Lima syndrome

"Let's go after we finish eating."

His cold tone brought Che Jingcan back to his distracted mind. He looked at his hand that was withdrawn and actually felt a little empty in his heart.

"No, I haven't..."

Che Jingcan wanted to continue to act like a spoiled child and order some more food, but when he looked up, he found that Bai Zhiyan was not looking at him at this time, but was staring straight at a place behind him.

His eyes were full of surprise and joy. How beautiful those eyes were, and how intense the sparks in them were, as if they would sweep away everything here like a prairie fire in the next second.

This was a look Che Jingcan had never seen before. He clicked his tongue and turned his head to look in the direction he was looking, wanting to know what could have made him look like that.

It was a man wearing a white sweatshirt and black sweatpants. Next to him was a cute and petite girl in a floral dress. The girl was talking to him with a smile on her face. Che Jingcan was a little unsure who he was looking at until Bai Zhiyan's fiery gaze was noticed by the man, and then he was sure.

Bai Zhiyan was looking at that man.

The moment Bai Zhiyan saw Ji Chengxun, he felt that all his bad emotions disappeared. He never expected to meet him here today.

He could hardly sit still, and without caring that Che Jingcan was still sitting opposite him, he stood up and walked towards Ji Chengxun.

"Prosecutor Chi!"

He called out to Chi Chengxun who was about to sit down.

"You are..." Ji Chengxun narrowed his eyes, trying to recall where he had seen this familiar-looking person in front of him.

"We met at Bai Zhengren's house not long ago." Bai Zhiyan replied.

"Are you Bai Zhengren's youngest son?" He asked uncertainly, because the impression he left on him that day was more like a timid nerd, but the man in front of him was completely different from that day.

"It's me, Prosecutor Chi." He tried to suppress the joy in his heart and make his voice sound less excited. "My name is Bai Zhiyan."

Seeing his outstretched hand, Chi Chengxun politely shook it back, "Hello, I'm Chi Chengxun."

Ji Seung-hoon's palms were warm and dry, and the warm touch was fleeting. Bai Zhiyan shook his palms reluctantly and gave a proper smile.

"I was serious about what I said to the prosecutor that day. I know you may not believe me, but I believe that with the prosecutor's ability, they should be able to investigate my relationship with the Bai family." Bai Zhiyan took out his phone and opened the contact interface. "It won't be too late for you to contact me then."

Looking at the phone handed over by Bai Zhiyan, Ji Chengxun was a little hesitant. He was worried that the young man in front of him might be sent by Bai Zhengren or Bai Jitae to confuse him.

"Prosecutor, I'm just a student. You don't have to be so wary of me." Bai Zhiyan saw his hesitation and felt a little anxious but remained calm.

Ji Chengxun took another look at the bandaged wound on his head, chuckled, took his phone, and entered his own phone number.

"Then maybe you can look forward to my call." He smiled and winked at Bai Zhiyan, handing the phone back.

Bai Zhiyan's breathing paused as he looked at his smiling face, and he could hardly hold back the emotions that were about to be released.

"Okay, okay, I have something else to do, so I won't bother you anymore."

After saying this, Bai Zhiyan quickly returned to his seat as if he was escaping, his entire face turning red in an instant.

"Oppa, what were you laughing at just now?" He heard the girl next to Ji Seung-hoon ask as he left.

"I am laughing..."

He was just laughing at himself for becoming less courageous as he got older, and being so timid that he didn't even trust a single student.

"Bai Zhiyan."

After returning to his seat, Bai Zhiyan heard Che Jingcan calling his name. He was stunned and looked up at him suddenly.

"You'd better not call me by my name."

Bai Zhiyan felt a sudden pain in his brain. The fact that Che Jingcan called him by his name had left a deep trauma on his mind, and he couldn't get used to it for a while.

"What did you say?" Che Jingcan witnessed the whole process. If he hadn't seen Bai Zhiyan come back and sit opposite him with his own eyes, he would have thought that he had just witnessed an ordinary pick-up. But he didn't want Bai Zhiyan to be the protagonist of this show.

"I saw you were having a very happy chat with that man just now, exchanging names and saving contact information. How come you can't even call me by my name when you're here?"

Che Jingcan felt that he shouldn't have eaten so much just now, because he was about to explode with anger.

Bai Zhiyan rubbed his temples and thought, who the hell are you to be compared with the prosecutor, but he couldn't anger Che Jingcan so he had to suppress his contempt for him.

"It's up to you, you can call me whatever you want."

Che Jingcan was completely enraged by his indifferent attitude. He stood up and walked to him. Just as he was about to reach out and grab his collar, he was interrupted by Bai Zhiyan.

"Give me the phone."

"what?"

Bai Zhiyan raised his eyebrows and said to him again with a good temper, "Give me your phone."

Che Jingcan was stunned by his inexplicable behavior, with his outstretched hand still frozen in mid-air. He didn't know whether to listen to him and reach out his hand or continue pulling him, and felt a little awkward for a moment.

"Forget it, I'll do it myself." Bai Zhiyan rolled his eyes inwardly at his stupid look and reached out to take out his cell phone from his pocket.

"Untie."

"What are you going to do?"

Che Jingcan didn't move, just stared at him.

"I'll save your contact information for you."

He held the phone towards Che Jingcan, and Che Jingcan took a breath, put down his hand, and unlocked the screen as he said.

Che Jingcan even thought there was something wrong with his ears, he actually heard this person take the initiative to leave him his contact information.

In just a moment he suddenly remembered something and hurriedly tried to grab the phone, but it was too late.

Bai Zhiyan looked at the number saved on his phone suspiciously. There was a note clearly reading "Dead Fish Face" on it. It was his phone number.

He pointed at the number of "Dead Fish Face" and said to Che Jingcan: "You obviously have my contact information."

Che Jingcan's face flushed instantly. "This is because..." He snatched back his phone, turned it off and put it back in his pocket. "This is because the person in charge was worried that I couldn't contact you, so he gave it to me."

After saying this, he nodded heavily as if to confirm this statement, "It's just because of this!"

Bai Zhiyan didn't care about the reason. He just nodded lightly and didn't ask any more questions.

However, Che Jingcan was not in a good state. His face turned red and white, and he stammered but didn't say anything.

The small mole on the side of his lip rose and fell with the corners of his mouth. Bai Zhiyan actually found it a little interesting. After all, he never had the chance to see him like this in his previous life.

"Now that we've finished our meal, let's go."

After saying that, Bai Zhiyan went to the front desk to pay the bill without waiting for Che Jingcan to get up. Che Jingcan looked unhappy, but still followed him.

After walking out of the restaurant, Bai Zhiyan called driver Zhou and asked him to wait for him on the roadside. Che Jingcan saw that he hadn't left yet and stood beside him.

"?"

Bai Zhiyan glanced at him without saying anything, but his expression clearly showed that he was asking why he was still there.

"You can't wait for the bus."

After Che Jingcan finished speaking, he felt a little regretful. It was obvious that he didn't ask him any questions, but he said such a question without knowing the reason. It was too much of a cover-up.

Bai Zhiyan had no idea how rich his inner drama was. He nodded and said "oh" and said nothing more.

Driver Zhou hadn't walked too far away and soon drove in front of Bai Zhiyan. He opened the door, got out of the car, walked to the back, opened the door for Bai Zhiyan, and invited him to sit down with a very respectful gesture.

"Driver Zhou, I told you not to do this."

Bai Zhiyan told him many times that he didn't need to serve so well, because he always felt uncomfortable being served by an older elder.

"It's okay, Master Zhiyan."

After Driver Zhou closed the car door and turned around, he noticed that a pair of eyes had been staring at them. The person looked about the same age as his own young master. Could it be that they knew each other?

But he was not a person who did not know his limits. Since Bai Zhiyan had not given him any instructions, there was no need for him to ask any more questions. So he turned back to the driver's seat and prepared to drive home.

"Hey dead fish face!"

Seeing that Bai Zhiyan was about to leave without even saying goodbye to him, Che Jingcan finally couldn't hold it in anymore.

"We have gotten to know each other today, are you leaving without even saying hello?"

Bai Zhiyan's eyes flashed with impatience when he heard this. He waved his hand perfunctorily as a farewell, and then asked driver Zhou to drive back quickly.

After getting a perfunctory response, Che Jingcan stood there and took a big breath of exhaust gas. He was upset, so he took out the kitten that Bai Zhiyan gave him and poked it viciously a few times.

"Look at your bastard master, this damn dead fish face!"

On the way back, Bai Zhiyan looked at the shops flashing by on both sides of the street, and he could finally loosen his tightly clenched hands.

He thought his fear of Che Jingcan had disappeared, but when he was in the restaurant with him today, he couldn't help but want to get up and run away countless times during the meal, and the emotion in his bones was still hard to eliminate.

Bai Zhiyan took out the handkerchief and looked at it greedily, but when he touched it, he always thought of the warmth that remained on it when Che Jingcan returned it to him.

So Bai Zhiyan washed the handkerchief, folded it neatly, and finally put it at the bottom of his drawer.

After another bad weekend, Bai Zhiyan felt a little depressed when he arrived at school on Monday. Fortunately, no one came to make him unhappy that morning.

Bai Zhiyan did not go to eat during the lunch break. He took advantage of the fact that no one was in the classroom and fell asleep quietly on the table.

When Xu Shiyuan came back, he saw that he was frowning when he was sleeping. He felt distressed. He wanted to ask him why he was not happy in his dream, why there was another wound on his forehead, and why he was unwilling to say another word to him.

He cautiously stretched out his hand to soothe his worries, but in the end he could only retract his hand and hide back in his cave like a mouse.

It took Bai Zhiyan three days to fully recover his energy and spirit. Seeing that he was no longer depressed, Liu Zhimin smiled and went to chat and have dinner with him.

At noon that day, Liu Zhimin rejected her sisters' invitation and went to the barbecue restaurant they had been to before with Bai Zhiyan and treated him to another meal. After lunch, the two returned to the classroom and found that the atmosphere in the class was not right.

As soon as they came in, everyone looked at Bai Zhiyan. Liu Zhimin was not as sensitive as him and continued to talk to him with a smile on her face, until Gao Enshuo, who had not seen her for many days, dragged her to his side with a sour face.

"Gao Eun-seok? Why are you pulling me? Let me go!"

Liu Zhimin had no good feelings towards Gao Enshuo because of what happened before, but now seeing that his arms were wrapped in bandages, she didn't dare to really break free from his hand.

"Jimin, I have something to say to Bai Zhiyan, can you please hold still?" Gao Enshuo slightly relaxed his grip but did not really let her go. When he turned his head to look at Bai Zhiyan, the gentle and pleasant expression he had just given to Liu Zhimin disappeared immediately. "Bai Zhiyan, shall we talk?"

Bai Zhiyan nodded. He knew this day would come since the day he injured Gao Enshuo. Gao Enshuo had previously asked senior students to stop him but got nothing in return. He must be unwilling to give up and wanted revenge.

"Go to the bathroom." Gao Enshuo said and walked in front of him.

The toilet, a place that carries Bai Zhiyan's humiliating and unbearable memories, not only meets people's physiological needs, but is also a good place to resolve psychological dissatisfaction and vent emotions. Bai Zhiyan himself can't count how much torture he has suffered here.

The people around them smelled the tension between the two and followed them to the bathroom to watch the fun.

But when Gao Enshuo saw Bai Zhiyan coming in, he immediately locked the door, and others could only hear their voices outside.

After Bai Zhiyan came in, he found that the senior student who blocked him that day was also there. It seemed that he was a hired thug.

"Hey, you're so good, you came as soon as I said you would."

The man walked up to Bai Zhiyan with a smile on his face, looking nonchalant.

"How do you want to talk?" Bai Zhiyan didn't look at him, but turned his head to Gao Enshuo.

Gao Enshuo picked up a cigarette and lit it nonchalantly, "Heh, you hurt my arm, and you think I can talk to you? It's a tit-for-tat."

"Okay, I understand." Bai Zhiyan nodded. He would not be surprised no matter what Gao Enshuo said to him.

However, the senior who was ignored in front of him was getting furious. This brat hadn't even looked at him since he came in. Did he treat him like air?

"Hey, you little brat, the senior is right in front of you and you're just pretending not to see him?"

The man grabbed Bai Zhiyan by the collar, looked at his expressionless face and remembered that day when he escaped, and became furious.

"I don't know you." Bai Zhiyan's expression remained unchanged, staring coldly at his twisted and ugly face.

"Assi—"

He punched Bai Zhiyan on the left cheek. Bai Zhiyan turned his head away and did not move. The impact of tinnitus made him unable to recover for a while.

"Senior Park Jun, remember to hold your breath." Gao Enshuo took the last puff of his cigarette and threw it into the pool. He squinted his eyes and gave Bai Zhiyan a sympathetic look as if giving alms.

Park Jun grinned and threw Bai Zhiyan into the corner.

The moment his body lost weight, Bai Zhiyan instinctively protected his head first, and while his body was not hurt, he quickly stood up and confronted Park Jun.

Park Jun was half a head taller than him and stronger than him. When Park Jun pounced in front of him, Bai Zhiyan turned his head suddenly to avoid his fierce punch.