Author: hoenimochi (Page 81 of 95)

       Li Zhenruo followed behind the two people.

       Auntie Wu pulled Wang Ma into Li Zhenruo’s room and went to the bathroom to show Wang Ma the bloody tissues in the trash can.

       Wang Ma frowned and said, “Who throws things into xiao Ruo’s room?”

       Li Zhenruo thought silently, Wang Ma’s reaction was normal. If it were him, the first reaction would be wondering who was throwing things here as a prank.

       Auntie Wu’s face really was not looking good. She said, “Wang Ma, do you think it’s Li Zhenruo… He…”

       “What nonsense!” Wang Ma was a little upset.

       Auntie Wu said, “This room is usually locked. I only opened the door for a while to clean. I didn’t even come here yesterday.” 

       Wang Ma heard the words and said, “You are not the only one who has the key!”

       In fact, she forgot to close the door yesterday after cleaning. If she recalled it carefully, she wouldn’t be so alarmed. He didn’t know if it was because she was too nervous, but at this time, she couldn’t remember at all.

       But when one thought about it. Usually in the morning when she cleaned, there would be no one else on this side of the main floor except Wang Ma, it really didn’t seem like someone was doing a prank.

       Of course, no one would suspect a cat.

       Li Zhenruo tried to stare at Auntie Wu’s face, and her voice trembled a little.

       Wang Ma said again, “Anyway, it’s just a piece of toilet paper. Where’s the ghost in that?”

       Auntie Wu didn’t know what she was thinking, and asked, “Then you tell me, who would do it?”

       How could Wang Ma know who did it? She also felt that there was something strange about this matter. So she could only say to Auntie Wu, “Anyway, don’t yell and make a fuss anymore. I will talk to Zhentai and the others in the afternoon and check out who did the prank.”

        Maybe because it was about Li Zhenruo who had passed away, Wang Ma was a little angry. She asked Aunt Wu to use a plastic sealed bag to pack the tissues, and said that she must find the prankster.

       Auntie Wu did as she ordered, but her expression never recovered, and her whole self was a little absent-minded.

       Li Zhenruo thought to himself, Auntie Wu might have received money from someone to do this kind of thing. She might not intend to cause harm, but she also knew the consequences her behaviour had brought afterwards. Of course, Li Zhenruo wouldn’t resent her, if it wasn’t this blood-stained tissue, it would be something else. If the other party found a woman to get his semen, he would feel even more disgusted if he learnt about it afterwards.

       What he wanted to know most now was who Auntie Wu gave the things to?

       Li Zhentai, Li Zhenzi or… Li Zhenran?

       Auntie Wu went back to the small building on the right after cleaning. Li Zhenruo wanted to follow her, but was picked up by Wang Ma halfway through and was asked to stay here quietly.

       Later, he sneaked out into the courtyard and saw Auntie Wu was washing clothes in the washing machine. Her face was pale, but she hadn’t contacted anyone, nor had she spoken to anyone.

       It is impossible for Li Zhenruo to keep an eye on Auntie Wu all day. At this time, he hates his powerlessness as a cat. If he was a human, at least he could think of some way to monitor Auntie Wu’s phone call to see if she has tipped off anyone.

       Unfortunately, these ideas just existed in his mind, and Li Zhenruo couldn’t do anything about it. 

       This afternoon, the three Li brothers were not out socializing but went home for dinner.

       Li Zhenruo habitually climbed onto Li Zhenran’s lap. Just after the meal was served, Wang Ma told them about the blood-stained tissue that Auntie Wu found in Li Zhenruo’s room today.

       A trace of bewilderment appeared on the faces of several people at the same time. This matter was really a little strange.

       Li Zhenruo’s eyes didn’t blink as he tried to check their expressions.

       Li Zhentai asked first, “What kind of tissue?”

       Wang Ma took out the paper towels in the plastic bag and showed them.

       Li Zhentai frowned.

       Li Zhenzi raised his eyebrows and said, “Who would do such boring things?”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly realized that he couldn’t see Li Zhenran’s expression. He jumped onto the dining table and walked towards the end of the rectangular dining table. From this angle, he could observe the expressions of three people at the same time.

       Li Zhenran was the coldest one. He even took a slow sip of the soup and asked Wang Ma, “Was there anyone else there besides you and her?”

       Wang Ma shook her head, “Just me and her.”

       Li Zhentai’s brows are still frowning, “It wasn’t Auntie Wu pretending to be a ghost, right?”

       Wang’s mother said, “It doesn’t look like it, her face was blue with fear.”

       Li Zhenzi laughed when he heard that, “What is she afraid of? It’s not like the fourth child appeared.”

       Wang Ma looked at him, and discouraged him, “Don’t say such things.”

       Li Zhenzi shrugged and stopped talking.

       Li Zhentai looked puzzled, “A piece of tissue? A bit of blood? What does it represent?”

       Wang Ma didn’t understand either and just shook her head.

       Li Zhenran wiped his mouth with a paper towel, moving gracefully, and suddenly said, “It’s not really a big deal, tell Auntie Wu not to be afraid. There are no ghosts in this world. In other words, even if the fourth child comes back, it means that for every grievance there was someone responsible¹in this case Li Zhenran is saying that the fourth child will be dealing with the person who caused him grievance by himself, and he couldn’t find the reason to make her responsible. If someone pretended to be a ghost, I’m afraid it won’t be just this time, let’s see what this person is going to do next. There is no need to publicize this matter, tell Auntie Wu to keep her mouth shut and not to make the whole Li family tense.”

       Wang Ma obviously agreed with Li Zhenran’s words. She said, “I told her to shut up and stop being so shocked.”

       Li Zhentai also said, “That’s it.”

       After he said that, Li Zhentai suddenly noticed the cat sitting on the dining table. He turned to Li Zhenzi and said, “Third child, look at your cat.”

       The eyes of the three brothers suddenly turned to Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo was still thinking that his three elder brothers were really thorough in handling things, and by now he couldn’t feel which one of them was more suspicious at all. In comparison, Auntie Wu was just making a huge fuss and couldn’t maintain her composure.

       Li Zhenzi stared at Li Zhenruo and said, “Big brother, don’t you think it is more appropriate to call it the second brother’s cat now?”

       Li Zhenran laughed when he heard the words, stretched out his hand to Li Zhenruo, and said, “Come here.”

       His tone was very calm, but it was accompanied by a commanding attitude that does not allow resistance. The more he behaved like this, the more Li Zhenruo didn’t want to do what he wanted. But if he wanted to live well in Li’s family, he had no choice but to rely on Li Zhenran.

       Although he was unwilling, Li Zhenruo walked towards Li Zhenran and got a small piece of boiled chicken in plain water.

       At night, Li Zhenran was lying on the bed and talking on the phone.

       Li Zhenruo wanted to listen to the content, but it’s mostly the other person who was talking and Li Zhenran just responded with a few flat “um”.

       His forelimb injury was not completely healed, but today it was not as painful as yesterday.

       Li Zhenruo sat on Li Zhenran’s tatami, raised his paw and licked the wound.

       Suddenly, Li Zhenran squeezed his paw from the side and turned it over to look at his wound.

       Li Zhenruo felt a little strange for a moment because Li Zhenran had already helped him with his wounds last night.

       Li Zhenran looked at his injury for a while, and asked, “Did someone scratch you?”

       At this time, if Li Zhenruo wasn’t a cat, he believed that he would have been covered in cold sweat. He had never thought that Li Zhenran would be so keen. In fact, in this house, no matter what he did secretly, he was the least suspicious one, because no one would suspect a cat.

       But now, Li Zhenran associated the bloodstains on the tissues and the blood on his wounds, thinking that someone else did it, and it really made Li Zhenruo sweat.

       Fortunately, Li Zhenruo doesn’t need to answer Li Zhenran’s question.

       No matter what kind of doubt Li Zhenran faces, his answer was very simple. He just open his eyes wide and answered him, “Meow~”

       Li Zhenran looked at him for a while, stretched out his hand and rubbed his head, then let the matter go.

       Li Zhenruo felt that his mouth was dry, so he didn’t dare to run immediately. He lay down beside Li Zhenran’s leg for a while before turning over and getting out of bed to drink water outside.

       That night, Li Zhenruo didn’t go to Li Zhenran’s room to sleep. Of course, he was a little wary of Li Zhenran in his heart, and second, it was to facilitate him to sneak out at night.

       After 11 o’clock, everyone went to sleep one after another, and Li Zhenran’s door was locked from the inside.

       Li Zhenruo slipped outside from the window and went directly to the small building on the right.

       Because most of the families’ nanny, chef, and the driver gardener get up early, the lights in the small building have almost gone out.

       Li Zhenruo had seen it during the day and remembered that Auntie Wu’s room was on the far right side of the second floor. At this time, only her room was still showing faint light. So he climbed directly up the window and looked in from the window sill.

       The window in Auntie Wu’s room was closed, and the curtains were closed, leaving only a gap.

       The room is dimly lit, and Auntie Wu hadn’t slept. She sat on the bed and recited some words, because her voice was very low and fast, Li Zhenruo still couldn’t hear clearly what she recited even when he pressed his ear.

       He stood by the window for more than ten minutes, but Auntie Wu sat on the bed and recited for more than ten minutes.

       Finally, Li Zhenruo became impatient and wanted to scare her. He stretched out his paw and grabbed the window glass hard, making an ear-piercing noise.

       Auntie Wu’s eyes widened suddenly, and she sat motionless on the edge of the bed.

       Li Zhenruo turned around and jumped from the windowsill. He was shrinking in the corner and when he looked upward, he saw Auntie Wu open the window to look outside with a face overwhelmed with fear.

       The next morning, Li Zhenruo went downstairs after washing his face with his paws.

       Just as he reached the first floor, he heard Wang Ma said to Li Zhentai, “Auntie Wu said she’s quitting. She wanted to go back to her hometown.”

       Li Zhenruo was dumbfounded all of a sudden. He wanted to scare Aunt Wu, but he didn’t expect she would be too scared and chase her away. As Auntie Wu left, the clue he obtained with great difficulty broke again.

       Li Zhentai had no expression when he heard it, and said, “If she wants to leave, just let her be, and settle this month’s salary for her. Our Li family will not treat her badly.”

       Upon hearing those words, Wang Ma said, “Oh, all right.”

       Li Zhenruo froze and thought to himself whether he had the ability to keep Auntie Wu.

       Suddenly, someone kicked him gently from behind. He turned his head and saw Li Zhenzi who had just come downstairs.

       Li Zhen said to him, “A good dog doesn’t stand in the way.” After speaking, he smiled and changed his words, “A good cat doesn’t stand in the way.”

       Li Zhenruo was not in the mood to respond to him and ran towards the outside of the gate.

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       Li Zhenruo woke up next to Li Zhenran’s pillow in the morning.

       He clearly remembered that he was still lying on Li Zhenran’s tatami when he fell asleep, but at this time he was so close to Li Zhenran that he could count Li Zhenran’s eyelashes one by one.

       Li Zhenran’s eyelashes are really long and dense. He was sleeping on his back with his head tilted to the outside of the bed and his hair was in a mess. His arms stretched out from the quilt, and a section of his shoulders was exposed. You could clearly see the lines of his muscles, it looked sexy and alluring.

       Li Zhenruo thought that if he were a woman, he would have fallen in love with Li Zhenran. That’s right… He seemed to have thought yesterday that if he was really a cat, he would definitely fall in love with Li Zhenran. It’s a pity that he was not a woman nor a cat, but a man who lived in a cat’s body, and was Li Zhenran’s former brother who was kicked out by the Li family.

       When he tried to get up from next to Li Zhenran’s pillow, Li Zhenran was awakened.

       But he was obviously not awake enough, so he reached out and grabbed Li Zhenruo, dragged him into his arms and hugged him to sleep.

       Li Zhenruo was pulled into the bed and breathed in all Li Zhenran’s scent. He was nearly suffocated. After struggling for a while, he got out from under his arm.

       Li Zhenran rolled over and rubbed his eyes.

       Li Zhenruo rolled out of the bed and stood by the bed shaking his fur.

       The first thing he did when he woke up in the morning was that he recalled the gentle and pure perfume smell that he smelled on Li Zhenzi last night. It was really unforgivable for Li Zhenzi to seduce his sister-in-law, Li Zhenruo thought angrily.

       However, no matter how angry he was, it was useless.

       Now Li Zhentai is on a business trip. No matter what Li Zhenzi and Wen Chun were doing outside, he was afraid it would be difficult for others to discover. He may be the only one who found the traces—no, it was a cat who did it. But he was trapped in Li’s house and couldn’t go anywhere.

       If the Li family has become a big cage for him, then this cat’s body is his little cage, and as long as he remains locked up here, he couldn’t go anywhere.

       As he thought of this, Li Zhenruo felt a little depressed.

       Li Zhenran was still lying in bed, and Li Zhenruo was too lazy to wait for him to get up to open the door, so he went straight out the window.

       In the morning, only Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi had a meal together. It was rare for Li Zhenruo to not stick to Li Zhenran. He sneaked out after hearing Li Zhenzi’s driver outside prepared a car for him. He wanted to slip into Li Zhenzi’s car and followed when he went out.

       Although he also knew that Li Zhenzi would not necessarily go to see Wen Chun, his curiosity was really overwhelming, and he couldn’t suppress it no matter what.

       The driver opened the door of the back seat but didn’t notice Li Zhenruo jumping in. After going up, he tried to put himself under the front seat, hoping that he would not attract Li Zhenzi’s attention.

       In the end, he overlooked one thing.

       Before Li Zhenzi stepped into the car door, he noticed a fluffy tail dragging out from under the front seat. He sat up and said to the driver, “Wait a minute.” Then he reached out and grabbed Li Zhenruo by the tail, and pulled him out.

       The moment Li Zhenruo felt his tail being grabbed, he thought, “Oh no! I forgot about the tail!”

       As Li Zhenzi picked him out, he struggled desperately to escape from Li Zhenzi by himself.

       Li Zhenzi put him on the seat and asked, “What are you doing?”

       Li Zhenruo could not do anything, and could only pretend to be pitiful and look at Li Zhenzi.

       Of course, Li Zhenzi wouldn’t really care much about a cat. He scared Li Zhenruo, and finally squeezed his tail and threw him out.

       Li Zhenruo rolled on the ground and stood up, helplessly watching Li Zhenzi’s car drive away. He sighed heavily, and when he turned around, he saw Li Zhenran standing at the door of the room looking at him.

       Not wanting to act too strange, Li Zhenruo calmly walked past Li Zhenran and went back to the house.

       Time passed by with Li Zhenruo eating and sleeping every day. Before he knew it, it had been half a month since Li’s family big brother, Li Zhentai, who had gone on a business trip to the coast, had returned.

       His feet had not fully recovered, but he didn’t have any serious walking problems, and he no longer continued to stay at home every day.

       Li Zhentai should have gone to see Li Jianglin, but as for what Li Jianglin said to him, it was not clear.

       But after Li Zhentai came back, Wen Chun came over.

       Wen Chun had dinner at Li’s house that day. Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi brothers were also at home.

       Li Zhentai suddenly mentioned to Wen Chun, “Dad asked when we plan to get married.”

       Li Zhenruo sat on the chair next to Li Zhenran and noticed that both Li Zhenzi and Li Zhenran looked up at Wen Chun at the same time.

       Wen Chun was quite calm. She put down her chopsticks and asked Li Zhentai, “What does Uncle Li mean?”

       Li Zhentai smiled and said to her, “From what Dad said, it means that he is rushing us.”

       Wen Chun then followed suit and smiled as she said, “Then let’s discuss it when Uncle Li will come back.”

       Li Zhentai’s expression was a little subtle for a moment. His initial intention was for them to discuss the decision first and directly notify Li Jianglin when he came back; but Wen Chun took advantage of the situation for her own benefit and told him to wait for Li Jianglin to come back to discuss.

       No one knows when Li Jianglin will come back. Li Zhentai also was unable to call Li Jianglin to come back for this kind of thing. When that happened, Li Jianglin would look down on him because he couldn’t even handle his girlfriend.

       Li Zhenruo licked the beef that Li Zhenran gave him, and thought it meant that Wen Chun didn’t want to get married, and he couldn’t help but look at Li Zhenzi again. He found that Li Zhenzi didn’t have much expression on his face. From beginning to end, neither Li Zhenzi nor Wen Chun’s eyes met.

       Everything was still a mystery.

       What shitty little brother! Li Zhenruo lay on the swing chair on the top floor, thinking thoughtlessly; if he hadn’t died at that time, and if he was still in Li’s house, he probably wouldn’t know the current situation.

       What’s the use of thinking about these? After all, he was not even Li Jianglin’s son anymore. The fight between the Li family brothers has nothing to do with him. The only thing he wanted to know was who was the murderer who framed him.

       There were footsteps coming towards the top floor, and the people who would come up at this time are usually the cleaning auntie Wu.

       Li Zhenruo jumped off the swing chair and rushed out of the building door. He went all the way from the top floor to the first floor, planning to go to the dining room to drink some water.

       When passing the second floor, Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but slow down. He vaguely noticed at the end of the corridor, it turned out that there was light from the direction of his room. He couldn’t help but walk over and take a look, and found that the door to his room was not closed.

       Maybe the auntie forgot to close it after cleaning.

       Li Zhenruo walked to the door of the room and suddenly had an idea. His heart was pounding. If this plan was to be implemented, he must act fast! The auntie went upstairs to clean, and maybe it would take about half an hour for her to come down. She would come and close the door if she found that the door was not closed. He might not have this chance tomorrow.

       Li Zhenruo turned around and ran back to the third floor, pulling a piece of toilet paper out of the bathroom. There was a fruit knife in the drawer of the bar counter in the recreation room. Although he didn’t want to make a cut on his body, the time was too short for him to make more preparations.

       He jumped onto the bar, opened the drawer with his paws and mouth, and then took out the fruit knife inside the drawer.

       Li Zhenruo at this time deeply realized the inconvenience of not having hands. His movements seemed very awkward, and he almost scratched his neck when he pulled the knife out.

       His eyes widened in amazement, but he didn’t feel the pain. Only then did he realize that the hair was too thick, and as a result, only a lot of hair was cut by the knife.

      One paw pressed on the hilt, and Li Zhenruo took a deep breath. The wrist of the other side of the foreleg near the paw was swiped on the blade. He didn’t need to do it too deeply, because he didn’t need much blood.

       But this action still hurts to the point of tears. Why is a cat unable to endure this much pain?

       He rubbed a little blood on the toilet paper, and was careful not to get the cat’s hair on it, then used his paws to crumple the paper to a ball, and ran towards his room on the second floor carefully.

       At this time, the aunt was still cleaning the roof of the building.

       He limped along the way, and the wound on his left forelimb hurt when he exerted some force. Fortunately, the cut was shallow and he didn’t continue to bleed.

       He threw the blood-stained paper ball into the trash can in the bathroom. Perhaps she won’t notice it today, but she will definitely find it after cleaning up tomorrow.

       When the time came, he wanted to observe the auntie’s reaction carefully.

       He went back to the third floor, endured the pain, jumped onto the bar, and cleaned the fruit knife.

       After that Li Zhenruo lay down on the bar and miserably licked the wound for a long time.

       After cleaning the top floor, the auntie went straight down to the first floor. After passing through the second floor, she found that she had forgotten to close the door of Li Zhenruo’s room. She walked over and closed the door again, but she hadn’t found the toilet paper ball.

       In the afternoon, Li Zhenran was the one who first discovered that Li Zhenruo had injured a leg.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t really want him to notice, but Li Zhenran still reached out and grabbed his paw and found the wound on his wrist.

       “What happened?”

       Li Zhenruo pretended to be pitiful and cried out. Anyway, he was a cat, so he didn’t have to reply to any embarrassing questions.

       Li Zhenran thought that Li Zhenruo was not careful and was scratched somewhere, so he asked Wang Ma to find iodine and wipe it on him a little.

       By the time of cleaning the next day, Li Zhenruo quietly lay on the corner of the stairs on the second floor, waiting for the auntie’s response.

       Less than five minutes after cleaning Aunt Wu entered his room, Li Zhenruo heard a scream from inside.

       Li Zhenruo thought: Here it comes! and stood up immediately.

       Wang Ma heard the scream and came from the first floor with a frown, she asked, “What’s the matter?”

       Auntie Wu came out of the room with a look of horror, and her breath was a little uneven. She saw Wang Ma on the stairs, and hurriedly took her hand and said, “There is… ghost!”

       Li Zhenruo stood right at his feet, but no one would pay attention to a cat at this time.

       When Wang Ma saw that Auntie Wu was in a state of shock and had run out of Li Zhenruo’s room, she was not too happy and said, “What’s with all the noise? Where did the ghost come from in broad daylight?”

       But Auntie Wu still had a pale face, and pulled Wang Ma’s wrist, “Wang Ma, you come over with me to see.”

       With that, Auntie Wu took Wang Ma towards Li Zhenruo’s room.

       Li Zhenruo followed. He felt that Auntie Wu’s reaction was a little too excessive. Linking a bloody tissue to a haunting, indicating that she had noticed the tissue he had thrown in the trash at that time, was very likely the same tissue that was handed over from her and was sent for identification.

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I bet this is what Zhenruo was doing:

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       Li Zhentai’s ankle bone was cracked by Li Zhenzhi’s ball.

       When he heard the news, Li Zhenruo thought to himself that the third child was really ruthless, Why should he do things heavy-handedly?

       But in the past few days, Li Zhenzi has run back and forth a lot because of Li Zhentai’s foot injury, which could be considered as doing so much for him.

       The injured Li Zhentai did not go to the company for a short time but stayed at home to recuperate.

       Wen Chun came to see him every night, and would leave after sitting with him for a while, but never stayed at Li’s house overnight.

       Li Zhentai was not like Li Zhenran. Even if he stayed at home, Li Zhenruo didn’t stick to him. He just liked to eavesdropped on what Li Zhentai and Wen Chun were saying.

       But one afternoon, the family had a guest visiting.

       Li Zhentai limped on one foot, and also hopped down from the second floor.

       Li Zhenruo heard the movement and also followed down from upstairs.

       It was not rare guests who came here, but it was Gao Qi, Li Zhentai’s assistant. After seeing Gao Qi, Li Zhentai led him into the study on the first floor to talk, and at the same time reached out and closed the study door.

       Li Zhenruo was a step too slow to follow in. After much regret, he simply went out from the gate and walked around the back of the villa, rushing to the window sill to eavesdrop.

       No one would pay attention to a cat.

       The study on the first floor was actually Li Jianglin’s study. After he left, it had been left empty and unused. Usually, the Li family brothers would never enter his study at home without authorization.

       Perhaps because Li Zhentai’s legs were uncomfortable, he walked inside directly with Gao Qi. But Li Zhenruo felt that it was mainly because there was no one else in the house, and only Li Zhentai was there, so he couldn’t help being reckless.

       Gao Qi came here mainly to bring a piece of document for Li Zhentai to sign. It was too far away, and Li Zhenruo could not see what document it was. But seeing where he signed it, it looked like a business contract.

       After signing, Gao Qi reported to Li Zhentai about the recent situation in the company.

       Li Zhenruo got down, his tail casually flapping on the edge of the window sill. Li Zhenruo didn’t have much interest in the company’s current situation reported by Gao Qi to Li Zhentai. He had no idea about Li family’s activity up until now.

       Even if he had the ability to sit down on his ass and kill the person who harmed him, he would not have the ability to take down the Li family’s property with the body of a cat.

       Besides, what did he even need to take them down for? A top-notch cat food? Or to have cat climbing frames in every corner of the house?

       It’s just that the company was controlled by Li Zhenran. Li Zhentai was not the only one who was unhappy, he too was more or less unhappy.

       Li Zhentai was also quite calm, and expressionless after listening to Gao Qi’s report. He didn’t say anything, but finally suddenly said, “I plan to go to the coastal hotel project to see the progress of the project.”

       Li Zhenruo felt a little strange. He obviously heard Li Zhentai and Wen Chun talk last time and knew that Li Zhentai was not very concerned about coastal hotel projects. Now that he has injured his feet, why did he suddenly plan to go there?

       Subsequently, Li Zhentai said to Gao Qi, “I planned to see Dad later.”

       Li Zhenruo’s tail slowly flicked from the left to the right. He knew it. Li Jianglin was recuperating on the coast now, and his sons were usually out of contact with him, and rashly going there in the past can easily attract the attention of other brothers.

       Li Zhentai took advantage of his injury to inspect the project first and then dropped in to Li Jianglin to show off his performance.

       Of course, it was hard to say whether it would be to Li Jianglin’s liking. Li Zhenruo has always felt that Li Jianglin’s personality was very unpredictable. Even Li Zhenran, whom he liked, sometimes Li Jianglin didn’t necessarily have much to support. In regards to his four sons, Li Jianglin really treated them equally, and only looked at their abilities.

       But no matter what, Li Zhenran also understood that Li Zhentai was going there to test his mood. After all, Li Zhentai was now the least valued one, even worse than Li Zhenzi.

       Gao Qi obviously understood Li Zhentai’s plan, and asked, “Does Miss Wen want to come along?”

       Li Zhentai shook his head, “She doesn’t have that time.”

       Gao Qi said, “I just think the chairman likes Miss Wen. If he sees Miss Wen go with you, he will be in a better mood.”

       It was true that Li Jianglin liked Wen Chun, otherwise, he would not have stepped in to let Li Zhentai and Wen Chun be together.

       Li Zhentai thought for a while and finally said, “Let me ask her, wait until I call you and book the plane ticket. You don’t have to go, I will find someone to accompany me.”

       Gao Qi responded, “Okay.”

       Li Zhentai got up from the seat, and Gao Qi came to help him. Li Zhentai smiled and patted Gao Qi on the shoulder, and walked out with his help.

       Gao Qi moved quickly. Li Zhentai with his one limped foot the next day asked the driver to drive him to the airport.

       It’s impossible for Li Zhenruo to keep an eye on him, so he didn’t know if he could persuade Wen Chun to accompany him in the end.

       In fact, Li Zhenruo felt rather than saying that Li Zhentai didn’t want to go with Wen Chun, it was better to say that Wen Chun was the one that was not willing to accompany Li Zhentai. Li Zhentai himself understood Wen Chun’s thoughts.

       To put it bluntly, Wen Chun and Li Zhentai were like an arranged marriage in ancient times. Although they were given time to fall in love first, only they knew how much they loved each other.

       Li Zhenruo thought this kind of relationship was also very exhausting.

       Because he was thinking of Li Zhentai and Wen Chun, he unconsciously thought of Li Zhenran. Is Li Zhenran also waiting to marry a woman he doesn’t love?

       What is Li Zhenran thinking about? Li Zhenruo found that he was really unpredictable.

       Two days later, when Li Zhenran came back, he brought Li Zhenruo a claw scratching pad and a cat climbing frame, all of which were placed on the third floor.

       And Li Zhenruo found that he was really overjoyed. After the cat climbing frame was placed, he couldn’t wait to climb up and stay.

       If he was really just a cat, he might have fallen in love with Li Zhenran a long time ago.

       At night, Li Zhenran sat on his bed reading a book, Li Zhenruo walked over and rubbed his leg.

       Li Zhenran raised his eyes to look at him, and then scratched Li Zhenruo’s neck with his toes.

       Li Zhenruo yelled in his heart, “Take off the smelly feet!” But his body honestly felt very comfortable, and he finally lay down on the side of Li Zhenran’s feet.

       Li Zhenran poked Li Zhenruo in the nose with his toe.

       Li Zhenruo was furious, but he was too lazy to move. After Li Zhenran fiddled with him a few times, Li Zhenruo grabbed Li Zhenran’s feet with his two paws and bit the toes.

       Of course he didn’t bite, but Li Zhenruo suddenly realized what he was doing. He got up from the ground and ran out quickly. He thought that he really started to become a cat.

       Feeling a little gloomy, Li Zhenruo planned to go to the first floor to give himself a meal and chew some cat food.

       He had just walked down the stairs to the first floor when he saw Li Zhenzi opening the door to come in from outside.

       Li Zhenruo subconsciously wanted to hide, but when he turned around, he thought again, What am I afraid of? Then he continued to run towards the dining room.

       Since Li Zhen didn’t drink today, he naturally wouldn’t go crazy. Li Zhenzi clearly saw that the stupid cat stopped for a while and ran towards the dining room when he saw him. He felt it was a little funny, and then followed.

       Li Zhenruo lay down in front of his rice bowl to eat, with his round hairy buttocks leaning forward, causing Li Zhenzi to reach out and pinched it.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly jumped up and hid in the corner looking at Li Zhenzi in horror, cursing a series of swear words in his heart.

       Li Zhenzi looked at him with a smile and then reached out to grab him.

       Li Zhenruo was already hiding in the corner, and there was nowhere to hide. He wanted to get out by taking advantage of the space from under Li Zhenzi’s arm when he stretched out his hand. But Li Zhenruo suddenly caught a smell on Li Zhenzi’s sleeve, and he couldn’t help but be caught after walking a few steps.

       “Fat cat,” Li Zhenzi said.

       Li Zhenruo had no intention to correct Li Zhenzi since he was just puffy. And he was too focused on sniffing the smell on Li Zhenzi. It was a perfume, and it was a lady’s perfume.

       After Li Zhenruo became a cat, his sense of smell has been enhanced a lot. He could clearly distinguish the scent he recently smelled on a woman, but which woman was it?

       Li Zhenzi saw the cat in his hand suddenly became silly and didn’t respond. So he lost his interest in teasing and put him back on the ground.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly remembered that the smell of this perfume was exactly the same as that on Wen Chun’s body. He was sure of it.

       He lifted his hand and stared at Li Zhenzi in surprise with his round cat eyes.

       Li Zhentai has gone to the coast. How could Li Zhenzi see Wen Chun today, and was still tainted with Wen Chun’s perfume? He knows that Li Zhenzi loved to play around, and have countless women outside. Even though Wen Chun hasn’t married Li Zhentai yet, she could very well be their future sister-in-law.

       Li Zhenzi dared to touch Wen Chun?

       Li Zhenzi didn’t understand what Li Zhenruo’s expression meant, but felt that he looked dumbfounded. So he stood up and said to him, “Eat slowly,” and then walked towards the stairs.

       Li Zhenruo was overwhelmed, thinking that if Li Zhenzi really hooked up with Wen Chun, he couldn’t help to feel that it was too disgusting. Even a rabbit doesn’t eat the grass around its burrow¹it means that even a villain doesn’t usually harm their neighbour, let alone its eldest brother’s woman?

       The unforeseen incident was so great that Li Zhenruo felt that he was full and didn’t want to continue eating supper.

       He followed Li Zhenzi to the second floor and wanted to follow to his room to have a look, but Li Zhenzi saw him walking past but did not slow down, and closed the door in front of him.

       Li Zhenruo stood there hesitating for a while, and finally did not go around the window, but chose to go back to the third floor to sleep.

       However, when he arrived on the third floor, he found that Li Zhenran’s door still had a gap. Li Zhenruo dawdled for a while, walked over and used his head to open the crack to get in, and ran to Li Zhenran’s tatami.

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       Before their tennis game started, everyone sat in the living room on the first floor and chatted for a while.

       In any case, no one could touch Li Zhenruo’s place. He watched the people in a room saying meaningless compliments to each other and yawned boredly.

       But if he could sit among these people, he would probably do the same thing.

       The only person who was silent was Li Zhenran. He was holding the phone and no one knew what he was looking at.

       Li Zhenruo felt curious and jumped onto the back of the single sofa where Li Zhenran was sitting. He looked at his phone and saw that Li Zhenran was playing a brainless minigame.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help rolling his eyes. His foot then slipped from the back of the chair and he fell into Li Zhenran’s arms.

       At this moment, Yue Zijia, who was sitting opposite, looked over and said, “When did you have a cat in your house? Who is in the mood to take care of it?”

       Li Zhenzi rushed to say, “My second brother raised it. Didn’t you see how much that cat sticks to him?”

       Wen Chun smiled and said, “How come I heard that you are the one raising it? Has the injury on your face healed?”

       The scratch on Li Zhenzi’s face was originally shallow, and now only a faint trace is left. He chuckled and said, “My second brother likes it, so I gave it away.”

       Li Zhenran didn’t say anything, and just brushed Li Zhenruo’s hair.

       Li Zhenruo rested his head on Li Zhenran’s arm.

       The so-called match was actually the Li brothers playing a game on their own. There was no official referee, and Su Yao would be their referee.

       Li Zhenzi and Yue Zijia on one side, while Li Zhentai and Wen Chun on the other.

       Li Zhenran and Hua Yibang sat under the sun umbrella and watched them play while sipping their drinks.

       Li Zhenruo, on the other hand, regarded Li Zhenran’s lap as his throne and sits comfortably.

       There were handsome men and beauties on both sides. The tennis skirts of the two beauties especially showed long white and thin legs, which could dazzle people’s eyes when they run.

       Li Zhenruo’s head couldn’t help but sway left and right with the tennis ball. He couldn’t control it at all!

       Su Yao wore a sun hat and was also dressed quite refreshingly. She stood next to Li Zhenran and saw Li Zhenruo shaking his head from side to side. She found it very interesting. After a while, she laughed and stretched out her hand to hold Li Zhenruo’s big face and shook it hard.

       Li Zhenruo was dizzy because of her, and when he saw the tennis court again, he couldn’t help swaying his head left and right. He felt embarrassed and turned to face Li Zhenran to look up at him.

       It just so happened that Li Zhenran was also looking at him. Li Zhenran reached out and rubbed the top of Li Zhenruo’s head.

       Li Zhenruo immediately felt comfortable, and his heart was coaxed into warmth by Li Zhenran’s gentle movements, so he lay his forelimbs on Li Zhenran’s chest, stretched his neck and tried to touch Li Zhenran’s nose with his nose.

       But to his surprise, Li Zhenran turned his head slightly to avoid it.

       Li Zhenruo felt hurt in an instant, and he was taken aback. He jumped off Li Zhenran’s leg, walked two steps aside and hid at Hua Yibang’s feet to continue watching them play.

       The skills of Li Zhentai’s couple are obviously far inferior to Li Zhenzi and Yue Zijia.

       In order not to let a game be too one-sided, after Li Zhenzi exchanged a few words with Yue Zijia, they obviously slowed down and played more gently.

       Li Zhentai’s 32 years old physical strength seems to be somewhat different from that of 25 years old Li Zhenzi. He was panting shortly after the game, and sweats kept slipping from his forehead.

       Wen Chun waved her tennis racket and pointed at the two people on the opposite side, “Looking down on us, huh? Give me all you got!”

       Li Zhenzi laughed when he heard that, and said, “We wouldn’t dare!”

       After saying that, he made a heavy spike and hit the opponent’s court.

       After Li Zhenruo found out that he had become a cat, his dynamic visual ability had obviously become stronger. He felt that from the angle of the ball, it might hit Li Zhentai.

       Sure enough, after the ball passed, Wen Chun’s cry of surprise was heard, and the ball happened to hit Li Zhentai’s ankle. When Li Zhentai saw the ball coming, he subconsciously wanted to dodge. As a result, he took a step back in a panic but still couldn’t escape. Not only was he hit on the fragile joint, but he also sprained his back part and sat on the ground.

       “Zhentai!” Wen Chun said in a panic.

       Li Zhenzi dropped his racket and ran over to this side of the court, “Eldest brother?”

       Li Zhenran and Hua Yibang, who was sitting on the sidelines watching the game, also got up and walked towards the middle of the field.

       Li Zhentai’s face was full of sweat. As he sat on the ground and moved his ankles, his face changed suddenly. He raised his head and said, “It hurts badly.”

       Li Zhenzi squatted beside him, held Li Zhentai’s ankle and moved lightly, and heard him letting a cry of pain.

       Wen Chun helped Li Zhentai wipe the sweat from his forehead, and said, “Should we call a doctor to take a look?”

       Li Zhenran stood by and said, “It’s best to go to the hospital, I’m afraid the bones might be injured.”

       Li Zhenzi looked regretful when he heard that. He said, “Eldest brother, can you get up? I’ll take you to the hospital, okay?”

       Li Zhentai patted him on the shoulder, “It’s okay, just let old Chen come. Don’t you have a barbecue banquet later?”

       Li Zhenzi said, “It’s all my fault.”

       Li Zhentai smiled, “What silly things to say. It’s an exercise, it’s inevitable to avoid a little injury, don’t take it to heart.”

       Li Zhenzi blamed himself, while Li Zhentai was beside to comfort him.

       In the end, Li Zhenzi personally carried Li Zhentai on his back, and at the same time ordered the driver to prepare a car to send Li Zhentai to the hospital. Today’s barbecue banquet was naturally cancelled.

       Li Zhentai went to the hospital, and Wen Chun definitely wanted to follow him. Li Zhenzi went with him because he was the one who accidentally injured Li Zhentai. Before leaving, he instructed Su Yao to send Yue Zijia back, and apologize to Yue Zijia that he would invite her to dinner next time.

       Yue Zijia smiled and said to him, “It doesn’t matter, Tai ge’s health is more important.”

       In the end, Li Zhenran and Hua Yibang were the only two left.

       They walked unhurriedly towards the front yard, while Li Zhenruo followed not far behind them.

       Hua Yibang, who had been quiet, suddenly said to Li Zhenran, “Are you saying that Mr Li the third is deliberately targeting Mr Li the first?”

       Li Zhenruo was taken aback and looked up at Hua Yibang. Hua Yibang had always been a rigid and serious honest person when he came into contact with him in the past. He had never thought that this honest person actually had this kind of thought for such an accident today.

       This was probably the difference between Hua Yibang in front of him and Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenruo’s heart was beating fast, and he wanted to hear what Li Zhenran thought.

       However, Li Zhenran just groaned and smiled and did not express his opinion. He was dressed in casual clothes with his hands in his trouser pockets, and walked forward unhurriedly. When Hua Yibang saw that he was silent, he did not continue to question.

       Li Zhenruo stopped at this moment. He looked back at the empty tennis court and recalled the angle from which Li Zhenzi had hit the ball just now.

       If it were him, would he also have thought that Li Zhenzhi was deliberately targeting Li Zhentai?

       But when he thought about it carefully, it’s not like Li Zhenzi could hit Li Zhentai to death with a tennis ball. So there was no meaning in embarrassing Li Zhentai. If he were Li Zhenzi, he would not do such meaningless things.

       Thus, it must be accidental.

       The planned barbecue party was cancelled.

       Li Zhenruo felt a bit regretful. He originally thought that he could ask Li Zhenran for something to eat at night, so he didn’t need to continue eating cat food. As a result of this incident, the Li family had a very simple dinner, and he had to chew dry cat food.

       After dinner, Li Zhenran went out for a walk. Before leaving, he glanced at Li Zhenruo, but Li Zhenruo ignored him.

       Li Zhenruo was still holding a grudge. He rarely wanted to show intimacy to Li Zhenran, but he was relentlessly rejected. As expected, his second brother was indeed cold and detached.

       Li Zhenran went for a walk and came back. Li Zhenruo was grinding his claws on the carpet in the living room.

       Wang Ma took a look and said quickly, “Oh my! You scratched the carpet! You bad cat, go away!”

       She drove Li Zhenruo away.

       Li Zhenruo felt a bit wronged, he didn’t mean to scratch the carpet, but his paws felt uncomfortable if he didn’t scratch something.

       Wang Ma had never raised a cat and didn’t understand this. She only thought that he was making trouble. Later, she took a closer look in the living room and saw that he had also scratched the sofa. So she went to get a stick and didn’t even let him climb on the sofa, and chased him away when she saw him coming.

       Li Zhenruo went up to the third floor with his tail dropped.

       Li Zhenran also went back upstairs. Instead of going to the room, he went to the study to get a book, then went up to the top floor and sat down on the swing chair, reading a book while swaying.

       Li Zhenruo swung around on the third floor and went to the top floor. He jumped to the pool table and scratched it casually. He knew that Li Zhenran was there, but did not want to go over.

       The swing chair under Li Zhenran kept swaying back and forth.

       A scent floating in the air suddenly attracted Li Zhenruo. He stood up on the pool table, raised his head and sniffed the air, and distinguished that it was the smell of dried small fish.

       The smell of dried fish came from Li Zhenran’s direction.

       Li Zhenruo was quiet for a few seconds, and couldn’t help but jump down and walk towards Li Zhenran. He walked around from the side of the swing chair, tried his best to look, and saw that Li Zhenran really had a bag of dried fish in his hand.

       The package of dried fish had been opened, Li Zhenran took one out and shook it in front of Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo looked up for a while, closed his eyes hard, and finally jumped up hopelessly. He approached Li Zhenran and saw Li Zhenran put the dried fish in front of him.

       When he opened his mouth to bite, Li Zhenran actually retracted his hand.

       Li Zhenruo was biting the air.

       He suddenly became a little unhappy. He saw Li Zhenran about to tease him again with dried fish, and he stopped biting this time. He jumped up and gnawed at Li Zhenran’s neck, but it was a pity that his mouth was short, so he didn’t bite anything. He just rubbed Li Zhenran all over with his saliva.

       Li Zhenran let out a muffled laugh.

       Li Zhenruo felt Li Zhenran’s chest tremble, stopped his movements, and looked up at Li Zhenran.

       This time, Li Zhenran brought the dried fish to his mouth, and when Li Zhenruo took a bite, Li Zhenran raised his hand and touched the top of Li Zhenruo’s head.

       Li Zhenruo felt that he was not so angry anymore.

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So fvcking cute ( ꒪Д꒪)
Li Zhenran is the typical shy cat lovers, lmao

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       Li Zhenran peeled the eggs for him.

       When Li Zhentai came downstairs, he saw Li Zhenruo licking Li Zhenran’s fingers. He smiled and sat down and said, “Whether this cat is Zhenran’s or Zhenzi’s, I could no longer figure it out.”

       Li Zhenran fed Li Zhenruo an egg and cleaned the sticky egg yolk on his whiskers with his fingers.

       Li Zhenzi also said, “Second brother, since you like cats, why didn’t you raise one before?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t reply and just smiled.

       Li Zhenzhi poured milk into the bowl of cereal, and then said, “I thought only kids like Jason like cats.”

       As soon as he finished speaking, the whole dining room was quiet.

       This was the first time that Li Zhenruo heard the Li family brothers mention his name when they were sitting together. He couldn’t help but raise his head to look at everyone’s expressions. Li Zhentai seemed to frown slightly, while Li Zhenran on the other hand, sandwiched ham with bread without much movement, and Li Zhenzi seemed to smile at himself as if he had said something wrong.

       Only Wang Ma’s eyes were red and said she was going to check the kitchen.

       Everyone was silent, and after a while, Li Zhenzi changed the topic and said to Li Zhentai, “Yesterday, Chun jie told me that she wanted to play tennis. I said I would make an appointment with her for this weekend. I don’t know if eldest brother is free. Let’s play doubles?”

       Li Zhentai looked up at him, “Oh? Who else is there?”

       Li Zhenzi said, “Won’t it look like I’m bullying you guys by teaming up with the tennis coach?” After that, he thought about it and turned to Li Zhenran, “Is second brother interested?”

       Li Zhenran also played tennis well, but it seemed that he was not interested. Sure enough, upon hearing Li Zhenzi’s invitation, he said, “I can watch the game, but I won’t play on the court.”

       Li Zhenzi felt a little regretful, and said, “Then I’ll go find a classmate from the tennis club to come to just play at home. And we’ll have a barbecue in the front yard at night, how about that?”

       Li Zhentai thought for a while, and replied, “Okay.”

       Li Zhenzi smiled ambiguously at Li Zhenran, “Second brother, you are welcome to bring a girlfriend.”

       Li Zhenran surprisingly smiled and responded, “Okay.” At the same time, without stopping, he tore a small piece of bread with ham in it and fed it to Li Zhenruo’s mouth.

       Li Zhenruo bit it while thinking, Li Zhenran has a girlfriend? Who is it?

       During the daytime, all of the Li brothers went out. It was a big mansion, and all that was left were the servants hired by the family.

       Li Zhenruo had nothing to do. As a cat, he climbed to the top floor, lay down on the pool table on the top floor, and basked in the sun quietly. In fact, he wasn’t as calm as he looked. He had been thinking about several things in his heart.

       Now that he has become a cat, the advantage that was placed in front of him was of course that he could smoothly return to Li’s house, and he could easily wander in every corner of Li’s house, as well as eavesdropping on the private conversations of Li’s family. On the other hand, there was an obvious disadvantage, such as that he couldn’t get out of here easily, and he didn’t have anyone to help him. So the scope of his investigation became very limited, and some clues that existed before had gone.

       Yes, before he was killed, he had already calmed down to investigate the person who put the identification’s result in front of Li Jianglin.

       The first identification was done without his knowledge, and the specimen was made using his blood sample. Later, he recalled, he remembered that he shaved and hurt his face one morning, wiped the blood on his face with a tissue, and threw it in the trash can at home. So anyone in the Li family could get his blood sample. It was also the reason why he suspected a few of his older brothers from the beginning.

       It might be possible to start from where the blood sample was obtained, but there is no surveillance at home, and second, he was quickly driven out of Li’s house, so there was no time to investigate.

       So he put the direction of the investigation on the source of the identification.

       The identification certificate was issued by the appraisal office. It has the name and contact information of the office. He had been to that appraisal office before, but the other party stated that the identity of the appraisal client was absolutely confidential and they could not be disclosed to him.

       At that time, he tried to bribe the staff member inside the appraisal office to act as his trustee, and the most recent news he got was that it was a young woman who had brought a sample for this test.

       When commissioned, the woman used the pseudonym, and the client’s name written on the appraisal letter was Anna, which was meaningless to Li Zhenruo. But there was one more thing, the sample used for the identification of Li Jianglin was his semen.

       The one who could obtain Li Jianglin’s semen should be a woman, and the scope of this investigation suddenly becomes narrow. Li Zhenruo believed that he has a way to find out the truth.

       However, when he was getting closer and closer to the truth, he was accidentally killed in a secluded street.

       Those past clues were instantly cut off.

       If he couldn’t leave the Li family now, the most convenient thing was to get some useful news from the Li family brothers. If the woman with whom Li Jianglin has a relationship could show up, it would naturally be better.

       Li Zhenruo was lying on the pool table, the fur on his back was warmed by the sun, so he turned over and planned to tan his belly. But after all, there is a grown man’s soul in the cat’s body, and he was a little embarrassed to put his hind legs together and lie on his side to continue enjoying the sun.

       In the garden downstairs, the gardener and the cleaning auntie joked and laughed, and their lives were actually quite comfortable.

       Li Zhenruo listened quietly for a while, turned over and jumped to the edge of the balcony, and looked down at the cleaning auntie who was talking.

       This lady’s surname is Wu. She cleaned up the trash in the room every morning. If Aunt Wu picked up his bloody tissue, who would she give the tissue to?

       How could he test her out?

       In the evening as soon as Li Zhenran came back, Li Zhenruo would intentionally jump on his lap and stay there.

       Li Zhenran’s kindness to him was certainly one of the reasons. Li Zhenruo himself was thinking about it. He could use sticking to Li Zhenran as an excuse to stay openly among the Li family brothers and listen to their conversation. Otherwise, his arrival would always appear a bit abrupt and he was afraid it would be seen as suspicious.

       Li Zhenran stood up after eating.

       Li Zhenruo quickly jumped off his lap before he got up.

       Li Zhenran said to Wang Ma, “I’ll go for a walk.”

       After he finished eating, he sometimes used to go for a walk around the lake outside the Li family house.

       Li Zhenruo had stayed inside for a long time and wanted to follow when he saw Li Zhenran go out.

       Li Zhenzi yelled, “Uh!” He suddenly forgot the name of the cat.

       Li Zhenruo realized that Li Zhenzi was calling him, and looked back at him.

       Li Zhenzi remembered it this time, “That what? Dumpling! What are you running after? You are not a dog, but you want to take a walk after dinner?”

       Li Zhenruo felt ignoring him and followed Li Zhenran’s legs.

       Wang Ma smiled and said, “Look at Zhenran, this cat still understands you in his heart. If you treat it well, it will be nice to you. It’ll take a long time to bring it back and make it follow you.”

       Li Zhenran didn’t say anything, and already took Li Zhenruo to the door.

       Li Zhenzi couldn’t help but say, “Second brother, be careful that it runs away.”

       Li Zhenran even said, “It won’t.”

       His tone was so determined that Li Zhenruo didn’t know where his confidence comes from! He couldn’t wait to just run away like this to slap him in the face. In the end, he still didn’t run, because he didn’t know where he could go. He walked with Li Zhenran on his short legs like this.

       He has seen anyone who walks a dog without being tied to a rope, and probably no one has ever seen a cat walking without being tied to a rope.

       Fortunately, there were not many residents in this neighbourhood. Sometimes people pass by in a car, and they look surprised at the flat-faced cat following Li Zhenran’s feet.

       Li Zhenran didn’t walk fast, and occasionally slowed down to wait for Li Zhenruo. When he lowered his head to look at Li Zhenruo, Li Zhenruo would look up at him. In Li Zhenran’s eyes, he was probably very clever.

       After walking home, Wang Ma saw Li Zhenruo following on Li Zhenran’s feet about to enter the house in the living room, and she couldn’t help but be surprised, “Oh my, I’ve never seen such a well-behaved cat. Isn’t he good?”

       Li Zhenruo glanced at her. He wanted to “meow”, but Li Zhenran picked him up and took him to the bathroom to wash his paws.

       It was the weekend in a blink of an eye.

       The Li family was very lively this week, because Li Zhenzi has asked his eldest brother and sister-in-law to play tennis at home. After they played tennis, he planned to have a barbecue picnic at home.

       So from the start of the day, the whole Li family started to make various preparations.

       What Li Zhenruo was most curious about was whether Li Zhenran would bring his girlfriend.

       However, he didn’t know whether he was unknowingly disappointed or felt that it was a matter of fact that Li Zhenran did not bring his girlfriend back. He went out that morning, but only Hua Yibang followed him back to Li’s house.

       Hua Yibang was also 28 years old this year. He had lived with his parents in Li’s family for a long time since he was a child. At that time, because he was the closest to Li Zhenran in age, the two had a close relationship. It could be said that Hua Yibang’s college money should actually come from the Li family. After he graduated from college, he worked directly with Li Zhenran as an assistant until today.

       When he arrived at Li’s house, of course he had to visit Wang Ma first.

       No matter how deep the relationship between Li Zhenruo and Wang Ma was, they were always separated by a layer, and it couldn’t be compared to her biological son.

       When Wang Ma saw Hua Yibang, she took him to her room. The mother and son closed the door and talked.

       Li Zhenruo was not interested in eavesdropping on what they were saying and was still lying on the back of the sofa chair.

       Li Zhenran gently scratched the top of his head with his fingers when he passed by.

       Li Zhenruo turned his head habitually and touched Li Zhenran’s finger with his nose to show intimacy.

       Soon after, Li Zhentai drove back with Wen Chun.

       Wen Chun was dressed in sports attire today, with her long hair tied up, and a light makeup on her face. She looked like an innocent student.

       After she arrived, she heard that Li Zhenzi hadn’t returned, so she followed Li Zhentai upstairs first, and when she passed Li Zhenruo, she also touched his head, but Li Zhenruo did not respond.

       Li Zhenzi came back last, and brought home two beautiful women in one go.

       One was his assistant Su Yao.

       Another woman, young and beautiful, was wearing a tennis uniform with a sports jacket. Li Zhenruo knew her.

       This woman’s name was Yue Zijia. She was said to be the eldest lady of a wealthy family. Actually, the Yue family was not as good as before. They suffered some business losses year after year and owed a large amount of debt to the bank. However, Yue Zijia was unwilling to be left out, and she still wanted to maintain her glamour on the surface, to maintain close contact with these wealthy sons.

       If Li Zhenruo knew her in the past, it was no surprise that Li Zhenzi was familiar with her. It was just that Li Zhenruo didn’t expect that when Li Zhenzi said that he would bring a partner back today, and it would turn out to be Yue Zijia.

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       Li Zhentai and Wen Chun left, but Li Zhenruo remained on the windowsill of the recreation room.

       He poked his head out to take a look and found that if he walked along the window sill, he could reach past the pipe. He could then climb down the pipe to the window sill on the second floor, or go straight down to the first floor.

       The security of Li’s family was strict outside. There were anti-theft equipment and surveillance cameras along the outer wall. After entering, the security would be relatively loose, especially in the building. The Li family would definitely not allow cameras to peep at their privacy.

       If he could walk this way, he would be able to go to many rooms from the first floor to the third floor in the future unhindered, which was considered as a very good thing.

       But Li Zhenruo was a little nervous. Climbing the water pipe seemed simple, but it didn’t seem to be an easy thing to be done.

       He took a deep breath and walked over there cautiously.

       Li Zhenzi was playing ball with the coach. He was facing the building at home, and saw a cat tumble out from the third floor’s window, walked a bit along the window sill, then hugged a pipe to slide down clumsily.

       Li Zhenruo really slid down, he couldn’t control his speed at all. He wanted to jump on the window sill on the second floor but failed. He just sat down directly on the grass on the first floor.

       He was stunned for a while, then Li Zhenruo got up and started licking his fur.

       Cats have barbs¹ on their tongues. Licking the fur was actually equivalent to combing the fur, especially on the inside of the forelimb. The fur was messy because of the pipe, and if you looked closely, the skin underneath was a little red.

       He combed his fur all over and heard a “pop” when he stood up, and the tennis court fence behind him shook because of the huge impact.

       Li Zhenruo was startled and shrank his head, and then when he looked at it, he found out that it was the movement made by Li Zhenzi from hitting the fence with a ball.

       Li Zhenzi deliberately hit that ball in the direction of Li Zhenruo. As he saw the stupid cat shrank in fright, he smiled in satisfaction and motioned to the coach across the court to continue.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t know what Li Zhenzi was thinking. He got up and trotted away along the periphery of the tennis court.

       Li Zhenzi came back from the front door after playing the ball and met Wen Chun coming down from the second floor.

       He stopped in his tracks and asked, “Chun jie²a way to call one’s older sister or someone older(female) is leaving?”

       Wen Chun smiled and said, “I have something to do in the morning, it’s not convenient for me to go from here.”

       “Oh,” Li Zhenzi glanced at Wen Chun from behind, “Eldest brother is not driving you back?”

       Wen Chun said, “He asked the driver to take me back.”

       Li Zhenzi just came back from the court, he looks healthy and dashing in a white tennis uniform, and with a tennis racket in his hand. He frowned and said, “In any case let me walk you to the car. I might as well drive you back.”

       Wen Chun heard this and looked at him with a smile, “Why are you so courteous?”

       Li Zhenzi has already helped her open the door, “Because you are the future sister-in-law.”

       With that, he accompanied Wen Chun to the outside.

       Li Zhenruo lay on the back of the sofa chair and watched this scene quietly, and thought that Li Zhentai was too indifferent to Wen Chun. At the same time, he thought that Li Zhenzi seemed to be somewhat too attentive like he was trying to steal and commit adultery. Anyway, it didn’t look pleasing.

       He stayed on the back of the sofa until the evening. He thought of going to the bathroom halfway through, but he was too lazy to move.

       Wang Ma squeezed his little arm when she passed by and said, “What’s the matter? Why are you this listless?”

       Li Zhenruo raised his eyelids without moving his head.

       However, as soon as Wang Ma had finished speaking, Li Zhenran opened the door and came in.

       Li Zhenruo stood up all of a sudden and jumped directly from the back of the sofa chair to Li Zhenran’s feet.

       Li Zhenran almost stepped on him.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t back away, and just rubbed himself against Li Zhenran’s leg.

       Li Zhenran was a little at a loss, “What’s the matter?”

       Wang Ma was also puzzled, “It was half dead just now, but as soon as it saw you back, it came to life.”

       Li Zhenruo wanted to bite Li Zhenran’s trouser legs and brought him to his cat bed. But because his face was too flat, he opened his mouth and did not get anything.

        Li Zhenran just saw him rubbing his flat face on his legs repeatedly, and couldn’t help bending down and grabbing his head, “What are you doing?”

       Li Zhenruo was a little aggrieved and made a “meow” sound.

       Li Zhenran let go of his hand and said, “Stop rubbing, just say what you want.”

       Wang Ma was a little dazed, How could it tell you? It’s a cat!

       As a result, Li Zhenruo randomly ran to his cat bed and meowed at Li Zhenran vigorously.

       Li Zhenran followed, and asked him, “What about it?”

       Li Zhenruo wanted to bite the cat bed but couldn’t actually bite it, then turned around and used his head on it, finally moving the cat bed a short distance.

       Li Zhenran barely caught his idea, and thought of him dragging the cat bed behind the sofa early in the morning, so he bent down and picked it up for him, and asked, “You don’t want to stay here?”

       YES! Li Zhenruo thought to himself, he’s indeed worthy of being father’s favourite second son of the Li family!

       Li Zhenran thought that Li Zhenruo wanted to live behind the sofa again, so he helped him move the cat bed over, but was blocked by Li Zhenruo in the middle.

       Li Zhenruo turned and ran up the stairs, climbed a few steps and turned around to look at him.

       Wang Ma understood this time, she said to Li Zhenran, “It wanted to live in the recreation room on the third floor.”

       Li Zhenran glanced at Wang Ma and walked towards the stairs holding the cat bed.

       “Oh!” Wang Ma hurriedly stopped him, “Is it okay?”

       Li Zhenran said, “Why is it not okay? Let it live the way it wants.”

       Li Zhenruo was moved to tears, thinking that Li Zhenran turned out to be a good person, and he had misunderstood him for so long.

       Wang Ma frowned, but after hearing Li Zhenran’s approval, she did not object.

       Li Zhenran walked up the stairs and said to Wang Ma, “Wang Ma, just go to bed, and I will help you move the rest of your things up. You don’t have to worry about it. It lives wherever it likes, and it’s just a cat. It’s not a problem.”

       Wang Ma sighed a little helplessly, and said, “Suit yourself.”

       Li Zhenran first placed Li Zhenruo’s cat bed in the recreation room on the third floor and then helped him bring up the cat toilet. But his food bowl was left untouched in the dining room on the first floor.

       Li Zhenruo expressed his satisfaction with the new room, and went into his cat bed and lay on his stomach.

       In the end, Li Zhenran squatted in front of the cat bed after packing up his things and said to him, “Come out.”

       Li Zhenruo was taken aback for a moment. He didn’t know what happened, but he didn’t want to make Li Zhenran unhappy. After all, Li Zhenran was the only one who treated him best.

       So he carefully pulled his head out and looked at Li Zhenran at a loss for words.

       Li Zhenran even picked him up and walked towards his room, and said, “Go take a shower.”

       Li Zhenruo rubbed all over the grass today and hasn’t cleaned it up yet. He doesn’t know, but Li Zhenran can see it clearly.

       As soon as he heard the shower, he inevitably recalled the scene of being tossed by Li Zhenzi last night. Li Zhenruo shuddered and looked around trying to run.

       Li Zhenran sensed his resistance and said, “Don’t be afraid and take a bath properly. You are dirty.”

       Li Zhenruo looked down at himself, he was indeed a bit dirty.

       Mama Yu used to bathe him with gentle movements. He was not a real cat, so he was not afraid of water. Bathing was quite enjoyable for him. Now as he listened to Li Zhenran say that Li Zhenruo felt that it was time for him to take a bath. If he didn’t take a bath, he would smell bad, so he stopped struggling.

       Li Zhenran carried Li Zhenruo back to his room. Instead of putting him in the bathtub, he filled the washbasin with hot water and put him in.

       At this time, Li Zhenran remembered that the pet shampoo that he had not brought was still in the bathroom on the first floor, so he turned around and planned to go downstairs to take it.

       As a result, when Li Zhenruo saw that he was about to leave, one paw stretched out. Li Zhenran turned around and pointed at him with a serious expression, “Don’t come out.”

       Li Zhenruo instantly felt intimidated, he hesitated, and finally retracted his paw silently.

       After a while, Li Zhenran came up with Li Zhenruo’s shower gel.

       He released the hot water in the washbasin, squeezed the shower gel in his hand, and slathered it on Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo was very cooperative and stood motionlessly. If he was asked to lift his paws, he would lift his paws, and if he was asked to lift his legs, he would lift his legs. It was just that when Li Zhenran was washing the bottom, he was a little unhappy and closed his legs tightly, but then Li Zhenran separated him with one hand.

       If it weren’t for the hairy face, Li Zhenruo thought he would blush. Later, he thought he was a cat anyway, so it’s whatever and let Li Zhenran have his way.

       Li Zhenran’s palm was bigger and stronger than Mama Yu. It felt very comfortable when he rubbed his body.

       Suddenly, Li Zhenran stopped and moved his palm away from Li Zhenruo. Li Zhenruo quickly looked up and saw Li Zhenran looking at him thoughtfully.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t know what happened.

       Li Zhenran said suddenly, “So you are just puffy.”

       After he said that, he held Li Zhenruo up with both hands and let him look at himself in the mirror.

       Li Zhenruo’s whole body was wet and stuck to his body. Sure enough, he looked thin and small, a little pitiful.

       Li Zhenran put him down again and gently combed the fur on his head with his fingers, with a smile on his face.

       This was the first time Li Zhenruo has seen this expression on Li Zhenran’s face.

       Li Zhenran was already five years old when he was born. The five-year-old gap didn’t sound too big, but when he was in the second grade of elementary school, Li Zhenran was already a middle school student. If we say three years was the generation gap³In Chinese elementary school lasted for 6 years, middle school lasted for 3 years and senior high school lasted for another 3 years., there was really more than one and two-thirds of the generation gap between them.

       Li Zhenran had good grades since childhood, good at sports, and was a very good man. He was a perfect brother. But Li Zhenruo was just a good-looking ordinary person, there was bound to be a distance between him and the perfect person.

       Sometimes Li Zhenruo himself felt weird. It was good that they were half brothers, and Li Jianglin never kept it from them. But after all, they were still the real brothers who grew up together, but why do they always maintain a sense of distance? Could it be that the little difference in the bloodline could easily dilute the same blood in them⁴He was wondering if the difference in the bloodline as in because they were born from different mothers to dilute the fact that they are still a brother from the same father?

       Or was it that there was no real brotherhood within the royal family. The big business empire of Yunlin Group lies among their brothers, making them always have to constantly push themselves and watch out for others at the same time?

       Had it not been for this accident, he would have never seen Li Zhenran’s warm smile, right? He was so kind to a cat, but he was reluctant to share his warmth with his brother.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt a little sad.

       He thought, Could the person who bought the murderer be Li Zhenran?

       At the thought of this, Li Zhenruo’s heart felt cold. He couldn’t help lowering his head and immersed his face in the water and no longer looked at Li Zhenran’s expression.

       Li Zhenran’s slender fingers gently hooked Li Zhenruo’s chin at this time, so that he lifted his face, and then wiped the water off his face with his fingers.

       He always drank water and always gets himself a face full of water. His nose and eyes were always wet and prone to inflammation.

       Li Zhenran took a dry towel to help him wipe the water off his face, and then put clean water to flush out the bubbles of the shower gel on his body.

       After he took a clean bath, Li Zhenran wrapped Li Zhenruo in a towel and carried Li Zhenruo to the outside room, sat down by the bed and used a hairdryer to dry his fur.

       Li Zhenruo was spread on Li Zhenran’s lap with a towel underneath him.

       The wind blowing from the hairdryer was very warm, and Li Zhenran’s fingers were very gentle. Li Zhenruo was a little drowsy, and moved his head to Li Zhenran’s belly, and smelled the faint perfume of his body.

       Perhaps there was still some smell of sweat, but it’s not unpleasant. Li Zhenran has always been a neat and tidy man.

       The hairdryer hummed but did not disturb Li Zhenruo’s peaceful sleep. After a while, he fell asleep on Li Zhenran’s lap.

       After he dried Li Zhenruo’s whole body fur, Li Zhenran reached out and put him on the tatami beside the bed, got up and cleaned the hairdryer, and then went to the bathroom to take a bath.

       Li Zhenruo woke up midway, but he fell asleep again before he could open his eyes.

       He was asleep until dawn, Li Zhenruo opened his eyes in a daze, not knowing where he was. There was a weak light coming in from outside the window, and the furniture in the room could only be seen in outline, and it was not clear.

       He raised his head and realized that he was lying on the edge of Li Zhenran’s bed. Li Zhenran was beside him, seemingly still asleep, and his whole body motionless.

       The morning wind came in from outside the window. Li Zhenruo felt a bit cold. He got up and moved towards Li Zhenran. He felt that he was attracted to the warmth below Li Zhenran’s thin quilt, so he yawned silently and got into the quilt.

       When he woke up later, it was because Li Zhenran rolled over and pressed Li Zhenruo’s tail with his arm.

       Li Zhenruo woke up and wanted to pull his tail out, but Li Zhenran pressed it firmly and couldn’t move at all.

       He turned to use his head to bend Li Zhenran’s arm with his head, and Li Zhenran was awakened by him. He raised his head in a daze with an “um”, and then saw that he was pressing the cat’s tail.

       Li Zhenran stretched out his hand and rubbed Li Zhenruo’s head, sat up and stretched out. He lifted the quilt, sat on the edge of the bed and wore slippers to get up.

       As soon as Li Zhenruo turned his head, he saw the outline of Li Zhenran wearing a pair of thin underwear and turned his head away awkwardly.

       He thought, Li Zhenran doesn’t seem to have a fixed girlfriend, right? But of course, he would not think that Li Zhenran has never had a woman after being single for so many years. Most likely they were either raised outside like Li Zhenzi or just like him in the past, only ended up as one night stand and didn’t become official.

       Li Zhentai was 32 years old this year and has been urged to get married by Li Jianglin. The 28 years old Li Zhenran probably wouldn’t be able to get away in a few years.

       Li Zhenruo was lying on the bed, his tail patted the bed lightly like a caterpillar. He wondered if Li Zhenran didn’t find a girlfriend because he was waiting for Li Jianglin to make arrangements for him?

       Just like with Wen Chun. Although there was no such thing as an arranged marriage in this era, Wen Chun was also liked by Li Jianglin and hoped Li Zhentai would marry her. So in the future, if Li Zhenran wants to get married, he would definitely need to find someone Li Jianglin likes. If he delayed in finding one, Li Jianglin would definitely arrange a blind date for him, and then Li Zhenran would have less trouble.

       In fact, he also had these thoughts in the past, so he didn’t have a close relationship with girls who liked him. He would rather Li Jianglin come to make arrangements for him in the future.

       Marriage was sometimes a way to add a variety of burdens to oneself.

       Li Zhenran came out of the bathroom, opened the cabinet to find a set of clothes to wear, and then opened the door first.

       Li Zhenruo was still lying in his bed and refused to get up. After a while, he realized that Li Zhenran was opening the door for him so that he could go out freely, so he turned over and got up, planning to go to the toilet first.

       After going to the toilet, Li Zhenruo went downstairs to have breakfast.

       It was still too early. Li Zhenran hasn’t come down yet, and he only has cat food to eat.

       Li Zhenzi went downstairs to the dining room. He passed by Li Zhenruo, lifted his foot and gently kicked his butt.

       Li Zhenruo turned his head and made a threatening sound at him.

       Li Zhenzi just smiled and went to sit down at the dining table.

       After a while Li Zhenran came over, Li Zhenruo dropped the cat food and consciously rushed to Li Zhenran’s lap, looking at his breakfast eggs.

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He’s one fine cat whisperer, lmao
I always think my own cat might be as smart as Zhenruo but… it’s… impossible…
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       Li Zhenran’s body has a clean perfume smell.

       Li Zhenruo moved, changed into a comfortable posture, laid on his stomach, and sneezed again.

       After he sat down, Li Zhenran pulled a tissue and wiped his nose.

       Li Zhenzi raised one leg and watched him move, and said, “Second brother, do you like it?”

       Li Zhenran combed Li Zhenruo’s fur with his fingers, and said casually, “Yeah.”

       Li Zhenruo liked this feeling very much and quietly plopped down on his lap.

       Li Zhenzi raised his hand and touched the wound on his face, without saying anything.

       Li Zhenran took an egg, peeled it, broke the yolk into pieces, and fed it to Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo hasn’t eaten anything other than cat food for a long time. Although he didn’t think of it before, he felt that the egg yolk smelled quite fragrant. He opened his mouth, licked the egg yolk in Li Zhenran’s hand, and then licked Li Zhenran’s fingers. Later he licked Li Zhenran’s fingers clean.

       He was a cat anyway, and he gradually didn’t mind this anymore.

       A few minutes later, Li Zhentai came down from the upper floor. He stopped when he saw the injury on Li Zhenzhi’s face, and said in surprise, “What happened?”

       Li Zhenzi made such a big noise in the room last night, and even Li Zhenran came down from upstairs. But Li Zhentai did not even open the door of the room.

       Now that he saw the wound on Li Zhenzi’s face, Li Zhentai’s first sentence is, “This was scratched by a woman, right?”

       Li Zhenzi glanced at him, and said coldly, “The cat scratched it.”

       With a smile on Li Zhentai’s face, he walked to the table and sat down, and saw the cat lying on Li Zhenran’s lap eating egg yolk, and said, “Even after scratching his master the cat still got a good treatment?”

       Li Zhenruo lifted his round face from Li Zhenran’s arms and glanced at him blankly.

       Li Zhentai still found it funny and sat down at the table. After a while, he said to Li Zhenzi, “Have you gone to the hospital? Beware of rabies.”

       At this time, Wang Ma put the hot milk on the table for Li Zhentai, and after hearing that, she said, “It’s not like it’s a dog, where rabies came from.”

       Li Zhentai said, “It’s better to be careful after all.”

       Li Zhenzi ate a piece of cookies, clapped his hands and said, “I called and asked. This cat has undergone a physical examination and was vaccinated. It has been domesticated since it was a child, so it is not a big problem.”

       Li Zhenran came down last night and helped him squeeze the blood from the wound. Later, he asked Wang Ma to disinfect it with iodine. After that, he called Li’s personal doctor and said that there was no problem and no injection was needed.

       Li Zhentai heard the words and said, “That’s good.”

       Li Zhenruo stayed on Li Zhenran’s lap until he finished his breakfast.

       Li Zhenran carried him to the ground, stood up and patted the cat’s fur on his leg, and asked Wang Ma to inform the driver to send him to the company.

       Seeing Li Zhenran gone, Li Zhenruo immediately ran back to his cat bed to hide and waited until Li Zhenzi and Li Zhentai had both left before getting out.

       In the morning, the auntie went to clean up the rooms on the second and third floors.

       Li Zhenruo followed up to the second floor and walked around in the rooms of Li Zhentai and Li Zhenzi, and found nothing interesting.

       After he came out, he saw the auntie taking the key to open the door of his room.

       Li Zhenruo was stunned.

       He did not expect that after so long since his death, the Li family still cleaned his room every day.

       The door opened, and the auntie walked directly in.

       Li Zhenruo stayed at the door, poked out his head cautiously and looked inside.

       Everything seems to be the same as when he left. Even when they didn’t move his computer, it’s just that the whole room was neatly cleaned, and the room has lost a bit of his traces.

       What he didn’t know was that the clothes he hadn’t packed away in his closet had all been burned after his death, and a lot of his personal belongings had been burned as well, and now the room just remains an empty shell.

       The cleaning auntie swept the floor and wiped off the dust on the tabletop, and then stepped out to close the door.

       Seeing Li Zhenruo still poking his head and looking in, she whispered to him, “Let’s go, I’m going to close the door.”

       Li Zhenruo withdrew his head.

       The auntie immediately closed the door and locked it with the key.

       Then the auntie went to clean up the room on the third floor. Li Zhenruo felt depressed and unwilling to follow up anymore, and slowly descended the stairs to the first floor.

       When he walked all the way down, he saw his cat home had been moved back to the corner of the living room. He couldn’t help but pause and hesitate.

       As soon as someone opened the door, one could see his spot. In addition to lack of security, things like Li Zhenzi going crazy after drinking alcohol last night will inevitably happen again.

       Li Zhenruo thought that if he wanted to stay, it would be better to change to another place. After much deliberation, the third floor would be the most suitable.

       Although Li Zhenran lives on the third floor, Li Zhenran has a very quiet personality, and some rooms on the third floor were usually not visited. There were also public toilets for him to put his cat toilets. Wasn’t that better than the first floor, which was full of people?

       Li Zhenruo looked at Wang Ma who was sitting on the sofa and continued to knit a sweater. It was impossible for him to express his thoughts to Wang Ma, and so he could only think of a way on his own.

       He thought it over. Li Zhenruo walked over and tried to bite his cat bed with his mouth. His entire face was too flat, and he worked hard for a long time to bite a little of his cat bed, and then dragged it up the stairs.

       At first, Wang Ma didn’t notice him.

       Li Zhenruo dragged his cat bed up a short flight of stairs, and the corners of his mouth were sore. Although the cat bed was made of cotton, and it was not too heavy, but it was not light for a cat.

       He dragged the cat bed until he finished a flight of stairs, if not he couldn’t rest at all. As long as he released his mouth’s grip, the cat bed would slide down the stairs again.

       While he was struggling with his bed, the auntie who was cleaning upstairs came down and was stunned when he saw him at the top of the stairs, “Oh my, what are you doing?”

       Wang Ma looked up and was also surprised. She quickly put down the things in her hand and walked here.

       The auntie finally saw that Li Zhenruo was struggling to move, and she reached out to help him pick up the cat bed with a dazed expression, “What does this cat want to do?”

       Wang Ma came over, held the glasses with one hand, and asked, “Dumpling? What are you doing?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t know how to express his action, he could only climb up the stairs, stand on the top and call out to the two of them.

       The auntie reacted first and said, “It wants its own cat bed to be dragged up, right?”

       Wang Ma asked strangely, “Dragged it up to where?”

       Li Zhenruo heard her question and hurriedly ran ahead to show her the way. He took Wang Ma and the auntie to the third floor together. Seeing that the door of the recreation room was not closed, he ran in and shouted at them in the corner.

       Wang Ma was at a loss.

       The auntie understood, and said to Wang Ma, “It wants to move here.”

       Wang Ma heard it and said, “How can you do that! This is a recreation room, not a pet room, you can’t live here.”

       “Meow!” Li Zhenruo was a little anxious.

       Wang Ma still waved her hand, “No way, no way, I can’t make the decision.”

       After she finished speaking, she asked the auntie to put Li Zhenruo’s cat bed back into the living room on the first floor.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly became a little frustrated, he chased it back to the first floor and saw her put his cat bed back to its original place.

       Wang Ma lowered her head and said to him, “You’re a good boy. Don’t run around, and beware when Zhenzi came back to see you and bully you again.”

       His mouth was sore, and he really got no strength left to drag the bed again. Besides, he couldn’t drag it upstairs at all.

       Wang Ma thought that he was just looking for trouble, and fed him some cat snacks to make him behave.

       Li Zhenruo went back to the bed and laid down for a while. He thought that if there was one person in this family who could agree to let him move to the third floor, and that was his second brother.

       But Li Zhenran was not at home at this time.

       Li Zhenruo thought for a while, got up from the cat bed, walked to the edge of the door and lay down, waiting wholeheartedly for his second brother to come back.

       However, in the evening, Li Zhenran did not come back, and Li Zhenzi went home first. As soon as he saw Li Zhenzi, Li Zhenruo hid behind the sofa, Li Zhenzi didn’t pay attention to him and went straight upstairs.

       After a while, Li Zhenruo saw that Li Zhentai was back, and his fiancé Wen Chun was walking with him.

       Wen Chun is the daughter of Li Jianglin’s old friend. When Li Jianglin was struggling to start a career, his friend gave him a lot of help. Later, when the Li family became wealthy, he never forgot this friend.

       Wen Chun was from a wealthy family since she was a child and coupled with her beautiful appearance, she naturally has a high standard.

       Li Zhentai also has a high position, is upright, and is Li Jianglin’s eldest son. The two are quite a good match.

       Wen Chun saw Li Zhenruo lying in front of the door, and was a little surprised. She asked Li Zhentai, “Who owns the cat?”

       Li Zhentai said, “The third child.”

       Wen Chun wore a royal blue long dress with a white short coat and squatted down to touch Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo had a pretty good relationship with Wen Chun in the past, so he stay on the ground and didn’t move, letting Wen Chun touch the top of his head.

       Li Zhenran did not come back for dinner. During the dinner, Li Zhenzi sat at a table with Li Zhentai and Wen Chun. And as long as there are no guests at the dinner, Wang Ma will also go to the table to have dinner with them. Therefore, during the dinner today, most of the time Wang Ma was chatting with Wen Chun. Li Zhenzi didn’t speak much, but only occasionally talked and laughed with Wen Chun and Li Zhentai.

       Li Zhenzi had finished eating early, and said, “You guys take your time. I have an appointment with a tennis coach in the evening, so I’m going to change.”

       Wen Chun nodded politely.

       Li Zhenzi left the dining room and walked towards the stairs.

       Li Zhenruo glanced at Li Zhenzi, lowered his head and continued to eat cat food.

       On this side, Wen Chun stood up to help Ma Wang tidy up the table after eating. But Wang Ma didn’t dare to let her move and urged her and Li Zhentai to go upstairs to rest.

       Wen Chun smiled and said, “It must’ve been hard for you, Wang Ma.”

       When Li Zhenruo saw that Li Zhentai and Wen Chun were about to go upstairs, he didn’t want to finish the cat food. He raised his paw and pushed lightly the fur around his mouth and quickly followed.

       He didn’t dare to follow too close for fear that Li Zhentai would notice him, so he kept a distance by almost half a floor.

       Li Zhentai and Wen Chun walked towards the third floor while talking. The two of them entered the recreation room. Li Zhentai turned on the music and walked to the bar to drink red wine.

       Li Zhenruo went in close to the corner, and they didn’t notice him at first.

       Later, Wen Chun suddenly pointed at him and said, “The cat is coming up too.” After that, she knelt down and stretched out her hand to tease Li Zhenruo over.

       Li Zhenruo hesitated, walked over and let Wen Chun scratch his chin.

       Wen Chun asked Li Zhentai, “What’s its name?”

       Li Zhentai poured red wine into the glass and said, “I don’t know.”

       Wen Chun just smiled upon hearing this.

       Li Zhentai has a red wine glass in one hand, walks up to Wen Chun and handed her a glass, then carried his own wine to the front of the sofa and sat down in front of the sofa.

       Wen Chun stood in front of the window, took a sip of red wine, and said to Li Zhentai, “I heard that Li Zhenran is now in charge of the Qijiang project?”

       Qijiang’s project is Yunlin’s large-scale cultural tourism project in the west.

       Li Zhentai said “Um”, and the voice sounded a little unhappy.

       Wen Chun slowly turned around and looked out the window, “How long has Jason gone? Your family is really ruthless.”

       Li Zhenruo looked up at her.

       Jason is Li Zhenruo’s English name. He grew up not liking his name. He remembered when he was in primary school, everyone ridiculed him as “You’re so weak¹his name 臻若(Zhēnruò) has the same sound as 真弱(zhēnruò) = so weak“. Later, he gave himself an English name, and friends around him who were close to him were not allowed to call him by his Chinese name.

       Unexpectedly, after returning home, the first person to mention himself was the future sister-in-law who had not yet married into the family.

       Li Zhentai sighed after hearing the words, “People die, so what if I grieve? Didn’t I still have to keep doing my job?”

       Wen Chun said, “Why don’t you say it’s because you just have to continue making money?”

       Li Zhentai didn’t answer this time.

       Li Zhenruo thought to himself, the fact that he is not Li Jianglin’s biological son was probably really well hidden. When he left, even Wang Ma didn’t know what was going on and only thought Li Jianglin was so mad at him that he was kicked out.

       And even Li Zhentai didn’t say anything about it to his fiancee.

       Wen Chun didn’t know what he was thinking and kept looking out the window.

       Li Zhenruo took two steps back and jumped onto the window sill with a run-up. His heart was pounding non-stop, but he didn’t expect to jump up smoothly! He was worried that it would be bad if he had pushed too hard and fallen out headfirst.

       Wen Chun saw him jump up, smiled and stretched out his hand to touch his head.

       Li Zhenruo stood on the window sill and looked out. Suddenly from here, he could see Li Zhenzi playing on the tennis court behind.

       Li Zhenzi liked tennis. He would ask the coach of the club to play with him at home from time to time, which saved the time of going out on the road.

       Wen Chun rubbed Li Zhenruo’s fur with her fingers, and said, “How is the hotel project along the coast going?”

       A resort hotel project along the coast was now in Li Zhentai’s charge. He heard Wen Chun ask and said, “Nothing, everything is going well.”

       But Wen Chun said, “I heard that there seems to be something wrong with the project there?”

       Li Zhentai reached out and ruffled his hair, “I’ll ask someone to go over and deal with it.”

       Wen Chun asked him, “You don’t go there in person?”

       Li Zhentai did not answer this time, but put down the wine glass and walked towards Wen Chun. He hugged Wen Chun from behind, reached out and took the wine glass in her hand, and said, “Don’t worry, I will take care of it.”

       After he finished speaking, Wen Chun turned to face him.

       The two kissed softly.

       Li Zhentai said, “Let’s go to my room?”

       Wen Chun nodded.

       As he saw the two of them leaving, Li Zhenruo breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid of their passion. If they had to do something in this place, he would feel so awkward.

       Although he was just a cat, he has seen the third and second elder brothers in succession. He really didn’t want to take a look at the eldest brother.

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       Li Jianglin was not nearby.

       In fact, almost half a year ago, Li Jianglin lived in a villa near the sea all year round to recuperate because he was not feeling well. If it was not for an important event, he would usually not come back.

       Even if there’s something important, Li Jianglin would fly back soon after he finished dealing with the matter. He was unwilling to stay here longer.

       At that time, at least one-third of Yunlin’s important work fell on Li Zhenruo’s shoulders, another third was done by Li Zhenran, and the remaining third was the responsibility of Li Zhentai and Li Zhenzi.

       Although Li Zhentai is the eldest of the Li family brothers, because of his gentle personality and mediocre work performance, he was least favoured by Li Jianglin. Even Li Zhenzi was more favoured by his father than him.

       While eating, Li Zhenran left Li Zhenruo aside and ignored him. Wang Ma poured him a bowl of cat food for him to eat slowly in the corner of the dining room.

       Li Zhenruo was a little envious when he looked at the dishes on the table. The Li family’s cook was specially hired. Even if it’s for inviting guests for dinner, he could immediately make an exquisite banquet table. He didn’t know how much better it was than the 1000 years unchanging taste of his cat food.

       Li Zhenran and Li Zhentai were talking as they ate.

       Most of the time, it was Li Zhentai who was talking, and Li Zhenran was listening in silence. These words on the dinner table never had anything special within them, since Li Zhenran and Li Zhentai would not confide earnestly in each other. Li Zhenruo didn’t find their conversation interesting, so he went to the living room’s sofa after eating.

       After dinner, Li Zhentai asked the driver to prepare his car to go out, while Li Zhenran went straight upstairs.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t follow up this time, and Li Zhenran didn’t care about it anymore. He went back upstairs and closed the door to his room.

       The nanny cleaned up the dining room and went back to the side house, closing the door leading from the dining room to there. Only Wang Ma was left in the living room here because Wang Ma’s room was right next to the dining room. Sometimes she would open the door when the young masters of the Li family came back late at night, or she could add a meal when they were hungry.

       The TV is on, and Wang Ma sits in the living room while knitting a sweater while watching TV.

       Li Zhenruo knew she was making clothes for her grandson, Wang Ma was old and had bad eyesight. She had to turn on a big lamp, and it took a lot of time to stitch and fasten the button.

       But it was always good to have someone at home with the light on and the TV on, which seems a bit popular.

       Li Zhenruo jumped on the sofa, walked up to Wang Ma, and leaned his head on her thigh. The smell on Wang Ma’s body was very familiar. When he was a child, he used to hold her like this, she felt warm and powerful, like a mother’s embrace. He still remembers that when he packed up and left the Li family, the whole family had an indifferent expression, and Li Jianglin didn’t even show up. Only Wang Ma looked at him and kept crying until he went out with his luggage.

       Later, Wang Ma also called him and asked him if he was doing well and wanted to send some clothes and food over.

       The old lady turned her head to look at him, stretched out her hand to touch the top of his head. He didn’t know if she remembered something and sighed for no reason.

       It wasn’t until ten o’clock that night that Li Zhenzi came back from outside.

       Wang Ma went to open the door. As soon as he opened the door, Li Zhenzi gave her a hug, kissed her face like a Westerner’s habit, and said, “Mammy!“

       Li Zhenruo peeked out from his cat bed, knowing that Li Zhenzi had drunk too much.

       Li Zhenzi was not a good drinker, and he often did inexplicable things when he was drunk. This makes Li Jianglin very dissatisfied with him for a while. Li Zhenzi was aware of that fact himself, so he controlled the amount of alcohol and seldom got completely drunk outside.

       However, he didn’t know what kind of dinner party Li Zhenzi had tonight so he unexpectedly came back drunk again.

       “Aiyo,” Wang Ma muttered, “Why did you drink so much?”

       She took Li Zhenzi from the driver and helped him to go upstairs. After all, Wang Ma was too old to support such a tall young man, so she asked the driver to come in and help.

       The two people dragged and pulled. They just helped Li Zhenzi to walk to the top of the stairs, but Li Zhenzi suddenly stopped, he vigorously broke free of the two of them and walked towards Li Zhenruo’s cat bed.

       Li Zhenruo was not in the mood to entertain the drunkards, so he hid himself in the cat bed motionless.

       He did not expect Li Zhenzi to squat down beside the cat bed, and suddenly said, “Come out!”

       Wang Ma hurried over and asked worriedly, “What’s wrong?”

       Li Zhenruo shrank himself into a ball and hid in the innermost part of the cat bed.

       Li Zhenzi saw that he refused to come out, so he reached in with his hand, grabbed one of Li Zhenruo’s paws and pulled it out.

       Li Zhenruo let out a cry in panic.

       Wang Ma was taken aback, and pulled Li Zhenzi by the shoulders and said, “What are you tossing the cat for? It’s already so late!”

       Li Zhenzi said, “Too dirty! Let’s go take a bath!”

       Wang Ma sweated, “What bath are you taking this late? If you find it dirty, I will bathe it tomorrow morning.” 

       Li Zhenzi didn’t listen to any words said, grabbed Li Zhenruo’s paws and pulled him. Seeing him struggling, he switched to using both hands to hold his two paws and carried him upstairs.

       Li Zhenruo was a little annoyed, struggling all the way and let out a horrible cry.

       But a cat’s strength is really limited.

       Li Zhenzi walked down flutteringly, but he didn’t loosen his hand at all, he just grabbed Li Zhenruo to the second floor and walked towards his room.

       Wang Ma and the driver both followed up. Wang Ma was so anxious that she trotted all the way. Seeing that Li Zhenzi had returned to his room, she said to the driver, “Forget it, you go to rest first. I’ll watch him.”

       The driver agreed, turned and went downstairs.

       They made a lot of noise along the way. Li Zhentai had already returned at nine o’clock in the evening, but at this time the door was closed tightly, and he never came out to take a look.

       Li Zhenzi grabbed Li Zhenruo back to his room, walked all the way into the bathroom, and threw Li Zhenruo into the bathtub.

       Li Zhenruo turned around and wanted to go out, but when Li Zhenzi held his tail down, he screamed.

       Li Zhenzi pressed his back, opened the shower with one hand, and used a sprinkler to aim at his head and pour the water down. The water was still cold, and Li Zhenruo quivered, shaking his head vigorously to throw the water off.

       Wang Ma stood behind him and kept sighing and persuading him to stop making trouble.

       Li Zhenruo was furious that he couldn’t get out of the bathtub because Li Zhenzi was putting pressure on him. The water was poured hard on the top of his head again. Later he raised his paws, and randomly grabbed towards the top, but didn’t expect it to catch something soft.

       “Ah!” Wang Ma shrieked.

       Li Zhenzi only felt a chill on his face at the beginning and felt a painful heat immediately after. He reached out and wiped it, and found that the back of his hand was stained with blood.

       While Li Zhenzi was in a daze, Li Zhenruo scurried out of the bathtub regardless of the water all over his body.

       He ran to the door, saw Li Zhenran who was walking this way, looked up at him, and then lowered his head and continued running downstairs.

       Li Zhenzi chased him out for two steps, but was stopped by Li Zhenran. As he saw the scratches on his face, Li Zhenran quickly said, “Take care of the wound first.”

       Li Zhenruo ran all the way downstairs. He panicked and jumped directly onto the window of the living room. After returning to his senses, he realized that he could jump up to a high window.

       Li Zhenzi never chased down.

       Wang Ma came down, rummaged through the first aid kit, and hurried up again.

       Li Zhenruo stood by the window for a while and shivered when the cold wind blew. He jumped down from the window and hid in the corner behind the sofa. He was afraid that Li Zhenzi would come and annoy him.

       He regretted it a little bit. It feels good to scratch with that paw, but it’s a big problem if he pissed off Li Zhenzi and was thrown away. He finally got into Li’s house, and it was not worth it to be kicked out for such a trivial matter.

       If Yu Bingwei was angry at him because of what he did to Li Zhenzhi and refused to raise him, he would have to go out as a stray cat.

       As he thought of this, Li Zhenruo felt even more frustrated. He put his paws together, put his round chin on his paws, and sighed with half-closed eyes.

       He ran too fast just now, and he didn’t see whether Li Zhenzi’s wound was deep or not, but he had been vaccinated, and he hadn’t been exposed to other animals outside, so it shouldn’t be a big problem.

       But even if Li Zhenzi died of rabies, he deserved it! What’s the matter with such a big man bullying a cat?

       Li Zhenruo patted his tail on the ground, curled up to warm himself up.

       Later, because the fur was wet and too cold, he did not fall asleep for a long time. Until the fur was almost dry, he went to bite his cat bed and drag it to the back of the sofa, then went in and curled up to sleep.

       He slept until dawn when he heard the sound of people walking in the living room and immediately woke up.

       He woke up and recalled what happened last night. Li Zhenruo was lying on his back and didn’t want to move.

       Wang Ma was walking around in the living room, and her footsteps suddenly stopped. She said strangely, “Where is the cat?”

       Not only the cat was missing, but the cat bed was also missing!

       Li Zhenruo intended to continue to lie down and play dead.

       Wang Ma was very surprised.

       Later, Li Zhenran got up and went downstairs. Wang Ma said to him, “Who took the cat and the cat bed away?”

       Li Zhenran frowned upon hearing this, and when he was still speaking, he heard a soft sneeze.

       Li Zhenruo’s nose was itchy and he really couldn’t hold it in.

       Li Zhenran heard the movement and walked towards the back of the sofa. As soon as he approached, he saw Li Zhenruo’s cat bed and squatted down in front of it.

       Li Zhenruo raised his head to look at him, and couldn’t hold back another sneeze.

       At this time, Li Zhenzi had come downstairs, he raised his hand to press the back of his neck while walking down the stairs and moved his neck with a somewhat uncomfortable expression.

       The headache from the hangover was more unbearable than the cat scratches on his face.

       Li Zhenran stood up and asked Li Zhenzi when he saw him, “Do you remember what you did when you came back last night?”

       As he heard that, he subconsciously raised his hand to touch the wound on his face. The three scratches were actually not deep, but a little blood came out of the skin, and because they were on the face, they were particularly noticeable.

       He frowned and nodded, and said, “I drank too much. I only remember a little.” He didn’t remember it perfectly, and he was bewildered by a lot of unclear scenes. But he still remembered that he was the one who provoked the cat first.

       He remembered, and Li Zhenzi was still a little annoyed when he was scratched like that. He glanced in the direction of the cat bed and said strangely, “Where is Dumpling?”

       Li Zhenran asked him, “The cat’s name is Dumpling?”

       Li Zhenzi nodded. He was not too alarmed by Li Zhenruo’s disappearance. He went to the dining room and poured himself a glass of water.

       Li Zhenran looked down at Li Zhenruo, and then said to Li Zhenzi, “It might be frightened.”

       He was so scared that he dragged his cat bed behind the sofa.

       Li Zhenzi took the water glass and sat down at the table, drinking water and said, “What’s it scared of? I didn’t hit it.” His voice was still a little hoarse.

       Wang Ma helped bring breakfast from the kitchen, and said after hearing the words, “You didn’t hear how badly it meowed yesterday as if you were going to kill him.” After finishing speaking, she seemed to feel that the cat was pitiful, and persuaded, “It is also frightened, so don’t be hard on it.”

       Li Zhenzi choked while drinking the water, “It scratched me with its paw and I didn’t say anything, but now I have to be sorry for it?”

       Wang Ma looked at him with silent condemnation in her gaze.

       Li Zhenzi raised his hand and surrendered, “Okay, okay. It’s my fault. I’m not going to argue with a cat, okay? You tell it to come out, and I apologize to it.”

       Li Zhenran squatted down again, and did not reach out to catch Li Zhenruo in the cat bed, but opened his palm towards the door of the cat bed.

       Li Zhenruo looked at Li Zhenran’s hand, wondering what does this mean? If I come out obediently, doesn’t it mean I have surrendered to you?

       However, he quickly thought that now that Li Zhenzi gave him a way out of the situation, he had better follow along. It is better to have Li Zhenran as a supporter than without Li Zhenran. If he didn’t want to be driven out of Li’s house, he might still have to do something.

       His heart was completely torn, Li Zhenruo finally stood up and walked slowly towards Li Zhenran. He looked up at Li Zhenran and put his paw on Li Zhenran’s palm.

       At that moment Li Zhenran’s expression was slightly stunned, but he didn’t say anything. He just picked him up and walked towards the dining room.

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       When the Li family’s mansion was built, the area used to be an elegant forest park on the outskirts of the city, with a natural lake in front and a large Chinese banyan forest behind it.

       Later, the city was expanded, and this area was slowly developed into an urban district, but it was still retained as a forest park in the city. Apart from some old houses, there are also villas built by senior government and military officials.

       The house of the Li family is an old house, with a large private garden. When the land price was cheap, Li Jianglin had already made a fortune. A large area was enclosed as the private garden of the Li family, and there was even a small forest behind it.

       Later, after the birth of several children, Li Jianglin restored the open space on the left side of the villa to build a swimming pool, and built a tennis court behind the villa, hiring a teacher to teach the children to play tennis every week.

       The car drove along the lakeside driveway, turned into a quiet and secluded trail, and finally stopped in front of a carved iron gate at the roadside.

       The iron door slowly opened, and the driver drove the car in.

       Li Zhenruo had been in his cage at first, but he couldn’t help getting out when he was close to home and leaned over to the window to look outside.

       After all, this is the home he grew up in.

       Since the construction of the tennis court, the Li family hasn’t renovated or refurbished the house for many years. The garden paths are the ones he knew well since his childhood. The three-story villa looks a bit old, but it still stands firmly.

       The villa of the Li family is in the shape of an “L” letter. The main villa in the middle is where the Li family lives, and the side building on the right is the kitchen as well as  the room for the nanny, gardener, and driver.

       After the driver stopped the car, Li Zhenran grabbed Li Zhenruo with one hand and got out of the car, and walked into the house, while the driver opened the rear compartment and moved the other things out.

       The old nanny of the Li family, Wang Ma, waited for Li Zhenran outside the gate as soon as she heard the sound of the car.

       Wang Ma has been with the Li family for many years. She is the nanny of the Li family’s eldest and second child, and also raised the Li family’s third and fourth child since childhood.

       He didn’t feel it when he was young, and it took Li Zhenruo a long time to feel that the relationships between the Li family were abnormal. Rather than being Li Jianglin’s mistress, his mother was more a woman Li Jianglin bought to give birth to him.

       He was taken to Li’s house just after he was born and was cut off from his mother’s milk. When he asked about his mother when he was just a child, Li Jianglin always told him that his mother had passed away. Later, when he was old and sensible and wanted to find out, he learned that his mother really had died some years ago. He also grew up with his third brother. As for the eldest and second brothers, he had never heard what kind of person their mother was.

       Li Jianglin has a wife.

       His wife’s name is Zhu Yun, who hasn’t been able to bear a child in her life. Perhaps it is because Zhu Yun is infertile that Li Jianglin found a woman outside to give birth to a child. Li Zhenruo thought that he probably didn’t love those women, but only his wife, so he would find different women to have children and deprive those women of the right to raise children.

       For the children of the Li family, Wang Ma is equivalent to half of their mothers.

       Wang Ma gave birth to a son and a daughter. The daughter is older and is now married. The son is Li Zhenran’s assistant, Hua Yibang.

       In the past, Wang’s husband worked as a servant for the Li family for a long time. After she gave birth to the child, she served as a nanny for the Li family’s child. After that, the couple stayed at the Li’s house until her husband passed away, but Wang Ma did not leave.

       As for Li Zhenruo, who has been missing his mother’s love since childhood, his feelings for Wang Ma were naturally unusual.

       Now that Li Zhenran came back with a cat in his hand, Wang Ma asked when she saw it, “Zhenran, is this the cat that Zhenzi mentioned?”

       Li Zhenran gave an “um” and raised his arms to hand Li Zhenruo to Wang Ma.

       Wang Ma stretched out her hand but didn’t know how to pick it up.

       So Li Zhenran carried him into the room and put Li Zhenruo on the ground.

       “Oh,” Wang Ma was a little worried, “Will it make a mess?”

       To be honest, Li Zhenran didn’t know. He removed the cat hair that was left in his hand and asked Wang Ma, “What did the third child say?”

       Wang Ma shook her head, “He just say that Su Yao is going to send a cat over and let me take over.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Then let’s talk about it when he comes back. It’s better for the cat to stay in the living room first.”

       Li Zhenruo was still in a daze at this time, he raised his head and stared blankly at the big house.

       When he left at that time, his heart felt very painful. He thought that he would never have a chance to come back here in his life, but he didn’t expect to be in this strange and odd situation today.

       He walked two steps forward, and suddenly wanted to go upstairs to take a look at his room.

       At this time, Li Zhenran’s driver took in all Li Zhenruo’s daily necessities, and Wang Ma directed him to put them in the corner.

       Since it is Li Zhenzi’s cat, Wang Ma thought that most of the cat toilets should be put upstairs and kept in Li Zhenzi’s room. But now that the person hasn’t come back, and no one can make the decision, they can only put it in the corner of the living room on the first floor.

       Li Zhenran unbuttoned his shirt collar while walking towards the second floor, probably to take a shower and change his clothes.

       Li Zhenruo hesitated, pretending to stick to Li Zhenran, and walked upstairs by his legs.

       Li Zhenran paused, lowered his head to look at him.

       So he also looked up at Li Zhenran, and hurriedly chased after him when he took another step.

       In the three-story building of Li’s main building, on the first floor, in addition to the living room, there is Li Jianglin’s bedroom, study, and two guest bedrooms. On the corner of the stairs leading to the second floor on the first floor, there is a wedding photo of Li Jianglin and his wife Zhu Yun.

       The photo was already a bit old, Zhu Yun’s wedding dress now looks tacky, and Li Jianglin even had shoulder-length hair at that time. But it’s such an old photo, which has been hanging here as far as Li Zhenruo could remember, and he could see it every time he went up and down the staircase every day.

       A few years ago, Li Jianglin even asked someone to retouch it.

       In regards to his wife, Li Jianglin is probably deeply in love with her.

       On the second floor of the main building are the bedrooms of the brothers; Li Zhentai, Li Zhenzi, and Li Zhenruo. They are all large bedrooms with separate bathrooms, and only Li Zhenran’s room is on the third floor.

       In fact, this was not the original room arrangement. The room on the second floor was enough for all four of their brothers to live. Later, Li Zhenran moved to the third floor alone, in the small attic on the left of the third floor. At that time, Li Jianglin did not object.

       In addition to Li Zhenran’s room on the third floor, there is a study filled with large bookcases and a recreation room, which has a home theatre and large soft sofas, as well as a small bar, and a wine cabinet behind the bar filled with expensive red wine.

       On the top floor is a glass-roofed sunroom¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunroom on which there is a pool table, a table tennis table, and a large swing chair.

       The Li brothers are all very good at enjoying life.

       Li Zhenruo followed Li Zhenran’s legs on the second floor and wanted to go to his own room to have a look, but it’s not good enough to be too obvious, so he strayed from Li Zhenran’s legs and swayed outside the rooms of Li Zhenzi and Li Zhentai. And finally saw that the door of his room was locked tightly.

       A situation that he should have been expected long ago.

       Li Zhenruo raised his paw and touched it. The door didn’t move, so he could only turn around and return.

       He didn’t expect Li Zhenran to stand on the edge of the stairs and wait for him.

       Li Zhenran asked him, “Where are you going?”

       Li Zhenruo was a little dumbfounded, thinking how to answer to him well, and so he could only answer him, “Meow.”

       Li Zhenran raised his leg and continued up the stairs.

       Li Zhenruo hesitated for a moment and chose to follow.

       Li Zhenran’s room is in the small attic on the far left of the third floor. The attic has a pointed top and the upper edge of the window is an arc. When the window is opened, it faces the swimming pool outside.

       The whole room is full of sunshine and neatly tidied up.

       After Li Zhenruo followed Li Zhenran in, he realized that this was the first time he had entered Li Zhenran’s room.

       It’s very amazing. Li Zhenruo obviously lives in the same big house, but Li Zhenruo never entered this brother’s room once. If there was something he needed from him, he would just stand at the door and knock, and Li Zhenran would come out and talk to him.

       After Li Zhenruo followed in at Li Zhenran’s feet, he suddenly felt that this room was really good. The pointed roof looked very high and it doesn’t look suffocating at all. When the sun was high, you could even see the reflection of the swimming pool swaying on the ceiling when you lay on the bed. It is particularly cool in summer.

       After entering the room, Li Zhenran smoothly locked the door.

       Li Zhenruo looked back at the door but didn’t feel nervous. Anyway, Li Zhenran would go to dinner later, so he can look around his room at ease.

       Li Zhenran’s bed is very low, resembling a tatami, and a mattress is thrown on the raised wooden floor, and the bed is covered with sheets.

       The end of the bed faces the large wardrobe, a single desk on the right side with a computer on it, and a bookshelf next to it with more than a dozen books.

       Li Zhenruo had also seen the general layout of the room in the past from the door, but today he has time to take a closer look. The dozen books on the bookshelf are all financial investments, and the computer screen is black, probably not turned on.

       Li Zhenran stood by the bed and began to undress as if no one was there.

       Li Zhenruo accidentally looked up and found that Li Zhenran had taken off his shirt, revealing a strong and supple chest. At the same time, he opened the suit pants with one hand, allowing the pants to slide down his legs.

       Even though he was still wrapped in underwear, Li Zhenruo still saw the bulge between Li Zhenran’s legs. He immediately turned his eyes away and thought that everyone clearly grew up eating together. Why did Li Zhenzi and Li Zhenran have grown such big guys, and there seems to be a gap between them?

       Could it be only because they are truly Li Jianglin’s son, and because he is not?

       Li Zhenran took off his clothes directly in the room before heading to the bathroom.

       Li Zhenruo stayed silently. He was embarrassed to look at Li Zhenran, and then he just lay down, with his round chin resting on his fleshy paws, staring at Li Zhenran’s bed in a daze.

       It wasn’t until Li Zhenran entered the bathroom and closed the door that he let out a long breath and looked around in the room.

       However, Li Zhenran didn’t have the habit of bringing work stuff to the house. Li Zhenruo looked around and saw nothing. He couldn’t open Li Zhenran’s drawers and cabinets. After turning around, Li Zhenruo went back to Li Zhenran’s bed and lay down.

       Li Zhenran’s tatami is quite comfortable. He lay down for a while and switched to lying on his side.

       Within ten minutes, Li Zhenran came out after taking a shower.

       He still has no clothes on and just wiped the water off his body with a towel.

       Li Zhenruo thought: Exhibitionist. And then squinted his eyes.

       Li Zhenran put on a set of casual clothes, wiped his face with a towel, and heard the Wang Ma downstairs yelling, “Dinner’s ready.”

       He didn’t respond, but just walked over and lifted Li Zhenruo’s neck, then opened the door of the room and walked out.

       Li Zhenzi hadn’t yet returned during dinner at night. He had a dinner party outside today.

       In addition to Li Zhenran, there was also the eldest brother Li Zhentai at home.

       Li Zhentai is thirty-two years old this year, four years older than Li Zhenran, and nine years older than Li Zhenruo.

       Although he is not as good-looking as Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi, Li Zhentai could be regarded to have a tall figure with good features, coupled with an easygoing personality, and always have a smile on his face to some extend.

       He is not married yet, but he has a fiancée. The two have a close relationship, and they were probably beginning to raise money for marriage.

       Seeing Li Zhenran grabbing a cat down, Li Zhentai was surprised and asked, “Where did the cat come from?”

       Li Zhenran came down to the first floor, released him from his hand, and put Li Zhenruo on the ground, saying, “The third one’s.”

       Li Zhentai smiled when he heard this and said, “The third child indeed have a good spirits.” After finishing speaking, he didn’t pay much attention to Li Zhenruo, and only said to Li Zhenran, “Let’s eat.”

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Notes:
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