《THE CUNNING VIGILANTE》12. Catching The Stray Cat Part II
Advertisement
"General, there's nothing wrong with your body. It's just that you had a lack of sleep and intense tension due to stress. It's better if you take a rest and relax your mind. I have a prescription that could ease your tension inside, you only need to follow the instructions written on the paper."
Jiang Hua took a piece of paper with the set of instructions written inside and handed it to Delun.
"Then, I'll follow the doctor's instruction. Thank you." Delun then folded the paper and placed it on the desk. Just as he looked at the doctor, Feng Delun had a question mark above his head as he saw the doctor looked giddy, moving his sight from an unknown direction as if he was looking for someone. Feng Delun cleared his throat. Jiang Hua noticed the General's puzzleheadedness and laughed dryly.
"General, may I ask? I haven't seen Min Zhe around?" Jiang Hua pondered why he couldn't find Min Zhe in the manor. He was on a duty for a dew days in the General's household so he thought that Min Zhe could explain what is the meaning behind his letter.
After Cheung Chao explained it to him, he was getting really impatient and worried about Li Jie's behalf. Somehow, he was alarmed about Min Zhe's letter indicating that Li Jie aroused some of the people's mind of abducting him.
After Feng Delun heard Jiang Hua's question, he raised a brow and looked at him. Jiang Hua was still raising his neck that looked like a squinting giraffe. The General thought why he was looking for Min Zhe, but he quickly gained his thoughts while looking at Jiang Hua's familiar face, he actually resembled Min Zhe.
'So, is this Min Zhe's brother too? If that's the case, then he was also that concubine's brother?'
"He's currently in Nanzheng. He had a mission there. If you have something to say to him, he'll return in two days." The General maintained his cold and aloof face. He then smiled inside his thoughts.
'What a small world.'
"I see. Then, this doctor shall take his leave." Jiang Hua said. He then clenched his fist and lifted his elbows in an angled position. He bowed to the General with respect and bid his farewell. The General nodded his head and did the same.
"Then, have a safe journey."
Jiang Hua walked out of the General's office and met one of the servants who handed him the fees. He then thanked the servant then proceeds to go out of the manor. And then he was about to get his brother back. However, as he looked around, he could not find his brother at the manor.
'This fox! Where did he go now?! There's no single time when he doesn't make me worry!'
He rushed to the Guard who was patrolling on the manor's hallway. He looked at the guard who seemed dazed and out of his world, he ran towards the guard and tapped the guard's back.
"Excuse me, have you seen a young man with an eye patch on his left eye?" Jiang Hua panicked when he asked the guard. Jiao-long, who was daydreaming about something was finally awakened by the person who approached him. He then looked at the man who asked him a question and was slightly stunned upon looking at his face.
Advertisement
The person resembled Min Zhe's face a lot. Now that he mentioned that beautiful young man, Jiao-long pinched his nose and cleared his throat. He then bailed off his thoughts towards that beautiful young man.
"Oh. He just came to tell you that he went out first and head towards the clinic." Jiao-long said as he straightened his back. If the General saw him like this then he could not imagine the consequences.
"Oh I see. Thank you for telling." Jiang Hua didn't waste his energy and dashed forward to his clinic.
'This kid really attracts trouble recently. Just what is happening to him?'
As for Li Jie, he doesn't know why he can't leave the manor. Just because he saw that stray cat who stole his meal, his grievance with that cat rippled to his mind and wanted to teach the cat a lesson.
"Meow!"
"You little rascal!" Li Jie rushed to the hallway to catch the stray cat. His mind was so focused on the stray cat that he didn't noticed that the cat was heading for the General's office.
When Li Jie passed by, the Guards was found speechless from the running youth who was determined to kill a lowly little cat. At the same time, they were stunned upon knowing that it was the young concubine who gave them a beating.
Guard 5, "Hey, isn't that him?"
Guard 3, "Yes, it's him. Should we go after him?"
Guard 5, "Don't be reckless. If the General found us, we'll surely be dead. Besides, he entered the manor so it seems that the General have persuaded him already."
Guard 3, "Hmm. Sounds reasonable."
Then the guards decided that they should not interfere with the youth. After all, this was their General's concubine, no, they should say the General's wife.
They just hope that the General wouldn't treat this youth the same as his concubines before.
And they thought Li Jie is strong enough, and he wouldn't be trampled easily just like how the General have thrown those past concubines after being tasted.
Guard 5, "I just hoped that the General will change back to his original self just like how he was before."
Guard 3, "I agree with you."
Then they went back to their senses and guard diligently. They should not interfere from the General's affair and do their job as a guard.
On the General's office, the General was in a daze as he noticed the meowing of the little cat went louder that it almost shouted for help. And also, he heard a certain familiar voice.
"Hey! Come here you fox brained cat!" Li Jie yelled at the cat and it takes a long time when he regained his senses back.
"I'm in my habit again!" Li Jie sat on the ground and gritted his teeth. Just now, his mind was filled with the cat who stole his meal this past day and he forgot that he was not in their house.
Ever since he was young, he liked to chase whether it was an animal or a person who did something he did not like. But it was simply another matter when it was an animal, especially those little puffballs. Li Jie wanted to snatch the cat and make it his little disciple. But, the little puny cat was freaking afraid of him that whenever the cat sees him, it gradually ran away. Li Jie's heart felt broken and thought of giving up chasing the little cute cat.
Advertisement
"Where am I again?" Li Jie scratched his neck after he recalled that he was in someone's territory.
"I came here...How can I be so careless?!" He finally flashed back on how he came here. How did he forgot that he was in the General's manor?
"Damn it you stupidhead!" Li Jie scolded himself of how stupid he is. He just barged in the manor without thinking, thanks to the cute, little cat.
"Ai, what mess did you do again?"
Li Jie heard the familiar voice and he sensed danger was approaching him.
'You little pighead! You're struggling to avoid that pervert and here you are letting yourself be caught by him. Idiot! You Idiot!'
Li Jie tiptoed himself to escape. But before he could react, the General found him and put the little cat back to the ground.
"So, my little darling decided to be with me?" After Li Jie heard the seductive and playful voice of Delun, Li Jie wanted to puke and roast this General until he became a burned roasted pig. However, he knew that he can't level the General resulting himself turned into a wilted leaf.
He scoffed silently and innocently smiled at Delun.
"Darling? Darling is not my name General. I believed you called someone else." Li Jie wanted to kill this person but he was hopeless knowing he can't do that. He doesn't even sure if he could handle killing anymore. It seems that his body negatively reacted if he wanted to kill someone. Therefore, he cannot do it anymore.
"Hmm, you are my darling. Then does that mean it's you I'm looking for?" The General looked straight to Li Jie's green eye. Somehow, Li Jie felt shivers down from his spine. Those phoenix eyes staring at Li Jie as if he could see right through him. Li Jie felt that it was scary and then he sneakily moved his entire body to get out of the place. However, the General went ahead of him and pressed Li Jie on the ground. Li Jie's both hands were being held by the General's fierce and strong right hand while his left hand locked Li Jie's body.
"Why do you always ran away from my grasp? Are you afraid of me?"
'Yes! Yes I am you damned General! You even have guts to question me?!'
"Afraid? Who's afraid? I'm not afraid of you! Let me go!" Li Jie kept squirming from the General's handhold and had no way of escaping from him. The General's eyes darkened as he stared at Li Jie's slender body and his fair skin. Right now, Delun was attracted to Li Jie. But he quickly suppressed it and prevented himself to go astray.
"Darling, husband, I-I was wrong! You're my husband! You're almighty! Your strength is incomparable. However, I would be delighted if my husband would let me go he-he." Hearing the word 'husband' and 'darling' escaped from Li Jie's throat, Delun frowned and furrowed his eyebrows. He narrowed his eyes as he looked at Li Jie who was trembling underneath him.
"Oh, you finally aknowledged me as your husband? You're quite unpredictable." Delun sneered, Li Jie then imprinted his face with horror. No matter how fearless he is, in front of this strong and handsome man, he felt inferior and afraid. This man's aura is too much for him to handle.
"W-well, can you let me go now?"
"No. If I release you, I could tell that you are planning to run again."
'I really hate him!'
Li Jie was thinking of a way to escape from the General and calmed down a little. The General was puzzled seeing the youth stopped squirming. Li Jie then thought of something so quick.
'Since you're unwilling to let go of me, then I'ts not my fault for doing this.'
When Delun looked at Li Jie, he saw the youth smiling to him naughtily. The General was about to opened his mouth when Li Jie raised his right knee and hit the General's little brother with brute force.
From here, you could hear the sound of an egg cracking until it turned into a sunny side-up.
Because of the insufferable pain, Delun froze and instantly let go Li Jie's hand. The General's face somewhat distorted, as if he wanted to cry from the pain.
For the past years since he was young, no one dared to humiliate him like this. Not to mention that it was his little brother got bullied, his eyes darkened as he looked at Li Jie who jumped on the roof, preparing to escape.
But before he departed, he yelled at the General.
"You? My husband? Bah! In your dreams!"
"You..."
'Wait till I get you. I will certainly give you a lesson!'
Li Jie then ran off to the roof and laughed crazily. Guard 5 and 3 who was strolling near the General's office shivered upon hearing the familiar laughter.
They looked up and saw the concubine again. Now that the concubine escaped, they rushed to the General's office to see what's going on.
But they were taken aback by surprise.
The General, who was fearless and feared by anyone, was clutching at his little brother with his red eyes stared angrily at the departing figure.
Guard 5, "No way, is that tears?"
Guard 3, "I sense danger. We should go."
After that, the two guards who was afraid of the General's wrath, hurried back to where the General could not find them.
Guard 5, "Hey, do you think that concubine kicked the national treasure?"
Guard 3, " You could totally see the General's wrath while clutching the national treasure right? Of course it is! The concubine is as fearless as the General! They are perfectly matched!"
"This concubine, I salute him," the two guards thought.
Advertisement
- In Serial6 Chapters
I Get a Second Chance and Accidentally Become a God
Mason (last name forgotten) has been summoned to another world. 7 years later, he dies. He wakes up 7 years earlier, before the summoning, with a chance to become the strongest. This time, he will live as he wants in the fantasy world. OP main character Most likely to never be picked up again
8 170 - In Serial17 Chapters
The Priest of Genes
Meet Seth, acolyte in the Church of Virtue. He’ll be a Priest like his father soon, he just knows it. Sure he didn’t inherit his mother’s preaching power, but he doesn’t mind being the secondary priest at whatever temple he is assigned to. Just as long as he has a library. Meet this genetics textbook. Hmm, that doesn’t belong here. It must have come from somewhere far away, I guess something happened to its owner. I’m sure a studious young man who likes healing could go far with this information, whether he wants to or not. This is my first time really writing anything, so I hope you like it! Please let me know if I make any mistakes; I have a new R&D tech job at a genomics company, so I probably don’t edit as much as some people. I’m shooting for two thousand-ish word chapters released on Sundays, since none of the webnovels I read ever seem to update that day. Underserved Market! Genre is fantasy, possibly progression fantasy. Maybe a tiny bit litRPG if you wait a while and squint really hard, but that’s the most I’m prepared to claim. Hedged my bets on the content warnings, nothing that bad. Cover art from A. W. Gelman
8 179 - In Serial80 Chapters
The Chronicles of the Scyllians
Set in a fantasy world, the story features an ever-expanding cast of characters try to survive the trials and tribulations of Majin Academy: an academy that serves as a training ground for the next generation of mages, prioritizing practical training - and a school, an academy, that is willing to relinquish their centuries of power and influence to give the reins of control to the students. Students whose aim is to make their lives more interesting by their own hand in a school that for so long had guided their own towards society. And whose own have now taken it upon themselves to guide their fellows to more trials; trials accepted and sanctioned by those who want to see how far their own can prosper. What fate will happen to those that try to take control? And what fate will be pressed upon one who is taken for a ride, seemingly always in the center of the chaos? This is their story. ------------ WARNING: CANADIAN ALERT: UNITS OF MEASUREMENT AND SPELLING MAY NOT BE FOR THE FAINT OF HEART.
8 145 - In Serial11 Chapters
The Totalitarian
He is nameless but has survived the war. Battle-scarred and hardened, he returns home depressed and suicidal. Life no longer means anything to him. One fateful day, he takes his service rifle and... ?
8 69 - In Serial200 Chapters
Meet the authors Showcase Edition #1 (Est. 2/17/2020)
EDITION 1 OF 3How do I feature? - send me a private message and I'll provide an interviewThis addition of meet the authors is meant to allow readers to learn how their favorite stories originated. These interviews are surfaced around what went into each story. For example, what the reader struggled with writing, what inspired the idea, if they share any similarities to their MC of the story and so on. Looking for the stories promoted in these interviews? Check my profile for the meet the authors showcase reading lists.some accomplishments: reached 1K on March/ 8/ 2020 #1 in promotions march/ 14/2020 Trending on Wattpad March/18/2020 #2 in recognition, #1 in promotions and #1 in MeetTheAuthors March 22 2020Reached 2K views March 24 2020Reached 3K views on April 11 2020Reached 4K views on April 19 2020Reached 5K views on May 3rd 2020Reached 6K views on May 21 2020Reached 7K views on July 15 2021
8 84 - In Serial65 Chapters
The Devil // Eddie Munson Stranger Things
𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚢 𝙸'𝚖 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚖 𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚐𝚗𝚒𝚣𝚎.𝙸 𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚝 𝟻:𝟺𝟻𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚑 𝚒𝚝 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚜𝚘 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗.𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚢 𝚖𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛'𝚜 𝚌𝚛𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚜.𝙾𝚛 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜?𝙹𝚞𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚛... 𝙰 𝚌𝚊𝚛-𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚛𝙳𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚕 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚛...Everyone said to stay away from Eddie Munson. He was the geeky freak of the town. They all warned her about that Devil worshiper of Hawkins, Indiana and the last thing Lennon Seagrave needed was to associate herself with a suspected murderer... Again. But how was she supposed to stay away from the only person that made her feel safe? Some would call it manipulation, others would call it mind-control or witchcraft, but the devil works in mysterious ways and he's inside everyone. But maybe Lennon should have listened when everyone told her not to let the devil take her out for dinner...
8 127

