Chapter 15: You Little Deceitful Cat Part 2

This action was completely unthinking. After licking, even Li You himself was stunned. He quickly sneaked a glance at his older brother’s reaction, shrank his neck, felt both twisted and awkward inside, and simply buried his face into Li Ye’s chest.

The cat’s action didn’t elicit much reaction from Li Ye; his face simply lost its earlier heaviness.

He carried the ragdoll cat back with one hand supporting it like a pagoda and soon returned to the spot where he had confronted the other three Your Highnesses earlier.

Li You twisted his head and, borrowing his older brother’s height to observe, discovered that the path where he had gotten lost wasn’t actually far from here. His heart felt a burst of depression.

【Why are there so many flowers planted in the bedroom?】

Li Ye’s footsteps paused. He quietly looked at the flowers in the bedroom and spoke in a low voice: “You said before that you hoped the place where we live in the future would be planted with lots of flowers.”

Li You, whose two paw pads were pressing on Li Ye’s chest muscles, froze upon hearing this. He looked up at his older brother’s jaw.

His older brother wasn’t looking at him.

So strange; lately, there had been a few times when he felt like his older brother was responding to him.

Li You was placed back on the booth seat. He glanced at the bedroom’s main entrance not far away.

The kitty stayed on the booth seat for a moment before jumping down and walking toward the door, looking back at his older brother every three steps.

Li Ye’s attention wasn’t on him.

“……” Li You carried his worries, turned around, and continued forward, passing through that door to leave this place.

As soon as the cat left, Li Ye’s gaze glanced toward the door. He put away his light brain, stood up, and followed.

Li You shuttled through the glass corridor and arrived at the front hall of the Sunlight Palace. He finally recognized the way here, but suddenly, a pair of hands scooped him up again.

Struggling was futile. He twisted his head and kicked at Li Ze’s face, which was right in front of him.

“Li Ye’s little kitty, how did you run out?” Li Ze tilted his head and grinned at the ragdoll cat. He weighed it with his hand and commented, “Long fur, lots of meat—a little fat cat.”

“Meow—” Li You very impolitely meowed at his second brother, pressing his paw pad on his face and swatting.

So rude!

This time, Li Ze didn’t let go. He narrowed his eyes and carefully looked at the struggling ragdoll cat, his voice lowering somewhat: “Li Ye is keeping you, I guess because your eyes resemble Youyou’s.”

As he spoke, he turned back to Li Ming and Li Weier over there: “He couldn’t possibly have let go; otherwise, why would he keep a cat whose eyes look so much like Youyou’s?”

“Right, little kitty?” Li Ze turned back and said softly to the kitty, “Can you tell me where your master put Youyou’s things? We really need them.”

“……” Li You looked at his second brother with the expression of someone looking at an idiot and delivered a meow-punch to his face: “Meow!”

“Ouch, what a temper.” Li Ze set the cat down, wiped the dust from his face, squatted down again to look at the ragdoll cat, and said, “I was just asking. If you could really answer me, that would be a big problem.”

Of course it would.

Who asks a kitty questions?

Which kitty can speak human words?

Li You helplessly looked at his second brother and let out a mew with his head raised.

“If you’re that bored, come over and discuss what to do.” Over there, Li Ming irritably grabbed his hair. His originally neat slicked-back hair became messy. “If we can’t get it this time, forget it later!”

“What other way is there?” Li Ze shrugged. “We can’t just rob him, right? The three of us together couldn’t last a minute against him; it’d be pure suicide.”

“Oh right, he told us to go ask Youyou.” At this point, Li Ze laughed. “He’s probably going crazy to say something like that. Where are we supposed to ask? Damn it.”

“Watch your words.” Li Weier frowned in reminder. She turned her head to look at the ragdoll cat on the ground and suddenly thought of something. “Is there any mission on Kara Planet recently?”

The two brothers looked toward her.

“I’ll check with my authority.” Li Ming opened his light brain. A moment later, he frowned. “There really is, and Peisengke is there too.”

“Has the mission target been captured?” Li Weier asked.

“The mission is still in progress……” Li Ming looked at his light brain, paused, and looked up at his little sister. “What do you mean?”

“I only have two days.” Li Weier lowered her head and tapped a few times on her light brain. “I must return by late morning the day after tomorrow at the latest. The only opportunity is right in front of us.”

“Find the mission target, capture or kill it, and show ‘loyalty to him.’” Li Weier said. “The mutant species causing chaos in the Memorial Garden—I think he won’t let it go easily. This will be our bargaining chip to negotiate with him again.”

Li Ze took a deep breath: “Damn it, I’m just a frail intellectual researcher. I really can’t do the killing stuff.”

“When you say that, have you forgotten all those officers you got rid of before? Have the nerve?” Li Ming tsked, looking at his light brain. “This time, we can only act secretly, no announcing it.”

“Until the dust settles, everyone else is a rival stealing credit.” Li Ze flexed his wrists, narrowed his eyes with a smile. “Absolutely no fourth person outside us can know about this.”

“……” Having heard everything, Li You shifted to the side, trying to hide, but as expected, he was caught red-handed by the three.

“The little cat doesn’t count. The good little cat will help us keep the secret.” Li Ze squatted down to stroke the ragdoll cat’s head, stood up, and waved at it. “See you again if fate allows~”

After the three left, Li You immediately got up and ran outside.

It was obvious that those three people’s ultimate target was Little Wan Sis. But from the current situation, Little Wan Sis’s identity had not yet been exposed, and there was still time…

Wait, Li Ye knew…

Li You stopped in his tracks as a doubt surfaced.

Since Li Ye already knew, why hadn’t he made a move?

Was there still something uncertain?

Li You himself also had questions he wanted to ask Little Wan Sis, but he realized he couldn’t speak. Even if he went back, there was no way to communicate.

But if he didn’t go back, what if those three found Little Wan Sis…

Kitty paced like an ant on a hot pan, anxious and unsure of what to do. At that moment, a shadow fell over him, enveloping him, and then Li You was picked up again.

The familiar scent—it was his bro!

“You saw her eating the mutant species,” Li Ye looked at the cat. “Not afraid?”

Li You blinked: “Meow…”

Bro, don’t be like this. I’m just a little kitty. I can’t speak human words…

Li Ye watched it quietly. After a long while, he took out the Light Brain, found the psychologist’s contact, and expressionlessly advanced the appointment by a few days.

He put down the Light Brain and gazed into the distance again.

“She hasn’t killed any humans. Up to now, she’s only fed on the hidden mutant species that have recently appeared in the village.”

Li You froze, his heart jolting hard. He leaped up, his front paws pressing on Li Ye’s chest, anxiously meowing “meow meow.”

Li Ye’s gaze fell on the cat’s eyes. Through those eyes, he seemed to see Li You’s shadow.

After a moment of silence, his hand stroked the cat’s head, fingertips sinking into the fluffy white fur: “This matter needs a resolution.”

Li Ye looked at the cat: “Even if she hasn’t done anything to harm humans, she remains a dangerous factor.”

Li You’s heart tightened. Suddenly, he remembered the words Little Wan Sis had said to him that day as the sun set in the west.

—Little Kitty, I don’t understand.

—So many people curse Your Highness Youyou. He must know it. Doesn’t he feel disappointed? Then why does he still risk his life to save those ungrateful people?

Li You didn’t know the answer.

He couldn’t explain.

In his eyes, the Little Wan Sis who had said those words to him was now clearly protecting the village’s peace in her own way.

But why was she doing it?

“Meow…” Kitty’s mood sank, and he lowered his head, his gaze dazed.

【I don’t understand…】

Li Ye looked into the cat’s eyes, and his gaze shifted slightly.

【Li Ye…】

【Bro…】

【Little Wan Sis…】

【Why…】

The intermittent voice swayed past his ear like the wind, then was drowned out by the wind.

Li Ye was certain he had gone mad. He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, a faint smile hung on his face.

He had probably guessed what that illusory voice was asking.

“Me?”

“It’s because of a certain ungrateful little liar.”

The little liar who had abandoned him and left alone.

Li Ye lowered his eyes, his voice very low: “Li You, you little liar.”

Li You looked up, his heart clogging. He buried his head again, his ear tips pressing against his bro’s chest.

【Li Ye.】

【Big jerk.】

He wasn’t a liar.