Mo Yi had not completely shaken off the habits of beasts. Every time he arrived at a new place, he naturally had to become familiar with the territory. He had not even peed to mark it, he was already very civilized, like a human.
And the more he looked at this place, the more he liked it.
He had originally thought the house they stayed in yesterday was already good enough, but he had not expected that today he would be staying in an even better place.
There were several rooms here, and the furnishings were luxurious to Mo Yi, who had not seen much of the world.
The table was also set with quite a few fruits and pastries prepared in advance, and he had heard that the dinner brought over later would be even more sumptuous!
Mo Yi picked a few grapes and tossed them into his mouth. They were sweet and juicy, unbelievably delicious, nothing like the tiny, sour grapes he had encountered in the forest before!
And that box of pastries, which looked exquisitely packaged, was crisp and flaky the moment he took a bite, full of milky fragrance.
Mo Yi held his face in his hands, his eyes full of happiness.
After he came back to his senses, he immediately looked at Bai Ren with burning eyes.
It was this person who had let him stay in a big house, given him good things to eat, and spoken to him so gently!
A surge of excited, surging emotion rose in his heart, and he anxiously wanted to express it.
He had always been an unlucky beast, but it seemed that after meeting this man, he had started to get lucky!
With an inexplicable feeling of anticipation, Mo Yi hurried over to Bai Ren’s front.
But when he stood still and faced the man’s smiling face and the gentle gaze looking at him, he again did not know what to say.
After stammering for a long time, Mo Yi could only foolishly reveal a smile and say, “Bai Ren, this place is really nice!”
“You think this place is very good?”
At that, Bai Ren looked around. The decor might be decent for ordinary people, but not to mention the Bai family’s old mansion, it could not even compare with his own residence in Y Country.
There were no antiques here, and those seemingly splendid pieces of furniture were nothing but flashy pretenses.
But the boy opposite him nodded hard, his round eyes bright and sparkling, as if inside them was a galaxy full of crushed stars, dazzling enough to make it impossible to look away.
In that instant, Bai Ren wished that these beautiful eyes could keep looking at him like this forever.
The other’s eyes were clear. It was obvious that the boy was happy, but only because he had moved into a good place. There was not the slightest greed in those eyes, only pure joy. He seemed eager to share it with him.
This person, and the people he had encountered in the past, were all different… Bai Ren became even more strongly aware of this point, and the smile in his eyes deepened.
Later, when one beautifully plated dish after another was brought to the table, he felt even more that Mo Yi’s favor toward him had risen to a new level.
He really was easy to win over!
Under Bai Ren’s feeding, the two of them finished dinner together.
After eating and drinking their fill and regaining their strength, without Bai Ren even needing to say anything, Mo Yi ran on his own into the bathroom to clean himself.
Before leaving the small inn earlier, he had only done a simple wipe-down during washing up, and had not been able to properly take care of his fur.
On his body, the only hair still clearly visible was the little bit on top of his head, so he had to treat it well.
Fortunately, after washing up, he found that his hair was actually pretty good. Although it was a little short, the strands were thick and dense, not dry at all, and looked very glossy.
Smoothing happily over the hair on his head, Mo Yi changed into the cartoon pajamas prepared in the bathroom. With a towel hanging around his neck, he looked like an innocent, worldly-ignorant neighborhood boy.
But Bai Ren knew that Mo Yi was not only like that.
This person might not be complicated, and might even be somewhat easy to read, but he was also often guarded against the people around him, even when facing him.
He did not blame Mo Yi for being on guard against him. Put bluntly, they had not known each other for long. Had he himself not also been suspicious that the boy had other motives?
But on closer thought, actually, from the first time he saw the other person and trusted him enough to let himself pass out, that already proved how different this person was.
Being with him always made him inexplicably at ease.
And the other’s instinctive caution could only mean that Mo Yi had very likely suffered a great deal of harm before, which was why he was like this.
Thinking of someone having bullied the little fool he had set his sights on, a chill rose in Bai Ren’s heart. He had always borne grudges, and he was never a good person. If he got the chance, he would retaliate against anyone who offended him, along with the people connected to them.
He reached out and touched the dripping tips of Mo Yi’s hair. The freshly washed child seemed even more lovable. For some reason, there was also a faint milk scent on him.
It was the kind of special aura that only milk-fluffy animal cubs would have, very distinctive, not strong, but the smell of the bath gel could not cover it, and it was very pleasant.
“Give me the towel, I’ll dry you off. Don’t sleep with wet hair.”
As Bai Ren spoke, after seeing Mo Yi take the towel off his neck, he made him sit on the carpet in front of his wheelchair and raised his hand to dry all the still-dripping ends of his hair.
As the two of them drew closer, that pleasant milk fragrance seemed even stronger.
Bai Ren sniffed lightly, and after drying Mo Yi’s hair, he quietly leaned over and lightly inhaled at the boy’s crown, and there was actually a hint of satisfaction in his eyes.
Mo Yi did not know what Bai Ren had done. He only saw the other stop moving, and turned his head in some confusion, only to see the man naturally placing the towel back into his hands and smiling as he said, “It’s already dry.”
That upright and easy expression did not reveal at all what indecent thing he had just been doing.
Mo Yi nodded and let out a small yawn.
Originally Bai Ren’s body should have been weaker, but over these past two days Mo Yi had been running around busily taking care of him.
The physical qualities copied from the original body were actually just those of an ordinary person. No matter how much influence Mo Yi’s powerful soul had on them, they would not immediately become strong.
In order to adapt to this brand-new world, his mind had been tense these past few days. After relaxing by Bai Ren’s side, he instead felt overwhelming drowsiness, and soon had trouble keeping his eyes open.
Seeing the boy like this, Bai Ren reached out and rubbed his fluffy head, then let him go to rest.
Not long after, he heard the steady sound of breathing coming from the bed, and occasionally a few little snores, not noisy at all.
Bai Ren stared at Mo Yi for a while, then turned and rolled his wheelchair out of the room himself.
Back in his own room, Bai Ren was still thinking that he had never thought he would live with another person in the same space. Even when it was a suite, he had always lived alone and only let the people accompanying him open other rooms separately.
But thinking of yesterday’s shabby little inn, he really did not reject Mo Yi.
The pain in his leg had already eased a lot compared with at the beginning. His willpower had always been good, and the pain in his body could always be endured. He even felt that it made him better able to experience the feeling of being alive.
Perhaps his psyche had already become so abnormal that it was beyond saving.
His phone vibrated. Picking it up, he saw a message sent by Zhu Xiuya.
She probably also felt that it was too late and was不好意思 to come over and disturb him directly, so she sent a message first to ask.
Bai Ren called Zhu Xiuya over. After the two of them met in the living room, she carefully told Bai Ren the results of the earlier investigation.
“Boss, based on your previous description, those thugs who dared to attack you have already been found, and we have successfully pried open their mouths, finding out who hired them.
The other side did not seem to hide it too much either. From the description matching the appearance, we suspect that person should be the Liu family’s illegitimate son. Recently, Jiang Mingda seems to have been getting very close to the Liu family.”
“Jiang Mingda?”
The Bai family and the Liu family had no dealings. Bai Ren and the Liu family also had no connection. The only person he had a connection with was this Jiang Mingda. But the key was that over these years he had been abroad, and had only just returned. He and Jiang Mingda had only met once.
At that time he had already felt that the way that person looked at him carried ill intent, but he had not taken such a minor figure seriously. As a result, he had actually suffered a setback in the gutter?
At this, Bai Ren frowned and thought about the whole matter, unable for a moment to think of the reason, when he saw Zhu Xiuya on the opposite side looking like she wanted to say something but hesitated.
“What is it? Is there anything else you want to say?”
“It’s like this, Boss. Although we found those thugs, their current condition is very strange. You may still not know, there were eight of those thugs in total, and now all of them have broken legs and are lying in the hospital’s intensive care ward.
All of them were badly injured. I asked the doctor, and their legs were broken very thoroughly. Even after treatment, there is a very high chance they will not be able to stand up again.”
“All of them broke their legs?”
Bai Ren raised a brow. This time, he really became very interested.
“That’s right, and not only that, because so many of them were injured together and discovered, the police also got involved. But what is very strange is that all the surveillance in the area where they were injured malfunctioned.
By the time the surveillance footage recovered, they had already been seriously injured, and there was no recording at all of how they were injured.
However, according to that group of thugs, it was a boy who did this to them.”
“A boy? You’re saying that just one boy beat all of them into that state?” As Bai Ren spoke, one corner of his mouth slowly lifted, and the smile was somewhat indescribably strange.
Seeing this, Zhu Xiuya swallowed. She felt that her Boss sometimes really did look sinister, practically a textbook movie villain, and forced herself to say, “That’s right.
According to their description, that boy was probably not very old. He was dressed very miserably, like a little beggar, with a dirty face, so his appearance could not be seen clearly. But it is said that he was very thin…”
As she spoke, the woman’s gaze unconsciously drifted toward the closed door of the room not far away. When she turned her head and met Bai Ren’s gaze, the two of them simultaneously thought of the same person.
Without even needing Zhu Xiuya to say anything else, Bai Ren was practically already certain that the one who had crippled all those thugs should be Mo Yi.