"Thinking about it now, you all must have gone crazy that night." The system sighed, "Especially you, the host."
"Me?" Li Yuebai sat leisurely in his study, shaking a cup of hot tea: "I didn't do anything earth-shattering, did I...?"
"You saved Lin Xie."
"System, are you trying to ridicule me, saying that I have committed... the Stockholm syndrome?" Li Yuebai smiled: "I did say before that I don't plan to care about his life or save him, but that's just anger. It’s just words. When faced with choices related to my destiny, I still have a clear distinction between what is more important.”
"Then do you feel... your feelings for him have changed?"
"Emotion?" Li Yuebai froze for a moment.
Indeed, when Lin Xie's hot tears fell on his shoulders, at that moment, he really felt that Lin Xie was very pitiful, but it was only for a moment.
"Leave emotional matters aside, let's talk about your growth as host." The system checked the data seriously: "The system has calculated that, that night, in front of Lin Xie, you broke through your own personality and inherent characteristics for the first time. The shackles of behavior."
"?" Li Yuebai frowned suspiciously, and put the teacup back on the desk: "System, I have... been a teacher for a long time, this world is not the world of juvenile comics, and there is no such thing as a sudden growth like the protagonist of a juvenile comic. The most important thing Unfortunately, I didn't feel the so-called breakthrough you mentioned.
In the previous worlds, Li Yuebai was forced into dangerous situations, killed bosses, and saved some people. In comparison, this level is only a casual level.
"Did you really not realize it?" The system whispered: "How did you treat the people around you in the previous few levels? They were all gentle, pampering, caring, and blindly pampering..."
"..." Li Yuebai was embarrassed by what the system said. He felt his blood surge and his face was hot. He couldn't help scolding, "I'm willing to pamper you. What's the problem?"
The reaction was so big because the system was right.
Murong Nan in the first world was too kind to him, and he didn't want to take care of him.
The second world, Ye Qing—just kidding, it's Ye Qing... Of course I would like to pamper Ye Qing.
The third world, Yu Tianji... I really can't blame myself for this, no one can push away Yu Tianji's coquettish manner, right
…
"... You're right, System." Li Yuebai leaned down on the desk helplessly: "I'm just a hopeless Virgin. How about it, is there anything wrong with the Virgin?"
"So the system thinks that you have become stronger now." The system said: "You are too cruel to Lin Xie. This is different from you before."
"I thought I was the one being tortured." Li Yuebai tried to recall everything that happened with Lin Xie in the basement, and was surprised to find that he didn't have the pain that the victim should have.
"From the emotional point of view, Lin Xie is the victim instead." The system throws out fallacies without thinking: "During the whole process, his emotions were manipulated by you."
"..."
"That night, you even threatened him and forced him to obey your orders."
"Don't make me sound like a boss..."
"In Lin Xie's eyes, you are cold, vicious, omniscient, and omnipotent..." The system said: "It is the embodiment of all nightmares. Lin Xie has never accepted such setbacks. You... have become a person who has never imagined before. past roles."
"It can only be explained that fate played a series of jokes on us." Li Yuebai smiled and drank the hot tea in his cup.
After Lin Tianyu passed away, everything that followed went smoothly beyond imagination.
Lin Xie took over the entire Lin's consortium, Lin Dong and others were wise to protect their lives, no longer love to fight, handed over all their shares one after another, and fled the country.
Li Yuebai resigned from his position as the attorney representing the Lin's consortium, and quietly hid back in his small study.
Half a month passed, and Lin Xie never appeared in front of his eyes again.
Li Yuebai still remembered his mission clearly, and at the same time he didn't feel anxious.
Love cannot be forced. What Lin Xie needs now is not love, but rest and thinking.
He has almost endless time to wait for Lin Xie to fall in love with him slowly.
When the teacup was put down, there was a sound of knocking on the glass above the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Li Yuebai stretched, got up, walked to the window, and opened the curtains.
He saw Lin Xie standing quietly on the other side of the glass, tall and straight like a dead tree in the snow, with a pair of dark eyes still bottomless.
"Bulletproof glass?" Lin Xie asked softly with his mouth.
"Guess." Li Yuebai smiled.
Lin Xie lowered his eyes and thought for a second, then took out the pistol again, pointed the muzzle at Li Yuebai, and made a gesture to pull the trigger—
"Hey, please forgive me." Li Yuebai smiled: "I don't want to buy another piece like this, it's very expensive."
Saying so, he put his hand on the control button and pressed it.
The floor-to-ceiling windows slowly opened.
"Host, he came with a lethal weapon. It's very dangerous. The system thinks it's better for you not to see him..." the system mechanically reminded.
"It'll be fine." Li Yuebai said: "Besides, I've wanted to explain it to him for a long time. If I endure it any longer, it really won't work."
Lin Xie rushed over together with the cold air outside the window, and stepped forward to hug Li Yuebai without hesitation.
"Huh? What does this mean?" Li Yuebai patted Lin Xie's back with a smile: "Why did you come to me? Lin's affairs have been dealt with?"
"Compared to you, those are a piece of cake." Lin Xie snorted: "Close the windows, it's cold."
The windows were lowered again, the curtains were closed, and the study was suddenly plunged into darkness.
With no one else around, the two of them seemed cut off from the entire world.
"Sometimes I really don't know whether I should hate you or... hate you more." Lin Xie lowered his head, moved closer to Li Yuebai's ear, and lowered his voice.
"It's useless." Li Yuebai rubbed his hair with a smile: "Master Lin, do the math yourself, how many times have you said you're going to kill me, and you didn't lie obediently on my shoulder in the end..."
"That's because you saved me!" Lin Xie angrily bit Li Yuebai's ear, repeatedly grinding the small piece of soft flesh with his sharp canine teeth: "You... I really want to..."
"Host, Lin Xie's feelings for you are hovering between extreme love and extreme hatred." The system said: "Because of the violent ups and downs and fluctuations, it is temporarily impossible to judge that your mission is successful."
"What's the hurry?" Li Yuebai said.
"I often dream these days." Lin Xie's voice became a little hoarse again: "In my dreams, I have returned to your office countless times, facing your cold eyes... I... I still hate you in my dreams."
"There is only one way to solve this problem." Li Yuebai gently pushed Lin Xie away: "Go back there and have a look."
An hour later, the two came to the old office building.
The office building has long been abandoned, with broken tables and chairs, cobwebs, broken glass, and documents scattered all over the place.
The office that once belonged to Wang Hanzhi is now locked, and the lock has long been rusted.
Lin Xie easily opened the door and walked in without much effort.
"You said that it was a cold winter night, and you were only 8 years old." Li Yuebai lowered his eyes and stepped into the dusty office: "I was standing here at that time, wasn't it?"
Lin Xie stood at the place where he had just entered the door, his expression getting colder and colder.
Came to the place in the memory, making the memory more real.
"Your mother brought you to ask me for help." Li Yuebai said, "But I coldly rejected it. From now on... you will never forgive me again."
"Yes." There was a bitter smile on the corner of Lin Xie's mouth.
"But, what does all this have to do with me?" Li Yuebai looked at him with no expression on his face: "I'm just an outsider...why should I be responsible for your father's mistakes?"
"I always thought that you were my father's accomplice."
"I..." Li Yuebai laughed back angrily, and with a wave of his hand, he swept down the folder on the table: "What does it have to do with me?"
The folder fell to the ground with a dull shattering sound, and dust rose.
This sound sounds good.
"Little friend." Li Yuebai sighed: "At that time, you still couldn't distinguish between good and evil, and couldn't understand the world... Such misunderstandings have continued until now."
"Misunderstanding?" A strange light flashed in Lin Xie's eyes: "Your rejection is real and there is no misunderstanding."
"Yes." Li Yuebai approached him: "Why don't I tell you something closer to the truth."
Lin Xie's expression changed from strange to flustered.
"At that time, I rejected her request for help because——she hoped to win the lawsuit for remarriage." Li Yuebai said word by word: "Your mother, all her demands are to return to the man who hurt him .”
"..."
"She is young and healthy... Her future has infinite possibilities, and she can embrace a more colorful world." Li Yuebai's voice was full of anger: "But she just wants to take you back to the Lin Consortium and restore yourself The identity of the mistress makes you... make you forced to live such a life."
"Is my current life so unbearable in your eyes?" Lin Xie narrowed his eyes and put his arms around Li Yuebai's shoulders again.
"When I saw you for the first time, I only had one thought—he is still so young, he shouldn't belong to the Lin family." Li Yuebai smiled wryly: "But now...forget it, they are all dead, you are still alive, You've adapted so well, I have nothing to say."
Lin Xie was startled, and the hands that were holding Li Yuebai's shoulders loosened.
"Wang Hanzhi, who do you think you are? A savior?" Lin Xie couldn't help laughing out loud: "You want to tell me that she is the one who is ignorant and cowardly and committed suicide, and you are the one who really wants to save me ... the savior? You... take yourself too seriously!"
"As you can see, I am so paranoid, so arrogant, and so self-assertive, not as you have misunderstood for many years—to please your father." Li Yuebai looked at Lin Xie: "If you don't believe it, I I once wrote a letter to your mother, which contained all my true thoughts... "
That letter was the "evidence" that Li Yuebai asked someone to restore it.
However, until now, it seems that such evidence is meaningless.
Lin Xie gritted his teeth, hugged Li Yuebai suddenly, and cried bitterly.
The gloomy childhood, the teenage years full of traps, and now the days when the surface is high-spirited and infighting... All the pains have found a place to vent.
Li Yuebai let him cry, and vaguely remembered that Lin Xie was really only eighteen years old...
He is legally an adult, but... the students in my class are also at this age. In my eyes, they are all children, and they shouldn't bear so much pressure...
The familiar feeling of distress returned.
"Congratulations, host, the task is completed." The system's voice sounded faintly.