Chapter 79

Chapter 79

Chapter 79 First Release on Jinjiang Literature City

At the hospital room door.

Bai Lin put away his phone and wiped his brother’s tears: “Be good, Fourth Brother will be here soon. He knows medicine and can check on Xie Chen.”

Bai Li sniffled and nodded.

Not long after, the doctor came out first.

“Mr. Xie is still unconscious.”

The doctor pushed up his glasses on the bridge of his nose and told them, “We have done a comprehensive examination but haven’t found any cause yet.”

“When will he wake up?” Bai Li asked anxiously.

The doctor shook his head: “Uncertain.”

Since they hadn’t found the reason for the coma, the doctor naturally couldn’t predict when he would wake.

“Mr. Xie’s body is perfectly fine.”

Fearing their worry, the doctor added, “He looks like he’s in a deep sleep. Maybe he will wake soon, or maybe it will take some more time.”

Bai Li listened, confused.

They couldn’t find any problem…

So why wasn’t Mr. Xie waking up?

“Thank you for your hard work.”

Bai Lin put his arm around his brother’s shoulders and took over talking with the doctor.

Xie Chen was transferred to a deluxe ward with two beds, where he and Bai Li stayed together.

Bai Lin hadn’t forgotten his brother was also unwell, so he specially arranged the ward this way.

“Li Li, go rest.”

Bai Lin stayed in the ward watching over both of them: “If Xie Chen wakes up, I’ll wake you immediately.”

Bai Li refused to sleep.

“I want to watch over Mr. Xie.”

He sat beside Xie Chen, just like how Xie Chen had once guarded him, holding Xie Chen’s hand tightly without letting go.

Bai Lin frowned, stood beside him, bent down, and tried to coax him onto the other bed.After coaxing him for a long time, it was completely useless.

“Forget it.”

Bai Lin rubbed his head: “You turn back into a cat and sleep next to him. That way, if he moves, you’ll notice, okay?”

This suggestion was finally not rejected.

Bai Li instantly transformed back into a snow-white little kitten, curled up in Xie Chen’s arms, pressed against his body, and obediently closed his eyes.

He had nearly drowned and was repeatedly frightened; his body just couldn’t hold on. After a short while, his breathing became steady.

Bai Lin carefully watched this man and kitten without moving a step.

On the bed.

Xie Chen was immersed in a dream, where he saw his long-missing parents.

Besides his parents, there was also a baby in swaddling clothes in their arms.

Xie Chen observed them as an outsider, his intuition telling him the infant in the swaddle was himself.

“Old Xie, do you think we can raise this child we picked up successfully?”

“Of course.”

The “Old Xie” in the dream was his father, still young at that time.

He held his wife and looked at the baby in his arms, gently saying, “This child is destined for us. No matter what it takes, we have to let him live well.”

“But, but others say he’s a disaster—”

“Don’t think nonsense.”

Old Xie interrupted her: “He’s not a calamity. He will be our son from now on.”

Xie Chen: “...”

A dream in which he wasn’t their biological child.

Ridiculous.

In the dream, Xie Chen only felt it was ridiculous. Outside the dream, the little kitten was sleeping soundly next to him.

Bai Lin looked up at them, then lowered his head to send a WeChat message.

“Yinyin, can you listen to me explain about us?”

Sending failed.

Bai Lin frowned, saw the “blocked” notification, but didn’t lose hope, switching to SMS.

After sending the message, he tried again, but his phone number was also blocked.

Blocked all around.Bai Lin, as expected of the most steady eldest in the Cat family, was still calmly thinking of a way at this point.

A few seconds later.

He opened Alipay and started sending messages through it.

In some apartment.

Yu Yin, who was painting at his drawing board, heard the ding of Alipay’s notification.

He was puzzled: “Who sent me money?”

Feeling happy inside, he opened Alipay—and damn, there wasn’t a single cent transferred, just messages from that certain someone.

Yu Yin was annoyed, thinking about all that had happened before, and felt even more frustrated.

He didn’t even read the messages and exited immediately.

In the hospital room.

Bai Li’s body temperature had unknowingly risen again.

Bai Lin was very alert; after hearing the little kitten’s mumbling, he reached out to touch him.

At this touch, he immediately sensed something was wrong.

“Li Li, Li Li, wake up.”

Bai Lin called out, trying to wake his brother to transform back into human form so the doctor could check him.

But Bai Li just wouldn’t wake.

His body was already weak; he had been soaked in water, scared yesterday once. Today, because of Black-footed Cat Ge and Xie Chen, he was even more frightened than yesterday.

One accident after another caused the fever that had barely subsided to rise again.

The feverish little kitten knew he felt unwell; he curled up in Xie Chen’s arms, whining and kicking his paws randomly.

Bai Lin saw this and was anxious.

“Good Li Li, wake up and look at big brother.”

Bai Li closed his eyes: “Meow.”

Pain.

He had a headache.

Bai Lin couldn’t wake his brother, so he had to urge Bai Si.

Bai family’s fourth brother hurried over, finally arriving before Bai Lin became too anxious and upset.

Fourth brother’s name was chosen casually, a homophone—called Bai Si.The Bai family members all looked different, but without a doubt, they all had naturally good looks.

The eldest was resolute. The third looked like a playboy but was actually timid inside. The sixth looked gentle and harmless, but when he spoke, he was a master of words.

The fourth brother who walked in had messy hair; when he squinted, there was an inexplicable sense of a refined scoundrel about him.

“Li Li?”

He pushed open the door and asked the eldest standing by the hospital bed.

“Here.”

Bai Lin carefully cupped the little kitten in his hands and handed him over to the fourth brother.

“Li Li has a fever; hurry and take a look.”

“Hm.”

Bai Si took the little kitten he hadn’t seen in a long time, lowered his head, and kissed his furry head.

Bai Li vaguely sensed fourth brother’s presence and instinctively called out.

“Meow.”

Fourth brother.

“Fourth brother is here.”

Bai Si’s eyes were full of the little kitten in his arms. He hugged the kitten tightly and turned to leave.

“Check him right here.”

Bai Lin knew his temper, fearing that if he carried the kitten away, he wouldn’t come back, so he held his shoulder and kept him there.

“Check Li Li first, then check this person.”

After Bai Lin said that, seeing no reaction from fourth brother, he added, “A lot has happened to Li Li after coming down the mountain; don’t you want to hear about it?”

“Treat him here; I said I’ll listen to you.”

Bai Lin’s persuasion worked. Bai Si finally put the little kitten on the other bed, took out what he brought, and while examining, skillfully fed his brother medicine.

Bai Li was being treated by fourth brother, completely unaware that big brother and fourth brother were talking about him.

Moreover, they discussed everything about him, even that Xie Chen was his fiancé, which fourth brother already knew.

Bai fourth brother listened with a pale expression, showing no clear attitude.

But when he finished tucking the kitten in and turned to Xie Chen’s hospital bed, after looking for a few seconds, he only said one sentence—

“No hope, just wait to die.”

Bai Lin: “...”

Bai Lin really couldn’t hold it and patted the back of his head: “Don’t mess around! Take good care of him.”When they were on the mountain, if the younger siblings misbehaved, Big Brother Bai would discipline them.

So Bai Si didn’t feel much about what Big Brother did this time.

He glanced at Xie Chen again.

Tsk.

This appearance was even better than their monsters’, no wonder he attracted his precious younger brother who wanted to marry him.

With Big Brother watching personally, Bai Si still checked Xie Chen’s body.

After checking, his expression turned serious.

“Big Brother.”

Bai Si looked up and stared at Bai Lin: “This Xie Chen is not human.”

Bai Lin: “?”

Bai Lin slapped him: “Still messing with me?! Take good care of him!”

Bai Si dodged aside seriously: “I’m not messing around. Xie Chen is not human. What exactly he is, I don’t know.”

Bai Lin was stunned.

After a while, Bai Lin came to his senses: “Xie Chen is not human?”

“Yes.”

Bai Si affirmed: “Not human. Don’t know what he is... Also, his body is fine. I gave him some medicine, he should wake up soon.”

“Alright, get him to wake up first.”

Bai Lin didn’t understand what was going on with Xie Chen, but the urgent matter was to wake him.

Bai Si’s medical skills were indeed good.

After giving Xie Chen medicine, Xie Chen really showed signs of waking up.

“Big Brother, it’s getting late.”

Bai Si yawned, looking sleepy: “You stay here to keep watch, I’ll come back after I wake up.”

Bai Lin nodded, still watching Xie Chen’s movements.

“Then you go back and sleep.”

No sooner had Bai Si left than Xie Chen woke up.

After waking,

Xie Chen’s head felt like it was about to explode, as if a flood of memories suddenly poured into his mind.Those memories, he didn’t know if they were true or false.

Xie Chen pressed his temples, too overwhelmed to sort through the memories.

He forced himself to sit up from the bed, and his first words were: “Lili?”

He had gone with Lili to the hillside.

Then he passed out; no need to guess, Lili must have been terrified.

Bai Lin saw that he still wasn’t feeling well, so the first thing he did was look for Lili, which also stirred some feelings.

“He’s sleeping on the other bed. I’ll bring him here.”

Bai Lin said this, then went to the nearby bed, lifted the blanket, intending to pick up the little white kitten inside.

But—

After lifting the blanket, Bai Lin was stunned.

Where’s the cat?!

Xie Chen saw Bai Lin frozen and sensed something was wrong.

“Big Brother, is Lili still asleep?”

Xie Chen propped himself up on the bed frame, forcing himself to get down and walked to Bai Lin’s side.

Not seeing Lili even for a moment made him uneasy inside.

Time seemed to stop at that moment.

Bai Lin forced a smile and explained to Xie Chen: “Well, when you were unconscious, Lili’s Fourth Brother came by.”

Xie Chen: “...”

Xie Chen’s cold eyes were terrifyingly deep; his thin lips were tightly pressed as he stared silently at the empty bed.

But Bai Lin couldn’t hide the expression on his face.

He understood the relationship between Lili and Xie Chen...

Suddenly having Fourth Brother take Lili away, Xie Chen couldn’t react quickly — Bai Lin could understand that.

“Ahem.”

Bai Lin cleared his throat to smooth things over: “Fourth Brother probably hadn’t carried Lili for a long time, so he took him away. I’ll bring Lili back.”

That’s what he said, but Xie Chen still remembered that not long ago, Bai Lin had told him:

When Bai Fourth was carrying Lili on the mountain, no one could find him.

“No need to trouble Big Brother.”

Xie Chen narrowed his eyes, without hesitation, grabbed his coat, put it on, and pushed open the hospital room door.“I’m going to pick up Lili now.”

Bai Lin watched his back and sighed.

Picking up Lili.

This was probably going to be difficult.

On the other side, under the effects of the medicine, Bai Li’s headache gradually faded.

He didn’t open his eyes but occasionally meowed twice. Sometimes calling for Xie Chen, sometimes for Hei Ge.

Bai Si took his younger brother to his own place, a place no one knew about, not even Big Brother.

He transformed back into a graceful long-haired cat.

The long-haired cat carried the snow-white little kitten in his mouth and brought him to a soft cat bed.

Then, the two cats curled up together; the long-haired cat lowered his head to lick the kitten’s fur until it was all clean, then contentedly closed his eyes.

Very good.

After such a long time, he had taken his precious younger brother away again.

Hidden here, no one could find him.

Bai Si thought no one could find them, but before high technology, there was nowhere to hide.

Xie Chen looked at the location on the tracker, said nothing, only thinking that putting that thing on the kitten was his smartest choice.

Inside the cat bed.

The little kitten who had been sleeping for a while finally slowly opened his eyes.

“Meow meow.”

Xie Chen.

The little kitten’s beautiful amber eyes showed confusion as he meowed, beginning to look for Xie Chen.

Author’s note: Fourth Brother: hiding the kitten.

Boss: finding the kitten.