Lima syndrome

His voice was firm and resolute, with a destructive attitude of ready to die. After hearing this, Yoon Mi-sun's body slowly stiffened. She loosened her hands, held Che Kyung-chan's face, and looked up at him.

"Xiaocan, since he has clearly rejected you so many times, you should stop wasting time. Letting go is better for both of you. Mom doesn't want to see you sad."

"I do not want."

Che Jingcan raised his hands and covered Yin Meishan's hands, "Mom, I have never liked someone like this in my life, and I have never failed to get something. Bai Zhiyan is mine."

"Love that is forced will never have a good outcome. Sometimes letting go is the right thing to do."

She tried to persuade him earnestly, just wanting to correct his improper thoughts.

"I've taught you so much before, but he's still unmoved, Xiaocan, that just means you two are really not suitable for each other."

"How can it be unsuitable? There is absolutely no one in this world who is more worthy of him than me!"

"But you also saw that you tried so many ways but couldn't keep him, and even made yourself so humble and embarrassed. Is this really what you want?" Yoon Mi-sun said with red eyes.

"That only means that my method is wrong."

But Che Jingcan didn't react to her words at all. He stared at her and asked a question that made her shudder.

"Mom, how did father leave you behind?"

"What did you say?"

Yin Meishan let go of her hand, thinking she had heard it wrong. She looked at Che Jingcan in astonishment and asked again with a trembling voice: "Xiaocan, what are you talking about?"

"I know you don't like dad, but you haven't left after all these years, right?"

Yin Meishan looked at him in disbelief and stepped back unconsciously, "You...Xiaocan, you know everything?"

Che Jingcan approached her step by step, and Yin Meishan's face was extremely ugly with anger and hatred.

"It's okay, mom. It doesn't matter if the way you taught me doesn't work. I will ask my father for help. He must have a way. Since he can keep you, I can also get him, at any price."

She looked at Che Jingcan's face which was twisted and crazy with grief, unable to say a word, and watched him open the door and leave.

Crazy! This family is all crazy!

Yoon Mi-sun could no longer bear it and fell to the ground, covering her face and crying.

Ask her why she stayed? He was clearly the reason why she didn't commit suicide and survived, but now he has become the knife that hurts her the most.

She was shrouded in an unspeakable despair. During the most difficult, helpless and depressed years of her life, she tried her best to hold on because of Che Jingcan's existence. Even now, she still has the heart to hate the flesh and blood she once hated.

But today he used the most painful thing in his life as a reference for his love.

It's so painful, it's all so painful.

When Che Jingcan walked into the study in a daze, Che Jae-ho was sorting out the contract he had just signed with Bai Zhengren.

"Xiaocan? Why are you here?"

"dad."

He rushed over and grabbed Che Zaihao's arm tightly, "I can't keep Bai Zhiyan. You taught me before that if I can't see my own heart clearly, I will suffer sooner or later. Now I have been punished. Teach me, how can I keep him? I can't live without him!"

There was a flash of surprise in Che Jae-ho's eyes. Although he thought that he might be rejected again when he met Bai Zhiyan today, Che Jingchan's strong reaction was beyond his expectations.

"Xiaocan, where is your mother? Did she tell you what to do?"

"Mom asked me to let go...but I can't do it! I have never wanted something so badly before. Bai Zhiyan must be mine!"

He held Che Jae-ho tightly, and the madness and determination in his eyes made Che Jae-ho feel a little dazed, as if he saw his younger self in him.

Twenty years ago, he also held Yin Meishan tightly and begged her to stay, but what did Yin Meishan say?

"Love can't be forced. You're only making us more miserable."

I didn't expect that she still thinks so after so many years.

"Xiaocan."

Cha Jae-ho came out of his memories. He pressed his stinging forehead and said, "I know it's painful to fall in love with someone who doesn't like you, but maybe your mother is right. You will always meet someone better."

"You're lying." Che Jingcan let go of his hand and looked at him with empty eyes, "You obviously can't do it, and you still want to persuade me to let go."

"What did you say?"

"Mom, even though she doesn't love you, can stay with you. Dad, please teach me what I should do to be like you and get Bai Zhiyan."

"Shut up!"

Cha Jae-ho angrily slapped Cha Kyung-chan in the face, "Your mother and I are in love! Whether it was marrying me or giving birth to you, it was all because she loved me!"

He used a lot of strength this time, and Che Jingcan's face instantly became red and swollen, but he remained indifferent, only a hint of pity appeared on his calm face.

"Dad, stop lying to yourself. How long are you going to deceive yourself?"

His voice was very soft, but it made Che Jae-ho breathless.

"After all these years, don't you know best whether your mother loves you or not?"

"shut up!"

Another slap was given, and blood oozed from the corner of Che Jingcan's mouth.

"I have been with Meishan for twenty years. How could she not love me? If she didn't love me, how could she have you?"

"It's not important, Dad. None of this matters."

Che Jingcan raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, his eyes full of sadness, but he smiled when he looked at Che Jaeho.

"I've been rejected three times. I know he won't fall in love with me, but it doesn't matter if I can't get his love. Even if it's like you, as long as I can keep him."

"Don't use me and Meishan as a reference for your emotional path. He is different from your mother."

“Yes, it is indeed different.”

Cha Kyung-chan seemed to really think about the difference in his words, and his tone became lighter.

"I can't legally marry him in Country H, and he can't have children. If he can have children, maybe things won't be so difficult. But we can get married abroad, in the UK or the Netherlands? If he's not afraid of the cold, maybe we can go to Iceland or Norway."

There was no fluctuation on his face when he said this, and there was even a hint of smile. Che Jae-ho's indifferent expression suddenly showed a crack.

"You are really crazy, Che Jingcan..."

He sighed, and his upright back seemed to collapse as if it could no longer bear the pressure. "It's my fault. I didn't educate you well. But don't say these things to your mother. She won't be able to bear it."

But Yoon Mi-sun, who followed Che Kyung-chan to the door of the study, had already seen all of this.

"You're worried that your mother won't be able to bear it?" Che Jingcan chuckled, "Then why didn't you think that she wouldn't be able to bear it when you forced her to stay with you?"

"How dare you say that!"

Cha Jae-ho was almost trembling with anger. Even though he knew that every word Cha Kyung-chan said was true, he didn't want to admit it. Once he admitted his mistake, it would be tantamount to admitting the fact that Yoon Mi-sun did not love him.

He would rather make the mistake all his life.

"I have been too indulgent to you. How dare you say such outrageous words!"

Che Jingcan is indeed a rebellious person. He has always known that his mother was forced to stay in the Che family by his father, but in order to satisfy his own selfish desire for maternal love and because he enjoys and desires this love, he has been a bystander and watched Yoon Mi-seon's painful struggle for many years.

But the only thing he didn't know was that he was the real reason why Yoon Mi-seon gave up her freedom.

He is the bargaining chip that Cha Jae-ho uses to balance Yoon Mi-seon.

"I am unfilial, but what's wrong with me just wanting to keep someone?"

Yoon Mi-seon, who was outside the door, felt completely hopeless after listening to their conversation.

Since she lost her parents and became an orphan, she has never experienced family love again, and the love of her childhood also died with the death of her first love.

Until Cha Jae-ho forcibly grabbed her and brought her back to Cha's house, she thought she was going to go downstairs to accompany them, but the doctor told her that she was pregnant.

She felt that there was a new life in her body, and this would be her only family.

Yoon Mi-sun is not a person who likes children. Even when she was giving birth, she was thinking about whether Cha Jae-ho would vent his anger on the child because of her death if she died in childbirth.

But in the end, neither she nor her child died.

Looking at Che Jingcan, whom she once wanted to take to the door of death together with him, she couldn't help crying.

When she was pregnant, she thought about committing suicide with her child countless times, but in the end she just lingered on because of her soft-heartedness.

She is a believer, but everything she does goes against religion. Perhaps the fact that Che Jingcan has become what she is now is the heaviest punishment for her.

She couldn't bear to listen to the quarrel between the two people in the room any longer.

"Stop talking about it."

When Cha Jae-ho saw Yoon Mi-sun pushing the door open, a trace of panic flashed across his face, and Cha Kyung-chan's expression also began to freeze.

"Meishan, why are you here? Xiaocan and I were just--"

“Let’s stop here, Cha Jae-ho.”

"What do you mean it ends here?" Che Jae-ho deliberately avoided her cold gaze, pretending not to understand and still keeping a calm face to cover up the situation.

"Xiaocan and I will have a good chat, you don't have to worry too much about us."

"It's unnecessary, Cha Jae-ho, we should end it. We should have ended it twenty years ago."

Yoon Mi-sun had said this to Che Jae-ho before, and he grabbed her hands almost reflexively.

"Meishun, are you angry because of our quarrel? Go back and have a rest. We won't quarrel anymore."

"I'm really tired after all these years..."

Yoon Mi-sun had a terrible headache, but she was still concerned about Che Kyung-chan who was in a daze and in a very bad state next to her.

She forced a gentle smile and gently stroked Che Jingcan's face, "Xiaocan, go back first. I want to have a good talk with your father."

This is a matter between them, and Che Jingcan has no right to intervene. He looked straight at Yoon Mi-sun's face, but did not find the same determination as Bai Zhiyan.

Che Jingchan walked out of the study room woodenly. He didn't know what Yoon Mi-sun and Cha Jae-ho would talk about, but it didn't matter anymore. He just wanted to get Bai Zhiyan.

It was already dark when Bai Zhiyan returned to Bai's house. Bai Zhengren, who had received the cooperation contract, did not want to stay at Che's house for a moment, so he asked the driver to pick him up and go back to the company. Bai Zhiyan returned to Bai's house with driver Zhou.

When he got home, Bai Jitai had already dealt with the matter and returned.

"Bai Zhiyan, he took you to Che's house, right?"

"Ah."

As soon as they met, Bai Jitai grabbed him and started questioning him, but Bai Zhiyan no longer had the strength to respond to him. Just what Che Jingcan said today had exhausted him to the extreme.

"What did Che Jingcan say to you? Did he do anything to you?"

Faced with Bai Jitai's aggressiveness, his mind was in a mess and he couldn't find a suitable response to calm his anger.

Even Bai Zhiyan didn't know what caused his anger.

Seeing him turn his head away and remain silent, Bai Jitai was furious. He turned his face to face him, "Let me ask you again, what did you do when you saw Che Jingcan? What did he say to you?"

The absent-minded Bai Zhiyan's spirit seemed to be finally awakened, and a light heavier than grief flashed in his eyes.

"He said he knew that I had lived with my mother for the first half of my life, that you and Bai Zhengren were not good to me, and that I had too little love, so he said he would love me."

Bai Zhiyan pried his hands apart and repeated to Bai Jitai word by word what Che Jingcan had said to him.

"He said he would love me."

After the words fell, the hall fell silent for a moment. Bai Jitai's expression became more and more ugly. He frowned and grabbed Bai Zhiyan's wrist and asked sternly: "So, Bai Zhiyan, you need his love? Can his few words of love move you?"

Impress him?

Bai Zhiyan thought about how he tried to keep him by destroying himself, but even that couldn't keep him. Did Bai Jitai really think he could impress him with just a few words?

"is it not OK?"

He looked at Bai Jitai's face, which was slightly distorted with anger, and smiled softly, "The person who loves me the most in this world is no longer here, but he cried and said he loves me and asked me to give him a chance to be with him. Shouldn't I be moved?"

"Did you promise him?" Bai Jitai's hands gained more and more strength, and an unknown feeling of panic enveloped his heart.

"Bai Zhiyan, even if you are in need of love, you can't be so shameless!"

"Why am I the one who is being a slut? You've already said that I lack love, so what's wrong with me agreeing to the confession of someone who is willing to love me?"

Bai Jitai couldn't answer. Even though his fierce eyes were oppressive, they couldn't change Bai Zhiyan's mind in the slightest.

"I lack love, and he will love me. What a best of both worlds solution."

Bai Jitai couldn't listen any longer. He raised his hand to cover Bai Zhiyan's mouth and pressed him against the wall, roaring, "Shut up, Bai Zhiyan! What he can give you, I can give you too!"

After he finished speaking, even the air seemed to be still. Bai Zhiyan only left a pair of eyes exposed. He was panicked and unable to understand the current situation, and stared at him.

After Bai Jita realized that he had said something wrong, he withdrew his hand tremblingly, and the panic in his eyes was no less than that of Bai Zhiyan.

"So, you mean you will also..."

Bai Zhiyan couldn't say the rest of the words. He would rather believe that Bai Jita had gone crazy from taking too many drugs.

Bai Jitai didn't dare to admit his mistake. He let go of Bai Zhiyan and took two steps back in panic, then fled under Bai Zhiyan's horrified eyes.