Month: January 2022 (Page 2 of 2)

       Li Zhenran’s body has a clean perfume smell.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo was stunned.

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

       The door opened, and the auntie walked directly in.

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo withdrew his head.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       At first, Wang Ma didn’t notice him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Wang Ma was at a loss.

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

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

       “Meow!” Li Zhenruo was a little anxious.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       But Li Zhenran was not at home at this time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhentai said, “The third child.”

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

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

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

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

       Wen Chun nodded politely.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Wen Chun just smiled upon hearing this.

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo looked up at her.

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhentai didn’t answer this time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       The two kissed softly.

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

       Wen Chun nodded.

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

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

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       Li Jianglin was not nearby.

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran and Li Zhentai were talking as they ate.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo let out a cry in panic.

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

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

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

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

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

       But a cat’s strength is really limited.

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

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

       The driver agreed, turned and went downstairs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

       “Ah!” Wang Ma shrieked.

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenzi never chased down.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Wang Ma was very surprised.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Jianglin has a wife.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       The Li brothers are all very good at enjoying life.

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

       A situation that he should have been expected long ago.

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran raised his leg and continued up the stairs.

       Li Zhenruo hesitated for a moment and chose to follow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Notes:
I have not decided how much the update per week and/or what day I will update.
But I will try to update at least one chapter/week at first and gradually increasing the amount of chapter I will update~
Happy new year!

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