Chapter 86

Chapter 86

Chapter 86 First published on Jinjiang Literature City

The little milk kitten was still drunk—Xie Chen watched as he ran over, his path swaying and unsteady.

But thankfully, he still made it over.

Xie Chen picked up the kitten climbing up his pants leg and held him in his arms, asking in a low voice, “Where’s your fourth brother?”

“Meow.”

I coaxed Fourth Brother to sleep before coming out.

After reporting, Bai Li glared fiercely at Diao Ling, his eyes full of a desire to fight.

He was extremely alert—anyone who tried to get too close to Xie Chen would trigger his little radar, and he’d detect it instantly.

“Meow meow.”

Sir, I don’t like her.

Bai Li boldly badmouthed Diao Ling, meowing as he demanded Xie Chen carry him away.

Diao Ling looked at the interfering kitten and ground her teeth in hatred. In that moment, she truly wanted to strangle the cat.

“Brother Xie, I—”

Diao Ling still tried to make a last effort. What if Xie Chen really did take her back?

But the one who came to take her away wasn’t Xie Chen—it was the security personnel in charge of the venue.

“Miss Diao, you openly drugged someone here. We’ve already called the police. They’re waiting outside.”

Diao Ling’s face turned pale. She tried to argue, “I didn’t drug anyone.”

“We have surveillance footage and drugged wine. The evidence is irrefutable.”

Diao Ling was taken away. At the same time, the wealthy businessman who had brought her found out what had happened—he was both shocked and furious and wanted to personally apologize to Xie Chen.

Xie Chen refused to meet him.

The businessman wasn’t a good person, especially being an older and experienced one—people like him only cared about profit.

Now that the person he brought had offended Xie Chen and tried to drug him—essentially putting a green hat on him—no man could tolerate that.

The businessman left early in anger, and as for Diao Ling, it was easy to imagine how miserable her upcoming days would be.

In the hallway—

Having successfully protected his sir from being falsely seduced, the little milk kitten held his sir’s face in his paws, meowing seriously."Meow, meow aow."

Next time, you can't get that close to bad people, and you can't hold hands either.

Just now, he saw Diao Ling try to hold Sir's hand.

Xie Chen listened to the fierce little meows and cooperatively nodded.

"Alright, I won't let anyone else hold my hand."

After saying that, Xie Chen suddenly asked, "Li Li, why don't you want others to touch me?"

Bai Li froze for a moment.

"Because Sir is mine," he meowed dumbly.

Xie Chen thought for a moment and rephrased it: "Your eldest brother is yours too. But he found you a sister-in-law—can you accept her touching your big brother?"

Bai Li became even more dazed.

"Big sister-in-law already sleeps with big brother."

On the yacht, she had talked about that relationship before.

Looking at his reaction, Xie Chen concluded, "So your big brother can be touched by your sister-in-law, but I can't let others touch me—is that right?"

"Meow."

That's right.

Bai Li felt like something was a bit off, but he couldn't find anything wrong with Sir’s words.

Big brothers could be touched by others, get married, take wives.

Sir couldn't.

Sir was his.

That was the little milk kitten’s simple and straightforward logic.

Xie Chen’s mood seemed to brighten instantly. He lowered his gaze and ruffled the kitten’s head, a faint smile in his eyes.

"Good thing you’re not completely dumb."

Bai Li blinked sleepily, not really understanding. He felt Sir’s thoughts were hard to guess.

Although there was an unpleasant incident at the banquet, it didn’t cause much impact.

The sobering medicine Bai Si prepared for his younger brother worked quite well.

However, Bai Li was still worried someone might cling to Sir again, so he stuck to Xie Chen like a little tail—wherever Xie Chen went, he followed.

As for this little tail, Xie Chen indulged him completely.

By the end of the evening, just about everyone Xie Chen spoke to had gotten to know Bai Li.And not only did they get to know him, they clearly understood how much he meant to Xie Chen.

After all, if he were just a plaything, what kind of plaything would dare feed Xie Chen a snack he’d already bitten into twice and didn’t want anymore?

And Xie Chen’s indulgence toward Bai Li reached a level that made others tremble just watching.

“Sir, it’s really late now.”

Bai Li, thinking he was being very quiet, reminded Xie Chen that it was late and almost time to sleep.

Xie Chen rubbed his head and responded, “I know.”

A moment later—

The banquet ended.

Yan Cen and Brother Blackpaw Cat had gone off who-knows-where to mess around, and when they returned, Brother Hei even had dirt on him.

“Li Li.”

The black-footed cat looked Bai Li’s humanoid form up and down, then gave a fair assessment: “You really are the best-looking little demon.”

Just… not very tall.

Sigh.

Height really is a sorrow for cats.

But Bai Li wasn’t the least bit troubled about his height. Being able to take human form at all was already a great achievement.

As a cat who’s easily satisfied, Bai Li was quite content with the current situation.

Brother Hei was still the same cool guy. With a wave of his hand, he pushed Yan Cen’s wheelchair away, walking off clean and sharp—leaving behind only a bright red wedding invitation. On the invite was a photo of Yan Cen and Brother Hei.

They couldn’t legally register, but they could form a demon couple contract.

The Yan family was willing to do anything to save Yan Cen’s life—even if it meant marrying him to another boy, they accepted it.

Bai Li looked at the bright red invitation, rubbing it over and over again.

After he was done, he carefully stored the invite and quietly decided he would find a chance to ask Brother Hei:

Where did you buy this invitation? How much was it? I might need one in the future too!

The guesthouse wasn’t the same villa that Xie Chen and Bai Li had been living in.

After they left, the one who had to be woken up last in that room was the Fourth Young Master.

Bai Si looked at the now-empty cardboard box and gave a low meow.

Annoying.

Why did his little brother have to cling to that Xie Chen?Is Fourth Brother's embrace not warm enough?!

Bai Si depressedly padded away on his paw pads, leaving the place to find another spot to sleep.

On the other side—

Bai Li had turned back into a cat, sitting on Xie Chen’s lap, still confirming with him: “Did Fourth Brother really leave?”

“Mhm, he left.”

Xie Chen held the kitten’s paw pad and wiped it clean with a tissue.

Halfway through the drive, the little kitten didn’t want to sleep—he just wanted to request songs.

He poked Xie Chen with his little paw: “I want to hear a song.”

Xie Chen held down his paw and asked, “You want me to play a song for you?”

“No.”

The kitten’s demand was quite picky: “I want to hear you sing it now.”

In any other situation, getting a song out of Xie Chen would cost a fortune, but right now, he could only let his little kitten request any song he wanted.

Xie Chen’s low and pleasant voice was enough to make a certain kitten dizzy with infatuation.

As the night deepened—

The little kitten lying on Xie Chen’s lap with his paws tucked under him looked up into his eyes with unfiltered adoration and affection.

Before the second song finished, the car had already arrived.

When the driver opened the door, he was trembling with awe, thinking, My ears really hit the jackpot today.

He’d heard that not only were tickets to Mr. Xie’s concerts impossible to get, but people would pay sky-high prices just to find one.

Yet here he was, having spent not a cent, listening to a live VIP private concert up close!

“It’s not finished yet.”

When Bai Li was being carried out of the car, he was still reminding Xie Chen.

“Be good.”

Xie Chen coaxed him, “I’ll sing the rest when it’s time to sleep.”

Hearing that, Bai Li finally quieted down.

After taking a bath, Bai Li sat on the bed, waiting for Xie Chen while calling his third brother.

“The day after tomorrow, Xiao Liu and I will definitely come back.”

Tan Yi raised his hand and swore to his younger brother: “If we don’t make it back, then let Xiao Liu eat instant noodles without seasoning packets for the rest of his life!”

Bai Xiao Liu, who happened to be walking by: “?”Third brother is acting up again?

Bai Li looked anxiously at the two brothers. Today’s little kitten trouble was that he couldn’t see his brothers.

Big brother sent him WeChat messages to check on him every day.

Bai Li had asked Xie Chen, so he knew that big brother was working hard to pursue big sister-in-law and couldn’t be disturbed.

Having been online before, Bai Li even cleverly used a phrase to show off to Xie Chen.

“Master, is big brother that… that ‘chasing-wife cremation ground,’ describing how hard it is to win over a wife?”

Xie Chen heard this and was amused yet helpless.

“What nonsense are you talking about? There really are some problems between him and your big sister-in-law. But your big brother can handle it.”

Xie Chen had a very good impression of Bai family’s eldest. They had eaten and drunk together, even arranged to spar, and rarely quarreled over Bai Li’s matters.

So if Bai Lin really had trouble and needed him, Xie Chen would be happy to help.

Before sleep—

Bai Li curled up in Xie Chen’s arms, staring at him without blinking.

Xie Chen understood what he meant.

“Still want to hear that song from the car?”

“Mm!”

Xie Chen squeezed his little paw, bent down to kiss him, then resumed singing the unfinished song.

After who knows how long, the even breathing of the little kitten came from his arms.

Xie Chen stopped singing and softly said, “Li Li, good night.”

The night was quiet, and so was everyone.

Xie Chen closed his eyes and began sorting through the overwhelming memories flooding his mind that he couldn’t yet fully digest.

Last time—

The dream memories told him he was adopted by parents who couldn’t conceive, so they picked him up and only publicly claimed him as their biological child.

The next memories focused on when he was seven or eight years old.

His body was weak—not a matter of physique, but he was constantly struck by strange misfortunes.

With such a peculiar constitution, many fortune tellers sighed after their readings and told his parents—

“It’s useless. Have a second child.”

Xie’s mother was gentle by nature, but after raising her son for so many years, her feelings were genuine.She heard this kind of fate judgment and got both angry and anxious, her face turning red.

“Who said it’s useless?! Does the Xie family not have the means to support one child?!”

After going through countless fortune tellers, Xie Chen met a true seer.

The seer stroked his white beard and smiled kindly at them. “Your son’s life force is on the mountain.”

“What mountain?”

“The monster mountain.”

The seer looked like a transcendent immortal, but young Xie Chen only thought he was a fraud.

The reason was simple.

The seer charged ten thousand yuan per sentence to talk to his parents, not including other fees.

For example, guiding him and personally sending him to the mountain to form a bond.

“Form a bond...”

Suddenly awakened from the dream memory, Xie Chen opened his eyes, staring at the dark ceiling, his chest rising and falling violently.

He wanted to remember what happened later on the mountain—who he met and what he did after the seer took him there.

“Ugh—”

His headache was too severe to force himself to recall more.

In his arms, hearing the movement, the little kitten groggily half-opened his eyes and tried hard to stretch out his paw to Xie Chen’s face.

“Meow, meow meow.”

The little kitten pawed at Xie Chen and kissed his face: “Master, time to sleep.”

Xie Chen: “...”

Xie Chen exhaled a breath of stale air.

Alright then.

Keep accompanying the little kitten to sleep.