Lima syndrome

"W-what?"

Bai Zhiyan's brain froze for a moment. He even wondered if Bai Jita in front of him was an illusion, otherwise how could he say such earth-shattering words.

"I've been thinking about what to do with you." Bai Jitai put down the cigarette and slowly approached him.

"You don't want to snatch the Bai family's assets from me, and you don't want to pretend to be a brother with me. I can't guess what you want, so I don't know how to deal with you."

Bai Zhiyan suppressed his frantic heartbeat and put on a relatively calm expression, "In this case, we should keep to ourselves. We have said this before."

“But I think that’s too boring.”

"Boring?"

He saw the dimple on Bai Jitai's cheek slowly emerging from a close distance, "Why should I play along with you to deceive Bai Zhengren? Who the hell is he?"

Although Bai Zhiyan knew that Bai Jitai also hated Bai Zhengren, this was the first time he heard him express it so directly.

"After Bai Jiying got married, Bai Zhengren never considered giving her a penny of his property. I thought his things would belong to me sooner or later, but who knew you would suddenly appear."

As he spoke, his hand holding a cigarette had already touched Bai Zhiyan's face.

"But it doesn't matter. Although I thought about killing you once and for all at the beginning, but--"

When Bai Zhiyan heard him say that he wanted to kill himself, he couldn't help but recall his previous life. When he fell from the rooftop and fell into the hospital while he was still conscious, he saw with his own eyes that he pulled out his oxygen and pushed him into the abyss.

"So what? You don't want to kill me now?" Bai Zhiyan's expression was cold, just like the freezing temperature outside that could send people to death.

Bai Jitai nodded without comment, the smile in his eyes became even more intense, "It's more interesting to tame you than to kill you."

"Then should I thank you for not killing me?"

There was a lot of sarcasm in his tone, but Bai Jitai didn't care. He just kept getting closer and pushing him back until Bai Zhiyan's body leaned on the dining table and was surrounded by him.

"You have Bai Zhengren's blood in your body. Since you were brought back to the Bai family, you have no right to leave here. Even if you die, you can only die as a member of the Bai family."

"What do you want to do? Don't come near me!"

Bai Zhiyan felt that the distance between them was too close, so he subconsciously put his hand on his chest to create a gap.

"Didn't you say before that you wanted to know why I had to force you to tell me about your relationship with Che Jingcan and Xu Shiyuan? Now I can tell you clearly."

This was the question Bai Zhiyan kept asking him when he took him to the basement for the first time, but Bai Zhiyan had already gotten the answer.

"I hate it most when others covet my things, but those two bastards always look at you as if you were their own property. This makes me very unhappy."

Bai Zhiyan felt that his words were very harsh, as if he was being treated as an object to be traded. "Bai Jitai, I am not anyone's property. I have nothing to do with you, and even less with them."

"How could there be no relationship between you and me?" Bai Jitai raised his hand and gently pressed the corner of his eye, rubbing the almost invisible mole with his fingers.

"No matter how much you deny it, at least we are brothers in legal terms."

Bai Zhiyan smelled a faint scent of tobacco emanating from his fingers, and tilted his head slightly and closed his eyes.

"Don't you think what you said is ridiculous?"

Bai Jitai paused and casually fiddled with his hair. "What's so funny?"

His deep and magnetic voice rang in Bai Zhiyan's ears. With his eyes closed, his hearing was clearer and more obvious.

"It was you who said before that a bastard like me was unworthy of entering the Bai family. Now you are using blood law to prove our relationship. Don't you think it's ridiculous?"

Bai Jitai's eyes turned cold. He pinched Bai Zhiyan's cheek hard and made him look at him.

"Whether you are willing to admit it or not, you are a member of the Bai family. When Bai Zhengren is gone, you will never be able to escape from my control again."

"Aren't you afraid that I will tell Bai Zhengren everything you said?" Bai Zhiyan looked ferocious and stared at him fearlessly.

"Oh yes, I almost forgot to tell you." Bai Jitai smiled and moved his hands, and Bai Zhiyan's head shook along with it.

"I see you've been tangling with those bastards lately, and you don't seem to realize how long it has been since Bai Zhengren came back here."

"what?"

Bai Zhiyan thought about what he said and realized that he hadn't seen Bai Zhengren for a long time, but he seldom met him in normal times, so he didn't take it to heart at all.

"What's up with him?"

"He's very busy now."

Bai Zhiyan's body instantly went cold when he heard Bai Jitai's teasing laughter, "What did you do to him?"

"I didn't do anything. I just gave him some trouble with my good relatives on my mother's side."

Although he was just a minor trouble, Bai Zhiyan knew that judging from his style, Bai Zhengren was probably in trouble.

"Even so, it's impossible for Bai Zhengren to never return to his family for the rest of his life."

Bai Jitai found it funny to see his pale but stubborn little face, so he loosened his hand that was pinching him and gently stroked his red skin with the back of his fingers.

"It doesn't matter. I will make sure he never comes back."

Bai Zhiyan, who was about to dodge his hand, even forgot what to do when he heard his words. His body stiffened and he stood there, allowing him to knead and rub him.

"W-what do you mean?"

When he opened his mouth, he realized that his voice was trembling.

"literal meaning."

"Bai Jitai, you are crazy! He is your father--"

The voice stopped abruptly, because Bai Zhiyan suddenly remembered Bai Jitai's self-exposure before his death in his previous life, that he was not Bai Zhengren's son at all. Perhaps it was because of this that he could attack him without any scruples.

"So what? He is your father too. Why, would you want to avenge me for him?"

His words were full of thorns and malice. He knew that Bai Zhiyan also hated him as his nominal father, so he looked at Bai Zhiyan, pursed his lips, and finally said dryly, "No."

Thinking of Bai Zhengren, Bai Jitai's eyes flashed with a sinister look. He leaned close to Bai Zhiyan's ear and whispered, "I'm tired of waiting. As long as he's alive, I have to wait for him to slowly divide everything. But I don't have that much patience. What belongs to me and what doesn't belong to me, I will make it mine in the end."

Bai Zhiyan was terrified. He knew that Bai Jitai was cruel and ruthless, but now he even spared Bai Zhengren. He was simply a demon who killed his father and brother!

"You are a complete lunatic!"

"Yes, that's right, I am a lunatic, so I advise you not to try to irritate me again."

He was in a good mood as he looked at Bai Zhiyan's angry face that turned red. "Bai Zhiyan, you said before that if there is a first time, there will be a second time, but I tell you, from now on, you can only make me angry today. Do you understand?"

Bai Jitai grabbed the wound on Bai Zhiyan's arm that he had cut with his own hands, using the pain to force him to give the answer he wanted.

How could Bai Zhiyan not know what he wanted to hear? He turned his head away and kept silent, enduring the pain and even biting his lips until they bled.

"You know what? The more you hide your pain, the more I want to force you to obey me."

Bai Jitai pinched his chin to save his swollen lips, and gently stroked the blood on them. The bright red blood made his face look even paler, and the smudged blood was like lip gloss, adding a new layer of makeup to him.

He had a beautiful mind, but Bai Zhiyan hated him to the core, and his mind was filled with thoughts about whether he should just bite off his neck.

His remaining rationality told him that he couldn't act impulsively now. Ji Chengxun had been outside in the wind and snow looking for witnesses and had done so much for their cooperation. Even if it was for their ultimate goal, he now had to endure Bai Jitai's madness.

When he raised his eyes again, the disgust and humiliation in Bai Zhiyan's eyes had disappeared. There was a rare bit of peace in his eyes, and Bai Jitai clearly saw his own reflection.

He held down Bai Jitai's hand that was still pressing on his wound. Bai Jitai looked at him, raised an eyebrow and slightly loosened his hand.

"I understand what you mean, you can let me go."

"Okay, let me see your sincerity first."

Bai Jitai put down his hand and grabbed his wrist, pulled him to the chair, held his shoulders and made him sit down, then picked up a small piece of muffin with a fork and handed it to his mouth.

"Come on, puppy who hasn't eaten for a day, it's time to eat."

Looking at the muffin at the corner of his mouth, which was still stained with fresh honey, Bai Zhiyan knew that he was deliberately using this method to humiliate and embarrass him.

He frowned and closed his eyes, "Bai Jitai, I find that you are really childish and vindictive."

Obviously, killing him could solve many problems. After all, he wouldn't even let Bai Zhengren go. But he just wanted to waste time getting entangled with him.

And what he said just now, he had to pick out everything he had said and refute it one by one. Bai Zhiyan thought that maybe even he himself didn't remember what he had said before.

Hearing the contempt in his tone, Bai Jitai did not respond but dodged his hand when he raised his hand to take the fork.

“Just eat it like this.”

Bai Zhiyan's expression then showed a slight crack, he looked up at him in disbelief, his eyes seemed to say "Are you sick?"

But Bai Jitai did not move, still maintaining the feeding posture and waiting for him to take the initiative.

Bai Zhiyan took a deep breath, opened his mouth and took a bite of the muffin, cursing him a thousand times in his heart.

Seeing that he did not resist, Bai Jitai smiled with satisfaction and continued to feed him. Although Bai Zhiyan was full of resentment, he understood that resistance was not a wise choice at this moment.

The two of them were strangely silent, one feeding the other while he opened his mouth to chew and swallow. This was an action that only close people would do, but it seemed very disharmonious between the two of them.

After the last piece of pancake was put into his mouth, Bai Zhiyan looked at the empty plate in front of him and waved his hands quickly, "Um - I don't want to bother with it anymore!"

Bai Jitai did not continue. He threw the fork aside and leaned on his desk with one hand. He leaned over slightly and poked his cheek, which was stuffed with food, with his other hand. He asked him casually, "In the early morning, Xu Shiyuan said you knitted a scarf for him? You said you left it at school, right?"

He even knows this? While Bai Zhiyan was trying to swallow his food, he was brainstorming about when Bai Jitai saw him talking with Xu Shiyuan.

"I did say that."

"So you really knitted him a scarf?"

Bai Jitai's tone turned cold, "You have to go to school today, are you going to get that scarf?"

"I don't!"

Rather than lying, Bai Zhiyan felt more uncomfortable being misunderstood as giving the gift to Xu Shiyuan. He would rather never touch the work again.

"You don't have anything? You didn't knit him a scarf or didn't you want to go to school and get something for him?"

"I don't have any."

Bai Zhiyan was speechless. Why were these people all coveting those balls of wool? He suggested that Liu Zhimin open a handicraft class to teach people how to knit scarves.

"I clearly told you before, and you know I don't like Xu Shiyuan. I lied to him about the scarf. I said that just to avoid him."

Bai Zhiyan wiped his mouth and stood up to face him, "Didn't you see everything? If I didn't go along with him at that time, there's no guarantee that he wouldn't suddenly get angry and take me back to his house."

His sincerity made it hard to tell whether it was true or not. Bai Jitai narrowed his eyes slightly, "Then why did you insist on going to school today--"

"Bai Jitai, I really didn't lie to you." Bai Zhiyan interrupted him directly, "I didn't prepare anything for Xu Shiyuan, and I didn't want to go to school today because of him."

Maybe Bai Zhiyan is a liar, but he really didn't tell any lies to Bai Jita.

Bai Jitai looked at him deeply, but Bai Zhiyan looked calm, without a trace of panic. He snorted coldly, "Since you don't like him, don't associate with that kind of poor guy."

"No, you're wrong." Bai Zhiyan met his suspicious gaze, "Now he is the one who has been haunting me. If you don't like him, you should take measures against him instead of asking me to avoid him."

Although it was Baek Ji-yeon who took the initiative to approach Seo Shi-won in the beginning, after their relationship changed due to Che Kyung-chan's chaos, Baek Ji-yeon naturally kept his distance from him. Now it is clear that Seo Shi-won is unilaterally pestering him like a piece of chewing gum.

Bai Jitai's eyes dimmed slightly, and he gently patted Bai Zhiyan's face and said slowly: "I will deal with that bitch Xu Shiyuan, and you - remember who you are and what your surname is, and don't dream of unrealistic things."

After the conversation, Bai Jitai stood up and looked down at Bai Zhiyan, "I will send someone to watch you during this period. Remember your obedience today and keep doing the same in the future. Otherwise, my basement doesn't mind having a new owner."

"Bai Jitai, no one has the right to interfere with a person's personal freedom!"

After he finished speaking, he ignored Bai Zhiyan's shouting and turned to leave the room. When his figure was about to disappear in the hall, he suddenly said something meaningful.

"By the way, Bai Zhiyan, I advise you not to think about asking Bai Jiying to help you now. She may be unable to take care of herself now."

"What do you mean?"

But he left the first floor without stopping, leaving Bai Zhiyan sitting there alone with complicated emotions in his heart.