Lima syndrome

The people from the Che family want to see him, who else could it be except Che Jingcan?

But he just slowly closed his eyes as Bai Jitai touched his eyelids, suppressed his emotions and answered softly, "I don't know."

"Do you really not know or are you pretending not to know?"

Bai Zhiyan couldn't answer his question about death, and no matter how he answered, Bai Jitai would not be satisfied.

"So this is why you let me out?"

The best way to avoid falling into the trap of self-justification is to ask questions in return.

"Hmph——" Bai Jitai snorted coldly and exerted a little force on his hands.

"The recent events in Iljiang have made Bai Zhengren very anxious, and the Cha family came out and said they want to cooperate. The condition is that you can meet Chairman Cha's wife. But is it really just a meeting with Chairman Cha's wife?"

It’s Yoon Mi-seon?

When mentioning Che Jingcan's mother, he subconsciously touched his left wrist, where he once wore the bracelet that Yoon Mi-sun gave him, but now it was empty.

He still remembered the scene of meeting Yoon Mi-seon in the church, a beautiful woman who was aloof from the world, with sadness and sorrow in her eyes. But when she smiled, her upturned eyes became very lively.

Che Jingcan's eyes are exactly the same as his mother's. Every time he deliberately uses his face to impact Bai Zhiyan's vision, he is always confused by him because of his seductive eyes.

Bai Jitai was very upset when he saw him in a daze, "What are you thinking about?"

Hearing his cold tone, Bai Zhiyan retracted his wild thoughts. It seemed that Che Jingcan had helped him by accident, otherwise he might still be locked in the basement.

"nothing."

"Are you eager to go out and meet Cha Kyung-chan? Do you want to get rid of me?"

Another fatal question.

I don't really want to see Che Jingcan, but I really want to get rid of you.

He didn't want to answer his question, so he held his hand and slowly placed it on his collarbone, which was so thin that it was obviously protruding.

"Do you think I've lost weight again?"

Bai Jitai was stunned. He thought of what the doctor said. Bai Zhiyan had been malnourished because of living in the basement. He had not had a proper meal in recent days because he was locked up by him. Although he did this on purpose to force him to obey, he felt complicated when he saw his lifeless appearance now.

"Why would I deliberately starve you if you don't make me angry?"

His gaze slowly moved along Bai Zhiyan's neck to his back, and his already obvious shoulder blades were now bulging high.

"You always eat the food I cook these days, aren't you curious about why I cook so many dishes?"

When Li Shanyu was still here, he basically cooked every meal. Bai Jitai would go to the kitchen first every time he came home, and even if Bai Zhiyan deliberately teased him, he would still eat next time.

But he really never thought about why Bai Zhiyan was such a good cook. Maybe it was because he lived in poverty since childhood and had to become independent early?

"why?"

After hearing Bai Jitai's question, he raised the corners of his lips and smiled softly, "Because my mother died of stomach cancer. During the time she was in the hospital, I tried hard to learn how to cook for her every day."

His answer struck Bai Jitai's soul directly. His voice was so soft that it almost disappeared, but Bai Jitai felt it was like thunder in his ears.

In an instant, he remembered how his mother suffered from illness and eventually died. It turned out that he had also experienced the same thing.

"you……"

"I want her to eat everything she wants before she dies, but learning to cook is really hard. There are still many things she wants to eat that I haven't learned yet."

Under the illumination of the cold night light, Bai Zhiyan's frail face showed traces of sadness, and his eyes flashed with tears that he had seen many times before. Bai Jitai suddenly had an indescribable feeling in his heart, and he used a little force to pull the person over.

"Don't think about it." Bai Jitai's tone softened, "I won't starve you on purpose anymore."

The room fell silent.

Bai Jitai wiped away the tears from his eyes. Bai Zhiyan did not dodge. He rubbed his cheek against the pillow and looked up at him. "It seems that we have never really talked calmly."

Indeed, Bai Jitai thought that every time he spoke to him, they were always aggressive and sometimes even violent. It was the first time that he did not resist him and he did not get angry and control him like today.

"If you don't oppose me, how could we quarrel as soon as we meet?"

Bai Zhiyan muttered quietly, "That's because you pick on me as soon as you see me."

"Huh? What did you say?" Bai Jitai saw that he had really recovered his spirits and started to talk back to him again.

"Nothing." Bai Zhiyan immediately got into the quilt and rolled himself up.

"You're not afraid of me anymore, are you?"

He tried to pull the quilt wrapped around him, but Bai Zhiyan wrapped himself up in a ball. Bai Jitai couldn't pull him out, so he just hugged this "silkworm chrysalis".

Bai Zhiyan was so suffocated that he couldn't breathe, so he had to stick his head out.

Seeing his red face, Bai Jitai pinched it and asked, "Why don't you hide it?"

"I'm just too hot." Bai Zhiyan turned his face away.

"I told you to hide." Bai Jitai didn't force him. He let go of his hand and helped him lift the quilt a little.

It was a rare occasion for the two of them to be together without quarreling or fighting. Bai Jitai was a little dazed. Was it true that brothers from ordinary families would fight and quarrel like this? If he and Bai Zhiyan grew up together, could they become ordinary brothers?

But he felt something was wrong. Every time he saw him entangled with Che Jingcan and Xu Shiyuan, he felt unhappy.

This isn't right.

Although it was a bit hot, Bai Zhiyan still buried half of his face in his arms, leaving only a pair of eyes looking at him, "I think--"

"If you dare say you want to go back to your room, I'm going to throw you back into the basement right now."

"Oh...then let me go first. I can't breathe."

Bai Jitai let go of Bai Zhiyan, and Bai Zhiyan, who was free, turned over and faced his back to Bai Jitai, leaving room for one person between them. Neither of them spoke for a while.

"Go to sleep." Bai Jita turned off the desk lamp, and the room became dark in an instant.

However, Bai Zhiyan, who had been locked in the basement for days, was still scared when he was in the dark again. He clutched the quilt tightly and forced himself to suppress the fear in his heart.

After dealing with Bai Jita for so long, I can finally relax.

Although the words just said to him were intentional and also suspected of playing the victim, Bai Jitai was indeed touched. At least in the short term, he didn't have to worry about being locked up again.

In the darkness, Bai Zhiyan slowly turned around and faced him. Bai Jitai was a completely different person when he was asleep. His eyes, which had always been filled with hostility and gloom, looked so gentle and harmless when he closed them.

Bai Zhiyan looked at his sleeping face and smiled silently.

Look, Bai Jitai, I said before, if you can be soft-hearted to me once, there will be a second and a third time, until you can no longer do it.

Uncontrollable wrong emotions will spread throughout the body like chronic toxins, and by the time you discover it, the body has already rotted into mud.

When Bai Zhiyan woke up the next day, Bai Jitae was gone. He didn't find his cell phone in the room. When he went downstairs, those expressionless bodyguards were still outside the door.

The situation is not much better than before.

He sighed and returned to his room. When Butler Li saw that he had woken up, he tactfully asked the servants to bring over the prepared meal.

"Master Zhiyan, you are awake. These are the foods that Master Jitai asked us to prepare for you."

"Okay, hard work."

Bai Zhiyan was in a bad mood and couldn't eat. Looking at the wound on Butler Li's face, he knew without thinking who did it. He didn't dare to ask Butler Li to do anything for him.

But his predicament didn't last long before Bai Zhengren broke it.

In the evening, Bai Zhengren came back and saw Bai Zhiyan who was unhappy. "How are you doing now?"

"I'm fine, father." Bai Zhiyan stood up and bowed to him respectfully, "I'm much better now."

"Since you have nothing to do, come with me to the Che family tomorrow. You and the young master of the Che family are classmates, right? I heard that he has been ill recently. Remember to go see him after talking to Mrs. Che."

In order to please someone, even the whole family will not be spared. Bai Zhiyan knew that this sentence was probably what Bai Zhengren meant himself. He probably wanted to be on good terms with Che Jingcan and fight for benefits for him.

In his previous life, the fact that he was bullied by Cha Kyung-chan was exposed, so Cha Jae-ho facilitated the cooperation between the Che and Baek families in order to suppress the scandal.

The world line of this life has obviously been changed, but in the end this cooperation was still achieved because of him, and Bai Zhiyan himself found it interesting.

He had discovered before that although some nodes would change due to some element processes, the ending could not be changed.

"it is good."

After agreeing, Bai Zhiyan pretended to hesitate, "But my brother..."

"Hmph, don't worry about him!"

He got angry whenever Bai Zhengren was mentioned. He had not been back for a while, but his son almost died.

"He went too far this time. I've already taught him a lesson. This won't happen again."

Bai Zhiyan didn't believe a word he said and nodded obediently in a pretentious manner.

I don’t know what method Bai Zhengren used, but when he took him out the next day, Bai Jitai actually didn’t come out to stop him.

When Bai Zhiyan saw Driver Zhou again, he felt as if he was in another world.

"Master Zhiyan, you..." Driver Zhou didn't know what happened to him at the Bai family. He just felt distressed when he saw his pale and haggard face. "You seem to have lost weight again."

Bai Zhiyan gave him a comforting look, "It's nothing, I just recovered from being sick recently, I just don't look that good anymore."

"Stop talking nonsense and drive faster."

Bai Zhengren on the side interrupted the two people's greetings with an impatient look on his face, and no one spoke for the rest of the way.

It has been more than ten days since I last saw Che Jingcan. Bai Zhiyan still remembers their very undignified "farewell" last time, and always feels a little awkward when they meet this time.

After arriving at the Che family, Bai Zhiyan was not in the mood to appreciate their home's decoration design. After following the butler into the hall, he saw Yin Meishan who had been waiting for them there since early morning.

"Mrs. Che." Bai Zhengren walked forward and greeted her with a fake smile.

"Hello, Mrs. Che." Bai Zhiyan also greeted her obediently.

"Hello, President Bai, you are finally here. President Che is waiting for you in the study upstairs. He has something to do and cannot leave, so I asked you to come over."

Yoon Mi-sun was still dressed in black, and looked a little better than the last time they met.

It was the way she addressed her husband that confused Bai Zhiyan. Is it true that couples address each other like this?

"No need, Madam Che, I can go up by myself."

When a guest came to the house but the host did not come to greet him in person, Bai Zhengren knew that he had begged for this cooperation and he could only swallow his anger and accept the humiliation.

"Xiao Yan, can I call you that?"

Yin Meishan's voice brought Bai Zhiyan back to his senses. He smiled and nodded, "Of course, you can call me whatever you want."

"That's good."

She pulled up the corners of her mouth and smiled at Bai Zhiyan, "Let's go, let's go upstairs and talk."

"it is good."

The two went to the guest room on the second floor together. The decoration style was very similar to Bai Zhiyan's room, just as simple and monotonous.

"Why aren't you wearing the bracelet I gave you?"

Bai Zhiyan was stunned. He didn't expect her to ask this.

"I……"

"Don't be nervous, I'm just asking."

Yoon Mi-sun brought a cup of coffee to Baek Ji-yeon, and they sat opposite each other. She smiled faintly, "Are you worried that people will find out that you are wearing the same thing as my little Chan and talk about it?"

I have to say that women's intuition is very sensitive. Bai Zhiyan never wears these things, and the sudden appearance of a bracelet on her hand will definitely attract attention.

He couldn't afford to offend either Xu Shiyuan, who kept a close eye on him every day, or Bai Jitai, who locked him up at the slightest disagreement.

"I'll wear it next time I see you."

"Don't be so formal, I was just joking."

Yoon Mi-sun put down the cup, and when she looked up again, Bai Zhiyan vaguely saw the same sadness he had seen before.

"Xiao Yan, I knew you were a good kid the first time I saw you. You should be able to guess why I called you here today."

"Yes……"

"I know this is a matter between you and Xiaocan, and I shouldn't have asked too much, but I just can't bear to see Xiaocan so depressed every day. Please don't blame me for being selfish."

"Will not."

Seeing that she seemed a little embarrassed, Bai Zhiyan didn't hesitate and said whatever he wanted to say.

"Mrs. Che, although I don't know what Che Jingcan said to you, I have already told him very clearly that I don't like him and I won't be with him. Even if he asked you to be his lobbyist, I would still speak directly."

Yoon Mi-sun didn't expect him to be so straightforward, and many of the things she wanted to say were stuck in her heart.

"Well, can I ask why you don't like Xiaocan?"

Bai Zhiyan had never thought about this question. How could he fall in love with someone he hated? But for various reasons, he was not in a position to speak out.

"I once told Che Jingcan that you don't need a reason to dislike someone."

Bai Zhiyan's eyes were full of determination. He looked at Yin Meishan who looked unhappy and asked her, "Mrs. Che, if you live with someone you don't like forever, isn't that too pitiful and sad? What's the difference between this and a bird with broken wings? I don't want to live in pain. At least I hope that the person I see next to me in my dreams at midnight is the face I have been thinking about day and night."

With every word he said, Yin Meishan's expression became uglier. She was silent for a long time, and finally she sighed, "I understand. I forced it."

Bai Zhiyan couldn't bear it, "Mrs. Che, this matter has nothing to do with you."

"No, thank you for saying so much to me. I can get some inspiration every time I meet you."

"It's nothing, you can figure it out--" He was interrupted by a voice before he could finish his words.

"Bai Zhiyan, you are still so cruel."