Ch. 5 – Tracker

Anyway, for now the kitten gets to stay.

After only two days of feeding, the kitten gained a lot of weight, from being skinny when it first came to house, to now being well-balanced. It was estimated that in a while, it will even be able to upgrade to being wide-bodied.

These days, Li Yihan went home almost every day, and Chi Zhao was getting used to this life. In the evening, Chi Zhao squatted on the kitchen floor and attentively watched the kitten lick its milk without blinking.

Li Yihan came to the kitchen to fetch some water. Earlier, he had heard Zhang Bo saying that the young master had not gone out anywhere in the evening recently and had been studying hard at home. Li Yihan felt that this was all due to his good parenting.

…..

Originally, Chi Zhao was a good child who liked learning. Even without Li Yihan’s condition for keeping the kitten, he would not go anywhere. He would have stayed at home and read books on his cell phone. But it was only after Li Yihan’s threatened him that he had to study very carefully.

Taking a bottle of mineral water, Li Yihan went over to Chi Zhao and looked down at the top of his head. “What’s the name of the cat?”

Chi Zhao could not help but resent Li Yihan right now. He used to be a preschool education major. He studied liberal arts while Qi Yuan is a science student. He can’t understand any of the books, and even worse, he has to learn a lot of this stuff for the first time at a college level.

When Chi Zhao thought of this, he quickly became depressed. Since he is depressed, he will naturally not give the culprit a good attitude.

Following the hair on the cat’s head, Chi Zhao quietly raised his eyes and very boldly stated, “Little Li.”[1]

Li Yihan was not angry. He just slightly ticked his lips up and repeated the words of Chi Zhao.

“Little Li?”

The last syllable was spoken with a strange tone. Chi looked into Li Yihan’s eyes and could see a sentence clearly forming in it.

—— Ha-ha, it seems that I don’t want my allowance this month.

Chi Zhao: “… It’s better to call Xiao Pang.”[2]

Afterwards, Chi Zhao lowered his head down, and while Li Yihan did not leave, he did not say anything either. Chi Zhao explained to him, “It’s too thin, just like me. If you let me eat more, I’ll let Xiao Pang eat more. Xiao Pang, lets become fat together!”

Li Yihan, like him, half squatted on the ground and looked at Xiao Pang.

The action of Xiao Pang’s milk drinking seemed slow and leisurely, but truthfully, it’s like a tornado. The milk on the plate is becoming less visible to the naked eye.

Li Yihan stared at it for a while and then asked Qi Yuan, “Is it male or female?”

“Male,” Chi Zhao answered happily this time, instead of taking the opportunity vent some more of his resentment onto Li Yihan, “I guess it’s less than two months old. In another year and a half, I’ll take it to the hospital and castrate it.”

Men, when they hear the word castrate, naturally have an instinctive lower body pain, as if they were protesting against the word in spirit.

Silently, Li Yihan turned his head and looked at Chi Zhao. “You seem to know a lot. Have you ever had a cat before?”

Chi Zhao opened his mouth and said, “Of course, I often picked up stray cats from the street. I’d clean them up after I get home, give them a bath, cure any diseases, and train them to go to the toilet, then I would give them to a family that wanted to adopt. If they’re old enough, I’ll get them sterilized.”

Li Yihan’s expression did not change. “You used to live in a welfare home, and then in a dormitory. Didn’t your roommates mind if you took a cat into the dormitory?”

… oh fuck!

For a moment, Chi Zhao forgot his personal settings, and told Li Yihan his true experience. He shifted his eyes aside and began to think up several crazy excuses. Less than a second later, he turned his eyes back and said in a normal voice, “I didn’t put bring them to the dormitory. There is a special hidden place in the stairwell of our school, so I put the cats there. There are a few girls who help me. They are responsible for providing funds and finding an adoptive family. I am responsible for caring for them.”

It has to be said that the brain of a person who gets a lot of scholarships turns fast, and all the remaining loopholes are blocked by some simple words. If Li Yihan asks him why he used the term “home”, he can say that the school is his home. If Li Yihan wants to know who those girls are, he can say that they are not in one class, but just gather together. They are part of a volunteer organization, each responsible for their own job. Which class and which grade they all came from, he can’t remember.

Chi Zhao explained calmly, but in fact, his heart was holding its breath, nervously waiting for Li Yihan’s next question. Thankfully, Li Yihan did not ask anything else. Chi Zhao was too weak to raise his head and did not see Li Yihan’s slightly raised lip corner.

The next day, Li Yihan sat in his office and looked at the list of new recruits sent by the Minister of Personnel. After a moment’s deliberation, assistant Zhao said, “Boss, the number of times you have recently returned home has increased.”

Li Yihan lifted his eyes and looked at him. “What about that?”

“Nothing. I’m just worried about your trust in Qi Yuan. Don’t forget what kind of person he is.”

Li Yihan dropped his eyes back to the new employee’s files. He calmly said, “Seeing is believing.”

In other words, Li Yihan distrusted his findings?

Assistant Zhao was anxious, “Boss, I visited so many places, so many people. Summed up as a sentence, that kid is a troublemaker. I still do not understand why you want him to live in your home. What if he has bad intentions?”

“Let him live in my house for the time being” Li Yihan put the folder on the table and looked at assistant Zhao coldly. “I don’t need you to approve the decisions I make.”

Assistant Zhao also found himself out of line. He lowered his head in silence and dared not speak any more.

Knowing that what his assistant said was for his own good, Li Yihan did not say too much. He paused before continuing: “After all these years with me, you should also know what kind of personality I have, rest assured, I have my own ways to find out the truth.”

Assistant Zhao did not understand what this sentence meant, but Chi Zhao did.

“He put a tracker on me?!”

[In your watch, I detected it in the morning when Uncle Zhang handed it to you.]

Li Yihan went out early this morning. When Chi Zhao woke up, Zhang Bo gave him the watch, saying it was a gift from Li Yihan. Li Yihan also left him a sentence: remember to look at the time more, because you don’t have much time left with Xiao Pang.

In the morning, when he had heard this, Chi Zhao was almost laughed. He thought Li Yihan was pretty funny. Although he was older, he was still quick witted.

Now he realized that he was trying to put a tracker on him.

… What dangerous intentions!

[A tracker is installed, but it doesn’t work you when you’re calm. Maybe he’s afraid you’ll get lost, so that way he can find you in time.]

Chi Zhao was silent for a moment. “You say that, but do you believe it yourself?”

System: …Of course not.

Chi Zhao was about to leave. When he was packing up his things, the system asked him quickly.

[What about the watch? Are you going to wear it?]

“Of course, if he wants to track me, let him. I’m not afraid of being found out by him.” Speaking of this, Chi Zhao was suddenly stunned. “Wait a minute, when I read the story, it didn’t mention Qi Yuan being given a tracker.”

[That’s because he was not tracked, the process of your acting can change things, and a tiny detail can change the whole situation. I don’t know which detail triggered this development, so you must pay attention to the details from now on, and never do anything to destroy the plot!]

Chi Zhao promised to be careful.

After school, he planned to immediately go home, but as soon as he came out of the building, the system suddenly called out.

[Duan Bo’s people are outside the school gate. They are going to ambush you and take you to the Dragon Pearl.]

Chi Zhao stood there and pondered for a moment. He raised his feet and continued to walk out. The system did not expect him to be so calm. According to Chi Zhao’s character, he should be anxiously trying to avoid it.

So the system asked him what he was planning to do. Chi Zhao took out his cell phone from his pocket, pulled up Li Yihan’s cell phone number, and walked outward. He replied, “What are you so afraid of? Am I not being tracked? I should take this opportunity to deal with Duan Bo, or maybe someday, he will trip me up again. By the way, didn’t you always want me to seduce Li Yihan? I didn’t do it before, because there was no chance. Now opportunities are coming to my door by themselves.”

After that, Chi Zhao pressed the dial button, and then he threw his cell phone into his jacket pocket. At that moment, he arrived at the school gate. As soon as he stepped out of the gate with his left foot, his right hand was immediately pulled by a man. They dragged Chi Zhao into a car, as he shouted, “Who are you? Let go! Where are you taking me?! Help, save –“

Later, Chi Zhao’s mouth was covered so he could not speak. His face showed an expression of terror, while at the same time, he was still chatting with the system in his heart.

“What a good chance for a hero to save the heroine, don’t you think so system?”

The system was so shocked that it didn’t say anything and just threw him a file in its head.

Opening up the file, it was full of four-letter words.

Chi Zhao: =_=

[1] Chi Zhao is using the same character 李 for “Li” that is used in Li Yihan. This character means “Plum”.

[2] 小胖 meaning “little fat”.