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Chapter 24

March 9, 2022 / hoenimochi / 3 Comments

Li Zhenruo was originally a human.

He was the fourth son of Li Jianglin, the chairman of Yunlin. He was young, promising, handsome and outstanding. Although he has three older brothers, he thought that was nothing to be afraid of, since he was the best.

However, that has become a thing of the past.

He was killed and turned into a cat, and now he was struggling to survive and to take revenge. He persisted until now and planned to live as a cat until the end of his life more than a decade¹ later.

He thought that when he was reincarnated, he had to make a good choice and not enter the path of beasts again². He still wanted to be a human being.

But one night, when he was tortured to the point of madness by the pain of the animal’s rut, he suddenly turned back into a human in the dark woods.

Furthermore, he was naked.

He stood up, panting slightly, and turned around blankly.

Why did he become human? Wasn’t he a cat? However, this question was like asking why he was reborn as a cat, and not a person. No one would answer him.

But he was turned back into a human! Surely God was giving him the opportunity to be reborn once again. God has not given up on him.

Li Zhenruo raised his head and laughed loudly. After laughing for a while, he quickly covered his mouth to prevent himself from disturbing others.

A cool wind blew and the leaves rustled. At the same time, he felt his body shivering, so he finally regained his senses and began to think about the real problem. That was; one, he has no clothes, and two, where should he go?

The first problem was not too difficult to solve, and now he need to consider the second problem because once he figured out the second problem, the first problem would also be solved.

In fact, he didn’t want to go anywhere, he wanted to go back to Li’s house. He became a man and had more ways to find out the truth and avenge himself. But he had changed back to Li Zhenruo, how could he go back to the Li family? Everyone knows that he was dead, and if he appeared again, he would only be regarded as a liar and no one would believe him.

What’s more, Li Zhenruo was not Li Jianglin’s biological son at all, and his existence would not even have any commemorative value.

“What should I do?”

Li Zhenruo raised his hand and felt that the collar on his neck was still there. He froze for a moment, then raised his legs and walked out of the woods.

It was very late at this time, but Li Zhenruo still had to be careful, because he had no clothes on, and he didn’t want to be seen by others as a naked pervert.

At night, the forest villa was dark and quiet, and the buildings around it emitted soft lights. The antique pavilion located on the lake was even more dimmed with a dusky silhouette, along with the steaming water, which created a strange effect.

The surroundings were completely silent. Only the chirping of insects and the sound of water from the waterfalls in the mountains could be heard. It was just for appearance and the sound was inaudible during the day, but it was clearly audible when it was quiet at night.

Li Zhenruo silently lowered his body and walked to the lake. He squatted down, stretched out his head and used the light next to him to create a reflection on the water.

The reflection in the water was not very clear, but the outline and facial features can already be seen clearly, Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but be startled when he saw the shadow in the water because it was not his own face.

To be precise, it was not Li Zhenruo’s face, but the face of an unfamiliar young man. The face looked very young, with a little childishness, with curved eyebrows and beautiful lines, like a lightly outlined ink painting, he looked delicate and elegant.

Li Zhenruo was at a loss when faced with this face. It was understandable that he did not change back to Li Zhenruo’s appearance, because he was a Garfield cat, but it shouldn’t be like this. No matter how he thought about it, the face should be a big round face, with facial features like being flattened by a pan and set on the disc face.

There was a mess in his head. He calmed down from the ecstasy at the beginning and thought more about his current way of handling things.

Also, he felt cold since he was not covered with fur, so he had to find some clothes to wear.

At this moment, Li Zhenruo suddenly saw the reflection of a person behind him in the water. Because he became a person, his alertness even dropped! When he saw the person, he immediately wanted to get up, but the person grabbed the collar around his neck.

The collar was suddenly pulled back and strangled Li Zhenruo’s neck. He had to reach out and grab the collar. The next thing he heard was Li Zhenran’s voice ringing in his ear, “Who are you? Where’s my cat?”

The collar was already very tight, and because it was password locked, Li Zhenruo couldn’t open or take it off by himself. Now because Li Zhenran pulled it hard, he couldn’t breathe. He tried to put his fingers between the collar and his neck and said with difficulty, “Let me go first… I can’t speak.”

Li Zhenran was originally bending over to speak near his ear, but now he stood up straight and loosened his hands slightly, but still held on to the collar. He said once again, “I’ll give you a chance, where’s my cat? If you don’t say anything, I’ll call someone here. Where are you from, the pervert who runs naked in the middle of the night?”

Li Zhenruo finally caught his breath. He almost rolled his eyes, but he didn’t know how to answer Li Zhenran’s question. He turned his head quickly, thinking about what he should say.

Li Zhenran saw that he didn’t speak, and immediately released his voice and shouted, “Is there anybody?”

Li Zhenruo was startled, and he said quickly, “Don’t call anyone! I know where your cat is!”

Li Zhenran looked at him coldly.

Li Zhenruo said, “Can you let me stand up?”

Li Zhenran slowly released the fingers that were holding the collar.

Li Zhenruo put his hand on the ground and stood up, and turned to face Li Zhenran. He found that Li Zhenran was wearing pyjamas when he came out, but he himself was wearing worse than, so there was nothing to say.

He reached out to touch his neck, and Li Zhenruo remembered that the collar was positioned. No wonder Li Zhenran found him so quickly. The collar was never taken off for a day. No matter where he went, Li Zhenran could easily find him.

Li Zhenran was still waiting for his answer, and obviously he was starting to lose his patience.

Li Zhenruo didn’t have time to make up a perfect lie and then took Li Zhenran to find his cat. He knows how possessive Li Zhenran was to the cat. If he couldn’t give Li Zhenran back an identical Dumpling, the other party would definitely not let it go easily. He didn’t want to be treated as a pervert.

So, he took a deep breath and said, “I’m your cat.”

Li Zhenran looked at him impatiently at first, but now has a look of a psychopath on his face. He reached out and poked Li Zhenruo’s chest, “Give me back my cat.”

Li Zhenruo also felt that Li Zhenran was a psychopath. Wasn’t he just a cat? It was not like he was his wife?

He then took a step forward, almost sticking to Li Zhenran, and said to him again, “I’m really your cat, listen, meow~”

Li Zhenran suddenly reached out and grabbed his wrist.

Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment and didn’t understand why he do that, but he didn’t expect Li Zhenran to take out his mobile phone and dial 110.

“Hey!” Li Zhenruo struggled for a while, and found that Li Zhenran’s hands were so strong that he couldn’t break free, so he could only rush to grab his mobile phone, “How can you trust me? If you call the police now, your cat will never be found back!”

He didn’t dare to let Li Zhenran call the police. He didn’t know what he was, nor how could he prove his identity. If he went to the police station, he couldn’t tell what would happen.

Li Zhenran grabbed the phone and swung his arm back, and Li Zhenruo almost hugged him. He tried his best to grab Li Zhenran’s hand that was holding the phone.

The 110 wasn’t dialled out. Li Zhenruo said anxiously in Li Zhenran’s ear, “I am Dumpling, you asked for me from Yu Bingwei, and I sleep beside your bed every night. The collar was custom-made for me, the inner ring has your name and phone number in case I get lost. My cat bed is red, and there is a cat’s head print on my rice bowl. I slipped out of your bath just now, not because I wanted to run away, but because I seemed to be in heat!”

“In heat?” He said a lengthy list, but Li Zhenran probably only caught these two words.

At the same time, a flashlight shone in their direction. Just now, Li Zhenran’s call was heard by the staff of the villa after all. At this time, the flashlight shone from a distance and asked, “Who?”

Li Zhenruo was startled and quickly hid behind Li Zhenran. He grabbed Li Zhenran’s clothes and said, “I’m not a pervert, help me!”

Li Zhenran stretched out his hand to pull him away, but the palm of his hand touched the smooth and slightly cool skin. After hesitating for a while, he said to the staff, “It’s me, Li Zhenran.”

The man originally wanted to shine a flashlight on their faces, but when he heard it was Li Zhenran, he immediately put the flashlight away and said respectfully, “So it’s Mr. Li, did you call out for someone just now?”

Li Zhenran glanced at Li Zhenruo and said, “It’s nothing. I’m just joking with my friends, I’m sorry to disturb your work.”

“No,” the man said, “I was worried that you encountered something, it’s good that nothing happened, then I’ll go to patrol first.”

After saying that, the man hurriedly turned and left.

Li Zhenruo let out a long sigh of relief, and his head was almost touching Li Zhenran’s shoulder. During this period of time, he was so used to sticking to Li Zhenran, and he didn’t seem to feel anything wrong.

Li Zhenran still grabbed his wrist and said, “You make it clear to me now.”

Li Zhenruo moved his hand, “Can you let go?”

Li Zhenran refused mercilessly, “Want to run?”

Li Zhenruo said, “I don’t want to run at all, can we go back? Don’t you see that I didn’t have any clothes on? Where can I run?”

Li Zhenran did not agree with him immediately and looked around.

Li Zhenruo knew that he still didn’t give up and wanted to find the cat, so he said: “No need to look for it, you can’t find it. Or, just look at the collar, how do I take it off and put it on my neck unless I cut it with scissors? Besides, I’m not sick in the head. What’s the use of robbing the cat’s collar?”

Li Zhenran was really uncertain, he took Li Zhenruo’s hand and said, “Let’s go back.”

Li Zhenruo was pulled by him and almost fell. He was embarrassed to walk too far without wearing pants. He almost trotted all the way and was taken back to the villa by Li Zhenran.

As soon as he entered the room, Li Zhenruo pleaded with him, “Give me some clothes to wear, second… Ran ge.”

He originally wanted to call him second brother subconsciously, but then he immediately changed his words when he felt it was wrong³, and went down to call him Ran ge⁴.

Li Zhenran glanced at him, not knowing what to think, then went to get him a bathrobe to wear.

Although he didn’t even have any underwear, it was better than running naked all the time. Li Zhenruo immediately put the bathrobe on the outside and wrapped his body tightly.

Li Zhenran sat on the sofa, raised one leg and looked at him without saying a word.

At this point, Li Zhenruo was too lazy to make up stories. He planned to tell Li Zhenran the truth. As for whether Li Zhenran believed it or not, he didn’t care. But there was one thing he would not reveal, that was his original identity.

Li Zhenruo sat down on the sofa, told Li Zhenran about his physical condition in the past two days, and then said, “I was so anxious when you went to take a bath tonight that I couldn’t help running out. As a result, I fainted in the woods and woke up like this.”

Li Zhenran asked him blankly, “Have you found a female cat?”

Li Zhenruo shook the hairy buttocks image in his head. He frowned and said, “How can there be a female cat? I don’t want to find a female cat.”

Li Zhenran didn’t speak and just stared at him.

Li Zhenruo looked at Li Zhenran, “You don’t believe me?”

Li Zhenran sneered this time, “From what point do you think you look like a cat? Do you think I believe you?”

Li Zhenruo knew the problem with what Li Zhenran said. He really didn’t look like a cat, because he wasn’t a cat at all, his language and other expressions were too human-like. He was uncomfortable when he was naked and was looking for clothes to wear everywhere.

But if he really was a cat who had just become a human, he wouldn’t be like this. He should still act like an animal, not a human right away.

He could tell Li Zhenran that he was originally a human soul attached to the cat, but that would lead to other troubles. Li Zhenran would definitely figure out his original identity. He might have accidentally revealed the purpose of his visit to the Li family.

The situation in front of Li Zhenruo was really difficult to understand. For a while, he had nothing to say to Li Zhenran.

After a while, he heard Li Zhenran say, “But Dumpling doesn’t look like an ordinary cat.”

Li Zhenruo didn’t understand what he meant and looked up at him.

“Turned into a human?” This is too absurd, Li Zhenran sneered, and he said to Li Zhenruo, “Why do you think you became a human?”

Li Zhenruo shook his head, seeing Li Zhenran’s unpleasant expression, and said, “Maybe it’s because of the rut…”

“Okay,” Li Zhenran said, “Twenty days is enough for a cat to be in heat, right? I’ll give you twenty days. You can change back and return to me after you’re in heat. I won’t care about anything. But if you are still a person by that time, I will dispose of you directly.”

Dispose of me?

Li Zhenruo’s eyes widened in amazement, was he a rubbish?

However, with that said, Li Zhenran did not seem to believe him at all and made a phone call to inform the manager to help him find his cat within the mountain resort.

Li Zhenruo heard him call and whispered, “It’s really me, you can’t find it.”

Li Zhenran ignored him and went back upstairs to sleep after the phone call, regardless of the commotion outside. When he went upstairs, he glanced at Li Zhenruo, “Aren’t you going to sleep?”

Li Zhenruo’s cat bed was not brought here, because he has always been able to sleep beside Li Zhenran’s bed.

Now that Li Zhenran asked him to sleep, in order to prove that he was Li Zhenran’s cat, he could only follow him to the bed.

Li Zhenruo lay down at the end of the bed, but he was used to curling up in a ball. Unfortunately, his body was not as flexible as before, and he could only form a half ball. Fortunately, the bed was still very big, so it didn’t look very crowded, but after lying down, Li Zhenruo raised his head uncomfortably and said to Li Zhenran, “Aren’t you uncomfortable with two men sharing a bed?”

Li Zhenran asked back, “Aren’t you my cat?”

Li Zhenruo was speechless for a moment.

He literally lay on Li Zhenran’s legs all night. When he woke up in the morning, his body didn’t feel so sore. It seemed that it had something to do with his cat’s body.

Just when he woke up, Li Zhenruo was a little dazed. He thought he was still a cat and wanted to scratch his face with his claws, but after licking it, he realized that it was fingers instead of claws.

Li Zhenran had woken up and was lying on the bed with his eyes open watching his movements.

Li Zhenruo shook his head, rolled over and got out of bed. He walked to the cat toilet on the first floor for two seconds, turned around and walked towards the bathroom.

Li Zhenran sat by the bed for a while when he heard someone knocking on the door.

He put on his pyjamas, went down to the door, opened the door, saw the villa manager standing outside, and respectfully apologized to him, “I’m really sorry, Mr. Li, we couldn’t find your cat.”

Li Zhenran asked him, “Is there nothing anywhere?”

The manager said, “I searched and found nothing. Later, we adjusted the monitoring and found that at around eleven o’clock in the evening, your cat ran from the vicinity of the villa to the woods, because there was no monitoring in the woods, it was not known where it went, and there was no trace after that.”

Li Zhenran pondered for a moment and asked, “So did you see a man without clothes coming out of the woods?”

The manager shook his head when he heard the words, “I don’t know which direction it was from. There are no cameras in some locations.”

Li Zhenran asked again, “What’s behind the woods?”

The manager said, “There is a mountain behind the woods. This hillside is very steep and has no vegetation. It was not easy to climb up.”

Li Zhenran thought for a while, “But it’s a cat.”

The manager nodded again and again, “Yes, okay, we’ll find someone to look up the mountain.”

Li Zhenran said, “Don’t worry too much, just ask if there is any family on the mountain that has a female cat, and just go and find out if they have seen my cat.”

The manager replied, “Okay, Mr. Li.”

Li Zhenran nodded and said to him, “I will give some allowance to the staff for finding the cat. Sorry to trouble you.”

“It’s okay, it’s no trouble,” the manager said. “It is our honour to serve Mr. Li.”

Li Zhenran didn’t want to listen to him anymore, so he thanked him and closed the door.

Li Zhenruo had finished going to the toilet by this time. He looked at him next to the bathroom door, and said, “You can’t find it, so don’t waste manpower and resources.”

Li Zhenran ignored him.

Li Zhenruo went back by himself, took a new toothbrush prepared by the villa, unpacked it and started brushing his teeth.

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Chapter 23

March 3, 2022 / hoenimochi / 2 Comments

They had started the dinner late, and then they chatted while drinking. It was late at night when they finished eating.

Li Zhenruo followed Li Zhenran’s feet back to the room where they stayed at night. It was a small villa with a living room and bathroom on the first floor, and a small room on the second floor with a big bed on it.

On the way, Li Zhenruo stared at Luo Fei and Feng Junyuan and found that they entered the same villa. Li Zhenruo wasn’t a naive young boy who didn’t understand anything, he had also some fun outside himself. When he saw Luo Fei and Feng Junyuan, he knew that their relationship might not be so simple.

However, he didn’t get along with Luo Fei much, and he really didn’t expect that the other party liked a man.

Suddenly Li Zhenruo bumped into Li Zhenran’s leg and stopped.

He raised his head and looked at Li Zhenran strangely. He didn’t understand why he walked and stopped.

Li Zhenran also looked at him and said, “Why do you keep staring at them?”

In his heart, Li Zhenruo said, I’m just taking a look, and it’s not like I can answer you.

Li Zhenran didn’t need his answer. After he finished the question, he continued to walk forward.

Back in the room, Li Zhenruo was caught by Li Zhenran and his feet was washed clean before he was thrown into the room to be by himself.

Before Li Zhenran went to take a bath, he pointed at Li Zhenruo’s nose and said, “You try running again.”

Li Zhenruo thought in his heart that he would not run away. How many times have you said this, but I really will not run away!

After intimidating Li Zhenruo, Li Zhenran stood by the sofa and started to undress.

Li Zhenruo has been getting along with Li Zhenran for two or three months, and he’s already used to it. At first, he would turn his head, but later he felt that it didn’t matter. Isn’t it because he has a good build that his thing is also big? Anyway, he was a cat, so he won’t lose out if he saw it.

Li Zhenran took off his clothes and went to the bathroom. Li Zhenruo went to drink water, then wiped the water off his face on the carpet, and went upstairs to lay down beside the bed.

The air seemed to be a little hot.

Li Zhenruo rubbed his face on his paws. The air in the mountains was very fresh. Not only he did not need to turn on the air conditioner at night when the temperature dropped, but he also had to sleep under a thick quilt, which was a little damp.

But no matter what, it has nothing to do with the hot weather.

Li Zhenruo thought to himself that he didn’t drink beer tonight, but why was he so restless and couldn’t calm down. He rolled around on the bed for a long time, and when he heard Li Zhenran open the bathroom door and come out, he suddenly raised his head and was stunned.

He realized one thing, he might be in heat.

Damn it!

After he realized this, Li Zhenruo suddenly became nervous. Of course, he knew that cats would go into heat and that the best way to deal with a house cat was to neuter it.

But his soul was a person and not a cat. Of course, he couldn’t accept being neutered. He thought that with his willpower alone, even when he was in a rut, he would never urinate and meowed like a real cat in a rut. But he didn’t expect that even if he could restrain himself from doing inappropriate behaviour, that kind of physiological discomfort would be unavoidable no matter what.

Li Zhenruo got up from the bed and walked downstairs along the stairs.

It just so happened that Li Zhenran was coming upstairs, wearing only a pair of underwear after taking a shower, with a slender body and well-proportioned muscles, he looked like a male model in a commercial.

Li Zhenran asked him where he was going.

He went down to pee, then crawled back to the edge of the bed.

He had no place to go this late, and it was not like he could break down the door to find a female cat, right? Bah! He has no sexual interest in female cats, and if he was looking for it, he would be looking for a female human.

But it looked like no woman would be interested in him.

As he thought of this, Li Zhenruo felt sad for a while.

Li Zhenran lifted the quilt and sat on the bed, took out his mobile phone and looked at it for a while.

Li Zhenruo told himself to calm down as much as possible, not to think about anything, and to sleep quietly.

But he didn’t sleep very well that night. First, he kept waking up in a state of discomfort. Second, even if he fell asleep, he didn’t keep dreaming¹, and he couldn’t sleep well at all.

He found out that the effect of hormones on the body caused by male cats’ rut was terrible. All night, shining bright scenes kept flashing right before his eyes. Later, he saw a hairy butt in it, and he woke up all of a sudden.

If Li Zhenruo was able to sweat, he must be full of cold sweat now. Was he thinking it couldn’t be that bad? If he was really in heat with a female cat, then he was finished. He didn’t want to end like this!

The next morning, when Li Zhenran got up and washed in the bathroom, he suddenly stuck his head out and looked at Li Zhenruo who was peeing outside.

Li Zhenruo subconsciously wanted to turn his back to him.

Li Zhenran said, “Did you drink too much water last night? Frequent urination?”

Li Zhenruo raised his head, gritted his teeth and decided to ignore him.

In the morning, Li Zhenran invited Luo Fei to fish by the lake.

The two of them were obviously not very old, but for some reason, they were extraordinarily calm. They could sit quietly by the lake for a day and just stared at the fishing rod.

Li Zhenran wore a sun hat and a pair of sunglasses. He looked like a big star. He sat leisurely on the reclining chair, leaned back and raised one of his long legs.

Luo Fei was beside him, and Feng Junyuan was sitting beside Luo Fei.

Feng Junyuan was also a very quiet young man. Luo Fei taught him how to fish, and he stared at the lake without saying a word while holding the fishing rod.

After a while, Luo Fei took the fishing rod from his hand with a smile and said, “You are too murderous, the fish will not take the bait.”

When Li Zhenruo heard these words, he was a little strange at first, but then he thought, this probably means that Feng Junyuan was a surgeon with a scalpel, so the killing intent was more apparent.

Among them, the most unsettled person was Li Zhenruo.

In order to avoid inappropriate behaviour, he has restrained himself a lot. But it was precisely because of this restraint that he was so irritable that he could hardly sit quietly for a moment.

Li Zhenruo didn’t dare to stay away from Li Zhenran, for fear that he would be unhappy.

So when Li Zhenran was fishing, Li Zhenruo started to circle around Li Zhenran’s legs.

Li Zhenran ignored him at first, but later became annoyed and kicked his ass lightly with his foot when he passed by.

Li Zhenruo took two steps forward, turned around, and let out a threatening growl.

Li Zhenran lowered his hat, his eyes were covered by sunglasses, but his tone was not very gentle, “Throwing a tantrum?”

Li Zhenruo was actually just a little irritable under the effect of hormones. Li Zhenran asked coldly, and Li Zhenruo immediately lowered his head and silently walked to the side to pick up the fish in the bucket.

Li Zhenran sat for an hour and caught three fish, one of which was quite large.

Li Zhenruo was lying on the edge of the bucket and put his claws in to fiddle with the fish. It wasn’t that he wanted to eat, he just couldn’t sit still for a moment and needed to do something to distract him from the fluffy furry cat’s ass.

There was only half a bucket of water in the bucket. Li Zhenruo lay on his stomach and swayed his claws. Unexpectedly, he flipped the bucket over and put it on his head.

The fish fell out of the bucket and flopped vigorously on the ground.

Li Zhenruo panicked in his heart, stretched out his claws to lift the bucket, and stepped back. As a result, because it was not far from the edge of the lake when he took a few steps back, he fell into the lake at once.

Li Zhenran reached out to pull to grab him but failed to do so. He could only remove the bucket from his head.

Li Zhenruo fluttered in the water.

This time, Li Zhenran grabbed him by the collar and pulled him up.

Luo Fei laughed and said to Li Zhenran, “Your cat is really interesting.”

Li Zhenran took off his sunglasses and looked at Li Zhenruo expressionlessly.

Li Zhenruo shook off the water on his body. Because the fur on his body was wet, he looked like he lost a lot of weight. He raised his head to look at Li Zhenran, still gasping for breath.

Li Zhenran put down the fishing rod and took Li Zhenruo back to the room to shower him with clean water, and then dried the hair with a hairdryer.

When Li Zhenran was sitting on the sofa blowing his hair, his fingers stroked his skin, and the warm air was gently simmering again, and Li Zhenruo immediately felt his mind rippling.

When Li Zhenran stretched out his fingers in front of him, he suddenly opened his mouth to bite, but of course, he couldn’t bite anything.

But the next moment, Li Zhenran twisted his mouth and asked him, “What are you doing? Do you want to bite me?”

Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment, his behaviour just now was completely a subconscious physiological reaction, and he didn’t know what was going on.

Li Zhenran stared at him, “You’ve been quite abnormal since yesterday, huh?”

Li Zhenruo didn’t know how to react, he turned over and got up from Li Zhenran’s leg at last. He was very irritable and didn’t know what to do. He wished he could just bump into the sofa and faint.

During lunch, Li Zhenruo had no appetite, so he jumped to the chair beside Li Zhenran and sat down.

A young waitress couldn’t help touching his head when she was serving.

As a result, he grumpily lunged forward at her, making a move to bite, but of course, didn’t actually bite.

The waiter was taken aback, and at the same time, he was scolded by the supervisor.

Li Zhenran looked at Li Zhenruo strangely and said, “It’s not usually like this.”

Luo Fei asked, “What happened to it?”

Li Zhenran thought about it for a while, “It’s a little cranky, loves to bite people, and urinates very often.”

At this moment, Feng Junyuan suddenly said, “It’s in heat.”

Li Zhenran was a little stunned and looked up at him.

Luo Fei didn’t know what to think, so he laughed.

After Feng Junyuan finished speaking, he had nothing to say but turned his head to look at Li Zhenruo.

Li Zhenruo groaned in his heart, he also knew that he was in heat, but it was embarrassing to be told like that, especially in front of Li Zhenran.

Li Zhenran folded his arms around his chest and asked, “Are you sure?”

Before Feng Junyuan could answer, Luo Fei said for him, “He is sure, he has had cats at home, so he should know it very well.”

Li Zhenran frowned slightly. Obviously, Li Zhenruo’s current condition was somewhat unacceptable to him. He asked, “How long will the cat’s rut last?”

Feng Junyuan said, “It will be more than ten days.”

“More than ten days…” Li Zhenran repeated, somewhat distressed.

With a smile, Luo Fei said, “You were reluctant to castrate it and now it has come to this, just bear with it. But I heard that a male cat may run around when it is in heat, you better watch it more strictly, and be careful that it ran away with a female cat. “

Li Zhenruo looked at him coldly and thought that it was not funny at all: Thank you, I won’t run away with the female cat.

Li Zhenran raised a hand and rubbed his thumb against his lips as if thinking.

What Li Zhenruo was most afraid of was that Li Zhenran would give him help by castrating him, so he was trying to restrain himself and make himself not too obvious.

As a result, Li Zhenran was probably afraid that he would run amok, so he still chained him in the room in the afternoon, with his toilet and rice bowl beside him.

Li Zhenruo was very angry, he lay on his face for a long time, and then took a deep breath and told herself not to care about stupid humans. Because he has now been upgraded to a smart Meow².

In the afternoon, Li Zhenran and Luo Fei went to climb the mountain. They had dinner in a small restaurant in a farmhouse on the mountain and had a meal of chicken pot with mushrooms. There was almost no seasoning, but the freshness of the mushrooms and the chicken was already tempting enough.

When he left, Li Zhenran packed a chicken leg to take back, to comfort Li Zhenruo.

At this time, Li Zhenruo was extremely irritable after being chained in the room for an afternoon. His claws scratched the carpet next to him, and then he wanted to scratch the sofa.

The physiological impulses prompted him to run outside, where there would be a furry butt, instead of being locked in such a damnable place where he couldn’t go anywhere.

When he heard the sound of Li Zhenran using the room key to open the door, Li Zhenruo suddenly became quiet. He told himself to calm down and let Li Zhenran release him first.

Li Zhenran opened the door and came in, holding a lunch box in his hand.

He didn’t know what Li Zhenruo was thinking at this time. He took the lunch box and walked to Li Zhenruo and squatted down. He opened the lunch box, put it next to his mouth, and then used chopsticks to tear off the soft boiled chicken thigh.

Li Zhenruo swallowed a mouthful of saliva and decided to eat first.

Li Zhenran fed him chicken, then took off the cat leash for him. He then got up and walked to the bathroom at ease.

Li Zhenruo was still licking his mouth until Li Zhenran closed the bathroom door, then he turned and ran to the window.

He had planned to sneak out. Although it didn’t make much sense, and he would be ruthlessly punished by Li Zhenran later, now Li Zhenruo felt that his brain was controlled by his body. Just like what he had always worried about, he would be completely tormented and turned into an animal because he was in heat, forgetting his identity as a human being.

At this point, he no longer quite understand what he has to do.

He jumped out of the window. It was pitch black everywhere. There were lights in the lake pavilion in the distance and the corridor leading to the shore, but Li Zhenruo didn’t plan to go there. There was a small forest behind the villa area. At night, only shadows of dense trees could be seen. The branches of the expended trees look like monsters showing their teeth, and there is empty silence.

Li Zhenruo ran in that direction.

There might be some mice, insects and snakes in the woods, because a cat suddenly entered and escaped in all directions, the body rubbed by the dead leaves on the ground made a creaking sound.

Li Zhenruo didn’t stop and ran all the way to the deepest point. He felt that his whole body was hot as if something was about to burst out, and the bones of his limbs were also aching.

He thought that he might not only be in heat but also had some other disease, perhaps a terminal illness of a cat, because he felt that he was about to die.

His forehead was pounding and his heart was beating faster and faster. Li Zhenruo couldn’t bear it anymore and fell to the ground. His chest and abdomen were heaving violently, and he slowly closed his eyes.

After an unknown period of time, maybe it was only a few minutes, but he felt like it lasted half a century. All those pains had subsided, and his heartbeat was gradually returning to normal.

Li Zhenruo opened his eyes and tried to stand up, but found something was wrong. The proportions of his hands and feet were wrong, and he couldn’t get up on all fours in an instant. Everything was strange.

He raised his paw and stretched it out in front of him, then his eyes widened in surprise, because he found that it was not the cat’s paw that he was used to seeing, but a human hand. He finally knew what was wrong. He turned over and stood up from the ground, he lowered his head to touch his body and found that he had changed back to a human form.

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Chapter 22

February 22, 2022 / hoenimochi / 2 Comments

On Friday, Li Zhenran came back earlier than usual in the afternoon. He said something to Wang Ma on the first floor, but Li Zhenruo didn’t hear it clearly.

After a while, Li Zhenran took Wang Ma up to the third floor. Wang Ma entered Li Zhenran’s room, and Li Zhenran untied the cat leash on Li Zhenruo’s body.

Of course, his collar still couldn’t be removed.

But it was enough for Li Zhenruo to roll on the ground comfortably.

Li Zhenran picked up Li Zhenruo and walked into the room.

Li Zhenruo saw that Wang Ma was helping Li Zhenran to pack up, but she didn’t pack too much, and just took a small box. After packing up, Wang Ma handed the box to Li Zhenran and said, “Be careful on the road.”

Li Zhenran nodded, “I know.”

At the same time, Li Zhenran’s driver came upstairs and took down all Li Zhenruo’s daily necessities.

Li Zhenruo guessed in his heart that Li Zhenran was going to take him out, but where? Could it be that he was sent to be neutered, and then he needed to stay in the hospital for a few days? So Li Zhenran packed up and planned to accompany him to the pet hospital?

No!

Li Zhenruo began to struggle.

Li Zhenran looked down at him coldly.

Li Zhenruo was immediately frightened by his gaze and did not dare to move.

Li Zhenran went downstairs with a small suitcase in one hand and Li Zhenruo in the other. The driver had packed up Li Zhenruo’s daily necessities and drove the car to the gate to wait for him.

He got into the car and put Li Zhenruo in the back seat at the same time.

The driver asked him, “Second young master, shall we leave?”

Li Zhenran said, “Let’s go.”

Li Zhenruo wanted to ask them where they were going, but he couldn’t. He felt uneasy. What he was most afraid of was that Li Zhenran would take him to castrate him. Li Zhenruo lay down on the seat, and after lying down for a while, he felt uneasy, he got up and moved to Li Zhenran’s lap.

Li Zhenran reached out and rested his hand on Li Zhenruo’s back.

The car drove for a while, and when Li Zhenruo stood up and looked out the car window, he realized that they were not going to the pet hospital to cut up his little dingding, but were heading out of the city.

Thinking of the luggage that Li Zhenran had packed, Li Zhenruo realized that Li Zhenran was probably going to take a two-day vacation during the weekend, and this time he brought him with him.

He still remember that Li Zhenran often went out for short-term vacations in the past. At that time, he had to ask Li Zhenran to sign for him for an urgent project. He also personally went to a resort hotel in the countryside and found Li Zhenran who was fishing.

Like an old man, Li Zhenruo thought at that time.

But today, the sudden thought that he might be going on vacation with Li Zhenran, made Li Zhenruo felt better all of a sudden.

Well, he still has a lot of things to do, and he hasn’t had time to think about how to get back Li Zhenzi, but who cares about him, let’s have a good weekend first.

Away from Li’s house to the green suburbs, with fresh air and beautiful scenery, and Li Zhenran accompanied him.

Li Zhenruo lay on Li Zhenran’s lap and closed his eyes comfortably.

It took them two hours to reach their destination, which was a large forested villa, with dense mountains in the back and a cool lake in front.

Li Zhenruo knew this place. It was a high-class vacation club, and Li Zhenran seemed to come here often.

The car was parked in the villa. Li Zhenran carried Li Zhenruo out of the car and held him in his arms.

Now in this unfamiliar environment, Li Zhenran did not choose to put him on the ground. In fact, since he escaped and was caught back, Li Zhenran was reluctant to let him go easily most of the time, perhaps because he was afraid that he would run away again.

This made Li Zhenruo feel a little guilty.

The villa was located by the lake, and only a few minutes walk from the parking lot, Li Zhenruo saw a lake. The wind with water vapor blew on his face, his fluffy fur and whiskers swayed slightly together and it maked him a little itchy. He raised his paw and scratched his face.

“Zhenran.”

Li Zhenruo heard someone calling Li Zhenran’s name, he looked up and saw a tall and handsome man standing not far away, smiling at them.

Luo Fei?

Li Zhenruo was simply a little stunned when he recognized the man’s identity. Luo Fei was a businessman. In Li Jianglin’s words, he was young and promising. Luo Fei started to operate the logistics industry more than ten years ago. It coincided with the popularity of online shopping, and the logistics industry began to flourish. Today, the logistics outlets he has established have spread all over the country, and they were growing stronger and stronger.

Luo Fei and the Li family had some business cooperation before, but Luo Fei’s personality was relatively reclusive. He wasn’t even interested to join various business activities, so Li Zhenruo has no way to befriend him.

But he didn’t expect that Li Zhenran would invite Luo Fei to spend the weekend together here today.

Li Zhenruo knows that Yunlin was trying e-commerce recently. If it developed, the cooperation with Luo Fei would be particularly important. It seems that this was not just a vacation for Li Zhenran, but he was also trying to win over business partners.

Luo Fei and Li Zhenran shook hands casually and then let go. It seemed that the two were quite familiar with each other.

At this time, Luo Fei also noticed the cat that Li Zhenran was holding in his arms. He bent down slightly to look at Li Zhenruo and said, “A Garfield?”

Li Zhenran smiled and replied, “Yes.”

Li Zhenruo felt that Luo Fei was looking at him very carefully, and was somewhat baffled.

However, Luo Fei had already stood up straight, put his hands in the pockets of his casual trousers, and said, “It’s cute.”

Then Luo Fei turned around and walked with Li Zhenran along the lake towards the opposite of the villa complex. As they walked, Luo Fei said, “I brought a friend here today.”

“Oh?” Li Zhenran replied.

They walked not far when they saw a man standing by the lake.

Li Zhenruo was curious, he stretched his neck to look, and saw that it was a handsome young man. The man was wearing a white long-sleeved shirt with sky blue long jeans underneath, and his legs are long and straight.

“Xiao Feng!” Luo Fei called him.

The young man turned to look at them, saw Luo Fei beckoning to him and walked over.

Luo Fei introduced him, “This is Li Zhenran, you should have heard the name; this is Feng Junyuan, a surgeon at the Affiliated Hospital of C University, a friend of mine.”

Li Zhenran stretched out his hand, “Hello.”

Feng Junyuan looked indifferent, shook hands with Li Zhenran, and said, “Hello, Mr. Li.”

As they shook hands, Feng Junyuan looked at Li Zhenruo in Li Zhenran’s arms.

Li Zhenruo was startled when he saw that Feng Junyuan suddenly brought his handsome and fair face closer, and tilted his head back slightly.

After he looked at Li Zhenruo for a while, Feng Junyuan turned to look at Luo Fei. Luo Fei put one hand on Feng Junyuan’s shoulder with a smile, and said, “This is Zhenran’s cat, what’s its name?”

Li Zhenran said, “Dumpling.”

Luo Fei said with a smile, “Sounds so cute. Let’s go to dinner first, there is still more time after dinner, so let’s talk slowly.”

They ate dinner at the large open-air restaurant by the lake. The food was mostly delicious fresh river fish, including a lot of cold-water fish.

Li Zhenran specifically instructed the kitchen to cook a small fish for Li Zhenruo.

As they ate, Li Zhenran finally put Li Zhenruo on the ground and let him eat by himself.

Luo Fei was a little curious and asked Li Zhenran, “Won’t this cat run?”

Li Zhenran said, “It ran away once and I caught it back.”

Luo Fei was a little amused when he heard the words, “People often say that raising a pet will bring out affections. Just like it was one’s own family, one will not be able to let go. It seems that this cat is already very important to you.”

Li Zhenran said calmly, “It’s mine.”

Li Zhenruo couldn’t help looking up at him. He shrunk his neck and felt cool.

Dr. Feng had been very quiet, but at this moment he suddenly asked, “Why does it run away?”

Li Zhenran looked at him, a little strange, “How am I supposed to know?”

Luo Fei put his hand on Feng Junyuan’s shoulder and said with a smile, “Xiao Feng is full of love for small animals. He said that he can communicate with many small animals. Do you believe it?”

Li Zhenran heard what he said, smiled and said nothing, obviously not believing it.

Li Zhenruo glanced at Feng Junyuan curiously.

Li Zhenran put one hand on his cheek and drank some beer in the evening. He was a little drunk now. He thought about it and said, “Maybe it’s because I said I would castrate it.”

Feng Junyuan was startled.

Luo Fei laughed out loud, leaning his head on Feng Junyuan’s shoulder.

Li Zhenran gently touched the edge of the bowl with chopsticks in his hand, and asked Feng Junyuan, “Xiao Feng, can you help me ask him, did he slip out of the house because I wanted to castrate him?”

Li Zhenruo was nibbling his fish quietly, but when he heard Li Zhenran’s words, he didn’t dare to let out his breath and raised his head to look at him.

Li Zhenran also turned to look at Li Zhenruo.

At this moment, Feng Junyuan suddenly stood up, he walked up to Li Zhenruo and squatted down, leaning closer to Li Zhenruo, who seemed to be smelling him with his nose.

Li Zhenruo wanted to hide at first, but then thought about what he was afraid of, he shrugged his nose and pretended to smell Feng Junyuan.

Feng Junyuan looked a little puzzled, looked at Li Zhenruo for a while, and asked him, “Do you want to be neutered?”

Li Zhenruo couldn’t express it, but the panic at that moment could not be concealed.

Feng Junyuan looked at his eyes, stood up and said to Li Zhenran, “Mr Li, you’d better not take your cat to be neutered, otherwise, he run away next time.”

Li Zhenran looked at him with a slightly puzzled expression, and asked, “It can understand people’s words? I mean I just mentioned it, but I haven’t taken it to the hospital yet, but it has slipped away.”

Feng Junyuan said, “Many animals are smarter than you think.”

When Li Zhenran heard this, he nodded and said, “Okay, I understand, I won’t take him to be neutered.”

When Li Zhenruo heard his words, he exhaled a long breath and sat down on the ground.

With a smile on his face, Luo Fei picked up his beer mug and said to Li Zhenran, “Come, have a drink.”

Li Zhenran cooperated with him and raised the glass, “Cheers.”

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My little gong is the second child! Don’t keep saying that it is the third child! It is the second child, the second child, the second child, and the important things are to be said three times

Let’s come to V on thursday

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Chapter 21

February 16, 2022 / hoenimochi / 4 Comments

Li Zhenran was an emotionally reserved person. He sat next to Li Zhenruo and didn’t say a word. Occasionally the doctor came in and they would only have two simple conversations.

But Li Zhenruo was touched enough that Li Zhenran was willing to stay by his side for so long.

If he thought about it from another perspective, Li Zhenruo himself definitely didn’t have so much time to accompany a pet. Let alone time for pets, even if it was his girlfriend, he might just go and have a look and send a bunch of flowers. Such peaceful company was really precious.

After he finished the infusion, he was taken away by the doctor for a full-body examination. After that, he was given a bath to remove insects, and he was cleaned. When the fur on the whole body was fluffy again, Li Zhenruo doesn’t look much different from the past. As for whether his face looked hungry or not, it was impossible to confirm it.

Before they left, Li Zhenran actually asked Hua Yibang to take a collar from the car, and then he personally put it on Li Zhenruo’s neck.

Li Zhenruo wanted to refuse, but he couldn’t move because of his legs.

He heard Hua Yibang say that this was a positioning collar.

What the fvck!

If this was a positioning collar, didn’t it mean that no matter where he went in the future, Li Zhenran would be able to know his whereabouts at any time? Would it still be okay?

However, this collar was quite beautiful. It was a black leather collar.

Li Zhenran put the collar on him and seemed very satisfied. He reached out and pinched his ear, and then took a cat leash and put it on him.

This time, Li Zhenruo refused to do it no matter what, but he couldn’t struggle against Li Zhenran. Even if he refused to leave, Li Zhenran still picked up his two front legs and walked outside with him.

Until they got into the car, Li Zhenruo pretended to be dead to express his opposition.

Li Zhenran said calmly, “I’ll take it off for you if you behave.”

Hua Yibang was sitting in the passenger seat. After he heard this, he turned around and glanced at Li Zhenruo.

Li Zhenruo had a look of someone that has given up on life on his face, and tears kept pouring out of the corners of his eyes. However, these are completely physiological tears, perhaps because of his poor physical condition, he has been crying a lot these past two days.

Hua Yibang couldn’t help but said, “It probably doesn’t want to be sterilized.”

Li Zhenruo silently praised Hua Yibang in his heart.

Li Zhenran actually noticed that everything started from the day he said he wanted to sterilize the cat, but he was also worried that it was because the cat was in heat, so it ran around everywhere.

Li Zhenran’s silence made Li Zhenruo a little uneasy.

But in the end, Li Zhenran still said, “Let’s talk about it after some time. I’m afraid its current physical condition is not suitable for surgery.”

Li Zhenruo breathed a long sigh of relief.

However, the cat leash on his body had not yet been removed for him, and it was uncomfortable. He hesitated, approached Li Zhenran cautiously, put his chin on his lap, and raised his eyes to look at him.

Li Zhenran asked Hua Yibang to give him a tissue to help Li Zhenruo wipe away the tears on his face. He looked very indifferent when he spoke, and said, “If you dare to run away again, I will castrate you, lock you up and never let you out.”

Li Zhenruo shivered in fright.

Hua Yibang also stretched out his hand and raised his glasses, thinking to himself: What a terrible possessiveness!

Back at Li’s house, Wang Ma was already at the door of the house. As soon as she saw Li Zhenruo who had been carried down from the car by Li Zhenran, she hurried over and said, “Why do you have to starve like this, sweetie?”

Li Zhenruo was touched by his head and did not know how hungry he looked.

“It must be hard to live outside, right? Who told you to run away?” Wang Ma said to him.

In fact, if it wasn’t for checking the files of the appraisal office, Li Zhenruo would not have been locked up for a few days. It seemed that the Li family thought that he would lose his ability to survive if he left the Li family, and was starving miserably outside every day.

But no one knew how easy he was eating and drinking at school before.

The cat leash on Li Zhenruo’s body had not been taken off. Li Zhenran took him directly to the third floor and tied him near the door of the recreation room. Then put his rice bowl and water bowl over.

Now he could eat, drink, sleep, eat, drink, and sleep in this area. It seemed that Li Zhenran didn’t plan to let him go any time soon.

Li Zhenruo felt that Li Zhenran probably wanted to teach him a lesson and told him not to run away again. However, after wandering outside for almost a week, Li Zhenruo felt that living in a big house without worrying about eating and drinking was indeed very happy. If he wasn’t forced, he wouldn’t be willing to run away.

Besides, if he ran away, who would help him deal with his revenge on Li Zhenzi?

Fortunately, the cat leash was quite long. It was enough for Li Zhenruo to walk out of the recreation room and walk half a circle in the corridor. He could even go down two stairs and stand next to the railing and look down.

Li Zhenran tied him up and left.

Although there was no time to get angry at him, Li Zhenran was angry for sure. And now was time for Li Zhenruo’s punishment.

Li Zhenruo was left alone on the third floor, it was already afternoon, and the three brothers were not at home. Wang Ma rarely came up, so he was somewhat lonely being chained here.

He was lying on the corner of the stairs, sticking his head out from the middle of the railing, and could see all the way to the first floor.

However, it didn’t really mean anything, because no one would look up at him from the first floor.

Before he slipped out of Li’s house, Li Zhenzi had just gone on a business trip to the west. Now that a week has passed, he thought that Li Zhenzi should have come back.

I wonder if I can see him at dinner today.

But Li Zhenzi didn’t come back during dinner.

Li Zhenran didn’t go out after dinner. Hearing the sound of him going up the stairs, Li Zhenruo stood up unconsciously.

He saw that Li Zhenran went all the way to the third floor, just gave him a light glance, and then walked towards his room. Li Zhenruo wanted to follow, but was caught by the rope and couldn’t follow before reaching Li Zhenran’s door.

“Meow!” Li Zhenruo called out.

Li Zhenran looked back at him, then turned to walk in front of him, squatted down, pointed his finger at his wet nose, and said, “One week, reflect properly.”

“Meow~” Li Zhenruo lowered his voice, sounding a bit pitiful.

Li Zhenran was not soft-hearted. He got up and continued walking towards the room, and then closed the door in front of Li Zhenruo.

Li Zhenruo lowered his eyes, groaned in his heart, and went back to the stairs to continue lying down.

That night, Li Zhenzi didn’t come back until after eleven o’clock. He probably drank some wine because he had a dinner party that night. But today he was somewhat restrained and was not too drunk.

When he came back, even Wang Ma had already turned off the TV and gone to bed, and the living room was dark.

Li Zhenruo heard the sound and stood up. He went down two blocks of stairs, stuck his head out from the middle of the railing, and stared in the direction of the second floor.

Li Zhenzi didn’t turn on the light but went up the stairs in the dark. Because he was drunk, his footsteps seemed a little unstable. When he walked to the stairs on the second floor, Li Zhen raised his head inadvertently and saw a black shadow sticking out his head at the stairs leading to the third floor, and at the same time, he saw a pair of bright eyes.

He choked, but fortunately, he was still able to keep his composure. He just raised his head to look carefully, and then he could see clearly that it was a cat crouching there and looking at him.

Li Zhenzi raised his hand and wiped his face heavily. The fright just now scared half of his drunkenness. At this time, he did not rush to find Li Zhenruo to settle the account. But to think that he has been scared out of his wits by a cat was sort of miserable.

After that, he dragged his unsteady steps back to his room.

Li Zhenruo sat quietly in place for a while before getting up and going back to his bed in the recreation room.

The next day, Li Zhenzi didn’t wake up until after ten o’clock in the morning. There was no meeting in Yunlin today, so he was not in a hurry, and could arrange his own time leisurely.

When he got up, Li Zhentai and Li Zhenran had already finished breakfast and went out.

Li Zhenzi stretched out his hand and pinched Li Zhenruo’s face.

Li Zhenruo endured and did not escape.

Li Zhenzi seemed to be just teasing him. He looked up and saw the cat leash on him, and asked, “Second brother tied you up? Who told you to run around? Be a good boy and reflect on it.”

After he said that, Li Zhenzi turned around and ran downstairs, asking, “Wang Ma, when did the second brother catch his cat back?”

Wang Ma replied loudly, “Yesterday afternoon! Poor little baby, he was starving and collapsed.”

Li Zhenruo turned around and went back upstairs, and thought why was it so exaggerated.

But when he saw Li Zhenzi today, he suddenly had an idea. There were too few things he could do now. If he wanted to deal with Li Zhenzi, he was afraid he had to borrow someone else’s hand.

However, before that, he probably still have to find out, was Yue Zijia doing this at Li Zhenzi’s instigation, or was there someone else behind her?

Li Zhenran did what he said and actually tied Li Zhenruo with a cat leash for a week.

Every day when Li Zhenruo saw Li Zhenran going downstairs, he would meow twice at his feet, but it didn’t work. Sometimes Li Zhenran didn’t even look at him.

Li Zhenruo felt that Li Zhenran must be angry.

Even though Li Zhenran was angry, he arranged Li Zhenruo’s diet well.

Every day, Li Zhenruo has boiled chicken and fresh milk eggs. Wang Ma told him that Li Zhenran specially asked the kitchen to prepare them and wanted to supplement him with nutrients.

While eating chicken, Li Zhenruo’s heart was bubbling, well, he was somewhat moved. If Li Zhenran has been so kind to him since he was a child, he must repay this brother wholeheartedly. It was not as if the relationship between them were not as good as that of ordinary friends.

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Chapter 20

February 9, 2022 / hoenimochi / 2 Comments

Li Zhenruo didn’t have great luck, but his luck wasn’t too bad either.

For the next two days, the door of the archives room was closed and no one came to open it. By Monday, he was dying and could barely stand up.

He was extremely hungry, and Li Zhenruo’s initial anger was washed away. But he also didn’t have the energy to think carefully, so he pictured pies for himself in his head. Later, he felt that it was meaningless, so he closed his eyes and went to sleep. If he was asleep, he won’t feel hungry.

When he heard the footsteps of someone walking outside, Li Zhenruo came to his senses. He stood up and walked to the door, thinking if he should grab the door to attract people’s attention. At this time, he heard the sound of someone standing in front of the door with a key to open the door.

Li Zhenruo immediately took two steps back, leaned back slightly, and made a gesture of preparation to sprint.

When the door opened, he sprang out, and this time really put all his strength out.

The person who opened the door was a woman in a white coat. Without warning, she saw a cat rushing past her feet. She screamed in fright and retreated back, and even fell to the ground.

Li Zhenruo was not in the mood to pity her at this time, so he ran to the stairwell with all his might, and then ran down.

He ran out of the door of the appraisal office, and Li Zhenruo felt that the energy accumulated in his body was instantly drained. He was chased away by the security uncle at the gate he had not seen for a long time, and his energy was all spent when he reached the side of the road.

It was still too early at this time, so he probably won’t be able to get a meal in the cafeteria.

He stood on the side of the street, he glanced left and right blankly. If there was a mirror at this time, he would probably be frightened by himself. The fur on his whole body was dirty and messy and has lost its lustre. His face was also dirty with two long tear marks under the eyes.

A few steps ahead, a mother was squatting in front of a small child on the street to wipe his hands. Besides them, there was a torn ham sausage that fell on the ground.

The child wanted to squat down to pick it up, but was pulled by his mother and said, “Don’t pick it up, you can’t eat it if it falls on the ground.”

When Li Zhenruo heard the words, he took two steps forward to smell the ham close to his nose.

The mother said quickly, “Quick, give it to this cat to eat. Don’t eat it.”

Li Zhenruo looked up at them.

The child looked at Li Zhenruo and said, “Here, for you.”

If it was the usual situation, Li Zhenruo certainly would not even consider eating these things. What’s the difference between this and rummaging over a trash can? But now he is really hungry, so hungry that his brain stops functioning.

The cheap ham gave off an attractive fragrance, and he couldn’t help sticking out his tongue to lick it.

The mother then pulled her son and said, “Look, the cat ate it. Let’s get going, and mommy will buy you other food.”

After she said that, the mother left with her son.

Li Zhenruo ate the ham sausage bit by bit and swallowed it quickly, ignoring the people around that were looking at him.

Suddenly, Li Zhenruo stopped when he noticed several people passing by him. He looked up and saw that it was three young boys, possibly students from the university across the street.

One of the boys pointed at him and said, “Look, is this the cat?”

Another said, “It seems so. A few days ago, I saw it strolling around the entrance of the cafeteria every day, but I haven’t seen it in the past two days.”

The third said, “Grab it?”

The first one said, “Just catch it like this? We might as well buy something to lure it over.”

The second one said, “Look, it’s about to finish the ham, be careful it runs away.”

The third said, “It’s so troublesome, just go and catch it.”

The first boy said, “Will this cat scratch people?” and he approached Li Zhenruo cautiously.

Li Zhenruo listened to all their words. Seeing that there was only half of the ham sausage left, but the three boys were already approaching him, he had no choice but to give it up, turned around and rushed into the grass next to him.

The three boys shouted, “Grab it!”

Li Zhenruo felt that he was still a little weak in his limbs. Although he tried his best, he couldn’t run fast because he was so hungry. He could always hear the footsteps of the three people chasing him behind him.

Although he didn’t know why they were catching him, Li Zhenruo didn’t intend to be arrested by a stranger like this.

He ran for a while, and when he saw an alley next to him, he turned a corner and ran in.

The messy footsteps behind him also chased in.

Li Zhenruo saw two oil tanks placed against the wall in front. One to accelerate the jump, and then the other to jump to the surrounding wall.

He was surprised that he had been hungry for two days but still had such explosive energy. It reminded him of watching the animal world that talked about cheetahs. After running with all their strength, if they didn’t catch prey, they probably won’t have the chance to run next time¹. He felt that this was probably his last run.

Li Zhenruo stopped and panted hard. He turned his head and saw only two boys chasing in. They stopped helplessly when they saw him running up the wall.

“What to do?” The two of them discussed.

Li Zhenruo saw that they seemed to be out of options, so he plopped down to take a breath.

The two boys were discussing whether to climb up and arrest him.

One of them said, “You climb up and it runs away. What’s the point?”

Li Zhenruo panted and said, You guys still have some brains. He turned his head to look at the fence and planned to jump down and leave. At this moment, he felt a gust of wind and realized that he had been paying too much attention to this side. He didn’t realize that a boy was closing after him from the fence. At this time, the boy picked up a long pole from nowhere and swept it towards him.

Li Zhenruo was hit on the butt with a pole and stood up unsteadily, and then was swept on his leg by a pole again. This time, he couldn’t hold it any longer and fell to the side.

If he hadn’t been so hungry to the point he couldn’t run and concentrate, would he have been pushed to this point by the three hairy boys?

Li Zhenruo felt resentful in his heart, but his body had already fallen uncontrollably and fell to the ground. This time, he fell with a thud, and his internal organs were almost displaced, but he no longer had the strength to stand up.

Two boys gathered around, and one of them said nervously, “Not dead, right?”

“It’s not dead,” said another. “Its stomach is still moving. Hold it down so that it doesn’t run away.”

At this moment, the boy who swept him with a long pole on the other side of the fence came around and said, “Call quickly.”

The second boy said, “Knock it off! Take him to the veterinary hospital to see if he has any injuries. I’m afraid that if something happens, the other party will want us to pay for it.”

The other two boys were stunned.

One of them said, “What if he was seriously injured?”

The boy said, “What can we do? Bring it to a doctor if it’s not expensive, and throw it away if it’s too expensive.” He thought about it and felt pity towards the cat, and said, “Find the public phone to call its owner and tell him where it is and let him pick it up by himself. We did our best.”

They found a woven bag to put Li Zhenruo in and took him to a nearby pet hospital.

The pain at the beginning slowly dissipated, but Li Zhenruo still had no strength to get up. He was already hungry, and he just ran with all his strength for a while just now. At this time, he really had no strength at all.

In the veterinary hospital, Li Zhenruo was tossed and turned by the doctor for a full-body examination. The fall just now did not wreck his internal organs, which means that he was just malnourished and needed an infusion.

Li Zhenruo really didn’t expect that he would be malnourished after being hungry for two or three days.

Covered with dirty and messy fur, he was placed on the examination table by the doctor, who tied all his hands and feet to immobilize him and then gave him an infusion.

The three boys saw that he was not injured, and he just had some physical problems caused by wandering. After some discussion, they went out to make a phone call.

Li Zhenruo kept his eyes closed, but he knew who they were calling. His master, who was still thinking about finding him back now, must be Li Zhenran, and not Yu Bingwei.

He didn’t refuse to see Li Zhenran. He also needed to go back to the Li family now, but he really didn’t want to be sterilized. In the end, what should he do?

About half an hour later, Li Zhenruo fell asleep after the infusion. He heard the door of the pet hospital being pushed open with some force, and someone walked in with calm footsteps.

Li Zhenran’s presence was too strong, even Li Zhenruo who had no strength was forced to open his eyes by his powerful presence.

When he opened his eyes, he saw that Li Zhenran had walked to his side, and Hua Yibang was following behind Li Zhenran.

Both of them looked like a gentleman in suits, ties and shirts. They probably just rushed over from the company.

Li Zhenran saw that Li Zhenruo’s face was not looking good.

Li Zhenruo knew that Li Zhenran must be very angry with the fact that he had slipped away. However at this time, he was lying on his deathbed, and it wouldn’t be easy for Li Zhenran to get angry with him.

So he tried his best to make himself look more even like he was done for.

Li Zhenran called the doctor, asked about Li Zhenruo’s condition, and asked for a more detailed full body examination.

As for those three boys, Li Zhenran asked Hua Yibang to go and give them money.

Li Zhenruo thought in his heart that the three boys didn’t show any mercy to him, and it was really not worth it to give them so much money. But at this time he just raised his head, gave Li Zhenran a silent glance and plopped down.

The room where the examination table was located was surrounded by glass walls. He had already seen his current appearance from the reflection on the glass. He looked very really pitiful. No wonder Li Zhenran had a complicated expression and didn’t open his mouth to blame him.

Li Zhenruo had an hour of infusion. Li Zhenran sat on the stool next to him and kept looking at him.

At first, Li Zhenruo closed his eyes and fell asleep, then opened his eyes and saw that Li Zhenran kept staring at him without changing his movements. He suddenly felt a little sorry in his heart.

Regardless of the relationship between Li Zhenran and Li Zhenran in the past, now that they have been together for so long, he really has some feelings of a pet towards their owners.

Well, this kind of feeling was quite strange to say, but he was a cat. He was fed, bathed and groomed every day. Wasn’t it normal for him to have feelings for each other?

However, when he saw Li Zhenran, he thought of Li Zhenzi, and Li Zhenruo felt slightly chilled, thinking that after he returned to Li’s house, he must consider the matter about Li Zhenzi.

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Chapter 19

February 1, 2022 / hoenimochi / 3 Comments

As it turned out, Li Zhenruo’s decision was very wise. He stayed at the entrance of the university cafeteria for more than an hour, and countless girls who passed by took the initiative to feed him food, and most of them were meat.

He thought of the cat food that he ate every day at Li’s house, but today, he had the opportunity to have such a meal with meat. Suddenly, he felt that the food in the school canteen had become delicious.

He was so full that he couldn’t keep his pace, so Li Zhenruo found a shady lawn and took a nap for a while.

In the end, before he woke up, he was driven away by a nearby stray cat.

The cat was a male cat. The territory and the female cat here should belong to it. Li Zhenruo trespassed into its territory without permission, which was unforgivable in its view.

Li Zhenruo has not degenerated to the point of fighting with a cat. He got up and left when the male cat threatened him. He shook off the grass on his body and went to see if he could get in the appraisal office.

In the afternoon, Li Zhenruo was lucky enough to sneak in. He had been to this appraisal office once, but he did not know where the archive room where the appraisal information was recorded.

He searched floor by floor and finally found the archive room on the sixth floor. It’s a pity that the anti-theft iron door of the archive room was locked, and there was no window above. With his ability as a half-assed cat, he definitely couldn’t break in.

After he circled around the floor where the archive room was located twice, Li Zhenruo left reluctantly.

When he went out from the gate of the appraisal office, Li Zhenruo was seen by the security guard again. The security guard picked up the long broom and pretended to chase after him. Li Zhenruo tucked his tail and ran away.

For dinner, he still went to the school cafeteria door.

Li Zhenruo even ate half a pan-fried small fish. The one who fed him the fish was a short, chubby girl with glasses. Li Zhenruo looked up at her only to think that she was as beautiful as a fairy.

Although Li Zhenruo originally didn’t like to eat fish, now as a cat, his tongue probably loved the taste.

This dinner was more filling than lunch. Since he turned into a cat, Li Zhenruo hadn’t tried to eat so much meat for a long time. He began to like this place a little bit and thought that even if he couldn’t go back to Li’s house, he could stay at the school. It was nice to be a stray cat.

In the evening, Li Zhenruo spent the night in the school. He found a clean corner, and after sniffing carefully for the presence of other cats. When there were none, he curled himself up.

Well, although there was a lot to eat, at night he started to miss his warm and clean bed again. And after wandering outside for a day, his fur was already dirty and knotted, so he missed the clear bathwater, and the comfortable touch of Li Zhenran’s slender fingers stroking his fur to dried him after taking a shower.

Therefore one cannot say that it’s only human, even a cat could always find it difficult to be satisfied with its own life.

Li Zhenruo slept until the early next morning and went to the appraisal office. The security guards were sluggish in the morning, and he smoothly got in without being caught. He stayed until the people in the laboratory got off work in the afternoon, but he still found nothing.

Li Zhenruo lingered in the neighbourhood for three or four days without giving up, drifted in during the day, looked for a place to sleep at the school at night, and pretended to be cute to eat all the food at the entrance of the cafeteria.

He really lived a good life as a stray cat.

However, today, he slowly walked to the sixth floor of the laboratory and found someone standing in front of the iron door of the archives using a key to open the door.

He hid in the corner, and after the man opened the door and went in, he sneaked in behind him.

In the beginning, he stood behind the man, and when he sat down in front of the computer, Li Zhenruo rushed to the file cabinet beside him.

This place was the most convenient place for him as a cat. He could always be silent, and he could burst out strongly. If he didn’t want his prey to find out, he could hide his whereabouts well.

There were rows of filing cabinets in the archives room, all of which were placed on the archives of the appraisal office.

Li Zhenruo hid himself behind a row of file boxes and peeked at the man’s movements through the gap in the middle. With his excellent dynamic vision, he clearly captured the sequence of numbers when the person entered the password. He took a deep breath silently and continued to stare at him without blinking. He watched him log in to the file management system and remember his password.

Right now was not the right time.

Li Zhenruo memorized the two passwords firmly and lay down quietly. He had to wait until that person left.

The man stayed in the archive room for about an hour and seemed to be entering some data. After the entry was over, he shut the computer down and left, locking the door firmly.

Li Zhenruo still did not act rashly.

He had been observing here for some days and knew that the archive room was likely to be unoccupied for a long time, and he couldn’t help but feel a little nervous. As he counted the days, today happened to be Friday, and the day after tomorrow would be a holiday. The next time this room would be opened might be next Monday, and if he was unlucky, it may be next Friday.

As he thought of this, Li Zhenruo looked around and found that all the windows were locked. He jumped to the side of the windowsill and tried to unlock it from the inside, but found that it was nailed to death and could not be opened at all.

By this time, Li Zhenruo was getting even more flustered.

If he had to wait a week, would he starve to death right there? What if he had bad luck and no one came in for two or three weeks?

Li Zhenruo began to blame himself for acting rashly and doing things without considering the consequences.

But since he has come in, it’s too late to think about regretting it now. It’s better to finish what he had to do quickly, and if he’s lucky again, maybe someone would come to open the door this afternoon, and then he could slip away.

Li Zhenruo jumped to the front of the computer desk, stretched out his paws and pressed the computer on.

He still clearly remembers the power-on password and the password of the file system. His cat’s paws were inconvenient for typing and holding the mouse. At the same time, he has to be on guard that someone will come in. If someone came in and saw a cat using the computer at this time, they would probably think they were dreaming.

However, this old machine was very slow to respond, and Li Zhenruo was a little impatient. While he waited for it to be turned on, he kept tapping on the computer desktop with his cat’s paw.

As the computer finally turned on, he entered the file system and began to recall the time on the appraisal.

The appearance of that appraisal was probably the biggest setback in his 23 years of living. He had read the document over and over again, and many details had been deeply imprinted in his mind.

He entered the commission time to query, and after a while, he saw a file named Li Jianglin’s paternity test.

At this moment, Li Zhenruo’s breathing began to become rapid, and his movements were a little flustered. He had to stop and take a few deep breaths, telling himself not to be nervous.

The air was filled with the smell of old paper, and because the space was sealed off, it was particularly stuffy.

Li Zhenruo tried to relax himself, clicked into the file, and saw a row of related materials on the left, including the authorization document, appraisal certificate, and other related documents.

Among them, Li Zhenruo found a scanned copy of his ID card.

He clicked the mouse with his paw, opened the scanned ID card, and saw an unexpected person on it.

Li Zhenruo once inquired about the identity of this client. He knew that she was a young and beautiful woman. He always thought that this woman was probably a woman who had something to do with Li Jianglin because the sample submitted for inspection was from Li Jianglin’s semen. There are so many vague names in my head, but he hasn’t been able to rule them out one by one.

And now, Li Zhenruo saw that the owner of the scanned ID card was Yue Zijia.

The beautiful young woman matched the information he obtained before. As he was staring at Yue Zijia’s picture, a name popped into Li Zhenruo’s head. And now he seems to grit his teeth when he pronounces this name. It was Li Zhenzi.

After he saw this, the other documents he clicked were just meaningless information.

Both the appraisal office and the authorization document used pseudonyms, only this scanned ID card shows the client’s information, which must be the regulations of the appraisal office, and it was absolutely confidential information.

Li Zhenruo quickly shut down the system, then turned off the computer, and jumped off the computer desk.

He didn’t know how close Yue Zijia and Li Zhenzi were, but Li Zhenzi had to tease a woman when he saw them, so the relationship between the two would not be easy.

If Yue Zijia was Li Zhenzi’s lover, it would not be very difficult for Li Zhenzi to hand over his blood sample to Yue Zijia for identification, because Li Zhenzi might not want people around him, such as Su Yao to do it. He didn’t want to involve himself in it, so he found someone who couldn’t be easily linked to him and trusted them to do it.

As for whether there was anything between Li Jianglin and Yue Zijia, Li Zhenruo naturally couldn’t know now, but it was really not surprising. Yue Zijia’s current situation was hard to describe. She was the social flower of the upper class. If she and Li Jianglin were both willing to do it, it would not be considered a disadvantage.

As he thought of this, Li Zhenruo felt that his suspicion of Li Zhenzi was instantly magnified.

He plopped down quietly behind the door to calm himself down a bit because he might have to spend a long period of time in the confined area.

But he couldn’t calm down his mind no matter what. Maybe he could think carefully about it when he calmed down in the future, but at this moment, what Li Zhenruo was thinking was all about how to bring Li Zhenzi to the ground.

Li Zhenruo slowly closed his eyes.

To be honest, he was angry at first, but now Li Zhenruo felt a little sad.

Although he and Li Zhenzi had a bad relationship since they were young, and they fought in front of Li Jianglin for some trivial matters, deep down, he still felt that Li Zhenzi was his brother, not only Li Zhenzi, but Li Zhenran, and Li Zhentai, they are all his older brothers. Even if they were not from the same mother, shouldn’t an older brother protect his younger brother and stand up when his younger brother is in danger?

But Li Zhenzi was so impatient. After knowing his identity, he did not hesitate to reveal it to Li Jianglin, and in such a decisive way.

Li Zhenruo lowered his head and placed his round chin on a pair of fleshy claws.

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Chapter 18

January 31, 2022 / hoenimochi / 2 Comments

Later when they were eating, Li Zhenran asked a lot of things about Yu Bingwei’s filming.

Yu Bingwei gave him a gift, and of course, Li Zhenran wanted to repay the gift. Yu Bingwei didn’t want his money and didn’t let him give her another cat. But in her heart, she still looked forward to Li Zhenran giving her a bigger gift in return.

Li Zhenran didn’t say anything at the time, but afterwards, Li Zhenzi hinted to Yu Bingwei that his second brother took this matter to his heart and would definitely not wrong her.

After eating, Li Zhenran got up and walked directly out. Yu Bingwei was surprised to see the cat jump off the chair and ran out at Li Zhenran’s feet.

She turned her head somewhat bewildered and asked Li Zhenzi, “What did your second brother put in Dumpling?”

Li Zhenzi said, “Put in what? Do you think he put in a magical potion to hold Dumpling under a spell? How would I know?”

But after a while, he said, “This cat is quite smart, like a child.”

Yu Bingwei had raised Li Zhenruo for almost a month, but she never noticed it.

Walking out of the restaurant door, Li Zhenran said goodbye to them. When he was about to get in the car, Yu Bingwei suddenly stopped him.

Yu Bingwei said, “By the way, Mr. Li, I asked someone before and they said that if you want to neuter male cats, it is best to do it six months before it reached sexual maturity. I calculated the time, if you want to operate on Dumpling, you should do it after two weeks.”

Li Zhenruo suddenly flew into a rage and stood up. He didn’t expect to be exposed, and he couldn’t hold back a threatening roar at Yu Bingwei.

Who used to say how pathetic it was to castrate him and would not sterilize him? It’s a shame he still liked Yu Bingwei so much. As a result, now that they were separated, she dared to turn around and even stab him. As expected, the most poisonous thing was a woman’s heart!

Yu Bingwei was startled by him. She looked at him and forgot to say anything for a moment.

Li Zhenran said calmly, “Thank you for reminding me. I will arrange the time.”

After saying that, he bent down to pick Li Zhenruo up and got into the car.

Li Zhenruo’s heart was in a mess and he couldn’t calm down for a long time. He was nervous, thinking that Li Zhenran would arrange a time, suddenly raised his paw and grabbed Li Zhenran’s sleeve.

“What are you doing?” Li Zhenran glanced at him.

“Meow!” If Li Zhen wants to communicate with Li Zhenran and make sure not to take him to neuter.

Of course, they can’t communicate with words.

Li Zhenran looked at him and after a while said, “Can you understand what she just said?”

Li Zhenruo was taken aback, and asked in his heart, Should I pretend not to understand? But on second thought, who would have imagined whether he understood it or not, so he shouted again, “Meow!”

Li Zhenran propped his chin with one hand and said to him, “Surgery must be done, otherwise it will be uncomfortable when you are in rut¹, you know?”

He knew, but he still didn’t want to do it.

But he had no way to express his wishes to Li Zhenran. He could only express to him that he was upset. After meowing for a while and seeing that it bore no effect, Li Zhenruo jumped off the back seat and hid in the corner of the carriage, feeling depressed.

When they came home in the evening, Li Zhenruo heard that Li Zhenran really called Hua Yibang and asked him to make an appointment for a pet hospital to sterilize Li Zhenruo.

At that moment, as a former man, and a male cat now, it is not an exaggeration to say that the sky has fallen.

He didn’t go into Li Zhenran’s room all night, and in his heart, he was thinking how deep Yu Bingwei had stabbed him. If Li Zhenran insists on sterilizing him, then his only choice is to leave the Li family and never come back.

He would rather go out and be a stray cat.

However, he didn’t know that it was very difficult for a Garfield cat wandering outside to survive, because their mouth is too short, so it was very difficult to catch food.

Li Zhenruo was struggling on his side, but Li Zhenran had already set him a time for surgery.

Li Zhenruo overheard the phone call between him and Hua Yibang, but it was not like Li Zhenran was making a call behind his back. After the time had been decided, Li Zhenruo felt that it was useless to ask Li Zhenran this time. The only way if he wanted to avoid it was to leave Li’s house.

It had been nearly half a year since he became a cat, and he could finally sneak into Li’s house. He hadn’t got any clues about who killed him, but now he had to face the risk of not being able to continue to be a man.

He wanted to escape this time, and then came back after two days. He wondered if Li Zhenran would forgive him and be understanding enough to not let him go through with this surgery?

Li Zhenruo was in a mess. Early in the morning of the scheduled operation, he slipped out of the small building and went directly to the garage to lie low.

The garage was dimly lit. When Li Zhentai’s driver came to drive the car, he took advantage while the other person opened the door and came out to take something to get in and hide himself in the passenger’s seat. This time he remembered to pull back his tail.

No one noticed him.

Later when it was time for breakfast, Li Zhenran began to look for the cat everywhere.

Everyone was at a loss, no one knew where the cat at home had gone.

Li Zhenruo took a deep breath and waited silently.

Until Li Zhentai finished his meal and got into the car to go to the company, no one at home found him.

After the driver started the car, Li Zhentai sat in the back seat and said with some amusement, “The second child is looking for his cat everywhere.”

The driver replied after hearing the words, “It’s not like he’s in a rut and slipped out, right?”

Li Zhentai smiled and said, “Ouch, that’s a bad coincidence. He should have sent it to operate it yesterday.”

However the small talk was nothing but a joke, Li Zhentai obviously didn’t care about Li Zhenruo. He was never mentioned on the road after that.

Li Zhenruo who lay under the seat didn’t know how far he drove out. He just felt that time had passed for a long time, and no one had noticed him yet. In the end, he could be at ease.

But he still lay motionless and didn’t make a sound.

Once Li Zhentai arrived at the company, he opened the rear door and got off.

Li Zhenruo didn’t hesitate and rushed out all of a sudden.

Li Zhentai was taken aback and said, “What?”

The driver quickly turned his head only to see the back of Li Zhenruo running vigorously. He hurriedly pulled the door to get out of the car, and said, “Isn’t this the cat the second young master was looking for? When did it get into the car?”

Li Zhentai subconsciously followed towards him, but Li Zhenruo ran out of sight in an instant.

He stood still and when he came back to his senses. He then pulled out his cell phone to call Li Zhenran.

Li Zhenruo ran wildly and found an empty corner to hide himself. After making sure that Li Zhentai hadn’t found him, he came out again quietly.

He didn’t run out on impulse. In addition to hiding from Li Zhenran for two days, he also planned to go to a place, which was the appraisal office where he and Li Jianglin’s paternity were tested. But he didn’t know, could a cat go in and find some evidence smoothly?

Maybe it’ll be a bit difficult, but won’t there always be no hope if you don’t try?

Li Zhenruo jumped to the fountain pond on the side of the road, took a sip of water, and then jumped down and walked towards the bus stop.

It’s impossible to ride a taxi, but it might be possible to ride a bus.

He stood at the bus stop and looked for the bus route he wanted to take.

Two elementary school students were standing on the side of the road with their school bags on their backs, pointing at him, “Look at that cat looking at the stop sign!”

“Idiot! How can a cat understand the stop sign?”

Li Zhenruo thought: Idiot! Who told you that cats can’t read stop signs?

He found the bus he wanted to take and hid behind the crowd. After a while, the bus stopped at the bus stop. Li Zhenruo didn’t go to the front door but took advantage of the opened back door. When passengers got off the bus, Li Zhenruo rushed up.

The passenger who had sharp eyes screamed, and everyone around was asking what’s wrong.

The man came back to his senses and saw a cat looking at him pitifully with round eyes, patted his chest and said, “I thought it was a big mouse, but it turned out to be a cat.”

At this time, it was the morning rush hour. The driver heard the commotion but couldn’t squeeze behind to see. When the passengers were all inside, he closed the car door and set off.

Li Zhenruo took a shower last night, and he just got out of Li Zhentai’s car today. Right now his whole cat body was still clean, coupled with his honest and cute appearance, some children wanted to reach out and touch him.

He refused to be touched, jumped from under the feet of the crowd to under the rear seats, and lay down quietly.

After five stops, Li Zhenruo arrived at his destination. He got off behind the crowd, got out of the car, and ran to the street.

This was the downtown area. Morning time was the time when the stream of people gathered, and people coming and going around were walking forward with busy steps. Li Zhenruo must carefully hide aside because everyone was a huge monster to him.

His fur was fluffy and clean. Coupled with his special appearance, he didn’t look like a stray cat, and looked more like some pet cat has been lost.

And luckily no one came to catch him along the way.

Li Zhenruo found the door of the appraisal office. He stood on the side of the road and watched for a while, planning to go in first to see what was going on inside.

In the end, he was blocked by the security guard at the door just as soon as he took a step to get in.

He tried to go around the guard’s foot, but he didn’t expect that the security guard would step on his tail. He screamed in pain and raised his head to see that the security guard had taken a big broom to drive him away.

There was no choice but to retreat.

Li Zhenruo found a corner and licked his tail. His heart is itching with hatred, thinking about the guard that blocked his way. After all, this was the guard’s job, but to step on his tail with his feet! He was loved by everyone, and it was rare to meet such an unloving person!

He stayed by the side for a while, but Li Zhenruo has not been able to find the opportunity to slip in, and he felt hungry at this time.

Thinking that it was time for lunch when he was usually at home, he turned around and left with the intention of coming back later.

Although he was a cat, he was also a cat with principles. Of course, he wouldn’t do things like flipping through the trash can. There was a university nearby. He planned to squat by the canteen door for a while and find some kind-hearted, gentle and lovely female college students to take the initiative to feed him something.

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Regarding the time of the cat’s rut and sterilization, as well as Garfield’s other habits, I have looked some on the Internet. Anyway, there are various opinions about it. If there is a bug, please treat it as the plot needs it.

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Chapter 17

January 27, 2022 / hoenimochi / 1 Comment

　　 “Dumpling,” Li Zhenran suddenly called his name. His tone was a bit stiff and cold.

　　 Li Zhenruo came back to his senses and knew that Li Zhenran was about to be angry, and he should not shrink down at this time, so he reluctantly walked towards Li Zhenran, but was unwilling to let Li Zhenran hold him. He jumped straight off the conference table and followed Li Zhenran’s leg.

　　 Li Zhenran ignored him and walked out directly.

　　 Li Zhenruo quickly followed. When he left, he looked back at Li Zhenzi and saw that he was still sitting in his place, and smoked silently.

　　 As he went back to Li Zhenran’s office, Li Zhenruo hid under his large desk, because from this angle, Li Zhenran could not see him at all.

　　 Even so, Li Zhenruo still felt terrified.

　　 He was wondering if he had gotten too close to Li Zhenran. At that moment just now, when he began to suspect Li Zhenran, his heart instantly felt like it had plunged into a bottomless abyss.

　　 In fact, he has to admit that his suspicion of Li Zhenran was already not too strong after just one month of getting along. How could a person who was full of love for small animals so cruelly kill his brother who grew up together?

　　 So what did Li Zhenran say to Li Zhenzi just now?

　　 Li Zhenran probably said, “Look, I killed the Fourth child. If you don’t listen to me, do you want to follow in the footsteps of the Fourth child?”

　　… Li Zhenran was probably crazy.

　　 Or, “Did you kill the fourth child? I have something against you in my hand, and you have to do things for me.”

　　 It still sounds like Li Zhenran was crazy.

Or, “Look, the Fourth child is not from the Li family anymore, and some people hunted him down and killed him. Do you think you can really stay out of the matter if you don’t care? Your right to hold the power is the most important thing. You should understand this truth, Yunlin has always been the foundation of the Li family.”

　　 Hmm… This makes more sense.

　　 So here came the question again, who killed Li’s fourth child in the end?

　　 Li Zhenruo painfully covered his head with his paws, So annoyed, so annoyed!

　　 He struggled for a long time and suddenly raised his head to see Li Zhenran standing in front of him looking at him. His heart suddenly skipped a beat. He completely didn’t notice when Li Zhenran came around the desk.

　　 Li Zhenran stretched out his hand to him, “Come here.”

　　 Li Zhenruo looked at his white and slender fingers. He slowly stood up and walked towards him, and then was picked up by Li Zhenran.

　　 Li Zhenran picked him up and did nothing. He just returned to his office chair and sat down, scratching Li Zhenruo’s big face with his fingers casually.

　　 Li Zhenruo felt very comfortable and scared witless at the same time. He couldn’t help but raise his head to look at Li Zhenran. From this angle, Li Zhenran’s jawline looked a bit sharp. Li Zhenruo always felt that his character was cold, and now he just feels uncertain about him.

　　 He was obviously being touched gently, but Li Zhenruo always had doubts that Li Zhenran would suddenly go crazy in the next second, biting his veins open with one bite, causing his blood to surge everywhere, and then let out a crazy laugh.

　　 What a way to go crazy!

　　 At noon, Li Zhenran had Hua Yibang call to book him a dinner appointment for the evening.

　　 Li Zhenruo has been extremely well-behaved since then, so well-behaved to the point of lying motionless on the sofa until the afternoon. When Li Zhenran came over and grabbed him by one foot and lifted him upside down, he didn’t react at all.

　　 The place where they have dinner in the evening was where Li Zhenran often goes.

　　 Li Zhenzi and Li Zhenruo didn’t like this place, Li Zhenzi felt the place is lifeless, and Li Zhenruo feels that this place is too pretentious.

　　 Li Zhenran carried the cat in and no one stopped him. The beautiful waiter in cheongsam in front of him led him to a small secluded private room.

　　 An antique Chinese decoration filled the room, the dining table and dining chairs were in mahogany. Outside the carved windows, there are rockeries, ponds, small bridges and flowing water.

　　 Li Zhenran took off his coat and asked the waiter to help him hang it up, and sat on the mahogany armchair. He lifted his long leg up to the other leg, reached out and picked up a teacup gently and elegantly sip a mouthful of tea.

　　 The handsome features are perfectly reflected in the elegant scenery outside the window, just like a young master of an old society.

　　 Having said so much, Li Zhenruo thought it could still be described in two words: pretentious prick.

　　 He was placed on the next chair by Li Zhenran.

　　 This was a small private room with a square table by the window and only four seats.

　　 Now that Li Zhenruo occupied a position alone, he couldn’t help but lift his upper body and lay his front paws on the table to reach for the melon seed dish above.

　　 It was just a little distance away, but Li Zhenran didn’t place it in front of him, and just grabbed a melon seed and brought it to his mouth.

　　 He opened his mouth to hold the melon seeds, followed the panda’s way of extending their paws to fix the melon seeds, and simply peeled off the shell.

　　 Li Zhenzi went to pick up Yu Bingwei, so he arrived more than ten minutes later than Li Zhenran.

　　 When they came in, Li Zhenran put down his long legs, stood up and shook hands with Yu Bingwei, with a very polite manner, “Hello, Miss Yu.”

　　 And when Li Zhenruo saw Yu Bingwei, she knew that she was very dressed up.

　　 He has always liked Yu Bingwei. This girl was beautiful and gentle, but the pivotal point was her attractive figure. Today she was wearing a dress. The colours and styles look simple, but the design was excellent. One look and you would know that it was not an ordinary brand. The makeup on her face was also very delicate, and her hair was carefully taken care of. She should have made a special trip to do her hair.

　　 Although Li Zhenran was not interested in the entertainment industry and has never made an investment, no one has never heard of the name of the Li family. Moreover, the second son of the Li family was half of the topic people talk about when they talk about the Li family nowadays.

　　 Compared to Li Zhenzi, it was obviously much harder to see Li Zhenran, let alone to have such a private meal.

　　 When she received the phone invitation from Li Zhenzhi, Yu Bingwei instantly felt a little flattered.

　　 “Dumpling!” After being separated for more than a month, Yu Bingwei was a little excited to see Li Zhenruo again. But with Li Zhenran present, she acted with restraint and just reached out to touch Li Zhenruo’s head.

　　 Li Zhenruo wanted to be picked up by her and be rubbed on her soft chest in her arms. Li Zhenran’s chest was hard, and it was not comfortable to lie down.

　　 Li Zhenran said, “Miss Yu, please sit down.”

　　 Yu Bingwei and Li Zhenzi sat down opposite them.

　　 Li Zhenran called the waiter to serve the dishes.

　　 Actually, Yu Bingwei already knew the purpose of Li Zhenran’s inviting her to eat this meal. When she first received a call from Li Zhenzi, she felt a little angry and said without thinking, “Why?”

　　 Of course, her anger was directed at Li Zhenzi. She was the one who left the cat to him for a period of time, but she didn’t expect that the other party would refuse to give it back.

　　 Li Zhenzi coaxed her and said, “It’s not me, it’s my second brother who likes your cat. What can I do?”

　　 When Yu Bingwei heard that it was Li Zhenran who wanted it, she was not so angry anymore. After all, for someone like Li Zhenran, even if you just wanted to give him a gift to build a relationship, he may not be willing to accept it.

　　 But still some reluctance, she said, “Do you Li family like to bully others?”

　　 Li Zhenzi promptly tried to show his innocence, “Where did I take advantage of you? You go talk to my second brother, and if you are dissatisfied, splash a cup of tea on his face, and tell him not to bully others. Wouldn’t that be good?”

　　 Yu Bingwei couldn’t help feeling it was somewhat a little funny when she heard this and finally sighed.

　　 Li Zhenzi said, “Don’t be angry, it’s just a cat. You haven’t raised it for a few days. I’ll buy a new one.”

　　 Yu Bingwei knew that she probably couldn’t refuse the other party’s request. In the end, she could only say, “Okay, let me go and see Dumpling.”

　　 As she sat here now, Yu Bingwei didn’t hear Li Zhenran didn’t mention the matter, and so she didn’t take the initiative to ask.

　　 Li Zhenran asked Yu Bingwei something about her recent filming.

　　 Yu Bingwei answered with a smile.

　　 While talking, Li Zhenran peeled a melon seed with his hand, and said to Li Zhenruo beside him, “Open your mouth.”

　　 Li Zhenruo cursed in his heart, Damn it, this great me is a cat and not a dog! But his mouth opened very honestly.

　　 Li Zhenran fed him the melon seeds.

　　 Yu Bingwei was a little startled for a while, and then came back to her senses after a while and said, “I didn’t expect Mr. Li to raise Dumpling so well.”

　　 Li Zhenruo chewed melon seeds blankly.

　　 Li Zhenran reached out and touched his head without saying anything.

　　 Yu Bingwei looked a little melancholy, “It didn’t behave this good when it was at my house. It slipped out once and scared my mother.”

　　 Li Zhenruo’s heart said, I also quite like you, come over and let me be buried on your chest.

　　 Li Zhenran said, “You must already know the purpose of my invitation to Miss Yu. I hope Miss Yu can sell this cat to me.”

　　 Yu Bingwei did not immediately agree, she looked a little bit distressed, and stretched out her hand to Li Zhenruo, “Dumpling, do you still recognize me?”

　　 Li Zhenruo wanted to go there. As soon as he moved his legs, he felt that Li Zhenran’s hands touching his head became heavier. He was pressed so hard he couldn’t lift his head up.

　　 After Li Zhenran lifted his hand, Li Zhenruo decided not to go over to Yu Bingwei. Instead, he climbed onto Li Zhenran’s lap and sat, rubbing his face against his chest, and making a cute cry of “meow”.

　　 Yu Bingwei showed some disappointment.

　　 At this time, Li Zhenzi said next to him, “Now he only listens to my second brother. Who asked you to keep it for only a month and throw it to me? It’s better not to keep pets if you don’t have time.”

　　 Yu Bingwei sighed and said, “Yes, I shouldn’t have brought Dumpling back in the first place. I don’t have time to take care of it.”

　　 Li Zhenran’s palm was placed on Li Zhenruo’s neck. Li Zhenruo felt a little uncomfortable being held tightly by him. He wanted to move but the grip felt tighter, so he could only stay still.

　　 Li Zhenran said, “Miss Yu, make an offer. I’m willing to pay double or give you a better kitten.”

　　 Li Zhenruo looked up at Li Zhenran and wanted to roll his eyes

　　 Yu Bingwei said sensibly, “No need. Since Mr. Li likes it so much, I will give it to you. Just like Daniel said, I don’t have time to keep pets. I also wronged them when I bought them. It’s better to give Dumpling to those who like it better to take care of it.”

　　 Li Zhenran said, “How can I receive such kindness?”

　　 Li Zhenruo was so embarrassed to hear him.

　　Yu Bingwei smiled and said, “Just take it as Mr. Li takes care of Dumpling for me, and I will often visit it if I have the opportunity in the future. As long as it can grow healthily, it is better than anything else.”

　　 Li Zhenran looked down at Li Zhenruo and said, “That’s good, thank you Miss Yu.”

Notes:
I couldn’t find that Chinese restaurant layout, but I once went a Chinese restaurant like that and indeed it felt so stiff there XD
Li Zhenruo is a healthy man, huh. Still liking Weiwei’s chest

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Chapter 16

January 25, 2022 / hoenimochi / 2 Comments

On the way to Yunlin, Li Zhenran kept leaning back and closed his eyes to doze off. Only until the driver stopped the car and called him, he slowly opened his eyes.

　　 Li Zhenran stretched out a hand to Li Zhenruo.

　　 Li Zhenruo was very good at reading people. He knew that Li Zhenran was rushing to work and had no time to delay with him, so he obediently walked over and let him carry him.

　　 Li Zhenran carried Li Zhenruo directly through the gate of Yunlin.

　　 He was not as approachable as Li Zhenzi. When Yunlin’s employees saw the second son of the Li family carrying a cat to work, they froze on both sides, but no one dared to ask him.

　　 It wasn’t until Li Zhenran walked and entered the elevator that the employees started talking.

　　 “Why did the Second Young Master carry a cat to work today?”

　　 “That cat looks a lot like his brother’s last time.”

　　 “It seems to be just one.”

　　 “Why take a cat to work? No one at home to take care of it?”

　　 “That cat looks so stupid, hahahaha.”

　　 Until the elevator door closed, Li Zhenruo still felt a lot of pressure and buried his head in Li Zhenran’s arms. Even if the Fourth Young Master Li appeared in Yunlin himself, he had never tried to capture the eyes of so many people.

　　 Li Zhenran didn’t know why Li Zhenruo buried his head, and just scratched his ear with his finger.

　　 Li Zhenruo’s ears wiggled, and he felt very comfortable.

　　 When Li Zhenran arrived at the office, Hua Yibang had already arrived. He was surprised that Li Zhenran brought the cat to work, but he didn’t ask anything.

　　As he was just helping Li Zhenran bring coffee into the office, Hua Yibang asked, “Will it peed and poop anywhere?”

　　 Li Zhenruo gave him an angry look: You are the one who will pee and poo anywhere!

　　 Li Zhenran said, “No, the driver will bring his toilet and rice bowl up later.”

　　 “Oh,” Hua Yibang replied and said to Li Zhenran, “I have asked someone to prepare a small meeting room for the morning meeting.”

　　 Li Zhenran heard the words and glanced at the time.

　　 Hua Yibang said, “There is still half an hour.”

　　 Li Zhenran nodded, “Call me later.”

　　 Hua Yibang responded “Okay” and walked out. However, less than two minutes after going out, he knocked on the door again and brought in Li Zhenruo’s toilet and lunch, which had been brought up by the driver.

　　 Li Zhenruo really didn’t want to equate these two different things.

　　 There was a short break before the meeting. Li Zhenran was drinking coffee while flipping through the documents on the desk.

　　 Li Zhenruo walked to the window and looked outside. For a while, a multitude of feelings surged up. He wondered what would he do if one day he found the murderer and a way to avenge him? Be a cat quietly until the end of life more than ten years later?

　　 Ugh? It was always unpleasant to think of this.

　　 After half an hour, Hua Yibang knocked on the door and asked Li Zhenran to have a meeting.

　　 Li Zhenran closed the document, picked it up, and walked out.

　　 Li Zhenruo immediately followed after seeing this.

　　 Until he followed out of the office, Hua Yibang stood beside Li Zhenran, hesitated for a moment and asked, “You are not locking up the cat?”

　　 Li Zhenran looked down at Li Zhenruo and said, “Don’t worry about it.”

　　 Li Zhenruo followed Li Zhenran at his feet and waited for the elevator.

　　 Hua Yibang couldn’t help asking again, “Won’t it run away?”

　　 Li Zhenran replied blankly, “If it ran away, I don’t need it.”

　　 Li Zhenruo’s fur stood on end in an instant. He always felt that Li Zhenran was saying this to him. How could he dare to run? Besides, where could he run to?

　　 They walked into the elevator, and when the elevator door was about to close, Li Zhenzi who had come out of the office shouted, “Second brother, wait for me.”

　　 Hua Yibang quickly pressed the elevator.

　　 Li Zhenzi hurriedly walked into the elevator with Su Yao. He was holding a stack of documents under his arm, and it seemed that he was also going to a meeting.

　　 Just now he heard Hua Yibang say that a small meeting room was used, and Li Zhenruo thought that they were probably the relevant people of the project of the western part team meeting.

　　 “Dumpling?” Su Yao yelled in surprise when she saw Li Zhenruo.

　　 Li Zhenzi looked down at Li Zhenruo and asked Li Zhenran weirdly, “Second brother, do you also take the cat to the meeting?”

　　 Li Zhenran responded, “It followed me on its own.”

　　 Su Yao couldn’t help but said, “Second Young Master, you are too awesome.”

　　 Li Zhenran turned his head to look at her, “What’s too awesome?”

　　 Su Yao smiled and said, “I have never seen a cat so well-behaved. I am afraid that Dumpling has forgotten who its owner really is.”

　　 As he heard Su Yao mention this, Li Zhenzi remembered it, and said to Li Zhenran, “I called Weiwei and she said that she has time tonight. Let’s have a meal together. Where do you want to go? I’ll book it.”

　　 Li Zhenran said, “I’m the one who invited Miss Yu, it’s better if I made the reservation to appear sincere.”

　　 While they were talking, Li Zhenruo kept looking up at them.

　　 Li Zhenzi suddenly looked down at Li Zhenruo, and said with a smile, “I don’t think the cat wants to go back anymore even if it sees Weiwei.”

　　 In Li Zhenzi’s opinion, Li Zhenruo has become a dog under Li Zhenran. So why did Yu Bingwei want to come? He would also persuade Yu Bingwei not to ask for it, and it was better to buy another one again.

　　 When the two brothers arrived at the conference room, the other people in the meeting had already arrived.

　　 Li Zhenran rarely made small talk, and as soon as he sat down, he said, “Let’s have a meeting, and spare me the useless talk.”

　　 As soon as he sat down, Li Zhenruo jumped onto his lap and sat, causing the mid-level officers of the company attending the small conference room to look at each other.

　　 But Li Zhenran himself didn’t feel there was something wrong. He reached out and put his hand on Li Zhenruo’s back, and also scratched his chin.

　　 Li Zhenruo instantly had the illusion that he was acting in a Hong Kong film in the 1990s. The mafia godfather sat in front of his brothers with a serious look and was playing with a Persian cat in his hand. It’s a pity that Li Zhenran lacked a trench coat and sunglasses and he was also a fat-faced Garfield instead of a beautiful Persian cat.

　　 Today, it was a remote video conference. The project manager who was now in the west reports the recent work through synchronized video.

　　 The work report process should have been boring, but after all, it was a project he had been responsible for, and Li Zhenruo listened with great interest.

　　 Later, the project manager said that there was a problem with the demolition and was coordinating with the local government, but there was some resistance.

　　 Li Zhenran lowered his head, his right thumb and index finger bent against his chin, and he frowned slightly.

　　 Li Zhenruo raised his head to look at Li Zhenran’s expression, and he felt he was a bit sexy. His cat’s eyes were really blind.

　　 After the video report was over, the participants on this side of the meeting again reported the progress of their work.

　　 At the end, Li Zhenran suddenly said to Li Zhenzi, “Daniel.”

　　 Li Zhenzi has been a little inattentive throughout the meeting. He looked up at Li Zhenran in a daze when he heard that he was named, “Hmm?”

　　 Li Zhenran said, “You take a trip to Qijiang.”

　　 Li Zhenzi pouted, and Li Zhenruo knew that he wanted to refuse by looking at his expression, and was now trying to find excuses.

　　 Sure enough, Li Zhenzi said quickly, “I’d like to go, but there’s a big investment movie to be made on Yunyi side, and my schedule is pretty full these days.”

　　 Yunyi was a film and television culture company under Yunlin. Li Zhenzi’s main focus was still on that side. As for Yunlin’s side, if it was not related to the project on the western part, he didn’t care much.

　　 Li Zhenruo was in charge of the project on the western part at the beginning. Because it was handed over to Li Zhenran at the last moment, Li Jianglin was afraid that Li Zhenran would not be able to handle it, so he appointed Li Zhenzi to help him.

　　 According to Li Jianglin, the project on the western part was Yunlin’s major project for the next few years. If completed, it would be a new type of cultural tourism model that would be developed in various parts of the country. That was the business opportunity Li Jianglin had already seen so far.

　　 In terms of film and television art, although the development under Li Zhenzi was also very good, Li Jianglin was getting older after all, and what he valued more was the old business of the Li family.

　　 Li Zhenran heard the words and said calmly, “I’ll provide you the airfare, come back anytime you have something on your side.”

　　 That one sentence blocked all Li Zhenzi’s excuses. Of course he could say that he was too busy and tired, but it didn’t sound like a decent excuse.

　　 Li Zhenzi was silent for a moment and nodded helplessly.

　　 At the end of the meeting, Li Zhenran said to Li Zhenzi, “Third child, stay and give me two minutes of your time.”

　　 Li Zhenzi spread his hands and nodded.

　　 Hua Yibang and Su Yao both consciously got up and went out of the conference room and helped them close the door.

　　 At this moment, Li Zhenruo felt that he was lucky to be a cat so he didn’t have to exit the room because he was likely to hear Li Zhenran talk to Li Zhenzi sincerely. How rare were Li Zhenran’s sincere words? He thought he would never hear it in his life.

　　 Li Zhenran reached out and put Li Zhenruo on the conference table, got up and walked to Li Zhenzi himself, patted his shoulder, “I know what you’re up to.”

　　 Li Zhenzi shook a cigarette out of the cigarette case, and just held it to his mouth. Li Zhenran personally picked up the lighter and helped him light the fire.

　　 Li Zhenzi looked up at him, smiled and said, “Second brother, you are too modest.”

　　 Li Zhenran put aside the lighter on the table, “Third child, you should think about it. Could the development of Yunyi be so smooth without Yunlin?”

　　 This was a very simple truth.

　　 It was true that Yunyi developed very quickly and smoothly, but if it weren’t for Yunlin, there would be no such good development. The two complemented each other and prospered together.

　　 Li Zhenzi sucked in a mouthful of smoke and said to Li Zhenran, “Second brother, I understand. But you know me, I’m just lazy, I really don’t want to care about Yunlin’s affairs.”

　　 The hand that Li Zhenran put on Li Zhen’s shoulder suddenly exerted some strength, “But you have to understand that some things are not something you can afford to not want to take care of. Your surname is Li, and you are Li Jianglin’s son.”

　　 Li Zhenzi’s face changed slightly

　　 Li Zhenran said softly, “How do you think the fourth child died?”

　　 Li Zhenruo had been lying on the table listening to their conversation, but at this moment he couldn’t help standing up too. He felt a bit alarmed.

　　 Li Zhenzi’s face became even more unsightly as he asked rhetorically, “What do you think, Second brother?”

　　 Li Zhenran leaned to Li Zhenzi’s ear and said something in a low voice, which seemed to be a very long sentence.

　　 His voice was so low that Li Zhenruo didn’t even hear clearly, and couldn’t help but walk two steps in their direction.

　　 But at this time Li Zhenran had stood up straight, patted Li Zhenzi on the shoulder, and said, “You went there last time, didn’t you have a good time with the mayor’s son?”

　　 Li Zhenzhi responded, “Not bad.”

　　 Li Zhenran said, “Bring two actresses over, and then have fun with him, and settle the demolition matter as soon as possible.”

　　 Li Zhenzhi took a puff of smoke, then heavily nodded his head and said, “Okay.”

　　 Li Zhenran pressed his shoulder with satisfaction, turned around and stretched out his hand to Li Zhenruo, “Come here, we’re going back.”

　　 Li Zhenruo looked at Li Zhenran hesitantly and did not move.

　　 He felt very complicated. He repeatedly looked at the frowning Li Zhenzi and Li Zhenran usual expressions, but he couldn’t tell what they were thinking.

　　 Li Zhenruo was a little scared.

The author has something to say:

How can it took forty chapters for him to become a person? Doesn’t that mean second brother have to hold back very hard… But it’s true that I can’t stop writing about lovely animals

Do you know why I have so many drafts? Because I don’t want to be affected by comments and follow my own pace, otherwise I will definitely think: Oh oh, hurry up and change him to a person, hurry up and change him to a person!

Notes:
Lmao, author didn’t want to be pressured by readers

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Chapter 15

January 23, 2022 / hoenimochi / 1 Comment

The Li Zhenruo who chased her out couldn’t do anything much.

Auntie Wu tidied up everything last night. She told Wang Ma she quit her job early this morning, and she was now sitting and talking with another aunt who has worked in Li’s house for a long time.

Li Zhenruo went over to eavesdrop and found that Auntie Wu hadn’t mentioned yesterday’s affairs, so no one knew why she quit the job except Wang Ma and Li family brothers.

Wang Ma settled her salary for this month.

Auntie Wu dragged her luggage away, even Li Zhentai said he would arrange for the driver to take her to the station, but she refused.

Li Zhenruo looked at the back of Auntie Wu leaving and felt that he had been busy for nothing. He thought in his heart that if he was a human, everything would be easy. He could chase after her, grabbed Aunt Wu, shook her shoulder, and asked her what she had done and what she knew.

In the next few days, Li Zhenruo was a little listless.

Only when Li Zhenran came back to tease him, he reluctantly cooperate, but he couldn’t be bothered with others.

However, one night, when Li Zhenzhi mentioned to Li Zhenran to send him back to Yu Bingwei, Li Zhenruo suddenly realized that it had been a month since he arrived at the Li family.

Li Zhenruo was shocked.

Li Zhenran, who heard Li Zhenzi mentioning this matter, had no expression on his face, and answered one word: “Okay.”

This made Li Zhenruo even more shocked. He has been working hard to please him with his cuteness so that after Yu Bingwei came back, Li Zhenran would be reluctant to let him go. But he never thought that Li Zhenran would be so crisp and clear, and agreed to Li Zhenzi without hesitation.

Li Zhenruo didn’t get back to his senses for the whole night.

In addition to being nervous about being sent away, he also had a new understanding of Li Zhenran’s coldness and ruthlessness as a person.

Standing under his cat climbing frame, Li Zhenruo could only feel all the mixed feelings, and he suddenly remembered the conversation between Princess Iron Fan and Zhi Zun Bao in Stephen Chow’s “A Chinese Odyssey”¹: When you watched the moon with me in the past, you called me little sweetie. Now that you meet your new lover, I am now Mrs. Niu²?!

Li Zhenruo sighed for a long time, thinking that he is as helpless as Mrs. Niu. Li Zhenran was his life-saving straw, and he couldn’t let him go no matter what, even if his self-esteem suffered a big blow?

He slowly walked towards Li Zhenran’s room.

Li Zhenran didn’t know what Li Zhenruo was doing today, so he locked the door early.

Li Zhenruo didn’t give up, scratched the door with his paw and hit the door with his head.

Finally, the door of Li Zhenran was knocked open.

Li Zhenran looked at him with no expression.

Li Zhenruo decided to ignore his gaze and got inside from his leg.

Li Zhenran stood by the door for a while, closed the door and returned to the room. He sat in front of the desk using the computer.

Li Zhenruo followed and rubbed his head against Li Zhenran’s leg.

Li Zhenran didn’t seem to want to pay attention to him, so the left leg that was originally on the right leg was put down and moved to the side.

Li Zhenruo glanced at him bitterly, then moved to continue rubbing, and he rubbed all the hair on his head and back into a mess.

He didn’t know if Li Zhenran was annoyed by him, but Li Zhenran turned off the computer and lay down on the bed, opened a book and read it under the desk lamp.

Li Zhenruo obviously felt that he was disliked, but he didn’t know what he did to make Li Zhenran dislike him. Thinking that he might have to be sent away tomorrow, but Li Zhenran was still so indifferent to him, made him sad for no reason.

Li Zhenruo finally followed on the bed, climbed up and stepped on Li Zhenran’s leg.

Li Zhenran turned his head to look at him, and he seemed to be somewhat feeling comfortable.

Li Zhenruo saw that Li Zhenran liked it, so he strenuously stepped on Li Zhenran’s lap, buttocks, and on the back with his short legs. Later, because he was feeling tired, he fell asleep on Li Zhenran’s back.

When he woke up in the morning, Li Zhenruo had already found himself lying on the side of Li Zhenran’s pillow.

He got off the bed and heard the sound of people walking outside. He wanted to go out, but the door was locked by Li Zhenran. Li Zhenruo had no choice but to keep meowing in Li Zhenran’s ear until he woke up.

Li Zhenran got up sleepily and went to open the door for him.

Li Zhenruo went out and saw Wang Ma was instructing people to clean up his cat litter and cat climbing frame. He also heard Wang Ma say, “Clean up carefully, and put it in Zhenzi’s car later. He will send the cat away in the afternoon.”

Upon hearing the news, Li Zhenruo’s whole fur stood up.

He suddenly turned around and rushed back to Li Zhenran’s room. At that time, Li Zhenran had just lay in bed and was going to sleep for a while, and Li Zhenruo hurriedly got into Li Zhenran’s bed.

Li Zhenran was dazed by a furry thing drilled in, and he was still taken aback, but he stretched out his hand to hold and pressed Li Zhenruo’s tail.

Li Zhenruo turned around and hugged Li Zhenran’s arm, thinking that if he didn’t let go all day today, no one would want to take him away.

Later, after Li Zhenran got up, Li Zhenruo kept holding his calf.

Li Zhenran went to wash his face and brushed his teeth, he followed. Li Zhenran went to the toilet, he also followed, but he turned his face away and did not look.

As Li Zhenran finished packing up and going down the stairs, Li Zhenruo stumbled along the way, but his two front paws kept holding Li Zhenran’s legs tightly. The hind legs knocked on the edge of the stairs several times, causing his face to wrinkle in pain.

When they reached the second floor, they ran into Li Zhenran coming out of his room, standing at the entrance of the stairs looking at them, “Aiyo” he said. “Second brother, you look like you’re wearing snow boots, what’s going on early in the morning?”

Li Zhenran looked down at Li Zhenruo and said, “I don’t know.”

Li Zhenzi looked closer, “Could it be in heat?”

Li Zhenruo cursed in his heart: “Yuck!”

When they had breakfast, all of Li Zhenruo’s household utensils were packed and put into Li Zhenzi’s car.

Li Zhenruo’s heart sank deeper and deeper. Seeing that Li Zhenran hasn’t reacted at all until now, he always feels that he couldn’t escape today. If he was really sent back to Yu Bingwei, he was afraid he would have to find a way to get out.

After breakfast, Li Zhenzi called to him, “Dumpling, we are leaving.”

Li Zhenruo simply closed his eyes and clenched his teeth, clinging to Li Zhenran’s leg and not letting go.

At this point, Li Zhenran finally bent down and reached out to pick him up.

Li Zhenruo felt nervous for a while, fearing that Li Zhenran would pick him up to return him to Li Zhenzi, so he still refused to let go of his front paws.

Li Zhenran seemed a little helpless, and said to Li Zhenzi, “Is the owner of Dumpling, Miss Yu?”

Yu Bingwei is famous, the Li family has heard about her name. Yu Bingwei and Li Zhenzi have their own affairs, and Li Zhenran might know it to some extent.

After hearing the words, Li Zhenzi replied, “Yes, Bingwei bought it not long ago.”

Li Zhenran said, “Are you free today? Could I invite Miss Yu to come out for a meal tonight?”

“Huh?” Li Zhenzi was a little surprised.

Li Zhentai was all packed up and ready to go out, but then stopped and looked at Li Zhenran.

Li Zhenran said, “Maybe I can talk to Miss Yu and resell this cat to me.”

When Li Zhentai heard him, he seemed to find it a bit funny and shrugged his shoulders and walked towards the outside.

But Li Zhenzi was stunned for a second, and then smiled, “Second brother, why didn’t you say it earlier? Look, I’ve packed everything.”

Li Zhenran took a step forward to show his leg to Li Zhenzi, “To be honest, now when I look at it this way, it seemed to be really a bit reluctant to give up.”

At this point, Li Zhenzi also saw that the cat hugged Li Zhenran’s leg, and made it clear that it knew it would be sent away today, and it did not want to leave.

He sighed with some sorrow, “How can this cat be raised like a dog?”

But Li Zhenruo is ecstatic now. He raised his head and stared at Li Zhenran in a daze, only to feel that the other party was waving a pair of holy wings behind, like an angel.

Li Zhenzi thought for a while and seemed a little troubled. He finally said, “I’ll call Bingwei later, or you can talk to her at night. I can’t say anything or she’s going to think I was greedy for her cat.”

Li Zhenran nodded, “Okay.”

“Hey,” Li Zhenzi walked outside and asked the driver to put down all the pet cat supplies in the car.

Li Zhenran was about to go out too and stepped out only to find that Li Zhenruo was still holding his legs. He lowered his head and said to him, “Let me go, I won’t send you away.”

Li Zhenruo glanced at Li Zhenzi, and he was always a little worried. He was afraid that he would be sold by Li Zhenran as soon as he let go.

Li Zhenran looked at the time, and simply dragged his foot with him out.

Seeing that Li Zhenran was about to get in the car, Li Zhenruo thought he might as well get into the company with Li Zhenran. Anyway, he could only feel safe by staying next to Li Zhenran.

Li Zhenran didn’t get rid of Li Zhenruo until he got into the car.

The driver asked him, “Second Young Master, what to do?”

Li Zhenran sighed helplessly, and said, “Let the third child bring his toilet and rice bowl over, and take it to the company today first. Later, bring it along to see Miss Yu in the evening, so that Miss Yu can rest assured that the cat is in my hands.”

“Oh,” the driver responded and got out of the car to get something.

Li Zhenruo reluctantly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard these words. He let go of the legs holding Li Zhenran and watched Li Zhenran reach out to grab him, then quickly retreated to the corner of the car and shrank under the front seat.

He was very contradictory. He relied on Li Zhenran even though he distrusted him. He was still afraid of being grabbed by him and thrown out by hand.

It was better to keep a proper distance.

Fortunately, Li Zhenran didn’t insist on grabbing him. When the driver came back with his things, he asked the driver to drive.

Li Zhenruo stayed in the corner for a while and felt a little relieved. He then jumped to Li Zhenran’s lap and lay down.

This was the first time he has gone out since he arrived at Li’s house. He couldn’t help but become active, thinking about whether he could find a chance to slip away, and what he wanted to do. It is best to continue to check the clues that they found in the first place.

But he was worried that his slip would make Li Zhenran angry. If Li Zhenran didn’t want him, he would never go back to Li’s house.

His whole cat looked very serious and complicated along the way.

The author has something to say:

Although you are all asking me when he will change, I want to tell you that I have already written chapter 40, so it is useless for you guys to remind me when it is time for him to change!

Notes:
Thank you kii for helping me searching for the conversation of Princess Iron Fan and Zhi Zun Bao~ (〃ω〃)
Also does it means…. He’ll stay as a cat until ch 40….??? Σ(‐△‐●)

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