Lima syndrome

"When you rejected me harshly, when you had close contact with Xu Shiyuan, when you gave me hope and despair again and again, I had already gone crazy!"

His body trembled as he spoke, and his wounds hurt more with every word he shouted. But even so, he refused to let go of Bai Zhiyan.

"What's the reason this time? Bai Zhiyan, tell me, why do you allow me to get close to you again and again and then push me further away?"

Bai Zhiyan couldn't say anything when faced with Che Jingcan's questioning. If he said that the dream he had really happened, he would probably be regarded as a lunatic.

"No reason." After he adjusted his emotions, his body calmed down.

"Cha Kyung-chan, you don't need a reason to like someone. Likewise, you don't need a reason to dislike someone."

Hearing his answer, Che Jingcan laughed out loud with red eyes, "A person committed a crime but doesn't know what his crime is? Isn't this ridiculous?"

Bai Zhiyan's expression slightly changed as he looked at him in a serious tone, "People should look forward when they are alive. You don't have to waste your time on me."

The distance between them was only ten centimeters, and even in the dark Bai Zhiyan could see his reflection in his eyes.

"But you're the only one in front of me!"

Che Jingcan bent down and rested his head on him because of the pain in his wound. When he spoke again, his voice was muffled and trembling a little.

"Stay, Bai Zhiyan, you stay..."

"I have tolerated your unreasonable behavior for a long time."

Bai Zhiyan's tolerance has reached its limit. He no longer cares about Che Jingcan's bleeding wound. He pushes him away and quickly presses the pager next to him.

"Let's stop here, Cha Kyung-chan."

"no, do not want!"

He watched Bai Zhiyan pry his hands open little by little, but he didn't have the strength to hold on tight.

"You promised me you would stay!"

Seeing his determined expression, Che Jingcan rushed out to grab him but ended up falling off the bed. Pain instantly spread throughout his limbs. He supported his body but couldn't stand up.

"Zhiyan, Zhiyan, I'm in pain, please turn around and look at me."

He remembered that the last time Bai Zhiyan showed a worried look on his usually cold face just because he saw his knife wound bleeding. He hoped that he would choose to stay out of soft heart this time.

"You said you wouldn't leave until my wound healed. Look, my wound is bleeding..."

But Bai Zhiyan just paused and still didn't look back at him. Che Jingcan was overwhelmed by great panic and felt scared.

Even if I hurt myself in front of you, it won't make you stop?

"Bai Zhiyan, stop! You are not allowed to leave! You are not allowed to leave!"

Doctors and nurses came over quickly, and the doctor who had been treating Che Jingcan was furious when he saw his wound split open again.

"Patient, why are you not listening again?"

Che Jingcan ignored the doctor's accusations. He pushed away the people around him and crawled to catch up with Bai Zhiyan.

"Come back here! Bai Zhiyan, come back here!"

But Bai Zhiyan did not stop. He did not even look back at the farce behind him. He slowly and firmly walked out of Che Jingcan's sight.

"Bai Zhiyan——"

Che Jingcan's heart-wrenching voice penetrated the entire ward. The doctors and nurses beside him tried to hold him down but could not control him.

"Quickly calm him down! Quickly!"

The doctor pressed Che Jingcan's shoulders and instructed the nurse, and finally subdued him with the help of drugs.

After leaving the hospital, Bai Zhiyan walked on the street in a daze. After he went out, he felt cold and realized that he didn't bring a coat with him.

He wrapped his clothes tightly, but his heart was still confused. He thought that seeing Che Jingcan's injured appearance would give him the pleasure of revenge, but when he heard his hysterical and heart-piercing screams, he did not feel the pleasure he imagined, but instead an inexplicable emotion spread in his heart.

The snow was still falling, and he looked up at the dark night sky, not knowing where to go.

The phone vibrated again. He knew it was Xu Shiyuan, and for the first time ever, he checked his message immediately.

At midnight, he sent a Merry Christmas message, then asked where he was and whether he was still with Che Jingcan. The last message was that he would come to the hospital to find him.

Come to the hospital to see him?

Bai Zhiyan sneered. Did he want to come find him or did he want to piss Che Jingcan off to death?

He replied with a "no need" and ignored his bombardment of messages.

He couldn't think of anywhere else to go. He didn't want to go back to the Bai family. He suddenly missed his mother very much, but the house where he and his mother had lived before had been taken back by the landlord, and Feng'an Hall would not be open at this time.

Maybe this is what being alone is like?

Just as he was wandering aimlessly, he suddenly heard hurried footsteps behind him. Bai Zhiyan was startled, thinking it would be easy to run into bad guys at this late hour.

Without thinking any more, Bai Zhiyan immediately quickened his pace and ran towards the wide main road.

"Zhiyan! Don't be afraid!"

Bai Zhiyan couldn't hear what the man was shouting, he just kept running until the man caught up with him and grabbed his shoulder.

"let me go!"

Bai Zhiyan struggled and waved his hands, but the man grabbed his wrist and turned him around.

"It's me, Zhiyan. Don't be afraid, it's me."

A familiar voice sounded, Bai Zhiyan stopped and looked up. Xu Shiyuan's face looked unreal in front of him against the light.

"Xu Shiyuan? Why is it you?"

"I sent you a message saying I would come find you."

"But didn't I say no?"

Xu Shiyuan ignored his words and frowned as he looked at his red cheeks and nose tip from the cold. He felt a chill when his fingers touched his body.

"Why are you going out wearing so little?"

As he spoke, he took off his coat and put it on Bai Zhiyan.

"Need not……"

"Put it on."

Xu Shiyuan's voice was unusually firm. He put his clothes on Bai Zhiyan without hesitation. The clothes still carried his body temperature which slowly passed into his body.

In a trance, Bai Zhiyan smelled a fresh citrus scent, which seemed to be the smell of his clothes, and was very similar to the smell of the fabric softener his mother often used in his memory.

Seeing Bai Zhiyan's dazed look, Xu Shiyuan naturally took Bai Zhiyan's hand, but he didn't expect to see his hands covered in blood.

"Ji Yan, what happened to your hand? Why is it covered in blood?"

Bai Zhiyan tried to draw it back but failed, "This is not my blood, I'm fine."

Hearing him say that, Xu Shiyuan knew who it belonged to. He put away his surprised look and continued to ask: "Why are you here, Zhiyan, aren't you... accompanying Che Jingcan?"

"I don't want to mention him now."

Seeing that he looked unhappy and kept silent, Xu Shiyuan guessed that they might have had an argument. He knew that most people couldn't stand a young master with a bad personality like Che Jingcan, and even if Bai Zhiyan had a good temper, there must be a limit.

But seeing that Bai Zhiyan ran out without even wearing a coat, if Che Jingcan didn't drive him out, then he was the one who was escaping on his own initiative.

"If you don't want to talk about it, then don't talk about it. Anyway, you agreed to accompany him just to repay Jin Nanxian's favor, right? Now that you have received the letter of understanding, there is no need for you to stay in the hospital with him."

It was rare that Xu Shiyuan said so many words that were in line with Bai Zhiyan's wishes, and it seemed that he had found a reasonable explanation for his behavior. Bai Zhiyan's original sense of guilt for violating the agreement also disappeared.

Bai Zhiyan nodded slightly, "Hmm..."

Seeing him wearing his clothes and nodding obediently, Xu Shiyuan felt itchy in his heart. He stared at his face with increasingly fiery eyes and grabbed his hand and began to knead his fingers.

"you--"

"Your hands are too cold."

As he spoke, he pulled Bai Zhiyan's hand to his mouth and began to rub it to warm him up, not caring about the blood on his hand. Bai Zhiyan tried to break free, but was held tighter.

"Don't do this, let me go."

"Zhiyan, be obedient and don't move."

Bai Zhiyan was frightened by his affectionate tone. He could never get used to Xu Shiyuan's smiling face, which always gave him the illusion that he was going to be pushed off the rooftop in the next second.

But Xu Shiyuan obviously didn't notice his thoughts, but rubbed his fingers more slowly, the sweetness in his eyes like mist that could not be dispelled.

"Zhiyan, where do you want to go so late at night?"

"I, I just came out to relax."

"But it's too dangerous for you to go out alone. You're really worrying me. And you shouldn't go back to the hospital now that you've come this far."

Worried about me? Bai Zhiyan sneered in his heart, you are afraid that I will go back to find Che Jingcan.

"I'll ask Driver Zhou to pick me up, don't worry."

But in fact, because today is Christmas, Bai Zhiyan gave driver Zhou a day off early in the morning, so no one would come to pick him up.

"But what if you can't contact him at this late hour? You can't just keep waiting for him, right?"

Xu Shiyuan pulled him in front of him with force, grabbed both sides of the clothes he had draped over Bai Zhiyan, and made him into a restrained position.

"Zhiyan, don't go to the hospital or go back to the Bai family. Come home with me. My mother is not here tonight."

When Bai Zhiyan looked up, he saw his sharp eyes that were almost staring a hole in him, so he immediately looked away. Before his brain had time to think about whether there was any other meaning in his words, he saw Xu Shiyuan's face getting closer and closer.

When his face was about to get close to him, Bai Zhiyan suddenly moved his head away, allowing his hair to brush against his ear.

"I sent you holiday greetings as soon as possible, why didn't you reply to me?"

A clear and deep voice rang in Bai Zhiyan's ears, and he felt half of his face numb.

So Bai Zhiyan frowned and quickly whispered back to him, "Merry Christmas."

Originally Xu Shiyuan was unhappy because of his evasive action, but after hearing his obedient answer, he couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth and revealed a satisfied smile.

Even if Che Jingcan plays the victim to gain sympathy, what does it matter? He still can't keep Bai Zhiyan. How can a brainless violent maniac want to get him? It's just a foolish dream!

"Where's my gift? The one you knitted yourself."

Bai Zhiyan's body stiffened. He didn't expect that he had just dealt with Che Jingcan and then turned around to fool Xu Shiyuan again.

"I left in a hurry and didn't take anything with me. I left my scarf at school, so I can't give it to you now."

"It's okay." Xu Shiyuan stood up straight with a gentle look on his face. He smiled and rubbed his head. "I also prepared a gift for you. Come on, come home with me."

Bai Zhiyan didn't understand when he agreed to go with him, so he immediately frowned and tried to break free from his hand.

"I don't want to go with you, Xu Shiyuan. I want to go home."

After hearing his refusal, Xu Shiyuan's expression twisted for a moment, and he grabbed Bai Zhiyan's shoulders again, "But it's so late now, Zhiyan, how do you want to go back? Aren't you afraid of really meeting bad guys?"

"I do not--"

Bai Zhiyan wanted to continue to refuse him, but he saw a tall figure walking out from the side. Before he could call out the person's name, the man punched Xu Shiyuan in the face.

"cough--"

Xu Shiyuan was caught off guard and was knocked to the ground by the fierce blow. He looked at the person who came with an evil look and found that it was Bai Jitai.

How could he be here? Bai Zhiyan expressed the same doubt as him.

"Student Xu, why do I think you are the bad guy who has evil intentions and tries to seduce innocent young boys?" Bai Jitai had a playful smile on his face, but he stepped on Xu Shiyuan's thigh mercilessly, making it impossible for him to stand up.

He looked down at Xu Shiyuan, who was suppressed by him and unable to move, with a hint of sarcasm in his eyes: "It's so late, where do you want to take him? I just heard my brother say with my own ears that he wants to go home." He deliberately emphasized the word "home", as if emphasizing some kind of sovereignty to Xu Shiyuan.

"Ahem, ahem, Director Bai." Xu Shiyuan was clearly being stepped on by him but he did not look embarrassed. He still raised the corners of his mouth to smile at him provocatively.

"You are a noble man who forgets things easily. Do you really think that having the identity of a nominal brother can overcome Zhiyan's hatred for you?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the air pressure around him dropped a few degrees instantly. Bai Zhiyan didn't even dare to look at Bai Jitai's expression. He knew better than anyone what the consequences would be if he angered him.

Just as he thought, a storm was brewing on Bai Jitai's gloomy face. He was thinking about how to torture the bitch in front of him so as not to let her get away with it.

"Xu Shiyuan, are you looking for death?"

He bent down and grabbed Xu Shiyuan's hair, and punched him without saying a word. The bruises on Xu Shiyuan's face from the beating by Che Jingcan had not yet disappeared, and now there were new wounds.

Bai Jitai has always been ruthless to his men. In addition to his face, every part of Xu Shiyuan's body was also affected.

"Alright, Bai Jitai, stop it now!" Bai Zhiyan watched the almost abusive beating in fear.

"If you keep hitting him, he'll really die!"

Who knows if there are any surveillance cameras here, or if there are other people nearby. If anything happens to Xu Shiyuan, they will be on the news tomorrow.

"Why? Are you feeling sorry for him?"

Bai Jitai stopped, threw away Xu Shiyuan, turned around and looked at him with those sharp eyes.

"What do you mean by not feeling sorry for it?"

Bai Zhiyan cursed him in his heart for being sick. He clearly said in his heart when he fought with Park Jun that he would cause trouble for the Bai family. Why is he not afraid of being on TV when he beats people on the street now?

"Go home, I want to go home now."