Author: hoenimochi (Page 79 of 95)

       This topic was followed by a sentence to find Luo Fei, which made people a little imaginative. Regardless of what happened after seeing Luo Fei, Li Zhenruo now really wanted to ask Luo Fei. Of course, it would be better to meet Feng Junyuan as well.

       Today was the weekend.

       But Li Zhentai and Li Zhenzi still went out early in the morning.

       Li Zhentai went to pick up Wen Chun since they were going to take wedding photos, and they had to choose and book a hotel for the wedding ceremony. While Li Zhenzi might have an appointment with a beautiful woman and said that he would not be back tonight.

       After breakfast, Li Zhenran carried Li Zhenruo by his collar and went outside. He did not ask for the driver and planned to drive out by himself.

       Li Zhenruo scratched with his four claws in the air and let out an angry howl.

       “Zhenran,” Li Jianglin stood on the crutch in the living room and suddenly stopped him.

       Li Zhenran stopped and turned around, “Dad?”

       Li Zhenruo also forgot to struggle, and hold up his head to look at Li Jianglin.

       Li Jianglin asked him, “Is there anything you need to do in the morning?”

       When Li Zhenran heard the words, he lifted Li Zhenruo up and showed him, “Taking it to the pet shop to get its hair trimmed.”

       As Li Jianglin heard him say this, he acquiesced that Li Zhenran had nothing to do in the morning and said, “Come out with me.”

       Li Zhenran asked, “Just us?”

       Li Jianglin nodded, “You drive.”

       Li Zhenruo felt strange and looked up at Li Zhenran. Li Zhenran had a flat expression on his face and said, “Okay, wait for me and I’ll drive over.”

       Li Zhenran went to drive the car and left Li Zhenruo in the passenger seat.

       The car was parked by the fountain. Li Jianglin walked over slowly, opened the passenger’s door directly, and saw the cat sitting on it.

       Li Zhenran got out of the car to help him and said, “Dad, sit in the back seat, it’s more comfortable to sit up.”

       Li Jianglin asked him, “Are you going to take the cat with you?”

       Li Zhenran casually responded, “I’ll drop it off at the pet store later if it’s convenient.”

       Li Jianglin didn’t say anything else but waved his crutch to drive Li Zhenruo away.

       Li Zhenruo rushed to the back seat by himself. He looked at Li Jianglin nervously, afraid that Li Jianglin would not let Li Zhenran take him out.

       However, Li Jianglin has directly bent down and sat in the passenger seat.

       Li Zhenran helped to put the crutch in the back seat, returned to the driver’s seat by himself, and leaned over to help Li Jianglin fasten his seat belt.

       As the car slowly drove out of the gate of Li’s house, Li Jianglin suddenly laughed and said, “Your cat is also interesting. Aren’t you afraid of it running away when you take it out like this?”

       Li Zhenran said, “It’s very well behaved and won’t run away by itself.”

       Li Jianglin shook his head in disapproval, “Cats are always different from dogs, cats are not well-bred.”

       Li Zhenran didn’t refute him and just smiled a little.

       Li Jianglin went on to say, “But if it ran away, then it ran away. It’s not worth holding it back.”

       When they came out of the road in front of Li’s house and was about to enter the fork in the road, Li Zhenran asked Li Jianglin, “Dad, where are you going?”

       Li Jianglin said softly, “Go to the cemetery north of the city.”

       Li Zhenran didn’t ask who he was going to see, but just nodded slightly and turned the steering wheel.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t feel comfortable sitting alone in the back row. Sometimes his claws couldn’t grasp the seat cushion, and he would slide to one side when the car was turning or braking suddenly. He thought that Li Jianglin must have gone to see Zhu Yun. He hadn’t come back for so long. So when he got home, he should visit his deceased wife.

       At this time, there were some traffic jams out of the city. Probably because Li Jianglin was in the car, Li Zhenran drove the car very steadily. He and Li Jianglin didn’t speak much and remained silent all the way.

       It took them almost two hours to reach the cemetery on the outskirts of the northern part of the city.

       After parking the car in the parking lot, Li Zhenran got out of the car and took Li Jianglin’s crutch. He opened the door, then helped him out of the car and handed him the crutch.

       Li Jianglin leaned on his crutch on the ground for a little while and turned to look at Li Zhenruo who had stretched his front legs out of the car. He said, “Is it going too?”

       Li Zhenran responded, “It won’t run away, don’t worry.”

       Li Jianglin didn’t object, but he didn’t believe that the cat would be so obedient, and wouldn’t run around without being tied to a rope.

       However, because Li Jianglin was watching, Li Zhenruo was extraordinarily well-behaved today. When he saw Li Zhenran going to buy flowers, he stood beside Li Jianglin and guarded him. When Li Zhenran came back, he followed them up the mountain.

       Li Jianglin was unable to move freely, so he walked very slowly. Li Zhenran was very patient and only helped him up the mountain slowly without urging.

       Li Jianglin had just instructed Li Zhenran to buy two bouquets, which were now both held on Li Zhenran’s arm.

       Li Zhenruo thought Li Jianglin meant one bouquet for him and one bouquet for Li Zhenran, to convey a gesture of goodwill.

       Sure enough, they really walked towards Zhu Yun’s cemetery.

       Li Zhenruo once came to visit Zhu Yun’s tomb. He has no feelings for Zhu Yun, and he also has no feelings for his biological mother, so he didn’t hate Zhu Yun. The brothers knew that Li Jianglin loved Zhu Yun deeply. Accompanying Li Jianglin to visit Zhu Yun’s tomb was nothing more than to please Li Jianglin.

       Li Jianglin came to the front of Zhu Yun’s cemetery with the help of Li Zhenran, stood up straight and sighed deeply.

       Li Zhenran handed him the flowers and after he saw Li Jianglin put down the bouquet, he also planned to put down the bouquet in his hand, but unexpectedly Li Jianglin stopped him and said, “Keep this bouquet.”

       Li Zhenran paused, stood up straight and put the flower aside, without asking Li Jianglin the reason.

       As he watched Li Jianglin start to reminisce in front of Zhu Yun’s tombstone, Li Zhenruo took a few steps to the side. He looked at the hillside with many tombstones in the distance and wondered if one of them was his tomb. After all, the Li family did not disclose his identity. Naturally, they were the ones who managed his corpse.

       Li Zhenruo was in a complicated mood. After a while, Li Zhenran lightly kicked his behind and said, “Let’s go.”

       Only then did he look up in dismay and saw that Li Zhenran was already supporting Li Jianglin and planning to leave.

       Li Jianglin looked down at Li Zhenruo and let out a laugh.

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly followed Li Zhenran’s feet to leave. Only then did he notice that he was still holding a bunch of flowers in his hand.

       Who are you going to see? Li Zhenruo was slightly taken aback.

       While walking, Li Jianglin said to Li Zhenran, “Sometimes people take some things too seriously, and it’s not really that necessary.”

       Li Zhenran heard the words, nodded and replied, “Yes.”

       Li Jianglin sighed heavily as if he wanted to say something, but then he didn’t say it.

       Li Zhenruo was a little dazed. He followed Li Zhenran’s feet and nearly hit Li Zhenran’s leg several times. He vaguely felt that Li Jianglin might want to visit someone, but he didn’t dare to hold too many expectations. Because the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment will be.

       But when Li Jianglin and Li Zhenran stood in front of a tombstone, he held his breath before he dared to raise his head to look at the name on the tombstone.

       That was his tombstone.

       Li Zhenruo, who was only twenty-three years old when he died, had grown up a very privileged person but died in his most beautiful time.

       In the photo on the tombstone, Li Zhenruo looked young and handsome with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth. He began to recall how he felt when he took this photo as if it was an ID photo he took when he had just come back from college to apply for his ID. At that time, life seemed to be full of countless hopes, and in a blink of an eye, there was nothing left.

       Li Jianglin stood in front of the tombstone and let out a long sigh.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but raised his head to look at him.

       Li Jianglin shook his head. Li Zhenruo looked at his expression carefully, but couldn’t see any more emotions. If he had to say it, he would probably have some regret and some sadness in his eyes.

       Even if it wasn’t his own, he was raised as a son by his side, so he definitely wouldn’t be completely emotionless.

       Li Zhenruo felt that he should thank Li Jianglin who was willing to remember such an old sentiment and come to offer him a bouquet of flowers.

       Li Zhenran just stretched out his hand and placed the flower in front of the tombstone, and said nothing.

       This was a very sensitive topic. No one could tell whether Li Jianglin cares more about Li Zhenruo’s identity or misses this unrelated son.

       He was willing to let Li Zhenran accompany him today. In some sense, he had already spent some of his attention on Li Zhenran. Probably in his heart, this son was somewhat different from the other two.

       In any case, he wondered if Li Jianglin was actually clear about his real cause of death?

       In the Li family, Li Zhenran, Li Zhenzi, including Zhu Kai, who was not from the Li family, all suspected that the cause of Li Zhenruo’s death was unusual. How could someone as smart as Li Jianglin not have any doubts at all?

       Whether he did not care about Li Zhenruo’s death at all or he did know something but had other plans. Li Zhenruo found that he couldn’t guess at all, and he thought he needed more clues. He wanted to know who it was and why they were so cruel to him!

       A cat’s paw was stealthily settled on the tomb lid. And underneath the paw was his own ashes, but he could no longer feel anything.

       When he left, Li Zhenran supported Li Jianglin and walked a few steps, and when he noticed that his cat was not following, he turned around to look.

       At this time, Li Zhenruo was still staring at his tombstone in a daze.

       “Dumpling, let’s go,” Li Zhenran called to him before he turned around and ran two steps to catch up with Li Zhenran.

       They left the cemetery without staying outside and drove directly back to Li’s house. It was almost noon when they returned, and it was just in time for lunch.

       Back at home, Li Zhenruo found out that Li Zhentai and Wen Chun come over. They wanted to discuss the wedding with Li Jianglin.

       Li Zhentai heard the sound of the car and came out to escort Li Jianglin. As he saw that Li Zhenran was driving alone with Li Jianglin, instantly his face changed in a way that he couldn’t even conceal.

       Li Zhenruo guessed that he must be very unhappy.

       However, Li Zhentai was still sensible. He quickly helped Li Jianglin back to the living room with a smile and told him that he and Wen Chun were here to ask about the wedding, hoping to get some advice from Li Jianglin.

       Now, this was what Li Jianglin cared about most.

       Just after lunch, Li Zhenran answered a phone call, and Li Zhenruo leaned in to listen. It was like a call from Hua Yibang, and it should be something about the company.

       Sure enough, after hanging up the phone, Li Zhenran told Li Zhenruo that he had to go out in the afternoon and could not accompany Li Zhenruo to find Luo Fei.

       Li Zhenruo’s round eyes drooped down instantly.

       At this time, they had returned to Li Zhenran’s room. Li Zhenran originally said that they would go out after he took a nap.

       Li Zhenruo was extremely disappointed. When Li Zhenran reached out to touch his head, he turned his head in disgust, and slowly dragged his tail off the bed, wanting to leave.

       Li Zhenran looked at his posture, perhaps he felt he couldn’t bear it, and said, “Wait a minute, I’ll call Luo Fei.”

       So Li Zhenruo hurriedly stopped in his tracks again, holding out some hope that there would be room for a turnaround.

       This call took a long time. Li Zhenruo heard Li Zhenran seemed a bit reluctant and kept asking Luo Fei, “Is it alright? There won’t be anything, right?”

       Luo Fei also seemed to have been giving him assurances.

       Later, after hanging up the phone, Li Zhenran said to him, “I asked Luo Fei. He gave me Dr. Feng’s contact information and told me to send you to Dr. Feng’s place.”

       Li Zhenruo’s eyes widened.

       Li Zhenran glanced at the time and said to him, “I’ll pick you up when things are over in the afternoon.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded obediently.

       Li Zhenran hooked his fingers, “Come here.”

       Li Zhenruo ran over immediately.

       Li Zhenran grabbed his face, “If I don’t see you this afternoon, you will bear the consequences yourself.”

       He was grabbing very hard. Li Zhenruo raised his paw to push his hand but couldn’t push it away, so he kept nodding to show that he understood.

       After a while, Li Zhenran asked the driver to drive them out. Before going to the company, he took a detour to take Li Zhenruo to Feng Junyuan.

       Feng Junyuan’s hospital was an affiliated hospital of a medical university, located in the city centre. The hospital was very famous and usually has a lot of patients. The driver was stopped by the traffic police before he drove near the hospital and was not allowed to continue.

       Li Zhenran carried Li Zhenruo out of the car and planned to walk over directly.

       Sometimes Li Zhenruo would rather Li Zhenran tie a rope to him like a dog and lead him, rather than always carry him by the collar. It will be painful to death if he walked a little far. He began to struggle hard, and Li Zhenran hugged him in his arms.

       They walked to the hospital’s entrance. Li Zhenran called Feng Junyuan and was told to wait for him under the surgical building.

       A nurse passed by and saw him hug a cat and said, “This is not a pet hospital.”

       Li Zhenran said, “I’m not taking it to a doctor.”

       The nurse asked, “Then why are you bringing a cat?”

       Li Zhenran asked her, “Am I not allowed to bring my family?”

       The nurse was speechless for a while, then looked at him inexplicably and left.

       Li Zhenruo recalled the look in the nurse’s eyes, probably wanting to express: I won’t bother you because you are handsome. If you look ugly, I will definitely kick you out.

       After waiting for a few minutes, Li Zhenruo saw Feng Junyuan, who was wearing a white coat and a stethoscope around his neck, appeared at the door of the surgical building.

       When he saw Li Zhenran, he quickened his pace and hurried over. He greeted, “Mr. Li.”

       Li Zhenran was very polite to Feng Junyuan, “Doctor Feng, I’m sorry to cause you trouble.”

       Feng Junyuan seemed to want to laugh, but only raised the corner of his mouth, and said, “No problem, leave him to me.”

       Li Zhenran looked down at Li Zhenruo, who was in his arms, without speaking, with a warning in his eyes.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that Li Zhenran’s nervous appearance was cute. He didn’t know what he was thinking, so he suddenly jumped up and kissed Li Zhenran’s lips.

       Li Zhenran was also slightly startled by his action.

       Li Zhenruo felt embarrassed, turned around and jumped on Feng Junyuan, who caught him with his hand.

       Li Zhenran then said, “I’ll come and pick it up this afternoon.”

       Feng Junyuan nodded, “Give me a call.”

       Li Zhenran waved to them and turned to leave.

       Li Zhenruo kept looking at his back until Feng Junyuan carried him towards the outside of the hospital. He felt a little strange and raised his head to look at Feng Junyuan.

       Feng Junyuan said as he walked, “You really have changed back to your original form.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t communicate with him, and it was suffocating.

       Feng Junyuan said again, “I’ll take you to Song Jun now.”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t know where Song Jun was. In fact, until now, he didn’t know who Song Jun was. He just heard Feng Junyuan always talk about him. In Li Zhenruo’s mind, this Song Jun must be a very powerful and high-level person.

       However, within ten minutes, Li Zhenruo was carried by Feng Junyuan out of the hospital into the back door of a school. He heard Feng Junyuan call the person named Song Jun, and then he saw a man named Song Jun under a laboratory building. He was a thin young man in a white coat.

       “Xiao Feng!” The young man waved to Feng Junyuan.

       Feng Junyuan lowered his head slightly and said to him, “He is Song Jun.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at Song Jun and found that the other party was just an ordinary young man with a clean-cut appearance and a kind demeanour, but his eyes were slightly sharp.

       Feng Junyuan walked over, directly reached out and handed Li Zhenruo to Song Jun, and said, “This is the cat I mentioned to you.”

       Listening to his tone, Li Zhenruo guessed he should be very familiar with Song Jun.

       Song Jun lowered his head, reached out and scratched the top of Li Zhenruo’s head, with a very friendly attitude, and then said to Feng Junyuan, “I see, I will take it to senior brother¹in here Song Jun is saying 师兄 which means male senior fellow students in a Chinese martial arts school.”

       Feng Junyuan nodded, “Then I’ll go back to the hospital first. I have an operation this afternoon.”

       Song Jun waved to him.

       As he watched Feng Junyuan leave, Song Jun hugged Li Zhenruo a little higher, looked at his face, and said strangely, “What kind of cat is this? It looks so strange, Persian cat?”

       Li Zhenruo could only flatten his mouth, expressing that he had no way to tell him.

       Song Jun didn’t mind if he didn’t get an answer. He walked into the building with Li Zhenruo in his arms, and said, “Let’s go find senior brother.”

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Notes:
Honestly in this part where Li Jiangling visited Li Zhenruo I feel really sad because maybe Li Jianglin does love Zhenruo but just not in the form that Zhenruo expected and maybe in the previous chapter where Zhenruo saw a sign of distress in Li Jianglin and thought it was just because Li Jianglin was afraid of hitman is really him feeling distressed because he lost Zhenruo.
At least he now knows that ‘his’ dad cares about him.

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       The next day, Li Jianglin still went to the company with his sons early, but they also came back quite early that afternoon. After returning, he let Wang Ma and send her off to the kitchen to prepare dinner at home.

       Li Zhenruo listened to what he asked for as if there would be guests at home tonight.

       If it was a guest who Li Jianglin invited to the house for dinner, they would definitely be very familiar with each other. Combined with the purpose of Li Jianglin’s return this time, Li Zhenruo felt that most of the guests invited for this meal were from the Wen family.

       Sure enough, at around 6 o’clock in the afternoon, Li Zhentai personally went to pick up Wen Chun and her parents. Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi also went home for dinner, but they didn’t see Zhu Kai.

       Not only Zhu Kai but also his dog was gone.

       When Li Jianglin came back in the evening and asked Wang Ma, Wang Ma said that Zhu Kai took Erhuang away and said that he wanted to return and stay at his house.

       Li Jianglin didn’t react after hearing this, and just said, “Leave him be.”

       Wen Chun was the only child. Her father and Li Jianglin have a very good relationship. When Li Jianglin was in a difficult time, Father Wen helped him a lot without thinking about anything in return. Li Jianglin was a person who remembered old sentiments. Until now, as long as the Wen family has any needs, he would be willing to give without hesitation.

       With an old friend as a company, Li Jianglin had a very happy dinner. After drinking a few glasses of white wine, his face looked rosy.

       The Wen family only had a daughter, Father Wen drank two glasses of wine and couldn’t help but sighed that the Li family’s liveliness, saying that Li Jianglin’s sons were all people with outstanding talents.

       Li Jianglin shook his head with a smile, and said to his three sons, “Uncle Wen praises you so much, and you guys still don’t give Uncle Wen a toast.”

       Li Zhentai was the first to pick up the glass, “Uncle Wen, I toast to you.”

       Father Wen was also happy to see the marriage between his daughter and the eldest son of the Li family. He heard the words and said, “Hey, you have to make it clear about this glass of wine. Is it uncle Wen or father-in-law?”

       Li Jianglin looked at them with a smile.

       Li Zhentai then pushed the boat along the river and said, “Then I will toast to my father in law.”

       Wen Chun sat beside him with a faint smile on her face the whole time, but not much emotion could be seen.

       When all three sons toasted Father Wen, Li Jianglin said, “Old Wen, you should also pay attention to the children’s marriage.”

       Father Wen hurriedly said, “Of course, I pay attention.  Zhentai and xiao Chun have also been in love for many years, and now their age and feelings are at the appropriate stage of marriage. Xiao Chun’s mother and I have been persuading her to consider it earlier.”

       Li Jianglin nodded, his lips were moist and still had wine stains, and said, “So I came back on this trip because I wanted to see them get the wedding done.”

       Li Zhenruo had been lying on the windowsill next to the dining room since dinner today. He felt that the scenery from this angle was better than that of Li Zhenran’s lap. He could see Li Zhentai and Wen Chun at a glance, as well as Li Zhenzi’s expression sitting not far from Wen Chun. He could also see Li Jianglin’s expression, who was sitting in the main seat. Only the Wen family and Li Zhenran had their backs to him.

       When Li Jianglin said these words, Li Zhenruo noticed that Li Zhenzi had no special reaction, and sometimes he looked a little absent-minded. But this was quite normal, Li Zhenzi was not very comfortable in this kind of situation, and he was easily distracted.

       Li Jianglin had already said that he wanted them to have their wedding ceremony, and Li Zhentai naturally didn’t have any bad response. He suddenly turned around and said to Wen Chun, “Xiao Chun, would you like to marry me?”

       Wen Chun laughed and said, “What are you talking about, we’ve been engaged for a long time, haven’t we? Just follow Uncle Li’s advice, and get married next month. It’s good.”

       Li Jianglin smiled at them with satisfaction.

       It was Mother Wen who couldn’t help but say, “Won’t it be too hasty to hold it next month? The banquet and wedding ceremony are not yet prepared.”

       Li Jianglin looked at her, “Don’t worry, we will prepare all of this. Xiao Chun only needs to be a beautiful bride. It’s possible that we’ll have to inconvenience the in-laws to choose a good date. The sooner the better.”

       Father Wen held his wife’s hand, “That’ll do. Let’s listen to Jianglin.”

       Thus they continued to drink and eat.

       After the meal, they didn’t know if it was because Li Zhentai was in a good mood or had other thoughts. Anyway, he drank a lot of alcohol and got a little drunk.

       He knocked on the table and said how much he had done for Yunlin and how much effort he had put in. It sounded like he was complaining that Li Jianglin didn’t value him enough, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

       At this moment, Li Zhenzi’s cell phone rang. He didn’t dare to drink too much alcohol today and was still sober at this time. He apologized and got up to answer the phone while walking outside.

       Li Zhenruo looked around and saw that Li Zhenzi went straight up the stairs to the second floor.

       Li Zhentai was still talking about something that happened to a previous project and how he managed to clear up all the related things after running around.

       Wen Chun’s face was expressionless, and the corners of her mouth fell slightly downward.

       Li Jianglin suddenly said, “Zhentai is drunk. Xiao Chun, take him upstairs to rest.”

       Wen Chun said yes after hearing this, and wanted to get up to help Li Zhentai.

       But Li Zhentai raised his hand and said, “I’m not drunk, I want to talk to Dad for a while longer.”

       Wen Chun’s tone was not very good, and she said, “Dad asked you to go upstairs to rest.”

       It was not known whether Li Zhentai could hear the meaning behind her words, but he suddenly fell silent and said, “Okay.”

       Wen Chun helped him walk towards the stairs.

       Li Zhenruo hesitated for a moment, then jumped off the windowsill and followed.

       Li Zhentai stumbled along the way. Wen Chun was slender, so it was not easy to hold him steady. Even Li Zhenruo didn’t dare to follow closely, for fear that Li Zhentai would step on him.

       With great difficulty, Wen Chun helped Li Zhentai into the room on the second floor and threw him on the bed.

       Li Zhenruo stood at the door and looked at them. He saw Li Zhentai reach out and hold Wen Chun’s hand. He yelled, “Xiao Chun.”

       Wen Chun reached out and brushed the hair from his forehead, and said, “Take a rest.”

       Then Wen Chun helped him take off his shoes, then pulled the quilt over to cover his chest. She stood up and straightened her hair as if planning to go out.

       Li Zhenruo took two steps back and suddenly noticed that there was light coming out under the crack of Li Zhenzi’s closed-door next to him. He suddenly thought of something and walked to Li Zhenzi’s door. He straightened up and patted on the door with his front paw.

       At this time, even if Wen Chun came out and saw him, she would just think it was a cat scratching the door naughtily.

       Not long after, Li Zhenzi opened the door from inside, and when he saw Li Zhenruo scratching his door, he raised his eyebrows a little strangely. However soon, his attention was drawn to Wen Chun who had just come out of Li Zhentai’s room.

       When Wen Chun came out, she closed the door of Li Zhentai’s room. As soon as she looked up, she saw Li Zhenzi and stopped.

       Li Zhenzi walked out and stood in front of her and said, “Chun jie, no. From now on it’s time to call you sister in law.”

       Wen Chun glanced at him and said nothing. She seemed to plan to bypass him and go downstairs directly.

       Unexpectedly, Li Zhenzi reached out and grabbed Wen Chun’s wrist at this moment. He turned her around and pressed her against the wall, lowered his head and kissed her.

       Li Zhenzi saw Wen Chun struggle, and after a while, he was pushed away. With a bit of fury on her face, she said sullenly “Are you crazy? This is your home! Your brother is in the room!”

       Her voice was very low. If Li Zhenruo wasn’t a cat, he probably wouldn’t be able to hear what she was talking about.

       Li Zhenzi stretched out his hand and touched Wen Chun’s face, and said, “Do you know that it’s called to be unable to restrain your own emotion?”

       Li Zhenruo noticed that Li Zhenzi’s eyes were twinkling with lights. In fact, in his opinion, if Wen Chun didn’t marry Li Zhentai, she might not be able to make Li Zhenzi so excited.

       Li Zhenzi just wanted to find excitement from Wen Chun, but he probably didn’t like Wen Chun very much.

       As for Wen Chun, Li Zhenruo couldn’t understand it. He always felt that Wen Chun was a smart woman. He didn’t understand why she was willing to be entangled with Li Zhenzi which was likely to bring her endless trouble.

       If she liked Li Zhenzi, why not directly reject the marriage with Li Zhentai? But since she agreed to marry Li Zhentai, what was the point of hooking up with Li Zhenzi again for her?

       At this moment, Wen Chun obviously knew that it was not appropriate to linger with Li Zhenzi. No matter how sweet Li Zhenzi’s love words were, she didn’t have much expressions on her face. She just pushed Li Zhenzi away, raised her hand and straightened her hair and walked downstairs.

       Li Zhenzi stood in the same place as if he was still reminiscing about the kiss just now.

       As he saw his appearance, Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but curse cheap person under his breath.

       Whether he liked Li Zhentai or not, he despised Li Zhenzi’s behaviour of seducing his sister-in-law.

       Li Zhenzi turned his head to see Li Zhenruo. He then remembered and asked him, “Why are you scratching my door? Looking for a fight, huh?”

       Li Zhenruo made a pitiful “meow” on purpose, turned around and ran downstairs. He knew that Li Zhenzi would not chase after him, but he still ran all the way to the first floor before he could feel safe.

       When he got to the first floor, Li Zhenruo saw that Wen Chun’s mother and daughter had left the dining table and were sitting in the living room chatting with Wang Ma. Since Li Zhentai and Li Zhenzi had both gone upstairs, Li Zhenran, as the host, had to stay in the living room to accompany them. He talked to the mother and daughter; and next to the dining table, only Li Jianglin and Wen Chun’s father were left.

       The two of them have stopped drinking but were still talking in a low voice.

       Li Zhenruo took two steps closer and heard Father Wen mention his name.

       The relationship between Li Jianglin and Li Zhenruo was well concealed as a secret. Father Wen obviously didn’t know the truth. After drinking some wine, he was advising Li Jianglin not to be too sad about Li Zhenruo’s matter.

       To be honest, after Li Zhenruo’s accident, Li Jianglin seemed to have aged a lot overnight. To outsiders, this must have been caused by sadness, but Li Zhenruo knew that Li Jianglin was more afraid of being killed. No man would feel at ease after knowing he had been cheated and had raised someone else’s son for decades. He couldn’t get over it, so he was probably angry and embarrassed, but he had to bitterly suppress it.

       Just like now, he can only nod his head blankly and say, “I’m fine, I’m already over it.”

       Father Wen said, “Look, you still have three sons, one is better than the other, and you are already very happy. Unlike us, xiao Chun is the only one we have and she is a girl. After she gets married, she will become a part of your Li family. It’ll make me and her mother be like a lonely old couple.”

       Li Jianglin patted him on the back and said, “What are you talking about, if they get married in the future, Zhentai will become your son. If you let them have two grandchildren early, both our Li family and Wen family will have descendants already.”

       When Father Wen heard this, he smiled and shook his head.

       The two old people talked for a long time, and then it was very late. Mother Wen urged her husband, and the Wen family left the Li family.

       In the days to come, the two families will definitely move around frequently, because they have to discuss the details of the wedding day. Although Li Jianglin wanted the Li family to do it all, he had to ask the woman’s family for advice before making a decision.

       The time was a little rushed. Because Li Jianglin felt that Li Zhentai’s character seemed a little half-hearted, so he asked Li Zhenran to help his eldest brother quickly decide what could be decided.

       In the evening, Li Zhenruo was still sleeping beside Li Zhenran’s bed.

       He suddenly had some urge to tell Li Zhenran about Wen Chun and Li Zhenzi, but he hesitated for a while. In addition, he was not able able to express it, so he finally decided to let it go.

       The next morning, Li Zhenruo woke up lying beside Li Zhenran’s pillow. He opened his eyes, but he was too lazy to move.

       Li Zhenran was still sleeping beside him, and Li Zhenruo looked at his sleeping face motionlessly.

       He didn’t know if it was because of the effect of light or if Li Zhenruo’s gaze was too blinding. Li Zhenran seemed to be waking up, turned over in a daze, and let out a low groan.

       In Li Zhenruo’s ears, the deep voice he heard turned out to be extraordinarily sexy. He couldn’t help but feel hot in his nostrils and couldn’t stand the stimulation.

       Li Zhenruo was slightly startled by this sudden feeling and suddenly thought that the last time he became a human was when he was in estrus. This time, can he become a human again as long as he was in heat?

       Li Zhenruo’s heart was beating fast. He wanted to get into heat, and the most convenient source of stimulation was of course the sleeping man beside him, so he approached carefully, wanted to put his mouth on Li Zhenran’s mouth.

       But it didn’t go well, because his mouth was too flat. The result of his efforts was his forehead was on the tip of Li Zhenran’s nose. Then Li Zhenran was wakened up with the cat hair sticking to his face.

       He wasn’t awake yet, so he only raised one hand and pressed it on Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo was heavily pressed down by a hand, and before he could react, he was picked up in the next second and thrown under the bed.

       Li Zhenran sneezed twice. He was now fully awake, turned over and sat up.

       Li Zhenruo, on the other hand, was thrown into the closet and bumped into it before sliding to the floor against the closet. His whole cat was a bit confused.

       Li Zhenran sat on the bed, raised one hand and rubbed his itchy nose, and looked at Li Zhenruo blankly.

       Li Zhenruo maintained the posture of falling to the ground, but after a while, he became angry and got up, jumped to the window and got out through the half-closed window.

       In the morning, Li Zhenran found Li Zhenruo lying on his four legs spread out at the bottom of the drained swimming pool.

       Because it has not yet midsummer, the swimming pool at home has not been cleaned and the water was not released, so it has always been dry.

       Li Zhenran went down the stairs next to him, walked to Li Zhenruo who was lying in the middle, squatted down and asked him, “Angry?”

       Li Zhenruo was too lazy to lift his head.

       Li Zhenran grabbed one of his legs and shook it, “Why are you kissing me while I’m sleeping?”

       Li Zhenruo was a little embarrassed when he heard his question, but at this time he was unwilling to show weakness and kept his face expressionless and motionless.

       Li Zhenran simply sat down beside him, stretched out his hand and rubbed the fur on Li Zhenruo’s back, and said, “I’m not awake yet in the morning. Besides, I can’t do anything to you if you kiss me. “

       The words “can’t do anything” were really thought-provoking, and Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but glance at him.

       Li Zhenran looked up at the sky and said, “I really don’t want to do anything with a cat.”

       So what exactly do you want to do? Li Zhenruo felt that he was about to be unable to hold back, and he was going to explode.

       Li Zhenran said, “Too much hair.”

       Li Zhenruo turned his head and bit Li Zhenran’s hand. Of course, he bit it lightly without breaking the skin, but sharp teeth always hurt.

       Li Zhenran finished babbling, looked down at him, and said, “Let’s go find Luo Fei today.”

       Li Zhenruo opened his mouth in surprise.

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Seeing the comments in JJWXC, I have to agree that Li Zhenruo cat was being treated so badly wtf he was being carried by collar and thrown here and there easily by everyone

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       Wen Chun neither agreed nor objected, and seemed to acquiesce to Li Jianglin’s words.

       It was a pity that Li Zhenruo couldn’t see Li Zhenzi’s reaction, but he thought that even if Li Zhenzi really had something with Wen Chun, he probably wouldn’t show any reaction. He believed that Li Zhenzi couldn’t have any serious thoughts about Wen Chun. Like all his women, she’s just for fun.

       After dinner, Li Jianglin asked Li Zhentai to send Wen Chun home.

       He went to the study by himself and called Li Zhenran in.

       Li Jianglin had just come home, so Li Zhenzi did not dare to run around and went up to the second-floor room to rest.

       Li Zhenruo was a little curious about what Li Jianglin and Li Zhenran were going to say, so he went around the door and jumped to the window sill outside the study to eavesdrop.

       In the end, as he just jumped up, he was seen by Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran happened to be standing by the window, and immediately noticed the movement outside. When he saw the cat jumping up, his reaction was calm and quick. He stretched out his hand and pushed him down mercilessly.

       Li Zhenruo was cursing inside his heart, but he was still able to react very quickly. His front paws were on the windowsill and so his whole cat body didn’t fall off.

       At this point, he felt something pulling his leg underneath.

       He made a great effort to turn his head. Li Zhenruo was horrified to discover that it was Zhu Kai’s Erhuang who was holding his leg underneath and trying to pull him down.

       Li Zhenruo grabbed the window sill tightly with his two front claws, kicked his legs and tried to shake Erhuang away, but he was unsuccessful. He was pulled off by Erhuang and fell on the grass under the window sill.

       Erhuang loosened his mouth and looked at Li Zhenruo excitedly. With his long tongue sticking out and panting, he approached Li Zhenruo to smell him.

       Li Zhenruo turned over and ran forward.

       Erhuang was stunned for a moment, then happily ran after him.

       Li Zhenruo turned in the corner in front and ran towards the front yard. He knew that if he entered through the front door, Erhuang would definitely be stopped by someone, but he did not expect to be stopped by Zhu Kai just after entering the house.

       Because he was so focused on watching out for the dog behind him, he didn’t notice that Zhu Kai grabbed his collar and lifted him up.

       Zhu Kai saw Erhuang who was chasing after him, and said, “You bullied my Erhuang?”

       Li Zhenruo thought to himself, Bullshit!¹it’s actually a curse words 毛线 but I’m not really sure what to put, if anyone have better suggestion… feel free to leave it in the comments He raised his claws towards Zhu Kai’s face mercilessly.

       Zhu Kai also react quickly and threw Li Zhenruo away in a curve to the sky. Li Zhenruo finally fell next to the large vase in the living room, almost knocking the vase down.

       Wang Ma heard the commotion and hurried forward to stop Zhu Kai, “What are you doing, don’t bully your brother’s cat!”

       In fact, in terms of seniority, Zhu Kai was actually Li Zhenran’s little uncle, but Wang Ma watched them grow up and always thought that Zhu Kai was Li Zhenran’s younger brother. Zhu Kai himself sometimes addressed people by names regardless of his seniority.

       At this moment, Zhu Kai was about to say something when the door of Li Jianglin’s study opened, and Li Zhenran came out and glanced at him faintly.

       Li Zhenruo moved very fast. He ran to Li Zhenran’s legs and scrambled up to his pants, and finally was held in his arms by him before he breathed a sigh of relief. Then he gave Zhu Kai a look of challenge.

       Li Zhenran rubbed Li Zhenruo’s head and carried him upstairs.

       Zhu Kai pouted and whistled out of tune, touched the top of Erhuang’s head, and said to it, “Go play by yourself.”

       It was annoying enough to have Li Zhenzi in the house, but now Zhu Kai was added. Li Zhenruo couldn’t help scratching the top of his head with his claws.

       Li Zhenzi was actually fine, as long as he was not drunk. If you don’t provoke him, he won’t provoke you. But Zhu Kai was different. Sometimes Li Zhenruo thought that Zhu Kai was just a lunatic and should be sent to a mental hospital to be prescribed some medicine for good.

       Li Zhenran kept carrying Li Zhenruo back to his room before putting him down and said, “If I’m not here and only Zhu Kai is at home, it’s best to stay away from him.”

       Now he was sure the cat could understand him. But it could only understand, and there was no way to communicate with him.

       Once Li Zhenruo was alone with Li Zhenran, he suddenly recalled what happened last night. He raised his eyelids to look at Li Zhenran, and couldn’t help but secretly moved his feet a little further away from him.

       He still doesn’t know what Li Zhenran’s thoughts are because Li Zhenran has not expressed his thoughts to him, as if nothing happened last night.

       Maybe Li Zhenran was too drunk at that time, and he forgot everything when he woke up this morning, or maybe Li Zhenran didn’t care at all. Although he seemed to have a clean private life, maybe in reality he didn’t put too much thought into sleeping with someone like that.

       Of course, Li Zhenruo would not have taken it so seriously, if that person wasn’t Li Zhenran. He sighed, feeling that his current state of mind seemed a little dangerous.

       Li Zhenran sat beside the bed, and although Li Zhenruo didn’t say a word, he kept looking at Li Zhenran.

       Later, Li Zhenran reached out and touched the top of his head. Seeing that he was not moving, he grabbed one of his paws and pulled him closer.

       Li Zhenruo was lifted by Li Zhenran’s two paws to face him. Because he was too close to be looked at like this, Li Zhenruo felt uncomfortable and couldn’t help turning his head away.

       Li Zhenran suddenly said, “Let’s go find Luo Fei.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment and looked at him, but Li Zhenran didn’t continue talking. He put down Li Zhenruo and got up and walked to the bathroom.

       He left Li Zhenruo lying beside the bed. Li Zhenruo began to think about why Li Zhenran said he wanted him to go to find Luo Fei. When Luo Fei was mentioned, Li Zhenruo remembered the phone call that was supposed to be made to Song Jun. If it hadn’t been interrupted by Li Zhenran’s call, he might have already met the person named Song Jun.

       As he thought of this, Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but feel a little regretful. If Song Jun knew something according to what Feng Junyuan said, maybe he also knew how to maintain his human form. It’s just that he didn’t expect to be beaten back to his original form so quickly at that time, and now it was not that easy to find Song Jun again.

       He could only hope that Li Zhenran would take him to Luo Fei.

       Luo Fei must also know something.

       But whether Li Zhenran wanted to go or not depends entirely on Li Zhenran’s mood, and he couldn’t control it at all. Now that he couldn’t even speak, what he could do was really too limited.

       In the evening, Li Zhenruo slept beside Li Zhenran’s bed. After sleeping for a long time, he automatically rolled into Li Zhenran’s arms. He was hugged by Li Zhenran and placed on his shoulder and continued to sleep soundly.

       The next morning, Li Zhenran set the alarm clock and got up early.

       Although he just came back from Qijiang yesterday, these few days were Li Zhenran’s busiest days. First, the investigation on Qijiang still needs a detailed report. Although he did not write it, he would definitely supervise it in person because of his character. The second was that since Li Jianglin was back, he would definitely go to the company today. Not only Li Zhenran, but he was afraid that even Li Zhentai and Li Zhenzi would also follow Li Jianglin to the company’s board of directors early. There was still a lot of work to be reported to Li Jianglin.

       Only Zhu Kai and his dog were left at home.

       Li Zhenruo dawdled on the third floor without any intention to go downstairs until he saw from the window that Zhu Kai drove out by himself. He was relieved and went down to the living room on the first floor to lay on the back of the sofa chair.

       Erhuang wandered outside the gate several times a morning. He stared at Li Zhenruo making a whimper and wanted to play with him.

       But Li Zhenruo has not degenerated to the point of playing with a dog, he still decided to coldly ignore it and continue to nobly lie on the sofa.

       That afternoon, Wang Ma answered a phone call, then stood up and stretched and said, “Oh, you won’t come back for dinner.”

       In the end, no one in the Li family came back for dinner that night, including Zhu Kai.

       Li Zhenruo thought that it must be because Li Jianglin had just returned, so there was some social function outside, and the sons accompanied him.

       Li Zhenran didn’t come back, and Li Zhenruo had been lying on the sofa bored, wondering when Li Zhenran would be able to take him to meet Luo Fei.

       Later, the first person to come back turned out to be Zhu Kai.

       As soon as Li Zhenruo heard that Zhu Kai was back, he immediately slipped off the sofa and hid in the corner behind the sofa, thinking that he would wait for Zhu Kai to leave before coming out to continue waiting for Li Zhenran.

       Zhu Kai entered the room and went to the refrigerator to get a bottle of water to drink. As he stood in the dining room drinking water, Li Zhenzi came back from outside.

       “Daniel,” Zhu Kai said and Li Zhenzi greeted back.

       Li Zhenzi asked, “Went out to play today?”

       Zhu Kai said, “I met a few friends.” After he said that, he threw a bottle of water to Li Zhenzi.

       Li Zhenzi took it and said thank you.

       “By the way,” Zhu Kai asked when he saw Li Zhenzi drinking water, “Why did Aunt Wu, who cleaned up before, leave?”

       Li Zhenzi replied, “Well, she quit.”

       Zhu Kai felt it was very strange and asked, “Why? It’s been so many years.”

       Li Zhen had drunk water and planned to go upstairs. As he heard Zhu Kai’s question, he simply sat down beside the dining table, gently pressed the bottom of the water bottle on the table, and said, “A few days ago, something strange happened in the fourth child’s room.”

       Li Zhenruo sneaked out from behind the sofa and came closer wanting to see Li Zhen’s expression when he spoke.

       Zhu Kai frowned upon hearing this, and he sat down on the dining table. If Li Jianglin saw it, he would definitely scold him, “What strange things?”

       Li Zhenzi looked up at him with a half-smile, “When Aunt Wu was cleaning, she saw blood-stained toilet paper in the fourth child’s room.”

       “Blood-stained toilet paper?” Zhu Kai stared at Li Zhenzi with wide eyes, then suddenly laughed without warning, “What’s so strange about that, I thought she saw blood-stained sanitary pad!”

       Li Zhenzi played with the mineral water bottle with his fingers, “You must know that after the fourth child died, the room has been unoccupied.”

       Zhu Kai thought for a while, “That must have been a prank. Could it be that you think there is a ghost?”

       Li Zhenzi shook his head, “That I really don’t know.”

       Zhu Kai thought thoughtfully, “Then why did Aunt Wu resign?”

       When he asked this question, he looked at Li Zhenzi suspiciously, but Li Zhenzi didn’t speak, and also looked at him.

       Zhu Kai lowered his voice, got closer to Li Zhenzi, and said, “Do you think Aunt Wu was feeling somewhat guilty?”

       Li Zhenzi put the fingers of his right hand on his lips, as if he was thinking carefully, and said to Zhu Kai, “It sounds really possible, otherwise why would she run in such a hurry?”

       Zhu Kai suddenly glanced left and right and whispered in Li Zhenzi’s ear, “Maybe, Jason was killed by someone. No one knows if Aunt Wu has seen a ghost or it was because she was guilty of something, right?”

       Li Zhenruo obviously noticed that Li Zhenzi’s face sank, but when Zhu Kai left his ear, Li Zhenzi resumed his careless smile and said, “Let this talk be between us, don’t let Dad hear it by all means. Be careful, or he’ll spank you.”

       After Li Zhenzi said this, Zhu Kai made a rude face without warning. He looked at Li Zhenzi coldly, turned around and walked towards his room.

       Zhu Kai’s room was on the first floor. It used to be a guest room. He owned a house outside himself and didn’t always live inside Li’s house. Later, he often stayed here for a while, and the guest room on the first floor was packed into his special room.

       Not long after Zhu Kai returned to the room, Li Zhenruo saw that Li Zhenzi also stood up, almost deformed the plastic water bottle in his hand, threw it in the trash can and went upstairs.

       Li Zhenruo stood silently in the same place, thinking about the conversation between Li Zhenzi and Zhu Kai just now. He always felt they were testing each others, but testing what? To test who killed Li Zhenruo, and who knows what?

       The closer he got to the truth, the more afraid he became, and Li Zhenruo couldn’t even tell why.

       He didn’t jump on the sofa, but lay on the carpet in front of the coffee table, and stretched out his limbs in a daze. There was only a small lamp left in the living room, and the light was dim.

       After almost an hour, Li Zhenran and Li Zhentai came back from outside with Li Jianglin.

       As he heard Li Jianglin come back, Wang Ma brought another aunt to hand out slippers and pour some water.

       Li Jianglin seemed to be drinking some wine, and his breathing sounded heavy. Li Zhentai was going to help him back to the room, but he walked over to the sofa and sat down.

       Li Zhenruo stood up and took a few steps back.

       Li Jianglin was sitting on the sofa with the ebony crutch stood straight in front of him, and his hands rested on it. He seemed to be tired and was still drunk. Li Zhenruo listened to him take a breath, and it sounded very heavy.

       Wang Ma put warm tea in front of him.

       Li Jianglin picked it up and took a sip, put down the teacup, raised his hand and said, “You all, go up.”

       Li Zhentai couldn’t help persuading, “Dad, let us help you go back to your room to wash first.”

       Li Jianglin laughed when he heard the words. His laughter was a little cold, “I’m not that weak yet.”

       At this time Li Zhenran said, “Dad, you rest early, I’ll go up first.”

       Li Jianglin nodded.

       Li Zhentai saw Li Zhenran walking upstairs, so he could only say good night to Li Jianglin, and turned to go upstairs.

       Li Zhenruo looked at Li Jianglin and even forgot that he was here waiting for Li Zhenran, and did not follow him up.

       After a while, Li Jianglin asked Wang Ma to rest as well.

       Wang Ma was a little worried about him, so she could only say, “Then call me if you need anything,” then turned around and went back to the room.

       There was still only a small light on in the living room, Li Jianglin sat there alone without saying a word, only the sound of his heavy breathing could be heard.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but slowly took two steps towards him.

       Li Jianglin suddenly turned to look at him. The movement startled him, and he stopped quickly.

       But then, Li Jianglin stretched out a hand towards him. Li Zhenruo was slightly startled and then walked towards him again until he stopped at his feet with his body pressed on his leg.

       Li Jianglin bent over, and it seemed that he was going to reach out and touch the top of his head. Li Zhenruo saw that his movements were slow, so he straightened up and put his front paws on the edge of the sofa, with his head close to Li Jianglin’s knees, so that Li Jianglin could reach out and touch his head.

       When he felt Li Jianglin’s rough and old palms touching the top of his head, Li Zhenruo suddenly felt sad. If in the past, Li Jianglin would touch the top of his head so gently, how happy he would be.

       Whether it was Li Jianglin or Li Zhenran, they could only show their gentle side to a small animal without any qualms, but they are unwilling to treat their relatives like this.

       After touching Li Zhenruo’s head for a while, Li Jianglin took his hand back.

       Li Zhenruo retracted his front paws, sat down at his feet, and looked up at him.

       Li Jianglin seemed to smile slightly, then closed his eyes and put his hands on the crutch. He maintained the sitting posture with his back straight for a while.

       Afterwards, Li Zhenruo saw him stand up and walked towards the stairs.

       Li Zhenruo followed him, thinking he was going upstairs.

       But Li Jianglin stood at the entrance of the stairs and did not move, he had no intention of going upstairs, he just raised his head and stared at the corner of the stairs leading to the second floor, where there was a large picture, his wife Zhu Yun’s wedding photo.

       Li Jianglin looked at his wife in the photo and showed an emotion that could be called vulnerability.

       As he looked at his expression, Li Zhenruo suddenly remembered his own mother, Zhao Yuqiong, who died of illness. Even if she was a mistress with a child, she would never be able to compete with his wife who had never had children in her life in the slightest.

       At this time, from upstairs came the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs.

       Li Jianglin stood still and saw Li Zhenran walking down the stairs.

       Li Zhenran saw Li Jianglin when he walked around the corner and couldn’t help but slow down his steps, “Dad?”

       Li Jianglin nodded his head, “Still awake?”

       Li Zhenran said, “I came to look for the cat.”

       Li Jianglin smiled, turned his head to look at Li Zhenruo, who was staying by his side, and said with a laugh, “Not doing your job.”

       Li Zhenran did not respond, but walked over and picked up Li Zhenruo.

       Then Li Jianglin said, “But this cat is very well behaved, it suits your temperament.”

       Li Zhenran asked him, “Shall I accompany you back to your room?”

       Li Jianglin waved his hand, “No, I’m going to bed.” After saying that, he slowly walked towards his room with his crutches.

       Li Zhenran held Li Zhenruo and stood in place until Li Jianglin closed the door to his room, then he turned around and went up the stairs.

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It’s so sad… I feel like this Li family have so many misunderstanding within their family member ( •́ω•̩̥̀ )

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       In order to facilitate the check through, Li Zhenran specially asked someone to buy a new pet cage for Li Zhenruo. After getting off the plane, he did not release Li Zhenruo from the pet cage and had been carrying the cage to the car.

       Hua Yibang asked Li Zhenran where to return. Li Zhenran told the driver to drive him directly back to Li’s house. As for the things in the apartment, he asked Hua Yibang to help him pack those back.

       Li Zhenruo lay quietly inside the cage, he has not yet gathered his mood.

       However, when the car had just left the airport and was about to hit the highway, Li Zhenran answered the phone. He calmly said “Um” twice, then hung up the phone and said to Hua Yibang, “Dad is back today.”

       Hua Yibang was taken aback. He turned his head and asked, “Mr. Li Senior is back today? Why is it so sudden?”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly raised his head and his mind became active. He wondered why Li Jianglin came back suddenly? Could it be because of the phone call he made to Zhu Kai? Since Zhu Kai told Li Jianglin about it, so he came back to personally catch Li Zhenzi and Wen Chun’s adultery? Or did Li Jianglin abruptly decide to come back from the coast because there was something wrong with his physical condition?

       As Hua Yibang asked Li Zhenran, Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but pricked up his ears and listened carefully.

       But unexpectedly Li Zhenran only said one sentence, “I don’t know.”

       Hua Yibang was silent for a moment and then asked again, “I wonder when Mr. Li Senior decided to come back. How come he only informed you now?”

       Li Zhenruo thought Hua Yibang was a real sweetie, as he helped him to ask all the questions he wanted to ask.

       However Li Zhenran was not cute at all, and still replied, “I don’t know.” And in order to satisfy Hua Yibang’s curiosity, he still said one more sentence, “The call is from eldest brother, and dad’s plane is in the afternoon. Eldest brother will pick him up.”

       Hua Yibang asked softly, “Are you going?”

       Li Zhenran said, “I won’t go. I just came back from Qijiang. Dad knows about it.”

       It could be said that Li Jianglin knew about every single thing they did in Yunlin.

       Hua Yibang heard the words and said, “That’s good. Just go back and rest for a while, you’ve worked hard too.”

       Back at Li’s house, Wang Ma was standing at the gate waiting for them early. She took the cage that Li Zhenran handed over, put it on the coffee table, and released Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo walked out slowly and shook his fur.

       Wang Ma hugged him and kissed him, and said, “Dumpling, I haven’t seen you for a long time.”

       After Li Zhenran came in, Wang Ma said to him, “Your father is coming back today.”

       “I know,” Li Zhenran nodded.

       Wang Ma lowered her voice and said, “I’m afraid your father doesn’t like cats. I thought you were going to foster it outside for the time being.”

       As he heard Wang Ma’s words, Li Zhenruo also remembered that Li Jianglin didn’t like small animals very much. When he was a child, he wanted to keep a dog, but Li Jianglin didn’t allow him to keep it.

       However two years ago, Zhu Kai brought back a small golden retriever from outside, but Li Jianglin didn’t object to him raising it. This time, Zhu Kai accompanied Li Jianglin to the coast to recuperate. He took his dog there, and Li Jianglin didn’t seem to display any displeasure at all.

       Li Zhenruo always thought that if only Li Jianglin didn’t let Zhu Kai touch Yunlin’s business, he would definitely suspect that Zhu Kai was his biological son.

       When Li Zhenran heard what Wang Ma said, he didn’t seem to care much, “It doesn’t matter,” he just said that and walked towards the upstairs room.

       Li Zhenruo subconsciously wanted to catch up to Li Zhenran. Just as he jumped off the tea table, he thought to himself what he was chasing after. It’s not like he was rushing to make a fool of himself. After chasing for two steps, he turned and walked towards the dining room.

       In the afternoon, Li Zhenruo stayed on the first floor. As Wang Ma knitted a sweater while watching TV, he lay on the sofa’s arm to accompany Wang Ma.

       It was only four o’clock when Li Zhenzhi came back from outside.

       This was really rare. Li Zhenzi seldom ate dinner at home, and even if they wanted to come back, most of them usually came back in time for dinner at six o’clock.

       As soon as he entered the door, he saw Li Zhenruo lying on the sofa, and said with a smile, “I thought the second brother had eloped with the cat.”

       Wang Ma scolded him, “What a nonsense.”

       Li Zhenzi still smiled and said, “The other day he took the cat on vacation and didn’t bring it back, I thought he had secretly taken the cat and thrown it away.”

       Li Zhenruo glanced at him and didn’t bother to pay attention to him at all.

       At this time, Li Zhenran slowly came downstairs wearing slippers and cotton trousers. He saw Li Zhenzi and asked, “Why did Dad suddenly come back?”

       Li Zhenzi shrugged and said that he didn’t know. He was a little thirsty when he came back. He went to the refrigerator to get some water and asked Li Zhenran, “How is the construction site?”

       Li Zhenran said, “It’s good.”

       Li Zhenzi took a gulp of water, wiped the sweat from his neck, and said, “I told you you are worried about nothing, it’s not going to be a big problem.”

       Li Zhenran put his hand in his trouser pocket, leaned against the wall and said, “What I want is that there can’t be any problems.”

       Li Zhenzi shook his head and patted him on the shoulder as he passed by, “I’m going to change my clothes and come down.”

       Li Zhenzi came back so early to wait for Li Jianglin.

       Li Zhenzi has shown little ambition since usual, but it didn’t mean that he didn’t pay attention to Li Jianglin at all. He definitely did not do less than what he should do.

       Li Zhenruo looked at his back as he went upstairs, and thought that since Li Zhenzi had ruthlessly killed himself, perhaps the indifference shown was just an illusion.

       At this moment, Li Zhenran walked to the sofa and sat down, patted his thigh and said to Li Zhenruo, “Come here.”

       Li Zhenruo glanced at him and didn’t want to go there at all.

       Li Zhenran actually stretched out his hand, grabbed one of his paws, and pulled him over.

       Li Zhenruo was turned over and placed on Li Zhenran’s lap. His first reaction was to roll up his tail to cover his lower body, and then stared at Li Zhenran with wide eyes.

       Li Zhenran glanced at him with the same expression on his face, gently rubbing the fur on his chest with one hand while talking to Wang Ma.

       Wang Ma and Li Zhenran sat down to chat and she couldn’t help but want to ask about Hua Yibang’s situation.

       Li Zhenran answered patiently one by one.

       Wang Ma also added that Hua Yibang was not young and had no girlfriend, and her brows were tangled.

       Li Zhenran said, “What’s the rush? He has been with me throughout the year, and I don’t have a girlfriend either.”

       As soon as he reminded her, Wang Ma passed the buck to him, “Zhenran, you too. You should really think about it. You see that your eldest brother is about to get married, and then it would be your turn. When your father comes back this time, he will definitely talk about yours.”

       When Li Zhenran heard the words, he could only smile without saying anything.

       Li Zhenruo was on guard at first, but Li Zhenran gave him a comfortable rub, and his whole body softened. He looked up at Li Zhenran, and Li Zhenran just happened to look down at him, stretched out his hand and pinched his nose. At that moment, Li Zhenruo felt his heart pounding suddenly, and he couldn’t help but turn his eyes away.

       After ten minutes or so, Li Zhenzi finished changing his clothes and came down from the second floor, and sat down on the sofa in the living room.

       Li Zhenzi saw the cat lying on Li Zhenran’s sofa beside him, and reached out to touch him, but Li Zhenruo raised his tail and stop his hand.

       Slightly stunned, Li Zhen thought it was an accident, so he stretched out his hand again.

       Li Zhenruo resolutely didn’t want to be touched by him. This time, he simply turned over and got up, went around to Li Zhenran and sat down, hiding behind him.

       Li Zhenran naturally noticed this scene, turned his head to look at Li Zhenruo, and saw that he was sitting close to him while licking his paws, so he reached out and scratched his neck lightly.

       Li Zhenzi withdrew his hand, rubbed his wrist, and laughed.  He said, “Ugh, why you don’t want to see me even more.”

       Li Zhenran also smiled and said nothing.

       Li Zhenzi didn’t provoke Li Zhenruo anymore, and he just asked Li Zhenran, “Dad didn’t notify you when he was coming back?”

       Li Zhenran picked up the glass in front of him and took a slow sip of water, and replied, “It’s eldest brother who called me.”

       Li Zhenzi asked, “What do you think it is, why did he come back so suddenly?”

       Li Zhenran shook his head, “I don’t know.”

       Whether he really didn’t know or didn’t want to talk about it, Li Zhenzi didn’t bother to ask any further, he leaned back and put his feet up on the coffee table.

       Wang Ma glanced at him and said, “Behave yourself, your dad won’t be happy to see when he come back.”

       Li Zhenzi stretched himself and said, “Just a final indulgence while he’s not back.”

       After a while, Wang Ma got up and went to make dinner.

       Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi were left sitting on the sofa and chatting about the construction site of the Qijiang project. Li Zhenruo lay on his stomach and put his chin on Li Zhenran’s leg, feeling a little sleepy.

       Suddenly, he heard a little movement outside, so he raised his head and listened carefully.

       Later, he determined that he heard the sound of a car coming in from outside. He knew that Li Jianglin had come back, so he couldn’t help jumping off the sofa and running towards the door.

       Li Jianglin was not a gentle and loving father, but in Li Zhenruo’s heart, Li Jianglin could be considered as a qualified father. Because he didn’t have a mother, Li Zhenruo was very fond of Li Jianglin when he was a child. So far, his fondest memory was when he fell once as he and Li Jianglin was outside, and Li Jianglin carried him on his back and walked home slowly.

       Unfortunately, this kind of memory was very rare. Most of the time, Li Jianglin was just a strict father, treating several children equally, not particularly favouring one, and rarely showing his warm side.

       Now, he was no longer Li Jianglin’s son. But after so many years of affection, it was not like the feeling was gone. In regards to Zhao Yuqiong, he still had some mother and son affection, but he didn’t want to know who his biological father is.

       Li Zhenruo thought to himself that maybe he still harboured reluctance to part with the glory and power of the Li family. That was why he was so hung up on Li Jianglin, a father who was not related by blood.

       He stopped by the door, and soon Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi passed by him and went out to wait for Li Jianglin.

       Li Zhenruo saw two cars approaching from the front door and stopped beside the fountain. Li Zhentai got out of the car first, walked to the back and opened the door. He stretched out his hand to fill the gap on the top of the door and helped Li Jianglin get out of the car.

       Li Jianglin was in his early 60s this year, but he didn’t look like an old man. He was still standing tall and straight, his hair was only slightly grey, and his features looked healthy. He didn’t look particularly similar to any of his three sons.

       With a crutch in his hand, he walked slowly and steadily.

       Li Jianglin had an injury to his right ankle. It was not obvious when he walked slowly, but if he walked a little faster, he would look slightly limp. Therefore, after he was forty-five years old, he has been relying on a crutch, and Li Zhenruo was once beaten with it by him.

       After Li Jianglin got out of the car, Zhu Kai got out of the car in front and led out his golden retriever, Erhuang.

       Zhu Kai was tall and thin. He wore long jeans and a black short-sleeved shirt. His hair was a little long, dyed golden yellow and tied in a small pigtail behind his head. He was not very good-looking, but his features and demeanours were very similar to Zhu Yun, especially when he smiled. He looked like Zhu Yun in the wedding photo hanging on the stairs.

       Li Jianglin walked here with the help of Li Zhentai, and both Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi greeted him.

       Li Zhenran said, “Dad.”

       Li Zhenzhi smiled and said, “You’re back? Did you have a good trip?”

       Li Jianglin nodded, glanced at Li Zhenzi, and walked towards the room.

       And Zhu Kai first untied the dog’s leash and waved to them with a smile as he watched Erhuang running wild in the yard.

       When Li Jianglin entered the room, he noticed Li Zhenruo standing by the door.

       Li Zhenruo was also tilting his head to look at him.

       Li Zhentai said quickly, “This is Zhenran’s cat, it’s called Dumpling.”

       Li Jianglin said “um” and walked inside without saying anything.

       Having just arrived home, after a tiring journey, Li Jianglin did not rush back to his room but sat down on the sofa in the living room on the first floor.

       Wang Ma took the housekeeper to bring up tea for Li Jianglin and a warm towel for wiping his face.

       After working hard in the Li family for so many years, when Li Jianglin met Wang Ma, he said politely, “Thank you for your hard work.”

       Wang Ma said, “What hard work? You guys sit down for a while, and dinner will be served soon. It’s all the dishes that you and xiao Kai like to eat.”

       Li Zhenruo had been standing by the door and did not follow him. He saw that Li Jianglin and his three brothers were all sitting down on the sofa.

       Li Jianglin slowly wiped his face with a towel and then his hands then took a sip of tea from the teacup. He raised his head and asked Li Zhentai, “Where’s xiao Chun?”

       Li Zhentai replied, “Wen Chun has an important meeting today. She said she will come over after the meeting and have dinner together in the evening.”

       Li Jianglin nodded.

       Li Zhenzi said, “Dad, your body looks much better.”

       Li Jianglin replied, “The air is better over there, and I feel more comfortable after staying there for a long time.”

       Li Zhenruo was listening intently to what they were talking about, when he suddenly felt a heavy pressure on his tail, he jumped up and howled suddenly.

       All the people in the room shifted their attention to him.

       Li Zhenruo turned around only to realized that it was actually Zhu Kai who unknowingly walked behind him and stepped on his tail.

       Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Zhu Kai quickly raised his hand and said, “I didn’t do it on purpose. I don’t know why there is an extra cat in the house?”

       Li Zhenruo was trampled and hurt, a little angry and a little aggrieved. He felt that Zhu Kai was probably doing it on purpose because he was such a character who desired to see the world be plunged into chaos. However, as Li Jianglin was present at this time, he couldn’t jump up and scratch Zhu Kai’s face. So he could only stare at him, his tail wrapped around his body, hugging and licking it.

       At this time, Li Zhenran said, “Dumpling, come here.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment, seeing Li Zhenran extending his hand towards him, although hesitant, he ran towards him, jumped on his lap and sat down.

       Li Zhenran gently rubbed his tail for him.

       Li Jianglin glanced at them and said nothing.

       On the other hand, Zhu Kai walked slowly behind the sofa, resting his arms on the back of the sofa chair, and said to Li Zhenran, “Zhenran, that’s your cat?”

       Li Zhenran said “Um”.

       Zhu Kai put one hand on his face, looking very interested, “This cat is quite interesting, it listened to you.”

       Li Jianglin interrupted their conversation and asked Li Zhenran, “Did you just come back from Qijiang?”

       Li Zhenran rubbed Li Zhenruo’s tail and replied, “Yes.”

       Li Jianglin said, “How is the situation, tell me about it.”

       As he heard that their conversation had turned to something boring, Zhu Kai was no longer interested and headed outside to play with his dog.

       At five o’clock in the afternoon, Wen Chun finally arrived late. She apologized to Li Jianglin and said, “I’m sorry, Uncle Li, I really can’t leave this meeting in the afternoon, otherwise I would have picked you up with Zhentai. “

       Li Jianglin’s attitude towards her was much gentler than that of his sons. He smiled and held her hand and said, “It doesn’t matter, work is important.”

       Now that Wen Chun has arrived, Wang Ma started serving dinner.

       Li Jianglin was naturally seated in the main seat, while the others’ seating position was as they wished. But today Li Zhenran didn’t bring Li Zhenruo to the table, after all, it was too unruly.

       However, Li Zhenruo’s treatment was still much better than that of Erhuang. At least he could stay in the dining room to eat, while Erhuang could only settle his dinner in the yard.

       After sitting down, Zhu Kai complained, “How come cats can enter the house, but dogs can’t?”

       It was Li Jianglin’s request that Erhuang not enter the house. He told Zhu Kai that if he couldn’t do it, he would not be allowed to keep the dog.

       Li Zhenruo got nervous when he heard this, afraid that they would drive him away, but Li Jianglin just said coldly to Zhu Kai, “If you don’t like it, just take your bowl and accompany it outside!”

       Zhu Kai bit his chopsticks and stopped talking.

       The whole family sat down to dinner in harmony. The father was kind and the son was filial, and the brothers were respectful to one another, but no one seemed to remember that there was once a Li Zhenruo in this family. No one mentioned him from beginning to end.

       Li Zhenruo chewed two pieces of cat food and felt it was a little hard to swallow. He was thinking that after a long time, he was afraid that his existence would be gradually forgotten.

       After he ate some things, he felt that he lost his appetite, and quietly dragged his tail to Li Zhenran and sat down under the chair.

       Li Zhenran had been eating dinner gracefully and slowly, but at this time, he secretly took off his slippers and touched Li Zhenruo’s head with his bare feet.

       Li Zhenruo hugged his feet, leaned in and nibbled at his toes lightly, and then quickly spit out, Blergh, what was he thinking?

       Li Jianglin drank a little wine and his face turned slightly red. He put down the glass and suddenly said to Wen Chun, “I called your father before I came back.”

       “Oh?” Wen Chun quickly put down her chopsticks and asked with a smile, “What did you guys talk about?”

       Li Jianglin said, “We were talking of your marriage with the eldest, we decided to choose a good date next month to hold the wedding.”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly raised his head, but unfortunately, he shrunk under the chair, unable to see Wen Chun’s expression.

       He could only listen to Wen Chun’s voice in a calm tone. She said, “Why are you in such a hurry?”

       Li Jianglin said, “It’s no rush, the last time Zhentai came over, I mentioned this to him, but it seems that he didn’t care about it. I came back this time to help you with this matter.”

       Wen Chun didn’t speak. She glanced at Li Zhentai, lowered her head and took a small sip of soup.

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       They stayed in Qijiang for three days, after which Li Zhenran fulfilled his promise and went back to the provincial hotel where he set up a few tables to entertain a few experts.

       Li Zhenruo sat in the corner and watched Li Zhenran socialize.

       To be honest, Li Zhenran was not very good at socializing.

       Li Zhenruo used to think that he was a little introverted, at least not the kind of person who was smooth and slick. However, Li Zhenran was a capable person, so even if he ignored people with a cold face, there would naturally be people leaning on him and continuing to take advantage of his capability.

       Although from the survey at the Qijiang construction site a formal report has not yet been formed, the preliminary results were quite good.

       For this reason, Li Zhenran was actually in a good mood, but he didn’t show it on his face.

       In the evening, Li Zhenran drank a little too much wine.

       He didn’t look good when he drank. The more he drank, the whiter his face became. When they went back to the hotel room after dinner, his footsteps were still very steady, but when they returned to the room and sat down on the sofa, Hua Yibang said to Li Zhenruo, “He drank too much, watch him for a bit.”

       Li Zhenruo went around to look at Li Zhenran’s face, and said strangely, “It doesn’t look like it.”

       In Li’s house, Li Zhenran would go back to the room silently after drinking too much. Unlike Li Zhenzi, who would make a scene when he was drunk until the whole family know. So until now, Li Zhenruo didn’t know what Li Zhenran’s state was when he drank too much.

       After Hua Yibang warned him repeatedly, he left first.

       Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo were left in the room, Li Zhenruo reached out and touched Li Zhenran’s shoulder, “Are you going to take a shower?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t say anything. After a while, he stood up and walked towards the bathroom.

       Li Zhenruo heard him enter for five or six minutes, but there was no movement. So he couldn’t help knocking on the door, “Ran ge?”

       No one responded.

       Li Zhenruo softly called out to Li Zhenran. He opened the door of the bathroom and probed in, and saw that Li Zhenran didn’t take off his clothes and sat motionless in the bathtub.

       Li Zhenruo felt a little exasperated. He walked in and asked Li Zhenran, “Would you like to take a bath?”

       Unexpectedly, Li Zhenran looked up at him and asked, “Who are you?”

       Li Zhenruo squatted down in front of him, took a deep breath, and said, “I’m your cat.”

       “My… cat?” Li Zhenran’s eyes were calm, and Li Zhenruo had no way of knowing what he was thinking. After a while, he asked Li Zhenruo, “How can you be a cat?”

       Li Zhenruo propped his face with his hands, “I’m a cat that can transform, have you seen Black Cat Detective¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cat_Detective?”

       Li Zhenran nodded.

       Li Zhenruo said, “I am also the same. I can change into a human.”

       Li Zhenran simply couldn’t think about the connection between the black cat detective and him being able to become a human right now. He suddenly reached out and touched Li Zhenruo’s face.

       Li Zhenruo strangely asked, “What?”

       The next thing he felt was Li Zhenran’s hand cupping his face and pulling him over, kissing him hard on the lips.

       Li Zhenruo’s eyes widened. He still didn’t understand what had happened, to the extent that he forgot to resist. He didn’t understand how the fact that he was a cat ignited Li Zhenran and made him suddenly do such a strange thing.

       After a while, Li Zhenran released him and gently stroked his lips with his fingers.

       Li Zhenruo maintained his wide-eyed posture. He found that his face was hot and his head was in total confusion.

       Li Zhenran put his forehead on his forehead and said in a low voice, “Do you like it?”

       Li Zhenruo felt that his head exploded, What did he mean by like? Why should I like it? First of all, regardless of whether he was Li Zhenruo or Li Zhenran’s brother in name, at least Li Zhenran has to remember that he was a man, right? It doesn’t matter if he was a man, but Li Zhenran suddenly kissed him after hearing that he was his cat. To start with, how much did Li Zhenran like his cat?!

       But although he couldn’t say he like it, Li Zhenruo knew that he didn’t hate it.

       His feelings for Li Zhenran were a bit special. After having such a dream next to the construction site that day, Li Zhenruo found that he had been with Li Zhenran for less than half a year, but his relationship was much deeper than the past 20 years.

       All this time, Li Zhenruo jokingly said to Li Zhenran that he was his master. And such a person fed you every day, tickled you, bathed you, and looked the whole world for you when you were wandering outside. Li Zhenruo feels that if he was really a cat, as a cat, he would at least be moved. What’s more, he was not a cat.

       Since he was a child, he had no mother, and his father and brothers did not love him. With Li Zhenran suddenly treating him so well, of course, it was impossible not to feel touched.

       Although Li Zhenruo sometimes has a twisted idea that Li Zhenran was actually good to cats in general, not to Li Zhenruo, his heart still became soft day by day.

       At this moment, Li Zhenruo, who was in a soft mood, was startled when he saw that Li Zhenran came over to kiss him again, and hurriedly tilted his head back, but he did not expect Li Zhenran to reach out and hold the back of his neck to prevent him from hiding and kissed him again on his lips.

       And this time it wasn’t a simple lip touching lips, but Li Zhenran was prying open his jaw with his tongue.

       fvck, fvck, fvck! Li Zhenruo’s heart churned. There were no other words better to express his inner feelings than these words.

       He was tongue-kissing Li Zhenran!

       He has lived for more than 20 years. Although he had messed around before, now he kissed a man with a tongue, and the other party was Li Zhenran. Li Zhenruo felt like he was struck by thunder.

       Moreover, Li Zhenran usually seemed to live a simple and disciplined life. Li Zhenruo also knew that Li Zhenran’s private life was very clean. How could he kiss so well? Li Zhenruo was a little dazed for a moment. In addition to being held down by Li Zhenran by his neck and unable to avoid it, he also felt that his brain could not respond due to the lack of oxygen.

       A few days ago, he went into heat when he was touched, and if he didn’t respond to being kissed today, he would suspect that he was really castrated.

       Li Zhenran grabbed one of Li Zhenruo’s arms and forcefully pulled him into the bathtub.

       Li Zhenruo’s head almost hit the edge of the bathtub. Then he was turned over and pressed under Li Zhenran’s body.

       Fortunately, the hotel’s bathtub was big enough for two people to lie inside and it was spacious.

       Li Zhenran continued to kiss Li Zhenruo, bit his lip and sucked it gently. Li Zhenran even made an obscene gesture with the purpose of conquering him and pressed his crotch on him.

       Li Zhenruo’s face was flushed, and he was short of breath. He hesitated between pushing Li Zhenran away or simply fighting back to let him see his own kissing skills.

       At this time, Li Zhenran’s kiss had already landed on his neck, and he ripped open his shirt with his teeth.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that if he didn’t stop the other party, something would definitely happen, but at this time, where did he get the strength to stop it? He had spent almost all his strength, in order not to yield to him, not to hug Li Zhenran back and rub against him.

       He was a cat! And he was a cat in a rut. He didn’t urinate anywhere, and he didn’t run after seeing the female cat. He was already subdued enough. Now that he was hugged, kissed and rubbed like this, how could he bear it? What’s more, this person was his dear master, who accompanied him to eat and sleep with him every day.

       Li Zhenruo thought about other things in his head. If he didn’t think about it, he would be completely be drowned in this abyss of desire.

       However, Li Zhenruo’s body has tightened so much that he had to open his mouth to breathe. He felt like he was taking drugs, with uncontrollable excitement and happiness. The breath and gasping voice of the person pressing him seemed to be drugging his body. He didn’t even understand what was wrong with him. It was even more difficult to hold back than the first time he had done it with a woman in his teens.

       Later, when Li Zhenran reached under him with one hand, and just touched the place that was stirred up, a white light flashed in front of him, and he couldn’t believe it came out like this!

       Li Zhenruo was completely shocked. Today, he was like a teenager who had eaten the forbidden fruit for the first time. When he was teased by Li Zhenran, he was defeated and surrendered.

       The white light flashed was not vulgar fiction writing, but a real flash of white light. Have you seen an animated movie? No matter what, the transformation would always have a “bang” sound, and then a burst of dazzling light, and the beautiful girl would become a Sailor Moon or pig or something else……

       And so, Li Zhenran was knocked back by the white light that rose to the top, and changed the person into a Garfield pressed into the bathtub. All of Li Zhenruo’s clothes fell off his body and were scattered in the bathtub, leaving only the collar around his neck.

       The cat was so small that Li Zhenran pressed an empty space underneath him and stuck to the bathtub, only to look face to face with a pair of frightened eyes.

       The reason why Li Zhenruo was frightened was that he realized that he had turned back into a cat, and at the same time, he saw the strong desire in Li Zhenran’s drunk eyes. He thought that if Li Zhenran continued to do anything to a cat today, he was really shameless and should be sent to chemical castration.

       Li Zhenran seemed to be stunned for a few seconds, and then let go of his grip on Li Zhenruo’s hand.

       Li Zhenruo slid into the bathtub from the smooth edge of the bathtub. He saw Li Zhenran stand up, pulled on his clothes with one hand, and turn on the showerhead with the other.

       The cold water came out from the nozzle at once, and Li Zhenruo felt the cold water wash over him and immediately tumbled out of the bathtub. He stood outside the bathtub, and his breathing was still uneven. And when he turned around, he saw that Li Zhenran was already taking off his pants. So he didn’t dare to look any longer. Li Zhenruo swiftly rushed out of the bathroom, leaning his back against the wall and gasping for breath.

       Li Zhenruo thought to himself: This is really an absurd story.

       The sound of water in the bathroom continued, Li Zhenran didn’t speak from beginning to end, and just took a bath in silence. He then silently turned off the water to dry his body, and silently came out of the bathroom to lay directly on the bed.

       Li Zhenruo was still close to the wall at first and didn’t dare to move, but after he saw Li Zhenran lying down, he couldn’t help but slowly approach him. He jumped on the bed, stood on the edge of the pillow, and stretched out his front paw to gently touch Li Zhenran’s shoulder.

       Li Zhenran didn’t respond.

       Li Zhenruo hesitated a little, then stretched out his paw to nudged him lightly.

       This time Li Zhenran gave him a response, but he didn’t speak. He just raised an arm and shook it, as if trying to drive him away, but because the movement was too big, Li Zhenruo was pushed out of the bed when he waved his arm over.

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment. His first reaction was to think that Li Zhenran was turning his back on him since he had finished having fun with him. Later, he felt that it was wrong. It’s obvious that he transformed after he finished while not giving the other party a chance to have fun.

       But he still felt hurt. In an instant, the Sweetie in the past has become the present-day Mrs Bull again²reference to Chinese Odyssey. Li Zhenruo’s mouth flattened, and he went out of the room. He jumped on the sofa in the living room, rolled his body into a ball and lay down.

       He felt a little sad at first. Li Zhenruo kept staring at the bedroom door and couldn’t fall asleep. Later, in the middle of the night, after all, his body was too tired, and he fell asleep unconsciously.

       This time, he slept until the morning. He was woken up by the sound of the door opening. When he opened his eyes, he saw that it was already bright outside, so the time should already be late.

       The person who opened the door and came in was Hua Yibang because Li Zhenran was going back on the plane this morning, but he never got up. Hua Yibang called him and but the phone was not turned on, so he took the room card and came to open the door.

       In the beginning, Hua Yibang was a little cautious. He was afraid that he would see some inappropriate scene when he broke into the bedroom. He originally planned to call Li Zhenran in the living room, but instead, he saw the cat lying on the sofa.

       Li Zhenruo woke up and remained motionless, with his head resting on his paws, and only opened his eyes to look at him.

       Hua Yibang couldn’t hide his surprise anymore, because he saw the collar on Li Zhenruo’s neck.

       Li Zhenruo guessed that Hua Yibang was thoroughly confused.

       But as expected of Hua Yibang, who has been with Li Zhenran for so many years, he quickly get over his surprise and walked to the bedroom door and knocked lightly, “Zhenran, get up.”

       The only person on the bed was Li Zhenran, so it was clear at a glance that there was no need to look any further.

       Li Zhenran slept on his stomach all night, and now he raised his head and rubbed his forehead in pain.

       Hua Yibang reminded him, “If you’re late, you’ll have to change your ticket.”

       Li Zhenran nodded, turned over and sat up. But it was obvious that he was not fully awake, so he raised his hands to cover his face for a while.

       When Li Zhenran put on his trousers and walked outside while putting on his clothes, Hua Yibang finally couldn’t help but ask, “Where’s your cat?”

       Li Zhenran had already walked to the living room at that time, glanced at him inexplicably, pointed to Li Zhenruo on the sofa and said, “Isn’t that a cat?”

       Hua Yibang said, “I’m not talking about—” At this point, he seemed a little discouraged and said, “Forget it, it’s nothing.”

       Li Zhenran walked towards the bathroom and said to Hua Yibang, “By the way, help me with the pet check. I want to take it back.”

       Hua Yibang replied with “OK” and left the room first.

       Li Zhenruo lay on the sofa and didn’t want to move. Although he slept for a while, he still didn’t feel much better, especially when he remembered what happened last night. A word popped into his head inexplicably: forsaken after being dallied with.

       But Li Zhenran seemed to be the same as he was countless mornings. After getting up, he went to the bathroom to wash and tidy up and didn’t give Li Zhenruo a second look.

       Not to mention what happened last night, it was as if he didn’t even remember when Li Zhenruo once became a person.

       After he came out of the bathroom, Li Zhenran saw Li Zhenruo looking at him with a straight face.

       Although it’s not easy to say how the cat has a straight face, he just knows that his cat was staring with a straight face.

       Li Zhenran still ignored him and went back to the room to pack up.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that he wanted to go to the toilet at this moment, but he didn’t bring out the cat toilet, so he could only run to the toilet, jumped on the toilet, and struggled to find a position where he could urinate while standing on the toilet seat.

       At this time, Li Zhenran suddenly came in.

       Li Zhenruo felt that this posture was really unsightly, and he didn’t want to be seen by Li Zhenran, but when he was nervous, his whole cat body almost slipped into the toilet, but fortunately, Li Zhenran reached out and caught it.

       Li Zhenran lifted his two front paws and said, “Hurry up.”

       Li Zhenruo looked up at him. Although he was reluctant, he was even more reluctant to go out and urinate on the street. In the end, he was helped by Li Zhenran to urinate.

       There was some sadness and anger and some sorrow.

       After urinating, Li Zhenruo didn’t want to move and lay on the living room carpet to pretend to be dead. Later, Li Zhenran packed his luggage, picked him up with one hand and walked outside.

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Notes:
I feel really bad Hua Yibang have to go through all this (´Д `)
Zhenran better give him a raise!

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       Li Tuanzi followed Li Zhenran to the airport.

       To be honest, Li Zhenruo was a little depressed, because the name Li Tuanzi was really ugly, but he knew that it was definitely not easy to find an identity like that. If he asked Luo Fei to help him make a new one because the name was too ugly, it would be too much. 

       The outcome of forcing down this depression was that Li Zhenruo gritted his teeth against Li Zhenran along the way.

       When changing the boarding pass, Li Zhenran asked him, “What are you looking at me for?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I wish I could eat his flesh and sleep with his skin!”

       Li Zhenran surprisingly asked, “Who?”

       After asking, Li Zhenruo clearly saw that Li Zhenran was smiling briefly. It wasn’t that he didn’t understand, but he was just teasing Li Zhenruo.

       They were accompanied by Hua Yibang.

       He followed behind them and didn’t speak, and he didn’t react to the name Li Tuanzi.

       Later, when he passed the security check, the security check guard looked up at him, “Li Tuanzi?”

       Li Zhenruo replied bitterly, “Yes.”

       The security officer didn’t say anything, but couldn’t help but look at him again. Probably because such a strange and bizarre name was also rare.

       After a two-hour flight, they arrived at their destination.

       Sure enough, as Li Zhenruo expected, they arrived at the provincial capital city where Qijiang was located. Li Zhenruo made a lot of trips here. The project address was originally decided by him after repeated investigations and discussions with the government.

         It was already dark.

       It’s just that Li Zhenruo slept on the plane just now, so he was not really tired now.

       When they came out of the airport, a driver sent by the branch office here came to pick them up.

       After they got into the car, Li Zhenran said, “Go to the hotel first.”

       Then he said to Li Zhenruo, “Wait for me in the hotel later. I will be picking up some people with Yibang. We will wait for some experts to come over, and have dinner together.”

       “Going to eat more?” Li Zhenruo asked. He had eaten a lot on the plane just now.

       Until now, Li Zhenran didn’t tell Li Zhenruo what the trip was for. Li Zhenran didn’t explain, and Li Zhenruo didn’t ask. He just heard that Li Zhenran wanted to pick up experts, and he couldn’t help wondering if there was something wrong with the project site over there.

       Li Zhenran raised his hand and touched his head, “Do you still want to eat?”

       “Yeah,” Li Zhenruo replied, “The food here is delicious.”

       Before they reached the hotel, the sky began to drizzle.

       The driver who picked them up complained, “What awful weather, it rains every day.”

       Li Zhenruo put his face next to the car window and looked outside, thinking it was probably the arrival of the rainy season.

       When they arrived at the hotel, the manager of Yunlin branch was already waiting for them here.

       After they checked in, Li Zhenran first accompanied Li Zhenruo to take the luggage up and put it in the room. The two of them had a suite with a living room and a bedroom, and Hua Yibang’s room was next to them.

       When Li Zhenran opened the door with his room card, Hua Yibang couldn’t help but glance at them, but he didn’t ask anything.

       Li Zhenruo sometimes envied Li Zhenran for having such a capable assistant who was silent and observant.

       Li Zhenran put down his things and went out with Hua Yibang. He asked Li Zhenruo to stay in the room and wait for his call.

       Li Zhenruo lay on the big bed and spread out his limbs lazily. He found that he didn’t want to do anything. The rain outside seemed to be getting heavier and heavier. He grabbed the remote control on the bedside table and turned on the TV, just in time to see the local news issuing an orange early warning rainstorm alert¹A status orange weather warning is given before expected weather conditions that could significantly impact people, property and activity in an area. People in the affected areas should prepare appropriately now for the anticipated conditions. Read more.

       It has been raining for many days, and many low altitude places were heavily waterlogged.

       Qijiang was only more than 200 kilometres away from the provincial capital, and the area was probably also raining heavily. Li Zhenruo wondered if the reason Li Zhenran came in such a hurry had anything to do with the heavy rain here.

       Seeing that the news has jumped to community news, Li Zhenruo used the remote control to change the channel, wanting to see if there are more reports.

       After about an hour, Li Zhenran called him to go down for dinner.

       Because it was quite late at that time, the dinner was arranged in the hotel restaurant. Li Zhenruo went downstairs and saw Li Zhenran talking with three or four people like teachers and scholars. Behind him, in addition to Hua Yibang and the branch manager, there was also the project manager of the Qijiang project.

       They went to a private room in the restaurant and sat at a table.

       Li Zhenran said, “It’s too late today, and we still have some business to do in the morning, so let’s just have a casual dinner tonight. When the things over there are over, we’ll be sure to treat the several teachers to a good meal.”

       Everyone was saying that Li Zhenran was too courteous one after another.

       Li Zhenruo was not hungry, so he picked out a few favourite dishes to eat, and at other times drank the soup in front of him with a spoon.

       The collar on his neck was really eye-catching, but no one asked him. People were only asking about Li Zhenruo’s identity. Li Zhenran introduced him as his cousin and that he brought him to learn something.

       After listening to everyone talking during the meal, Li Zhenruo realized that there was something wrong with the construction site in Qijiang. Originally, the construction site had begun to build the surrounding area. However, due to several days of heavy rains, the flood control retaining wall of the nearby river collapsed on a large scale, flooding the construction site. Of course, the construction site was flooded, which could be said to be due to this flood disaster that has not been encountered in nearly a century. However, a nearby building that was under construction collapsed, and the people in the project team couldn’t help but get a little nervous. They were afraid that there was a problem with the underlying geological layer, which would have an impact on future construction work.

       So Li Zhenran invited top experts in geology, architecture and engineering to come. He hoped to ask them to conduct on-the-spot surveys to see how much influence the geology has on the construction of the entire tourism project, what was the probability of geological disasters in the future, and whether there was a need to re-plan?

       In fact, Li Zhenruo had asked someone to do survey work in the early stage of site selection, but it seemed to be far less meticulous than Li Zhenran’s this time. Although there were only a few people eating together tonight, several experts brought students and teams together, which must have cost a lot.

       Li Zhenruo bit the spoon and thought that Li Zhenran was pursuing perfection too much. Sometimes in Li Jianglin’s opinion, it was almost as if he was nitpicking, so Li Jianglin chose to hand over the Qijiang project to him instead of Li Zhenran.

       After they ate and went back to the room, Li Zhenran went to take a bath first. Li Zhenruo lay on the bed and didn’t want to move.

       After he lay down for a while, he suddenly remembered something. He got up and went through Li Zhenran’s bag, trying to find his ID card. Although the name was really unbearable, it was always more convenient to have an ID card with you. Originally, he had put away his ID card after going through the security check at the airport, and he took it from Li Zhenran just now when he opened the room for registration.

       He thought that if it wasn’t for this sudden trip, Li Zhenran would have no intention to give him his ID card at all or even planned to tell him about it.

       After rummaging for a while, Li Zhenran came out of the bathroom with a towel around his waist and asked him, “What are you doing?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Where’s the ID card? Can you give it to me?”

       Li Zhenran passed by him, sat down beside the bed, and said, “What are you here for?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “It’s more convenient. If you’re not with me and there’s some emergency.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Then, you stay with me and don’t go a step farther.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t hold back and said, “You’re sick…”

       Li Zhenran looked at him with cold eyes.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t dare to provoke him anymore and said, “I’m going to take a bath.”

       He finished his shower and put on his pyjamas before going out. In the past, Li Zhenruo didn’t really care about these things. In any case, they were all men, and Li Zhenran was his second brother. After taking a shower, he often wore underwear and casually hung around at home.

       But after what happened last night, he felt a little embarrassed and thought that his rut period was probably not over yet, so he should keep it more hidden and not cause any misunderstanding.

       Li Zhenran was lying on the bed watching TV, which was playing the evening news.

       Li Zhenruo lay down beside him and asked, “Will you go even if it rains heavily tomorrow?”

       Li Zhenran nodded, “Yes, people had been invited to come. No matter how bad the environment is, I have to go. Who can guarantee that this situation won’t happen again in the future?”

       Li Zhenruo had guessed that Li Zhenran would definitely say so.

       Li Zhenran suddenly stretched out a hand, resting his elbow on the head of the bed, and tugging at Li Zhenruo’s hair with his fingers to play.

       Li Zhenruo turned to look at him but saw that he was not looking at him, and was staring at the TV screen thoughtfully. His thoughts were probably not on Li Zhenruo, and it was just like teasing a pet and playing with its hair.

       As he looked at Li Zhenran’s profile, for some reason Li Zhenruo’s heart started to beat faster, his body began to heat up for no reason, and his breathing became short. Finally, he could not help but jump off the bed and went to the bathroom.

       About the cat’s rut matter, Li Zhenruo has actually checked it carefully on the Internet. It seems that many people have different opinions. Some people say that contact with female cats would cause the cat to be in heat. Some said that birth control was necessary, and some people say that it was better to mate.

       Anyway, Li Zhenruo had read a lot, but he was still not clear about his situation. It would be very painful if he was like this all the time, and lately, he has always reacted to Li Zhenran.

       Could it be Li Zhenran was actually a female cat?

       When he went back to bed, Li Zhenran had already turned off the TV and fallen asleep.

       Li Zhenruo fumbled to lay down, but Li Zhenran grabbed his wrist and pulled him into his arms.

       He stiffened for a moment and asked in a muffled voice, “Why are you hugging so tightly?”

       Li Zhenran buried his face on the side of his neck, rubbed his face, and said, “Isn’t this the purpose of bringing you out?”

       Li Zhenruo said angrily, “I’m not a pillow.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Don’t make trouble, there’s no sense of security sleeping in a hotel.”

       “…” Li Zhenruo thought silently, You must be sick, right?

       The next morning, they drove to Qijiang.

       When he got up in the morning, Li Zhenruo stood by the window and opened the heavy curtains to look outside, and unexpectedly found that the sky was sunny. Seeing that it should be a sunny day today, he couldn’t help sighing that she was lucky.

       They drove at a high speed. Li Zhenruo sat in the back seat and yawned.

       Li Zhenran asked him, “You did not sleep enough?”

       Li Zhenruo nodded and rested his head on Li Zhenran’s shoulder.

       Hua Yibang was able to keep a calm face, but the driver only looked down and lowered his head, and focused on driving ahead.

       Because the weather was clear, the road was relatively smooth today. It took less than two hours to reach Qijiang’s urban area after driving at a high speed. That construction project of Yunlin was in the north of Qijiang’s urban area, and it was about almost 20 minutes of driving.

       They went over there and left the wide road, and entered the small road, gradually they drive away from the hustle and bustle of the city and the surrounding became quiet. The distance from here to Qijiang was originally a name of a river, and the city in Qijiang was just a city built on the river. This area was in the lower reaches of the river, with high mountains and gentle slopes in the distance and vast plains near. The forest coverage rate has reached nearly 45%. As soon as you open the window, fresh air comes to your face.

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath, his mood seemed to have become peaceful.

       Previously, the Qijiang river dike burst has been urgently repaired by the government to re enclose the dike. Now the flood has receded a lot, but a large amount of pool of water could still be seen in the distance, especially at the construction site where the siege began, and even a part of the wall that was washed down by the flood could be seen.

       The person in charge of the construction site had come to greet Li Zhenran.

       However, due to the accumulation of water on the construction site, it was impossible to go in dryly in any way, so Li Zhenran asked the driver to park the car on the dry level outside and said to Li Zhenruo, “Wait for me in the car.”

       Li Zhenran was wearing casual clothes today with a waterproof jacket and a baseball cap on his head, looking like he was out for a field trip.

       Li Zhenruo said, “I’ll go in with you.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Stay here and don’t run around.”

       Afterwards, Li Zhenran and Hua Yibang got out of the car and got into another car. The off-road vehicle drove forward for a certain distance and stopped. Afraid that the car would get stuck in the mud and stall, the people in the car had to get out and wade in.

       Li Zhenruo pressed down the car window and could only see Li Zhenran’s back in the distance. When they entered the construction site, he only saw a few off-road vehicles left outside.

       Forget it, he thought, he had nothing to do with the Li family’s affairs anyway.

       Somewhat bored, he opened the car door and walked around the neighbourhood. He saw the driver also get out of the car, and got together with a few other drivers to start smoking and chatting.

       With Li Zhenruo’s character, it was actually nothing much to go over and to talk to them. But he looked like a child now, and he knew that those middle-aged people didn’t want to talk to him very much, so he didn’t go.

       There was still some distance from the riverside to here, but the wind was still a bit chilly. Li Zhenruo stood there for a while and then went back to the car and huddled in the back seat to play with his mobile phone.

       He didn’t know how long it took, but when he suddenly raised his head, he felt that it was dark outside. Originally, when he came out in the morning, there was still the sun in the sky, but at this time, it seemed like a violent storm was coming soon.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help being a little nervous. He sat up and looked outside. He saw several drivers running in the direction of the parking lot, and the ground in the field began to fall with pea-sized raindrops.

       The rain suddenly became huge in an instant. The driver opened the car door, sat up, and said, “This is a rainstorm coming.”

       Li Zhenruo saw the surrounding branches dancing wildly by the strong wind. Even with the window closed, he could hear the sound of raindrops hitting the roof and glass and the sound of the wind blowing. There was no one around, just a few of their cars. The sky was so dark as if it was the end of the world.

       The smaller the rain, the heavier it was. Within ten minutes, some water started to accumulate outside.

       The driver stared nervously into the distance and suddenly shouted, “Damn!”

       Li Zhenruo looked in the direction of his gaze and saw that the river surface in the distance was rapidly deepening, and the newly built flood breaker began to become shaky as if it might be washed away at any time.

       If the flood control embankment breaks, the construction site will be flooded immediately.

       Li Zhenruo took out his mobile phone and immediately wanted to call Li Zhenran.

       Unexpectedly, the driver actually started the car at this time. Li Zhenruo heard the movement and jumped forward and asked, “What are you doing?”

       The driver said nervously, “We won’t be able to leave when the flood comes over!”

       Li Zhenruo reached out to stop him, “They are still inside!”

       But the driver didn’t listen to him and insisted on starting the car. Li Zhenruo didn’t go to grab the keys from him, but simply opened the door and jumped down, running towards the construction site.

       The flood control embankment really collapsed, and Li Zhenruo saw the river water gushing out all of a sudden. The muddy yellow river water rolled up white foam, and instantly a huge wave was set off and slapped towards the construction site wall.

       However, Li Zhenruo ran towards the construction site like a madman, and at the same time shouted, “Li Zhenran!”

       With this loud shout, he suddenly woke up, opened his eyes and sat up with his back straight, and found that he was still in the car.

       He couldn’t help being in a trance for a few seconds. When Li Zhenruo came back to his senses, he realized that he was actually dreaming. He had a dream so realistic that even when he touched his forehead, he was still sweating.

       Li Zhenruo turned to look out the window. The weather was still sunny, and several drivers were still gathering together to smoke and talk nonsense.

       He closed his eyes and leaned back in the back seat. When his mood calmed down, he began to reminisce about what he felt in the dream. The feeling was very real, and he could still feel it now. At that moment, he was really not afraid of death. Even if he died, he would definitely go to Li Zhenran’s side.

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Notes:
Lmao Hua Yibang the third wheeler.
Every of Zhenran subordinate must have a very wild thoughts when seeing Zhenruo with that collar. Imagine how awkward it is to see your boss with his pet (^ิ艸^ิﾟ)

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       They didn’t expect to run into Yue Zijia by chance here. Li Zhenruo’s first reaction was to invite her in for a few minutes of conversations, but Li Zhenran obviously didn’t have any intention to let it happen.

       And Yue Zijia, who was very good at reading people’s expressions stood at the door and did not come in. She only said, “What a coincidence, Zhenran, you are also eating here?”

       Li Zhenran smiled at her, “What a coincidence.”

       Yue Zijia was a part of this circle, and she was practically one of the old flowers in the high society. She knew a lot of people, even more than Li Zhenran and the others would know. At a glance, she could see that the young man opposite Li Zhenran was someone she did not know, and he looked very young, like a college student, and definitely not a business partner from somewhere, so she naturally had some ideas in her heart.

       Li Zhenruo was also wearing casual clothes today, and the collar around his neck was very eye-catching. The collar was actually light and thin, but it was hard not to notice it when it was worn on a person. So Yue Zijia glanced at Li Zhenruo and said, “I won’t bother you guys, I’m going back.”

       Li Zhenran politely said, “Okay, let’s have the opportunity to have dinner together next time.”

       He spoke thoughtlessly, and Yue Zijia also listened to it nonchalantly and didn’t take the offer seriously.

       After closing the door, Li Zhenruo asked Li Zhenran, “Is she your younger brother’s woman?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t answer him immediately, but asked, “Why are you asking this? Are you interested in her?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “What are you thinking, can’t I ask for Yu Bingwei’s sake? Miss Yu is my master anyway.”

       Unexpectedly, when Li Zhenran heard this, he suddenly pointed at him with a chopstick and said, “Remember this, I am your master, no one else is.”

       Li Zhenruo was speechless because of his strange possessiveness.

       But after hearing Li Zhenruo’s explanation, Li Zhenran said to him, “I don’t know if she has an affair with the third child.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him in surprise.

       Li Zhenran said, “I haven’t seen it with my own eyes.”

       Li Zhenruo thought to himself, Li Zhenzi really concealed himself deep enough. However, come to think of it, if someone knew about their relationship, then he would not let Yue Zijia come forward as the appraisal client.

       He just didn’t know if there was indeed something in common between Yue Zijia and Li Jianglin.

       Li Zhenruo hesitated for a while and didn’t ask. He was afraid that if he asked too many questions, Li Zhenran would be suspicious.

       After they ate, when they came out of the small private room, they encountered Yue Zijia and a man who also came out from the next room.

       That man was someone that Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo knew. He was the young master of a small transportation company. He seemed to have drunk some wine and kissed Yue Zijia despite being in public places.

       When Yue Zijia saw Li Zhenran and the others, she felt a little embarrassed and pushed the man away slightly.

       The man then noticed Li Zhenran and the others. He exchanged a few words with Li Zhenran and left with Yue Zijia.

       Li Zhenruo looked at their backs and wondered how could Li Zhenzi feel at ease to leave this kind of thing to a woman with such a chaotic private life? Was he not afraid that the secrets of the Li family would be leaked by Yue Zijia?

       When he went back in the evening, Li Zhenruo bought a cup of coffee at Starbucks on the side of the road. After he drank it, he had insomnia at night.

       Li Zhenran was already about to fall asleep, but Li Zhenruo tossed and turned beside him. He impatiently raised his leg and pressed it on Li Zhenruo’s body, and said, “Are you going to sleep or not?”

       Li Zhenruo stopped, “I can’t sleep.”

       Li Zhenran closed his eyes, sighed helplessly, and asked him, “Why can’t you fall asleep?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t expect this when he was drinking coffee at that time. He used to drink coffee at night, but it didn’t affect his sleep at all. Now perhaps because his body has changed, it was not used to the stimulation of coffee.

       “I don’t know,” he said.

       Li Zhenruo was originally curled up and slept by the edge of the bed, but because he tossed and turned, he was very close to Li Zhenran and lay down side by side.

       Li Zhenran was already tired, so he pulled himself together and asked him, “Are you in heat?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment, remembering that he really didn’t feel anything today, maybe he was a little tired from running outside all day during the daytime.

       Li Zhenran turned over and put one hand on Li Zhenruo’s chest, fumbling down slowly, “Do you want me to help you?”

       Li Zhenruo was shocked. He hurriedly moved aside, “What are you doing?”

       In the end, he backed away too much and fell off the mattress. Fortunately, the bed was not too high and landed on the tatami.

       Li Zhenran raised his head and glanced at him, his tone was a little impatient, “Then go to the toilet, if you turn over and over again, I will castrate you to avoid any more noise!”

       Li Zhenruo was so scared out of his wits, so he got up and walked towards the bathroom without speaking for a long time. In fact, there was nothing wrong with his body, but the way Li Zhenran touching him felt just now was still very clear, and Li Zhenruo felt that his heart was beating like a drum.

       He still remembered that when he was studying abroad, his private life was actually quite chaotic for a while. He knew a very good looking young white gay man, and he once agreed to let the young gay man to do him once. He thought it was pretty cool at the time, but it wasn’t necessarily better than with a woman, and the young gay’s hand was always touching him at that time, didn’t make him feel aroused.

       But today, Li Zhenran only put his palm on his chest, and then slid all the way down. But it was as if a fire had been lit on him, and the hot touch could not be forgotten until now.

       Li Zhenruo thought, he really was in the rut period. The effect of hormones on the body was really terrible.

       However, he was a little angry. At first, he doesn’t need to deal with it, but Li Zhenran’s provocation made him has to deal with it.

       After he resolved the heat, Li Zhenruo didn’t go back to the bed but lay down on the sofa.

       The lights in the living room were not turned on, and the light came in from the outside. Because they were on a high floor, the lights outside were also very dim. Li Zhenruo lay on the sofa with his eyes closed and tried to sleep for a while, but he couldn’t fall asleep, so he simply opened his eyes. He stared at the dark ceiling and began to daydream.

       Later, Li Zhenran woke up in the middle of the night and found that Li Zhenruo had come back to him and seemed to fall asleep. He rolled over and put his arms around Li Zhenruo’s waist, closed his eyes and continued to sleep.

       When he woke up in the morning, Li Zhenran saw Li Zhenruo was lying beside him and playing with his mobile phone.

       Li Zhenran rubbed his forehead and stretched out a hand in front of Li Zhenruo, “Give me your phone.”

       Li Zhenruo handed it to him obediently. Li Zhenran saw that he was playing a boring minigame, so he closed the game and took a look at the time. It was almost seven in the morning.

       Li Zhenruo approached and asked, “What to play? Give me the next one.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Do it yourself later.” Then he sat up and got ready to get out of bed.

       In the morning, Li Zhenruo still waited until Li Zhenran went out before he go out. After eating something on the roadside for breakfast, he reached out to stop the car and asked the driver to take him to the appraisal office.

       Li Zhenruo came over to find an acquaintance.

       At that time, he had just been kicked out of the Li family, and his reaction was the same as now. He wanted to find out who was screwing him, so he spent some money to bribe the staff of the appraisal office and got the identity of the client who came to do the identification. It was a young woman who submit the appraisal.

       Unfortunately, Li Zhenruo couldn’t remember that person’s phone number now, so he could only come over in person and try to find him.

       Li Zhenruo had a deep impression of this place, especially the security guard who used a broom to drive him away several times in front of the entrance of the appraisal office.

       He didn’t need to be chased away today, but Li Zhenruo looks too young and didn’t look like someone who would do an appraisal. When he walked to the registration desk at the front desk, the young girl at the registration actually asked him, “Are you alone? Where are your parents?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t know what to say for a while, so he could only ask, “Is Wu Hong there?”

       The young girl at the front desk asked him, “Who are you? Why are you looking for Wu Hong?”

       Li Zhenruo replied, “I’m his cousin, ask him to come out. I want to see him.”

       The young girl seemed a little hesitant, but she still said, “Wait a minute, I’ll call him.”

       Wu Hong was a young man and just graduated from university two years ago. He was working as an assistant in the laboratory.

       After he received the call, he hurriedly went to the front desk. But he was also puzzled, he didn’t know which of his cousins ​​would come here to look for him. Li Zhenruo said first, “Li Zhenruo asked me to come to you.”

       Wu Hong’s expression changed suddenly.

       At that time he did not charge Li Zhenruo much money because he did not disclose any information. Li Zhenruo felt unwilling, and later called him again and promised to give him 5000 yuan¹786.83, in exchange for the detailed information of the identification client. At that time, Wu Hong was emotionally affected. He hesitated for several days before he agreed to Li Zhenruo, but Li Zhenruo had an accident.

       Now Wu Hong became nervous when he heard Li Zhenruo’s name. After all, he signed a non-disclosure agreement²A non-disclosure agreement is a legally binding contract that establishes a confidential relationship. The party or parties signing the agreement agree that sensitive information they may obtain will not be made available to any others. An NDA may also be referred to as a confidentiality agreement. when he work there. If anyone in the laboratory knew that he had sold customer information, he would definitely be kicked out.

       He glanced left and right in panic.

       Li Zhenruo said to him, “Let’s find a quiet place to talk.”

       Wu Hong nodded and took him outside the appraisal office. They walked to a secluded street, stood under a big tree, and Wu Hong asked him, “What do you want from me?”

       Li Zhenruo smiled, “Don’t be nervous, I just heard Li Zhenruo mentioned you and wanted to ask you a question.”

       Wu Hong said, “I don’t know anything. Don’t ask me.”

       Li Zhenruo said to him, “I haven’t asked the question yet, what are you anxious about?”

       Wu Hong scratched his neck and insisted, “I don’t know anything anyway.”

       Of course Li Zhenruo knew that he was not as principled as he showed, so he came to him again, and said to Wu Hong, “Here’s the deal, you listen to me first. I will ask you a question, if I am wrong, just shake your head, if I’m right, you don’t have to give me a response. This way you didn’t sell anyone’s information, and you answered me, I’ll give you 500 yuan³78.68.”

       Wu Hong’s expression was obviously shaken.

       Li Zhenruo simply took out his mobile phone, found a photo to show him, and asked him, “Is this woman the one who came for the identification?”

       At that moment, Li Zhenruo clearly saw that Wu Hong’s pupils were dilated and his expression was a little uncontrollable. He already knew the answer.

       This was Yue Zijia’s photo. This morning, Li Zhenruo took his mobile phone before Li Zhenran woke up, and entered Yue Zijia’s personal social networking site. He found two pictures with clearer angles and sent them to his mobile phone.

       Wu Hong’s expression was very troubled.

       Li Zhenruo asked him, “You didn’t shake your head. Now tell me, do you want the 500 yuan?”

       Wu Hong took a deep breath and stretched out his hand, “Since you already know, then give me the money.”

       Li Zhenruo got the answer he wanted and gave Wu Hong 500 in cash, then backed away and waved to him, “Thank you, goodbye.”

       Wu Hong put the money in his pocket and hurriedly turned to leave.

       Yue Zijia and Li Zhenzi.

       Li Zhenruo raised his hand to slightly block the sun shining down above his head. He felt the need to go back to Li’s house now, but if he wanted to go back to Li’s house, the identity of a cat would be more beneficial than that of a person, but at the same time, there are many things that a cat can not do.

       Li Zhenruo thought in his heart, if only he could change his identity freely, wouldn’t it be very convenient?

       At this time, Li Zhenruo suddenly remembered a person. When he was in mountain villa, Feng Junyuan gave him a phone number and said that if he needed any help, he could find someone named Song Jun, because he knew a lot about cats.

       Li Zhenruo thought that maybe now was the time. He should call the person named Song Jun. If he has time, it is best to ask him out to meet.

       It was actually quite risky if he thought about it. But Li Zhenruo thought of what Feng Junyuan said at the time, and felt that the other party seemed quite credible.

       After hesitating for a long time, when Li Zhenruo took out his mobile phone to dial, Li Zhenran called first.

       “Where are you?” Li Zhenran said.

       Li Zhenruo said, “I’m shopping on the street. Is there anything you want to eat? I’ll buy it for you.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Stop shopping and go home first. I’ll pick you up later, and we’ll go to the airport.”

       “Airport?” Li Zhenruo was stunned.

       Li Zhenran said: “I’m going on a business trip temporarily, and you will go with me. Go back and pack some things, and I’ll pick you up.”

       “But—”

       Li Zhenran didn’t even listen to what he was saying, and hung up the phone.

       Li Zhenruo looked at his phone and thought, But I don’t have an ID card? What am I going to the airport with you for? Can I even get on a plane? But Li Zhenran sounded so anxious. Li Zhenruo’s first reaction was that something had happened to the company. A business trip? Is it a problem with the project in the western part?

       But now it’s just speculation. Li Zhenruo reached out and called a car and asked the driver to take him home first.

       Li Zhenruo considered that he did not have an ID card, and Li Zhenran could not possibly conduct a pet consignment for him. How should he take him there? Using a private plane? Chartering the whole plane?

       Despite his doubts, Li Zhenruo obediently packed two pieces of clothing.

       When he packed up, he found that all of them were Li Zhenran’s clothes. He wandered outside for two days and didn’t think of buying himself a suit of clothes to wear. Li Zhenran obviously didn’t expect leaving this area either.

       As long as he didn’t take the collar around his neck, Li Zhenran would have no problem even if he goes out naked.

       Li Zhenran didn’t come back after almost an hour. Li Zhenruo packed two of his clothes and put them in a big suitcase.

       Li Zhenruo only had time to ask, “How can I get there without an ID card?”

       Li Zhenran stood by the coffee table in the living room, took a sip of water, then glanced at him and said, “I’ll provide it for you. I’ve already bought the ticket.”

       Li Zhenruo was a little surprised, “Fake ID? Can it pass the security check?”

       Li Zhenran said, “No, the identity information is real, and the ID card is also real.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him suspiciously, now that all identity information was online, it was easy to make a fake ID. But how easy was it to forge a person’s fake identity, he couldn’t help asking, “You let me use someone else’s identity? “

       He has already thought of 10,000 words in his brain, Li Zhenran found a young man who looked a lot like him, murdered and robbed his ID card.

       Li Zhenran took out an ID card from the inner pocket of his suit, and dangled his fingers between his eyes.

       Li Zhenruo grabbed it, and when he saw the words “Li Tuanzi⁴Tuanzi is Dumpling’s name in Chinese” on his ID card, he couldn’t hold back the blue veins bursting out on his forehead, and he had the urge to kill.

       He couldn’t tell the authenticity of the ID card just by the feel of his hand, but since Li Zhenran was so sure, it means that the ID card was likely to be real. There was no longer Li Zhenruo in this world, but there was a man named Li Tuanzi. His birthday was the day he was born as a cat, and the year was by Li Zhenran himself, who set him as an eighteen-year-old this year. In fact, if you look at his face, he was more like sixteen or seventeen years old, but he couldn’t bother to care so much about a cat.

       Li Zhenruo looked at the ID card and asked Li Zhenran, “How did you do it?”

       Wasn’t this too difficult? And the time was so short. It has only been three days since he became a human.

       Li Zhenran confessed: “I couldn’t do it, it was given to me by Luo Fei.”

       “Luo Fei?” Li Zhenruo’s doubts did not ease at all. “Did he hack into the public security department’s network? Or did he have a great backup?”

       Li Zhenran said, “He didn’t say it, but when I asked him, he said he could do it. This ID card was delivered on time. When I decided to go on a business trip, he happened to find someone to deliver it to me. So I booked a flight for you.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at the ID card and thought of Luo Fei and the doctor Feng who was with him. They seemed to be mysterious, but aren’t they ordinary people?

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The author has something to say:

The collar has a positioning. As for whether the second brother is monitoring his position in real-time, the fourth brother said that he doesn’t know, and he couldn’t care less for now…

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Notes:
So there’s a difference of 5000 yuan that Li Zhenruo human give and the 500 yuan the Li Zhenruo cat give right? I think it’s just coz it’s not possible for the Li Zhenruo cat to give 5000 yuan when he was only given a 2000 yuan allowance by Zhenran.
Also yeah… At first I was debating to use Tuanzi from the start or Dumpling… but… calling him dumpling sounds cuter… and in a way now it provides distinction. Tuanzi = the human, Dumpling = the cat

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TL: Hoenimochi
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       Zhu Kai was Li Jianglin’s wife, Zhu Yun’s younger brother.

       Li Zhenruo always felt that Zhu Yun was the only person Li Jianglin really loved, and one of the reasons was because of Zhu Kai.

       Zhu Kai was much younger than Zhu Yun, but not far from Li Zhenzi’s age. Because his parents were too old to take care of him, Zhu Kai grew up with Zhu Yun and Li Jianglin since he was a child.

       Sometimes Li Zhenruo felt that Li Jianglin loved Zhu Kai more than his own sons.

       Growing up in Li’s family, Li Zhenruo didn’t have a single friend, but Zhu Kai had always had a good relationship with him. However, Zhu Kai’s character was too untrustworthy. Perhaps because he lacked parental discipline from a young age, he had a wild and unrestrained personality. He dared to cause all sorts of trouble.

       Although Li Jianglin liked Zhu Kai, perhaps it was due to his unreliable personality that he never let him get involved in Yunlin’s affairs. Instead, he gave him a lot of money and let him go wild.

       When he received a call from Li Zhenruo, Zhu Kai seemed to have not fully woken up at first. But when he heard the words Li Zhenruo, he was suddenly wide awake.

       He sneered, “Say that again, who are you again?”

       Li Zhenruo said to him, “I am Li Zhenruo.”

       Zhu Kai laughed when he heard his words, “Li Zhenruo? Li Zhenruo fvcking died a long time ago, didn’t you know? You’re Li Zhenruo?”

       Li Zhenruo was not angry. He knew Zhu Kai well. The friendship between the two needed quotation marks. They could spend a lot of time and drink together, but was impossible to confide in each other. He didn’t expect Zhu Kai to feel this much grief over his death.

       Li Zhenruo said, “Where are you now?”

       Zhu Kai snorted, “I’m on vacation with your dad on the coast, don’t you know? Aren’t you dead? Don’t you have any sources telling you this at all??”

       Li Zhenruo lowered his voice, “You don’t believe me? Did you forget the 500,000 yuan I lent you for gambling that you haven’t returned to me yet?”

       Zhu Kai said, “Li Zhenruo said that to you?”

       Li Zhenruo continued, “Do you remember the time you secretly swapped my dad’s cigarettes for marijuana blunts?”

       This matter was quite a secret, Zhu Kai only told Li Zhenruo and it was completely a mischievous mentality. The two of them actually shared a lot of little secrets. That was not a big deal, but they always kept each other’s promises, and no one ever said any more about them.

       Zhu Kai didn’t expect him to bring this up. After a few seconds of silence, his tone became more serious, “Who are you?”

       Even if it wasn’t Li Zhenruo, it must be someone who had a very close relationship with Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo still said, “I’m Li Zhenruo.”

       Zhu Kai was different from Li Zhenran. Li Zhenruo didn’t dare to give Li Zhenran any hints to make him think in that direction. He was afraid that Li Zhenran could find out the whole truth if he caught a little clue. But for Zhu Kai, Li Zhenruo believed that the other party would not believe it at all.

       Zhu Kai snorted coldly, “Stop talking bullshit! Tell me who you are? I’ll hang up if you don’t.”

       “Ah, be patient,” Li Zhenruo said quickly, “There is something I want you to say to Li Jianglin.”

       Zhu Kai laughed sarcastically, “Isn’t he your father? Where are your manners?”

       He had to admit that he was a little offended by his words but Li Zhenruo’s tone was calm and he didn’t give away his emotions at all, “Tell him to get Li Zhentai and Wen Chun married quickly or else Wen Chun will run away with someone else.”

       Zhu Kai’s tone was somewhat puzzled, “What do you mean?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “It’s exactly as I said, bye.”

       After he finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

       Afterwards, Li Zhenruo sent a text message to Li Zhentai’s phone on his mobile phone: “I have a picture of your wife, please contact me if you are interested.”

       After he sent it, he didn’t wait for a reply. He tore out the phone card, broke it into two pieces and threw it away.

       It would be too irrational to think that Li Zhenzi had something with Wen Chun just based on the perfume smell on Li Zhenzi’s body. But now whether he had something with Wen Chun or not, Li Zhenruo felt that he should muddy the water within the Li family first. When the water got muddy, what everyone wished to conceal would be exposed, emerging little by little.

       Li Zhenruo put the original phone card back, turned around and walked towards the neighbourhood. He found an aunt on the side of the road to ask for directions and walked into a small alley in the direction pointed by the other party.

       This address was the past address of Li Zhenruo’s biological mother.

       Li Zhenruo was very persistent about matters relating to his mother for a long time, that is, when he was still young and unable to control his own life.

       He remembered one time when he was wronged because of something, he cried and told Li Jianglin that he was looking for his mother and that he planned to run away from home. As a result, Li Jianglin became even angrier and he was punished to kneel for half a day.

       Zhu Kai secretly brought him dinner that day.

       Later, when he had the ability to find his mother’s whereabouts, he was no longer so persistent anymore. He was no longer a child who needed a mother, but a man who had other goals to pursue.

       However, he still asked someone to help him find the whereabouts of his mother. But he only got one address, because his mother had been dead for many years and this address was where his mother used to live until she died.

       It was obvious that they were in the same city, so close to each other, but she never had the thought to see him.

       Li Zhenruo, who got this address, had never been there before. He felt that it was meaningless.

       This time, he came over not because of his previous obsession with his mother, but because he wanted to find some clues, such as how his mother and Li Jianglin met back then and why his mother would be pregnant with someone else’s child and lied to be with Li Jianglin. This secret has been buried for so many years and the party involved has died. Who was the one who dug it out?

       Li Zhenruo wanted to know a lot of things but he never thought about finding his biological father. If Li Jianglin was not his father, then a father was someone non-existent to him.

       This building has been around for a long time. It was hidden behind the high-rise buildings in the city. It would be difficult for Li Zhenruo to find it unless someone showed him the way.

       Perhaps faced with demolition, many residents of the building had moved away, and now there were less than half of the original residents left.

       Li Zhenruo’s body and identity changed, which brought him a lot of benefits. At least he didn’t need to cover up what he did and no one would suspect his identity.

       He followed the room number written in the address and climbed the stairs to the fifth floor. He walked to the room on the far left, raised his hand and knocked on the door.

       He tried knocking four or five times repeatedly, but no one came to open the door for him. Instead, he knocked on the next room.

       It was a man in his fifties who opened the door. He looked him up and down, and said, “Did you knock wrongly?”

       Li Zhenruo asked politely, “Is there no one home?”

       The man said, “No one has been there since more than ten years ago.”

       Li Zhenruo asked him, “Excuse me, may I ask if a lady named Zhao Yuqiong living here?”

       Hearing this, the man frowned slightly and said, “I don’t know. There used to be a woman in the house. No one has lived there since she disappeared more than ten years ago.”

       Li Zhenruo regretted not coming out with a pack of cigarettes. At any rate, it was convenient to have a few words with the other party after handing them a cigarette. He could only say, “I’m really sorry to bother you, but how long have you lived here?”

       The man said, “Twenty or thirty years.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Then you must know when the lady who lives in this house moved in?”

       The man recalled it carefully and said, “It seems that she moved here more than 20 years ago. She was alone when she moved in. After a few months, her belly became bigger.”

       Li Zhenruo asked quickly, “Have you ever seen a man with her?”

       The man shook his head, “I haven’t seen another person with her before, and this woman also didn’t move in with anyone. Later, I didn’t know when she went to give birth to the child. Anyway, her stomach deflated, but the child was not brought back.”

       Li Zhenruo put his palm on the door, “Did anyone live here later? Does the house belong to her?”

       The man still shook his head, “I don’t know. I don’t know where she went. Anyway, one day I suddenly didn’t see her, and no one lived there anymore.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but ask, “Then her remnants…”

       At this moment, a woman’s voice came from behind the man, calling him, “Who is that? You’ve been talking for a long time!”

       The man said, “It’s nothing,” and then before Li Zhenruo finished asking, he hurriedly said, “I don’t know.” He closed the door hard.

       Li Zhenruo did not leave immediately.

       At this point, he was in a different state of mind than when he first learned of his mother’s death. Although he was not Li Jianglin’s biological son, it was a bit too ruthless for Li Jianglin to let his mistress be so lonely until she died of illness.

       The wooden door in front of him was mottled, and Li Zhenruo felt a burst of sadness. He took a deep breath and then turned to leave.

       He had an idea and hoped to find someone to pry open the door so he could go inside to take a look. He wondered if he could find Zhao Yuqiong’s remnants.

       Zhao Yuqiong died in the hospital more than ten years ago. It was said that she broke off relations with her family long ago and it was Li Jianglin who handled the funeral for her.

       She has been dead for more than ten years. If the house was originally registered in Zhao Yuqiong’s name, after her death, Li Zhenruo should’ve inherited it. But at that time Li Zhenruo was too young. He didn’t even know who his mother was, let alone knew that such a house existed. After a long time, when he was able to find someone to check his mother’s identity, he found that the house had been registered under Li Jianglin’s name.

       Li Jianglin certainly didn’t look after such a house. According to what the neighbour’s family said, maybe Zhao Yuqiong went to the hospital at the time, but she didn’t expect to never return. So was it possible that no one has touched anything in this house until now?

       Li Zhenruo walked downstairs and thought that this matter can’t be rushed. He has to take one step at a time. Now what he feared most was that his every move would arouse Li Zhenran’s suspicion.

       If Li Zhenran suspected him, he probably wouldn’t be able to go back to Li’s house. Well, this was just one of the reasons. More importantly, he didn’t want Li Zhenran to suspect him.

       Just as he went downstairs, Li Zhenruo’s cell phone rang.

       Li Zhenran’s meeting was over, and he asked him, “Where are you?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I’m looking for my mother.”

       Li Zhenran asked him, “Have you found her?”

       Li Zhenruo replied, “No, I seem to have misremembered the address of the pet store. I have to check it again.”

       Li Zhenran said, “After you find her, take a picture for me to see.”

       “…” Li Zhenruo gritted his teeth and said, “Okay!”

       Because of Li Zhenran’s sudden request, Li Zhenruo had no choice but to go to the pet store to find his cat mother. When he left that time, Yu’s mother put him in a cage and took a taxi back. Right now Li Zhenruo didn’t know the exact address. He only vaguely remembers the name of the pet shop and searched the Internet on his mobile phone.

       He went to eat Thai hot pot alone at noon.

       Although the people around him, including the waiter, cast strange stares at him intentionally or unintentionally, he didn’t care. This sour and spicy taste really suits his tastebuds.

       After lunch, Li Zhenruo took a taxi, showed the driver the address of the pet shop he found and asked the driver to take him there.

       Li Zhenruo found that it was indeed a happy thing to find a rich and generous owner. He was used to living a good life since he was a child, and he didn’t want to feel bad at all when it came to food and clothing expenses.

       The driver sent him to the address. When he got off the bus, Li Zhenruo took a look at his surroundings and found that he was right. This was the pet shop where he was born.

       There was a large cage in front of the pet store, and several small Samoyeds were basking in the sun.

       He walked in like a customer. The boss greeted him and lowered his head to shave a teddy¹a dog breed.

       Li Zhenruo found the pet cage he was born in that was now replaced by a litter of British shorthairs. He looked around and found the mother cat in a small pet cage in the corner.

       The female cat was sleeping on her stomach at first. He didn’t know whether it was because she heard the movement or smelled the scent, but she suddenly opened her eyes and raised her head.

       Li Zhenruo was a little excited for no reason, he put his face close to the cage and looked inside.

       His mother cat suddenly stood up, leaned close to the cage and stared at him.

       Li Zhenruo felt that the other party probably recognized him.

       The mother cat stretched out a paw from the gap in the cage, and Li Zhenruo lowered his head and asked her to touch the top of his head with her paw. She probably really wanted to get closer to Li Zhenruo, but unfortunately, she was blocked by the cage and couldn’t get out.

       Li Zhenruo stretched out his fingers and stroked the top of her head with difficulty. At this time, he remembered Li Zhenran’s request and took out his mobile phone to take two pictures of her.

       At that moment, Li Zhenruo really wanted to buy her, take her home and forget about it.

       But even if he brought her back, Li Zhenran would definitely not agree to keep one more cat. Li Zhenruo himself didn’t know what to do in the future, how could he afford the life of another cat? It’s better to let her eat and drink here and sleep idly every day.

       Before leaving, Li Zhenruo kissed the mother cat’s nose and said silently, “Goodbye, I’ll come back to see you later.”

       He thought that if one day he had the ability to, he would take the mother cat back to retire.

       Li Zhenruo got home before five o’clock in the afternoon.

       Before returning, he saw a long queue outside a small shop selling pastries outside the pet store, so he also ran to the line to buy a bag of mung bean cakes.

       Of course, Li Zhenran couldn’t have come back so early. It was almost seven o’clock in the evening when he came back.

       Li Zhenruo was a little hungry, so he ate two mung bean cakes to fill his stomach.

       When Li Zhenran came back, he saw Li Zhenruo lying comfortably and leisurely on the big lounge chair on the balcony.

       His cat was always lying on his stomach lazily, and never came to greet the owner when he got home, but sometimes he was obedient like a pet dog and followed him every step of the way.

       Li Zhenran walked to the balcony, bent down and fiddled with Li Zhenruo’s hair.

       Li Zhenruo opened his eyes, “You’re back?”

       He moved to the side. The reclining chair was large enough for two big men to lie down side by side, so Li Zhenran sat down beside him.

       Li Zhenruo wanted to be a good pet. He reached out and picked up the mung bean cake from the side and took the initiative to feed it to Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran glanced at him, opened his mouth and bit the mung bean cake.

       Seeing him take a bite, Li Zhenruo asked, “Is it delicious? I’ve waited in line for more than 20 minutes.”

       Li Zhenran said, “It’s good.”

       Li Zhenruo continued to feed him until Li Zhenran had eaten the whole thing. Li Zhenruo saw that some crumbs had fallen off the front of his shirt and reached out to help him brush it off.

       It was almost summer, the weather was getting hotter day by day. Li Zhenruo was wearing a pair of thin trousers and when his legs were pressed to Li Zhenran’s legs, he could clearly feel the heat of the other person’s body.

       It didn’t seem right to be so close like this, but there seemed to be nothing wrong with it.

       However, once it was quiet, Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that the other party’s breath was very obvious. He could hear Li Zhenran’s slight breathing and could see his chest rise and fall slightly. The presence of the other party suddenly became too strong, making Li Zhenruo a little uncomfortable.

       He had hot pot for dinner last night, so today’s dinner was Chinese food. Li Zhenran rejected Li Zhenruo’s proposal for Japanese cuisine again.

       It was in an exquisite small private restaurant. You have to make reservations by calling half a day in advance to get a place.

       Li Zhenruo followed Li Zhenran and knew that Li Zhenran should have planned this in advance.

       The environment here was very elegant. It was more like an elegant study room than a restaurant, with a bookshelf full of books around. Li Zhenruo was bored and couldn’t help but stand up and look over.

       It was a small single room for two people.

       The boss didn’t let you order your own food. He usually ate whatever dish was served, but Li Zhenran insisted on ordering comprehensive sashimi, which could be in order to satisfy Li Zhenruo’s desire to eat Japanese food.

       During the meal, Li Zhenruo showed Li Zhenran the photos taken by his mobile phone.

       Li Zhenran looked at the big cake-faced cat mother in the photo and said, “It looks exactly like you.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Well, I think so too.”

       His colour and facial features were very close to the mother cat, and he was considered to be the best in that litter of kittens.

       Li Zhenran asked him, “Where’s your father?”

       Li Zhenruo took the chopsticks and stabbed the sashimi, “How would I know, it must be a breeding cat.”

       After all, Zhao Yuqiong was still Li Jianglin’s mistress in name. His cat mother and cat father were probably a momentary fling, and when their physical needs are met, they would no longer meet.

       Looking at the photo, Li Zhenran seemed a little regretful, “It’s a pity that I didn’t take a photo of you, when will you be able to change back?”

       Li Zhenruo raised his eyelids to look at him and cursed in his heart: Die, cat fetishist!

       They talked and ate. When almost two-thirds of the dishes were finished, the private room door was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

       Li Zhenruo turned to look and saw that the woman standing at the door turned out to be Yue Zijia.

       Yue Zijia was wearing a small white dress with exquisite makeup. She seemed to be stunned for a moment. She took a step back to look at the door sign and said, “I’m sorry, I made a mistake.”

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       In any case, he was locked up and couldn’t get out, so Li Zhenruo stayed at ease.

       He walked around Li Zhenran’s house and thought that Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi were really different. Li Zhenzi’s house outside was probably used to keep women, but Li Zhenran’s place was clean and it looked like no one has lived there for a long time. It looked like someone has been hired to clean it on a regular basis.

       Li Zhenruo walked to the bathroom, and filled the bathtub with warm water, with the intention to take a bath.

       Today, he had been sitting in the car for a long time and had tossed a lot last night, so he still feel a little tired.

       Li Zhenruo took off his clothes and lay down in the bathtub, closing his eyes comfortably.

       This body was not his past body, but compared to the cat’s body, it was much easier to use. At least he can pick up things with his hands instead of poking around with his paws.

       After he soaked in the water for a long time, Li Zhenruo felt a little hot. He couldn’t help moving his legs and felt an impulse suddenly appear from the bottom to the top. He was stunned. After a while, Li Zhenruo reached out and touched his lower body.

       To be honest, he hasn’t done this kind of thing for a long time. Almost since he knew that he might not be Li Jianglin’s own son, he has been under a lot of pressure at that time, and he didn’t have the heart to think about it at all. Later, he became a little kitten and has not even thought about this.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help to sigh when he suddenly felt a sensation in his body today. He also hadn’t touched a woman for a long, long time.

       When he got out of the bathtub, Li Zhenruo felt somewhat exhausted. He ignored the clothes he had just taken off and went straight to Li Zhenran’s room. He opened the wardrobe and found a set of Li Zhenran’s clothes.

       Li Zhenran was taller than him. In fact, Li Zhenruo used to be taller than he was now. Every time Li Zhenruo looked in the mirror, he felt that he looked like he was not yet an adult. He thought that he was a half-year-old kitten that had just matured, so it was understandable this was the form when he turned into human.

       But where did the pie face go?

       Li Zhenruo pinched his face.

       It took almost two hours for Li Zhenran to came back from Li’s house. When he entered the door, Li Zhenruo was lying on the sofa watching TV.

       He was really lying on his stomach, probably because he was used to this position. He didn’t sit or lie down. He just lay on the sofa and raised his body slightly with his elbows.

       Li Zhenran picked up a box and put it next to the sofa.

       Li Zhenruo turned to look and asked, “How long are you going to stay here?”

       As he walked into the room, Li Zhenran said, “We will go back if you change back to your original form.”

       Li Zhenruo was speechless for a while, thinking that if he couldn’t become a cat again, Li Zhenran would probably go crazy.

       “Are we going out for dinner?” Li Zhenruo asked him when Li Zhenran came out of the room.

       Li Zhenran was rolling up his sleeves and asked him, “What do you want to eat?”

       You see, Li Zhenruo has been hungry for a lot of food after eating cat food for so long. God knows there were so many delicious foods in this world, but why couldn’t cats eat them?

       Li Zhenruo started making a list in his head and said, “Let’s eat Japanese food today.”

       Li Zhenran refused without thinking, “No.”

       “…” Li Zhenruo looked at him fiercely, “Thai-style hot pot?”

       “No.”

       Li Zhenruo’s chest began to rise and fall even more, “French cuisine?”

       Li Zhenran said directly this time, “There is a Chinese restaurant outside that tastes good. Otherwise, a Sichuan hot pot is not bad. You can choose it yourself.”

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath and said, “Sichuan hot pot.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Get up.”

       Before going out, Li Zhenruo pointed to the collar on his neck, “Can I take it off?”

       Li Zhenran said, “No.”

       Li Zhenruo said in his heart, Are you not afraid of any strange misunderstandings caused by others seeing it?! But on second thought, The second young master Li was not afraid, so what was he afraid of, so he calmly followed Li Zhenran out.

       Li Zhenran walked in front. While waiting for the elevator, Li Zhenruo looked at Li Zhenran’s back and had a strange feeling. How to describe it? Although this was his second brother, they seemed to rarely have the opportunity to walk alone together like this. The impression of Li Zhenran was even more distinctive when he has become a cat.

       As a cat, he was too small. When he was so close, even if he raised his head, he could only see Li Zhenran’s legs, but not the back of his neck. The current experience was a little new.

       When the elevator was about to arrive, Li Zhenran suddenly turned around to look at him, and then stretched out his hand towards his neck.

       Li Zhenruo: “?”

       However, Li Zhenran just helped him tidy up the front of his clothes, just like tidying up the hair on the top of his cat’s head.

       Li Zhenruo bowed his head slightly, and when Li Zhenran’s hand left, his fingers brushed against his cheek. Li Zhenruo was slightly startled by the touch, and he couldn’t help raising his hand to touch the skin on his face.

       At this moment, the elevator door opened, and two people walked in one after the other.

       Li Zhenran was awfully selfish.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t seem to feel it before, but it was only after he became his cat that he felt it deeply. Because he was his cat, he was his property, and he must obey him.

       Li Zhenran took the menu and ordered more than ten dishes, and threw the menu to Li Zhenruo for him to see.

       Li Zhenruo glanced at it and said, “Can you finish the meal if you order so much?”

       Li Zhenran actually said, “Then you don’t order.”

       Li Zhenruo did not bother to pay attention to him. He ordered a few more dishes that he liked, and handed the menu to the waiter.

       Even if they were just eating hot pot, Li Zhenran also found a hot pot restaurant with luxurious decoration and a quiet environment. The two of them sat in the small private room facing each other.

       After he ordered, Li Zhenran ignored him and leaned back on the back of the wooden chair, holding a mobile phone in one hand while watching the stock market, while the other hand held up the cup on the table and slowly drank the tea.

       Li Zhenruo, on the other hand, picked up his chopsticks and tapped them on the table casually.

       After a while, Li Zhenran glanced at him, “It’s noisy.”

       Li Zhenruo paused for a moment and intensified his efforts by separating the two chopsticks and pounding on the tabletop bowl and teacup.

       Li Zhenran looked at him coldly.

       Li Zhenruo stopped, picked up a chopstick and put it to his mouth and bit it. He was unable to restrain the corner of his mouth from turning up slightly. He liked to annoy Li Zhenran, and Li Zhenran always went along with him.

       He was more afraid of Li Zhenran when he was a cat because he could do nothing to Li Zhenran, but now he was not so afraid. After all, every part of him was so big, and except for the time he slipped away, more often than not Li Zhenran’s anger was not too severe.

       Li Zhenran ordered a lot of dishes, but after the dishes were served, he didn’t eat much.

       “Why don’t you eat?” Li Zhenruo could also see that he didn’t eat much.

       Li Zhenran didn’t answer, just said, “You eat faster.”

       Li Zhenruo ignored him and said, “We’re eating a hot pot yet you also urging me to hurry up.”

       After a while, Li Zhenruo discovered that Li Zhenran had to take a cup to drink water every time he took a bite of the dish. He even directly let the waiter bring in a pot of tea, and immediately understood that Li Zhenran couldn’t eat spicy food.

       They have been brothers for more than 20 years, but this was the first time Li Zhenruo has discovered that Li Zhenran couldn’t eat spicy food.

       He thought back carefully, Li Zhenran didn’t seem to like many of the dishes he liked to eat. Li Zhenran ate light food just to nourish himself, which Li Zhenruo used to disapprove of.

       As long as there was a distance in your heart, even if you met every day, you would refuse to understand each other.

       At this time, Li Zhenran suddenly said, “What are you looking at me for?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “It’s just, you are handsome.”

       Li Zhenran snorted and did not continue.

       After they ate, Li Zhenruo stood on the side of the road and stretched his arms, breathing in the night air deeply.

       Li Zhenran stood beside him with his hands in his pockets. When he saw that Li Zhenruo was smiling while looking at the sky, he asked strangely, “What are you smiling at?”

       Li Zhenruo lowered his head, but the smile on the corner of his mouth still remained on his face, he said, “I don’t know, I just didn’t expect that there would be such a day. I cherish it very much.”

       He had a lot since he was a child, and then one day he lost all of it, including his life. What encouraged him these days was not only revenge but also the idea of ​​​​living properly.

       Of course, the hatred had not been forgotten, but Li Zhenruo sometimes thought about what’s the point of hating blindly. If one were to live happily, while at the same time also letting the other party live in misery, that would be the biggest blow.

       If you have lost, you wouldn’t be afraid of anything. Now he has a big house to live in, good food to eat, and an older brother as a bonus, which was actually quite good.

       “Second brother,” Li Zhenruo blurted out.

       Li Zhenran frowned slightly, “What?”

       Li Zhenruo reacted quickly and immediately said, “What what?”

       Li Zhenran said, “What did you call me just now?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Ran ge.” In fact, there was some drumming in his heart, but it couldn’t be seen on his face.

       Li Zhenran raised his chin slightly to look at him, “I heard you call me second brother.”

       Li Zhenruo had a strange expression on his face, “Where did the second brother come from? How old are you? Your ears just don’t work anymore, huh?”

       Li Zhenran’s face turned cold as expected.

       However, Li Zhenruo was not afraid of him, so he took his arm and walked forward, “Let’s go home first.”

       Back home, Li Zhenran went to the bathroom to take a bath. But Li Zhenruo planned to wait for Li Zhenran to finish taking a bath because he took a bath in the afternoon. He had already taken a shower and he was still fine.

       When Li Zhenran was taking a shower, Li Zhenruo moved a stool and sat at the door of the bathroom. He was cutting his toenails while talking to Li Zhenran, he said, “Can I go out tomorrow?”

       Li Zhenran raised his head and seemed to be drowsy. As he heard the words, he asked, “Where are you going?”

       Li Zhenruo casually babbled, “I want to find my mother.”

       “Your mother?”

       Li Zhenruo raised his head and made up something, “Mama cat, she should still be in the pet store.”

       Li Zhenran was speechless for a while, then asked him, “What for?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “You don’t miss your mother?”

       After he asked this sentence, Li Zhenruo suddenly felt a little regretful and stopped cutting his toenails. Just like him, Li Zhenran probably hadn’t seen his mother very much.

       Sure enough, Li Zhenran was silent for a while, and then said, “I don’t have a mother.”

       Li Zhenruo tilted his head back, leaned against the wall, and said silently in his heart: Neither do I.

       Li Zhenran only said that sentence. Instead of continuing to talk about himself, he asked Li Zhenruo, “What can you do when you see your mother? Are you going to buy it?”

       Li Zhenruo said quickly, “Not going to buy her. She is used to living there, so she may not like it when she got bought.”

       Li Zhenran asked at this time, “Can you communicate with each other?”

       Li Zhenruo was slightly stunned. He turned his head towards the bathroom door and asked, “What kind of communication?”

       Li Zhenran said, “Just like we communicate, using words.”

       Li Zhenruo thought about it for a while, “We can communicate, but it’s not a language. More precisely, it would be like a signal. You’ll understand what her cry and action mean over time”

       Li Zhenran didn’t speak.

       Li Zhenruo then asked him, “Would you like to go with me?”

       Li Zhenran bluntly refused, “I don’t have time.”

       Li Zhenruo knew that he would not go, so he deliberately asked him a question, but he did not expect to hear Li Zhenran say, “You also don’t go too.”

       “Huh?” Li Zhenruo was immediately unhappy, “Why?”

       Li Zhenran said, “There is no reason.”

       After Li Zhenruo came out of the shower, Li Zhenran was already lying on the bed in the bedroom watching TV.

       His hair was still wet, and he was wearing a pair of new underwear that Li Zhenran gave him. He walked over and sat down by the bed, shouting, “Ran ge…”

       Li Zhenran ignored him.

       Li Zhenruo called out again, “Master…”

       Li Zhenran looked at him this time.

       He knew that Li Zhenran would yield to a soft approach and refused a brute approach. Li Zhenruo leaned over and said, “Are you tired? I’ll help you massage your shoulders.”

       Li Zhenran lay down and didn’t get up, but only lifted his legs.

       Li Zhenruo silently cursed, but he obediently went over and knelt down beside Li Zhenran’s leg to help him massage his leg.

       Li Zhenran’s legs were slender and strong, and his muscles were strong. As he saw Li Zhenruo sit over, he raised one leg and placed it on Li Zhenruo’s thigh.

       While Li Zhenruo was helping him massage his leg, he thought to himself that Li Zhenran’s mother must be a great beauty, to be able to give birth to such a son.

       Li Zhenran tilted his head back and suddenly said, “It seems that a human can still do more than cats.”

       Li Zhenruo thought he wasn’t talking nonsensically. He raised his head and asked Li Zhenran with a smile, “Then how about I stay like this?”

       Li Zhenran replied coldly, “Not good.”

       Li Zhenruo thought to himself: What a pervert.

       After he finished massaging Li Zhenran’s legs, Li Zhenran seemed to feel comfortable. He turned over on the bed for Li Zhenruo to massage his shoulders.

       Li Zhenshou got on top of his back and massaged the muscles on his shoulders with both hands.

       Li Zhenran’s body was slender and well-proportioned, and the skin on his back was full of healthy lustre. Li Zhenruo only felt that the touch under his hand was smooth and delicate. As he massaged him, his imagination was roaming.

       When he came back to his senses, his breathing was a little short.

       And Li Zhenran said coldly, “Get up.”

       Li Zhenruo and Li Zhenran were too close to each other. He knew that Li Zhenran noticed his physical condition, and he couldn’t help feeling a little embarrassed. He lifted his legs and got off Li Zhenran’s back and sat aside.

       Li Zhenran turned over and said, “Who gave you permission to be in heat with your master?”

       Li Zhenruo grunted, “I was originally in rutting period…”

       Li Zhenran snorted, “I asked you to have surgery, but you refused to do it.”

       Li Zhenruo, “…”

       Li Zhenran said, “Go to the bathroom and take care of it yourself.”

       Li Zhenruo had just gotten out of bed when Li Zhenran suddenly stopped him.

       “What?” Li Zhenruo wondered.

       Li Zhenran opened the drawer of the bedside table, took out a spare key and threw it to him, saying, “You must come back before five o’clock in the afternoon.”

       Li Zhenruo caught it and said with a smile, “No problem.”

       The next morning, when Li Zhenruo was sleeping beside Li Zhenran’s bed, he was woken up by a doorbell. He heard that Li Zhenran also turned over, and thought that Li Zhenran was going to ask him to get up and open the door, but he didn’t expect Li Zhenran to sit up, walk around him and get out of bed.

       Li Zhenruo yawned and sat up. He didn’t like to stay in bed as much as Li Zhenran. Then he heard Li Zhenran open the door, and then came the voice of someone talking.

       The person who came over in the morning was Hua Yibang.

       Because Li Zhenran’s house was too open, Hua Yibang walked in and saw a young man in Li Zhenran’s room through the gap of the partitioned wine cabinet.

       Hua Yibang who was such a calm person suddenly lost his voice. He stretched out his hand and pushed his glasses to look at Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran didn’t want to explain, and asked Hua Yibang, “Did you bring the things?”

       Hua Yibang took a small bag and handed it to Li Zhenran, which contained a new mobile phone and a SIM card.

       Li Zhenran put the card in the mobile phone, walked to the bedroom and handed it to Li Zhenruo, “Take it. Remember to answer when I call.”

       “Oh,” Li Zhenruo obediently agreed.

       Hua Yibang tried his best not to look sideways, but when Li Zhenruo stood up from the bed, he still saw what looked like a cat collar around his neck.

       Moreover, he knew this cat collar. It was the collar he helped Li Zhenran custom-made it before.

       Although it was not convenient for him to ask the identity of the man in the room, he could ask other questions, such as, “Zhenran, where is your cat?”

       Li Zhenran said, “That’s my cat.”

       Hua Yibang clenched his hands into a fist against his lips and coughed softly. He and Li Zhenran almost grew up together, but he never knew that Li Zhenran had that kind of hobby. As his assistant, Hua Yibang felt that he could not interfere, so he stay silent.

       Li Zhenran was going back to the company for a regular meeting in the morning, and didn’t have time to eat breakfast. Before he left, he threw a secondary credit card to Li Zhenruo and told him to eat by himself.

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly said, “Give me some change. I can’t swipe my card and take the bus, can I?”

       Li Zhenran then gave him another 2,000 yuan in cash.

       After Li Zhenran and Hua Yibang left, Li Zhenruo got up and washed quickly. He found a set of Li Zhenran’s clothes to put on and went out.

       He bought two buns for breakfast. After he ate, Li Zhenruo bought a new SIM card at a nearby canteen and put it in his pocket.

       He stretched out his hand to take a taxi. After he got in the car, he gave the driver an address.

       The address was not too far from here, but there was some traffic jam on Monday morning, and the driver drove for nearly an hour to arrive.

       Li Zhenruo paid the money to get out of the car and stood alone in front of a secluded lawn on the street.

       He glanced at the time and knew that Li Zhenran had already started the regular work meeting on Monday morning, so he took off the SIM card on his mobile phone and replaced it with a newly bought one.

       He made a phone call according to his memory.

       The phone beeped several times, and a young man over there answered the phone. His tone was not very nice, and he said lazily, “Hello? Who is it?”

       Li Zhenruo said slowly, “Zhu Kai, this is Li Zhenruo.”

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       Li Zhenruo’s mind was still somewhat a bit complicated.

       Whether Li Zhenran believed him or not, he didn’t care. He believed that he survived because God gave him the opportunity to take revenge. And so he had to take revenge.

       It’s just that last night, Li Zhenran mentioned a possibility that he could not help thinking about it for a long time. That was, if he thought that the physical change caused by the rut has made him become a human being, was it possible to change back after the rut period ended, and so did he need to wait until the next heat period to come to change back to a human?

       This thought made Li Zhenruo a little nervous.

       He still has a lot of things to do, should he waste time by staying on Li Zhenran’s side? But when he was thinking of ​​leaving, he began to hesitate again. If he left, would Li Zhenran still accept him once he changed back to a cat?

       Li Zhenruo were a little helpless. He always thought too much and kept himself stuck in place.

       He stood in front of the mirror and looked at himself. He was guessing how old the person inside was. Was he twenty? This person looked really young.

       Li Zhenran became impatient at this moment, came over and knocked on the bathroom door, “Are you finished?”

       Li Zhenruo quickly wiped his face with a towel, “I’m done.”

       He went back to the sofa and sat down, turned on the TV with the remote control and stared at it in a daze. Since he became a cat, he has been doing nothing for a long time every day, so he was used to being in a daze.

       Sometimes he stared at the garden on the first floor from the top floor and could stare at it all afternoon.

       When Li Zhenran came out of the bathroom, Li Zhenruo raised his head and said to him, “Can you give me a shirt to wear?”

       He was still wearing the bathrobe from last night. It was not like he could just wear it all day, right? And according to Li Zhenran’s plan, they should go back this afternoon.

       This time, Li Zhenran found a shirt and a pair of jeans for Li Zhenruo to put on.

       The shirt was fine, but the jeans were too long for him. So he had no choice but to roll up the trouser leg a length.

       Li Zhenran still asked Luo Fei to go fishing in the morning.

       When Li Zhenruo followed, Luo Fei raised his eyebrows in surprise, and asked Li Zhenran, “You brought a cat yesterday, but today it was replaced by a beautiful young man. What does it mean?”

       Li Zhenran said, “My cat has transformed.”

       The collar on Li Zhenruo’s neck was so eye-catching that Luo Fei and the others noticed it almost at once.

       Feng Junyuan looked at Li Zhenruo with a thoughtful look.

       Li Zhenran sat down on the deck chair and prepared his own fishing tools.

       Li Zhenruo found that he had no seat, so he asked Li Zhenran, “Where is my seat?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t even look at him, “Did you have a seat yesterday?”

       He knew that Li Zhenran couldn’t believe him at all and was deliberately making things difficult for him. Li Zhenruo didn’t bother to argue with him and simply sat down beside Li Zhenran’s legs.

       After a while, Li Zhenruo felt someone poking his back lightly. He turned his head and saw that it was Feng Junyuan.

       Feng Junyuan said to him, “Can I come over and have a word with you?”

       Before Li Zhenruo could answer, Li Zhenran’s eyes swept over first.

       As he saw this, Luo Fei smiled and said, “Don’t worry, xiao Feng won’t do anything to your cat. Let them go and exchange a few words.”

       Only then did Li Zhenran say, “Go ahead.”

       Li Zhenruo said to himself, I didn’t need your consent, but when he heard Li Zhenran say this, he still stood up, dusted off his hands, and left with Feng Junyuan.

       Li Zhenran glanced at the back of Li Zhenruo leaving.

       Luo Fei rested his head on one hand, leaned on the reclining chair, and said, “You are a little absent-minded today.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Don’t you think what I said just now is ridiculous? A cat can turn into a human?”

       When Luo Fei heard this, he laughed loudly, and said to Li Zhenran, “Do you know what I thought just now?”

       Li Zhenran looked at him.

       Luo Fei said, “What you said just now sounds like you brought a boy from somewhere to play with, but you were too lazy to make excuses. So you just said something nonsense.”

       Li Zhenran’s tone was serious, “What I said is true, I can’t find my cat anymore and Dumpling’s positioning collar is on his neck. The password has not been changed, but the collar’s size has changed.”

       Luo Fei pondered for a moment and said, “You mean you think what he said is true?”

       Li Zhenran lightly held the fishing rod with both hands, “I don’t believe anything he says. I only believe my own judgment, but I can’t explain the collar thing.”

       Luo Fei said to him, “I think what he said might be true.”

       Li Zhenran glanced at him and seemed to find it a little funny.

       “Zhenran,” Luo Fei said, “Just because you haven’t seen many things in this world doesn’t mean they didn’t happen and didn’t exist, do you understand?”

       Li Zhenran leaned forward slightly. He leaned his elbows on his knees, and pressed his slender fingers to his lips, “I agree that because I haven’t seen one that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. You say that there are demons, ghosts and gods in this world, and I think it’s possible. People should not be limited by their own poor imaginations. If my cat ran out and turned into a human but was willing to come back to me, I would be happier than if it just ran away and never came back. But what I want to know now is, if he is really Dumpling, and when will he be able to change back?”

       Luo Fei asked, “Why did he become like this?”

       Li Zhenran’s tone was not quite sure, “He said it might be because of the rut.”

       Luo Fei said with a smile, “I didn’t see him in heat.”

       Li Zhenran turned his head to look at Li Zhenruo, who was talking to Feng Junyuan, and said, “His pants are loose, right?”

       Luo Fei said, “I’m not an expert on this question, but I can ask xiao Feng to help you.”

       Li Zhenran was a little puzzled, “Is he a veterinarian?”

       Luo Fei quickly denied it, “Of course not, but he has a relative who is more familiar with this type of feline and can help you ask about it.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Help me ask about it. I’ll wait for your answer.”

       Luo Fei smiled and nodded.

       At this time, Feng Junyuan left a phone number to Li Zhenruo on a note, saying, “If you need any help, you can call this number. His name is Song Jun, and he is one of my kin.”

       “Your kin?” Li Zhenruo was a little puzzled.

       Feng Junyuan said, “My brother¹in here Feng Junyuan is not addressing Song Jun as gege(哥哥) but as xiōngdì(兄弟).”

       The word “brother” made Li Zhenruo feel a little uncomfortable. He couldn’t help but look back at Li Zhenran, and then asked Feng Junyuan, “Why do you think I need help?”

       Feng Junyuan said, “Why are you able to transform?”

       “?” Li Zhenruo didn’t understand what he meant.

       Feng Junyuan said, “Didn’t you just take human form last night?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him suspiciously, “Do you really believe what Li Zhenran said?”

       If it were him, he would definitely not believe it. He followed Li Zhenran out like this and looked more like Li Zhenran’s little lover who came to him. Then he made a random excuse for Li Zhenruo to evade Luo Fei and him.

       He didn’t expect Feng Junyuan to believe it.

       Feng Junyuan approached him and seemed to be sniffing him, “The scent is the same, you are yesterday’s Garfield.”

       Li Zhenruo held the note in his hand. His expression became more and more puzzled and serious, he asked Feng Junyuan in a low voice, “Are there demon in this world?”

       Feng Junyuan actually asked him back, “What do you think you are?”

       Li Zhenruo was actually very uncertain and uneasy because he didn’t know what he was. At this time, he felt that Feng Junyuan’s situation was probably not that simple, so he couldn’t help but ask him for help, “What I’m going to tell you, you must not tell Luo Fei, let alone let Li Zhenran know, okay?”

       Feng Junyuan nodded, “Okay.”

       Li Zhenruo said in a low voice, “I wasn’t originally a cat. I was a human who died in an accident and was then reborn as this kitten. Although I can’t speak in human languages, I have all human memories.”

       When Feng Junyuan heard him say this, he didn’t show any surprised expression at all. He said, “So that’s how it is.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him, “Why? I never thought I was a demon in the past.”

       Feng Junyuan suddenly stretched out his hand and pressed it against Li Zhenruo’s chest. After a while, he said, “You are not a demon, but this cat’s body is not simple. About what’s going on, I have no way to answer you.”

       Li Zhenruo thought that what he said was quite reasonable. Maybe it was the cat that belonged to a demon. But somehow he took over his body, and now he has the ability to turn into a human.

       There were still many doubts, so he asked Feng Junyuan, “That brother of yours can know exactly why?”

       Feng Junyuan said, “Maybe, I can help you to ask about it to him first, and if you need it, you can try to find him.”

       Although Li Zhenruo felt that it might not work, he was very grateful to Feng Junyuan for his willingness to lend a hand, so he said, “Thank you.”

       Feng Junyuan shook his head, and when he turned to leave, Li Zhenruo grabbed his arm.

       Li Zhenruo asked him, “Am I going to change back?”

       Feng Junyuan said, “Your aura is very unstable, and it is indeed very likely that you will change back.”

       Li Zhenruo instantly tensed up, “For how long?”

       Feng Junyuan shook his head silently, expressing that he did not know.

       Li Zhenruo had to let him go and said again, “Thank you.”

       It was already the weekend, and tomorrow Li Zhenran has to go back to work in the company, so it was impossible to stay in this villa for a limited time.

       During lunch, the manager found Li Zhenran, and apologized again and again, saying that he had asked many questions on the nearby mountains, and no one had seen a yellow-and-white Garfield cat. He really didn’t know where it went.

       The manager felt very uneasy and took the initiative to offer compensation to Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran said, “No need, just leave it alone if it ran away. You’ve done well.”

       When the manager left, he couldn’t help but glance at the collar on Li Zhenruo’s neck.

       In fact, everyone who saw Li Zhenruo today was looking at the collar on his neck quietly. The collar looked like some kind of impure toy, which symbolizes the abnormal relationship between him and Li Zhenran.

       At this point, Li Zhenruo could cut the collar with scissors, regardless of the code, but he didn’t do it. He didn’t want to provoke Li Zhenran.

       “Sometimes, when he thinks about it, Li Zhenran’s attitude is actually quite polite, but he calmed down and thought about it. He also wanted to make use of Li Zhenran. With his current status, if he wanted to step into the Li family again, he could only rely on Li Zhenran. So being scolded for a few words was nothing, it didn’t matter if he slept by the bedside, or if he has suffered all kinds of hardships. Now he has nothing to lose.

       When he went back, the driver was surprised to find that Mr Li the second who had brought a cat on vacation two days ago, returned with a beautiful young man with a cat collar on his neck today.

       The Li driver’s mind was going full speed ahead, and automatically filled in 10,000 words, but he didn’t dare to ask Li Zhenran a word.

       Just when Li Zhenruo’s daily utensils were loaded into the car, he couldn’t help but asked Li Zhenran, “Then, what about the cat?”

       Li Zhenran said, “He will go back by himself, don’t worry about that.”

       The driver was a little dazed and thought that this place was too far from the city. Even if the cat knew the way home, it wouldn’t be able to run back.

       But since Li Zhenran said so, he couldn’t care less, so he closed his mouth and got into the car to prepare to drive.

       Li Zhenran took Li Zhenruo to say goodbye to Luo Fei and the others. Luo Fei and Feng Junyuan also planned to leave at this time. However, Luo Fei drove by himself, and he only had a few things. He stopped by Li Zhenran for a while and left first after saying goodbye.

       Only then did Li Zhenruo follow Li Zhenran into the back seat.

       Not long after the driver drove the car out, Li Zhenruo pulled the collar around his neck and said to Li Zhenran, “Can you take it off?”

       Li Zhenran said coldly, “Why?”

       Li Zhenruo put his finger inside the collar, scratched his neck, and said, “It’s a little itchy after a long time, maybe I’m allergic.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Wear it, I still want to see you change back.”

       Li Zhenruo cursed in his heart and decided not to bother with Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran then said, “Come here, I’ll scratch it for you.”

       When Li Zhenruo heard the words, he immediately lay his head on Li Zhenran’s lap and asked him to scratch his itch.

       The driver looked straight ahead without changing his expression, not knowing what to do.

       Li Zhenran stretched his fingers into the middle of the collar and gently helped him scratch his neck, just like he used to do to brush his fur in the past. Li Zhenruo felt that this feeling was comfortable and familiar, so he couldn’t help closing his eyes.

       He slept on Li Zhenran’s lap, and when he woke up, he felt that Li Zhenran was still gently ruffling his hair with his fingers. Li Zhenruo suddenly felt warm in his chest, as if someone was tickling him with a feather.

       After a while, Li Zhenran stretched out his hand and pulled Li Zhenruo’s ear again, as if he didn’t take him as a human at all, but as the cat.

       He couldn’t help but lifted Li Zhenran’s hand, sit up, and asked, “What do I do if you go home?”

       Li Zhenran said, “Come home with me.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment, “Stop joking. What would your brother think if you brought a man home?”

       Although Li Jianglin was not at home, what big or small things at home can escape Li Jianglin’s attention? Li Zhenran brought a man home, and wouldn’t that make Li Jianglin terrified to death? But that way, he would make Li Zhentai and Li Zhenzi in a good mood.

       Li Zhenruo had the best relationship with Li Zhentai in the Li family in the past. But now, of course, he hoped that Li Zhenran could get the biggest piece of cake from Li Jianglin.

       He didn’t want Li Zhenran’s future to be ruined by him.

       Li Zhenran said, “Aren’t you a cat?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Knock it off, you know what I mean.”

       Li Zhenran stretched out his hand, put his fingers against his chin and raised his face, “Concerned about me, huh?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “You are my master. I still want to eat the best royal cat food and royal dried fish in the future.

       Li Zhenran didn’t let go of his hand, but raised his head a little higher with more force and said, “I can feed you those right now.”

       Li Zhenruo resisted the urge to roll his eyes, grabbed Li Zhenran’s hand, and said coquettishly, “I still want to live in Buckingham Palace and sleep with the little female cat of the British royal family.”

       “Hmph,” Li Zhenran snorted coldly, and let go of his hand.

       Li Zhenruo wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and felt that Li Zhenran was a really difficult person to deal with. In the past, it was fine because he didn’t have to talk, but now that they could communicate, it was a bit torturous for the two of them to be together for a long time.

       But after he said that, Li Zhenran didn’t have to take him back to Li’s house, but ordered the driver to drive to a residential area in the centre of the city.

       These days, who of the Li brothers didn’t have a private house in the city?

       It didn’t even matter if it was a serious girlfriend, not to mention a person who they messed around with was definitely impossible to bring to Li’s house, especially when Li Jianglin was at home in the past.

       Li Zhenruo also had a private place. When he just moved out of the Li family, he went back to the apartment. He also had some private investments and deposits in his hands, but after his death, they had all been returned to the Li family.

       He only knew that Li Zhenran have a private apartment in the past, but this was the first time Li Zhenruo had the opportunity to see it with his own eyes.

       The driver drove the car to the underground parking lot of the apartment and asked Li Zhenran whether he should leave the cat’s household utensils here or sent them back to Li’s house.

       Li Zhenran said to leave it here first and then asked the driver to wait for him. He had to go back to Li’s house later.

       The elevator needed a fingerprint lock. When Li Zhenruo followed Li Zhenran upstairs in the elevator, he asked him, “Are you leaving me here alone?”

       Li Zhenran said, “No, I’ll come over too.”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly had a strange feeling of being kept in a golden house²it’s an idiom of keeping a mistress tucked away in a luxurious house or apartment.

       But Li Jianglin was not there, even if Li Zhenran didn’t go home for a few days, no one would ask about him.

       There was only one door to go out of the elevator, and it was still locked by fingerprints. After they entered, Li Zhenruo found that this house has a very good layout and a very modern decoration style. There was only a partition, and one could see the whole house at a glance.

       The master bedroom was still in the style of Japanese tatami. The wooden structure around the mattress was raised, and there was no full bed set up there.

       There was no secondary bedroom, besides the master bedroom, there was also a study room and a recreational gym. The living room was directly opposite a large semi-circular balcony with bright light.

       Li Zhenruo thought of Li Zhenran’s tatami in Li’s house and thought that he probably liked this open and unobstructed style.

       Li Zhenran put down his things and said to Li Zhenruo, “I’ll go back and get some things. You stay here and wait for me to come back for dinner.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded.

       Li Zhenran’s tone was cold and harsh, “Don’t run.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Where am I going to run? I was afraid that if you didn’t want me anymore, I would have nowhere to go.”

       Li Zhenran stood by the door and waved to him, “Come here.”

       Li Zhenruo walked to him without knowing why, and his lower body was suddenly grabbed by Li Zhenran. He opened his eyes wide and looked at Li Zhenran in shock.

       Li Zhenran pinched it and said strangely, “Aren’t you in heat?”

       Li Zhenruo was gritting his teeth in anger, so he lunged over and bit Li Zhenran’s shoulder, but he didn’t exert much force. After he bite him, he said to Li Zhenran, “That’s enough. You are going too far.”

       Li Zhenran let go of his hand, pointed his finger at Li Zhenruo’s nose and said, “Don’t let me see you hooking up with a female cat. Behave yourself.”

       Li Zhenruo replied bitterly, “There is no female cat, you don’t have to worry!”

       Only then did Li Zhenran turn around and leave, and at the same time he closed the door hard.

       After he left, Li Zhenruo was starting to be more attentive. He tried to open the door but found that Li Zhenran had locked the door from the outside. Now he also needed a fingerprint or a key to open the door.

       But he didn’t have either, which was equivalent to being locked in this room by Li Zhenran.

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Hello there! I know that these days my update is very lacking with only 1 chapter/week. Now that most of my responsibility is done, I could TL more and update more~~ Ehe
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