Month: May 2022 (Page 4 of 4)

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo nodded, “Oh.”

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo took it and replied, “Okay.”

       After speaking, Shen Luming left in a hurry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo nodded.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo said nervously, “Is it possible?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Xia Hongshen sighed, “You are really persistent.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Li Zhenruo thought that he was not pork.

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

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

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

       Xia Hongshen asked him, “Where is it sold? I have only eaten cat food sold in supermarkets.”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t know where it was bought. After thinking about it, he said, “Maybe it’s from an imported food supermarket.”

       “Oh—” Xia Hongshen looked thoughtful, “Is it delicious?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Actually, it’s okay.”

       Xia Hongshen nodded, “Remember to be filial to your Master.”

       Li Zhenruo replied, “This apprentice knows.”

       As he stood up, Li Zhenruo said, “Master, about Erhuang…”

       Xia Hongshen said, “Keep it and let Long Xing take care of it.”

       Li Zhenruo quickly thanked him, and then said, “Master, can you lend me some money, and I will definitely give it back to you in the future.”

       Unexpectedly, Xia Hongshen said, “Your master also does not have money, so go and borrow it from xiao Feng, he is the richest in the family.”

       Li Zhenruo thought to himself that Feng Junyuan, a surgeon, had been living such a miserable life. He could see how miserable these people are, but he still replied, “Okay, thank you, Master.”

       In the end, Li Zhenruo borrowed 500 yuan from Feng Junyuan. Recalling how Feng Junyuan rummaged through his pockets and found 500 yuan, Li Zhenruo felt the hardships of life for them.

       After getting the money from Feng Junyuan, Li Zhenruo hurried to the inter-city bus station. Aunt Wu’s hometown was in a relatively remote county in the province, and it took about 4 hours by bus. He thought about getting on the bus in the form of a cat, but he felt that it would be difficult to get on this kind of intercity bus, and there was no guarantee that the driver would not throw him halfway. The most critical thing if he went in as a cat was that he would have no clothes to wear when he reached his destination. 

       At this time, the necessity of following Xia Hongshen’s practice was fully revealed.

       Not long after the bus drove out, a child sitting in the front row vomited from motion sickness in the car, and the air-conditioned car could not open the windows. The smell spread all at once, and Li Zhenruo covered his nose in pain. The middle-aged man sitting next to him was already asleep, snoring loudly with his head up, and tilting his head to his side from time to time. When Li Zhenruo saw that the man was about to lean on his shoulder, the man woke up suddenly and sat back.

       Not to mention his past life³not referring to his life as Zhenruo but more in the past life, if the current life as a cat was regarded as his life. With Li Zhenruo’s two lifetimes combined, he was afraid that it was such a painful thing to have no money like today.

       He quieted down, closed his eyes and let himself start practising.

       As the bus left the city and entered the suburbs, he found that the surrounding spiritual energy became more and more abundant, which made his slow cultivation speed a little faster.

       When he got off the bus at the destination, Li Zhenruo not only did not feel the fatigue of the journey but felt energetic, as if he had woken up from a comfortable sleep and his whole body had become lighter.

       This situation made him feel that the day when he could change into a suit when he transforms was just around the corner.

       Aunt Wu’s address was overheard by Li Zhenruo before Aunt Wu left Li’s house. At that time, Aunt Wu was chatting with fellows from her village, and Li Zhenruo heard Aunt Wu talk about which county and township she lived in and her home was in the countryside.

       However, he only remembered the name of the village where Aunt Wu was located. When he arrived at the county seat, Li Zhenruo asked someone all the way, and then took another bus. The driver left him on the side of the road halfway and told him that he had arrived at his destination.

       Li Zhenruo was a little dazed. After getting out of the car, he found that there was endless farmland on both sides of the road. He could see a few two-story buildings in the distance, but there were no pedestrians around.

       In his imagination, he walked to the entrance of the village and asked someone at random. It seemed that it was too simple!

       He could only walk inward along a fairly wide and flat path in the field. After walking for more than 20 minutes, Li Zhenruo saw a tea shop beside the road. Many people sat in the tea shop drinking tea and playing mahjong.

       Li Zhenruo walked over to an old man who was sitting at the mahjong table watching people play cards, and asked softly, “Hello, old man, can I ask you about someone?”

       As soon as he finished speaking, everyone at the table who had been concentrating on playing cards looked at him.

       Li Zhenruo coughed uncomfortably and asked again, “Is there a big sister named Wu Jiamei in this village?”

       A table of people looked at him, but no one answered for a while.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but wonder if he had said something wrong or violated any taboo.

       Almost when he was considering whether he should leave, a man pointed his finger in front of him, “Go straight ahead, turn right in front of you and walk another 200 meters. There is a house with a pear tree in front of the yard.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Thank you…” When he turned to leave, he heard someone say “Be careful.”

       He turned his head and saw that those people lowered their heads and started to concentrate on playing cards again. So be careful what? Why did he need to be careful? Li Zhenruo was simply confused and baffled.

       When he turned in the direction that the person told him just now, Li Zhenruo suddenly realized a problem after walking for a while, that was, he didn’t know the pear tree. He stood blankly on the side of the road for a while, but luckily he met a middle-aged woman who passed by. He hurriedly asked her, and this time he got the exact address.

       The gate of the courtyard was not sealed, Li Zhenruo stood outside the courtyard and looked at the two-story building that was somewhat dilapidated. He hesitated and shouted loudly, “Aunt Wu!”

       He thought that he didn’t need to beat around the bush at this time. Aunt Wu was frightened before, and she must not be able to bear the second fright. He might as well lie and coax her to tell the truth. Even if she refused to say it, Li Zhenruo naturally had a way to make her say it.

       However, he shouted several times, but there was no movement inside, then he went to knock on the door. However, no one came to open the door for him.

       Li Zhenruo thought to himself that there might be no one at home at this time. He hesitated whether to sit down in the yard and wait for a while, but he was afraid that he would not get the result by just waiting, so he turned and walked in the direction he came from just now.

       He walked to the front of the tea shop and asked those who were playing cards just now, and said, “Is there anyone in Wu Jiamei’s house?”

       The old man who was watching people playing cards looked up at him and said, “Yes, her son has been at home.”

       Li Zhenruo asked, “Then why do I knock on the door now and no one answers?”

       The old man turned his head back to the card table, “Then come at another time.”

       After that, no one paid attention to him. Li Zhenruo felt a little embarrassed standing on the side and looked in that direction from a distance. Unfortunately, the two-story building of Aunt Wu’s house could not be seen from here.

       He hesitated a little, seeing that it was already late, and he might not be able to find a place to spend the night in this village. He had no other choice but to go back to the county town to find a small hotel to stay overnight, and to put off the discussion until tomorrow morning.

       The small hotel in the county town costs 80 yuan for a night. The sheets were sticky and he also didn’t know if they have been washed. There was a musty smell in the room, but even so, Li Zhenruo still thinks it was expensive.

       There were no toiletries in the bathroom. Li Zhenruo felt that his hair was covered with dust after sitting in the car for a day and wanted to wash his hair. He wandered around the barbershop downstairs of the hotel and wanted to ask for a price, but when he walked in, he saw where a row of women was sitting, all looking up at him in unison, with no barber tools on the table in front of the mirror.

       Li Zhenruo had never seen this kind of situation, but intuitively he felt that he should not go in, and quickly backed out.

       He just didn’t care about anything, ate some dinner at random, went back to the hotel room and lay down on the bed to watch TV, thinking that a human’s life was not as easy as a cat, if he could have the next life, it was better to be a cat. You could eat, sleep and act like a spoiled child every day.

       He curled up and tried to expel all the memories that broke into his head. The best way not to be sad was to not think about it.

       He fell asleep in a daze, and after an unknown amount of time, Li Zhenruo was woken up by the sound of a knock on the door. He raised his head blankly and found that the TV in the room was not yet turned off, and it was past 12 am.

       Who could it be at this hour?

       He didn’t take off his clothes when he slept. At this time, he got up from the bed and opened the door. Li Zhenruo saw a woman standing outside the door, so he opened the door and asked, “What can I do for you?”

       The woman, speaking in a local accent, asked him, “Need a service?”

       Li Zhenruo hadn’t woken up yet, and asked in a daze, “What service?”

       The woman smiled and reached out and touched Li Zhenruo’s face.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly got goosebumps from head to toe, and he got back his senses. He then said, “No need.” and closed the door.

       He felt weird, of course, he certainly could not find a prostitute in such a place, and in fact, she was not ugly. It should be fine if she touched his face, but his body’s reaction was very honest, and that suggestive touch made him very uncomfortable.

       Li Zhenruo leaned behind the door and thought that these strange reactions showed a problem, that was, the owner of this body was a gay cat. Or there was another possibility, that he has been completely bent by Li Zhenran.

       Oh dear… Li Zhenruo sighed and squatted helplessly on the ground.

       He went back to the bed and lay down, but this time, less than half an hour later, someone came knocking on the door again.

       Li Zhenruo got angry, walked over to open the door, and said unhappily, “What is it?”

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       In the evening, Li Zhenruo was finally taken in by the kind Song Jun and had dinner with them.

       At this time, Li Zhenruo was surprised to find that in addition to Song Jun and Xia Hongshen, Feng Junyuan also lived here, and there was a young policeman named Long Xing and a girl named Xi Anling with them.

       The place to eat dinner was very simple. It was in a room, and everyone uses a few stools to form a small table. There were several dishes from the cafeteria on it, and there were small stools around to sit on.

       And because Li Zhenruo was an uninvited guest, the young policeman Long Xing gave him his seat and squatted on the ground himself. This made Li Zhenruo feel very embarrassed and said to Long Xing, “I’m sorry.”

       Long Xing smiled cutely, “It’s okay, you eat more.”

       And the girl that sat opposite Li Zhenruo, Xi Anling, kept staring at him as if she thought he was unnecessary.

       Li Zhenruo felt that these meals were really not very tasty, so he took two bites and put down his rice bowl, and asked Feng Junyuan strangely, “Aren’t you a surgeon? Why are you living such a miserable life?”

       Feng Junyuan looked up at Xia Hongshen, “He spends money without restraint.”

       Li Zhenruo was even more curious, “What’s your relationship with him?”

       While eating, Feng Junyuan replied, “He is my master.”

       Li Zhenruo opened his mouth in surprise and asked, “What about Luo Fei?” He always thought that Xia Hongshen and Song Jun were a pair, and Feng Junyuan and Luo Fei were a pair.

       Feng Junyuan replied calmly, “Luo Fei is Luo Fei.”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t know how to continue the topic.

       At this time, Xia Hongshen pointed at him with chopsticks, “Go after you finished eating.”

       Li Zhenruo sighed helplessly, knowing that he couldn’t stay with Xia Hongshen all the time, he should find a place to stay by himself. Fortunately, this was a school. As a cat, he was best at begging for food from female students. But Erhuang was a little bit of the problem, because Erhuang, as a large dog, ate a lot.

       He brought Erhuang out on impulse, but now he regrets it a little bit. Although no one cared about Erhuang in the Li family, he could eat enough food anyway.

       Looking back, Li Zhenruo found that Long Xing took a small bowl and poured a bowl of dog food for Erhuang.

       Xia Hongshen also saw it and asked Long Xing, “Where did you get the dog food?”

       Long Xing said, “It’s for the Erbao. He hasn’t been here lately.”

       Xia Hongshen complained, “A waste.”

       Long Xing touched Erhuang’s head and looked at it with a smile, “It’s so cute.”

       As he saw this, Li Zhenruo said to Xia Hongshen, “I’ll leave later, but can you foster my dog ​​for a while? I’ll pick it up when I find a place to live.”

       Before Xia Hongshen could answer, Long Xing answered happily, “Yes!”

       At the same time, Feng Junyuan asked him, “Where are you going?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I will deal with things outside for a few days first, and I have to think about the next plan.”

       In fact, he still didn’t give up and wanted to make Xia Hongshen his master. At the same time, he planned to go to Aunt Wu’s hometown to find her first. He was afraid that she would have another work outside or have any other accidents after a long time.

       Feng Junyuan suddenly said, “Why don’t you live with me.”

       This time, not only Xia Hongshen and Song Jun, but also Xi Anling and Long Xing looked at him in surprise, obviously not expecting such an invitation to come out of his mouth.

       Song Jun first asked tentatively, “Xiao Feng? Are you okay?”

       A suspicious blush appeared on Feng Junyuan’s face, and he said, “I like Garfield so much, it’s very cute.”

       Song Jun thought for a while and expressed his understanding, “It is really cute.”

       Xia Hongshen grunted coldly and heaved a pair of chopsticks onto the table.

       But no one paid attention to him, Xi Anling had already stood up and leaned on Song Jun’s back. She stared at Li Zhenruo and said, “Garfield? What do you look like? Transform and show me!”

       Long Xing said, “I know I’ve seen it, the kind of cat whose face is flat.”

       After all the ruckus at night, Li Zhenruo was eventually not thrown out by Xia Hong Shen, but instead slept in a bed with Feng Junyuan. In order to express gratitude to Feng Junyuan for taking him in, Li Zhenruo turned back into a furry kitten when he jumped on the bed and lay down on the side of the bed.

       Erhuang slept under the bed, and yawned loudly, looking a little melancholy.

       Feng Junyuan stared at Li Zhenruo, made Li Zhenruo feel a little uncomfortable, and buried his face in the bed.

       Feng Junyuan asked him, “Why did you come out? Where is your owner?”

       Originally, Li Zhenruo was wandering outside all day, wanting to forget about Li Zhenran, but now Feng Junyuan brought it up again, and his mood suddenly became low.

       Maybe Feng Junyuan just asked casually and didn’t need Li Zhenruo’s answer. After he asked, he reached out and touched the top of Li Zhenruo’s head, and turned over to sleep.

       Unfamiliar room, unfamiliar environment, surrounded by even an unfamiliar person.

       Li Zhenruo closed his eyes, but his other senses were still clear. He was still very awake in his head. He was turning over and over many pictures he saw during the day, but some of them seemed to be blurred. For example, he couldn’t remember whether Li Zhenran hold the woman’s hand when he got off the car.

       “Phew—” Not wanting to disturb Feng Junyuan, Li Zhenruo let out a low breath and opened his eyes again in the darkness.

       The curtains were blown open by the wind, and Li Zhenruo suddenly found a black kitten standing outside the window, looking at him through the window.

       He was taken aback and wondered when the cat was standing there.

       The black cat stared at him for a moment, raised its paw and tapped the window.

       Li Zhenruo subconsciously glanced at Feng Junyuan beside him but found that Feng Junyuan just turned over and didn’t wake up. The black cat outside hooked its paws at him again, as if to signal him to come over.

       Li Zhenruo raised his paw and pointed at himself uncertainly, me?

       The black cat nodded.

       Li Zhenruo hesitated, jumped off the bed, ran to the window in two steps, looked up at it, and then jumped up hard. The window was closed with only one layer of screen. Li Zhenruo pushed the screen with his claws and jumped out. Hearing the black cat “meow”, he found that he could understand what it meant. It told him to follow him up.

       Where to go? Li Zhenruo was still baffled, but the black cat had turned around and climbed up the wall, hooked its claws on the edge of the eaves, and turned over to go to the roof.

       Li Zhenruo was stunned. The eaves¹ of this old house were quite long, and it was definitely impossible to climb on the wall and stretch out claws to reach it. You have to use your limbs on the wall, jump over and hook the eaves with your claws, and then flipped over. It was like playing martial arts and movies. After he thought of it for a while, Li Zhenruo reached a conclusion that he could not do it.

       However, since he didn’t move for a long time, the black cat above was impatient and knocked on the roof tiles.

       Li Zhenruo hesitated a little and decided to try it once.

       He didn’t know the identity of the black cat at first, but after hearing him meow, he realized that the cat was probably Xia Hongshen. He didn’t know what Xia Hongshen want to find him so late, but until now he still didn’t give up and wanted to be Xia Hongshen as his teacher. So the other party’s command was a test for him. Even if he jumped over and couldn’t grab the eaves and fall from the second floor, he decided to give it a try.

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath, jumped hard and grabbed the wall with his sharp claws, jumped up and jumped in the opposite direction, stretching his forelimbs to grab the eaves.

       He felt that the fingernail had touched the eaves, but it was only touching. The tip of the fingernail only grazed, but it was not hooked. The force has come to an end, and so the body sank and fell down.

       Li Zhenruo quickly adjusted his posture and wanted to see if there was a piece of grass underneath, but after falling a short distance, a hand grabbed his stomach and held him up.

       He looked up in amazement and saw Xia Hongshen stretched out half of his body from the roof, grabbing him with one arm, and taking him up until he got on the roof and placed him beside himself.

       Li Zhenruo was still in shock and looked at Xia Hongshen with some small gasps.

       Xia Hongshen looked at him blankly and said, “Why do you want to practice cultivation with me?”

       Li Zhenruo originally wanted to take a human form and sit next to him to talk to him, but then he thought that he would become a human without clothes to wear. Hongshen meowed in front of him.

       He told Xia Hongshen: I feel that my power is too weak, whether as a cat or a person.

       Xia Hongshen asked him, “Do you want to borrow power to take revenge?”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head: I just don’t want to rely on others.

       Xia Hongshen said, “What if I don’t agree?”

       Li Zhenruo thought for a while: If you don’t agree, I will still rely on my own strength to take revenge. When I do, I hope there will be a way to change your mind when we meet again.

       Xia Hongshen held his face with one hand and did not speak.

       Li Zhenruo also lay quietly beside him without moving.

       After a while, Xia Hongshen said, “I got it.” After speaking, he reached out and grabbed the edge of the eaves and flipped over.

       Li Zhenruo froze for a moment and got up to look, and saw that a small black cat had gotten into the small building from the window next to him, and he was the only one left on the roof, and he was at a loss.

       Fortunately, he was still a cat. He dawdled on the edge of the eaves for a while, and finally jumped down in fear and went back to Feng Junyuan’s room.

       The next morning, Feng Junyuan got up to wash up. He had to go to work in the morning and had to arrive at the hospital at 8:30.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t sleep either, so while Feng Junyuan was not in the room, he turned into a human. He picked up his clothes and dressed neatly.

       After a while, Feng Junyuan came back and saw that he was still wearing the same clothes from yesterday. He opened the cabinet and said, “If you don’t have clothes to wear, just wear mine first.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him gratefully, “Well, thank you.”

       For breakfast, Song Jun went to the cafeteria to buy buns and eggs. After eating, Li Zhenruo took Erhuang out for a walk by the rope. He also trotted around the school by himself.

       After running for more than 20 minutes, his head and back began to sweat. He couldn’t help but slow down his pace, thinking that if he didn’t go back and didn’t change his clothes, he might just borrow Feng Junyuan and Song Jun’s clothes, knowing that the last time he borrowed Song Jun’s clothes were not yet returned.

       As he walked forward slowly, Li Zhenruo suddenly felt his heart palpitate. He stopped in a daze, while Erhuang beside him was still walking forward, pulling on the rope until he couldn’t move and stopped to look at him.

       Li Zhenruo raised his head and looked around, and saw a tall and thin boy walking in his direction. He has seen this boy several times, and every time he saw his body, he reacted violently, as if something was pulling him closer.

       The boy was also looking at him. As the two of them got closer, Li Zhenruo heard his heart beat faster.

       Seeing that he didn’t move for a long time, Erhuang couldn’t help pulling him forward.

       The leash in Li Zhenruo’s hand was taut, and he had to take two steps forward, but he tripped over the rope that came around in front of him and he fell forward.

       Just as the boy walked up to him, he raised his hand and held him.

       His heart was beating violently, Li Zhenruo raised his head from the boy’s arms to look at him, and said in a daze, “You…”

       The boy also frowned and asked him, “Who are you?”

       “Din—” A car next to them stopped beside them for some reason, and the horn sounded abruptly.

       There were few cars on the campus, and it was rare for people to honk loudly. So Li Zhenruo was taken aback at this time. He looked back and saw that the driver’s window was down. Li Zhenran was sitting inside, looking at him coldly.

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment and then realized how ambiguous his actions were with this boy. He let go of his hands and stood up straight. When he looked at Li Zhenran, he suddenly thought of the woman who came back with him yesterday.

       Erhuang was very excited to see Li Zhenran and swung his tail towards him.

       Li Zhenran just said to Li Zhenruo coldly, “Get in the car.”

       Li Zhenruo walked to the front of the car window. He didn’t want to show weakness to Li Zhenran, even though the little grievances in his heart were about to overflow.

       He put his hands on the lower edge of the car window and asked Li Zhenran, “What are you doing here?”

       Li Zhenran said, “My cat ran away with our family dog, and I came to find them back.”

       Li Zhenruo squeezed the car door tightly with both hands, and said, “I’m not going back.”

       Erhuang, however, was lying on the door excitedly, sticking his head in to get intimate with Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran patiently asked him, “Why are you not going back? Because of him?”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him and saw that the boy just now was still standing there, looking at them with some doubts. Up until now, Li Zhenruo didn’t even know the boy’s name. He noticed a strange pull from the boy, but he knew very well that it was not love at first sight, but a strange pull from the body.

       At this time, Li Zhenran asked him, but he neither admitted nor denied it, but asked Li Zhenran, “Where’s that woman?”

       “Which woman?” Li Zhenran asked him back.

       Li Zhenruo said, “The woman you brought back from dinner yesterday!”

       Li Zhenran frowned slightly and said, “What happened to her?”

       Li Zhenruo asked, “What’s your relationship with her?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t answer him directly, but said, “What do you think?”

       Li Zhenruo gnashed his teeth and looked at him for a while, then finally calmed down and said, “I’m not going back.”

       Li Zhenran seemed to be angry. Although his face was expressionless, his voice was deeper, “I will give you one last chance to choose.”

       Li Zhenruo felt that he could no longer retreat. Although he might lose some clues when he left the Li family, if he stayed by Li Zhenran’s side, he would only be led by Li Zhenran all the time. Even because of Li Zhenran’s words, he could feel uneasy for a few days.

       He shook his head vigorously, “I’m not going back, the only thing I have to do now is to find out who killed Li Zhenruo, and I want to avenge him.”

       Li Zhenran said, “So I’ve lost my use, have I?”

       Li Zhenruo was slightly startled and wanted to say otherwise, but Li Zhenran had already said, “Let go.”

       Li Zhenruo let go of his hand and took two steps back. Li Zhenran’s car turned around and left without saying anything.

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       Li Zhenruo froze.

       He saw Li Zhenran walk up to the woman, said a few words to her, and then led her toward Li Jianglin’s direction.

       The woman was wearing a silver-white tight-fitting dress, her long hair fell down to her waist, and her face was very beautiful. She walked by Li Zhenran’s side and they both looked like really a good-looking couple. Both of them attracted the attention of the people at the three tables at once.

       Li Zhenruo’s ears were sensitive, and he heard Wen Chun’s mother whispering to Wen Chun, “Is that the second Li’s girlfriend?”

       He didn’t pay attention to what Wen Chun said and just stared blankly at Li Zhenran as he brought the woman to Li Jianglin, and said something as if to introduce her to Li Jianglin.

       Li Jianglin stood up and was full of smiles, probably very satisfied with this daughter-in-law.

       Li Zhenruo’s mind was full of chaos and suddenly felt that the people around him were so noisy that he couldn’t hear what Li Zhenran said. In a trance, he seemed to notice that Li Zhenran glanced in his direction, with cold expressionless eyes. He suddenly felt a pain in his heart. He then turned around and ran.

       He ran towards the edge of the yard, where Erhuang’s house was located. Because there were guests at home today, Erhuang was tied up with a rope, even though it would have been very well behaved.

       Li Zhenruo was just sad. At this time, the whole family was in the yard to wish Li Jianglin his birthday. The only comfort he could find was Erhuang.

       Erhuang saw him running over from a distance. It was originally lying in the house but stood up and looked at him strangely.

       Li Zhenruo rushed over and crashed into Erhuang’s arms.

       Erhuang thoughtfully lay down, wrapped Li Zhenruo’s body in his arms and licked the top of his head.

       It was a pity that Li Zhenruo couldn’t speak at this time. If he could, he would definitely cry with Erhuang in his arms: I’m dumped! Li Zhenran is a heartless man. He refused to admit it after he slept with me and now he’s got a girlfriend!

       He lay sadly for a while, looked up and saw Erhuang’s clear eyes, and suddenly thought: What’s the point of crying! Li Zhenran was unreliable, so he should rely on himself. If he wanted to take revenge, he shouldn’t only rely on Li Zhenran. However, because he was too dependant on Li Zhenran, he hesitated and stopped, and even his original intention gradually blurred.

       He shouldn’t be like this!

       Li Zhenruo thought silently.

       Erhuang was a little uneasy because of his silence, and repeatedly licked the top of his head, making his fur wet.

       Li Zhenruo glanced at Erhuang with a gentle expression and felt that the big dog abandoned by the owner shared the same ailment with him. Since no one cared about it, it was better to sneak out with it by himself.

       He raised a paw and scratched his chin, and began to think about how it would be easier for him to leave the Li family.

       In fact, he a cat, could find the most convenient to find a corner that the surveillance couldn’t notice, and slipped out. It was the most convenient way to go without anyone knowing. However, it was a little difficult to take Erhuang out. He could only go out through the gate, but then the guard will stop them.

       Li Zhenruo clenched his chin and thought, maybe there is another way. He could pretend to be a guest at Li’s house today, and took Erhuang by the rope and said to take him out for a walk. Many guests came to Li’s house today, and they all drove in directly. Naturally, the guard couldn’t recognize all the guests. Moreover, the guests of the Li family were either wealthy and respectable people. As long as he was haughty and at ease, the guards would not ask too many questions.

       With this in mind, Li Zhenruo made up his mind.

       He left the kennel and glanced at the front yard. When he saw that Li Zhenran and the woman had already taken their seats, Li Zhenruo went around to the side, climbed the window to the third floor and got into Li Zhenran’s room, and then turned into a human form and rummaged through the cabinet. A set of clothes, shoes and socks were packed together in a bag.

       He carefully looked out of the window and saw that there was no one by the pool, so he threw the bag from the third floor.

       There was a loud sound when the bag landed, and he was startled. He hunched his neck and waited for a while, then secretly raised his head to look outside, only to find that no one was paying attention, so he transformed into Garfield’s form and strung out through the window.

       He burrowed his head into the round hole of the bag and dragged the bag toward Erhuang’s doghouse. Although it was a little laborious, and he could barely walk, he had to be careful not to be seen.

       After he dragged the whole bag, he sneakily put the bag on Erhuang’s head, untied the rope buckle next to him with his claws, and then hooked his claws to let Erhuang follow him.

       Erhuang was obviously hesitant.

       Li Zhenruo simply ran a few steps forward, and Erhuang ran after him at once, with a bag of things dragging by his feet, and stumbling a little.

       It was not until he ran to a remote corner with Erhuang that Li Zhenruo stopped. He huddled in the grass and looked around and turned into a human form.

       Er Huang was stunned for a moment, and stared at him with wide eyes, even its pupils dilated.

       Li Zhenruo also suddenly realized that he was a little reckless, it would be bad if Erhuang barked at this time. But fortunately, Erhuang was stunned and didn’t scream. After a while, Erhuang came over with a blank face to smell the scent on his body. The more it smelled, the more confused it became. So it smelled every inch of his body from head to foot to make sure.

       Li Zhenruo was putting on clothes, pushing Erhuang’s head away while wearing them, and whispered, “Don’t make trouble.”

       He put on his clothes in a hurry, hunched over in the grass and groped for Erhuang’s dog leash, held it in his hand and said to him, “Erhuang, I’ll take you to find your master, you have to follow me obediently, okay?”

       Erhuang couldn’t answer him, but Li Zhenruo could see that his eyes were still clear and bright.

       “Let’s go!” Li Zhenruo said.

       He knew that when he left this time, the Li family would definitely investigate when they found that the cat and the dog were missing together. At that time, they would find out that he took the dog out, but who was he? He was Luo Fei’s cousin Li Tuanzi. Only Li Zhenran knew his true identity, no one else knew.

       There was no surveillance in the Li family’s yard, and all surveillance was aimed at the walls and gates, so no one would know what happened before. If they wanted to trace his whereabouts, they could only rely on Li Zhenran.

       This was not difficult for Li Zhenran. After all, the collar on his neck has not been taken off. Li Zhenran would definitely be able to find him if he was looking for him.

       But he felt that Li Zhenran probably didn’t want to find him anymore. If Li Zhenran didn’t care and Zhu Kai was not around, it didn’t seem like a big deal that the cats and dogs of the Li family were lost, maybe they would just leave at it.

       Li Zhenruo turned around and wanted to take a last look at Li Zhenran, but the view was obstructed and he couldn’t see him. He could only hear the lively conversation in the front yard. He could imagine the scene, but he didn’t plan to stay any longer.

       He ran outside like a child with the dog on a leash. Erhuang probably recognized him by the familiar smell, and actually followed closely behind him.

       The door was tightly closed, and Li Zhenruo asked the guard to open the side door.

       The doorman looked at him strangely, and said politely, “It’s pretty cold outside, do you want to go out?”

       Li Zhenruo said with a smile, “I’ll take the dog out for a while and come back. Do you want Zhenran ge to say something?”

       The guard really thought he was a guest of the Li family. As he saw that Li Zhenruo didn’t take anything other than the dog, he didn’t have any doubts and said, “No, but pay attention to safety outside.” He treated him like a child who came with some family.

       Li Zhenruo nodded, waited until the door opened, and pulled Erhuang out.

       He took Erhuang and walked outside along the road around the lake. After a while, he thought about whether it was convenient to be a cat or a human to move.

       Later, he realized that as a person, now that he has no money, it was really not as convenient as a cat.

       In fact, Li Zhenruo didn’t rush out without any plan. He planned to find Xia Hongshen, but not to ask him for help. No one was obliged to help him all the time. In the end, he still had to do his own affairs. He wanted to find Xia Hongshen for an apprenticeship.

       It wasn’t a sudden idea. The last time he went to see Xia Hongshen, he asked him about cultivation. Not just for revenge, but more about the future after he has taken his revenge. Li Zhenruo didn’t want to end his life as a cat so simply after a dozen years, and he began to yearn for a longer future. He knew that he was greedy, even if he had been a cat for so many years, something he earned that should not have belonged to him.

       But human greed was so endless. He turned to look at Erhuang who was following him, and thought that if he had never been a human, but was born a cat, he would probably only need food in his life. It was a pity that he was not, so he began to be greedy and began to plan his future.

       He was not sure if Xia Hongshen was willing to agree to him, but he would work hard. He hoped that he could have a little more power so that he would be able to freely change forms. He couldn’t let himself have to rely on Li Zhenran every step of the way.

       You see, just like now, when Li Zhenran didn’t want him anymore, he would be reduced to the point where he was penniless and couldn’t even go out.

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath and regained his senses to find that he had led Erhuang a long way.

       But from here, it would take at least half an hour to walk to the road outside. Li Zhenruo looked back and wondered if he should just change back to a cat and run out, maybe he could catch a bus.

       At this time, a car drove from behind him. It was about to pass by him but suddenly slowed down until it stopped not far in front of him.

       Li Zhenruo was slightly stunned and walked forward. He looked inside from the pressed car window, and saw that the person driving was actually his former assistant Yan Xiujie.

       Yan Xiujie, dressed in a suit and tie, dressed up neatly, and said to Li Zhenruo, “Do you need a ride?”

       Li Zhenruo had met Yan Xiujie twice in his current appearance, and both in Yunlin. He didn’t expect Yan Xiujie to remember him, so he asked, “Is it alright?”

       Yan Xiujie said, “Aren’t you a friend of Second Young Master? Where are you going? I can give you a ride.”

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly opened the car door, shoved Erhuang into the back seat, sat on the passenger side, and said, “Thank you very much, I’m going to the city hospital, I don’t know if it’s on your way?”

       Yan Xiujie replied, “It is.”

       Li Zhenruo was very surprised that Yan Xiujie appeared here because with Yan Xiujie’s current status today, he should not be the guest invited. And if he was a guest, he would not have left the Li family so soon. They should have just started not long ago.

       However, before he asked out of curiosity, Yan Xiujie asked, “Are you a guest of Second Young Master? Why did you leave so early?” And you went out with a dog. Yan Xiujie didn’t ask the latter question.

       Li Zhenruo said, “I have something to go first, but I didn’t come by car. Originally, I wanted to come out and take a taxi.”

       Yan Xiujie nodded without further questioning.

       Li Zhenruo then asked him, “Why did you leave so quickly?”

       Yan Xiujie smiled, “I’m not a guest of the Li family. The company has a document that is a little urgent. I’m driving it to Second Young Master.”

       Because he was Li Zhenruo’s assistant in the past, Li Zhenran was afraid that his appearance at Li Jianglin’s birthday banquet would affect Li Jianglin’s mood, so Li Zhenran didn’t invite him in at all, and directly let him wait outside the door. Hua Yi Bang came out to get the documents, then he change direction and left.

       As Li Zhenruo listened to his plain tone, he suddenly felt a little upset for him. If Li Zhenruo was still the fourth young master of the Li family, Yan Xiujie would not be treated like this.

       Erhuang in the back row was a little nervous and brought his head closer. Li Zhenruo raised his hand and touched Erhuang’s head to soothe his mood while saying to Yan Xiujie, “Are you Li Zhenruo’s assistant?”

       Yan Xiujie looked at him when he heard the words, “You know? Did the Second Young Master tell you?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Well, I just think it’s a pity.”

       Yan Xiujie asked, “What a pity?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “It’s a pity that the fourth youngest of the Li family died at a young age for no apparent reason.”

       Yan Xiujie gaze ahead, and his expression was a little sad, “It’s an accident, I guess.”

       Yan Xiujie knew about the matter of Li Zhenruo was not Li Jianglin’s son and he was one of the few outsiders who knew the truth. However, his mouth was very sealed tight. Even if Li Zhenruo died, he received a cold treatment, he also never mentioned it to others.

       When Li Zhenruo saw that Yan Xiujie had a face that he didn’t want to talk anymore, so Li Zhenruo didn’t ask anymore, but just asked, “Are you working with Li Zhenran now?”

       Yan Xiujie said, “I am in the market planning department. It was the department the second young master in charge of, and I have a lot of work contact.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, but only made a light “um”.

       Yan Xiujie kept driving him to the gate of the city hospital. Li Zhenruo took Erhuang out of the car and said to him, “Thank you.”

       Yan Xiujie smiled, “You’re welcome, then I’ll go first.” After he said that, he didn’t stay any longer and drove the car away.

       As he saw Yan Xiujie drive away, Li Zhenruo did not lead Erhuang into the hospital but walked towards the school across the street.

       Although he was walking a dog, since the university had external projects, the personnel exchanges were complicated and the management was relatively loose. No one prevented him from entering Song Jun’s academic building.

       When he found Song Jun, he was doing an experiment in the laboratory. Song Jun came out of the laboratory wearing a white coat and a mask, and asked Li Zhenruo in surprise, “Is there something wrong?”

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath and said, “Can you do me a favour?”

       Song Jun had always been friendly to him, and responded, “You can tell me what the favour is first. If it’s possible I will help.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I want Xia laoshi to accept me as an apprentice.”

       “Huh?” Song Jun was surprised.

       Li Zhenruo nodded vigorously, “I’m serious!”

       Song Jun tapped his head with a headache, “Wait a minute.”

       In the afternoon, Song Jun finished his experiment and took Li Zhenruo back with his dog.

       As he followed Song Jun into the old two-story building, Li Zhenruo was a little surprised when he stepped on the wooden stairs, “This should be a protected heritage, right? You live in this kind of place? Are you not afraid of being haunted?”

       Song Jun didn’t change his face, “There has been a fuss.”

       He led Li Zhenruo to the door of a room on the second floor and knocked on the door, “Senior brother, I’m back.”

       The door was quickly opened from the inside, and Li Zhenruo was surprised to find that Xia Hongshen was sitting by the desk looking at the computer, and he didn’t seem to move at all. Then the question arose, who opened the door of the room?

       Xia Hongshen said without raising his head, “I smell it.”

       The scent he was talking about, of course, was not referring to Song Jun, but Li Zhenruo, and perhaps a bonus Erhuang.

       “Senior brother,” Song Jun said.

       Xia Hongshen turned around, spun the pen in his hand, and asked him, “It’s a cat and a dog, do you now work with animals?”

       Song Jun said, “Little Garfield said that he wants to pay respect to you as his teacher.”

       Xia Hongshen’s gaze then turned to Li Zhenruo, “Pay respect to me as a teacher? I don’t accept apprentices.”

       Li Zhenruo knew that it was time to express his determination. He half-knelt on the ground and clasped his fists with both hands, “Please take me as your disciple, Xia laoshi. I will study hard, cultivate hard, respect you as my master, and carry forward the sect!”

       Xia Hongshen looked at him expressionlessly and gently pressed the signature pen to his lips after spinning it around for a long time. He then asked, “Which sect are you?”

       Li Zhenruo stood up helplessly, sighed and said, “Xia laoshi, I’m serious.”

       Xia Hong’s deep and handsome face has sharp eyes, “I’m also serious.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at Song Jun and asked him for help.

       Song Jun couldn’t help laughing, “I can’t help you, it’s up to you, little Garfield.”

       Li Zhenruo said sullenly, “I have a name, not little Garfield.”

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“Perfection” will start pre-sale in early September. Interested readers can check the pre-sale information on my Weibo, Weibo name: 金刚那个圈

Regarding the point of changing into and wearing clothes, I suddenly fell into deep doubt when I wrote this part because if Zhenruo really could change clothes in the future, how should the second brother take off his clothes, it is not equivalent to pulling out all his hair?

There are also people who feel distressed about cats. In fact, it is a bit exaggerated like a cartoon. Just like the cartoon of cats and mice¹Tom and Jerry, lol, no one should feel that cats are abused. I hope no one takes it too seriously.

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You can read the translated “Perfection” on this link~
Almost a year after I finished translating Perfection in a rush, I realised there are so many awkward looks like little edited MTL sentences. I am in the middle of fixing it so it flowed better :’)
It was my first novel after all, I hope it doesn’t give past readers too much headache (ﾟ⊃ω⊂ﾟ)ﾟ
Also, I just found out that Xia Hongshen and the gang are actually characters from Jin Gang Quan’s other novel
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       However, Li Zhenruo seemed to have misunderstood Li Zhenran.

       Because at the same time he fell down, Li Zhenran reached out and grabbed him. But Li Zhenran just happened to only grab his tail, which made him shriek in the middle of the night

       Li Zhenran hurriedly pulled his tail to lift him up and put him on the windowsill.

       Li Zhenruo was still in shock, plus, his tail was pulled up painfully. The whole cat was in a trance, just burying his head and licking the root of his tail.

       Li Zhenran looked at him, his slender legs rolled over the window frame and hung outside. He sat on the window sill, raised one hand and stuffed a cigarette into his mouth, and then lit the cigarette with a lighter in the other hand.

       Li Zhenruo smelled the smoke and looked up at him. It seemed that he hardly ever seen Li Zhenran smoke, but now he was sitting on the windowsill looking into the distance with a cigarette in his mouth, which made Li Zhenruo feel a little uncomfortable.

       If he had to summarize this emotion, Li Zhenruo felt that Li Zhenran was probably heartbroken.

       The pain at the base of the tail became less distinct. Li Zhenruo hesitated for a long time, stretched out his paw, and touched Li Zhenran’s thigh nervously.

       He should actually turned into a human form and sat down to have a serious chat with Li Zhenran, but he was a little timid. He always felt that he didn’t need to talk if he looked like this, so he didn’t need to face Li Zhenran’s questioning.

       Li Zhenran ignored him. He just bent his left leg and stepped on the window sill, his left arm rested on his knee and held the cigarette between his fingers.

       Li Zhenruo looked a little bewildered at his handsome side profile.

       Li Zhenran suddenly opened his mouth and said, “Why are you climbing to my room in the middle of the night?”

       Where in the middle of the night it is? Li Zhenruo cursed, but after he heard him say this, he finally felt relieved and thought that Li Zhenran was probably not so angry.

       He carefully withdrew his sharp claws, placed the soft pad of flesh against Li Zhenran’s waist, and raised his head while looking at him, while gently pressing his waist.

       Li Zhenran still ignored him.

       So he pressed again.

       Li Zhenran looked at him this time and said, “I’ll throw you down.”

       Li Zhenruo quickly retracted his cat’s paw.

       He hesitated for a while, and finally stretched his limbs to become a human and sat beside Li Zhenran. The two men crowded the same window sill. Li Zhenruo’s naked skin was close to Li Zhenran’s body, and he could feel the temperature of Li Zhenran’s skin through a thin layer of cloth.

       Li Zhenruo said, “I can’t say that I came to Li’s house and stayed with you for no purpose, but it has nothing to do with my feelings for you.”

       Li Zhenran took a puff of smoke, and suddenly spew all the white smoke on Li Zhenruo’s face. He then asked him, “What kind of feelings do you have for me?”

       Li Zhenruo shrank his neck back, looked at Li Zhenran, thought about it and said, “Isn’t it the master…”

       Li Zhenran didn’t answer, took a puff and spew the smoke on his face.

       Li Zhenruo raised his hand and waved the smoke away, and asked Li Zhenran tentatively, “What’s that supposed to be?”

       Li Zhenran said coldly, “How do I know? Think for yourself, and tell me if you understand.” With that, he turned into the room and walked towards the bathroom.

       When he went to bed at night, Li Zhenruo still didn’t know how to answer Li Zhenran’s question. Li Zhenran’s attitude towards him was cold, but not as angry as when he confessed his identity to him at first.

       Maybe Li Zhenran forgave him after the entanglement and he didn’t care about his impure intentions at the beginning. Perhaps it was enough to know that he was now a good cat who was devoted to his master.

       Li Zhenruo slept beside Li Zhenran’s pillow, but Li Zhenran refused to reach out and hug him. Li Zhenruo somewhat suffer from insomnia, and he didn’t fall asleep for a while. Li Zhenran didn’t move next to him, and he didn’t dare to toss and turn for fear that if he woke Li Zhenran, he would be thrown out of bed.

       After he lay down quietly for a while, Li Zhenruo changed himself back to the appearance of a cat, quietly got up and made a circle on the pillow. He stared straight at Li Zhenran. After staring for more than ten minutes, he felt sleepy, yawned and closed his eyes to sleep.

       The next morning, Li Zhenran didn’t talk to Li Zhenruo when he got up. After Li Zhenran took a bath and dressed, he went downstairs to have breakfast.

       Li Zhenruo looked disappointed, washed his face with his paws, and followed Li Zhenran downstairs.

       During breakfast, there were only Li Zhenran and Wen Chun in the dining room, and neither of them spoke, making the Li family particularly cold. In fact, there weren’t many people in the past, but Li Zhenzi and Zhu Kai never kept their mouths shut, and Li Zhentai was always friendly and liked to engage in small talk with his younger brother.

       Wang Ma probably also felt a little down. She turned on the TV in the living room after eating breakfast early.

       Li Zhenruo swallowed a few pieces of cat food and suddenly heard Li Zhenran say, “Sister-in-law enjoy your meal, I’ll be going first.” He immediately turned to look and saw that Li Zhenran had picked up the coat hanging on the back of the chair with one hand and was already going out.

       So Li Zhenruo didn’t care about the cat food he hadn’t swallowed, and hurriedly wanted to chase him out, but Li Zhenran closed the door as soon as he got in the car.

       Li Zhenruo rushed over and throw himself at the door. He then tried to jump up and saw that the window was not open.

       Wang Ma chased him out and picked him up. She took two steps back, and said, “Be careful, they’re going to drive.”

       Sure enough, Li Zhenran didn’t even look at him and asked the driver to drive.

       Li Zhenruo stared blankly at the car driving away and weakly dropped his head in Wang Ma’s arms.

       He was listless all day, lying on the back of the sofa in the living room, waiting for Li Zhenran to come back. But at the same time, he was a little dazed, not knowing what Li Zhenran should say to him when he really came back.

       In the morning, when Wang Ma went to help in the kitchen, Wen Chun came down to the first floor and stood outside in the courtyard to make a phone call.

       Li Zhenruo looked at her slender back and felt that she was a little pitiful, but when he thought of her relationship with Li Zhenzi, he felt that she was to blame.

       Li Jianglin came back from a walk, took a book and sat on the reclining chair in the yard. He was flipping through the book.

       Li Zhenruo hesitated for a moment, then got up and walked out, straightened up and leaned on the side of the reclining chair. When Li Jianglin saw him, he bent down and stretched out his hand to lift Li Zhenruo up and put him on his lap.

       When Li Zhenruo lay down, Li Jianglin stroked his head and back with his rough palms.

       Li Zhenruo was already a little aggrieved, but he felt even more aggrieved by being treated so gently by Li Jianglin and closed his eyes quietly.

       However, in the afternoon, Li Zhenruo was lying on the stairs to take a nap when was awakened by the sound of Wang Ma’s footsteps suddenly passing by. He saw Wang Ma hurrying upstairs, and followed quickly. But unfortunately, he couldn’t ask what happened.

       He saw Wang Ma go to Li Zhenran’s room on the third floor, opened the door, went in, opened the closet, and unexpectedly started packing.

       Li Zhenruo was startled and felt strange. He grabbed Wang Ma’s legs and began to “meow meow” with his mouth on and on.

       Wang Ma was tired of being pestered that she reached out and gently lifted him and said, “Your master is going on a business trip. I’ll help him pack up, so don’t make trouble.”

       Li Zhenran is going on a business trip? Why didn’t he tell him so suddenly? Li Zhenruo was stunned for a while.

       After a while, Wang Ma packed the suitcase and dragged it outside.

       Li Zhenruo tried to stop her, but he couldn’t stop her. So he could only lie on top of the suitcase in the end.

       Wang Ma dragged the box to the top of the stairs, and raised her hand to drive him down, but failed. She put down the suitcase and called the gardener to help.

       The gardener was a middle-aged man in his forties. He picked up the suitcase and walked downstairs regardless of whether there was a cat or not. Li Zhenruo almost fell in an instant, but fortunately, he still had his claws firmly grasping the handle of the suitcase.

       Wang Ma instructed the gardener to put the suitcase by the door of the living room and ignore the cat that was still lying on it, and go about his own business.

       After half an hour, Hua Yibang drove over.

       Wang Ma brought him to get the suitcase. Hua Yibang stood at the door of the living room, looked at the cat lying on it, and was slightly startled.

       Wang Ma asked, “Did Zhenran say he was going to take the cat with him?”

       Hua Yibang shook his head blankly.

       Wang Ma asked again, “Are you going with him? How many days are you going to go?”

       Hua Yibang replied, “I guess about half a month.”

       Wang Ma was a little surprised, “It’s so long! Then take care of yourself and keep an eye on Zhenran.”

       Hua Yibang nodded, “I know.”

       Wang Ma felt a little strange again, “He’s not going to bring the cat? He didn’t take the cat with him even though he was gone for so long?”

       Hua Yibang let out an “um”.

       Wang Ma said, “So I guess it’s probably going to freak out when it’s not going to find its owner for half a month.”

       Li Zhenruo felt that he was about to go crazy in less than half a month.

       Hua Yibang obviously couldn’t be that thoughtful to Li Zhenran’s pet cat. He only said to Wang Ma, “Mom, I have to go, or I won’t be able to catch the plane.”

       Wang Ma said, “Oh, oh, go quickly.”

       Hua Yibang pointed to Li Zhenruo, “The cat.”

       Wang Ma understood and held Li Zhenruo’s two front paws to carry him down. Li Zhenruo was clinging to the suitcase to death, his claws were about to go in, but after all, his strength was not as strong as that of humans, so he was finally pulled off by Wang Ma and let out a cry.

       Hua Yibang put the suitcase into the car.

       Li Zhenruo was unwilling to give up and waved his paws, “Meow…”

       However, Hua Yibang had already gotten into the car. But after hearing Li Zhenruo scream forlornly, he just glanced at his face and started the car mercilessly.

       Wang Ma held him tightly in her arms and said to Hua Yibang, “Be careful!”

       Hua Yibang responded, “Mom, take care of your health.” Then he drove the car away.

       Wang Ma stood there and watched her son drive away, and then went back to the house with the cat.

       After Li Zhenruo was put on the ground, he jumped up and wanted to rush out, but just after he left the living room door, he stopped.

       He originally thought he could leave the Li family after taking human form to catch up, but then he thought, Li Zhenran went out of town on a business trip, his ID card was locked by the other party, and he couldn’t catch up with him if he couldn’t buy a plane ticket. And since Li Zhenran deliberately avoided him, what would happen if he caught up with him? Li Zhenran asked him some other questions, but he was still speechless. The final result, he afraid might not be any different from now.

       He felt his heart cold, Li Zhenruo stopped and lay down.

       Wang Ma thought he was about to run away. She was startled and just chased after him, only to see Li Zhenruo lying down at the door again. Frightened, she walked over and lightly kicked his ass with her feet in slippers, and scolded, “Troublemaker!”

       Li Zhenruo was kicked and shook for a while. He raised his paws to cover his face.

       Li Zhenran’s visit really lasted half a month, and he didn’t call back halfway. No, he may have called Li Jianglin, but he didn’t call Li Zhenruo.

       It was impossible for him to say on the phone: Let my cat answer the phone, I want to talk to it.

       Li Zhenruo was listless all day and lay motionless on the sofa. When he slept at night, he went back to the third floor. Sometimes his mind wandered and he slowly walked to the door of Li Zhenran’s room before he even realized it, Then he would finally lay down against the door, resting his head on his paws.

       Li Zhenruo thinks that his current mood was probably the same as someone who was lovelorn. Every morning when he opened his eyes, he thought of Li Zhenran, and then he falls into endless worries. At night, he couldn’t sleep for a long time. The cat was left alone and left here, and bursts of sorrow flooded into his heart.

       One day at dinner, Li Zhenruo was licking cat food carelessly, and sometimes he would pause for a few seconds after eating one.

       Li Jianglin sat on the side and observed him for a long time, and asked Wang Ma, “What happened to the cat?”

       Wang Ma said, “Maybe the owner has been away for too long and it is in a bad mood.”

       Li Jianglin sighed, “This is the first time I’ve seen such a humane cat.”

       Wang Ma also said, “Yes, this cat is very smart, just like a child.”

       Li Zhenruo raised his head and looked dazed, only to feel that the cat food in his mouth was rough, dry and tasteless.

       Li Jianglin turned his gaze back at this moment, glanced at Wen Chun, who was sitting across from him eating silently and said, “My birthday is on the seventh of next month, and I plan to have a drink at home. Please invite your parents to come.”

       Wen Chun was a little surprised when he heard the words, “Didn’t Dad say you don’t want to celebrate?”

       As early as half a month ago, Li Zhenran asked Li Jianglin if he wanted to arrange a birthday for him. At that time, Li Jianglin said there was no need, and the family would just have a meal together. But now listening to Li Jianglin’s tone, it felt like another show to invite guests.

       Li Jianglin said, “I’m just inviting some close old friends and relatives. There are only two or three tables in total. We are not going to eat out, and can just eat at home.”

       Wang Ma was also eating with her at the dining table and then said with a smile, “Okay, okay, I’ll go talk to the kitchen later, plan it out properly, and write a menu out for you to look over first. It’ll be lively then.”

       The house has been deserted for a long time, and even Wang Ma was looking forward to being able for the whole family to come back for a gathering.

       For Li Jianglin’s birthday, no matter how big the conflict, it was impossible for Li Zhentai and Li Zhenzi not to show up. It was impossible to pull each other down when they come back since there were going to be so many guests at home. It seemed that Li Jianglin couldn’t bear it either, and wanted to find an opportunity to resolve the current situation.

       Li Zhenruo had a portion of cat food in his mouth, but he didn’t swallow it.

       Li Jianglin nodded, “I’ll call the eldest later and tell him to come back. The second child is not here recently. This matter still has to be handled by him.”

       Wen Chun replied softly, “Okay, Dad.”

       Sure enough, that night, Li Zhentai rushed back from the outside, and after returning home, he went into Li Jianglin’s study and closed the door to talk to him.

       Li Zhenruo was not in the mood to eavesdrop. After dinner, he took Erhuang for a walk in the yard and then jumped in from the living room window after the walk. Before he hit the floor, he was caught by Wang Ma and went to the bathroom to wash his feet, wiped clean water and thrown to the floor.

       When he came out, he met Li Zhentai who also came out of Li Jianglin’s study. Instead of leaving, he went to his room on the second floor.

       Li Zhenruo walked behind him, went to the second floor and looked around, and saw Li Zhentai reach out to close the door.

       Li Zhentai stayed at home for the night that night, and he went home to sleep every day after that.

       Li Zhenzi also came back, but it was daytime. Li Zhentai hadn’t come back at that time. As soon as Wen Chun saw Li Zhenzi, he went upstairs without saying hello, presumably to avoid suspicion.

       Li Jianglin asked Li Zhenzi to enter the study, and the father and son chatted for about an hour, but Li Zhenruo didn’t eavesdrop. In fact, he has no interest in doing anything recently, but he guessed that Li Jianglin must have asked Li Zhenzi to apologize to Li Zhentai.

       Otherwise, Li Jianglin couldn’t persuade Li Zhentai to stop worrying about it. He should know that even if Li Zhentai really didn’t care about it, the knot in his heart will never be solved there, and it would probably stay with them for a lifetime.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that if he was Li Jianglin, he would just let Li Zhentai and Wen Chun divorce, so why bother?

       Although Li Zhenran was not there, in order to prepare for Li Jianglin’s birthday banquet, the family suddenly became lively, especially Wang Ma, who has been instructing the cleaning aunt to clean up thoroughly for the past two days and wiped the windows and glass of all the rooms with ladders repeatedly.

       At the same time, she was still planning the dishes for the banquet and asked the kitchen to make a list for Li Zhentai to look over. Li Zhentai felt that it was not satisfying enough, so he simply asked his assistant Gao Qi to go to the restaurant to order a few dishes to send over.

       When they were cleaning, Li Zhenruo was given a cold shoulder by this family more than once because he got in the way. He was a little angry, and thought that he never chase the robot vacuum cleaner or the mop, so why was he treated like he got in the way?

       In anger, Li Zhenruo left the living room and went to the yard, and ran to Erhuang’s doghouse to lie down with him.

       A dog and a cat were waiting for their owners to come back soon.

       Life without a master always seemed to pass very slowly. However, no matter how slow, as he stared at the clock’s second hand going up and down, half a month had passed before he knew it.

       Li Jianglin’s birthday came, and Li Zhenran still didn’t come back.

       The night before, Li Zhenruo heard Li Jianglin tell Wang Ma that Li Zhenran would come back before lunch the next day.

       Wang Ma heard the words and said, “That’s good then.”

       Li Jianglin said, “Let Yibang stay and eat together.”

       “Ah,” Wang Ma smiled.

       When Li Zhenruo heard their conversation, he suddenly had a little appetite. It was not that he pretended to be pitiful. When Li Zhenruo looked in the mirror in the bathroom last night, Li Zhenruo felt as if he had lost weight.

       He was not too sure. He turned around in front of the mirror a few times and finally pulled the hair on his chin with his paws with difficulty, before nodding with certainty, that he had really lost weight.

       The next morning, Li Zhenruo woke up shortly after dawn. He got up from his nest and jumped to the window to look outside.

       Although it was still early, it could already be seen that today would be a good day and everything would be fine, Li Zhenruo told himself.

       Wang Ma also got up very early and started to be busy after breakfast. Wen Chun did not stay in the room, but wore a beautiful dress with decent makeup on her face, and helped Wang Ma direct the workers in the house to make preparations.

       It was rare for Li Zhentai not to go out, so he called Gao Qi soon after getting up and told him to go to the restaurant to confirm today’s order.

       Li Zhenruo went downstairs full of energy, stood at the door of the living room and looked outside, waiting for Li Zhenran to come back.

       However, he waited until almost noon. When the guests had all come together, the tables were placed directly inside the courtyard. A total of three tables.

       Li Zhenzi came back. Although Li Zhentai did not communicate with him, he did not embarrass him in front of the guests.

       Wen Chun’s parents also came, and Li Zhentai put his arms around Wen Chun’s waist in front of his father-in-law and mother-in-law, as if the husband and wife were in a good relationship.

       Where is Li Zhenran?

       Just as Li Zhentai and Li Jianglin greeted the guests to sit down at the round table together, Li Zhenruo saw a black car driving in from outside. He didn’t have to look carefully to know that it was Li Zhenran’s car.

       The car drove until it stopped nearby, Hua Yibang opened the passenger’s door and got out, and the rear door also opened from the inside, and Li Zhenran stepped out first with his long leg.

       Li Zhenruo was a little excited, took two steps forward and hesitated whether he should pounce, but saw Hua Yibang go around to the other side of the back seat and open the car door, and a beautiful woman with long hair and a tall slender figure came down from inside.

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       Li Zhenruo didn’t care much about Zhu Kai’s kiss just now, but what he pondered in his heart was that Zhu Kai said he knew a secret.

       What secret? It must be a secret related to the Li family. Otherwise, Zhu Kai wouldn’t feel the need to be so talkative, and other secrets were meaningless to him.

       So what’s the secret? Li Zhenruo felt that if he could only guess it by his imagination, there was no way to guess it.

       When he looked back to find Zhu Kai again, he found that Zhu Kai had caught a car on the side of the road and run away. If he let Li Zhenran know, and he was determined to find Zhu Kai, it would not be impossible for him to find Zhu Kai. But even if he found him, who could force Zhu Kai to say things he was not willing to say?

       Could this secret have something to do with Li Zhenruo’s death?

       Li Zhenruo had some speculation in his heart, was Zhu Kai dealing with the people of the Li family to avenge him? It was impossible if he thought about it. Zhu Kai’s feelings for him were not deep enough to this point.

       Li Zhenruo felt that he wouldn’t be able to guess, and squatted on the side of the road holding his head in pain. He suddenly remembered something he was thinking about before. When he had a chance, he wanted to go to Aunt Wu, who left the Li family in a hurry, and asked if she had taken the blood-stained tissue from his room at that time and gave the tissue to someone. By now, he felt that he had to wait for that opportunity, which was probably difficult to wait. He was hooked by Zhu Kai’s words, and suddenly had an idea that it was almost time to act.

       It was not difficult to find out about Aunt Wu’s hometown, but if he wanted to go now, he had to find a way to deal with Li Zhenran.

       How could Li Zhenran allow him to disappear for two or three days without saying anything?

       Li Zhenruo felt a little distressed. He thought that Li Zhenran had some speculation about him, but he didn’t know how much he knew. Before this, Li Zhenruo thought to himself that if Li Zhenran really asked about it one day, he would say that he had received some favour from Li Zhenruo before. Although his benefactor had died, he did not give up trying to find the murderer. But he didn’t expect that until now, Li Zhenran didn’t ask a word. What was Li Zhenran thinking about?

       Since Li Zhenran refused to ask, wouldn’t it be better for him to take the initiative to give a hint to Li Zhenran?

       With this little concern in his mind, Li Zhenruo did not go back to find Li Zhenran that afternoon until he got off work. Later, Li Zhenran called him and asked him where he was. Li Zhenruo replied, “I’m hiding. Come and find me.”

       Li Zhenruo still has a positioning collar on his neck, and it was easy for Li Zhenran to find him.

       It was just that Li Zhenran seemed a little unhappy when he heard Li Zhenruo’s words, and coldly said one sentence, “Just you wait.”

       About an hour after hanging up the phone, Li Zhenran found Li Zhenruo in the woods outside Li’s house. There was a swing hanging on a tree here. Li Zhenruo still remembered that this was when he was young. At that time, Li Zhentai and Li Zhenran had grown a little bit, and they hung it together.

       Li Jianglin did not allow them to come here to play, because the surrounding woods were inaccessible and too remote, and he was afraid that children would have accidents. However, Li Zhenruo and the others would still sneak out. It was like an adventure to explore every corner of the forest.

       However, when they grew up and had enough freedom, they lost interest in this forest and almost never went in again.

       This old swing was still very strong, but the wooden board below was a little rotten, and the forest was so humid that Li Zhenruo felt a little sticky when he touched it with his palm.

       Despite this, he sat down on the swing and kicked the ground with his feet a little nervously, causing the swing to sway slightly.

       After a while, he heard the crisp sound of dry leaves being smashed, raised his head and looked forward, and saw that Li Zhenran was still wearing a suit and leather shoes, walking slowly in this direction.

       Li Zhenran went straight to Li Zhenruo and stopped. He looked up and looked around, and asked him, “How did you find this place?”

       Li Zhenruo shook the swing, “This is where you guys played as kids, right?”

       “We?” Li Zhenran heard the words and looked at him, “Who are you referring to?”

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath and said to him, “You and Li Zhenruo.”

       After he said these three words, Li Zhenran was silent for a while. The surroundings were very quiet, and only the sound of insects in the distance could be heard. The sound was monotonous and more secluded. In this dense grove, the sun couldn’t shine in, and the light was gloomy as if they were isolated from the world.

       Li Zhenran clasped his arms around his chest and asked him, “Why Li Zhenruo?”

       For some reason, Li Zhenruo suddenly flinched a little. He changed the subject and said, “I saw Zhu Kai today, and he told me something.”

       Li Zhenran stretched out his hand towards Li Zhenruo’s head.

       “Huh?” Li Zhenruo was frozen for a moment.

       Li Zhenran just plucked a leaf off his head and asked him, “What did he say to you?”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but raised his hand and touched the top of his head, and said, “Zhu Kai said that he knows a secret of the Li family.”

       Li Zhenran still held the dead leaf in his hand and looked at Li Zhenruo, “What secret?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Do you think he will tell me?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t seem to be curious about what secret Zhu Kai said at all. Maybe he didn’t believe that he could hear anything serious from Zhu Kai’s mouth. He held Li Zhenruo’s jaw to make him look up to him, “Why are you so interested in our Li family’s affairs?”

       If it were in the past, Li Zhenruo would have said smoothly: Don’t you think it was because of you?

       But today, Li Zhenruo was silent for a while and said, “Because I want to know how Li Zhenruo actually died.” After he said this, Li Zhenruo noticed that his heart was beating wildly. He was a little nervous and subconsciously made a gulping action. His eyes were still fixed on Li Zhenran.

       Sure enough, Li Zhenran was not surprised. His gaze somehow become sharp and said to Li Zhenruo, “How did Li Zhenruo die, what does it have to do with you?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I have a positioning collar on me. You always know where I went, right?”

       Li Zhenran said frankly, “I know sometimes, but I don’t have time to stare at you 24 hours a day.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but say, “Then why don’t you ever ask me?”

       Li Zhenran suddenly exhaled a long breath and said to Li Zhenruo, “What do you want me to ask you? What is your relationship with Li Zhenruo? What’s your purpose for sneaking into the Li family? You—why are you approaching me?” The last sentence was whispered by Li Zhenran as he came up to Li Zhenruo’s ear.

       Li Zhenruo was stunned when he heard the words, and suddenly stood up, “I’m not…” He stopped halfway after speaking. He originally wanted to say that he didn’t approach him for any reason, but he immediately remembered that he did approach him at first. Originally Li Zhenruo’s purpose was to find out the truth of his murder, not it was for nothing like what he wanted to say now.

       Even before he met Zhu Kai today, he didn’t plan to show Li Zhenran that he was investigating Li Zhenruo’s affairs. The choice was not carefully considered and planned at this time. It was more or less a spur of the moment.

       He was a little nervous and uneasy. All he thought about was whether Li Zhenran would doubt his identity, and how would he make up a lie to modify his identity to make Li Zhenran believe that he was just a cat demon who wanted to repay Li Zhenruo’s gratitude.

       However, he did not expect that Li Zhenran would suddenly ask a question like that.

       Li Zhenran looked at him with cold eyes, waiting for his answer.

       Li Zhenruo took a deep breath and said, “It was an accident that I came to Li’s house, but I deliberately wanted to stay in Li’s house to try to find out the real cause of the Fourth Young Master’s death, but I didn’t approach you for this.” At this point, he paused a little, “As for me and Li Zhenruo, he once saved my life.”

       When he said the last sentence, Li Zhenruo was momentarily wavered, and had the sudden impulse to make him want to confess to Li Zhenran, but at the last moment he still shrink back. For some reason, he was a little afraid to see Li Zhenran’s expression when he learned the truth.

       He was a cat. He didn’t know how long he could maintain his human form with the help of external spiritual power. In the past, he always wanted to leave the Li family to find a family to adopt him after revenge and then retire with peace of mind. Today after he heard Xia Hongshen’s words, he thought that he might be able to practice cultivation with Xia Hongshen, and even if he couldn’t become a powerful demon, he could at least live a few more years. However, no matter what the plan was, he never thought about what would happen between him and Li Zhenran in the end.

       He used to feel that he was just using Li Zhenran and would not hesitate to sell his body. But now he felt guilty when he heard Li Zhenran’s questioning. Li Zhenruo was very confused and couldn’t sort out and cleared his mind.

       Li Zhenran said, “So you approached me to find out who was responsible for the murder of the fourth child?”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but retort, “I said it wasn’t for this reason to approach you.”

       He looked up at Li Zhenran but felt that Li Zhenran’s expression was cold and hard, and he didn’t seem to believe him at all.

       Li Zhenruo felt a little resentful and said, “I—”

       Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard Li Zhenran sigh softly, with some melancholy and despair.

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment. He saw Li Zhenran reaching out and touched his face gently, then turned around and stepped on the dead leaves to leave.

       How did it get to this point?

       Li Zhenruo sat down on the swing, but in the end, he just raised his hand to cover his head in dismay.

       By the time he returned to Li’s house, Li Zhenran had already finished eating and gone upstairs.

       Li Zhenruo’s clothes were old clothes borrowed from Song Jun. There was no way to bring them back to Li’s house, so he could only take them off and fold them on the swing, and plan to find a way to pick them up tomorrow.

       Back at the door of the house, Li Zhenruo rubbed his cat’s paw on the mat at the door, intending to rub off the soil on it, but when Wang Ma saw him, she said, “Why did you come back late at night. Every day you go out and hang out, it’s like you’ve become a wild cat.”

       After saying that, she picked him up and took him to the bathroom to wash his feet.

       The rice bowl was still full of cat food. He leaned in to eat two mouthfuls, which he felt tasteless and unpalatable. He walked slowly to the stairs and looked towards the third floor, but he couldn’t see anything.

       The house was very quiet, the eldest, third child, and Zhu Kai were not around. Wen Chun just glanced at him after dinner and went upstairs in silence.

       Wang Ma was sitting on the sofa watching TV and wearing a sweater, while Li Jianglin went out for a walk alone. He had limited mobility and often couldn’t walk far, so he just walked around the house.

       Li Zhenruo wanted to go upstairs to find Li Zhenran. He stepped on the stairs and hesitated. He knew why Li Zhenran was angry, but for those few questions, Li Zhenruo still felt that he could not face it openly. Li Zhenran was right, he purposely got close to him, using his identity to do things for himself.

       However, shouldn’t Li Zhenran have guessed it long ago? But why was it suddenly mentioned now? Or Li Zhenran has always had a grudge, but never mentioned it, and was just waiting for him to confess?

       As he thought of this, Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but regret it, thinking that if he told Li Zhenran earlier, would he not be so angry?

       Feeling depressed, Li Zhenruo hesitated to go upstairs, and finally sat down against the wall.

       He was really just squatting down, with the two hind legs bent, the back against the wall and the round buttocks sitting on the ground. Unfortunately, his two front legs were not long enough and his body was too round, so there was no way to hug his legs. He couldn’t put his head on his knees despite all of his efforts. Besides, he had no knees.

       Even with the melancholy, his posture was very ridiculous, and Li Zhenruo’s mood worsened.

       Wang Ma occasionally turned her head to look at him, so she was stunned, looked at him carefully for a while, and called out, “Dumpling?”

       Li Zhenruo looked up at her.

       Wang Ma was inexplicable, “Why are you in this posture?”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t answer, so he lowered his head again.

       After a while, Li Jianglin came back from the outside with his crutch, walked straight to him and stopped, panting slightly.

       Li Zhenruo looked up at him.

       Li Jianglin felt a little strange, and asked Wang Ma, “What’s the matter?”

       Wang Ma said, “I don’t know, it seemed to be in a bad mood.”

       Li Zhenruo felt even more depressed when he heard their conversation.

       It was inconvenient for Li Jianglin to squat down, so he raised his crutch and touched the top of Li Zhenruo’s head lightly. Li Zhenruo’s eyes were teary. This physiological reaction came very easily, and immediately soaked a bunch of fluff under his eyes.

       Li Jianglin seemed to see him as pitiful, and said to Wang Ma, “Tell the second child to carry the cat back.”

       Wang Ma responded, got up from the sofa, and walked upstairs.

       Li Jianglin went back to his room by himself.

       After a while, Li Zhenruo heard a knock on the door on the third floor, and then Li Zhenran opened the door and spoke to Wang Ma. The sound came down from the stairway but was very clear.

       Wang Ma told Li Zhenran that there was something wrong with his cat and asked Li Zhenran to take a look. Li Zhenran said, “Let him be.”

       After he said that, Li Zhenran closed the door.

       When Li Zhenruo heard Wang Ma’s footsteps going downstairs, he felt an unbearable heartache. He got up and ran towards the living room window, then jumped out of the open window.

       He didn’t want to go somewhere, but he was in a depressed mood. He didn’t feel much better about Wang Ma’s concern at home. He came out of the window and walked towards the yard with his tail drooping. He saw Zhu Kai’s Erhuang lying motionless in his kennel from a distance.

       Erhuang has been very quiet recently, probably because he hadn’t seen its owner for several days, and the whole dog seemed to be depressed. Erhuang also saw Li Zhenruo from a distance, but only slightly flapped its ears and didn’t stand up.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt a little bit of pity for it and walked slowly towards its kennel until he stopped in front of it.

       Even though Erhuang was in a bad mood, it still reluctantly lifted his tail to greet Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo then circled around him, rolled himself into a ball and lay down against it, leaning his head on it. Unexpectedly, Erhuang noticed Li Zhenruo’s movements, so he lay down on his side to show his soft and warm belly for him to lean against.

       Li Zhenruo moved his head comfortably and exhaled a deep breath, which sounded like a sigh.

       He thought to himself: Even the family dog is more gentle than Li Zhenran, as a pet cat, he had a really miserable life.

       After lying down for a while, Li Zhenruo closed his eyes and fell asleep because it was too comfortable.

       When he woke up, it was already dark, and the street lamps in front of him were glowing softly. Erhuang kept lying on his side and didn’t move. When he noticed that Li Zhenruo was awake, he turned his head and licked the top of his head.

       Li Zhenruo rarely disliked it. He lowered his head and rubbed Erhuang on its neck, then got up and ran towards the swimming pool. From the swimming pool, as soon as he looked up, he could see the window of Li Zhenran’s room. It was not too late, but the lights in the room were already turned off.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t know whether he had already slept or gone out, so he couldn’t help being curious, and after a little hesitation, he went over the pipe and climbed to the third floor.

       He hadn’t climbed the window for a long time, and his movements were already a little rusty. With difficulty, he climbed to the third floor and found that the window was closed. Just as he put his face on the window and looked in, he suddenly saw Li Zhenran standing in front of the window, raising his hand to push the window.

       As soon as the window was opened, Li Zhenruo, who had just climbed up the third floor, was knocked flying and fell to the ground.

       His heart was cold, and he said silently: Li Zhenran, you are ruthless!

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Notes:
This is probably how Li Zhenruo looks like

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