Category: Revenge of the Garfield (Page 5 of 10)

       Li Zhenruo knew that Li Jianglin was not his own father, but the imposing aura was still there after years. To be honest, he was a little flustered at this moment. However, when he saw Li Zhenran calmly get up and put on his clothes, he thought that it was Li Zhenran’s father and not his father anyway. If he was not nervous, what was he being so nervous for? So he sat up and asked hesitantly, “Do I just go out like this?”

       Li Zhenran glanced at him and said, “I would advise you to put your clothes on.”

       Li Zhenruo resisted the urge to roll his eyes and pulled the quilt to cover his lower body, “You said he should have heard it, right?”

       Li Zhenran sat on the edge of the bed and put on his trousers, “En”, “Find some clothes to put on and go out with me.”

       Li Zhenruo understood that Li Zhenran planned to simply confess to Li Jianglin. The soundproofing in this room should be good, but Li Jianglin was not a fool. His son had been locked in it for so long in the daytime, so there was something wrong with it, right? And he asked Hua Yibang not to notify Li Zhenran, which was like he knew something in advance.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that he was someone who made an inauspicious remark. He had just imagined the worst situation and now he had to face it. He got off the bed, walked barefoot to the closet, opened the door, and deliberately picked out a better-looking piece of clothing since the truth was out. He wondered if Li Jianglin would not be so angry because of this?

       He didn’t put on his clothes for a long time, Li Zhenran came over to help him pull up his coat, and then squatted down and put socks on him.

       Probably because of Li Zhenran’s bland attitude, Li Zhenruo felt that it was no big deal at this time. Li Jianglin kicked him out of the Li family, then he hooked up with his son as revenge.

       As he thought of this, Li Zhenruo raised his foot to step between Li Zhenran’s legs. As the result, Li Zhenran squeezed his ankle so hard that his leg was numb.

       When he opened the door of the lounge, Li Zhenruo followed Li Zhenran and walked out. Sure enough, he saw Li Jianglin sitting on the sofa in the office.

       Li Jianglin leaned back against the back of the sofa, but he sat very straight, his crutch was in front of him, and his hands were on the crutch. Li Zhenruo didn’t know when he came in and how much he heard, but Li Zhenruo and Li Zhenran didn’t even notice. Looking at his expression, he was calm, not furious, but not smiling. Perhaps it was because he had seen the third son hooked up with the eldest daughter-in-law, so the second son fooling around with the little assistant was not a major blow to him.

       When he saw Li Jianglin, Li Zhenruo suddenly felt a little distressed for him, so he simply hid behind Li Zhenran and did not appear, pretending to be nervous.

       However, Li Jianglin’s gaze still passed over Li Zhenran, looked at Li Zhenruo up and down for a moment, and then returned to Li Zhenran’s face.

       “Dad,” Li Zhenran called out.

       Li Zhenrou grabbed the hem of Li Zhenran’s clothes and did not speak.

       At this moment, Li Zhenran surprisingly turned his hands behind his back and grabbed Li Zhenruo’s hand, digging into the palm of his hand.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t know whether to say Li Zhenran was heartless or shameless.

       Li Jianglin ignored Li Zhenran, but said to Li Zhenruo, “Li Tuan, I remember you said you were Luo Fei’s cousin, right?”

       Li Zhenruo nodded and said, “Yes.”

       Li Jianglin added, “I remember that you are not yet twenty years old. Your cousin sent you for an internship, but you are sleeping with a man here. Do you think it is appropriate?”

       Li Zhenruo grabbed Li Zhenran’s hand and did not speak.

       Li Jianglin sighed, and then said to Li Zhenran, “I have something to tell you, let this young man be excused.”

       Li Zhenruo said in his heart that Li Jianglin was planning to teach Li Zhenran a lesson, so he let the outsider leave first. So before Li Zhenran answered, he took the initiative to say, “I’m going out first, Mr. Li.”

       After speaking, Li Zhenruo let go of Li Zhenran’s hand and walked out of the office.

       Li Zhenran didn’t stop him, but walked to the sofa and sat down.

       As he went out of the office, Hua Yibang sat in front of his desk, raised his head to look at Li Zhenruo, with such an expression on his face, and then glanced at the closed door of the office, probably worried about Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenruo said, “The father and son want to chat, I’ll go out for a walk.”

       Hua Yibang nodded.

       Li Zhenruo opened the office door and walked out. He stood by the wall with his back against the wall for a while, and stood there quietly for a while, sighing.

       Opposite the corridor was Li Zhenzi’s office. At this time, the office door was tightly closed, and he didn’t know if anyone was still inside.

       He knew that Li Zhenzi often left the company after meeting and dealing with the affairs in his hand, and he was more at Yunyi than at Yunlin. He was bored and walked along the corridor alone. The reason why Li Zhenruo didn’t want to stay in the office was that he felt a little confused in his heart and didn’t want to be alone with Hua Yibang.

       He found that he was not as good as Li Zhenran, and he was still not calm enough to face these things.

       Unconsciously, he walked to the stairwell. There were hardly any people walking in the stairwell here, and it looked very gloomy. Before Li Zhenruo got close, he heard the voice of someone talking inside.

       The stairwell was transparent up and down, and a sound could be heard from far away. Obviously, it was not the person on this floor who was talking, but Li Zhenruo could still hear it clearly while standing next to the fire door.

       The voice came from the downstairs floor, and it was someone on a phone. Downstairs was Li Zhentai’s office, and this person’s voice Li Zhenruo could hear, was Li Zhentai’s assistant Gao Qi.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t know who Gao Qi was talking to on the phone, but his attitude was fierce, and he looked a little out of breath.

       Li Zhenruo squatted beside the fire door and heard Gao Qi shout to the person over the phone, “I don’t have that much money! Zhentai doesn’t want to lend it to me!”

       After a while, Gao Qi said again, “Settle your own troubles.”

       Then Gao Qi seemed to hang up the phone. The leather shoes made dull sounds as he stepped on the ground and left the stairwell with dull footsteps.

       Li Zhenruo squatted for a while and thought that Gao Qi might be able to become a breakthrough in Li Zhentai’s matter, and this trip was an unexpected gain.

       After a while, Li Zhenruo heard the door of Li Zhenran’s office opened and saw Hua Yibang helping Li Jianglin out from inside.

       He quickly stood up, hesitated for a while and stood still.

       Li Jianglin nodded to him, but did not mean to call him over, and walked towards the elevator with the help of Hua Yibang.

       Li Zhenruo waited in place and waited for them to enter the elevator before walking towards Li Zhenran’s office.

       After he entered, he found that Li Zhenran was already sitting behind his large desk, turning around and looking outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

       “He—what did he say to you?” Li Zhenruo asked as he walked inside.

       Li Zhenran turned to look at him and smiled, “A lot of things, what do you want to hear?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him with some doubts. He knew that Li Zhenran didn’t take Li Jianglin’s attitude to heart, but he felt that Li Zhenran was too careless. Why wasn’t he afraid that Li Jianglin’s attitude towards him would change in the future and the whole Yunlin could fall on someone else?

       Li Zhenruo walked up to Li Zhenran and said, “I guess, no matter what he said, in any case, it’s not possible to just mess around with you, right?”

       Li Zhenran reached out and wrapped his arms around his waist, “You are right, but you don’t need to worry, I got everything.”

       Li Zhenruo had to admit that he was very moved by Li Zhenran’s words. If Li Zhenran was kicked out by Li Jianglin, and he could also say to him “don’t worry, I got everything”, he promised that he would never give up on Li Zhenran from now on.

       He couldn’t help but put his forehead on top of Li Zhenran’s head, and suddenly noticed that a stack of photos was scattered on the desk, so he stretched out his hand to get it, and when he opened it, it turned out that all of them were photos of him and Li Zhenran.

       “Li Jianglin brought it?” Li Zhenruo asked.

       Li Zhenran said “um”, “Average candid photography skills.”

       At first, he was just sceptical, but now Li Zhenruo felt sure of his own thoughts, “Did Li Zhentai do it?”

       Li Zhenran casually shook the office chair from side to side, “The old man didn’t say that, what do you think?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I have nothing to say. Whether it’s him or not, I’m betting it’s him.”

       At dinner that day, the anger was a little subtle.

       Li Zhenruo still didn’t know what Li Jianglin and Li Zhenran—father and son said, but Li Jianglin was really calm, and he hadn’t said anything since Li Zhenran went home in the afternoon until dinner.

       For dinner tonight, Wang Ma cooked a small fish for Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo was lying at Li Zhenran’s feet, licked the fish with his flat mouth, and suddenly heard Li Zhentai asked about the construction company of the Qijiang project.

       Li Zhenran chatted with him while eating.

       Li Jianglin suddenly said, “It would be great if the fourth child was still there.”

       As soon as he said these words, everyone at the table fell silent.

       Li Zhentai could hardly hide the surprise in his expression, while Li Zhenran frowned slightly.

       It was Wen Chun who spoke up and comforted, “Dad, don’t be sad.”

       In fact, not to mention them, even Li Zhenruo, who was lying under the table, was also surprised. If he was really Li Jianglin’s son, it was nothing weird to be said, but he was not.

       Li Jianglin suddenly said to Li Zhentai and Li Zhenran that he missed him. No matter how he thought about it, it was abnormal.

       After he said that, Li Jianglin put down his chopsticks and stood up.

       When Wang Ma saw this, she asked, “Not going to eat more?”

       Li Jianglin shook his head, “No more.”

       In the evening, Li Zhenruo was lying on the windowsill watching Li Jianglin walking back and forth in the garden downstairs. He walked from here to there alone, stopped and stood there for a long time, and then slowly walked back to this side.

       Li Jianglin had something on his mind, mostly because of Li Zhenran. But he was so melancholy, and Li Zhenruo really couldn’t figure out what he was doing.

       Suddenly mentioning him, most likely he felt that the other three children were just causing him to worry.

       Li Zhenran had already come out of the shower, walked to the window and scooped up Li Zhenruo with one hand, put him on his chest and lay down on the bed.

       Li Zhenruo lay quietly on his chest, listening to his steady and powerful heartbeat.

       In fact, Li Zhenran seemed to be a bit of a homebody in Li Zhenruo’s eyes. In the past, he found it difficult to understand; the world was so wonderful, and while you were young should go out to see more and play more, why should one always nestle at home?

       But now, for the first time, he felt that he was in a good mood even if he was just staying with the person he liked, even if he did nothing.

       Before he knew it, it was already dark. Li Zhenruo was lying in Li Zhenran’s arms, half asleep listening to the sound of Li Zhenran’s sound turning over the book, and suddenly noticed some commotion outside.

       There was not much movement, and Li Zhenran didn’t seem to notice it, but Li Zhenruo pricked up his ears, then turned over and rushed out of the window.

       Li Zhenran sat up and asked, “What?”

       But Li Zhenruo didn’t have time to answer him. He rushed out of the window, climbed down the floor along the pipe, and ran towards Erhuang’s kennel. Sure enough, he saw a person standing there trying to lead Erhuang away.

       Li Zhenruo pounced quickly, and the whole cat landed on the man’s face.

       “fvck!” Zhu Kai, who was pounced to the ground, cursed lowly. He reached out and grabbed Li Zhenruo to pull him off.

       Erhuang, who couldn’t hold back his excitement at all, saw Zhu Kai and Li Zhenruo rolling into a ball on the ground, thinking it was some interesting game, and finally couldn’t help wagging his tail and barking loudly.

       Li Zhenran was the first to come out of the house to see this scene, and soon Wang Ma, Li Zhentai, and Wen Chun also heard the movement, and the gardener and driver at home all ran towards it.

       Finally, Li Jianglin appeared on the crutch.

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       The Li family hadn’t seen Li Zhenran hold the cat on his lap for breakfast for a long time.

       When Li Zhentai came downstairs and saw it, he couldn’t help but sighed and said, “Finally your cat is found, otherwise you’ll be out of the mood for work.”

       Li Zhenran didn’t look up and focused on peeling the eggs for Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo glanced at him, and then glanced at Li Jianglin who was sitting in the main seat and thought that Li Zhentai was just trying to be witty again.

       He didn’t ask Li Zhenran, but according to the family’s tone, Li Zhentai should come back to sleep these days, and the relationship between him and Wen Chun seemed to have eased.

       However, Li Zhenzi still did not come back. It seems that it was impossible for Li Zhentai to forgive Li Zhenzi in a short time.

       No. Li Zhenruo thinks it won’t be in a short time, maybe Li Zhentai will never forgive Li Zhenzi in his whole life. Li Zhentai himself was useless. Furthermore, there were Li Zhenzi and Li Zhenran above him getting in his way.

       In order to make Li Zhenruo’s death to be in vain, Li Zhentai had to target Li Zhenzi in the next step. He hesitated to act, did he feel that if he did it now, it would be too obvious?

       After Li Zhenruo ate the egg yolk, he smelled the faint fragrance on Li Zhenran’s fingers, so he couldn’t help sticking out his tongue to lick his fingers. After licking for a while, he suddenly felt a burst of tooth itching, and couldn’t bear to bite him. He just lay down on Li Zhenran and licked his neck and chin.

       Li Zhentai was about to sit down, but he couldn’t help but slow down for a while, and asked hesitantly, “Zhenran, your cat did not get rabies outside, right?”

       Li Zhenran’s head was slightly tilted back, and his long fingers pinched the back of Li Zhenruo’s neck, but he didn’t pull him away in the end and let him lick him.

       After Li Zhenruo finished licking, he leaned on Li Zhenran’s shoulder and panted slightly, thinking I like you so much, don’t you know? Ghosts won’t believe it!

       After breakfast, Li Zhenran went to the bathroom to wash his face and neck with water.

       Li Zhenruo was lying on the dining room table, and squinting his eyes with an unhappy look in the direction of the bathroom, until Wang Ma drove him off the table.

       At that time, he really wanted to leave the Li family. However, now that he came back, Li Zhenruo didn’t want to be separated from Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran went to the company, Li Zhenruo jumped up before he closed the door, and sat down in the back seat.

       The driver saw him in the rearview mirror, smiled and said to Li Zhenran, “It’s back?”

       Li Zhenran replied, “Yeah, I found it.”

       Li Zhenruo rubbed against Li Zhenran’s leg and lay down, resting his head on his lap. He saw that Li Zhenran’s hand was still beside him, and he pulled his hand with his paws.

       When Li Zhenran raised his head and touched it, Li Zhenruo raised his eyes and looked at him with satisfaction.

       The driver accidentally encountered a problem while driving the car and stepped on the emergency brake. Li Zhenruo rolled off the seat in one go, and Li Zhenran reached out and tried to catch him before he had time.

       The driver quickly apologized, saying that the car in front suddenly changed lanes.

       Li Zhenran said, “It doesn’t matter.” Li Zhenran looked down and saw that Li Zhenruo had quickly climbed back to the seat. Li Zhenruo continued to rest his round chin on Li Zhenran’s leg as if nothing had happened.

       So Li Zhenran couldn’t help pinching Li Zhenruo’s face.

       As soon as he arrived at the company, Li Zhenran had a meeting waiting for him. He left the cat in the office and asked Hua Yibang to send him the meeting materials.

       Hua Yibang came into Li Zhenran’s office, looked at Li Zhenruo for a while, and asked, “Has the cat been found?”

       Li Zhenran responded lightly, asked some questions on the document, then got up and said, “Let’s go.”

       When he saw them go out to the office together, Li Zhenruo jumped onto the sofa in the office and sat down. He felt that Li Zhenran still didn’t seem to be in a good mood.

       He thought of what Li Zhenran said to him yesterday. He knew that Li Zhenran was worried about him running away from home, and those almost compromising words were doubting his feelings. But when he thought of Li Zhenran saying that he loved him, Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but feel happy, I know you love me, what are you pretending!

       He sat on the sofa, stretched out his front and back legs, and slowly transformed into a human posture. He tried hard to use the method taught by Xia Hongshen to mobilize the spiritual power stored in his dantian, wrapping it around his body and turning it into a human body. layers of clothing.

       Li Zhenruo closed his eyes and felt the flow of spiritual power in his heart. When he opened his eyes, he found that there was only one pair of underwear on his body… fvck, it was a black lace thong, what the hell?! Li Zhenruo was a little broken, how could he control this? He was just in the process of changing and occasionally thought about some pictures.

       Afraid that Li Zhenran would be stimulated, Li Zhenruo quickly changed back to his cat appearance.

       He thought Li Zhenran, that pervert should still prefer the cat.

       When he thought of this, Li Zhenruo jumped up from the sofa and jumped onto Li Zhenran’s large desk, trying to put on a charming pose.

       He was lying on his stomach at first, and then he found that he couldn’t lift his legs. He probably looked a little stupid, so he changed to lying on his side again, exposing his white and soft belly, and his tail was gently flapping on the table.

       After a while, he heard footsteps coming, and Li Zhenran opened the door from the outside.

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly flexed a leg to make himself look more attractive.

       As a result, Li Zhenran just walked in and stopped when he saw him.

       Li Zhenzi stuck his head out from behind Li Zhenran and said with a “wow”, “Second brother, your taste is really heavy.”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly jumped up, closed his tightly and sat on the big desk. He looked up at the window with a focused expression, the early morning sunlight shining in, giving his whole body furry coated with a layer of soft glow, and it looked like a beautiful picture.

       Li Zhenran pretended not to see it, walked to the back of the desk and sat down, and let Li Zhenzi also sit.

       After Li Zhenzi sat down, he wanted to reach out and touch Li Zhenruo, but Li Zhenruo slapped his hand with his tail.

       Then Li Zhenruo got up, walked to the edge of the desk, and continued to sit down and pretend to look out the window.

       Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi talked to themselves about the engineering issues of the project in the western part. It concerned one of the contracts, and the two of them discussed it carefully for a long time.

       Li Zhenruo was tired from posing, he changed his posture and lay on the table, staring at Li Zhenran with some resentment.

       Li Zhenran probably received Li Zhenruo’s gaze and said to Li Zhenzi, “That’s it, there are still some things to do here, I will talk about it next time.”

       Li Zhen couldn’t help but glance at the cat lying on the table, stood up and said, “Then I’ll go first.”

       “Third child,” Li Zhenran suddenly stopped him when he saw that Li Zhenzi was about to leave his office.

       Li Zhenzi turned around, a little strange, “Huh?”

       Li Zhenran said, “Tighten up a bit these days.”

       Li Zhenzi was stunned for a moment, “Why do you say that?”

       Li Zhenran leaned back on the back of the chair and raised one leg, “You don’t think the grudge with eldest brother will simply go away, right?”

       Li Zhen was silent for a moment after hearing the words, and replied, “I know.” After he said that, he opened the door of the office and walked out.

       Li Zhenruo looked in the direction of the office door thoughtfully.

       Li Zhenran looked at him for a while, saw that he was still in a daze, and asked, “What?”

       Li Zhenruo immediately transformed into a human form, and regardless of his nakedness, he sat on the edge of the desk and said to Li Zhenran, “Do you think Li Zhentai wants to touch the third child?”

       “I don’t know,” Li Zhenran said as he picked up the cigarette case, took out a cigarette slowly, and bit it into his mouth, “Since he has played such a heavy hand on you, there is no reason to let go of those who contradict him. The third child? Maybe—” Having said that, Li Zhenran reached out and picked up the lighter on the table.

       “Stop smoking,” Li Zhenruo leaned over and snatched his lighter. He looked at Li Zhenran and said again, “Don’t smoke so much.”

       Li Zhenran leaned on the large office chair and hooked his fingers to Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo then bent down and approached him, bit his face with his teeth and took out the cigarette that was shouting in his mouth, then took it with his hand and put it aside, “What do you want to say?”

       Li Zhenran smiled, “Maybe I’ll be the next one after he dealt with the third child.”

       Li Zhenruo thought about it seriously, “Why does he have to follow an order? If I were him, I would deal with you first. Now that the third child has a conflict with him, he must be the first person that comes to mind if something happens.”

       Li Zhenran still smiled flatly after hearing the words, and stretched out his hand to him, “Come here.”

       Li Zhenruo held Li Zhenran’s hand, was pulled from the desk by him, and then sat on his lap.

       Li Zhenran rubbed Li Zhenruo’s neck with his fingers, turned his head and kissed him, saying, “If you were Li Zhentai, what would you do with me?”

       Li Zhenruo raised his head and thought.

       And Li Zhenran’s fingers had slipped from his neck to his chest, making a mess all the way.

       Li Zhenruo said, “Isn’t your biggest weakness me?”

       Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo have never made themselves a secret together, and he didn’t know if they have been photographed. Whether the photos were given to Li Jianglin or directly to the media or posted on the internet, to be honest, they all dealt a certain blow to Li Zhenran.

       Of course, Li Zhenran was a businessman rather than a star. In today’s open-minded age, whether he was gay or not would probably not have much impact on his career. And what could really hit him was probably Li Jianglin’s reaction.

       Li Zhenruo felt that Li Zhenran should be more cautious in this matter, but he didn’t know why Li Zhenran was not afraid of the world. Did he feel that he got Li Jianglin, or did he have an indifferent attitude towards the whole Yunlin?

       “You’re distracted,” Li Zhenran’s low voice sounded in his ear.

       Li Zhenruo glanced at him, “Didn’t you ask me a question?”

       Li Zhenran said, “Well, that question is not important, you should concentrate on this.”

       At this moment, Li Zhenruo was a little baffled, he no longer knew what was most important to Li Zhenran. So he simply put aside those other thoughts, reached out and held Li Zhenran’s face and kissed it.

       After the kiss, Li Zhenran hugged Li Zhenruo and stood up.

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly wrapped his arms around his neck to stabilize his figure, and said, “Why? Want to have sex in the daytime?”

       Li Zhenran carried him towards the lounge and said, “You were so sultry just now, didn’t you want to seduce me?”

       Li Zhenruo really wanted to seduce him, but when he thought that Li Zhenran looked at a cat and looked sultry, he was really perverted to a certain level, and he couldn’t help but feel a little tangled.

       So he finally couldn’t help but ask a question: “Do you love me more as a cat or as a person?”

       Li Zhenran had already put him on the bed and answered him, “This is a meaningless question. You are a complete individual. I can only say that I love all of you.”

       Li Zhenruo felt a little embarrassed after listening to him say such touching words without changing his face. He couldn’t help but ask again, “Then why haven’t you fallen in love with me in the past 20 years?”

       Li Zhenran looked at him, “It’s not necessarily that I won’t fall in love, it may just be that there is less chance to start.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment because of these words. He suddenly felt that fate was sometimes really a very mysterious thing, and Li Zhenran was actually right. They might just have lost a chance to start. However, it was precisely because they would not begin that their lives will become two eternal parallel lines.

       He hugged Li Zhenran a little harder and kissed his lips.

       The lounge was in full swing for a while.

       Li Zhenruo felt that this place was really a good place. Hua Yibang was guarding outside, and no one could easily come in. When he was tired from work, he could roll onto the bed with his lover in his arms and go back to work after feeling refreshed. Perhaps only Li Zhenran could enjoy such a good treatment.

       After the passionate moments, Li Zhenruo hugged Li Zhenran’s neck and gasped, and suddenly heard the phone ringing that he had left aside, raised his knee and hit Li Zhenran’s waist, “Phone.”

       Li Zhenran reached out and took the mobile phone. When he saw that the caller ID turned out to be Hua Yibang’s name, he couldn’t help frowning slightly. He answered the phone and said solemnly, “What?”

       Hua Yibang’s voice was very low, “Mr. Li Senior came suddenly. I can’t stop him, and he won’t let me inform you. He is in your office now.”

       Li Zhenran replied calmly, “I got it?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him inexplicably.

       Li Zhenran patted his face, “Get up, the old man is here.”

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       Li Zhenran was compromising.

       Li Zhenruo could clearly feel it. In fact, he felt that Li Zhenran should be angrier, whether it was him running away from home or the fact that his real identity was Li Zhenruo. Those things were enough to make Li Zhenran angry.

       But Li Zhenran didn’t say anything now, and he didn’t even ask more questions about his soul being Li Zhenruo. Did it mean that Li Zhenran was also afraid? Afraid that he would leave without saying goodbye if he was pressed tightly?

       Just like what Li Zhenran said, he loved him, so he had to compromise. Li Zhenruo didn’t know if he was the one who fell in love first, but maybe Li Zhenran was the one who fell in love more deeply.

       Li Zhenruo was a little stunned.

       When Li Zhenran drove the car to the school gate, Li Zhenruo suddenly asked, “Don’t you think it’s unbelievable? Such things as soul transfer.”

       When he heard this, Li Zhenran looked at him, “I thought the most bizarre time was when you told me you were my cat, including when I saw you turn into a cat in the bathtub with my own eyes, and then I thought, in this world, there are so many things I don’t know. Just because I don’t know that doesn’t mean they don’t exist, it’s just that my knowledge is limited.”

       Li Zhenruo listened to him quietly.

       Li Zhenran continued, “Later I began to doubt your identity, and I thought you might be Li Zhenruo. It was a bit strange and awkward at first, but it was interesting to see you sleeping with me so calmly.”

       Li Zhenruo, “…do you think I’m perverted?”

       Li Zhenran actually smiled, “Of course not, I think you are very interesting.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I’m a pervert, aren’t you also a pervert? You can still do it knowing I’m Li Zhenruo.”

       “What about Li Zhenruo?” Li Zhenran said, “First of all, we are not related by blood, and secondly, you are both Li Zhenruo and my Dumpling. I don’t think there is any problem.”

       Li Zhenruo was suddenly bashful by his words, opened the door and said, “I’m going.”

       Li Zhenran grabbed his arm, pulled him back, and kissed his lips forcefully.

       The kiss was long overdue, but everything was so familiar and natural. Li Zhenruo raised his hand and wrapped his arms around Li Zhenran’s neck.

       When the kiss was over, Li Zhenran helped him tidy up his clothes and said, “Wait for my call at night.”

       Li Zhenruo gave a “hmm” and lifted his leg to step out of the car.

       After dinner, everyone crowded into Xia Hongshen’s small room, including Erhuang.

       It rained a little in the afternoon, and the ground was still wet, so Long Xing didn’t take Erhuang out for a walk. Erhuang was a little depressed, with his big head on his paws, lying on the ground and looking at the people in the room.

       Xia Hongshen sat in front of his computer desk, looked at Li Zhenruo and said, “If you want to go back, just go back.”

       Li Zhenruo stood by the window with his back against the wall and said, “I’ve caused you so much trouble.”

       “It doesn’t matter,” Feng Junyuan said quickly and softly, “You are very welcome.”

       Although he knew that Feng Junyuan liked his cat form, Li Zhenruo still felt it was strange.

       Song Jun smiled and said, “Today Luo Fei can’t wait to pack his luggage and come to live here, or else he will pack xiao Feng and take him away.”

       As he listened to Song Jun’s words, Li Zhenruo thought that Luo Fei must be angry when he saw him sleeping in the same bed with Feng Junyuan this morning. No wonder he wanted to coax him out to meet Li Zhenran today. He wanted to drive him away, both secretly and explicitly.

       After he figured it out, Li Zhenruo felt that he really should leave. Although Xia Hongshen accepted him as an apprentice, for them, he was an outsider after all. He suddenly broke into their life and added a lot of trouble to them. Li Zhenruo felt apologetic.

       But sometimes when he thought about it, he never felt bad for Li Zhenran, maybe because they were a family since childhood.

       At this time, Long Xing asked, “Are you going to take Erhuang away?”

       Li Zhenruo squatted down, Erhuang immediately ran to him and leaned against him, he touched Erhuang’s head. He thought that he could only bring Erhuang back to Li’s house first, otherwise, Erhuang would definitely think that everyone didn’t want him anymore.

       But when he thought of Zhu Kai, he felt a little bad. He didn’t want to give Erhuang to Zhu Kai again.

       After a moment of distress, Li Zhenruo still said, “I will take it away.”

       Long Xing was a little reluctant. He came over and hugged Erhuang’s head and rubbed it, and said to Li Zhenruo, “Bring it back to play often.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, “Okay.”

       After nine o’clock, Li Zhenruo received a call from Li Zhenran, saying that he was waiting for him downstairs.

       After hanging up the phone, Li Zhenruo took a look out of the window and saw Li Zhenran’s car parked on the side of the road, while Li Zhenran was standing beside the door and looking forward.

       He looked in the direction of Li Zhenran’s eyes, and Li Zhenruo noticed that there was a person standing on the side of the road not far from Li Zhenran’s parking place. It turned out to be Shen Luming.

       Shen Luming was standing on the side of the road, his eyes turned towards the second floor. When Li Zhenruo looked over, he happened to be looking at him.

       Li Zhenruo was startled, turned around subconsciously and hid behind the wall, and said to Xia Hongshen, “Master, that person is here! Does he want to get his body back?”

       When he heard what Li Zhenruo said, Xia Hongshen stood up and looked out the window. Sure enough, he saw Shen Luming.

       Shen Luming seemed to come back to his senses suddenly and saw someone looking at him by the window. He felt that it was not good for him to keep staring there, so he turned and left.

       Xia Hongshen thought about it and said to Li Zhenruo, “He doesn’t seem to realize that this is his body. You don’t have to be too nervous. I’ll try him for you when I have a chance.”

       Li Zhenruo wished he could hug Xia Hongshen’s thigh and say “Master, I love you”, but he was sure that Xia Hongshen would kick him away, so he could only fold his fist and sincerely say, “Thank you, Master!”

       Xia Hongshen waved his hand, “You can go now.”

       Li Zhenruo led Erhuang downstairs and it trotted two-step past when he saw Li Zhenran, Erhuang was much more excited than him. He walked like a fly to pounce on Li Zhenran but was pulled by Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenran watched him run over, pulled his collar for him, and said, “Whose clothes are you wearing?”

       Li Zhenruo’s clothes belonged to Feng Junyuan. Although Dr. xiao Feng was a good-looking person, he looked good in whatever clothes he wore, but of course, it wasn’t on the same level as the clothes he bought himself.

       The weather was getting colder day by day. Li Zhenran helped him pull up his collar and said, “Let’s go back.”

       Li Zhenruo stuffed Erhuang into the back seat, got into the passenger seat, and saw Li Zhenran leaning over to help him fasten his seat belt.

       He thought that Li Zhenran would ask about Shen Luming, but he didn’t ask until Li Zhenran started the car and drove away from the school.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t sit still, he asked Li Zhenran, “Did you see that boy just now?”

       “Well,” Li Zhenran stared at the front, “What?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Aren’t you curious about his identity?”

       Li Zhenran smiled when he heard the words, “If you want to say it, just say it.”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that he had hurt Li Zhenran’s heart, so Li Zhenran didn’t even want to ask him more, and so he could only say, “That person is probably a cat.”

       Li Zhenran said, “I remember you said last time that man was a demon, and he was also a cat demon?”

       “It’s not that simple,” Li Zhenruo said, “He is probably the owner of my current body.”

       This time, Li Zhenran frowned and looked at him, “What do you mean?”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head, “I’m not sure now, but I’m always worried. If he is the original owner and if he wanted to take his body back, what should I do?”

       Li Zhenran couldn’t help but pull over to the side of the road, “You say there is a possibility that he will take the body back? But isn’t your original body already gone?”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, “So I have to be quick, I need to know if it was Li Zhentai who killed me or not.”

       Li Zhenran frowned tightly, “What if you know? Li Zhentai killed you, and if you kill Li Zhentai to take revenge, then it wouldn’t matter if you return your body to him?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned and suddenly understood why Li Zhenran asked such a question. He could only say, “Of course not, if possible, I also hope to be with you all the time, but there are too many unknowns for me in the future.”

       If he hadn’t somehow gotten this body, how would he have had the opportunity to say such things to Li Zhenran here today?

       At this time, Li Zhenruo saw a traffic policeman coming toward them on a motorcycle from a distance, so he said to Li Zhenran, “Drive first, let’s go back and talk about it.”

       Li Zhenran also knew that this was not a suitable place to talk, so he patted the steering wheel with his hands a little irritably, and started the car.

       Back at Li’s house, it was inconvenient for Li Zhenruo to appear in a human form again, and he was taken down by Li Zhenran in the form of a kitten.

       Erhuang also got out of the car and looked very excited when he got home. As soon as he let go of the rope, it turned around inside and out and then ran to the gate to look into the living room, as if looking for Zhu Kai.

       However, in the end, it still failed to find Zhu Kai, and its jumping pace slowed down, dragging its tail towards the kennel.

       When Wang Ma saw Li Zhenran come back with the cat in his arms, she hurriedly greeted him. He didn’t know how Li Zhenran explained the disappearance of both the cat and the dog. Anyway, as soon as Wang Ma saw Li Zhenruo, she sighed and said, “Hey, you stupid cat, where did you go? Where is better than home? Is it in heat? Zhenran, aren’t you thinking about castrating it?”

       Li Zhenruo shivered with fright at the word ‘castrate’, and he retracted into Li Zhenran’s arms and looked up at him.

       Li Zhenran smiled at Wang Ma and said, “It’s fine, it slipped out and suffered some hardships outside.”

       Wang Ma said, “It’s not the first time. I’d better pay more attention in the future. Why do you still think it’s okay? As a result, after raising it for so long, it is still not mature.”

       After he heard these words, Li Zhenruo suddenly felt a little sad, he rested his head on Li Zhenran’s chest and didn’t want to move.

       When they entered the room, Li Jianglin actually came out of the room, saw Li Zhenran holding his cat, and said, “You got it back?”

       “En,” Li Zhenran replied, “It’s all right, just hungry and thinner.”

       Li Jianglin stared at Li Zhenruo for a while, and said, “That’s not obvious.” Then he said, “It’s good that it’s back, so you don’t have to keep thinking about it.”

       Li Zhenran said to him, “Dad, you rest early, I’ll go upstairs first.”

       “Hm,” Li Jianglin responded, and walked into the room on crutches.

       When Li Zhenran carried Li Zhenruo upstairs, the door of Li Zhentai’s room on the second floor opened, and Wen Chun came out of the room and asked, “Have you found Dumpling?”

       He stopped. Li Zhenran stood at the entrance of the stairs and said to Wen Chun, “Yes, sister-in-law.”

       Wen Chun smiled, “That’s good.” She came over and touched Li Zhenruo’s head.

       Li Zhenran asked her, “Eldest brother hasn’t come back yet?”

       The smile on Wen Chun’s face remained unchanged, and she said, “He’s usually not that early.” Then, he said to Li Zhenran, “Then you should rest early, I’ll go back to my room.”

       Li Zhenran nodded, “Thank you.”

       Wen Chun turned around and went back to the room. It seemed that she heard the voice of Li Zhenran coming back and came out to greet him out of courtesy.

       Li Zhenran continued to go upstairs, returned to the room on the third floor, bent down and put Li Zhenruo on the ground, then reached out and closed the door.

       Li Zhenruo stood on the floor and looked at him.

       Li Zhenran took off his coat and threw it by the bed, and walked to the bathroom while unbuttoning his shirt.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t hold back and follow, and when Li Zhenran pushed the door closed, he raised his small paw to block it. Fortunately, Li Zhenran didn’t use too much force, and the door was blocked by Li Zhenruo.

       When he saw that the door was not closed, Li Zhenran didn’t care, and took off all the clothes on his body and turned on the shower.

       Li Zhenruo straightened up on the edge of the bathtub and looked at him for a while. He then transformed into a human figure and stepped in to hug Li Zhenran from behind, with his arms around his waist and his head on his shoulders.

       “What do you think I should do?” Li Zhenruo said, “I don’t know what will happen to me in the next moment? Even if he doesn’t ask for his body back, maybe after ten years or so, my life as a cat will come to an end and I won’t be able to be by your side.”

       Li Zhenran was silent and did not move.

       Li Zhenruo hugged him tighter, “So you should stop being angry with me, okay?” He became more and more at a loss, not knowing how much time he had left.

       Li Zhenran grabbed his hand to let Li Zhenruo release him, and while Li Zhenruo was slightly stunned, Li Zhenran turned around and raised his face with one hand and kissed him lightly.

       When he saw this, Li Zhenruo hugged Li Zhenran and kissed him fiercely.

       The hot water was constantly flushing on them, but the traces of passion were difficult to be completely washed away.

       Li Zhenruo felt that he was very strange. In front of Li Zhenran, he always seemed to be a pure and innocent teenager, and he would easily forget himself.

       When he lay on the bed, Li Zhenruo didn’t fall asleep for a long time. He turned over to face Li Zhenran and looked at his silhouette in the dark.

       After a while, Li Zhenran asked him, “What?”

       Only then did he realize that Li Zhenran was not asleep either, so he leaned on his shoulder and said, “I have a photo…”

       “Ok?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “It should be a photo of my mother and my biological father.”

       Li Zhenran seemed a little surprised to hear this and looked at Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo continued, “I was thinking that Li Zhentai, who suspected my identity and stole my bloodstains to do a paternity test, could have met my real father.”

       “Why do you think so?” Li Zhenran asked.

       Li Zhenruo said, “Because he looks a lot like me, and standing with my mother, you can almost think of it when you look at the photo. I’m just guessing, maybe their group photo is not the only one.”

       Li Zhenran reached out and touched his head, “I can check it for you.”

       Li Zhenruo was quiet for a while and asked Li Zhenran, “How do you know that I am Li Zhenruo? Have been monitoring my whereabouts?”

       Li Zhenran confessed, “Not all the time, but I checked.”

       Li Zhenruo was a little sad, “I knew it.”

       Li Zhenran said, “You lied to me first.”

       “Okay,” Li Zhenruo reached out to hold his face, “I didn’t mention it, but Li Zhenran is actually quite petty.”

       Li Zhenran’s face was squeezed out of shape by him, and it was a bit funny, but he still said expressionlessly, “Didn’t you know it from the first day?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him and smiled, kissed his lips and said, “I just didn’t know you were so childish before.”

       Li Zhenran snorted and reached out and pressed his head against his chest.

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       Li Zhenruo wanted to find Xia Hongshen and the others, but couldn’t find them after walking around the venue. In the end, he could only call Xia Hongshen and said that he had something urgent to do now and would be back at night.

       After Xia Hongshen hung up the phone, he looked at Luo Fei coldly, and said, “You are plotting against my apprentice.”

       Luo Fei shrugged his shoulders innocently, “Your disciple willingly did it himself, I was just entrusted by my friend to let them both have a chance to sit down and talk calmly.”

       Li Zhenran drove, and Li Zhenruo sat in the passenger seat. When they left the coffee shop, Li Zhenran said he was going to find Zhu Kai now.

       Li Zhenruo looked out the window in silence.

       Li Zhenran asked him, “What? Nervous?”

       “Hmm?” Li Zhenruo turned around and did not answer the question.

       Li Zhenran stared at the front, “He was a good friend you grew up with.”

       When he heard this, Li Zhenruo unconsciously propped up the seat cushion with his hands, straightened his back, and said, “It wasn’t a big deal.” After he said that, he silently called Li Zhenran’s name, “Li Zhenran.”

       Li Zhenran turned his head to look at him.

       Li Zhenruo continued, “Do you all know that my death was not an accident?”

       Li Zhenran was quiet for a moment and said, “I don’t know. I just guess.”

       Although he knew in his heart that there was no relationship between Li Zhenran and him at that time and if Li Zhenran died, he might not be so sad. However, he still felt a little uncomfortable at this time

       Li Zhenran rested his left elbow by the window, rubbed his lips with his fingers, and said, “At first someone gave Dad the appraisal to the point you’re sure you’re not Dad’s real son and leave the Li family. For a while, Dad was very angry. He was angry not because you are not his son, but angry that some of the brothers were behind the scenes.”

       Li Zhenruo was a little stunned, wondering if this proved that Li Jianglin actually still thought of him as a son in mind.

       Li Zhenran said, “Actually, didn’t you notice? Dad still loves his youngest son the most.”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head, “I don’t think so.”

       Li Zhenran chuckled, “That’s something you haven’t seen before. When I was a child, Dad was strict with the eldest. Then as I got older, after having the third and you, he had become much gentler.”

       Li Zhenruo found that he couldn’t imagine it, but what Li Zhenran said might be true. Perhaps it was because Li Jianglin was too strict with Li Zhentai that created Li Zhentai’s current slightly cowering personality.

       However, he didn’t feel how gentle Li Jianglin was to him. He thought that if it wasn’t for the lack of love from his parents and brothers when he was a child, he might not be so attached to the little warmth that Li Zhenran gave him now. In his bones, he probably needed such a man to pamper him like a child.

       Li Zhenran drove to a five-star hotel in the city. In fact, Li Zhenruo knew about this hotel. Zhu Kai had a good relationship with the hotel’s young master. Previously, he had also thought about the fact that Zhu Kai might go here before, but he didn’t have time to investigate it himself.

       The car was parked at the entrance of the hotel. Li Zhenran got out of the car and handed the key to the parking staff. When Li Zhenruo came over, he held his undershirt with his palm and said, “Follow me.”

       When he thought of what he was about to face, Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but speed up.

       As they walked into the hall, someone came over and gave a door card to Li Zhenran, and told him the room number. Li Zhenran nodded and walked with Li Zhenruo towards the elevator.

       While waiting for the elevator to go up, Li Zhenran asked Li Zhenruo, “If you are sure that Zhu Kai did it, what would you do?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at the moving numbers and said, “At least I need to know why.”

       When they got out of the elevator, the two slowed down and walked to Zhu Kai’s room. Li Zhenran opened the door with the key card.

       It was almost twelve o’clock in the morning, and Zhu Kai was still lying on the bed and didn’t get up. He probably thought it was room service, so he lay down on the bed and said with some displeasure, “Who is it? Don’t you know someone is here? Why did you just come in!”

       “Zhu Kai,” Li Zhenran walked inside while calling his name.

       Li Zhenruo followed behind Li Zhenran, entered the guest room, and saw Zhu Kai sitting up from the bed, staring at them with a topless body.

       Zhu Kai’s hair was still messy, and his brows were wrinkled tightly. He didn’t seem very nervous when he saw the two of them. He just reached out to ruffle his hair and said, “What’s wrong? It’s early in the morning.”

       Li Zhenran walked to the edge of the bed and looked at him condescendingly.

       Zhu Kai scratched his face again and asked Li Zhenran, “Did the old man ask you to come to me? He still hasn’t gotten over it?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t answer him.

       Zhu Kai then said, “It’s his own son who hooked up with his daughter-in-law. I just accidentally took a photo, why does it matter to me?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at Zhu Kai and wondered if it was because his life was too chaotic during this time, that he had probably lost weight again, and his long dyed blond hair that was dr4p3d over his shoulders looked a bit dull.

       He thought he was very familiar with this man, but now he realized that he didn’t know him at all.

       Zhu Kai also saw Li Zhenruo at this time, looked at Li Zhenran and said, “You are also bold enough to not be afraid of being photographed by me and handed it over to the old man to let him know that you are fooling around with men?”

       Li Zhenran said indifferently, “Do as you please. I’m not here to ask about Li Zhenzi I’m here to ask you about Li Zhenruo.”

       Zhu Kai’s expression became a little strange for a moment. He glanced at Li Zhenruo behind Li Zhenran again and asked, “Why do you want to ask about Li Zhenruo? He—” Zhu Kai raised his head in the direction of Li Zhenruo, “What is his relationship with Li Zhenruo?”

       Before Li Zhenran spoke, Li Zhenruo said, “It doesn’t matter what relationship I have with Li Zhenruo, but I’m very curious about your relationship with Li Zhenruo, and why did you harm him?”

       Zhu Kai heard the words and laughed, “Oh, let me put on my clothes first, I don’t mind being naked, but I’m afraid you don’t want to see it.” After he said that, he pulled the quilt away, and he was indeed naked underneath.

       As a result, both Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo looked at him without changing their faces. Li Zhenran didn’t care, but Li Zhenruo did not look at Zhu Kai’s naked body.

       Nevertheless, when Zhu Kai walked over to the TV cabinet to get his clothes on, no one stopped him.

       Zhu Kai slowly put on the clothes, buttoned them carefully, and zipped them up. He then suddenly turned around and ran towards the outside.

       Li Zhenran reacted quickly and chased after him, but the one who reacted faster than Li Zhenran was Li Zhenruo.

       Zhu Kai had just run into the corridor when he was kicked from behind by Li Zhenruo, and then Li Zhenruo pressed his entire body on top of him. He pressed Zhu Kai’s head heavily on the ground with his arms.

       Zhu Kai took a breath and said, “Don’t mess around, there are surveillance cameras in this corridor.”

       Li Zhenruo pulled him up and said, “If you don’t run, I won’t mess around.” After that, he grabbed Zhu Kai’s arm and pulled him back to the room.

       Li Zhenran stood at the door of the room, slightly surprised.

       However, Li Zhenruo moved his wrist, recalling the explosive power he had just now, and felt that he might have changed a bit. These days, he had been absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth according to the method taught by Xia Hongshen. Over time, the spiritual energy in his body had become more and more abundant, and the most obvious thing he felt was probably the change in his physical strength.

       Just like when he pressed Zhu Kai’s head just now, Zhu Kai clearly felt that a strong force and he couldn’t break free.

       Zhu Kai sat down on the chair in front of the dresser, faced them, and said, “Tell me, what do you want to know?”

       Li Zhenran sat silently beside the bed.

       Li Zhenruo asked him, “Why did you set Li Zhenruo up? At that time, it was you who asked someone to find the tissue with blood from Li Zhenruo’s room for the DNA test, right?”

       Zhu Kai was a little amused, “What set up? Li Zhenruo was not Li Jianglin’s son at first, I just helped them with scientific confirmation. What kind of set-up is that?”

       Li Zhenruo asked coldly, “Well, how do you know that Li Zhenruo is not Li Jianglin’s son? Why do you do such a thing?”

       Zhu Kai looked him up and down, then turned to Li Zhenran, “Do you want to know or does he want to know?”

       Li Zhenran answered him calmly, “It’s all the same, what he wants to know is what I want to know.”

       “Tsk—” Zhu Kai clicked his lips and said, “Well then, since you know so much, I’m not afraid to tell you. How do I know that Li Zhenruo is not Li Jianglin’s biological son? Because that’s what Li Zhentai told me, and why did I take his blood for identification, because there was a deal between me and Li Zhentai, and he asked me to get it for him.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at Zhu Kai, obviously not believing what he said, and pursued, “What deal?”

       Zhu Kai snorted, “Of course, I won’t tell you.”

       Li Zhenruo asked him, “If he had such a deal with you, why did you do such a thing at his wedding?”

       Zhu Kai looked up, “Because he unilaterally broke our deal, I want to get revenge on him. Oh right, don’t ask me what the deal is, I won’t say it.”

       Having said that, Zhu Kai said impatiently, “I will only answer your last question now, and you can leave after asking.”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t get angry when he heard the words, but approached Zhu Kai and asked word per word, “You said that day you knew a secret of the Li family. What is the secret?”

       Zhu Kai looked at him and said after a while, “The secret I know is that Li Zhenruo may not have died at all.”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t expect Zhu Kai to say such a sentence, and his pupils shrank suddenly.

       Zhu Kai even took the opportunity to kiss him.

       When Li Zhenran saw this, he got up from the bed and kicked the chair sitting under Zhu Kai’s buttocks. Zhu Kai almost fall to the ground and complained, “So petty.”

       Li Zhenruo felt that Zhu Kai didn’t tell the truth, or based on what he knew about Zhu Kai, he knew that Zhu Kai must have concealed a lot of things. However, Zhu Kai was someone who neither listen to reason nor bowed to force. He spoke and did things based on his mood. If he said he won’t say anything, he would definitely not say anything. It was useless to tie him up and beat him.

       Li Zhenran didn’t speak and just waited for him quietly.

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath, stood there for a while, and said to Li Zhenran, “Let’s go.”

       When they were about to leave Zhu Kai’s room one after another, Li Zhenruo remembered something, turned around and said to Zhu Kai, “Your dog is with me.”

       This was the sentence that made Zhu Kai react the most today. He stood up suddenly and asked, “Give it back to me?”

       Li Zhenruo felt a little funny, “Since you miss it, you are willing to leave it unattended for so long? Of course, I won’t do anything to it, but if you’re honest with me, I’ll consider bringing it out to you.”

       “Everything I say is the truth,” Zhu Kai said.

       Li Zhenruo looked at him with a cold smile, “Didn’t you say that Li Zhenruo is not dead? He will know if you are telling the truth.”

       After Li Zhenruo said that, he pulled Li Zhenran’s arm, “Let’s go.”

       Until they entered the elevator, Li Zhenruo still frowned tightly.

       Li Zhenran put his hands in his trouser pockets and asked him, “Although he didn’t tell the truth, you still know what you want to know, right?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “What I need to be sure of most is whether Li Zhentai is the one behind this matter.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Are you sure now?”

       In fact, Li Zhenruo had always been very sure. He just had some things that had not been sorted out. It was easy to kill Li Zhentai to take revenge, but he didn’t want to be so confused in this life. The feeling of being kept in the dark was too uncomfortable.

       At this moment, Li Zhenran suddenly took his hand, leaned into his ear and said in a low voice, “Do you want to kill him for revenge?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment and looked up at Li Zhenran. He was not sure if Li Zhenran was joking, because Li Zhenran’s expression would not be too expressive even when he was serious or joking.

       Li Zhenruo could only say, “Even if I want to kill him, I also have to know if he is the one who bought someone to kill me, right? In fact, Zhu Kai is right about the identification, it is not a set-up. It is a fact, it was still too much to kill Li Zhentai for this.”

       When the elevator reached the first floor, Li Zhenran took Li Zhenruo’s hand and walked outside.

       Li Zhenruo was half a step behind him, looked at his back, and couldn’t help but see if anyone around was paying attention to them. There should still be some, but no one has been staring at it blatantly.

       After getting in the car, Li Zhenran asked Li Zhenruo, “Are you going back?”

       Li Zhenruo hesitated and said, “I still have to go back to my master first, otherwise they will be worried.”

       “Master?” Li Zhenran frowned slightly.

       Li Zhenruo thought he would object, but he just said, “Okay, I’ll come to pick you up tonight.”

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       When Li Zhenruo appeared in front of Xia Hongshen with the cat in his arms, he was surprised when he saw Xia Hongshen’s cold face.

       Xia Hongshen sat in front of the computer desk and asked him, “Do you think this is an animal shelter?”

       Erhuang was circling around Li Zhenruo excitedly and rubbing his leg with his head.

       Li Zhenruo looked down at the cat in his arms, and said to Xia Hongshen, “The owner of this kitten is a lunatic. Look at the injuries on its body, it was inflicted by its owner with a knife.”

       When Xia Hongshen heard this, he slapped the table hard and said sharply, “Who was it?”

       Xi Anling next to him was startled and stood up.

       Song Jun patted Xia Hongshen on the shoulder, “Senior brother, calm down.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “So I took it back and wanted to find a good owner for it.”

       Xia Hongshen looked at him and nodded, “If that’s the case, I won’t bother with you this time.”

       Li Zhenruo wiped the cold sweat, “Thank you, Master.”

       At this time, Long Xing said, “I have a female colleague who just wants to adopt a kitten, why don’t I ask her if she wants it?”

       Li Zhenruo immediately asked, “Is she reliable?”

       Long Xing thought for a while, “She should be reliable. She is a very gentle female colleague.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, “Then please help me ask, thank you.”

       It was late at night, and everyone went back to their rooms. Li Zhenruo was sitting alone against the wall in the corridor, and the kitten beside him was eating cat food in a bowl with its head buried down.

       Li Zhenruo reached out and touched its back, then tilted his head against the wall in a daze.

       After a while, someone came to sit next to him. Li Zhenruo turned around and saw it was Song Jun.

       Song Jun asked him, “Why don’t you go to rest?”

       Li Zhenruo was a little dazed, and said, “I don’t know what to do anymore.”

       Song Jun propped one hand on his face, “Why do you not know what to do?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I was too dependent on that person before. Now that I leave him, I feel very powerless. It is not easy to change my form at will. It is even more difficult to avenge myself because I have no money.”

       Song Jun said, “Didn’t you become Senior Brother Xia’s apprentice? Why don’t you have any confidence in the future?”

       Li Zhenruo sighed, “I have been trying to absorb spiritual energy outside these two days, but I found that the effect was minimal, and the process was too slow. Even if I believed that I could do it one day, I am afraid that my enemies will not live until that day.”

       Song Jun was silent for a while and asked him, “Is it so important to take revenge? More important than living happily ever after?”

       Li Zhenruo turned his head, looked at him and said, “Why else would God let me have the chance to live again? I grew up without a mother, then without other relatives, without a future, and last without a home. I have nothing left. If I don’t take revenge, what’s the point of being alive?”

       Song Jun couldn’t help but reached out and touched his head, and said, “What about your master, little Garfield?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t have the strength to tell him not to call him little Garfield. He just took a deep breath and said, “He knows my identity, and I don’t think he will accept me anymore.”

       Song Jun was a little puzzled, and then asked, “You mean the thing about you being Li Jianglin’s fourth son?”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, “Um.”

       Song Jun asked curiously, “Does he care?”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help raising his hand to cover his face, “He will definitely care.”

       Song Jun asked, “Have you tried to communicate with him?”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head, “Forget it, maybe there’s no need for that. I shouldn’t waste any more time, the owner of this body has already appeared. I must be quicker. If I can take revenge smoothly, I think I might as well give this body back to him.”

       “Give it back to him?” Song Jun was surprised, “Do you feel that way?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him and smiled reluctantly, “It’s just a thought that comes to mind sometimes.”

       Song Jun stayed quiet for a while, then suddenly said, “Why don’t we help you?”

       “Huh?” Li Zhenruo looked at him in surprise.

       Song Jun said, “Xiao Feng, me, and Long Xing, the three of us can help you. Whoever you are looking for and what clues you want to track down can be handed over to us.”

       “You can’t help him,” the two of them heard a voice coming from above their heads at the same time, and when they looked up, they found that Xia Hongshen opened the door and stuck his head out of the room, and said to them, “You are interfering too much with human affairs. Your points will be deducted by Heavenly Court, and sooner or later you will be recalled.”

       Li Zhenruo also said quickly, “You guys don’t have to help me. It’s my own business, I will do it myself.”

       Song Jun felt a little regretful and said, “Some simple things should be okay. You don’t have to think too much. Let’s worry about it when it happens, no one can tell what will happen in the future.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded vigorously, “Well, thank you.”

       That night, he still slept in the same bed with Feng Junyuan. Erhuang was lying beside the bed, and there was another kitten in the room.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t sleep and lay motionless for fear of disturbing Feng Junyuan’s rest.

       Feng Junyuan suddenly said, “The house is so lively.”

       Li Zhenruo heard the words, turned over gently, and said, “I’m sorry to bother you.”

       Feng Junyuan faced him and said, “It’s okay, you are very cute.” After he said that, he raised his hand and touched Li Zhenruo’s head.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt a little depressed and felt that the family really treated him as a cat. It was actually nothing to be treated as a cat, but he just couldn’t accept this kind of look with pity, and quickly closed his eyes.

       The school was quiet and the weather had cooled down. Although it was a bit cramped to share a bed with Feng Junyuan, the environment was comfortable and he fell asleep before he knew it.

       That night, he slept until dawn. As he was dazed in the early morning, Li Zhenruo rolled over and hugged the waist of the person next to him. He wanted to bury his face in that person’s arms and continue to sleep, but he felt that the touch was not right.

       Feng Junyuan also hadn’t woken up yet, his forehead was placed on Li Zhenruo’s forehead, and his hand also wrapped over.

       He could hear his breathing, and Li Zhenruo felt that something was wrong. He was dazed and wanted to open his eyes, but suddenly he felt that someone was sitting beside the bed. He suddenly remembered where he was and was instantly awake from fright. He turned over in a circular motion and looked outside the bed, and he saw a tall man sitting beside the bed.

       Li Zhenruo pushed Feng Junyuan hard.

       Feng Junyuan made an “uh” sound and raised his head blankly.

       Only then did Li Zhenruo see the appearance of the man sitting beside the bed, and found that it was Luo Fei.

       Luo Fei was wearing a suit and had an elegant posture. When he saw Li Zhenruo and Feng Junyuan looking at him, he even showed a gentle smile and asked, “Did you sleep well?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment, Luo Fei was clearly smiling, but he had a feeling of being caught in adultery. Also, he came back to the room last night. He clearly remembered that he locked the door. How did Luo Fei come in quietly? Does he have the key to Feng Junyuan’s room?

       He looked at Luo Fei inexplicably, and Li Zhenruo hesitated whether to get up or not. Although he didn’t sleep naked, he was only wearing a pair of briefs, which touched Feng Junyuan’s legs, and he could still feel a smooth and delicate touch… He lowered his head and glanced under the bed. The cat and dog were still there, but they were all very quiet. He just lay on the ground and looked at Luo Fei, and no one barked.

       At this time, someone knocked on the door outside, “Xiao Feng, Garfield, are you up yet?”

       Feng Junyuan rubbed his eyes and gave a hurried “en”.

       Luo Fei stood up and opened the door. When he opened the door, he saw Long Xing standing outside.

       Long Xing was quite surprised, “Boss Luo? When did you come here?”

       Luo Fei smiled, “I came to see xiao Feng, I was going to take him out today.”

       Long Xing said, “Oh,” and came in and said to Li Zhenruo, “I planned to move the cat away.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned, “So soon?”

       Long Xing hesitated for a while, and said, “How about you keep it for two more days? I sent a photo to my colleague, and she said she wanted it.”

       Li Zhenruo’s original purpose was to find a good owner for the kitten. It was a rare opportunity and of course, he didn’t want to miss it, but he was somewhat reluctant.

       Although it was a kitten that he only met yesterday, he was the one who rescued it, and he always felt that he was more responsible for it.

       Li Zhenruo lifted the quilt and got out of bed. Although he was only wearing a pair of underwear, they were all men here anyway. They could see it if they wanted to. He went to the chair next to him to get his pants.

       Erhuang and the kitten all swirled around his legs at once, giving him a feeling of being very popular.

       He hurriedly grabbed the pants and put them on his body. Li Zhenruo squatted down and picked up the kitten, kissed its forehead, and said, “I hope the new owner can take good care of you, and you must live happily.”

       He didn’t know whether the kitten understood or not, but it just stuck its head out of his arms and touched its lips lightly with his lips, as if kissing.

       Li Zhenruo sighed and gave the cat to Long Xing.

       The kitten didn’t know what was going on and was in a panic. One paw tried to grab Li Zhenruo’s arm, but in the end, it failed.

       Long Xing hugged to comfort it, and then said to Li Zhenruo, “Don’t worry, my colleague is very good.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, “Thank you.”

       The sudden separation made him a little sad. Li Zhenruo stood at the door and watched Long Xing carry the kitten away until their figures disappeared around the corner of the stairs, before stifling a sigh.

       When he turned around and came back, Li Zhenruo saw Luo Fei sitting beside the bed, took a coat and put it on Feng Junyuan, and said, “You have a day off today?”

       Feng Junyuan asked him, “How do you know?”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt like an unwanted third guest and hesitated to go in.

       At this moment, Luo Fei suddenly turned to look at him, “Little cat.”

       Li Zhenruo immediately wanted to blow up, he was such a big person standing there, but he had the nerve to call him a cat. He held back his displeasure, Li Zhenruo said, “I have a name.”

       Luo Fei said, “Name? By the way, your name is Li Tuanzi, right? Li Zhenran told me.”

       Hearing Li Zhenran’s name abruptly, Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but be stunned slightly. He then picked up his mood and said, “Whatever, you can still call me Garfield…”

       Luo Fei smiled and asked, “Are you free today? Let’s go out together.”

       Before Li Zhenruo asked him where he was going, Xia Hongshen reached out and asked, “Where to?”

       Luo Fei was still sitting on the edge of the bed, with one hand on Feng Junyuan’s, and said, “It’s rare for xiao Feng to have a day off, so I’m going to invite you guys out to a meal together, how about that?”

       “A meal together?” Xia Hongshen was not particularly happy, he just said, “Long Xing is at work today, and An Ling has an appointment.”

       Luo Fei said, “That can’t be helped, if you and Song Jun are free, we’ll go together, plus little Garfield.”

       Li Zhenruo heard the words and said quickly, “I have something to do, you go guys can go.”

       He planned to try to find Zhu Kai while he was free today. After all, they had grown up together since childhood. Although Zhu Kai’s actions made him feel at a loss now, it was not too difficult to try to find Zhu Kai’s trace. As long as he did not leave the city, He felt that he had a way to find out Zhu Kai’s whereabouts.

       Of course, it was a pity that he has no money now, otherwise, it should be more convenient to do things.

       However, Xia Hongshen suddenly put his hand on top of Li Zhenruo’s head and said, “Disciple.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment, then looked up and said, “Master?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “Go.”

       Li Zhenruo was in a trance and understood, “Did you ask me to go with you?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “Um”.

       The master had an order, how dare the disciple refused to obey? Although Li Zhenruo felt a little inexplicable, Xia Hongshen had spoken, he could no longer refuse, and could only say, “Okay then.”

       Before they left, Xia Hongshen asked Luo Fei in a low voice, “Why did you coax my apprentice to go out?”

       Luo Fei smiled, “It won’t harm him anyway, you can rest assured.”

       When he was studying abroad in college, Li Zhenruo often drove out with a group of friends to play, dance, drink and find beautiful women.

       He sat in the last row, and he quietly looked out the car window. His brain felt like he was about to be torn in two, half thinking about why Zhu Kai would do such a thing, and the other half thinking about Li Zhenran.

       The city was as prosperous as ever, but Li Zhenruo sometimes felt that this was no longer his city. He seemed to be more suitable being a cat, staying in a secluded and safe place and living his own life alone.

       When exactly did this world of sensual pleasures become less attractive to him? He was only twenty-three years old.

       Song Jun and Feng Junyuan sat next to him, Feng Junyuan reached out and touched his head. Song Jun asked him, “Not in a good mood, huh?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at the two of them and saw that they were all looking at him, and suddenly had the feeling that he was actually the pet of this family, he shook his head and said, “It’s nothing, I’m just wondering if I could cultivate to become an immortal or not.”

       Feng Junyuan heard the words and said to him seriously, “It’s not easy.”

       Song Jun said, “It’s still possible to be a small cat demon. You can live for a few more decades. You have been practising during this period. If you are lucky, you can live another hundred or two hundred years, and you can do a lot of things.”

       Li Zhenruo could only say, “Okay, thank you for comforting me.”

       Luo Fei, who was driving in the front row, glanced at them from the rearview mirror, smiled and said nothing.

       Their destination was a large newly built commercial plaza on the outskirts of the city. There would be a Doraemon-themed exhibition starting today, and it was said that there would be a lot of Doraemon.

       Li Zhenruo was not very interested in such childish’s things, but Xia Hongshen was very interested. Li Zhenruo thought that it might be because the theme of the exhibition was a blue fat cat.

       Xia Hongshen was interested. Song Jun and Feng Junyuan didn’t seem to feel tired and kept following him to look around, Luo Fei accompanied Feng Junyuan with a good nature, and only Li Zhenruo casually walked behind.

       Luo Fei suddenly turned his head and said to him, “If you are tired, go to Starbucks over there and wait.”

       Li Zhenruo responded quickly and walked towards Starbucks alone.

       He stood at the counter, stared at the menu above for a while, and suddenly heard a voice next to him saying, “Give him a mocha.”

       The voice was so familiar that Li Zhenruo almost had the urge to turn around and run.

       The person next to him had obviously seen his intention and asked, “You want to leave? Is there no need for us to communicate with each other anymore for the rest of our lives? Li Zhenruo.”

       Li Zhenruo held back and did not leave, and turned to look at Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran said to him, “I have found Zhu Kai.”

       Li Zhenruo asked in surprise, “Where is he?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t answer him, but turned to the counter and said, “I’ll have a mocha, thank you.”

       After he paid the bills, Li Zhenran picked up two cups of coffee, and turned to look at Li Zhenruo, “Would you like to finish this cup of coffee with me?”

       Li Zhenruo finally nodded and followed him towards the corner.

       This corner was quiet. It was just right for two people to sit and talk.

       He was sitting face to face with Li Zhenran, but Li Zhenruo did not dare to raise his head, so he could only reach for the coffee cup, and took a sip. The bitter taste slid into his throat along with the mellow fragrance.

       Li Zhenran didn’t touch his coffee, but leaned back slightly and asked, “You don’t want to see me. Is it because you’re afraid of me or you don’t want to see me again?”

       Li Zhenruo did not speak.

       Li Zhenran folded his arms around his chest, “Fourth child, you have been in the Li family for so long. Do you think everyone looks like a fool and is being fooled by you? Ah. No, the only one who was fooled by you was me.”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head and finally said, “I didn’t fool you. The real fool is only me. I’m dead but I still don’t know who killed me.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Is this why you deceived and used me?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him and couldn’t hold back his emotions. “It’s not. You’re going to chalk up our relationship to mere deception and exploitation? We’ve been together for so long that you can’t even see my feelings?”

       Li Zhenran’s eyes burned down on him, and at this moment, he said slowly, “It doesn’t matter, come back.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned when he heard the words.

       Li Zhenran’s tone was calm and unwavering as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him, “It doesn’t matter to me how you approached me in the first place, I just want you to come back.”

       Li Zhenruo stared at him blankly.

       Li Zhenran said, “Tell me, why are you leaving?”

       Li Zhenruo only felt that Li Zhenran’s thoughts were a little confusing, and he couldn’t understand them for a while, because Li Zhenran’s reaction was a bit unexpected. He said, “That woman that day…”

       Li Zhenran asked him, “Which woman which day?”

       Li Zhenruo looked down at the slightly shaken coffee in the cup, “The woman who came back with you on your dad’s birthday.”

       Li Zhenran said, “That is the daughter of Dad’s old friend. You probably know her name. She had just come by plane that day, and Dad asked me to pick her up at the airport. She helped her father bring a gift to Dad. After dinner that day, her boyfriend came to pick her up and went on a trip together. Okay? What else do you want to know?”

       “I—” Li Zhenruo didn’t know what to say for a while, he only asked, “Why didn’t you say it at school that day?”

       Li Zhenran said in a cold tone, “I’m angry, I’m jealous of you holding a man, even if it may be a misunderstanding, I still couldn’t calm down.”

       Li Zhenruo never expected that Li Zhenran would say such a thing. His expression became a little dazed, and then he said in a panic, “But don’t you already know? I’m Li Zhenruo.”

       Li Zhenran fell silent, looked at Li Zhenruo without saying a word, and said after a while, “It’s not the first day I know you are Li Zhenruo, I’m just waiting for you to confess to me.”

       Li Zhenruo put his hands on the table and clasped them tightly together. His heart was tumbling fiercely. While he felt that he was sorry for Li Zhenran, he also felt that Li Zhenran’s attitude towards him was too cruel, which made him unable to feel relieved.

       Li Zhenran suddenly stretched out his hand and put it on the back of his hand, used a little force, and said, “You tell me now, why do you want to leave?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “You left me at home for a month and didn’t say anything, and when you came back, you brought a beautiful woman with you.”

       Li Zhenran nodded and said, “Okay. Then when I ask Yan Xiujie to bring you back, why are you running again?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at Li Zhenran this time and said, “Because you said, I am Li Zhenruo.”

       It was strange that he had always been so calm with Li Zhenran, but when he found out that the other party knew that he was Li Zhenruo, he couldn’t help but start to flinch.

       Even if Li Zhenran showed that he didn’t care, he always felt that there was no way for the two of them to cross this hurdle so easily.

       Li Zhenran could clearly see that Li Zhenruo was in a tangle, he patted the back of Li Zhenruo’s hand and said to him, “Come here.”

       Li Zhenruo raised his head and couldn’t help looking around. Although there were not too many people, it was a public place after all. The two of them were sitting on a single sofa and he was suddenly called over by Li Zhenran. He felt a little nervous. After hesitating for a while, Li Zhenruo shook his head, “Say what you have to say.”

       Li Zhenran withdrew his hand, leaned back on the back of the sofa chair, looked at him quietly for a long time, and said, “Is it me who can’t accept the fact that you are Li Zhenruo, or is it you who can’t accept it?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment.

       Li Zhenran lowered his head and took out a cigarette case and lighter from his pocket. He seemed to suddenly remember that smoking was prohibited here, and put it back into his clothes pocket. He said, “Forget it, it doesn’t matter, as long as you want to come back, I can do anything. We can pretend we don’t know anything, you are the cat, I can help you with anyone you want to find out, or I can turn a blind eye. What do you think?”

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath to ease the pain, and he asked Li Zhenran, “Why?”

       His voice was a little soft, and Li Zhenran didn’t seem to hear it clearly. He leaned forward slightly, his arms were flat on the glass table, and he was closer to Li Zhenruo, “What?”

       Li Zhenruo repeated, “Why did you do this to me?”

       Li Zhenran looked at him without wavering, and said in a calm voice, “Because I love you.”

       At that moment, Li Zhenruo felt as if he was drowning, his body was squeezed by the water waves used by the mountains and the sea, all his senses were deprived, and even breathing became difficult, he had to open his mouth to breathe sharply, everything around him became blurred, the only thing clear in his vision was Li Zhenran who sat opposite to him.

       I love you, these three words were uttered by Li Zhenran so simply that Li Zhenruo shook his head in a trance, “You lied to me.”

       Li Zhenran laughed in exasperation, “I lied to you?” He glanced outside the floor-to-ceiling glass window of the coffee shop, then turned back to Li Zhenruo, “When have I ever lied to you since I was a child?”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but think about it but found that Li Zhenran had never lied to him. The two of them didn’t even have much communication, but he couldn’t help but want to deny it. He felt that he no longer knew what Li Zhenran was thinking, so he could only say, “You know, I am Li Zhenruo.”

       Li Zhenran said, “You know now that you are Li Zhenruo, and you have slept with me so many times, why have you never thought that you are Li Zhenruo?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t know what to answer. He put his elbows on the table and covered his face.

       Li Zhenran said slowly, “Maybe it doesn’t matter to you, you can sleep with anyone, but not to me. I only do it with the person I like.”

       Li Zhenruo could not help but squeezed his fingers tightly.

       Li Zhenran suddenly stood up and said, “I’m sorry, I’m going to go out for a cigarette, I hope you don’t run away again.”

       When he heard this, Li Zhenruo touched the collar on his neck subconsciously. Maybe he never really wanted to run away. If he wanted to leave Li Zhenran far away, he should have taken off the collar from the beginning.

       After Li Zhenran said this, he walked out of the coffee shop, went around to the side of the road outside, and lit a cigarette for himself.

       Li Zhenruo looked at his back and thought to himself that Li Zhenran was originally not addicted to smoking. The only possibility was that he had smoked a lot during the days he left and became addicted. Maybe more than these days, maybe the days when he and Li Zhenran had a confrontation and when Li Zhenran went on a business trip began.

       Li Zhenran’s back was still slender and straight, and occasionally he turned his head to reveal a firm and handsome side form, but Li Zhenruo noticed that he frowned slightly, and his expression was a little tired. But when he faced Li Zhenruo, he never showed it.

       Li Zhenruo buried his face in the palm of his hand and sat quietly for a few seconds. He suddenly stood up and walked outside. He thought that no matter what the reason was, since Li Zhenran cared about him, why would he walk away again?

       He was already an adult, and many emotions could really be regarded as non-existent without deliberately avoiding or denying them.

       He still didn’t know what would happen in the future, but at this time, he felt that he really didn’t want to see Li Zhenran sad.

       Li Zhenran wanted to turn around when he heard the footsteps, but Li Zhenruo sped up and rushed over to hug Li Zhenran from behind, his face was on his back, and he was slightly panting.

       “Li Zhenran,” Li Zhenruo shouted in a muffled voice.

       Li Zhenran was hit by him and took a small step forward before he stabilized his body again. When he turned around, he couldn’t see his face, so he could only answer, “Well?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “You asked me before you left, what are my feelings for you.”

       Li Zhenran heard the words and asked, “Are you going to answer me now?”

       Li Zhenruo said softly, “Not as a brother, nor master. No. Maybe it should be said that it is not only to master but also a lot of complicated things.”

       Unlike Li Zhenran, he has no way to say the words “I love you” so plainly. What is love? His father and brothers never said they loved him since he was a child, and Li Zhenran was the first person to say this word to him. He always felt that love was a too sacred feeling, and he couldn’t and shouldn’t talk about it so easily, and he didn’t want to tell Li Zhenran that he liked him because this kind of feeling was too common. He had liked too many people, and Li Zhenran was obviously different from them.

       A lot of complicated things. He had been with Li Zhenran for so long that he felt Li Zhenran should understand his feelings.

       Li Zhenran reached out and held Li Zhenruo’s hands, and said, “It doesn’t matter, as long as you go back with me.”

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BRO. NO WONDER THIS CHAPTER SEEMED TO BE NEVER ENDING
Also, I’m really glad that Zhenran seemed to like Zhenruo more than I thought (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)

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       Li Zhenruo somewhat felt chilled.

       He always thought that the answer he got from Aunt Wu this time would be Li Zhentai. Zhu Kai, and Li Zhentai. Zhu Kai got his blood sample from Aunt Wu and then gave it to Li Zhentai, who asked Yue Zijia to send it for a paternity test.

       Before, he always wondered, where did Li Jianglin’s semen come from? He believed it was not possible that Yue Zijia would go as far as seducing Li Jianglin, right? Now he was beginning to suspect the possibility that Li Jianglin’s semen was also obtained by Zhu Kai.

       Li Jianglin had always doted on Zhu Kai. Zhu Kai caused so much trouble at Li Zhentai’s wedding and Li Jianglin could not hold him accountable. He even took him when he went to recuperate.

       Although there were many illegitimate children and mistresses, in Li Zhenruo’s impression, since Zhu Yun’s death, Li Jianglin had never had any involvement with other women. He always felt that it was from Li Jianglin’s affection for Zhu Yun. Now that he thought about it, Zhu Kai and Zhu Yun looked similar. Could it be that Li Jianglin simply took Zhu Kai as a stand-in for Zhu Yun?

       He took a deep breath and told himself to calm down. He needed to sort this out.

       Aunt Wu was still crying, but Li Zhenruo didn’t have any resentment toward her. After all, she was only being used, and even without her, under the same roof, Zhu Kai could always find some other way.

       Li Zhenruo had inquired about what he wanted to know, but Aunt Wu was still trapped in self-blame and couldn’t get rid of it. Before he left, he gave Aunt Wu two hundred yuan and asked if he could take the kitten away.

       Aunt Wu agreed without much thought.

       Li Zhenruo carried the cat in his arms to the car, and Yan Xiujie was hesitant to say anything. When the car left the small road and entered the main road, he finally couldn’t help but ask, “What’s your relationship with Li Zhenruo?”

       It was not that Li Zhenruo couldn’t trust Yan Xiujie. On the contrary, among his many relatives and friends in the past, Yan Xiujie was probably one of the people he trusted the most. But once a lot of things were said, there were too many things to explain, and it would implicate too many people. For him now, it was best to continue the previous statement with Li Zhenran.

       So he said to Yan Xiujie, “I am his friend. I believe his death was not an accident.”

       Yan Xiujie turned his head to look at him, “You’re his friend? But I’ve never heard him mention you.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “But he often mentions you to me. He trusts you very much and thought that his relationship with you is more of a friend.”

       Yan Xiujie seemed to squeeze the steering wheel tightly.

       Li Zhenruo reached out and pressed lightly on his arm, “Do you believe that Jason’s death was just an accident?”

       Yan Xiujie said calmly, “I don’t know, but I didn’t doubt it before.”

       Li Zhenruo was not Li Jianglin’s biological son and had been kicked out of the Li family, as long as the two appraisal certificates were not overturned, he would never have a chance to turn around. So who would kill him? What was the point of killing him?

       This was not only unimaginable to Yan Xiujie, but even Li Zhenruo still found it strange.

       But Li Zhenruo himself knew that the person’s appearance that day was purposeful. It was not some accidental robbery, but he came for Li Zhenruo. In this world, there was really such a person who wanted him to die.

       He wanted to find the person.

       Li Zhenruo said to Yan Xiujie, “Whether you believe it or not, I hope you can help me. No matter what the result is, we have to know the truth, don’t we?”

       Yan Xiujie took a deep breath, “I can help you what I can do, but what I can do to help you right now is really limited.”

       What the current Yan Xiujie could do was indeed very limited. After all, he was just an ordinary employee of Yunlin.

       Li Zhenruo said, “No matter what, thank you.”

       After speaking, he lowered his head and gently stroked the top of the kitten’s head.

       Yan Xiujie saw his gentle movements and asked, “Do you like cats very much?”

       Li Zhenruo said “um”, “I like it.”

       If it wasn’t for being a cat himself, he thought he wouldn’t like cats so much.

       Yan Xiujie asked him again, “Are you going back?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned, “Where to?”

       Yan Xiujie said, “Go back to see Second Young Master.”

       Li Zhenruo seemed to sigh unconsciously and said, “I’ll go back. I’ll go see him.” His relationship with Li Zhenran shouldn’t be so unclear, even if it was over, they should face it.

       With Yan Xiujie driving him, it took a lot less time to go back than when he came, but it was still almost evening when he entered the city.

       The first thing that Li Zhenruo did when they returned to the city was to ask Yan Xiujie to find a pet clinic and treat the wounds on the kitten. The kitten was meowing in pain. Li Zhenruo stood beside it and felt distressed.

       While he was watching the veterinarian deal with the kitten, Yan Xiujie made a phone call outside. After a while, he came in and said to Li Zhenruo, “Second Young Master asked me to take you to him.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded.

       After treating the cat’s wounds, Li Zhenruo got in the car and looked in the direction Yan Xiujie was driving, and suddenly realized that they were going to Li Zhenran’s apartment in the city, and not Li’s family villa.

       He didn’t know if Li Zhenran had been living there for the past two days, or if Li Zhenran went there to wait for him today.

       Yan Xiujie drove downstairs and stopped to let Li Zhenruo get out of the car. Before leaving, he said to Li Zhenruo, “Call me if there’s anything.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded and replied, “Drive carefully.”

       Yan Xiujie left, and Li Zhenruo walked into the neighbourhood with the cat in his arms. He stood under the apartment building and suddenly realized that he couldn’t even enter the building without the key, let alone the elevator.

       He took out his mobile phone and called Li Zhenran.

       The phone was quickly connected, and Li Zhenran’s voice sounded emotionless as he said, “What?”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt a little sullen and wronged, and said, “I can’t go upstairs to your floor.”

       Li Zhenran heard the words and replied, “Wait a minute.” After that, he hung up the phone.

       Li Zhenruo stood outside the unit building door and waited for about two minutes. He saw that the building door was opened. Li Zhenran was wearing a light grey casual sweater and light grey sweatpants. He stood in front of him with slippers on the soles of his feet.

       Obviously, they met in the school yesterday morning, but Li Zhenruo felt that he hadn’t seen Li Zhenran for a long time so his eyes were sore when he saw him.

       Li Zhenran looked down at the cat in his hand and said, “What? Found your destiny?”

       Li Zhenruo was a little angry. He remembered the woman he brought to Li Jianglin’s birthday banquet, and turned to leave.

       Li Zhenran stepped forward and grabbed his wrist and said, “Had you had enough of playing? Are you willing to come back with me?”

       Li Zhenruo muttered, “I’m not playing.”

       Li Zhenran said, “I know, you are investigating the cause of Li Zhenruo’s death. So what did you find out this time?”

       Li Zhenruo looked up at him, hesitating whether to speak.

       Li Zhenran said, “Let’s go upstairs first.”

       This was not a suitable place to talk. Li Zhenruo felt Li Zhenran take his hand to walk inside and did not refuse. However, Li Zhenran didn’t let go of his hand until he got into the elevator.

       The elevator went up quietly and smoothly. Li Zhenruo stood behind Li Zhenran, looked down at the hand he was holding, and said, “Li Zhenruo’s death may have something to do with Zhu Kai.”

       Li Zhenran didn’t look back, but said, “Really? Weren’t you very close to him?”

       As soon as he finished speaking, Li Zhenruo didn’t react at first and looked at him in confusion. After a while, he felt a chill on his back, and goosebumps climbed from head to feet.

       He began to get nervous and wanted to break free of Li Zhenran’s hand that was holding him, but Li Zhenran was holding on so tightly that he couldn’t break free at all.

       Until the elevator stopped, and the elevator door slowly opened.

       Li Zhenran wanted to pull him to go outside, but Li Zhenruo refused to go. He pressed his back firmly against the inner wall of the elevator and stared at Li Zhenran with a terrified expression.

       The two were deadlocked for a moment because the elevator door was blocked by Li Zhenran, it could not be closed for a long time, and an alarm sounded.

       Li Zhenran said to Li Zhenruo, “Can you come out first?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Let go of me first.”

       Li Zhenran let go of his hand and exited the elevator first, but just pressed the button outside to prevent the elevator door from closing.

       Li Zhenruo hugged the cat in his arms tighter. He felt cold from head to toe, and only the cat in his arms was still warm. He finally got out of the elevator, but still leaned against the wall to look at Li Zhenran and said, ” When did you know?”

       Li Zhenran’s expression was calm, “I have my suspicion for a while. I wasn’t sure until just now, Li Zhenruo.”

       It was not the first time that Li Zhenruo heard his name from Li Zhenran’s mouth, but it was the first time to address him face-to-face, and it was as if he had returned to the past. At that time, he was at home, and Li Zhenran came back from the outside. When Li Zhenran saw him, he just nodded coldly, without even a smile, turned around and went upstairs directly.

       This was the relationship he had always had with Li Zhenran. Even though they grew up together, they had never been intimate, and they did not intend to ease or improve this relationship.

       He clearly thought in his heart that he could not continue to rely on Li Zhenran, but at this moment, Li Zhenruo realized that what he was most afraid of was that Li Zhenran would never accept him again.

       They were brothers, and he had been deceiving him and taking advantage of him, what would Li Zhenran think of their relationship?

       Li Zhenruo stared at Li Zhenran. He didn’t even know what to say, but he just wanted to see Li Zhenran’s reaction clearly.

       However, at this time Li Zhenran said, “Not going back yet? How long are you going to stand here?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I…” He only said one word, and the rest was stuck in his throat. He didn’t know what to say at this time.

       He took a step forward carefully but did not get out of the elevator. He hugged the cat tightly with one hand, leaned against the elevator door, and his other hand secretly pressed the elevator door closing button.

       The elevator door began to emit an alarm sound. Li Zhenran slightly lowered his head and glanced at his hand, seemingly aware of his movements. At this time, he released the hand holding the elevator door.

       Immediately after he let go, the elevator door slowly closed.

       Li Zhenruo saw that Li Zhenran kept looking at him, and at the last moment, before the elevator door closed, he saw that Li Zhenran showed a sad expression.

       However, the elevator door still closed tightly with a soft sound and then began to descend.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt a little weak in his legs and squatted down in the elevator with the cat in his arms.

       He ran away, and he didn’t even know why he was running. At that moment, his emotions were too complicated, he was nervous and scared, and he didn’t dare to face what he had to face next. He was afraid to listen to what Li Zhenran would continue to say.

       Walking out of the neighbourhood where Li Zhenran lived, Li Zhenruo walked a short distance and sat down on the edge of the flower bed beside the road with the cat in his arms. He buried his face in the soft body of the kitten and closed his eyes.

       Li Zhenruo felt that he was quite useless. When the time came, he only knew how to escape, and he didn’t even have the courage to face it.

       The kitten was uncomfortable and started to struggle with a purring sound.

       Li Zhenruo quickly raised his head and said to it, “I’m sorry.”

       It didn’t matter if he wandered outside alone, but he just felt sorry for the kitten. Of course, he didn’t have the energy to keep another cat now, but until the time came, he hoped to find a responsible owner so that no one would hurt it again.

       Li Zhenruo stood up and turned to look at the tall buildings in the neighbourhood, but found that he didn’t even know which building and which window it was. He couldn’t help but recall Li Zhenran’s look, and suddenly felt a stuffy pain in his chest.

       He suddenly felt a little regretful, and thought would it be better if he didn’t run away? But if he didn’t leave, what would Li Zhenran say to him? What was the look in Li Zhenran’s eyes mean? That he was lying to him and he was disappointed? Or that he was Li Zhenruo, and did he think it was still possible between them?

       Li Zhenruo shook his head vigorously to stop himself from thinking about it. He couldn’t stop himself from thinking in a more pessimistic direction, as if today was the end for him and Li Zhenran.

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The manuscript is almost gone, I can only reduce the number of words to maintain the daily update…

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Notes:
Lmao, how lame it was? Zhenran cooly answered Zhenruo’s call but then realised Zhenruo can’t come in coz he didn’t have the key so he need to come down and picked him up (´∀`)
Zhenran knew it from the start, huh?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       “Mr. Li?” Yan Xiujie called him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Yan Xiujie said nothing more and started the car.

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

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

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

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

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

       Maybe they shouldn’t have ended things so vaguely.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       The people inside didn’t move.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo said to Yan Xiujie, “Run!”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       The people upstairs responded.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Aunt Wu looked at Li Zhenruo with a strange expression.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo said, “Wait a minute.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo nodded, “Oh.”

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo took it and replied, “Okay.”

       After speaking, Shen Luming left in a hurry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo nodded.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo said nervously, “Is it possible?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Xia Hongshen sighed, “You are really persistent.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo thought that he was not pork.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo replied, “This apprentice knows.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Who could it be at this hour?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Xia Hongshen complained, “A waste.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       The black cat nodded.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo also lay quietly beside him without moving.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       “Which woman?” Li Zhenran asked him back.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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       Li Zhenruo froze.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       He shouldn’t be like this!

       Li Zhenruo thought silently.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Erhuang was obviously hesitant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       “Let’s go!” Li Zhenruo said.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Yan Xiujie replied, “It is.”

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

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

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

       Yan Xiujie nodded without further questioning.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Yan Xiujie asked, “What a pity?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       “Huh?” Song Jun was surprised.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       “Senior brother,” Song Jun said.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The author has something to say:

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

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

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

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Notes:
You can read the translated “Perfection” on this link~
Almost a year after I finished translating Perfection in a rush, I realised there are so many awkward looks like little edited MTL sentences. I am in the middle of fixing it so it flowed better :’)
It was my first novel after all, I hope it doesn’t give past readers too much headache (ﾟ⊃ω⊂ﾟ)ﾟ
Also, I just found out that Xia Hongshen and the gang are actually characters from Jin Gang Quan’s other novel
(＾艸＾)
I will be translating that one soon too

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