Author: hoenimochi (Page 77 of 95)

       The person standing outside the door was not a prostitute, but the owner of the small hotel. He shrank his neck after being yelled at by Li Zhenruo, and then said, “Is little brother sleeping? I’m here to change your room. “

       “Change room?” Li Zhenruo was puzzled, “What room?”

       The boss said, “This room has a leaky sewer pipe, and the downstairs residents are complaining, so this room will be temporarily unavailable. I’ll give you a new room.”

       Li Zhenruo still felt strange and asked, “Which room should I change to?”

       The boss said, “Don’t worry, I’ll give you a better one, and I won’t charge you any more money.”

       Li Zhenruo felt that there was nothing wrong with it when he heard the boss say that. He didn’t have any luggage, and he didn’t even take off his clothes, so he said to the boss, “Then let’s change.”

       The boss led him upstairs and opened a new room for him.

       After he entered, Li Zhenruo found that it was much more comfortable than the one just now. At least the beds looked clean and wrinkle-free, and the toiletries in the bathroom were complete.

       The boss left him the key card and left. Li Zhenruo then lay down on the bed, closed his eyes and slept comfortably.

       When he woke up the next morning, Li Zhenruo bought two buns for breakfast at a nearby bakery shop. He stood on the side of the road nibbling on the buns and walked slowly towards the station to take the car.

       Just as he walked to the station, a car stopped beside him and asked, “Where are you going? Do you want to take the car?”

       When Li Zhenruo saw it was a black car, he didn’t intend to answer.

       The driver persevered, “Where are you going? How about I give you a free ride?”

       Li Zhenruo looked him up and down and felt that if the man was not crazy, then he had other ideas. He thought of the hotel owner who came to change his room in the middle of the night last night, Li Zhenruo couldn’t help leaning against the car door, and bent down to ask the driver, “Did someone ask you to give me a ride?”

       The driver seemed to be an honest man, and when Li Zhenruo asked him, he closed his mouth and did not speak.

       Li Zhenruo knocked on the car door and said, “I won’t ride in your car, so go away.”

       After he said that, he stood up straight and watched the driver drive away.

       After a while, when Li Zhenruo was about to get on the bus, another small car stopped in front of the station. The person driving the car honked the horn, and then lowered the window.

       Li Zhenruo looked back and saw that the person sitting in the driver’s seat turned out to be Yan Xiujie. He was a little surprised because after thinking that someone was secretly looking after him, Li Zhenruo’s first thought was that Li Zhenran had followed him, and even if it wasn’t Li Zhenran, that person should be Hua Yi Bang. How could it be Yan Xiujie?

       Did Yan Xiujie recognize him? It’s really not that likely.

       He walked towards the car and asked, “Why are you here?”

       Yan Xiujie said, “Second Young Master asked me to come.”

       Li Zhenruo had already guessed this possibility in his heart, but after hearing Yan Xiujie say it, he still felt a little complicated. He couldn’t help asking, “What did he ask you to do?”

       Yan Xiujie also seemed a little confused, and said, “He only said to come over and to secretly look after you.”

       Secretly… Li Zhenruo was silent for a while, and then asked, “Then why are you appearing in front of me now?”

       Yan Xiujie was a little embarrassed, “Because you refused that driver. I called Second Young Master to say that you might have noticed me, and he then asked me to take the initiative to find you.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him, still puzzled, “Why you and not Hua Yibang?”

       Yan Xiujie also looked a bit bewildered, “I don’t know.”

       Li Zhenruo thought about a lot of things all at once. He wondered why Li Zhenran asked Yan Xiujie to come over. Was Li Zhenran afraid it wasn’t just because he was here to investigate the cause of Li Zhenruo’s death, so he deliberately asked his former assistant to come over?

       He always felt that Li Zhenran might be doubting his identity. Since when did he doubt it? It was clear when he confessed to Li Zhenran that he was investigating the cause of Li Zhenruo’s death, Li Zhenran also looked angry as if he had been deceived.

       “Mr. Li?” Yan Xiujie called him.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly came back to his senses and asked, “What did you just call me?”

       Yan Xiujie hesitated and said, “Second Master said your name is Li Tuanzi, and he also asked me to bring your ID card and mobile phone here.”

       After Yan Xiujie said that, he took the document bag that was placed on the passenger seat and took the ID card, mobile phone inside to Li Zhenruo, and then a credit card. He said, “Second Young Master said that you can withdraw cash.”

       Li Zhenruo took over the mobile phone and ID card and finally took over the credit card. He was not in the mood to feel embarrassed by the name Li Tuanzi, so he just opened the passenger car door and sat in.

       “Did he say anything else?” Li Zhenruo asked.

       Yan Xiujie said, “He said, he told you to go home after you’ve had enough fun.”

       Li Zhenruo rubbed his fingers on the emerged numbers on the surface of the credit card, and slowly touched it from left to right. Finally, he stopped and asked Yan Xiujie, “Where’s his girlfriend?”

       Yan Xiujie smiled bitterly, “I don’t know. I don’t know about the second young master’s private affairs. He just asked me to come over to take care of you and tell you a few words by the way.”

       “Tell me a few words?” Li Zhenruo glanced at him, “Not secretly watch over me? Does he know I would find you?”

       Yan Xiujie still smiled bitterly but did not answer this time.

       Li Zhenruo shook the credit card between his fingers and said, “Forget it, don’t talk about that, just drive, I want to find someone.”

       Yan Xiujie said nothing more and started the car.

       Along the way, except for occasionally telling Yan Xiujie where to go, Li Zhenruo stayed silent at other times. Yan Xiujie also did not speak and drove silently.

       What Li Zhenruo thought about the most was about Li Zhenran.

       Sometimes he felt he really had a limited brain capacity. Every day he thought about Li Zhenran more than the cause of his own death, as if the focus of his life was slowly shifting, and getting revenge was not as important as Li Zhenran bringing a woman home. He felt he couldn’t go on like this.

       But what can be done? Even if we didn’t see each other, could he really be so cruel?

       Li Zhenran asked Yan Xiujie to tell him a few words, and that was Li Zhenran showing weakness. On that day, he clearly said he was giving Li Zhenruo the last chance to choose, but he chose to give up. With Li Zhenran’s character, he should be left alone, but he still called Yan Xiujie to find him.

       Maybe they shouldn’t have ended things so vaguely.

       At this time, Yan Xiujie had already driven the car on the road. Li Zhenruo came back to his senses and gave him directions to drive him all the way to the two-story building in front of Aunt Wu’s house.

       Li Zhenruo got off the car, while Yan Xiujie reversed the car into the yard and parked on the right side of the yard.

       The door of the small building was still locked, and Li Zhenruo was not sure if there was anyone at home, so he stepped forward and knocked on the door.

       No one responded, he stepped back and looked upstairs. Suddenly he heard a mournful cat cry coming from inside.

       Yan Xiujie just locked the car door, and he couldn’t help asking, “What’s going on?”

       At this time, there was another cat cry, sharp and mournful.

       Although Li Zhenruo was still in human form, he seemed to feel that all the fur on his body stood up. He could hear the cat meowing in pain as if he could also feel the pain.

       He stepped forward and knocked on the door hard, “Open the door!”

       The people inside didn’t move.

       Li Zhenruo got stirred up emotionally. He raised his foot and kicked the door a few times, and shouted loudly, “Open the door!”

       Then, he heard heavy footsteps as if someone was walking toward the door.

       The door was opened from the inside. Standing in front of the door was a tall and gloomy young man. He looked at Li Zhenruo with a fierce look, “Who knocked on the door?”

       Li Zhenruo stepped back half a step so as not to get too close to him, and said, “May I ask if this is Wu Jiamei’s home?”

       The young man asked, “What’s the matter?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I have something to ask her. Can I ask her to come out and talk?”

       The young man yelled, “She’s not here!”

       Li Zhenruo noticed that when he was talking, he kept his right hand behind his back as if he was holding something, so Li Zhenruo couldn’t help being a little wary and asked, “Who are you to her?”

       Before the man could answer, something suddenly jumped down from the window of the room on the second floor. Yan Xiujie was startled because he was close to it, and shouted, “What the?!”

       When Li Zhenruo looked back, he saw that a cat landed in the yard, a pastoral cat with black patches on its white fur, blood on one foot, and was screaming miserably to run outside.

       The young man pushed Li Zhenruo away and went after it.

       Li Zhenruo moved faster than him. Before the man rushed over, he took one step to carry the cat, and then took two steps back.

       At first, the cat wanted to run, but unfortunately, it was not agile. When Li Zhenruo picked it up, it became quiet and meowed softly.

       Li Zhenruo looked down at the injury on its leg, only to find that it was not only on the leg but also on the back with bloodstains. He couldn’t help frowning and said, “Are you crazy? What are you doing abusing a cat?”

       At this time, the man pulled out his right hand behind his back. Only then did Li Zhenruo see that he had a kitchen knife in his hand, and he said, “Give me back Ah Juan!”

       When he saw this, Yan Xiujie hurriedly stepped forward to pull Li Zhenruo and said, “Be careful.”

       Li Zhenruo saw that man’s eyes were confused and his face was a little grim. He hugged the cat and quickly stepped back and said, “What Ah Juan?”

       “Aaaaah—” the man shouted, but he didn’t say any other words, and directly slashed at Li Zhenruo with a knife.

       Li Zhenruo said to Yan Xiujie, “Run!”

       Two people came out of the yard and ran to both sides of the road, one left and one right.

       The young man obviously only had the intention to chase the cat, so he ignored Yan Xiujie and ran after Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo was simply baffled. He held the cat and ran all the way. He didn’t understand why he was provoking a cat-abusing lunatic, but the kitten in her arms kept meowing, which made his heart hurt.

       Occasionally he would encounter pedestrians on the road. When they saw the situation, they hid in the fields on both sides. Li Zhenruo also heard someone say, “Liu’s youngest son is going crazy again!”

       Li Zhenruo saw a small door opened in the front yard, and a girl was about to come out of the door. When she saw the situation outside, she was so frightened that she was about to close the door. Li Zhenruo also responded quickly, rushed over and pushed the door open, forced to squeeze in, and shouted, “Close the door!”

       The young girl hurriedly slammed the door and stopped the person outside at the very last moment. They then heard the sound of a kitchen knife slashing at the iron door.

       Li Zhenruo and the girl leaned against the door with their backs, thinking that people outside would break-in. Fortunately, the door had two large iron doors, and the lock was fairly strong.

       The kitchen knife slashed but left a trace, so the man started banging his body against the door, shouting, “Give me back Ah Juan!”

       The young girl was so frightened that she almost cried, and yelled at Li Zhenruo, “What did you do to him? Give him back his cat!”

       Li Zhenruo said, “No, he wants to hurt the cat!”

       The young girl then said, “He is a lunatic. He thinks this cat is Ah Juan. Please return it to him.”

       Li Zhenruo was short of breath and asked, “Who is ah Juan?”

       The girl said, “His sister, drowned while swimming.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but cursed, “fvck! I can’t give it to him, he was bullying the cat!”

       The young girl said, “What should we do now?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Is no one watching him at home?”

       The young girl reacted at once, “Oh, Aunt Wu, tell Aunt Wu to come back!” After that, she shouted at her small building, “Mom! Call Aunt Wu over here, her son is going crazy!”

       The people upstairs responded.

       They were deadlocked inside and out. The man outside kept banging on the door tirelessly. Li Zhenruo and the girl pressed against the door together, feeling that his strength was gradually getting weaker, but the frequency of the bangs had not diminished.

       The blood on the kitten’s body was slowly dried, the fur was coagulated together, and it still looked pitiful.

       After more than ten minutes, Li Zhenruo finally heard a woman’s voice from outside and shouted eagerly, “Ah Qiang, what are you doing?”

       The young girl beside Li Zhenruo was obviously relieved, “Aunt Wu is back.”

       The two listened to Auntie Wu’s footsteps approaching, until she came to the door and pulled her son, telling him to stop making trouble and go home with her.

       Even so, the two of them waited for a while before opening a slit in the small door and looking out.

       The kitchen knife in the man’s hand had been snatched by his mother, but when he saw Li Zhenruo appear with the cat in his arms, he pointed at him somewhat emotionally and said, “He robbed Ah Juan and wants to take Ah Juan to bathe in the river!”

       Aunt Wu frowned and said, “That’s not Ah Juan, Ah Juan is gone.”

       The man looked dazed and said, “Ah Juan just wanted to sneak to the river, I won’t let her go! Tie her up!”

       Aunt Wu touched his back, “It’s not Ah Juan, there is no Ah Juan anymore.”

       At this time, Yan Xiujie ran towards this side, standing not far from them, somewhat warily in this direction.

       Aunt Wu said sorry to Li Zhenruo and the others and then said, “When he was a child, he took his sister to swim by the river. But then something happened to his sister, and his mind was not sober. Did he hurt you guys?”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head, “This cat was cut by him.”

       “Ah—” Aunt Wu didn’t know what to say.

       Li Zhenruo touched the top of the kitten’s head and said to Aunt Wu, “Auntie Wu, I want to ask you something.”

       Aunt Wu looked at Li Zhenruo with a strange expression.

       Li Zhenruo said, “It’s about Li Jianglin’s fourth son, Li Zhenruo.”

       Aunt Wu’s face changed suddenly. She took her son’s hand and stammered, “I-I’ll take him back first.” After that, she pulled her son and turned to leave.

       Her son was still looking at the cat, “Ah Juan, you can’t go to the river to take a bath.”

       Li Zhenruo stepped forward and said, “Send him back first. I’ll wait for you to come out. There are some things I want to ask you..”

       Aunt Wu avoided his eyes and didn’t answer him, and she just dragged her son forward.

       Li Zhenruo held the cat and took Yan Xiujie back to the outside of the small yard of the Wu family. Aunt Wu closed the door after she entered the house with her son.

       Li Zhenruo squatted down in the yard and put the kitten on the ground.

       The cat walked with a limp, and although it was put down, it still stuck to Li Zhenruo and refused to leave. It stood at Li Zhenruo’s feet, raised its head and purring weakly at him.

       Li Zhenruo gently smoothed it with her fingers and said, “We need to find a vet to take a look at it.”

       Yan Xiujie stood beside him, turned to look at the small building, and frowned slightly, “Why is she not out yet? Do you want to knock on the door?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Wait a minute.”

       They waited for another four or five minutes. The door was opened from the inside. Aunt Wu stood at the door and peeked out. After seeing Li Zhenruo and the two of them, she said, “Just go, I don’t know anything.”

       Li Zhenruo stood up, took a deep breath, and said as calmly as possible, “Aunt Wu, have you ever taken something in Li Zhenruo’s room and handed it to someone else?”

       Aunt Wu stared at him blankly, and she gripped the door frame tightly with one hand, her voice trembling a little, “Who are you? What’s all this got to do with you?”

       When he heard this conversation, Yan Xiujie was also slightly stunned and looked at Li Zhenruo in surprise.

       Li Zhenruo said, “You have worked in the Li family for so many years. Although you haven’t stayed as long as Wang Ma, Li Zhenruo has always been polite to you and always calls you auntie every time he sees you. He never treats you badly in food and accommodation. Why do you want to hurt him? For money?”

       Aunt Wu got emotional and spoke with some tears, “I didn’t hurt him! No one told me what to do with those things? I don’t know what they were used for!”

       Li Zhenruo felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, but he didn’t soften his momentum at all, and he asked sharply, “Who is it? The people who killed Li Zhenruo like this. Tell me exactly who it is, as repayment for your sins for what you have done, so Li Zhenruo can go in peace and don’t come back to you again.”

       Aunt Wu’s body suddenly stiffened, and her eyes flickered. She had obviously suffered a lot from this incident and finally said tremblingly, “It’s Young Master Zhu. He asked me to find something in Li Zhenruo’s room. H-He originally wanted to see if he could find some semen, hair, etc. I didn’t expect that there was a tissue with blood on it, so I took it to him and asked him if this could do it. He said yes, and gave me 2,000 yuan. I don’t know about anything else and I don’t know what it’s used for. After that Fourth Young Master was kicked out, I wondered if it had anything to do with this matter, but I didn’t dare to ask. “

       After she said that, she couldn’t suppress her emotions and cried.

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       Li Zhenran left, but Li Zhenruo was still frozen in place and did not move for a long time.

       The boy walked behind him and asked softly, “Are you okay?”

       Li Zhenruo turned around in a trance and said, “Ah, I’m fine.”

       The two looked at each other for a while, both a bit puzzled. Then the boy said, “I have to go to class.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, “Oh.”

       The boy asked him, “Can you tell me your name?”

       Li Zhenruo hesitated for a moment before saying, “Youp can call me Jason…”

       The boy seemed to feel a little uncomfortable, but he didn’t pursue, and said, “My name is Shen Luming, can you leave a phone number?”

       Only then did Li Zhenruo remember that he didn’t have a phone at all, and he didn’t know how to explain it to Shen Luming because just giving an English name made him feel very insincere, and saying he had no phone now sounds like an excuse.

       However, Shen Luming didn’t seem to care. He took out a pen and sticky note, wrote down his name and mobile phone number and handed it to Li Zhenruo, “Contact me if you have time.”

       Li Zhenruo took it and replied, “Okay.”

       After speaking, Shen Luming left in a hurry.

       Li Zhenruo looked down at the words written on the note, and when he looked up, he found himself circling around to the two-story building where Xia Hongshen and the others lived. He couldn’t help looking up at the window and found that Xia Hongshen was standing in front of the window looking at him as if he had seen all of those just now.

       He took Erhuang back to the small building. He had just stepped on the wooden stairs to the second floor when he saw Xia Hongshen hooking his fingers at him at the door of the room, “Come here.”

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly walked over. After he entered the room, he loosened Erhuang’s rope and let it play by itself, and then said, “Xia laoshi?”

       Xia Hongshen sat in front of the desk with a pen in his hand and asked him, “Do you know the student just now?”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head, “I was wondering and wanted to ask you. I’ve met that boy a few times, and every time I felt my heart throbbing violently as if something was pulling me.”

       Xia Hongshen looked at him for a moment, “Do you want to know why?”

       Li Zhenruo nodded.

       Xia Hongshen didn’t speak immediately, but touched his forehead with a pen and said slowly, “I think that student is the owner of your current body.”

       “Huh?” Li Zhenruo’s eyes suddenly widened.

       Xia Hongshen leaned back on the swivel chair and seemed to be thinking, “But it’s strange. Something doesn’t seem right.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but shudder. What he was most concerned about was not what was wrong, but he suddenly stepped forward and asked Xia Hongshen, “Will he take his body back?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “There seems to be a reaction between you both, isn’t it?”

       Li Zhenruo recalled several meetings between him and Shen Luming, and it was true that each time he felt stronger than each time, and when he looked at Shen Luming’s expression, it was obvious he also felt it.

       The feeling of attraction might be the body’s response to the soul when he thought about it now. What Xia Hongshen said was probably true, otherwise, Li Zhenruo couldn’t explain the throbbing at all.

       Li Zhenruo said nervously, “Is it possible?”

       Xia Hong spread his hands deeply and said bluntly, “I don’t know.”

       At this time, Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that the note in his hand that Shen Luming handed to him just now became a worry. He never seemed to have thought of such a possibility. He always considered whether he would only have a short life of more than ten years as a cat, but he didn’t think that the life of the cat was stolen by him and belonged to others. Now that the owner has appeared, if he wanted or has the ability to take back his body, there might not be more than ten years, and not even more than ten days would not be left for him.

       He couldn’t do that, Li Zhenruo still had so many things to do. Even now he was still a headless idiot who didn’t even know who killed him.

       Li Zhenruo originally planned to stay here for a while longer to pester Xia Hongshen, but now he suddenly changed his mind. He had no time.

       “Xia laoshi,” Li Zhenruo said, “I plan to leave for a while, there is just one request I hope Xia laoshi can grant me.”

       Xia Hongshen raised his head and gestured for him to speak.

       Li Zhenruo glanced at Erhuang, “When I leave, please take care of Erhuang for me. No need to trouble yourself too much, just feed Erhuang some dog food every meal, and when I come back, I will find a way to make up for its living expenses to you.”

       Xia Hongshen didn’t answer, just asked, “Where are you going?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I’m going to find out the cause of my death.”

       Xia Hongshen sighed, “You are really persistent.”

       Li Zhenruo lowered his head and said softly, “I’m still unwilling.”

       Xia Hongshen took a step back, “Sometimes being persistent is a good thing, and being too persistent is sometimes a bad thing.”

       Li Zhenruo also felt that, but he was silent and did not speak.

       Xia Hongshen sighed and said to him, “Kneel down.”

       “Huh?” This time, Li Zhenruo was slightly taken aback, and he looked at Xia Hongshen unsurely.

       Xia Hongshen just folded his arms around his chest and sat on the swivel chair casually. After he said those words, there was no further explanation. Li Zhenruo didn’t move, and Xia Hongshen also didn’t respond.

       Li Zhenruo’s mind was stuck and he was trying to clear his mind for a while, and suddenly an incandescent light bulb was lit. He immediately knelt down, and periodically called out, “M-Master¹note that he was calling him 师父(master in martial arts) different from what he called Zhenran 主人(master as in owner)?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “I have lived in the world for thousands of years, from being alone to being accompanied by Chunjun, but I have never accepted any apprentices. Perhaps passing an inheritance is another experience. You, what is your name?”

       Li Zhenruo was speechless for a moment, and finally reminded him honestly, “Li Zhenruo.”

       “Really weak?” Xia Hongshen said, “This name is really not very good, but feel free, I am not your father, do you really want to worship under my discipline?”

       Li Zhenruo had a straight back and nodded solemnly, “Yes, Master.”

       Xia Hongshen said, “Okay, I will accept your apprenticeship today.”

       Li Zhenruo was overjoyed for a while. He was unable to restrain the smile on his face and looked at Xia Hongshen.

       Erhuang saw him kneeling on the ground, not knowing why, he walked over and rubbed his head against him.

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly reached out and pushed Erhuang’s big head away, hesitated a little, put his hands on the ground and kowtowed to Xia Hongshen, and said, “This disciple pays respects to his Master.”

       Xia Hongshen nodded and said, “You said that you want to have the power to become a stronger demon. Let me tell you, a demon is originally a beast, it absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and the creatures were enlightened. Now you only need to absorb the spiritual energy and continue practising, and you will naturally gain power.”

       Li Zhenruo listened confusedly as if he was watching a historical drama movie.

       Xia Hongshen went on to say, “Everything in the world has a spirit. You try to push the spiritual power in your body to break the skin barrier and feel the aura in the air.”

       After he heard this, Li Zhenruo closed his eyes and tried to activate his spiritual power for the first time instead of transforming himself. He followed Xia Hongshen’s words and applied the spiritual power to his skin, and suddenly felt as if his body opened the channel with the outside world. The spiritual energy contained in the heaven and earth that Xia Hongshen mentioned was no longer an ethereal existence at this moment but something that could be clearly felt.

       Xia Hongshen said, “The more spiritual energy in the air, the more spiritual energy you can absorb. This is also the reason why there are many demons in places with abundant spiritual energy. The spiritual energy in the city is thin, and so the amount of spiritual energy you can absorb is limited.”

       Li Zhenruo quietly felt the slight aura in the air slowly entering his body.

       Xia Hongshen raised his leg and tapped several large points on Li Zhenruo’s chest one after another, and finally stopped at his lower abdomen, and said “The spiritual energy enters the body, moves with the breathing, and is used for personal use, and is stored in the Dantian²point two inches below the navel where one’s qi resides or the main core, which is also where the demon core is located. “

       Li Zhenruo tried hard to feel the spiritual power in the Dantian.

       Xia Hongshen said, “Cultivation is boring, day after day, year after year, year after year. How far it can be achieved depends on your own destiny.”

       Li Zhenruo replied solemnly, “Thank you, Master.”

       Xia Hongshen suddenly got up and patted his forehead with a single hand. Li Zhenruo only saw a black mark placed on his body, and heard Xia Hongshen say, “My apprentice, I’m giving you a seal.”

       Li Zhenruo thought that he was not pork.

       However, his mouth was still nicely said, “Thank you, Master, and when this apprentice makes money, I will please Master with the best cat food.”

       Xia Hongshen looked at him when he heard the words, “What cat food are you eating now?”

       He looked up at the sky, Li Zhenruo recalled the packaging of the cat food he ate, but he couldn’t remember the brand. He hesitated a little and said, “It should be imported cat food. I can’t remember the brand, but I can recognize it when I see it.”

       Xia Hongshen asked him, “Where is it sold? I have only eaten cat food sold in supermarkets.”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t know where it was bought. After thinking about it, he said, “Maybe it’s from an imported food supermarket.”

       “Oh—” Xia Hongshen looked thoughtful, “Is it delicious?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Actually, it’s okay.”

       Xia Hongshen nodded, “Remember to be filial to your Master.”

       Li Zhenruo replied, “This apprentice knows.”

       As he stood up, Li Zhenruo said, “Master, about Erhuang…”

       Xia Hongshen said, “Keep it and let Long Xing take care of it.”

       Li Zhenruo quickly thanked him, and then said, “Master, can you lend me some money, and I will definitely give it back to you in the future.”

       Unexpectedly, Xia Hongshen said, “Your master also does not have money, so go and borrow it from xiao Feng, he is the richest in the family.”

       Li Zhenruo thought to himself that Feng Junyuan, a surgeon, had been living such a miserable life. He could see how miserable these people are, but he still replied, “Okay, thank you, Master.”

       In the end, Li Zhenruo borrowed 500 yuan from Feng Junyuan. Recalling how Feng Junyuan rummaged through his pockets and found 500 yuan, Li Zhenruo felt the hardships of life for them.

       After getting the money from Feng Junyuan, Li Zhenruo hurried to the inter-city bus station. Aunt Wu’s hometown was in a relatively remote county in the province, and it took about 4 hours by bus. He thought about getting on the bus in the form of a cat, but he felt that it would be difficult to get on this kind of intercity bus, and there was no guarantee that the driver would not throw him halfway. The most critical thing if he went in as a cat was that he would have no clothes to wear when he reached his destination. 

       At this time, the necessity of following Xia Hongshen’s practice was fully revealed.

       Not long after the bus drove out, a child sitting in the front row vomited from motion sickness in the car, and the air-conditioned car could not open the windows. The smell spread all at once, and Li Zhenruo covered his nose in pain. The middle-aged man sitting next to him was already asleep, snoring loudly with his head up, and tilting his head to his side from time to time. When Li Zhenruo saw that the man was about to lean on his shoulder, the man woke up suddenly and sat back.

       Not to mention his past life³not referring to his life as Zhenruo but more in the past life, if the current life as a cat was regarded as his life. With Li Zhenruo’s two lifetimes combined, he was afraid that it was such a painful thing to have no money like today.

       He quieted down, closed his eyes and let himself start practising.

       As the bus left the city and entered the suburbs, he found that the surrounding spiritual energy became more and more abundant, which made his slow cultivation speed a little faster.

       When he got off the bus at the destination, Li Zhenruo not only did not feel the fatigue of the journey but felt energetic, as if he had woken up from a comfortable sleep and his whole body had become lighter.

       This situation made him feel that the day when he could change into a suit when he transforms was just around the corner.

       Aunt Wu’s address was overheard by Li Zhenruo before Aunt Wu left Li’s house. At that time, Aunt Wu was chatting with fellows from her village, and Li Zhenruo heard Aunt Wu talk about which county and township she lived in and her home was in the countryside.

       However, he only remembered the name of the village where Aunt Wu was located. When he arrived at the county seat, Li Zhenruo asked someone all the way, and then took another bus. The driver left him on the side of the road halfway and told him that he had arrived at his destination.

       Li Zhenruo was a little dazed. After getting out of the car, he found that there was endless farmland on both sides of the road. He could see a few two-story buildings in the distance, but there were no pedestrians around.

       In his imagination, he walked to the entrance of the village and asked someone at random. It seemed that it was too simple!

       He could only walk inward along a fairly wide and flat path in the field. After walking for more than 20 minutes, Li Zhenruo saw a tea shop beside the road. Many people sat in the tea shop drinking tea and playing mahjong.

       Li Zhenruo walked over to an old man who was sitting at the mahjong table watching people play cards, and asked softly, “Hello, old man, can I ask you about someone?”

       As soon as he finished speaking, everyone at the table who had been concentrating on playing cards looked at him.

       Li Zhenruo coughed uncomfortably and asked again, “Is there a big sister named Wu Jiamei in this village?”

       A table of people looked at him, but no one answered for a while.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but wonder if he had said something wrong or violated any taboo.

       Almost when he was considering whether he should leave, a man pointed his finger in front of him, “Go straight ahead, turn right in front of you and walk another 200 meters. There is a house with a pear tree in front of the yard.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Thank you…” When he turned to leave, he heard someone say “Be careful.”

       He turned his head and saw that those people lowered their heads and started to concentrate on playing cards again. So be careful what? Why did he need to be careful? Li Zhenruo was simply confused and baffled.

       When he turned in the direction that the person told him just now, Li Zhenruo suddenly realized a problem after walking for a while, that was, he didn’t know the pear tree. He stood blankly on the side of the road for a while, but luckily he met a middle-aged woman who passed by. He hurriedly asked her, and this time he got the exact address.

       The gate of the courtyard was not sealed, Li Zhenruo stood outside the courtyard and looked at the two-story building that was somewhat dilapidated. He hesitated and shouted loudly, “Aunt Wu!”

       He thought that he didn’t need to beat around the bush at this time. Aunt Wu was frightened before, and she must not be able to bear the second fright. He might as well lie and coax her to tell the truth. Even if she refused to say it, Li Zhenruo naturally had a way to make her say it.

       However, he shouted several times, but there was no movement inside, then he went to knock on the door. However, no one came to open the door for him.

       Li Zhenruo thought to himself that there might be no one at home at this time. He hesitated whether to sit down in the yard and wait for a while, but he was afraid that he would not get the result by just waiting, so he turned and walked in the direction he came from just now.

       He walked to the front of the tea shop and asked those who were playing cards just now, and said, “Is there anyone in Wu Jiamei’s house?”

       The old man who was watching people playing cards looked up at him and said, “Yes, her son has been at home.”

       Li Zhenruo asked, “Then why do I knock on the door now and no one answers?”

       The old man turned his head back to the card table, “Then come at another time.”

       After that, no one paid attention to him. Li Zhenruo felt a little embarrassed standing on the side and looked in that direction from a distance. Unfortunately, the two-story building of Aunt Wu’s house could not be seen from here.

       He hesitated a little, seeing that it was already late, and he might not be able to find a place to spend the night in this village. He had no other choice but to go back to the county town to find a small hotel to stay overnight, and to put off the discussion until tomorrow morning.

       The small hotel in the county town costs 80 yuan for a night. The sheets were sticky and he also didn’t know if they have been washed. There was a musty smell in the room, but even so, Li Zhenruo still thinks it was expensive.

       There were no toiletries in the bathroom. Li Zhenruo felt that his hair was covered with dust after sitting in the car for a day and wanted to wash his hair. He wandered around the barbershop downstairs of the hotel and wanted to ask for a price, but when he walked in, he saw where a row of women was sitting, all looking up at him in unison, with no barber tools on the table in front of the mirror.

       Li Zhenruo had never seen this kind of situation, but intuitively he felt that he should not go in, and quickly backed out.

       He just didn’t care about anything, ate some dinner at random, went back to the hotel room and lay down on the bed to watch TV, thinking that a human’s life was not as easy as a cat, if he could have the next life, it was better to be a cat. You could eat, sleep and act like a spoiled child every day.

       He curled up and tried to expel all the memories that broke into his head. The best way not to be sad was to not think about it.

       He fell asleep in a daze, and after an unknown amount of time, Li Zhenruo was woken up by the sound of a knock on the door. He raised his head blankly and found that the TV in the room was not yet turned off, and it was past 12 am.

       Who could it be at this hour?

       He didn’t take off his clothes when he slept. At this time, he got up from the bed and opened the door. Li Zhenruo saw a woman standing outside the door, so he opened the door and asked, “What can I do for you?”

       The woman, speaking in a local accent, asked him, “Need a service?”

       Li Zhenruo hadn’t woken up yet, and asked in a daze, “What service?”

       The woman smiled and reached out and touched Li Zhenruo’s face.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly got goosebumps from head to toe, and he got back his senses. He then said, “No need.” and closed the door.

       He felt weird, of course, he certainly could not find a prostitute in such a place, and in fact, she was not ugly. It should be fine if she touched his face, but his body’s reaction was very honest, and that suggestive touch made him very uncomfortable.

       Li Zhenruo leaned behind the door and thought that these strange reactions showed a problem, that was, the owner of this body was a gay cat. Or there was another possibility, that he has been completely bent by Li Zhenran.

       Oh dear… Li Zhenruo sighed and squatted helplessly on the ground.

       He went back to the bed and lay down, but this time, less than half an hour later, someone came knocking on the door again.

       Li Zhenruo got angry, walked over to open the door, and said unhappily, “What is it?”

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       In the evening, Li Zhenruo was finally taken in by the kind Song Jun and had dinner with them.

       At this time, Li Zhenruo was surprised to find that in addition to Song Jun and Xia Hongshen, Feng Junyuan also lived here, and there was a young policeman named Long Xing and a girl named Xi Anling with them.

       The place to eat dinner was very simple. It was in a room, and everyone uses a few stools to form a small table. There were several dishes from the cafeteria on it, and there were small stools around to sit on.

       And because Li Zhenruo was an uninvited guest, the young policeman Long Xing gave him his seat and squatted on the ground himself. This made Li Zhenruo feel very embarrassed and said to Long Xing, “I’m sorry.”

       Long Xing smiled cutely, “It’s okay, you eat more.”

       And the girl that sat opposite Li Zhenruo, Xi Anling, kept staring at him as if she thought he was unnecessary.

       Li Zhenruo felt that these meals were really not very tasty, so he took two bites and put down his rice bowl, and asked Feng Junyuan strangely, “Aren’t you a surgeon? Why are you living such a miserable life?”

       Feng Junyuan looked up at Xia Hongshen, “He spends money without restraint.”

       Li Zhenruo was even more curious, “What’s your relationship with him?”

       While eating, Feng Junyuan replied, “He is my master.”

       Li Zhenruo opened his mouth in surprise and asked, “What about Luo Fei?” He always thought that Xia Hongshen and Song Jun were a pair, and Feng Junyuan and Luo Fei were a pair.

       Feng Junyuan replied calmly, “Luo Fei is Luo Fei.”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t know how to continue the topic.

       At this time, Xia Hongshen pointed at him with chopsticks, “Go after you finished eating.”

       Li Zhenruo sighed helplessly, knowing that he couldn’t stay with Xia Hongshen all the time, he should find a place to stay by himself. Fortunately, this was a school. As a cat, he was best at begging for food from female students. But Erhuang was a little bit of the problem, because Erhuang, as a large dog, ate a lot.

       He brought Erhuang out on impulse, but now he regrets it a little bit. Although no one cared about Erhuang in the Li family, he could eat enough food anyway.

       Looking back, Li Zhenruo found that Long Xing took a small bowl and poured a bowl of dog food for Erhuang.

       Xia Hongshen also saw it and asked Long Xing, “Where did you get the dog food?”

       Long Xing said, “It’s for the Erbao. He hasn’t been here lately.”

       Xia Hongshen complained, “A waste.”

       Long Xing touched Erhuang’s head and looked at it with a smile, “It’s so cute.”

       As he saw this, Li Zhenruo said to Xia Hongshen, “I’ll leave later, but can you foster my dog ​​for a while? I’ll pick it up when I find a place to live.”

       Before Xia Hongshen could answer, Long Xing answered happily, “Yes!”

       At the same time, Feng Junyuan asked him, “Where are you going?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I will deal with things outside for a few days first, and I have to think about the next plan.”

       In fact, he still didn’t give up and wanted to make Xia Hongshen his master. At the same time, he planned to go to Aunt Wu’s hometown to find her first. He was afraid that she would have another work outside or have any other accidents after a long time.

       Feng Junyuan suddenly said, “Why don’t you live with me.”

       This time, not only Xia Hongshen and Song Jun, but also Xi Anling and Long Xing looked at him in surprise, obviously not expecting such an invitation to come out of his mouth.

       Song Jun first asked tentatively, “Xiao Feng? Are you okay?”

       A suspicious blush appeared on Feng Junyuan’s face, and he said, “I like Garfield so much, it’s very cute.”

       Song Jun thought for a while and expressed his understanding, “It is really cute.”

       Xia Hongshen grunted coldly and heaved a pair of chopsticks onto the table.

       But no one paid attention to him, Xi Anling had already stood up and leaned on Song Jun’s back. She stared at Li Zhenruo and said, “Garfield? What do you look like? Transform and show me!”

       Long Xing said, “I know I’ve seen it, the kind of cat whose face is flat.”

       After all the ruckus at night, Li Zhenruo was eventually not thrown out by Xia Hong Shen, but instead slept in a bed with Feng Junyuan. In order to express gratitude to Feng Junyuan for taking him in, Li Zhenruo turned back into a furry kitten when he jumped on the bed and lay down on the side of the bed.

       Erhuang slept under the bed, and yawned loudly, looking a little melancholy.

       Feng Junyuan stared at Li Zhenruo, made Li Zhenruo feel a little uncomfortable, and buried his face in the bed.

       Feng Junyuan asked him, “Why did you come out? Where is your owner?”

       Originally, Li Zhenruo was wandering outside all day, wanting to forget about Li Zhenran, but now Feng Junyuan brought it up again, and his mood suddenly became low.

       Maybe Feng Junyuan just asked casually and didn’t need Li Zhenruo’s answer. After he asked, he reached out and touched the top of Li Zhenruo’s head, and turned over to sleep.

       Unfamiliar room, unfamiliar environment, surrounded by even an unfamiliar person.

       Li Zhenruo closed his eyes, but his other senses were still clear. He was still very awake in his head. He was turning over and over many pictures he saw during the day, but some of them seemed to be blurred. For example, he couldn’t remember whether Li Zhenran hold the woman’s hand when he got off the car.

       “Phew—” Not wanting to disturb Feng Junyuan, Li Zhenruo let out a low breath and opened his eyes again in the darkness.

       The curtains were blown open by the wind, and Li Zhenruo suddenly found a black kitten standing outside the window, looking at him through the window.

       He was taken aback and wondered when the cat was standing there.

       The black cat stared at him for a moment, raised its paw and tapped the window.

       Li Zhenruo subconsciously glanced at Feng Junyuan beside him but found that Feng Junyuan just turned over and didn’t wake up. The black cat outside hooked its paws at him again, as if to signal him to come over.

       Li Zhenruo raised his paw and pointed at himself uncertainly, me?

       The black cat nodded.

       Li Zhenruo hesitated, jumped off the bed, ran to the window in two steps, looked up at it, and then jumped up hard. The window was closed with only one layer of screen. Li Zhenruo pushed the screen with his claws and jumped out. Hearing the black cat “meow”, he found that he could understand what it meant. It told him to follow him up.

       Where to go? Li Zhenruo was still baffled, but the black cat had turned around and climbed up the wall, hooked its claws on the edge of the eaves, and turned over to go to the roof.

       Li Zhenruo was stunned. The eaves¹ of this old house were quite long, and it was definitely impossible to climb on the wall and stretch out claws to reach it. You have to use your limbs on the wall, jump over and hook the eaves with your claws, and then flipped over. It was like playing martial arts and movies. After he thought of it for a while, Li Zhenruo reached a conclusion that he could not do it.

       However, since he didn’t move for a long time, the black cat above was impatient and knocked on the roof tiles.

       Li Zhenruo hesitated a little and decided to try it once.

       He didn’t know the identity of the black cat at first, but after hearing him meow, he realized that the cat was probably Xia Hongshen. He didn’t know what Xia Hongshen want to find him so late, but until now he still didn’t give up and wanted to be Xia Hongshen as his teacher. So the other party’s command was a test for him. Even if he jumped over and couldn’t grab the eaves and fall from the second floor, he decided to give it a try.

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath, jumped hard and grabbed the wall with his sharp claws, jumped up and jumped in the opposite direction, stretching his forelimbs to grab the eaves.

       He felt that the fingernail had touched the eaves, but it was only touching. The tip of the fingernail only grazed, but it was not hooked. The force has come to an end, and so the body sank and fell down.

       Li Zhenruo quickly adjusted his posture and wanted to see if there was a piece of grass underneath, but after falling a short distance, a hand grabbed his stomach and held him up.

       He looked up in amazement and saw Xia Hongshen stretched out half of his body from the roof, grabbing him with one arm, and taking him up until he got on the roof and placed him beside himself.

       Li Zhenruo was still in shock and looked at Xia Hongshen with some small gasps.

       Xia Hongshen looked at him blankly and said, “Why do you want to practice cultivation with me?”

       Li Zhenruo originally wanted to take a human form and sit next to him to talk to him, but then he thought that he would become a human without clothes to wear. Hongshen meowed in front of him.

       He told Xia Hongshen: I feel that my power is too weak, whether as a cat or a person.

       Xia Hongshen asked him, “Do you want to borrow power to take revenge?”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head: I just don’t want to rely on others.

       Xia Hongshen said, “What if I don’t agree?”

       Li Zhenruo thought for a while: If you don’t agree, I will still rely on my own strength to take revenge. When I do, I hope there will be a way to change your mind when we meet again.

       Xia Hongshen held his face with one hand and did not speak.

       Li Zhenruo also lay quietly beside him without moving.

       After a while, Xia Hongshen said, “I got it.” After speaking, he reached out and grabbed the edge of the eaves and flipped over.

       Li Zhenruo froze for a moment and got up to look, and saw that a small black cat had gotten into the small building from the window next to him, and he was the only one left on the roof, and he was at a loss.

       Fortunately, he was still a cat. He dawdled on the edge of the eaves for a while, and finally jumped down in fear and went back to Feng Junyuan’s room.

       The next morning, Feng Junyuan got up to wash up. He had to go to work in the morning and had to arrive at the hospital at 8:30.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t sleep either, so while Feng Junyuan was not in the room, he turned into a human. He picked up his clothes and dressed neatly.

       After a while, Feng Junyuan came back and saw that he was still wearing the same clothes from yesterday. He opened the cabinet and said, “If you don’t have clothes to wear, just wear mine first.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him gratefully, “Well, thank you.”

       For breakfast, Song Jun went to the cafeteria to buy buns and eggs. After eating, Li Zhenruo took Erhuang out for a walk by the rope. He also trotted around the school by himself.

       After running for more than 20 minutes, his head and back began to sweat. He couldn’t help but slow down his pace, thinking that if he didn’t go back and didn’t change his clothes, he might just borrow Feng Junyuan and Song Jun’s clothes, knowing that the last time he borrowed Song Jun’s clothes were not yet returned.

       As he walked forward slowly, Li Zhenruo suddenly felt his heart palpitate. He stopped in a daze, while Erhuang beside him was still walking forward, pulling on the rope until he couldn’t move and stopped to look at him.

       Li Zhenruo raised his head and looked around, and saw a tall and thin boy walking in his direction. He has seen this boy several times, and every time he saw his body, he reacted violently, as if something was pulling him closer.

       The boy was also looking at him. As the two of them got closer, Li Zhenruo heard his heart beat faster.

       Seeing that he didn’t move for a long time, Erhuang couldn’t help pulling him forward.

       The leash in Li Zhenruo’s hand was taut, and he had to take two steps forward, but he tripped over the rope that came around in front of him and he fell forward.

       Just as the boy walked up to him, he raised his hand and held him.

       His heart was beating violently, Li Zhenruo raised his head from the boy’s arms to look at him, and said in a daze, “You…”

       The boy also frowned and asked him, “Who are you?”

       “Din—” A car next to them stopped beside them for some reason, and the horn sounded abruptly.

       There were few cars on the campus, and it was rare for people to honk loudly. So Li Zhenruo was taken aback at this time. He looked back and saw that the driver’s window was down. Li Zhenran was sitting inside, looking at him coldly.

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment and then realized how ambiguous his actions were with this boy. He let go of his hands and stood up straight. When he looked at Li Zhenran, he suddenly thought of the woman who came back with him yesterday.

       Erhuang was very excited to see Li Zhenran and swung his tail towards him.

       Li Zhenran just said to Li Zhenruo coldly, “Get in the car.”

       Li Zhenruo walked to the front of the car window. He didn’t want to show weakness to Li Zhenran, even though the little grievances in his heart were about to overflow.

       He put his hands on the lower edge of the car window and asked Li Zhenran, “What are you doing here?”

       Li Zhenran said, “My cat ran away with our family dog, and I came to find them back.”

       Li Zhenruo squeezed the car door tightly with both hands, and said, “I’m not going back.”

       Erhuang, however, was lying on the door excitedly, sticking his head in to get intimate with Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran patiently asked him, “Why are you not going back? Because of him?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him and saw that the boy just now was still standing there, looking at them with some doubts. Up until now, Li Zhenruo didn’t even know the boy’s name. He noticed a strange pull from the boy, but he knew very well that it was not love at first sight, but a strange pull from the body.

       At this time, Li Zhenran asked him, but he neither admitted nor denied it, but asked Li Zhenran, “Where’s that woman?”

       “Which woman?” Li Zhenran asked him back.

       Li Zhenruo said, “The woman you brought back from dinner yesterday!”

       Li Zhenran frowned slightly and said, “What happened to her?”

       Li Zhenruo asked, “What’s your relationship with her?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t answer him directly, but said, “What do you think?”

       Li Zhenruo gnashed his teeth and looked at him for a while, then finally calmed down and said, “I’m not going back.”

       Li Zhenran seemed to be angry. Although his face was expressionless, his voice was deeper, “I will give you one last chance to choose.”

       Li Zhenruo felt that he could no longer retreat. Although he might lose some clues when he left the Li family, if he stayed by Li Zhenran’s side, he would only be led by Li Zhenran all the time. Even because of Li Zhenran’s words, he could feel uneasy for a few days.

       He shook his head vigorously, “I’m not going back, the only thing I have to do now is to find out who killed Li Zhenruo, and I want to avenge him.”

       Li Zhenran said, “So I’ve lost my use, have I?”

       Li Zhenruo was slightly startled and wanted to say otherwise, but Li Zhenran had already said, “Let go.”

       Li Zhenruo let go of his hand and took two steps back. Li Zhenran’s car turned around and left without saying anything.

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       Li Zhenruo froze.

       He saw Li Zhenran walk up to the woman, said a few words to her, and then led her toward Li Jianglin’s direction.

       The woman was wearing a silver-white tight-fitting dress, her long hair fell down to her waist, and her face was very beautiful. She walked by Li Zhenran’s side and they both looked like really a good-looking couple. Both of them attracted the attention of the people at the three tables at once.

       Li Zhenruo’s ears were sensitive, and he heard Wen Chun’s mother whispering to Wen Chun, “Is that the second Li’s girlfriend?”

       He didn’t pay attention to what Wen Chun said and just stared blankly at Li Zhenran as he brought the woman to Li Jianglin, and said something as if to introduce her to Li Jianglin.

       Li Jianglin stood up and was full of smiles, probably very satisfied with this daughter-in-law.

       Li Zhenruo’s mind was full of chaos and suddenly felt that the people around him were so noisy that he couldn’t hear what Li Zhenran said. In a trance, he seemed to notice that Li Zhenran glanced in his direction, with cold expressionless eyes. He suddenly felt a pain in his heart. He then turned around and ran.

       He ran towards the edge of the yard, where Erhuang’s house was located. Because there were guests at home today, Erhuang was tied up with a rope, even though it would have been very well behaved.

       Li Zhenruo was just sad. At this time, the whole family was in the yard to wish Li Jianglin his birthday. The only comfort he could find was Erhuang.

       Erhuang saw him running over from a distance. It was originally lying in the house but stood up and looked at him strangely.

       Li Zhenruo rushed over and crashed into Erhuang’s arms.

       Erhuang thoughtfully lay down, wrapped Li Zhenruo’s body in his arms and licked the top of his head.

       It was a pity that Li Zhenruo couldn’t speak at this time. If he could, he would definitely cry with Erhuang in his arms: I’m dumped! Li Zhenran is a heartless man. He refused to admit it after he slept with me and now he’s got a girlfriend!

       He lay sadly for a while, looked up and saw Erhuang’s clear eyes, and suddenly thought: What’s the point of crying! Li Zhenran was unreliable, so he should rely on himself. If he wanted to take revenge, he shouldn’t only rely on Li Zhenran. However, because he was too dependant on Li Zhenran, he hesitated and stopped, and even his original intention gradually blurred.

       He shouldn’t be like this!

       Li Zhenruo thought silently.

       Erhuang was a little uneasy because of his silence, and repeatedly licked the top of his head, making his fur wet.

       Li Zhenruo glanced at Erhuang with a gentle expression and felt that the big dog abandoned by the owner shared the same ailment with him. Since no one cared about it, it was better to sneak out with it by himself.

       He raised a paw and scratched his chin, and began to think about how it would be easier for him to leave the Li family.

       In fact, he a cat, could find the most convenient to find a corner that the surveillance couldn’t notice, and slipped out. It was the most convenient way to go without anyone knowing. However, it was a little difficult to take Erhuang out. He could only go out through the gate, but then the guard will stop them.

       Li Zhenruo clenched his chin and thought, maybe there is another way. He could pretend to be a guest at Li’s house today, and took Erhuang by the rope and said to take him out for a walk. Many guests came to Li’s house today, and they all drove in directly. Naturally, the guard couldn’t recognize all the guests. Moreover, the guests of the Li family were either wealthy and respectable people. As long as he was haughty and at ease, the guards would not ask too many questions.

       With this in mind, Li Zhenruo made up his mind.

       He left the kennel and glanced at the front yard. When he saw that Li Zhenran and the woman had already taken their seats, Li Zhenruo went around to the side, climbed the window to the third floor and got into Li Zhenran’s room, and then turned into a human form and rummaged through the cabinet. A set of clothes, shoes and socks were packed together in a bag.

       He carefully looked out of the window and saw that there was no one by the pool, so he threw the bag from the third floor.

       There was a loud sound when the bag landed, and he was startled. He hunched his neck and waited for a while, then secretly raised his head to look outside, only to find that no one was paying attention, so he transformed into Garfield’s form and strung out through the window.

       He burrowed his head into the round hole of the bag and dragged the bag toward Erhuang’s doghouse. Although it was a little laborious, and he could barely walk, he had to be careful not to be seen.

       After he dragged the whole bag, he sneakily put the bag on Erhuang’s head, untied the rope buckle next to him with his claws, and then hooked his claws to let Erhuang follow him.

       Erhuang was obviously hesitant.

       Li Zhenruo simply ran a few steps forward, and Erhuang ran after him at once, with a bag of things dragging by his feet, and stumbling a little.

       It was not until he ran to a remote corner with Erhuang that Li Zhenruo stopped. He huddled in the grass and looked around and turned into a human form.

       Er Huang was stunned for a moment, and stared at him with wide eyes, even its pupils dilated.

       Li Zhenruo also suddenly realized that he was a little reckless, it would be bad if Erhuang barked at this time. But fortunately, Erhuang was stunned and didn’t scream. After a while, Erhuang came over with a blank face to smell the scent on his body. The more it smelled, the more confused it became. So it smelled every inch of his body from head to foot to make sure.

       Li Zhenruo was putting on clothes, pushing Erhuang’s head away while wearing them, and whispered, “Don’t make trouble.”

       He put on his clothes in a hurry, hunched over in the grass and groped for Erhuang’s dog leash, held it in his hand and said to him, “Erhuang, I’ll take you to find your master, you have to follow me obediently, okay?”

       Erhuang couldn’t answer him, but Li Zhenruo could see that his eyes were still clear and bright.

       “Let’s go!” Li Zhenruo said.

       He knew that when he left this time, the Li family would definitely investigate when they found that the cat and the dog were missing together. At that time, they would find out that he took the dog out, but who was he? He was Luo Fei’s cousin Li Tuanzi. Only Li Zhenran knew his true identity, no one else knew.

       There was no surveillance in the Li family’s yard, and all surveillance was aimed at the walls and gates, so no one would know what happened before. If they wanted to trace his whereabouts, they could only rely on Li Zhenran.

       This was not difficult for Li Zhenran. After all, the collar on his neck has not been taken off. Li Zhenran would definitely be able to find him if he was looking for him.

       But he felt that Li Zhenran probably didn’t want to find him anymore. If Li Zhenran didn’t care and Zhu Kai was not around, it didn’t seem like a big deal that the cats and dogs of the Li family were lost, maybe they would just leave at it.

       Li Zhenruo turned around and wanted to take a last look at Li Zhenran, but the view was obstructed and he couldn’t see him. He could only hear the lively conversation in the front yard. He could imagine the scene, but he didn’t plan to stay any longer.

       He ran outside like a child with the dog on a leash. Erhuang probably recognized him by the familiar smell, and actually followed closely behind him.

       The door was tightly closed, and Li Zhenruo asked the guard to open the side door.

       The doorman looked at him strangely, and said politely, “It’s pretty cold outside, do you want to go out?”

       Li Zhenruo said with a smile, “I’ll take the dog out for a while and come back. Do you want Zhenran ge to say something?”

       The guard really thought he was a guest of the Li family. As he saw that Li Zhenruo didn’t take anything other than the dog, he didn’t have any doubts and said, “No, but pay attention to safety outside.” He treated him like a child who came with some family.

       Li Zhenruo nodded, waited until the door opened, and pulled Erhuang out.

       He took Erhuang and walked outside along the road around the lake. After a while, he thought about whether it was convenient to be a cat or a human to move.

       Later, he realized that as a person, now that he has no money, it was really not as convenient as a cat.

       In fact, Li Zhenruo didn’t rush out without any plan. He planned to find Xia Hongshen, but not to ask him for help. No one was obliged to help him all the time. In the end, he still had to do his own affairs. He wanted to find Xia Hongshen for an apprenticeship.

       It wasn’t a sudden idea. The last time he went to see Xia Hongshen, he asked him about cultivation. Not just for revenge, but more about the future after he has taken his revenge. Li Zhenruo didn’t want to end his life as a cat so simply after a dozen years, and he began to yearn for a longer future. He knew that he was greedy, even if he had been a cat for so many years, something he earned that should not have belonged to him.

       But human greed was so endless. He turned to look at Erhuang who was following him, and thought that if he had never been a human, but was born a cat, he would probably only need food in his life. It was a pity that he was not, so he began to be greedy and began to plan his future.

       He was not sure if Xia Hongshen was willing to agree to him, but he would work hard. He hoped that he could have a little more power so that he would be able to freely change forms. He couldn’t let himself have to rely on Li Zhenran every step of the way.

       You see, just like now, when Li Zhenran didn’t want him anymore, he would be reduced to the point where he was penniless and couldn’t even go out.

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath and regained his senses to find that he had led Erhuang a long way.

       But from here, it would take at least half an hour to walk to the road outside. Li Zhenruo looked back and wondered if he should just change back to a cat and run out, maybe he could catch a bus.

       At this time, a car drove from behind him. It was about to pass by him but suddenly slowed down until it stopped not far in front of him.

       Li Zhenruo was slightly stunned and walked forward. He looked inside from the pressed car window, and saw that the person driving was actually his former assistant Yan Xiujie.

       Yan Xiujie, dressed in a suit and tie, dressed up neatly, and said to Li Zhenruo, “Do you need a ride?”

       Li Zhenruo had met Yan Xiujie twice in his current appearance, and both in Yunlin. He didn’t expect Yan Xiujie to remember him, so he asked, “Is it alright?”

       Yan Xiujie said, “Aren’t you a friend of Second Young Master? Where are you going? I can give you a ride.”

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly opened the car door, shoved Erhuang into the back seat, sat on the passenger side, and said, “Thank you very much, I’m going to the city hospital, I don’t know if it’s on your way?”

       Yan Xiujie replied, “It is.”

       Li Zhenruo was very surprised that Yan Xiujie appeared here because with Yan Xiujie’s current status today, he should not be the guest invited. And if he was a guest, he would not have left the Li family so soon. They should have just started not long ago.

       However, before he asked out of curiosity, Yan Xiujie asked, “Are you a guest of Second Young Master? Why did you leave so early?” And you went out with a dog. Yan Xiujie didn’t ask the latter question.

       Li Zhenruo said, “I have something to go first, but I didn’t come by car. Originally, I wanted to come out and take a taxi.”

       Yan Xiujie nodded without further questioning.

       Li Zhenruo then asked him, “Why did you leave so quickly?”

       Yan Xiujie smiled, “I’m not a guest of the Li family. The company has a document that is a little urgent. I’m driving it to Second Young Master.”

       Because he was Li Zhenruo’s assistant in the past, Li Zhenran was afraid that his appearance at Li Jianglin’s birthday banquet would affect Li Jianglin’s mood, so Li Zhenran didn’t invite him in at all, and directly let him wait outside the door. Hua Yi Bang came out to get the documents, then he change direction and left.

       As Li Zhenruo listened to his plain tone, he suddenly felt a little upset for him. If Li Zhenruo was still the fourth young master of the Li family, Yan Xiujie would not be treated like this.

       Erhuang in the back row was a little nervous and brought his head closer. Li Zhenruo raised his hand and touched Erhuang’s head to soothe his mood while saying to Yan Xiujie, “Are you Li Zhenruo’s assistant?”

       Yan Xiujie looked at him when he heard the words, “You know? Did the Second Young Master tell you?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Well, I just think it’s a pity.”

       Yan Xiujie asked, “What a pity?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “It’s a pity that the fourth youngest of the Li family died at a young age for no apparent reason.”

       Yan Xiujie gaze ahead, and his expression was a little sad, “It’s an accident, I guess.”

       Yan Xiujie knew about the matter of Li Zhenruo was not Li Jianglin’s son and he was one of the few outsiders who knew the truth. However, his mouth was very sealed tight. Even if Li Zhenruo died, he received a cold treatment, he also never mentioned it to others.

       When Li Zhenruo saw that Yan Xiujie had a face that he didn’t want to talk anymore, so Li Zhenruo didn’t ask anymore, but just asked, “Are you working with Li Zhenran now?”

       Yan Xiujie said, “I am in the market planning department. It was the department the second young master in charge of, and I have a lot of work contact.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, but only made a light “um”.

       Yan Xiujie kept driving him to the gate of the city hospital. Li Zhenruo took Erhuang out of the car and said to him, “Thank you.”

       Yan Xiujie smiled, “You’re welcome, then I’ll go first.” After he said that, he didn’t stay any longer and drove the car away.

       As he saw Yan Xiujie drive away, Li Zhenruo did not lead Erhuang into the hospital but walked towards the school across the street.

       Although he was walking a dog, since the university had external projects, the personnel exchanges were complicated and the management was relatively loose. No one prevented him from entering Song Jun’s academic building.

       When he found Song Jun, he was doing an experiment in the laboratory. Song Jun came out of the laboratory wearing a white coat and a mask, and asked Li Zhenruo in surprise, “Is there something wrong?”

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath and said, “Can you do me a favour?”

       Song Jun had always been friendly to him, and responded, “You can tell me what the favour is first. If it’s possible I will help.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I want Xia laoshi to accept me as an apprentice.”

       “Huh?” Song Jun was surprised.

       Li Zhenruo nodded vigorously, “I’m serious!”

       Song Jun tapped his head with a headache, “Wait a minute.”

       In the afternoon, Song Jun finished his experiment and took Li Zhenruo back with his dog.

       As he followed Song Jun into the old two-story building, Li Zhenruo was a little surprised when he stepped on the wooden stairs, “This should be a protected heritage, right? You live in this kind of place? Are you not afraid of being haunted?”

       Song Jun didn’t change his face, “There has been a fuss.”

       He led Li Zhenruo to the door of a room on the second floor and knocked on the door, “Senior brother, I’m back.”

       The door was quickly opened from the inside, and Li Zhenruo was surprised to find that Xia Hongshen was sitting by the desk looking at the computer, and he didn’t seem to move at all. Then the question arose, who opened the door of the room?

       Xia Hongshen said without raising his head, “I smell it.”

       The scent he was talking about, of course, was not referring to Song Jun, but Li Zhenruo, and perhaps a bonus Erhuang.

       “Senior brother,” Song Jun said.

       Xia Hongshen turned around, spun the pen in his hand, and asked him, “It’s a cat and a dog, do you now work with animals?”

       Song Jun said, “Little Garfield said that he wants to pay respect to you as his teacher.”

       Xia Hongshen’s gaze then turned to Li Zhenruo, “Pay respect to me as a teacher? I don’t accept apprentices.”

       Li Zhenruo knew that it was time to express his determination. He half-knelt on the ground and clasped his fists with both hands, “Please take me as your disciple, Xia laoshi. I will study hard, cultivate hard, respect you as my master, and carry forward the sect!”

       Xia Hongshen looked at him expressionlessly and gently pressed the signature pen to his lips after spinning it around for a long time. He then asked, “Which sect are you?”

       Li Zhenruo stood up helplessly, sighed and said, “Xia laoshi, I’m serious.”

       Xia Hong’s deep and handsome face has sharp eyes, “I’m also serious.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at Song Jun and asked him for help.

       Song Jun couldn’t help laughing, “I can’t help you, it’s up to you, little Garfield.”

       Li Zhenruo said sullenly, “I have a name, not little Garfield.”

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“Perfection” will start pre-sale in early September. Interested readers can check the pre-sale information on my Weibo, Weibo name: 金刚那个圈

Regarding the point of changing into and wearing clothes, I suddenly fell into deep doubt when I wrote this part because if Zhenruo really could change clothes in the future, how should the second brother take off his clothes, it is not equivalent to pulling out all his hair?

There are also people who feel distressed about cats. In fact, it is a bit exaggerated like a cartoon. Just like the cartoon of cats and mice¹Tom and Jerry, lol, no one should feel that cats are abused. I hope no one takes it too seriously.

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Notes:
You can read the translated “Perfection” on this link~
Almost a year after I finished translating Perfection in a rush, I realised there are so many awkward looks like little edited MTL sentences. I am in the middle of fixing it so it flowed better :’)
It was my first novel after all, I hope it doesn’t give past readers too much headache (ﾟ⊃ω⊂ﾟ)ﾟ
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       However, Li Zhenruo seemed to have misunderstood Li Zhenran.

       Because at the same time he fell down, Li Zhenran reached out and grabbed him. But Li Zhenran just happened to only grab his tail, which made him shriek in the middle of the night

       Li Zhenran hurriedly pulled his tail to lift him up and put him on the windowsill.

       Li Zhenruo was still in shock, plus, his tail was pulled up painfully. The whole cat was in a trance, just burying his head and licking the root of his tail.

       Li Zhenran looked at him, his slender legs rolled over the window frame and hung outside. He sat on the window sill, raised one hand and stuffed a cigarette into his mouth, and then lit the cigarette with a lighter in the other hand.

       Li Zhenruo smelled the smoke and looked up at him. It seemed that he hardly ever seen Li Zhenran smoke, but now he was sitting on the windowsill looking into the distance with a cigarette in his mouth, which made Li Zhenruo feel a little uncomfortable.

       If he had to summarize this emotion, Li Zhenruo felt that Li Zhenran was probably heartbroken.

       The pain at the base of the tail became less distinct. Li Zhenruo hesitated for a long time, stretched out his paw, and touched Li Zhenran’s thigh nervously.

       He should actually turned into a human form and sat down to have a serious chat with Li Zhenran, but he was a little timid. He always felt that he didn’t need to talk if he looked like this, so he didn’t need to face Li Zhenran’s questioning.

       Li Zhenran ignored him. He just bent his left leg and stepped on the window sill, his left arm rested on his knee and held the cigarette between his fingers.

       Li Zhenruo looked a little bewildered at his handsome side profile.

       Li Zhenran suddenly opened his mouth and said, “Why are you climbing to my room in the middle of the night?”

       Where in the middle of the night it is? Li Zhenruo cursed, but after he heard him say this, he finally felt relieved and thought that Li Zhenran was probably not so angry.

       He carefully withdrew his sharp claws, placed the soft pad of flesh against Li Zhenran’s waist, and raised his head while looking at him, while gently pressing his waist.

       Li Zhenran still ignored him.

       So he pressed again.

       Li Zhenran looked at him this time and said, “I’ll throw you down.”

       Li Zhenruo quickly retracted his cat’s paw.

       He hesitated for a while, and finally stretched his limbs to become a human and sat beside Li Zhenran. The two men crowded the same window sill. Li Zhenruo’s naked skin was close to Li Zhenran’s body, and he could feel the temperature of Li Zhenran’s skin through a thin layer of cloth.

       Li Zhenruo said, “I can’t say that I came to Li’s house and stayed with you for no purpose, but it has nothing to do with my feelings for you.”

       Li Zhenran took a puff of smoke, and suddenly spew all the white smoke on Li Zhenruo’s face. He then asked him, “What kind of feelings do you have for me?”

       Li Zhenruo shrank his neck back, looked at Li Zhenran, thought about it and said, “Isn’t it the master…”

       Li Zhenran didn’t answer, took a puff and spew the smoke on his face.

       Li Zhenruo raised his hand and waved the smoke away, and asked Li Zhenran tentatively, “What’s that supposed to be?”

       Li Zhenran said coldly, “How do I know? Think for yourself, and tell me if you understand.” With that, he turned into the room and walked towards the bathroom.

       When he went to bed at night, Li Zhenruo still didn’t know how to answer Li Zhenran’s question. Li Zhenran’s attitude towards him was cold, but not as angry as when he confessed his identity to him at first.

       Maybe Li Zhenran forgave him after the entanglement and he didn’t care about his impure intentions at the beginning. Perhaps it was enough to know that he was now a good cat who was devoted to his master.

       Li Zhenruo slept beside Li Zhenran’s pillow, but Li Zhenran refused to reach out and hug him. Li Zhenruo somewhat suffer from insomnia, and he didn’t fall asleep for a while. Li Zhenran didn’t move next to him, and he didn’t dare to toss and turn for fear that if he woke Li Zhenran, he would be thrown out of bed.

       After he lay down quietly for a while, Li Zhenruo changed himself back to the appearance of a cat, quietly got up and made a circle on the pillow. He stared straight at Li Zhenran. After staring for more than ten minutes, he felt sleepy, yawned and closed his eyes to sleep.

       The next morning, Li Zhenran didn’t talk to Li Zhenruo when he got up. After Li Zhenran took a bath and dressed, he went downstairs to have breakfast.

       Li Zhenruo looked disappointed, washed his face with his paws, and followed Li Zhenran downstairs.

       During breakfast, there were only Li Zhenran and Wen Chun in the dining room, and neither of them spoke, making the Li family particularly cold. In fact, there weren’t many people in the past, but Li Zhenzi and Zhu Kai never kept their mouths shut, and Li Zhentai was always friendly and liked to engage in small talk with his younger brother.

       Wang Ma probably also felt a little down. She turned on the TV in the living room after eating breakfast early.

       Li Zhenruo swallowed a few pieces of cat food and suddenly heard Li Zhenran say, “Sister-in-law enjoy your meal, I’ll be going first.” He immediately turned to look and saw that Li Zhenran had picked up the coat hanging on the back of the chair with one hand and was already going out.

       So Li Zhenruo didn’t care about the cat food he hadn’t swallowed, and hurriedly wanted to chase him out, but Li Zhenran closed the door as soon as he got in the car.

       Li Zhenruo rushed over and throw himself at the door. He then tried to jump up and saw that the window was not open.

       Wang Ma chased him out and picked him up. She took two steps back, and said, “Be careful, they’re going to drive.”

       Sure enough, Li Zhenran didn’t even look at him and asked the driver to drive.

       Li Zhenruo stared blankly at the car driving away and weakly dropped his head in Wang Ma’s arms.

       He was listless all day, lying on the back of the sofa in the living room, waiting for Li Zhenran to come back. But at the same time, he was a little dazed, not knowing what Li Zhenran should say to him when he really came back.

       In the morning, when Wang Ma went to help in the kitchen, Wen Chun came down to the first floor and stood outside in the courtyard to make a phone call.

       Li Zhenruo looked at her slender back and felt that she was a little pitiful, but when he thought of her relationship with Li Zhenzi, he felt that she was to blame.

       Li Jianglin came back from a walk, took a book and sat on the reclining chair in the yard. He was flipping through the book.

       Li Zhenruo hesitated for a moment, then got up and walked out, straightened up and leaned on the side of the reclining chair. When Li Jianglin saw him, he bent down and stretched out his hand to lift Li Zhenruo up and put him on his lap.

       When Li Zhenruo lay down, Li Jianglin stroked his head and back with his rough palms.

       Li Zhenruo was already a little aggrieved, but he felt even more aggrieved by being treated so gently by Li Jianglin and closed his eyes quietly.

       However, in the afternoon, Li Zhenruo was lying on the stairs to take a nap when was awakened by the sound of Wang Ma’s footsteps suddenly passing by. He saw Wang Ma hurrying upstairs, and followed quickly. But unfortunately, he couldn’t ask what happened.

       He saw Wang Ma go to Li Zhenran’s room on the third floor, opened the door, went in, opened the closet, and unexpectedly started packing.

       Li Zhenruo was startled and felt strange. He grabbed Wang Ma’s legs and began to “meow meow” with his mouth on and on.

       Wang Ma was tired of being pestered that she reached out and gently lifted him and said, “Your master is going on a business trip. I’ll help him pack up, so don’t make trouble.”

       Li Zhenran is going on a business trip? Why didn’t he tell him so suddenly? Li Zhenruo was stunned for a while.

       After a while, Wang Ma packed the suitcase and dragged it outside.

       Li Zhenruo tried to stop her, but he couldn’t stop her. So he could only lie on top of the suitcase in the end.

       Wang Ma dragged the box to the top of the stairs, and raised her hand to drive him down, but failed. She put down the suitcase and called the gardener to help.

       The gardener was a middle-aged man in his forties. He picked up the suitcase and walked downstairs regardless of whether there was a cat or not. Li Zhenruo almost fell in an instant, but fortunately, he still had his claws firmly grasping the handle of the suitcase.

       Wang Ma instructed the gardener to put the suitcase by the door of the living room and ignore the cat that was still lying on it, and go about his own business.

       After half an hour, Hua Yibang drove over.

       Wang Ma brought him to get the suitcase. Hua Yibang stood at the door of the living room, looked at the cat lying on it, and was slightly startled.

       Wang Ma asked, “Did Zhenran say he was going to take the cat with him?”

       Hua Yibang shook his head blankly.

       Wang Ma asked again, “Are you going with him? How many days are you going to go?”

       Hua Yibang replied, “I guess about half a month.”

       Wang Ma was a little surprised, “It’s so long! Then take care of yourself and keep an eye on Zhenran.”

       Hua Yibang nodded, “I know.”

       Wang Ma felt a little strange again, “He’s not going to bring the cat? He didn’t take the cat with him even though he was gone for so long?”

       Hua Yibang let out an “um”.

       Wang Ma said, “So I guess it’s probably going to freak out when it’s not going to find its owner for half a month.”

       Li Zhenruo felt that he was about to go crazy in less than half a month.

       Hua Yibang obviously couldn’t be that thoughtful to Li Zhenran’s pet cat. He only said to Wang Ma, “Mom, I have to go, or I won’t be able to catch the plane.”

       Wang Ma said, “Oh, oh, go quickly.”

       Hua Yibang pointed to Li Zhenruo, “The cat.”

       Wang Ma understood and held Li Zhenruo’s two front paws to carry him down. Li Zhenruo was clinging to the suitcase to death, his claws were about to go in, but after all, his strength was not as strong as that of humans, so he was finally pulled off by Wang Ma and let out a cry.

       Hua Yibang put the suitcase into the car.

       Li Zhenruo was unwilling to give up and waved his paws, “Meow…”

       However, Hua Yibang had already gotten into the car. But after hearing Li Zhenruo scream forlornly, he just glanced at his face and started the car mercilessly.

       Wang Ma held him tightly in her arms and said to Hua Yibang, “Be careful!”

       Hua Yibang responded, “Mom, take care of your health.” Then he drove the car away.

       Wang Ma stood there and watched her son drive away, and then went back to the house with the cat.

       After Li Zhenruo was put on the ground, he jumped up and wanted to rush out, but just after he left the living room door, he stopped.

       He originally thought he could leave the Li family after taking human form to catch up, but then he thought, Li Zhenran went out of town on a business trip, his ID card was locked by the other party, and he couldn’t catch up with him if he couldn’t buy a plane ticket. And since Li Zhenran deliberately avoided him, what would happen if he caught up with him? Li Zhenran asked him some other questions, but he was still speechless. The final result, he afraid might not be any different from now.

       He felt his heart cold, Li Zhenruo stopped and lay down.

       Wang Ma thought he was about to run away. She was startled and just chased after him, only to see Li Zhenruo lying down at the door again. Frightened, she walked over and lightly kicked his ass with her feet in slippers, and scolded, “Troublemaker!”

       Li Zhenruo was kicked and shook for a while. He raised his paws to cover his face.

       Li Zhenran’s visit really lasted half a month, and he didn’t call back halfway. No, he may have called Li Jianglin, but he didn’t call Li Zhenruo.

       It was impossible for him to say on the phone: Let my cat answer the phone, I want to talk to it.

       Li Zhenruo was listless all day and lay motionless on the sofa. When he slept at night, he went back to the third floor. Sometimes his mind wandered and he slowly walked to the door of Li Zhenran’s room before he even realized it, Then he would finally lay down against the door, resting his head on his paws.

       Li Zhenruo thinks that his current mood was probably the same as someone who was lovelorn. Every morning when he opened his eyes, he thought of Li Zhenran, and then he falls into endless worries. At night, he couldn’t sleep for a long time. The cat was left alone and left here, and bursts of sorrow flooded into his heart.

       One day at dinner, Li Zhenruo was licking cat food carelessly, and sometimes he would pause for a few seconds after eating one.

       Li Jianglin sat on the side and observed him for a long time, and asked Wang Ma, “What happened to the cat?”

       Wang Ma said, “Maybe the owner has been away for too long and it is in a bad mood.”

       Li Jianglin sighed, “This is the first time I’ve seen such a humane cat.”

       Wang Ma also said, “Yes, this cat is very smart, just like a child.”

       Li Zhenruo raised his head and looked dazed, only to feel that the cat food in his mouth was rough, dry and tasteless.

       Li Jianglin turned his gaze back at this moment, glanced at Wen Chun, who was sitting across from him eating silently and said, “My birthday is on the seventh of next month, and I plan to have a drink at home. Please invite your parents to come.”

       Wen Chun was a little surprised when he heard the words, “Didn’t Dad say you don’t want to celebrate?”

       As early as half a month ago, Li Zhenran asked Li Jianglin if he wanted to arrange a birthday for him. At that time, Li Jianglin said there was no need, and the family would just have a meal together. But now listening to Li Jianglin’s tone, it felt like another show to invite guests.

       Li Jianglin said, “I’m just inviting some close old friends and relatives. There are only two or three tables in total. We are not going to eat out, and can just eat at home.”

       Wang Ma was also eating with her at the dining table and then said with a smile, “Okay, okay, I’ll go talk to the kitchen later, plan it out properly, and write a menu out for you to look over first. It’ll be lively then.”

       The house has been deserted for a long time, and even Wang Ma was looking forward to being able for the whole family to come back for a gathering.

       For Li Jianglin’s birthday, no matter how big the conflict, it was impossible for Li Zhentai and Li Zhenzi not to show up. It was impossible to pull each other down when they come back since there were going to be so many guests at home. It seemed that Li Jianglin couldn’t bear it either, and wanted to find an opportunity to resolve the current situation.

       Li Zhenruo had a portion of cat food in his mouth, but he didn’t swallow it.

       Li Jianglin nodded, “I’ll call the eldest later and tell him to come back. The second child is not here recently. This matter still has to be handled by him.”

       Wen Chun replied softly, “Okay, Dad.”

       Sure enough, that night, Li Zhentai rushed back from the outside, and after returning home, he went into Li Jianglin’s study and closed the door to talk to him.

       Li Zhenruo was not in the mood to eavesdrop. After dinner, he took Erhuang for a walk in the yard and then jumped in from the living room window after the walk. Before he hit the floor, he was caught by Wang Ma and went to the bathroom to wash his feet, wiped clean water and thrown to the floor.

       When he came out, he met Li Zhentai who also came out of Li Jianglin’s study. Instead of leaving, he went to his room on the second floor.

       Li Zhenruo walked behind him, went to the second floor and looked around, and saw Li Zhentai reach out to close the door.

       Li Zhentai stayed at home for the night that night, and he went home to sleep every day after that.

       Li Zhenzi also came back, but it was daytime. Li Zhentai hadn’t come back at that time. As soon as Wen Chun saw Li Zhenzi, he went upstairs without saying hello, presumably to avoid suspicion.

       Li Jianglin asked Li Zhenzi to enter the study, and the father and son chatted for about an hour, but Li Zhenruo didn’t eavesdrop. In fact, he has no interest in doing anything recently, but he guessed that Li Jianglin must have asked Li Zhenzi to apologize to Li Zhentai.

       Otherwise, Li Jianglin couldn’t persuade Li Zhentai to stop worrying about it. He should know that even if Li Zhentai really didn’t care about it, the knot in his heart will never be solved there, and it would probably stay with them for a lifetime.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that if he was Li Jianglin, he would just let Li Zhentai and Wen Chun divorce, so why bother?

       Although Li Zhenran was not there, in order to prepare for Li Jianglin’s birthday banquet, the family suddenly became lively, especially Wang Ma, who has been instructing the cleaning aunt to clean up thoroughly for the past two days and wiped the windows and glass of all the rooms with ladders repeatedly.

       At the same time, she was still planning the dishes for the banquet and asked the kitchen to make a list for Li Zhentai to look over. Li Zhentai felt that it was not satisfying enough, so he simply asked his assistant Gao Qi to go to the restaurant to order a few dishes to send over.

       When they were cleaning, Li Zhenruo was given a cold shoulder by this family more than once because he got in the way. He was a little angry, and thought that he never chase the robot vacuum cleaner or the mop, so why was he treated like he got in the way?

       In anger, Li Zhenruo left the living room and went to the yard, and ran to Erhuang’s doghouse to lie down with him.

       A dog and a cat were waiting for their owners to come back soon.

       Life without a master always seemed to pass very slowly. However, no matter how slow, as he stared at the clock’s second hand going up and down, half a month had passed before he knew it.

       Li Jianglin’s birthday came, and Li Zhenran still didn’t come back.

       The night before, Li Zhenruo heard Li Jianglin tell Wang Ma that Li Zhenran would come back before lunch the next day.

       Wang Ma heard the words and said, “That’s good then.”

       Li Jianglin said, “Let Yibang stay and eat together.”

       “Ah,” Wang Ma smiled.

       When Li Zhenruo heard their conversation, he suddenly had a little appetite. It was not that he pretended to be pitiful. When Li Zhenruo looked in the mirror in the bathroom last night, Li Zhenruo felt as if he had lost weight.

       He was not too sure. He turned around in front of the mirror a few times and finally pulled the hair on his chin with his paws with difficulty, before nodding with certainty, that he had really lost weight.

       The next morning, Li Zhenruo woke up shortly after dawn. He got up from his nest and jumped to the window to look outside.

       Although it was still early, it could already be seen that today would be a good day and everything would be fine, Li Zhenruo told himself.

       Wang Ma also got up very early and started to be busy after breakfast. Wen Chun did not stay in the room, but wore a beautiful dress with decent makeup on her face, and helped Wang Ma direct the workers in the house to make preparations.

       It was rare for Li Zhentai not to go out, so he called Gao Qi soon after getting up and told him to go to the restaurant to confirm today’s order.

       Li Zhenruo went downstairs full of energy, stood at the door of the living room and looked outside, waiting for Li Zhenran to come back.

       However, he waited until almost noon. When the guests had all come together, the tables were placed directly inside the courtyard. A total of three tables.

       Li Zhenzi came back. Although Li Zhentai did not communicate with him, he did not embarrass him in front of the guests.

       Wen Chun’s parents also came, and Li Zhentai put his arms around Wen Chun’s waist in front of his father-in-law and mother-in-law, as if the husband and wife were in a good relationship.

       Where is Li Zhenran?

       Just as Li Zhentai and Li Jianglin greeted the guests to sit down at the round table together, Li Zhenruo saw a black car driving in from outside. He didn’t have to look carefully to know that it was Li Zhenran’s car.

       The car drove until it stopped nearby, Hua Yibang opened the passenger’s door and got out, and the rear door also opened from the inside, and Li Zhenran stepped out first with his long leg.

       Li Zhenruo was a little excited, took two steps forward and hesitated whether he should pounce, but saw Hua Yibang go around to the other side of the back seat and open the car door, and a beautiful woman with long hair and a tall slender figure came down from inside.

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This is probably how Li Zhenruo looks like

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       Li Zhenruo didn’t care much about Zhu Kai’s kiss just now, but what he pondered in his heart was that Zhu Kai said he knew a secret.

       What secret? It must be a secret related to the Li family. Otherwise, Zhu Kai wouldn’t feel the need to be so talkative, and other secrets were meaningless to him.

       So what’s the secret? Li Zhenruo felt that if he could only guess it by his imagination, there was no way to guess it.

       When he looked back to find Zhu Kai again, he found that Zhu Kai had caught a car on the side of the road and run away. If he let Li Zhenran know, and he was determined to find Zhu Kai, it would not be impossible for him to find Zhu Kai. But even if he found him, who could force Zhu Kai to say things he was not willing to say?

       Could this secret have something to do with Li Zhenruo’s death?

       Li Zhenruo had some speculation in his heart, was Zhu Kai dealing with the people of the Li family to avenge him? It was impossible if he thought about it. Zhu Kai’s feelings for him were not deep enough to this point.

       Li Zhenruo felt that he wouldn’t be able to guess, and squatted on the side of the road holding his head in pain. He suddenly remembered something he was thinking about before. When he had a chance, he wanted to go to Aunt Wu, who left the Li family in a hurry, and asked if she had taken the blood-stained tissue from his room at that time and gave the tissue to someone. By now, he felt that he had to wait for that opportunity, which was probably difficult to wait. He was hooked by Zhu Kai’s words, and suddenly had an idea that it was almost time to act.

       It was not difficult to find out about Aunt Wu’s hometown, but if he wanted to go now, he had to find a way to deal with Li Zhenran.

       How could Li Zhenran allow him to disappear for two or three days without saying anything?

       Li Zhenruo felt a little distressed. He thought that Li Zhenran had some speculation about him, but he didn’t know how much he knew. Before this, Li Zhenruo thought to himself that if Li Zhenran really asked about it one day, he would say that he had received some favour from Li Zhenruo before. Although his benefactor had died, he did not give up trying to find the murderer. But he didn’t expect that until now, Li Zhenran didn’t ask a word. What was Li Zhenran thinking about?

       Since Li Zhenran refused to ask, wouldn’t it be better for him to take the initiative to give a hint to Li Zhenran?

       With this little concern in his mind, Li Zhenruo did not go back to find Li Zhenran that afternoon until he got off work. Later, Li Zhenran called him and asked him where he was. Li Zhenruo replied, “I’m hiding. Come and find me.”

       Li Zhenruo still has a positioning collar on his neck, and it was easy for Li Zhenran to find him.

       It was just that Li Zhenran seemed a little unhappy when he heard Li Zhenruo’s words, and coldly said one sentence, “Just you wait.”

       About an hour after hanging up the phone, Li Zhenran found Li Zhenruo in the woods outside Li’s house. There was a swing hanging on a tree here. Li Zhenruo still remembered that this was when he was young. At that time, Li Zhentai and Li Zhenran had grown a little bit, and they hung it together.

       Li Jianglin did not allow them to come here to play, because the surrounding woods were inaccessible and too remote, and he was afraid that children would have accidents. However, Li Zhenruo and the others would still sneak out. It was like an adventure to explore every corner of the forest.

       However, when they grew up and had enough freedom, they lost interest in this forest and almost never went in again.

       This old swing was still very strong, but the wooden board below was a little rotten, and the forest was so humid that Li Zhenruo felt a little sticky when he touched it with his palm.

       Despite this, he sat down on the swing and kicked the ground with his feet a little nervously, causing the swing to sway slightly.

       After a while, he heard the crisp sound of dry leaves being smashed, raised his head and looked forward, and saw that Li Zhenran was still wearing a suit and leather shoes, walking slowly in this direction.

       Li Zhenran went straight to Li Zhenruo and stopped. He looked up and looked around, and asked him, “How did you find this place?”

       Li Zhenruo shook the swing, “This is where you guys played as kids, right?”

       “We?” Li Zhenran heard the words and looked at him, “Who are you referring to?”

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath and said to him, “You and Li Zhenruo.”

       After he said these three words, Li Zhenran was silent for a while. The surroundings were very quiet, and only the sound of insects in the distance could be heard. The sound was monotonous and more secluded. In this dense grove, the sun couldn’t shine in, and the light was gloomy as if they were isolated from the world.

       Li Zhenran clasped his arms around his chest and asked him, “Why Li Zhenruo?”

       For some reason, Li Zhenruo suddenly flinched a little. He changed the subject and said, “I saw Zhu Kai today, and he told me something.”

       Li Zhenran stretched out his hand towards Li Zhenruo’s head.

       “Huh?” Li Zhenruo was frozen for a moment.

       Li Zhenran just plucked a leaf off his head and asked him, “What did he say to you?”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but raised his hand and touched the top of his head, and said, “Zhu Kai said that he knows a secret of the Li family.”

       Li Zhenran still held the dead leaf in his hand and looked at Li Zhenruo, “What secret?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Do you think he will tell me?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t seem to be curious about what secret Zhu Kai said at all. Maybe he didn’t believe that he could hear anything serious from Zhu Kai’s mouth. He held Li Zhenruo’s jaw to make him look up to him, “Why are you so interested in our Li family’s affairs?”

       If it were in the past, Li Zhenruo would have said smoothly: Don’t you think it was because of you?

       But today, Li Zhenruo was silent for a while and said, “Because I want to know how Li Zhenruo actually died.” After he said this, Li Zhenruo noticed that his heart was beating wildly. He was a little nervous and subconsciously made a gulping action. His eyes were still fixed on Li Zhenran.

       Sure enough, Li Zhenran was not surprised. His gaze somehow become sharp and said to Li Zhenruo, “How did Li Zhenruo die, what does it have to do with you?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I have a positioning collar on me. You always know where I went, right?”

       Li Zhenran said frankly, “I know sometimes, but I don’t have time to stare at you 24 hours a day.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but say, “Then why don’t you ever ask me?”

       Li Zhenran suddenly exhaled a long breath and said to Li Zhenruo, “What do you want me to ask you? What is your relationship with Li Zhenruo? What’s your purpose for sneaking into the Li family? You—why are you approaching me?” The last sentence was whispered by Li Zhenran as he came up to Li Zhenruo’s ear.

       Li Zhenruo was stunned when he heard the words, and suddenly stood up, “I’m not…” He stopped halfway after speaking. He originally wanted to say that he didn’t approach him for any reason, but he immediately remembered that he did approach him at first. Originally Li Zhenruo’s purpose was to find out the truth of his murder, not it was for nothing like what he wanted to say now.

       Even before he met Zhu Kai today, he didn’t plan to show Li Zhenran that he was investigating Li Zhenruo’s affairs. The choice was not carefully considered and planned at this time. It was more or less a spur of the moment.

       He was a little nervous and uneasy. All he thought about was whether Li Zhenran would doubt his identity, and how would he make up a lie to modify his identity to make Li Zhenran believe that he was just a cat demon who wanted to repay Li Zhenruo’s gratitude.

       However, he did not expect that Li Zhenran would suddenly ask a question like that.

       Li Zhenran looked at him with cold eyes, waiting for his answer.

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath and said, “It was an accident that I came to Li’s house, but I deliberately wanted to stay in Li’s house to try to find out the real cause of the Fourth Young Master’s death, but I didn’t approach you for this.” At this point, he paused a little, “As for me and Li Zhenruo, he once saved my life.”

       When he said the last sentence, Li Zhenruo was momentarily wavered, and had the sudden impulse to make him want to confess to Li Zhenran, but at the last moment he still shrink back. For some reason, he was a little afraid to see Li Zhenran’s expression when he learned the truth.

       He was a cat. He didn’t know how long he could maintain his human form with the help of external spiritual power. In the past, he always wanted to leave the Li family to find a family to adopt him after revenge and then retire with peace of mind. Today after he heard Xia Hongshen’s words, he thought that he might be able to practice cultivation with Xia Hongshen, and even if he couldn’t become a powerful demon, he could at least live a few more years. However, no matter what the plan was, he never thought about what would happen between him and Li Zhenran in the end.

       He used to feel that he was just using Li Zhenran and would not hesitate to sell his body. But now he felt guilty when he heard Li Zhenran’s questioning. Li Zhenruo was very confused and couldn’t sort out and cleared his mind.

       Li Zhenran said, “So you approached me to find out who was responsible for the murder of the fourth child?”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but retort, “I said it wasn’t for this reason to approach you.”

       He looked up at Li Zhenran but felt that Li Zhenran’s expression was cold and hard, and he didn’t seem to believe him at all.

       Li Zhenruo felt a little resentful and said, “I—”

       Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard Li Zhenran sigh softly, with some melancholy and despair.

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment. He saw Li Zhenran reaching out and touched his face gently, then turned around and stepped on the dead leaves to leave.

       How did it get to this point?

       Li Zhenruo sat down on the swing, but in the end, he just raised his hand to cover his head in dismay.

       By the time he returned to Li’s house, Li Zhenran had already finished eating and gone upstairs.

       Li Zhenruo’s clothes were old clothes borrowed from Song Jun. There was no way to bring them back to Li’s house, so he could only take them off and fold them on the swing, and plan to find a way to pick them up tomorrow.

       Back at the door of the house, Li Zhenruo rubbed his cat’s paw on the mat at the door, intending to rub off the soil on it, but when Wang Ma saw him, she said, “Why did you come back late at night. Every day you go out and hang out, it’s like you’ve become a wild cat.”

       After saying that, she picked him up and took him to the bathroom to wash his feet.

       The rice bowl was still full of cat food. He leaned in to eat two mouthfuls, which he felt tasteless and unpalatable. He walked slowly to the stairs and looked towards the third floor, but he couldn’t see anything.

       The house was very quiet, the eldest, third child, and Zhu Kai were not around. Wen Chun just glanced at him after dinner and went upstairs in silence.

       Wang Ma was sitting on the sofa watching TV and wearing a sweater, while Li Jianglin went out for a walk alone. He had limited mobility and often couldn’t walk far, so he just walked around the house.

       Li Zhenruo wanted to go upstairs to find Li Zhenran. He stepped on the stairs and hesitated. He knew why Li Zhenran was angry, but for those few questions, Li Zhenruo still felt that he could not face it openly. Li Zhenran was right, he purposely got close to him, using his identity to do things for himself.

       However, shouldn’t Li Zhenran have guessed it long ago? But why was it suddenly mentioned now? Or Li Zhenran has always had a grudge, but never mentioned it, and was just waiting for him to confess?

       As he thought of this, Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but regret it, thinking that if he told Li Zhenran earlier, would he not be so angry?

       Feeling depressed, Li Zhenruo hesitated to go upstairs, and finally sat down against the wall.

       He was really just squatting down, with the two hind legs bent, the back against the wall and the round buttocks sitting on the ground. Unfortunately, his two front legs were not long enough and his body was too round, so there was no way to hug his legs. He couldn’t put his head on his knees despite all of his efforts. Besides, he had no knees.

       Even with the melancholy, his posture was very ridiculous, and Li Zhenruo’s mood worsened.

       Wang Ma occasionally turned her head to look at him, so she was stunned, looked at him carefully for a while, and called out, “Dumpling?”

       Li Zhenruo looked up at her.

       Wang Ma was inexplicable, “Why are you in this posture?”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t answer, so he lowered his head again.

       After a while, Li Jianglin came back from the outside with his crutch, walked straight to him and stopped, panting slightly.

       Li Zhenruo looked up at him.

       Li Jianglin felt a little strange, and asked Wang Ma, “What’s the matter?”

       Wang Ma said, “I don’t know, it seemed to be in a bad mood.”

       Li Zhenruo felt even more depressed when he heard their conversation.

       It was inconvenient for Li Jianglin to squat down, so he raised his crutch and touched the top of Li Zhenruo’s head lightly. Li Zhenruo’s eyes were teary. This physiological reaction came very easily, and immediately soaked a bunch of fluff under his eyes.

       Li Jianglin seemed to see him as pitiful, and said to Wang Ma, “Tell the second child to carry the cat back.”

       Wang Ma responded, got up from the sofa, and walked upstairs.

       Li Jianglin went back to his room by himself.

       After a while, Li Zhenruo heard a knock on the door on the third floor, and then Li Zhenran opened the door and spoke to Wang Ma. The sound came down from the stairway but was very clear.

       Wang Ma told Li Zhenran that there was something wrong with his cat and asked Li Zhenran to take a look. Li Zhenran said, “Let him be.”

       After he said that, Li Zhenran closed the door.

       When Li Zhenruo heard Wang Ma’s footsteps going downstairs, he felt an unbearable heartache. He got up and ran towards the living room window, then jumped out of the open window.

       He didn’t want to go somewhere, but he was in a depressed mood. He didn’t feel much better about Wang Ma’s concern at home. He came out of the window and walked towards the yard with his tail drooping. He saw Zhu Kai’s Erhuang lying motionless in his kennel from a distance.

       Erhuang has been very quiet recently, probably because he hadn’t seen its owner for several days, and the whole dog seemed to be depressed. Erhuang also saw Li Zhenruo from a distance, but only slightly flapped its ears and didn’t stand up.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt a little bit of pity for it and walked slowly towards its kennel until he stopped in front of it.

       Even though Erhuang was in a bad mood, it still reluctantly lifted his tail to greet Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo then circled around him, rolled himself into a ball and lay down against it, leaning his head on it. Unexpectedly, Erhuang noticed Li Zhenruo’s movements, so he lay down on his side to show his soft and warm belly for him to lean against.

       Li Zhenruo moved his head comfortably and exhaled a deep breath, which sounded like a sigh.

       He thought to himself: Even the family dog is more gentle than Li Zhenran, as a pet cat, he had a really miserable life.

       After lying down for a while, Li Zhenruo closed his eyes and fell asleep because it was too comfortable.

       When he woke up, it was already dark, and the street lamps in front of him were glowing softly. Erhuang kept lying on his side and didn’t move. When he noticed that Li Zhenruo was awake, he turned his head and licked the top of his head.

       Li Zhenruo rarely disliked it. He lowered his head and rubbed Erhuang on its neck, then got up and ran towards the swimming pool. From the swimming pool, as soon as he looked up, he could see the window of Li Zhenran’s room. It was not too late, but the lights in the room were already turned off.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t know whether he had already slept or gone out, so he couldn’t help being curious, and after a little hesitation, he went over the pipe and climbed to the third floor.

       He hadn’t climbed the window for a long time, and his movements were already a little rusty. With difficulty, he climbed to the third floor and found that the window was closed. Just as he put his face on the window and looked in, he suddenly saw Li Zhenran standing in front of the window, raising his hand to push the window.

       As soon as the window was opened, Li Zhenruo, who had just climbed up the third floor, was knocked flying and fell to the ground.

       His heart was cold, and he said silently: Li Zhenran, you are ruthless!

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       Li Zhenruo snored loudly in his sleep and didn’t wake up until dawn the next day.

       When he woke up, he still felt a throbbing pain in his head, which was simply the reaction after a hangover. It was just strange since he didn’t get so drunk last night, so why was the physiological reaction so strong today.

       It was already bright outside, Li Zhenruo opened his eyes and found that Li Zhenran was no longer lying on the bed. He raised his hand to cover his head but found that it was still a cat’s paw, so he used two cat’s paws to cover his face together.

       Li Zhenran went to the bathroom, and Li Zhenruo could hear the sound of water coming from inside.

       Li Zhenruo turned over, stretched his limbs and stretched his waist. At the same time, he felt the spiritual energy rushing to all the limbs and bones, the fluff faded, and the bones and skin stretched. It’s just that he felt a little bit of a blockage in the process. It was not obvious that he was drunk last night. Now that he was sober, the feeling of the spiritual power being blocked was particularly clear.

       He felt a little baffled. He tilted his head and moved his limbs and fingers, but he didn’t feel anything wrong.

       After a while, Li Zhenran opened the door of the bathroom and came out. As he saw the young man lying naked on the bed, he couldn’t help but stop in his tracks.

       Li Zhenruo felt that his reaction was a little strange. He rubbed his eyes and looked at him, and said, “What?”

       Li Zhenran stood there looking at him and asked, “You don’t think there’s anything wrong with you?”

       “What’s wrong?” Li Zhenruo was puzzled.

       Li Zhenran pointed at the top of his head.

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment, then showed a surprised look, and said, “No way?” As he said that, he reached out to touch the top of his head, and surprisingly he once again felt the pair of fluffy ears.

       Not just the ears, he immediately reached out and touched the back of his butt. Unsurprisingly, he touched the tail.

       “What’s going on?” Li Zhenruo’s whole body was frozen.

       Li Zhenran was quite calm, “How do I know what’s going on?”

       Li Zhenruo jumped up from the bed and ran towards the bathroom with bare feet. He tried looking in the mirror, but when he passed by Li Zhenran, his tail was grabbed by Li Zhenran.

       Usually, cats were usually sensitive to their tails, Now there was such a piece of things in the body, it made him unexpectedly more sensitive.

       He hurriedly reached out to grab his own tail, “What is it?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t let go after he grabbed it, and he pulled it back forcibly.

       Li Zhenruo was so big now, and he was not as light as a kitten. Li Zhenran grabbed his tail and pulled it, but he couldn’t be dragged over, and it hurts. He frowned and said, “Let go!”

       Of course, Li Zhenran was not so talkative and dragged his tail to the side of the bed.

       Li Zhenruo was in pain from being pulled and didn’t dare to struggle, so he could only walk over with his strength and was pushed down on the bed.

       Li Zhenran was half-kneeling by the bed, grabbing Li Zhenruo’s tail and scratching at the base of his thigh.

       Li Zhenruo clamped her legs all of a sudden, and said in horror, “What kind of immoral behaviour are you playing in the early morning?”

       Li Zhenran said confidently, “You’re all cat ears and tails early in the morning but you won’t allow me to play a little erotic game?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned by his shamelessness and said, “It’s not like I did it on purpose.”

       Li Zhenran grabbed his tail, scratched the inside of his legs with the tip of his tail, and at the same time leaned over and bit his cat ears.

       When Li Zhenruo was bitten by him, half of his body suddenly softened, and he lost the strength to resist.

       After being tossed by Li Zhenran early in the morning, the hair on Li Zhenruo’s tail turned up in a mess. He grabbed his tail and licked it subconsciously, but after he licked the cat hair, he spat it out quickly.

       Li Zhenran went to take a shower again, and while getting dressed, he asked him, “Do you want to go out?”

       Li Zhenruo was a little anxious, “How do I go out like this?”

       Li Zhenran looked at him without saying a word.

       Li Zhenruo tried hard several times, but he still couldn’t get his ears and tail back to how it was. He was very annoyed. The important point was that this way he would have no way to go out and meet people.

       When he saw that Li Zhenruo didn’t respond, Li Zhenran packed up and went downstairs to eat.

       Li Zhenruo stopped him quickly, “Ran ge, will you take me to Doctor Feng’s place?”

       Li Zhenran asked knowingly, “What are you going to do?”

       Li Zhenruo glanced at him, “Of course, I went to ask how to return the ears and tail.”

       “Why return it?” Li Zhenran said and walked to him, reached out and rubbed the top of his head, and rubbed his two soft ears until Li Zhenruo blushed, and then continued, “This looks so good.”

       Li Zhenruo slapped his hand away, “Stop it, if this goes on I really can’t see anyone.”

       As he heard this, Li Zhenran actually bent down and looked directly into his eyes and said, “Then don’t go out to meet people. It’s enough for me to look after you alone.”

       When he heard this sentence, Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that his heart skipped a beat. He opened his eyes and watched Li Zhenran without saying anything for a while.

       Li Zhenran pinched his ears.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly came back to his senses and said, “No! I have to restore the form. Can you take me to see Feng Junyuan? Please?”

       Li Zhenran let go of his hand and said, “Let’s go.”

       After breakfast, Li Zhenran personally drove his cat to go out, because he always took his cat to work, the family was not surprised, at most they thought he had an odd hobby.

       Li Zhenruo sat in the passenger seat and asked Li Zhenran to fasten his seat belt. Because he didn’t dare to appear outside as a human, he still maintained the appearance of a cat. He was silent all the way and looked a little melancholy.

       It was just that the seat belt was not in the right position. When Li Zhenran stepped on the brakes in panic, the seat belt slipped onto Li Zhenruo’s face several times.

       While waiting for the red light at the intersection, the traffic police stood in front of their car, turned around and saw a cat sitting on the passenger seat, and was stunned for a moment. He came over and knocked on the window and asked Li Zhenran to pay attention to driving safety.

       It goes without saying that Li Zhenran went out late today, but he deliberately took a detour to take Li Zhenruo to the hospital. When waiting for Feng Junyuan to pick him up, he calmly said, “I was late today.”

       However, Li Zhenruo felt like complaining when he heard what he said. He couldn’t help gnashing his teeth and thought: isn’t it because you were in heat early in the morning?

       But now with his appearance like there was no way to quarrel with Li Zhenran.

       Soon, Feng Junyuan came down from the surgical building, somewhat baffled, “What happened?”

       Li Zhenran handed the cat to him and said, “He will tell you himself. I have something to go first.”

       “Oh,” Feng Junyuan caught the cat, and Li Zhenran turned around and left.

       Feng Junyuan lowered his head and asked, “What’s the matter?”

       The young and handsome doctor was talking to a cat, and everyone who passed by couldn’t help but look over. Feng Junyuan himself quickly felt it was inappropriate, so he carried Li Zhenruo to a different place.

       This was a remote path behind the inpatient building, and there was no one nearby, but Li Zhenruo suddenly remembered one thing before transforming, that was, Li Zhenran threw him here and left, but did not even leave a piece of clothing for him.

       Although it was only Feng Junyuan watching him, he didn’t want to run naked. But Feng Junyuan didn’t understand the language of cats like Xia Hongshen. After thinking for a while, he used his paws in the mud on the lawn next to him. He drew a person, then pointed to himself.

       Feng Junyuan was very patient and said, “You said it was you?”

       Li Zhenruo nodded quickly, then drew a pair of ears on top of the little man’s head and a tail behind his buttocks.

       Feng Junyuan squatted beside him, looked puzzled for a while, then looked at Li Zhenruo, slightly surprised, “You mean you have a pair of cat ears?”

       Li Zhenruo nodded.

       Feng Junyuan opened his mouth slightly in surprise, and asked again, “Can’t you get rid of them?”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head.

       Feng Junyuan thought for a while, “That won’t work, I’ll take you to find them.”

       Of course, the ‘them’ he was talking about were Song Jun and Xia Hongshen.

       At this time, Xia Hongshen was teaching the students, and Feng Junyuan was merely taking some time out to go out, and he had to rush back for the wards rounds. He handed Li Zhenruo over to Song Jun and immediately returned to the hospital.

       Song Jun was also surprised to hear what Feng Junyuan said. He took Li Zhenruo to hide in Xia Hongshen’s office, locked the door, and said to Li Zhenruo, “Can you show me?”

       Li Zhenruo put himself in the corner of the sofa and turned his head to ignore him.

       Song Jun said, “I’ve seen a little demon with insufficient spiritual power when he first transformed into a state of incomplete transformation. Why don’t you show me what’s going on?”

       Li Zhenruo still doesn’t know what the identity of Song Jun and Feng Junyuan was, but Xia Hongshen was so powerful, and Song Jun has a close relationship with him. Li Zhenruo thought that he was probably not an ordinary person. In addition, after he heard what Song Jun just said, he loosened his mind, glanced at the closed office door and shrank in the corner of the sofa, stretching his limbs.

       Song Jun sat on the coffee table and looked at him without blinking. He saw the fat cat turn into a beautiful young man with a soft body. Although he was still squatting in the corner, he could clearly see the pair of cat ears on top of his head, not just cat ears, Song Jun also saw the cat’s tail behind his ass.

       “What’s going on?” Song Jun looked at him with wide eyes in surprise.

       Li Zhenruo wasn’t too bashful either, he simply sat down beside the sofa and said, “I drank a lot of alcohol last night, and then somehow my tail came out, and my ears couldn’t be retracted.”

       Song Jun reached out and pinched his ear, “Are you sober now?”

       Li Zhenruo fanned his ears and said, “I woke up early.”

       Song Jun showed a smile, “So cute!”

       Li Zhenruo rolled his eyes, “Senior brother, be serious. What the hell is going on here?”

       Song Jun looked at him with a smile, “Get up and turn around and I’ll take a look.”

       Li Zhenruo felt that Song Jun was having fun with himself. He got up and covered his lower body with his hands, turned around and asked Song Jun, “Is there any way to get these two things back?”

       Song Jun said, “I don’t know. You are a demon after all, and the way the aura works in my body is different. You may have to ask Senior Brother Xia to find out.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but ask him curiously, “Then what are you?”

       Song Jun hooked his fingers at him, and asked him to get closer before sticking to his ear and said, “I’ll tell you, I’m actually—”

       Before he finished speaking, the door of the office was kicked open from the outside, making a loud “bang”, which startled both Li Zhenruo and Song Jun.

       As he saw this scene, Xia Hongshen, who had just kicked the door, had some indescribable ambiguity in his eyes. His expression was ice cold, and asked, “What are you doing?”

       Song Jun hurriedly took a step back, “Senior Brother Xia…”

       Xia Hongshen pointed at Li Zhenruo, “Why aren’t you wearing any clothes? To seduce my man?”

       Song Jun quickly pulled Xia Hongshen and said, “Senior brother, you misunderstood, look at his ears and tail.”

       Xia Hongshen’s gaze fell on Li Zhenruo’s cat ears and tail. After examining it for a while, he asked Song Jun thoughtfully, “Do you like it?”

       Song Jun was taken aback for a moment, and hesitantly said, “It doesn’t seem so bad…”

       As soon as he finished speaking, Li Zhenruo saw a pair of black ears popping out from the top of Xia Hongshen’s head, belonging to the cat family. Then Xia Hongshen flicked his tail, rolled it to Song Jun’s waist and pulled him to his side, he said, “I have it too.”

       Song Jun was speechless for a while.

       Li Zhenruo interrupted their intimate moment and said, “Xia laoshi, can I ask you how I can retract my ears and tail?”

       Xia Hongshen looked over at him and said, “It’s good, keep it.”

       Li Zhenruo covered his face in pain, “Xia laoshi, stop joking.”

       Song Jun also said, “He looks very cute like this, but he can’t go out to meet people. Senior brother, please help him.”

       Xia Hongshen walked in front of him and pinched his ear.

       Li Zhenruo let out an “aiyo” and said, “Don’t pinch.”

       “What?” Xia Hongshen asked unhappily.

       Li Zhenruo said, “It’s uncomfortable.”

       The cat’s ears were really sensitive, and when Xia Hongshen pinched him, his whole body trembled.

       Xia Hongshen asked him, “How did it get like this?”

       Li Zhenruo answered, “Last night I drank too much like a madman, but I don’t know if it has something to do with drinking.”

       Song Jun interjected, “Mostly it is.”

       Xia Hongshen looked at him and pressed his palm on top of his head. After a while, Li Zhenruo felt a warm force pouring into his body, and then he could even clearly feel his ears and tail slowly retracting.

       He reached out and touched it, and found that the ear was really gone.

       Xia Hongshen withdrew his hand and said, “It’s best to not drink alcohol. You are not the master of your body, and you can’t control its spiritual power. Alcohol can easily make the spiritual power out of control. You can’t control it in the first place, so you can only try to avoid it in the future.”

       After speaking, Xia Hongshen retracted his ears and tail.

       Li Zhenruo looked a little envious. Although he was only a half-assed cat demon, he also felt that he was too useless and couldn’t do anything except transform.

       Song Jun next to him looked at him with a bit of pity in his eyes.

       Li Zhenruo felt even more envious. He said to Xia Hongshen, “Xia laoshi, do I have the means to cultivate?”

       Xia Hongshen answered, “Yes, it’s just that you need to endure loneliness and stay away from worldly affairs. Finding a place rich in spiritual energy can get twice the result with half the effort.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help feeling a little sad when he heard the words, he said, “I still have revenge to avenge, and I can’t do it now.”

       Xia Hongshen did not speak.

       Song Jun glanced at Xia Hongshen, and said to Li Zhenruo, “Come back when you have taken revenge, the future is long.”

       When he heard Song Jun’s words, Li Zhenruo suddenly thought of Li Zhenran and was a little confused about the future.

       He borrowed a set of clothes from Song Jun, dressed like a student and left the academic building. He walked along the school path, Li Zhenruo took out his mobile phone and called Feng Junyuan, saying that he was leaving first, and thanked Feng Junyuan.

       At this time, a tall and thin boy walked over from the opposite side. Li Zhenruo just hung up the phone and looked up and saw the boy’s appearance and was stunned.

       He had seen that boy once, the last time he and Li Zhenran went to eat crayfish on the roadside, and he still remembered the very strong physical reaction at that time.

       However, at this moment, Li Zhenruo couldn’t restrain his heartbeat which was beating fast. He stopped and stared blankly at the boy approaching.

       The boy kept looking at him with a puzzled look on his face, until he stopped in front of Li Zhenruo, “You—” he wanted to say something.

       “Let’s go!” At this moment, a girl suddenly ran over and jumped on the boy’s back, pulling his arm to leave.

       So the boy was pulled away before he could finish his words, leaving Li Zhenruo standing there for a while inexplicably, before he continued to walk outside the school.

       Li Zhenruo stood at the school gate, and he was a little dazed. As if there were a lot of things to do but he didn’t have a clear idea of ​​what he should do first.

       He stood alone for two minutes and suddenly felt that there was a familiar person across the street.

       The man was wearing tight jeans and a black shirt, with a pair of large sunglasses on his face, and his dyed yellow hair tied up behind his head. It was clearly Zhu Kai.

       The pedestrian crossing in front of him just turned on the green light, and Li Zhenruo ran in the direction of Zhu Kai without thinking about it.

       Zhu Kai soon noticed that someone was running in his direction. He turned his head and saw that it was the young man who attended the wedding with Li Zhenran last time. He frowned slightly and then turned around and ran.

       Li Zhenruo ran and chased after him, hating himself for having two fewer legs and not being able to turn into a cat on the street.

       Zhu Kai ran for a while, but Li Zhenruo was in hot pursuit behind him. The two ran two streets one after the other. Zhu Kai finally couldn’t bear it and stopped on the side of the road. He was holding on to a telephone pole and gasping for breath.

       Li Zhenruo chased in front of him and stopped to look at him. He was in better condition than him, but he was also gasping for breath.

       Zhu Kai said, “Are you crazy? Why are you chasing me?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Then what are you running for?”

       Zhu Kai said, “You chase me, why shouldn’t I run?”

       Li Zhenruo panted and looked at him, leaning his back against the wall.

       Zhu Kai raised his hand and scratched his hair, “Aren’t you Li Zhenran’s lovers? What do you want from me?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Do you know that the Li family is looking for you?”

       Zhu Kai surprisingly smiled, “Of course I know. You have to find a place to spread the fire for such a big thing. Isn’t Li Zhenzi miserable?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t answer, just asked him, “Why did you make the photo public on that occasion?”

       Zhu Kai looked him up and down, “What’s your business? Who are you to the Li family?”

       Li Zhenruo did not answer him.

       After a while, Zhu Kai said, “Aren’t you just Li Zhenran’s lover? What? Do you still expect Li Zhenran to marry you into the Li family as the young lady of the house? You expect too much!”

       Li Zhenruo was accustomed to the way Zhu Kai spoke, and did not get angry with him, but asked, “What makes you think I have an affair with Li Zhenran?”

       Zhu Kai said, “I haven’t seen Li Zhenran with any woman for more than 20 years. If you are not his lover, then he must be impotent.”

       Li Zhenruo thought about it and felt that what Zhu Kai said was very reasonable, and asked him, “Are you going to tell Li Jianglin?”

       Zhu Kai squinted at him, “Why should I tell Li Jianglin? What do I care about your business?”

       Li Zhenruo thought that whether he told Li Jianglin or not, Li Zhenran didn’t care anyway, and so he didn’t need to care.

       Zhu Kai took a moment to catch his breath, stood up straight and turned around to leave.

       “Zhu Kai,” Li Zhenruo suddenly stopped him, “Why are you doing this? Are you not going to say anything now that the Li family is in confusion? Does it means nothing to you?”

       Zhu Kai stopped when he heard the words. He looked at Li Zhenruo for a long time and beckoned him to go over with his fingers. When Li Zhenruo approached, Zhu Kai leaned closer to his ear and whispered, “Because I know a secret, but I can’t tell you.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help frowning.

       Then Zhu Kai “smooched” him on the face, turned around and ran away while Li Zhenruo was in a daze.

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Notes:
Ngl, I like to see Xia Hongshen and Song Juan’s chemistry there

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       A few days later, Li Zhenruo received a call from Yue Zijia asking him to have dinner together.

       During this time, Li Zhenruo has been keeping in touch with Yue Zijia, and on social networks, has been calling her jiejie¹sister sweetly.

       Li Zhenran saw him lying on his office sofa with his cell phone sending messages, and said with a cold face, “You should stop.”

       Li Zhenruo turned her head to look at him, “I helped you spy on the adulterous affair between Li Zhentai and Yue Zijia, what do you have to be unhappy about.”

       Li Zhenran crossed his long leg, “Are you spying on her or is she spying on you?”

       Li Zhenruo grabbed the phone and said, “Everyone is testing each other and getting what they need.”

       “Is it necessary?” Li Zhenran asked him.

       Li Zhenruo was silent for a moment and asked Li Zhenran, “Do you know why I have to know?”

       After asking this question, he carefully paid attention to Li Zhenran’s expression.

       However, Li Zhenran showed no expression. He said, “I don’t know. No matter what you want to do, just remember who your master is.”

       Li Zhenruo pouted.

       Li Zhenran said coldly, “Do you have something to say?”

       Li Zhenruo said quickly, “How dare I?”

       He turned over and stood from the sofa, walked behind Li Zhenran’s office chair, put his hands on Li Zhenran’s shoulders, bent down and pressed his face to his face, “You are the only master in my life.”

       This sentence was true, Li Zhenruo thought that all his lifetime, he could never think of becoming else’s pet one day.

       Li Zhenran smiled, raised his hand and touched his face.

       Li Zhenruo said, “Can I have dinner with Yue Zijia?”

       Li Zhenran replied, “No.”

       When Li Zhenruo heard Li Zhenran refused without even thinking about it, he cursed in his heart: Childish! You just want me to beg you!

       Then, he walked from behind Li Zhenran to face him, sitting on his lap, wrapping his arms around his neck and saying, “Master—”

       Li Zhenran leaned back slightly and did not speak.

       Li Zhenruo reached out towards his legs. Anyway, things that could be solved with the lower body were not a problem. While touching, he said, “Look at me now, it’s useless for women.”

       Li Zhenran said, “You think I didn’t see you that day digging your face into Miss Yu’s chest?”

       Li Zhenran’s provocation aroused up Li Zhenruo, and he was short of breath. He said, “It’s not the same, I just think the soft touch feels good.”

       Li Zhenran leaned into his ear and whispered, “So you like soft ones?”

       The heat of Li Zhenran’s breath scratched his ears, so Li Zhenruo could not help shrinking his neck, bit his lip and said, “Rascal.”

       Li Zhenran suddenly grabbed Li Zhenruo’s waist and made him stand up, made him turn around to lie on the table, then got up himself and spanked Li Zhenruo’s ass, reaching out to unzip his pants.

       At this moment, Hua Yibang suddenly opened the office door and said, “Zhenran, Manager Luo has already—” waiting for you outside…

       Halfway through his words, he consciously went out and closed the door of the office.

       Manager Luo was still waiting for Li Zhenran to summon him. When he saw Hua Yibang’s strange reaction, he asked, “What’s wrong?”

       Without changing his expression, Hua Yibang responded, “It’s nothing, wait a moment.”

       Li Zhenruo was startled, and quickly got up and buttoned his pants, and said angrily, “You dare to not let Hua Yibang knock on the door first when he comes in? Are you not afraid of being impotent if he keep coming in a few more times²Li Zhenruo was referring to being hard but being interrupted again and again without any release!”

       Li Zhenran said calmly, “I won’t, will you?”

       Li Zhenruo was too lazy to pay attention to him, and he had devoted himself to such a degree that even if Li Zhenran didn’t agree with him, he didn’t care. After tidying up, he turned around and took out a thousand yuan in Li Zhenran’s pocket and put it in his bag, then left with his phone in hand.

       Li Zhenran didn’t stop him, but after Li Zhenruo left, he pressed the pager and asked Hua Yibang to invite Manager Luo in.

       Li Zhenruo and Yue Zijia made an appointment. They didn’t eat dinner at any restaurant but went to a club. Yue Zijia has a wide range of contacts. Not only did she invite Li Zhenruo to this meal, but she also invited many young people to sing after eating, saying that the young people came out to get together.

       The price for eating in this club was not cheap, Li Zhenruo thought that Yue Zijia was relying on Li Zhentai to support her behind her back. Otherwise, with her current family background, how could she afford all of this? She also invited so many people.

       The so-called friends she invited were ones she always played outside with, and they all called out Zijia jie affectionately. It was the first time they met Li Zhenruo, but they quickly became familiar with each other. Li Zhenruo was naturally not afraid of strangers, talking and laughing with a group of people, singing and drinking.

       Especially with Yue Zijia, after drinking a few glasses of red wine, the two sat in the corner and chatted. Yue Zijia put one hand on Li Zhenruo’s shoulder and said, “Jason, you and I really hit it off at first sight. It’s rare to meet such a person.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I also like you a lot, jiejie.”

       Yue Zijia smiled and patted his face, “We should get together more when we have time.”

       Li Zhenruo heard the words and said, “I’m afraid your boyfriend will be jealous.”

       Yue Zijia said, “Where is my boyfriend? What makes you think so?”

       Li Zhenruo said in surprise, “The man you were with when we first met was not your boyfriend?”

       Yue Zijia was stunned for a while, but after recalling it for a while, she couldn’t remember who the man Li Zhenruo was talking about. She smiled bitterly and said, “No, I don’t have a boyfriend.”

       Li Zhenruo took her hand and said, “Zijia jie, you mustn’t be too picky, if you meet the right man, why not consider it.”

       Yue Zijia smiled and asked him, “What about you?”

       “I—” Before Li Zhenruo finished speaking, his phone suddenly rang. He took it out and saw that Li Zhenran was calling. He didn’t avoid Yue Zijia and answered the phone directly.

       Li Zhenran finished his company’s business and called Li Zhenruo, asking him where he was.

       Li Zhenruo said, “I’m drinking with Zijia jie.”

       Li Zhenran glanced at the time, “I’ll pick you up?”

       Li Zhenruo began to pout, “Two more hours later, okay?”

       Li Zhenran was silent for a while and said, “I’ll give you an hour.”

       “Okay!” Li Zhenruo was very content.

       He hung up the phone, and Yue Zijia asked him, “Did your parents call? They urged you to go home so early?”

       Li Zhenruo smiled and did not deny it.

       Yue Zijia put one hand on her face and asked, “I heard that Luo Fei is your cousin?”

       Li Zhenruo pretended to be surprised, “How do you know?”

       Naturally, Li Jianglin told Li Zhentai, and Li Zhentai told Yue Zijia. In fact, Yue Zijia’s determination to get closer to Li Zhenruo, was probably what Li Zhentai’s intended.

       Now the Li family brothers were suspecting that the assistant beside Li Zhenran was his little lover. Li Zhentai hoped to get some evidence so that he could put it in front of Li Jianglin.

       Yue Zijia smiled and took a sip of red wine, “This circle is so big, what’s there to hide from others?”

       Li Zhenruo seemed a little embarrassed and ruffled his hair.

       At this time, someone brought a wine glass to toast Yue Zijia.

       Yue Zijia pulled Li Zhenruo and said, “My little brother is here. If you want to drink with me, drink with my little brother first!”

       Li Zhenruo knew that Yue Zijia wanted to make him drunk, but he wasn’t afraid at all about it. He was not as useless as his brothers. In the Li family, Li Zhenruo had always been the best drinker.

       And he had a good alcohol tolerance, even if he drank to unconsciousness, he just sleeps with his head covered, and it was really difficult to hear any information from his mouth.

       So Li Zhenruo smiled and picked up the glass and said, “I’ll toast for my jiejie.”

       The young man who came to toast said, “Okay, then come and drink.”

       Li Zhenruo clinked him with a glass of wine and drank it.

       As soon as the first one started, naturally, there was no way to easily back away easily. After that, a group of people started to toast each other. Not only Li Zhenruo drink a lot, but even Yue Zijia couldn’t escape, and later drank a lot.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t continue to fish for Yue Zijia’s information, this was not a matter to be finished in one or two days. He should let Yue Zijia think that he was an honest child and then talk slowly.

       Unknowingly, an hour had passed, Li Zhenruo heard the phone ringing. He took a look and found that Li Zhenran was calling. The surrounding environment was too noisy, so Li Zhenruo went into the bathroom with his mobile phone, closed the door and leaned against the door to answer the phone.

       Li Zhenran’s voice rang in his ears, “Time is up, I’ve already come.”

       Li Zhenruo felt a little itchy at his tailbone, so he stretched out a hand and scratched across the pants, he said, “You come here, I also want to go back too.”

       Li Zhenran said “Um” and hung up the phone.

       Li Zhenruo still felt itchy on his tailbone, he heard that they were still dancing outside like a madman, so he hid in the bathroom and didn’t want to go out. He scratched his tailbone with his fingers, and after a while, he felt something break through the skin and protrude. It was not painful, but it was itchy.

       His fingers scratched something fluffy this time.

       He inexplicably grabbed it, Li Zhenruo was stunned. What did he grab? Did he seem to have caught a cat’s tail? This is not true, is it?

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly ran to the front of the mirror, turned around and stood on tiptoe to look behind his buttocks. Sure enough, he saw a fluffy cat’s tail, like a big caterpillar, which pierced his pants and stretched out.

       Li Zhenruo was dumbfounded.

       Because he had been in the bathroom and couldn’t go out, someone walked to the bathroom door and knocked on the door, “Who’s in there? How come you’re not out yet?” This person was also quite drunk judging from the way he sounded.

       Li Zhenruo really drank a lot at night. Although his brain was half awake, his reaction was slow for half a beat. He was a little flustered for a while, and he didn’t know what to do, so he could only take out his mobile phone and call Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran had already walked to the door of the private room according to the location of the collar. As soon as he answered the phone, he heard his cat say incoherently, “Ge! Master! What should I do?! My tail is out!”

       “Tail?” Li Zhenran couldn’t help but be slightly startled.

       Li Zhenruo said, “Yeah, a big tail!”

       Li Zhenran thought about it for a while, and thought it might be what he thought, and said, “Wait a minute, I’ll be there soon.”

       He immediately hung up the phone, knocked on the private room door and pushed it open.

       A group of young people were already drinking too much inside, and almost no one noticed that someone pushed the door in. Only Yue Zijia was a little more sober. She didn’t expect Li Zhenran to find it directly, so she stood up in a daze, “Zhenran?”

       Li Zhenran said, “Is my assistant here?”

       A drunk girl suddenly pounced on Li Zhenran with a bottle of wine, “Who are you, handsome? Let’s have a drink!”

       Li Zhenran politely pulled her hand away and asked Yue Zijia, “Where is he?”

       Yue Zijia reacted at this time, smiled and said, “It seems that he had gone to the bathroom. You can come and sit for a while, and wait for him to come out.”

       Li Zhenran didn’t respond to her, went directly to the bathroom door and knocked on the door, and said inside, “I’m here.”

       The door opened a crack, Li Zhenruo let Li Zhenran in, then closed the door tightly, turned around to show him behind him, “Look.”

       Li Zhenran frowned slightly, reached out and grabbed his tail.

       Li Zhenruo was still nervous, “What should I do?”

       Li Zhenran said, “You try to restart once.”

       “Restart?” Li Zhenruo was at a loss.

       Li Zhenran explained to him clearly, “Return to the original form and then become a human being.”

       “Right,” Li Zhenruo looked at him, “You are so smart!”

       Li Zhenran didn’t look good when he heard the compliment, “You drank a lot.” This sentence was a declarative sentence, and he was not happy.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t hear it at this time. His attention was still on his tail. In front of Li Zhenran, he first turned into a cat, and then stretched his body into a human shape.

       Clothes were scattered all over the place, Li Zhenran looked at the naked boy kneeling on the ground with his body curled up, and he couldn’t help raising a hand and gently rubbing his lips with some interest.

       Li Zhenruo still stretched out his hand to touch his tailbones, but he still touched his fluffy tail. He immediately raised his head to look at Li Zhenran, “It’s still there, what should I do?”

       Li Zhenran said solemnly, “Get up and look in the mirror.”

       Li Zhenruo heard the words, hesitantly got up and walked in front of the mirror, and was horrified to find that it wasn’t just the tail, this time even the cat’s ears appeared!

       He was startled and frightened. He raised his hands and pinched his ears, and he was at a loss. His cheeks burned with alcohol, and his brain continued to crash. He could only turn around and grab Li Zhenran’s hand and ask him, “Why don’t I become a cat and you take me back?”

       Li Zhenran said, “Yes, but how do you explain to them that you are missing and there is an extra cat in the bathroom?”

       Li Zhenruo said frantically, “Then what?”

       Li Zhenran reached out and pressed his lips, “Don’t yell, put on your pants first.”

       Li Zhenruo heard the words, squatted down and picked up his pants. He sat on the toilet lid and put them on with difficulty, and finally tried to pull the tail out of the hole above the buttocks, and the fur was flailing side to side.

       Afterwards, Li Zhenran wrapped his upper body with his coat, carefully wrapped his tail together, then carried him in his arms, and covered Li Zhenruo’s head with his coat, saying, “Don’t move, I’ll take you away.”

       How could Li Zhenruo still dare to move? He obediently put his face in Li Zhenran’s arms, pretending to be drunk.

       When they came out of the bathroom, Yue Zijia saw that Li Zhenran had carried the person out. She hurriedly stepped forward and asked, “What’s the matter? Drunk?”

       Li Zhenran nodded, “He drank too much, I’ll take him back.”

       Of course, Yue Zijia couldn’t stop Li Zhenran, she just said, “Be careful on the road, I’ll walk you out.”

       Li Zhenran let her go to the door and said to her, “No need to walk us out, you guys have fun.”

       Yue Zijia nodded with a smile, and said, “Be careful on the road.”

       Li Zhenruo lay in Li Zhenran’s arms and pretended to be dead all the way until he felt that Li Zhenran carried him into the car, then he tore off the coat covering him, and in a panic reached out to touch the top of his head, and found that the cat’s ears were still there.

       Li Zhenran got into the driver’s seat and started the car.

       Li Zhenruo rushed over from the back seat and said, “What should I do?”

       Li Zhenran seemed impatient, “What to do?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Ears! And tails!”

       Li Zhenran glanced at him from the rearview mirror and said, “Go back to sleep, you will lose your ears when you wake up.”

       Li Zhenruo thought it made sense and said, “Then I’m going to sleep!”

       Li Zhenran waved his hand and told him to go to sleep.

       Li Zhenruo then lay down in the back seat. Of course, he didn’t forget to transform himself into a cat before falling asleep. After all, he would have to go home with Li Zhenran later.

       Later, when Li Zhenran returned home, he found that his cat had slept to death. Li Zhenran thought it was very interesting, so he grabbed one leg and dragged him out.

       Wang Ma just opened the door to let him in. She saw that Li Zhenran was carrying the cat by his leg, but the cat didn’t respond at all, she was startled and said, “Oh, what’s the matter?”

       Li Zhenran raised the cat a little higher and said to Wang Ma, “It’s drunk.”

       “Drunk?” Wang Ma looked surprised, “Why do you give it a drink? Are you torturing it?”

       Li Zhenran said indifferently, “It’s him who wants to drink, it’s fine.” After that, he carried Li Zhenruo upstairs.

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       Li Zhenruo sat by Li Zhenran’s bed, and when Li Zhenran passed by, he patted his cat’s head. He looked up at Li Zhenran blankly and saw him walking towards the bathroom.

       After a while, Li Zhenran came out of the shower and patted his head again as he passed by.

       Li Zhenruo was confused, “?”

       Li Zhenran went to the cabinet to find a pair of clean underwear to put on and then patted him again before going to the bathroom.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t bear it any longer. He turned into a naked youth, jumped up to stand and asked, “What do you want to—”

       He originally wanted to ask what you were doing, but before he could even ask the question, Li Zhenran was already crushing him on the bed. Li Zhenruo immediately reacted. Li Zhenran didn’t want to do anything, he just wanted to fvck him.

       How treacherous!

       Although he was indignant, at the same time he was inexorably caught up in desire.

       Later, Li Zhenruo lay on the bed panting and couldn’t recover his breath for a long time. He saw Li Zhenran turn over and sit up, walked to the window and opened it. He even sat up with his hand propping his body, his long legs stretched out of the window and swung into the air.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but say, “You are not afraid that the people downstairs would think they saw a pervert?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t speak.

       Li Zhenruo was still lying on his stomach, propping his face with one hand, and said to him, “Today, such a big thing happened in your house, you still have such a good mood?”

       Li Zhenran said, “Then what? Should I go hug my eldest brother and cry together with him?”

       “Really cold and heartless,” these words were really Li Zhenruo’s evaluation of Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenruo was actually a little sad as he saw Li Jianglin’s attitude today. He found that it wasn’t just the brothers who were indifferent in this family. Even Li Jianglin, the person who held together their blood relationship, was actually indifferent.

       Li Zhenran didn’t speak.

       The lights and air conditioners in the room were turned off, and he sat by the window, feeling the cool breeze outside on his naked body.

       Li Zhenruo rested his chin on the back of his hand, thought for a while and then said, “Why do you say your father insists on letting the eldest marry Wen Chun? Things were already like this.”

       In regards to Li Jianglin’s thoughts, Li Zhenruo always found them difficult to understand. In the past, he could only discuss with Yan Xiujie, but Yan Xiujie’s understanding of Li Jianglin was limited. He didn’t expect to have the opportunity to talk about this topic with Li Zhenran now.

       He couldn’t help but think of a sentence: The God of destiny makes fools of the people.

       Li Zhenran heard the words and said slowly, “Because the eldest was not valued high enough.”

       Li Zhentai was not as good as the other sons in Li Jianglin’s heart, everyone could see it to some extent. But to say he was not as good as Wen Chun, wouldn’t it be too much?

       However, just like the big families in ancient times, there were a few people who could make their own marriages, and they don’t have to be under the orders of their parents. Li Jianglin’s idea of ​​making Li Zhentai marry Wen Chun was understandable, and it was normal not to allow him to divorce. Li Zhenruo believed that Li Zhentai will be the one who finally compromises, but Li Jianglin must also do something to appease Li Zhentai, right?

       Li Zhenruo was in a trance thinking about it. After a while, Li Zhenran went back to bed and put his arms around him to sleep. He felt a coolness on Li Zhenran’s skin, so he put his face on his firm chest, yawned, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

       Just as he expected, Li Zhentai only tensed up for two or three days, and now that he was sober, he has come back to compromise with Li Jianglin.

       The father and son were locked in the study for an afternoon. Li Zhenruo turned to the window to eavesdrop, but as soon as he ran to the window sill, he was chased down by Li Zhentai, who was standing by the window.

       Li Zhenruo hid under the window sill, but there was still some distance to the window, and the glass window of the study was closed tightly, so he couldn’t hear it clearly even with his cat ears.

       However, it was possible to guess what the father and son said. Li Zhentai could not give up the entire Li family for this matter. Li Jianglin gave a stick first and then jujube to eat¹it’s similar to the sticks and carrot analogy. Whether Li Zhentai was willing or not, he always had to give in.

       Li Zhenruo circled the house and went back to the living room. When he saw Wen Chun standing on the stairs, he seemed to want to go down to the first floor, but suddenly stopped for some reason and turned back upstairs.

       Wen Chun stayed at home for the past two days and didn’t go anywhere. Originally, after the wedding, she and Li Zhentai planned to go out for their honeymoon, but in this situation, the honeymoon plan has naturally been cancelled.

       Wen Chun still has about a month’s vacation, and she seemed to plan to stay at home so quietly.

       Although it was true that Wen Chun had an affair with Li Zhenzi, but no one knew how many mistresses Li Zhentai had outside. When this matter was exposed, Li Zhentai was completely a victim, which made Li Zhenruo feel it was a little unfair to Wen Chun.

       Obviously, there were problems with both of them, but Wen Chun broke up with Li Zhen after deciding to marry Li Zhentai, but Li Zhentai was still entangled with Yue Zijia.

       Li Zhenruo sighed suddenly, not because of Li Zhentai or Wen Chun, but because it was not easy for a cat to worry about the Li family.

       Li Zhentai did not stay at home for dinner, and Li Zhenruo estimated that he would not come back to sleep tonight. Although he chose to compromise, Li Zhenruo believed that Li Jianglin must have also made concessions for his compromises. During this time, Li Zhentai would spend the night outside, and Li Jianglin would definitely not pursue him.

       Oh my, such a marriage that exists in name only, why should it be maintained?

       Li Zhenruo thought sadly while chewing cat food.

       Li Zhenran finished dinner, wiped his mouth with a napkin, and said to Li Jianglin, “Then I’ll go now, Dad.”

       Li Jianglin said, “Well, go ahead.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment, only to realize that he had been distracted just now, and he didn’t notice what Li Zhenran and Li Jianglin said. When he saw Li Zhenran get up and walk outside, he quickly dropped the half-eaten cat food and followed.

       Li Zhenran walked to the gate and stopped to look at him, “What are you doing following me?”

       Li Zhenruo threw a look at him, you know.

       Li Zhenran gave him a cold look but did not stop him from following him out.

       Without calling the driver, Li Zhenran drove a car by himself. Since the time Li Zhenruo could freely change between the two forms, Li Zhenran’s driving time had obviously increased.

       Li Zhenruo got into the car and realized that he didn’t bring his clothes out. Before Li Zhenran started the car, he put his paw on his arm to remind him with a “meow” and wanted him to go upstairs and get his clothes off.

       Li Zhenran actually understood what he meant and said, “Just stay like this, I’m going to find the third child.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment. He originally wanted to ask Li Zhenran what he was going to do looking for Li Zhenzi, but he thought it would be troublesome to have to turn into a human to speak, so he stayed quiet and analyzed the matter by himself: It might be that Li Jianglin asked Li Zhenran to find Li Zhenzi to tell Li Zhenzi not to go home for a short time.

       After all, Li Jianglin was still more partial to the third child.

       While driving, Li Zhenran took out his mobile phone and called Li Zhenzi.

       Li Zhenruo looked at him and felt it was dangerous, so he couldn’t help raising his paw hesitantly to put it on his wrist. Li Zhenran turned his head to look at him and pinched his face when he had time waiting for the red light.

       With such a simple action, Li Zhenruo was inexplicably a little shy. He retracted his claws and sat quietly in the passenger seat and thought: Damn, so cool!

       Li Zhenzi has lived with Yu Bingwei ever since he was kicked out by Li Jianglin.

       Li Zhenran carried Li Zhenruo upstairs and rang the doorbell. Li Zhenruo tried his best to stick his head out and look around. He still has some feelings for Yu Bingwei’s mother and daughter and this home. After all, she was the first owner after he left the mama cat, and this owner was both a beautiful woman and very kind to him.

       The person who came to open the door was Yu Bingwei’s mother. He had not seen the old lady for a long time, but she was still in good spirits. But when she opened the door, she looked at Li Zhenran with a look of doubt and vigilance. Later, she noticed the cat that wanted to pounce on her, opened her mouth for a while and said, “Oh, is this Dumpling?”

       Li Zhenran let go of his hand, allowing Li Zhenruo to jump into Mama Yu’s arms.

       At this time, Yu Bingwei heard the movement and walked to the door of the room to look, and asked, “Who is it, Mom?”

       Mama Yu said, “Dumpling is back!”

       When Yu Bingwei saw Li Zhenran, she gave a slightly surprised “ah” and turned back and shouted, “Daniel, your second brother is here.” Then she warmly invited Li Zhenran into the room.

       Li Zhenran called Li Zhenzi before he came, otherwise he wouldn’t have known that he could be found here. So when he saw Li Zhenran, Li Zhenzhi was not surprised at all. He still had bruises on his face. It was estimated that he would not have the face to go out to meet people in a short time, so he could only hide on Yu Bingwei’s side.

       Li Zhenzi told Li Zhenran to sit down on the sofa.

       Yu Bingwei asked Mama Yu to pour tea and reached out to take Li Zhenruo into her arms.

       Li Zhenruo buried her face in Yu Bingwei’s chest, took a deep breath, and then felt Li Zhenran’s piercing gaze shooting toward him. Although he couldn’t see it, he also felt a chill on his back, and he quickly pulled out his face.

       Li Zhenzi put his elbows on his knees and leaned forward slightly when he sat on the sofa. Li Zhenruo peeked at him secretly, only to think that his always handsome face was red and swollen, which was very funny.

       He didn’t speak, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

       Yu Bingwei was very good at looking at reading the atmosphere. When Yu’s mother made the tea, she carried Li Zhenruo into the kitchen, closed the door slightly, and washed the dishes with Yu’s mother.

       They had just finished the evening meal, but there were only three of them to eat and not many bowls to wash.

       Li Zhenruo pricked up his ears and heard Li Zhenran say to Li Zhenzi outside, “Dad asked me to come and see you.”

       Li Zhenzi was silent for a moment, and asked, “Is Chun jie okay?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously glanced at Yu Bingwei who was holding him, but Yu Bingwei obviously didn’t hear the conversation outside, she was helping Yu’s mother to get the clean dishcloth.

       Mama Yu’s face didn’t look very good, she wiped the bowl silently, and said to Yu Bingwei while putting the bowl in the cupboard, “What happened to him? It looks like there is a conflict with the family, right?”

       Yu Bingwei scratched the top of Li Zhenruo’s head lightly with her fingers and said, “Well, there’s a trouble with the family.”

       Mama Yu opened her mouth and seemed to hold back what she wanted to say.

       Yu Bingwei said, “I know how far to go and when to stop in my heart, Mom, don’t worry. In a few days, it will be easy to part without hard feelings.”

       When Li Zhenruo heard Yu Bingwei’s words, he couldn’t help being stunned for a moment, not even noticing what Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi said outside. He thought, after being together for a long time, Yu Bingwei didn’t have much sincerity towards Li Zhenzi, but she just took what she needed and waited for the right opportunity to move and break up.

       After a while, someone knocked on the kitchen door.

       Yu Bingwei went over to open the door and saw Li Zhenran standing at the door. He said to her, “We’re going to leave.”

       “Oh,” Yu Bingwei reacted, and immediately returned the cat in her arms to Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran touched the top of Li Zhenruo’s head heavily.

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly lay in Li Zhenran’s arms, looking up at him pitifully.

       When they came out, Li Zhenzi sent them to the gate and said, “I’m fine, it’s my fault, I’ll go to Dad to apologize in a few days.”

       Li Zhenruo listened to his sincere tone but felt that Li Zhenzi probably didn’t really think so in his heart, otherwise he wouldn’t have done things like hooking up with Wen Chun in the first place. The guilt now was nothing more than for Wen Chun, because once the matter was exposed, Wen Chun was destined to be wronged in the Li family in the future.

       In the evening, Li Zhenruo lay on Li Zhenran’s bed and listened to the sound of water in the bathroom.

       After a while, when he heard the sound of the water stop, he stood up and sharpened his claws on the edge of the bed, preparing himself to get ready.

       When Li Zhenran opened the bathroom door and came out, Li Zhenruo jumped on it at once, and perfectly achieved the transformation in the air. The beautiful naked youth threw himself into Li Zhenran’s arms, who was also naked.

       He was so enthusiastic to deliver, and of course, Li Zhenran would not refuse. He reached out to catch Li Zhenruo and then pressed him on the bed.

       Li Zhenruo thought to himself: maybe it doesn’t matter if one was straight or not. He didn’t know if he was too liberal or too greedy for pleasure. Anyway, now he maintained this relationship with Li Zhenran, not only he didn’t feel uncomfortable, but he also liked it.

       Halfway through, he had an idea, if he suddenly turned into a cat in the middle of the next time he was doing it, he wondered if Li Zhenran would go crazy.

       But when he thought about it seriously, Li Zhenran might not only go mad, but it was possible to tear him apart, so it was better not to do these unnecessary things to provoke Li Zhenran.

       As he was lying on Li Zhenran’s shoulder, Li Zhenruo nibbled on his shoulder with some boredom and said, “Will your father be very angry if you let him know that Li Zhentai has a mistress outside?”

       Li Zhenran lay on his back with his hands under his head, and turned to look at him, “Do you think my dad doesn’t know that the eldest has a mistress?”

       Li Zhenruo was slightly taken aback.

       Li Zhenran said, “You forgot, he has so many mistresses outside.”

       Li Zhenruo was silent for a while and said, “But if Wen Chun knew, Li Jianglin would have no reason to stand by Li Zhentai.”

       “So what,” Li Zhenran said, “It’s just a show for Wen Chun to see, what effect can it play?”

       Li Zhenruo’s chin rested on Li Zhenran’s shoulder, and he suddenly felt a little disappointed, “I think your father doesn’t seem to care about anything.”

       Li Zhenran stretched out his hand to squeeze his face and asked him, “What do you think he cares about? Is this important to you?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I don’t think you gave it a thought yet. Your Li family has such a big business, but the brothers are fighting over it. It’s not worth it.”

       Li Zhenran actually laughed, “It was originally something from our Li family. They took what they deserved, and I took what I deserved. What’s not worth it?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at Li Zhenran and saw that he was smiling slightly. The words he spoke seemed to be very casual, like a joke but not like a joke.

       It’s just that Li Zhenruo thought to himself: I believe there’s something fishy about you.

       Li Zhenran said to him, “But you, what do you think of our brother’s things? You don’t want to get a hand in it too?”

       Li Zhenruo felt that Li Zhenran probably suspected him of something. Indeed, from the beginning, he had many loopholes, and he did not hide many things from Li Zhenran. He felt that Li Zhenran’s attitude of indifference was strange, and so it was normal to have doubts.

       It was just that when he thought about himself from Li Zhenran’s point of view, and no matter how many abnormal behaviours point him to Li Zhenruo, he feels that Li Zhenran would only suspect that he has anything to do with Li Zhenruo, instead of thinking that he was Li Zhenruo. After all, it was incredible if Li Zhenran really had such an idea. He would want to just knock Li Zhenran’s head out to see what kind of strange brain circuit he had.

       Anyway, Li Zhenran was suspicious. Li Zhenruo was going to expose the truth, so he put his whole body on Li Zhenran and asked him, “What do you think your father really cares about?”

       Li Zhenran looked at him and said, “What he really cares about is that Yunlin can develop better in the hands of whomever he hands over. The rest are not important.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “The human heart is full of flesh²meaning that the human heart must have feelings, I don’t believe that he is not biased at all.”

       Li Zhenran smiled, “Of course he is biased, he doesn’t like the eldest very much, but this was based on his consideration of the abilities of several sons, you should understand.”

       Li Zhenruo thought: What do you mean I should understand?

       Having said this, Li Zhenruo felt a little sad. He put his head on Li Zhenran’s shoulder, closed his eyes, and sighed softly.

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       Li Zhenruo was probably the first person to know about the relationship between Li Zhenzi and Wen Chun, but he never told others, so he felt that maybe he could use this as a bargaining chip and use it to threaten Li Zhenzi and Wen Chun in the future if it was necessary.

       But he didn’t expect Zhu Kai to make things so big.

       There were too many people around the door of the lounge, and there was no movement inside. Li Zhenruo stayed for a while and walked outside, and saw Yue Zijia was looking this way with a small handbag in her hand. As she saw Li Zhenruo looking at her, Yue Zijia showed a gentle smile.

       Li Zhenruo hesitated a little and walked towards Yue Zijia, “Miss Yue.”

       Yue Zijia nodded, “Hello, may I ask what’s going on inside?”

       Li Zhenruo thought for a while, “It seems that the groom and the bride are quarrelling.”

       “Oh?” Yue Zijia was a little surprised. She turned her head to look in the direction of the lounge, and couldn’t help but take two steps forward, “What’s going on?”

       Li Zhenruo said softly, “Zhentai ge might be in a tight spot.”

       Yue Zijia looked at him inexplicably.

       Li Zhenruo shook his head, “Nothing. Are you not going to eat?”

       Yue Zijia smiled and said, “I’m not hungry yet.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “You have to eat something even if you are not hungry. Why don’t you come and sit with me.”

       Yue Zijia didn’t know what was on Li Zhenruo’s mind, and after a little hesitation, she nodded and agreed. The two of them went back to Li Zhenruo’s table and sat down. Li Zhenruo also took the initiative to help giving food to Yue Zijia with chopsticks.

       Zhu Kai had already left. Of course, Li Jianglin would not let him go like that after he caused so much trouble for the Li family. So he left first before anyone could find him.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t guess what was on Zhu Kai’s mind anyway, so he concentrated on dealing with Yue Zijia.

       Yue Zijia was a well-rounded person. After a few conversations, the two of them regretted that they couldn’t know each other earlier, and their names were changed to that of sisters and brothers.

       Li Zhenruo pondered in his heart that it was good for him to approach Yue Zijia on purpose. Judging from Yue Zijia’s appearance, it seemed that she was also trying to get closer to him, but he didn’t know what for.

       Later, he thought that it was mostly related to Li Zhenran. Yue Zijia saw him with Li Zhenran several times, and Li Zhentai also met him in and out of Li Zhenran’s office. At that time, he looked at him with ambiguous eyes, maybe he was going to catch Li Zhenran’s misdeed.

       If this was the case, although Yue Zijia looked like a flirtatious and wanderlust person, she was still sincere toward Li Zhentai.

       After a while, Li Zhenruo saw Li Zhentai and Wen Chun coming out to toast together.

       The smiles resumed on the faces of the two of them, and they didn’t even show any sort of moodiness in front of Wen Chun’s parents. They toasted their relatives and friends with wine glasses all the way.

       When they got to their table, Li Zhenruo realized that Li Zhentai was drinking very boldly today, holding the white wine without blinking and lifting the glass and drinking it all. Wen Chun still had that gentle and gentle appearance, holding the wine glass in her hand, and then followed Li Zhentai to the next table.

       After a while, Li Zhenran came over. He first glanced at Yue Zijia next to Li Zhenruo, then sat down and asked, “Where’s Zhu Kai?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I don’t know, it seems that he left first.”

       Li Zhenran picked up Li Zhenruo’s cup and took a sip of water, and said, “Then he’d better go farther, I’m afraid dad is going to kill him.”

       Li Zhenruo asked softly, “What’s going on?”

       Li Zhenran leaned into his ear and said, “Someone saw with his own eyes that Zhu Kai moved the USB flash drive where the photos were placed. And who else but Zhu Kai could take that kind of photo?”

       After he said that, Li Zhenran greeted the people at the same table, saying that he had something to do first.

       Li Zhenruo said quickly, “I’ll go with you.” Then he said to Yue Zijia, “Zijia jie, I’ll go first, enjoy your meal.”

       Yue Zijia smiled and nodded, “Okay.”

       Li Zhenruo followed Li Zhenran and left the restaurant in a hurry. After getting in the car, he hurriedly asked, “Are you looking for Zhu Kai?”

       Li Zhenran started the car, turned his head to look at Li Zhenruo and said, “Dad is angry, someone has to go back and bear his anger.”

       Li Zhenruo thought about it and said, “Shouldn’t it be the third child?”

       However, Li Zhenran changed the subject and asked him, “What are you and Yue Zijia talking about?”

       Li Zhenruo whispered, “Do you know that Yue Zijia is Li Zhentai’s mistress?”

       Li Zhenran had already driven the car out, but at this time he lightly stepped on the brakes and looked at Li Zhenruo, “The eldest’s mistress? Are you sure?”

       Li Zhenruo hesitated, “Either that or your father’s mistress.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Stop talking nonsense.”

       “Hmph,” Li Zhenruo snorted softly, “Just you wait and see.”

       They drove to Zhu Kai’s house in the city, but no one found him. For the first two days, Zhu Kai had been living in Li’s house with Erhuang, and now Erhuang was running wild in the yard.

       Li Zhenran called Wang Ma back and asked Wang Ma if Zhu Kai was back.

       Wang Ma said in a low voice, “Zhu Kai didn’t come back, it’s just that your father and the third child came back and he is teaching him a lesson.”

       Li Zhenruo thought that Li Jianglin had long known about the affair between Li Zhenzi and Wen Chun. He had pretended not to know and probably wanted to cover up the incident. Unexpectedly, he had to come forward to teach Li Zhenzi a lesson now that things have come to light.

       If you think about it this way, Li Zhenruo felt that Li Jianglin was not so concerned about Li Zhentai’s affairs.

       When Li Zhenruo even entered the gate, he lowered his head to prevent the surveillance camera from taking pictures of him. After Li Zhenran parked the car, he saw the cat running down and went around to the back and climbed the window into the house.

       When Li Zhenran entered the room, he saw Li Jianglin sat on the sofa with a serious face and his hands on the crutch’s dragon head, while Li Zhenzi was standing beside him. It seemed that he planned to kneel down, but when he saw Li Zhenran walking in, his slightly bent legs straightened again.

       Li Zhenruo came in directly from the window on the second floor. In a hurry to watch the show, he ran down the stairs to the first floor, but did not have the time to brake, and tumbled all the way from the stairs to Li Zhenran’s feet.

       Li Zhenran looked at him coldly and said, “Are you stupid?”

       Li Zhenruo quickly got up and saw Li Jianglin glancing at them, obviously looking a little unhappy. He immediately hid behind Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran walked over to the sofa and sat down, and said, “Zhu Kai is not here. So I guess it’s impossible to find him anytime soon.”

       Li Jianglin took a deep breath to calm down. Compared with Zhu Kai, naturally what Li Zhenzi did was the most unethical thing in this matter. If it wasn’t for him seducing Wen Chun, it was meaningless for Zhu Kai to secretly take more photos of them.

       Li Zhenzi felt embarrassed, he was not as casual and free as Zhu Kai. Because Zhu Kai didn’t care about the Li family’s things even a penny, but Li Zhenzi did. Although his interest in Yunlin was limited, Yunyi’s stock share was mostly in Li Jianglin’s hands, and Yunyi was closely related to Yunlin. To be honest, he thought about the possibility of being discovered, but he didn’t expect to be exposed on such an occasion, and he felt somewhat embarrassed.

       That photo flashed by, but didn’t Yu Bingwei beside him recognize him at a glance? Even Su Yao probably guessed it to some extent, and in addition to Li Jianglin, he has to face Li Zhentai next. There was no deep hatred between him and Li Zhentai, and seducing Wen Chun was pure cheapness, but in this way, their relationship was considered to be finished.

       Li Zhenruo analyzed Li Zhenzi’s thoughts in his heart and wished he could pass on the sentence “Are you stupid” that Li Zhenran said to him just now to his third brother.

       Li Zhenzi said, “Dad, I’m going to apologize to eldest brother.”

       Li Jianglin sneered, “Do you think your eldest brother can accept your apology?”

       Li Zhenzi lowered his head and said nothing.

       Li Zhenruo leaned up and looked up at his face secretly.

       Li Zhenzi took a deep breath and said, “I will try my best.”

       Li Jianglin still smiled coldly.

       At this time Li Zhenran said, “Dad, whether the eldest brother accepts it or not, the third child still has to apologize to the eldest brother.”

       Li Jianglin also understands this in his heart, but this apology was definitely meaningless. Li Zhentai would not forgive Li Zhenzi, and may not even forgive Wen Chun. Although the wedding was completed under his insistence today, what would become of this family in the future, no one would know.

       “Sigh…” Li Jianglin closed his eyes and shook his head slowly. His back that had always been straight finally leaned back weakly.

       “Dad,” Li Zhenran advised him, “Just go and rest.”

       Li Jianglin stood up and left the sofa on crutches, but instead of going back to the room, he walked outside.

       Li Zhenzi took a step forward, and Li Jianglin pointed at him and said, “Don’t follow me.”

       Li Zhenran stood up and grabbed Li Zhenzi’s arm, and said, “Go and rest.”

       At this moment, Li Zhenruo looked up at Li Zhenran and hesitantly followed Li Jianglin to the outside.

       Li Jianglin’s back looked somewhat crooked. He had bad legs and feet, but his back has always been straight, which makes him look very energetic. Only today, a word popped out of Li Zhenruo’s head: the shadow was waning.

       They walked to the swimming pool, and Li Jianglin stopped. He slowly sat down on the deck chair by the swimming pool. Not long after sitting down, Zhu Kai’s Erhuang ran over excitedly and wagged his tail at him.

       Li Zhenruo thought Li Jianglin would be angry, but unexpectedly he saw him gently touch Erhuang’s head.

       Erhuang wagged his tail and lay down beside him.

       Li Jianglin also saw Li Zhenruo at this time and waved to him.

       Li Zhenruo thought that he wasn’t a dog, but it didn’t stop him to walk toward Li Jianglin, and stopped at his feet. He jumped onto his lap, and sat down in half a circle.

       Li Jianglin touched the top of his head with his hand.

       Li Zhenruo felt very comfortable, but suddenly felt a little sad, and thought: Why are you not my father?

       That night, when Li Zhentai came back, he was very drunk.

       Wen Chun originally helped him into the room, but as soon as he entered the living room, he vigorously pushed Wen Chun away and shouted bluntly, “Get out!”

       Wen Chun’s face changed again and again, but she never said anything.

       In the living room, the Li family were all there. The door leading to the side building was locked, and no other workers in the family were there. Only one Wang Ma looked at them with some difficulty.

       As he saw that Li Zhentai pushed Wen Chun, Li Zhenzi couldn’t help but took a step forward and said, “Eldest brother, don’t do this. Just take it out on me if you’re angry.”

       “You?” Li Zhentai looked at him with a sneer, stumbled two steps and rushed over, grabbed the front of his shirt with one hand, and punched him in the face with the other hand.

       Li Zhentai probably did his best with this punch, but Li Zhenzi didn’t resist. As a result, his whole body was almost twisted by him, and then Li Zhentai was pulled over and kicked in his lower abdomen.

       Li Zhenran got up quickly, went up to hold Li Zhentai, stopped him and said, “Eldest brother, stop fighting! Do you want to kill the third child?”

       Li Zhentai struggled violently, “Let go!”

       Bloodshot overflowed from Li Zhenzi’s lips, and half of his face quickly became red and swollen. However, the most painful thing was probably the kick Li Zhentai gave him, causing him to bend over in pain.

       Wen Chun looked at them in horror and anxiety, tears could not be restrained from falling down, but she never said a word.

       Li Zhenruo was lying on the back of the sofa quietly at first but also stood up restlessly at this time.

       Wang Ma wiped away Wen Chun’s tears beside her. She couldn’t hold back. She came to support Li Zhenzi and said to Li Zhentai, “Don’t fight, he is your brother after all.”

       Li Zhentai let go of Li Zhenzi’s clothes. The smell of alcohol was very strong on his breath. He was gasping for breath and barely standing still with Li Zhenran’s help, and said to Li Jianglin, “I want a divorce.”

       Wen Chun’s eyes were red. She looked at Li Zhentai and didn’t object.

       Li Jianglin shook his head slowly, “I don’t agree.”

       Li Zhentai was a little emotional, “Why not? She gave me a cuckold before she got married! Well, I could put up with it in front of so many people today. Do you want me to endure it for the rest of my life?”

       Li Jianglin looked at Wen Chun, “Xiao Chun, let me ask you, do you still have contact with the third child?”

       Wen Chun shook her head, “I’ve broken up with him,” she said, “Dad, I’m sorry.”

       Li Jianglin leaned on his crutch and said to Li Zhentai, “Did you hear what she said?”

       Li Zhentai sneered, “Do you think I can trust such a woman?”

       Li Jianglin said, “She is your wife.”

       Li Zhentai suddenly laughed twice, “My wife? If my wife has a child in the future, I’m afraid I don’t know if it’s mine! Oh, yes, of course! You wouldn’t care. Anyway, if worst comes to worst, it was the third’s child, as long as it’s not the fourth. Yes, they are all your grandsons!”

       When Li Zhenruo heard his words, his heart sank suddenly.

       Li Jianglin was also angry, stood up, and shouted, “Zhentai!”

       Li Zhenran supported Li Zhentai’s arm and tightened it, and said solemnly, “Eldest brother, you’ve had too much to drink, what are you talking about!”

       Li Zhentai also knew that it was a bit too much to mention Li Zhenruo to anger Li Jianglin, so he gasped and fell silent.

       Li Jianglin’s crutches slammed hard on the ground and he loudly said, “I have the final say in this family, I’m not allowing the divorce! Either you accept it, or get out of my way. Just say that you are not the son of Li Jianglin, and never come back to the Li family again. Just do whatever you want in the future!”

       For a moment, everyone in the family fell silent.

       After a while, Li Zhentai pushed Li Zhenran away, stood up straight and said to Li Jianglin, “Okay, I know that I was not as good as them in your heart since I was a child, and I can’t even be compared to that wild bastard of the fourth child. I understand!”

       After speaking, Li Zhentai turned around and walked outside with vain steps.

       “Zhentai!” Wang Ma called his name.

       Li Zhentai did not respond. He opened the door and walked out.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help looking at Li Jianglin and saw that his face was cold, but one of his hands trembled slightly, and he raised his crutch and pointed at Li Zhenzi, “You, get out of here too, I don’t want to see you.”

       Li Zhenzi still had a bruised face and looked miserable. As he heard what Li Jianglin said, he raised his hand to cover his lower abdomen with a painful expression and walked outside.

       Wang Ma took a step forward, but in the end, did not have the heart to stop him.

       Wen Chun seemed to suddenly come to her senses. She glanced at Li Jianglin and probably wanted to leave.

       Li Jianglin said to her, “Go upstairs to rest and we’ll talk about it tomorrow.”

       Wen Chun hesitated, nodded, and said, “Dad, I’ll go up first.”

       In the end, only Li Zhenran was left to help Li Jianglin back to the room.

       Until Li Jianglin was lying on the bed, he patted the back of Li Zhenran’s hand, who was covering him with the quilt, and said, “Behave yourself.”

       Li Zhenran nodded, “Dad, have a rest.”

       After turning off the lights and coming out of Li Jianglin’s room, Li Zhenran saw his cat sitting in a daze in front of the stairs, so he stepped on his tail lightly.

       Li Zhenruo looked back at him.

       Li Zhenran bent down, picked him up, and walked upstairs.

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I was curious and check all the comment sections under the post. It was messy indeed with all the theories thrown by the JJ readers, kek. Some of them are correct tho
Double update coz I don’t have time to finish checking the chapter last Friday (*ﾉД`*)･ﾟ･。

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