Chapter 39

Chapter 39

Chapter 39 First Release on Jinjiang Literature City

A strange city, strange streets, and strange pedestrians.

If it had been before, Bai Li would probably have been a little scared when he first came here, but now he was filled with anger and completely forgot about being afraid.

After walking for about an hour, Bai Li suddenly stopped and froze.

“Found it!”

He twitched his nose, sniffing the air, and clearly aimed his gaze toward the southwest.

Following the southwest direction led to a shabby and old residential area.

Clothes were hanging at the entrance of the residential area, piles of junk were stacked, and many women sat on doorsteps doing some weaving work.

Bai Li, relying on his small size, secretly stuck close to the corner of the wall and moved forward.

But no matter how small he was, that snow-white figure was still easily spotted.

“Hey, did you see? Whose kitten is that?” a woman at the door laughed and said.

“Don’t know, looks pretty nice, but definitely shouldn’t come to our place.”

There were many people sitting at the door, talking loudly to each other: “The family over east, I swear they always like to bully small animals. If that kitten gets caught by them, it won’t end well.”

“If you care so much, just pick it up and raise it,” someone teased.

The woman who had spoken earlier quickly refused, “I’m not raising it, that thing costs money.”

The chatting made Bai Li even more alert.

He took short steps, then finally just ran forward.

A few minutes later.

Bai Li sneaked out from a narrow hole at the base of a wall. The hole was very narrow, but as everyone knows, cats are liquid-like creatures, and the round little kitten was no exception.

This old house with a hole at the base of the wall was where those two men lived.

Once inside, Bai Li heard voices.

“Brother Cha, did you get the money? We still need to get rabies vaccines. I just checked online, if you get caught this badly, the vaccine costs about two thousand.”

The man called Brother Cha said in a dark tone, “Not yet. They’ll personally deliver it to us later. But they also said we’ll need to cooperate afterward.”

“Cooperate how?”

Brother Cha looked down at the bloodied scratch marks on his arm, a trace of resentment flashing in his eyes.“The incident at the set just now was recorded, and Tan Yi will be blamed for bullying the extras. Remember what I say: we’ll stick to the story that we were just too into acting and accidentally kicked and hit Tan Yi. He won’t be able to do anything to us.”

Even if the director found out that the two had trained martial arts before, were fighters, even if this time the director fired them and notified the industry to blacklist them…

But with the money in hand, they were just extras and didn’t care about being blacklisted.

Deliberately targeting Tan Yi was during filming, so insisting it wasn’t on purpose, the police wouldn’t be able to do anything to them.

Bai Li was a bit far from them, could hear their voices but not very clearly.

After a while.

Brother Cha answered a call, then went to the door, and when he returned, he was carrying a cloth bag of money: “Huzi, the money has arrived. That person was quite cautious, covered it tightly, and didn’t use a phone transfer.”

Huzi leaned over to check the amount: “That’s quite a lot of money, Brother Cha. Can you guess who sent it?”

“Can’t be bothered guessing.”

Brother Cha felt much better after getting the money. He hid most of it in the room and only took a small stack in his pocket: “Let’s go get vaccinated.”

“That little biting beast might be carrying the virus.”

The two men with the money didn’t even step out of the yard.

Seeing they were about to come out, Bai Li stopped hesitating, forcibly activated his demon core, and rushed forward to fight.

He remembered very clearly all the bruises on Brother San from where he was hit—several places were shockingly bruised.

“Meow-ow!!!”

Bai Li jumped and directly leapt onto Brother Cha’s face, claws slashing fiercely at him.

The demon core can’t be activated lightly; if overused, afterward one feels weak and limp all over.

Bai Li decided to finish the fight quickly, then after revenge, go back to the hotel room to sleep.

After a fierce bout of scratching, the two big men were left covered in bloody scratches.

“You damn beast, get lost!”

“Ah, Brother Cha, kill it quickly!”

They were scratched too harshly. Bai Li usually didn’t fight much; even the last time in the urban village, he hadn’t really used his claws.

But family is a bottom line Bai Li would never let anyone cross. Their whole family of cats protected each other. Bai Li was spoiled by his older siblings and no one dared bully him, so no one had seen the furious side of the angry little kitten protecting his own.

“Meow! Meow meow!”

If anyone dares bully my Brother San again, I’ll beat you up!

Bai Li stomped on Brother Cha’s face lying on the ground, using up his demon core’s power to beat them into submission.

Not only did he beat them, Bai Li also went into the room and pulled out the cloth bag filled with money from earlier.

This was the money they got from beating Brother San. The vengeful little kitten would never let them spend it.Seeing the cloth bag being taken away by the little kitten fighting like crazy, Brother Cha’s triangular eyes were filled with murderous hatred.

“Money, put the money down!”

Bai Li wasn’t about to let go.

He tied the cloth bag to himself and, while still having strength, dashed out.

When he came, Bai Li had followed the scent marks left on those two men; now if he returned…

After wandering for half an hour, Bai Li stood confused on an unfamiliar street corner: “Where’s the hotel?”

The big, luxurious hotel where he stayed with Brother San?

“Meow.”

He was lost.

Bai Li didn’t know how to get back to the hotel. Carrying so much money, for safety, he could only find a corner under a pedestrian bridge to hide.

In the corner, Bai Li looked down at the phone tied to his paw.

He pressed the buttons following Xie Chen’s instructions, trying to call Brother San.

But Tan Yi, who was recording a variety show, was required by the production team not to bring his phone on set.

Bai Li made several calls but couldn’t get through, and started to feel a bit scared.

It was getting dark early now. Although Bai Li could see well in the dark, psychologically he was still afraid of the dark.

Unable to find Brother San, he weakly started to call Xie Chen.

Xie Chen was in a meeting, and because someone had made a mistake in their work, the atmosphere in the conference room was tense. Everyone sat expressionless and nervous, no one dared to speak.

In this terrifyingly quiet moment, suddenly a phone rang abruptly.

At the sound, everyone’s first reaction was: Who the hell didn’t turn off their phone during the meeting?! Isn’t this just deliberately making the boss’s mood worse?!

The ringtone kept ringing.

Xie Chen, sitting at the head of the table, suddenly stood up.

“Li Li?”

Xie Chen’s phone was also set to silent when entering the meeting room, but only Bai Li’s phone number was specially set to always come through regardless of the situation.

Xie Chen made a gesture to pause the meeting and left holding his phone.

Those left in their seats finally dared to breathe a sigh of relief.

“That scared me to death. When the boss’s face darkened, I thought I was done for.”

“Me too…”“Hey, aren’t you curious? In the meeting room, whose phone can ring through directly?”

“It seems to be… Li Li?”

A manager in middle management said with a subtle expression: “Well, Anna told me that the boss’s cat is named Li Li.”

Everyone guessed who this Li Li could be. It couldn’t possibly be that the phone call came from a cat, right?

While they were guessing, Xie Chen, who answered the phone, was talking with Bai Li outside.

“Be good, speak slowly.”

Xie Chen heard something off in the voice on the other end, furrowed his brows, but controlled his tone so Bai Li wouldn’t notice.

Bai Li told Xie Chen everything that happened that day all at once.

When Bai Li mentioned the little kitten wanting revenge, Xie Chen almost lost his composure.

Such a tiny little kitten, wanting to go take revenge on two grown men.

“Li Li.”

After finally hearing the full story, Xie Chen pressed his temple, forcing himself to calm down.

“So, that means you’re lost now, can’t reach Tan Yi’s phone, and you’ve exhausted your demon core from fighting earlier, and you’re about to faint, right?”

Bai Li’s head was already dizzy from overusing his demon core, but with his last bit of consciousness, he meowed, “Yes.”

“Sir.”

Before losing control and slipping into darkness, Bai Li stammered a warning: “I, I’m going to faint now.”

With that, the little kitten in the corner suddenly collapsed onto the ground.

Xie Chen: “...”

Xie Chen: “Li Li?”

After calling Li Li several times without a response, Xie Chen immediately notified the meeting room that the meeting was dismissed and would be rescheduled.

“Anna, buy the next flight to S City, the soonest flight.”

While instructing Anna, Xie Chen called the driver to come pick him up.

Soon after.

Tickets bought, Xie Chen got into the car and left. Just then, a young man with white dyed curly hair arrived. The youth had delicate features and a somewhat cold look when silent.

“Sis.”

As soon as the young man spoke, the coldness in his expression faded. He skillfully asked the female receptionist, “Is President Xie here?”

The female receptionist, called “sis” by the handsome youth, blushed inexplicably.

She originally wanted to say that an appointment was needed to see President Xie, but somehow it came out as: “President Xie just went out.”“Do you know where he went? I have something very important to talk to him about.”

“No idea.”

The female employee shook her head; she couldn’t know Xie Chen’s whereabouts.

Bai Liu, who failed to get any news, had a dark flicker in his eyes but hid it well.

“Since President Xie isn’t here, I’ll be going first.”

Bai Liu said this, then casually took out two candies and a band-aid from his pocket.

“Sis, I’m treating you to some candy.”

“Also, you accidentally hurt yourself here. You can apply some medicine. I don’t have any medicine, so this is all I can give you.”

The receptionist holding the candy and band-aid suddenly felt her eyes watering.

Bai Liu smiled gently and casually advised, “Such a pretty sister like you should take good care of yourself and not get hurt again. Otherwise, if I were your boyfriend, I’d definitely feel heartbroken.”

After Bai Liu left for quite a while, the receptionist rubbed her eyes and put her hand on the wound on her collarbone.

That injury...

Was definitely not from an accident—it was from being hit.

Remembering the youth’s last words, the receptionist lowered her head and sent a message on her phone:

“Zhang Mao, seeing the injury you gave me, don’t you feel sorry?”

“I already told you I was drunk and hammered, hit you twice, can you just drop it? Why are you still bringing this up?!”

The reply was still her boyfriend’s irritable tone. The girl who had always tolerated him now had tears welling in her eyes and put the candy the youth gave her into her mouth.

The candy was very sweet.

After finishing one candy, the clear-headed girl typed three words in the chat:

“Let’s break up.”

The lover she wanted was someone like the youth—someone who would care for her, not this person.

Life is long; she could no longer settle.

On the other side.

Xie Chen arrived at the airport without packing or preparing anything, directly boarding the soonest flight.

Since there were no first-class seats left, Xie Chen sat in regular economy.

Bai Liu got Xie Chen’s phone number from Lin Chao but every call went straight to voicemail.

Suspicious Bai Liu stared at the dark screen with only one thought left—This President Xie, could it be that he knew in advance that he was coming to pick up Lili, so he deliberately left him hanging?

No matter how Bai Liu thought, the person involved, Xie Chen, had no mind to think about anything else.

He only worried about that little kitten who said she was about to faint.

Author’s note: Lili panics: I’m going to faint!