Author: hoenimochi (Page 76 of 95)

       “How did that come out?” Song Jun asked curiously after Li Zhenruo ripped off the rabbit tail’s underwear and changed back into his own clothes.

       Xia Hongshen answered this question for him, “Too many distracting thoughts are also a sign of insufficient asceticism practice.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I think of a lace thong and associate it with something else……” He couldn’t be blamed either. When he saw some messy things before, he associated them at the same time.

       Xia Hongshen stretched out his hand and pressed it on top of Li Zhenruo’s head, “Get rid of your distracting thoughts, just like you wanted to become a human at that time. If you can’t get rid of distracting thoughts, your future cultivation will also be hindered.”

       Li Zhenruo was a little frustrated with these words, he nodded, “I understand.”

       Song Jun comforted him gently, “It’s okay, take your time.”

       Li Zhenruo answered “um”.

       Song Jun asked him, “You said you wanted to investigate your enemy, how did it go?”

       Li Zhenruo sat down on the sofa, “I think I already know who did it, but I must find out about this matter, otherwise, I won’t feel at ease even if I kill that person to get revenge.”

       Song Jun raised his hand and put it on his shoulder, “Don’t worry, I believe there will be a day when the truth will come out.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help grabbing Song Jun’s hand and said, “Thank you.”

       Xia Hongshen looked at the two of them coldly and flicked his fingers lightly. Li Zhenruo suddenly felt a pain in the back of his hand and withdrew the hand that was holding Song Jun. He looked at Xia Hongshen and said, “Master is petty.”

       In the afternoon, Li Zhenran finished the work at hand and drove to the school to pick up Li Zhenruo.

       When Li Zhenruo got in the car, he asked him, “Are you on a long vacation?”

       Li Zhenran smiled indifferently, “Yeah. I’m treating you to dinner, what would you like to eat?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Anything is fine. Let’s go watch movies after we finish eating.”

       Li Zhenran glanced at him but did not object in the end and started the car.

       After dinner, the two of them really sat in the cinema and watched a movie.

       Whether it was Li Zhenruo or Li Zhenran, both of them felt that this experience was a bit new. Although the movie was not very good, the two still watch it with relish.

       Halfway through, Li Zhenran’s cell phone vibrated, and he got up with his cell phone and went outside to answer the call.

       Li Zhenruo waited for him to come back while eating popcorn. After a while, Li Zhenran came back and sat down beside him, suddenly leaned over to his ear, and said in a low voice, “Gao Qi passed me a photo, are you interested in taking a look?”

       Li Zhenran’s burning breath made Li Zhenruo shrink his neck, but he was surprised by the content of his words.

       Li Zhenran showed him the photo on his mobile phone. Li Zhenruo clearly saw that it was a retaken photo. It was a photo of a man and a woman. It was Li Zhenruo’s mother Zhao Yuqiong and the man who looked similar to Li Zhenruo.

       The background of this photo was also consistent with the background of the two photos that Li Zhenruo found at Zhao Yuqiong’s house.

       The cinema was really not a convenient place to talk, and Li Zhenruo couldn’t sit still, so he got up and pulled Li Zhenran up and walked outside.

       Although he was not sure, he felt that the reason why Li Zhentai suspected that he was not Li Jianglin’s son was probably because of this photo, but how did Li Zhentai get this photo?

       After they came out of the cinema, Li Zhenruo asked Li Zhenran, “Did Gao Qi say how he got this photo?”

       Li Zhenran shook his head, “Gao Qi said that this is his bottom line, and he is reluctant to say anything else. The reason why he was willing to hand over this photo was also because he considered that you were no longer there.”

       Li Zhenruo grabbed Li Zhenran’s phone and looked at it for a long time, and a wave of anger grew in his heart.

       In fact, if he was Li Zhentai, after seeing this photo and becoming suspicious, he might have done the same thing. The problem was that he really was not Li Jianglin’s son, so he couldn’t blame Li Zhentai for finding out. What really concerned him was the one who killed him. Although he almost decided in his heart that Li Zhentai could not get away from it, he still need a thorough understanding of the answer.

       Li Zhenran reached out and touched his head, and inserted his fingers into his hair to soothe his emotions.

       If Li Zhenruo was not Li Jianglin’s biological son, then the man in the photo was likely to be his biological father. He had seen the photo of this man before, and now the photo was still in Feng Junyuan’s possession. He had no interest in who his biological father was, but now, he had the idea of ​​wanting to understand the circumstances.

       How on earth did Zhao Yuqiong hook up with this man, but at the same time voluntarily become Li Jianglin’s mistress, lied to him and gave birth to him?

       These things might have nothing to do with Li Zhentai poking his identity out and buying a murderer to kill him, but they were inextricably linked to the situation he has found himself in.

       “I want to,” Li Zhenruo said the words, paused and looked up at Li Zhenran, “Go to Zhao Yuqiong’s hometown.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Okay, I’ll accompany you.”

       In the evening, Li Zhenran took a shower in the bathroom, and Li Zhenruo stood by the window alone to catch some wind.

       At this time, everyone was asleep, and no one noticed his existence, but the weather gradually became colder, and Li Zhenruo had to find pyjamas for himself after turning into a human form.

       Because he had seen the two photos of Zhao Yuqiong before, he was not very surprised to see the photos that Gao Qi sent to Li Zhenran tonight. On the contrary, he was more concerned about what Xia Hongshen said to him today.

       He had distracting thoughts, so his cultivation progressed slowly.

       At this time, he definitely had no way to completely get rid of distracting thoughts and concentrate on cultivation with his heart, but he needed to gain more strength through cultivation.

       Li Zhenruo stretched out his hand to take off his pyjamas. He was lazy just now, and he didn’t wear underwear at this time. He pressed his hands lightly on the windowsill and closed his eyes.

       The night wind swept across his body with a slight coolness. He tried his best not to have any distracting thoughts and concentrate on only one thing. At first, it should not be too complicated, just the black panties with a rabbit tail.

       He mobilized the spiritual power in his body and slowly wrapped his body. Inside his head, he concentrated on what the panties would look like, carefully outlining even every detail, ending with the round white tail.

       When he opened his eyes, he could clearly feel that his body was properly wrapped by the underwear woven by spiritual power. He first reached out to touch the back of his butt, pinched the fluffy ball, and then lowered his head to examine every detail carefully. He wondered what the difference was from the panties he imagined in his mind.

       But at this moment, the door of the bathroom was opened by Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran wrapped a bath towel around his waist and walked out barefoot while wiping his hair with the towel. He saw Li Zhenruo bent over to look at his underwear, and at the same time noticed the pure white furball rabbit tail behind his black underwear.

       Li Zhenran threw the towel on the back of the chair next to him. He stood in front of Li Zhneruo and asked, “Can I take it that you are seducing me?”

       Li Zhenruo was a little excited. He said to Li Zhenran, “Look, this is what I made with my spiritual power.”

       Li Zhenran heard the words, squatted down to look at his underwear, flicked the edge with his fingers, and looked up at him, “It feels good.”

       The distance was too close, Li Zhenruo straightened his back, and bumped into Li Zhenran’s face. He then smiled at him.

       Li Zhenran was not angry, and he was a little curious, “Is this from the cat’s hair?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t say yes or no, he tried hard again to wrap a pair of long red long johns around his underwear.

       Li Zhenran stood up and faced him, leaned into his ear and said, “Can you do something else?”

       Li Zhenruo heard the words and whispered in his ear, “Yes.”

       He then changed into a pair of wool pants, and Li Zhenran pulled a hair from it, “Can you stop focusing on changing around the pants?”

       Li Zhenruo changed into a pair of wool socks and came out.

       Li Zhenran took off his sock, and when it fell into his hand, it turned into cat hair. He said, “Will the hair fall out after this?”

       “It won’t, okay?” Li Zhenruo yelled, “It’ll grow back!”

       After experimenting for a night, although he played a bit with Li Zhenran, Li Zhenruo also found that he did not know whether his spiritual power was too weak or his ability to control was limited. All he could conjure up were some very simple clothes. If he set too many details, such as meticulous embroidery and complex styles, those were likely to fail.

       But the current state was enough for him. He could switch between the two forms at will without running naked on the street.

       In the future, even without relying on Li Zhenran, he could enter and leave the Li family at will.

       After breakfast the next day, Li Zhenran took a tissue and said to Li Jianglin, “Dad, I’m going on vacation.”

       Because Wen Chun left and Li Zhentai was in a high spirit again from his success, he moved back to the house. The previous dispute with Li Jianglin seemed to have never happened.

       When Li Zhenran said this, before Li Jianglin had time to express his position, Li Zhentai asked enthusiastically, “Where are you going to play?”

       Li Zhenran said, “Drive out and take a look around.”

       Li Zhentai smiled and said to him, “I’m so envious that you have this free time to go out for a walk, but unfortunately I’m so busy with work that I can’t find time at all.”

       Li Zhenran heard the words and said, “I’m sorry to bother you with the company.”

       Li Zhentai said, “It’s just a part of my job.”

       Li Jianglin kept looking at Li Zhenran without saying a word and with a disapproving look on his face, but he didn’t say anything in the end.

       At this time, Li Zhentai asked him again, “Second child, if you drive out by yourself, you don’t need a driver, right?”

       Li Zhenran replied, “No.”

       Li Zhentai said, “My driver wants to take a few days off, so let your driver drive for me these few days.”

       Li Zhenruo was originally lying beside Li Zhenran’s legs, but when he heard the words, he was a little angry and stood up all of a sudden.

       Li Zhenran replied with a smile, “It’s definitely no problem, I’ll tell him later.” After Li Zhenran said that, he scratched Li Zhenruo’s stomach with his foot.

       Li Zhenruo was tickled, and hurriedly lay down and pressed his feet, posing to gnaw on his toes.

       At this time, Zhu Kai just got up, opened the door of the room with sleepy eyes, and looked at them.

       Li Zhentai felt that he was blessed by the disaster, and he didn’t even seem to want to care about Zhu Kai’s harassment behind his back. When he saw Zhu Kai, he called him over for breakfast.

       Li Zhenran had already bent down and carried Li Zhenruo, then stood up.

       Li Zhentai asked him, “Are you going to go out with the cat?”

       “Well,” Li Zhenran said, “I’m taking him out to look around.”

       Li Zhentai laughed when he heard this as if he heard some funny joke.

       Li Jianglin finally said to Li Zhenran, “If you have time, think about it and take care of yourself.”

       Li Zhenran nodded, “Okay, Dad.”

       When he passed by Zhu Kai, Zhu Kai rubbed his eyes and asked him, “Where are you going?”

       But Li Zhenran didn’t intend to answer him, he just raised his hand and waved it in front of him, with the cat under his other arm, he walked steadily towards the outside.

       When they were having breakfast, Wang Ma went up to pack two pieces of clothes for him and packed them in a small suitcase.

       He threw the cat on the passenger seat and placed the suitcase in the trunk. Li Zhenran drove the off-road vehicle slowly out of the garage. As soon as he left the door of Li’s house, Li Zhenruo couldn’t wait to change into a human form. He was wearing a simple long-sleeved T-shirt and sports trousers, and complained to Li Zhenran, “What the hell is up with Li Zhentai?”

       Li Zhenran smiled indifferently, “First day you knew him?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I’d like to see how long he can be proud.”

       Li Zhenran reached out and rubbed the top of his head, then changed the subject and asked, “You might see your biological father on this trip, are you nervous?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t expect that he would ask this, so he froze for a moment and said, “Not nervous.” He was telling the truth. He didn’t have any feelings about the so-called biological father. The reason why he had to go there was not to find his father. But to find out the truth of why his mother tricked Li Jianglin into treating him as a child of the Li family.

       After being quiet for a while, Li Zhenruo said slowly, “My body was given by him, but unfortunately it is no longer there. Now only my soul is the only thing left, and it has nothing to do with him. My soul belongs to me alone.”

       Li Zhenran originally caressed the top of his head gently, but suddenly grabbed his hair and pulled him over to kiss him on the lips.

       The kiss was short-lived, but Li Zhenruo was still startled and pushed Li Zhenran away to let him see the road. Luckily it was a straight road and there were no other cars nearby.

       “You belong to me,” Li Zhenran said with a serious expression.

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I’ve written about underwear several times in this chapter, but it’s just that the protagonist tried to change the clothes out of thin air. I know that the special reviewer didn’t have time to read the text, so I just locked it, but I don’t know how to change it.

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The more I read the more I’m annoyed with Li Zhentai

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       When he got up the next morning, Li Zhenruo was lying on the window sill and looked down early in the morning. He saw Li Jianglin walking in the garden. After a while, Zhu Kai walked to Li Jianglin’s side and Li Zhenruo didn’t know what Zhu Kai said to him.

       Li Jianglin seemed to be very angry and waved his hand to tell him to go.

       As he looked at Li Jianglin’s attitude towards Zhu Kai now, Li Zhenruo found it intriguing.

       Zhu Kai sneaked back last night to steal the dog, but today Li Jianglin chased him away, but he didn’t go. Li Zhenruo felt that Zhu Kai was shameless, and perhaps he was not the only one who thought of that. The whole Li family felt that he was shameless this time.

       However, there was nothing to be done since Zhu Kai was shameless anyway, so naturally, he didn’t care what the Li family thought of him.

       Li Zhenruo followed Li Zhenran and went down to the first floor to prepare for eating breakfast. From a distance, he saw Zhu Kai sitting at the dining table with a Band-Aid on his neck. He waved at them with a pretty bitchy smile.

       Li Zhenran just sat down when Li Jianglin asked, “Why didn’t xiao Chun come to eat?”

       Wang Ma said with difficulty, “I called, but she said she wouldn’t eat.”

       After a while, they heard footsteps on the stairs, and they saw Wen Chun coming down from the second floor with a suitcase in hand.

       Li Jianglin frowned tightly, “What is this for?”

       Wen Chun lowered his head and forced a smile, and said, “Dad, I want to go out to take a break.”

       “Take a break?” Li Jianglin stood up, “Where?”

       Wen Chun hesitated for a moment, and then said, “To be honest, at first I wanted to go home, but I knew I wouldn’t be able to hide it from my parents if I went home, so I want to go out and travel, not necessarily just to one place, more to walk and see more.”

       Li Jianglin asked her, “What about your workplace?”

       Wen Chun said, “I’ve taken a long vacation, it may not take long. I’ll be back in two or three weeks. Don’t worry.”

       Li Jianglin sighed. He knew that Wen Chun was unhappy at home every day, and it might not be a bad thing if she had the opportunity to go out for a walk, but thinking of her going out alone would inevitably make him uneasy.

       Li Zhenran then voiced out Li Jianglin’s concern at this time, “Sister-in-law, it’s not safe on your own.”

       Wen Chun smiled and said, “It’s okay, I won’t go to any dangerous places, and maybe I’ll invite some friends. You don’t need to worry about me, thank you.”

       Li Jianglin said, “Since you’ve made up your mind, I won’t stop you. Pay attention to safety on the road, and call home if you have anything.”

       Wen Chun replied, “I know.”

       Li Jianglin instructed Wang Ma, “Tell the driver to drive her off.”

       Wang Ma nodded and hurriedly walked outside.

       Li Zhenran got up and walked to Wen Chun’s side, and took the initiative to help her pick up the suitcase.

       Wen Chun repeatedly thanked him.

       Li Zhenran kept walking her outside, helped her put the suitcase in the trunk, and said, “Be careful on the road.”

       Wen Chun nodded, “I will. Go and have breakfast.”

       After he walked Wen Chun away, Li Zhenran came back and sat down at the dining table. At this time, Li Jianglin had put down his chopsticks, and said, “I’ll go out later.”

       Zhu Kai bit his chopsticks and asked, “Where to?”

       But Li Jianglin didn’t pay any attention to him.

       Wang Ma said quickly, “I’ll go call a driver for you.”

       Li Zhenruo raised his head and glanced at Li Zhenran. When he saw that Li Zhenran didn’t say anything, he lay down silently again.

       Except for Yunlin’s board meeting, Li Jianglin rarely went out so early. He was used to a lazy life when he was resting at the beach. He got up every morning to take a walk and exercise, and sometimes he didn’t eat breakfast with them.

       If he went out so early, Li Jianglin must have something to do today.

       Li Zhenruo thought about it and felt that it was possible that it was for Li Zhentai’s matter. In any case, Li Jianglin somewhat owed him for insisting that he should marry Wen Chun.

       And since Li Jianglin caught an adultery act in Li Zhenran’s office yesterday, he had been a little cold to Li Zhenran. Li Zhenruo began to think, did Li Jianglin have some other plans to appease Li Zhentai and knock Li Zhenran off at the same time?

       When Li Jianglin left, Zhu Kai was still eating breakfast slowly, and at the same time glaring at Li Zhenruo with fierce eyes.

       Drat! Li Zhenruo thought to himself. His paws grabbed Li Zhenran’s trouser legs and climbed onto his lap, sitting down, while sticking to Li Zhenran’s arms, he glared back at Zhu Kai.

       Although it was just a vague thought, Li Zhenruo didn’t expect his thoughts became a reality the next day.

       Yunlin held an emergency board meeting that morning and decided on several matters, one of which was to hand over all the key projects currently in charge of Li Zhenran to Li Zhentai.

       Before the meeting, Li Zhenruo wanted to follow up but was blocked when he was about to enter the door of the conference room. He thought that he could sneak in as a cat if he walked quietly, but he failed.

       He sat outside the heavy wooden door and waited, Li Zhenruo put his ears on the door panel, but the sound inside was dull. There were a few faint sounds, but he couldn’t hear what was said.

       After the meeting, he hadn’t come back to his senses. Someone pushed open the wooden door from the inside and pushed his whole cat behind the door, almost crushing his paws.

       Li Zhenran came out of the conference room first. Li Zhenzi chased after him and shouted, “Second brother!”

       After Li Zhenran stopped to look at him, Li Zhentai suddenly took two steps forward and patted Li Zhenran on the back, “I’ll go to your side to hand over the work later.”

       When Li Zhenzi saw Li Zhentai coming, he swallowed what he wanted to say and walked toward the elevator.

       Li Zhenran turned around and smiled at Li Zhentai, “Okay, I’ll go to your office later.”

       Li Zhentai nodded. When he was about to speak, a director came out of the conference room and tapped him on the shoulder to chat with him, so Li Zhentai didn’t pay attention to Li Zhenran anymore.

       Only then did Li Zhenruo get out from behind the door with a gloomy face.

       Li Zhenran glanced at him and walked towards the elevator. Li Zhenruo followed closely at his feet and looked up at him suspiciously. From what they said just now, Li Zhenruo knew that things might be going in a bad direction.

       However, there were still people coming and going outside this large conference room, and it was not easy to communicate with Li Zhenran, so he went straight to the elevator.

       Li Zhenruo kept looking up at Li Zhenran but didn’t notice that he bumped his head into the trash can, knocking down the trash can in the corridor, making a crisp sound.

       Many people looked over from the direction of the conference room.

       Li Zhenruo was a little confused by the collision.

       Li Zhenran squatted down and picked him up. When he reached out to pick up the trash can, the staff of the logistics department hurriedly ran over from the conference room and hurriedly helped him up.

       Li Zhenran then carried Li Zhenruo and walked toward the elevator. After entering the elevator, they found that Li Zhenzi was actually still waiting for them.

       When the elevator door slowly closed, Li Zhenzi said, “Is Dad getting old and confused?”

       Li Zhenran rubbed the top of Li Zhenruo’s hurting head and said calmly, “He has his plans.”

       After that, the elevator also reached the floor of their office. The two brothers did not continue to communicate and walked out one after the other.

       Going back to Li Zhenran’s office, Li Zhenruo couldn’t wait to talk to him. He lay in front of Li Zhenran’s big desk with a naked human body, and asked, “What’s going on?”

       Li Zhenran sat behind the desk and wanted to smoke, but hesitantly put it down after picking up the cigarette case, and said, “I have to hand over all my work to Li Zhentai.”

       Li Zhenruo’s eyes widened, “Is Dad crazy? How could Li Zhentai handle it?”

       Li Zhenran was calm and said, “You can ask him.”

       Li Zhenruo felt a little exasperated, “Is he threatening you? But has he seriously considered whether it is worth it to use Yunlin’s business to intimidate you?”

       Li Zhenran said, “He is not so confused. He is now using the pretext that Li Zhentai is not familiar with his work, and has placed a work team to be directly responsible to him, including Hua Yibang.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned, “Even Hua Yibang has been drawn in, so what are you going to do?”

       Li Zhenran spread out his hands, “I’ve been given a leave of absence. Do you have any place you want to go? I can accompany you.”

       However, Li Zhenruo was still analyzing Li Jianglin’s thoughts, and said, “Li Jianglin is angry with you because of the matter of you and me. The only thing he can use to threaten you is his inheritance of Yunlin. In addition, this time he feels owed to the eldest for Wen Chun’s business, so he took advantage of the situation for his own benefit and asks you to give him all the work at hand. But has he never thought about who sent those photos to him? Li Zhentai played tricks against his brother again and again, and finally, he could taste the sweet victory. Is Li Jianglin not afraid that Li Zhentai will become more aggressive?”

       After he listened to Li Zhenruo, Li Zhenran nodded and said, “It makes sense, so what do you think Dad thinks?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned, “I don’t know.”

       Li Zhenran said, “If you don’t know, don’t think about it. You also know what Yunlin means to him. Since he dares to make such a decision, he must bear the consequences.”

       When he heard what Li Zhenran said, Li Zhenruo also calmed down and thought that Yunlin has nothing to do with him anyway. Whatever Li Jianglin wanted to do, what should he be nervous about? Now that he had this time, it was better to think about his own affairs.

       As he thought of this, Li Zhenruo said to Li Zhenran, “Can you go through Gao Qi and find out how Li Zhentai knew that I was not Li Jianglin’s own son?”

       Li Zhenran asked him, “Why Gao Qi?”

       Li Zhenruo was almost lying on his desk, trying to get close to his ear, and whispered, “I heard Gao Qi on the phone that day, I don’t know if his relatives or friends owe him money, and Li Zhentai doesn’t seem to be willing to help him.”

       Li Zhenran reached out and touched his face, “Okay, I’ll find someone to contact him.”

       In the past two days, Li Zhenran has been busy handing over his work to Li Zhentai. The part of the work in his hands was very complicated, and it couldn’t be handed over clearly in just a few words.

       This may be the reason why Li Jianglin also transferred Hua Yibang. In fact, not only Hua Yibang but also several directly managed departments under Li Zhenran.

       All the work was on track, and it was impossible to replace the original staff, so only the top management was changed, and all the things that were originally decided by Li Zhenran were handed over to Li Zhentai. No, it couldn’t be said to Li Zhentai, because Li Zhentai need Li Jianglin’s sign and approval before making a final decision.

       So this was to return all power to Li Jianglin.

       Li Zhenran had too many things to do at the company that Li Zhenruo was bored. So he took a bag of cat food he stole from the house to visit his Master. Later, Wang Ma suddenly found out that a bag of cat food was missing, and made a fuss.

       Xia Hongshen was at work that day, and Li Zhenruo found Xia Hongshen in his office. Before anyone went in, he put the cat food in and shook it.

       He felt a sudden force, and before Li Zhenruo could react, his hand was already empty. When he looked inside, he saw Xia Hongshen sitting at the desk, looking down at the bag of cat food.

       “Master,” Li Zhenruo showed a pleasing smile on his face.

       Xia Hongshen didn’t even look at him, just said “um”, and then gnawed the bag with his sharp teeth.

       Li Zhenruo walked over to sit in front of him, put his arms on the desk, and asked him, “Is it delicious?”

       Xia Hongshen grabbed a handful and put it in his mouth, chewed it for a while with a complicated expression, and told Li Zhenruo, “Not bad.” Then he looked at the bag, “Too little.”

       Li Zhenruo said quickly, “I’ll bring more to you next time.”

       Xia Hongshen did not respond to him.

       Li Zhenruo looked at him, hesitated and said, “Master, I want to ask a question.”

       Xia Hongshen then responded to him, “Say.”

       Li Zhenruo was a little distressed, “The last time I tried to transform, together with clothes, but only a pair of thongs came out.” He was silent for a while, and added, “It’s black with lace.”

       Xia Hongshen, who had been indifferent all along, looked up at him and asked, “Black lace thong?”

       Li Zhenruo also felt embarrassed but nodded honestly.

       Xia Hongshen suddenly became interested, “Let me see.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned, “Master, are you serious?”

       Not only was Xia Hongshen serious, he immediately picked up the office landline and made a call, “Come and see my apprentice transform.”

       Li Zhenruo asked in surprise, “Who did you call?”

       Xia Hongshen said to him, “Nothing, I just called Song Jun to come.”

       Even if he said it was nothing, Li Zhenruo didn’t think it was really nothing, “You just call Song Jun to come and see my lace thong?”

       Xia Hongshen was very excited, “Quick, take a look.”

       As soon as he finished speaking, Song Jun hurried in from outside the office without even taking a breath. As he closed the door, Song Jun looked curiously, “What? Show me, little Garfield.”

       Li Zhenruo glanced at the locked office door. He hesitated and said, “Just the two of you, don’t tell anyone else.”

       Afterwards, he first turned into a cat and watched his clothes fall to the ground. He then took a deep breath and imagined the lace thong that day. He then transformed into a human under the gaze of two people, and at the same time trying to make the spiritual power to wrap himself up into clothes with substance.

       However, when he finished his transformation, Song Jun, who stood in front of him and looked at him, opened his mouth into an “O” shape.

       Li Zhenruo looked down and saw that this time it was indeed black panties, but without the lace trim, the style was also ordinary panties. He didn’t understand why Song Jun was surprised.

       Song Jun motioned for him to reach out and touch the back of his butt.

       Li Zhenruo reached out to touch it for no reason, and then cursed “fvck!” He just touched a small fluffy ball behind his butt, which clearly looked like a rabbit’s tail.

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Some readers asked why the eldest brother is so frustrating. It is because he is the villain ah. I can’t deal with him if I make him tall and brave…

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       Li Zhenruo grabbed Zhu Kai tightly, his original intention was to prevent Zhu Kai from taking Erhuang away.

       However, Zhu Kai was also a ruthless man. He stretched out his hand to pull Li Zhenruo’s back, and he even pulled a handful of fur off him.

       Li Zhenruo’s back was in pain and he loosened his grip afterwards. However, after he realised his fur had been pulled off, he went berserk and waved his sharp claws at Zhu Kai.

       Zhu Kai was in pain, and no longer showing mercy. He grabbed Li Zhenruo’s neck and pulled him away, and was about to throw him to the ground. In the end, Li Zhenran grabbed his arm and snatched Li Zhenruo back from his hand.

       Luckily, Zhu Kai’s face was fine, but the claw marks on his neck and behind his ears were clearly visible, and there was even some blood.

       Just now, Li Zhenruo was almost thrown to the ground by Zhu Kai. At this time, he couldn’t help but feel a little scared as he lay in Li Zhenran’s arms and panted slightly.

       Li Zhenran gently stroked his back and said softly, “It’s alright.”

       “Zhu Kai!” Li Zhentai’s voice sounded from behind them, with some fierce hatred.

       No matter what the purpose of Zhu Kai’s releasing the photo at the wedding, none of the family would be grateful to him. Including Li Zhentai, who until now still felt uneasy and afraid that others would see the photo at that time. He was afraid that the matter of his cuckold had been spread out.

       Zhu Kai sat on the ground, clutching his neck in pain. After a while, he stretched out his hand and saw that his hands were covered in blood.

       At first, the workers who thought that a thief had entered the house saw Zhu Kai, so they left quietly, leaving only Wang Ma to cry out in distress to see Zhu Kai caught up in such a state, “Oh, no! How did you get into this state?”

       Zhu Kai made a hissing sound and stared at the cat in Li Zhenran’s arms.

       Li Zhenran ignored him at this time, lowered his head to look at the injury on Li Zhenruo’s back, and then gave Zhu Kai a cold look. Li Zhenruo was lying in Li Zhenran’s arms and pretended to be pitiful, but he really was pitiful. Even though Zhu Kai looked miserable, he was also in pain.

       Wang Ma ran to Zhu Kai’s side, squatted down to look at the injury on his face, and said, “What should I do? Do we have to go to the hospital? Do we need a rabies vaccine?”

       Li Zhenruo looked over with some displeasure thinking that if someone had rabies, it was more likely that Zhu Kai, that madman, the one that had rabies! He was so innocent and cute, how could he look like he had rabies?

       Only Erhuang didn’t know what was going on and circled around Zhu Kai excitedly.

       Li Jianglin frowned and asked drily, “What are you doing here?”

       Zhu Kai lifted his head to look at him and said, somewhat pitifully, “I come back to see my dog.”

       Wang Ma persuaded, “Let’s get his wounds treated first.”

       Li Jianglin squeezed his cane tightly and said, “Come in first.”

       Wang Ma went to find the first aid kit at home. The whole family sat on the sofa and stared at Zhu Kai, who was covering his neck.

       Under the gaze of everyone, Zhu Kai didn’t seem to feel anything wrong. He couldn’t help but reach out to touch the wound on his neck and then stared at Li Zhenruo fiercely.

       This time, he originally planned to come back and take Erhuang with him, but he didn’t expect a cat to ruin his plan.

       When he thought of this, Zhu Kai’s eyes became more and more fierce.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t show weakness and stared back at him.

       Wang Ma brought the first aid kit and sat down to treat the wound on Zhu Kai’s neck. Zhu Kai was unable to endure the pain and kept saying “ouch ouch ouch” with his mouth.

       Li Jianglin looked serious and called out Zhu Kai’s name, “Zhu Kai.”

       Zhu Kai seemed to know what he was going to say, and while baring his mouth to call out in pain, he said, “Don’t say it, I know what you are going to say. But to be honest, you can’t blame me for your son hooking up with your daughter-in-law. Above all, I am just an elder who can’t bear to keep my nephew in the dark, unlike you, the father, who knew about it long ago but kept it to himself, and had to let his son get married.”

       As soon as he finished speaking, both Wen Chun and Li Zhentai looked at Li Jianglin in surprise.

       Li Zhentai stood up even more, “Dad, what did he say?”

       Li Jianglin didn’t change his face, “I am doing it for your own good.”

       Li Zhentai asked, “You already knew that she had an affair with the third child?” When he spoke, he pointed at Wen Chun.

       Zhu Kai lowered his head and snickered.

       Wang Ma, who gave him the medicine, obviously noticed it, and couldn’t help but hit him on the arm and said angrily, “Zhu Kai! How can you do this!”

       Li Zhenran still held Li Zhenruo and sat quietly, only watching Li Zhentai unconsciously straighten his back as he stood up.

       Li Zhenruo felt that although Li Zhenran was gently stroking the top of his head, his attention was on Li Zhentai. He was sure that if Li Zhentai did something extreme to Li Jianglin, Li Zhenran would definitely stand up and stop him.

       Li Jianglin closed his eyes and did not speak.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that although Li Jianglin still looked calm, he must have had a little difficulty coping with the current situation. Tonight, he walked outside alone for so long, and he must have been distressed because of the affairs of his sons.

       Li Zhentai couldn’t hold back his anger. He couldn’t care about his attitude now, and shouted, “What is it for my good? This marriage was arranged by you, I have nothing to say, but knowing that this woman is cheating on me, you still insist on me marrying her! You said it was for my own good?! Dad, am I your own son? Actually, only the second and third are your sons, right?”

       Li Jianglin’s brows furrowed instantly, and he said, “What nonsense are you talking about?”

       Li Zhentai clenched his fists tightly as he glanced at Li Jianglin, then at Wen Chun, before finally slamming his fist hard on the coffee table. He then said, “Maybe I am the most unnecessary one in the Li family. It’s better for me to leave.”

       After he said that, Li Zhentai turned around and walked outside.

       Li Zhenran stood up and called out to Li Jianglin, “Dad?” It meant whether he wanted to chase him back.

       Li Jianglin shook his head slowly and said, “He has resentment in his heart, let him go, I will talk to him later.”

       Li Zhenran nodded when he heard the words. He saw that Li Jianglin’s face did not look very good, so he walked over and squatted beside him and said, “Dad, it’s getting late, you should go to rest first.”

       Li Jianglin was indeed really tired today. He glanced at Li Zhenran and didn’t want to say anything more. He stood up with crutches, and then said to Wen Chun, who was still sitting on the sofa in a daze, “Go and rest too.”

       Wen Chun was in an awkward situation, forced a smile to hide her emotions, nodded and said, “Good night, Dad.” Then she took the lead in walking toward the stairs.

       Li Zhenran saw that Li Jianglin was planning to go back to the room, he held the cat in one hand and his arm with the other.

       Unexpectedly, Li Jianglin gently pushed his hand away, “No need.” He was probably still brooding about what happened in Li Zhenran’s office today.

       At this time, Zhu Kai stood up from the sofa and walked to Li Jianglin’s side to help him, “I’ll help you to rest.”

       Li Jianglin moved more, waved his hand vigorously and said, “Get lost.”

       Zhu Kai quickly retracted his hand and stood there watching Li Jianglin slowly walk towards the room with a somewhat innocent expression.

       But when Li Jianglin disappeared, the innocence on his face was put away, and he said, “I’m not going to sleep here today, do you guys have no problem with that?”

       Of course, the remaining Wang Ma and Li Zhenran had no problem.

       When he saw that Li Zhenran was about to leave, Zhu Kai stopped him and said, “Zhenran, there doesn’t seem to be any conflict between us, right?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at Zhu Kai angrily.

       Li Zhenran scratched Li Zhenruo’s chin and said softly, “There is still a deep hatred between us. Just you wait and I will settle the account with you.”

       This made Zhu Kai stunned for a moment. When Li Zhenran carried the cat up the stairs, he shouted, “What do you mean? Because of that little boy?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t answer him and went straight upstairs.

       Wang Ma sighed heavily while packing her things, and spoke with some tears, “What’s going on? The family is in such a mess.”

       Zhu Kai heard the words and walked over to sit next to her and put his arms around her back, saying, “It’s alright, don’t cry.”

       Wang Ma hit him, but felt distressed when she saw the wound on his neck, and said, “Show me the wound again.”

       Li Zhenran took Li Zhenruo back to the room, sat on the edge of the bed and let him lie on his lap to see the injury on his back, one of which was indeed ripped off and looked a little bald, although it was not too serious, at that time it must be painful.

       “I can’t see clearly like this, should I shave your back?” Li Zhenran asked.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly lay on his lap and appeared in a human form, and said, “Are you crazy?!”

       Li Zhenran saw that his back was a little red and swollen, raised his hand and patted his round and fair buttocks, and said, “I’ll go get you some medicine.”

       Li Zhenran went to get a tube of cool and swollen ointment, and still let Li Zhenruo lie on his leg. He dipped the ointment with his fingers and rubbed him on the red and swollen back.

       Li Zhenruo was lying on his stomach and complained, “Zhu Kai is really ruthless.”

       Li Zhenran heard the words and said, “You are not softer than him.”

       Li Zhenruo muttered, “I knew he would come back and take Erhuang away.”

       Li Zhenran replied, “If he wants to leave with the dog, you can leave him alone. Dad won’t do anything to him anyway.”

       Li Zhenruo put his head on one hand and thoughtfully, “Why do you think your father is so indulgent towards Zhu Kai?”

       Li Zhenran asked him, “What are you implying to me?”

       Li Zhenruo got up from him, sat cross-legged beside the bed, and said to Li Zhenran, “Have you ever wondered since you were a child?”

       Li Zhenran looked at him with a half-smile.

       Li Zhenruo knew that he just didn’t want to say it, so he took the initiative to say, “When I was young, I thought maybe it was because Zhu Kai was Zhu Yun’s younger brother. Since Li Jianglin loved Zhu Yun all his life, and he didn’t like my biological mother, it was understandable that he was very partial to Zhu Kai. Later, when I got older, I felt that no matter how partial he was, a brother-in-law and even his own son were incomparable to him. So I wondered if Zhu Kai was Li Jianglin’s own son. But it’s not right, if he was Li Jianglin’s son, Li Jianglin had no reason not to accept him or not let him enter Yunlin.”

       “So what about—” Li Zhenran looked at him.

       Li Zhenruo said, “I think, don’t Zhu Kai and Zhu Yun look alike? Do you think to substitute for Zhu Yun, your father was…” After he said this, Li Zhenruo couldn’t go on anymore. To be honest, he was not willing to think in this direction, no matter what, after all, he had always regarded Li Jianglin as his father in his heart.

       Li Zhenran didn’t comment on his words and asked him, “Do you think it’s like that?”

       Li Zhenruo thought silently for a while, and finally said, “It shouldn’t be, it’s just me who was thinking wildly.”

       Li Zhenran turned his head and glanced behind him, “Does it hurt?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “It doesn’t hurt much, just ignore it.”

       Li Zhenran stretched out his arms and hugged him to lie down, “Then let’s go to sleep.”

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Notes:
I finished rechecking Perfection. (˘◡˘)
Tbh I was going to take 1-2 week breaks after the last update because there’s so much going on in my office right now. But I feel might as well finish this month’s update before taking breaks (ಥ◡ಥ)
I will come back again hopefully next week if not 2 weeks again, but don’t worry. I will definitely update more than 1 chapter when I came back (งᓀ‸ᓂ)ง

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       Li Zhenruo knew that Li Jianglin was not his own father, but the imposing aura was still there after years. To be honest, he was a little flustered at this moment. However, when he saw Li Zhenran calmly get up and put on his clothes, he thought that it was Li Zhenran’s father and not his father anyway. If he was not nervous, what was he being so nervous for? So he sat up and asked hesitantly, “Do I just go out like this?”

       Li Zhenran glanced at him and said, “I would advise you to put your clothes on.”

       Li Zhenruo resisted the urge to roll his eyes and pulled the quilt to cover his lower body, “You said he should have heard it, right?”

       Li Zhenran sat on the edge of the bed and put on his trousers, “En”, “Find some clothes to put on and go out with me.”

       Li Zhenruo understood that Li Zhenran planned to simply confess to Li Jianglin. The soundproofing in this room should be good, but Li Jianglin was not a fool. His son had been locked in it for so long in the daytime, so there was something wrong with it, right? And he asked Hua Yibang not to notify Li Zhenran, which was like he knew something in advance.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that he was someone who made an inauspicious remark. He had just imagined the worst situation and now he had to face it. He got off the bed, walked barefoot to the closet, opened the door, and deliberately picked out a better-looking piece of clothing since the truth was out. He wondered if Li Jianglin would not be so angry because of this?

       He didn’t put on his clothes for a long time, Li Zhenran came over to help him pull up his coat, and then squatted down and put socks on him.

       Probably because of Li Zhenran’s bland attitude, Li Zhenruo felt that it was no big deal at this time. Li Jianglin kicked him out of the Li family, then he hooked up with his son as revenge.

       As he thought of this, Li Zhenruo raised his foot to step between Li Zhenran’s legs. As the result, Li Zhenran squeezed his ankle so hard that his leg was numb.

       When he opened the door of the lounge, Li Zhenruo followed Li Zhenran and walked out. Sure enough, he saw Li Jianglin sitting on the sofa in the office.

       Li Jianglin leaned back against the back of the sofa, but he sat very straight, his crutch was in front of him, and his hands were on the crutch. Li Zhenruo didn’t know when he came in and how much he heard, but Li Zhenruo and Li Zhenran didn’t even notice. Looking at his expression, he was calm, not furious, but not smiling. Perhaps it was because he had seen the third son hooked up with the eldest daughter-in-law, so the second son fooling around with the little assistant was not a major blow to him.

       When he saw Li Jianglin, Li Zhenruo suddenly felt a little distressed for him, so he simply hid behind Li Zhenran and did not appear, pretending to be nervous.

       However, Li Jianglin’s gaze still passed over Li Zhenran, looked at Li Zhenruo up and down for a moment, and then returned to Li Zhenran’s face.

       “Dad,” Li Zhenran called out.

       Li Zhenrou grabbed the hem of Li Zhenran’s clothes and did not speak.

       At this moment, Li Zhenran surprisingly turned his hands behind his back and grabbed Li Zhenruo’s hand, digging into the palm of his hand.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t know whether to say Li Zhenran was heartless or shameless.

       Li Jianglin ignored Li Zhenran, but said to Li Zhenruo, “Li Tuan, I remember you said you were Luo Fei’s cousin, right?”

       Li Zhenruo nodded and said, “Yes.”

       Li Jianglin added, “I remember that you are not yet twenty years old. Your cousin sent you for an internship, but you are sleeping with a man here. Do you think it is appropriate?”

       Li Zhenruo grabbed Li Zhenran’s hand and did not speak.

       Li Jianglin sighed, and then said to Li Zhenran, “I have something to tell you, let this young man be excused.”

       Li Zhenruo said in his heart that Li Jianglin was planning to teach Li Zhenran a lesson, so he let the outsider leave first. So before Li Zhenran answered, he took the initiative to say, “I’m going out first, Mr. Li.”

       After speaking, Li Zhenruo let go of Li Zhenran’s hand and walked out of the office.

       Li Zhenran didn’t stop him, but walked to the sofa and sat down.

       As he went out of the office, Hua Yibang sat in front of his desk, raised his head to look at Li Zhenruo, with such an expression on his face, and then glanced at the closed door of the office, probably worried about Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenruo said, “The father and son want to chat, I’ll go out for a walk.”

       Hua Yibang nodded.

       Li Zhenruo opened the office door and walked out. He stood by the wall with his back against the wall for a while, and stood there quietly for a while, sighing.

       Opposite the corridor was Li Zhenzi’s office. At this time, the office door was tightly closed, and he didn’t know if anyone was still inside.

       He knew that Li Zhenzi often left the company after meeting and dealing with the affairs in his hand, and he was more at Yunyi than at Yunlin. He was bored and walked along the corridor alone. The reason why Li Zhenruo didn’t want to stay in the office was that he felt a little confused in his heart and didn’t want to be alone with Hua Yibang.

       He found that he was not as good as Li Zhenran, and he was still not calm enough to face these things.

       Unconsciously, he walked to the stairwell. There were hardly any people walking in the stairwell here, and it looked very gloomy. Before Li Zhenruo got close, he heard the voice of someone talking inside.

       The stairwell was transparent up and down, and a sound could be heard from far away. Obviously, it was not the person on this floor who was talking, but Li Zhenruo could still hear it clearly while standing next to the fire door.

       The voice came from the downstairs floor, and it was someone on a phone. Downstairs was Li Zhentai’s office, and this person’s voice Li Zhenruo could hear, was Li Zhentai’s assistant Gao Qi.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t know who Gao Qi was talking to on the phone, but his attitude was fierce, and he looked a little out of breath.

       Li Zhenruo squatted beside the fire door and heard Gao Qi shout to the person over the phone, “I don’t have that much money! Zhentai doesn’t want to lend it to me!”

       After a while, Gao Qi said again, “Settle your own troubles.”

       Then Gao Qi seemed to hang up the phone. The leather shoes made dull sounds as he stepped on the ground and left the stairwell with dull footsteps.

       Li Zhenruo squatted for a while and thought that Gao Qi might be able to become a breakthrough in Li Zhentai’s matter, and this trip was an unexpected gain.

       After a while, Li Zhenruo heard the door of Li Zhenran’s office opened and saw Hua Yibang helping Li Jianglin out from inside.

       He quickly stood up, hesitated for a while and stood still.

       Li Jianglin nodded to him, but did not mean to call him over, and walked towards the elevator with the help of Hua Yibang.

       Li Zhenruo waited in place and waited for them to enter the elevator before walking towards Li Zhenran’s office.

       After he entered, he found that Li Zhenran was already sitting behind his large desk, turning around and looking outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

       “He—what did he say to you?” Li Zhenruo asked as he walked inside.

       Li Zhenran turned to look at him and smiled, “A lot of things, what do you want to hear?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him with some doubts. He knew that Li Zhenran didn’t take Li Jianglin’s attitude to heart, but he felt that Li Zhenran was too careless. Why wasn’t he afraid that Li Jianglin’s attitude towards him would change in the future and the whole Yunlin could fall on someone else?

       Li Zhenruo walked up to Li Zhenran and said, “I guess, no matter what he said, in any case, it’s not possible to just mess around with you, right?”

       Li Zhenran reached out and wrapped his arms around his waist, “You are right, but you don’t need to worry, I got everything.”

       Li Zhenruo had to admit that he was very moved by Li Zhenran’s words. If Li Zhenran was kicked out by Li Jianglin, and he could also say to him “don’t worry, I got everything”, he promised that he would never give up on Li Zhenran from now on.

       He couldn’t help but put his forehead on top of Li Zhenran’s head, and suddenly noticed that a stack of photos was scattered on the desk, so he stretched out his hand to get it, and when he opened it, it turned out that all of them were photos of him and Li Zhenran.

       “Li Jianglin brought it?” Li Zhenruo asked.

       Li Zhenran said “um”, “Average candid photography skills.”

       At first, he was just sceptical, but now Li Zhenruo felt sure of his own thoughts, “Did Li Zhentai do it?”

       Li Zhenran casually shook the office chair from side to side, “The old man didn’t say that, what do you think?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I have nothing to say. Whether it’s him or not, I’m betting it’s him.”

       At dinner that day, the anger was a little subtle.

       Li Zhenruo still didn’t know what Li Jianglin and Li Zhenran—father and son said, but Li Jianglin was really calm, and he hadn’t said anything since Li Zhenran went home in the afternoon until dinner.

       For dinner tonight, Wang Ma cooked a small fish for Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo was lying at Li Zhenran’s feet, licked the fish with his flat mouth, and suddenly heard Li Zhentai asked about the construction company of the Qijiang project.

       Li Zhenran chatted with him while eating.

       Li Jianglin suddenly said, “It would be great if the fourth child was still there.”

       As soon as he said these words, everyone at the table fell silent.

       Li Zhentai could hardly hide the surprise in his expression, while Li Zhenran frowned slightly.

       It was Wen Chun who spoke up and comforted, “Dad, don’t be sad.”

       In fact, not to mention them, even Li Zhenruo, who was lying under the table, was also surprised. If he was really Li Jianglin’s son, it was nothing weird to be said, but he was not.

       Li Jianglin suddenly said to Li Zhentai and Li Zhenran that he missed him. No matter how he thought about it, it was abnormal.

       After he said that, Li Jianglin put down his chopsticks and stood up.

       When Wang Ma saw this, she asked, “Not going to eat more?”

       Li Jianglin shook his head, “No more.”

       In the evening, Li Zhenruo was lying on the windowsill watching Li Jianglin walking back and forth in the garden downstairs. He walked from here to there alone, stopped and stood there for a long time, and then slowly walked back to this side.

       Li Jianglin had something on his mind, mostly because of Li Zhenran. But he was so melancholy, and Li Zhenruo really couldn’t figure out what he was doing.

       Suddenly mentioning him, most likely he felt that the other three children were just causing him to worry.

       Li Zhenran had already come out of the shower, walked to the window and scooped up Li Zhenruo with one hand, put him on his chest and lay down on the bed.

       Li Zhenruo lay quietly on his chest, listening to his steady and powerful heartbeat.

       In fact, Li Zhenran seemed to be a bit of a homebody in Li Zhenruo’s eyes. In the past, he found it difficult to understand; the world was so wonderful, and while you were young should go out to see more and play more, why should one always nestle at home?

       But now, for the first time, he felt that he was in a good mood even if he was just staying with the person he liked, even if he did nothing.

       Before he knew it, it was already dark. Li Zhenruo was lying in Li Zhenran’s arms, half asleep listening to the sound of Li Zhenran’s sound turning over the book, and suddenly noticed some commotion outside.

       There was not much movement, and Li Zhenran didn’t seem to notice it, but Li Zhenruo pricked up his ears, then turned over and rushed out of the window.

       Li Zhenran sat up and asked, “What?”

       But Li Zhenruo didn’t have time to answer him. He rushed out of the window, climbed down the floor along the pipe, and ran towards Erhuang’s kennel. Sure enough, he saw a person standing there trying to lead Erhuang away.

       Li Zhenruo pounced quickly, and the whole cat landed on the man’s face.

       “fvck!” Zhu Kai, who was pounced to the ground, cursed lowly. He reached out and grabbed Li Zhenruo to pull him off.

       Erhuang, who couldn’t hold back his excitement at all, saw Zhu Kai and Li Zhenruo rolling into a ball on the ground, thinking it was some interesting game, and finally couldn’t help wagging his tail and barking loudly.

       Li Zhenran was the first to come out of the house to see this scene, and soon Wang Ma, Li Zhentai, and Wen Chun also heard the movement, and the gardener and driver at home all ran towards it.

       Finally, Li Jianglin appeared on the crutch.

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Notes:
I was too excited to recheck all Perfection’s translations one by one over the past few weeks. I noticed there are some words that could be translated better, some double paragraph, and uh bad grammar sorry I sucks so bad at grammar, so I hope by doing the rechecks that you guys could enjoy Perfection better ଘ(੭˃ᴗ˂)੭

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       The Li family hadn’t seen Li Zhenran hold the cat on his lap for breakfast for a long time.

       When Li Zhentai came downstairs and saw it, he couldn’t help but sighed and said, “Finally your cat is found, otherwise you’ll be out of the mood for work.”

       Li Zhenran didn’t look up and focused on peeling the eggs for Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo glanced at him, and then glanced at Li Jianglin who was sitting in the main seat and thought that Li Zhentai was just trying to be witty again.

       He didn’t ask Li Zhenran, but according to the family’s tone, Li Zhentai should come back to sleep these days, and the relationship between him and Wen Chun seemed to have eased.

       However, Li Zhenzi still did not come back. It seems that it was impossible for Li Zhentai to forgive Li Zhenzi in a short time.

       No. Li Zhenruo thinks it won’t be in a short time, maybe Li Zhentai will never forgive Li Zhenzi in his whole life. Li Zhentai himself was useless. Furthermore, there were Li Zhenzi and Li Zhenran above him getting in his way.

       In order to make Li Zhenruo’s death to be in vain, Li Zhentai had to target Li Zhenzi in the next step. He hesitated to act, did he feel that if he did it now, it would be too obvious?

       After Li Zhenruo ate the egg yolk, he smelled the faint fragrance on Li Zhenran’s fingers, so he couldn’t help sticking out his tongue to lick his fingers. After licking for a while, he suddenly felt a burst of tooth itching, and couldn’t bear to bite him. He just lay down on Li Zhenran and licked his neck and chin.

       Li Zhentai was about to sit down, but he couldn’t help but slow down for a while, and asked hesitantly, “Zhenran, your cat did not get rabies outside, right?”

       Li Zhenran’s head was slightly tilted back, and his long fingers pinched the back of Li Zhenruo’s neck, but he didn’t pull him away in the end and let him lick him.

       After Li Zhenruo finished licking, he leaned on Li Zhenran’s shoulder and panted slightly, thinking I like you so much, don’t you know? Ghosts won’t believe it!

       After breakfast, Li Zhenran went to the bathroom to wash his face and neck with water.

       Li Zhenruo was lying on the dining room table, and squinting his eyes with an unhappy look in the direction of the bathroom, until Wang Ma drove him off the table.

       At that time, he really wanted to leave the Li family. However, now that he came back, Li Zhenruo didn’t want to be separated from Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran went to the company, Li Zhenruo jumped up before he closed the door, and sat down in the back seat.

       The driver saw him in the rearview mirror, smiled and said to Li Zhenran, “It’s back?”

       Li Zhenran replied, “Yeah, I found it.”

       Li Zhenruo rubbed against Li Zhenran’s leg and lay down, resting his head on his lap. He saw that Li Zhenran’s hand was still beside him, and he pulled his hand with his paws.

       When Li Zhenran raised his head and touched it, Li Zhenruo raised his eyes and looked at him with satisfaction.

       The driver accidentally encountered a problem while driving the car and stepped on the emergency brake. Li Zhenruo rolled off the seat in one go, and Li Zhenran reached out and tried to catch him before he had time.

       The driver quickly apologized, saying that the car in front suddenly changed lanes.

       Li Zhenran said, “It doesn’t matter.” Li Zhenran looked down and saw that Li Zhenruo had quickly climbed back to the seat. Li Zhenruo continued to rest his round chin on Li Zhenran’s leg as if nothing had happened.

       So Li Zhenran couldn’t help pinching Li Zhenruo’s face.

       As soon as he arrived at the company, Li Zhenran had a meeting waiting for him. He left the cat in the office and asked Hua Yibang to send him the meeting materials.

       Hua Yibang came into Li Zhenran’s office, looked at Li Zhenruo for a while, and asked, “Has the cat been found?”

       Li Zhenran responded lightly, asked some questions on the document, then got up and said, “Let’s go.”

       When he saw them go out to the office together, Li Zhenruo jumped onto the sofa in the office and sat down. He felt that Li Zhenran still didn’t seem to be in a good mood.

       He thought of what Li Zhenran said to him yesterday. He knew that Li Zhenran was worried about him running away from home, and those almost compromising words were doubting his feelings. But when he thought of Li Zhenran saying that he loved him, Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but feel happy, I know you love me, what are you pretending!

       He sat on the sofa, stretched out his front and back legs, and slowly transformed into a human posture. He tried hard to use the method taught by Xia Hongshen to mobilize the spiritual power stored in his dantian, wrapping it around his body and turning it into a human body. layers of clothing.

       Li Zhenruo closed his eyes and felt the flow of spiritual power in his heart. When he opened his eyes, he found that there was only one pair of underwear on his body… fvck, it was a black lace thong, what the hell?! Li Zhenruo was a little broken, how could he control this? He was just in the process of changing and occasionally thought about some pictures.

       Afraid that Li Zhenran would be stimulated, Li Zhenruo quickly changed back to his cat appearance.

       He thought Li Zhenran, that pervert should still prefer the cat.

       When he thought of this, Li Zhenruo jumped up from the sofa and jumped onto Li Zhenran’s large desk, trying to put on a charming pose.

       He was lying on his stomach at first, and then he found that he couldn’t lift his legs. He probably looked a little stupid, so he changed to lying on his side again, exposing his white and soft belly, and his tail was gently flapping on the table.

       After a while, he heard footsteps coming, and Li Zhenran opened the door from the outside.

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly flexed a leg to make himself look more attractive.

       As a result, Li Zhenran just walked in and stopped when he saw him.

       Li Zhenzi stuck his head out from behind Li Zhenran and said with a “wow”, “Second brother, your taste is really heavy.”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly jumped up, closed his tightly and sat on the big desk. He looked up at the window with a focused expression, the early morning sunlight shining in, giving his whole body furry coated with a layer of soft glow, and it looked like a beautiful picture.

       Li Zhenran pretended not to see it, walked to the back of the desk and sat down, and let Li Zhenzi also sit.

       After Li Zhenzi sat down, he wanted to reach out and touch Li Zhenruo, but Li Zhenruo slapped his hand with his tail.

       Then Li Zhenruo got up, walked to the edge of the desk, and continued to sit down and pretend to look out the window.

       Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi talked to themselves about the engineering issues of the project in the western part. It concerned one of the contracts, and the two of them discussed it carefully for a long time.

       Li Zhenruo was tired from posing, he changed his posture and lay on the table, staring at Li Zhenran with some resentment.

       Li Zhenran probably received Li Zhenruo’s gaze and said to Li Zhenzi, “That’s it, there are still some things to do here, I will talk about it next time.”

       Li Zhen couldn’t help but glance at the cat lying on the table, stood up and said, “Then I’ll go first.”

       “Third child,” Li Zhenran suddenly stopped him when he saw that Li Zhenzi was about to leave his office.

       Li Zhenzi turned around, a little strange, “Huh?”

       Li Zhenran said, “Tighten up a bit these days.”

       Li Zhenzi was stunned for a moment, “Why do you say that?”

       Li Zhenran leaned back on the back of the chair and raised one leg, “You don’t think the grudge with eldest brother will simply go away, right?”

       Li Zhen was silent for a moment after hearing the words, and replied, “I know.” After he said that, he opened the door of the office and walked out.

       Li Zhenruo looked in the direction of the office door thoughtfully.

       Li Zhenran looked at him for a while, saw that he was still in a daze, and asked, “What?”

       Li Zhenruo immediately transformed into a human form, and regardless of his nakedness, he sat on the edge of the desk and said to Li Zhenran, “Do you think Li Zhentai wants to touch the third child?”

       “I don’t know,” Li Zhenran said as he picked up the cigarette case, took out a cigarette slowly, and bit it into his mouth, “Since he has played such a heavy hand on you, there is no reason to let go of those who contradict him. The third child? Maybe—” Having said that, Li Zhenran reached out and picked up the lighter on the table.

       “Stop smoking,” Li Zhenruo leaned over and snatched his lighter. He looked at Li Zhenran and said again, “Don’t smoke so much.”

       Li Zhenran leaned on the large office chair and hooked his fingers to Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo then bent down and approached him, bit his face with his teeth and took out the cigarette that was shouting in his mouth, then took it with his hand and put it aside, “What do you want to say?”

       Li Zhenran smiled, “Maybe I’ll be the next one after he dealt with the third child.”

       Li Zhenruo thought about it seriously, “Why does he have to follow an order? If I were him, I would deal with you first. Now that the third child has a conflict with him, he must be the first person that comes to mind if something happens.”

       Li Zhenran still smiled flatly after hearing the words, and stretched out his hand to him, “Come here.”

       Li Zhenruo held Li Zhenran’s hand, was pulled from the desk by him, and then sat on his lap.

       Li Zhenran rubbed Li Zhenruo’s neck with his fingers, turned his head and kissed him, saying, “If you were Li Zhentai, what would you do with me?”

       Li Zhenruo raised his head and thought.

       And Li Zhenran’s fingers had slipped from his neck to his chest, making a mess all the way.

       Li Zhenruo said, “Isn’t your biggest weakness me?”

       Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo have never made themselves a secret together, and he didn’t know if they have been photographed. Whether the photos were given to Li Jianglin or directly to the media or posted on the internet, to be honest, they all dealt a certain blow to Li Zhenran.

       Of course, Li Zhenran was a businessman rather than a star. In today’s open-minded age, whether he was gay or not would probably not have much impact on his career. And what could really hit him was probably Li Jianglin’s reaction.

       Li Zhenruo felt that Li Zhenran should be more cautious in this matter, but he didn’t know why Li Zhenran was not afraid of the world. Did he feel that he got Li Jianglin, or did he have an indifferent attitude towards the whole Yunlin?

       “You’re distracted,” Li Zhenran’s low voice sounded in his ear.

       Li Zhenruo glanced at him, “Didn’t you ask me a question?”

       Li Zhenran said, “Well, that question is not important, you should concentrate on this.”

       At this moment, Li Zhenruo was a little baffled, he no longer knew what was most important to Li Zhenran. So he simply put aside those other thoughts, reached out and held Li Zhenran’s face and kissed it.

       After the kiss, Li Zhenran hugged Li Zhenruo and stood up.

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly wrapped his arms around his neck to stabilize his figure, and said, “Why? Want to have sex in the daytime?”

       Li Zhenran carried him towards the lounge and said, “You were so sultry just now, didn’t you want to seduce me?”

       Li Zhenruo really wanted to seduce him, but when he thought that Li Zhenran looked at a cat and looked sultry, he was really perverted to a certain level, and he couldn’t help but feel a little tangled.

       So he finally couldn’t help but ask a question: “Do you love me more as a cat or as a person?”

       Li Zhenran had already put him on the bed and answered him, “This is a meaningless question. You are a complete individual. I can only say that I love all of you.”

       Li Zhenruo felt a little embarrassed after listening to him say such touching words without changing his face. He couldn’t help but ask again, “Then why haven’t you fallen in love with me in the past 20 years?”

       Li Zhenran looked at him, “It’s not necessarily that I won’t fall in love, it may just be that there is less chance to start.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment because of these words. He suddenly felt that fate was sometimes really a very mysterious thing, and Li Zhenran was actually right. They might just have lost a chance to start. However, it was precisely because they would not begin that their lives will become two eternal parallel lines.

       He hugged Li Zhenran a little harder and kissed his lips.

       The lounge was in full swing for a while.

       Li Zhenruo felt that this place was really a good place. Hua Yibang was guarding outside, and no one could easily come in. When he was tired from work, he could roll onto the bed with his lover in his arms and go back to work after feeling refreshed. Perhaps only Li Zhenran could enjoy such a good treatment.

       After the passionate moments, Li Zhenruo hugged Li Zhenran’s neck and gasped, and suddenly heard the phone ringing that he had left aside, raised his knee and hit Li Zhenran’s waist, “Phone.”

       Li Zhenran reached out and took the mobile phone. When he saw that the caller ID turned out to be Hua Yibang’s name, he couldn’t help frowning slightly. He answered the phone and said solemnly, “What?”

       Hua Yibang’s voice was very low, “Mr. Li Senior came suddenly. I can’t stop him, and he won’t let me inform you. He is in your office now.”

       Li Zhenran replied calmly, “I got it?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him inexplicably.

       Li Zhenran patted his face, “Get up, the old man is here.”

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       Li Zhenran was compromising.

       Li Zhenruo could clearly feel it. In fact, he felt that Li Zhenran should be angrier, whether it was him running away from home or the fact that his real identity was Li Zhenruo. Those things were enough to make Li Zhenran angry.

       But Li Zhenran didn’t say anything now, and he didn’t even ask more questions about his soul being Li Zhenruo. Did it mean that Li Zhenran was also afraid? Afraid that he would leave without saying goodbye if he was pressed tightly?

       Just like what Li Zhenran said, he loved him, so he had to compromise. Li Zhenruo didn’t know if he was the one who fell in love first, but maybe Li Zhenran was the one who fell in love more deeply.

       Li Zhenruo was a little stunned.

       When Li Zhenran drove the car to the school gate, Li Zhenruo suddenly asked, “Don’t you think it’s unbelievable? Such things as soul transfer.”

       When he heard this, Li Zhenran looked at him, “I thought the most bizarre time was when you told me you were my cat, including when I saw you turn into a cat in the bathtub with my own eyes, and then I thought, in this world, there are so many things I don’t know. Just because I don’t know that doesn’t mean they don’t exist, it’s just that my knowledge is limited.”

       Li Zhenruo listened to him quietly.

       Li Zhenran continued, “Later I began to doubt your identity, and I thought you might be Li Zhenruo. It was a bit strange and awkward at first, but it was interesting to see you sleeping with me so calmly.”

       Li Zhenruo, “…do you think I’m perverted?”

       Li Zhenran actually smiled, “Of course not, I think you are very interesting.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I’m a pervert, aren’t you also a pervert? You can still do it knowing I’m Li Zhenruo.”

       “What about Li Zhenruo?” Li Zhenran said, “First of all, we are not related by blood, and secondly, you are both Li Zhenruo and my Dumpling. I don’t think there is any problem.”

       Li Zhenruo was suddenly bashful by his words, opened the door and said, “I’m going.”

       Li Zhenran grabbed his arm, pulled him back, and kissed his lips forcefully.

       The kiss was long overdue, but everything was so familiar and natural. Li Zhenruo raised his hand and wrapped his arms around Li Zhenran’s neck.

       When the kiss was over, Li Zhenran helped him tidy up his clothes and said, “Wait for my call at night.”

       Li Zhenruo gave a “hmm” and lifted his leg to step out of the car.

       After dinner, everyone crowded into Xia Hongshen’s small room, including Erhuang.

       It rained a little in the afternoon, and the ground was still wet, so Long Xing didn’t take Erhuang out for a walk. Erhuang was a little depressed, with his big head on his paws, lying on the ground and looking at the people in the room.

       Xia Hongshen sat in front of his computer desk, looked at Li Zhenruo and said, “If you want to go back, just go back.”

       Li Zhenruo stood by the window with his back against the wall and said, “I’ve caused you so much trouble.”

       “It doesn’t matter,” Feng Junyuan said quickly and softly, “You are very welcome.”

       Although he knew that Feng Junyuan liked his cat form, Li Zhenruo still felt it was strange.

       Song Jun smiled and said, “Today Luo Fei can’t wait to pack his luggage and come to live here, or else he will pack xiao Feng and take him away.”

       As he listened to Song Jun’s words, Li Zhenruo thought that Luo Fei must be angry when he saw him sleeping in the same bed with Feng Junyuan this morning. No wonder he wanted to coax him out to meet Li Zhenran today. He wanted to drive him away, both secretly and explicitly.

       After he figured it out, Li Zhenruo felt that he really should leave. Although Xia Hongshen accepted him as an apprentice, for them, he was an outsider after all. He suddenly broke into their life and added a lot of trouble to them. Li Zhenruo felt apologetic.

       But sometimes when he thought about it, he never felt bad for Li Zhenran, maybe because they were a family since childhood.

       At this time, Long Xing asked, “Are you going to take Erhuang away?”

       Li Zhenruo squatted down, Erhuang immediately ran to him and leaned against him, he touched Erhuang’s head. He thought that he could only bring Erhuang back to Li’s house first, otherwise, Erhuang would definitely think that everyone didn’t want him anymore.

       But when he thought of Zhu Kai, he felt a little bad. He didn’t want to give Erhuang to Zhu Kai again.

       After a moment of distress, Li Zhenruo still said, “I will take it away.”

       Long Xing was a little reluctant. He came over and hugged Erhuang’s head and rubbed it, and said to Li Zhenruo, “Bring it back to play often.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, “Okay.”

       After nine o’clock, Li Zhenruo received a call from Li Zhenran, saying that he was waiting for him downstairs.

       After hanging up the phone, Li Zhenruo took a look out of the window and saw Li Zhenran’s car parked on the side of the road, while Li Zhenran was standing beside the door and looking forward.

       He looked in the direction of Li Zhenran’s eyes, and Li Zhenruo noticed that there was a person standing on the side of the road not far from Li Zhenran’s parking place. It turned out to be Shen Luming.

       Shen Luming was standing on the side of the road, his eyes turned towards the second floor. When Li Zhenruo looked over, he happened to be looking at him.

       Li Zhenruo was startled, turned around subconsciously and hid behind the wall, and said to Xia Hongshen, “Master, that person is here! Does he want to get his body back?”

       When he heard what Li Zhenruo said, Xia Hongshen stood up and looked out the window. Sure enough, he saw Shen Luming.

       Shen Luming seemed to come back to his senses suddenly and saw someone looking at him by the window. He felt that it was not good for him to keep staring there, so he turned and left.

       Xia Hongshen thought about it and said to Li Zhenruo, “He doesn’t seem to realize that this is his body. You don’t have to be too nervous. I’ll try him for you when I have a chance.”

       Li Zhenruo wished he could hug Xia Hongshen’s thigh and say “Master, I love you”, but he was sure that Xia Hongshen would kick him away, so he could only fold his fist and sincerely say, “Thank you, Master!”

       Xia Hongshen waved his hand, “You can go now.”

       Li Zhenruo led Erhuang downstairs and it trotted two-step past when he saw Li Zhenran, Erhuang was much more excited than him. He walked like a fly to pounce on Li Zhenran but was pulled by Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenran watched him run over, pulled his collar for him, and said, “Whose clothes are you wearing?”

       Li Zhenruo’s clothes belonged to Feng Junyuan. Although Dr. xiao Feng was a good-looking person, he looked good in whatever clothes he wore, but of course, it wasn’t on the same level as the clothes he bought himself.

       The weather was getting colder day by day. Li Zhenran helped him pull up his collar and said, “Let’s go back.”

       Li Zhenruo stuffed Erhuang into the back seat, got into the passenger seat, and saw Li Zhenran leaning over to help him fasten his seat belt.

       He thought that Li Zhenran would ask about Shen Luming, but he didn’t ask until Li Zhenran started the car and drove away from the school.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t sit still, he asked Li Zhenran, “Did you see that boy just now?”

       “Well,” Li Zhenran stared at the front, “What?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Aren’t you curious about his identity?”

       Li Zhenran smiled when he heard the words, “If you want to say it, just say it.”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that he had hurt Li Zhenran’s heart, so Li Zhenran didn’t even want to ask him more, and so he could only say, “That person is probably a cat.”

       Li Zhenran said, “I remember you said last time that man was a demon, and he was also a cat demon?”

       “It’s not that simple,” Li Zhenruo said, “He is probably the owner of my current body.”

       This time, Li Zhenran frowned and looked at him, “What do you mean?”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head, “I’m not sure now, but I’m always worried. If he is the original owner and if he wanted to take his body back, what should I do?”

       Li Zhenran couldn’t help but pull over to the side of the road, “You say there is a possibility that he will take the body back? But isn’t your original body already gone?”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, “So I have to be quick, I need to know if it was Li Zhentai who killed me or not.”

       Li Zhenran frowned tightly, “What if you know? Li Zhentai killed you, and if you kill Li Zhentai to take revenge, then it wouldn’t matter if you return your body to him?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned and suddenly understood why Li Zhenran asked such a question. He could only say, “Of course not, if possible, I also hope to be with you all the time, but there are too many unknowns for me in the future.”

       If he hadn’t somehow gotten this body, how would he have had the opportunity to say such things to Li Zhenran here today?

       At this time, Li Zhenruo saw a traffic policeman coming toward them on a motorcycle from a distance, so he said to Li Zhenran, “Drive first, let’s go back and talk about it.”

       Li Zhenran also knew that this was not a suitable place to talk, so he patted the steering wheel with his hands a little irritably, and started the car.

       Back at Li’s house, it was inconvenient for Li Zhenruo to appear in a human form again, and he was taken down by Li Zhenran in the form of a kitten.

       Erhuang also got out of the car and looked very excited when he got home. As soon as he let go of the rope, it turned around inside and out and then ran to the gate to look into the living room, as if looking for Zhu Kai.

       However, in the end, it still failed to find Zhu Kai, and its jumping pace slowed down, dragging its tail towards the kennel.

       When Wang Ma saw Li Zhenran come back with the cat in his arms, she hurriedly greeted him. He didn’t know how Li Zhenran explained the disappearance of both the cat and the dog. Anyway, as soon as Wang Ma saw Li Zhenruo, she sighed and said, “Hey, you stupid cat, where did you go? Where is better than home? Is it in heat? Zhenran, aren’t you thinking about castrating it?”

       Li Zhenruo shivered with fright at the word ‘castrate’, and he retracted into Li Zhenran’s arms and looked up at him.

       Li Zhenran smiled at Wang Ma and said, “It’s fine, it slipped out and suffered some hardships outside.”

       Wang Ma said, “It’s not the first time. I’d better pay more attention in the future. Why do you still think it’s okay? As a result, after raising it for so long, it is still not mature.”

       After he heard these words, Li Zhenruo suddenly felt a little sad, he rested his head on Li Zhenran’s chest and didn’t want to move.

       When they entered the room, Li Jianglin actually came out of the room, saw Li Zhenran holding his cat, and said, “You got it back?”

       “En,” Li Zhenran replied, “It’s all right, just hungry and thinner.”

       Li Jianglin stared at Li Zhenruo for a while, and said, “That’s not obvious.” Then he said, “It’s good that it’s back, so you don’t have to keep thinking about it.”

       Li Zhenran said to him, “Dad, you rest early, I’ll go upstairs first.”

       “Hm,” Li Jianglin responded, and walked into the room on crutches.

       When Li Zhenran carried Li Zhenruo upstairs, the door of Li Zhentai’s room on the second floor opened, and Wen Chun came out of the room and asked, “Have you found Dumpling?”

       He stopped. Li Zhenran stood at the entrance of the stairs and said to Wen Chun, “Yes, sister-in-law.”

       Wen Chun smiled, “That’s good.” She came over and touched Li Zhenruo’s head.

       Li Zhenran asked her, “Eldest brother hasn’t come back yet?”

       The smile on Wen Chun’s face remained unchanged, and she said, “He’s usually not that early.” Then, he said to Li Zhenran, “Then you should rest early, I’ll go back to my room.”

       Li Zhenran nodded, “Thank you.”

       Wen Chun turned around and went back to the room. It seemed that she heard the voice of Li Zhenran coming back and came out to greet him out of courtesy.

       Li Zhenran continued to go upstairs, returned to the room on the third floor, bent down and put Li Zhenruo on the ground, then reached out and closed the door.

       Li Zhenruo stood on the floor and looked at him.

       Li Zhenran took off his coat and threw it by the bed, and walked to the bathroom while unbuttoning his shirt.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t hold back and follow, and when Li Zhenran pushed the door closed, he raised his small paw to block it. Fortunately, Li Zhenran didn’t use too much force, and the door was blocked by Li Zhenruo.

       When he saw that the door was not closed, Li Zhenran didn’t care, and took off all the clothes on his body and turned on the shower.

       Li Zhenruo straightened up on the edge of the bathtub and looked at him for a while. He then transformed into a human figure and stepped in to hug Li Zhenran from behind, with his arms around his waist and his head on his shoulders.

       “What do you think I should do?” Li Zhenruo said, “I don’t know what will happen to me in the next moment? Even if he doesn’t ask for his body back, maybe after ten years or so, my life as a cat will come to an end and I won’t be able to be by your side.”

       Li Zhenran was silent and did not move.

       Li Zhenruo hugged him tighter, “So you should stop being angry with me, okay?” He became more and more at a loss, not knowing how much time he had left.

       Li Zhenran grabbed his hand to let Li Zhenruo release him, and while Li Zhenruo was slightly stunned, Li Zhenran turned around and raised his face with one hand and kissed him lightly.

       When he saw this, Li Zhenruo hugged Li Zhenran and kissed him fiercely.

       The hot water was constantly flushing on them, but the traces of passion were difficult to be completely washed away.

       Li Zhenruo felt that he was very strange. In front of Li Zhenran, he always seemed to be a pure and innocent teenager, and he would easily forget himself.

       When he lay on the bed, Li Zhenruo didn’t fall asleep for a long time. He turned over to face Li Zhenran and looked at his silhouette in the dark.

       After a while, Li Zhenran asked him, “What?”

       Only then did he realize that Li Zhenran was not asleep either, so he leaned on his shoulder and said, “I have a photo…”

       “Ok?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “It should be a photo of my mother and my biological father.”

       Li Zhenran seemed a little surprised to hear this and looked at Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo continued, “I was thinking that Li Zhentai, who suspected my identity and stole my bloodstains to do a paternity test, could have met my real father.”

       “Why do you think so?” Li Zhenran asked.

       Li Zhenruo said, “Because he looks a lot like me, and standing with my mother, you can almost think of it when you look at the photo. I’m just guessing, maybe their group photo is not the only one.”

       Li Zhenran reached out and touched his head, “I can check it for you.”

       Li Zhenruo was quiet for a while and asked Li Zhenran, “How do you know that I am Li Zhenruo? Have been monitoring my whereabouts?”

       Li Zhenran confessed, “Not all the time, but I checked.”

       Li Zhenruo was a little sad, “I knew it.”

       Li Zhenran said, “You lied to me first.”

       “Okay,” Li Zhenruo reached out to hold his face, “I didn’t mention it, but Li Zhenran is actually quite petty.”

       Li Zhenran’s face was squeezed out of shape by him, and it was a bit funny, but he still said expressionlessly, “Didn’t you know it from the first day?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him and smiled, kissed his lips and said, “I just didn’t know you were so childish before.”

       Li Zhenran snorted and reached out and pressed his head against his chest.

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       Li Zhenruo wanted to find Xia Hongshen and the others, but couldn’t find them after walking around the venue. In the end, he could only call Xia Hongshen and said that he had something urgent to do now and would be back at night.

       After Xia Hongshen hung up the phone, he looked at Luo Fei coldly, and said, “You are plotting against my apprentice.”

       Luo Fei shrugged his shoulders innocently, “Your disciple willingly did it himself, I was just entrusted by my friend to let them both have a chance to sit down and talk calmly.”

       Li Zhenran drove, and Li Zhenruo sat in the passenger seat. When they left the coffee shop, Li Zhenran said he was going to find Zhu Kai now.

       Li Zhenruo looked out the window in silence.

       Li Zhenran asked him, “What? Nervous?”

       “Hmm?” Li Zhenruo turned around and did not answer the question.

       Li Zhenran stared at the front, “He was a good friend you grew up with.”

       When he heard this, Li Zhenruo unconsciously propped up the seat cushion with his hands, straightened his back, and said, “It wasn’t a big deal.” After he said that, he silently called Li Zhenran’s name, “Li Zhenran.”

       Li Zhenran turned his head to look at him.

       Li Zhenruo continued, “Do you all know that my death was not an accident?”

       Li Zhenran was quiet for a moment and said, “I don’t know. I just guess.”

       Although he knew in his heart that there was no relationship between Li Zhenran and him at that time and if Li Zhenran died, he might not be so sad. However, he still felt a little uncomfortable at this time

       Li Zhenran rested his left elbow by the window, rubbed his lips with his fingers, and said, “At first someone gave Dad the appraisal to the point you’re sure you’re not Dad’s real son and leave the Li family. For a while, Dad was very angry. He was angry not because you are not his son, but angry that some of the brothers were behind the scenes.”

       Li Zhenruo was a little stunned, wondering if this proved that Li Jianglin actually still thought of him as a son in mind.

       Li Zhenran said, “Actually, didn’t you notice? Dad still loves his youngest son the most.”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head, “I don’t think so.”

       Li Zhenran chuckled, “That’s something you haven’t seen before. When I was a child, Dad was strict with the eldest. Then as I got older, after having the third and you, he had become much gentler.”

       Li Zhenruo found that he couldn’t imagine it, but what Li Zhenran said might be true. Perhaps it was because Li Jianglin was too strict with Li Zhentai that created Li Zhentai’s current slightly cowering personality.

       However, he didn’t feel how gentle Li Jianglin was to him. He thought that if it wasn’t for the lack of love from his parents and brothers when he was a child, he might not be so attached to the little warmth that Li Zhenran gave him now. In his bones, he probably needed such a man to pamper him like a child.

       Li Zhenran drove to a five-star hotel in the city. In fact, Li Zhenruo knew about this hotel. Zhu Kai had a good relationship with the hotel’s young master. Previously, he had also thought about the fact that Zhu Kai might go here before, but he didn’t have time to investigate it himself.

       The car was parked at the entrance of the hotel. Li Zhenran got out of the car and handed the key to the parking staff. When Li Zhenruo came over, he held his undershirt with his palm and said, “Follow me.”

       When he thought of what he was about to face, Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but speed up.

       As they walked into the hall, someone came over and gave a door card to Li Zhenran, and told him the room number. Li Zhenran nodded and walked with Li Zhenruo towards the elevator.

       While waiting for the elevator to go up, Li Zhenran asked Li Zhenruo, “If you are sure that Zhu Kai did it, what would you do?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at the moving numbers and said, “At least I need to know why.”

       When they got out of the elevator, the two slowed down and walked to Zhu Kai’s room. Li Zhenran opened the door with the key card.

       It was almost twelve o’clock in the morning, and Zhu Kai was still lying on the bed and didn’t get up. He probably thought it was room service, so he lay down on the bed and said with some displeasure, “Who is it? Don’t you know someone is here? Why did you just come in!”

       “Zhu Kai,” Li Zhenran walked inside while calling his name.

       Li Zhenruo followed behind Li Zhenran, entered the guest room, and saw Zhu Kai sitting up from the bed, staring at them with a topless body.

       Zhu Kai’s hair was still messy, and his brows were wrinkled tightly. He didn’t seem very nervous when he saw the two of them. He just reached out to ruffle his hair and said, “What’s wrong? It’s early in the morning.”

       Li Zhenran walked to the edge of the bed and looked at him condescendingly.

       Zhu Kai scratched his face again and asked Li Zhenran, “Did the old man ask you to come to me? He still hasn’t gotten over it?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t answer him.

       Zhu Kai then said, “It’s his own son who hooked up with his daughter-in-law. I just accidentally took a photo, why does it matter to me?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at Zhu Kai and wondered if it was because his life was too chaotic during this time, that he had probably lost weight again, and his long dyed blond hair that was dr4p3d over his shoulders looked a bit dull.

       He thought he was very familiar with this man, but now he realized that he didn’t know him at all.

       Zhu Kai also saw Li Zhenruo at this time, looked at Li Zhenran and said, “You are also bold enough to not be afraid of being photographed by me and handed it over to the old man to let him know that you are fooling around with men?”

       Li Zhenran said indifferently, “Do as you please. I’m not here to ask about Li Zhenzi I’m here to ask you about Li Zhenruo.”

       Zhu Kai’s expression became a little strange for a moment. He glanced at Li Zhenruo behind Li Zhenran again and asked, “Why do you want to ask about Li Zhenruo? He—” Zhu Kai raised his head in the direction of Li Zhenruo, “What is his relationship with Li Zhenruo?”

       Before Li Zhenran spoke, Li Zhenruo said, “It doesn’t matter what relationship I have with Li Zhenruo, but I’m very curious about your relationship with Li Zhenruo, and why did you harm him?”

       Zhu Kai heard the words and laughed, “Oh, let me put on my clothes first, I don’t mind being naked, but I’m afraid you don’t want to see it.” After he said that, he pulled the quilt away, and he was indeed naked underneath.

       As a result, both Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo looked at him without changing their faces. Li Zhenran didn’t care, but Li Zhenruo did not look at Zhu Kai’s naked body.

       Nevertheless, when Zhu Kai walked over to the TV cabinet to get his clothes on, no one stopped him.

       Zhu Kai slowly put on the clothes, buttoned them carefully, and zipped them up. He then suddenly turned around and ran towards the outside.

       Li Zhenran reacted quickly and chased after him, but the one who reacted faster than Li Zhenran was Li Zhenruo.

       Zhu Kai had just run into the corridor when he was kicked from behind by Li Zhenruo, and then Li Zhenruo pressed his entire body on top of him. He pressed Zhu Kai’s head heavily on the ground with his arms.

       Zhu Kai took a breath and said, “Don’t mess around, there are surveillance cameras in this corridor.”

       Li Zhenruo pulled him up and said, “If you don’t run, I won’t mess around.” After that, he grabbed Zhu Kai’s arm and pulled him back to the room.

       Li Zhenran stood at the door of the room, slightly surprised.

       However, Li Zhenruo moved his wrist, recalling the explosive power he had just now, and felt that he might have changed a bit. These days, he had been absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth according to the method taught by Xia Hongshen. Over time, the spiritual energy in his body had become more and more abundant, and the most obvious thing he felt was probably the change in his physical strength.

       Just like when he pressed Zhu Kai’s head just now, Zhu Kai clearly felt that a strong force and he couldn’t break free.

       Zhu Kai sat down on the chair in front of the dresser, faced them, and said, “Tell me, what do you want to know?”

       Li Zhenran sat silently beside the bed.

       Li Zhenruo asked him, “Why did you set Li Zhenruo up? At that time, it was you who asked someone to find the tissue with blood from Li Zhenruo’s room for the DNA test, right?”

       Zhu Kai was a little amused, “What set up? Li Zhenruo was not Li Jianglin’s son at first, I just helped them with scientific confirmation. What kind of set-up is that?”

       Li Zhenruo asked coldly, “Well, how do you know that Li Zhenruo is not Li Jianglin’s son? Why do you do such a thing?”

       Zhu Kai looked him up and down, then turned to Li Zhenran, “Do you want to know or does he want to know?”

       Li Zhenran answered him calmly, “It’s all the same, what he wants to know is what I want to know.”

       “Tsk—” Zhu Kai clicked his lips and said, “Well then, since you know so much, I’m not afraid to tell you. How do I know that Li Zhenruo is not Li Jianglin’s biological son? Because that’s what Li Zhentai told me, and why did I take his blood for identification, because there was a deal between me and Li Zhentai, and he asked me to get it for him.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at Zhu Kai, obviously not believing what he said, and pursued, “What deal?”

       Zhu Kai snorted, “Of course, I won’t tell you.”

       Li Zhenruo asked him, “If he had such a deal with you, why did you do such a thing at his wedding?”

       Zhu Kai looked up, “Because he unilaterally broke our deal, I want to get revenge on him. Oh right, don’t ask me what the deal is, I won’t say it.”

       Having said that, Zhu Kai said impatiently, “I will only answer your last question now, and you can leave after asking.”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t get angry when he heard the words, but approached Zhu Kai and asked word per word, “You said that day you knew a secret of the Li family. What is the secret?”

       Zhu Kai looked at him and said after a while, “The secret I know is that Li Zhenruo may not have died at all.”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t expect Zhu Kai to say such a sentence, and his pupils shrank suddenly.

       Zhu Kai even took the opportunity to kiss him.

       When Li Zhenran saw this, he got up from the bed and kicked the chair sitting under Zhu Kai’s buttocks. Zhu Kai almost fall to the ground and complained, “So petty.”

       Li Zhenruo felt that Zhu Kai didn’t tell the truth, or based on what he knew about Zhu Kai, he knew that Zhu Kai must have concealed a lot of things. However, Zhu Kai was someone who neither listen to reason nor bowed to force. He spoke and did things based on his mood. If he said he won’t say anything, he would definitely not say anything. It was useless to tie him up and beat him.

       Li Zhenran didn’t speak and just waited for him quietly.

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath, stood there for a while, and said to Li Zhenran, “Let’s go.”

       When they were about to leave Zhu Kai’s room one after another, Li Zhenruo remembered something, turned around and said to Zhu Kai, “Your dog is with me.”

       This was the sentence that made Zhu Kai react the most today. He stood up suddenly and asked, “Give it back to me?”

       Li Zhenruo felt a little funny, “Since you miss it, you are willing to leave it unattended for so long? Of course, I won’t do anything to it, but if you’re honest with me, I’ll consider bringing it out to you.”

       “Everything I say is the truth,” Zhu Kai said.

       Li Zhenruo looked at him with a cold smile, “Didn’t you say that Li Zhenruo is not dead? He will know if you are telling the truth.”

       After Li Zhenruo said that, he pulled Li Zhenran’s arm, “Let’s go.”

       Until they entered the elevator, Li Zhenruo still frowned tightly.

       Li Zhenran put his hands in his trouser pockets and asked him, “Although he didn’t tell the truth, you still know what you want to know, right?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “What I need to be sure of most is whether Li Zhentai is the one behind this matter.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Are you sure now?”

       In fact, Li Zhenruo had always been very sure. He just had some things that had not been sorted out. It was easy to kill Li Zhentai to take revenge, but he didn’t want to be so confused in this life. The feeling of being kept in the dark was too uncomfortable.

       At this moment, Li Zhenran suddenly took his hand, leaned into his ear and said in a low voice, “Do you want to kill him for revenge?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment and looked up at Li Zhenran. He was not sure if Li Zhenran was joking, because Li Zhenran’s expression would not be too expressive even when he was serious or joking.

       Li Zhenruo could only say, “Even if I want to kill him, I also have to know if he is the one who bought someone to kill me, right? In fact, Zhu Kai is right about the identification, it is not a set-up. It is a fact, it was still too much to kill Li Zhentai for this.”

       When the elevator reached the first floor, Li Zhenran took Li Zhenruo’s hand and walked outside.

       Li Zhenruo was half a step behind him, looked at his back, and couldn’t help but see if anyone around was paying attention to them. There should still be some, but no one has been staring at it blatantly.

       After getting in the car, Li Zhenran asked Li Zhenruo, “Are you going back?”

       Li Zhenruo hesitated and said, “I still have to go back to my master first, otherwise they will be worried.”

       “Master?” Li Zhenran frowned slightly.

       Li Zhenruo thought he would object, but he just said, “Okay, I’ll come to pick you up tonight.”

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Remember that Li Zhenruo is calling Xia Hongshen master because he was Xia Hongshen’s disciple.
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       When Li Zhenruo appeared in front of Xia Hongshen with the cat in his arms, he was surprised when he saw Xia Hongshen’s cold face.

       Xia Hongshen sat in front of the computer desk and asked him, “Do you think this is an animal shelter?”

       Erhuang was circling around Li Zhenruo excitedly and rubbing his leg with his head.

       Li Zhenruo looked down at the cat in his arms, and said to Xia Hongshen, “The owner of this kitten is a lunatic. Look at the injuries on its body, it was inflicted by its owner with a knife.”

       When Xia Hongshen heard this, he slapped the table hard and said sharply, “Who was it?”

       Xi Anling next to him was startled and stood up.

       Song Jun patted Xia Hongshen on the shoulder, “Senior brother, calm down.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “So I took it back and wanted to find a good owner for it.”

       Xia Hongshen looked at him and nodded, “If that’s the case, I won’t bother with you this time.”

       Li Zhenruo wiped the cold sweat, “Thank you, Master.”

       At this time, Long Xing said, “I have a female colleague who just wants to adopt a kitten, why don’t I ask her if she wants it?”

       Li Zhenruo immediately asked, “Is she reliable?”

       Long Xing thought for a while, “She should be reliable. She is a very gentle female colleague.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, “Then please help me ask, thank you.”

       It was late at night, and everyone went back to their rooms. Li Zhenruo was sitting alone against the wall in the corridor, and the kitten beside him was eating cat food in a bowl with its head buried down.

       Li Zhenruo reached out and touched its back, then tilted his head against the wall in a daze.

       After a while, someone came to sit next to him. Li Zhenruo turned around and saw it was Song Jun.

       Song Jun asked him, “Why don’t you go to rest?”

       Li Zhenruo was a little dazed, and said, “I don’t know what to do anymore.”

       Song Jun propped one hand on his face, “Why do you not know what to do?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I was too dependent on that person before. Now that I leave him, I feel very powerless. It is not easy to change my form at will. It is even more difficult to avenge myself because I have no money.”

       Song Jun said, “Didn’t you become Senior Brother Xia’s apprentice? Why don’t you have any confidence in the future?”

       Li Zhenruo sighed, “I have been trying to absorb spiritual energy outside these two days, but I found that the effect was minimal, and the process was too slow. Even if I believed that I could do it one day, I am afraid that my enemies will not live until that day.”

       Song Jun was silent for a while and asked him, “Is it so important to take revenge? More important than living happily ever after?”

       Li Zhenruo turned his head, looked at him and said, “Why else would God let me have the chance to live again? I grew up without a mother, then without other relatives, without a future, and last without a home. I have nothing left. If I don’t take revenge, what’s the point of being alive?”

       Song Jun couldn’t help but reached out and touched his head, and said, “What about your master, little Garfield?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t have the strength to tell him not to call him little Garfield. He just took a deep breath and said, “He knows my identity, and I don’t think he will accept me anymore.”

       Song Jun was a little puzzled, and then asked, “You mean the thing about you being Li Jianglin’s fourth son?”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, “Um.”

       Song Jun asked curiously, “Does he care?”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help raising his hand to cover his face, “He will definitely care.”

       Song Jun asked, “Have you tried to communicate with him?”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head, “Forget it, maybe there’s no need for that. I shouldn’t waste any more time, the owner of this body has already appeared. I must be quicker. If I can take revenge smoothly, I think I might as well give this body back to him.”

       “Give it back to him?” Song Jun was surprised, “Do you feel that way?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him and smiled reluctantly, “It’s just a thought that comes to mind sometimes.”

       Song Jun stayed quiet for a while, then suddenly said, “Why don’t we help you?”

       “Huh?” Li Zhenruo looked at him in surprise.

       Song Jun said, “Xiao Feng, me, and Long Xing, the three of us can help you. Whoever you are looking for and what clues you want to track down can be handed over to us.”

       “You can’t help him,” the two of them heard a voice coming from above their heads at the same time, and when they looked up, they found that Xia Hongshen opened the door and stuck his head out of the room, and said to them, “You are interfering too much with human affairs. Your points will be deducted by Heavenly Court, and sooner or later you will be recalled.”

       Li Zhenruo also said quickly, “You guys don’t have to help me. It’s my own business, I will do it myself.”

       Song Jun felt a little regretful and said, “Some simple things should be okay. You don’t have to think too much. Let’s worry about it when it happens, no one can tell what will happen in the future.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded vigorously, “Well, thank you.”

       That night, he still slept in the same bed with Feng Junyuan. Erhuang was lying beside the bed, and there was another kitten in the room.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t sleep and lay motionless for fear of disturbing Feng Junyuan’s rest.

       Feng Junyuan suddenly said, “The house is so lively.”

       Li Zhenruo heard the words, turned over gently, and said, “I’m sorry to bother you.”

       Feng Junyuan faced him and said, “It’s okay, you are very cute.” After he said that, he raised his hand and touched Li Zhenruo’s head.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt a little depressed and felt that the family really treated him as a cat. It was actually nothing to be treated as a cat, but he just couldn’t accept this kind of look with pity, and quickly closed his eyes.

       The school was quiet and the weather had cooled down. Although it was a bit cramped to share a bed with Feng Junyuan, the environment was comfortable and he fell asleep before he knew it.

       That night, he slept until dawn. As he was dazed in the early morning, Li Zhenruo rolled over and hugged the waist of the person next to him. He wanted to bury his face in that person’s arms and continue to sleep, but he felt that the touch was not right.

       Feng Junyuan also hadn’t woken up yet, his forehead was placed on Li Zhenruo’s forehead, and his hand also wrapped over.

       He could hear his breathing, and Li Zhenruo felt that something was wrong. He was dazed and wanted to open his eyes, but suddenly he felt that someone was sitting beside the bed. He suddenly remembered where he was and was instantly awake from fright. He turned over in a circular motion and looked outside the bed, and he saw a tall man sitting beside the bed.

       Li Zhenruo pushed Feng Junyuan hard.

       Feng Junyuan made an “uh” sound and raised his head blankly.

       Only then did Li Zhenruo see the appearance of the man sitting beside the bed, and found that it was Luo Fei.

       Luo Fei was wearing a suit and had an elegant posture. When he saw Li Zhenruo and Feng Junyuan looking at him, he even showed a gentle smile and asked, “Did you sleep well?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment, Luo Fei was clearly smiling, but he had a feeling of being caught in adultery. Also, he came back to the room last night. He clearly remembered that he locked the door. How did Luo Fei come in quietly? Does he have the key to Feng Junyuan’s room?

       He looked at Luo Fei inexplicably, and Li Zhenruo hesitated whether to get up or not. Although he didn’t sleep naked, he was only wearing a pair of briefs, which touched Feng Junyuan’s legs, and he could still feel a smooth and delicate touch… He lowered his head and glanced under the bed. The cat and dog were still there, but they were all very quiet. He just lay on the ground and looked at Luo Fei, and no one barked.

       At this time, someone knocked on the door outside, “Xiao Feng, Garfield, are you up yet?”

       Feng Junyuan rubbed his eyes and gave a hurried “en”.

       Luo Fei stood up and opened the door. When he opened the door, he saw Long Xing standing outside.

       Long Xing was quite surprised, “Boss Luo? When did you come here?”

       Luo Fei smiled, “I came to see xiao Feng, I was going to take him out today.”

       Long Xing said, “Oh,” and came in and said to Li Zhenruo, “I planned to move the cat away.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned, “So soon?”

       Long Xing hesitated for a while, and said, “How about you keep it for two more days? I sent a photo to my colleague, and she said she wanted it.”

       Li Zhenruo’s original purpose was to find a good owner for the kitten. It was a rare opportunity and of course, he didn’t want to miss it, but he was somewhat reluctant.

       Although it was a kitten that he only met yesterday, he was the one who rescued it, and he always felt that he was more responsible for it.

       Li Zhenruo lifted the quilt and got out of bed. Although he was only wearing a pair of underwear, they were all men here anyway. They could see it if they wanted to. He went to the chair next to him to get his pants.

       Erhuang and the kitten all swirled around his legs at once, giving him a feeling of being very popular.

       He hurriedly grabbed the pants and put them on his body. Li Zhenruo squatted down and picked up the kitten, kissed its forehead, and said, “I hope the new owner can take good care of you, and you must live happily.”

       He didn’t know whether the kitten understood or not, but it just stuck its head out of his arms and touched its lips lightly with his lips, as if kissing.

       Li Zhenruo sighed and gave the cat to Long Xing.

       The kitten didn’t know what was going on and was in a panic. One paw tried to grab Li Zhenruo’s arm, but in the end, it failed.

       Long Xing hugged to comfort it, and then said to Li Zhenruo, “Don’t worry, my colleague is very good.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, “Thank you.”

       The sudden separation made him a little sad. Li Zhenruo stood at the door and watched Long Xing carry the kitten away until their figures disappeared around the corner of the stairs, before stifling a sigh.

       When he turned around and came back, Li Zhenruo saw Luo Fei sitting beside the bed, took a coat and put it on Feng Junyuan, and said, “You have a day off today?”

       Feng Junyuan asked him, “How do you know?”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt like an unwanted third guest and hesitated to go in.

       At this moment, Luo Fei suddenly turned to look at him, “Little cat.”

       Li Zhenruo immediately wanted to blow up, he was such a big person standing there, but he had the nerve to call him a cat. He held back his displeasure, Li Zhenruo said, “I have a name.”

       Luo Fei said, “Name? By the way, your name is Li Tuanzi, right? Li Zhenran told me.”

       Hearing Li Zhenran’s name abruptly, Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but be stunned slightly. He then picked up his mood and said, “Whatever, you can still call me Garfield…”

       Luo Fei smiled and asked, “Are you free today? Let’s go out together.”

       Before Li Zhenruo asked him where he was going, Xia Hongshen reached out and asked, “Where to?”

       Luo Fei was still sitting on the edge of the bed, with one hand on Feng Junyuan’s, and said, “It’s rare for xiao Feng to have a day off, so I’m going to invite you guys out to a meal together, how about that?”

       “A meal together?” Xia Hongshen was not particularly happy, he just said, “Long Xing is at work today, and An Ling has an appointment.”

       Luo Fei said, “That can’t be helped, if you and Song Jun are free, we’ll go together, plus little Garfield.”

       Li Zhenruo heard the words and said quickly, “I have something to do, you go guys can go.”

       He planned to try to find Zhu Kai while he was free today. After all, they had grown up together since childhood. Although Zhu Kai’s actions made him feel at a loss now, it was not too difficult to try to find Zhu Kai’s trace. As long as he did not leave the city, He felt that he had a way to find out Zhu Kai’s whereabouts.

       Of course, it was a pity that he has no money now, otherwise, it should be more convenient to do things.

       However, Xia Hongshen suddenly put his hand on top of Li Zhenruo’s head and said, “Disciple.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment, then looked up and said, “Master?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “Go.”

       Li Zhenruo was in a trance and understood, “Did you ask me to go with you?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “Um”.

       The master had an order, how dare the disciple refused to obey? Although Li Zhenruo felt a little inexplicable, Xia Hongshen had spoken, he could no longer refuse, and could only say, “Okay then.”

       Before they left, Xia Hongshen asked Luo Fei in a low voice, “Why did you coax my apprentice to go out?”

       Luo Fei smiled, “It won’t harm him anyway, you can rest assured.”

       When he was studying abroad in college, Li Zhenruo often drove out with a group of friends to play, dance, drink and find beautiful women.

       He sat in the last row, and he quietly looked out the car window. His brain felt like he was about to be torn in two, half thinking about why Zhu Kai would do such a thing, and the other half thinking about Li Zhenran.

       The city was as prosperous as ever, but Li Zhenruo sometimes felt that this was no longer his city. He seemed to be more suitable being a cat, staying in a secluded and safe place and living his own life alone.

       When exactly did this world of sensual pleasures become less attractive to him? He was only twenty-three years old.

       Song Jun and Feng Junyuan sat next to him, Feng Junyuan reached out and touched his head. Song Jun asked him, “Not in a good mood, huh?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at the two of them and saw that they were all looking at him, and suddenly had the feeling that he was actually the pet of this family, he shook his head and said, “It’s nothing, I’m just wondering if I could cultivate to become an immortal or not.”

       Feng Junyuan heard the words and said to him seriously, “It’s not easy.”

       Song Jun said, “It’s still possible to be a small cat demon. You can live for a few more decades. You have been practising during this period. If you are lucky, you can live another hundred or two hundred years, and you can do a lot of things.”

       Li Zhenruo could only say, “Okay, thank you for comforting me.”

       Luo Fei, who was driving in the front row, glanced at them from the rearview mirror, smiled and said nothing.

       Their destination was a large newly built commercial plaza on the outskirts of the city. There would be a Doraemon-themed exhibition starting today, and it was said that there would be a lot of Doraemon.

       Li Zhenruo was not very interested in such childish’s things, but Xia Hongshen was very interested. Li Zhenruo thought that it might be because the theme of the exhibition was a blue fat cat.

       Xia Hongshen was interested. Song Jun and Feng Junyuan didn’t seem to feel tired and kept following him to look around, Luo Fei accompanied Feng Junyuan with a good nature, and only Li Zhenruo casually walked behind.

       Luo Fei suddenly turned his head and said to him, “If you are tired, go to Starbucks over there and wait.”

       Li Zhenruo responded quickly and walked towards Starbucks alone.

       He stood at the counter, stared at the menu above for a while, and suddenly heard a voice next to him saying, “Give him a mocha.”

       The voice was so familiar that Li Zhenruo almost had the urge to turn around and run.

       The person next to him had obviously seen his intention and asked, “You want to leave? Is there no need for us to communicate with each other anymore for the rest of our lives? Li Zhenruo.”

       Li Zhenruo held back and did not leave, and turned to look at Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran said to him, “I have found Zhu Kai.”

       Li Zhenruo asked in surprise, “Where is he?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t answer him, but turned to the counter and said, “I’ll have a mocha, thank you.”

       After he paid the bills, Li Zhenran picked up two cups of coffee, and turned to look at Li Zhenruo, “Would you like to finish this cup of coffee with me?”

       Li Zhenruo finally nodded and followed him towards the corner.

       This corner was quiet. It was just right for two people to sit and talk.

       He was sitting face to face with Li Zhenran, but Li Zhenruo did not dare to raise his head, so he could only reach for the coffee cup, and took a sip. The bitter taste slid into his throat along with the mellow fragrance.

       Li Zhenran didn’t touch his coffee, but leaned back slightly and asked, “You don’t want to see me. Is it because you’re afraid of me or you don’t want to see me again?”

       Li Zhenruo did not speak.

       Li Zhenran folded his arms around his chest, “Fourth child, you have been in the Li family for so long. Do you think everyone looks like a fool and is being fooled by you? Ah. No, the only one who was fooled by you was me.”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head and finally said, “I didn’t fool you. The real fool is only me. I’m dead but I still don’t know who killed me.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Is this why you deceived and used me?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him and couldn’t hold back his emotions. “It’s not. You’re going to chalk up our relationship to mere deception and exploitation? We’ve been together for so long that you can’t even see my feelings?”

       Li Zhenran’s eyes burned down on him, and at this moment, he said slowly, “It doesn’t matter, come back.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned when he heard the words.

       Li Zhenran’s tone was calm and unwavering as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him, “It doesn’t matter to me how you approached me in the first place, I just want you to come back.”

       Li Zhenruo stared at him blankly.

       Li Zhenran said, “Tell me, why are you leaving?”

       Li Zhenruo only felt that Li Zhenran’s thoughts were a little confusing, and he couldn’t understand them for a while, because Li Zhenran’s reaction was a bit unexpected. He said, “That woman that day…”

       Li Zhenran asked him, “Which woman which day?”

       Li Zhenruo looked down at the slightly shaken coffee in the cup, “The woman who came back with you on your dad’s birthday.”

       Li Zhenran said, “That is the daughter of Dad’s old friend. You probably know her name. She had just come by plane that day, and Dad asked me to pick her up at the airport. She helped her father bring a gift to Dad. After dinner that day, her boyfriend came to pick her up and went on a trip together. Okay? What else do you want to know?”

       “I—” Li Zhenruo didn’t know what to say for a while, he only asked, “Why didn’t you say it at school that day?”

       Li Zhenran said in a cold tone, “I’m angry, I’m jealous of you holding a man, even if it may be a misunderstanding, I still couldn’t calm down.”

       Li Zhenruo never expected that Li Zhenran would say such a thing. His expression became a little dazed, and then he said in a panic, “But don’t you already know? I’m Li Zhenruo.”

       Li Zhenran fell silent, looked at Li Zhenruo without saying a word, and said after a while, “It’s not the first day I know you are Li Zhenruo, I’m just waiting for you to confess to me.”

       Li Zhenruo put his hands on the table and clasped them tightly together. His heart was tumbling fiercely. While he felt that he was sorry for Li Zhenran, he also felt that Li Zhenran’s attitude towards him was too cruel, which made him unable to feel relieved.

       Li Zhenran suddenly stretched out his hand and put it on the back of his hand, used a little force, and said, “You tell me now, why do you want to leave?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “You left me at home for a month and didn’t say anything, and when you came back, you brought a beautiful woman with you.”

       Li Zhenran nodded and said, “Okay. Then when I ask Yan Xiujie to bring you back, why are you running again?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at Li Zhenran this time and said, “Because you said, I am Li Zhenruo.”

       It was strange that he had always been so calm with Li Zhenran, but when he found out that the other party knew that he was Li Zhenruo, he couldn’t help but start to flinch.

       Even if Li Zhenran showed that he didn’t care, he always felt that there was no way for the two of them to cross this hurdle so easily.

       Li Zhenran could clearly see that Li Zhenruo was in a tangle, he patted the back of Li Zhenruo’s hand and said to him, “Come here.”

       Li Zhenruo raised his head and couldn’t help looking around. Although there were not too many people, it was a public place after all. The two of them were sitting on a single sofa and he was suddenly called over by Li Zhenran. He felt a little nervous. After hesitating for a while, Li Zhenruo shook his head, “Say what you have to say.”

       Li Zhenran withdrew his hand, leaned back on the back of the sofa chair, looked at him quietly for a long time, and said, “Is it me who can’t accept the fact that you are Li Zhenruo, or is it you who can’t accept it?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment.

       Li Zhenran lowered his head and took out a cigarette case and lighter from his pocket. He seemed to suddenly remember that smoking was prohibited here, and put it back into his clothes pocket. He said, “Forget it, it doesn’t matter, as long as you want to come back, I can do anything. We can pretend we don’t know anything, you are the cat, I can help you with anyone you want to find out, or I can turn a blind eye. What do you think?”

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath to ease the pain, and he asked Li Zhenran, “Why?”

       His voice was a little soft, and Li Zhenran didn’t seem to hear it clearly. He leaned forward slightly, his arms were flat on the glass table, and he was closer to Li Zhenruo, “What?”

       Li Zhenruo repeated, “Why did you do this to me?”

       Li Zhenran looked at him without wavering, and said in a calm voice, “Because I love you.”

       At that moment, Li Zhenruo felt as if he was drowning, his body was squeezed by the water waves used by the mountains and the sea, all his senses were deprived, and even breathing became difficult, he had to open his mouth to breathe sharply, everything around him became blurred, the only thing clear in his vision was Li Zhenran who sat opposite to him.

       I love you, these three words were uttered by Li Zhenran so simply that Li Zhenruo shook his head in a trance, “You lied to me.”

       Li Zhenran laughed in exasperation, “I lied to you?” He glanced outside the floor-to-ceiling glass window of the coffee shop, then turned back to Li Zhenruo, “When have I ever lied to you since I was a child?”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but think about it but found that Li Zhenran had never lied to him. The two of them didn’t even have much communication, but he couldn’t help but want to deny it. He felt that he no longer knew what Li Zhenran was thinking, so he could only say, “You know, I am Li Zhenruo.”

       Li Zhenran said, “You know now that you are Li Zhenruo, and you have slept with me so many times, why have you never thought that you are Li Zhenruo?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t know what to answer. He put his elbows on the table and covered his face.

       Li Zhenran said slowly, “Maybe it doesn’t matter to you, you can sleep with anyone, but not to me. I only do it with the person I like.”

       Li Zhenruo could not help but squeezed his fingers tightly.

       Li Zhenran suddenly stood up and said, “I’m sorry, I’m going to go out for a cigarette, I hope you don’t run away again.”

       When he heard this, Li Zhenruo touched the collar on his neck subconsciously. Maybe he never really wanted to run away. If he wanted to leave Li Zhenran far away, he should have taken off the collar from the beginning.

       After Li Zhenran said this, he walked out of the coffee shop, went around to the side of the road outside, and lit a cigarette for himself.

       Li Zhenruo looked at his back and thought to himself that Li Zhenran was originally not addicted to smoking. The only possibility was that he had smoked a lot during the days he left and became addicted. Maybe more than these days, maybe the days when he and Li Zhenran had a confrontation and when Li Zhenran went on a business trip began.

       Li Zhenran’s back was still slender and straight, and occasionally he turned his head to reveal a firm and handsome side form, but Li Zhenruo noticed that he frowned slightly, and his expression was a little tired. But when he faced Li Zhenruo, he never showed it.

       Li Zhenruo buried his face in the palm of his hand and sat quietly for a few seconds. He suddenly stood up and walked outside. He thought that no matter what the reason was, since Li Zhenran cared about him, why would he walk away again?

       He was already an adult, and many emotions could really be regarded as non-existent without deliberately avoiding or denying them.

       He still didn’t know what would happen in the future, but at this time, he felt that he really didn’t want to see Li Zhenran sad.

       Li Zhenran wanted to turn around when he heard the footsteps, but Li Zhenruo sped up and rushed over to hug Li Zhenran from behind, his face was on his back, and he was slightly panting.

       “Li Zhenran,” Li Zhenruo shouted in a muffled voice.

       Li Zhenran was hit by him and took a small step forward before he stabilized his body again. When he turned around, he couldn’t see his face, so he could only answer, “Well?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “You asked me before you left, what are my feelings for you.”

       Li Zhenran heard the words and asked, “Are you going to answer me now?”

       Li Zhenruo said softly, “Not as a brother, nor master. No. Maybe it should be said that it is not only to master but also a lot of complicated things.”

       Unlike Li Zhenran, he has no way to say the words “I love you” so plainly. What is love? His father and brothers never said they loved him since he was a child, and Li Zhenran was the first person to say this word to him. He always felt that love was a too sacred feeling, and he couldn’t and shouldn’t talk about it so easily, and he didn’t want to tell Li Zhenran that he liked him because this kind of feeling was too common. He had liked too many people, and Li Zhenran was obviously different from them.

       A lot of complicated things. He had been with Li Zhenran for so long that he felt Li Zhenran should understand his feelings.

       Li Zhenran reached out and held Li Zhenruo’s hands, and said, “It doesn’t matter, as long as you go back with me.”

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BRO. NO WONDER THIS CHAPTER SEEMED TO BE NEVER ENDING
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       Li Zhenruo somewhat felt chilled.

       He always thought that the answer he got from Aunt Wu this time would be Li Zhentai. Zhu Kai, and Li Zhentai. Zhu Kai got his blood sample from Aunt Wu and then gave it to Li Zhentai, who asked Yue Zijia to send it for a paternity test.

       Before, he always wondered, where did Li Jianglin’s semen come from? He believed it was not possible that Yue Zijia would go as far as seducing Li Jianglin, right? Now he was beginning to suspect the possibility that Li Jianglin’s semen was also obtained by Zhu Kai.

       Li Jianglin had always doted on Zhu Kai. Zhu Kai caused so much trouble at Li Zhentai’s wedding and Li Jianglin could not hold him accountable. He even took him when he went to recuperate.

       Although there were many illegitimate children and mistresses, in Li Zhenruo’s impression, since Zhu Yun’s death, Li Jianglin had never had any involvement with other women. He always felt that it was from Li Jianglin’s affection for Zhu Yun. Now that he thought about it, Zhu Kai and Zhu Yun looked similar. Could it be that Li Jianglin simply took Zhu Kai as a stand-in for Zhu Yun?

       He took a deep breath and told himself to calm down. He needed to sort this out.

       Aunt Wu was still crying, but Li Zhenruo didn’t have any resentment toward her. After all, she was only being used, and even without her, under the same roof, Zhu Kai could always find some other way.

       Li Zhenruo had inquired about what he wanted to know, but Aunt Wu was still trapped in self-blame and couldn’t get rid of it. Before he left, he gave Aunt Wu two hundred yuan and asked if he could take the kitten away.

       Aunt Wu agreed without much thought.

       Li Zhenruo carried the cat in his arms to the car, and Yan Xiujie was hesitant to say anything. When the car left the small road and entered the main road, he finally couldn’t help but ask, “What’s your relationship with Li Zhenruo?”

       It was not that Li Zhenruo couldn’t trust Yan Xiujie. On the contrary, among his many relatives and friends in the past, Yan Xiujie was probably one of the people he trusted the most. But once a lot of things were said, there were too many things to explain, and it would implicate too many people. For him now, it was best to continue the previous statement with Li Zhenran.

       So he said to Yan Xiujie, “I am his friend. I believe his death was not an accident.”

       Yan Xiujie turned his head to look at him, “You’re his friend? But I’ve never heard him mention you.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “But he often mentions you to me. He trusts you very much and thought that his relationship with you is more of a friend.”

       Yan Xiujie seemed to squeeze the steering wheel tightly.

       Li Zhenruo reached out and pressed lightly on his arm, “Do you believe that Jason’s death was just an accident?”

       Yan Xiujie said calmly, “I don’t know, but I didn’t doubt it before.”

       Li Zhenruo was not Li Jianglin’s biological son and had been kicked out of the Li family, as long as the two appraisal certificates were not overturned, he would never have a chance to turn around. So who would kill him? What was the point of killing him?

       This was not only unimaginable to Yan Xiujie, but even Li Zhenruo still found it strange.

       But Li Zhenruo himself knew that the person’s appearance that day was purposeful. It was not some accidental robbery, but he came for Li Zhenruo. In this world, there was really such a person who wanted him to die.

       He wanted to find the person.

       Li Zhenruo said to Yan Xiujie, “Whether you believe it or not, I hope you can help me. No matter what the result is, we have to know the truth, don’t we?”

       Yan Xiujie took a deep breath, “I can help you what I can do, but what I can do to help you right now is really limited.”

       What the current Yan Xiujie could do was indeed very limited. After all, he was just an ordinary employee of Yunlin.

       Li Zhenruo said, “No matter what, thank you.”

       After speaking, he lowered his head and gently stroked the top of the kitten’s head.

       Yan Xiujie saw his gentle movements and asked, “Do you like cats very much?”

       Li Zhenruo said “um”, “I like it.”

       If it wasn’t for being a cat himself, he thought he wouldn’t like cats so much.

       Yan Xiujie asked him again, “Are you going back?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned, “Where to?”

       Yan Xiujie said, “Go back to see Second Young Master.”

       Li Zhenruo seemed to sigh unconsciously and said, “I’ll go back. I’ll go see him.” His relationship with Li Zhenran shouldn’t be so unclear, even if it was over, they should face it.

       With Yan Xiujie driving him, it took a lot less time to go back than when he came, but it was still almost evening when he entered the city.

       The first thing that Li Zhenruo did when they returned to the city was to ask Yan Xiujie to find a pet clinic and treat the wounds on the kitten. The kitten was meowing in pain. Li Zhenruo stood beside it and felt distressed.

       While he was watching the veterinarian deal with the kitten, Yan Xiujie made a phone call outside. After a while, he came in and said to Li Zhenruo, “Second Young Master asked me to take you to him.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded.

       After treating the cat’s wounds, Li Zhenruo got in the car and looked in the direction Yan Xiujie was driving, and suddenly realized that they were going to Li Zhenran’s apartment in the city, and not Li’s family villa.

       He didn’t know if Li Zhenran had been living there for the past two days, or if Li Zhenran went there to wait for him today.

       Yan Xiujie drove downstairs and stopped to let Li Zhenruo get out of the car. Before leaving, he said to Li Zhenruo, “Call me if there’s anything.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded and replied, “Drive carefully.”

       Yan Xiujie left, and Li Zhenruo walked into the neighbourhood with the cat in his arms. He stood under the apartment building and suddenly realized that he couldn’t even enter the building without the key, let alone the elevator.

       He took out his mobile phone and called Li Zhenran.

       The phone was quickly connected, and Li Zhenran’s voice sounded emotionless as he said, “What?”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt a little sullen and wronged, and said, “I can’t go upstairs to your floor.”

       Li Zhenran heard the words and replied, “Wait a minute.” After that, he hung up the phone.

       Li Zhenruo stood outside the unit building door and waited for about two minutes. He saw that the building door was opened. Li Zhenran was wearing a light grey casual sweater and light grey sweatpants. He stood in front of him with slippers on the soles of his feet.

       Obviously, they met in the school yesterday morning, but Li Zhenruo felt that he hadn’t seen Li Zhenran for a long time so his eyes were sore when he saw him.

       Li Zhenran looked down at the cat in his hand and said, “What? Found your destiny?”

       Li Zhenruo was a little angry. He remembered the woman he brought to Li Jianglin’s birthday banquet, and turned to leave.

       Li Zhenran stepped forward and grabbed his wrist and said, “Had you had enough of playing? Are you willing to come back with me?”

       Li Zhenruo muttered, “I’m not playing.”

       Li Zhenran said, “I know, you are investigating the cause of Li Zhenruo’s death. So what did you find out this time?”

       Li Zhenruo looked up at him, hesitating whether to speak.

       Li Zhenran said, “Let’s go upstairs first.”

       This was not a suitable place to talk. Li Zhenruo felt Li Zhenran take his hand to walk inside and did not refuse. However, Li Zhenran didn’t let go of his hand until he got into the elevator.

       The elevator went up quietly and smoothly. Li Zhenruo stood behind Li Zhenran, looked down at the hand he was holding, and said, “Li Zhenruo’s death may have something to do with Zhu Kai.”

       Li Zhenran didn’t look back, but said, “Really? Weren’t you very close to him?”

       As soon as he finished speaking, Li Zhenruo didn’t react at first and looked at him in confusion. After a while, he felt a chill on his back, and goosebumps climbed from head to feet.

       He began to get nervous and wanted to break free of Li Zhenran’s hand that was holding him, but Li Zhenran was holding on so tightly that he couldn’t break free at all.

       Until the elevator stopped, and the elevator door slowly opened.

       Li Zhenran wanted to pull him to go outside, but Li Zhenruo refused to go. He pressed his back firmly against the inner wall of the elevator and stared at Li Zhenran with a terrified expression.

       The two were deadlocked for a moment because the elevator door was blocked by Li Zhenran, it could not be closed for a long time, and an alarm sounded.

       Li Zhenran said to Li Zhenruo, “Can you come out first?”

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

       Li Zhenran let go of his hand and exited the elevator first, but just pressed the button outside to prevent the elevator door from closing.

       Li Zhenruo hugged the cat in his arms tighter. He felt cold from head to toe, and only the cat in his arms was still warm. He finally got out of the elevator, but still leaned against the wall to look at Li Zhenran and said, ” When did you know?”

       Li Zhenran’s expression was calm, “I have my suspicion for a while. I wasn’t sure until just now, Li Zhenruo.”

       It was not the first time that Li Zhenruo heard his name from Li Zhenran’s mouth, but it was the first time to address him face-to-face, and it was as if he had returned to the past. At that time, he was at home, and Li Zhenran came back from the outside. When Li Zhenran saw him, he just nodded coldly, without even a smile, turned around and went upstairs directly.

       This was the relationship he had always had with Li Zhenran. Even though they grew up together, they had never been intimate, and they did not intend to ease or improve this relationship.

       He clearly thought in his heart that he could not continue to rely on Li Zhenran, but at this moment, Li Zhenruo realized that what he was most afraid of was that Li Zhenran would never accept him again.

       They were brothers, and he had been deceiving him and taking advantage of him, what would Li Zhenran think of their relationship?

       Li Zhenruo stared at Li Zhenran. He didn’t even know what to say, but he just wanted to see Li Zhenran’s reaction clearly.

       However, at this time Li Zhenran said, “Not going back yet? How long are you going to stand here?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I…” He only said one word, and the rest was stuck in his throat. He didn’t know what to say at this time.

       He took a step forward carefully but did not get out of the elevator. He hugged the cat tightly with one hand, leaned against the elevator door, and his other hand secretly pressed the elevator door closing button.

       The elevator door began to emit an alarm sound. Li Zhenran slightly lowered his head and glanced at his hand, seemingly aware of his movements. At this time, he released the hand holding the elevator door.

       Immediately after he let go, the elevator door slowly closed.

       Li Zhenruo saw that Li Zhenran kept looking at him, and at the last moment, before the elevator door closed, he saw that Li Zhenran showed a sad expression.

       However, the elevator door still closed tightly with a soft sound and then began to descend.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt a little weak in his legs and squatted down in the elevator with the cat in his arms.

       He ran away, and he didn’t even know why he was running. At that moment, his emotions were too complicated, he was nervous and scared, and he didn’t dare to face what he had to face next. He was afraid to listen to what Li Zhenran would continue to say.

       Walking out of the neighbourhood where Li Zhenran lived, Li Zhenruo walked a short distance and sat down on the edge of the flower bed beside the road with the cat in his arms. He buried his face in the soft body of the kitten and closed his eyes.

       Li Zhenruo felt that he was quite useless. When the time came, he only knew how to escape, and he didn’t even have the courage to face it.

       The kitten was uncomfortable and started to struggle with a purring sound.

       Li Zhenruo quickly raised his head and said to it, “I’m sorry.”

       It didn’t matter if he wandered outside alone, but he just felt sorry for the kitten. Of course, he didn’t have the energy to keep another cat now, but until the time came, he hoped to find a responsible owner so that no one would hurt it again.

       Li Zhenruo stood up and turned to look at the tall buildings in the neighbourhood, but found that he didn’t even know which building and which window it was. He couldn’t help but recall Li Zhenran’s look, and suddenly felt a stuffy pain in his chest.

       He suddenly felt a little regretful, and thought would it be better if he didn’t run away? But if he didn’t leave, what would Li Zhenran say to him? What was the look in Li Zhenran’s eyes mean? That he was lying to him and he was disappointed? Or that he was Li Zhenruo, and did he think it was still possible between them?

       Li Zhenruo shook his head vigorously to stop himself from thinking about it. He couldn’t stop himself from thinking in a more pessimistic direction, as if today was the end for him and Li Zhenran.

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The manuscript is almost gone, I can only reduce the number of words to maintain the daily update…

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Notes:
Lmao, how lame it was? Zhenran cooly answered Zhenruo’s call but then realised Zhenruo can’t come in coz he didn’t have the key so he need to come down and picked him up (´∀`)
Zhenran knew it from the start, huh?

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