Lima syndrome

Although it was a busy street, Bai Zhiyan could still hear his sobbing voice.

“Chiyan——”

Bai Jitai held his hand and pressed it on his shoulder with irresistible force, but the moment Che Jingcan's voice fell, Bai Zhiyan still turned back.

"Don't even think about leaving me like this."

Even though they were separated by a sea of ​​people, Bai Zhiyan still saw the mournful yet determined look in his eyes when he looked at him. However, the moment he saw him looking back, the sparks in his eyes flashed again and almost burned him.

Bai Jitai, who was beside him, noticed his action and reached out to turn his head back. Bai Zhiyan saw a tear suddenly fall from Che Jingcan's right eye.

The crystal clear liquid rolled down in beads and slid down his much thinner cheeks, finally disappearing into the soil and turning into dust.

After Bai Zhiyan was forced to turn his head, he felt that he could not see anything clearly. His legs were clearly moving, but everything in front of him was a mess.

At this moment, he only felt that the world was far away and everything was silent. Everything around him turned into nothingness. In front of him, there was only Che Jingcan's sad face and that drop of sad and unique tear.

He saw him crying again.

Che Jingcan was originally so arrogant and domineering, but he has seen his tears twice.

Bai Zhiyan is still in a daze even after returning to the Bai family. Bai Jitai is very dissatisfied with his appearance. What else can it mean that he is sad because of Che Jingcan?

"Why? Bai Zhiyan, you just rejected him yourself and asked me to bring you back."

Bai Jitai was very unhappy. He threw off his coat and pulled Bai Zhiyan in front of him.

"What do you mean by that expression now? Do you regret it? Regret rejecting him and not going with him?"

"I..." Bai Zhiyan's face was pale and his eyes were somewhat empty, as if he had lost his soul.

"How could I regret it? This is the best ending." His voice trembled slightly.

Bai Jitai stroked his cold face with his hand and snorted, "It's better to be like what you said. Don't think of having any unnecessary feelings for him, otherwise-"

"What else?" Bai Zhiyan raised his head and looked him straight in the eyes, interrupting him and asking, "Are you going to kill him or me?"

Hearing his contemptuous tone, Bai Jitai's fingers that were still stroking his face suddenly stopped, "What do you want to do now? Go against me for him?"

"How could that be? How dare I?" Bai Zhiyan chuckled and curved his eyebrows, but the smile did not reach his eyes. It was as if only an empty shell of flesh without a soul was pulling up the corners of his mouth.

"You'd better recognize the current situation. You can't go anywhere without my permission. Bai Zhiyan, unless I die, you will never leave me."

There was silence in the hall for a moment after he finished speaking. His hawk-like eyes were fixed on Bai Zhiyan's face, not missing any change of his emotions.

But Bai Zhiyan still had a calm face without a trace of emotion. In the end, his lips touched each other and his voice was clear.

"Bai Jitai, you are really a lunatic."

"So don't try to fight a madman. There will be no better outcome than a fight to the bitter end."

Seeing the madness in his eyes, Bai Zhiyan turned his head away helplessly, his whole body full of resistance. But how could Bai Jitai care about his feelings? He directly picked him up by the waist and walked to the second floor with a gloomy face.

He threw Bai Zhiyan on the bed, and supported himself on the edge of the bed with his hands. "I tell you, Bai Zhengren doesn't have much time left. After he dies, it will be just you and me here."

"Why did you have to kill him? You've lived with him for so many years."

It is said that humans are not plants or trees. Even if one lives with a tree for more than 20 years, one should develop feelings for it. Even though he knows that he is not Bai Zhengren's biological child, Bai Zhengren is still his nominal father after all.

"Yes, we have lived together for so many years, but has he ever really fulfilled his responsibilities as a father?"

Bai Jitai's voice was full of sarcasm, and Bai Zhiyan stammered and couldn't speak. If you ask who in the world wants Bai Zhengren to die the most, it must be his three children.

"Don't you know it best? Since you returned to the Bai family, has he ever taken care of you? Has he ever solved a problem for you?"

Bai Zhiyan really couldn't refute this point.

"When you had a fight with Park Jun and your parents were called, I showed up to help you solve it. When you fainted at school and were sent to the hospital, I put down my work to sign for your hospitalization. When Xu Shiyuan tried to take you to his house by force on Christmas Eve, I beat him up and took you home. Even when Che Jingcan tried to keep you just now, weren't you using me to reject him?"

With every word he spoke, he got closer to Bai Zhiyan. Now, they were face to face, only millimeters apart, and even the tiny hairs on each other's faces could be seen clearly.

"Bai Zhiyan, ask yourself carefully, between me and Bai Zhengren, who is more like your guardian?"

The answer to this question is obvious. Even though Bai Jitai often used violence and threats against him in the past, every word he said was an indisputable fact.

He lowered his eyes and didn't want to answer him, but Bai Jitai didn't give him a chance to escape. He pinched his cheeks and made him look into his eyes, then questioned him again.

"Answer me, Bai Zhiyan."

"you……"

"who am I?"

"Bai Jitai."

"No, answer again."

Feeling the oppression emanating from him, Bai Zhiyan knew what he wanted to hear. He couldn't figure out why Bai Jita was always so obsessed with this kind of thing.

Even if they were really brothers, could this relationship alone connect two people who hated each other? Could an insignificant identity occupy such an important position in his life?

But none of this matters. If he wants to hear it, or if he wants this false title even though he knows that she has never considered him a relative, Bai Zhiyan will satisfy him no matter how many times as long as it can stop him from pestering and questioning.

"My brother."

"say clearly."

How much clearer does he need him to make it? Bai Zhiyan sighed in his heart.

"I never considered Bai Zhengren my father, Brother Jitai, you are my real guardian."

As soon as he said this, Bai Zhiyan wished he could bite off his tongue immediately.

Bai Jitai smiled happily and stood up to rub his head, "Good boy, you are right."

When he laughed, the feeling of oppression on his body disappeared. Bai Zhiyan could finally breathe a sigh of relief, secretly cursing him in his heart as a pervert.

"Brother will always support you in the future, so you don't need Bai Zhengren, then he has no reason to live."

Although Bai Zhiyan also hopes that Bai Zhengren will die soon, at least not now. They have not yet exposed the evil deeds he has done. If he dies now, all the truth will be buried.

"But--" In desperation he grabbed Bai Jitai's arm.

This was the second time he took the initiative to touch her today. Bai Jitai looked at his slightly anxious face and raised his eyebrows, "But what?"

Bai Zhiyan couldn't think of anything, so he gritted his teeth and met Bai Jitai's gaze, seeing his playful eyes.

"But... this is too dangerous. This is a crime. Once discovered, you will be arrested."

"Why, are you worried about me?"

He smiled and pinched Bai Zhiyan's soft face. He had been staring at Bai Zhiyan while he was eating these days. Now he was a little fatter than when he first came to the Bai family.

"Don't worry, the police in Country H are all idiots. It won't be that easy for them to arrest me."

"I can tell Bai Zhengren directly that I don't need any of his property. I also told you before that there is no need to kill him."

But what Bai Zhiyan didn't know was that Bai Jitai now had more reasons to kill Bai Zhengren, and he really had to die now.

"No, Bai Zhengren must die."

Seeing that Bai Zhiyan was about to say something, Bai Jitai interrupted him directly, "You must be tired after going out for a day. You rest here. I will ask Butler Li to prepare dinner."

"I do not--"

Before he could say anything else, Bai Jitai had already left. Bai Zhiyan looked at his departing back and felt a deep sense of powerlessness lingering in his heart.

Bai Zhiyan never saw Bai Jita again for the next three days. Except for the fact that he asked to call him every day, Bai Zhiyan thought he would never come back.

But how could there be such a happy thing in the world? Until the afternoon of the fifth day, when Bai Zhiyan was bored and watching a melodramatic drama, he suddenly saw the news about Bai Zhengren.

"The president of a well-known consortium, Bai, is suspected of illegally hiring workers, deducting employees' wages, evading taxes, sexually harassing his artists and forcing multiple female artists to have sex. All of this has been investigated today."

Bai Zhengren's face was clearly visible on the TV. Bai Zhiyan was dumbfounded. How could his crime be investigated so quickly? Ji Chengxun and Bai Jiying had clearly told him that it would take some time.

"The whereabouts of the criminal Bai is unknown and he is suspected to have fled for fear of crime. The police have sent a large number of personnel to arrest him."

Bai Zhengren's whereabouts are unknown?

As soon as his crime was exposed, he disappeared. Did someone tip him off in advance? Or did he expect this day to happen and go out to hide?

"Ring ring ring——"

A quick ring from a cell phone interrupted his thoughts. He picked up the phone and it was Bai Jiying, whom he hadn't contacted for many days. He quickly answered the call.

“Hey Jiyeon, is that you?”

"It's my eldest sister, what's wrong?"

"Jiyeon, have you seen the news? Do you know that Baek Jung-in has absconded?"

Bai Jiying's voice sounded a little anxious, and the surroundings sounded chaotic, so he didn't know what was going on.

"I just saw the news and found out."

"Is Bai Jitai with you now?"

"He's not here, is there anything you want to say, sis?"

"At this critical moment, Chengxun didn't dare to contact you, so he asked me to find you. Although we had collected a lot of evidence of Bai Zhengren's crimes before, and you helped to organize the information, these things were not enough to support us to report and convict him. But in the past few days, Chengxun told me that he suddenly received a lot of anonymous reports, all of which were evidence of Bai Zhengren's crimes over the years. Only then were we able to successfully convict him."

"Anonymous report? How could such a lucky thing happen?"

"We also feel very lucky. We didn't dare to believe it at first, but after investigation and identification, we found that it was all true, so we dared to submit it. But the only thing we didn't expect was that Bai Zhengren actually got the news in advance and ran away. Chengxun and I checked the people around him one by one. They had no contact with Bai Zhengren in the past two days. We went to various airports and train stations and found no records of him leaving. So the person we suspect the most now is the person who provided the evidence anonymously."

Who else but his closest relatives would have known in advance that he would be arrested and helped him escape?

"Jiyeon, I'm really happy that Baek Jung-in has become a wanted criminal. I'm very grateful to you and Seung-hoon. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have joined forces with Seung-hoon to deal with Baek Jung-in. I definitely couldn't have done it on my own. If it weren't for Seung-hoon, I might have to fight alone to the end. Thank you so much."

"Sister, why are you so polite? I've told you before that I hate Bai Zhengren too. We have the same goal, and we are a family, so we should help each other."

“Jiyan, I’m really glad to have you as my brother.”

Bai Jiying's voice was full of emotion. In this cold home, Bai Zhiyan was the only person worthy of her efforts.

"Sister, me too."

After hanging up the phone, Bai Zhiyan was still wondering whether the police would come here to investigate, but the familiar face on TV caught his attention again.

It’s Bai Jitae.

"I feel extremely sorry for my father's actions that disrupted public order and violated laws and regulations."

After saying this, Bai Jitai bowed deeply to everyone and the media cameras.

"I will pay all the taxes that Bai Zhengren evaded and missed. Rijiang Group is now under my name. I am willing to donate 2% of the shares to the Children's Fund and Charity Foundation in my name. I am also willing to visit the victim's family in the name of our company to apologize and compensate for the loss."

He was still wearing a neat three-piece suit and the frameless glasses that Bai Zhiyan had seen once before. Looking at his meticulous and serious appearance in front of the camera, Bai Zhiyan actually found it difficult to equate him with someone who liked to threaten him.

"The law is long and wide, and nothing can escape it. I will not protect Bai Zhengren just because he is my father. As a law-abiding citizen of the Republic of H, I will support and cooperate with all the police's actions."

His words were well received. Bai Zhiyan opened his phone to read the comments under the real-time news. Apart from those who were obsessed with his appearance, all of them praised Bai Jitai for his clear distinction between public and private affairs and his selflessness.

Are good-looking people always persuasive? Bai Zhiyan began to despair about this society.

Looking at Bai Jitai who looked like a decent person on TV, he had an indescribable feeling in his heart. He knew that Bai Jitai did this to whitewash himself and establish a good image, but he had to admit that Bai Jitai's performance in front of the public today was impeccable.

He cleared himself of all blame and gained some popularity among passers-by.