Author: hoenimochi (Page 74 of 95)

       Zhu Kai was discovered by the family gardener the next morning.

       He was completely cold at the time, but fortunately, his hands were not tied too tight, so there was no poor blood flow.

       Wang Ma was taken aback and asked him what happened, but he refused to tell him. He only said that Li Jianglin was not in good health, so no need to alarm him. At that time, Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi didn’t come back. There were a lot of rumours among the workers at home. Some people said that Zhu Kai had tied himself up since he was already a nutjob.

       Li Zhenruo thought he would call someone out loud, but he didn’t expect Zhu Kai to hold out all night.

       The next morning, while holding a tissue to wipe his nose, Zhu Kai searched Li’s house up and down and even opened the door of Li Jianglin’s room to find him.

       Li Jianglin had just eaten breakfast and opened his eyes to look at him, “What are you doing?”

       Zhu Kai sucked his snot and said, “I’m going to find something, you can just sleep.” After that, he squatted beside Li Jianglin’s side, picked up his sheets and looked, but he still couldn’t find anyone.

       This morning, he asked the doorman to make sure that no one came in or out, not even the car, so he began to rummage the Li family up and down, trying to find someone.

       He even asked the cleaning aunt to open all the locked rooms for him to see. After rummaging through every corner, he was sure that no one was at home.

       Then he went to the surveillance at the guard’s office, checked the surveillance while eating breakfast, and made sure that no one had been in or out of Li’s house that night.

       Zhu Kai was inexplicable, where did that kid slip away last night?

       Then he began to look at every worker in the Li family with scrutiny, doubting whether there was such a thing as a disguise in this world.

       Li Zhenruo lay lazily on the armrest of the sofa and didn’t want to move. He was just wondering why Li Zhenran didn’t come back.

       He already knew what he had learned from Zhu Kai last night, but he just wanted to confirm it. When he really heard Zhu Kai say that, he still felt a little uncomfortable, and he didn’t sleep well last night, and the whole cat was not in good spirits today.

       Li Zhenruo yawned.

       He saw Zhu Kai dangling in front of him with his red nose all morning. He knew what Zhu Kai was thinking, but it was very interesting that even if Zhu Kai suspected that there were really ghosts in this world, he would not suspect him as a cat.

       This identity was so convenient.

       He yawned again, rolled over on his side and accidentally fell off the back of the sofa chair. He didn’t bother to get up when he landed on the carpet, so he continued to lie on his stomach.

       It was almost noon when Wang Ma answered a call, which sounded like a call from Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenruo got up from the ground, ran to Wang Ma’s feet and raised his head to look at her and “meow meow” to her.

       Wang Ma nodded “ey ey” and looked at Li Zhenruo to make him quiet. After hanging up the phone, Wang Ma told him, “Your master won’t be back for dinner at noon. There are too many things on his side. He may have to work overtime for a few days. He told you to wait at home.”

       Li Zhenruo was a little discouraged all of a sudden, he knew that Li Zhenran must be unable to get away from work now. Maybe it was possible to work overtime for a few days, but it was really uncomfortable for him to do nothing and just wait at home.

       So after lunch, Li Zhenruo slipped away as if he smeared the sole of his feet with oil.

       Li Zhenran was really busy these two days, and even Li Zhenzi added two days of overtime. Later, he couldn’t bear it and cursed loudly in the office.

       When Li Zhenruo entered the office, Li Zhenran didn’t lift his head and thought it was Hua Yibang who came in.

       Until Li Zhenruo sat down on his desk, took off his shoes and straightened his legs and stepped on his shoulders.

       Li Zhenran raised his head and smiled at him, “Don’t make trouble.”

       Li Zhenruo saw a large pile of documents on Li Zhenran’s desk, and the coffee cup next to him was empty. He was dressed neatly, but his face was a little tired, and with his foot on top of him, “So hard?”

       Li Zhenran grabbed his feet and said, “Not that bad. If I want to take over again, I have to sort out the mess. These people can’t help me, and I don’t feel at ease.”

       Li Zhenruo slipped his feet down and stepped on Li Zhenran’s chest.

       Li Zhenran asked, “What? The estrus season is coming again?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t take back his feet, but just said, “Let me help you.”

       He accompanied Li Zhenran to read the documents all afternoon. Li Zhenruo sorted out the one about the western project and explained the key points to him directly so that he would not spend time reading it again.

       Later, Li Zhenran turned his head and saw that Li Zhenruo fell asleep beside the desk.

       He put down the documents in his hand, walked over and carried Li Zhenruo.

       On the way, Li Zhenruo woke up and looked at him blankly, “You’re done?”

       Li Zhenran put him on the bed in the lounge and said, “You can sleep for a while, and I’ll call you for dinner later.”

       “Okay,” Li Zhenruo responded, pulling the quilt over him.

       Li Zhenran walked outside, and when he reached out to close the door, his cell phone suddenly rang. He took out his cell phone and connected the call, then went back to the desk and sat down.

       Li Zhenruo was a little more awake at this time, and he heard Li Zhenran say, “He went to see those two people?”

       He was stunned for a moment, Li Zhenruo sat up from the bed.

       Li Zhenran continued, “Keep an eye on him, especially find someone to keep up with the couple and see if there is a way to hide a locator on them. Don’t be discovered.”

       Li Zhenruo got out of bed, opened the lounge door and walked out.

       Li Zhenran was still on the phone, he turned his head to look at him, and said to the person on the other side of the phone, “Keep an eye on them. If the situation is not right—call the police.”

       When Li Zhenran hung up the phone, Li Zhenruo asked him, “Is it about Li Zhentai?”

       Li Zhenran raised a long leg, turned the swivel chair to face Li Zhenruo, and said, “His biological parents have found him.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned and asked Li Zhenran, “What do you mean by calling the police?”

       Li Zhenran frowned slightly, “I’m just a little worried all of a sudden.”

       “What do you mean?”

       Li Zhenran said, “In the end, we don’t know how much Li Zhentai knows about this matter. We didn’t know if he still thinks that he is Li Jianglin’s own son, or not. So with his ruthlessness, it was very likely that he will be ruthless to his biological parents. “

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but say, “Do you think it’s possible?”

       Li Zhenran said softly, “I don’t know, but I led the couple to find Li Zhentai. I can’t see what happened to them, so I told people to keep an eye on them.”

       Li Zhenruo thought about it and said, “Where are they?”

       Li Zhenran stood up, “What do you want to do?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I want to go and see them.”

       Li Zhenran took his arm and said, “No need to rush, be a good boy, and listen to me.”

       They left the work behind for the time being. Li Zhenran drove a car himself and hurried away with Li Zhenruo.

       On the way, he answered a phone call and the one who handle told him that Li Zhentai took the old couple away.

       “Taken away?” Li Zhenran asked, “Where to?”

       The person on the other side of the phone said, “The direction is towards the outskirts of the city. Just now, in the city, we were stopped by a red light and they got lost, but the locator was still in the old lady’s cloth pocket, and now it shows that it is still moving.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Call the police and give me the address.”

       Li Zhenruo was a little worried, “Li Zhentai won’t be serious about killing to silence them, right?”

       Li Zhenran replied, “You forgot how he treated you in the first place?”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly smiled bitterly, “Actually, I also want to help him find an excuse to prove that he is not such a heartless person. If he really did such a thing, I would not pity him, but just pity myself.”

       When he heard him say this, Li Zhenran took him by the shoulders, pulled him over, and kissed his forehead.

       When they arrived at the destination, Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo got off the car.

       This was a pretty desolate weedy area on the outskirts of the city, and you could see a large area of ​​hills in front of it, and there were several small two-story buildings erected here and there.

       A black car was parked next to it, and two people got down and said, “Mr. Li, Li Zhentai led someone to drive the two old people into the villa in front. We have already called the police, and said that someone was kidnapped.”

       Li Zhenran didn’t speak.

       So another person asked, “Want to go in and have a look?”

       Li Zhenran said, “Don’t go in if you’ve already called the police.”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly said at this time, “I’ll go take a look.”

       After he said that, he turned and ran towards the villa.

       Li Zhenran’s two subordinates were stunned for a moment, hurriedly trying to stop him, but Li Zhenran said, “It doesn’t matter, let him go.”

       Li Zhenruo turned into a cat in a corner that no one could see, then ran towards the two-story building, jumped up the window with ease, and looked towards the facade.

       He was in the kitchen where no one could see or notice him as a cat.

       For safety, he first disguised himself as a black cat.

       Today, he could see his reflection in the glass window. Although at first glance, he looked like a sturdy black cat at first glance, his face was still round and flat, and he was not at all as imposing and handsome as his master.

       With some dissatisfaction, Li Zhenruo ran inside.

       His movements were silent as he walked into this empty two-story building. Before he entered the living room, he stopped because he saw the old couple, Li Zhentai’s biological parents, sitting on the sofa in the living room.

       In addition to them in the living room, there was a young man sitting across from him smoking a cigarette.

       The husband and wife looked nervous, and neither spoke. They just sat on the sofa, and the woman held a non-woven bag in her hand, which looked tattered and torn.

       Li Zhenruo then turned and ran towards the stairs.

       He went up to the second floor and heard voices coming from a room, so he got closer to eavesdrop.

       Among them, Li Zhentai’s voice could be clearly distinguished, and he said, “Send the two of them away.”

       Another young man’s voice, “Where to?”

       Li Zhentai said, “Send them to a place where they will never come back.”

       “Tai ge, where can they be sent that they can’t come back? Apart from sending them to hell, I can’t guarantee that they won’t come back.”

       Li Zhentai did not speak.

       The young man lowered his voice, “Tai ge, what are you afraid of? It’s not the first time anyway.”

       Li Zhenruo raised his head in shock. After he heard this sentence, he suddenly became curious about the identity of the young man. He couldn’t help leaning against the wall and slowly approaching the door, sticking his head out to look.

       He saw Li Zhentai sitting on a chair in the room, and a man standing beside him, tall and thin, wearing a peaked cap.

       He had clearly seen this man. It was this man who suddenly stopped him and asked him, “Are you Li Zhenruo?”

       Li Zhenruo raised his head inexplicably, “Who are you?”

       The man smiled, covered his mouth with one hand, and stabbed his lower abdomen with a knife with the other.

       And now, this man was standing beside Li Zhentai and was negotiating with him to send Li Zhentai’s biological parents to hell.

       Li Zhentai didn’t agree but didn’t refuse, he just said, “I can’t be here.”

       Unlike Li Zhenruo, if the couple died here, the police would definitely be able to find a lead to Li Zhentai.

       The man said, “Let’s go to other places before we do it. It’s better to be in the deep mountains and old forests to deal with the corpses.”

       Li Zhentai still did not respond.

       At this moment, the man said “It’s just, Tai ge. For such a dangerous thing, you should settle our account first.”

       Li Zhentai looked up at him, “How much do you want?”

       The man said, “Not much, two million.”

       Li Zhentai sneered, “Do you think I will owe you two million?”

       The man said, “That’s hard to say. Who doesn’t know that your eldest young master of the Li family is different now?”

       Li Zhentai’s face would not look good, he said, “I—”

       “Who?” The man interrupted him and roared suddenly. It turned out that he had inadvertently noticed the black cat hiding by the door and peeking inside, and immediately walked over.

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       Zhu Kai came out of the room, looked around, saw Wang Ma in the living room, and asked, “Did anyone enter my room just now?”

       “Your room?” Wang Ma was burying her head and sorting out the teacups on the coffee table in the living room. She heard the words and looked at him, “No, who entered your room?”

       At this time, neither Li Zhenran nor Li Zhenzi had returned. Besides him, there were only Wang Ma and Li Jianglin in the family. No one should have entered his room.

       Zhu Kai turned back and felt gloomy in the room for a while, so he walked to the living room sofa and sat down, raised his legs on the coffee table, and rubbed his fingers against his lips, but he remembered the claim he had received a long time ago. A phone call claiming to be from Li Zhenruo.

       At that time, he thought that someone was going to put Li Zhentai in order and called him in the name of Li Zhenruo. Although that person knew something that others didn’t, he didn’t take it too seriously.

       Right now, Li Zhentai was already like this, who was still pretending to be Li Zhenruo to provoke him?

       At this time, Wang Ma suddenly hit him on the thigh, “Can’t you put your feet down? I just cleaned up the table!”

       Zhu Kai hurriedly put his feet down and thought that it must be impossible for Wang Ma and Li Jianglin. There were still some workers in the family, but he didn’t know if any of them have received money to do this kind of thing.

       But the handwriting was very similar to Li Zhenruo’s.

       Was there really a ghost in this world?

       In the evening, Li Zhenruo was lying on the windowsill waiting for Li Zhenran to come back.

       In the evening, he deliberately left a note in Zhu Kai’s room, the purpose was to intimidate Zhu Kai.

       Li Zhenran didn’t go home for a long time. After a while, Li Zhenruo heard the phone ring, ran over and pressed it with his paw, and found that Li Zhenran had sent a text message saying that he would not be able to return from overtime at night, so that he didn’t have to wait for him to go to bed earlier.

       It seemed that Li Zhenran was entangled in work matters. As he thought of this, he couldn’t help but blame Li Zhentai for leaving such a big mess and making others help him clean up.

       Li Zhenruo jumped back to the window sill and thought that Li Zhenran would not come back anyway, he would have more time to play with Zhu Kai.

       That night, when Zhu Kai slept until midnight, he was suddenly awakened by the sound of knocking on the window. It was weird, like someone tapping a finger on the glass, and it’s very rhythmic.

       Zhu Kai got up from the bed, turned on the lamp at the head of the bed, then got out of bed and walked to the window and opened the curtains. Sure enough, it was pitch black outside the window.

       He opened the window and looked left and right and saw nothing. He closed the window, and when he turned around, he heard someone knocking on the window again.

       Zhu Kai turned back quickly but still didn’t see anything.

       Li Zhenruo huddled in the corner, with his paws on his chest, and his heart pounding. He thought that fortunately, he was a cat, otherwise, it would be difficult for such a big person to find Zhu Kai’s blind spot and hide.

       Zhu Kai stood silently for a while and suddenly returned to the window to reach out and open the window, and in one swoop tumbled out of the room. The room was on the first floor, he jumped out and landed in the grass, stood up, and looked left and right.

       When Li Zhenruo heard the sound of him opening the window, he quickly jumped up to a big tree next to him. At this time, he hid behind the shade and looked at Zhu Kai. He thought that he was fortunate enough to react quickly enough, or this time he really wouldn’t have a good place to hide.

       Zhu Kai didn’t find any suspicious person, so he couldn’t help but walk a few steps forward with his slippers.

       In the middle of the night, the back garden of Li’s house was very quiet. There was a tennis court in front of it, with grass and trees on both sides. The weather was cold, and even the sound of insects couldn’t be heard. The entire building behind him and all other windows were dark except for his room.

       Li Zhenruo was lying on the tree, watching Zhu Kai walking towards the back, and suddenly had an idea.

       He thought since he had the ability to use spiritual power to disguise a suit, was there any way to use spiritual power to change his appearance? He raised his claws and tried to wrap them with spiritual power, turning the original yellow and white colour into black.

       It was just an attempt, but Li Zhenruo was surprised to find that he succeeded.

       The black fluff instantly covered his whole body. He looked down and saw that his nose and mouth had also turned black. When he stood up, he was completely a slender black cat. The only thing wrong is that the nose still seems to be very flat. He raised his paws and touched his face, and found that his face was still very round, which didn’t seem to match the image of a beautiful black cat he imagined.

       It’s a pity that he couldn’t look in the mirror here, but it didn’t matter, as long as Zhu Kai doesn’t recognize him.

       Zhu Kai moved forward cautiously in the dark.

       There were streetlights near the villa just now, but there were no lights in this area, and there were infrared cameras and alarms on the outer walls farther away.

       He didn’t believe that there were ghosts in this world, and all the things that science couldn’t explain were just because science had not developed enough to perfection, so instead of going back and lying down and waiting restlessly, it was better to go and find out what was going on in the middle of the night.

       The surroundings were quiet and only the sound of his own footsteps could be heard. Suddenly, Zhu Kai saw something running quickly in the dark. He subconsciously chased after it for two steps, and then something jumped on the back of his head from behind.

       This time the force was not too light. Zhu Kai was originally thin, but he didn’t expect that he was slammed into the tree next to him and knocked unconscious.

       Li Zhenruo watched Zhu Kai’s body fall softly, and couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment and quickly turned into a human figure and reached out to catch him. He always knew that Zhu Kai was an embroidered pillow, but he really didn’t expect him to be so useless. If he knew, wouldn’t there be a need to painstakingly become a black cat to hide his identity?

       Zhu Kai was later woken up by the splash of water. He slowly opened his eyes, and after a while, he realized that he was covered with a black cloth and his hands were tied behind him to a big tree.

       “Who?” Zhu Kai asked in a low voice.

       Someone leaned into his ear and whispered, “I’m Li Zhenruo.”

       The voice was so soft that he almost spoke in an airy tone. Zhu Kai couldn’t tell who it was for a while, he just sneered and said, “You are Li Zhenruo? Li Zhenruo died a long time ago, you crawled out of the ground?”

       Zhu Kai didn’t believe that this was Li Zhenruo. If it was a ghost, why bother to help him tie it up to cover his eyes? Although he couldn’t see it, he believed that he should be in the woods behind Li’s house. There were surveillance cameras all around, and no one should be able to move him out without anyone knowing it.

       He even believed that this person was someone from the Li family. He said, “Believe it or not, someone will come soon after I yell.”

       Li Zhenruo leaned into his ear and said, “I believe you. Just scream, but no one can see me, and I will continue to come to you tomorrow night.”

       Zhu Kai was silent, and said after a while, “Okay, you are Li Zhenruo, what are you doing?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “We have been friends for so many years. Before, I have been scolded by my father in the past to help you. Why do you want to harm me?”

       Zhu Kai laughed, “Blame your father.”

       Li Zhenruo was not angry, he stretched out a hand and touched Zhu Kai’s chest, slowly touching down with some ambiguous action, and when he touched the lower abdomen, he asked Zhu Kai, “Did my Dad touch you like this?”

       Zhu Kai’s voice suddenly turned cold, “Take your hand away.”

       Li Zhenruo took his hand away obediently, leaned into his ear and asked in a low voice, “Have you been fvcked by him? You’re hiding deep enough, I didn’t even see it after all those years.”

       “No!” Zhu Kai said, “Are you Li Zhenruo? You think of your father like this?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I know you’re doubting me, but I know more than you think, do you want to hear it?”

       Zhu Kai didn’t answer. After being quiet for a while, he said, “Sometimes, I think the way you talk is indeed very much like Li Zhenruo.”

       Li Zhenruo reached out and touched his face, “Yes, as I said, we’ve been friends for so many years and we are too familiar with each other.”

       Zhu Kai turned his head hard and threw off his hand.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t reluctantly, retracted his hand and continued, “For the paternity test, are you the one who obtained Li Jianglin’s semen?”

       Zhu Kai said, “What if you know this?”

       Li Zhenruo slipped his hand against his lower abdomen, “I just want to know, otherwise I will not be reconciled and will entangle you. In fact, there is nothing to hide. You asked Aunt Wu to steal the bloody tissue from my room, took my dad’s semen and handed it over to Li Zhentai. Li Zhentai then asked Yue Zijia to send it for a paternity test, and then put the test results in Li Jianglin’s office for Li Jianglin to see.”

       Zhu Kai felt Li Zhenruo’s hands wandering around him. He got goosebumps and said irritably, “Don’t you know everything? What else do you want to ask?”

       “Why?” Li Zhenruo asked him, “I thought we were friends.”

       Zhu Kai sneered when he heard this, “How much is a friend worth?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Okay, it’s not worth much, but why is it me, not Li Zhentai? There is something you should know, right? In fact, Li Jianglin is unable to have a child, and he has no real son.”

       Zhu Kai didn’t answer, just smiled to show that he knew.

       Li Zhenruo asked him, “Why did you choose me? Not someone else?”

       Zhu Kai tilted his head slightly in his direction, “I didn’t choose you, someone chose you. Do you know where the photos from Li Zhentai came from?”

       What he meant was the photo of Li Zhenruo’s mother and his biological father.

       Li Zhenruo knew the existence of the photo and always thought that Li Zhentai got the photo by accident. Now that he thought about it, he really didn’t investigate how Li Zhentai got the photo.

       Zhu Kai said, “What else do you know? Want to know something? Let me tell you, Li Jianglin has never had sex with me. I remember when I was a child, I fell asleep several times and woke up, feeling him watching by the bed and touched me. At that time, I was very scared, and I couldn’t sleep well every night for a while. Do you think I should not hate him?”

       Li Zhenruo did not answer his words.

       Zhu Kai continued, “Later I found out about the photo, and Li Zhentai began to doubt your identity, so I found him and said to help him collect the materials for the paternity test, but he had to have someone to do the test, and he agreed. I got Li Jianglin’s semen, and I gave him oral sex. He was happy, angry, and guilty. He even went to cry at Zhu Yun’s photo, are you interested? Want to hear the details?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I’m not interested.”

       Zhu Kai smiled, “Also, I didn’t participate in the plan to kill you, the one who killed you was Li Zhentai.”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head, “I don’t understand, I’m no longer a threat to him, why would he still want to kill me?”

       Zhu Kai said, “After you were kicked out of the house, your father was very angry. At that time, he put down his words in front of the three brothers and told them whoever was behind the scenes, that he should pack up and get out of the Li family with you.”

       Li Zhenruo said softly, “Because I wanted to try my best to find out the truth, so Li Zhentai was afraid that Li Jianglin was really angry about this, so he asked someone to kill me?”

       Zhu Kai said, “Maybe. After you died, your father really didn’t continue to investigate. He suddenly became disheartened and felt that sacrificing one of you was enough, and he didn’t want to continue to involve all the remaining sons.”

       Li Zhenruo leaned against the tree next to him and raised his head to look at the darkness where he could not see anything.

       Zhu Kai suddenly said at this moment, “Well, now it’s my turn to guess your identity?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him.

       Zhu Kai smiled, “You are the boy next to Li Zhenran, right? With the same name as Li Zhenruo, Jason?”

       Li Zhenruo neither admitted nor denied it, and now he was not too afraid of Zhu Kai guessing his identity anyway. They both knew so many unspeakable secrets about each other.

       Zhu Kai said, “You have a little bit of Li Zhenran’s perfume on you, it’s very light, but I can smell it. Your hands are very tender and your voice is very young. If you listen carefully, you can still guess it, right?”

       Li Zhenruo laughed when he heard the words, and did not answer Zhu Kai’s words, but walked slowly outside. Whoever Zhu Kai called, no one could catch him anyway.

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Notes:
In the past, I saw an NU comment saying that Li Jianglin actually r4p3d Zhu Kai and I was pretty anxious because even though Li Jianglin is like that I do think he was somewhat a decent and reasonable person. Well.. It cleared up in this chapter, he didn’t r4p3 but he did touch child Zhu Kai since he was similar to Zhu Yun. It’s disgusting but I guess that’s what a person who was left by their partners could do. Love really is a momentary lapse of judgement

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       Li Zhenruo was sent back to the Li family by Li Zhenran early in the morning, not in the appearance of a human obviously, but in the appearance of a cat.

       It could be seen that Wang Ma missed him very much, but at this time, she was really not in the mood to hug him a lot, and she just patted his head and placed him aside.

       Zhu Kai was also at home. When Li Zhenran and the others came to pick up Li Jianglin in the morning, Zhu Kai just watched, but he didn’t say a word.

       The few words he heard that night pieced together the incomplete and complicated relationship between Zhu Kai and Li Jianglin. He wouldn’t be able to know more unless Zhu Kai himself was willing to speak up.

       But after a while, Li Jianglin was sent back. He was directly taken out of the car by Li Zhenran and sent back to the bed in the room. The doctors and nurses also followed suit. Their footsteps were messy, and Li Zhenruo was almost stepped on. So he carefully stuck himself to the wall.

       Later, Li Zhenzi and Li Zhentai also came back.

       Li Zhentai was not allowed to enter Li Jianglin’s room. Li Zhenruo squatted in the corner and saw that Li Zhentai actually knelt down at the door of Li Jianglin.

       Not only Li Zhenruo, but even Li Zhenzi and Zhu Kai were a little surprised.

       If he hadn’t hated Li Zhentai from the bottom of his heart, Li Zhenruo would have wanted to praise him for his ability to be so adaptable.

       No one knew what Li Zhentai was thinking. In the past, he was the one who always could not maintain his composure the most. Now, he could only give up his pride and give up his dignity and wanted to use this method to exchange for Li Jianglin’s forgiveness.

       Li Zhenzi was still leaning on crutches and sat on the sofa with the help of Wang Ma, while Zhu Kai leaned against the armrest of the sofa and looked at Li Zhentai without saying a word.

       Li Zhenran was in Li Jianglin’s room, came out after a while, stood at the door looking down at Li Zhentai, and said, “Dad said he doesn’t want to see you.”

       Li Zhentai didn’t speak, didn’t even look up at him, just kneeled like that.

       Li Zhenruo squatted not far from him. He knew that this was Li Zhentai’s bitter plan, and of course, he would not feel sorry for Li Zhentai. But he felt that Li Jianglin was too hard-hearted, and since Li Zhentai really wasn’t his biological son, he could give him up mercilessly.

       Just like how it was with him back then, did Li Jianglin also drive him out of the house with this mentality?

       In his heart, they were probably not as good as Zhu Kai, the illegitimate son Zhu Yun gave birth to outside.

       After Li Zhenran said this, he walked from the front of Li Zhentai. He walked to the corner and picked up Li Zhenruo, then walked to the sofa and sat down. He then said to Wang Ma, “Prepare more meals today, we will all eat at home.”

       The family had been deserted for a long time, and Wang Ma had been looking forward to this day for a long time. However, she did not expect that when the second and third children came back, this kind of thing happened to the eldest again. Wang Ma was in a complicated mood, but she nodded and went to the kitchen to give some orders.

       It was quiet in the living room.

       After a while, Li Zhenzi asked Li Zhenran, “Second brother, do you want to move back?”

       Li Zhenran replied, “Dad is not feeling well right now. Let’s talk about some things later.”

       As soon as the word left his mouth, the phone in Li Zhentai’s pocket, who was kneeling on the ground, suddenly rang.

       This situation was actually a bit embarrassing. Li Zhentai’s genuine remorse seemed to be interrupted by the ringing of the phone. He reached out and took out his mobile phone, glanced at the caller ID, and chose to answer the call.

       They didn’t know what the other person on the phone was saying.

       At this moment, Li Zhentai suddenly stood up, and said, “I see, I’ll go over now.” After he said that, he glanced at Li Zhenran and the others, and hurriedly walked outside.

       It was strange at this time. What was more important to Li Zhentai than getting Li Jianglin’s forgiveness?

       Li Zhenruo remembered something and looked up at Li Zhenran, but Li Zhenran just reached out and scratched his neck. So Li Zhenruo softened instantly and reluctantly gave his belly to Li Zhenran for him to scratch it down.

       After Li Zhentai left, he never came back.

       After lunch, Li Jianglin called Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi into his room, and Li Zhenran took the cat in.

       Li Jianglin didn’t seem to mind, and his mental state was better than when he came back in the morning, but he still looked weak. He asked them both to sit by his bed.

       Li Zhenran first helped Li Zhenzi to sit down, and then sat down on the chair beside the bed.

       Li Zhenruo was lying in his arms, looking at Li Jianglin lying on the bed. For some unknown reason, he suddenly felt that the other party was telling his last words.

       Li Jianglin said, “You know everything about your eldest brother, didn’t you? I indulge him every day until now, but I didn’t expect that he would really do some things.”

       Neither Li Zhenran nor Li Zhenzi spoke.

       “You—” Li Jianglin first looked at Li Zhenzi, “Look at you.”

       Li Zhenzi lowered his head and said nothing.

       Li Jianglin took a deep breath and said, “If you don’t restrain your private life, you will kill yourself sooner or later. You Bo is not a difficult thing to deal with. If you change him to someone whose power is too powerful to be shaken by our family, then you would only tie up the Li family and die together.”

       Li Zhenzi said softly, “Dad, I’m sorry.”

       Li Jianglin sighed, “I don’t even know how long I can live. You can take these words today as my last words.”

       “Dad,” Li Zhenran said, “Don’t say that, you will recover soon and live a long life.”

       Li Jianglin didn’t answer his words, and just said, “I’ll tell you some things, second child, Yunlin will be handed over to you in the future.”

       Li Zhenran’s expression was calm, and he gently stroked the top of Li Zhenruo’s head with his palm.

       Li Jianglin then said to Li Zhenzi, “Third child, I hope you can help your second brother, and don’t stir too much trouble. Yunlin and Yunyi are originally a family.”

       Li Zhenzi replied, “I understand.”

       Li Jianglin closed his eyes and rested for a while, then continued, “As long as Zhentai doesn’t lose the shares of Yunlin in his hands, he will have enough food and clothing in this lifetime. He is your eldest brother after all, so don’t drive him away and exterminate him.”

       Neither Li Zhenran nor Li Zhenzi agreed with his words.

       “As for Zhu Kai,” Li Jianglin looked a little dazed, “Yunlin has nothing to do with him, I leave a property for him.” Having said this, Li Jianglin paused, and then said, “Look at you, if you don’t take him as a brother, you don’t have to worry about him.”

       Li Zhenzhi sniffed and asked, “Can we kick him out?”

       Li Jianglin glared at him, “Have you considered me dead?”

       Li Zhenzi apologized quickly, “No, Dad, don’t get me wrong, I didn’t mean that.”

       Li Zhenran said to Li Jianglin, “Dad, don’t think too much, you will recover soon.”

       A few days ago, Li Jianglin was not so much sick as he was sick at heart. He was so angry with Li Zhentai that he could not sleep peacefully all day and night, but he still endured and watched Li Zhentai come to this point.

       He could come forward to stop him, but he was unwilling to do so. Li Zhentai, as Yunlin’s biggest unsettling factor, Li Jianglin thought that he must remove it when he still had the energy to spare. He couldn’t wait for this mess to drag Yunlin down after he was gone and make Yunlin the victim of the brothers’ struggle.

       The fourth child being the first sacrificial lamb was hard enough for him.

       “Zhenran,” Li Jianglin suddenly called Li Zhenran’s name, “I don’t have to ask about you and that boy, but Yunlin must have someone to inherit in the future, so you take care of your own business.”

       Li Zhenran gently scratched the soft hair under Li Zhenruo’s neck with his fingers, “I know.”

       Back in the room, Li Zhenran’s first thing was to open the window to breathe.

       He and Li Zhenruo hadn’t come back to live for a long time. Although the room was cleaned every day, no one had lived for a long time, and it felt like the room had lost a little personality.

       Li Zhenruo jumped on the windowsill and lay down, and looked downstairs. The swimming pool was still sparkling, and the blue water reflected the blue sky and white clouds.

       He raised his paws and scratched his ears, suddenly feeling a little unreal. Li Zhentai was kicked out of the Li family like this, and Li Jianglin also accepted the relationship between him and Li Zhenran, and then what?

       Li Zhenran came out of the bathroom, and while loosening his rolled up sleeves, he said, “Then, we are going to beat the drowning dog¹to pulverize an (already defeated) enemy.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment, wasn’t that the inner monologue in his heart just now? Did he actually say all of it out loud? Did Li Zhenran hear that?

       Li Zhenran walked to the window and raised his round face with one finger, “Until now, you still don’t know whether the person who did it to you is Li Zhentai or not.”

       Li Zhenruo looked outside, then checked if the door was locked, then jumped to the bed and changed into a human shape, sat cross-legged on the bed, and said, “Do you think it’s Li Zhentai?”

       Li Zhenran said, “I think so.”

       Li Zhenruo did not speak.

       Li Zhenran asked him, “Do you sympathize with him?”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head, he did not sympathize with Li Zhentai, but he did not hate him either.

       The longer time passed, the more he felt like an outsider. As if all the grudges and feuds had nothing to do with him.

       He sat sullenly for a while and asked Li Zhenran, “Who called Li Zhentai on that phone?”

       Li Zhenran sat down beside him, “How do I know?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him, “Did Li Zhentai’s biological parents find him?”

       Li Zhenran did not answer his question.

       Li Zhenruo thought for a while, “If he knew that he has biological parents and that I am not Li Jianglin’s biological son, do you think he will know that none of you is Li Jianglin’s son?”

       Li Zhenran reached out and pinched his nose, “He doesn’t know. If he knows, he will not give up so easily.”

       Li Zhenruo was a little dazed, “Then what exactly does he know? And what is he planning?”

       In the afternoon, Li Zhenran took a call and went out. Soon after, Li Zhenzi also asked the driver to take him out. It was estimated that they were going back to deal with the mess that Li Zhentai left in Yunlin. The brothers did not come back for two nights for dinner.

       When Li Zhenruo was having dinner, he lay motionless on the back of the sofa and stared at Zhu Kai.

       After eating, Zhu Kai walked the dog and didn’t go far. He just let Erhuang shit in the yard. Anyway, a gardener would clean it up. When he turned around, he saw a pair of bright eyes looking through the window. He looked at him carefully, only to find that it was Li Zhenran’s cat, what was its name? Oh, dumplings.

       After walking the dog, Zhu Kai went back to his room and saw a note on the table, he picked it up and read it, it said: Zhu Kai, a friend for more than 20 years, you were together with Li Zhentai to harm me?

       There was no signature, but Zhu Kai could see that it was Li Zhenruo’s handwriting.

       He turned around suddenly, the room was quiet and he was alone.

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       You Bo had been staying at home since his face was injured and hadn’t gone anywhere. The injury wasn’t serious, but it was too bad that everyone who saw him asked if he was scratched by a woman, and You Bo was very bothered about this.

       He found a few women to accompany him at home, and all his work was handled in his study at home. Today, he suddenly got tired of seeing a few women, and suddenly remembered the little white face that he saw next to Li Zhenran a few days ago. He didn’t even know Li Zhenruo’s name, so he asked someone to find a beautiful boy for him.

       You Bo used was already fierce-looking, but now with scars added on his face, he looked even more fierce.

       The boy closed his eyes tightly without saying a word on the bed.

       You Bo was upset and gave him a slap to open his eyes, and slapped him if he dared to blink.

       Later on, when You Bo was having enough fun, he turned over and got off the boy and lay down and went to sleep in a short while.

       He didn’t know how long he had fallen asleep this time and began to have nightmares repeatedly as if a large stone was pressed on his chest, and he couldn’t even breathe smoothly. You Bo struggled to wake up and saw that something crouched on his chest in the dark, his eyes lit up at him.

       He widened his eyes in astonishment, and when he realized that it was a cat, he couldn’t help screaming.

       You Bo wasn’t fully awake yet. He waved his hand to knock out the cat squatting on his chest, but his arm missed, and nothing was hit.

       When he looked more closely, he saw that the cat on his chest had disappeared, and only a sense of oppression reminded him that there really seemed to be something crouching there just now.

       You Bo felt like he had a phobia of cats. He didn’t even dare to get up to look for the cat. He just yelled and called his people in. He said, “You guys give me a good search, is there a cat hidden in this house.”

       Several of the men looked at each other, thinking that something was wrong with You Bo’s mind, and someone said, “How could there be a cat? Did you have a nightmare?”

       You Bo threw the pillow to the ground angrily, “I told you to look for it! What are you talking about?”

       A few people turned on the lights and searched every corner of the room looking for the cat You Bo was talking about, but they found nothing.

       Someone walked to the window and opened the curtains, saw a gap in the window, and asked, “Boss, did you keep the window open at night? Did it run out of the window?”

       You Bo himself didn’t know. He stretched out his hand and pinched his forehead. He always felt that the cat was a bit strange. Although it was very dark just now and he couldn’t see clearly, he always felt that the cat was the one who scratched his face last time. It appeared and disappears inexplicably.

       He shuddered and said, “I want to change rooms!”

       Although he changed rooms, You Bo still didn’t sleep well that night. He had several nightmares one after another. The most terrifying dream was that a cat squatted on the windowsill and looked at him. As soon as he sat up, the cat immediately rushed over to his face, and he woke up.

       A few days later, You Bo received a call from Li Zhenran and asked him out to chat.

       At first, You Bo didn’t care and planned to reject it outright. Later, Li Zhenran said to him, “Do you not want that line of smuggling cars in the South China Sea anymore?”

       You Bo was taken aback and asked, “What did you say?”

       Li Zhenran laughed, “Boss You, come out and talk.”

       Li Jianglin’s condition improved slowly, and it seemed to be getting worse.

       Li Zhentai sat beside the bed and read to him one by one the proposal for the acquisition of four furniture factories that You Bo gave him.

       Li Jianglin was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, his lips were dry and peeling due to the fever, and his face was abnormally flushed. No one knew whether he heard what Li Zhentai said.

       After Li Zhentai read everything, he put the plan aside and said to Li Jianglin, “Dad, I think this cooperation project is very valuable, what do you think?”

       Li Jianglin opened his eyes weakly and glanced at him. Li Zhentai put the guarantee contract in front of Li Jianglin and handed him a pen, “Dad, this is the guarantee contract, you should sign it first.”

       Li Jianglin held the pen in his hand, but he didn’t move. Li Zhentai sat beside the bed and put the water glass with the straw in front of him and gave him a drink.

       Then Li Zhentai said, “This is an investment, and it also helped the third child solve the problem. When the cooperation is successful, the third child does not need to hide in Tibet and can come back to visit you. I will also call the second child back and let him know to not get mad at you, okay?”

       Li Jianglin blinked his eyes, seemingly unable to read the specifics of the contract.

       Li Zhentai said thoughtfully, “I’ll read it to you.”

       Li Jianglin was probably bored, he shook his head, clenched the pen tightly and signed his name at the end of the contract with a trembling hand, then he closed his eyes and lay back, the pen dropped to the ground.

       Li Zhentai read the signature on the contract with satisfaction, and said to Li Jianglin, “Dad, you have a good rest. I will ask Dr. Liu to come and prescribe some fever reducing medicine for you.”

       After that, Li Zhentai took the contract and went out.

       He walked outside the room and called the nurses and doctors in to take care of Li Jianglin. He noticed that Zhu Kai was sitting on the armrest of the sofa, looking down at his phone.

       Zhu Kai noticed Li Zhentai coming out, he raised his head to look at him, saw the contract in his hand, and said, “Succeeded in the deception? Congratulations?”

       Li Zhentai didn’t hide it, and walked to Zhu Kai with a smile, “Don’t you hate him? I’m taking revenge for you.”

       Zhu Kai glanced at him inexplicably, “Who told you that I hate him?”

       Li Zhentai said, “If you didn’t hate him, why did you help me get a blood sample for the paternity test between him and the fourth child? You knew the consequences would be devastating for him.”

       Zhu Kai said, “Not wanting him to have a good time is not the same as hating him. But you, now he has only one son left by his side, and Yunlin is also handed over to you. Yet you are still screwing your old man and your family’s own stuff like this. Don’t you think there is something wrong with your brain?”

       Li Zhentai looked a little angry for a moment, “He hasn’t made a will until this day, and who knows who will get Yunlin in the end? Do you believe that he will give Yunlin to me? He is waiting for the second child to change his mind!”

       Yunlin’s largest share was tightly held in Li Jianglin’s hands, and the three brothers didn’t have as many as Li Jianglin combined. If Li Jianglin’s will had given all the shares in his hands to Li Zhenran, this would really be the last time Li Zhentai would be able to own Yunlin.

       Zhu Kai suddenly stepped onto the sofa, hugged his knees and asked Li Zhentai, “Is he going to die soon?”

       When Li Zhentai heard the words, he softened his expression and said, “What are you talking about, Dad will live a long life.” After that, he picked up the coat hanging behind the door, “I want to go back to the company and prepare for tomorrow’s board of directors.”

       Zhu Kai shrank beside the sofa and didn’t move. After Li Zhentai opened the door and went out, he saw Wang Ma standing in the dining room.

       Wang Ma stared at them with tears coming out. Finally, she hurried to the sofa to pick up the phone and called Li Zhenran.

       Unfortunately, the phone didn’t get through, so she hurriedly made another call, this time to her son.

       While waiting for the call to be connected, she kept muttering in a low voice, “You children, how can you do this?” As she spoke, Zhu Kai saw tears falling from her eyes.

       The Yunlin board meeting.

       Li Zhentai was in high spirits, stood in front of the full-length mirror in the restroom in the office, and tidied up his tie.

       Outside, his assistant Gao Qi was helping him organize today’s meeting materials.

       The so-called You Bo’s company was basically a shell company that Li Zhentai asked Yue Zijia to open with You Bo in her name, intending to borrow funds from Yunlin’s guarantee. If there was still enough time, Li Zhentai even wanted to slowly scoop up Yunlin and filled it all into his own company.

       Until now, he believed that Li Jianglin would not leave Yunlin’s matter to him. Instead of waiting apprehensively to receive the verdict, it’s better to make a decision as soon as possible and really plan for himself.

       But things were easier than he had planned. He didn’t expect Li Jianglin to be so ill that he had even skipped the steps they had taken to dig out a perfect plan.

       Li Zhentai took a deep breath and said to Gao Qi, “Prepare for a meeting.” Then he walked towards the conference room first.

       Since he was now the acting chairman of the company, he should be the last to arrive at the board meeting. The secretary of the board of directors helped him open the door of the conference room in the front. Li Zhentai walked in with his head held high, but the first person he saw was Li Zhenran sitting in the front row.

       Li Zhentai’s footsteps stopped suddenly, “Second child?” After speaking, he saw Li Zhenzi sitting beside Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenzi smiled at him, “Eldest brother.”

       Li Zhentai looked at them as calmly as possible, “When did you come back?”

       Li Zhenran waited until Li Zhentai sat down on the chairman’s seat before saying, “The company’s board meeting, as shareholders and directors, we should have been present, shouldn’t we?”

       Li Zhentai put his hands on the table and folded his fingers, “Does Dad know?”

       Li Zhenran laughed when he heard the words, “Of course Dad knows, you think there is something about the company that Dad doesn’t know.”

       Li Zhentai’s expression suddenly changed slightly at this moment.

       At this time, Gao Qi also came in. He put the meeting materials in front of Li Zhentai and said in a low voice, “You can get ready to start.”

       Li Zhentai suddenly felt a little confused. He opened the information on the desktop, but he didn’t read a word after reading it for a long time. He felt that there might be a problem, otherwise, Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi, who had not shown up for a long time, should not appear here.

       Although it was a so-called meeting of the board of directors to pass a resolution, Li Jianglin held most of the shares of Yunlin. To put it bluntly, Li Jianglin has the final say in matters of Yunlin. Even the resolution of the board of directors must be signed by him to take effect. Now that he held the guarantee contract signed by Li Jianglin himself, even if Li Zhenran and the others jumped out to object, it would have no effect.

       When he thought of this, Li Zhentai felt a little more at ease.

       Next to him, Li Zhenran reminded him, “Eldest brother, do you want to announce the start of the meeting?”

       Li Zhentai suddenly came back to his senses, raised his head and said, “Today’s board of directors officially begins.”

       They were still proceeding according to the original agenda of the meeting, but Li Zhentai had been absent-minded. The original smugness had now been decreased by seven or eight points, and he was a little restless. He drank the tea in the cup next to him, and then rudely interrupted the meeting to ask the waiter to come in and pour him water.

       When the last item was reached, Li Zhentai announced the guaranteed investment plan made by Yunlin.

       Li Zhenran didn’t listen to him, and asked, “How come it wasn’t processed through the board of directors resolution meetings?”

       Li Zhentai said, “This is Dad’s plan. He gave it to me to do it. The third child should know.”

       Li Zhenzi lowered his gaze and did not speak.

       Li Zhenran smiled and said in a calm manner, “Is that so? Why don’t you ask dad?”

       As soon as he said that, the door of the conference room was opened from the outside. Hua Yibang pushed Li Jianglin in with a wheelchair and walked slowly from the outside.

       Li Zhentai was stunned for a moment, he stood up slowly, and shouted, “Dad?”

       Li Jianglin’s face was still unhealthy and pale, but Li Zhentai could see that his mind was very clear. He glanced at Li Zhentai blankly but did not respond to him.

       Hua Yibang had been pushing Li Jianglin next to the chairman’s seat, and at the same time, someone came to move Li Zhentai’s seat back to where he should be sitting.

       Li Zhentai stared at Li Jianglin closely, breathing heavily.

       Li Jianglin didn’t seem to have the strength to say more, he said to Li Zhenran, “You can talk.”

       Li Zhenran then stood up and took a file box from Su Yao who came in behind Hua Yibang. He opened the file box, took out some of the materials and threw them on the oval conference table, saying, “Li Zhentai asked the chairman to sign the guarantee contract, the name of the loan company is Xin Sheng, and the registered shareholders of the company are Yue Zijia and You Bo. Among them, this Miss Yue Zijia, is the mistress of my eldest brother Li Zhentai.”

       After he finished saying that, Li Zhenran took out two photos and threw them on the desktop, both of which were taken secretly when Li Zhentai and Yue Zijia were described as intimate.

       The other documents were the registration information of the company Xin Sheng.

       Li Zhenran said, “Xin Sheng was still a shell company, and the loan secured by Yunlin will be its first fund. I asked You Bo for the detailed plan, the funds will be used to acquire a small amount of several failing furniture factories, not surprisingly, Li Zhentai plans to resell these furniture factories to Yunlin at a high price, so as to achieve the malicious transfer of funds. “

       Li Zhentai stood up all of a sudden, “Don’t make an unfounded attack to wrong me!”

       Li Zhenran took out a recording pen and threw it directly in front of Li Zhentai, “Here is a recording of my conversation with You Bo, want to hear it?”

       Li Zhentai’s face was pale.

       Li Zhenran said, “Should I show more evidence to prove the relationship between you and Miss Yue?” At this point, he suddenly leaned into Li Zhentai’s ear, lowered his voice and said, “Maybe try to get a few videos of the bed scenes?”

       Li Zhentai closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and when he opened his eyes, all the people in the conference room were looking at him. The surnamed Li and not the surnamed Li were all from Yunlin’s power level. None of them gloated and laughed, instead, they all looked complicated, and he even saw a look of sympathy in some people’s eyes.

       He finally turned to Li Jianglin.

       Li Jianglin had been silent since he handed over the right to speak to Li Zhenran. When he saw Li Zhentai looking at him, he slowly said, “From today, Li Zhentai will be relieved of all positions in Yunlin.”

       “Dad!” Li Zhentai shouted.

       He began to panic and suddenly reached out to grab the documents on the table. He said to Li Jianglin, “You signed this contract yourself! I didn’t force you to do so.”

       He seemed to know that he had lost his way back, so he simply grasped the last straw, and did not hesitate to tear his face with Li Jianglin.

       Li Zhenran stood beside Li Zhentai and put a hand on his shoulder, “Eldest brother, you should see what you have in your hand.”

       Li Zhentai was stunned for a while, and lowered his head to turn over the documents, but did not find the contract, he began to rummage through the documents and finally raised his head to look at Gao Qi.

       Gao Qi turned his face away silently at this moment.

       Li Zhentai threw the things down heavily, turned to look at Li Zhenran, and said, “You have already plotting against me, and have been waiting for today, haven’t you?”

       Li Zhenran said to him softly, “Not only I’m watching you, but Dad is also watching you, do you know that Lao Tzu said: If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish; If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. Dad has read so many books, what is in his heart is much more complicated than what you and I think.” After he said that, Li Zhenran patted Li Zhentai’s shirt lightly and went back to his seat to sit down.

       In the end, Li Jianglin just gently announced the end of the meeting, and then asked Hua Yibang to push him out.

       Li Zhentai stood there for a long time, then caught up and shouted, “Dad, I was wrong!”

       However, Li Jianglin didn’t pay any attention to him. He was not feeling well, so he was sent back to the Li family directly.

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       Erhuang couldn’t contain his excitement and kept touching Li Zhenruo with his nose, licking the hair on his back.

       And Li Zhenruo who hadn’t seen Erhuang for a long time and kept rubbing Erhuang’s back and soft abdomen with his face.

       A dog and a cat had been making out in this secluded corner for a long time, but no one in the Li family noticed. When Li Zhenruo saw that it was almost time, he left Erhuang and ran toward the villa.

       However, Erhuang didn’t understand why he suddenly left, and hurriedly followed behind his ass and ran there.

       Li Zhenruo stopped, turned around, and raised a paw to shake Erhuang.

       Erhuang didn’t understand what it meant, because Li Zhenruo was playing with it, so he crawled down, wagging his tail to Li Zhenruo and happily barking.

       Li Zhenruo was startled, but fortunately, Erhuang’s bark didn’t alarm the people in the room.

       He thought for a while, returned to Erhuang, put his paw on Erhuang’s chest and stood upright, and put the other paw on its forehead.

       Usually, Zhu Kai would tame Erhuang from time to time. This action means to let Erhuang stay where he was and not follow him.

       But there was a difference in how a cat did it after all, Erhuang tilted his head and didn’t understand what he meant.

       Li Zhenruo turned around and continued to run forward, but Erhuang was still following behind him, so he had to stop again and do the same gesture to Erhuang.

       When he did the same action for the third time, Er Huang probably understood. It sat down on the spot, and its tail swayed from side to side, but the swing was not that big.

       Li Zhenruo saw Erhuang’s reluctant look and its eyes wet under the light. Suddenly, he felt a little reluctant to part with Erhuang.

       But this time was different from before. Li Zhenruo couldn’t take it away, he could only look at it again, then turned around and went behind the villa.

       Erhuang just sat there and looked at him.

       It was not yet nine o’clock at night.

       Li Zhenruo found that Li Jianglin was already lying on the bed early in the morning, and Zhu Kai was also in his room. He jumped up on the windowsill, hid behind the curtains, took a peek at the probe, and quickly retracted his head.

       Although he only glanced at it, he could see clearly that Li Jianglin was lying on the bed and seemed to be a little sick, while Zhu Kai was sitting on the edge of the bed, wantonly raising one leg and resting it on Li Jianglin’s bed, the chair beneath him tilted back restlessly.

       Zhu Kai said, “Look at you, you are so sick that no son of you is willing to stay by your side.”

       Li Jianglin didn’t speak, but his breathing was a little heavy, and it sounded like he was having trouble breathing.

       Zhu Kai then said in his condescending tone, “So, what’s the use of raising so many sons? If it’s not your own, then it’s not your own. You just don’t have a son in this life to see you off to the afterlife¹here Zhu Kai meant that since none of the sons are his actual son, no one would be willing to stay besides him on his deathbed.”

       Li Zhenruo was startled, then realized that Zhu Kai knew about this from the beginning. He suddenly recalled that when Zhu Kai had just finished making trouble at the wedding of Li Zhentai and Wen Chun, he caught Zhu Kai on the street, and Zhu Kai mysteriously told him that he knew a secret about the Li family.

       At that time, Li Zhenruo couldn’t figure out what secret was worth mentioning so solemnly by Zhu Kai, but now he thought he may understand.

       Li Jianglin made a ragged gasp in his throat, and he said in a hoarse voice, “Get out of here!”

       Zhu Kai didn’t seem to care at all. He crossed his hands behind his head and asked Li Jianglin, “What’s the point of being angry, who is here to watch you when I went out? You don’t want the nurse to come in to guard you, and your son won’t come back.”

       Li Jianglin didn’t speak this time, closing his eyes and ignoring him.

       Zhu Kai then sat alone by the bed and began to hum a song out of tune.

       There was a strangely calm atmosphere between the two. Li Zhenruo hid outside the window, wondering how long they would stay silent. He was thinking about whether he should go back earlier and tell Li Zhenran that Li Jianglin was very sick so that Li Zhenran could come back to see him.

       To be honest, Li Zhenruo felt a little uncomfortable seeing Li Jianglin like this. He was very conflicted since he felt that he should hate Li Jianglin. Li Jianglin knew his identity from the beginning, but he still abandoned him after he was exposed by Li Zhentai and the others. He chose to sacrifice him to keep this secret, just like Li Zhenran thought, he should hate Li Jianglin for being unfair to him.

       But up to now, those strong emotions in the past seemed to have faded away, he was neither too excited nor too sad, even when he saw Li Jianglin lying on the bed, listening to Zhu Kai’s cold words, he felt sympathy for Li Jianglin.

       He took a deep breath, Li Zhenruo gently leaned the top of her furry head against the glass window.

       At this moment, in that originally quiet room, Li Zhenruo suddenly heard Zhu Kai suddenly said a word for no reason. He said, “Have you ever regretted, touching me when I was a child?”

       Li Zhenruo’s whole cat suddenly froze.

       Then he heard Li Jianglin say, “I regret it. I haven’t stopped regretting it for so many years. Just go out and leave me alone.”

       Zhu Kai’s tone seemed indifferent, “I know, you treat me as my mother. I was like her back then, but unfortunately, not anymore, you must be disappointed.”

       After the heavy breathing, Li Jianglin dragged his voice and said, “I didn’t…”

       Zhu Kai said, “You love and hate me because I’m Zhu Yun’s son, but I’m not born to her and you, right?”

       This time Li Jianglin didn’t speak.

       “Haha,” Zhu Kai laughed loud for no reason, and the chair under him made a noise.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t hold back his head to look and saw Zhu Kai stand up. He helped Li Jianglin pull the quilt, then sat beside the bed and patted his chest, “Go to sleep, you don’t have to feel uncomfortable when you fall asleep.”

       In the past, it was not that Li Zhenruo had no doubts about the relationship between Li Jianglin and Zhu Kai, mainly because until now he did not know who took Li Jianglin’s semen. At first, he suspected Yue Zijia, but later he denied the idea and began to doubt Zhu Kai. He always persuaded himself not to think of that aspect. After all, Li Jianglin still kept the image as a father in his heart, but now after listening to Zhu Kai’s words, He thought that some things might be different from what he imagined, but they might not be that far off.

       Li Zhenruo was so shocked that for a moment he forgot what he should do next, so he stayed on the window sill.

       Then he heard that Li Zhentai came back.

       When Li Zhentai came home, he must have come to visit Li Jianglin who was sick, so Zhu Kai stood up and took the initiative to go outside.

       He greeted Li Zhentai at the door of the room, and after Li Zhentai came in, he himself walked towards the kitchen to pour water to drink.

       Li Zhenruo secretly saw Li Zhentai closing the door, then walked to Li Jianglin’s side, picked up the tissue next to him, wiped Li Jianglin’s forehead, and whispered, “Dad.”

       Li Jianglin nodded weakly.

       Li Zhentai sat down beside the bed and said softly, “I went to have dinner with You Bo today for the third child.”

       Li Jianglin didn’t seem to want to speak, and after Li Zhentai paused for a while, he said, “The mess is going to be resolved quickly.”

       “Well,” Li Zhentai replied, “After all, this matter is that the third child offends others first. You Bo proposed a cooperation plan with Yunlin. I think we can consider it, and also show each other some sincerity, to resolve this conflict of the third child.”

       Li Jianglin was a little sleepy, “What plan? Don’t be careless.”

       Li Zhentai said, “It is an acquisition plan, and I will not be careless. I will give you a detailed plan when the time comes.”

       Li Jianglin was silent for a while, and said, “The main thing is that you have to pay attention.”

       Li Zhentai took Li Jianglin’s hand and said, “Got it.”

       He sat with Li Jianglin for a while longer before he stood up and left the room.

       Li Zhenruo had already recovered from the shock of hearing the conversation between Zhu Kai and Li Jianglin just now, and thought that if there was nothing fishy between Li Zhentai and You Bo, he would not be a cat! After Li Zhenzi offended You Bo, did they conspire together, or was it Li Zhentai who set everything up from beginning to end?

       What was Li Zhentai want to do for him to take the advantage of Li Zhenzi’s problem as a pretext and the money of Yunlin? Could it be that Li Zhentai felt that Yunlin was out of his hands, and while there was still a chance, he colluded with outsiders to maliciously transfer Yunlin’s funds?

       But why?

       Wait, Li Zhenruo suddenly thought, does Li Zhentai also know that he is not Li Jianglin’s son?

       Li Zhenruo raised one paw to cover his mouth, no longer caring about those messy thoughts, and jumped off the window sill.

       When he went back, he took a taxi, but he had no money or even a phone. He could only borrow a phone from the gatekeeper of the neighbourhood to call Li Zhenran and ask him to come down and pay.

       While waiting for Li Zhenran, Li Zhenruo considered whether to tell him about Li Jianglin and Zhu Kai.

       After much deliberation, he finally decided not to. Now Li Zhenran still had a thorn in his heart. If he were to known about the ambiguous relationship between Li Jianglin and Zhu Kai, he was afraid that the thorn will become a bone and couldn’t be taken out.

       Li Zhenran came out of the gate of the neighbourhood, paid the driver the fare, and then took his cat home.

       As they walked into the elevator, Li Zhenran suddenly leaned over to Li Zhenruo’s neck and smelled it, and said, “Why does it smell like a dog?”

       Li Zhenruo subconsciously raised his hand and touched his neck. He rubbed on Erhuang for a long time just now and was licked by Erhuang. He didn’t think that his body was really tainted with Erhuang’s smell.

       Li Zhenran frowned.

       Li Zhenruo said, “I was caught by Erhuang when I slipped in, and it ran away with my back in my neck.”

       Li Zhenran asked him, “Not seen by Zhu kai?”

       Li Zhenruo said quickly, “No.”

       Li Zhenran was not too happy, and disgustedly said, “Go back to take a bath.”

       Li Zhenruo had not enjoyed Li Zhenran’s help in bathing him for a long time, perhaps because he disliked that he was covered with Erhuang’s saliva, Li Zhenran took the shower head himself to help him rinse. He sat in the bathtub, lying comfortably on the edge of the bathtub with the towel on his head, steamed by the steaming steam, and he was casually in the cat form.

       The cat was too small, and Li Zhenruo slid towards the middle of the bathtub, but Li Zhenran reached out and scooped it up, turned over, and started to flush his stomach.

       When the water rushed to the lower body, Li Zhenruo felt itchy and began to struggle fiercely.

       After struggling for a long time, he rolled over and fell into the bathtub, gasping for breath.

       Li Zhenran felt that Li Zhenruo’s whole body was washed clean, he put down the shower and plugged the stopper, and started pouring water into the bathtub. Then he took off his clothes and stepped in and sat down.

       Li Zhenruo immediately turned into a young man with slender legs and feet and sat next to Li Zhenran.

       Soaking in the bathtub comfortably, Li Zhenran lowered his head on Li Zhenruo’s neck and could only smelled the scent of the shower gel. He touched Li Zhenruo’s smooth and tender skin with satisfaction and asked, “What did you see when you went back today?”

       Li Zhenruo put the towel on his chest with water, grabbed Li Zhenran’s hand and put it on his chest, and said, “Li Jianglin is sick.”

       Li Zhenran pressed her lips against Li Zhenruo’s shoulder and rubbed lightly, “Sick and confused?”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but turn to look at him.

       Li Zhenran continued, “Otherwise, how can Li Zhentai be so bold?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “It’s a serious illness, but I really don’t know if he was just confused.” He didn’t think Li Jianglin would be confused so easily.

       Li Zhenran gently stroked his hair and cheeks.

       Li Zhenruo rubbed his palm obediently, “Go back and see him.” He felt sorry for Li Jianglin.

       Li Zhenran said, “No, I won’t go back now.”

       Li Zhenruo raised his head to look at him, he felt that Li Zhenran probably had a plan, and he had some guesses in his heart, but he didn’t know if it was all right, so he simply didn’t ask, turned over and straddled Li Zhenran’s lap, hugging him kissed his face.

       The temperature seemed to be rising.

       Li Zhenruo was short of breath and felt that Li Zhenran was stroking his waist with one hand. He was obviously a little emotional. He leaned into Li Zhenran’s ear and said, “Do you know where You Bo lives?”

       Li Zhenran’s movements suddenly stopped, and his voice was low, “Must you bring up that disgusting person at this time?”

       Li Zhenruo said in a low voice, “I want to go to his place to check the evidence of his collusion with Li Zhentai, and see if I can find some other leverage from him.”

       Li Zhenran heard the words and said, “He has done a lot of illegal business, and there must be a handle, but I don’t know if you can find it.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “How do you know you can’t find it if you don’t look for it?”

       Li Zhenran touched his face, “Don’t go, I will find someone else to find a way.”

       Li Zhenruo is now full of confidence in her transformation, “It’s the most convenient for me to go.”

       Li Zhenran just said, “Don’t fool around.”

       Li Zhenruo’s elbows propped on his shoulders, palms wiped back wet hair, “I know.”

       After saying that, he moved his waist and asked Li Zhenran, “Why aren’t you moving?”

       Li Zhenran leaned back and put his arms behind his head, and said casually, “I’m not interested in thinking about You Bo and Li Zhentai.”

       “Don’t do this,” Li Zhenruo coaxed him, “Come on.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Want it? Sit up and move by yourself.”

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