Month: March 2022 (Page 1 of 4)

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

       Today was the weekend.

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran stopped and turned around, “Dad?”

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran asked, “Just us?”

       Li Jianglin nodded, “You drive.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       That was his tombstone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo guessed that he must be very unhappy.

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

       Now, this was what Li Jianglin cared about most.

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

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

       Li Zhenruo’s round eyes drooped down instantly.

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

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

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

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

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

       Luo Fei also seemed to have been giving him assurances.

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

       Li Zhenruo’s eyes widened.

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

       Li Zhenruo nodded obediently.

       Li Zhenran hooked his fingers, “Come here.”

       Li Zhenruo ran over immediately.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenran was also slightly startled by his action.

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

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

       Feng Junyuan nodded, “Give me a call.”

       Li Zhenran waved to them and turned to leave.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Song Jun waved to him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Not only Zhu Kai but also his dog was gone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhentai was the first to pick up the glass, “Uncle Wen, I toast to you.”

       Father Wen was also happy to see the marriage between his daughter and the eldest son of the Li family. He heard the words and said, “Hey, you have to make it clear about this glass of wine. Is it uncle Wen or father-in-law?”

       Li Jianglin looked at them with a smile.

       Li Zhentai then pushed the boat along the river and said, “Then I will toast to my father in law.”

       Wen Chun sat beside him with a faint smile on her face the whole time, but not much emotion could be seen.

       When all three sons toasted Father Wen, Li Jianglin said, “Old Wen, you should also pay attention to the children’s marriage.”

       Father Wen hurriedly said, “Of course, I pay attention.  Zhentai and xiao Chun have also been in love for many years, and now their age and feelings are at the appropriate stage of marriage. Xiao Chun’s mother and I have been persuading her to consider it earlier.”

       Li Jianglin nodded, his lips were moist and still had wine stains, and said, “So I came back on this trip because I wanted to see them get the wedding done.”

       Li Zhenruo had been lying on the windowsill next to the dining room since dinner today. He felt that the scenery from this angle was better than that of Li Zhenran’s lap. He could see Li Zhentai and Wen Chun at a glance, as well as Li Zhenzi’s expression sitting not far from Wen Chun. He could also see Li Jianglin’s expression, who was sitting in the main seat. Only the Wen family and Li Zhenran had their backs to him.

       When Li Jianglin said these words, Li Zhenruo noticed that Li Zhenzi had no special reaction, and sometimes he looked a little absent-minded. But this was quite normal, Li Zhenzi was not very comfortable in this kind of situation, and he was easily distracted.

       Li Jianglin had already said that he wanted them to have their wedding ceremony, and Li Zhentai naturally didn’t have any bad response. He suddenly turned around and said to Wen Chun, “Xiao Chun, would you like to marry me?”

       Wen Chun laughed and said, “What are you talking about, we’ve been engaged for a long time, haven’t we? Just follow Uncle Li’s advice, and get married next month. It’s good.”

       Li Jianglin smiled at them with satisfaction.

       It was Mother Wen who couldn’t help but say, “Won’t it be too hasty to hold it next month? The banquet and wedding ceremony are not yet prepared.”

       Li Jianglin looked at her, “Don’t worry, we will prepare all of this. Xiao Chun only needs to be a beautiful bride. It’s possible that we’ll have to inconvenience the in-laws to choose a good date. The sooner the better.”

       Father Wen held his wife’s hand, “That’ll do. Let’s listen to Jianglin.”

       Thus they continued to drink and eat.

       After the meal, they didn’t know if it was because Li Zhentai was in a good mood or had other thoughts. Anyway, he drank a lot of alcohol and got a little drunk.

       He knocked on the table and said how much he had done for Yunlin and how much effort he had put in. It sounded like he was complaining that Li Jianglin didn’t value him enough, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

       At this moment, Li Zhenzi’s cell phone rang. He didn’t dare to drink too much alcohol today and was still sober at this time. He apologized and got up to answer the phone while walking outside.

       Li Zhenruo looked around and saw that Li Zhenzi went straight up the stairs to the second floor.

       Li Zhentai was still talking about something that happened to a previous project and how he managed to clear up all the related things after running around.

       Wen Chun’s face was expressionless, and the corners of her mouth fell slightly downward.

       Li Jianglin suddenly said, “Zhentai is drunk. Xiao Chun, take him upstairs to rest.”

       Wen Chun said yes after hearing this, and wanted to get up to help Li Zhentai.

       But Li Zhentai raised his hand and said, “I’m not drunk, I want to talk to Dad for a while longer.”

       Wen Chun’s tone was not very good, and she said, “Dad asked you to go upstairs to rest.”

       It was not known whether Li Zhentai could hear the meaning behind her words, but he suddenly fell silent and said, “Okay.”

       Wen Chun helped him walk towards the stairs.

       Li Zhenruo hesitated for a moment, then jumped off the windowsill and followed.

       Li Zhentai stumbled along the way. Wen Chun was slender, so it was not easy to hold him steady. Even Li Zhenruo didn’t dare to follow closely, for fear that Li Zhentai would step on him.

       With great difficulty, Wen Chun helped Li Zhentai into the room on the second floor and threw him on the bed.

       Li Zhenruo stood at the door and looked at them. He saw Li Zhentai reach out and hold Wen Chun’s hand. He yelled, “Xiao Chun.”

       Wen Chun reached out and brushed the hair from his forehead, and said, “Take a rest.”

       Then Wen Chun helped him take off his shoes, then pulled the quilt over to cover his chest. She stood up and straightened her hair as if planning to go out.

       Li Zhenruo took two steps back and suddenly noticed that there was light coming out under the crack of Li Zhenzi’s closed-door next to him. He suddenly thought of something and walked to Li Zhenzi’s door. He straightened up and patted on the door with his front paw.

       At this time, even if Wen Chun came out and saw him, she would just think it was a cat scratching the door naughtily.

       Not long after, Li Zhenzi opened the door from inside, and when he saw Li Zhenruo scratching his door, he raised his eyebrows a little strangely. However soon, his attention was drawn to Wen Chun who had just come out of Li Zhentai’s room.

       When Wen Chun came out, she closed the door of Li Zhentai’s room. As soon as she looked up, she saw Li Zhenzi and stopped.

       Li Zhenzi walked out and stood in front of her and said, “Chun jie, no. From now on it’s time to call you sister in law.”

       Wen Chun glanced at him and said nothing. She seemed to plan to bypass him and go downstairs directly.

       Unexpectedly, Li Zhenzi reached out and grabbed Wen Chun’s wrist at this moment. He turned her around and pressed her against the wall, lowered his head and kissed her.

       Li Zhenzi saw Wen Chun struggle, and after a while, he was pushed away. With a bit of fury on her face, she said sullenly “Are you crazy? This is your home! Your brother is in the room!”

       Her voice was very low. If Li Zhenruo wasn’t a cat, he probably wouldn’t be able to hear what she was talking about.

       Li Zhenzi stretched out his hand and touched Wen Chun’s face, and said, “Do you know that it’s called to be unable to restrain your own emotion?”

       Li Zhenruo noticed that Li Zhenzi’s eyes were twinkling with lights. In fact, in his opinion, if Wen Chun didn’t marry Li Zhentai, she might not be able to make Li Zhenzi so excited.

       Li Zhenzi just wanted to find excitement from Wen Chun, but he probably didn’t like Wen Chun very much.

       As for Wen Chun, Li Zhenruo couldn’t understand it. He always felt that Wen Chun was a smart woman. He didn’t understand why she was willing to be entangled with Li Zhenzi which was likely to bring her endless trouble.

       If she liked Li Zhenzi, why not directly reject the marriage with Li Zhentai? But since she agreed to marry Li Zhentai, what was the point of hooking up with Li Zhenzi again for her?

       At this moment, Wen Chun obviously knew that it was not appropriate to linger with Li Zhenzi. No matter how sweet Li Zhenzi’s love words were, she didn’t have much expressions on her face. She just pushed Li Zhenzi away, raised her hand and straightened her hair and walked downstairs.

       Li Zhenzi stood in the same place as if he was still reminiscing about the kiss just now.

       As he saw his appearance, Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but curse cheap person under his breath.

       Whether he liked Li Zhentai or not, he despised Li Zhenzi’s behaviour of seducing his sister-in-law.

       Li Zhenzi turned his head to see Li Zhenruo. He then remembered and asked him, “Why are you scratching my door? Looking for a fight, huh?”

       Li Zhenruo made a pitiful “meow” on purpose, turned around and ran downstairs. He knew that Li Zhenzi would not chase after him, but he still ran all the way to the first floor before he could feel safe.

       When he got to the first floor, Li Zhenruo saw that Wen Chun’s mother and daughter had left the dining table and were sitting in the living room chatting with Wang Ma. Since Li Zhentai and Li Zhenzi had both gone upstairs, Li Zhenran, as the host, had to stay in the living room to accompany them. He talked to the mother and daughter; and next to the dining table, only Li Jianglin and Wen Chun’s father were left.

       The two of them have stopped drinking but were still talking in a low voice.

       Li Zhenruo took two steps closer and heard Father Wen mention his name.

       The relationship between Li Jianglin and Li Zhenruo was well concealed as a secret. Father Wen obviously didn’t know the truth. After drinking some wine, he was advising Li Jianglin not to be too sad about Li Zhenruo’s matter.

       To be honest, after Li Zhenruo’s accident, Li Jianglin seemed to have aged a lot overnight. To outsiders, this must have been caused by sadness, but Li Zhenruo knew that Li Jianglin was more afraid of being killed. No man would feel at ease after knowing he had been cheated and had raised someone else’s son for decades. He couldn’t get over it, so he was probably angry and embarrassed, but he had to bitterly suppress it.

       Just like now, he can only nod his head blankly and say, “I’m fine, I’m already over it.”

       Father Wen said, “Look, you still have three sons, one is better than the other, and you are already very happy. Unlike us, xiao Chun is the only one we have and she is a girl. After she gets married, she will become a part of your Li family. It’ll make me and her mother be like a lonely old couple.”

       Li Jianglin patted him on the back and said, “What are you talking about, if they get married in the future, Zhentai will become your son. If you let them have two grandchildren early, both our Li family and Wen family will have descendants already.”

       When Father Wen heard this, he smiled and shook his head.

       The two old people talked for a long time, and then it was very late. Mother Wen urged her husband, and the Wen family left the Li family.

       In the days to come, the two families will definitely move around frequently, because they have to discuss the details of the wedding day. Although Li Jianglin wanted the Li family to do it all, he had to ask the woman’s family for advice before making a decision.

       The time was a little rushed. Because Li Jianglin felt that Li Zhentai’s character seemed a little half-hearted, so he asked Li Zhenran to help his eldest brother quickly decide what could be decided.

       In the evening, Li Zhenruo was still sleeping beside Li Zhenran’s bed.

       He suddenly had some urge to tell Li Zhenran about Wen Chun and Li Zhenzi, but he hesitated for a while. In addition, he was not able able to express it, so he finally decided to let it go.

       The next morning, Li Zhenruo woke up lying beside Li Zhenran’s pillow. He opened his eyes, but he was too lazy to move.

       Li Zhenran was still sleeping beside him, and Li Zhenruo looked at his sleeping face motionlessly.

       He didn’t know if it was because of the effect of light or if Li Zhenruo’s gaze was too blinding. Li Zhenran seemed to be waking up, turned over in a daze, and let out a low groan.

       In Li Zhenruo’s ears, the deep voice he heard turned out to be extraordinarily sexy. He couldn’t help but feel hot in his nostrils and couldn’t stand the stimulation.

       Li Zhenruo was slightly startled by this sudden feeling and suddenly thought that the last time he became a human was when he was in estrus. This time, can he become a human again as long as he was in heat?

       Li Zhenruo’s heart was beating fast. He wanted to get into heat, and the most convenient source of stimulation was of course the sleeping man beside him, so he approached carefully, wanted to put his mouth on Li Zhenran’s mouth.

       But it didn’t go well, because his mouth was too flat. The result of his efforts was his forehead was on the tip of Li Zhenran’s nose. Then Li Zhenran was wakened up with the cat hair sticking to his face.

       He wasn’t awake yet, so he only raised one hand and pressed it on Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo was heavily pressed down by a hand, and before he could react, he was picked up in the next second and thrown under the bed.

       Li Zhenran sneezed twice. He was now fully awake, turned over and sat up.

       Li Zhenruo, on the other hand, was thrown into the closet and bumped into it before sliding to the floor against the closet. His whole cat was a bit confused.

       Li Zhenran sat on the bed, raised one hand and rubbed his itchy nose, and looked at Li Zhenruo blankly.

       Li Zhenruo maintained the posture of falling to the ground, but after a while, he became angry and got up, jumped to the window and got out through the half-closed window.

       In the morning, Li Zhenran found Li Zhenruo lying on his four legs spread out at the bottom of the drained swimming pool.

       Because it has not yet midsummer, the swimming pool at home has not been cleaned and the water was not released, so it has always been dry.

       Li Zhenran went down the stairs next to him, walked to Li Zhenruo who was lying in the middle, squatted down and asked him, “Angry?”

       Li Zhenruo was too lazy to lift his head.

       Li Zhenran grabbed one of his legs and shook it, “Why are you kissing me while I’m sleeping?”

       Li Zhenruo was a little embarrassed when he heard his question, but at this time he was unwilling to show weakness and kept his face expressionless and motionless.

       Li Zhenran simply sat down beside him, stretched out his hand and rubbed the fur on Li Zhenruo’s back, and said, “I’m not awake yet in the morning. Besides, I can’t do anything to you if you kiss me. “

       The words “can’t do anything” were really thought-provoking, and Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but glance at him.

       Li Zhenran looked up at the sky and said, “I really don’t want to do anything with a cat.”

       So what exactly do you want to do? Li Zhenruo felt that he was about to be unable to hold back, and he was going to explode.

       Li Zhenran said, “Too much hair.”

       Li Zhenruo turned his head and bit Li Zhenran’s hand. Of course, he bit it lightly without breaking the skin, but sharp teeth always hurt.

       Li Zhenran finished babbling, looked down at him, and said, “Let’s go find Luo Fei today.”

       Li Zhenruo opened his mouth in surprise.

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       Wen Chun neither agreed nor objected, and seemed to acquiesce to Li Jianglin’s words.

       It was a pity that Li Zhenruo couldn’t see Li Zhenzi’s reaction, but he thought that even if Li Zhenzi really had something with Wen Chun, he probably wouldn’t show any reaction. He believed that Li Zhenzi couldn’t have any serious thoughts about Wen Chun. Like all his women, she’s just for fun.

       After dinner, Li Jianglin asked Li Zhentai to send Wen Chun home.

       He went to the study by himself and called Li Zhenran in.

       Li Jianglin had just come home, so Li Zhenzi did not dare to run around and went up to the second-floor room to rest.

       Li Zhenruo was a little curious about what Li Jianglin and Li Zhenran were going to say, so he went around the door and jumped to the window sill outside the study to eavesdrop.

       In the end, as he just jumped up, he was seen by Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran happened to be standing by the window, and immediately noticed the movement outside. When he saw the cat jumping up, his reaction was calm and quick. He stretched out his hand and pushed him down mercilessly.

       Li Zhenruo was cursing inside his heart, but he was still able to react very quickly. His front paws were on the windowsill and so his whole cat body didn’t fall off.

       At this point, he felt something pulling his leg underneath.

       He made a great effort to turn his head. Li Zhenruo was horrified to discover that it was Zhu Kai’s Erhuang who was holding his leg underneath and trying to pull him down.

       Li Zhenruo grabbed the window sill tightly with his two front claws, kicked his legs and tried to shake Erhuang away, but he was unsuccessful. He was pulled off by Erhuang and fell on the grass under the window sill.

       Erhuang loosened his mouth and looked at Li Zhenruo excitedly. With his long tongue sticking out and panting, he approached Li Zhenruo to smell him.

       Li Zhenruo turned over and ran forward.

       Erhuang was stunned for a moment, then happily ran after him.

       Li Zhenruo turned in the corner in front and ran towards the front yard. He knew that if he entered through the front door, Erhuang would definitely be stopped by someone, but he did not expect to be stopped by Zhu Kai just after entering the house.

       Because he was so focused on watching out for the dog behind him, he didn’t notice that Zhu Kai grabbed his collar and lifted him up.

       Zhu Kai saw Erhuang who was chasing after him, and said, “You bullied my Erhuang?”

       Li Zhenruo thought to himself, Bullshit!¹it’s actually a curse words 毛线 but I’m not really sure what to put, if anyone have better suggestion… feel free to leave it in the comments He raised his claws towards Zhu Kai’s face mercilessly.

       Zhu Kai also react quickly and threw Li Zhenruo away in a curve to the sky. Li Zhenruo finally fell next to the large vase in the living room, almost knocking the vase down.

       Wang Ma heard the commotion and hurried forward to stop Zhu Kai, “What are you doing, don’t bully your brother’s cat!”

       In fact, in terms of seniority, Zhu Kai was actually Li Zhenran’s little uncle, but Wang Ma watched them grow up and always thought that Zhu Kai was Li Zhenran’s younger brother. Zhu Kai himself sometimes addressed people by names regardless of his seniority.

       At this moment, Zhu Kai was about to say something when the door of Li Jianglin’s study opened, and Li Zhenran came out and glanced at him faintly.

       Li Zhenruo moved very fast. He ran to Li Zhenran’s legs and scrambled up to his pants, and finally was held in his arms by him before he breathed a sigh of relief. Then he gave Zhu Kai a look of challenge.

       Li Zhenran rubbed Li Zhenruo’s head and carried him upstairs.

       Zhu Kai pouted and whistled out of tune, touched the top of Erhuang’s head, and said to it, “Go play by yourself.”

       It was annoying enough to have Li Zhenzi in the house, but now Zhu Kai was added. Li Zhenruo couldn’t help scratching the top of his head with his claws.

       Li Zhenzi was actually fine, as long as he was not drunk. If you don’t provoke him, he won’t provoke you. But Zhu Kai was different. Sometimes Li Zhenruo thought that Zhu Kai was just a lunatic and should be sent to a mental hospital to be prescribed some medicine for good.

       Li Zhenran kept carrying Li Zhenruo back to his room before putting him down and said, “If I’m not here and only Zhu Kai is at home, it’s best to stay away from him.”

       Now he was sure the cat could understand him. But it could only understand, and there was no way to communicate with him.

       Once Li Zhenruo was alone with Li Zhenran, he suddenly recalled what happened last night. He raised his eyelids to look at Li Zhenran, and couldn’t help but secretly moved his feet a little further away from him.

       He still doesn’t know what Li Zhenran’s thoughts are because Li Zhenran has not expressed his thoughts to him, as if nothing happened last night.

       Maybe Li Zhenran was too drunk at that time, and he forgot everything when he woke up this morning, or maybe Li Zhenran didn’t care at all. Although he seemed to have a clean private life, maybe in reality he didn’t put too much thought into sleeping with someone like that.

       Of course, Li Zhenruo would not have taken it so seriously, if that person wasn’t Li Zhenran. He sighed, feeling that his current state of mind seemed a little dangerous.

       Li Zhenran sat beside the bed, and although Li Zhenruo didn’t say a word, he kept looking at Li Zhenran.

       Later, Li Zhenran reached out and touched the top of his head. Seeing that he was not moving, he grabbed one of his paws and pulled him closer.

       Li Zhenruo was lifted by Li Zhenran’s two paws to face him. Because he was too close to be looked at like this, Li Zhenruo felt uncomfortable and couldn’t help turning his head away.

       Li Zhenran suddenly said, “Let’s go find Luo Fei.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment and looked at him, but Li Zhenran didn’t continue talking. He put down Li Zhenruo and got up and walked to the bathroom.

       He left Li Zhenruo lying beside the bed. Li Zhenruo began to think about why Li Zhenran said he wanted him to go to find Luo Fei. When Luo Fei was mentioned, Li Zhenruo remembered the phone call that was supposed to be made to Song Jun. If it hadn’t been interrupted by Li Zhenran’s call, he might have already met the person named Song Jun.

       As he thought of this, Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but feel a little regretful. If Song Jun knew something according to what Feng Junyuan said, maybe he also knew how to maintain his human form. It’s just that he didn’t expect to be beaten back to his original form so quickly at that time, and now it was not that easy to find Song Jun again.

       He could only hope that Li Zhenran would take him to Luo Fei.

       Luo Fei must also know something.

       But whether Li Zhenran wanted to go or not depends entirely on Li Zhenran’s mood, and he couldn’t control it at all. Now that he couldn’t even speak, what he could do was really too limited.

       In the evening, Li Zhenruo slept beside Li Zhenran’s bed. After sleeping for a long time, he automatically rolled into Li Zhenran’s arms. He was hugged by Li Zhenran and placed on his shoulder and continued to sleep soundly.

       The next morning, Li Zhenran set the alarm clock and got up early.

       Although he just came back from Qijiang yesterday, these few days were Li Zhenran’s busiest days. First, the investigation on Qijiang still needs a detailed report. Although he did not write it, he would definitely supervise it in person because of his character. The second was that since Li Jianglin was back, he would definitely go to the company today. Not only Li Zhenran, but he was afraid that even Li Zhentai and Li Zhenzi would also follow Li Jianglin to the company’s board of directors early. There was still a lot of work to be reported to Li Jianglin.

       Only Zhu Kai and his dog were left at home.

       Li Zhenruo dawdled on the third floor without any intention to go downstairs until he saw from the window that Zhu Kai drove out by himself. He was relieved and went down to the living room on the first floor to lay on the back of the sofa chair.

       Erhuang wandered outside the gate several times a morning. He stared at Li Zhenruo making a whimper and wanted to play with him.

       But Li Zhenruo has not degenerated to the point of playing with a dog, he still decided to coldly ignore it and continue to nobly lie on the sofa.

       That afternoon, Wang Ma answered a phone call, then stood up and stretched and said, “Oh, you won’t come back for dinner.”

       In the end, no one in the Li family came back for dinner that night, including Zhu Kai.

       Li Zhenruo thought that it must be because Li Jianglin had just returned, so there was some social function outside, and the sons accompanied him.

       Li Zhenran didn’t come back, and Li Zhenruo had been lying on the sofa bored, wondering when Li Zhenran would be able to take him to meet Luo Fei.

       Later, the first person to come back turned out to be Zhu Kai.

       As soon as Li Zhenruo heard that Zhu Kai was back, he immediately slipped off the sofa and hid in the corner behind the sofa, thinking that he would wait for Zhu Kai to leave before coming out to continue waiting for Li Zhenran.

       Zhu Kai entered the room and went to the refrigerator to get a bottle of water to drink. As he stood in the dining room drinking water, Li Zhenzi came back from outside.

       “Daniel,” Zhu Kai said and Li Zhenzi greeted back.

       Li Zhenzi asked, “Went out to play today?”

       Zhu Kai said, “I met a few friends.” After he said that, he threw a bottle of water to Li Zhenzi.

       Li Zhenzi took it and said thank you.

       “By the way,” Zhu Kai asked when he saw Li Zhenzi drinking water, “Why did Aunt Wu, who cleaned up before, leave?”

       Li Zhenzi replied, “Well, she quit.”

       Zhu Kai felt it was very strange and asked, “Why? It’s been so many years.”

       Li Zhen had drunk water and planned to go upstairs. As he heard Zhu Kai’s question, he simply sat down beside the dining table, gently pressed the bottom of the water bottle on the table, and said, “A few days ago, something strange happened in the fourth child’s room.”

       Li Zhenruo sneaked out from behind the sofa and came closer wanting to see Li Zhen’s expression when he spoke.

       Zhu Kai frowned upon hearing this, and he sat down on the dining table. If Li Jianglin saw it, he would definitely scold him, “What strange things?”

       Li Zhenzi looked up at him with a half-smile, “When Aunt Wu was cleaning, she saw blood-stained toilet paper in the fourth child’s room.”

       “Blood-stained toilet paper?” Zhu Kai stared at Li Zhenzi with wide eyes, then suddenly laughed without warning, “What’s so strange about that, I thought she saw blood-stained sanitary pad!”

       Li Zhenzi played with the mineral water bottle with his fingers, “You must know that after the fourth child died, the room has been unoccupied.”

       Zhu Kai thought for a while, “That must have been a prank. Could it be that you think there is a ghost?”

       Li Zhenzi shook his head, “That I really don’t know.”

       Zhu Kai thought thoughtfully, “Then why did Aunt Wu resign?”

       When he asked this question, he looked at Li Zhenzi suspiciously, but Li Zhenzi didn’t speak, and also looked at him.

       Zhu Kai lowered his voice, got closer to Li Zhenzi, and said, “Do you think Aunt Wu was feeling somewhat guilty?”

       Li Zhenzi put the fingers of his right hand on his lips, as if he was thinking carefully, and said to Zhu Kai, “It sounds really possible, otherwise why would she run in such a hurry?”

       Zhu Kai suddenly glanced left and right and whispered in Li Zhenzi’s ear, “Maybe, Jason was killed by someone. No one knows if Aunt Wu has seen a ghost or it was because she was guilty of something, right?”

       Li Zhenruo obviously noticed that Li Zhenzi’s face sank, but when Zhu Kai left his ear, Li Zhenzi resumed his careless smile and said, “Let this talk be between us, don’t let Dad hear it by all means. Be careful, or he’ll spank you.”

       After Li Zhenzi said this, Zhu Kai made a rude face without warning. He looked at Li Zhenzi coldly, turned around and walked towards his room.

       Zhu Kai’s room was on the first floor. It used to be a guest room. He owned a house outside himself and didn’t always live inside Li’s house. Later, he often stayed here for a while, and the guest room on the first floor was packed into his special room.

       Not long after Zhu Kai returned to the room, Li Zhenruo saw that Li Zhenzi also stood up, almost deformed the plastic water bottle in his hand, threw it in the trash can and went upstairs.

       Li Zhenruo stood silently in the same place, thinking about the conversation between Li Zhenzi and Zhu Kai just now. He always felt they were testing each others, but testing what? To test who killed Li Zhenruo, and who knows what?

       The closer he got to the truth, the more afraid he became, and Li Zhenruo couldn’t even tell why.

       He didn’t jump on the sofa, but lay on the carpet in front of the coffee table, and stretched out his limbs in a daze. There was only a small lamp left in the living room, and the light was dim.

       After almost an hour, Li Zhenran and Li Zhentai came back from outside with Li Jianglin.

       As he heard Li Jianglin come back, Wang Ma brought another aunt to hand out slippers and pour some water.

       Li Jianglin seemed to be drinking some wine, and his breathing sounded heavy. Li Zhentai was going to help him back to the room, but he walked over to the sofa and sat down.

       Li Zhenruo stood up and took a few steps back.

       Li Jianglin was sitting on the sofa with the ebony crutch stood straight in front of him, and his hands rested on it. He seemed to be tired and was still drunk. Li Zhenruo listened to him take a breath, and it sounded very heavy.

       Wang Ma put warm tea in front of him.

       Li Jianglin picked it up and took a sip, put down the teacup, raised his hand and said, “You all, go up.”

       Li Zhentai couldn’t help persuading, “Dad, let us help you go back to your room to wash first.”

       Li Jianglin laughed when he heard the words. His laughter was a little cold, “I’m not that weak yet.”

       At this time Li Zhenran said, “Dad, you rest early, I’ll go up first.”

       Li Jianglin nodded.

       Li Zhentai saw Li Zhenran walking upstairs, so he could only say good night to Li Jianglin, and turned to go upstairs.

       Li Zhenruo looked at Li Jianglin and even forgot that he was here waiting for Li Zhenran, and did not follow him up.

       After a while, Li Jianglin asked Wang Ma to rest as well.

       Wang Ma was a little worried about him, so she could only say, “Then call me if you need anything,” then turned around and went back to the room.

       There was still only a small light on in the living room, Li Jianglin sat there alone without saying a word, only the sound of his heavy breathing could be heard.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but slowly took two steps towards him.

       Li Jianglin suddenly turned to look at him. The movement startled him, and he stopped quickly.

       But then, Li Jianglin stretched out a hand towards him. Li Zhenruo was slightly startled and then walked towards him again until he stopped at his feet with his body pressed on his leg.

       Li Jianglin bent over, and it seemed that he was going to reach out and touch the top of his head. Li Zhenruo saw that his movements were slow, so he straightened up and put his front paws on the edge of the sofa, with his head close to Li Jianglin’s knees, so that Li Jianglin could reach out and touch his head.

       When he felt Li Jianglin’s rough and old palms touching the top of his head, Li Zhenruo suddenly felt sad. If in the past, Li Jianglin would touch the top of his head so gently, how happy he would be.

       Whether it was Li Jianglin or Li Zhenran, they could only show their gentle side to a small animal without any qualms, but they are unwilling to treat their relatives like this.

       After touching Li Zhenruo’s head for a while, Li Jianglin took his hand back.

       Li Zhenruo retracted his front paws, sat down at his feet, and looked up at him.

       Li Jianglin seemed to smile slightly, then closed his eyes and put his hands on the crutch. He maintained the sitting posture with his back straight for a while.

       Afterwards, Li Zhenruo saw him stand up and walked towards the stairs.

       Li Zhenruo followed him, thinking he was going upstairs.

       But Li Jianglin stood at the entrance of the stairs and did not move, he had no intention of going upstairs, he just raised his head and stared at the corner of the stairs leading to the second floor, where there was a large picture, his wife Zhu Yun’s wedding photo.

       Li Jianglin looked at his wife in the photo and showed an emotion that could be called vulnerability.

       As he looked at his expression, Li Zhenruo suddenly remembered his own mother, Zhao Yuqiong, who died of illness. Even if she was a mistress with a child, she would never be able to compete with his wife who had never had children in her life in the slightest.

       At this time, from upstairs came the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs.

       Li Jianglin stood still and saw Li Zhenran walking down the stairs.

       Li Zhenran saw Li Jianglin when he walked around the corner and couldn’t help but slow down his steps, “Dad?”

       Li Jianglin nodded his head, “Still awake?”

       Li Zhenran said, “I came to look for the cat.”

       Li Jianglin smiled, turned his head to look at Li Zhenruo, who was staying by his side, and said with a laugh, “Not doing your job.”

       Li Zhenran did not respond, but walked over and picked up Li Zhenruo.

       Then Li Jianglin said, “But this cat is very well behaved, it suits your temperament.”

       Li Zhenran asked him, “Shall I accompany you back to your room?”

       Li Jianglin waved his hand, “No, I’m going to bed.” After saying that, he slowly walked towards his room with his crutches.

       Li Zhenran held Li Zhenruo and stood in place until Li Jianglin closed the door to his room, then he turned around and went up the stairs.

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       In order to facilitate the check through, Li Zhenran specially asked someone to buy a new pet cage for Li Zhenruo. After getting off the plane, he did not release Li Zhenruo from the pet cage and had been carrying the cage to the car.

       Hua Yibang asked Li Zhenran where to return. Li Zhenran told the driver to drive him directly back to Li’s house. As for the things in the apartment, he asked Hua Yibang to help him pack those back.

       Li Zhenruo lay quietly inside the cage, he has not yet gathered his mood.

       However, when the car had just left the airport and was about to hit the highway, Li Zhenran answered the phone. He calmly said “Um” twice, then hung up the phone and said to Hua Yibang, “Dad is back today.”

       Hua Yibang was taken aback. He turned his head and asked, “Mr. Li Senior is back today? Why is it so sudden?”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly raised his head and his mind became active. He wondered why Li Jianglin came back suddenly? Could it be because of the phone call he made to Zhu Kai? Since Zhu Kai told Li Jianglin about it, so he came back to personally catch Li Zhenzi and Wen Chun’s adultery? Or did Li Jianglin abruptly decide to come back from the coast because there was something wrong with his physical condition?

       As Hua Yibang asked Li Zhenran, Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but pricked up his ears and listened carefully.

       But unexpectedly Li Zhenran only said one sentence, “I don’t know.”

       Hua Yibang was silent for a moment and then asked again, “I wonder when Mr. Li Senior decided to come back. How come he only informed you now?”

       Li Zhenruo thought Hua Yibang was a real sweetie, as he helped him to ask all the questions he wanted to ask.

       However Li Zhenran was not cute at all, and still replied, “I don’t know.” And in order to satisfy Hua Yibang’s curiosity, he still said one more sentence, “The call is from eldest brother, and dad’s plane is in the afternoon. Eldest brother will pick him up.”

       Hua Yibang asked softly, “Are you going?”

       Li Zhenran said, “I won’t go. I just came back from Qijiang. Dad knows about it.”

       It could be said that Li Jianglin knew about every single thing they did in Yunlin.

       Hua Yibang heard the words and said, “That’s good. Just go back and rest for a while, you’ve worked hard too.”

       Back at Li’s house, Wang Ma was standing at the gate waiting for them early. She took the cage that Li Zhenran handed over, put it on the coffee table, and released Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo walked out slowly and shook his fur.

       Wang Ma hugged him and kissed him, and said, “Dumpling, I haven’t seen you for a long time.”

       After Li Zhenran came in, Wang Ma said to him, “Your father is coming back today.”

       “I know,” Li Zhenran nodded.

       Wang Ma lowered her voice and said, “I’m afraid your father doesn’t like cats. I thought you were going to foster it outside for the time being.”

       As he heard Wang Ma’s words, Li Zhenruo also remembered that Li Jianglin didn’t like small animals very much. When he was a child, he wanted to keep a dog, but Li Jianglin didn’t allow him to keep it.

       However two years ago, Zhu Kai brought back a small golden retriever from outside, but Li Jianglin didn’t object to him raising it. This time, Zhu Kai accompanied Li Jianglin to the coast to recuperate. He took his dog there, and Li Jianglin didn’t seem to display any displeasure at all.

       Li Zhenruo always thought that if only Li Jianglin didn’t let Zhu Kai touch Yunlin’s business, he would definitely suspect that Zhu Kai was his biological son.

       When Li Zhenran heard what Wang Ma said, he didn’t seem to care much, “It doesn’t matter,” he just said that and walked towards the upstairs room.

       Li Zhenruo subconsciously wanted to catch up to Li Zhenran. Just as he jumped off the tea table, he thought to himself what he was chasing after. It’s not like he was rushing to make a fool of himself. After chasing for two steps, he turned and walked towards the dining room.

       In the afternoon, Li Zhenruo stayed on the first floor. As Wang Ma knitted a sweater while watching TV, he lay on the sofa’s arm to accompany Wang Ma.

       It was only four o’clock when Li Zhenzhi came back from outside.

       This was really rare. Li Zhenzi seldom ate dinner at home, and even if they wanted to come back, most of them usually came back in time for dinner at six o’clock.

       As soon as he entered the door, he saw Li Zhenruo lying on the sofa, and said with a smile, “I thought the second brother had eloped with the cat.”

       Wang Ma scolded him, “What a nonsense.”

       Li Zhenzi still smiled and said, “The other day he took the cat on vacation and didn’t bring it back, I thought he had secretly taken the cat and thrown it away.”

       Li Zhenruo glanced at him and didn’t bother to pay attention to him at all.

       At this time, Li Zhenran slowly came downstairs wearing slippers and cotton trousers. He saw Li Zhenzi and asked, “Why did Dad suddenly come back?”

       Li Zhenzi shrugged and said that he didn’t know. He was a little thirsty when he came back. He went to the refrigerator to get some water and asked Li Zhenran, “How is the construction site?”

       Li Zhenran said, “It’s good.”

       Li Zhenzi took a gulp of water, wiped the sweat from his neck, and said, “I told you you are worried about nothing, it’s not going to be a big problem.”

       Li Zhenran put his hand in his trouser pocket, leaned against the wall and said, “What I want is that there can’t be any problems.”

       Li Zhenzi shook his head and patted him on the shoulder as he passed by, “I’m going to change my clothes and come down.”

       Li Zhenzi came back so early to wait for Li Jianglin.

       Li Zhenzi has shown little ambition since usual, but it didn’t mean that he didn’t pay attention to Li Jianglin at all. He definitely did not do less than what he should do.

       Li Zhenruo looked at his back as he went upstairs, and thought that since Li Zhenzi had ruthlessly killed himself, perhaps the indifference shown was just an illusion.

       At this moment, Li Zhenran walked to the sofa and sat down, patted his thigh and said to Li Zhenruo, “Come here.”

       Li Zhenruo glanced at him and didn’t want to go there at all.

       Li Zhenran actually stretched out his hand, grabbed one of his paws, and pulled him over.

       Li Zhenruo was turned over and placed on Li Zhenran’s lap. His first reaction was to roll up his tail to cover his lower body, and then stared at Li Zhenran with wide eyes.

       Li Zhenran glanced at him with the same expression on his face, gently rubbing the fur on his chest with one hand while talking to Wang Ma.

       Wang Ma and Li Zhenran sat down to chat and she couldn’t help but want to ask about Hua Yibang’s situation.

       Li Zhenran answered patiently one by one.

       Wang Ma also added that Hua Yibang was not young and had no girlfriend, and her brows were tangled.

       Li Zhenran said, “What’s the rush? He has been with me throughout the year, and I don’t have a girlfriend either.”

       As soon as he reminded her, Wang Ma passed the buck to him, “Zhenran, you too. You should really think about it. You see that your eldest brother is about to get married, and then it would be your turn. When your father comes back this time, he will definitely talk about yours.”

       When Li Zhenran heard the words, he could only smile without saying anything.

       Li Zhenruo was on guard at first, but Li Zhenran gave him a comfortable rub, and his whole body softened. He looked up at Li Zhenran, and Li Zhenran just happened to look down at him, stretched out his hand and pinched his nose. At that moment, Li Zhenruo felt his heart pounding suddenly, and he couldn’t help but turn his eyes away.

       After ten minutes or so, Li Zhenzi finished changing his clothes and came down from the second floor, and sat down on the sofa in the living room.

       Li Zhenzi saw the cat lying on Li Zhenran’s sofa beside him, and reached out to touch him, but Li Zhenruo raised his tail and stop his hand.

       Slightly stunned, Li Zhen thought it was an accident, so he stretched out his hand again.

       Li Zhenruo resolutely didn’t want to be touched by him. This time, he simply turned over and got up, went around to Li Zhenran and sat down, hiding behind him.

       Li Zhenran naturally noticed this scene, turned his head to look at Li Zhenruo, and saw that he was sitting close to him while licking his paws, so he reached out and scratched his neck lightly.

       Li Zhenzi withdrew his hand, rubbed his wrist, and laughed.  He said, “Ugh, why you don’t want to see me even more.”

       Li Zhenran also smiled and said nothing.

       Li Zhenzi didn’t provoke Li Zhenruo anymore, and he just asked Li Zhenran, “Dad didn’t notify you when he was coming back?”

       Li Zhenran picked up the glass in front of him and took a slow sip of water, and replied, “It’s eldest brother who called me.”

       Li Zhenzi asked, “What do you think it is, why did he come back so suddenly?”

       Li Zhenran shook his head, “I don’t know.”

       Whether he really didn’t know or didn’t want to talk about it, Li Zhenzi didn’t bother to ask any further, he leaned back and put his feet up on the coffee table.

       Wang Ma glanced at him and said, “Behave yourself, your dad won’t be happy to see when he come back.”

       Li Zhenzi stretched himself and said, “Just a final indulgence while he’s not back.”

       After a while, Wang Ma got up and went to make dinner.

       Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi were left sitting on the sofa and chatting about the construction site of the Qijiang project. Li Zhenruo lay on his stomach and put his chin on Li Zhenran’s leg, feeling a little sleepy.

       Suddenly, he heard a little movement outside, so he raised his head and listened carefully.

       Later, he determined that he heard the sound of a car coming in from outside. He knew that Li Jianglin had come back, so he couldn’t help jumping off the sofa and running towards the door.

       Li Jianglin was not a gentle and loving father, but in Li Zhenruo’s heart, Li Jianglin could be considered as a qualified father. Because he didn’t have a mother, Li Zhenruo was very fond of Li Jianglin when he was a child. So far, his fondest memory was when he fell once as he and Li Jianglin was outside, and Li Jianglin carried him on his back and walked home slowly.

       Unfortunately, this kind of memory was very rare. Most of the time, Li Jianglin was just a strict father, treating several children equally, not particularly favouring one, and rarely showing his warm side.

       Now, he was no longer Li Jianglin’s son. But after so many years of affection, it was not like the feeling was gone. In regards to Zhao Yuqiong, he still had some mother and son affection, but he didn’t want to know who his biological father is.

       Li Zhenruo thought to himself that maybe he still harboured reluctance to part with the glory and power of the Li family. That was why he was so hung up on Li Jianglin, a father who was not related by blood.

       He stopped by the door, and soon Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi passed by him and went out to wait for Li Jianglin.

       Li Zhenruo saw two cars approaching from the front door and stopped beside the fountain. Li Zhentai got out of the car first, walked to the back and opened the door. He stretched out his hand to fill the gap on the top of the door and helped Li Jianglin get out of the car.

       Li Jianglin was in his early 60s this year, but he didn’t look like an old man. He was still standing tall and straight, his hair was only slightly grey, and his features looked healthy. He didn’t look particularly similar to any of his three sons.

       With a crutch in his hand, he walked slowly and steadily.

       Li Jianglin had an injury to his right ankle. It was not obvious when he walked slowly, but if he walked a little faster, he would look slightly limp. Therefore, after he was forty-five years old, he has been relying on a crutch, and Li Zhenruo was once beaten with it by him.

       After Li Jianglin got out of the car, Zhu Kai got out of the car in front and led out his golden retriever, Erhuang.

       Zhu Kai was tall and thin. He wore long jeans and a black short-sleeved shirt. His hair was a little long, dyed golden yellow and tied in a small pigtail behind his head. He was not very good-looking, but his features and demeanours were very similar to Zhu Yun, especially when he smiled. He looked like Zhu Yun in the wedding photo hanging on the stairs.

       Li Jianglin walked here with the help of Li Zhentai, and both Li Zhenran and Li Zhenzi greeted him.

       Li Zhenran said, “Dad.”

       Li Zhenzhi smiled and said, “You’re back? Did you have a good trip?”

       Li Jianglin nodded, glanced at Li Zhenzi, and walked towards the room.

       And Zhu Kai first untied the dog’s leash and waved to them with a smile as he watched Erhuang running wild in the yard.

       When Li Jianglin entered the room, he noticed Li Zhenruo standing by the door.

       Li Zhenruo was also tilting his head to look at him.

       Li Zhentai said quickly, “This is Zhenran’s cat, it’s called Dumpling.”

       Li Jianglin said “um” and walked inside without saying anything.

       Having just arrived home, after a tiring journey, Li Jianglin did not rush back to his room but sat down on the sofa in the living room on the first floor.

       Wang Ma took the housekeeper to bring up tea for Li Jianglin and a warm towel for wiping his face.

       After working hard in the Li family for so many years, when Li Jianglin met Wang Ma, he said politely, “Thank you for your hard work.”

       Wang Ma said, “What hard work? You guys sit down for a while, and dinner will be served soon. It’s all the dishes that you and xiao Kai like to eat.”

       Li Zhenruo had been standing by the door and did not follow him. He saw that Li Jianglin and his three brothers were all sitting down on the sofa.

       Li Jianglin slowly wiped his face with a towel and then his hands then took a sip of tea from the teacup. He raised his head and asked Li Zhentai, “Where’s xiao Chun?”

       Li Zhentai replied, “Wen Chun has an important meeting today. She said she will come over after the meeting and have dinner together in the evening.”

       Li Jianglin nodded.

       Li Zhenzi said, “Dad, your body looks much better.”

       Li Jianglin replied, “The air is better over there, and I feel more comfortable after staying there for a long time.”

       Li Zhenruo was listening intently to what they were talking about, when he suddenly felt a heavy pressure on his tail, he jumped up and howled suddenly.

       All the people in the room shifted their attention to him.

       Li Zhenruo turned around only to realized that it was actually Zhu Kai who unknowingly walked behind him and stepped on his tail.

       Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Zhu Kai quickly raised his hand and said, “I didn’t do it on purpose. I don’t know why there is an extra cat in the house?”

       Li Zhenruo was trampled and hurt, a little angry and a little aggrieved. He felt that Zhu Kai was probably doing it on purpose because he was such a character who desired to see the world be plunged into chaos. However, as Li Jianglin was present at this time, he couldn’t jump up and scratch Zhu Kai’s face. So he could only stare at him, his tail wrapped around his body, hugging and licking it.

       At this time, Li Zhenran said, “Dumpling, come here.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment, seeing Li Zhenran extending his hand towards him, although hesitant, he ran towards him, jumped on his lap and sat down.

       Li Zhenran gently rubbed his tail for him.

       Li Jianglin glanced at them and said nothing.

       On the other hand, Zhu Kai walked slowly behind the sofa, resting his arms on the back of the sofa chair, and said to Li Zhenran, “Zhenran, that’s your cat?”

       Li Zhenran said “Um”.

       Zhu Kai put one hand on his face, looking very interested, “This cat is quite interesting, it listened to you.”

       Li Jianglin interrupted their conversation and asked Li Zhenran, “Did you just come back from Qijiang?”

       Li Zhenran rubbed Li Zhenruo’s tail and replied, “Yes.”

       Li Jianglin said, “How is the situation, tell me about it.”

       As he heard that their conversation had turned to something boring, Zhu Kai was no longer interested and headed outside to play with his dog.

       At five o’clock in the afternoon, Wen Chun finally arrived late. She apologized to Li Jianglin and said, “I’m sorry, Uncle Li, I really can’t leave this meeting in the afternoon, otherwise I would have picked you up with Zhentai. “

       Li Jianglin’s attitude towards her was much gentler than that of his sons. He smiled and held her hand and said, “It doesn’t matter, work is important.”

       Now that Wen Chun has arrived, Wang Ma started serving dinner.

       Li Jianglin was naturally seated in the main seat, while the others’ seating position was as they wished. But today Li Zhenran didn’t bring Li Zhenruo to the table, after all, it was too unruly.

       However, Li Zhenruo’s treatment was still much better than that of Erhuang. At least he could stay in the dining room to eat, while Erhuang could only settle his dinner in the yard.

       After sitting down, Zhu Kai complained, “How come cats can enter the house, but dogs can’t?”

       It was Li Jianglin’s request that Erhuang not enter the house. He told Zhu Kai that if he couldn’t do it, he would not be allowed to keep the dog.

       Li Zhenruo got nervous when he heard this, afraid that they would drive him away, but Li Jianglin just said coldly to Zhu Kai, “If you don’t like it, just take your bowl and accompany it outside!”

       Zhu Kai bit his chopsticks and stopped talking.

       The whole family sat down to dinner in harmony. The father was kind and the son was filial, and the brothers were respectful to one another, but no one seemed to remember that there was once a Li Zhenruo in this family. No one mentioned him from beginning to end.

       Li Zhenruo chewed two pieces of cat food and felt it was a little hard to swallow. He was thinking that after a long time, he was afraid that his existence would be gradually forgotten.

       After he ate some things, he felt that he lost his appetite, and quietly dragged his tail to Li Zhenran and sat down under the chair.

       Li Zhenran had been eating dinner gracefully and slowly, but at this time, he secretly took off his slippers and touched Li Zhenruo’s head with his bare feet.

       Li Zhenruo hugged his feet, leaned in and nibbled at his toes lightly, and then quickly spit out, Blergh, what was he thinking?

       Li Jianglin drank a little wine and his face turned slightly red. He put down the glass and suddenly said to Wen Chun, “I called your father before I came back.”

       “Oh?” Wen Chun quickly put down her chopsticks and asked with a smile, “What did you guys talk about?”

       Li Jianglin said, “We were talking of your marriage with the eldest, we decided to choose a good date next month to hold the wedding.”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly raised his head, but unfortunately, he shrunk under the chair, unable to see Wen Chun’s expression.

       He could only listen to Wen Chun’s voice in a calm tone. She said, “Why are you in such a hurry?”

       Li Jianglin said, “It’s no rush, the last time Zhentai came over, I mentioned this to him, but it seems that he didn’t care about it. I came back this time to help you with this matter.”

       Wen Chun didn’t speak. She glanced at Li Zhentai, lowered her head and took a small sip of soup.

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