Lima syndrome

The two were very close at this time, Bai Zhiyan could even clearly see Xu Shiyuan's slightly brown pupils and his long, downward-curved eyelashes.

He really didn't understand why these people were so obsessed with a title, such as Che Jingcan who was addicted to nicknames, and Bai Jitai who had a bad taste and insisted that he call him brother in front of outsiders, and now there was Xu Shiyuan who enjoyed being a teacher.

Could a name that had no emotional constraints on him change the fake and ridiculous relationship between them? Unless they were possessive, they liked to make themselves look different from him in order to highlight their specialness in his life.

"Teacher Xu?"

Bai Zhiyan was a little hesitant, but Xu Shiyuan smiled after hearing this. He totally didn't understand what was so happy about this.

"So nice."

He rubbed Bai Zhiyan's head with a smile in his eyes like he did during the day, which made Bai Zhiyan get goose bumps all over his body.

This was the scene Bai Jitai saw when he followed in. Bai Zhiyan lowered his head slightly with an obedient look. Xu Shiyuan's gloomy face also softened as he stroked Bai Zhiyan's head with tenderness in his eyes.

"Bai Zhiyan, it turns out that you didn't go home after school because you were with him."

His voice was as cold as ice, and Bai Zhiyan's body shook violently as soon as it sounded. He quickly dodged Xu Shiyuan's hand and turned to look at Bai Jita.

Bai Jitai ignored his gaze and walked towards Xu Shiyuan step by step.

"It seems that our classmate Xu's memory is really not very good. No matter what I said to you, did you just ignore it?"

Xu Shiyuan was not frightened by his aggressive tone and returned to his usual indifferent expression, "I think it is Zhiyan's business who he makes friends with. Even if you are his brother, you have no right to interfere in his private life."

When Bai Jitai heard him say brother, he raised his eyebrows, pulled the chair next to Bai Zhiyan and sat down, leaned sideways to pinch a strand of hair on his forehead, and slowly moved closer to him.

"It's not a good habit not to go home quickly after school."

Bai Zhiyan suppressed his disgust and turned his head away, "I just came out to study, and I will go back naturally after I finish."

"Oh? Is that so?"

He spoke in that frivolous and playful tone again, and reached out to pull Bai Zhiyan's chair towards him so that he could get closer.

Bai Zhiyan was about to dodge and ridicule him, but suddenly remembered that he had lied to Xu Shiyuan that he had a good relationship with Bai Jitai, so he forced himself to change his tone, "Besides, the squad leader sent me to the hospital before, so it won't be a big deal to go out with him."

"According to what you said, should I thank classmate Xu for caring so much about our Zhiyan?"

He said this without changing his expression, but it made the two people who were listening to him feel complicated.

"I had the rare opportunity to come pick you up today, but I found out that my good brother was dating someone else."

Bai Zhiyan felt uncomfortable when he heard the word "date". He looked at him as if he had seen a ghost. "What date? You think too much. I just came out to study with the class monitor. Besides, you never picked me up, so why should I wait for you at the school gate?"

"Then I will come here every day from now on."

When these three people get together, they can't stop being sarcastic to each other, making sure that everyone will be disgusted.

Bai Zhiyan was a little annoyed, "But I don't need you to pick me up. Driver Zhou is not ready to be laid off yet."

"Little dog, if you make me unhappy again, you won't see Driver Zhou again tomorrow." Bai Jitai stopped lifting his hair and put his hand on his shoulder, his tone as calm as water but full of threats.

Bai Zhiyan's eyes widened, thinking that he was hopeless, "Why are you taking your anger out on others?"

"They say that when you beat a dog, you have to look at the owner first, but the dog's owner makes me unhappy, so what's wrong with me taking my anger out on the dog?"

"You are simply unreasonable."

Bai Zhiyan dodged his hand and moved his chair away from him.

Xu Shiyuan frowned as he listened to the two people's conversation, "Director Bai, you are disturbing our studies here."

As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Jitai let out a light click of his tongue and picked up Bai Zhiyan's coffee and splashed it on his face.

"Bai Jitaek, what are you doing!" Bai Zhiyan exclaimed and quickly stood up and took out a tissue to wipe his face.

Xu Shiyuan's light-colored shirt was soaked and turned dark. His hair was tangled together and dripping with water. The coffee on his face dripped down his chin onto his clothes. His eyes were so irritated that he couldn't open them. He squinted slightly, revealing a slit, and watched Bai Zhiyan wipe his face.

"Didn't classmate Xu say that I was disturbing your studies? Now this is called disturbing."

Bai Jitai looked at Xu Shiyuan's embarrassed appearance with interest, but Bai Zhiyan couldn't bear it anymore, so he hurriedly handed him tissues and pulled him back to his seat.

"It's not like his arm is broken, there's no need for you to be so aggressive."

Bai Zhiyan was forced to sit down and glared at Bai Jitai, "Why do you do such childish things when you are almost thirty years old?"

Bai Jitai also realized that his previous behavior was too unusual, but Bai Zhiyan's appearance of protecting Xu Shiyuan was even more infuriating.

"I'm childish?" Bai Jitai snorted coldly, "Then why don't you look at what you are doing, actually protecting this outsider in front of your brother."

"You're talking about outsiders?" Bai Zhiyan really felt that Bai Jita was possessed by a ghost today. Why did every word he said seem so incongruous?

"Doing this kind of thing has nothing to do with whether you are an outsider or not."

Xu Shiyuan straightened his clothes and wiped the coffee stains off his face, then looked at Bai Jitai expressionlessly, with a chill in his eyes.

"Director Bai, if you are unhappy because Zhiyan and I are friends, then I can tell you clearly that Zhiyan and I are just ordinary friends. Is it reasonable for you to treat your brother's friends like this?"

"Who do you think you are to brag in front of me?"

Bai Jitai's face was as dark as lead, like a dark night sky with a storm coming. He leaned over with his hands on the table, staring at Xu Shiyuan with a sense of oppression.

The storm was about to come, and Bai Zhiyan trembled with unreasonable fear.

As if sensing Bai Zhiyan's emotions, Bai Jitai stopped talking to him, grabbed Bai Zhiyan's hand and dragged him out the door.

"Zhiyan!"

Seeing him being forcibly dragged away, Xu Shiyuan hurriedly chased after him.

Bai Jitai didn't take him seriously at all. Bai Zhiyan's struggle was like an ant trying to shake a tree to him. He turned around and grabbed his arm and pressed it in front of his body, then raised his leg and kicked Xu Shiyuan fiercely.

"Leave far away."

Xu Shiyuan was kicked to the ground. His already wet shirt was now covered in dust, making him look as disheveled as possible.

"There are so many people here, are you crazy?"

People on the road were secretly looking at these people, and some even started talking about them. He didn't care whether Xu Shiyuan was injured or not, but he absolutely could not be surrounded by a group of people watching the fun.

Bai Jitai chuckled, and a deep voice sounded above him, "Why? Are you embarrassed?"

As he said this, he exerted a little force and turned Bai Zhiyan around, made him turn to face him, and then pressed his head against his chest.

"Okay, this way they can't see your face."

Xu Shiyuan covered his abdomen with his face distorted by pain, but when he looked up and saw the two people pressed together and the provocation in Bai Jitai's eyes, a trace of surprise suddenly flashed across his face. He suddenly thought of the brothers Kim Jae-hwan and Kim Nam-hyun, and immediately had an absurd and terrible idea.

His lips trembled and he could hardly utter a word, "Bai Jitai you..."

"Are you still not giving up, you poor bastard?"

Bai Jitai sneered, took out his wallet, pulled out banknotes and threw them on Xu Shiyuan's face.

"If you don't want to die, get out of here. This money is enough to buy your life."

After saying that, he ignored the reactions of everyone around him and walked towards the parking lot with Bai Zhiyan in his arms.

A thick stack of banknotes hit Xu Shiyuan's face, and his face, which he had just wiped clean, began to turn red again. The sub-zero temperature outside was not as cold as the coldness in his heart at this moment.

Seeing that there was nothing exciting to watch, the people around dispersed. After the street returned to calm, Xu Shiyuan bent his legs that had been frozen stiff.

Looking at the money scattered on the ground, a lot of thoughts came to my mind.

When the brightly colored banknotes hit his face and fluttered in front of his eyes like flying flowers, he thought of his mother's hands full of chilblains soaked in water to wash clothes for the ladies in the cold winter. He thought of his mother who only bought him cotton clothes and wore her own clothes so that he would not be afraid of the cold winter.

It is the basement that cannot withstand the cold and cannot afford the floor heating. It is myself who, in order to get a scholarship, huddled at the table with two layers of quilts, bending my fingers and holding a pen to study.

Xu Shiyuan silently picked up the banknotes on the ground and held them tightly in his hands. His eyes were full of pain and anger, but his body trembled involuntarily.

He hated the young masters and young ladies who were born into chaebol families, and he also hated the fate of not being able to choose his birth. What he hated most was that he himself could not change the status quo and could only survive by relying on the malice of the people he hated.

He gritted his teeth, stood up with difficulty, and left this place that shattered his self-esteem step by step.

On the other side, Bai Zhiyan was stuffed into the car by Bai Jitai. He tried to resist, but he was powerless. The car sped away, leaving Xu Shiyuan's lonely figure walking away in the cold wind.

"Bai Jitai, what on earth are you doing today? I haven't offended you recently, right? Why are you looking for trouble with me like this?"

"Trouble you? Do you think I'm trouble you?"

Bai Jitai suddenly stepped on the brakes, and Bai Zhiyan's body suddenly leaned forward due to inertia. After stabilizing himself, he couldn't help but continue yelling and cursing.

"Are you sick? If you don't want to live, just go and die by yourself, don't even think about dragging me down with you!"

But his shouting and cursing did not last long, as Bai Jitai grabbed his neck and pulled him in front of him.

"Bai Zhiyan, my good brother, didn't I tell you to stay away from Xu Shiyuan? Why don't you listen to me?"

He gritted his teeth, wishing he could tear the person in front of him into pieces and eat him.

The force of his hands made Bai Zhiyan's breathing difficult, and his face soon turned red. He used both hands to pull his hands, "You, you let go——"

Bai Jitai didn't really want to do anything to him, but when he saw that he was crying from being pinched, he let go of his hand.

"Cough cough cough-"

"Bai Zhiyan, let me tell you again, if you really want Xu Shiyuan to die, then you should continue to associate with him."

After coughing hard, Bai Zhiyan slowly recovered. When he heard Bai Jitai's words, he smiled contemptuously, his rosy face full of mockery.

"Okay, then I'll wait and see how you kill him."

Bai Jitai was stunned for a moment when he didn't expect him to answer like that.

"Do you think I don't dare?" His voice was as cold as a demon from hell, and his words were not false at all.

But Bai Zhiyan was not joking or talking nonsense. Xu Shiyuan's life or death was not his business, so he naturally didn't care whether Bai Jitai killed him or not.

"I know you dare, or rather, there is nothing in this world that you dare not do."

This sentence reflects Bai Zhiyan's true feelings. Bai Jitai dares to use violence to collect debts and sell drugs and human organs. He even kills people, so what is there that he dare not do?

But after hearing what he said, Bai Jitai raised the corner of his mouth and nodded in an ambiguous tone, "You are right."

Bai Zhiyan saw his dimples gradually deepening, and didn't understand why his mood suddenly improved. When she saw him raising his hand to her, she subconsciously dodged.

"What are you afraid of?"

Bai Jitai ignored his attempts to avoid him and put his hand on his head, rubbing it again and again. He put his hand on his head just like Xu Shiyuan did, but Bai Zhiyan felt as horrified as if he was possessed by a poisonous snake.

Bai Zhiyan avoided his dark eyes and gave himself courage, "What do I have to be afraid of?"

Bai Jitai took his hand back and started the car again. "I hope you can remember what I said and stay away from Xu Shiyuan. I don't like you always disobeying me."

"Please stop being so paranoid about your desire for control. I have never thought of snatching anything from you, whether it's family property or the company. I won't get in your way, and my personal relationships have nothing to do with you either."

Bai Zhiyan turned his head and looked out the window, feeling annoyed. He didn't understand why Bai Jitai was so hostile to Xu Shiyuan. Was he worried that Xu Shiyuan would use him to get in touch with the Bai family?

In the end, did Bai Jitai think too highly of him, or did he think too highly of Xu Shiyuan?

"Bai Zhiyan, do you still dare to defend him in front of me?"

The car speed suddenly increased, the sound of car horns continued to ring in my ears, and the things in front of me seemed to have been accelerated, and only illusory afterimages could be seen.

Bai Zhiyan tightly grasped the seat belt on his chest and didn't look at him. He couldn't find a satisfactory answer to this sentence that was too familiar to him. So he chose to close his lips and pretend to be deaf and dumb.

When they arrived at the Bai family, Bai Jitai got off the car first. When Bai Zhiyan got off, his face was pale and his steps were weak. The strong feeling of dizziness made him almost vomit.

Only when his feet touched the ground did he realize how weak his legs were.

Bai Jitai folded his arms and looked down at him as he sat on the ground in a state of embarrassment.

"I think this is the only way to teach you how to be obedient."

"You're dreaming!"

Bai Jitai, who originally wanted to help him, heard his gnashing teeth and full of resentment, and withdrew his hand with a sneer, "Being too stubborn is just asking for trouble."

After saying that, he kicked Bai Zhiyan on the shoulder, and Bai Zhiyan's body, which had just been propped up, fell down again.

"madman!"

Bai Jitai ignored his scolding and left without looking back.