Category: Revenge of the Garfield (Page 7 of 10)

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo said, “I am his assistant.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo nodded, “Okay, beautiful jiejie.”

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

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

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

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

       But why does he need to do that?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo said truthfully, “I was wrong.”

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

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

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

       He rested his head on Li Zhenran’s shoulder.

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran said, “Home.”

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

       Li Zhenran answered “Um”.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Suddenly, there was a fierce barking sound from downstairs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       The next day was the weekend.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo glanced at him.

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

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

       Li Zhenran looked at him without speaking.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Wang Ma answered okay.

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhentai smiled and said, “Yes.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Yeah, who could believe it?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo said, “I’m curious.”

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

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

       He then followed Hua Yibang back to Yunlin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran looked at him coldly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       The waiter immediately brought the wine over.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo looked indifferent and innocent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo put the cake in his mouth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran said “Um”.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo smiled at him, looking a little coy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo suddenly opened his eyes.

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

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

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The author has something to say:

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

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

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

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

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Again my complain is still the same, I’ve been doing overtime for the past few weeks(even on weekends) and have been working so much that I couldn’t TL as much as before….. I hope this less frequent update don’t bother you guys too much……

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Wen Chun smiled a little at his words.

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

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

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

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

       Hua Yibang was baffled.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran looked at him coldly and said nothing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Also, where’s the cat?

       “Yibang,” Li Zhenran called to him.

       Hua Yibang was distracted and did not respond.

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran replied, “I want it now.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo smiled and said, “Thank you.”

       Hua Yibang stood silently, without looking away.

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

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

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

       “No,” Li Zhenran replied dryly.

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

       Li Zhenran nodded.

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

       Hua Yibang politely responded, “Take care.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran snorted and let go.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I actually got twice as many comments as usual on the last chapter, hehe

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Notes:
Lmao, Hua Yibang deserves a raise for real ( ﾟДﾟ)
Give him a raise Zhenran! ( ﾟДﾟ)

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       Xia Hongshen said, “That’s it.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo panted hard and said, “No…”

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

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

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

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

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

       Then why did he let Li Zhenran sleep with him again?

       This question was too complicated, and Li Zhenruo decided not to think about it.

       The next morning, Li Zhenruo woke up in Li Zhenran’s arms.

       His waist was a little sore, and the feeling of being opened up still remained. Li Zhenruo opened his eyes blankly and stared at the ceiling in a daze.

       Li Zhenran crossed his chest tightly with one hand. After he woke up after a while, he kissed Li Zhenruo on the neck.

       Li Zhenruo turned his head to stare at him.

       Li Zhenran stroked his lips with his fingers.

       Li Zhenruo complained, “You’re going too far!” His voice was a little hoarse as he spoke.

       Li Zhenran asked him, “What did I do?”

       Li Zhenruo his chest tightened for a while and felt that Li Zhenran was too shameless. The two of them were still lying naked in a blanket, and he still asked him what did he do?

       He simply stretched out his hand to clamp Li Zhenran’s jaw. Li Zhenruo was going to show him what he had done. With his hands on the bed, he rolled over and straddled Li Zhenran. He lowered his head and said to him, “Would you like me to do you?”

       As he saw this, Li Zhenran put his hands behind his head lazily and said, “You can do it and see.”

       Li Zhenruo still held Li Zhenran’s jaw in one hand, raised his face a little, and kissed him fiercely. He wanted to use various means to let Li Zhenran see his skills in bed, and make him obedient in the future. However, as the kiss deepened, Li Zhenran put one hand on Li Zhenruo’s waist and gently stroked it, which gradually added some warmth.

       After the long kiss, Li Zhenruo fell on top of Li Zhenran, his whole body was sore and he didn’t want to do anything. They had been fooling around all night last night. At this time, he didn’t think much about it and Li Zhenran’s gentle kiss made Li Zhenruo a little intoxicated.

       Li Zhenran touched Li Zhenruo’s hair with one hand and suddenly said, “You took off your clothes and stood at my door knocking on the door last night. Don’t you mean to deliver yourself by the door?”

       Li Zhenruo was too lazy to roll his eyes. He leaned his head on Li Zhenran’s shoulder and said, “Yeah, whatever you think is fine.”

       After a while, Li Zhenruo got off the bed and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

       He walked a little unsteadily, and his body still clearly remembered the shape of Li Zhenran’s big thing. Although he felt that he was also a flirtatious young master, he still felt like he wanted to blush for no reason, and a strange emotion filled his heart like never before.

       Li Zhenruo sat down in the bathtub as he was showering. He stretched out his hand and rubbed his waist. After he was covered with shower gel, he suddenly thought: If he can’t turn back into a cat, wouldn’t it be bad if someone saw him today?

       To be precise, it wouldn’t be bad for him, but for Li Zhenran. Who knew he had messed up with a little schoolboy at home? If Li Jianglin saw it, he would definitely hit Li Zhenran with his crutch.

       And if he couldn’t transform back, Li Zhenran definitely wouldn’t dare to let him stay in Li’s house. Maybe he would take him out again and hide him in the golden house²as previously stated it’s an idiom of hiding your lover in a safe house. In this case, how can he continue to monitor Li Zhenzi?

       As he thought of this, Li Zhenruo became nervous. He closed his eyes and tried his best to follow the method that Xia Hongshen taught him last night to let the heat flow in his body. And finally, his feet were empty all of a sudden, and the whole person slid into the middle of the bathtub.

       He was back in the shape of a cat.

       Li Zhenruo was overjoyed immediately.

       The hot water above his head was still gushing down. Li Zhenruo tried to climb out of the bathtub but found that the bathtub was too slippery. After trying several times, he slipped off the edge.

       So he simply scratched the edge of the bathtub with his claws and tried to make a sound. After a while, Li Zhenran opened the bathroom door and walked in.

       After seeing Li Zhenruo’s appearance, Li Zhenran stopped. As if he sighed and folded his arms around his chest, and asked him, “Was the purpose of you becoming a human last night was to make me fvck you once? Are you a snail girl³see more about snail lady?”

       Li Zhenruo wanted to be a little vicious, but all the hair on his body was wet and attached to his body, so he didn’t have any momentum.

       Li Zhenran walked over and helped him rinse the body of the shower gel foam that was still sticky on his body, then turned off the water and wrapped him in a towel to carry him out.

       When Li Zhenruo was placed on the sink, Li Zhenran suddenly saw his body stretch out in an instant, and the soft fluff all over his body quickly faded away, turning into a human appearance.

       Li Zhenruo sat on the sink, hooked Li Zhenran’s legs with both legs, and said excitedly, “Look, I finally mastered the method and can become a human being as I want!”

       Li Zhenran didn’t react much, but the corners of his mouth were slightly tilted. He bent his index finger against Li Zhenruo’s chin and made him raise his head to kiss his lips.

       Both of them were still naked. The situation of such close contact was really bad, and what was even worse was that Li Zhenruo found that he had kissed him too much, more than he had kissed all his girlfriends combined before.

       He obviously doesn’t like kissing very much, so why was he enjoying this gentle touch now?

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt embarrassed. In order to hide this embarrassment, he slightly tilted his head back, ended the kiss with Li Zhenran, and then buried his head and sucked randomly on his neck.

       This action was to leave a hickey. It’s summer now, and Li Zhenran’s thin clothes couldn’t hide the hickey at all. He originally thought that Li Zhenran would definitely stop him, but he didn’t expect Li Zhenran to stand still and let him mess around for a while, and then asked him, “You good now? Okay, I’m taking a shower.”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that he looked a little stupid as if he would become a little childish in front of Li Zhenran. How come he had never felt this way in the past twenty years?

       Li Zhenran left Li Zhenruo sitting on the sink, stepped into the bathtub and turned on the hot water to take a shower.

       Li Zhenruo sat there and looked at him, and suddenly said, “Do you—have a cat fetish?”

       Li Zhenran wiped the water off his face with his hands and asked him, “What is cat fetish?”

       Li Zhenruo thought about it, “It’s the same as necrophilia fetishism.”

       Li Zhenran gave him a cold look, “Why do you compare yourself with a corpse?”

       Li Zhenruo scratched his neck, “That’s what it meant anyway.”

       Li Zhenran said, “I don’t have that idea about cats.”

       Li Zhenruo then asked another curious question, “Are you gay?”

       Li Zhenran asked him in return, “Are you?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Of course I am not.”

       Li Zhenran let out a laugh, “Then, last night you—”

       “Stop, stop, stop,” Li Zhenruo hurriedly stopped him, knowing that what he said was nothing more than how loud and lewd he was last night, and he was ashamed to listen.

       This conversation ended here.

       Li Zhenran asked him a question, “You can turn into a person at will, but you can’t change into clothes, so you can only run naked?”

       Bullseye! Li Zhenruo gritted his teeth, patted his hair in distress, and said weakly, “Yes, you’re right.”

       Li Zhenran asked him, “Then what are you going to do?”

       What to do? Li Zhenruo didn’t think about it himself. He felt that until now, he could not leave Li Zhenran. Maybe he could only go out with Li Zhenran, transform into a human form under Li Zhenran’s cover, and then let Li Zhenran give him clothes.

       Otherwise, it would be difficult to avoid the eyes of the rest of the Li family.

       Li Zhenruo then said, “Can you take me to work today?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t answer immediately, but after taking a bath and turning off the water, he slowly wiped his body with a towel and said, “Beg me.”

       Pervert!

       Li Zhenruo held back the swearing words and repeatedly persuaded himself to hold back for a while. Then he said, “Please.”

       Li Zhenran said, “It’s not sincere.”

       Li Zhenruo jumped off the sink and stood barefoot on the ground, “How to make it more sincere?”

       Li Zhenran hooked his fingers, “Come here, I’ll teach you.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him with some hesitation, but after a while, he took two steps toward Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran grabbed his wrist and pulled Li Zhenruo in front of him, then hugged his waist with both hands, and actually carried him into the bathtub, pressed him against the wall with his body, and one hand stuck to Li Zhenruo’s neck to make his face lifted up. Then he said in a deep voice in his ear, “Follow me.”

       Behind Li Zhenruo was the icy tiles, and in front of him was Li Zhenran’s hot body. He began to have difficulty breathing, and Li Zhenran’s deep voice passed through the eardrum directly into the brain.

       He heard Li Zhenran say, “Please.”

       Li Zhenruo swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and his neck was stuck. Although he could breathe smoothly, swallowing was a little difficult. He followed Li Zhenran and said, “Please…”

       Li Zhenran then whispered in his ear, “My master.”

       Li Zhenruo’s face was flushed, not only his face, but his whole body seemed to be a little hot. His lips were trembling, and he followed Li Zhenran and said, “My… master.”

       Li Zhenran kissed his lips with satisfaction. After the kiss was over, he leaned into his ear and said, “I’ll take you there, good boy.”

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Notes:
Why the heck the end of the chapter is much hotter than the actual sex part??

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       Li Zhenruo, who was washed clean and fragrant, was lying on the sofa armrest and saw Erhuang going back and forth at the door, but he didn’t intend to pay attention to the dog. The wound on his paw was still aching, and every now and then he lifted it up and licked it, trying to relieve the pain.

       Today’s dinner at Li’s house was very lively. In addition to Zhu Kai’s return, Li Zhentai and Wen Chun finished their dinner and were now sitting on the sofa and discussing with Li Jianglin about ordering the banquet.

       Li Zhenran was asked by Li Jianglin to stay on the first floor, and at the same time was instructed to make a call regarding the banquet.

       Li Jianglin wanted Li Zhentai and the others to set the wedding banquet at Wanfulai Restaurant. This was an old restaurant with a history of nearly 100 years. Not to mention the price, it was too difficult to book a banquet for next month at this time. Li Zhentai called to ask, and the boss said that all the good days in almost half a year were fully booked.

       Li Jianglin knew that Li Zhenran had a wider network of contacts than Li Zhentai, so he asked Li Zhenran to go out and find someone to see if he could book the wedding banquet next month.

       So for more than half an hour, Li Zhenruo saw Li Zhenran staying alone in the dining room and was constantly on the phone.

       To be honest, he felt that Li Jianglin was making it too difficult for Li Zhenran for the sake of Li Zhentai’s wedding.

       The only person in the family who didn’t come back for dinner was Li Zhenzi.

       Wen Chun sat with an elegant posture and a gentle attitude. Although all of the matters were cumbersome, she did not show any impatience in front of Li Jianglin.

       Zhu Kai sat down but couldn’t sit still. So after a while, he got up and went out and said he was going to take the dog for a walk.

       Li Jianglin waved his hand, motioning him to leave quickly.

       Li Zhenran had just finished a phone call and leaned back on the back of the seat, looking a little impatient. On the day Li Zhentai scheduled their wedding, others had already booked a banquet half a year ago, and they had paid a deposit in advance. It’s a matter of integrity, and Wanfulai’s boss was reluctant to ask someone to withdraw their booking in any case. At the present, they wouldn’t be able to hold a banquet on that day, unless they go to the family and spend money to settle it. However, the people who chose Wanfulai to hold the banquet were probably also from good families, so this matter was really difficult to handle.

       Marriage was a happy event, and it was not good to get in trouble with people for this reason.

       Li Zhentai noticed Li Zhenran’s expression and asked, “Zhenran, it’s not going well?”

       “Um,” Li Zhenran responded. He stood up and walked towards the sofa, “It didn’t go well.”

       He sat down on his butt, next to the sofa armrest on which Li Zhenruo was lying. He reached out and rubbed the top of Li Zhenruo’s head.

       Li Zhentai had contacted the place before and knew that it was not easy. He said to Li Jianglin, “Dad, why don’t you consider a different place?”

       Li Jianglin’s crutch did not leave his body. At this time, his palms stroked the dragon head on the top of the crutch and said, “This is the request of the in-laws. And our Li family can’t fail to do this little thing.”

       Wen Chun’s parents got married in Wanfulai. Thirty years have passed, and Wanfulai was the same as Wanfulai in the past.

       Li Zhentai was silent and did not say anything.

       Wen Chun reached out to hold Li Jianglin’s hand and said, “It doesn’t matter, my parents don’t know the current situation either. He just said the location casually, Uncle Li shouldn’t take it too seriously. It would be fine to change to another place.”

       Li Jianglin frowned and looked at Li Zhenran, “I’ll call and ask for it myself if you can’t do it on your end.”

       Li Zhenran had been teasing the cat with his head down. Li Zhenruo felt comfortable when he touched his head, so he straightened his limbs and rolled over from the sofa armrest, and lay on Li Zhenran’s lap. Li Zhenran gently scratched his belly and looked at his two fluffy balls. When he was about to stretch out his hand to squeeze it, he heard Li Jianglin talking to him, so he raised his head and said, “I’ll ask again, but I suggest making preparations for two possible outcomes.”

       Wen Chun hurriedly smiled and said, “It’s not bad to have a buffet-style wedding banquet, it’s quite popular now.”

       When she finished speaking, there was the sound of a car parked in front of the villa. Zhu Kai led his dog and said, “Daniel, you’re back?”

       Li Zhenran took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention to him and pinched Li Zhenruo’s balls. Li Zhenruo rolled over from Li Zhenran’s lap, jumped off and even took a few steps back.

       Soon, Li Zhenzi came in from the outside. He walked behind the couch where Li Zhentai and Wen Chun were sitting, put his hands on the back of the chair, and said with a smile, “Good news for you, Wanfulai’s side over there is settled.”

       Not only Wen Chun and Li Zhentai, but even Li Jianglin raised his head slightly and looked at him in surprise.

       Li Zhenzi didn’t say much and just said, “Don’t worry, everything is fine, the original family promised to cancel the banquet and find another place to hold it. Now Wanfulai may not have any news yet, but I have already found someone to get in touch. There will be news soon.”

       Li Jianglin asked, “Are you sure?”

       Li Zhenzi nodded, “I’m sure.” Then he put a hand on Li Zhentai’s shoulder and said, “Eldest brother, are you not going to thank me?”

       Li Zhentai smiled when he heard the words, “Of course, I must thank you properly.”

       Wen Chun also looked at Li Zhenzi, and from an angle that Li Zhentai couldn’t see, Li Zhenzi blinked at Wen Chun.

       At this moment, Li Zhenruo noticed that Li Jianglin’s hand holding the crutch was tightened. With such an action, Li Zhenruo was almost certain that Li Jianglin knew about the affair between Li Zhenzi and Wen Chun.

       He made that call. Zhu Kai must have told Li Jianglin, and then Li Jianglin came back in a hurry to take charge of the marriage between Li Zhentai and Wen Chun.

       Li Zhenruo turned around and saw Zhu Kai leaning against the door with his arms crossed, with a fake smile on his face.

       All of a sudden, Li Zhenruo had a very strange feeling that the family who appeared to be harmonious on the surface harboured their own evil intentions in their hearts. Just like Li Zhenzi, with one hand on Li Zhentai’s shoulder, he could also hook up with Li Zhentai’s wife, which was really scary.

       Li Zhenran was the only one who didn’t pay attention to those at all. He just hooked his fingers at Li Zhenruo and tried to get his attention back.

       Li Zhenruo hesitated and jumped back onto Li Zhenran’s lap, but this time he clamped his hind legs and refused to turn over or face Li Zhenran with his belly.

       Li Zhenran’s cell phone rang. After he answered the call, he said to Li Jianglin, “The boss of Wanfulai called and said that the family who ordered the banquet that day cancelled the reservation and has already reserved it for us.”

       The smile at the corner of Li Zhenzhi’s mouth was obvious.

       Li Jianglin glanced at him, he wanted to say something but didn’t say it, and finally just nodded.

       Li Zhenruo thought to himself, if it wasn’t for the fact that Li Jianglin knew Li Zhenzi hooked up with Wen Chun, he should be happy now. But there was such a big scandal in the middle, Li Jianglin at the same time felt like weeping and thought it was ridiculous and not good.

       Wen Chun stayed at Li’s house that night.

       Li Zhenruo believed that in the next few days, she would frequently go in and out of the Li family until the end of the wedding. Then she would move in rightfully and become the only mistress of the Li family.

       And tonight, Li Zhenruo’s intuition tells him that something was definitely going to happen. If nothing happened, he would be very sorry to Li Zhenzi since he had worked so hard for Wen Chun’s wedding.

       In order to anticipate the good show, Li Zhenruo even gave up going to sleep in Li Zhenran’s room but stayed in his own bed as soon as he went upstairs.

       Li Zhenran always let him sleep where he wanted. After a glance at him, he went back to his room and closed the door.

       Li Zhenruo had been lying quietly until the middle of the night. He deliberately dragged his bed out close to the stairs, wanting to hear the movement downstairs.

       Li Zhenzi went back to the room early, and Wen Chun followed Li Zhentai back to the room to do what should probably be done.

       Only Li Zhenruo relying on the undying desire for gossip was still waiting patiently.

       It was almost half-past twelve, and it was estimated that the Li family had already fallen asleep. Li Zhenruo heard the door of a room on the second floor open and the sound of footsteps in slippers walking downstairs.

       He hurriedly got up from his bed, stuck his head out to the middle of the stairs to see, but saw that the man hadn’t turned on the lights all the way, so he couldn’t see anything at all.

       At this moment, the door of another room on the second floor opened gently, and someone went down behind him.

       Li Zhenruo immediately followed silently to catch the adultery.

       As they went down to the first floor, Li Zhenruo saw Wen Chun wearing a halter nightdress, and standing in the dining room drinking a glass of warm water.

       Li Zhenzi walked over, hugged her from behind, and said, “Did you get my message?”

       The lights in the dining room were not turned on. With the dim yellow light coming in from outside, Li Zhenruo could clearly see the two people.

       It was actually quite dangerous here because Li Jianglin and Zhu Kai’s room was on the first floor. Although the soundproofing of the room was very good, their voice shouldn’t be able to be heard when they speak in a low voice. But there was no guarantee that someone would not notice any movement and open the door to take a look.

       There was a knife above the character for lust¹色字头上一把刀 is an idiom for lascivious activities could lead to bitter consequences, and Li Zhenzi literally sent his head under the blade of the knife.

       Wen Chun was obviously much more sober than he was. She quietly broke away from him, glanced at the living room outside and the direction of Li Jianglin’s room, and said, “Don’t look for me.”

       Li Zhenzi said, “Do you know how much effort I put in for the banquet over at Wanfulai?”

       Wen Chun glanced at him, “I don’t care about those things, and I don’t need you to do them for me. I’ll be your sister-in-law in the future, so show some respect.”

       Li Zhenzi said softly, “Chun jie…”

       Wen Chun walked around him and walked upstairs, “If you send me another message, I’ll show it to your father.”

       Li Zhenzi did not chase after her and sat down beside the dining table. Li Zhenruo didn’t know what was on Li Zhenzi’s mind, but he was surprisingly smiling a little. After a while, he got up to drink a glass of water, put the glass on the dining table, and turned to go upstairs.

       After Li Zhenzi left, Li Zhenruo didn’t move. Behind him, the door of Zhu Kai’s room opened gently.

       Zhu Kai stuck his head out and saw that Li Zhenruo was still there, he put his index finger to his mouth to signal him to keep silent, then squatted by the door and started to look at his cell phone.

       When Li Zhenzi was hugging Wen Chun behind her back just now, neither of them noticed that Zhu Kai secretly opened the door, turned off the sound and flash of the phone, and took a few pictures.

       Only Li Zhenruo noticed it. At this time, he couldn’t help but lean over to look at Zhu Kai’s phone screen. Zhu Kai did not drive him away, but let him look at the side.

       The screen was very dark, and the faint light outside could only barely illuminate the outlines of the two people, and moreover, it was still just figures seen from the back.

       But it was enough. As long as Li Zhentai or Li Jianglin were given a look, they could immediately identify the two people’s identities.

       Li Zhenruo thought that the knife on Li Zhenzi’s head was about to fall off, and Zhu Kai suddenly laughed when he saw the photo. Li Zhenruo saw Zhu Kai’s shoulders shaking because he was suppressing his voice.

       After Zhu Kai finished stifling his laughter, he put his index finger to his lips with an “sshh” to Li Zhenruo, and surreptitiously went back to the room to close the door.

       Li Zhenruo the cat was left behind, and he suddenly felt that the darkness was so terrifying that he turned around and ran upstairs.

       After a night of sleep, as they ate breakfast, Li Zhenruo peeked at the Li family at the dinner table while licking the milk. Li Zhenzi and Wen Chun act as if nothing happened, Li Zhentai also showed no reaction, and Zhu Kai hadn’t gotten up yet.

       The photo was in Zhu Kai’s hands, and Li Zhenruo really didn’t know what his plans were.

       Although he has a good relationship with Zhu Kai, he had always felt that Zhu Kai was a psychopath, and normal people should not provoke a psychopath.

       But even after Zhu Kai woke up, he didn’t mention this matter. He didn’t know if Li Jianglin had seen the photo. Even if Li Jianglin had seen it, the old man could still keep his composure while facing Wen Chun and Li Zhenzi, but it was not like Li Zhenruo could tell the difference anyway.

       The Li family seemed to be on the right track, but Li Zhenruo was the only one who always felt there was a bit of mountain rain coming and the wind was all over the building, and he couldn’t explain why.

       About a week later, there was a sudden strong wind one night.

       When Li Zhenruo was drinking water in the dining room on the first floor. He heard Wang Ma nagging while closing the window in the living room, “Why is there such a strong wind? It’s not going to rain heavily, is it?”

       As soon as she finished speaking, Li Zhenruo heard the sound of thunder. Because of his sensitive ears, he was startled, and almost knocked over his water dish.

       So he couldn’t help but come into the living room and jump on the windowsill to look outside and saw that the wind was really howling outside. The tall trees were blown over the branches and leaves, and the small bamboo forest in the distance was fluttering down, and he could even hear the sound of the wind blowing through.

       At this time, another lightning struck, and Li Zhenruo’s heart trembled slightly, and then he heard the sound of thunder.

       Wang Ma closed the window and turned off the light in the living room. Li Zhenruo turned around and ran up the stairs. He ran all the way to the third floor and wanted to go back to Li Zhenran’s room, but found that the other party had closed the door.

       These days, he was thinking about the adultery between Li Zhenzi and Wen Chun, and often refused to enter Li Zhenran’s room at night. Li Zhenran was probably used to it. He closed the door without waiting for him when he slept.

       Li Zhenruo had to go back to his cat bed.

       The window of the recreation room was already closed. It was closed by Wang Ma just now, and now there was only one window in the corridor on the third floor that was still open. Li Zhenruo could always hear the strange sound of the wind outside the window as if there was a monster hiding inside.

       The animal’s sharp intuition made him know what was going to happen tonight. He has already visualised a full-scale dog blood²means something ridiculous, it is used to describe TV drama scenes that are repetitive and exaggerated. ethic drama of a rich and powerful family.

       However, this drama was slow to stage. Not to mention the Li family, even Li Zhenruo was about to fall asleep. In a daze, he heard a strange noise in the wind outside and suddenly opened his eyes. This time it wasn’t an illusion, he really heard something.

       Li Zhenruo came out of the cat bed and jumped on the window sill of the recreation room to look outside. Because the window was closed, he could only try to put his face against the window glass, trying to see what was in the dark.

       At this moment, he noticed that a huge black shadow flashed past downstairs.

       The thick and almost inseparable black shadow looks like a huge beast running past with its limbs stretched out, and Li Zhenruo’s heart palpitated suddenly. Before he could react, he heard a soft sound from the window of the corridor, which sounded like something coming in through the window.

       Li Zhenruo jumped off the window sill, and he smelled a scent that seemed to be somewhat familiar. He hurriedly ran out of the room. Li Zhenruo was standing in the corridor and saw a huge black monster sitting on the window at the end. It looked like a black panther, with eyes flashing with a regal glow and a figure that filled the entire window.

       Being watched by Li Zhenruo with frightened eyes, the monster suddenly stretched out and pounced in his direction.

       Li Zhenruo was so frightened that he took a few steps back, but saw that the monster turned into a human appearance in the air, and then landed lightly in front of Li Zhenruo, and stretched out a finger to scratch his chin.

       “Meow…” Li Zhenruo cried out weakly, but it really was him. He smelled the scent just now and felt like it was that person from the other day. The Xia Hongshen he met who promised to help him.

       The gust of wind outside was still unstoppable.

       Xia Hongshen sat with his leg crossed in front of Li Zhenruo. He stretched out two bright red fruits from his pocket, and said to him, “Eat up.”

       Li Zhenruo came close and smelled it, but couldn’t smell anything special. The two fruits were so bright in colour that they looked like they were poisonous. He looked at Xia Hongshen with some suspicion.

       Xia Hongshen didn’t react, but still repeat the same sentence, “Eat up.”

       “Meow?” Can I ask what it is?

       Xia Hongshen said, “Good stuff. Eat it and I’ll teach you how to control your spiritual power to transform.”

       Although he was still sceptical, Li Zhenruo knew that he had no choice but to trust Xia Hongshen. So he rolled up the two fruits with his tongue and slowly ate them.

       After eating the fruit, Li Zhenruo felt hot air rising from his abdomen. It was not appropriate to say that it was a hot air. It should be said that it was a force. When he was in heat, he had a similar feeling that made it difficult for him to control his body’s power.

       Xia Hongshen said in his ear, “Listen to me, let the spiritual power in the body run to the limbs and bones.”

       Li Zhenruo was at a loss with all the limbs and bones. He didn’t know where the limbs and bones were.

       Xia Hongshen then said, “You imagine that your body is stretched, your fingers are separated, and you become human…”

       Li Zhenruo closed his eyes and followed Xia Hongshen’s words, prompting the heat to spread to his fingers and toes, his limbs stretched, and his claws stretched out into five flexible fingers.

       He thought so, and at the same time, he really felt it. He couldn’t tell whether it was his hallucination or reality, but he really felt that his body was being pulled and his heart was beating fast as if the feeling he had when he transformed himself last time came back.

       Xia Hongshen suddenly said, “Very good.”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly opened his eyes. He found that he had grown taller and could look directly at Xia Hongshen, who was sitting on the ground. He raised his hand and saw that his bare arms had indeed turned into a human appearance.

       He touched his face in surprise, and the next action quickly covered his lower body, knowing that he was not wearing anything right now.

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       This laboratory building was very close to the hospital where Feng Junyuan worked. It was the laboratory building of the medical school. This Song Jun still looks like a college student, but he was only in his twenties.

       Li Zhenruo thought about Song Jun’s senior brother and wondered what he was like.

       Before, he always imagined that Song Jun would be an immortal Taoist with a satin shirt and long hair. But now that he has seen Song Jun, his imagination has been completely shattered, and he wondered if his senior brother also will be that way.

       However, Song Jun carried Li Zhenruo and walked directly into the first floor, and finally stopped at the door of a somewhat dark room, saying, “Senior brother is inside, it is not convenient to enter now.”

       Li Zhenruo looked up and saw the three words “anatomy room” on the sign hanging on the door. He was suddenly chilled from head to tail. He felt a sense of relief because he felt that his imagination was still too limited.

       Song Jun bent down and wanted to put Li Zhenruo on the ground, but Li Zhenruo grabbed his legs and climbed up. It was safer to stay in Song Jun’s arms.

       After waiting for more than ten minutes, a man in a white coat and a mask came out. He walked while taking off his gloves and threw them in the trash can next to him. As soon as he looked up, he saw Song Jun and asked, “Is something wrong?”

       Li Zhenruo saw that he reached out and pulled the mask off, revealing a handsome face. It was clearly a serene and calm expression, but it revealed a strong sense of oppression.

       Song Jun smiled and said, “Senior Brother Xia!”

       The man he called Senior Brother Xia lowered his head, and looked at the cat in his arms. He suddenly stretched out his hand, picked it up, and threw it aside.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t react for a while, and he was a little dumbfounded.

       Song Jun asked strangely, “Senior brother, what are you doing?”

       That Senior Brother Xia said, “Don’t hold other cats.”

       After he said that, he left without looking back.

       Song Jun quickly followed and beckoned Li Zhenruo to follow him.

       When following the senior brother Xia upstairs, Song Jun whispered to Li Zhenruo that senior brother Xia’s name was Xia Hongshen. He was a teacher of the school’s forensic pathology major, and Song Jun himself was a doctoral student majoring in genetics.

       Li Zhenruo wanted to ask him: Shouldn’t forensic doctors be atheists? Was it really appropriate for you to talk about something mystical?

       Xia Hongshen went to his upstairs office on his own. As Song Jun took Li Zhenruo to follow up, Li Zhenruo felt a strong sense of oppression again.

       He also didn’t understand what was going on. If he has to describe it, it was the animal’s instinctual sense of danger. When encountering an animal stronger than themselves, which may prey on them, it reminded you to run for your life quickly.

       Li Zhenruo just stretched out his head and went in to take a peek.

       Xia Hongshen sat at the desk without raising his head and said, “With a face that big, you think I can’t see it if you hide?”

       Li Zhenruo was somewhat hurt for a while.

       Song Jun beckoned him in, and said to Xia Hongshen, “Xiao Feng brought it here, saying it’s Boss Luo’s friend.”

       Xia Hongshen raised his head slightly, “Luo Fei’s friend?”

       Song Jun whispered, “We still owe Boss Luo a lot of debt, senior brother, think about it carefully!”

       Xia Hongshen then hooked his fingers at Li Zhenruo, “Come here.”

       Li Zhenruo walked in cautiously and jumped onto Xia Hongshen’s desk with hesitation. He then walked all the way to Xia Hongshen’s side.

       Xia Hongshen lifted his hand and touched the top of Li Zhenruo’s head, and Li Zhenruo felt a warm breath.

       Later, Xia Hongshen took his hand away and said, “There is a bit of spiritual power, but it is too thin.” After he said that, he seemed to look at Li Zhenruo carefully for a while, “Song Jun, what do you think?”

       Song Jun stood in front of the desk and gently stroked Li Zhenruo’s back. He then said, “Xiao Feng said that it once transformed into a human form when it was in heat. According to the cat itself, it was the human soul attached to this cat. It was not clear what exactly happened.”

       Xia Hongshen took out a flashlight from the drawer and said to Li Zhenruo, “Open your mouth.” After Li Zhenruo opened his mouth, Xia Hongshen shone the flashlight inside.

       Song Jun couldn’t help but wonder, “What do you see?”

       Li Zhenruo also seemed to be bewildered.

       Xia Hongshen said, “I see what brand of cat food it eats, but I don’t know if it’s good or not.”

       Li Zhenruo, “…”

       Xia Hongshen turned off the flashlight and threw it aside. He leaned back on the seat, and said, “The spiritual power should be from the owner of this body, and it has nothing to do with the soul. I guess it’s because the spiritual power is too strong during the estrus period, which caused the fluctuation of spiritual power. Since the soul had some lingering regret, it took a human form.”

       Obsession? Li Zhenruo thought to himself that he did have some obsession, and could not let go of his feelings and hatred in the human world.

       Song Jun frowned, looked at Li Zhenruo for a while, and said inexplicably, “But this is an overseas cat…”

       Xia Hongshen said, “Next time you reincarnate, put more heart into it and you will be able to transform into a foreigner too.”

       Song Jun ignored him and asked, “What will happen to him? Will he suddenly become a human again because of his estrus?”

       Xia Hong looked at Li Zhenruo deeply and asked him, “What do you want?”

       Li Zhenruo had no way to speak. He wanted to say that he wished he could control this ability and change his form between human and cat at will so that he could not only enter and leave the Li family at will but also have the ability to investigate some things.

       All the thoughts finally turned into one word, “Meow!”

       In the end, it turned out that Xia Hongshen actually understood, he said, “Yes, but it’s not easy.”

       Li Zhenruo’s eyes opened wide.

       Xia Hongshen said, “I can give you spiritual power to keep you in human form, but it is temporary after all, since the spiritual power will be consumed. If you want to have that kind of ability, you have to improve your own spiritual power.”

       “Meow?” What to do?

       Xia Hongshen leaned forward slightly and said to Li Zhenruo, “Money.”

       Li Zhenruo squinted his round eyes, and restrained the contempt in his heart. He asked, “Meow?” How much?

       Xia Hongshen touched his chin with a deep finger, glanced at Song Jun, and said, “500 million.”

       Song Jun immediately said, “Senior brother, don’t make trouble.”

       Li Zhenruo sighed, thinking that this Xia Hongshen was just talking nonsense, and Li Zhenruo didn’t know if he really had that ability. So he bargained with him, “Meow—” I don’t have that much money, make it less!

       Xia Hongshen was looking at Song Jun again.

       Song Jun couldn’t help but said, “Senior brother, please help him. Where could this cat get the money?”

       Xia Hongshen tapped the table lightly with his fingers, and then said, “I’ll give you a discount. Five thousand. Don’t bargain anymore. Just find someone else if you can’t afford it.”

       Li Zhenruo was very doubtful about whether this Xia Hongshen here was powerful, he sounded like a swindler. But even if Xia Hongshen was a medium, he was the only life-saving straw that Li Zhenruo could catch at present. Five thousand yuan was not much. Although he really can’t get it, he still has a master.

       Song Jun next to him wanted to persuade Xia Hongshen, but Li Zhenruo patted the table with his paw, “Meow!” It’s a deal!

       Song Jun was a little surprised by Li Zhenruo’s boldness.

       However, Xia Hongshen nodded and said to him, “Go back and wait for my call, and when the time comes, hand over the money.”

       “Meow~” Li Zhenruo quickly explained his current situation. He couldn’t answer Xia Hongshen’s phone call, and he couldn’t hand the money to Xia Hongshen. He has done all the things he could do, now he had to rely on Li Zhenran’s help. He hoped that Xia Hongshen could communicate it to Li Zhenran directly.

       Xia Hongshen propped his head on one hand, and asked Li Zhenruo curiously, “Who is your master? How much does he know about you?”

       Li Zhenruo told Xia Hongshen that his master only knew that he had changed into a human form when he was in estrus, but he did not know that there was someone else’s soul living in his body.

       Xia Hong thought for a while, “Is he not surprised or afraid?”

       Li Zhenruo was taken aback by his question. He recalled that Li Zhenran should have been very sceptical at first, but after a long time, he gradually believed it. It was something weird for sure, but Li Zhenran didn’t like to express himself. Many times Li Zhenruo didn’t know what he was thinking. As for if he was afraid, it seems that he never felt that Li Zhenran was afraid of anything.

       He didn’t know what Li Zhenran thought of him, maybe he thought he was a cat demon, and then he accepted this fact calmly.

       Xia Hongshen said to Li Zhenruo, “It’s better not to let too many people know about us, including your master.”

       Li Zhenruo was slightly startled. He was shocked to find himself almost completely defenceless against Li Zhenran and even felt that there should not be any problem telling Li Zhenran these things.

       However, Xia Hongshen and these people didn’t seem to be simple. They don’t want to expose some things to others so casually. If he wasn’t a cat, perhaps Xia Hongshen wouldn’t even be here to talk to him so much.

       Li Zhenruo was a little distressed for a while, and he said to Xia Hongshen, “Meow…” Without the help of Li Zhenran, he could not have handed over and paid 5000 yuan to Xia Hongshen

       Xia Hongshen seemed to be a little displeased. After thinking for a long time, he glanced at Song Jun again, and finally said, “For the sake of your big face and round eyes and your happy-go-lucky look, sign an IOU and remember when you have money, give it to me.”

       Li Zhenruo feels that having a happy-go-lucky look was not really a compliment.

       But to Xia Hongshen’s request, he nodded unequivocally, “Meow!”

       He really needed the ability to move freely now, but this ability was the thing he couldn’t do. He had to resort to Xia Hongshen’s help, no matter what kind of request Xia Hongshen made.

       Xia Hongshen took a piece of white paper, picked up a pen and wrote on it. Then looked up and asked Li Zhenruo, “Name?”

       Li Zhenruo hesitated and told him that his name was Tuanzi.

       Xia Hong looked at him deeply, “Your real name.”

       Li Zhenruo was silent for a moment, took a deep breath, and confessed his name.

       Xia Hongshen didn’t react, and just wrote his name on the paper, but Song Jun, who had been watching, said, “Huh? You are Li Zhenruo?”

       “You know him?” Xia Hongshen asked.

       Song Jun said, “Li family’s Yunlin. Li Jianglin’s son that died in an accident some time ago. Didn’t you watch the news?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “Don’t pay attention to that. If you have time to read those, why not think about your doctoral dissertation.”

       Song Jun was silent for a while.

       After Xia Hongshen finished writing, he threw the paper to Li Zhenruo for him to read. Li Zhenruo was a little nervous and said to Xia Hongshen, “Meow meow?” Can you not leak my information to anyone?

       Xia Hongshen said, “You can rest assured that no one will know, as long as you have not leaked information about us to anyone.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded quickly.

       He looked at the IOU¹An IOU (abbreviated from the phrase “I owe you”) is usually an informal document acknowledging debt. carefully, in addition to writing his deal with Xia Hongshen, there was also the consequences to be borne for leaking the secret. It looked a bit scary, but Li Zhenruo was not worried. He raised his head to find a pen.

       Xia Hongshen said to him, “Press the paw print.”

       Li Zhenruo raised his front paws, looked at his own paws, and then shook his head from side to side to find the ink pad.

       Unexpectedly, Xia Hongshen grabbed his paw, and a bloodstain appeared when his fingers pass over it, and then said to him, “With blood.”

       Just now, Li Zhenruo clearly saw that Xia Hongshen’s fingertips turned into sharp claws, and the fur was dark black.

       He couldn’t pay attention to the pain in his paws, and while the blood wasn’t dry, he neatly pressed his paw prints, then raised his paws and licked them hard.

       Xia Hongshen reached out and pinched the IOU, and with a flick in the air, a flame suddenly ignited, burning the IOU into ashes. 

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment, and before he had time to ask any questions, he heard Xia Hongshen say, “I have your name and bloody palm print, you can’t escape no matter what. Be honest.”

       Li Zhenruo said: I didn’t even want to run anywhere.

       After Xia Hongshen finished these things, he raised his hand and said to Song Jun, “See off the guest.”

       Li Zhenruo quickly grabbed the table with his claws, and the injured claws hurt for a while. He wanted to say that he didn’t have a phone, and how could Xia Hongshen contact him.

       Xia Hongshen said, “I will find you, don’t worry.”

       In the afternoon, Li Zhenruo was handed back to Li Zhenran by Feng Junyuan.

       When he took the cat from Feng Junyuan, Li Zhenran couldn’t help but ask, “Doctor Feng, is there a way in the end?”

       Feng Junyuan shook his head, “I don’t know either, I don’t have that ability.”

       Li Zhenran glanced down at Li Zhenruo and knew that he probably couldn’t ask anything. So he nodded to Feng Junyuan, grabbed Li Zhenruo’s collar and threw him into the car.

       Li Zhenruo rolled forward in the rear seat and almost hit the opposite door. As he saw Li Zhenran sit in the car and close the door, he was a little angry and jumped up to the front passenger seat.

       Li Zhenran ignored him but started to call Luo Fei as soon as he got in the car.

       It was unlikely for Li Zhenran to be so rude to Luo Fei, so he just asked, “Luo Fei, tell me the truth, who is that Doctor Feng?”

       Luo Fei smiled and said to Li Zhenran, “He’s not a bad person, you can rest assured that they won’t do anything to your cat.”

       Li Zhenran was silent for a while. Li Zhenruo couldn’t help turning his head to look at him, and heard him say to Luo Fei, “Are there any demons in this world?”

       Luo Fei said to him, “What do you think?”

       Li Zhenran said, “If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t deny its existence.”

       Luo Fei said with a smile, “If it were me, I would regard it as fate.”

       Afterwards, they didn’t say much. They just exchanged some pleasantries and hung up the phone.

       The driver drove back home, Li Zhenruo scurried back to the back row. He waited until Li Zhenran opened the door and immediately got down himself.

       Just as he got out of the car, he noticed that there was a huge shadow covering his back. Something grabbed his neck and staggered away with him.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t realize what was going on, and could only hear Li Zhenran shouting, “Zhu Kai!”

       After that, he was carried far away to the small grass patch next to the swimming pool before he was put down. When he turned his head, he saw Zhu Kai’s Erhuang.

       Erhuang opened his mouth and panted with a happy look on his face. It has probably been looking for the round-faced cat at home to play with it for a long time.

       Zhu Kai heard that Erhuang took away Li Zhenran’s cat, so he shouted, “Erhuang, take the cat back!”

       Erhuang heard the master call it and immediately turned around to look.

       As soon as Li Zhenruo heard that it was going to take him back, he was so frightened that he jumped up from the grass and ran towards Li Zhenran. He was frightened by Erhuang. Anyone who was suddenly whisked away roughly by a large thing would probably be nervous. So he ran wildly all the way. Li Zhenruo ran to Li Zhenran’s legs and rubbed his legs to climb up. 

       Li Zhenran stretched out his arms to hug him and felt that his neck was full of dog saliva, and immediately grabbed his two paws and pulled them away from him in disgust, and carried him upstairs to give him a bath for him before dinner.

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Bean and me actually planned to give some April’s Fool prank but me lazy and not creative so until now I dunno what kinda prank I should do (￣(エ)￣)ゞ

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

       Today was the weekend.

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran stopped and turned around, “Dad?”

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran asked, “Just us?”

       Li Jianglin nodded, “You drive.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       That was his tombstone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo guessed that he must be very unhappy.

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

       Now, this was what Li Jianglin cared about most.

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

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

       Li Zhenruo’s round eyes drooped down instantly.

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

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

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

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

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

       Luo Fei also seemed to have been giving him assurances.

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

       Li Zhenruo’s eyes widened.

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

       Li Zhenruo nodded obediently.

       Li Zhenran hooked his fingers, “Come here.”

       Li Zhenruo ran over immediately.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran was also slightly startled by his action.

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

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

       Feng Junyuan nodded, “Give me a call.”

       Li Zhenran waved to them and turned to leave.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Song Jun waved to him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Not only Zhu Kai but also his dog was gone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Jianglin looked at them with a smile.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Jianglin smiled at them with satisfaction.

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

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

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

       Thus they continued to drink and eat.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Wen Chun helped him walk towards the stairs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo was too lazy to lift his head.

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran said, “Too much hair.”

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

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

       Li Zhenruo opened his mouth in surprise.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo turned over and ran forward.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Luo Fei must also know something.

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

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

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

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

       Only Zhu Kai and his dog were left at home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenzi took it and said thank you.

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

       Li Zhenzi replied, “Well, she quit.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo stood up and took a few steps back.

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

       Wang Ma put warm tea in front of him.

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

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

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

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

       Li Jianglin nodded.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo followed him, thinking he was going upstairs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Jianglin nodded his head, “Still awake?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Hua Yibang asked softly, “Are you going?”

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo walked out slowly and shook his fur.

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

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

       “I know,” Li Zhenran nodded.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Wang Ma scolded him, “What a nonsense.”

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran said, “It’s good.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran answered patiently one by one.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran also smiled and said nothing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Jianglin walked here with the help of Li Zhentai, and both Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi greeted him.

       Li Zhenran said, “Dad.”

       Li Zhenzhi smiled and said, “You’re back? Did you have a good trip?”

       Li Jianglin nodded, glanced at Li Zhenzi, and walked towards the room.

       And Zhu Kai first untied the dog’s leash and waved to them with a smile as he watched Erhuang running wild in the yard.

       When Li Jianglin entered the room, he noticed Li Zhenruo standing by the door.

       Li Zhenruo was also tilting his head to look at him.

       Li Zhentai said quickly, “This is Zhenran’s cat, it’s called Dumpling.”

       Li Jianglin said “um” and walked inside without saying anything.

       Having just arrived home, after a tiring journey, Li Jianglin did not rush back to his room but sat down on the sofa in the living room on the first floor.

       Wang Ma took the housekeeper to bring up tea for Li Jianglin and a warm towel for wiping his face.

       After working hard in the Li family for so many years, when Li Jianglin met Wang Ma, he said politely, “Thank you for your hard work.”

       Wang Ma said, “What hard work? You guys sit down for a while, and dinner will be served soon. It’s all the dishes that you and xiao Kai like to eat.”

       Li Zhenruo had been standing by the door and did not follow him. He saw that Li Jianglin and his three brothers were all sitting down on the sofa.

       Li Jianglin slowly wiped his face with a towel and then his hands then took a sip of tea from the teacup. He raised his head and asked Li Zhentai, “Where’s xiao Chun?”

       Li Zhentai replied, “Wen Chun has an important meeting today. She said she will come over after the meeting and have dinner together in the evening.”

       Li Jianglin nodded.

       Li Zhenzi said, “Dad, your body looks much better.”

       Li Jianglin replied, “The air is better over there, and I feel more comfortable after staying there for a long time.”

       Li Zhenruo was listening intently to what they were talking about, when he suddenly felt a heavy pressure on his tail, he jumped up and howled suddenly.

       All the people in the room shifted their attention to him.

       Li Zhenruo turned around only to realized that it was actually Zhu Kai who unknowingly walked behind him and stepped on his tail.

       Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Zhu Kai quickly raised his hand and said, “I didn’t do it on purpose. I don’t know why there is an extra cat in the house?”

       Li Zhenruo was trampled and hurt, a little angry and a little aggrieved. He felt that Zhu Kai was probably doing it on purpose because he was such a character who desired to see the world be plunged into chaos. However, as Li Jianglin was present at this time, he couldn’t jump up and scratch Zhu Kai’s face. So he could only stare at him, his tail wrapped around his body, hugging and licking it.

       At this time, Li Zhenran said, “Dumpling, come here.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment, seeing Li Zhenran extending his hand towards him, although hesitant, he ran towards him, jumped on his lap and sat down.

       Li Zhenran gently rubbed his tail for him.

       Li Jianglin glanced at them and said nothing.

       On the other hand, Zhu Kai walked slowly behind the sofa, resting his arms on the back of the sofa chair, and said to Li Zhenran, “Zhenran, that’s your cat?”

       Li Zhenran said “Um”.

       Zhu Kai put one hand on his face, looking very interested, “This cat is quite interesting, it listened to you.”

       Li Jianglin interrupted their conversation and asked Li Zhenran, “Did you just come back from Qijiang?”

       Li Zhenran rubbed Li Zhenruo’s tail and replied, “Yes.”

       Li Jianglin said, “How is the situation, tell me about it.”

       As he heard that their conversation had turned to something boring, Zhu Kai was no longer interested and headed outside to play with his dog.

       At five o’clock in the afternoon, Wen Chun finally arrived late. She apologized to Li Jianglin and said, “I’m sorry, Uncle Li, I really can’t leave this meeting in the afternoon, otherwise I would have picked you up with Zhentai. “

       Li Jianglin’s attitude towards her was much gentler than that of his sons. He smiled and held her hand and said, “It doesn’t matter, work is important.”

       Now that Wen Chun has arrived, Wang Ma started serving dinner.

       Li Jianglin was naturally seated in the main seat, while the others’ seating position was as they wished. But today Li Zhenran didn’t bring Li Zhenruo to the table, after all, it was too unruly.

       However, Li Zhenruo’s treatment was still much better than that of Erhuang. At least he could stay in the dining room to eat, while Erhuang could only settle his dinner in the yard.

       After sitting down, Zhu Kai complained, “How come cats can enter the house, but dogs can’t?”

       It was Li Jianglin’s request that Erhuang not enter the house. He told Zhu Kai that if he couldn’t do it, he would not be allowed to keep the dog.

       Li Zhenruo got nervous when he heard this, afraid that they would drive him away, but Li Jianglin just said coldly to Zhu Kai, “If you don’t like it, just take your bowl and accompany it outside!”

       Zhu Kai bit his chopsticks and stopped talking.

       The whole family sat down to dinner in harmony. The father was kind and the son was filial, and the brothers were respectful to one another, but no one seemed to remember that there was once a Li Zhenruo in this family. No one mentioned him from beginning to end.

       Li Zhenruo chewed two pieces of cat food and felt it was a little hard to swallow. He was thinking that after a long time, he was afraid that his existence would be gradually forgotten.

       After he ate some things, he felt that he lost his appetite, and quietly dragged his tail to Li Zhenran and sat down under the chair.

       Li Zhenran had been eating dinner gracefully and slowly, but at this time, he secretly took off his slippers and touched Li Zhenruo’s head with his bare feet.

       Li Zhenruo hugged his feet, leaned in and nibbled at his toes lightly, and then quickly spit out, Blergh, what was he thinking?

       Li Jianglin drank a little wine and his face turned slightly red. He put down the glass and suddenly said to Wen Chun, “I called your father before I came back.”

       “Oh?” Wen Chun quickly put down her chopsticks and asked with a smile, “What did you guys talk about?”

       Li Jianglin said, “We were talking of your marriage with the eldest, we decided to choose a good date next month to hold the wedding.”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly raised his head, but unfortunately, he shrunk under the chair, unable to see Wen Chun’s expression.

       He could only listen to Wen Chun’s voice in a calm tone. She said, “Why are you in such a hurry?”

       Li Jianglin said, “It’s no rush, the last time Zhentai came over, I mentioned this to him, but it seems that he didn’t care about it. I came back this time to help you with this matter.”

       Wen Chun didn’t speak. She glanced at Li Zhentai, lowered her head and took a small sip of soup.

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Notes:
I thought I could update more (*/益＼*)
RL works suddenly hit me harder than last week and I still have to figure out how to change something in the site, ehe
I’ll try to update more chaps today since it’s Sunday~

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