Chapter 59

Chapter 59

Chapter 59 — Jinjiang Literature City Premiere

Bai Lin left without hesitation, and he also took Bai Liu along.

“Hand Lili over to Mr. Xie.”

Bai Lin instructed, “I have some things to discuss with you.”

Bai Liu hugged his younger brother tightly and refused to let go: “No, I want to stay with Lili.”

“Bai Xiao Liu.”

Hearing his brother’s serious tone, Bai Liu pouted but reluctantly handed over his brother.

Sigh.

Why did it have to be his big brother this time? It would have been better if Third Brother were still around.

Third Brother is the most timid; he definitely wouldn’t have been so stern with him.

Bai Xiao Liu was taken away by their big brother. Xie Chen lowered his head and looked at the snow-white little kitten in his arms and felt that this trip was worth it.

Even if his arm was injured, it was worth it.

“Lili, come back to the company with me?”

“Meow.”

Alright.

Lili was greatly frightened today. Leaning against Xie Chen’s chest, he didn’t want to part from him at all.

Ordinary employees could take some leave if injured.

But as the boss, Xie Chen couldn’t find anyone to take leave for him even though he was hurt.

Very soon,

Xie Chen took Bai Lili to the company. Before that, he stopped by home to change clothes and brought some things for Bai Lili.

Xie Bo saw the bandage on Xie Chen’s arm and was terribly worried.

“Sir, the person who hurt you—”

“I’ve already dealt with it.”

Xie Chen wasn’t a good guy. This time, Huang Fang even threatened his Lili, so of course, he wouldn’t let it go easily.

Xie Bo frowned deeply, staring at Xie Chen’s arm: “Such a big wound, will it leave a scar?”“No.”

Xie Chen didn’t care much about scars, but since Bai Lin said he would help remove the scar, he wouldn’t refuse.

After leaving home, Bai Lili nestled in Xie Chen’s arms and dozed off.

He was sleepy again.

Xie Chen lowered his eyes, watching the little kitten’s white belly rise and fall as he slept, feeling his heart settle down.

Once they arrived at the company, Anna handed Xie Chen a cup of brewed tea and prepared a cup of sweet water for Bai Lili.

“Boss, I just learned about Huang Fang’s matter. Calm yourself.”

Xie Chen had nothing to calm down.

Such scenes were nothing to him.

He still had a pile of work to do, and all afternoon, Bai Lili barely woke up.

“Boss, there are quite a few people watching this real estate bid.”

Anna was reporting the bidding information to Xie Chen.

“Don’t worry.” Xie Chen scanned the documents on the folder without raising his head: “We will win this bid.”

Bai Lili didn’t understand any of the trivial business.

His face buried in Xie Chen’s lower belly, probably because of the breathing, that part of Xie Chen’s skin was warm.

After sleeping for an unknown length of time,

Bai Lili groggily woke from his dream, raised his paw to rub his eyes, and dully meowed, “Sir.”

“I’m here.”

Bai Lili tilted his head back, yawning so much his eyes were wet, clear and pure.

“I... I had a dream.”

In his dream, it seemed he saw Sir—the glowing Sir.

Sir was on Monster Mountain, and it was in the back mountain cave that Dad said no one was allowed to enter recklessly.

“Sir.”

Bai Lili asked with puzzlement, “Have you been to Monster Mountain?”

Xie Chen thought for a few seconds and answered, “No.”

He had never even heard of that mountain’s name.

Bai Lili shook his head and mumbled a confused “Oh”: “Then maybe I was just dreaming nonsense.”

Xie Chen didn’t probe further into what Bai Lili said.After work that day, to let the little kitten rest well at home, Xie Chen brought his work back.

For two consecutive days.

Bai Lili still occasionally had a fever, but maybe because of the extra rest, nothing serious happened.

Two days later.

Bai Lin came in person, bringing gifts.

He bought a lot of gifts, some for Xie Chen, but most were for Bai Lili.

“Mr. Xie, I didn’t know what you liked, so I just casually brought some things.”

Bai Lin opened one of the gift boxes, which contained specialty products from Monster Mountain.

A bunch of colorful, translucent stones, good enough to be delicate indoor decorations.

There were some other things too, piled together—the thoughtfulness was obvious.

Xie Chen looked at these items and immediately appreciated Bai Lin more.

They were talking downstairs, while upstairs, Bai Lili nestled in bed, his body heating up drowsily; he burrowed deeper into the blankets.

The snowy white little kitten was slowly transforming into a stunning young boy.

The boy’s face was buried in the quilt, the tip of his nose faintly carrying the familiar cold fragrance belonging to Sir.

He hugged the blanket, sleeping soundly, his jade-like body curled up. In his dream, something unsettled him; his eyelashes twitched lightly, evoking pity just to look at.

In the living room,

Xie Chen was having a good conversation with Bai Lin.

Bai Lin’s identity wasn’t just a yacht designer; he also had a hobby that had developed nearly into a profession—boxer.

“I’ve trained a bit too. Maybe we can spar sometime,” Xie Chen said, even proactively mentioning a boxing gym.

That gym was well-known in the industry, but the identity of the behind-the-scenes boss was always a mystery.

Now Bai Lin found out that the mysterious boss was actually Xie Chen.

“It’s also a bit of a private interest of mine.”

Xie Chen lifted his tea cup, his thin lips touching the rim as he took a light sip.

With a shared hobby, Bai Lin’s attitude toward Xie Chen clearly improved.

The two unknowingly talked for quite a while.

Xie Chen glanced at the time and stood up from the sofa: “Big Brother Bai.”

He was three years younger than Bai Lin, so he called him “Big Brother.”“I’m going upstairs to check on Lili. He’s been sleeping so long; he should be waking up.”

“Okay.”

Xie Chen climbed the stairs and went to the room to see the sleepy little kitten.

Under the blanket, the flushed-faced boy just happened to half-open his eyes.

Footsteps echoed in the hallway. The boy, who had been in human form for two hours, suddenly plopped down and transformed back into a round, snowy white little kitten.

Xie Chen pushed open the door and saw the little kitten half-covered by the blanket, eyes dazed.

“Awake.”

He quickened his pace, walked to the bed, bent down, and picked up the little kitten.

“Your big brother is here.”

Xie Chen softly comforted the kitten, “I asked Xie Bo to prepare dinner; we’ll eat together later.”

“Meow.”

Bai Lili had just woken up and subconsciously rubbed against Xie Chen, then yawned again.

Seeing that he yawned even after sleeping so long, Xie Chen couldn’t help but immediately go downstairs to ask Bai Lin.

Bai Lin frowned tightly after hearing this, seeming deep in thought.

“Has Lili been sleeping more recently?”

“Yes.” Xie Chen said and added, “I took him to several doctors; all the checkups were normal.”

Bai Lin was silent for a moment.

He thought a lot inside. Lili’s poor health and sleepiness might be a physical issue, but it could also be...

Another possibility made Bai Lin’s heart pound violently.

“Put this on Lili.”

Bai Lin took out a very small jade pendant strung on a red cord and put it on Bai Lili’s neck.

“This is a medicinal jade, targeting cats who are sleepy. Wearing it might have some effect.”

“Thank you.” Xie Chen reflexively thanked Bai Lin.

Bai Lin smiled: “No need to thank me. Lili is family; this is what I should do.”

The warm-colored jade pendant was carved in the shape of a cat.

If you looked closely at the cat shape, you’d find it was exactly the same as Bai Lili’s kitten form.

Xie Chen reached out to touch the pendant; it was made of fine material.

Dinner was lavish. Xie Chen personally fried dried fish; Bai Lili grabbed the fish, feeding Sir, then feeding Big Brother, busy nonstop.“All done, Lili.”

Xie Chen gently placed the attentive little kitten on the table to sit properly. “We don’t need to feed you anymore, you eat your own.”

The bowl in front of Bai Lili was filled with food, but the little kitten, busy feeding others, hadn’t started eating his own yet.

Bai Lin patted his head and let him eat by himself.

Everyone started eating. Bai Lili suddenly lifted his head from the bowl and belatedly asked, “Big Brother, is Sixth Brother not coming to eat?”

Bai Lin didn’t even raise an eyelid. “Your Sixth Brother isn’t hungry.”

Bai Lili held the bowl with his paws and meowed, “Sixth Brother is hungry.”

Now that everyone was eating dinner, Sixth Brother must be hungry too.

Bai Lin paused while picking up food, then glanced at Xie Chen.

The next second,

Xie Chen fed a peeled shrimp to Bai Lili’s mouth. “Lili, eat shrimp.”

With Xie Chen coaxing him like that, Bai Lili indeed stopped worrying about whether Sixth Brother was hungry or not.

Bai Lin, satisfied, poured a glass of wine for Xie Chen.

No wonder he was a decent person; he was very adaptable in dealing with people and situations.

On the other side,

Sixth Brother Bai Xiaoliu, who was told by Big Brother that he wasn’t hungry, sulkily transformed into a cat and squatted in the villa.

So angry!

Big Brother knew he was inciting Yu Yin to “torment the scum” but still gave him a thorough scolding.

Now he had to stay at home to reflect and wasn’t even allowed to see Yu Yin anymore.

“So mad, so mad, so mad.”

Bai Xiaoliu furiously poked the wall with his paw, almost wanting to rush up and fight Big Brother.

But Big Brother’s true form was too big; he couldn’t win!

Bai Xiaoliu was too angry to eat, while Bai Lili had eaten his fill and was lying on the table, holding Xie Chen’s hand, letting him rub his belly.

“Mr. Xie, I’m going out for a trip, probably back in about a week. When I’m back, how about we schedule a match?”

“Okay.”

Bai Lin’s “schedule a match” meant at the boxing gym.

Bai Lili didn’t understand, stretched out his paw to grab Xie Chen, still curious, and asked, “Schedule what?”“Schedule tea.”

Both Xie Chen and Bai Lin tacitly agreed not to tell Bai Lili about boxing.

After telling Xie Chen goodbye, Bai Lin left A City the next day.

Once Big Brother left, Bai Liu tried again to coax his little brother, but failed.

After Bai Lili wore the jade pendant given by Big Brother, it really worked—he no longer felt sleepy like before. His symptoms disappeared, and that very day he eagerly took the kittens to work again.

“Big Brother.”

On the way to work, Meimei missed Big Brother, who she hadn’t really looked at closely for several days, and actively rubbed against him. “You’re back.”

“Meow meow.”

I’m back.

Bai Lili patted his little brother’s head and asked with concern, “Have you felt like someone’s been following you lately?”

“Yes.”

Meimei meowed, “But now we have a way.”

“What way?”

“We found Black Brother!” Meimei answered happily to Big Brother.

These days, with Big Brother away, they didn’t want to trouble him all the time or be a burden.

So after sensing danger, the kittens solemnly held a meeting at night.

The meeting decided they would look for Black-footed Brother Cat to protect them.

After all, every month they paid Black-footed Brother Cat protection fees on time, so now that danger appeared, Black Brother couldn’t ignore them.

Black-footed Brother Cat was a righteous cat. After hearing Meimei’s request, he immediately agreed.

“Don’t worry, I’ve got this.”

Black-footed Brother Cat nodded steadily, then gathered a group of dogs.

“From now on, when you go to work, they will be responsible for picking you up and dropping you off, acting as your bodyguards.”

Meimei, as the leading cat, showed sincerity: “We make good money working now. If they guard us, we’re willing to pay them twenty bucks every day.”

Twenty bucks was enough to buy food.

The cats and dogs reached an agreement. From then on, when the cats went to work, the dogs followed behind.

To avoid scaring passersby, the dogs didn’t follow the working cats openly but trailed secretly.

On the day Bai Lili went to work, Black-footed Brother Cat, having just collected protection fees, personally came over.

“Meow.”Long time no see, little kitten.

Bai Lili obediently greeted Black-footed Brother Cat: "Long time no see, Black Brother."

Black-footed Brother Cat looked at the chubby little kitten in front of him, restrained the urge to pet him, and modestly licked his own paw.

“Kitten, today I’ll be your bodyguard.”