Author: hoenimochi (Page 78 of 95)

       They came out of Li Jianglin’s ward. Li Zhenran walked in front, and Li Zhenruo followed him closely.

       After they entered the elevator, Li Zhenran said, “You act innocent enough in front of your grandfather.”

       Li Zhenruo thought at first that the “your grandfather” Li Zhenran said was referring to himself but later realized that he was referring to Li Jianglin. He couldn’t help but say, “Enough, I just accidentally said the wrong thing, you really want me to regard you as a father, huh?”

       Li Zhenran laughed and raised his hand to touch Li Zhenruo’s head.

       In order to facilitate Li Zhenruo to change his form and changed his clothes, Li Zhenran still did not let the driver drive but chose to drive himself.

       As they sat in the car, Li Zhenruo thought about it and said, “Then, have you gotten in touch with Luo Fei?”

       Li Zhenran looked calm, “Luo Fei’s side is good.”

       After a moment of silence, Li Zhenruo said, “How long will your father stay in the hospital?”

       Li Zhenran said, “He won’t stay for more than two days, eldest brother’s wedding is less than two weeks away.”

       Li Zhenruo counted the time after hearing the words, only to find that the wedding of Li Zhentai and Wen Chun was really less than two weeks. He couldn’t help but feel a little emotional. He didn’t expect Li Zhentai to be married. Perhaps he would have his children in a blink of an eye.

       His brothers have grown up, but he was the only one who stayed at the age of twenty-three forever.

       When he found that his cat was suddenly silent, Li Zhenran reached out and rubbed his head, “What?”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head.

       As Li Zhenran expected, Li Jianglin insisted on being discharged after staying in the hospital for less than a week. He said that he just had some old man problems. Anyway, as long as he was careful not to have an attack in the future, there would be no major problems.

       After he visited Li Jianglin, Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that he could enter and leave Li Zhenran’s office justifiably. From time to time, he followed Li Zhenran to the company for a walk, and most of the time he stayed at Li’s house.

       Because the wedding was about to be held, Wen Chun and Li Zhentai were often at home, and Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but want to keep an eye on them.

       One day, Li Zhentai accidentally dropped his phone on the sofa in the living room. When Li Zhenruo saw his phone screen flicker, he couldn’t help but look closer and saw that someone sent a text message.

       The content of the text message was: See you tonight.

       It didn’t say the time or place, and Li Zhenruo didn’t know if there was a summary of the previous situation.

       The sender’s name was: Y.

       Y? Who? Yue Zijia?

       When Li Zhenruo heard Li Zhentai’s footsteps going downstairs, he quickly ran to the sofa’s armrest to plop down and put his face back on his paws.

       That night, sure enough, Li Zhentai didn’t go home for dinner.

       Wen Chun was at home, and Li Zhenran asked her, “Eldest brother went out alone?”

       She smiled and said, “Yeah, he said there was something going on, I don’t know where he went.”

       Li Zhenruo rolled the cat foods into his mouth with his tongue. He felt that Li Zhentai must be going to meet his mistress. The husband and wife were unexpectedly both adulterous couples.

       Even so, the wedding of Li Zhentai and Wen Chun was held as scheduled.

       Wen Chun’s parents were very traditional. All wedding procedures must follow traditional rules. The best time to join both families was also calculated by someone.

       As a cat, of course, Li Zhenruo couldn’t attend the wedding, but as Li Zhenran’s assistant Li Tuan, he could show up at the wedding in an open and fair manner.

       Because Li Zhenran wanted to accompany Li Zhentai to pick up the relatives, he got into Li Zhenran’s car early in the morning and hid in the back seat and transformed into a human figure, putting on the clothes prepared in advance. Anyway, even if he come and go like a shadow, the Li family couldn’t care less about him today. They were all busy with the wedding.

       Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi accompanied their eldest brother to pick up the in-laws, while Zhu Kai directly accompanied Li Jianglin to the restaurant.

       The best man was Li Zhentai’s friend and a son of a big entrepreneur. This convoy drove in a grandiose way to pick up the in-laws, and Li Zhenran also drove a car behind to help support the scene.

       Li Zhenruo sat on the passenger seat, lowering his head and wearing socks. After putting on his shoes, he yawned and turned his head to look out the car window.

       It was a lively morning. He didn’t know if Wen Chun really wanted to marry Li Zhentai. Anyway, when she was being hugged in her wedding dress, Li Zhenruo still saw some tears of excitement flashing in Wen Chun’s eyes.

       Li Zhenzi joined the crowd and laughed happily, without pretending.

       Wanfulai was decorated in antique Chinese style, but the wedding of Li Zhentai and Wen Chun was a Western-style wedding.

       Li Zhenruo thought it was really boring. If it were up to him, he would have a Chinese wedding, with a big red flower tied to his chest, standing at the door of the restaurant and greeting guests with a salute¹, “Welcome! Welcome!”

       He kept walking forward absentmindedly, and suddenly bumped into Li Zhenran’s back.

       Li Zhenran turned to look at him, and Li Zhenruo complained, “Why did you stop suddenly?”

       Li Zhenran raised a hand and grabbed his face, pulling him in front of him.

       Li Zhenruo said in a low voice, “Let go! Let go!” He didn’t want his swollen face to be seen by everyone later.

       At this wedding banquet, Li Zhenruo met a lot of acquaintances. Most of them were relatives and friends of the Li family and most of Li Zhentai’s friends that he knew.

       Li Jianglin was also in a suit and leather shoes today. His white hair was meticulously combed, he was leaning on a crutch in his hand, and had a smile on his face. He stood with Wen Chun’s parents, and when all the guests arrived, they greet Li Jianglin first.

       Zhu Kai stood not far behind Li Jianglin and was looking left and right when he suddenly saw Li Zhenruo next to Li Zhenran. He walked in this direction and said with a smile, “Zhenran, are you not going to introduce him to me?”

       Li Zhenran then said to Zhu Kai, “This is my new intern assistant, Jason; this is my little uncle, called Zhu Kai.”

       Li Zhenruo shook hands with Zhu Kai and said, “What a young uncle.”

       Zhu Kai laughed out loud at his words, and Li Zhenruo didn’t know what he was happy about.

       Fortunately, Li Zhenruo was familiar with him, so he ignored him and treated him as a lunatic.

       At this time, the music played by the band gradually became quieter, and the wedding host took the microphone to the stage. Today, a well-known TV host, who hosts entertainment programs that was extraordinarily funny and humorous was invited.

       He came to the stage and said a few words to shift the atmosphere and announced that the wedding was about to start.

       So Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo sat down at the nearest table, and Zhu Kai just sat next to Li Zhenruo.

       For today’s wedding, although the preparations were a little rushed, the Li family spent a lot of money. Li Zhentai was Li Jianglin’s eldest son, and he was the first among the other children in the generation line to get married, which was naturally a big deal for the Li family, and at the same time, Li Jianglin also wants to give more reputation to his old friend.

       Although Wen Chun’s family conditions were superior, compared to the Li family, there was still a big gap. Her parents pay attention to their reputation, and Li Jianglin has instructed his sons to give the Wen family this honour so that they could feel that their daughter was married in a graceful manner.

       So not only was the whole wedding scene luxuriously decorated, but the wedding steps were also a bit complicated and lengthy.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t make himself really excited for Li Zhentai. When the host pulled Li Zhentai to chat, he began to get distracted.

       At this moment, Zhu Kai suddenly leaned into his ear and whispered, “Today’s wedding will be very exciting, please pay attention.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned, he looked at Zhu Kai vigilantly, and a thought suddenly popped up in his heart: Did he recognize me? It was just that after Zhu Kai finished saying this, he turned back to look at the front with great interest, and Li Zhenruo thought that maybe he thought too much.

       So what’s the point of Zhu Kai saying that to him?

       Looking at Zhu Kai’s expression, according to Li Zhenruo’s understanding of him for many years, he felt that Zhu Kai was looking forward to something. But what is he looking forward to? Everyone knew the steps of this wedding in advance. There was nothing that Zhu Kai could look forward to. Could it be that he did something in the middle, and then he was excited to show off to people that he grabbed Li Zhenruo who happened to be sitting next to him and said that?

       What will Zhu Kai do?

       At that time, Li Zhenruo thought it was a little prank, and Zhu Kai was sometimes keen on these meaningless things. But it was really inappropriate for this occasion today, right?

       As a result of what he said just now, Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but get nervous.

       The wedding went on in order. Wen Chun, who was wearing a wedding dress, entered the area holding his father’s hand, and then was handed over to Li Zhentai.

       Li Zhenruo’s eyes followed Wen Chun’s slow pace and accidentally noticed Yue Zijia sitting opposite.

       Yue Zijia also wore a beautiful little dress, with delicate and decent makeup, and her expression was normal.

       Not far from Yue Zijia’s side, he saw Li Zhenzi, and with Li Zhenzi was Yu Bingwei. When the bride entered, Li Zhenzi turned his head and whispered to Yu Bingwei, and Yu Bingwei showed a gentle smile.

       Li Zhenruo picked up his cup of tea and took a shallow sip.

       The wedding has reached the most sensational stage. The huge projection screen began to display a group photo of Li Zhentai and Wen Chun, including a wedding photo and a daily photo of the two of them. Words from acquaintance to acquaintance, promises to love each other. There was even a photo of the two of them when they were children. What an enviable couple.

       Beside him, Zhu Kai rested one elbow on the table, and lightly rubbed his lips with his fingers.

       Li Zhenruo felt that his whole body was a little tense, so he couldn’t help but start to pay attention to the stage nervously.

       Suddenly, the large screen, which had always been warm tones, suddenly dimmed. In order to show the slideshow, the lights in the entire banquet hall were dimmed. When the screen went dark, everyone was a little strange, and the place started to be a little restless.

       Soon everyone noticed that it was only because the photo was changed to a dim tone, and the photo was blurred because of the magnification, but it could be seen that in the dark night, a man in pyjamas hugged a woman in suspender pyjamas from behind.

       The photo flashed by like other photos, because it was just the back, many people didn’t see it clearly, they just thought it was a photo of Li Zhentai and Wen Chun. At most, people just found it strange why such a blurry photo was chosen.

       But the Li family members at the scene, especially the parties involved, could see it clearly. Although the photo just now was very dark, it could still be seen clearly by the ambiguous light. The background of the photo was the dining room on the first floor of the Li family’s house. It was definitely true that the woman was Wen Chun, and the man, even if he was only seen from the back and pyjamas, they could clearly tell that it was Li Zhenzi.

       The photo disappeared in a flash, but the expressions of everyone in the Li family changed.

       Li Zhenruo noticed that even Li Zhenran frowned, not to mention Li Zhentai and Wen Chun on stage.

       Only Zhu Kai beside him covered his mouth and lowered his head with a muffled laugh, then let go of his hand and made a serious expression. Li Zhenran glanced at him, stood up and walked towards Li Jianglin.

       Li Zhenruo was a little confused. He still remembered what happened that night. He saw Li Zhenzi and Wen Chun cheating in the dining room on the first floor. He also remembered that Zhu Kai found out and took pictures at that time.

       But after a long time, Zhu Kai has not exposed this matter. He thought that Zhu Kai just told Li Jianglin privately, but he did not expect such a thing to be done on such an occasion today.

       He knew that Zhu Kai had always desired to see the world be plunged into chaos, but he still felt that Zhu Kai had done too much, and Li Jianglin might not let it go.

       Li Zhenruo turned to look at Li Jianglin and saw that although Li Jianglin still maintained his expression, the hand holding the crutch was obviously very tightened, and even trembled slightly.

       He whispered a few words to Li Zhenran who walked over. Li Zhenran nodded and turned around to walk towards the side of the ceremonial platform where the wedding was held.

       Li Zhentai was also about to lose his composure. Li Zhenruo guessed that he was in a complicated mood, and he must have wanted to slap Wen Chun hard, but at the same time, he was worried about his reputation and didn’t want others to see it.

       Li Zhenran walked to the ceremony table, called Li Zhentai over, and then whispered a few words in his ear. Li Zhentai heard the words and looked in the direction of Li Jianglin.

       The host was somewhat baffled, waiting for the groom to come on stage to kiss the bride. Even though the bride kept silent, she raised her head slightly and straightened her back.

       When Li Zhentai returned to the stage, under the guidance of the host, he pulled Wen Chun’s shoulder and kissed her on the cheek.

       Wen Chun reluctantly curled the corners of her mouth, not even showing a smile.

       At this time, there was another person with an ugly face. Li Zhenruo looked toward Li Zhenzi and saw that his face was slightly pale. Everyone on the stage noticed the strangeness, but not many could relate to that one photo just now. Some people thought that Li Zhentai lost his temper because of the wrong photo.

       But Li Zhenzi had two people who were familiar with him, one was Su Yao, who was looking at Li Zhenzi with a frown; the other was Yu Bingwei. Li Zhenruo saw Yu Bingwei smiling bitterly to herself. She suddenly stood up and wanted to leave.

       Li Zhenzi grabbed her wrist, “Weiwei?”

       Yu Bingwei smiled at him, “I’m going to the bathroom.”

       Only then did Li Zhenzi let go of his hand.

       The wedding continued.

       Li Zhenran returned to the seat and sat down, leaned back slightly and raised one of his long legs.

       Li Zhenruo asked him in a low voice, “Is that Li Zhenzi just now? How is your eldest brother?”

       Li Zhenran said plainly, “Dad said the wedding will continue.”

       Li Jianglin has spoken, and with Li Zhentai’s character, he would definitely not disobey him. But it was a bit hard for him to continue to pretend to hold the wedding as if nothing was wrong when he just found that he was wearing a big green hat²a figurative symbol of a husband who was cheated by his wife.

       Zhu Kai had been in a happy mood from the beginning. He didn’t care even when he saw Li Zhenran was looking at him, he raised his glass and said, “What a wonderful wedding.”

       Even if he didn’t admit it, Li Jianglin would definitely ask someone to check, and in the end, it would always be found on his head.

       As soon as the wedding ceremony ended, Li Zhenran got up and walked toward the lounge next to the banquet hall, and Li Zhenruo quickly followed. He saw Li Zhenzi stand up and walk in the direction of Li Jianglin, it seemed that he was going to surrender himself first and strived for leniency.

       At this time, the banquet had already started. Wen Chun should have gone to change a set of clothes along with Li Zhentai to toast the guests, but after she came into the restroom from outside, she had been sitting in silence.

       Li Zhentai walked in behind and pushed everything on the dressing table to the ground.

       The bridesmaids and the makeup artist were all taken aback. Li Zhenran followed closely and said to the bridesmaids and makeup artists, “Please go out first.” He then asked the best man to leave, including Li Zhenran’s assistant, Gao Qi, to go out.

       Gao Qi was a little unhappy, but seeing that Li Zhentai was silent and did not speak, he had to go out silently.

       Li Zhenruo wanted to follow up, but Li Zhenran said to him, “Wait for me outside.”

       He was a stranger to Li Zhentai and Wen Chun, and it was not suitable for him to appear on such an occasion, so he could only obey Li Zhenran’s instructions and wait at the door.

       The bridesmaids and groomsmen were whispering, not knowing exactly what happened, but there were guesses in their hearts.

       After a while, Li Jianglin also came over with the help of Li Zhenzi.

       Li Jianglin opened the door of the lounge and went in. Before entering, he said to Li Zhenzi, “Don’t go in.” At this time, Li Zhenzi’s entry would only make Li Zhentai furious, so it was better not to show his face.

       Li Zhenzi nodded.

       After Li Jianglin entered, Li Zhenzi seemed to feel a little embarrassed when he saw the group of people surrounding him. He took out a cigarette, hesitated when he wanted to light it, and finally turned around and walked outside.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t hear what was said inside, but he guessed that Li Jianglin must be persuading the two of them to continue the wedding. With so many people on such a big occasion, the Li family couldn’t afford to lose face.

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Dog my cats³is an internet term used as a mild curse, or to express surprise, from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn., the plot has all been guessed!

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Notes:
You know, just my own thoughts. It’s kinda unfair for Zhentai to be THAT mad when he was also cheating. Just because no one knows he cheats, doesn’t mean he’s frigging innocent.

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       “Have you eaten yet?” Li Zhenran asked him.

       At that moment, Li Zhenruo decided to tidy up his messy emotions. He touched Li Zhenran’s hand, held it, and said, “Not yet, how is your father?”

       Li Zhenran took his hand to make him stand up, sat on the office chair by himself, and then held Li Zhenruo’s waist and let him sit on top of him.

       This was a bit awkward, well, it was not too awkward, since Li Zhenruo has long been used to sitting on Li Zhenran’s lap.

       As Li Zhenran rubbed Li Zhenruo’s side waist lightly, he said, “It’s nothing, he’s going to stay in the hospital for a few days for observation.”

       Li Zhenruo asked him, “Then why did you come back?”

       Li Zhenran said, “The hospital has nurses, so I don’t need to watch the night. Eldest brother and the third child have already rushed over.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “That’s good.”

       Li Zhenran suddenly chuckled, and Li Zhenruo turned to look at him inexplicably.

       Li Zhenran tilted his head with a smile in his eyes, “My dad said that the boy who rescued him in the elevator pretended not to know him at first, but when he saw him sick, he immediately knew who he was.”

       Li Zhenruo pretended to be bashful, “It’s my fault for being a little nervous about being in the elevator with him. I’m afraid he would suspect our relationship.”

       “What’s our relationship?” Li Zhenran held his hand tightly.

       Li Zhenruo shook his upper body gently, “Isn’t it the relationship between the owner and the pet?”

       This sounded like it had a double meaning, and Li Zhenruo knew that it would definitely be an answer that would satisfy Li Zhenran.

       Sure enough, Li Zhenran let out an “um—” sound. “You know, there are some things the owner will worry about. As a pet, all you have to do is to make the owner happy, right?”

       Li Zhenruo wanted to roll his eyes, but his mouth was exceptionally smart, “I know, Master.”

       Li Zhenran reached out and pulled the collar on his neck, “Let’s go, I’ll take you to dinner, what do you want to eat?”

       Li Zhenruo replied, “Eat whatever you want, as long as it’s not cat food.”

       At this time, the driver had been sent back by Li Zhenran, and when he came out of the company, Li Zhenran personally drove the car and took Li Zhenruo around on the street without a destination.

       Later, when he saw a long queue at a small restaurant on the side of the road, Li Zhenruo pointed out, “Let’s eat that.”

       Li Zhenran didn’t object. He found a place to park the car nearby and walked over to eat with Li Zhenruo.

       Before getting out of the car, Li Zhenran took off his suit jacket and tie, made an opening on his collar, and rolled up his sleeves. In summer, the evening temperature was nearly 30 degrees. Li Zhenran usually stayed in places with air conditioning. Suddenly walking on the street like this made it look like he was dressing too thick.

       And Li Zhenruo dressed casually in a T-shirt and sweatpants, like a student.

       When Li Zhenran rolled up his sleeves, Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that he was terribly sexy.

       “Let’s go,” Li Zhenran patted Li Zhenruo’s head, opened the door and got out of the car.

       It was just a quick glance just now. Li Zhenruo only saw a lot of people lining up outside the restaurant and didn’t know what they were eating. Only then did he come to know that it was a shop selling spicy crayfish.

       They took a number and asked the restaurant waiter. They knew it would take almost half an hour to line up.

       Li Zhenruo was a little hesitant because it was too hot outside, but Li Zhenran didn’t care and sat down on the small stool.

       It was a strange feeling. If it were in the past, even if he were killed, he wouldn’t believe that one day he and Li Zhenran would sit in line outside a small roadside restaurant, waiting for a meal of crayfish. Even if it was really delicious, Li Zhenruo would only ask someone to buy it for him, instead of sitting here stupidly queuing up, let alone with Li Zhenran.

       Suddenly, Li Zhenran reached out and held the hand he had placed beside him.

       Li Zhenruo could not help but tense up for a moment and tried to see if anyone around noticed. At this time, the people in line were either chatting or looking down at their mobile phones. No one paid attention to them anyway. After a little twitching, he took Li Zhenran’s hand back as a matter of course.

       The two of them didn’t speak, they sat on the side of the road and held hands quietly. Even if it was their first love, Li Zhenruo had never tried to be so clingy with others.

       After waiting for about ten minutes, Li Zhenruo saw a young man and woman pass by in front of him. They looked like they were dressed like college students.

       When he passed in front of him, the man stopped in his tracks, and the long-haired girl continued to walk forward to find the waiter in the restaurant to line up.

       The boy stood still, turned his head and looked at Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo was stunned and looked at the boy, only to see that he was tall and thin, with fair and handsome features. The boy was wearing a plaid shirt and denim trousers and looked very refined.

       The boy looked at Li Zhenruo’s eyes with some doubt, but Li Zhenruo felt his heart beating violently at this moment. He looked at the boy and almost couldn’t help standing up, but when he moved, he felt that Li Zhenran was holding his palm with the strength increased slightly.

       Li Zhenruo turned to look at Li Zhenran and saw that Li Zhenran was frowning at him before he snapped out of it.

       At this time, the girl who was with the boy got the number, went back to him and joked with him, took his hand and walked to the vacant seat next to him to sit down and wait for the number.

       The two left Li Zhenruo’s sight, and he heard Li Zhenran ask him in his ear, “Do you know him?”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head a little dazedly.

       Li Zhenran said, “Then what are you looking at?”

       He felt that Li Zhenran’s tone was a bit unhappy and quickly said, “I just think…… He might not be human.”

       Li Zhenruo said this nonsense casually in order to divert Li Zhenran’s attention. It was a bit strange to tell the truth just now. The reason for the rapid heartbeat was that Li Zhenruo felt an indescribable attraction. At that moment, he even thought he was in love with the boy at first sight.

       But when he thought about it carefully, there was something wrong. The attraction was not so much a mental attraction, but a physical one, completely out of the control of his own thinking. Li Zhenruo thought it was strange, so he decided to remember this matter and consult Xia Hongshen when he had time.

       And Li Zhenran was successfully distracted by him, “Not a human?”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, “I guess he’s my kind. You should be more careful next time you see him.”

       Li Zhenran had no idea in his mind, so he ignored his words.

       After waiting in line for half an hour, it was finally the two of them’s turn.

       Li Zhenran sat down and read the menu for a while, then raised his head and asked the waiter, “Can cats eat crayfish?”

       Li Zhenruo was wiping the table with a piece of paper, and looked at him for a while, and saw that he had a serious look on his face.

       The waiter froze and said, “Ah, can it? Don’t cats like to eat fish? Fish and shrimp should be similar, right?”

       Li Zhenran thought about it for a while and seemed to think it made sense, so he said, “One pound each for fried and steamed.”

       The two had a full meal outside, and then the young man and woman came in and happened to be sitting at the table behind Li Zhenran. As soon as Li Zhenruo looked up, he found that the boy on the opposite side was looking at him. When he looked over, the boy didn’t turn his eyes away and just stared straight at him.

       Later, Li Zhenruo didn’t dare to stare at him for too long, for fear that Li Zhenran would notice and it would make him unhappy.

       As they returned to Li’s house in the evening, Li Zhenruo hid in the car and changed back to the appearance of a cat. The clothes that fell off were folded by Li Zhenran and brought back upstairs for him.

       Li Zhenruo followed Li Zhenran into the living room and saw Wen Chun talking to Wang Ma in the dining room.

       When Wang Ma saw Li Zhenran, she stood up from her chair and said, “Did you take your father to the hospital today?”

       Li Zhenran nodded.

       Li Zhenruo stuck his head out from his leg and saw Wang Ma also look worried.

       “How did he have an attack in the elevator?” Wang Ma asked with a sigh.

       Li Zhenran said, “It’s probably due to the elevator malfunction. It’s already fine, don’t worry, Wang Ma.”

       “Oh dear—” Wang Ma shook her head and said, “As you get older, your health just gets worse and worse.” He didn’t know if she was talking about Li Jianglin, or herself.

       Wen Chun was sitting by the dining table with a water glass in her hand, but she also stood up and asked Li Zhenran, “I heard that the person who gave dad first aid in the elevator today was your new assistant?”

       Li Zhenran nodded, “Yes.”

       Wen Chun said strangely, “How come I haven’t seen him before?”

       Li Zhenran said to her, “The new one is still on probation.”

       Wen Chun replied, “Oh…” After she finished speaking, she noticed the cat following Li Zhenran’s legs, smiled and waved, “Dumpling.”

       Li Zhenruo wanted to raise his paw to wave at her, he half raised his paws and felt it was not quite right. So he grabbed Li Zhenran’s trouser leg, pretended to be afraid, and pressed his face to Li Zhenran’s leg.

       Li Zhenran glanced at him and said to Wen Chun and the others, “I’ll go upstairs first.”

       Li Zhenruo sprang out from his legs and ran upstairs first.

       Early the next morning, Li Zhenruo turned over beside Li Zhenran’s bed and didn’t notice that his cat’s paw hit Li Zhenran’s face and woke him up.

       Li Zhenran opened his eyes and grabbed his paw. He was originally about to throw Li Zhenruo off the bed, but he just put Li Zhenruo’s paw on his lips and kissed it lightly.

       Li Zhenruo opened his eyes inexplicably, looked at him with sleepy eyes, and scratched his eyes with his paws.

       Li Zhenran sat up and called the hospital to ask about Li Jianglin’s condition.

       Li Zhenruo turned over and got out of bed to go to the bathroom. When he came out, he had become a naked young man. He walked to the bed and sat cross-legged, yawned, and asked, “Is dad all right?”

       Li Zhenran threw the phone aside, leaned his body back against the bed, looked at him and said, “You called him so affectionately?”

       Li Zhenruo was still half awake, and when he heard Li Zhenran’s question, he quickly got up and rushed forward, wrapping his arms around Li Zhenran’s neck, almost touching his lips and saying, “Then what should I call him? Grandpa?”

       Li Zhenran put one arm around his waist and rubbed lightly, “Then aren’t you going to call me dad?”

       Inside his heart, Li Zhenruo was thinking, Li Zhenran you are so shameless, I really didn’t see this before! But his mouth said, “What are you talking about!” After that, he kissed Li Zhenran’s lips.

       An inexplicable conversation developed into a passionate scene early in the morning. Li Zhenruo felt that he should be cautious and not make Li Zhenran suspect him. Otherwise, Li Zhenran wouldn’t always be able to be fooled, and he would definitely doubt him over time.

       Maybe Li Zhenran had suspected him for a long time, but his thoughts were too deep to let Li Zhenruo see it.

       Li Zhenruo was panting slightly, his sweaty head resting on Li Zhenran’s shoulders, his arms wrapped around his waist.

       Li Zhenran said suddenly, “Dad asked you to come over.”

       Li Zhenruo wanted to ask “What did Dad call me over for?”, but he knew that he couldn’t say it without saying the word “Dad”. With a knot in his head, he said, “What did Grandpa tell me to do?”

       Li Zhenran laughed, his chest shook, and he pinched Li Zhenruo’s face and saying, “He wants to see the grandson.”

       No matter how thick-skinned Li Zhenruo was, he couldn’t help being a little ashamed. He scratched his face and said, “What if he suspects us?”

       “What can we do?” Li Zhenran said, “It doesn’t matter.”

       Li Zhenruo looked up at his expression and saw that Li Zhenran’s expression was calm as if he really didn’t care if Li Jianglin knew that his son was entangled with a man.

       Li Zhenran had already got up at this time, patted Li Zhenruo’s head, and said, “Son, go take a bath, and follow me to the hospital later.”

       Li Zhenruo knew that his temporary slip of the tongue would definitely be made fun of by Li Zhenran for a long time. He wanted to go out and call Li Zhenran dad, but after all, he couldn’t say it, because it reminded him of Li Jianglin, so he could only endure the sulking.

       When he went out with Li Zhenran in the morning, he was still a cat, but when he arrived at the hospital, he became a handsome young man. But it was a pity that the clothes were the same as yesterday.

       “You left all your clothes in the company,” Li Zhenran said impatiently, “My dad can see if you are wearing my clothes.”

       Li Zhenruo took the T-shirt and smelled it, and could still smell the smell of crayfish.

       Li Jianglin lives in the VIP ward and was guarded by a dedicated nurse and a doctor who was directly in charge of his hospital bed. It didn’t matter even if there was no family to accompany him.

       Li Zhenran knocked on the door first, then twisted the door handle to go in.

       Li Zhenruo stood by the door and did not follow up immediately, but quietly leaned against the wall to wait for him. After a while, Li Zhenran opened the door and said to him, “Come in.”

       Li Jianglin had already woken up and leaned on the bed. He seemed to be in good spirits.

       Li Zhenruo walked in, bowed respectfully and greeted, “Mr. Li.”

       Li Jianglin looked at him for a moment, then smiled and said, “Are you Zhenran’s assistant?”

       Li Zhenruo said quickly, “I’m still in the internship period, and I haven’t officially become the second assistant.”

       Li Jianglin asked him, “What’s your name?”

       Li Zhenruo glanced at Li Zhenran and said, “Jason.”

       Li Jianglin said, “What about your Chinese name?”

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath, hating himself for not being able to rush over to strangle Li Zhenran. He gritted his teeth and said, “My name is Li Tuan¹he deliberately didn’t say Tuanzi(dumpling) to avoid suspicion..”

       Li Jianglin couldn’t help frowning slightly and then asked, “Which Tuan²he’s asking about what Chinese word is his Tuan. See note below.?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Tuan as in regiment.”

       Li Jianglin laughed when he heard the words, “Does your family want you to be a soldier?”

       Li Zhenruo thought to himself, thank God that Li Jianglin didn’t think of a cat called Tuanzi in the Li family, and replied with a wry smile, “Yes, my dad didn’t tell me.”

       Li Jianglin looked at him for a while, “How old are you? You look quite young.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I am nineteen years old.”

       Li Jianglin heard the words and said, “Looks like a high school student. Why did you work at the age of nineteen and didn’t go to college?”

       The more he talked, the more issues were exposed. Li Zhenruo was unable to make up an identity story out of the blue, he was afraid that the story would be too careless, and Li Jianglin would know that there was a problem after checking.

       So if you tell a lie, you need to keep lying to make up the lie, which was really painful.

       Li Zhenran answered at this time, “He is doing an internship while going to university, and it is just summer vacation now.”

       Li Jianglin nodded. It was hard to say whether he believed it or not. He propped himself on the mattress with his hands and wanted to change to a more comfortable position.

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly stepped forward to help him.

       Li Jianglin patted the back of his hand to show his thanks and then motioned for Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo to both sit down, since there was no need to stand while talking.

       When Li Zhenran sat down beside the bed, he said, “Jason is Luo Fei’s cousin.”

       Li Zhenruo bit his lip and pretended to be a little embarrassed.

       Li Jianglin nodded with understanding and said, “Is that so.” Then he asked Li Zhenruo, “If you know me, why did you pretend not to know me in the elevator at first?”

       Li Zhenruo’s fingers were crossed and he squeezed them nervously, “When I rushed in, I thought it was you but I weren’t sure. And after hesitating, I was embarrassed to speak, so I pretended not to know you. Didn’t I worry about you afterwards?”

       As Li Jianglin heard him say so, he smile and shook his head.

       Li Zhenruo asked cautiously, “Old man, is your body okay?”

       Li Jianglin said, “It’s nothing, since you are Luo Fei’s cousin, just call me Uncle Li, you don’t need to be so distant.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, coyly afraid to call out.

       Li Jianglin asked him again, “How do you know that I have medicine on me?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “One of my uncles has a heart attack. He said that he takes medicine with him wherever he goes. So I thought I’d give it a try then, thinking it would be good if I could find it. I hope it has helped you.”

       Li Jianglin smiled at him, “You have helped me a lot, thank you, young man.”

       Li Zhenruo lowered his head and smiled.

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Notes:
This happens a lot to Chinese when they are asking for names. For example, if your name is Zhang, they will ask you which Zhang as in which character is the Zhang is written to know the meaning of their name. In the story, Li Jianglin was asking which Tuan because the character 团 (tuán) can mean several things such as round, lump, ball, regiment, group, and society.

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       Finding someone to unlock Zhao Yuqiong’s former residence was much easier than Li Zhenruo expected.

       At first, he was worried that the next-door neighbour would come out and accuse him as a thief, but he didn’t expect that the building was really about to be demolished, and even the few remaining residents had moved out.

       Li Zhenruo found an unprofessional locksmith and spent 100 yuan for that person to help him unlock the door.

       The locksmith took the money and left. Li Zhenruo slowly pushed open the wooden door that had been covered by dust for a long time, and the old mouldy smell filled his nostrils. Actually, the house was kept clean. Although Zhao Yuqiong had left, Li Jianglin had found someone to clean the room. All the furniture was covered with white cloth, and the windows were all locked from the inside.

       It was just that Li Jianglin seemed to have forgotten about the house after he found someone to clean it up. No one has come in and touched the furniture for so many years.

       The furniture in the house was very simple. It was just a small apartment with one bedroom, one living room, and a very old TV style. Li Zhenruo has some doubts that if it could be used at all now. He stood quietly in the living room for a while, and in a trance, he seemed to see a young woman with a big belly sitting down on the sofa with difficulty, then lowered her head and gently stroked her belly.

       He took a deep breath and walked toward Zhao Yuqiong’s bedroom.

       The bedroom has a large bed, a bedside table, a desk and a wardrobe. Since the room was not big, the furniture was arranged compactly.

       Li Zhenruo reached out and opened the cabinet, and thought that he could see Zhao Yuqiong’s previous clothes. To be honest, his emotions were very complicated, and he was even a little scared, but when he opened the door of the cabinet, he found that there was nothing inside.

       He was stunned for a moment, Li Zhenruo wondered if there was a custom to burn all the clothes of the deceased. He didn’t know much about it, but he seemed to have heard of it when he was a child.

       So he walked to the front of the desk. Li Zhenruo sat down and opened the drawer.

       There were some miscellaneous items in the drawer, including some women’s small jewellery and one ruby ​​necklaces that looked very tacky now. The ruby was obviously an artificial fake gem, and it was not worth much, but Zhao Yuqiong still carefully store it away.

       Li Zhenruo found an album in the drawer on the right side, he hurriedly took it out and opened it, but found that it was an empty album with no photos posted in it.

       After he stared blankly for a moment, Li Zhenruo noticed that it was a children’s album, from the baby’s one-month-old birthday to the age of one or two, recording the trajectory of the child’s growth. He thought that this might have been prepared for him by Zhao Yuqiong, but unfortunately, she was not able to accompany her son to grow up.

       There were a lot of emotions that he thought he wouldn’t care about, but at this time they came out in a flood. Li Zhenruo lowered his head and put the album back, and slowly closed his eyes.

       He rummaged through the drawers of the desk and couldn’t find anything of value. He didn’t find a letter or the diary he hoped for, just as this empty room didn’t leave many records about this woman.

       Li Zhenruo stood up and put his last hope on the bedside table.

       There were two drawers on the bedside table. The one on the top was filled with keys and some old certificates, while the one on the bottom was empty. The bottom was covered with newspapers, perhaps previously used to put socks and underwear within the personal belongings.

       Li Zhenruo was originally squatting on the edge of the bed and wanted to get up at this time, but suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a white piece of paper under the mattress, showing a small corner on the outside. If he didn’t look carefully, he wouldn’t notice it at all.

       He reached out and grabbed a piece of paper, raised the mattress with the other hand, and pulled out the piece of paper. Only then did he see clearly that it was the back of a photo, and there was not only one photo under it. He hurriedly pulled out the other one as well.

       As he flipped the photo to see the front, Li Zhenruo saw that it was a group photo of two people. The colour in the photo seemed to be too old and had begun to turn yellow. The background of the photo was probably a scenic spot in China, and there were two people in front, one of them was a young Zhao Yuqiong, and the other was a young man. Because the person was photographed somewhat small, it was difficult to see the man’s face clearly, but Li Zhenruo was sure that it was not Li Jianglin.

       He flipped through another photo, this time it was a one-person photo. It was the man in the photo just now, wearing the same clothes, standing in front of a stone monument in a scenic area. This photo was so clear that Li Zhenruo can see his facial features carefully.

       He unconsciously tightened his fingers while holding the photo, because he could see clearly that the man’s appearance was clearly similar to his.

       If that man were to stand with Li Jianglin, he would probably doubt that he was not Li Jianglin’s biological son just by looking at him.

       Li Zhenruo’s legs become a little numb after squatting for a long time. He got up and sat down beside the bed regardless of the dust on the bed. He never took his eyes off the photo. He knew what these two photos meant. If Li Jianglin saw these two photos at the beginning, then he would not be Li Zhenruo, maybe his surname was Zhao, or maybe it was something else.

       Before, he had been thinking about who had discovered what clues and began to doubt his relationship with Li Jianglin. Now he was holding these two photos in his hand, and he began to have some thoughts in his heart.

       Li Zhenruo bent down and carefully looked at the traces under the mattress. He believed that these two photos should have been pressed here for more than 20 years and no one could find them. When he pulled it out just now, it was even stuck to the bedboard and needed to be removed with force. So are there other pictures? Could it be that the man in this photo has appeared?

       He sat up straight and raised his hand to rustle his hair.

       If he had discovered these two photos a few years ago, his first reaction would have been to destroy the remains, but now it was no longer necessary. Anyway, it was a secret that was no longer important.

       He stood up with the photo and planned to take it away. There were other things besides the picture, and it seemed that Li Jianglin has completely forgotten about the existence of this house. Even if it was demolished, he would definitely not come to remove the things, because it was meaningless to him. At that time, this stuff would probably be transported and disposed of together with the construction waste. If he wanted to take away some memories of Zhao Yuqiong, then there was only now.

       But Li Zhenruo also has a problem, that was, that he had no place of his own now, and he must live with Li Zhenran. No matter where these things were stored, it would be difficult not to be discovered by Li Zhenran.

       After he hesitated for a while, Li Zhenruo put away the photos, including the tacky ruby ​​necklace in the drawer and the blank photo album, and put them into an empty file bag, then quietly exited and closed the door.

       Li Zhenruo left Zhao Yuqiong’s former residence and called Feng Junyuan.

       Dr. xiao Feng was still working in the hospital at this time and received a call from Li Zhenruo asking him to come to the hospital to find him.

       Li Zhenruo took a taxi and found him in the surgical department where Feng Junyuan worked. He handed the file bag to him and said, “Doctor Feng, could you please help me keep these things?”

       Feng Junyuan saw that his attitude was so solemn, and asked, “Is it a very valuable thing?”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head, “It’s not worth the money, but it’s important to me.”

       Feng Junyuan looked down at the old and yellowed file bag, nodded and replied, “Okay.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but smile, “Thank you so much, you have helped me a lot, but please don’t tell Mr. Luo about this, I don’t know if it’s okay?”

       Feng Junyuan replied, “Well, but even if Luo Fei knew about it, he wouldn’t say anything to Li Zhenran.”

       Even when he knew what he was thinking was seen through by the other party, Li Zhenruo didn’t care, and said, “It’s nothing really, I just don’t want him to know something now.”

       Feng Junyuan said, “Don’t worry.”

       For some reason, Li Zhenruo felt very relieved when he heard Feng Junyuan say “don’t worry”. He has a strange sense of trust in Feng Junyuan and Song Jun, probably because Feng Junyuan offered him a helping hand when he was most at a loss and helpless, making him feel that this person was truly reliable.

       As he left the hospital, Li Zhenruo saw that it was late, so he took a taxi back to Yunlin.

       The security guard downstairs already knew him, and no one came forward to stop him. It was almost time to get off work at that time, and Li Zhenruo was in a hurry to leave, afraid that Li Zhenran would call him later. He hurried into the VIP elevator leading to the 22nd floor and above. When he looked up, he found that there was still a person standing inside, and it turned out to be Li Jianglin.

       The elevator came up from the first floor, and Li Zhenruo was frozen. He realized that Li Jianglin had probably returned from something temporarily, and had just come out of the underground parking lot to go up to the twenty-fourth floor where his office was located.

       The elevator dedicated to the Li family was not forbidden to be used by other employees, but except for new employees or people from outside who occasionally made mistakes, the company employees usually do not use this elevator.

       When Li Zhenruo rushed in, Li Jianglin just glanced at him, stood up straight with crutches in his hand, and said nothing.

       He didn’t ask, Li Zhenruo simply pretended not to know, and even pretended not to recognize Li Jianglin, pressed the elevator door with his back to him, and pressed the button leading to the twenty-third floor.

       The elevator went up smoothly, Li Zhenruo lowered his head and wanted to hum some songs pretending to be indifferent.

       When they reached the tenth floor, the elevator seemed to shake. Li Zhenruo immediately looked up and saw that the elevator was still going up, but as it goes up two more floors, the elevator shook more and more. Li Zhenruo began to feel that something was wrong, so he reached out and pressed the nearest elevator floor and want the elevator to stop.

       Sure enough, when it reached the thirteenth floor, the elevator stopped, but it stopped completely. After making a clanging sound, it stopped firmly, but the elevator door did not open.

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly pressed the door button, but there was no response, and the light above his head flashed and suddenly went out.

       Now he could be sure that he has encountered an elevator failure. After he dazed for a little, Li Zhenruo pressed the call button outside and called for help.

       “Anyone?” Li Zhenruo shouted. He didn’t hear a reply from outside, and he didn’t know if the communication line was malfunctioning, or if no one could hear his call for help.

       At the same time, Li Zhenruo heard a crisp sound behind him. He didn’t realize what it was at first, but then he suddenly remembered that Li Jianglin was still inside, and the sound just now sounded like Li Jianglin’s crutch fell to the ground on the elevator floor.

       Not only did Li Jianglin fall down on his crutches, but he also seemed to be very uncomfortable. His hand was propped on the elevator wall and looked like he was trembling.

       Li Zhenruo could barely see Li Jianglin’s figure by the emergency light on the elevator panel. He stepped forward to help him and asked, “Old man, are you alright?”

       With the help of Li Zhenruo, Li Jianglin stood up forcibly, covering his chest with one hand, as if he was too uncomfortable to speak.

       Li Zhenruo knew that Li Jianglin had a heart problem, but he didn’t expect that he would suddenly fall ill at this time. At this time, he couldn’t care to continue to call for help. He could only help Li Jianglin to lie down first, and knelt on the ground to let him rest on his knees. He reached out to touch Li Jianglin’s jacket pocket. He knew that Li Jianglin had the habit of carrying medicines with him.

       After he found the medicine bottle, Li Zhenruo hurriedly unscrewed the cap, poured out the medicine and fed it to Li Jianglin’s mouth, saying, “Old man, take the medicine first.”

       Li Jianglin opened his mouth and swallowed the medicine.

       Li Zhenruo then immediately took out his mobile phone and called Li Zhenran. His tone was hurried. As soon as Li Zhenran answered the phone, he said, “Your father and I are trapped in the company elevator. Your father has a heart attack now, quickly find someone to get him out!”

       Li Zhenran asked calmly, “Which floor are you on?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “The thirteenth floor! We’re in the VIP elevator, hurry up.”

       Li Zhenran seemed to have already acted, and he said, “Wait for me.”

       He didn’t hang up the phone, but Li Zhenran didn’t care to talk to him. He called out to Hua Yibang to call the engineering department and the security department, while he took another elevator to go down to the thirteenth floor.

       In the small and dark space, Li Zhenruo could only hear Li Jianglin’s rapid breathing, and he couldn’t help raising his hand to wipe the sweat from Li Jianglin’s forehead.

       Li Jianglin was not his biological father. Although he knew it for a long time, he still felt nervous and heartbroken at this time.

       Li Zhenran’s side was very efficient. In less than two minutes, many people had gathered outside the elevator, planning to pry open the elevator door directly.

       When Li Zhenruo heard Li Zhenran calling him on the phone, he quickly put it to his ear and said, “I’m here.”

       Li Zhenran asked, “Are you all right?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I’m fine, but your father is not very well.”

       At this time, Li Zhenruo found that the elevator door had been pried open, and soon after that, several security personnel opened the elevator door that was powered off for safety. Li Zhenruo half supported and carried Li Jianglin first and sent him out.

       Li Zhenran reached out and took Li Jianglin, picked him up in person, and hurried into the elevator next door. He had to take Li Jianglin to the hospital.

       Li Zhenruo was a little out of strength and stretched out his hand to hold the inner wall of the elevator. The staff outside called him loudly. With the help of others, he got out of the elevator, waved his hand and said nothing, and then stood quietly with his back against the wall for a while.

       “Are you okay?”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly heard someone ask him, and turned to see that it was Hua Yibang.

       Hua Yibang said to him, “Zhenran asked me to take you back first. Shall we go now?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a while and thought that he would definitely not be able to go back to Li’s house like this. He was somewhat ashamed to turn into a cat in front of Hua Yibang, so he simply shook his head and said, “No, I’ll go to Ran ge’s office and stay there for a while, you can go first, don’t worry about me.”

       Hua Yibang was obviously hesitant because Li Zhenran ordered him to send this… um… his cat back to Li’s house.

       Li Zhenruo pointed upstairs, “His office is unlocked, right?”

       Hua Yibang took out the card from his pocket and gave it to him.

       Li Zhenruo took it and said with a smile, “Thank you, xiao Hua ge,” and then walked to the side and pressed the elevator upstairs.

       Hua Yibang did not follow him upstairs but called Li Zhenran to say that his little cat refused to go back, and was in his office now. In fact, Hua Yibang’s word in his heart was “your little stray cat”, but he was too embarrassed to say it.

       Li Zhenran said to Hua Yibang, “Let him go, you don’t have to worry about him.”

       Li Zhenruo went up to the 23rd floor alone, opened the door of Li Zhenran’s office with a key card, and then turned on all the lights. He walked slowly to the desk to sit down.

       Li Zhenran’s office was almost the same as his previous office. He sat on a chair with his eyes closed and seemed to be transported back to the past.

       Li Zhenruo experienced too many things in just one day, and he was a little exhausted. As soon as he closed his eyes, an old photo of Zhao Yuqiong appeared in the darkness, and the sound of Li Jianglin’s rapid breathing in the elevator just now sounded in his ears.

       Li Zhenruo began to make up stories for the two of them in his head, thought about how they met, how Zhao Yuqiong had fornicated with other men and got pregnant and then tricked Li Jianglin into handing over the child to him.

       When he opened his eyes, those pictures disappeared. Li Zhenruo knew that he would never be able to piece together a complete truth just with imagination, but the deeper he dug, the sadder and exhausted he felt.

       He took a deep breath, Li Zhenruo sat on the table and chair, turned for half a circle, slid forward a certain distance and stopped in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window. He stared at the city outside motionlessly and saw that the sky was slowly darkening until it was pitch black, the surrounding tall buildings were lit up one after another, the streets were jammed with cars, and the colours looked like a gorgeous river.

       He stared blankly. He didn’t know how long it was, and suddenly heard the sound of the office door being opened.

       Li Zhenran was back.

       He was still wearing the suit he used to go to work today, his slender legs wrapped in straight suits and trousers, and walked slowly towards the window. When he passed the desk, he threw the key card on it and made a crisp sound, and then stood behind Li Zhenruo.

       “What are you looking at?” Li Zhenran asked Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo did not answer.

       Li Zhenran reached out with one hand, and pressed his palm against Li Zhenruo’s neck, slowly stroking it upwards.

       His palms were dry and warm, full of irresistible force, holding Li Zhenruo’s lower jaw to raise his head, then bent down and kissed Li Zhenruo’s lips.

       A kiss full of encroachment, after the kiss ended, Li Zhenruo found himself gasping for breath.

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       When Li Zhenran came down to eat breakfast, Zhu Kai said to him with great interest, “Zhenran, are you swimming in the afternoon?”

       Li Zhenruo went downstairs before Li Zhenran and was lying next to the dining table looking at today’s breakfast. When he heard this, he turned his head to look at Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran smiled and replied, “Yes.”

       Li Zhenruo knew that Li Zhenran’s swimming skills were very good. He remembered that Li Zhenran seemed to have participated in a national swimming competition when he was in high school. Although Li Zhenran only won second place in the end, Li Zhenruo felt very amazed at that time.

       In his memory, he had seen Li Zhenran more than once in front of the swimming pool at home, wearing a pair of dark swimming trunks, stretching his slender body and jumping into the water, swimming forward like a fish through the waves.

       Later, as he got older, his time at home gradually became less, and he had less communication with Li Zhenran. Unexpectedly, there was nothing much to remember.

       The workers at home spent the morning cleaning out the swimming pool and began to fill up the water at noon. In the afternoon, Li Zhenruo took a nap and was lying on the window sill of Li Zhenran’s room on the third floor. He looked down and saw the rippling water as if he could feel the cool water coming to his face.

       Zhu Kai was the most energetic. He changed into a pair of swimming trunks, revealing a slightly thin and pale body. He stood on the edge of the pool, and shouted at the window of Li Zhenran’s room, “Zhenran, come down and swim!”

       Wang Ma took her unfinished sweater and sat under the parasol next to the swimming pool, smiling and watching Zhu Kai making a fuss by the swimming pool.

       Li Zhenruo jumped out of the window at this time. He ran to the bed and slapped Li Zhenran, who was still taking a nap with his paws, urging him to go swimming.

       Li Zhenran rubbed his eyes and sat up, went over to open the closet and started rummaging for his swimming trunks.

       When Li Zhenran stood in front of the swimming pool wearing swimming trunks, Li Zhenruo felt a little excited for no reason. Li Zhenran’s figure was much better than Zhu Kai’s. He has broad shoulders, a narrow waist and tight muscles. He made a standard exercise for entering the water, while Li Zhenruo spun on the side and almost fell into the pool.

       Then he calmed down and thought to himself what he was getting excited about.

       Li Zhenran didn’t jump into the water, but raised his hand and patted Li Zhenruo’s butt next to him, and patted him to dive in first. 

       Li Zhenruo fell into the water with a “slap” sound, only splashing a little water. Then he immediately started to be flustered and scrambled up. He was supposed to be able to swim, but at this time his limbs were uncoordinated and he didn’t know how to swim up.

       Wang Ma let out a burst of laughter.

       Immediately afterwards, Li Zhenran jumped into the water and supported Li Zhenruo’s forelimbs with his palms to lift him up.

       Li Zhenruo was still in shock, spit out the water he swallowed and gasped for air.

       Li Zhenran raised his hand and placed him on the shore of the pool, then stretched his arms to cut through the waves, and his slender and vigorous body was wrapped in white water and shot out like an arrow shot from a bow.

       Li Zhenruo stood on the shore, the fur all over his body was wet and sticking to his body. He looked thin and pitiful and sneezed twice. He stared at Li Zhenran in the water and was stunned.

       Zhu Kai sat aside, and patted Erhuang on the head, letting it go play by itself.

       Erhuang came towards Li Zhenruo, lowered his head and sniffed at him.

       Li Zhenruo quickly got up and moved away.

       Erhuang followed and seemed to be full of curiosity. Erhuang leaned close to Li Zhenruo’s head and sniffed hard.

       At this time, Li Zhenran had already swam back and forth to the edge of the swimming pool. He reached out and grabbed Li Zhenruo and put it on his shoulders. Li Zhenruo was afraid of slipping off, so he quickly grabbed Li Zhenran’s neck with his paws.

       “So lively today?” Li Zhenzi’s voice suddenly came from the shore.

       Li Zhenruo turned to look and saw Li Zhenzi wearing a casual suit and black leather shoes stepping on the white tiles next to the pool.

       Zhu Kai just jumped into the water. When he saw Li Zhenzi, he said, “Daniel, come down and play.”

       Li Zhenzi hasn’t come back since last night’s charity dinner. He should’ve spent the night at Yu Bingwei’s. He squatted down on the edge of the pool at this time and said with a smile, “I can’t swim, so I’d better watch my second brother swim. His movement is the most beautiful, and is all professional.”

       Li Zhenran’s wheat-coloured skin was stained with bright water droplets, and it shone in the sun. Li Zhenruo hugged his neck and stuck his head out from his shoulders, looking down. He was seeing the firm and supple chest, flat belly lines clearly extended to the swim trunks inside, covering the most beautiful scenery.

       Well, Li Zhenruo knew what the powerful thing that was underneath, and he suddenly felt a little shy when he thought of it, just like a young girl in love.

       He buried his face in Li Zhenran’s neck and rubbed it hard, and felt that Li Zhenran raised his hand to hold his ass.

       He didn’t know when, but Li Jianglin also came to the edge of the pool on his crutch.

       Wang Ma quickly got up and gave him her seat, and took another small stool to sit next to him.

       Li Jianglin was sitting on the chair, his eyes passed over Li Zhenran, looked at Zhu Kai, and finally waved to Li Zhenzi who was by the swimming pool, “Come here.”

       “Dad?” Li Zhenzi hurriedly walked over when he heard the words, slightly bending down and waiting for him to speak.

       Li Jianglin asked, “Where did you go last night?”

       Li Zhenzi often spends the night outside, and Li Jianglin knew this son well. He usually didn’t ask much, so no one expected him to ask such a question suddenly today.

       After a little hesitation, Li Zhenzi said, “I went out to play with my friends.”

       Li Jianglin’s eyes fell on the swimming pool, and he said to Li Zhenzi, “Your eldest brother is getting married. You’d better behave yourself during this time.”

       What did Li Zhentai’s marriage have to do with Li Zhenzi? What was the use of asking Li Zhenzi to behave?

       Li Zhenzi frowned slightly, and replied obediently, “Yes, I know.” But he couldn’t help but think more.

       In the swimming pool, Li Zhenruo was still holding on to Li Zhenran and refused to let go.

       Li Zhenran didn’t pull off his paws but simply sank into the water. Li Zhenruo could only follow him to sink into the water, drank a few mouthfuls of water, and was picked up by Li Zhenran.

       This time, he didn’t want to hold on to Li Zhenran anymore, but swam desperately to the shore, waving his little paws.

       Li Zhenran didn’t tease him anymore. He grabbed him and threw him ashore.

       It could be said because Li Zhenran swam in the afternoon, he was exhausted and went to bed as soon as possible at night. But somehow, he seemed to have not depleted all of his energy. In the end, he caught Li Zhenruo and torment him hard at night.

       Li Zhenruo felt like he was drowning again. With Li Zhenran’s violent movements, moving up and down. He dizzily thought that fortunately, Li Zhentai and his wife went out and were not downstairs. Since no matter how good the soundproofing of this floor was, it would not be able to cover the voice wholly. It was estimated that when tomorrow morning came, they would think that Li Zhenran was a pervert.

       Although the air conditioner was on, Li Zhenruo was sweating and felt sticky on his skin. He was hugged by Li Zhenran from behind, struggling to take a shower.

       Li Zhenran didn’t feel sleepy at this time, he tightly wrapped Li Zhenruo’s waist with one hand, and pulled his face with the other hand to make him turn to look at him.

       Li Zhenruo’s neck almost broke.

       Li Zhenran said, “Are you a cat demon?”

       This topic has not been brought up for a long time, and Li Zhenruo almost forgot. When he had just transformed into a human form, Li Zhenran had doubted him and felt that Li Zhenruo knew too much, and he didn’t look like an ignorant little demon who had just transformed into a human form.

       Later, he interrupted him. Li Zhenran hasn’t mentioned it for a long time. Li Zhenruo didn’t know what he did today that made Li Zhenran suddenly grab and asked him about this matter.

       Li Zhenruo said, “Yes, otherwise what am I?”

       Li Zhenran squeezed his face with a lot of strength, “I think you are a thousand-year-old demon?”

       Li Zhenruo wanted to roll his eyes and retorted, “From where is that age from?”

       Li Zhenran said, “Did an old demon from Montenegro send you to seduce men and suck people’s Yang energy?”

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath, grabbed Li Zhenran’s hand and pushed it away, “Don’t talk nonsense, you are the one tormenting me to death yourself, and now you have the nerve to blame me?” He rolled over and sat up, his waist was still a bit sore and weak.

       Li Zhenran propped his head on one hand and looked at him with a faint smile on his face.

       Li Zhenruo turned his head, hesitated, and then turned his whole body around. He casually sat cross-legged in front of Li Zhenran and said, “I’m not a thousand-year-old demon, I’m just an ordinary young demon. I met some catastrophe and suffered some injuries. Then in order to defend the core, I transformed into a cub, and ended up in a pet store just to be bought by someone.”

       This was complete nonsense. If Li Zhenran wants to insist on getting to the bottom of the matter, Li Zhenruo may not be able to complete the whole story, but he felt that with Li Zhenran’s character, he would not ask too much.

       Originally, it was bizarre enough for a cat to become a human, so let’s make it a little more mysterious and make up a reasonable history for himself.

       Besides, there really were demons in this world. Didn’t you think Xia Hongshen is?

       Li Zhenran really did not pursue it until the end. He just raised his hand, touched Li Zhenruo’s chest, right where the heart was, and asked him, “Is the injury healed?”

       Li Zhenruo felt his heart pounding wildly, he stared at Li Zhenran and said, “Yes, you see I can even maintain my human form.” After speaking, he licked his lips again, trying to hide his nervousness, and said, “In the past, only when I was in a rut, and the spiritual power was unstable, it was possible to transform into a human form.”

       Li Zhenran raised his hand and stroked Li Zhenruo’s moist lips with his fingers.

       This kind of tender look at Li Zhenruo really made Li Zhenruo feel a little uncomfortable. He simply closed his eyes, rushed towards Li Zhenran, pressed him on the bed and kissed his lips.

       What’s the point of talking so much? You’d better do it directly.

       On Sunday night, Li Zhentai and Wen Chun returned from Saipan after taking their wedding photos. They didn’t go for a long time this time, mainly because there were still many things to prepare for the wedding, and there was not too much time to rest.

       Because Li Zhenzi was hammered by Li Jianglin, he has been abnormally well-behaved in the past two days. After dinner, he went back to his room and locked himself up without harassing Wen Chun.

       During dinner, Zhu Kai asked Wen Chun, “Is it fun?”

       Wen Chun smiled, “Where’s the fun, just busy taking pictures and feeling exhausted.”

       Zhu Kai said with a smile, “At the most beautiful moment of a woman’s life, with her favourite man, wearing the most beautiful clothes and leaving a memory of love in the most beautiful place, what is a little tired?”

       Wen Chun heard the words and still smiled, but if one looked closely, the smile was somewhat reluctant, with a little unclear meaning.

       Li Zhenruo was lying on the side and thought that Zhu Kai must have done it on purpose. In the beginning, he made a special call to ask Zhu Kai to tell Li Jianglin of Wen Chun’s affair, of course, Zhu Kai couldn’t have forgotten it so quickly.

       He knew that Wen Chun had a problem with Li Zhentai’s feelings, and he deliberately said it to irritate people.

       Zhu Kai is such a s/ut!

       Li Zhenruo licked his paws and looked at Li Zhentai, who was talking to Li Jianglin: Was it you who called Yue Zijia that night?

       On Monday morning, Yunlin had a relatively large board of directors, and Li Jianglin was invited to attend.

       Li Zhenruo followed Li Zhenran into Yunlin, but Li Zhenran ignored him. He packed up and walked towards the conference room. He left Li Zhenruo to put on a set of clothes by himself and rummage through the cabinets. He still could not find his ID card, so he could only collect the money and card and went out.

       Hua Yibang had also followed Li Zhenran to the conference room at this time. Li Zhenruo had just come out of Li Zhenran’s office when he saw the door of the opposite office open, and Li Zhenzi hurriedly walked towards the elevator.

       Seeing Li Zhenruo, Li Zhenzi suddenly stopped, and then smiled at him, “Are you here to find my second brother?”

       Li Zhenruo pretended to be timid, “Ran ge said he had a meeting and told me to go first.”

       Su Yao came out after Li Zhenzi and was a little surprised to see Li Zhenruo, but she reminded Li Zhenzi, “We’re going to be late.”

       Li Zhenzi didn’t have time to talk nonsense with Li Zhenruo. He pressed the elevator and hurried in.

       Li Zhenruo waited for him to leave, then pressed the elevator button-down and stood in the corridor waiting quietly.

       He has something he intended to do today, which has been in his heart for a long time, and he has not acted because he was worried about Li Zhenran.

       To this day, he still wore the collar that Li Zhenran put on him by himself. And in order to make him less obtrusive when maintaining his human form, Li Zhenran gave him a thinner collar. If one didn’t look carefully, it seemed like he was wearing a necklace around his neck. This collar still has a positioning function, and apart from cutting it with scissors, Li Zhenruo couldn’t take it off without knowing the password.

       The reason for wearing the collar was because Li Zhenruo had sneaked away once, and Li Zhenran said that this kind of behaviour should be put to an end. But Li Zhenruo didn’t know whether Li Zhenran would always keep track of his whereabouts and observe where he went. In fact, for Li Zhenran, even without this collar, it was not difficult to know where he went.

       Of course, Li Zhenran would not necessarily do this.

       After overhearing the phone call between Yue Zijia and “that person” of the Li family at the charity dinner, Li Zhenruo had a thorn in his heart. He had already decided that the call must have been with Li Zhentai, and there was always a voice telling him to rule out the possibility of it being Li Jianglin.

       Where did Yue Zijia get Li Jianglin’s semen? Did she hook up with the son and then hooked up with his father?

       Li Zhenruo was restless. He thought about Zhao Yuqiong’s former residence. The last time he went, he thought about finding someone to unlock it and go in to see if he could find any of Zhao Yuqiong’s remnants. After that, he had to temporarily put the idea down because of various things.

       Now, Li Zhenruo felt that he couldn’t wait any longer.

       When he stepped out of the elevator, he suddenly thought about how he should answer if Li Zhenran knew and asked him. After thinking about it, he felt that he had no way to answer because Li Zhenran was a smart person. If Li Zhenruo’s mother was involved, Li Zhenran would not believe it if he said he wanted to distance himself and hide the relationship.

       Then let’s do it at that time, Li Zhenruo thought to himself, anyway, he was sure that Li Zhenran had nothing to do with this matter.

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Why do you think something will happen? The swimming pool is for the sullen¹Originally the word is 闷骚 (mēnsāo) which is the transliteration of the English “Man show”, which commonly refers to a person who is calm on the outside but enthusiastic on the inside. second brother to go unrestrained…

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       Li Zhenruo reacted quickly, and when he saw Yue Zijia hanging up the phone, he stretched his body out and yawned loudly.

       So when Yue Zijia turned around, she saw that Li Zhenruo had already stretched halfway. At the same time, he threw his body forward on the fence of the balcony, as if he had just walked over.

       As he saw Yue Zijia looking at him, Li Zhenruo turned his head. He politely smiled first, then looked a little puzzled before he came to a realization, “We’ve met before, right?”

       When Li Zhenran took him to the private restaurant for the first time in his human form, he met Yue Zijia. But he didn’t know if Yue Zijia was still remembered.

       Yue Zijia smiled, “You still remember me, you are a friend of Second Young Master Li, right?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I am his assistant.”

       Yue Zijia didn’t know whether to believe it or not and just maintained a gentle smile. She extended a hand, “My name is Yue Zijia.”

       Li Zhenruo secretly cursed Li Zhenran for giving him the name of Li Tuanzi on his ID card. He had no way to say that name, so he could only say, “My name is Jason.”

       Yue Zijia’s smile remained unchanged, but her eyes flickered, “Jason? Did Zhenran tell you that you and his brother have the same English name?”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, “Yes, I am still considering if I should change it or not so that he doesn’t think of his brother when he calls my name.”

       Yue Zijia smiled and said, “You’re nothing like his brother. You shouldn’t.”

       At this time, a staff member of the foundation asked Yue Zijia to come over in front of the banquet hall, and Yue Zijia could only say goodbye to Li Zhenruo, “I still have some things to do. Let’s get together with Zhenran when we have a chance in the future.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, “Okay, beautiful jiejie.”

       Yue Zijia bowed her head slightly, and smiled a little shyly, “I’ll go first.”

       When Yue Zijia walked past Li Zhenruo and walked towards the banquet hall, Li Zhenruo looked at her back, and his smile slowly faded, who was she calling?

       When he heard Yue Zijia say “you Li family” just now, his first reaction was that she was calling Li Zhentai because it couldn’t have been Li Zhenzi or Li Zhenran. But later, Li Zhenruo suddenly had an idea, could it be Li Jianglin?

       Could everything be self-directed by Li Jianglin? After knowing that he was not his own son, he asked someone to do the appraisal, and then put on a show to show him that he was not his own son?

       But why does he need to do that?

       Li Jianglin could personally come out and throw the appraisal document in front of him and tell him to get out of the Li family. There was no need to cower and hide behind people like this. In contrast, it was Li Zhentai who was much more suspicious.

       Li Zhenruo felt that his heart was beating so fast. He had been focusing on Li Zhenzi, but now it seemed that he was probably wrong. Maybe Yue Zijia was not Li Zhenzi’s mistress but was simply Li Zhentai’s mistress.

       He originally made an excuse to follow Li Zhenzi and Yue Zijia, but now he really didn’t want to go in. He leaned forward slightly against the railing of the balcony and looked into the distance, but his mind was full of Li Zhentai.

       Li Zhentai had a lukewarm personality since he was a child, his grades were average, and his appearance was not as outstanding as his three younger brothers. This kind of eldest son did not please his father, but Li Zhenruo felt that he could get along well because there was no sense of aggression.

       The relationship between him and Li Zhentai was not good, but it was not as cold as Li Zhenran, and there was less conflict as it was with Li Zhenzi. He knew that Li Zhentai was also unhappy with the situation, and he didn’t expect Li Zhentai to be on his side, but to be so cruel to him like this. To be honest, Li Zhenruo felt a little uncomfortable.

       With his palms on the metal railings, he could feel a touch of coldness even on a midsummer night. There was air conditioning in the banquet hall, but the heat outside was unbearable. Li Zhenruo stretched out his hand to pull on his clothes and bow tie, trying to loosen it up to relieve his inner suffocation.

       An arm suddenly went around his side and grasped the railing, and he felt someone behind him.

       Before turning his head, Li Zhenruo was keenly aware that it was Li Zhenran’s scent.

       “What are you looking at?” Li Zhenran asked him.

       Li Zhenruo was silent for a while. He rested his elbows on the railing and propped his face with his hands. He said, “It’s so boring, when will it be over?”

       Li Zhenran said, “You’re the one who wants to come.”

       Li Zhenruo said truthfully, “I was wrong.”

       Li Zhenran patted his head, “Let’s go first.”

       That evening, Li Zhenran donated 200,000 yuan to Ren’ai Charity Foundation’s charity project to help abducted and trafficked children and left with Li Zhenruo first.

       In the car, Li Zhenruo was somewhat in a bad mood.

       He rested his head on Li Zhenran’s shoulder.

       Li Zhenran sat with his back on the seat and didn’t move. After a while, he raised his hand and stroked his hair.

       Li Zhenruo put his hands around Li Zhenran’s waist and leaned himself completely in his arms.

       The driver glanced at them from the rearview mirror and asked Li Zhenran in a low voice where he was going now.

       Li Zhenran said, “Home.”

       The driver hesitated, “Back to the Li residence?”

       Li Zhenran answered “Um”.

       The driver obviously found it strange. He didn’t understand how Li Zhenran dared to bring a boy home so blatantly, but he always listened to orders and didn’t ask questions. He didn’t ask any more questions and sent Li Zhenran home in silence.

       Back home, the driver parked the car in front of the fountain, waited for the two to get out of the car, and drove to the garage.

       Li Zhenruo grabbed Li Zhenran’s arm and saw that the living room light was still on. He whispered, “Wang Ma is still awake.”

       At this time, even if Li Jianglin was not asleep, he would definitely be in his room or in his study, and Wang Ma would be the only one watching TV with the lights on in the living room.

       Li Zhenran turned his head and asked him, “How are you going to get in?”

       If Li Zhenruo went in now, he would definitely be seen by Wang Ma. He didn’t want to be exposed to the Li family like this.

       Li Zhenran’s question meant that he should change back into his cat form and go back, but Li Zhenruo was a bit reluctant and said, “I’ll climb in through the window from the back.”

       Li Zhenran smiled when he heard the words, “Go ahead.”

       After he finished speaking, he even ignored Li Zhenruo and walked toward the house by himself.

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment and thought that Li Zhenran was not afraid of him running away, so he just left him alone, it was really annoying! But no matter how much he complained in his heart, he still obediently walked to the side of the villa, raised his head and looked up. And after a while, he saw the light coming from the window of Li Zhenran’s room.

       Li Zhenran opened the window, stuck his head out and hooked his fingers.

       Li Zhenruo took off his jacket, tied the sleeves around his waist, rolled up the sleeves of his shirt, pressed his hands on the windowsill on the first floor, and climbed up.

       Sure enough, a person’s ability to climb a wall was far worse than a cat’s, Li Zhenruo thought to himself as he reached for the pipe next to him, and tried to climb the pipe to the second floor.

       Suddenly, there was a fierce barking sound from downstairs.

       Li Zhenruo slipped his foot on the fixed area of the pipe and almost fell. He turned his head and saw a big golden retriever running in his direction.

       Zhu Kai was at home from time to time, and he lived outside with his dog from time to time. No one was there this morning, and Li Zhenruo didn’t know why he came back with the dog at this time.

       When Erhuang saw someone climbing the window, he dutifully barked and ran over to catch the thief.

       Because it was very well-behaved on weekdays and never barks indiscriminately. Today, when Erhuang made such an anxious call, it could only mean there was some special situation at home.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly became flustered. At the same time, he heard the sound of someone walking out as the door of the front living room opened.

       As soon as he closed his eyes, holding the water pipe, he changed back to the appearance of a cat and quickly ran off the fence. It was just that the clothes all over his body were scattered in an instant, and the coat fall over Erhuang’s head at once. Erhuang turned around twice in horror in the sudden darkness, and its scream became even more miserable.

       “What’s the matter? What’s the matter?” Wang Ma had already run over, and the person who followed closely behind her was Zhu Kai.

       Li Zhenruo rushed to the third floor and carefully looked out from the windowsill, only to see his clothes on the ground, and even a pair of underwear hanging on the water pipe. Li Zhenruo was a little dumbfounded for a moment.

       Zhu Kai raised his head and looked upstairs. He also saw the underwear hanging on the water pipe. He looked puzzled, looked in the direction of the second floor, and then tilted his head to look at the third floor.

       Li Zhenran’s room was under Li Zhentai’s room. Li Zhentai and Wen Chun went to Saipan to take wedding photos during this period of time, and there was no one in the room at all.

       Wang Ma was still startled, “Who is this? Throwing clothes all over the place?”

       Zhu Kai said, “Zhentai is not here, is Zhenran drunk?”

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly turned back to find Li Zhenran but found that the window was still open, but Li Zhenran was not in the room at all.

       “It’s mine,” Li Zhenran’s voice suddenly came from downstairs.

       It turned out that after seeing Li Zhenruo causing trouble, he had already gone downstairs, ready to clean up the mess for him.

       Zhu Kai laughed twice, “Ran ge, are you a heavenly maiden scattering flower in the middle of the night? Your underwear is still hanging on the water pipe.”

       Li Zhenran heard the words and glanced upstairs, and saw Li Zhenruo who had retracted his head.

       He said, “I put my dirty laundry in a basket on the windowsill and it was overturned by the cat,”

       Wang Ma replied, “So that’s how it is. I’d say since it was already late at night, it shocked me.”

       Li Zhenran smiled and said, “I’m sorry, it seems that Erhuang was also frightened.”

       After he finished speaking, he squatted down and started picking up clothes. Wang Ma quickly helped him and said, “I’ll do it, I’ll do it, I’ll pick it up and wash it.”

       Li Zhenran handed the clothes he picked up to Wang Ma.

       Zhu Kai was still wearing pyjamas. At this time, he patted Erhuang on the head and said, “Go to sleep now and don’t make a fuss about nothing.”

       It was a pity that Erhuang couldn’t speak. It was still in a trance and didn’t understand how a person suddenly turned into a cat just now.

       Wang Ma packed up Li Zhenran’s clothes, raised her head and looked at the panties hanging on the second floor, and wondered, “What should I do? I’ll ask someone to take it with the ladder tomorrow morning, it’s too late today.”

       Li Zhenran said, “It’s alright, I’ll clean it up, you can go and rest.”

       Zhu Kai yawned, waved to Li Zhenran, and left with the dog.

       Wang Ma also left with his clothes in her arms. Before leaving, she told Li Zhenran to go to bed early.

       Li Zhenran returned to his room on the third floor. After he entered the door, Li Zhenruo was still standing by the window sill, looking at him. He came over and patted the cat’s butt, “Go and pick up your panties.”

       Li Zhenruo himself felt embarrassed. He climbed out and went down the pipe, hooked his panties off with his claws, and returned to Li Zhenran’s room with the panties in his mouth.

       That night, Li Zhenruo felt a little tired. What should he say, it was the feeling of exhaustion both physically and mentally after going through a major event. His entire self couldn’t lift his spirits, but he really couldn’t fall asleep even if he lay down.

       He was too lazy to take a bath, so he maintained his cat form and asked Li Zhenran to take him to the bathroom to wash him.

       After he took a shower, he had his hair dried with a hairdryer. The wind was soft and warm, and the soft fluff was lazily brushed, and his entire body couldn’t help but relax.

       When it was time to sleep, Li Zhenruo lay beside Li Zhenran’s neck. After a while, he rolled over on his back, stretched his tail out from under his butt, raised his paws and looked in the dark.

       It was not that it was more difficult to replace Li Zhenzi with Li Zhentai, but this feeling of doubting his past brothers one by one was too uncomfortable. If he was to redo it all over again, if he choose not to fight, not be greedy, and be a dandy young master peacefully, would he encounter these things?

       The cat’s claws were small and cute, but the nails were sharp.

       Li Zhenruo sometimes felt that there was nothing wrong with this kind of life, and he was very happy because he was content with the status quo. But he just couldn’t forget and let it go, and his revenge could only be avenged by himself.

       He was in a depressed mood when Li Zhenran who was lying besides him suddenly grabbed Li Zhenruo by his cat ear.

       Because he was too focused on being melancholy that he didn’t notice when Li Zhenran woke up, and was taken aback.

       Li Zhenran’s voice was drowsy, “What are you doing? Do you know that your ears keep moving and sweeping around my face and it’s very annoying?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t say a word and raised his paw to try to snatch the ear back from Li Zhenran’s hand.

       Li Zhenran released his hand and turned his back to him and continued to sleep. Li Zhenruo tugged at his ears, followed Li Zhenran and put his head on his shoulders. He then closed his eyes to sleep.

       The next day was the weekend.

       During a rare holiday, Li Zhenran slept in bed with his cat in his arms.

       And Li Zhenruo also didn’t want to get up because he was in a bad mood. He woke up long ago, but seeing that Li Zhenran was still asleep, he put away his sharp claws and touched Li Zhenran’s lips with his toe beans.

       He moved very lightly, touched Li Zhenran’s lips and immediately retracted his claws, and then lightly touched the bridge of his nose.

       Under Li Zhenruo’s repeated harassment, Li Zhenran grabbed Li Zhenruo and threw him out of bed. He then turned over and continued to sleep.

       Li Zhenruo crawled back immediately, this time crawling on his shoulders, pressing his tail with his paws, and scratching his nose.

       Li Zhenran slowly opened his eyes and gave him a cold look.

       Li Zhenruo immediately turned around and jumped out of bed, and ran to the windowsill before looking back at Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran sat up, but instead of chasing after him to settle the account, he raised his hand and covered his face for a while before getting out of bed and walked towards the bathroom.

       Li Zhenruo stared at the bathroom door for a while and suddenly heard someone talking loudly from downstairs. He couldn’t help turning his head to look and saw Zhu Kai standing by the swimming pool, instructing two workers at home to clean the swimming pool.

       Unbeknownst to him, it was already the hottest time of the summer. Because Li Zhenran and his brothers had been out most of the time, and no one asked to clean up the swimming pool. Today, Zhu Kai was probably interested and asked Wang Ma to call someone to clean it up early in the morning, so that in the afternoon, he could swim in the water.

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       Because of Hua Yibang’s interruption, Li Zhenruo didn’t have time to ask Li Zhenran what the so-called charity dinner was all about.

       It wasn’t until later that evening when Li Zhenruo lay on his side beside Li Zhenran’s bed, and rested his head on one hand, that he asked him, “Are you going to that charity dinner?”

       Li Zhenran was looking at an evaluation report in his hand, and without giving a side glance, he asked, “Which one?”

       “The Ren’ai one,” Li Zhenruo answered.

       As he changed between human and cat forms, he still couldn’t get himself a set of clothes. Now, he’s just lazy and fine with staying naked. Anyway, the young Li the fourth used to admire his great figure, and the women liked it too. Although he was a little thinner now, it seems that Li Zhenran liked it very much, and it didn’t matter to show it only to him.

       When Li Zhenran heard the words, he just made an “um” sound.

       Li Zhenruo was waiting for him to write, but it took two minutes to realize that he had nothing more to say, so he leaned in and put his chin on his shoulder and asked, “Are you going?”

       Li Zhenran turned to look at him, “Where to go?”

       Li Zhenruo felt that he was doing it on purpose. He pulled a long face at him and stop speaking.

       Li Zhenran reached out and pinched his chin, soothing his angry kitten, and said, “Do you want to go?”

       Li Zhenruo was silent for a while and hesitated about how to answer this question.

       However, Li Zhenran saw through him, “What do you want to go and do? What’s so special about this dinner party?”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t say that he wanted to inquire whether Li Zhenzi and Yue Zijia had any adulterous affair, right?

       Seeing that Li Zhenruo didn’t answer, Li Zhenran said, “I am considering it, since I have nothing to see if I go.”

       Li Zhenruo glanced at him.

       He continued, “But I didn’t say I was going to take you there.”

       Li Zhenruo was already familiar with his tricks and thought that Li Zhenran would never get tired of teasing him. He sighed silently, leaned his chin on Li Zhenran’s chest, and raised his eyes to look at him, “Take me there.”

       Li Zhenran looked at him without speaking.

       Li Zhenruo tilted his head and put his face on his chest, gently pulled Li Zhenran’s hand beside the bed, and clasped their fingers together.

       This action he did was quite chilling. He remembered that a cute little girlfriend used to act like a spoiled brat with him. At that time, he had to deal with this, and now Li Zhenran should also deal with this.

       Speaking of which, Li Zhenran may be a homosexual since he was born, but he hid it too well. After he lived in the same house with him for more than 20 years, no one in the family found out. In the past, he also thought that Li Zhenran just had a relatively clean private life. To put it badly, his personality was dull and conservative, but he didn’t expect that he would toy people better than anyone else.

       Li Zhenruo had been doing this for a long time, but he still felt ashamed of for letting himself fall into debauchery.

       Li Zhenran didn’t respond for a while, and then suddenly grabbed Li Zhenruo’s hair to force him to look up and say, “Are you distracted?”

       Li Zhenruo’s heart was grumbling that even the perversion in his mind was found out, but his body responded very quickly, and he bit down on Li Zhenran’s mouth. Naturally, the result was that he was turned over and pressed under Li Zhenran’s body, and they fooled around until the middle of the night.

       When they ate breakfast the next day, not only did Li Zhenzi look at Li Zhenran with a strange look, but even Wen Chun and Li Zhentai had subtle expressions and looked at Li Zhenran from time to time.

       At this time, Li Zhenruo had to admire Li Zhenran. He was bathed in the gaze of everyone, but he was able to sit on the chair in the restaurant with a blank expression as he called Li Zhenruo over while peeling eggs.

       Li Zhenruo was a little hesitant. He was not sure if he wanted to go there, but he always walked by Zhenran’s side every day. It would be even more strange to suddenly show resistance, right?

       He dragged his tail over and jumped onto Li Zhenran’s lap.

       While Li Zhenran was feeding Li Zhenruo eggs, Wang Ma walked past him with an empty plate, suddenly stopped and said, “Aiya, Zhenran, are there any fleas on your bed? Did you see how many fleas have bitten your neck?”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t hold back, and the egg yolk in his mouth sprayed out.

       All of a sudden, everyone in the dining room focused on him, and even Li Jianglin, who had just walked over with a crutch asked, “What’s going on?”

       Li Zhenran was very calm, he picked up the debris in front of him without haste, and said to Li Jianglin, “The cat sneezed.” Then he said to Wang Ma, “Maybe that was the case. I didn’t even notice until you said so, get someone to change everything in my room.”

       Wang Ma answered okay.

       Li Zhenran then patted Li Zhenruo’s butt and said, “Get off.”

       Li Zhenruo immediately rolled down and hid to eat his cat food.

       Li Jianglin sat down at the dining table and asked Li Zhentai and Wen Chun, “Going to take wedding photos tomorrow?”

       Wen Chun said, “It’s already set. We’ll go to Saipan to shoot.”

       Li Jianglin nodded, “You guys are going to get married soon. Take a break when you guys go out these few days. When you guys get back, it should be almost the time to prepare for the wedding.”

       Li Zhentai smiled and said, “Yes.”

       Wen Chun, on the other hand just smiled slightly before lowering her head and scooping up the bowl of cereal with a spoon.

       Li Zhentai and Wen Chun flew to Saipan to take wedding photos. Li Zhenruo felt that their wedding was too hurried. Now they were going to take wedding photos, then they would come back in less than a month for the wedding and then go to Greece for their honeymoon.

       At the same time, the time for the charity dinner was almost here.

       That afternoon, Li Zhenran asked Hua Yibang to accompany Li Zhenruo to buy a suit and take care of his hair.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t like Li Zhenran’s hairdresser and felt that the other party was not fashionable enough, but Hua Yibang took him out on Li Zhenran’s order and thus gave him no choice.

       Hua Yibang was still confused until now. Although he heard Li Zhenran call this young man “Tuanzi¹dumpling”, and saw that the cat brought by Li Zhenran disappeared every day and was replaced by a beautiful young man, he still couldn’t believe it was this person was a cat.

       Yeah, who could believe it?

       When Li Zhenruo saw that Hua Yibang was almost suffocated to the point of internal injury, he didn’t ask any questions. He just shut his mouth and didn’t tell him, so he wouldn’t suffocate him to death.

       He changed into a decent dark suit, and his hair was well tidied up. Li Zhenruo looked like a young boy from a wealthy family, walking with his head held up slightly, with a gentle and elegant posture.

       Hua Yibang took off his glasses and wiped them carefully with a glasses cloth.

       Li Zhenruo walked to the sofa and sat down, put one hand on Hua Yibang’s shoulder, and asked, “Xiao Hua ge, do you think Li Zhenzi and Su Yao are having an affair?”

       The question came so suddenly that Hua Yibang was stunned. He put on his glasses slowly, and said, “I don’t know.”

       This was not what Li Zhenruo wanted to ask. There were some things that Li Zhenran didn’t know, but it might not be the case for Hua Yibang. If he got closer to Su Yao, he may know some of Li Zhenzi’s secrets.

       So he asked, “What about Li Zhenzi and Yue Zijia?”

       As Hua Yibang heard the words, he looked at Li Zhenruo, “Why are you asking about this?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I’m curious.”

       Hua Yibang shook his head, “I don’t know.”

       Alas, no one seems to know. However, it seemed because this relationship was secret enough that Li Zhenzi would hand over such important things to Yue Zijia.

       He then followed Hua Yibang back to Yunlin.

       As he entered Li Zhenran’s office, Li Zhenruo forgot to knock on the door. When he opened the door, he was slightly taken aback when he saw someone standing inside. He wanted to close the door and go out but found that the person standing inside was Yan Xiujie, so he couldn’t help but stop.

       Yan Xiujie saw someone coming and said to Li Zhenran, “Then I’ll go out first Mr. Li.”

       Li Zhenran nodded and said to Li Zhenruo, “Come in.”

       When he passed by Yan Xiujie, Li Zhenruo looked at Yan Xiujie’s back and asked Li Zhenran, “What is he doing here?”

       Li Zhenran was originally cleaning up the things on the table, but when he heard the question, he stopped and looked at him and said, “Do you know him?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t admit it but also didn’t rush to deny it. He was afraid he would give away himself by what he did. So he just looked at Yan Xiujie’s distant back and said, “He looks so handsome.”

       Li Zhenran paused, put down the book heavily in his hand, and leaned back on the back of the chair. He raised one of his long legs and asked him, “How handsome?”

       Li Zhenruo turned to look at him, suddenly smiled, and said, “Not as much as you.”

       Li Zhenran looked at him coldly.

       Li Zhenruo walked over and sat down on his lap. He raised his arms around his neck and said, “Not even close.”

       Li Zhenran still had a sanctimonious look, but his hand touched Li Zhenruo’s thigh.

       Li Zhenruo quickly grabbed his hand and said, “Stop it, this is the office.”

       In fact, the office didn’t matter, but this was Li Zhenran’s office, which made it really exciting to think about.

       Li Zhenran actually stopped when he heard the words. He just looked at Li Zhenruo and didn’t speak.

       Li Zhenruo also looked at him, as he saw the outline of his handsome nose, thin and light lips, he suddenly couldn’t help it. He leaned over and kissed him, thinking that his tastes had become so distorted that he didn’t react when he saw a beauty, but on the contrary, he was excited by the face of a man.

       In the end, Li Zhenran answered the question with another question, and Li Zhenruo never got the answer he wanted.

       He found that recently the situation was often like this. Li Zhenran seldom answered his questions right away. He felt guilty when he asked Li Zhenran a few questions. As a result, the other party diverted the topic away and never returned to the conversation.

       In the evening, he attended a charity dinner with Li Zhenran.

       When someone asked him, Li Zhenran said that he was a new assistant. When he met someone he knew and they would ask “Where is Hua Yibang?” Li Zhenran said without changing his face that this was a new life assistant.

       Li Zhenruo’s acting skills were not weak. He followed Li Zhenran’s side, behaved and spoke appropriately. He really looked like a new assistant, but he looked too young and too beautiful.

       Li Zhenruo has been to this kind of dinner a few times, and today was nothing special.  It’s clearly a fund-raiser in the name of charity, but the golden wall of the banquet hall was brilliant, redundant and luxurious. The ladies attending the banquet also had high-end famous brands all over their bodies, hanging full of jewellery.

       Li Zhenran socialized with others and took Li Zhenruo to sit down at the seat arranged for him by the organizer. There were two seats, and one was originally reserved for his female companion, but now it was sat on by Li Zhenruo’s butt.

       The waiter immediately brought the wine over.

       They came relatively early. And after a while, Li Zhenruo saw Li Zhenzi appear with Yu Bingwei.

       He hadn’t seen Yu Bingwei for a long time. Today Yu Bingwei wore a brightly coloured long dress with just the right chest opening, showing off her proud figure.

       Since Li Zhenzi saw Li Zhenran, he brought Yu Bingwei over.

       Li Zhenruo followed Li Zhenran to stand up, and his eyes fell on Yu Bingwei’s chest. He missed his own former imperial treasure. He remembered that Yu Bingwei didn’t like to wear underwear when she was wearing pyjamas, so he flattened his body and lay down on it. It really felt really soft and warm, which he had never experienced in a lifetime.

       His thoughts drifted away, and he didn’t notice that both Li Zhenzi and Li Zhenran were looking at him.

       Li Zhen said to Li Zhenran with interest, “Second brother, don’t you want to introduce me?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t answer, but asked Li Zhenruo, “Do you like them?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment, then came back to his senses. He knew that Li Zhenran must be unhappy, and after a little hesitation, he whispered in Li Zhenran’s ear, “You know I like long and hard ones, not round and soft ones.”

       This was really vulgar, but Li Zhenruo thinks Li Zhenran would like to hear it.

       Sure enough, Li Zhenran did not continue to pursue this matter with him.

       Li Zhenzi has been looking at them all the time, and when he saw this young man talking in Li Zhenran’s ear, he couldn’t help showing an ambiguous smile.

       Li Zhenran introduced them to each other: “This is my new assistant.” He mainly wanted to introduce Li Zhenruo’s role. As for Li Zhenzi and Yu Bingwei, they were sure to be familiar with this cat.

       Li Zhenzi shook hands with Li Zhenruo, and said to his second brother, “Second brother, you are too stingy if you don’t even introduce a name.”

       This time, before Li Zhenran spoke, Li Zhenruo said with a smile, “My name is Jason. Hello Third Young Master.”

       The moment he heard the name, Li Zhenzi’s expression changed slightly, and even Li Zhenran couldn’t help but glance at him. His eyes drooped slightly.

       Li Zhenruo looked indifferent and innocent.

       Yu Bingwei was the only one who didn’t know. After she greeted Li Zhenruo with a smile, she immediately asked Li Zhenran about her cat.

       Li Zhenran said to her, “Miss Yu, please rest assured, Dumpling is healthy and living happy. You are welcome to come and see it at any time.”

       Yu Bingwei said, “I guess so, it’s good that it’s happy.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at Yu Bingwei’s sincere eyes and was somewhat touched. He thought that Yu Bingwei was actually a very good woman, but unfortunately, Li Zhenzi didn’t know how to cherish her, and he had to entangle himself with people like Wen Chun and Yue Zijia.

       After exchanging pleasantries, Li Zhenzi brought Yu Bingwei to their seats and sat down.

       Tonight, Li Zhenzi came as Yunyi’s boss, and Li Zhenran was not enough to replace Li Jianglin as Yunlin’s big boss. He just received this invitation as the second son of the Li family.

       After Li Zhenzi left with Yu Bingwei and Li Zhenruo sat down with Li Zhenran, he suddenly noticed someone in the corner looking at them.

       Li Zhenruo turned to look and found that it was Yue Zijia in a silver evening dress.

       Yue Zijia stood in the corner, saw Li Zhenruo look over, smiled politely and nodded. Li Zhenruo gave her a bright and innocent smile, reached out and grabbed the small cake on the table, and asked Li Zhenran, “Can I eat it?”

       Li Zhenran glanced at him and said, “Whatever you want.”

       Li Zhenruo put the cake in his mouth.

       Li Zhenran looked at his elegant way of eating and suddenly asked, “Why is it Jason?”

       Li Zhenruo chewed the cake in his mouth, looked up at the sky for a while, and said, “I seem to have heard this name somewhere.”

       Li Zhenran asked him, “Where have you heard of it?”

       Li Zhenruo was in a trance as if unconsciously licking the cream on his fingers, and said, “I don’t remember. What? Is there anything special about the name Jason?”

       He originally thought that Li Zhenran would not answer him, but he did not expect Li Zhenran to hear the words and say, “It’s my fourth brother’s english name.”

       Li Zhenruo hanged out in Li’s house every day. Of course, it was impossible to pretend that he didn’t know that Li Zhenran has a fourth brother who has passed away. He looked at Li Zhenran and asked, “Is it the one with the closed door on the second floor?”

       Li Zhenran said “Um”.

       Li Zhenruo hesitated and said, “Then I’d better not use that name…”

       Li Zhenran said, “It doesn’t matter, you have already told the third child, it would be strange to change it.”

       Li Zhenruo hesitated a little and said, “I’m afraid it will remind you of your fourth brother when you hear it.”

       Li Zhenran calmly said, “It doesn’t matter.”

       At this time, the host of the charity dinner had already taken the stage with a microphone and invited all the guests to take their seats to start the charity fundraising event tonight.

       This charity dinner not only invited many entrepreneurs from prominent families in China but also invited many celebrities as performance guests for fundraising.

       Li Zhenran was already sitting here, and he must be ready to donate tonight. He sat casually and his eyes fell on the stage.

       However, Li Zhenruo was distracted and focused on Li Zhenzi and Yue Zijia. So far, the two have not communicated, but Li Zhenruo believed that when the two of them appear on the same occasion, they would always give away something.

       The singers on the stage finished singing the song, and the host came to the stage to read the donation project tonight, and then the fundraiser was carried out.

       Whether it was an individual or a company, the number of donations will be announced on the spot, which not only satisfied everyone’s kindness but also satisfied everyone’s vanity.

       Li Zhenruo picked up the glass and took a slow sip. As he saw that Li Zhenzi suddenly got up and said something to Yu Bingwei in the seat next to him, then he walked outside.

       At this moment, Li Zhenruo noticed that Yue Zijia, who was sitting in the other corner, also stood up and walked out.

       Li Zhenruo put the cup on the table and said to Li Zhenran, “I’m going to the bathroom.”

       He followed him out, but just after coming out of the banquet hall, the two of them disappeared. Outside the banquet hall was a large terrace. At this time, many people were standing on the terrace with wine and chatting, but there was no trace of Li Zhenzi and Yue Zijia.

       He hesitated for a while and walked toward the bathroom. He saw no one along the way, until he entered the bathroom to wash his hands, and happened to meet Li Zhenzi.

       Li Zhenzi seemed to really come to the toilet. After urinating, he stood by the sink to wash his hands and looked at Li Zhenruo from the mirror.

       Li Zhenruo smiled at him, looking a little coy.

       Li Zhenzi also smiled and asked him, “When did my second brother abandon that old antique Hua Yibang and replace him with such a tender young assistant?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t want to answer his question, so he simply pretended not to answer, lowered his head and still smiled awkwardly.

       Li Zhenzi slowly washed his hands and said to him, “I really didn’t know the second brother still had such a hobby.”

       Li Zhenruo said in his heart, You are right, I never thought of it before. However, he said obediently, “Third Young Master, you misunderstood.”

       Li Zhenzi had clearly identified the relationship between Li Zhenran and the young man in front of him, patted him on the shoulder with an ambiguous smile, and walked outside.

       Li Zhenruo waited for two seconds, followed by pretending not to be in a hurry, and saw Li Zhenzi walking toward the banquet hall.

       He really didn’t plan to whisper a few words to Yue Zijia?

       Li Zhenruo followed far behind, saw him enter the door of the banquet hall, then walked to the door of the banquet hall and looked inside. When he saw that Yue Zijia was still not there, he couldn’t help but wonder where she went.

       Instead of entering the banquet hall, he returned to the large terrace, and this time he found Yue Zijia.

       Yue Zijia stood alone in the corner of the terrace, with her head down and was talking to someone on the phone.

       Li Zhenruo lightened her footsteps and approached behind her like a cat when she heard her say, “You can still remember me at this time?”

       This was clearly the tone of a phone call with a lover.

       Then Yue Zijia said, “Do you think I believe you?”

       Who is it? It couldn’t be Li Zhenzi, because Li Zhenzi just went in and sat down, so it’s impossible to make this phone call with Yue Zijia in front of Yu Bingwei.

       Yue Zijia has a lot of friends outside, not only one lover and it was not necessarily that this call may not be to one of the Li family.

       However, Li Zhenruo listened to Yue Zijia and talked in a low voice, “Two of you from the Li family came today, the third young master brought Yu Bingwei, and the second young master brought a boy.”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly opened his eyes.

       “Very beautiful boy,” Yue Zijia continued, “Okay, bye-bye.”

       She hung up the phone, and as soon as she turned around, she saw Li Zhenruo behind her.

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The author has something to say:

Of course, the second brother likes someone really weak(Zhenruo). He is too lazy to deal with people he doesn’t like. Obviously, he was jealous in the last chapter. As for why he likes his cat, it wasn’t because it is really weak(Zhenruo). He’s just perverted-

I learned a new word called: 晜(big brother) 0-0

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Notes:
The author is making a wordplay because really weak is 真弱(zhen ruo). Remember the reason why Zhenruo make the Jason english name because he really don’t like people around his age mocking his name?

So when reading this chapter I got sudden amnesia and be like Who the heck is Su Yao??? Which girl again that got entangled with Zhenzi??? Turns out it was his secretary…. Keeping glossary is a lifesaver…

Also shout out to bean for helping me rechecking my TLs and PRing my chapters when I’m too busy so I could keep up with the updates!
Again my complain is still the same, I’ve been doing overtime for the past few weeks(even on weekends) and have been working so much that I couldn’t TL as much as before….. I hope this less frequent update don’t bother you guys too much……

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       When he had breakfast in the morning, Li Zhenran asked Wang Ma to serve him a bowl of porridge.

       Li Zhenzi sat opposite him, and when he looked up, he saw the ambiguous red marks under Li Zhenran’s slightly open collar. He laughed and said, “Second brother, I remember you came back very early last night.”

       At this time, Li Jianglin had already finished breakfast and gone out for a walk.

       In the dining room, besides Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi, there was also Wen Chun who just got up and went downstairs. As she heard Li Zhenzi’s words, Wen Chun raised her eyes and looked in the direction of Li Zhenran. She then smiled and lowered her head to drink coffee.

       Li Zhenran heard the words and said, “Yes.”

       Li Zhenzi was really curious, “Then don’t tell me you were bitten by a mosquito on your neck?”

       Li Zhenran picked up a chopstick and pickled vegetables and said, “There were a lot of mosquitoes last night, didn’t you feel it?”

       Li Zhenzi didn’t believe what he said and just smiled. He didn’t continue to ask.

       Li Zhenruo was also in the dining room, but his cat-self was still in a trance as he was lying in front of his small food bowl to drink milk.

       He felt puzzled. Although Li Zhenruo didn’t have relationships with countless women like Li Zhenzi, he was also a veteran in love scenes. In the past, he always thought that Li Zhenran was too serious, and thought that when he was with a woman, he would have no flirting skills. But this morning, the other side whispered in his ear a few words, and he almost lost his soul.

       Until now, Li Zhenruo can’t help but blush when he thought of the word master he shouted, as if it had some kind of erotic meaning.

       After breakfast, Li Zhenran wanted to take Li Zhenruo out.

       Wen Chun felt very strange, “Zhenran, are you taking the cat to work? Won’t it make trouble?”

       Li Zhenzi hurriedly said, “Second brother loves his cat so much. He can hold it when he sleeps, what could the difference be going to work with it?”

       Wen Chun smiled a little at his words.

       Li Zhenran was too lazy to take part in his nonsense and carried Li Zhenruo by his collar into the car.

       There was a driver in the car, and it was inconvenient for one person and one cat to say or do something.

       When he arrived at the company’s office, Hua Yibang was not very surprised to see Li Zhenran bringing the cat to work again, and only said, “Zhenran, did you only bring the cat and no toilet for him?”

       Li Zhenran said, “He will use the toilet himself.”

       Hua Yibang was baffled.

       After he closed the door of the office and locked it, Li Zhenran said to Li Zhenruo, “That’ll do.”

       Li Zhenruo also glanced at the door lock alertly. Then, under Li Zhenran’s gaze, he stretched out and transformed into a naked young man.

       “Clothes, clothes.” Li Zhenruo said quickly to Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran fetched him a set of casual clothes from the lounge cupboard, and then said, “I’ll ask Yibang to buy you two sets of clothes.”

       Li Zhenruo was sitting naked on the edge of the big bed in his lounge, playing with his clothes and saying, “Where are the underwear?”

       Li Zhenran rummaged through the drawer to find a pair of underwear for him.

       Li Zhenruo took it in his hand and said, “This is worn.”

       Li Zhenran said to him, “There are no new ones here. Wear them or don’t.”

       Li Zhenruo was silent, and finally, put on his underwear. Why does it matter to wear Li Zhenran’s old underwear? He let Li Zhenran do whatever he wanted, and didn’t care about it.

       Li Zhenran looked at him neatly dressed and asked him, “Are you going out?”

       The purpose of Li Zhenruo following Li Zhenran out was of course to be able to move freely instead of being trapped in Li’s house all day. He still had a lot of things to do, although there was no way to rush the moment for fear of being noticed by Li Zhenran. But it didn’t feel good to be kept in captivity for such a long time. Even if he wasn’t going to do anything, it was better to go shopping freely.

       He said to Li Zhenran, “I’m going to take a stroll down the street and buy some clothes to wear.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Wait until I get off work to go with you.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment. He sat on the edge of the bed, looking up at him with a pitiful look, “Let me go.”

       Li Zhenran looked at him coldly and said nothing.

       At this time, Li Zhenruo already knew exactly how to deal with Li Zhenran. He took a deep breath, reached out and pulled Li Zhenran’s belt buckle around his waist, pulling him to himself, his face almost pressed to the small of his back, tilting his head up to look at him, “Master, please ……”

       Li Zhenran grabbed Li Zhenruo’s face with one hand and pulled it so hard that the shape of Li Zhenruo’s face was deformed, and he cried out “It’s painful” before Li Zhenran let go and said, “The old rules, remember?”

       Li Zhenruo said quickly, “The collar will not be taken off, and back before five o’clock in the afternoon.”

       Li Zhenran patted his face, took out a secondary credit card from his body, and put it in his jacket pocket.

       Li Zhenruo touched the credit card on his chest, licked his face and said, “Just give me some more cash.”

       Li Zhenran looked at him coldly, “How much?”

       Li Zhenruo felt that his request was too much, so he grabbed Li Zhenran’s hand, put his palm on his face, and said, “Five thousand.”

       Li Zhenran heard the words, and grabbed his face with his fingers, “What for?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Ouch, ouch,” twice. “I owe someone money. It was just five thousand yuan. Don’t pull it. It’s going to be swollen.”

       Li Zhenran let go of his hand and saw that Li Zhenruo’s cheeks were really red. If he pulled it further, it would be difficult to reduce the swelling, and said, “Wait a while.”

       As he left the lounge, Li Zhenran called Hua Yibang in.

       When Hua Yibang came in, he saw Li Zhenruo standing at the door of the lounge straightening up his clothes. He then stopped in his tracks with a bewildered face. He remembered that there was no one else here for Li Zhenran just now, and wasn’t this young man the one Li Zhenran took to Qijiang last time?

       He felt like he hadn’t seen him for quite a long time, so why did the man suddenly appear again?

       Also, where’s the cat?

       “Yibang,” Li Zhenran called to him.

       Hua Yibang was distracted and did not respond.

       Li Zhenran then knocked on the table and called again, “Hua Yibang.”

       Only then did Hua Yibang turn his head towards him in shock, “Zhenran?”

       Li Zhenran said, “You help me to get 5,000 yuan in cash.”

       Hua Yibang nodded and said, “Do you want it now?”

       Li Zhenran replied, “I want it now.”

       Hua Yibang turned around to go out, but after taking two steps, he couldn’t help turning his head and asked, “Zhenran, where’s the cat?”

       Li Zhenran glanced in the direction of Li Zhenruo and said, “Isn’t it here?”

       Hua Yibang also looked at Li Zhenruo, his expression became profound and bewildered as if he wanted to say something. In the end, he endured it and turned to leave Li Zhenran’s office.

       Li Zhenruo rolled up his long sleeves and thought that he had to buy a few sets of clothes. Li Zhenran’s clothes were always a bit ill-fitting to wear.

       Li Zhenran sat on the office chair and hooked his finger at him, “Come here.”

       Li Zhenruo walked over and was hugged by Li Zhenran. He then sat on his lap, and Li Zhenran bent down to help him roll up his trousers.

       As he looked at the hair on top of Li Zhenran’s head, Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that his heart was beating a little faster for some reason as if his heart was slowly being filled with something, and he could feel his heart aching with a little touch.

       So when Li Zhenran raised his head, he reached out and hugged Li Zhenran’s neck and kissed him on the mouth.

       Li Zhenruo was also a man himself, and he has seen too many women to know what kind of behaviour makes a man’s heart flutter the most. He seduced Li Zhenran deliberately. Anyway, he had done everything, and he didn’t care about losing. His heart was always fluttering, and it made no sense to see Li Zhenran calm and unaffected.

       At the end of the kiss, Li Zhenruo saw that Li Zhenran was looking at him.

       Growing up together in Li’s family since childhood, Li Zhenruo had never seen Li Zhenran look at a person like this. He felt a little happy, and the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up. He felt embarrassed, so he put his head on Li Zhenran’s shoulder and lowered his head and snickered alone.

       After a while, he heard Hua Yibang knocking on the door outside to come in. Li Zhenruo immediately got up from Li Zhenran’s arms and stood next to him to organize his clothes.

       Hua Yibang handed 5,000 yuan in cash to Li Zhenran. After Li Zhenran took it, he handed it to Li Zhenruo, and then give a few hundred-yuan bills from himself to Li Zhenruo and said, “Go and take a taxi.”

       Li Zhenruo smiled and said, “Thank you.”

       Hua Yibang stood silently, without looking away.

       “Also,” Li Zhenran sat down and opened the drawer of his desk. There was an almost brand-new mobile phone in it. It was the one that Li Zhenruo had used the last time he happened to take human form, and there was his ID card named Li Tuanzi next to it.

       Li Zhenran gave him his cell phone, but he didn’t take out his ID card.

       Li Zhenruo approached him and asked, “Can you give me the ID card?”

       “No,” Li Zhenran replied dryly.

       So Li Zhenruo didn’t push. He put away the money and mobile phone, kissed Li Zhenran’s face, and said, “I’m leaving.”

       Li Zhenran nodded.

       When Li Zhenruo passed by Hua Yibang, he waved to him, “Bye.”

       Hua Yibang politely responded, “Take care.”

       Li Zhenruo came out of Li Zhenran’s office and familiarly went to the elevator. When he saw that the VIP elevator was still on the basement floor, he reached out and pressed the public elevator.

       At this time, it was already working hours, and there were not many people going up and down the elevator. When the elevator went down to the tenth floor, a young man in a suit came in.

       When he saw the man’s appearance clearly, Li Zhenruo was slightly startled.

       This young man was his former assistant, and his name was Yan Xiujie. Yan Xiujie had a very good relationship with Li Zhenruo in the past, and he really followed Li Zhenruo with all his heart and soul even when Li Zhenruo had just encountered an unforeseen misfortune and was in the most depressing time. Yan Xiujie once also carried large and small bags of food to visit him at the place where Li Zhenruo lived.

       After Li Zhenruo was killed, there was no news of Yan Xiujie, and he didn’t plan to look for him when he came back as a cat, because his identity was too peculiar. But he didn’t expect to meet him in Yunlin’s elevator today.

       Yan Xiujie just glanced at him from the corner of his eye and didn’t look at him again. Li Zhenruo knew that it was a bit strange for him to be dressed up here, and he looked like someone brought his son who was on vacation from middle school to the company to play.

       When the elevator went down to the fifth floor, Yan Xiujie walked out. Li Zhenruo hesitated for a while, but didn’t call him, and silently took the elevator to the ground floor.

       He came out of Yunlin’s building, took out his mobile phone and looked at the time. He planned to call Feng Junyuan first, and then go to Xia Hongshen. He still remembered that he owed the other party 5,000 yuan, and now he was in a hurry to repay the money first.

       He knows that Xia Hongshen was not an ordinary person. He not only wanted to pay him back the money but also hoped that Xia Hong Shen could be impressed by the money to help him do something more, although the possibility of this was very slim.

       As expected, Xia Hongshen refused his other requests after charging him five thousand yuan, the reason was “no time”.

       “Xia laoshi¹may refer to teacher or an honorific title used for a highly venerated senior teacher in Zen Buddhism.?” Li Zhenruo tried to impress him with sincerity.

       Xia Hongshen pointed to the autopsy room, “There are still corpses waiting for me, do you want to go in with me?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Leave it at that. Please…”

       Li Zhenruo thought it was expected to be rejected by Xia Hongshen and was not very disappointed.

       When he came out of the school, he really went shopping with the card Li Zhenran gave him, as he and Li Zhenran already discussed. In fact, he still had one thing in mind, that was, he wanted to find a locksmith and go to unlock the house where his mother once lived to see if there was anything.

       But he was always worried that if he made too much movement, Li Zhenran would be alarmed.

       Li Zhenruo has not planned to tell Li Zhenran his identity until now. He always felt that the future was very vague. Even before yesterday, he was not sure what kind of attitude he could live in in the future.

       Wait a little longer, Li Zhenruo told himself that he had waited for so long, and he needed to calm down and take it one step at a time.

       So he went to the shopping mall, visited several casual wear brands that he liked in the past, bought a few sets of casual clothes with simple and elegant styles, suitable for young people, and also went to the sports brand store to buy himself two pairs of sports shoes and a duckbill cap.

       Before five o’clock in the afternoon, Li Zhenruo returned to Yunlin with a large bag and a small bag but was stopped by the security downstairs.

       Showing the handsome face under the cap, Li Zhenruo asked the front desk to call Hua Yibang, and only after confirming his identity did the front desk let him go.

       Taking the elevator to the 23rd floor, the elevator door just opened, and Li Zhenruo saw Li Zhentai who was standing outside the door waiting for the elevator.

       Li Zhenruo was a little surprised, and Li Zhentai was stunned for a moment, looking at him up and down.

       Li Zhenruo simply pretended to not know Li Zhentai and walked out of the elevator towards Li Zhenran’s office. Li Zhentai watched his back for a while before entering the elevator.

       As he saw Li Zhenran, Li Zhenruo first put his large and small bags on his desk and asked, “What’s your eldest brother doing here?”

       Li Zhenran picked up the paper bag with his fingers and glanced at the clothes inside, and said casually, “Something came up for me.”

       Having that said was tantamount to not saying it. Li Zhenruo just thought that Li Zhentai was busy with marriage affairs recently and would not have time to see Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenruo stood at the edge of the desk, thought for a while, and moved all the clothes and shoes he bought into Li Zhenran’s lounge, carefully hanging them in the cabinet.

       Li Zhenran stood at the door, crossed his arms and asked him, “What are you planning to do by putting them here?”

       Li Zhenruo turned around and said, “It’s only natural. I come to work with you every morning and go home with you in the afternoon.”

       Li Zhenran said, “People will think I’m sick.”

       In his heart, Li Zhenruo said everyone thought you were sick for a long time, it’s just that no one told you. As he thought of this, he suddenly thought that Li Zhenran was a little pitiful. He walked over to him and pulled him to sit beside the bed, and said, “No one will think you are sick, only that you love cats.”

       Li Zhenran suddenly reached out to clamp Li Zhenruo’s jaw, and said coldly, “Really? How much do I love you?”

       Li Zhenruo decided to take back the pity on him, pretended to be pitiful and said, “I’m wrong. I beg you to bring me out every day. I’m bored as a cat in the Li family, and you can’t accompany me at home.”

       Li Zhenran snorted and let go.

       Li Zhenruo rolled on the bed, and his body shrank back to the shape of a cat. He walked to Li Zhenran’s side, rubbed his body against his arm, and raised his tail to hook his fingers.

       Li Zhenran picked him up and threw him on the big desk outside, sat down and rang the bell to call Hua Yibang to come in.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t pay attention to what he was doing, but saw a plain invitation letter on the table, and couldn’t help but curiously opened it and saw that it turned out to be an invitation letter for a charity dinner.

       The sponsor of this charity dinner was the Ren’ai Charity Foundation. Li Zhenruo had some impressions of this foundation because he was invited to attend the charity dinner the previous year. He remembered that Yue Zijia was one of the directors of this foundation, and Li Zhenzi was the honorary president of the foundation because he once donated all the profits of a film on behalf of Yunyi.

       Li Zhenruo immediately wanted to know whether Li Zhenzi and Yue Zijia would attend this dinner. He stretched out his body and turned into a naked youth, knelt on the desk, and asked, “Is it…”

       “Zhenran?” Before he finished speaking, Hua Yibang opened the office door from outside and saw this scene.

       Everything happened in an instant, and Li Zhenran didn’t have time to react at all.

       Hua Yibang exited quickly and closed the door, while Li Zhenruo was a little silly and asked Li Zhenran, “Did he see it?”

       Li Zhenran was sitting on the seat in front of the desk. From this angle, the scenery was just right. With a gloomy face, he said, “Get in.”

       Li Zhenruo saw that he was angry and hurriedly got down from the desk, hid in the lounge, and closed the door.

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       Xia Hongshen said, “That’s it.”

       Li Zhenruo was still a little frightened. He looked at Xia Hongshen, took a deep breath, and said, “Then how can I turn back into a cat?”

       Xia Hongshen said to him, “Use your mind to control the spiritual power. Just like how you made yourself become a human just now, that is how you can turn into a cat.”

       As he heard this, Li Zhenruo closed his eyes and tried to imagine that his limbs shrank and turned into a round shape. After a while, he opened his eyes and found that he had not succeeded at all.

       “Why is it like this?” he tensed up.

       Xia Hongshen put one hand on his face, “Your obsession with turning into a cat is not as deep as your obsession with turning into a human. There is no need to rush, just practice slowly.”

       Li Zhenruo lowered his head and glanced at his naked body again. He asked Xia Hongshen, “Why do you have clothes to wear when you transformed into a human, but I don’t?”

       Xia Hongshen snorted, “If you want to cultivate to this level, you will have to cultivate for at least several decades. Now that you can transform into a human, you have already had an advantage and taken a shortcut. Don’t think about anything else.”

       Li Zhenruo knew that this was already very good, and he really did not dare to ask for too much.

       Xia Hongshen said, “The transaction is complete. Remember that you owe me the money, I will go first.” After he said that, he already stood up.

       Li Zhenruo quickly grabbed his trousers with one hand and asked, “How can I contact you?”

       Xia Hongshen actually took out a business card from his pocket and placed it lightly on Li Zhenruo’s head, “Call me if you have anything.”

       After he said that, Li Zhenruo saw him stretch out and turn into a black shadow in a flash and went out of the window.

       When Xia Hongshen left, Li Zhenruo stood up and was a little dumbfounded. He couldn’t keep his naked appearance and wait until everyone woke up tomorrow morning to see him.

       He closed his eyes and tried again to return to the original form as a cat, but still failed.

       There was no other way. Li Zhenruo walked to the door of Li Zhenran’s room and knocked on the door.

       The wind outside the window did not stop, the lightning and thunder continued, but the rain was slow to come down.

       Li Zhenruo knocked on Li Zhenran’s door for a minute or two, and Li Zhenran finally opened the door from the inside with a dark face. When the door was opened, a lightning bolt struck down, and the sky and the earth were like daytime. Against this background, Li Zhenran looked fierce and terrifying.

       When he saw the person outside the door, Li Zhenran was stunned at first, and then his chaotic brain slowly came to his senses, and he recognized who the person outside the door was.

       Li Zhenruo was still naked and looked pitiful. He called Li Zhenran: “Ran ge, find me some clothes.”

       Li Zhenran was silent for several seconds and watched him motionlessly.

       Li Zhenruo felt a little uneasy, he reached out and shook the face in front of him, and the other hand was still blocking his lower body.

       Suddenly, Li Zhenran grabbed his wrist and pulled him in, and at the same time reached out to close the door.

       Before Li Zhenruo could react, Li Zhenran had already pressed him against the wall and kissed him, with one leg stuck between his legs.

       Li Zhenran only wore a pair of underwear to sleep. At this time, Li Zhenran’s body was completely pressed down against him with a fiery temperature.

       Li Zhenruo’s eyes widened, and he raised his hand to push him, but Li Zhenran lifted his leg and rubbed him under him, and he instantly felt his whole body went soft and lost his strength.

       The temperature in his body increased and the symptoms of the last rut appeared again.

       No, it was not the rut period. How could a human have a rut? Li Zhenruo was not a naive child, and now he was clearly teased with a kiss by Li Zhenran to ignite his sexual desire. He was only in heat, but it is not a rut.

       Li Zhenruo’s head felt like a mùyú¹a wooden fish instrument, also known as a Chinese temple block, wooden bell that was beaten wildly. With the background sound of thunder and storms outside the window, it was simply a ball of mess. He always felt that something bad was going to happen, and he thought he would change back to a cat like last time. But this time, his body didn’t cooperate. He was kissed by Li Zhenran for a long time, and he couldn’t do anything other than raised his hand to hug him

       Later, Li Zhenruo was overwhelmed on the bed by Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenruo panted hard and said, “No…”

       Li Zhenran answered him absurdly, “No won’t do.”

       Next, Li Zhenruo was pushed to the extreme of pain and pleasure by Li Zhenran.

       His keen animal intuition told him something was going to happen tonight, but in no way did he expect that what was going to happen was waiting for him here.

       Having lived as a human for twenty-three years and as a cat for more than half a year, he never imagined that a man would do such a thing to him. In retrospect, it was unbearably shameless. Well, he was referring to himself, and later, he remembered that Li Zhenran covered his mouth and said to him, “Keep your voice down.”

       He was in tears, thinking that if he had known in the past that being done by a man would feel pleasurable, would he have tried it years earlier? After thinking about it, the conclusion is no, how could he let other men use his body to have fun?

       Then why did he let Li Zhenran sleep with him again?

       This question was too complicated, and Li Zhenruo decided not to think about it.

       The next morning, Li Zhenruo woke up in Li Zhenran’s arms.

       His waist was a little sore, and the feeling of being opened up still remained. Li Zhenruo opened his eyes blankly and stared at the ceiling in a daze.

       Li Zhenran crossed his chest tightly with one hand. After he woke up after a while, he kissed Li Zhenruo on the neck.

       Li Zhenruo turned his head to stare at him.

       Li Zhenran stroked his lips with his fingers.

       Li Zhenruo complained, “You’re going too far!” His voice was a little hoarse as he spoke.

       Li Zhenran asked him, “What did I do?”

       Li Zhenruo his chest tightened for a while and felt that Li Zhenran was too shameless. The two of them were still lying naked in a blanket, and he still asked him what did he do?

       He simply stretched out his hand to clamp Li Zhenran’s jaw. Li Zhenruo was going to show him what he had done. With his hands on the bed, he rolled over and straddled Li Zhenran. He lowered his head and said to him, “Would you like me to do you?”

       As he saw this, Li Zhenran put his hands behind his head lazily and said, “You can do it and see.”

       Li Zhenruo still held Li Zhenran’s jaw in one hand, raised his face a little, and kissed him fiercely. He wanted to use various means to let Li Zhenran see his skills in bed, and make him obedient in the future. However, as the kiss deepened, Li Zhenran put one hand on Li Zhenruo’s waist and gently stroked it, which gradually added some warmth.

       After the long kiss, Li Zhenruo fell on top of Li Zhenran, his whole body was sore and he didn’t want to do anything. They had been fooling around all night last night. At this time, he didn’t think much about it and Li Zhenran’s gentle kiss made Li Zhenruo a little intoxicated.

       Li Zhenran touched Li Zhenruo’s hair with one hand and suddenly said, “You took off your clothes and stood at my door knocking on the door last night. Don’t you mean to deliver yourself by the door?”

       Li Zhenruo was too lazy to roll his eyes. He leaned his head on Li Zhenran’s shoulder and said, “Yeah, whatever you think is fine.”

       After a while, Li Zhenruo got off the bed and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

       He walked a little unsteadily, and his body still clearly remembered the shape of Li Zhenran’s big thing. Although he felt that he was also a flirtatious young master, he still felt like he wanted to blush for no reason, and a strange emotion filled his heart like never before.

       Li Zhenruo sat down in the bathtub as he was showering. He stretched out his hand and rubbed his waist. After he was covered with shower gel, he suddenly thought: If he can’t turn back into a cat, wouldn’t it be bad if someone saw him today?

       To be precise, it wouldn’t be bad for him, but for Li Zhenran. Who knew he had messed up with a little schoolboy at home? If Li Jianglin saw it, he would definitely hit Li Zhenran with his crutch.

       And if he couldn’t transform back, Li Zhenran definitely wouldn’t dare to let him stay in Li’s house. Maybe he would take him out again and hide him in the golden house²as previously stated it’s an idiom of hiding your lover in a safe house. In this case, how can he continue to monitor Li Zhenzi?

       As he thought of this, Li Zhenruo became nervous. He closed his eyes and tried his best to follow the method that Xia Hongshen taught him last night to let the heat flow in his body. And finally, his feet were empty all of a sudden, and the whole person slid into the middle of the bathtub.

       He was back in the shape of a cat.

       Li Zhenruo was overjoyed immediately.

       The hot water above his head was still gushing down. Li Zhenruo tried to climb out of the bathtub but found that the bathtub was too slippery. After trying several times, he slipped off the edge.

       So he simply scratched the edge of the bathtub with his claws and tried to make a sound. After a while, Li Zhenran opened the bathroom door and walked in.

       After seeing Li Zhenruo’s appearance, Li Zhenran stopped. As if he sighed and folded his arms around his chest, and asked him, “Was the purpose of you becoming a human last night was to make me fvck you once? Are you a snail girl³see more about snail lady?”

       Li Zhenruo wanted to be a little vicious, but all the hair on his body was wet and attached to his body, so he didn’t have any momentum.

       Li Zhenran walked over and helped him rinse the body of the shower gel foam that was still sticky on his body, then turned off the water and wrapped him in a towel to carry him out.

       When Li Zhenruo was placed on the sink, Li Zhenran suddenly saw his body stretch out in an instant, and the soft fluff all over his body quickly faded away, turning into a human appearance.

       Li Zhenruo sat on the sink, hooked Li Zhenran’s legs with both legs, and said excitedly, “Look, I finally mastered the method and can become a human being as I want!”

       Li Zhenran didn’t react much, but the corners of his mouth were slightly tilted. He bent his index finger against Li Zhenruo’s chin and made him raise his head to kiss his lips.

       Both of them were still naked. The situation of such close contact was really bad, and what was even worse was that Li Zhenruo found that he had kissed him too much, more than he had kissed all his girlfriends combined before.

       He obviously doesn’t like kissing very much, so why was he enjoying this gentle touch now?

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt embarrassed. In order to hide this embarrassment, he slightly tilted his head back, ended the kiss with Li Zhenran, and then buried his head and sucked randomly on his neck.

       This action was to leave a hickey. It’s summer now, and Li Zhenran’s thin clothes couldn’t hide the hickey at all. He originally thought that Li Zhenran would definitely stop him, but he didn’t expect Li Zhenran to stand still and let him mess around for a while, and then asked him, “You good now? Okay, I’m taking a shower.”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that he looked a little stupid as if he would become a little childish in front of Li Zhenran. How come he had never felt this way in the past twenty years?

       Li Zhenran left Li Zhenruo sitting on the sink, stepped into the bathtub and turned on the hot water to take a shower.

       Li Zhenruo sat there and looked at him, and suddenly said, “Do you—have a cat fetish?”

       Li Zhenran wiped the water off his face with his hands and asked him, “What is cat fetish?”

       Li Zhenruo thought about it, “It’s the same as necrophilia fetishism.”

       Li Zhenran gave him a cold look, “Why do you compare yourself with a corpse?”

       Li Zhenruo scratched his neck, “That’s what it meant anyway.”

       Li Zhenran said, “I don’t have that idea about cats.”

       Li Zhenruo then asked another curious question, “Are you gay?”

       Li Zhenran asked him in return, “Are you?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Of course I am not.”

       Li Zhenran let out a laugh, “Then, last night you—”

       “Stop, stop, stop,” Li Zhenruo hurriedly stopped him, knowing that what he said was nothing more than how loud and lewd he was last night, and he was ashamed to listen.

       This conversation ended here.

       Li Zhenran asked him a question, “You can turn into a person at will, but you can’t change into clothes, so you can only run naked?”

       Bullseye! Li Zhenruo gritted his teeth, patted his hair in distress, and said weakly, “Yes, you’re right.”

       Li Zhenran asked him, “Then what are you going to do?”

       What to do? Li Zhenruo didn’t think about it himself. He felt that until now, he could not leave Li Zhenran. Maybe he could only go out with Li Zhenran, transform into a human form under Li Zhenran’s cover, and then let Li Zhenran give him clothes.

       Otherwise, it would be difficult to avoid the eyes of the rest of the Li family.

       Li Zhenruo then said, “Can you take me to work today?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t answer immediately, but after taking a bath and turning off the water, he slowly wiped his body with a towel and said, “Beg me.”

       Pervert!

       Li Zhenruo held back the swearing words and repeatedly persuaded himself to hold back for a while. Then he said, “Please.”

       Li Zhenran said, “It’s not sincere.”

       Li Zhenruo jumped off the sink and stood barefoot on the ground, “How to make it more sincere?”

       Li Zhenran hooked his fingers, “Come here, I’ll teach you.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him with some hesitation, but after a while, he took two steps toward Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran grabbed his wrist and pulled Li Zhenruo in front of him, then hugged his waist with both hands, and actually carried him into the bathtub, pressed him against the wall with his body, and one hand stuck to Li Zhenruo’s neck to make his face lifted up. Then he said in a deep voice in his ear, “Follow me.”

       Behind Li Zhenruo was the icy tiles, and in front of him was Li Zhenran’s hot body. He began to have difficulty breathing, and Li Zhenran’s deep voice passed through the eardrum directly into the brain.

       He heard Li Zhenran say, “Please.”

       Li Zhenruo swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and his neck was stuck. Although he could breathe smoothly, swallowing was a little difficult. He followed Li Zhenran and said, “Please…”

       Li Zhenran then whispered in his ear, “My master.”

       Li Zhenruo’s face was flushed, not only his face, but his whole body seemed to be a little hot. His lips were trembling, and he followed Li Zhenran and said, “My… master.”

       Li Zhenran kissed his lips with satisfaction. After the kiss was over, he leaned into his ear and said, “I’ll take you there, good boy.”

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       Li Zhenruo, who was washed clean and fragrant, was lying on the sofa armrest and saw Erhuang going back and forth at the door, but he didn’t intend to pay attention to the dog. The wound on his paw was still aching, and every now and then he lifted it up and licked it, trying to relieve the pain.

       Today’s dinner at Li’s house was very lively. In addition to Zhu Kai’s return, Li Zhentai and Wen Chun finished their dinner and were now sitting on the sofa and discussing with Li Jianglin about ordering the banquet.

       Li Zhenran was asked by Li Jianglin to stay on the first floor, and at the same time was instructed to make a call regarding the banquet.

       Li Jianglin wanted Li Zhentai and the others to set the wedding banquet at Wanfulai Restaurant. This was an old restaurant with a history of nearly 100 years. Not to mention the price, it was too difficult to book a banquet for next month at this time. Li Zhentai called to ask, and the boss said that all the good days in almost half a year were fully booked.

       Li Jianglin knew that Li Zhenran had a wider network of contacts than Li Zhentai, so he asked Li Zhenran to go out and find someone to see if he could book the wedding banquet next month.

       So for more than half an hour, Li Zhenruo saw Li Zhenran staying alone in the dining room and was constantly on the phone.

       To be honest, he felt that Li Jianglin was making it too difficult for Li Zhenran for the sake of Li Zhentai’s wedding.

       The only person in the family who didn’t come back for dinner was Li Zhenzi.

       Wen Chun sat with an elegant posture and a gentle attitude. Although all of the matters were cumbersome, she did not show any impatience in front of Li Jianglin.

       Zhu Kai sat down but couldn’t sit still. So after a while, he got up and went out and said he was going to take the dog for a walk.

       Li Jianglin waved his hand, motioning him to leave quickly.

       Li Zhenran had just finished a phone call and leaned back on the back of the seat, looking a little impatient. On the day Li Zhentai scheduled their wedding, others had already booked a banquet half a year ago, and they had paid a deposit in advance. It’s a matter of integrity, and Wanfulai’s boss was reluctant to ask someone to withdraw their booking in any case. At the present, they wouldn’t be able to hold a banquet on that day, unless they go to the family and spend money to settle it. However, the people who chose Wanfulai to hold the banquet were probably also from good families, so this matter was really difficult to handle.

       Marriage was a happy event, and it was not good to get in trouble with people for this reason.

       Li Zhentai noticed Li Zhenran’s expression and asked, “Zhenran, it’s not going well?”

       “Um,” Li Zhenran responded. He stood up and walked towards the sofa, “It didn’t go well.”

       He sat down on his butt, next to the sofa armrest on which Li Zhenruo was lying. He reached out and rubbed the top of Li Zhenruo’s head.

       Li Zhentai had contacted the place before and knew that it was not easy. He said to Li Jianglin, “Dad, why don’t you consider a different place?”

       Li Jianglin’s crutch did not leave his body. At this time, his palms stroked the dragon head on the top of the crutch and said, “This is the request of the in-laws. And our Li family can’t fail to do this little thing.”

       Wen Chun’s parents got married in Wanfulai. Thirty years have passed, and Wanfulai was the same as Wanfulai in the past.

       Li Zhentai was silent and did not say anything.

       Wen Chun reached out to hold Li Jianglin’s hand and said, “It doesn’t matter, my parents don’t know the current situation either. He just said the location casually, Uncle Li shouldn’t take it too seriously. It would be fine to change to another place.”

       Li Jianglin frowned and looked at Li Zhenran, “I’ll call and ask for it myself if you can’t do it on your end.”

       Li Zhenran had been teasing the cat with his head down. Li Zhenruo felt comfortable when he touched his head, so he straightened his limbs and rolled over from the sofa armrest, and lay on Li Zhenran’s lap. Li Zhenran gently scratched his belly and looked at his two fluffy balls. When he was about to stretch out his hand to squeeze it, he heard Li Jianglin talking to him, so he raised his head and said, “I’ll ask again, but I suggest making preparations for two possible outcomes.”

       Wen Chun hurriedly smiled and said, “It’s not bad to have a buffet-style wedding banquet, it’s quite popular now.”

       When she finished speaking, there was the sound of a car parked in front of the villa. Zhu Kai led his dog and said, “Daniel, you’re back?”

       Li Zhenran took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention to him and pinched Li Zhenruo’s balls. Li Zhenruo rolled over from Li Zhenran’s lap, jumped off and even took a few steps back.

       Soon, Li Zhenzi came in from the outside. He walked behind the couch where Li Zhentai and Wen Chun were sitting, put his hands on the back of the chair, and said with a smile, “Good news for you, Wanfulai’s side over there is settled.”

       Not only Wen Chun and Li Zhentai, but even Li Jianglin raised his head slightly and looked at him in surprise.

       Li Zhenzi didn’t say much and just said, “Don’t worry, everything is fine, the original family promised to cancel the banquet and find another place to hold it. Now Wanfulai may not have any news yet, but I have already found someone to get in touch. There will be news soon.”

       Li Jianglin asked, “Are you sure?”

       Li Zhenzi nodded, “I’m sure.” Then he put a hand on Li Zhentai’s shoulder and said, “Eldest brother, are you not going to thank me?”

       Li Zhentai smiled when he heard the words, “Of course, I must thank you properly.”

       Wen Chun also looked at Li Zhenzi, and from an angle that Li Zhentai couldn’t see, Li Zhenzi blinked at Wen Chun.

       At this moment, Li Zhenruo noticed that Li Jianglin’s hand holding the crutch was tightened. With such an action, Li Zhenruo was almost certain that Li Jianglin knew about the affair between Li Zhenzi and Wen Chun.

       He made that call. Zhu Kai must have told Li Jianglin, and then Li Jianglin came back in a hurry to take charge of the marriage between Li Zhentai and Wen Chun.

       Li Zhenruo turned around and saw Zhu Kai leaning against the door with his arms crossed, with a fake smile on his face.

       All of a sudden, Li Zhenruo had a very strange feeling that the family who appeared to be harmonious on the surface harboured their own evil intentions in their hearts. Just like Li Zhenzi, with one hand on Li Zhentai’s shoulder, he could also hook up with Li Zhentai’s wife, which was really scary.

       Li Zhenran was the only one who didn’t pay attention to those at all. He just hooked his fingers at Li Zhenruo and tried to get his attention back.

       Li Zhenruo hesitated and jumped back onto Li Zhenran’s lap, but this time he clamped his hind legs and refused to turn over or face Li Zhenran with his belly.

       Li Zhenran’s cell phone rang. After he answered the call, he said to Li Jianglin, “The boss of Wanfulai called and said that the family who ordered the banquet that day cancelled the reservation and has already reserved it for us.”

       The smile at the corner of Li Zhenzhi’s mouth was obvious.

       Li Jianglin glanced at him, he wanted to say something but didn’t say it, and finally just nodded.

       Li Zhenruo thought to himself, if it wasn’t for the fact that Li Jianglin knew Li Zhenzi hooked up with Wen Chun, he should be happy now. But there was such a big scandal in the middle, Li Jianglin at the same time felt like weeping and thought it was ridiculous and not good.

       Wen Chun stayed at Li’s house that night.

       Li Zhenruo believed that in the next few days, she would frequently go in and out of the Li family until the end of the wedding. Then she would move in rightfully and become the only mistress of the Li family.

       And tonight, Li Zhenruo’s intuition tells him that something was definitely going to happen. If nothing happened, he would be very sorry to Li Zhenzi since he had worked so hard for Wen Chun’s wedding.

       In order to anticipate the good show, Li Zhenruo even gave up going to sleep in Li Zhenran’s room but stayed in his own bed as soon as he went upstairs.

       Li Zhenran always let him sleep where he wanted. After a glance at him, he went back to his room and closed the door.

       Li Zhenruo had been lying quietly until the middle of the night. He deliberately dragged his bed out close to the stairs, wanting to hear the movement downstairs.

       Li Zhenzi went back to the room early, and Wen Chun followed Li Zhentai back to the room to do what should probably be done.

       Only Li Zhenruo relying on the undying desire for gossip was still waiting patiently.

       It was almost half-past twelve, and it was estimated that the Li family had already fallen asleep. Li Zhenruo heard the door of a room on the second floor open and the sound of footsteps in slippers walking downstairs.

       He hurriedly got up from his bed, stuck his head out to the middle of the stairs to see, but saw that the man hadn’t turned on the lights all the way, so he couldn’t see anything at all.

       At this moment, the door of another room on the second floor opened gently, and someone went down behind him.

       Li Zhenruo immediately followed silently to catch the adultery.

       As they went down to the first floor, Li Zhenruo saw Wen Chun wearing a halter nightdress, and standing in the dining room drinking a glass of warm water.

       Li Zhenzi walked over, hugged her from behind, and said, “Did you get my message?”

       The lights in the dining room were not turned on. With the dim yellow light coming in from outside, Li Zhenruo could clearly see the two people.

       It was actually quite dangerous here because Li Jianglin and Zhu Kai’s room was on the first floor. Although the soundproofing of the room was very good, their voice shouldn’t be able to be heard when they speak in a low voice. But there was no guarantee that someone would not notice any movement and open the door to take a look.

       There was a knife above the character for lust¹色字头上一把刀 is an idiom for lascivious activities could lead to bitter consequences, and Li Zhenzi literally sent his head under the blade of the knife.

       Wen Chun was obviously much more sober than he was. She quietly broke away from him, glanced at the living room outside and the direction of Li Jianglin’s room, and said, “Don’t look for me.”

       Li Zhenzi said, “Do you know how much effort I put in for the banquet over at Wanfulai?”

       Wen Chun glanced at him, “I don’t care about those things, and I don’t need you to do them for me. I’ll be your sister-in-law in the future, so show some respect.”

       Li Zhenzi said softly, “Chun jie…”

       Wen Chun walked around him and walked upstairs, “If you send me another message, I’ll show it to your father.”

       Li Zhenzi did not chase after her and sat down beside the dining table. Li Zhenruo didn’t know what was on Li Zhenzi’s mind, but he was surprisingly smiling a little. After a while, he got up to drink a glass of water, put the glass on the dining table, and turned to go upstairs.

       After Li Zhenzi left, Li Zhenruo didn’t move. Behind him, the door of Zhu Kai’s room opened gently.

       Zhu Kai stuck his head out and saw that Li Zhenruo was still there, he put his index finger to his mouth to signal him to keep silent, then squatted by the door and started to look at his cell phone.

       When Li Zhenzi was hugging Wen Chun behind her back just now, neither of them noticed that Zhu Kai secretly opened the door, turned off the sound and flash of the phone, and took a few pictures.

       Only Li Zhenruo noticed it. At this time, he couldn’t help but lean over to look at Zhu Kai’s phone screen. Zhu Kai did not drive him away, but let him look at the side.

       The screen was very dark, and the faint light outside could only barely illuminate the outlines of the two people, and moreover, it was still just figures seen from the back.

       But it was enough. As long as Li Zhentai or Li Jianglin were given a look, they could immediately identify the two people’s identities.

       Li Zhenruo thought that the knife on Li Zhenzi’s head was about to fall off, and Zhu Kai suddenly laughed when he saw the photo. Li Zhenruo saw Zhu Kai’s shoulders shaking because he was suppressing his voice.

       After Zhu Kai finished stifling his laughter, he put his index finger to his lips with an “sshh” to Li Zhenruo, and surreptitiously went back to the room to close the door.

       Li Zhenruo the cat was left behind, and he suddenly felt that the darkness was so terrifying that he turned around and ran upstairs.

       After a night of sleep, as they ate breakfast, Li Zhenruo peeked at the Li family at the dinner table while licking the milk. Li Zhenzi and Wen Chun act as if nothing happened, Li Zhentai also showed no reaction, and Zhu Kai hadn’t gotten up yet.

       The photo was in Zhu Kai’s hands, and Li Zhenruo really didn’t know what his plans were.

       Although he has a good relationship with Zhu Kai, he had always felt that Zhu Kai was a psychopath, and normal people should not provoke a psychopath.

       But even after Zhu Kai woke up, he didn’t mention this matter. He didn’t know if Li Jianglin had seen the photo. Even if Li Jianglin had seen it, the old man could still keep his composure while facing Wen Chun and Li Zhenzi, but it was not like Li Zhenruo could tell the difference anyway.

       The Li family seemed to be on the right track, but Li Zhenruo was the only one who always felt there was a bit of mountain rain coming and the wind was all over the building, and he couldn’t explain why.

       About a week later, there was a sudden strong wind one night.

       When Li Zhenruo was drinking water in the dining room on the first floor. He heard Wang Ma nagging while closing the window in the living room, “Why is there such a strong wind? It’s not going to rain heavily, is it?”

       As soon as she finished speaking, Li Zhenruo heard the sound of thunder. Because of his sensitive ears, he was startled, and almost knocked over his water dish.

       So he couldn’t help but come into the living room and jump on the windowsill to look outside and saw that the wind was really howling outside. The tall trees were blown over the branches and leaves, and the small bamboo forest in the distance was fluttering down, and he could even hear the sound of the wind blowing through.

       At this time, another lightning struck, and Li Zhenruo’s heart trembled slightly, and then he heard the sound of thunder.

       Wang Ma closed the window and turned off the light in the living room. Li Zhenruo turned around and ran up the stairs. He ran all the way to the third floor and wanted to go back to Li Zhenran’s room, but found that the other party had closed the door.

       These days, he was thinking about the adultery between Li Zhenzi and Wen Chun, and often refused to enter Li Zhenran’s room at night. Li Zhenran was probably used to it. He closed the door without waiting for him when he slept.

       Li Zhenruo had to go back to his cat bed.

       The window of the recreation room was already closed. It was closed by Wang Ma just now, and now there was only one window in the corridor on the third floor that was still open. Li Zhenruo could always hear the strange sound of the wind outside the window as if there was a monster hiding inside.

       The animal’s sharp intuition made him know what was going to happen tonight. He has already visualised a full-scale dog blood²means something ridiculous, it is used to describe TV drama scenes that are repetitive and exaggerated. ethic drama of a rich and powerful family.

       However, this drama was slow to stage. Not to mention the Li family, even Li Zhenruo was about to fall asleep. In a daze, he heard a strange noise in the wind outside and suddenly opened his eyes. This time it wasn’t an illusion, he really heard something.

       Li Zhenruo came out of the cat bed and jumped on the window sill of the recreation room to look outside. Because the window was closed, he could only try to put his face against the window glass, trying to see what was in the dark.

       At this moment, he noticed that a huge black shadow flashed past downstairs.

       The thick and almost inseparable black shadow looks like a huge beast running past with its limbs stretched out, and Li Zhenruo’s heart palpitated suddenly. Before he could react, he heard a soft sound from the window of the corridor, which sounded like something coming in through the window.

       Li Zhenruo jumped off the window sill, and he smelled a scent that seemed to be somewhat familiar. He hurriedly ran out of the room. Li Zhenruo was standing in the corridor and saw a huge black monster sitting on the window at the end. It looked like a black panther, with eyes flashing with a regal glow and a figure that filled the entire window.

       Being watched by Li Zhenruo with frightened eyes, the monster suddenly stretched out and pounced in his direction.

       Li Zhenruo was so frightened that he took a few steps back, but saw that the monster turned into a human appearance in the air, and then landed lightly in front of Li Zhenruo, and stretched out a finger to scratch his chin.

       “Meow…” Li Zhenruo cried out weakly, but it really was him. He smelled the scent just now and felt like it was that person from the other day. The Xia Hongshen he met who promised to help him.

       The gust of wind outside was still unstoppable.

       Xia Hongshen sat with his leg crossed in front of Li Zhenruo. He stretched out two bright red fruits from his pocket, and said to him, “Eat up.”

       Li Zhenruo came close and smelled it, but couldn’t smell anything special. The two fruits were so bright in colour that they looked like they were poisonous. He looked at Xia Hongshen with some suspicion.

       Xia Hongshen didn’t react, but still repeat the same sentence, “Eat up.”

       “Meow?” Can I ask what it is?

       Xia Hongshen said, “Good stuff. Eat it and I’ll teach you how to control your spiritual power to transform.”

       Although he was still sceptical, Li Zhenruo knew that he had no choice but to trust Xia Hongshen. So he rolled up the two fruits with his tongue and slowly ate them.

       After eating the fruit, Li Zhenruo felt hot air rising from his abdomen. It was not appropriate to say that it was a hot air. It should be said that it was a force. When he was in heat, he had a similar feeling that made it difficult for him to control his body’s power.

       Xia Hongshen said in his ear, “Listen to me, let the spiritual power in the body run to the limbs and bones.”

       Li Zhenruo was at a loss with all the limbs and bones. He didn’t know where the limbs and bones were.

       Xia Hongshen then said, “You imagine that your body is stretched, your fingers are separated, and you become human…”

       Li Zhenruo closed his eyes and followed Xia Hongshen’s words, prompting the heat to spread to his fingers and toes, his limbs stretched, and his claws stretched out into five flexible fingers.

       He thought so, and at the same time, he really felt it. He couldn’t tell whether it was his hallucination or reality, but he really felt that his body was being pulled and his heart was beating fast as if the feeling he had when he transformed himself last time came back.

       Xia Hongshen suddenly said, “Very good.”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly opened his eyes. He found that he had grown taller and could look directly at Xia Hongshen, who was sitting on the ground. He raised his hand and saw that his bare arms had indeed turned into a human appearance.

       He touched his face in surprise, and the next action quickly covered his lower body, knowing that he was not wearing anything right now.

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       This laboratory building was very close to the hospital where Feng Junyuan worked. It was the laboratory building of the medical school. This Song Jun still looks like a college student, but he was only in his twenties.

       Li Zhenruo thought about Song Jun’s senior brother and wondered what he was like.

       Before, he always imagined that Song Jun would be an immortal Taoist with a satin shirt and long hair. But now that he has seen Song Jun, his imagination has been completely shattered, and he wondered if his senior brother also will be that way.

       However, Song Jun carried Li Zhenruo and walked directly into the first floor, and finally stopped at the door of a somewhat dark room, saying, “Senior brother is inside, it is not convenient to enter now.”

       Li Zhenruo looked up and saw the three words “anatomy room” on the sign hanging on the door. He was suddenly chilled from head to tail. He felt a sense of relief because he felt that his imagination was still too limited.

       Song Jun bent down and wanted to put Li Zhenruo on the ground, but Li Zhenruo grabbed his legs and climbed up. It was safer to stay in Song Jun’s arms.

       After waiting for more than ten minutes, a man in a white coat and a mask came out. He walked while taking off his gloves and threw them in the trash can next to him. As soon as he looked up, he saw Song Jun and asked, “Is something wrong?”

       Li Zhenruo saw that he reached out and pulled the mask off, revealing a handsome face. It was clearly a serene and calm expression, but it revealed a strong sense of oppression.

       Song Jun smiled and said, “Senior Brother Xia!”

       The man he called Senior Brother Xia lowered his head, and looked at the cat in his arms. He suddenly stretched out his hand, picked it up, and threw it aside.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t react for a while, and he was a little dumbfounded.

       Song Jun asked strangely, “Senior brother, what are you doing?”

       That Senior Brother Xia said, “Don’t hold other cats.”

       After he said that, he left without looking back.

       Song Jun quickly followed and beckoned Li Zhenruo to follow him.

       When following the senior brother Xia upstairs, Song Jun whispered to Li Zhenruo that senior brother Xia’s name was Xia Hongshen. He was a teacher of the school’s forensic pathology major, and Song Jun himself was a doctoral student majoring in genetics.

       Li Zhenruo wanted to ask him: Shouldn’t forensic doctors be atheists? Was it really appropriate for you to talk about something mystical?

       Xia Hongshen went to his upstairs office on his own. As Song Jun took Li Zhenruo to follow up, Li Zhenruo felt a strong sense of oppression again.

       He also didn’t understand what was going on. If he has to describe it, it was the animal’s instinctual sense of danger. When encountering an animal stronger than themselves, which may prey on them, it reminded you to run for your life quickly.

       Li Zhenruo just stretched out his head and went in to take a peek.

       Xia Hongshen sat at the desk without raising his head and said, “With a face that big, you think I can’t see it if you hide?”

       Li Zhenruo was somewhat hurt for a while.

       Song Jun beckoned him in, and said to Xia Hongshen, “Xiao Feng brought it here, saying it’s Boss Luo’s friend.”

       Xia Hongshen raised his head slightly, “Luo Fei’s friend?”

       Song Jun whispered, “We still owe Boss Luo a lot of debt, senior brother, think about it carefully!”

       Xia Hongshen then hooked his fingers at Li Zhenruo, “Come here.”

       Li Zhenruo walked in cautiously and jumped onto Xia Hongshen’s desk with hesitation. He then walked all the way to Xia Hongshen’s side.

       Xia Hongshen lifted his hand and touched the top of Li Zhenruo’s head, and Li Zhenruo felt a warm breath.

       Later, Xia Hongshen took his hand away and said, “There is a bit of spiritual power, but it is too thin.” After he said that, he seemed to look at Li Zhenruo carefully for a while, “Song Jun, what do you think?”

       Song Jun stood in front of the desk and gently stroked Li Zhenruo’s back. He then said, “Xiao Feng said that it once transformed into a human form when it was in heat. According to the cat itself, it was the human soul attached to this cat. It was not clear what exactly happened.”

       Xia Hongshen took out a flashlight from the drawer and said to Li Zhenruo, “Open your mouth.” After Li Zhenruo opened his mouth, Xia Hongshen shone the flashlight inside.

       Song Jun couldn’t help but wonder, “What do you see?”

       Li Zhenruo also seemed to be bewildered.

       Xia Hongshen said, “I see what brand of cat food it eats, but I don’t know if it’s good or not.”

       Li Zhenruo, “…”

       Xia Hongshen turned off the flashlight and threw it aside. He leaned back on the seat, and said, “The spiritual power should be from the owner of this body, and it has nothing to do with the soul. I guess it’s because the spiritual power is too strong during the estrus period, which caused the fluctuation of spiritual power. Since the soul had some lingering regret, it took a human form.”

       Obsession? Li Zhenruo thought to himself that he did have some obsession, and could not let go of his feelings and hatred in the human world.

       Song Jun frowned, looked at Li Zhenruo for a while, and said inexplicably, “But this is an overseas cat…”

       Xia Hongshen said, “Next time you reincarnate, put more heart into it and you will be able to transform into a foreigner too.”

       Song Jun ignored him and asked, “What will happen to him? Will he suddenly become a human again because of his estrus?”

       Xia Hong looked at Li Zhenruo deeply and asked him, “What do you want?”

       Li Zhenruo had no way to speak. He wanted to say that he wished he could control this ability and change his form between human and cat at will so that he could not only enter and leave the Li family at will but also have the ability to investigate some things.

       All the thoughts finally turned into one word, “Meow!”

       In the end, it turned out that Xia Hongshen actually understood, he said, “Yes, but it’s not easy.”

       Li Zhenruo’s eyes opened wide.

       Xia Hongshen said, “I can give you spiritual power to keep you in human form, but it is temporary after all, since the spiritual power will be consumed. If you want to have that kind of ability, you have to improve your own spiritual power.”

       “Meow?” What to do?

       Xia Hongshen leaned forward slightly and said to Li Zhenruo, “Money.”

       Li Zhenruo squinted his round eyes, and restrained the contempt in his heart. He asked, “Meow?” How much?

       Xia Hongshen touched his chin with a deep finger, glanced at Song Jun, and said, “500 million.”

       Song Jun immediately said, “Senior brother, don’t make trouble.”

       Li Zhenruo sighed, thinking that this Xia Hongshen was just talking nonsense, and Li Zhenruo didn’t know if he really had that ability. So he bargained with him, “Meow—” I don’t have that much money, make it less!

       Xia Hongshen was looking at Song Jun again.

       Song Jun couldn’t help but said, “Senior brother, please help him. Where could this cat get the money?”

       Xia Hongshen tapped the table lightly with his fingers, and then said, “I’ll give you a discount. Five thousand. Don’t bargain anymore. Just find someone else if you can’t afford it.”

       Li Zhenruo was very doubtful about whether this Xia Hongshen here was powerful, he sounded like a swindler. But even if Xia Hongshen was a medium, he was the only life-saving straw that Li Zhenruo could catch at present. Five thousand yuan was not much. Although he really can’t get it, he still has a master.

       Song Jun next to him wanted to persuade Xia Hongshen, but Li Zhenruo patted the table with his paw, “Meow!” It’s a deal!

       Song Jun was a little surprised by Li Zhenruo’s boldness.

       However, Xia Hongshen nodded and said to him, “Go back and wait for my call, and when the time comes, hand over the money.”

       “Meow~” Li Zhenruo quickly explained his current situation. He couldn’t answer Xia Hongshen’s phone call, and he couldn’t hand the money to Xia Hongshen. He has done all the things he could do, now he had to rely on Li Zhenran’s help. He hoped that Xia Hongshen could communicate it to Li Zhenran directly.

       Xia Hongshen propped his head on one hand, and asked Li Zhenruo curiously, “Who is your master? How much does he know about you?”

       Li Zhenruo told Xia Hongshen that his master only knew that he had changed into a human form when he was in estrus, but he did not know that there was someone else’s soul living in his body.

       Xia Hong thought for a while, “Is he not surprised or afraid?”

       Li Zhenruo was taken aback by his question. He recalled that Li Zhenran should have been very sceptical at first, but after a long time, he gradually believed it. It was something weird for sure, but Li Zhenran didn’t like to express himself. Many times Li Zhenruo didn’t know what he was thinking. As for if he was afraid, it seems that he never felt that Li Zhenran was afraid of anything.

       He didn’t know what Li Zhenran thought of him, maybe he thought he was a cat demon, and then he accepted this fact calmly.

       Xia Hongshen said to Li Zhenruo, “It’s better not to let too many people know about us, including your master.”

       Li Zhenruo was slightly startled. He was shocked to find himself almost completely defenceless against Li Zhenran and even felt that there should not be any problem telling Li Zhenran these things.

       However, Xia Hongshen and these people didn’t seem to be simple. They don’t want to expose some things to others so casually. If he wasn’t a cat, perhaps Xia Hongshen wouldn’t even be here to talk to him so much.

       Li Zhenruo was a little distressed for a while, and he said to Xia Hongshen, “Meow…” Without the help of Li Zhenran, he could not have handed over and paid 5000 yuan to Xia Hongshen

       Xia Hongshen seemed to be a little displeased. After thinking for a long time, he glanced at Song Jun again, and finally said, “For the sake of your big face and round eyes and your happy-go-lucky look, sign an IOU and remember when you have money, give it to me.”

       Li Zhenruo feels that having a happy-go-lucky look was not really a compliment.

       But to Xia Hongshen’s request, he nodded unequivocally, “Meow!”

       He really needed the ability to move freely now, but this ability was the thing he couldn’t do. He had to resort to Xia Hongshen’s help, no matter what kind of request Xia Hongshen made.

       Xia Hongshen took a piece of white paper, picked up a pen and wrote on it. Then looked up and asked Li Zhenruo, “Name?”

       Li Zhenruo hesitated and told him that his name was Tuanzi.

       Xia Hong looked at him deeply, “Your real name.”

       Li Zhenruo was silent for a moment, took a deep breath, and confessed his name.

       Xia Hongshen didn’t react, and just wrote his name on the paper, but Song Jun, who had been watching, said, “Huh? You are Li Zhenruo?”

       “You know him?” Xia Hongshen asked.

       Song Jun said, “Li family’s Yunlin. Li Jianglin’s son that died in an accident some time ago. Didn’t you watch the news?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “Don’t pay attention to that. If you have time to read those, why not think about your doctoral dissertation.”

       Song Jun was silent for a while.

       After Xia Hongshen finished writing, he threw the paper to Li Zhenruo for him to read. Li Zhenruo was a little nervous and said to Xia Hongshen, “Meow meow?” Can you not leak my information to anyone?

       Xia Hongshen said, “You can rest assured that no one will know, as long as you have not leaked information about us to anyone.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded quickly.

       He looked at the IOU¹An IOU (abbreviated from the phrase “I owe you”) is usually an informal document acknowledging debt. carefully, in addition to writing his deal with Xia Hongshen, there was also the consequences to be borne for leaking the secret. It looked a bit scary, but Li Zhenruo was not worried. He raised his head to find a pen.

       Xia Hongshen said to him, “Press the paw print.”

       Li Zhenruo raised his front paws, looked at his own paws, and then shook his head from side to side to find the ink pad.

       Unexpectedly, Xia Hongshen grabbed his paw, and a bloodstain appeared when his fingers pass over it, and then said to him, “With blood.”

       Just now, Li Zhenruo clearly saw that Xia Hongshen’s fingertips turned into sharp claws, and the fur was dark black.

       He couldn’t pay attention to the pain in his paws, and while the blood wasn’t dry, he neatly pressed his paw prints, then raised his paws and licked them hard.

       Xia Hongshen reached out and pinched the IOU, and with a flick in the air, a flame suddenly ignited, burning the IOU into ashes. 

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment, and before he had time to ask any questions, he heard Xia Hongshen say, “I have your name and bloody palm print, you can’t escape no matter what. Be honest.”

       Li Zhenruo said: I didn’t even want to run anywhere.

       After Xia Hongshen finished these things, he raised his hand and said to Song Jun, “See off the guest.”

       Li Zhenruo quickly grabbed the table with his claws, and the injured claws hurt for a while. He wanted to say that he didn’t have a phone, and how could Xia Hongshen contact him.

       Xia Hongshen said, “I will find you, don’t worry.”

       In the afternoon, Li Zhenruo was handed back to Li Zhenran by Feng Junyuan.

       When he took the cat from Feng Junyuan, Li Zhenran couldn’t help but ask, “Doctor Feng, is there a way in the end?”

       Feng Junyuan shook his head, “I don’t know either, I don’t have that ability.”

       Li Zhenran glanced down at Li Zhenruo and knew that he probably couldn’t ask anything. So he nodded to Feng Junyuan, grabbed Li Zhenruo’s collar and threw him into the car.

       Li Zhenruo rolled forward in the rear seat and almost hit the opposite door. As he saw Li Zhenran sit in the car and close the door, he was a little angry and jumped up to the front passenger seat.

       Li Zhenran ignored him but started to call Luo Fei as soon as he got in the car.

       It was unlikely for Li Zhenran to be so rude to Luo Fei, so he just asked, “Luo Fei, tell me the truth, who is that Doctor Feng?”

       Luo Fei smiled and said to Li Zhenran, “He’s not a bad person, you can rest assured that they won’t do anything to your cat.”

       Li Zhenran was silent for a while. Li Zhenruo couldn’t help turning his head to look at him, and heard him say to Luo Fei, “Are there any demons in this world?”

       Luo Fei said to him, “What do you think?”

       Li Zhenran said, “If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t deny its existence.”

       Luo Fei said with a smile, “If it were me, I would regard it as fate.”

       Afterwards, they didn’t say much. They just exchanged some pleasantries and hung up the phone.

       The driver drove back home, Li Zhenruo scurried back to the back row. He waited until Li Zhenran opened the door and immediately got down himself.

       Just as he got out of the car, he noticed that there was a huge shadow covering his back. Something grabbed his neck and staggered away with him.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t realize what was going on, and could only hear Li Zhenran shouting, “Zhu Kai!”

       After that, he was carried far away to the small grass patch next to the swimming pool before he was put down. When he turned his head, he saw Zhu Kai’s Erhuang.

       Erhuang opened his mouth and panted with a happy look on his face. It has probably been looking for the round-faced cat at home to play with it for a long time.

       Zhu Kai heard that Erhuang took away Li Zhenran’s cat, so he shouted, “Erhuang, take the cat back!”

       Erhuang heard the master call it and immediately turned around to look.

       As soon as Li Zhenruo heard that it was going to take him back, he was so frightened that he jumped up from the grass and ran towards Li Zhenran. He was frightened by Erhuang. Anyone who was suddenly whisked away roughly by a large thing would probably be nervous. So he ran wildly all the way. Li Zhenruo ran to Li Zhenran’s legs and rubbed his legs to climb up. 

       Li Zhenran stretched out his arms to hug him and felt that his neck was full of dog saliva, and immediately grabbed his two paws and pulled them away from him in disgust, and carried him upstairs to give him a bath for him before dinner.

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Notes:
Bean and me actually planned to give some April’s Fool prank but me lazy and not creative so until now I dunno what kinda prank I should do (￣(エ)￣)ゞ

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