, and then someone took a lighter to help him light it.

Chen Yuncheng found a seat by himself and sat down.

The private room was small, with the door closed and the air conditioner on, the whole room was filled with smoke and the air was foul.

The young man that sat next to Chen Yuncheng originally knew him, but at this time he didn’t talk to him again, and didn’t even look at him.

Chen Yuncheng was still at ease, he opened his jacket to reveal the cotton shirt inside, glanced around the table, and asked, “Is Anlin here yet?”

Zhang Wenyong answered him with a cigarette in his mouth, “Don’t be in a hurry, I’ve already sent someone to pick him up.”

Chen Yuncheng calmly said, “I’m not in a hurry.”

There were five or six dishes of cold dishes on the round table, no one touched the chopsticks, everyone was smoking and chatting, and only Chen Yuncheng occasionally took a sip from the teacup in front of him, and soon drank the cup to the bottom.

No one helped him to refill his tea, and the waiter in the old restaurant was not attentive. The waiter only opened the door and asked if he should serve the food, and then never came again.

Chen Yuncheng put the empty cup back.

After waiting for about 20 minutes, the door of the private room was pushed open again, and a tall, thin young man came in from the door. The young man looked like he was in his twenties. Because of his single eyelids, his eyes were long and narrow, his nose was high, his lips were thin, and his hair was cut so short that his scalp could almost be seen.

As soon as he entered the door, Zhang Wenyong stood up immediately and greeted him with a smile, “Anlin, you are finally back.”

The others followed Zhang Wenyong and stood up to look at the person at the door, and Chen Yuncheng also stood up slowly.

Guan Anlin stood at the door, his eyes swept across the faces of everyone and finally stopped in front of Chen Yuncheng. He stared blankly at Chen Yuncheng for a few seconds, then walked towards Zhang Wenyong, and called out “Yong ge”, before he raised his hand and hugged him.

Zhang Wenyong patted him on the back, “You have suffered for the past two years.”

Guan Anlin didn’t speak and just shook his head.

After that, Zhang Wenyong introduced him to the young people at this table one by one. Two of whom Guan Anlin knew, while the rest were people he met for the first time.

Chen Yuncheng watched Guan Anlin shook hands with those people with a calm and indifferent expression, and felt that he didn’t look like the Guan Anlin he remembered at all.

It was not until the end that Zhang Wenyong pointed to Chen Yuncheng and said to Guan Anlin, “Chen Yuncheng, you still remember him, right?”

Chen Yuncheng didn’t extend his hand, just looked at Guan Anlin earnestly, and said to him, “Anlin.”

Guan Anlin didn’t respond, and said coldly, “I don’t recognize this person anymore.”

Zhang Wenyong was smoking a cigarette with the expression of watching a good show. When he heard this, he patted Guan Anlin on the shoulder with a smile, and said, “It’s okay if you don’t recognise him. Let’s sit down to eat first, and then take your time to talk.”

Guan Anlin’s seat was opposite of Chen Yuncheng. Before he sat down, he took off his dark jacket. Inside was a tight black jumper, which completely outlined his figure. One could see that his chest and arms were all tightly muscled. These were muscles that had been developed over a long period of time doing physical work, not exaggerated but very powerful.

At this time, Zhang Wenyong called the waiter to serve hot dishes and then asked the accompanying junior to open a bottle of white wine. For a while, the whole private room was lively, and everyone was busy pouring wine and toasting.

Only Chen Yuncheng was free, no one toasted him, and no one took the initiative to talk to him.

Chen Yuncheng didn’t eat much food. He just glanced at Guan Anlin occasionally as the smoke filled the room. He wanted to chat with Guan Anlin, but he wasn’t sure if Guan Anlin wanted to chat with him.

Guan Anlin never looked at Chen Yuncheng again except for the moment he first came in.

Zhang Wenyong didn’t intend to simply let Chen Yuncheng go. When three-quarters of the meal was eaten, he suddenly said to Guan Anlin, “Anlin, you said you don’t recognize Chen Yuncheng, do you mean you don’t want to pursue the past? “

Guan Anlin probably didn’t expect Zhang Wenyong to suddenly say this. He raised his hand and placed the chopsticks in front of him neatly on the table. He asked Zhang Wenyong, “Yong ge, what do you think I should pursue?”

The whole private room was quiet and listened to them.

Zhang Wenyong had been smoking all night. He tapped his finger on the table and said, “For those of us who are out and about, the most taboo thing is not to preach about morality, don’t you think so?”

Guan Anlin didn’t speak, he was also smoking and stared at the bowl in front of him as if he was a little lost.

Zhang Wenyong didn’t care if he didn’t get an answer and continued, “At that time you went in so suddenly that we couldn’t look into many things in detail. Now I’m asking you, did someone betray you?”

He was asking Guan Anlin, but his eyes kept looking at Chen Yuncheng.

Guan Anlin raised his head and looked at Chen Yuncheng.

Chen Yuncheng faced them calmly.

Zhang Wenyong said, “Anlin, don’t be afraid, you are Yong ge’s brother. If something happens, Yong ge will naturally help you out clean up those who should be cleaned up.”

Guan Anlin looked at Chen Yuncheng. After a long time, he put the cigarette between his fingers to his lips, took a slow breath, and said, “Thank you Yong ge, but there are some things I want to handle by myself.”

Zhang Wenyong was a little surprised and asked him, “Are you sure?”

Guan Anlin nodded, “I’m sure.”

Zhang Wenyong seemed unhappy, his face slumped slightly, and he leaned back on the back of the chair, but still said, “Fine, two years have passed anyway, there’s no rush.”

After he finished speaking, Chen Yuncheng said to Guan Anlin, “Anlin, can we talk?”

Guan Anlin looked at Chen Yuncheng, and before he could answer, the private room door was pushed open from the outside. Zhou Yan walked in a hurry, carrying a cold air that had not yet been dispersed, and said, “Yong ge, I’m sorry I just had something, I’m late.”

After he finished speaking, he saw Chen Yuncheng, and his whole body suddenly stopped in place.

Chen Yuncheng frowned and looked at Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan said softly, “Cheng ge, I didn’t know you were here today.”

Chen Yuncheng stood up and asked Zhang Wenyong, “Yong ge, I have something to tell Zhou Yan, do you have anything else?”

Zhang Wenyong didn’t answer, just glanced at Guan Anlin.

Guan Anlin’s expression was cold.

Zhang Wenyong spread his hands, “Anlin said he wanted to handle it himself, so from now on, it’s none of my business, so help yourself.”

Only then did Zhou Yan notice Guan Anlin, with a surprised expression, “Lin ge? You are out?”

Chen Yuncheng had already walked toward Zhou Yan and said to him, “Let’s go, I have something to ask you.”

At this time, Guan Anlin called out in a cold voice, “Chen Yuncheng.”

Chen Yuncheng turned his head and said to Guan Anlin, “Anlin, I’ll find you later, we can sit down and talk slowly.”

After he said that, he took the lead and walked out of the private room. Zhou Yan immediately followed.

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Although there are a few supporting roles, the process will take some words, but there is no cannon fodder.

There are many people who like Chen Yuncheng, but the only one who wants to sleep with him is Ning Junyan

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Chapter 9

August 12, 2022 / hoenimochi / 1 Comment

When a person has unchaste thoughts for another person, then any sentence the other person says was no longer simple, and every word has an underlying meaning left to the understanding of the listener.

Therefore, when Suo Yang said that he liked the brand of Shen Huiming’s cufflinks, Shen Huiming understood that, at least between him and Jiang Tongyan, Suo Yang was more interested in him.

Of course, Shen Huiming was a very clear-headed person, and he was not a smartass who keep going and talking more. Sometimes it was not appropriate to speak too clearly when dealing with some people.

The two looked at each other and smiled, Suo Yang seemed to inadvertently look away, and continued to handle the song with ease.

Hands held together, veins linking to the heart.

The warmth of the heated fingertips also reached the tip of the heart.

Perhaps he really received some hints of the so-called ‘fate’, and Suo Yang kept thinking about his ‘fate’ with Shen Huiming.

The first meeting was at an altitude of 30,000 feet, and the second meeting was in thousands of square kilometres’ foreign country.

Now, for the third time, he was accidentally introduced to Jiang Tongyan, who had a ‘magical’ relationship with Shen Huiming.

Everything seemed to be implying something.

Suo Yang couldn’t help but pay attention to these successive ‘coincidences’.

He felt that perhaps when they first met, on the sky he was familiar with, someone was playing with their fate on a whim, tying an obscure knot between them.

“What are you laughing at?” Shen Huiming asked softly.

Suo Yang looked at him without hesitation and replied, “I’m laughing that fate is so unpredictable.”

At the end of the song, Jiang Tongyan returned to find his first dance partner as soon as possible. However, Shen Huiming very unkindly refused to let go of Suo Yang’s hand, and said to Jiang Tongyan, “Now he is my partner.”

Jiang Tongyan chuckled, “Can I say something?”

The two men stood on either side of Suo Yang, looking at each other with a smirk.

Suo Yang said nothing, let go of Shen Huiming’s hand, and went back to find a drink.

The man who just danced with Jiang Tongyan passed by them and dropped a line, “When rivals in love meet, both would be green with envy, and you two will have blood dripping from your eyes!”

Jiang Tongyan smiled, “Rivals in love? Are we two rivals in love again?”

Shen Huiming replied seriously, “Depends on how you interpret it.”

He touched his pocket, turned to look at Suo Yang, who was sitting there drinking, and said to Jiang Tongyan, “Let’s go out for a cigarette?”

The two of them needed to have a good chat, just like real love rivals.

Jiang Tongyan followed Shen Huiming to the outside, shut down all the noise in the room, and faced the noise outside.

He took the cigarette handed by Shen Huiming, lit it for the two of them, and asked with a smile in his eyes, “The first time?”

Shen Huiming took a drag on his cigarette and smiled too, “Probably.”

“Tell me about it?” Jiang Tongyan laughed, “I’m quite surprised.”

“I’ve met him twice before,” Shen Huiming said, “Do you believe in love at first sight?”

“I believe in love at the first appearance.” Jiang Tongyan said to him, “You just can see how good-looking some people are.”

“He is good-looking, and you’ve never seen him in a uniform. It’s unforgettable at a glance.” Shen Huiming said, “The first time I saw him was on his plane, I’m not afraid of you teasing me, I asked for his contact information, but he didn’t give it.”

Jiang Tongyan laughed, “Well done!”

Shen Huiming also laughed, “I thought that was it. I didn’t leave my contact details and I was afraid that we wouldn’t meet again in the future, but to my surprise, it seems that the fate of the two of us has not run out.”

Jiang Tongyan stared at him with a light smile, and the smoke he exhaled slightly blurred the vision between the two of them.

“So now it’s a declaration of war?” Jiang Tongyan asked, “I’m a little nervous now, after all, I’m going back to New York the day after tomorrow, and after all, you’re in the pavilion closest to the water enjoying moonlight first¹.”

“It’s not a declaration of war,” Shen Huiming said, “I’m just curious about what you’re thinking.”

He turned around and looked at Jiang Tongyan, “Although I have the confidence to get the moon first, I still want to know if you really want to be with him, or…”

Jiang Tongyan laughed.

“Old Shen, I’m calling you Old Shen, don’t you understand?” Jiang Tongyan looked at him seriously, “At 30, we both are already clear that neither you nor I are the rash young man we were back then, I am not that naive.”

He took a drag from his cigarette, “Suo Yang is not bad, at least he gave me a very good first impression, he is my ideal perfect lover.”

He smiled and looked at Shen Huiming, “Let me tell you this, gay marriage is now legal in New York and I can give him a stable marital relationship.”

“Do you think this is your advantage?” Shen Huiming also smiled, “Besides, you only met for the first time today. Isn’t it too early to talk about this now?”

After the cigarette was finished, Shen Huiming threw the cigarette butt into the trashcan, “Tongyan, I didn’t think we both could get away with it.”

“I really didn’t think so.” Jiang Tongyan followed him and threw away the cigarette butt, smiling relaxedly, “So it would have been better if we hadn’t reunited?”

Both of them looked at each other meaningfully.

“I suddenly remember one thing now,” Jiang Tongyan said. “The night when the negotiation ended, your assistant drove us, and halfway through you got out of the car to talk to someone and later let us go first.”

Jiang Tongyan asked softly, “The person I met at that time was Suo Yang, right?”

Shen Huiming smiled, “Look, you missed the beginning.”

Old friends met again yet surprisingly they turned tense at their reunion. Although from who they were, it seemed a bit ridiculous to do this for a man that both of them had not yet been intimately acquainted with. Even Jiang Tongyan was a little confused for a moment whether he had to fight with Shen Huiming because he really had to have Suo Yang or whether he simply was annoyed.

“Let me remind you of one thing,” Jiang Tongyan said, “Suo Yang was introduced to me by Zhou Mo. It was you who rejected it at the beginning and then he was introduced to me. It was you who missed out.”

“Let me also remind you of one thing, the so-called ‘introduction’ is a two-way choice, it’s not a one-shot deal.” Shen Huiming lightly rubbed his cufflinks with his fingers, he said, “If Suo Yang also expressed his affection for you and decided to try a relationship with you, I’ll withdraw unconditionally. However, if he doesn’t make a stand, we are all still outsiders in his world.”

Shen Huiming smiled, “We’re done talking and we’re done smoking, shall we go back?”

The two turned around and walked back together.

Jiang Tongyan said, “Old Shen, to be honest, I am very confident to break that curse this time.”

“I’m also very confident,” Shen Huiming said with a smile, “to keep that curse.”

The two returned to the room where the people were dancing wildly. Suo Yang was chatting with Zhou Mo about something while drinking.

Jiang Tongyan said, “I haven’t had sex for more than a year.”

Shen Huiming glared at him, and raised his hand to give Jiang Tongyan another hard slap on the chest, “Behave yourself, don’t be obnoxious.”

Jiang Tongyan laughed and said, “Look at you, I’m just saying about it. I don’t believe you don’t have that in mind about him.”

How could he not?

Shen Huiming looked at Suo Yang who was sitting there.

Some people’s presence was comparable to that of the strongest wine, which could make you slightly drunk at a distance, and by the time you got closer, you couldn’t wait to get drunk in the smell.

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Chapter 88

August 10, 2022 / hoenimochi / 0 Comments

Li Zhenran stepped into the rain curtain. He squatted down in front of the Garfield on the ground and reached out to touch his chest. Its chest was still warm and heaving softly.

At that moment, Li Zhenran’s expression was a little dazed.

He admitted that he was hesitant at the last moment. When he knew that Li Zhenruo began to contact Shen Luming, his first thought was to keep the two of them apart no matter what. It wasn’t that Li Zhenrah didn’t think of other options, and he even hesitated to go after Shen Luming first.

However, now that he and Li Zhenruo have come to this point, he started to be overcautious and was reluctant to make any rash moves, for fear that their relationship would come to an irreparable end.

But even if he tried hard to save it, Li Zhenruo didn’t give him any room to regret and chose to leave easily.

“He—” Li Zhenran opened his mouth to ask Xia Hongshen.

At this time, the Garfield, who was lying on the ground, slowly opened his eyes.

Li Zhenran watched him struggle to get away from his palm, rolled and stood up. His legs were still a little weak, but he took two steps back.

The heavy rain made it difficult for Garfield to open his eyes. He shook his head and shook the water on his body, looking at Li Zhenran with strange and wary eyes.

Xia Hongshen didn’t like being exposed to the rain either. The feeling of wet clothes wrapped around his body reminded him of the feeling of wet fur on his body, which was very uncomfortable. He asked the Garfield, “Are you okay? Getting used to your body?”

The Garfield shook the water on his body again, and instead of looking at Li Zhenran, he came to Shen Luming who was lying on the ground and looked at Shen Luming worriedly.

Xia Hongshen said, “It’s okay, he can’t wake up for the time being, and he may have to be taken to the hospital. He lost consciousness before and was occupied by you.”

The Garfield seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and lightly touched Shen Luming’s hair with his lips.

Li Zhenran stood up slowly and looked at him without saying a word.

Xia Hongshen walked over to pick up Shen Luming and walked towards the stairwell. The Garfield hurriedly followed behind him without looking at Li Zhenran.

“Teacher Xia,” Li Zhenran suddenly stopped Xia Hongshen.

Xia Hongshen had already carried Shen Luming to a place where there was no rain, turned around and looked at Li Zhenran, “What?”

Li Zhenran’s clothes were completely soaked, and his hair was on his cheeks. He asked Xia Hongshen, “How can I find him?”

Xia Hongshen said, “If he can be reincarnated smoothly, maybe one day you can meet him.”

After he finished speaking, Xia Hongshen carried Shen Luming and left, while the Garfield followed him and hurriedly walked out.

Only Li Zhenran was left alone, facing the empty rooftop.

When Li Zhenran returned that night, he fell ill.

He didn’t eat dinner. After he took a shower and dried his hair, he lay limp on the bed, with a sore and dry throat. The whole person was a little muddled, lacking in energy, but unable to sleep.

After a while, Li Zhenran picked up his mobile phone and made a call. He said to the people over there, “Keep watching over Shen Luming to see if he has changed from the past, if he is still with his girlfriend, and if he has given up his plans to go abroad.”

After giving these instructions, Li Zhenran hung up the phone, raised his head and closed his eyes.

He didn’t fully believe that the scene he saw today was true, but his sadness wasn’t fake either.

His head hurts, but his brain was running unconsciously. What he should do next emerged clearly in his mind, but he couldn’t do it.

The more he did, the further he was likely to push Li Zhenruo.

At this time, Wang Ma knocked on the door outside and told him to go down for dinner.

“No,” Li Zhenran replied in a hoarse voice, “I’m not feeling well.”

Wang Ma heard the words and said quickly, “What? Are you sick? Do you want someone to take you to the hospital?”

Li Zhenran replied, “No, I’ll just take a couple of cold pills and I’ll be fine.”

He had always been in good health. Today, he was probably sick because of the rain and his emotional turmoil. Li Zhenran’s whole body was aching and felt weak, and he had no appetite or desire to move when he was lying in bed.

After a while, Wang Ma brought him cold medicine, congee, and pickles.

Li Zhenran reluctantly drank some congee and took the cold medicine with a glass of water.

Wang Ma sat by the bed, looked at him tenderly, and suddenly asked, “Where’s Dumpling?”

Li Zhenran raised his arm to block his eyes and said softly, “Ran away.”

Wang Ma was stunned for a while, “Ran away again?” Then she sighed and said, “I guess it’s time for him to go into heat again, I told you to castrate it a long time ago, but you are reluctant to do it.”

When he heard this, Li Zhenran couldn’t hold back a wry smile, “I’m just afraid that he wouldn’t live long after he was castrated.”

Wang Ma went out with the porridge bowl he had not finished eating and helped him close the door.

Li Zhenran reached out and picked up the collar at the head of the bed, and his fingers lightly stroked the lettering inside the collar, which had his own name engraved on it, as if to indicate the owner’s possession of the pet.

In fact, he really hadn’t used the positioning function of the collar for a long time. For him, the collar no longer had the same meaning as it had at first, but unfortunately, Li Zhenruo would not believe it.

Holding the collar, Li Zhenran rolled over somewhat uncomfortably, lying on his side and closed his eyes, but his hands never let go of the collar.

The heavy rain that had been falling all day finally stopped at night.

Li Zhenruo and Xia Hongshen were cooking hotpot around the induction cooker, and the fragrance wafted throughout the small building.

Song Jun was in charge of the dishes, while the others stared at the pot with their bowls and drooled.

Shortly after the potato slices were cooked, Long Xing wanted to stretch out his chopsticks, but Xia Hongshen hit him hard with his own chopsticks.

Long Xing looked at Xia Hongshen at a loss and withdrew his hand.

Xi Anling glanced at Long Xing and then at Xia Hongshen, and quickly put the chopsticks into the pot, but Xia Hongshen threw the chopsticks out before she caught the potato chips.

Xi Anling complained, “I want to eat potato slices!”

Xia Hongshen said expressionlessly, “Not soft.”

Xi Anling pouted, “I like crispy ones!”

Xia Hongshen said, “No.”

Long Xing whispered, “I also want to eat the crispy ones too…”

Xia Hongshen looked at them coldly, “If you all eat all the crispy ones, I’ll never be able to eat the soft potato chips.”

Xi Anling tapped the bowl with chopsticks, pointed at Xia Hongshen and said, “You tyrant!”

Xia Hongshen raised his head, his jawline was elegant and smooth, “Got a problem with that?”

Long Xing reached out and hugged Xi Anling’s shoulder, “Forget it.”

Unconvinced, Xi Anling pushed Feng Junyuan and said, “Xiao Feng, shall we vote?”

Feng Junyuan still held the bowl and continued to stare at the pot. When he heard this, he glanced at Xi Anling and said hesitantly, “I want to eat soft ones too.”

Song Jun said at this time, “I’m going to the supermarket tomorrow to buy a nine-square grid. What each person wants to eat will be thrown into the small grid in front of him. Eat what you eat and don’t touch others.”

Xi Anling said quickly, “I agree!”

Only Li Zhenruo said nothing and stared at the hot pot in a daze.

Song Jun nudged him lightly, “What? Are you in a bad mood?”

Li Zhenruo raised his head, saw everyone looking at him, and quickly said, “No.”

Song Jun said, “Look, you lied to him, but you’re actually still sad inside.”

Li Zhenruo heard the words and said, “I think he may not fully believe it.”

“Why?” It was Long Xing who asked the question.

Li Zhenruo sighed and said, “Master’s acting skills are too exaggerated.”

Xia Hongshen didn’t seem to raise his hand, but Li Zhenruo felt a knock on the head, and then heard Xia Hongshen say, “Blaming me?”

Li Zhenruo said quickly, “I don’t blame you, I blame myself as the disciple for being useless.”

Song Jun asked at this time, “What if he believed it?”

Li Zhenruo said, “Maybe we should separate.”

Xi Anling said softly, “Let’s not talk about that.”

When Xi Anling saw that Xia Hongshen was looking at Li Zhenruo, she immediately stretched out her chopsticks and put a piece of potato in the pot, but only when she ate it in her mouth did she realize that it had become soft.

As he saw this, Xia Hongshen said, “Oh, you can start eating.”

After that day, he never saw Li Zhenran again.

In regards to the matter of feelings, Li Zhenruo intended to put them aside for a while and treat himself as someone who was out of love. It was a terrible thing to fall out of love, but the pain of falling out of love and being unable to get out of it was even more terrifying.

Li Zhenruo accepted Luo Fei’s invitation when he asked him to work in the logistics company that Luo Fei was running.

The job was offered to him by Feng Junyuan, and at first Li Zhenruo was a bit hesitant. It was just that he had no capital and no experience now, and it was already the best choice for him to have a company like Luo Fei’s accept him.

Moreover, previously he knew that Li Zhenran had been in contact with Luo Fei for Yunlin’s development in e-commerce. Real estate investment would slow down next, and with Yunlin’s commercial real estate companies, the large-scale development of e-commerce was definitely the next most important development trend. When he was still in Yunlin, Li Zhenran had already started to prepare for this.

Now that he and Li Zhentai had left one after another, Li Zhenran was a bit distracted. The development of e-commerce had slowed down a little, but it should be the next big thing for Yunlin.

If he could go to work at Luo Fei, you would definitely come into contact with a lot of e-commerce industries, maybe he could point out a path for his future development, and he could have the opportunity to establish some personal connections.

With this idea in mind, Li Zhenruo went to Luo Fei’s company for an interview.

As a result, the big boss gave him an interview in person. Luo Fei sat behind the big desk, glanced at him, and said, “Okay, come and be my assistant.”

“Huh?” Li Zhenruo was stunned.

“Don’t want to?” Luo Fei asked him.

Li Zhenruo said, “I think it is more suitable for me to start from the grassroots level, even if I have to look after the warehouse, it’s fine.”

Luo Fei heard the words and said, “No need, Fourth Young Master Li.”

It had been a long time since anyone called him that, Li Zhenruo looked at Luo Fei, “Did xiao Feng complaint to you or did Li Zhenran complaint to you?”

Luo Fei said, “Junyuan complaint to me.”

Li Zhenruo nodded, then approached Luo Fei suspiciously and asked, “What exactly is your relationship with my master and the others?”

Luo Fei said calmly, “I’m Junyuan’s lover, don’t you know that?”

Li Zhenruo said, “I know, but as far as I know, xiao Feng isn’t a human at all, right? What about you?”

Luo Fei smiled, “You care so much about your boss’s privacy?”

Li Zhenruo said, “I haven’t worked for anyone else before, and I thought that since I was working for someone else now, I had to find out what my boss might like, right?”

Luo Fei said with a smile, “Then you don’t have to worry about it, you just need to know that what I like is Feng Junyuan.”

Li Zhenruo heard the words, and nodded, “I’ll remember.”

Luo Fei said, “When can you go to work?”

Li Zhenruo said, “Anytime.”

Luo Fei said to him, “Okay, the company provides accommodation and food, you can start working today and move into the company dormitory in the afternoon.”

“Huh?” Li Zhenruo was a little surprised, but then quickly realized that he had been living with Feng Junyuan until now, and his boss must be unhappy.

Luo Fei opened the drawer, took out a key and threw it at him. The key was wrapped in a small note with the address and house number written on it.

“Special privileges, one set of an independent dormitory, you live alone,” Luo Fei looked at him, “How’s that? Is it convenient to move?”

Li Zhenruo took the key and shook it, “You’re not going to deduct the rent from my salary, are you?”

Luo Fei said, “No.”

Li Zhenruo suddenly smiled and said, “Then it’s not a problem.”

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I have read all the opinions of xiao shou, and after thinking about it carefully, maybe compared to two men struggling with hundreds of thousands of words about love or not, readers of Danmei may prefer the love story of a real man struggling in the battle, career, cultivation and fighting monsters in these plots, I won’t say whether I like it or not. But it’s true that I’m not good at writing those plots. I’ll finish filling the hole in the secret love story after this one is over, and I’ll be careful about starting a longer story in the future.

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Chapter 8

August 9, 2022 / hoenimochi / 0 Comments

Suo Yang thought, there are stars hidden in people’s eyes phrase was indeed an exquisite metaphor.

When a person saw something he liked, or someone he liked, their eyes would light up unconsciously. A projection of joy and desire, and was regarded as a shining star.

It was not that he felt such ‘joy’ and ‘desire’ were bad, but in recent years, he had rarely felt such a desire for anything, and rarely had stars in his eyes, as Jiang Tongyan had said.

Suo Yang was a little puzzled and felt that he didn’t think he was too good for Shen Huiming.

Suo Yang smiled at Jiang Tongyan and pointed to the flickering lights, “It’s not a star, it’s a lamp.”

Jiang Tongyan could see that this was a man who would never give in to any outside interference in matters of emotion. Suo Yang was a man who only recognises his own heart.

He didn’t say more, even though the phrase of ‘an outsider can see things more clearly or objectively than those involved’ was already on his lips.

It was better not to recognise it.

Jiang Tongyan thought: Then I would still have a chance.

He had a good impression of Suo Yang, because the Suo Yang he had seen so far was almost infinitely closer to his ideal pf a boyfriend.

He was arrogant but not impatient, intelligent but not c0cky, calm and restrained, reserved and refined.

Everything about Suo Yang fits into the criteria he set for his other half, as if this person was tailor-made for him.

Of course, Jiang Tongyan knew that Suo Yang was definitely not as simple as he appeared, he was a difficult person to figure out, and he didn’t even know how to please him.

Jiang Tongyan meaningfully observed Suo Yang beside him, and Suo Yang, who was being watched had long since noticed the other man’s gaze, but he pretended to be oblivious and looked at the still lively centre of the stage.

Shen Huiming had already been pardoned and got off the stage, but Suo Yang’s eyes did not follow him and stayed on the stage all the time.

“Well?” Jiang Tongyan said to Shen Huiming, who walked back with a helpless smile, “Do you feel like the pressure has been released?”

Shen Huiming sat down and took a sip of wine, then said with a wry smile, “I feel more pressure.”

Suo Yang didn’t join their chat, just watched and listened.

Several muscular men on the stage danced provocatively, and under the cheers of the crowd, they began to slowly pull down the zip of their tights

Suo Yang’s fingers lightly rubbed the wine glass, seemingly watching, but also seemingly lost in thought.

Not far away, Zhou Mo pretended to be shy and pounced on Cheng Sen’s arms, then boldly ran up to the stage to dance provocatively with the dancers.

When the strip show was over, Zhou Mo called out to everyone to drink, and the lights in the whole place were lit up in that ambiguous yellow colour.

Zhou Mo ran over and asked, “How is it?”

He squeezed in next to Suo Yang, the ‘How is it’ referred to how Suo Yang felt about Jiang Tongyan.

Before Suo Yang could answer, Jiang Tongyan took the lead, “It’s pretty good.”

Zhou Mo stared at him with a smile, “Our Yang ge is indeed pretty good!”

Suddenly an idea struck Zhou Mo’s mind, he then drank the wine in his glass, got up and ran again.

The music changed to a soothing dance tune, and Zhou Mo pulled Cheng Sen close, flirting as they danced a duet.

Soon, everyone was looking for a dance partner in the crowd. Before Shen Huiming could extend out his hand, Jiang Tongyan said to Suo Yang, “May I have the honour?”

Suo Yang smiled slightly, put down the wine glass in his hand, got up and put his hand on Jiang Tongyan’s open palm to him.

The two blend in into the dance floor. Even though they were dancing, Suo Yang’s expression didn’t change in any way—he was still smiling, decent but distant.

Shen Huiming was vexed by his slow reaction and was surprised that Jiang Tongyan had taken the lead first.

He was drinking and sitting there with a loathsome face.

Once a man like him was alone, he would be the prey of some people. One hand stretched out, and the owner was a man with a delicate and pretty face with seduction written in his eyes.

The man looked at Shen Huiming and smiled, opened his thin lips, and said to Shen Huiming, “Handsome guy, dancing?”

Without Suo Yang, Shen Huiming didn’t plan to dance.

But when he looked up and saw the two of them on the dance floor, his desire to win suddenly flared up.

He took the man’s hand and led him “unintentionally” to Jiang Tongyan and Suo Yang’s sides.

Suo Yang glanced at Shen Huiming who was holding the stranger’s hand, and watched as the two hooked their hands on each other’s shoulders. Then heard Jiang Tongyan say, “Don’t look at others, look at me.”

Suo Yang withdrew his gaze and smiled at him.

This kind of pas de deux¹ was not so much about dancing but about flirting.

Zhou Mo and Cheng Sen were so lovey-dovey that they were on the verge of kissing each other during a dance, and Shen Huiming’s partner was pressing himself against him bit by bit.

But Shen Huiming had a sense of propriety that when the other party stepped closer, he stepped back. The two always maintained their original distance and caused the other party to pout.

“Gege, what’s the matter with you?” the man said aggrievedly, “Do I have body odour?”

Shen Huiming laughed, “No.”

“Then why are you avoiding me?”

Shen Huiming didn’t answer but looked at Suo Yang subconsciously.

As he did so, the dance partner in front of him also looked back.

“Understood.” His dance partner smiled and said, “Your sweetheart has been snatched.”

Shen Huiming laughed, “It’s not like that.”

“Watch me.”

His dance partner suddenly pulled him to the side of Jiang Tongyan and Suo Yang while dancing, and even deliberately bumped Jiang Tongyan’s back.

Jiang Tongyan looked back, nodded his head in a very gentlemanly manner and apologised, then ducked to the side with Suo Yang.

The more they avoid, the closer the man pulled Shen Huiming.

Jiang Tongyan laughed, “What does this mean?”

Shen Huiming’s dance partner winked at him, “I didn’t mean it.”

Shen Huiming didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, so he had to pull the person to the other side.

When he saw that they were gone, Jiang Tongyan continued to dance with Suo Yang and said, “Old Shen can be quite childish sometimes.”

Suo Yang smiled without saying a word and danced indifferently.

Suddenly, the music changed, and Zhou Mo shouted, “Swap partners!”

He was like a commander, with one order, everyone was looking for a new dance partner nearby.

Before Jiang Tongyan could react, the person in front of him had turned into the one who kept bumping into him.

He turned back to look for Suo Yang and found that the other party was being held by Shen Huiming around his waist.

Suo Yang said, “You react very quickly.”

Shen Huiming laughed, “Otherwise, how can I snatch you back?”

Snatch you back?

Suo Yang smiled and said, “Your partner dances well.”

“You mean you or…”

“The one just now,” Suo Yang said, “I can’t dance.”

“This kind of dance, it’s not about dancing well or not,” Shen Huiming said to him as he looked him in the eyes, “It’s about who to dance with.”

He wrapped his arms around Suo Yang and turned around, facing Jiang Tongyan who was looking over.

“Tongyan likes you very much.”

“It’s merely just a good impression on the first meeting,” Suo Yang said, “Like is still out of question.”

“What about you? Do you have a crush on him too?”

Suo Yang glanced at Shen Huiming’s cufflinks and said, “I like this brand.”

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Chapter 87

August 7, 2022 / hoenimochi / 0 Comments

That night, Li Zhenruo really dreamt that he was spanking Li Zhenran’s ass.

It was not just like taking off his pants and slapping a few times with the palm of his hand. But in a dimly lit room, as if to enforce the house rule, he made Li Zhenran lie on his back on a bench with his trousers down to reveal his firm and shiny buttocks, and then he took a long whip. He swung it in the air and made a whistling sound, and then aimed the whip heavily at Li Zhenran.

At the same time as the whip was struck, Li Zhenruo also woke up. He sat up abruptly from the bed, pulled the quilt away with a dark face and glanced at himself.

Next to him, Feng Junyuan turned over and asked vaguely, “What’s wrong?”

Li Zhenruo said softly, “It’s okay, you can continue to sleep.”

Having this strange dream didn’t make him feel any better, but Li Zhenruo thought that Xia Hongshen was right, why should he punish himself at this time? Isn’t Li Zhenran the one who should be punished?

It was raining outside, probably since last night. The rain dripped on the tiles of the old house, ticking everywhere, and the air was filled with damp and cold smells.

It was almost dawn, and Li Zhenruo felt that he was wide awake and no longer drowsy.

He began to seriously consider what he should do next if Shen Luming really wasn’t going to take his body back.

Of course, he couldn’t just stick to Xia Hongshen and the others like that. Not to mention that his master was poor as hell himself and had such a big family.

So he had to continue his cultivation training and had to go to work to earn money. It was best to save enough capital first and then develop slowly, he was still very young, wasn’t he?

Before he knew it, it was dawn. Li Zhenruo saw that Feng Junyuan was still sleeping soundly next to him, and sat on the bed without moving.

After a while, someone knocked lightly on the door outside.

Li Zhenruo got out of bed and went to open the door. He saw Song Jun standing at the door, and whispered to him, “Someone is looking for you.”

“Looking for me?” Li Zhenruo heard the words and looked into the corridor. In fact, his first reaction was that Li Zhenran came to him.

Song Jun shook his head and said to him, “This way.” Then he motioned for Li Zhenruo to follow him.

Li Zhenruo then followed Song Jun through the corridor and into his and Xia Hongshen’s room across the hall.

The room was very warm, Xia Hongshen lay lazily on the bed and did not want to get up.

Song Jun went to the window and lifted the curtain, asking Li Zhenruo to look through.

Li Zhenruo approached and saw a man standing on the opposite side of the path downstairs. The man was wearing a black suit, wrapped in a long black trench coat, holding an umbrella in his hand, and he was slender.

Song Jun whispered, “I saw him when I woke up in the morning. I don’t know when he came.”

Although his face was covered by an umbrella, Li Zhenruo could recognize that it was Li Zhenran.

Because it was raining a bit heavily, half of Li Zhenran’s sleeves were already wet by the rain, and the legs of his trousers were also wetly wrapped around his legs.

Song Jun said, “Bitter meat plan¹.”

Li Zhenruo couldn’t help laughing when he heard the words.

Xia Hongshen was lying on the bed and said in a muffled voice, “Come here, apprentice.”

“Master,” Li Zhenruo went to Xia Hongshen’s bedside well-mannerly.

Xia Hongshen stretched out his finger and pointed at him, “I told you, spank him, if not, slap his face, let him suffer the lesson he deserves.”

“But Master,” Li Zhenruo said, “The problem between me and him is not something that can be solved by punishing him. The biggest problem between us now was about trust. I don’t doubt that he loves me, I just doubt that every word he says to me is true.”

Xia Hongshen said, “Then teach him enough lessons so that he will never dare to lie to you again.”

Li Zhenruo was quiet for a while, then stood up and went back to the window, looking at Li Zhenran downstairs.

Song Jun went out to wash in the water room.

Li Zhenruo took his mobile phone and called Li Zhenran.

The call was quickly connected, and the receiver was full of background sounds of raindrops falling on the ground. Li Zhenran said, “Zhenruo?”

Li Zhenruo said, “What are you doing here?”

When he heard this, Li Zhenran raised his head and looked towards the window on the second floor, and saw Li Zhenruo who was standing by the window on the phone.

His deep voice came through the receiver, “Did you go to see the person surnamed Shen?”

Li Zhenruo said blankly, “Are you monitoring me?”

Li Zhenran said to him, “I said I had someone watching him.”

Li Zhenruo was silent for a while and replied, “Yes, I went to see him.”

“Why do you want to see him?”

Li Zhenruo said, “I was going to return my body to him.”

Li Zhenran’s eyes suddenly became sharp, and even through the rainy sky, Li Zhenruo could still see clearly.

“Have you made up your mind?” Li Zhenran asked him.

“Well,” Li Zhenruo said, “I’ve thought about it, and we’re waiting for the right moment. I’ll give my body back to him, then I’ll go to the Naihe Bridge and drink a bowl of Granny Meng’s soup and forget about you when I go to my next life.²“

Li Zhenran said, “I don’t agree.”

Li Zhenruo breathed out slowly, “You can’t control everything, right? Things have always gotten out of hand once or twice, like when Li Zhentai got someone to kill me, or when I chose to leave you now. You go to all the trouble to calculate, and maybe the result you get in the end won’t be the one you want.”

“Zhenruo—”

Li Zhenruo didn’t listen to him and chose to hang up the phone.

Li Zhenran still held the phone to his ear, looked up at him and didn’t leave.

Li Zhenruo closed the curtain silently, then turned to Xia Hongshen and said, “I want to put on a show for Li Zhenran to watch.”

Xia Hongshen sat beside the bed and yawned.

Li Zhenruo said, “I want to trick Li Zhenran into thinking that I have returned my body to Shen Luming.”

At this time, Song Jun happened to come in from outside, and after hearing Li Zhenruo’s words, he couldn’t help but sigh, “It’s so cruel.”

Li Zhenruo was a little exasperated, “I was much more gentle with him than he was with me.”

Xia Hongshen said to Song Jun, “Let them toss and turn, it’s none of your business.”

Song Jun nodded hurriedly and silently went to pack up the things he needed for today’s class.

Xia Hongshen said, “If you really fooled him, he will definitely suffer.”

“Master,” Li Zhenruo said, “You may think I’m good for nothing if I say it. The reason why I went to Shen Luming last night and offered to return my body to him was that I was beginning to feel scared of Li Zhenran and I couldn’t figure out what he was thinking.”

Xia Hongshen then asked him, “Have you calmed down now?”

Li Zhenruo nodded, “I thought about it for a long time. If I continue to maintain my fear and distrust of him, then we will definitely have no way to go on.”

Song Jun couldn’t help but ask, “Then do you still want to continue to be with him?”

Li Zhenruo was silent for a moment and said, “If I’m not afraid anymore.”

Xia Hongshen got out of bed wearing a piece of clothing, “Fear is because you are not strong enough.”

Li Zhenruo looked at him.

Xia Hongshen said, “In every sense, you are not strong enough.”

Li Zhenruo couldn’t help looking back at the window, through the curtains, he didn’t know if Li Zhenran was still there, but Xia Hongshen was right, he was not strong enough, so he feared the other person.

In this relationship, he was just putting himself in the position of the weaker one, but who loved whom more and who was more afraid of whose departure?

Suddenly, he was a little glad that Shen Luming had rejected him last night when he was at his most impulsive, otherwise when he really stepped on the Naihe Bridge, would he not be able to help regret it.

Li Zhenran didn’t stay at the school building for too long, because there was a meeting in Yunlin in the morning.

Yunlin’s recent conferences had continued, mainly due to the adjustment of the upper management and the large-scale personnel changes after Li Zhenran took over.

However, during today’s meeting, everyone could see that Li Zhenran was not in high spirits.

Li Zhenzi sat next to him and occasionally glanced up at Li Zhenran, seeing him sitting in a large office chair, leaning back, elbows propped up on the armrest, holding a pen in one hand, his gaze falling on the information in front of him, but his expression seemed inattentive.

After the speaker reported the content, he fell silent and waited for Li Zhenran’s opinion.

Li Zhenran didn’t speak for a while.

Li Zhenzi put his hand to his mouth and coughed softly.

Li Zhenran then raised his head and said, “Continue.”

So the next person went on to report.

Suddenly, Li Zhenran’s cell phone rang, and the person preparing to report stopped again.

Li Zhenran answered the phone in front of the entire conference room. After listening to the person on the other side with a blank face, he only said coldly, “Keep an eye on him.” Then he hung up the phone and threw it on the table to let them continue.

At the end of the meeting, Li Zhenran directly picked up the stack of documents in front of him and walked out.

Li Zhenzi was pulled by a department manager and said a few words, and then he hurriedly followed Li Zhenran’s office. When he wanted to knock on the door to go in, he heard that there seemed to be a phone call inside.

He put his head on the door and wanted to eavesdrop. Hua Yibang looked a little embarrassed and said, “This is not quite appropriate, is it?”

“Shh—” Li Zhenzi put his index finger on his lips.

It was a pity that the door was well soundproofed. Li Zhenzi eavesdropped for a long time and couldn’t hear anything.

Suddenly, Li Zhenran pulled the door open from the inside.

Li Zhenzi was startled, stood up straight and pretended to be knocking on the door.

Li Zhenran ignored him and said directly to Hua Yibang, “I have to go out for something.”

Hua Yibang heard the words, “Then I will ask the driver to prepare the car.”

Li Zhenran said, “No, I’ll drive by myself.” He put on his jacket and walked outside.

Li Zhenzi was still limping, but he tried his best to catch up and asked, “Second brother, where are you going?”

Li Zhenran pressed the elevator and told him, “It’s none of your business.”

The elevator was on the twenty-third floor, and the elevator door opened quickly.

Li Zhenzi followed Li Zhenran into the elevator, “What’s wrong? I didn’t see your cat last night, did it run away from home?”

Li Zhenran ignored him. When the elevator went down to the basement floor, and the doors opened, Li Zhenzhi was about to follow him out, and Li Zhenran suddenly turned around and punched Li Zhenzi in the lower abdomen and said, “Don’t follow me.”

Li Zhenzi bent down from the pain groaned and said, “Do you have to be that ruthless…”

Li Zhenran received a call from the person he arranged beside Shen Luming, telling him that Li Zhenruo went to Shen Luming again, and this time it was very clear that he would return his body to Shen Luming.

On the way, Li Zhenran drove furiously and ran two red lights. He didn’t know if the so-called handing over the body was that simple, but he knew that Li Zhenruo’s so-called master didn’t seem to be that simple.

Having seen a cat become a human, he dare not say anything in the world was impossible.

After driving the car to the school and parked on the side of the road, Li Zhenran got out of the car and ran into the adjacent teaching building, anxiously waiting for the elevator to sit on the top floor of the teaching building, then turned to the stairs and ran to the roof.

Li Zhenran suddenly pushed open the roof door and saw a person standing outside while the other two were lying on the ground.

It was still raining, and everyone on the rooftop was soaked by the rain.

Li Zhenran walked in the direction where Li Zhenruo was lying.

Xia Hongshen, who was standing beside him, said to him, “You are late, he has already returned his body.”

Li Zhenran paused after hearing the words and asked, “What about him?”

Xia Hongshen looked at the sky, “A wisp of a soul, it should have been reincarnated long ago.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Zhenruo on the ground shrank his limbs and turned back into a cat, but still lay unconscious.

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Chapter 12

August 6, 2022 / hoenimochi / 5 Comments

“Are you drunk?” Chen Yuncheng asked Ning Junyan.

Ning Junyan shook his head and said, “I’m not drunk.” He finally let go of Chen Yuncheng’s hands and sat up from the bed. He got up and walked around the table to get his coat hanging by the wall.

Chen Yuncheng saw that he was really going to leave, and said, “You’ve been drinking, don’t drive.”

Ning Junyan paused for a moment, he took out his phone and said, “I’ll call a chauffeur.”

Chen Yuncheng didn’t plan to ask him to stay. After all, he didn’t have any extra room for Ning Junyan to stay here. He just waited with Ning Junyan for more than ten minutes, and then send him off when the chauffeur arrived.

By this time, the rain had died down, falling so thinly onto the ground that the sound could barely be heard.

The young chauffeur started the car. Ning Junyan sat in the passenger seat, pressed the window down, and said to Chen Yuncheng, “I’m going on a business trip in two days.”

Chen Yuncheng nodded, not understanding why he suddenly said this to him and thought that Ning Junyan still had something to say.

Ning Junyan didn’t say anything.

Chen Yuncheng had to tell the chauffeur to drive carefully. He then stepped back two steps and stood on the street to wave them goodbye. After the driver drove away, he turned around and went back to his kiosk.

After tidying up the room, Chen Yuncheng turned off the light and lay on the bed. It was quite late, he drank a little more wine, and drowsiness surged up quickly, and he quickly fell asleep.

The next morning, after Chen Yuncheng had breakfast, he remembered to send a message to Long Zhanyu, sending the name and address of the hotel where he followed the X-ethnic people last night.

It didn’t take long before Long Zhanyu called him and said to him, “You don’t need to care about that, we can find out the address, just pay attention to whether he has contacted any local people.”

Chen Yuncheng frowned, “Officer Long, since you’ve already tracked down his address, is it difficult to keep track of who he is in contact with?”

Long Zhanyu said, “It’s not difficult, I just don’t want to alert the snake yet.”

Chen Yuncheng understood what Long Zhanyu meant, and the key issue was not with the two X ethnic people, but with the local people they might have come into contact with, who might be able to recognize the police in their jurisdiction, just like Chen Yuncheng, who had dealt with Long Zhan Yu and the others quite a lot back then.

He asked Long Zhanyu, “What are these two people doing?”

Long Zhanyu said, “Don’t pry, but as long as there is enough evidence, we will definitely arrest them. Until then, I’m afraid we’ll have to hold back a bit.”

Chen Yuncheng said, “Okay.”

He was about to hang up, but Long Zhanyu suddenly stopped him and said, “I’m meeting some classmates for dinner tonight, and I’ll come by your place this afternoon to pick up two bottles of wine and a cigarette.”

Chen Yuncheng replied, “Okay, police officer.” Only then did the call really end.

Long Zhan Yu did not make Chen Yun Cheng an informant for nothing. He had taken care of Chen Yuncheng’s business a lot in the past two years. For the family reunion at New Year, the wine was taken from Chen Yuncheng’s kiosk.

After five o’clock in the afternoon, Long Zhanyu drove his private car to Chen Yuncheng to get tobacco and alcohol.

Chen Yuncheng carried two bottles of wine, put a cigarette under his arm, and sent it directly to Long Zhanyu beside the car.

Long Zhanyu did not get out of the car. With a cigarette in his mouth, he took out his wallet from the inner pocket of his jacket, took out a few hundred-yuan bills, and asked him, “How much?”

Chen Yuncheng said, “Three hundred and fifty will do.” After he said that, he asked Long Zhanyu, “Do you want to put it in the trunk?”

Long Zhanyu raised his hand and pressed the door lock, and said, “Just put it on the passenger seat.”

Chen Yuncheng opened the passenger door, put two bottles of wine under the seat, and placed the cigarette directly on the seat.

Then he took the money from Long Zhanyu, smiled and said, “Just right, Officer Long.”

Long Zhanyu said “Um” and asked him, “Is business going well recently?”

Chen Yuncheng said, “It’s okay.”

Long Zhanyu suddenly moved closer to him and said softly, “Did you know that Guan Anlin was released from prison yesterday?”

Chen Yuncheng looked at Long Zhanyu, and after a little silence, he said, “I don’t know.”

Long Zhanyu said, “If he comes to harass you, you can call the police. It is our duty to protect the citizens.”

Chen Yuncheng’s eyelashes twitched a little as he said to Long Zhan Yu, “Officer Long, smoke less.”

Long Zhanyu’s slender fingers still held the cigarette he bit with his lips.

Chen Yuncheng smiled and continued, “If you smoke too much, you will grow old quickly. It’s a pity that you have such a face.”

Long Zhanyu snorted coldly, turned his face away and said, “You don’t know good stuffs.”

Chen Yuncheng stepped out of his car, and raised his hand to help him close the door, “Officer Long, take care.”

As Long Zhanyu drove away, Chen Yun Cheng returned to his kiosk and did nothing but tidy up the containers and was thinking about what to have for dinner when another car pulled up in front of his shop.

Chen Yuncheng put down the things in his hand, and leaned against the counter to look outside.

It was a black car. After it stopped, the back door opened, and a middle-aged man in his 40s stepped out. The man was a little fat, but he was tall. He looked tall and strong, giving people a sense of oppression.

He got out of the car and walked straight toward Chen Yuncheng, showing a smile with little sincerity and said, “Yuncheng, it’s been a long time.”

“Yong ge,” Chen Yuncheng smiled back, “It’s really been a long time since I saw you.”

Zhang Wenyong went all the way to the door of the store, stopped in front of the counter, looked at Chen Yuncheng’s small kiosk, and asked, “You have some buyer here?”

Chen Yuncheng said, “Not bad.”

Zhang Wenyong chuckled and smiled, looking grim, and then said, “Then the business is probably good, it’s more profitable than hanging out with the brothers, right?”

Chen Yuncheng said, “It’s not profitable, it’s just a peace of mind.”

Zhang Wenyong’s eyes fell on his face, and he said, “You are quite stable. Have you ever thought about how well Anlin’s life has been in the past two years?”

Chen Yuncheng did not speak.

Zhang Wenyong then burst into laughter. He reached out across the counter and patted Chen Yuncheng on the shoulder, saying, “I have good news for you, Guan Anlin is out.”

Chen Yuncheng looked very calm, “Really?”

Zhang Wenyong looked at him, and stopped laughing, pretending to be surprised, “Why are you unhappy? Before he went in, he always regarded you as his best brother.”

Chen Yuncheng smiled lightly, “Of course, I’m happy for him.”

Zhang Wenyong said, “Since you are happy, don’t just talk about it, let’s go. I arranged to pick up Anlin tonight, and now I’m here to pick you up.”

Chen Yuncheng didn’t answer him immediately.

Zhang Wenyong put one arm on the counter and said, “What? You are not going to show some respect even when Yong ge came in person?”

“It’s not that,” Chen Yuncheng said, “Of course, I have to go to Anlin’s welcome party, Yong ge wait for a moment, I will follow you after I clean up the kiosk and close the door.”

Zhang Wenyong took two steps away from the counter, lit a cigarette and stood smoking on the side of the road. He looked at Chen Yuncheng’s dilapidated kiosk and sneered.

Chen Yuncheng turned off the TV, locked the container of tobacco and alcohol, and then went outside, standing on tiptoe and pulling down the shutter.

During this process, Zhang Wenyong kept smoking a cigarette and watched him from the side.

After he finished everything, Chen Yuncheng said to Zhang Wenyong, “Let’s go, Yong ge.”

Zhang Wenyong raised his chin towards the car door, “Get in.”

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Chapter 86

August 5, 2022 / hoenimochi / 2 Comments

Inside the university building classroom, the students were quietly studying for their evening classes. A girl sitting in the back row stretched and stood up to go to the toilet. She had just walked to the back door of the classroom when she saw a cat looking inside.

The girl squatted down in amazement and reached out to touch the cat’s head.

Li Zhenruo raised his head and glanced at the girl. When he saw that her nails were clean and she was cute, he held back and didn’t avoid it. He continued to look inside while he let her touch the top of his head.

“Huh?” The girl noticed the phone hanging around his neck and reached out to get it.

Li Zhenruo retreated this time, dodged to the side, and ran into the classroom at the same time since he had already found the person he was looking for.

Shen Luming was attending the evening self-study, and the girl sitting next to him was his girlfriend. The classroom was quietly filled with students, and at first, except for the girl who went to the toilet, everyone lowered their heads and studied hard, so no one noticed a cat running in.

Then all of the sudden, Shen Luming stood up abruptly.

His table and chair rattled, and all the people in the classroom looked in his direction. His girlfriend was even more startled and reached out to pull the hem of his clothes, asking, “What’s wrong?”

Shen Luming didn’t answer and turned to look at the passage leading to him from the back of the classroom.

Li Zhenruo stopped halfway to look at him.

The others were also baffled, they followed him and saw the cat sneaking in.

One person and one cat began to look at each other in silence for a long time, the kind of heart-warming attraction to each other. If Li Zhenruo didn’t know what was going on, he would definitely suspect that he had fell in love with this person at first sight.

Shen Luming was more at a loss. He looked at the cat standing in the corridor for a long time, and said to his girlfriend, “I’m going out for a while.”

The girl asked him strangely, “Why is this ……”

Shen Luming didn’t answer her, and asked the people sitting outside to get out of the way, and walked out by himself until he stood in front of Li Zhenruo, lowered his head and asked him, “Are you here to find me?”

Li Zhenruo didn’t say anything, just turned around and walked outside, he knew that Shen Luming would definitely follow.

Then Shen Luming’s girlfriend stared dumbfoundedly as her boyfriend followed a cat halfway through his self-study session.

Li Zhenruo walked with Shen Luming towards the secluded path. Behind the dark teaching building where no one was there, Li Zhenruo took light steps, stretched out the fluff of his hands and feet, and turned into a young man.

Shen Luming stood there and looked at him, seemingly surprised and seemingly taking it as a matter of course that this was how it should be.

“Are we related in some way?” Shen Luming asked.

Li Zhenruo nodded, “Do you remember your past?”

Shen Luming looked puzzled, “My past?”

Li Zhenruo said, “Someone told me that my current body belongs to you.”

Shen Luming froze in place and didn’t respond. After a while, he said, “You mean you, or the cat?”

“Both,” Li Zhenruo said, “I am the cat.”

Shen Luming asked, “Am I a cat?”

Li Zhenruo said, “I don’t know, you should be a cat.”

Shen Luming sounded at loss, “But I’m a person, I’m not a cat.”

He was afraid that only when Shen Luming’s memory was complete would they be able to know how everything came to be the way it was now.

He didn’t know what Shen Luming was thinking, but it could be seen that Shen Luming wanted to get close to Li Zhenruo because he felt a strange attraction, but had no intention of doing anything to Li Zhenruo.

“I was injured and lost my memory before going to college, and I don’t remember anything from before,” Shen Luming said.

Li Zhenruo thought for a while, “Are you a sophomore this year?”

Shen Luming nodded.

Yes, the time when Shen Luming lost his memory was almost exactly when Li Zhenruo had just turned into a kitten and was born from the mother cat’s belly. Maybe the body that was supposed to be Shen Luming’s had been taken over by him, and Shen Luming was not the original Shen Luming?

Li Zhenruo was a little confused.

Shen Luming asked him at this time, “Why did you come to me? I thought you were avoiding me.”

For Li Zhenruo, Shen Luming had always been a thorn in his heart, even if Li Zhenran really tricked Shen Luming to go abroad, it did not mean that Shen Luming would never come back. Even if Shen Luming died, as long as his soul was still there, Li Zhenruo would have to return his body to him one day.

In fact, even if Li Zhenran was not involved, Li Zhenruo thought that he should find Shen Luming to really solve this problem. But now, it was just a matter of getting him to make up his mind sooner.

“I’ll give you this body back, do you want it?” Li Zhenruo asked tentatively.

Shen Luming was stunned by his question, and hesitantly said, “I don’t want to be a cat.”

Li Zhenruo was also stunned. He had been worried that Shen Luming would take the initiative to take his body back, but he didn’t expect that Shen Luming would dislike the deal.

When he saw Li Zhenruo’s reaction, Shen Luming quickly explained, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean that, I mean you are doing a good job as a cat, I think I may not be suitable for being a cat, I am living a good life now.”

Li Zhenruo thought of the girl in the classroom, “Do you have a girlfriend?”

Shen Luming nodded, “The college recently had an exchange to study abroad, and I wanted to go out with her.”

“But that’s—” Li Zhenruo stopped in the middle of his sentence. He wanted to say that it was deliberately arranged by someone, but so what if it was deliberately arranged? Now it seemed to be a good opportunity for Shen Luming.

So Li Zhenruo didn’t finish the rest of his sentence, and could only say, “You can think about it again, and if there is anything you need, you can tell me.”

Shen Luming looked at the phone hanging around his neck, “Can you give me your contact information?”

“Of course,” Li Zhenruo exchanged mobile phone numbers with him.

Shen Luming said, “Although I’m also curious about what’s going on, I’m pretty sure now that I’m satisfied with my own life, and I’ll get in touch with you if I really want to.”

Li Zhenruo nodded.

At this time, a girl’s shout came from a distance, “Shen Luming!”

Shen Luming said, “My girlfriend is looking for me, I’ll go first.”

Li Zhenruo replied, “Okay.” Then he saw Shen Luming turn around and left in a hurry.

After Shen Luming walked away and only Li Zhenruo was left. He looked up at the dense bushes and said, “Master, you can come out.”

Xia Hongshen stood on the branch, folded his arms over his chest, and stuck his head out to look at him, “You come up.”

Li Zhenruo looked at the tall and straight tree trunk and chose to change into a cat to climb up. As a result, when he finally climbed to Xia Hongshen’s side, he was slapped down by him.

“Good for nothing,” Xia Hongshen scolded.

At night, only some pairs of lovers were left by the school lotus pond. Xia Hongshen and Li Zhenruo occupied a bench and watched the lotus leaves that were gradually starting to wither by the roadside light.

Xia Hongshen said, “It’s not bad, being able to detect my traces.”

Li Zhenruo said, “Master, your spiritual power fluctuates so obviously, how could I not notice it.”

Xia Hongshen looked ahead, “Why do you want to return your body to him?”

Li Zhenruo didn’t answer directly, but asked, “Master, if one day you found out that Song Jun had lied to you about many things, said he was doing it for your own good, but he wouldn’t let you know anything, and had once watched you get hurt by others, would you hate him and leave him?”

“No,” Xia Hongshen replied without even thinking about it.

He answered so quickly that it took a moment for Li Zhenruo to come back to his senses and asked him, “Can you not care about all this?”

Xia Hongshen said, “I have been through too long a life, and he has always been by my side. All this is nothing to our long life.”

“It’s nothing? Just forget about it? There’s no need to even be angry?” Li Zhenruo asked one after another.

Xia Hongshen said to him, “You can spank him.”

“…… What if the spanking doesn’t work?”

“Hit again.”

Li Zhenruo felt that he made no sense.

Xia Hongshen said softly, “He belongs to me. Even if he betrays me, I will only find him and punish him severely, not punish myself.”

Li Zhenruo was a little startled.

Xia Hongshen asked him, “Lost your love, huh?”

Li Zhenruo said, “Master, it really feels strange to discuss this kind of issue with you.”

Xia Hongshen said, “Then let’s not talk about that, and try to see how your abilities are now.”

After he said that, Xia Hongshen raised his hand, and out of thin air, a small rat fell to the ground and darted into the grass, “Go, catch it, or you won’t be allowed to rest at night.”

“Master!” Li Zhenruo complained, but still stood up and chased the little mouse. He didn’t need to look, anyway, it was right to run to the place where he heard the girl scream.

Just after 11 pm, the yellow-and-white Garfield stepped on the wooden stairs and slowly climbed up the second floor of the old dormitory building with a small mouse in his mouth.

Xia Hongshen stood at the entrance of the stairs on the second floor and looked at him. With a flick of his finger, the rat turned into a ball of air. He said, “Pass, come back to sleep.”

Li Zhenruo had just gone up when he was picked up and rubbed by Xi Anling, “Little Gaffey!”

Song Jun came out of the room with a bag of dried fish in his hand. He leaned in to feed Li Zhenruo, but Xia Hongshen grabbed his hand and said, “Mine.”

Li Zhenruo was surrounded by a group of them and was suddenly a little stressed.

Long Xing touched his head and asked, “Where’s Erhuang? Is it okay?”

Li Zhenruo nodded.

Song Jun quietly handed the dried fish to Feng Junyuan from behind, and Feng Junyuan directly stuffed the dried fish into Li Zhenruo’s mouth while Xia Hongshen was not paying attention.

Li Zhenruo had no appetite, and could not bear to disappoint their kindness, so he raised his paws to cover his mouth and chewed the dried small fish.

After a while, he heard Xia Hongshen say, “Do you think I can’t smell it?”

Li Zhenruo hurriedly closed his mouth and chewed something, not daring to open it.

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Of course it’s HE¹, the second brother still loves Zhenruo

The original persona of Zhenruo was that he was young, proud, and indulgent. He has certain abilities, but he is hated by others without knowing it. It seems that many readers feel that Zhenruo is not strong enough and is feminine, but why is being talented in business must be someone who was scheming or a deep and steady man? His business talent is brought into play because he has a strong father

In fact, I was also very puzzled by Perfection serialization. Isn’t it the acting that the actor requires? In reality, there are movie stars who are also unsociable geeks. Why should one characterize a person based on his professional performance? What kind of character should he be? He is not a Film Emperor/business elite character…

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Chapter 85

August 3, 2022 / hoenimochi / 0 Comments

Li Zhenruo’s heart trembled.

He let go of the telephone he had already touched, stood up and walked around to the desk. He stood with his back against the big desk, and said, “I’m looking for a photo, a photo of Zhao Yuqiong and the man who abandoned her.”

Li Zhenran stood by the door and didn’t move. He said, “The photo is with Li Zhentai, don’t you remember?”

Li Zhenruo said, “Is there only one photo? If I were Sun He, something that important would definitely be re-photographed and kept. I wouldn’t have just handed it over and lost it.”

“Sun He?” Li Zhenran’s tone was a little surprised.

The room was still shrouded in darkness, especially when looking from Li Zhenruo to Li Zhenran’s direction, he could only see the outline of a person, but not the expression of the person.

Li Zhenruo said, “Sun He told me that he came to you.”

Li Zhenran heard the words and did not speak.

Li Zhenruo took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and didn’t want to be affected by the other party’s emotions.

In the end, Li Zhenran seemed to sigh and said, “Are you going to test me like this? Sun He can’t tell you this, because I know where Sun He is.”

Li Zhenruo squeezed the edge of the desk tightly, “Sun He really came to you?”

Li Zhenran said, “Sun He came to me. He asked me for money and said he would give me a photo. He said that I would definitely be interested in that photo. I said yes to him, and I gave him the money.”

Li Zhenruo gritted his teeth, “So you have seen that photo in the first place?”

Li Zhenran said unhurriedly, “Sun He gave me the photo, and I felt that things were not so simple. So I asked people to keep an eye on him. It turned out that he had tasted the sweetness, and turned around and contacted Li Zhentai again.”

Li Zhenruo said, “You knew he had gone to contact Li Zhentai, but you didn’t stop him.”

Li Zhenran was quiet for a while and admitted, “I want to see how Li Zhentai will react.”

Li Zhenruo took a deep breath and said, “You said you wanted to see it, but you knew that Li Zhentai would never let go of this opportunity to deal with me, so while he drove me out and found someone to kill me, you kept watching from the sidelines.”

Li Zhenran suddenly approached Li Zhenruo slowly, his footsteps were particularly loud in the darkness until he stopped in front of Li Zhenruo and reached out to touch Li Zhenruo’s face.

His palms were warm and dry as always, but Li Zhenruo shivered for no reason.

Li Zhenran said softly, “I didn’t know he would kill you, I was surprised and thought he was too stupid. I thought he would make Li Jianglin angry by killing you, so he would investigate this matter thoroughly, but instead, I didn’t expect it to spur Li Jianglin to give up and drop the matter.”

Li Zhenruo felt Li Zhenran’s gentle touch and said, “You knew the truth from the beginning, but you pretended not to know anything and played me for a fool.”

Li Zhenran said, “I said it was Li Zhentai who did it, I didn’t lie to you.”

By now Li Zhenran still said that he didn’t lie to him. Li Zhenruo was suddenly very angry, his throat was dry and sore. He raised his head and said, “You saw the photo, then what? Where is Sun He? What’s going on in Luo Yunguang’s place?”

Li Zhenran sighed lightly, “I didn’t think it was simple. The first thing I did was to go to Luo Yunguang and learn the truth from him. At the same time, in order to prevent Sun He from talking nonsense, I kept having people looking for him, forcing him to leave the place and not dare to come back.”

Li Zhenruo said, “So that time later, when you took me to Luo Yunguang, you had already conspired to put on a show with him for me?”

Li Zhenran kissed his forehead, “What he said is the truth. I asked him to tell you everything you want to know.”

Li Zhenruo was a little dazed, “Then what he said to Li Zhentai was a deception?”

Li Zhenran said, “Yes, I asked him to say that to Li Zhentai. I will not give Li Zhentai the opportunity to seize my weakness and threaten me back, and at the same time keep him from giving up and want to continue to struggle. That way, we can send him to his death in name only.”

He whispered these words close to Li Zhenruo’s ear, and his airy voice burrowed into his ear, like a wet and cold insect.

Li Zhenruo felt that he could no longer control his emotions, he raised his hand to push Li Zhenran away and wanted to stay away from him. But when he turned around, he was hugged by Li Zhenran from behind. Li Zhenran’s arms were tightly wrapped around his waist, no matter how hard he struggled, Li Zhenran would not let go. He then said in his ear, “Zhenruo, listen, I do love you. I only know the truth from the beginning to the end, I have not harmed you.”

Li Zhenruo said, “But you lied to me.”

Li Zhenran reached out to turn his face and said in a low voice, “Didn’t you also lie to me? In the days when I doubted your identity, I hoped you were not Li Zhenruo more than once, but I still couldn’t avoid it. After twenty years of being brothers, what kind of relationship do we had? How do you want me to invest myself to you? If you and I swap identities, can you swear you won’t do the same thing?”

Li Zhenruo gasped and became emotional, “You’re right! I can’t swear that you don’t owe me anything, you’re just watching me die, and I might do the same thing! But so what? You lied to me for so long, and now how dare I believe that you love me?”

Li Zhenran said, “Ask your own heart, can’t you feel that I love you?”

Li Zhenruo tried his best to calm his breath, “From the time you knew I was Li Zhenruo, you were planning how to completely take yourself out of this matter, right? I felt very strange before, at that time it was obvious I deceived you first and left home afterwards, yet you took the initiative to come to me and ask for peace because you had already planned what was to follow, didn’t you?”

Li Zhenran didn’t answer, in Li Zhenruo’s view, he acquiesced.

At that time, rather than being angry at being deceived, Li Zhenran began to think about how to present the truth to Li Zhenruo. After hesitating, he finally decided to cover up all the facts related to him, and only let him know about Li Zhentai. However, what was presented to Li Zhenruo in this way was almost the complete truth.

Anger was the disguise. After Li Zhenruo ran away from home, Li Zhenran decided to stop the disguised anger and chose to bow to Li Zhenruo.

Li Zhenruo said, “Since you chose to hide from me, why did you let me see Li Zhentai alone? You should have watched me and not let me have the chance to be alone with him.”

Li Zhenran heard the words and said, “So it was Li Zhentai. I let you see him alone because he didn’t know that I was involved in this matter from beginning to end. I want you to watch him die and complete your revenge. I didn’t think he’d say anything to you that would make you start to suspect me.”

“No,” Li Zhenruo shook his head, “It’s not that I doubt you, it’s just I doubt that someone else was involved behind this affair.”

Li Zhenran asked him, “So do you hate me?”

Li Zhenruo said, “Let go of me first.”

Li Zhenran let go of his hand and helped Li Zhenruo fix the collar that had come loose in the tugging.

Li Zhenruo said, “I don’t hate you, I’m just a little afraid of you. If I continue to be with you, I will never be able to get rid of doubts and fears. I don’t know which of your words is true and which is false. Even now, I began to suspect that the truth is not so simple, there is a bigger situation behind it, and I don’t know it even if I’m in it.”

“Zhenruo,” Li Zhenran reached out to touch his face.

Li Zhenruo turned his head to avoid it. He walked towards the door of the office, and finally stopped by the door. He reached out and grabbed the collar around his neck and ripped it off. The chain buckle behind the collar was pulled off, and a bloodstain was also strangled on the back of the neck.

“This collar,” Li Zhenruo said, “I know it has a tracker, but I never took it off. I thought it was more of a memory of the past between us, and it always lost its practical significance, but now I’m not so sure anymore. I’m not your cat, and you can’t tie me up.”

After he said that, he threw the collar in the direction of Li Zhenran.

The collar hit Li Zhenran’s chest and then landed on the ground with a crisp sound.

Li Zhenruo opened the door and walked out, while Li Zhenran crouched down to pick up the collar slowly with his hands.

When he came out of Li Zhenran’s office, Li Zhenruo realised that it was still dark outside in the corridor. He groped for the direction of the elevator. But after two steps he remembered that the power had gone out and the lift had naturally stopped, so he turned around and groped in the direction of the stairwell.

The staircase was so pitch black and there was no light at all coming in.

He felt that his head was spinning, so he changed back to the shape of a cat, and his vision suddenly became clear before running downstairs. He just kept running out of Yunlin’s building, Li Zhenruo ran all the way forward on the brightly lit street.

The cold wind of the night kept blowing through his body, and his aching mind was gradually clearing up. When he stopped and turned around, Yunlin’s building had disappeared from sight.

He slowed his pace and raised his head like many arrogant cats.

When he was still a complete human, love was just a spice of life for him. He believed that the goal of life as a man should be a career; after losing his life, his goal in life was to find his murderer and to take revenge; when he got his revenge, he wanted to live longer to accompany Li Zhenran. He admitted that he was a little addicted to love and could not extricate himself from it. He understood the taste of love beyond the sky, and other things seemed less important.

Until now.

When he was standing at the intersection and waiting for the red light, several people around him were looking at him. Li Zhenruo’s mobile phone was put on a rope by him, so it could be hung around his neck when he turned into a cat.

A young man seemed to have followed him for a while, and when he saw him alone as a cat, he knelt down and pretended to pet his head while trying to get the phone around his neck.

Li Zhenruo bit his hand mercilessly then ran into the crowd and ran away.

When he saw the red light turn green and the pedestrians hurrying forward, Li Zhenruo thought to himself, should his story be over now? Rather than being a cat, he still wanted to be a complete person.

He had already fulfilled his wish with this body, so it was better to return the body to the original owner now and to reincarnate as soon as possible. He didn’t need an overly prominent family, even if he was a child of a poor man, to work step by step for what he wanted was the best life.

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Can you trust someone again after being deceived so bad that you begin to question everything? I feel like I just witnessed something real dark… about Zhenran… and how calculative he is…
Also I just read an NU comment saying that the people here are treating the cat so bad. I agree. But don’t call PETA please (ಥ_ಥ)

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Chapter 7

August 2, 2022 / hoenimochi / 1 Comment

Suo Yang didn’t know much about the so-called Five Elements. He only knew about them because he flipped through a book when he had nothing to do, and after a few glances, he remembered it.

As for “reinforce and conquer each other”, how to reinforce? How do you conquer one another?

He just listened and laughed.

Seeing that Suo Yang didn’t speak, Shen Huiming felt as if he had shot an empty arrow again, which was really a headache.

The two of them sat like this and didn’t speak anymore, Suo Yang looked at the other guests not far from them with a faint smile.

As Suo Yang said, he knew very well that he was not in the same world as Shen Hui Ming and Jiang Tongyan, and this could also be seen from Zhou Mo and Cheng Sen.

Those who came to Zhou Mo’s birthday party were clearly two different groups of people. Part of them was fashionable and playful, unrestrained and crazy, and the other part was unusually refined and elegant even without suits and leather shoes. You could guess which ones were Zhou Mo’s friends and which ones were invited by Cheng Sen.

There was no difference between these two types of people, but the sense of separation made Suo Yang feel dazzled.

But then again, he didn’t feel he was unworthy of anyone, there was no such thing as ‘worthy or unworthy in this world of relationships, only ‘want or don’t want’.

He was not sure what Jiang Tongyan thought of him, but the chances were that he would still politely decline.

It was not only because he didn’t want to integrate into the other man’s life, but he couldn’t give up his favourite job like Zhou Mo in order to spend more time with his lover.

In fact, he pretty much had the same attitude towards Shen Huiming.

“This Zhou Mo is really something,” Jiang Tongyan came back, holding the wine in his hand, “Bringing you here and just leaving it at that.”

By now, most of the guests had arrived. Zhou Mo was flying around like a butterfly, mooching people off everywhere. Cheng Sen was not concerned, he just kept standing on the side to look at him and smiled.

Suo Yang smiled and said, “Fortunately, I’m used to it.”

Shen Huiming said sourly on the side, “Am I not keeping him company?”

Jiang Tongyan glanced at Shen Huiming and deliberately sat between the two again.

“How is it? How’s it going?” Jiang Tongyan poured wine for the two of them and asked this question seemingly without many thoughts.

These three, each with their own worries, and the atmosphere was delicate.

Shen Huiming felt that nothing he said was inappropriate, and he was afraid that Suo Yang would be annoyed by his talkativeness, so he simply kept quiet and watched how Suo Yang would respond.

Suo Yang was unexpectedly frank, “Mr. Shen and I have only met twice by accident, and it’s a rare thing that he still remembers me.”

Jiang Tongyan laughed when he heard what he said, “It’s not that rare.”

He handed the wine glass to Suo Yang, “You leave a deep impression.”

Suo Yang looked at him. On this occasion, he also showed that kind of professional smile that made Shen Huiming very helpless. The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and his eyes seemed to be smiling, but you never knew whether his smile was real or not.

Jiang Tongyan wouldn’t just guess around like Shen Huiming, but asked bluntly, “Were you all flight attendants trained to smile? Since you came in, every time you smile, the curvature of your smile is exactly the same.”

The smile on Suo Yang’s face froze for a second before he hurriedly put on a lighthearted smile and said, “I’m sorry, maybe this is also a type of occupational disease.”

Suo Yang, who was exposed, felt a little embarrassed, but his embarrassment was not discovered by anyone.

He continued to talk and laugh with Jiang Tongyan and said some irrelevant remarks. Jiang Tongyan was not a grouchy and annoying person. Although he mercilessly exposed Suo Yang’s smile, it only made Suo Yang feel that he might need to keep a safer distance from this person, that’s all, to not create any offence in any way.

In fact, Jiang Tongyan was a good conversationalist and good at finding things to talk about. Because he knew the specific nature of Suo Yang’s work, he started talking about all the countries where the two had visited. Suo Yang didn’t answer often, even if he did it was polite and brief. In the end, they talked back to New York, back to the night where Suo Yang stayed last week, and the meeting he had had with Shen Huiming.

The topic went back to Shen Huiming. Shen Huiming, who sat beside him for a long time without speaking, said with a smile, “Seeing you guys talking so well, I almost thought I wouldn’t have a part to play today.”

Jiang Tongyan laughed, turned around and said to Suo Yang, “I still have a few love-hate relationships with Huiming that we have to talk about.”

Suo Yang, who had no interest in any topic at first, seemed to have finally had his interest triggered and looked at the two people in front of him suspiciously.

Shen Huiming smiled, “It’s too easy for people to misunderstand when you say that, those who don’t know will think that there’s something wrong between us.”

“The two of us did have a problem,” Jiang Tongyan smiled at him, then turned to Suo Yang and said, “We were both undergraduate classmates in New York at the time, and whoever I liked, liked him, just like a curse. I almost went to a shaman to break my curse.”

Suo Yang smiled, “Really?”

“So, he has a sense of crisis now.” Shen Huiminglooked at Suo Yang with a light smile, “Maybe he would be happier today without me.”

Jiang Tongyan shrugged noncommittally.

While they were talking over here, Zhou Mo turned off the lights in the room.

Suddenly there was darkness, and the originally bustling venue suddenly became quiet.

Suo Yang looked around in surprise, then met Shen Huiming’s gaze, neither of them said anything, just looked at each other and looked away.

Zhou Mo took the microphone and walked to the small stage that was specially set up for today. He snapped his fingers and a chasing beam of light spilt down.

“Thank you, friends and family, for coming to my concert today.”

Everyone was amused by him.

“Oh no, it’s not a concert,” Zhou Mo said, standing there solemnly speaking, “It’s my coming-of-age ceremony.”

Suo Yang burst out laughin.

Shen Huiming noticed that he smiled relaxed this time, not knowing whether it was because the other party was Zhou Mo, or because they were still in the dark at the moment.

He could see that Suo Yang was a person with a strong sense of self-protection, and it was quite difficult to be accepted and recognized by him.

How could he pry open this iron plate and get a glimpse of the world inside?

Shen Huiming felt that he had to meticulously study this to understand him clearly.

“When we arrive at Zhou Mo’s place, we’ll have fun and drink, we’ll get drunk tonight!” Zhou Mo said, “But before everyone gets drunk, remember to send me your gifts first, thank you for your cooperation!”

He made a scene on the stage, and then he snapped his fingers. On the stage came four muscular men dressed so sexy that Suo Yang’s head was full of question marks.

The lights in the centre of the stage were all turned on, both the lights and the people on the stage were too exaggerated, making Suo Yang rub his brows.

That was how Zhou Mo’s birthday party started with the stripper’s performance. The four muscular men on the stage danced with great dedication, and many people in the audience danced along wildly.

Suo Yang was leaning on the sofa while drinking and watching the excitement with a smile. Jiang Tongyan asked him, “You’re not someone who often goes out to have fun, are you?”

Suo Yang smiled, “I used to, but now I prefer to sleep at home.”

At this time, Zhou Mo suddenly ran over and grabbed Shen Huiming.

Suo Yang watched Zhou Mo pull Shen Huiming onto the stage, where the man stood there with a helpless face, surrounded by four strippers dancing.

Jiang Tongyan said gloatingly, “Old Shen really has a lot of good fortune in love affairs.”

Suo Yang didn’t say anything but looked at Shen Huiming and smiled.

Jiang Tongyan turned to him, hesitated for a moment, and then said, “You smiled very sincerely this time. Although the real smile and the fake smile are both good-looking, there is still a big difference.”

He snapped his fingers in front of Suo Yang’s eyes and whispered, “I see the stars in your eyes.”

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