When Su Baiwei was 12 years old, he went back to his home once.

His mother, who thought he could finally "recognize his ancestors and return to his clan", was very happy. On the night before he left, she had a lot of private conversations with him.

At that time, Su Baiwei's father had not passed away.Su Baiwei also really thought that he could return to his castle like the prince in trouble in his mother's mouth, and reap the belated love, wealth, and all the excitement.

However, the illegitimate children born as "outsiders" are the same as those children who are not on the stage in the secrets of most wealthy families.

He finally entered the door despite everyone's cynicism, and was isolated and excluded by the children of the same generation in the huge family, and spent those few years in silence.

What Su Baiwei's mother pushed him into by all means at the beginning was nothing but an invisible abyss.

On the eve of the senior high school entrance examination at the age of 15, he was "accidentally" locked in the garage for a whole night by the new nanny.Woke up with a high fever and missed the exam.

The consolation given to him by the host family was to help him enter a good private middle school with money, and fired the nanny.

But he was young and ignorant, thinking that he would cry when he was in pain, make trouble when he was sick, and speak out when he was wronged, so he told his father and the grandfather who was in charge of the house that Lian Zhen was beside him when the nanny pushed him into the garage.

That is, his father's original spouse, Su Feng's biological mother.

That was the first time his father hit him with his hands, and his ears rang with a slap.

Su Baiwei remembered very clearly that day Lian Zhen was laughing, Su Feng was laughing, and everyone else was watching this farce that didn't need the truth.

"Your mother didn't teach you well. You are so young, your mind is already so bad, and you have learned to lie? Since you are so afraid that your aunt will harm you, why don't you go back and live a good life with your mother."

Lian Zhen is a very elegant and luxurious woman.

In the past few years, before she "mishandledly" turned over the boiling water and scalded Su Baiwei, "unintentionally" scratched Su Baiwei with her fingernails, and "watched" the nanny lock up Su Baiwei overnight, Su Baiwei thought that this aunt was very Gentle.

But after that day, he was kicked out of the hostel, and only later did he realize that no one would be gentle with him here.

Su Baiwei was sent back to his mother's home.

It was also that year that my mother changed.She started yelling at him, blaming him for not being smart enough or sensible enough, hating him for not seizing the opportunity to stay at the host's house, calling him a debt collector and scolding him for being worthless.

The mother's thoughts were heavy, and she became sick with grievances. Within two years, she became ill. She was checked and treated repeatedly but could not be cured, and finally she was admitted to the hospital and could not be released.Every year she got sicker and sicker, and every year she urged Su Baiwei to panic.

Urging him to go back to his host's house again, urging him to live up to expectations, to get the glory and wealth that a child of his host's family should get.

At the age of 22, his father died unexpectedly. It should have been a tragedy, but Su Baiwei's mother hugged him, smiling excitedly and wildly.

She said: "Go to your father's funeral, go to the reporters and the cameras. You go and cry, louder than anyone else. Let the world know that you are the child of the host family. Go!"

So Su Baiwei went.

He returned to his home in the most embarrassing, embarrassing and contemptuous way.

For so many years, Su Baiwei has been pushed by his mother, and has come so far.

But he never asked himself why he persisted.It seems that trying to satisfy his mother is the only obsession he can find in his lackluster life.

In the past few years after returning to Su's house, Su Baiwei also recalled from time to time the shadow that Lian Zhen left on him when he was a teenager.He is unavoidable all day long, step by step, but no matter how careful he is, he still feels that the next step will lead him into the abyss.

There are still faint scars on his arms from being burned by hot water, and he still cannot stay in the dark room for a long time. He can always recall the night of helplessness and pain in the garage at the age of 15.

But Su Baiwei is still walking on this road.

It's not that he can't turn back, but that he has already forgotten how he should end all this.

From the day the old man moved abroad, the Su family rarely held formal family dinners.

So on the way to the main house, Su Baiwei was still thinking distractedly:

Lian Zhen has seldom interacted with the master's family in the past two years. After all, Su Feng is already 30 years old, and she doesn't need her escort anymore.In addition, the birthday banquet will be in the near future, so there should be no need for everyone to be present tonight.

He won't meet Lian Zhen.

This almost lucky deduction made Su Baiwei temporarily calm.

This luck was shattered until he entered the door amidst a burst of cheerful laughter, and suddenly met Lian Zhen who was beside Su Feng.

The old wound on Su Baiwei's hand that had already shed the scab began to ache.

……

Everyone smiled insincerely, and pretended to boast that Su Baiwei had achieved good results in some project recently. Their purpose was just to fake an illusion that everyone did not exclude him.

After just drinking the third glass of wine, Su Baiwei's stomach began to throb.

He wanted to take a break, but Su Feng stood up suddenly at this moment, picked up the whiskey with less than a sip left in his hand, and nodded his chin at him.

"Third brother, we had some troubles before, and the main problem was me. My mother and fourth uncle have educated me about this matter. I am a little ashamed to say that I am a few years older than you, but I acted so recklessly and impulsively." , really lost the face of our host family."

He smiled very sincerely when he spoke, and said every word sincerely, "Well, if you don't mind the past and are willing to forgive me, let's have a toast, we are all a family, and harmony makes money. What do you think?"

Su Bai endured a bit of discomfort, and then he gave a gentle smile and stood up to respond.

He quietly bypassed the whiskey at hand, wanting to replace it with the hot tea that Su Wenying poured him.But before he picked it up, Lian Zhen, who was sitting next to Su Feng, sneered sharply.

Su Baiwei's knuckles paused.

"How old are you, but you still don't know the rules, and you have to use the way you go out to socialize at the family banquet to perfuse?"

Lian Zhen raised his eyelids and smiled,

"Grandpa has always hoped that you juniors can love each other. Now Ah Feng has also admitted his mistake. Why, you don't want to take this face? It doesn't matter, Auntie understands. After all, it was Ah Feng who made the mistake first, and you should hold grudges Or, you will find an opportunity to retaliate in the future...?"

She threw out this sentence lukewarmly, and everyone naturally knew the meanness implied in it.

Especially when the words fell to the ground, Su Baiwei saw his grandfather's face darken, and knew that Lian Zhen had poked the old man's sore spot.

The last thing grandpa wanted was the hatred between brothers and relatives.

"No." He lowered his eyes, not wanting to meet Lian Zhen, so he could only drink again, and said to Su Feng when others were not fanning the flames, "Brother is right, a family, harmony makes money."

After speaking, he raised his head and drank it.

The alcohol burned down the throat and into the stomach, Su Bai's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he couldn't hold the cup firmly.

Naturally, Su Feng also drank his glass slowly, squinting his eyes and said with a smile: "I have always heard people say that you drink well, and no one at the wine table has ever got you drunk. Otherwise, let's try to drink tonight." Give it a try?"

What he said was just an excuse.In fact, Su Feng knew very well that when Su Baiwei first joined the Su family, he was drunk until he vomited blood and lay in the hospital for several days.Stomach trouble also fell at that time.

Su Feng and Lian Zhen pressed forward every step of the way, while others looked on coldly. This kind of situation seemed to be a common occurrence for Su Baiwei.

He was thinking about how to refuse so that Su Feng would have nothing to say, and he would not be beaten up by Lian Zhen again for being ungrateful.

At this moment, Su Wenying who was sitting on the other side suddenly let out an "ah", and everyone's eyes were attracted to her.

"Grandpa, why don't you teach them a lesson?"

She made an angry look, ran to Grandpa, put her hips on her hips and said with disgust on her face,

"Is the wine so good? Grandpa rarely comes back, so he knows whether to drink, drink, or not to eat. I really can't stand it. Grandpa, look, I said that I don't like doing business. Their bad habits are in the mall. It was dyed back!"

The atmosphere of sparks and lightning in the air just now was suddenly disturbed by her, and everyone who watched the excitement suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and everyone began to go down the steps:

"That's right, a good family banquet is turned into a drinking party by you."

"Your fourth uncle has finally given up drinking, and carefully hooked up his addiction."

Seeing everyone's excitement, grandpa naturally laughed too, patted Su Wenying's hand, and scolded her: "You, you're just making excuses. Is it because you don't drink because you don't go to work? You're not lazy."

When Su Wenying heard it, she babbled and didn't refute, she just twisted her grandfather and acted like a baby.

"There are more than [-] people, and they are still like children. What kind of tricks are they playing. Go back and sit down."

Grandpa scolded her, but smiled on his face, and waved to Su Baiwei and Su Feng who were still standing still,

"You two too, sit down and have a good meal, one is more sensible than the other, what does it look like?"

An episode seemed to be interrupted by Su Wenying in such a muddle-headed way. Su Baiwei took advantage of the gap between everyone's chatting and laughing, and nodded to Su Wenying, thanking her for helping to solve the siege.

After a while, he received a message from Su Wenying.

——You look so ugly, why don't you find an excuse to leave first, I just drove you off without drinking.

Today's scene was to welcome Grandpa back, and he left before the end of the meal, so he must have left something to talk about, so Su Baiwei refused.

After eating dinner for a full two hours, nothing went wrong except that Lian Zhen glanced at him a few times with a sharp gaze of unknown meaning.With grandpa present, Su Feng would not dare to mess around even if he had a temper.

It's just that Su Baiwei's stomach pain became more and more serious, and he was dripping with cold sweat, even his back was wet.

At the end, Su Baiwei called a car and prepared to leave without saying goodbye to anyone.

It's not that he suddenly broke the rules, but that every family banquet, no one cares that he comes or leaves.At the moment, everyone is enjoying their happy after-dinner time, if he goes in, it will disturb everyone instead.

His surname is Su, but he and them are not considered a family.

However, while waiting for the bus, Su Wenying suddenly came out of the gate. It was already a bit chilly at the beginning of October night. She shivered, walked to Su Baiwei and asked him:

"Are you ok?"

Su Baiwei didn't expect her to follow, he was stunned, and then said: "I'm not drunk."

"I'm not asking if you're drunk or not. Do you know how ugly your face is, as if the King of Hades came to ask for your life, and you're going to be out of your wits in the next second."

After she finished speaking, she felt unlucky again, so she poohed a few times and said with a smile,

"I'm also puzzled, third child. In fact, I think you are the same as me. We are not very interested in those rights and money. But you give me the feeling that you are always forcing yourself to do things you don't like. thing."

"If you didn't want it in the first place, then even if you won the fight, is there any point?"

Su Baiwei's face was pale, and he only pursed his lips after listening, didn't look at her, and didn't speak.

When the car arrived, he said in a forced tone: "...Thank you for today, I'll go first."

Su Wenying knew that he was always unwilling to open his heart to others, so he stopped talking, waved his hand and said:

"When you really can't hold on, just take a break. I look tired for you"

Su Baiwei's hand that opened the car door paused for a moment, but soon returned to normal.

It was not far from the host's main house to his house on the outer ring road, but because he hurt his stomach and hurt along the way, he felt that the journey was extremely long and far away.

Su Baiwei has long been used to this situation, as long as he touches alcohol, he will be like this, and he doesn't want to go to the hospital again.

Originally thinking that it would be fine to go home, take some medicine and sleep, but got out of the car and stumbled to the door, but was stunned.

The house is brightly lit, even the garden lights are turned on.

Su Baiwei has always lived by himself, except that the cleaning staff will come to this villa once a month, and no one else will come to this villa.

But it's already ten o'clock in the evening, so it's obviously not the time for Auntie Cleaning to come.

He subconsciously clenched his phone tightly, and even his physical discomfort suddenly lagged behind, replaced by vigilance and vigilance in his mind.

When Su Baiwei cautiously entered the room through the back door and walked around to the living room, he froze.

The hall, which was originally as neat as a model house, is now a mess.There was a half-drunk bottle of brandy on the table, with some small dishes beside it.On the sofa were two T-shirts of the same style and different colors that hadn't even taken off the tags.

Su Baiwei's back was covered with cold sweat, and his whole body was tense. When he looked again, he found that the light in the bathroom on the first floor was also on... there was someone inside.

He was shocked, and immediately picked up his mobile phone to prepare to call the police. At the same time, he hurried to the kitchen and took out a knife that had not yet been sharpened.

The moment the call was connected, the voice of the police officer rang out: "This is the Fengcheng Public Security Bureau, do you need help—"

At this moment, the bathroom door suddenly opened.

Li Heng's upper body was half-naked, and underneath he wore a pair of big underpants that the errand staff had just brought from the stall today, and he walked out of them, covered in fog and wet.

The gazes of the two of them suddenly met——

Su Baiwei: "..."

Li Heng: "..."

Ten minutes later, Su Baiwei sat in a side hall away from the messy cups and dishes.

After getting dressed, Li Heng walked in awkwardly, neither sitting nor standing.

Finally he coughed dryly and said with a smile, "You came back quite late."

Although this atmosphere is not tense, it does carry some imminent crisis.Li Heng was also not sure if Su Baiwei had seen the tattoo on his body just now, if he asked, he could just use this incident to divert the topic.

However, Su Baiwei is shaking when looking at things now, his mind is dazed, and there seems to be a razor blade in his stomach to scrape.Not only did he not notice Li Heng's tattoo, he didn't even have the strength to get angry.

"Why do you stay here..." Su Baiwei spoke very slowly, as if he was holding his breath, "...Even if there is no place to live for a while, you should tell me first."

Li Heng thought to himself, I have to tell you in advance, so you have to ask Chen Zhao to find me a place to live?

So my task has to be done in the Year of the Monkey?

But of course he couldn't say that, he could only pretend to be confused with his understanding: "I thought you meant to let me stay here. It seems that I misunderstood, I'm so sorry."

Su Baiwei's stomach twitched and hurt, which also made him less leisurely to entangle with Li Heng on this issue, but he really couldn't stand one thing——

"Maybe I didn't make it clear, but you...why don't you clean up after dinner?"

"Ok?"

Li Heng got excited, and said frankly, "I haven't finished eating, I'm planning to drink for a while."

"..." Su Bai glared at him slightly.

"Okay, okay, I get it, don't be angry."

Seeing his hesitating expression, Li Heng knew that he was stepping on thunder again, so he quickly raised his hand to beg for forgiveness, "I'll clean it up right away, okay?"

If things were the same as before, Su Baiwei would not let Li Heng go so easily anyway, after all, this man made his clean house look like a doghouse—at least from Su Baiwei's point of view, yes kennel.

But now he is very uncomfortable, when he heard Li Heng's words, he waved his hands:

"Go and clean up, get to bed early. Tomorrow... um..." He paused, pressed his stomach hard, and said, "Tomorrow I will ask Chen Zhao to find you a hotel..."

Li Heng stood there for a while, Su Baiwei was sweating from his forehead visibly, no matter how serious Ren Liheng was, it was impossible not to notice.

He took a step forward, and when he was about to ask what's the matter, Su Baiwei blocked him by raising his hand.

"Go and pack your things, it will stink later."

"Don't wrong a good man," Li Heng laughed angrily, "I've only been here for two hours."

Su Baiwei's reaction was too obvious resistance, Li Heng smiled back, and he could see it naturally.He turned around after joking, and said as he walked out:

"Take medicine if you feel uncomfortable. There is hot water in the living room."

When Su Baiwei raised his head when he heard the words, his lips subconsciously tightened, unable to describe what he felt at that moment.

For Li Heng, Su Baiwei's sudden return was naturally a big trouble.He has only completed one-tenth of his mission, if Su Baiwei really asked Chen Zhao to find him a place, he would have no reason to stay here anymore.

So while he was clearing up the food on the table, he racked his brains to think of the next move.

From the corner of the eye, Su Baiwei entered the room, probably looking for medicine.

He put the things in his hands away, ready to take advantage of Su Baiwei's most vulnerable moment to rob him, maybe say a few more words, Su Baiwei agreed with him to stay in a flash of his brain.

[Mr. Host, according to past statistics, the probability of success in playing a rogue in front of Su Baiwei is only 5. ] The system reminded him.

Li Heng was amused, took a cup of hot water in the kitchen, walked to the master bedroom, and said with a smile: [That's not very good, there are a full 5. 】

He walked to the concealed door, raised his hand and knocked, and before Su Baiwei could respond, he pushed it away and walked in, saying:

"Come on, drink more hot water."

However, as soon as he walked in, he happened to see Su Baiwei pouring a handful of medicine into his hand, and was about to stuff it into his mouth without even water.

At that moment, the thoughtful smile fabricated on Li Heng's face turned into a cold one——

He rushed over in two or three steps, put water on the bedside table, grabbed the medicine in Su Baiwei's hand, but failed to let him take it.Immediately after

Cursed in a low voice: "You fucking stuffed it into your mouth if you didn't see the amount, you're looking for death!"

Li Heng opened his hands and took a look. The two medicines were mixed together and piled up. His face became more serious, and he almost gritted his molars and said,

"You still mix the two medicines together? Are you co-prescribing yourself? Does this medicine work if you take too much, huh?"

When Su Baiwei poured it into his hand just now, he didn't notice the dose at all, he just wanted to relieve the pain quickly.

Now being caught by Li Heng, he was stunned by the scolding, and even the stomachache seemed to stop for a moment.

"...Your stomach is uncomfortable, right?" Li Heng suddenly asked in a soft voice.

He just pointed to his nose to teach Su Baiwei a lesson, now that his voice slowed down, Su Baiwei suddenly felt sullen in his heart: he was already in such a uncomfortable situation, and Li Heng still yelled at him, this person is really unreasonable.

So Su Bai nodded slightly with his chin buried, ready to fight back when Li Heng comforted him.

As a result, Li Heng didn't intend to reciprocate sympathy at all, and scolded again in the next second:

"You have an upset stomach, why don't you go to the hospital, why don't you take the medicine as candy?"

Su Bai was slightly dumbfounded, and a sense of grievance surged up in an instant: "I..."

Li Heng didn't speak, just looked at him with the medicine in his hand.

The two were silent for a while, Li Heng said: "Continue talking, what are you?"

"I……"

Su Bai swallowed slightly, apart from stomach cramps, he was also frightened by Li Heng's fierce appearance, and blurted out, "It hurts..."

His voice was trembling at the end, and he didn't need to say much to know how uncomfortable it was.

Li Heng was in a hurry just now, so his tone was bad.Seeing Su Baiwei's pitiful look now, he realized that his attitude was a bit too blunt, so he couldn't be more harsh.

He glanced at the medicine, then at Su Baiwei, who was sickly and pale, and said with great reluctance and anxiety:

"It's not that I won't give it to you. If you want to eat, you can only eat one, and you have to watch the dosage. Don't fuck...don't take it blindly?"

Fearing that he would die from the pain, Li Heng squeezed two stomach medicines and handed them to Su Baiwei.As a result, Su Baiwei didn't answer.

"Don't compete with me here."

Li Heng thought he was trying to get angry, so he advised him, "It's for your own good that you won't be allowed to eat indiscriminately. You can't mix alcohol and medicine. If you take too much sleeping pills, you'll die. A three-year-old child knows this. Son, don't you understand?"

It was true that Su Baiwei was in a hurry so he didn't pay attention to taking the medicine, and the doctor had indeed reminded him that mixing medicines indiscriminately would sometimes cause irreversible consequences.

Now being criticized by Li Heng, he justified it, so naturally he didn't dare to say anything.Furthermore, it is not completely inhumane for Li Heng to let him eat the same.

"There is no competition."

Su Bai licked his lips slightly, stretched out his hand to bypass the stomach medicine, carefully poked the bottle of sleeping pills next to him, and said, "Take this."

In his current state, even if the pain is relieved, he will have trouble sleeping all night. It's better to just fall asleep and feel nothing.

When Su Baiwei said this, he didn't notice at all that he was completely at a disadvantage in front of Li Heng, and he felt guilty when he spoke.

His mind was full of pain, and he was afraid that Li Heng would not agree, so his fingers tensed quietly, ready to take the sleeping pill at any time.

But watching Su Baiwei give up the painkiller, Li Heng was relieved instead.

He thought that Su Baiwei's stomachache was not serious, at least not too painful, so he said:

"Okay, eat whatever you like."

Li Heng is not that authoritarian, as long as Su Baiwei is not desperate to stuff the medicine into his mouth, he has no reason to stop him.

After getting his permission, Su Baiwei was inexplicably happy, took a quick glance at Li Heng, and then picked three sleeping pills from Li Heng's palm.

But before he picked it up, his fingers were grabbed by Li Heng again, unable to move.

Li Heng asked him: "Is it necessary to eat so much?"

"The doctor said...it's ok..." The doctor's original words were, one or two pills, and three pills in special cases.

It's just that Su Baiwei always felt that he was in a special situation, so he always ate three by three.

Li Heng hesitated after hearing this.

He knows that many things in this world are slightly different from his past world, and seeing Su Baiwei's obedient appearance now, he also guesses that this is not a lie.

But Li Heng thought about it, and still felt that three was a bit much.

So he stared at Su Baiwei with a dark face for a while, then took one from Su Baiwei's hand openly, and then let him go.

"Okay, eat."

"..."

Su Baiwei's insomnia is very serious, and it takes a long time to take effect after taking three pills on weekdays. Now that the dose has been reduced directly, although he is dissatisfied, he dare not say anything.

After he finished eating, Li Heng threw away the rest, and put the two bottles of medicine on the bedside table into his trouser pocket.He intends to take it back to the room, and will not leave any of it to Su Baiwei.

Su Bai opened his mouth slightly and hesitated to speak, watched Li Heng approach the guest room and closed the door, and told him "Go to bed early".

There was no shame in this coherent action that a scoundrel living in someone else's house should have.

Seeing that righteous look, Su Baiwei became dull even from the stomachache.

Until the end when Su Baiwei lay down on the bed, he didn't think about it——

Why is Li Heng the one who should be wronged, but in the end it was he himself who was grabbed by the other party's braids and beat him up?

……

At two o'clock in the morning, Su Baiwei woke up from a daze.

The sleeping pills failed, and the stomach pain began to recur, even showing signs of getting worse.

He curled up on the bed for a while, but there was nothing he could do, so he got up.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt uneasy: If it wasn't for Li Heng not letting him take the medicine, he would have been sound asleep now, how could he be woken up by the pain.This person is arbitrary, domineering and unreasonable. He came to his house and pretended to be a dictator.

Incomprehensible.

But when Su Baiwei thought of Li Heng's merciless appearance, he felt that Li Heng was the kind of person who had no conscience, and it didn't make sense to him.

Why not go to Li Heng's room to steal medicine while Li Heng is sleeping.To avoid a stalemate with him again.

So Su Baiwei got out of bed and walked out of the room.

The room was too big, and the living room was terribly empty.Su Bai slightly clutched his stomach, bit his lip, never felt more wronged than this moment - it's unreasonable to be a thief in one's own house.

He tiptoed successfully into the room where Li Heng was.

The night was so quiet that there was nowhere to hide the sound of breathing, and every minute and every second made him suffocate from tension.

Su Baiwei thought to himself, when the pain is gone, when he feels better and has strength, he must settle the debt with Li Heng.

However, at the moment when he quietly reached out to the bedside table, he was suddenly grabbed by someone from the darkness——

The strength of that hand seemed to crush him, making him unable to move for a moment.

The next moment, the warm yellow dim lights suddenly turned on.

It's not dazzling, but it makes Su Baiwei nowhere to hide in an instant.

He flinched in fear and panic, and when he looked up again, Li Heng was staring at him with a gloomy face.

Su Baiwei never felt that he would have such a tense moment, even his eyelashes were trembling.

He heard Li Heng smile badly and say in a hoarse and teasing tone:

"Su Baiwei, I think you really need to clean up."

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