Category: Revenge of the Garfield (Page 8 of 10)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       After Hua Yibang warned him repeatedly, he left first.

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

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

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

       No one responded.

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran nodded.

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

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

       Li Zhenruo strangely asked, “What?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       He was tongue-kissing Li Zhenran!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran didn’t respond.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo guessed that Hua Yibang was thoroughly confused.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       At this time, Li Zhenran suddenly came in.

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

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

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

       There was some sadness and anger and some sorrow.

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

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

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       Li Tuanzi followed Li Zhenran to the airport.

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran surprisingly asked, “Who?”

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

       They were accompanied by Hua Yibang.

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

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

       Li Zhenruo replied bitterly, “Yes.”

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

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

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

         It was already dark.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran looked at him with cold eyes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Could it be Li Zhenran was actually a female cat?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       The next morning, they drove to Qijiang.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo was speechless because of his strange possessiveness.

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

       Li Zhenruo looked at him in surprise.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       “I don’t know,” he said.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo came over to find an acquaintance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Wu Hong’s expression changed suddenly.

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

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

       He glanced left and right in panic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Wu Hong’s expression was obviously shaken.

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

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

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

       Wu Hong’s expression was very troubled.

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

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

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

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

       Yue Zijia and Li Zhenzi.

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

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

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

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

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

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

       “Where are you?” Li Zhenran said.

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

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

       “Airport?” Li Zhenruo was stunned.

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

       “But—”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The author has something to say:

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

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

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TL: Hoenimochi
TLC: Hoenibean

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo said, “Where are you now?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       After he finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

       Afterwards, Li Zhenruo sent a text message to Li Zhentai’s phone on his mobile phone: “I have a picture of your wife, please contact me if you are interested.”

       After he sent it, he didn’t wait for a reply. He tore out the phone card, broke it into two pieces and threw it away.

       It would be too irrational to think that Li Zhenzi had something with Wen Chun just based on the perfume smell on Li Zhenzi’s body. But now whether he had something with Wen Chun or not, Li Zhenruo felt that he should muddy the water within the Li family first. When the water got muddy, what everyone wished to conceal would be exposed, emerging little by little.

       Li Zhenruo put the original phone card back, turned around and walked towards the neighbourhood. He found an aunt on the side of the road to ask for directions and walked into a small alley in the direction pointed by the other party.

       This address was the past address of Li Zhenruo’s biological mother.

       Li Zhenruo was very persistent about matters relating to his mother for a long time, that is, when he was still young and unable to control his own life.

       He remembered one time when he was wronged because of something, he cried and told Li Jianglin that he was looking for his mother and that he planned to run away from home. As a result, Li Jianglin became even angrier and he was punished to kneel for half a day.

       Zhu Kai secretly brought him dinner that day.

       Later, when he had the ability to find his mother’s whereabouts, he was no longer so persistent anymore. He was no longer a child who needed a mother, but a man who had other goals to pursue.

       However, he still asked someone to help him find the whereabouts of his mother. But he only got one address, because his mother had been dead for many years and this address was where his mother used to live until she died.

       It was obvious that they were in the same city, so close to each other, but she never had the thought to see him.

       Li Zhenruo, who got this address, had never been there before. He felt that it was meaningless.

       This time, he came over not because of his previous obsession with his mother, but because he wanted to find some clues, such as how his mother and Li Jianglin met back then and why his mother would be pregnant with someone else’s child and lied to be with Li Jianglin. This secret has been buried for so many years and the party involved has died. Who was the one who dug it out?

       Li Zhenruo wanted to know a lot of things but he never thought about finding his biological father. If Li Jianglin was not his father, then a father was someone non-existent to him.

       This building has been around for a long time. It was hidden behind the high-rise buildings in the city. It would be difficult for Li Zhenruo to find it unless someone showed him the way.

       Perhaps faced with demolition, many residents of the building had moved away, and now there were less than half of the original residents left.

       Li Zhenruo’s body and identity changed, which brought him a lot of benefits. At least he didn’t need to cover up what he did and no one would suspect his identity.

       He followed the room number written in the address and climbed the stairs to the fifth floor. He walked to the room on the far left, raised his hand and knocked on the door.

       He tried knocking four or five times repeatedly, but no one came to open the door for him. Instead, he knocked on the next room.

       It was a man in his fifties who opened the door. He looked him up and down, and said, “Did you knock wrongly?”

       Li Zhenruo asked politely, “Is there no one home?”

       The man said, “No one has been there since more than ten years ago.”

       Li Zhenruo asked him, “Excuse me, may I ask if a lady named Zhao Yuqiong living here?”

       Hearing this, the man frowned slightly and said, “I don’t know. There used to be a woman in the house. No one has lived there since she disappeared more than ten years ago.”

       Li Zhenruo regretted not coming out with a pack of cigarettes. At any rate, it was convenient to have a few words with the other party after handing them a cigarette. He could only say, “I’m really sorry to bother you, but how long have you lived here?”

       The man said, “Twenty or thirty years.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Then you must know when the lady who lives in this house moved in?”

       The man recalled it carefully and said, “It seems that she moved here more than 20 years ago. She was alone when she moved in. After a few months, her belly became bigger.”

       Li Zhenruo asked quickly, “Have you ever seen a man with her?”

       The man shook his head, “I haven’t seen another person with her before, and this woman also didn’t move in with anyone. Later, I didn’t know when she went to give birth to the child. Anyway, her stomach deflated, but the child was not brought back.”

       Li Zhenruo put his palm on the door, “Did anyone live here later? Does the house belong to her?”

       The man still shook his head, “I don’t know. I don’t know where she went. Anyway, one day I suddenly didn’t see her, and no one lived there anymore.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but ask, “Then her remnants…”

       At this moment, a woman’s voice came from behind the man, calling him, “Who is that? You’ve been talking for a long time!”

       The man said, “It’s nothing,” and then before Li Zhenruo finished asking, he hurriedly said, “I don’t know.” He closed the door hard.

       Li Zhenruo did not leave immediately.

       At this point, he was in a different state of mind than when he first learned of his mother’s death. Although he was not Li Jianglin’s biological son, it was a bit too ruthless for Li Jianglin to let his mistress be so lonely until she died of illness.

       The wooden door in front of him was mottled, and Li Zhenruo felt a burst of sadness. He took a deep breath and then turned to leave.

       He had an idea and hoped to find someone to pry open the door so he could go inside to take a look. He wondered if he could find Zhao Yuqiong’s remnants.

       Zhao Yuqiong died in the hospital more than ten years ago. It was said that she broke off relations with her family long ago and it was Li Jianglin who handled the funeral for her.

       She has been dead for more than ten years. If the house was originally registered in Zhao Yuqiong’s name, after her death, Li Zhenruo should’ve inherited it. But at that time Li Zhenruo was too young. He didn’t even know who his mother was, let alone knew that such a house existed. After a long time, when he was able to find someone to check his mother’s identity, he found that the house had been registered under Li Jianglin’s name.

       Li Jianglin certainly didn’t look after such a house. According to what the neighbour’s family said, maybe Zhao Yuqiong went to the hospital at the time, but she didn’t expect to never return. So was it possible that no one has touched anything in this house until now?

       Li Zhenruo walked downstairs and thought that this matter can’t be rushed. He has to take one step at a time. Now what he feared most was that his every move would arouse Li Zhenran’s suspicion.

       If Li Zhenran suspected him, he probably wouldn’t be able to go back to Li’s house. Well, this was just one of the reasons. More importantly, he didn’t want Li Zhenran to suspect him.

       Just as he went downstairs, Li Zhenruo’s cell phone rang.

       Li Zhenran’s meeting was over, and he asked him, “Where are you?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I’m looking for my mother.”

       Li Zhenran asked him, “Have you found her?”

       Li Zhenruo replied, “No, I seem to have misremembered the address of the pet store. I have to check it again.”

       Li Zhenran said, “After you find her, take a picture for me to see.”

       “…” Li Zhenruo gritted his teeth and said, “Okay!”

       Because of Li Zhenran’s sudden request, Li Zhenruo had no choice but to go to the pet store to find his cat mother. When he left that time, Yu’s mother put him in a cage and took a taxi back. Right now Li Zhenruo didn’t know the exact address. He only vaguely remembers the name of the pet shop and searched the Internet on his mobile phone.

       He went to eat Thai hot pot alone at noon.

       Although the people around him, including the waiter, cast strange stares at him intentionally or unintentionally, he didn’t care. This sour and spicy taste really suits his tastebuds.

       After lunch, Li Zhenruo took a taxi, showed the driver the address of the pet shop he found and asked the driver to take him there.

       Li Zhenruo found that it was indeed a happy thing to find a rich and generous owner. He was used to living a good life since he was a child, and he didn’t want to feel bad at all when it came to food and clothing expenses.

       The driver sent him to the address. When he got off the bus, Li Zhenruo took a look at his surroundings and found that he was right. This was the pet shop where he was born.

       There was a large cage in front of the pet store, and several small Samoyeds were basking in the sun.

       He walked in like a customer. The boss greeted him and lowered his head to shave a teddy¹a dog breed.

       Li Zhenruo found the pet cage he was born in that was now replaced by a litter of British shorthairs. He looked around and found the mother cat in a small pet cage in the corner.

       The female cat was sleeping on her stomach at first. He didn’t know whether it was because she heard the movement or smelled the scent, but she suddenly opened her eyes and raised her head.

       Li Zhenruo was a little excited for no reason, he put his face close to the cage and looked inside.

       His mother cat suddenly stood up, leaned close to the cage and stared at him.

       Li Zhenruo felt that the other party probably recognized him.

       The mother cat stretched out a paw from the gap in the cage, and Li Zhenruo lowered his head and asked her to touch the top of his head with her paw. She probably really wanted to get closer to Li Zhenruo, but unfortunately, she was blocked by the cage and couldn’t get out.

       Li Zhenruo stretched out his fingers and stroked the top of her head with difficulty. At this time, he remembered Li Zhenran’s request and took out his mobile phone to take two pictures of her.

       At that moment, Li Zhenruo really wanted to buy her, take her home and forget about it.

       But even if he brought her back, Li Zhenran would definitely not agree to keep one more cat. Li Zhenruo himself didn’t know what to do in the future, how could he afford the life of another cat? It’s better to let her eat and drink here and sleep idly every day.

       Before leaving, Li Zhenruo kissed the mother cat’s nose and said silently, “Goodbye, I’ll come back to see you later.”

       He thought that if one day he had the ability to, he would take the mother cat back to retire.

       Li Zhenruo got home before five o’clock in the afternoon.

       Before returning, he saw a long queue outside a small shop selling pastries outside the pet store, so he also ran to the line to buy a bag of mung bean cakes.

       Of course, Li Zhenran couldn’t have come back so early. It was almost seven o’clock in the evening when he came back.

       Li Zhenruo was a little hungry, so he ate two mung bean cakes to fill his stomach.

       When Li Zhenran came back, he saw Li Zhenruo lying comfortably and leisurely on the big lounge chair on the balcony.

       His cat was always lying on his stomach lazily, and never came to greet the owner when he got home, but sometimes he was obedient like a pet dog and followed him every step of the way.

       Li Zhenran walked to the balcony, bent down and fiddled with Li Zhenruo’s hair.

       Li Zhenruo opened his eyes, “You’re back?”

       He moved to the side. The reclining chair was large enough for two big men to lie down side by side, so Li Zhenran sat down beside him.

       Li Zhenruo wanted to be a good pet. He reached out and picked up the mung bean cake from the side and took the initiative to feed it to Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran glanced at him, opened his mouth and bit the mung bean cake.

       Seeing him take a bite, Li Zhenruo asked, “Is it delicious? I’ve waited in line for more than 20 minutes.”

       Li Zhenran said, “It’s good.”

       Li Zhenruo continued to feed him until Li Zhenran had eaten the whole thing. Li Zhenruo saw that some crumbs had fallen off the front of his shirt and reached out to help him brush it off.

       It was almost summer, the weather was getting hotter day by day. Li Zhenruo was wearing a pair of thin trousers and when his legs were pressed to Li Zhenran’s legs, he could clearly feel the heat of the other person’s body.

       It didn’t seem right to be so close like this, but there seemed to be nothing wrong with it.

       However, once it was quiet, Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that the other party’s breath was very obvious. He could hear Li Zhenran’s slight breathing and could see his chest rise and fall slightly. The presence of the other party suddenly became too strong, making Li Zhenruo a little uncomfortable.

       He had hot pot for dinner last night, so today’s dinner was Chinese food. Li Zhenran rejected Li Zhenruo’s proposal for Japanese cuisine again.

       It was in an exquisite small private restaurant. You have to make reservations by calling half a day in advance to get a place.

       Li Zhenruo followed Li Zhenran and knew that Li Zhenran should have planned this in advance.

       The environment here was very elegant. It was more like an elegant study room than a restaurant, with a bookshelf full of books around. Li Zhenruo was bored and couldn’t help but stand up and look over.

       It was a small single room for two people.

       The boss didn’t let you order your own food. He usually ate whatever dish was served, but Li Zhenran insisted on ordering comprehensive sashimi, which could be in order to satisfy Li Zhenruo’s desire to eat Japanese food.

       During the meal, Li Zhenruo showed Li Zhenran the photos taken by his mobile phone.

       Li Zhenran looked at the big cake-faced cat mother in the photo and said, “It looks exactly like you.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Well, I think so too.”

       His colour and facial features were very close to the mother cat, and he was considered to be the best in that litter of kittens.

       Li Zhenran asked him, “Where’s your father?”

       Li Zhenruo took the chopsticks and stabbed the sashimi, “How would I know, it must be a breeding cat.”

       After all, Zhao Yuqiong was still Li Jianglin’s mistress in name. His cat mother and cat father were probably a momentary fling, and when their physical needs are met, they would no longer meet.

       Looking at the photo, Li Zhenran seemed a little regretful, “It’s a pity that I didn’t take a photo of you, when will you be able to change back?”

       Li Zhenruo raised his eyelids to look at him and cursed in his heart: Die, cat fetishist!

       They talked and ate. When almost two-thirds of the dishes were finished, the private room door was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

       Li Zhenruo turned to look and saw that the woman standing at the door turned out to be Yue Zijia.

       Yue Zijia was wearing a small white dress with exquisite makeup. She seemed to be stunned for a moment. She took a step back to look at the door sign and said, “I’m sorry, I made a mistake.”

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       In any case, he was locked up and couldn’t get out, so Li Zhenruo stayed at ease.

       He walked around Li Zhenran’s house and thought that Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi were really different. Li Zhenzi’s house outside was probably used to keep women, but Li Zhenran’s place was clean and it looked like no one has lived there for a long time. It looked like someone has been hired to clean it on a regular basis.

       Li Zhenruo walked to the bathroom, and filled the bathtub with warm water, with the intention to take a bath.

       Today, he had been sitting in the car for a long time and had tossed a lot last night, so he still feel a little tired.

       Li Zhenruo took off his clothes and lay down in the bathtub, closing his eyes comfortably.

       This body was not his past body, but compared to the cat’s body, it was much easier to use. At least he can pick up things with his hands instead of poking around with his paws.

       After he soaked in the water for a long time, Li Zhenruo felt a little hot. He couldn’t help moving his legs and felt an impulse suddenly appear from the bottom to the top. He was stunned. After a while, Li Zhenruo reached out and touched his lower body.

       To be honest, he hasn’t done this kind of thing for a long time. Almost since he knew that he might not be Li Jianglin’s own son, he has been under a lot of pressure at that time, and he didn’t have the heart to think about it at all. Later, he became a little kitten and has not even thought about this.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help to sigh when he suddenly felt a sensation in his body today. He also hadn’t touched a woman for a long, long time.

       When he got out of the bathtub, Li Zhenruo felt somewhat exhausted. He ignored the clothes he had just taken off and went straight to Li Zhenran’s room. He opened the wardrobe and found a set of Li Zhenran’s clothes.

       Li Zhenran was taller than him. In fact, Li Zhenruo used to be taller than he was now. Every time Li Zhenruo looked in the mirror, he felt that he looked like he was not yet an adult. He thought that he was a half-year-old kitten that had just matured, so it was understandable this was the form when he turned into human.

       But where did the pie face go?

       Li Zhenruo pinched his face.

       It took almost two hours for Li Zhenran to came back from Li’s house. When he entered the door, Li Zhenruo was lying on the sofa watching TV.

       He was really lying on his stomach, probably because he was used to this position. He didn’t sit or lie down. He just lay on the sofa and raised his body slightly with his elbows.

       Li Zhenran picked up a box and put it next to the sofa.

       Li Zhenruo turned to look and asked, “How long are you going to stay here?”

       As he walked into the room, Li Zhenran said, “We will go back if you change back to your original form.”

       Li Zhenruo was speechless for a while, thinking that if he couldn’t become a cat again, Li Zhenran would probably go crazy.

       “Are we going out for dinner?” Li Zhenruo asked him when Li Zhenran came out of the room.

       Li Zhenran was rolling up his sleeves and asked him, “What do you want to eat?”

       You see, Li Zhenruo has been hungry for a lot of food after eating cat food for so long. God knows there were so many delicious foods in this world, but why couldn’t cats eat them?

       Li Zhenruo started making a list in his head and said, “Let’s eat Japanese food today.”

       Li Zhenran refused without thinking, “No.”

       “…” Li Zhenruo looked at him fiercely, “Thai-style hot pot?”

       “No.”

       Li Zhenruo’s chest began to rise and fall even more, “French cuisine?”

       Li Zhenran said directly this time, “There is a Chinese restaurant outside that tastes good. Otherwise, a Sichuan hot pot is not bad. You can choose it yourself.”

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath and said, “Sichuan hot pot.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Get up.”

       Before going out, Li Zhenruo pointed to the collar on his neck, “Can I take it off?”

       Li Zhenran said, “No.”

       Li Zhenruo said in his heart, Are you not afraid of any strange misunderstandings caused by others seeing it?! But on second thought, The second young master Li was not afraid, so what was he afraid of, so he calmly followed Li Zhenran out.

       Li Zhenran walked in front. While waiting for the elevator, Li Zhenruo looked at Li Zhenran’s back and had a strange feeling. How to describe it? Although this was his second brother, they seemed to rarely have the opportunity to walk alone together like this. The impression of Li Zhenran was even more distinctive when he has become a cat.

       As a cat, he was too small. When he was so close, even if he raised his head, he could only see Li Zhenran’s legs, but not the back of his neck. The current experience was a little new.

       When the elevator was about to arrive, Li Zhenran suddenly turned around to look at him, and then stretched out his hand towards his neck.

       Li Zhenruo: “?”

       However, Li Zhenran just helped him tidy up the front of his clothes, just like tidying up the hair on the top of his cat’s head.

       Li Zhenruo bowed his head slightly, and when Li Zhenran’s hand left, his fingers brushed against his cheek. Li Zhenruo was slightly startled by the touch, and he couldn’t help raising his hand to touch the skin on his face.

       At this moment, the elevator door opened, and two people walked in one after the other.

       Li Zhenran was awfully selfish.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t seem to feel it before, but it was only after he became his cat that he felt it deeply. Because he was his cat, he was his property, and he must obey him.

       Li Zhenran took the menu and ordered more than ten dishes, and threw the menu to Li Zhenruo for him to see.

       Li Zhenruo glanced at it and said, “Can you finish the meal if you order so much?”

       Li Zhenran actually said, “Then you don’t order.”

       Li Zhenruo did not bother to pay attention to him. He ordered a few more dishes that he liked, and handed the menu to the waiter.

       Even if they were just eating hot pot, Li Zhenran also found a hot pot restaurant with luxurious decoration and a quiet environment. The two of them sat in the small private room facing each other.

       After he ordered, Li Zhenran ignored him and leaned back on the back of the wooden chair, holding a mobile phone in one hand while watching the stock market, while the other hand held up the cup on the table and slowly drank the tea.

       Li Zhenruo, on the other hand, picked up his chopsticks and tapped them on the table casually.

       After a while, Li Zhenran glanced at him, “It’s noisy.”

       Li Zhenruo paused for a moment and intensified his efforts by separating the two chopsticks and pounding on the tabletop bowl and teacup.

       Li Zhenran looked at him coldly.

       Li Zhenruo stopped, picked up a chopstick and put it to his mouth and bit it. He was unable to restrain the corner of his mouth from turning up slightly. He liked to annoy Li Zhenran, and Li Zhenran always went along with him.

       He was more afraid of Li Zhenran when he was a cat because he could do nothing to Li Zhenran, but now he was not so afraid. After all, every part of him was so big, and except for the time he slipped away, more often than not Li Zhenran’s anger was not too severe.

       Li Zhenran ordered a lot of dishes, but after the dishes were served, he didn’t eat much.

       “Why don’t you eat?” Li Zhenruo could also see that he didn’t eat much.

       Li Zhenran didn’t answer, just said, “You eat faster.”

       Li Zhenruo ignored him and said, “We’re eating a hot pot yet you also urging me to hurry up.”

       After a while, Li Zhenruo discovered that Li Zhenran had to take a cup to drink water every time he took a bite of the dish. He even directly let the waiter bring in a pot of tea, and immediately understood that Li Zhenran couldn’t eat spicy food.

       They have been brothers for more than 20 years, but this was the first time Li Zhenruo has discovered that Li Zhenran couldn’t eat spicy food.

       He thought back carefully, Li Zhenran didn’t seem to like many of the dishes he liked to eat. Li Zhenran ate light food just to nourish himself, which Li Zhenruo used to disapprove of.

       As long as there was a distance in your heart, even if you met every day, you would refuse to understand each other.

       At this time, Li Zhenran suddenly said, “What are you looking at me for?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “It’s just, you are handsome.”

       Li Zhenran snorted and did not continue.

       After they ate, Li Zhenruo stood on the side of the road and stretched his arms, breathing in the night air deeply.

       Li Zhenran stood beside him with his hands in his pockets. When he saw that Li Zhenruo was smiling while looking at the sky, he asked strangely, “What are you smiling at?”

       Li Zhenruo lowered his head, but the smile on the corner of his mouth still remained on his face, he said, “I don’t know, I just didn’t expect that there would be such a day. I cherish it very much.”

       He had a lot since he was a child, and then one day he lost all of it, including his life. What encouraged him these days was not only revenge but also the idea of ​​​​living properly.

       Of course, the hatred had not been forgotten, but Li Zhenruo sometimes thought about what’s the point of hating blindly. If one were to live happily, while at the same time also letting the other party live in misery, that would be the biggest blow.

       If you have lost, you wouldn’t be afraid of anything. Now he has a big house to live in, good food to eat, and an older brother as a bonus, which was actually quite good.

       “Second brother,” Li Zhenruo blurted out.

       Li Zhenran frowned slightly, “What?”

       Li Zhenruo reacted quickly and immediately said, “What what?”

       Li Zhenran said, “What did you call me just now?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Ran ge.” In fact, there was some drumming in his heart, but it couldn’t be seen on his face.

       Li Zhenran raised his chin slightly to look at him, “I heard you call me second brother.”

       Li Zhenruo had a strange expression on his face, “Where did the second brother come from? How old are you? Your ears just don’t work anymore, huh?”

       Li Zhenran’s face turned cold as expected.

       However, Li Zhenruo was not afraid of him, so he took his arm and walked forward, “Let’s go home first.”

       Back home, Li Zhenran went to the bathroom to take a bath. But Li Zhenruo planned to wait for Li Zhenran to finish taking a bath because he took a bath in the afternoon. He had already taken a shower and he was still fine.

       When Li Zhenran was taking a shower, Li Zhenruo moved a stool and sat at the door of the bathroom. He was cutting his toenails while talking to Li Zhenran, he said, “Can I go out tomorrow?”

       Li Zhenran raised his head and seemed to be drowsy. As he heard the words, he asked, “Where are you going?”

       Li Zhenruo casually babbled, “I want to find my mother.”

       “Your mother?”

       Li Zhenruo raised his head and made up something, “Mama cat, she should still be in the pet store.”

       Li Zhenran was speechless for a while, then asked him, “What for?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “You don’t miss your mother?”

       After he asked this sentence, Li Zhenruo suddenly felt a little regretful and stopped cutting his toenails. Just like him, Li Zhenran probably hadn’t seen his mother very much.

       Sure enough, Li Zhenran was silent for a while, and then said, “I don’t have a mother.”

       Li Zhenruo tilted his head back, leaned against the wall, and said silently in his heart: Neither do I.

       Li Zhenran only said that sentence. Instead of continuing to talk about himself, he asked Li Zhenruo, “What can you do when you see your mother? Are you going to buy it?”

       Li Zhenruo said quickly, “Not going to buy her. She is used to living there, so she may not like it when she got bought.”

       Li Zhenran asked at this time, “Can you communicate with each other?”

       Li Zhenruo was slightly stunned. He turned his head towards the bathroom door and asked, “What kind of communication?”

       Li Zhenran said, “Just like we communicate, using words.”

       Li Zhenruo thought about it for a while, “We can communicate, but it’s not a language. More precisely, it would be like a signal. You’ll understand what her cry and action mean over time”

       Li Zhenran didn’t speak.

       Li Zhenruo then asked him, “Would you like to go with me?”

       Li Zhenran bluntly refused, “I don’t have time.”

       Li Zhenruo knew that he would not go, so he deliberately asked him a question, but he did not expect to hear Li Zhenran say, “You also don’t go too.”

       “Huh?” Li Zhenruo was immediately unhappy, “Why?”

       Li Zhenran said, “There is no reason.”

       After Li Zhenruo came out of the shower, Li Zhenran was already lying on the bed in the bedroom watching TV.

       His hair was still wet, and he was wearing a pair of new underwear that Li Zhenran gave him. He walked over and sat down by the bed, shouting, “Ran ge…”

       Li Zhenran ignored him.

       Li Zhenruo called out again, “Master…”

       Li Zhenran looked at him this time.

       He knew that Li Zhenran would yield to a soft approach and refused a brute approach. Li Zhenruo leaned over and said, “Are you tired? I’ll help you massage your shoulders.”

       Li Zhenran lay down and didn’t get up, but only lifted his legs.

       Li Zhenruo silently cursed, but he obediently went over and knelt down beside Li Zhenran’s leg to help him massage his leg.

       Li Zhenran’s legs were slender and strong, and his muscles were strong. As he saw Li Zhenruo sit over, he raised one leg and placed it on Li Zhenruo’s thigh.

       While Li Zhenruo was helping him massage his leg, he thought to himself that Li Zhenran’s mother must be a great beauty, to be able to give birth to such a son.

       Li Zhenran tilted his head back and suddenly said, “It seems that a human can still do more than cats.”

       Li Zhenruo thought he wasn’t talking nonsensically. He raised his head and asked Li Zhenran with a smile, “Then how about I stay like this?”

       Li Zhenran replied coldly, “Not good.”

       Li Zhenruo thought to himself: What a pervert.

       After he finished massaging Li Zhenran’s legs, Li Zhenran seemed to feel comfortable. He turned over on the bed for Li Zhenruo to massage his shoulders.

       Li Zhenshou got on top of his back and massaged the muscles on his shoulders with both hands.

       Li Zhenran’s body was slender and well-proportioned, and the skin on his back was full of healthy lustre. Li Zhenruo only felt that the touch under his hand was smooth and delicate. As he massaged him, his imagination was roaming.

       When he came back to his senses, his breathing was a little short.

       And Li Zhenran said coldly, “Get up.”

       Li Zhenruo and Li Zhenran were too close to each other. He knew that Li Zhenran noticed his physical condition, and he couldn’t help feeling a little embarrassed. He lifted his legs and got off Li Zhenran’s back and sat aside.

       Li Zhenran turned over and said, “Who gave you permission to be in heat with your master?”

       Li Zhenruo grunted, “I was originally in rutting period…”

       Li Zhenran snorted, “I asked you to have surgery, but you refused to do it.”

       Li Zhenruo, “…”

       Li Zhenran said, “Go to the bathroom and take care of it yourself.”

       Li Zhenruo had just gotten out of bed when Li Zhenran suddenly stopped him.

       “What?” Li Zhenruo wondered.

       Li Zhenran opened the drawer of the bedside table, took out a spare key and threw it to him, saying, “You must come back before five o’clock in the afternoon.”

       Li Zhenruo caught it and said with a smile, “No problem.”

       The next morning, when Li Zhenruo was sleeping beside Li Zhenran’s bed, he was woken up by a doorbell. He heard that Li Zhenran also turned over, and thought that Li Zhenran was going to ask him to get up and open the door, but he didn’t expect Li Zhenran to sit up, walk around him and get out of bed.

       Li Zhenruo yawned and sat up. He didn’t like to stay in bed as much as Li Zhenran. Then he heard Li Zhenran open the door, and then came the voice of someone talking.

       The person who came over in the morning was Hua Yibang.

       Because Li Zhenran’s house was too open, Hua Yibang walked in and saw a young man in Li Zhenran’s room through the gap of the partitioned wine cabinet.

       Hua Yibang who was such a calm person suddenly lost his voice. He stretched out his hand and pushed his glasses to look at Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran didn’t want to explain, and asked Hua Yibang, “Did you bring the things?”

       Hua Yibang took a small bag and handed it to Li Zhenran, which contained a new mobile phone and a SIM card.

       Li Zhenran put the card in the mobile phone, walked to the bedroom and handed it to Li Zhenruo, “Take it. Remember to answer when I call.”

       “Oh,” Li Zhenruo obediently agreed.

       Hua Yibang tried his best not to look sideways, but when Li Zhenruo stood up from the bed, he still saw what looked like a cat collar around his neck.

       Moreover, he knew this cat collar. It was the collar he helped Li Zhenran custom-made it before.

       Although it was not convenient for him to ask the identity of the man in the room, he could ask other questions, such as, “Zhenran, where is your cat?”

       Li Zhenran said, “That’s my cat.”

       Hua Yibang clenched his hands into a fist against his lips and coughed softly. He and Li Zhenran almost grew up together, but he never knew that Li Zhenran had that kind of hobby. As his assistant, Hua Yibang felt that he could not interfere, so he stay silent.

       Li Zhenran was going back to the company for a regular meeting in the morning, and didn’t have time to eat breakfast. Before he left, he threw a secondary credit card to Li Zhenruo and told him to eat by himself.

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly said, “Give me some change. I can’t swipe my card and take the bus, can I?”

       Li Zhenran then gave him another 2,000 yuan in cash.

       After Li Zhenran and Hua Yibang left, Li Zhenruo got up and washed quickly. He found a set of Li Zhenran’s clothes to put on and went out.

       He bought two buns for breakfast. After he ate, Li Zhenruo bought a new SIM card at a nearby canteen and put it in his pocket.

       He stretched out his hand to take a taxi. After he got in the car, he gave the driver an address.

       The address was not too far from here, but there was some traffic jam on Monday morning, and the driver drove for nearly an hour to arrive.

       Li Zhenruo paid the money to get out of the car and stood alone in front of a secluded lawn on the street.

       He glanced at the time and knew that Li Zhenran had already started the regular work meeting on Monday morning, so he took off the SIM card on his mobile phone and replaced it with a newly bought one.

       He made a phone call according to his memory.

       The phone beeped several times, and a young man over there answered the phone. His tone was not very nice, and he said lazily, “Hello? Who is it?”

       Li Zhenruo said slowly, “Zhu Kai, this is Li Zhenruo.”

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       Li Zhenruo’s mind was still somewhat a bit complicated.

       Whether Li Zhenran believed him or not, he didn’t care. He believed that he survived because God gave him the opportunity to take revenge. And so he had to take revenge.

       It’s just that last night, Li Zhenran mentioned a possibility that he could not help thinking about it for a long time. That was, if he thought that the physical change caused by the rut has made him become a human being, was it possible to change back after the rut period ended, and so did he need to wait until the next heat period to come to change back to a human?

       This thought made Li Zhenruo a little nervous.

       He still has a lot of things to do, should he waste time by staying on Li Zhenran’s side? But when he was thinking of ​​leaving, he began to hesitate again. If he left, would Li Zhenran still accept him once he changed back to a cat?

       Li Zhenruo were a little helpless. He always thought too much and kept himself stuck in place.

       He stood in front of the mirror and looked at himself. He was guessing how old the person inside was. Was he twenty? This person looked really young.

       Li Zhenran became impatient at this moment, came over and knocked on the bathroom door, “Are you finished?”

       Li Zhenruo quickly wiped his face with a towel, “I’m done.”

       He went back to the sofa and sat down, turned on the TV with the remote control and stared at it in a daze. Since he became a cat, he has been doing nothing for a long time every day, so he was used to being in a daze.

       Sometimes he stared at the garden on the first floor from the top floor and could stare at it all afternoon.

       When Li Zhenran came out of the bathroom, Li Zhenruo raised his head and said to him, “Can you give me a shirt to wear?”

       He was still wearing the bathrobe from last night. It was not like he could just wear it all day, right? And according to Li Zhenran’s plan, they should go back this afternoon.

       This time, Li Zhenran found a shirt and a pair of jeans for Li Zhenruo to put on.

       The shirt was fine, but the jeans were too long for him. So he had no choice but to roll up the trouser leg a length.

       Li Zhenran still asked Luo Fei to go fishing in the morning.

       When Li Zhenruo followed, Luo Fei raised his eyebrows in surprise, and asked Li Zhenran, “You brought a cat yesterday, but today it was replaced by a beautiful young man. What does it mean?”

       Li Zhenran said, “My cat has transformed.”

       The collar on Li Zhenruo’s neck was so eye-catching that Luo Fei and the others noticed it almost at once.

       Feng Junyuan looked at Li Zhenruo with a thoughtful look.

       Li Zhenran sat down on the deck chair and prepared his own fishing tools.

       Li Zhenruo found that he had no seat, so he asked Li Zhenran, “Where is my seat?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t even look at him, “Did you have a seat yesterday?”

       He knew that Li Zhenran couldn’t believe him at all and was deliberately making things difficult for him. Li Zhenruo didn’t bother to argue with him and simply sat down beside Li Zhenran’s legs.

       After a while, Li Zhenruo felt someone poking his back lightly. He turned his head and saw that it was Feng Junyuan.

       Feng Junyuan said to him, “Can I come over and have a word with you?”

       Before Li Zhenruo could answer, Li Zhenran’s eyes swept over first.

       As he saw this, Luo Fei smiled and said, “Don’t worry, xiao Feng won’t do anything to your cat. Let them go and exchange a few words.”

       Only then did Li Zhenran say, “Go ahead.”

       Li Zhenruo said to himself, I didn’t need your consent, but when he heard Li Zhenran say this, he still stood up, dusted off his hands, and left with Feng Junyuan.

       Li Zhenran glanced at the back of Li Zhenruo leaving.

       Luo Fei rested his head on one hand, leaned on the reclining chair, and said, “You are a little absent-minded today.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Don’t you think what I said just now is ridiculous? A cat can turn into a human?”

       When Luo Fei heard this, he laughed loudly, and said to Li Zhenran, “Do you know what I thought just now?”

       Li Zhenran looked at him.

       Luo Fei said, “What you said just now sounds like you brought a boy from somewhere to play with, but you were too lazy to make excuses. So you just said something nonsense.”

       Li Zhenran’s tone was serious, “What I said is true, I can’t find my cat anymore and Dumpling’s positioning collar is on his neck. The password has not been changed, but the collar’s size has changed.”

       Luo Fei pondered for a moment and said, “You mean you think what he said is true?”

       Li Zhenran lightly held the fishing rod with both hands, “I don’t believe anything he says. I only believe my own judgment, but I can’t explain the collar thing.”

       Luo Fei said to him, “I think what he said might be true.”

       Li Zhenran glanced at him and seemed to find it a little funny.

       “Zhenran,” Luo Fei said, “Just because you haven’t seen many things in this world doesn’t mean they didn’t happen and didn’t exist, do you understand?”

       Li Zhenran leaned forward slightly. He leaned his elbows on his knees, and pressed his slender fingers to his lips, “I agree that because I haven’t seen one that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. You say that there are demons, ghosts and gods in this world, and I think it’s possible. People should not be limited by their own poor imaginations. If my cat ran out and turned into a human but was willing to come back to me, I would be happier than if it just ran away and never came back. But what I want to know now is, if he is really Dumpling, and when will he be able to change back?”

       Luo Fei asked, “Why did he become like this?”

       Li Zhenran’s tone was not quite sure, “He said it might be because of the rut.”

       Luo Fei said with a smile, “I didn’t see him in heat.”

       Li Zhenran turned his head to look at Li Zhenruo, who was talking to Feng Junyuan, and said, “His pants are loose, right?”

       Luo Fei said, “I’m not an expert on this question, but I can ask xiao Feng to help you.”

       Li Zhenran was a little puzzled, “Is he a veterinarian?”

       Luo Fei quickly denied it, “Of course not, but he has a relative who is more familiar with this type of feline and can help you ask about it.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Help me ask about it. I’ll wait for your answer.”

       Luo Fei smiled and nodded.

       At this time, Feng Junyuan left a phone number to Li Zhenruo on a note, saying, “If you need any help, you can call this number. His name is Song Jun, and he is one of my kin.”

       “Your kin?” Li Zhenruo was a little puzzled.

       Feng Junyuan said, “My brother¹in here Feng Junyuan is not addressing Song Jun as gege(哥哥) but as xiōngdì(兄弟).”

       The word “brother” made Li Zhenruo feel a little uncomfortable. He couldn’t help but look back at Li Zhenran, and then asked Feng Junyuan, “Why do you think I need help?”

       Feng Junyuan said, “Why are you able to transform?”

       “?” Li Zhenruo didn’t understand what he meant.

       Feng Junyuan said, “Didn’t you just take human form last night?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him suspiciously, “Do you really believe what Li Zhenran said?”

       If it were him, he would definitely not believe it. He followed Li Zhenran out like this and looked more like Li Zhenran’s little lover who came to him. Then he made a random excuse for Li Zhenruo to evade Luo Fei and him.

       He didn’t expect Feng Junyuan to believe it.

       Feng Junyuan approached him and seemed to be sniffing him, “The scent is the same, you are yesterday’s Garfield.”

       Li Zhenruo held the note in his hand. His expression became more and more puzzled and serious, he asked Feng Junyuan in a low voice, “Are there demon in this world?”

       Feng Junyuan actually asked him back, “What do you think you are?”

       Li Zhenruo was actually very uncertain and uneasy because he didn’t know what he was. At this time, he felt that Feng Junyuan’s situation was probably not that simple, so he couldn’t help but ask him for help, “What I’m going to tell you, you must not tell Luo Fei, let alone let Li Zhenran know, okay?”

       Feng Junyuan nodded, “Okay.”

       Li Zhenruo said in a low voice, “I wasn’t originally a cat. I was a human who died in an accident and was then reborn as this kitten. Although I can’t speak in human languages, I have all human memories.”

       When Feng Junyuan heard him say this, he didn’t show any surprised expression at all. He said, “So that’s how it is.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him, “Why? I never thought I was a demon in the past.”

       Feng Junyuan suddenly stretched out his hand and pressed it against Li Zhenruo’s chest. After a while, he said, “You are not a demon, but this cat’s body is not simple. About what’s going on, I have no way to answer you.”

       Li Zhenruo thought that what he said was quite reasonable. Maybe it was the cat that belonged to a demon. But somehow he took over his body, and now he has the ability to turn into a human.

       There were still many doubts, so he asked Feng Junyuan, “That brother of yours can know exactly why?”

       Feng Junyuan said, “Maybe, I can help you to ask about it to him first, and if you need it, you can try to find him.”

       Although Li Zhenruo felt that it might not work, he was very grateful to Feng Junyuan for his willingness to lend a hand, so he said, “Thank you.”

       Feng Junyuan shook his head, and when he turned to leave, Li Zhenruo grabbed his arm.

       Li Zhenruo asked him, “Am I going to change back?”

       Feng Junyuan said, “Your aura is very unstable, and it is indeed very likely that you will change back.”

       Li Zhenruo instantly tensed up, “For how long?”

       Feng Junyuan shook his head silently, expressing that he did not know.

       Li Zhenruo had to let him go and said again, “Thank you.”

       It was already the weekend, and tomorrow Li Zhenran has to go back to work in the company, so it was impossible to stay in this villa for a limited time.

       During lunch, the manager found Li Zhenran, and apologized again and again, saying that he had asked many questions on the nearby mountains, and no one had seen a yellow-and-white Garfield cat. He really didn’t know where it went.

       The manager felt very uneasy and took the initiative to offer compensation to Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran said, “No need, just leave it alone if it ran away. You’ve done well.”

       When the manager left, he couldn’t help but glance at the collar on Li Zhenruo’s neck.

       In fact, everyone who saw Li Zhenruo today was looking at the collar on his neck quietly. The collar looked like some kind of impure toy, which symbolizes the abnormal relationship between him and Li Zhenran.

       At this point, Li Zhenruo could cut the collar with scissors, regardless of the code, but he didn’t do it. He didn’t want to provoke Li Zhenran.

       “Sometimes, when he thinks about it, Li Zhenran’s attitude is actually quite polite, but he calmed down and thought about it. He also wanted to make use of Li Zhenran. With his current status, if he wanted to step into the Li family again, he could only rely on Li Zhenran. So being scolded for a few words was nothing, it didn’t matter if he slept by the bedside, or if he has suffered all kinds of hardships. Now he has nothing to lose.

       When he went back, the driver was surprised to find that Mr Li the second who had brought a cat on vacation two days ago, returned with a beautiful young man with a cat collar on his neck today.

       The Li driver’s mind was going full speed ahead, and automatically filled in 10,000 words, but he didn’t dare to ask Li Zhenran a word.

       Just when Li Zhenruo’s daily utensils were loaded into the car, he couldn’t help but asked Li Zhenran, “Then, what about the cat?”

       Li Zhenran said, “He will go back by himself, don’t worry about that.”

       The driver was a little dazed and thought that this place was too far from the city. Even if the cat knew the way home, it wouldn’t be able to run back.

       But since Li Zhenran said so, he couldn’t care less, so he closed his mouth and got into the car to prepare to drive.

       Li Zhenran took Li Zhenruo to say goodbye to Luo Fei and the others. Luo Fei and Feng Junyuan also planned to leave at this time. However, Luo Fei drove by himself, and he only had a few things. He stopped by Li Zhenran for a while and left first after saying goodbye.

       Only then did Li Zhenruo follow Li Zhenran into the back seat.

       Not long after the driver drove the car out, Li Zhenruo pulled the collar around his neck and said to Li Zhenran, “Can you take it off?”

       Li Zhenran said coldly, “Why?”

       Li Zhenruo put his finger inside the collar, scratched his neck, and said, “It’s a little itchy after a long time, maybe I’m allergic.”

       Li Zhenran said, “Wear it, I still want to see you change back.”

       Li Zhenruo cursed in his heart and decided not to bother with Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran then said, “Come here, I’ll scratch it for you.”

       When Li Zhenruo heard the words, he immediately lay his head on Li Zhenran’s lap and asked him to scratch his itch.

       The driver looked straight ahead without changing his expression, not knowing what to do.

       Li Zhenran stretched his fingers into the middle of the collar and gently helped him scratch his neck, just like he used to do to brush his fur in the past. Li Zhenruo felt that this feeling was comfortable and familiar, so he couldn’t help closing his eyes.

       He slept on Li Zhenran’s lap, and when he woke up, he felt that Li Zhenran was still gently ruffling his hair with his fingers. Li Zhenruo suddenly felt warm in his chest, as if someone was tickling him with a feather.

       After a while, Li Zhenran stretched out his hand and pulled Li Zhenruo’s ear again, as if he didn’t take him as a human at all, but as the cat.

       He couldn’t help but lifted Li Zhenran’s hand, sit up, and asked, “What do I do if you go home?”

       Li Zhenran said, “Come home with me.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment, “Stop joking. What would your brother think if you brought a man home?”

       Although Li Jianglin was not at home, what big or small things at home can escape Li Jianglin’s attention? Li Zhenran brought a man home, and wouldn’t that make Li Jianglin terrified to death? But that way, he would make Li Zhentai and Li Zhenzi in a good mood.

       Li Zhenruo had the best relationship with Li Zhentai in the Li family in the past. But now, of course, he hoped that Li Zhenran could get the biggest piece of cake from Li Jianglin.

       He didn’t want Li Zhenran’s future to be ruined by him.

       Li Zhenran said, “Aren’t you a cat?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Knock it off, you know what I mean.”

       Li Zhenran stretched out his hand, put his fingers against his chin and raised his face, “Concerned about me, huh?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “You are my master. I still want to eat the best royal cat food and royal dried fish in the future.

       Li Zhenran didn’t let go of his hand, but raised his head a little higher with more force and said, “I can feed you those right now.”

       Li Zhenruo resisted the urge to roll his eyes, grabbed Li Zhenran’s hand, and said coquettishly, “I still want to live in Buckingham Palace and sleep with the little female cat of the British royal family.”

       “Hmph,” Li Zhenran snorted coldly, and let go of his hand.

       Li Zhenruo wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and felt that Li Zhenran was a really difficult person to deal with. In the past, it was fine because he didn’t have to talk, but now that they could communicate, it was a bit torturous for the two of them to be together for a long time.

       But after he said that, Li Zhenran didn’t have to take him back to Li’s house, but ordered the driver to drive to a residential area in the centre of the city.

       These days, who of the Li brothers didn’t have a private house in the city?

       It didn’t even matter if it was a serious girlfriend, not to mention a person who they messed around with was definitely impossible to bring to Li’s house, especially when Li Jianglin was at home in the past.

       Li Zhenruo also had a private place. When he just moved out of the Li family, he went back to the apartment. He also had some private investments and deposits in his hands, but after his death, they had all been returned to the Li family.

       He only knew that Li Zhenran have a private apartment in the past, but this was the first time Li Zhenruo had the opportunity to see it with his own eyes.

       The driver drove the car to the underground parking lot of the apartment and asked Li Zhenran whether he should leave the cat’s household utensils here or sent them back to Li’s house.

       Li Zhenran said to leave it here first and then asked the driver to wait for him. He had to go back to Li’s house later.

       The elevator needed a fingerprint lock. When Li Zhenruo followed Li Zhenran upstairs in the elevator, he asked him, “Are you leaving me here alone?”

       Li Zhenran said, “No, I’ll come over too.”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly had a strange feeling of being kept in a golden house²it’s an idiom of keeping a mistress tucked away in a luxurious house or apartment.

       But Li Jianglin was not there, even if Li Zhenran didn’t go home for a few days, no one would ask about him.

       There was only one door to go out of the elevator, and it was still locked by fingerprints. After they entered, Li Zhenruo found that this house has a very good layout and a very modern decoration style. There was only a partition, and one could see the whole house at a glance.

       The master bedroom was still in the style of Japanese tatami. The wooden structure around the mattress was raised, and there was no full bed set up there.

       There was no secondary bedroom, besides the master bedroom, there was also a study room and a recreational gym. The living room was directly opposite a large semi-circular balcony with bright light.

       Li Zhenruo thought of Li Zhenran’s tatami in Li’s house and thought that he probably liked this open and unobstructed style.

       Li Zhenran put down his things and said to Li Zhenruo, “I’ll go back and get some things. You stay here and wait for me to come back for dinner.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded.

       Li Zhenran’s tone was cold and harsh, “Don’t run.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Where am I going to run? I was afraid that if you didn’t want me anymore, I would have nowhere to go.”

       Li Zhenran stood by the door and waved to him, “Come here.”

       Li Zhenruo walked to him without knowing why, and his lower body was suddenly grabbed by Li Zhenran. He opened his eyes wide and looked at Li Zhenran in shock.

       Li Zhenran pinched it and said strangely, “Aren’t you in heat?”

       Li Zhenruo was gritting his teeth in anger, so he lunged over and bit Li Zhenran’s shoulder, but he didn’t exert much force. After he bite him, he said to Li Zhenran, “That’s enough. You are going too far.”

       Li Zhenran let go of his hand, pointed his finger at Li Zhenruo’s nose and said, “Don’t let me see you hooking up with a female cat. Behave yourself.”

       Li Zhenruo replied bitterly, “There is no female cat, you don’t have to worry!”

       Only then did Li Zhenran turn around and leave, and at the same time he closed the door hard.

       After he left, Li Zhenruo was starting to be more attentive. He tried to open the door but found that Li Zhenran had locked the door from the outside. Now he also needed a fingerprint or a key to open the door.

       But he didn’t have either, which was equivalent to being locked in this room by Li Zhenran.

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       Li Zhenruo was originally a human.

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

       However, that has become a thing of the past.

       He was killed and turned into a cat, and now he was struggling to survive and to take revenge. He persisted until now and planned to live as a cat until the end of his life more than a decade¹because an indoor cat’s life expectancy is around 13-17 years later.

       He thought that when he was reincarnated, he had to make a good choice and not enter the path of beasts again²in Buddhism you have several paths in reincarnation, so he was saying he doesn’t want to be reincarnated as an animal next time. He still wanted to be a human being.

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

       Furthermore, he was naked.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       “What should I do?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran looked at him coldly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran suddenly reached out and grabbed his wrist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       After saying that, the man hurriedly turned and left.

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran refused mercilessly, “Want to run?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

       He originally wanted to call him second brother subconsciously, but then he immediately changed his words when he felt it was wrong³二哥 = Èr gē. He was about to call him er ge but changed it to Ran ge, and went down to call him Ran ge⁴a way to call someone older than you (male).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Dispose of me?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo was speechless for a moment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       The manager replied, “Okay, Mr. Li.”

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran ignored him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       The air seemed to be a little hot.

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

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

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

       He realized one thing, he might be in heat.

       Damn it!

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran asked him where he was going.

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

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

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

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

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

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

       But he didn’t sleep very well that night. First, he kept waking up in a state of discomfort. Second, even if he fell asleep, he didn’t keep dreaming¹in a deep sleep state, and he couldn’t sleep well at all.

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo subconsciously wanted to turn his back to him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Among them, the most unsettled person was Li Zhenruo.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo fluttered in the water.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Luo Fei asked, “What happened to it?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo was very angry, he lay on his face for a long time, and then took a deep breath and told herself not to care about stupid humans. Because he has now been upgraded to a smart Meow²https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7070496/.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo ran in that direction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran nodded, “I know.”

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

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

       No!

       Li Zhenruo began to struggle.

       Li Zhenran looked down at him coldly.

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran said, “Let’s go.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       This made Li Zhenruo feel a little guilty.

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

       “Zhenran.”

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

       Luo Fei?

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran smiled and replied, “Yes.”

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

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

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

       “Oh?” Li Zhenran replied.

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

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

       “Xiao Feng!” Luo Fei called him.

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

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

       Li Zhenran stretched out his hand, “Hello.”

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran said, “Dumpling.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran said calmly, “It’s mine.”

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo glanced at Feng Junyuan curiously.

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

       Feng Junyuan was startled.

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran also turned to look at Li Zhenruo.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       What the fvck!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo silently praised Hua Yibang in his heart.

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo breathed a long sigh of relief.

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

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

       Li Zhenruo shivered in fright.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran tied him up and left.

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

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

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

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

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

       I wonder if I can see him at dinner today.

       But Li Zhenzi didn’t come back during dinner.

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

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

       “Meow!” Li Zhenruo called out.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo endured and did not escape.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo felt that Li Zhenran must be angry.

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

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

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

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Notes:
Me imagining Zhenran talking to Zhenruo:

Also my brain dead be:

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