GBT Chapter 61

Chapter 57 (1)

Li Jue huddled in the bathroom, hugging his legs. Half of his small, palm-sized face was still its original fair and delicate self, while the other half was swollen high, with a slight crack at the corner of his lip.

The door was suddenly pushed open, and Li Jue’s thin, small body trembled. Damp, black bangs dripped blurry watermarks, falling over his beautiful almond-shaped eyes. He blinked, his tear-soaked, clumped black lashes, looking blankly at the figure in the doorway.

“Second…” Li Jue’s face twitched on the side that had been slapped, and he hurriedly changed his words, “Mr. Qi.” Second Brother didn’t like him. He didn’t know what he had done wrong, it was clearly their first meeting.

Li Jue lowered his head, hugging his knees tightly.

The bathroom was filled with frightened breathing, while the doorway was a suppressed silence, as if a storm was approaching.

Qi Lan was still wearing that dripping wet, dark green trench coat, he hadn’t even taken a shower. His features were unlike Qi Zi Zhi and Qi Shuang’s, his eyebrows were low, pressing down on his eyes, making him look melancholic. His appearance combined with his temperament was the typical melancholy prince from movies and storybooks.

But as soon as his gaze changed from weak and scattered to strong, fixed on one person, melancholy turned to gloom.

Gloomy, dark, and somber.

The feeling Second Brother gave him was like… like a lizard in a wall crack. Li Jue shrank into the corner, his slender body pressed tightly against the wall.

Seeing the boy so cowering, Qi Lan really couldn’t reconcile it with the way his eldest brother described him. Besides his face, there was nothing else: “You said that when the ship sank, Jiao Bai was injured. How did that happen?”

Li Jue stammered, “It… it… it…”

Qi Lan punched the door: “Speak!”

“It was Eldest Brother,” Li Jue trembled in fear, “The crew members had all left at the time, only the three of us were there. Jiao Bai found two life jackets, three people, two life jackets, not enough…”

Qi Lan thought of a possible scenario, something was gathering between his tight brows, making one’s heart palpitate.

“Eldest Brother snatched the life jacket, and even, even…” Li Jue buried his face in his arms, sobbing, “Even stabbed Jiao Bai.”

The surroundings were silent.

Li Jue’s sobs stopped in fear. He muttered to himself, “Right in Jiao Bai’s stomach, so much blood. I told Eldest Brother to take Jiao Bai with him, Eldest Brother wouldn’t. Eldest Brother said that the Qi family could rise up because of Jiao Bai, that Jiao Bai caused our family…”

“Where were you?”

A question interrupted Li Jue, the little tuft of hair on his head trembled.

“When Jiao Bai was stabbed, you were next to him?” Qi Lan walked in. “You weren’t injured. My eldest brother was seriously injured. If you had tried to stop him, you couldn’t have failed. Even if you had hugged his leg when my eldest brother attacked, it could have given Jiao Bai a chance to dodge.”

“Also, my eldest brother’s wound became infected and he was delirious. You were there the whole time, right? You didn’t tell him who treated his wound, taking the credit for yourself,” Qi Lan grabbed Li Jue’s slender arm, pulling him up, “What do you want?”

Li Jue was bewildered by the series of questions: “I, I was too scared at the time.”

“Scared every time? Are you mentally handicapped?” Qi Lan sneered.

Li Jue’s small face turned even whiter. He widened his beautiful eyes, tears gushing down, flowing onto his haggard, childish chin, falling tremblingly, splashing on his damp, thick jacket. You could almost hear the fragile light sound in the air.

“Tears are your weapon, you’re good at using them.” Qi Lan threw the person away.

Li Jue fell back into the corner, he covered his face and shook his head constantly: “No, no, it’s not like that, it’s not intentional concealment, I was really too tired, my mind was all messed up, I didn’t remember.”

When Eldest Brother stabbed Jiao Bai, he wanted to stop him, but his limbs didn’t listen to him, he couldn’t move at all.

He really didn’t want to harm Jiao Bai.

“Jiao Bai is also my brother, even if I know he calculated…” Li Jue said softly, sobbing, “He is still a very important person in my heart, how could I harm him, I even wanted to wait until we went to Xiao Ming Island, stabilized, and then speak up for him in front of Eldest Brother, we would live together on the island… I don’t know why it has become like this now… Second… Mr. Qi, you’re asking about these things, is there some misunderstanding, Eldest Brother is mistaken, actually Jiao Bai didn’t harm our family, you’re going to save him, right…”

“Please, you must save him, please…” Li Jue couldn’t stand and sat down on the ground, bowing to Qi Lan’s direction again and again, “Please, please…”

To do this much for a friend, pitiful and humble, it was heartbreaking.

Qi Lan wasn’t moved. He had seen too many of this type, both men and women. Beneath the soft, innocent, pure, and naive exterior were just two words: stupid, selfish.

They always said more than they did, their kindness basically relied entirely on their mouths.

Qi Lan brushed back a few strands of loose hair, he looked down at Li Jue who was still begging him: “Tell me everything that happened after you got on the ship, tell me everything in detail.”

Li Jue raised his head, his small face covered in tears was full of confusion and daze.

Qi Lan’s scalp was about to explode: “I don’t have the patience to listen to you cry here, I’ll give you half a minute, if you don’t start dictating, I’ll throw you into the sea.”

Li Jue shuddered: “Mr. Qi, do you want to hear the part about Jiao Bai? Do you… like him?”

“Then can you first let the captain go and look for that cargo ship…” Li Jue’s words weren’t finished when his hair was grabbed.

Qi Lan’s cultivation and patience were all gone, his face was gloomy, and he used force on his hand: “I see you don’t understand human language.”

“Ah!” Li Jue screamed in pain, he kept begging for mercy, “I’ll talk, I’ll talk… don’t grab my hair, it hurts…”

“Help! Eldest Brother! Eldest Brother, save me!!”

In the room, Qi Zi Zhi, who was unconscious, heard the shrill, terrified cries. The fingers he had placed on the blanket moved: “Xiao Jue… A Lan…”

Qi Zi Zhi tremblingly raised his arm, groping on the nearby cabinet, knocking over the glass that was filled with a little less than half a glass of water.

After that sound, the noise in the bathroom stopped.

Qi Lan let go of Li Jue’s hair and turned to leave.

“A Lan, don’t,” Qi Zi Zhi’s weak face flushed slightly with emotion, “Don’t force Xiao Jue, if you want to know anything, ask me.”

Before Qi Lan could answer, Li Jue ran out of the bathroom and stumbled to the front of the bed, his head, which had been pulled into a mess, nuzzled into Qi Zi Zhi’s arms.

“Eldest Brother!” Li Jue was flustered and helpless, crying uncontrollably, “Eldest Brother, how are you? Don’t let anything happen to you…”

The boy didn’t know what was too much, he would only release his emotions without reservation. The bruises on Qi Zi Zhi’s chest throbbed with pain, he grunted, slowly reaching out and touching the top of Li Jue’s hair, rubbing it lovingly.

Qi Lan witnessed the pair of ill-fated brothers, his eyes were filled with complexity and shock. His eldest brother had grafted all his indulgence and love for Xiao Shuang onto the impostor’s body, even he, the younger brother who had lived with him for decades, was excluded, how ridiculous.

He didn’t know what Xiao Shuang would think if he was still alive and saw this scene…

Qi Lan turned his head to look at the deep blue sea outside the window, the sound of Li Jue’s crying and his eldest brother’s blurred comfort in his ears. He was thinking about his experience in the countryside.

The middle-aged couple was cunning and mercenary, they didn’t speak at first, it was only when he threatened them with their daughter’s life of wealth and beauty abroad that they revealed the relevant information about picking up Jiao Bai.

As soon as he heard about the jade pendant engraved with the year and month of birth from their mouths, he had the answer in his heart.

And the two identical horoscopes calculated by the Master two years ago, at that moment, showed the cruelty and irony of fate.

But he couldn’t contact his eldest brother at that time, and he also knew that his eldest brother wouldn’t believe it so easily, so he tried his best to investigate, thinking that when he met his eldest brother, he would take out everything he had investigated.

Now it seemed that whether he took it out or not, it would be the same result.

His eldest brother wouldn’t recognize Jiao Bai.

Jiao Bai and Xiao Shuang were partners, not unilateral exploitation. Without that partnership to deceive the Shen family and plot against Shen Ji, the Shen family would still have chosen one of the two options in a few months, choosing Xiao Shuang who had the Qi family behind him.

Then Xiao Shuang was targeted by that crazy woman from the Liang family…

But without the cause of that partnership, Shen Ji wouldn’t have been angry at the Qi family because of it.

The Qi family wouldn’t have collapsed, his eldest brother’s career would still be there, he wouldn’t have lost all his family and work, and would still have something left.

Therefore, his eldest brother hated Jiao Bai.

His eldest brother believed that it was Jiao Bai who led Xiao Shuang astray, that all the disasters were caused by him, but he didn’t think about why Xiao Shuang didn’t tell them anything. Whether it was his plan with Jiao Bai, or his own thoughts, he didn’t say anything.

If Xiao Shuang had said it, none of the later things would have happened.

Qi Lan pressed his hands over his bloodshot eyes, he went to England after graduating from junior high school, and his subsequent study life had been there, not relying on the family’s resources, not doing business, and not interacting with other families.

He had never even met Jiao Bai.

His eldest brother had contacted him, initially had a good impression, but later became disappointed, which led to his great resistance.

Qi Lan understood, but couldn’t completely agree.

The above were all the results of Qi Lan’s psychological construction these days, but his eldest brother’s reaction after knowing the truth was not what he imagined…

It wasn’t just hate, there were other impurities mixed in, very subtle, but truly present, a thunderbolt suddenly struck his heart, and his breathing quickened.

Qi Lan strode to the bed, he grabbed Li Jue, who had cried himself unconscious, and dragged him away, ignoring his eldest brother’s preventing gaze.

Ensuring that the distance was far enough that the contents of the conversation wouldn’t be heard, Qi Lan let go of him, and returned to his eldest brother who was almost breathing fire with his gaze. He hesitated for a few times.

Qi Lan smoothed his hair a few times, the force between his fingers increased again and again, his Adam’s apple rolled, and he opened his mouth with difficulty: “Eldest brother,”

After a pause, Qi Lan lowered his voice to the lowest possible level, as if afraid of awakening some demon in the world: “You wouldn’t have touched Jiao Bai during the kidnapping…”

“No!” Qi Zi Zhi realized that his reaction was too great, he avoided his second brother’s probing gaze, his pale gray lips pursed, as if recalling something unbearable, the lines of his lips became tighter and tighter.

Qi Lan had been staring at his eldest brother, he drew a conclusion from his micro-expressions: almost.

Fortunately.

Fortunately, it was almost.

Qi Lan closed his overworked eyes for a moment, and the voice of his eldest brother suddenly sounded in his ears, weak but clear, as if he was telling a story that he knew by heart.

He uncovered a corner of the iceberg of human nature for him.

“I didn’t touch him, I just talked to the old man on the boat about a deal. Only two meals a day were provided, just for me and Xiao Jue, not his. I stopped Li Jue from stuffing him with food, I made it so that he had nothing to eat, and only watched us eat.”

“Three days later, before the crew members discovered our whereabouts, I knocked him unconscious and pushed him out. He was sacrificed to the sea, and then someone fished him up, to be used as a vent for their anger.”

“That day when he returned to the cargo hold, he looked like a broken rag doll. He was talking in his sleep, I thought he was pretending, but when I pinched him, I found that he had a high fever.”

“He lay down for a while and was called out again, and when he came back, he had new injuries, and the smell on his body was pungent. I watched him become more and more depraved day by day, and warned him not to get any ideas about Xiao Jue.”

“Once, I saw him hugging Xiao Jue, so I grabbed his hair and slammed him to the ground. He was about to die, but he didn’t know where the madness came from, he jumped up and fought with me. My injuries worsened, and he didn’t gain any advantage either.”

“When the ship was about to sink, I snatched the life jacket he found, stabbed him, and left him on that ship.”

Qi Zi Zhi finished speaking, the story was over: “I did these things.”

“What else do you want to know?” He looked at his second brother who had retreated several steps at some unknown time, the muscles of his cheeks twitching, his fists clenched tightly, trying to restrain himself from punching him.

Qi Lan couldn’t make a sound. He was an artist, his social circle was all colleagues, and his life was simple. Taking away Shen Er’an, who had been in a car accident, trying to contact the Shen family, and using him to exchange for Jiao Bai, was the craziest thing he had ever done.

The Liang family’s lady killed Xiao Shuang because of unrequited love, the Shen family’s extermination, and his eldest brother’s revenge on the Liang family, were all phenomena that could collapse Qi Lan’s worldview.

Now there was another one.

“A Lan, you don’t know Jiao Bai, you haven’t spent time with him, you don’t know how deep his scheming is, the blood flowing in his body is too turbid, it can’t be the Qi family’s blood, it’s impossible.” Qi Zi Zhi’s tone was firm and resolute when he said the last few words. But he didn’t open his eyes, he closed his eyes, as if afraid of seeing a ghost standing at his bedside, calmly looking down at him.

Qi Lan watched his eldest brother from not too far away. He was once the pride of the heavens, the pride of the Qi family and all hope: “You treated him like that, and he still saved you.”

A hoarse laugh full of blood gurgled out of Qi Zi Zhi’s throat: “That’s why I said he’s not our brother.”

“Look at Xiao Shuang, look at Xiao Jue, their minds are very simple, black is black, white is white, simple and easy, how can they be as complicated as him. He saved me,”

Qi Zi Zhi paused briefly and weakly for a moment: “He saved me, who knows what idea he was having.”

Qi Lan raised his arms, his ten fingers joined together to cover his face, he let out a difficult and heavy gasp.

——As if he was choked by the hand of fate, unable to break free.

“I don’t have that kind of brother, he’s not my brother, Xiao Jue is.” Qi Zi Zhi finished speaking in a low voice, and said in the loudest voice he could now make, “A Lan, I don’t want to see you bullying Xiao Jue again, he relies on me, he’s a good child, he’s your brother!”

Qi Lan was someone who didn’t get carsick or seasick, but at this moment he experienced a sense of dizziness, the world was spinning: “Eldest brother, things have come to this point, you still don’t admit that Jiao Bai is a member of the Qi family, you don’t want to face the mistakes you’ve made.”

“What mistakes have I made?” Qi Zi Zhi heard it like a joke, “That Jiao Bai is a bad child, he should be punished, I’m not wrong.”

“I didn’t do anything wrong.” He repeated and emphasized, saying it to himself.

Qi Lan rushed up suddenly, grabbing his eldest brother’s collar, his nostrils fluttering rapidly, his eyes gradually moistening. At the moment when the emotions of anger and grief spread to his entire face, Qi Lan roared: “You’re deceiving yourself!”

“I’m not!” Qi Zi Zhi’s face suddenly twisted, his eyes were full of hideous persistence. No, he didn’t.

Qi Lan’s pupils contracted suddenly, he called out for a doctor, and ran out in a panic: “Doctor! Doctor——”

Qi Zi Zhi on the bed kept spitting blood, his body convulsing up and down, his breathing getting weaker and weaker.

He couldn’t die.

He couldn’t die.

He wanted to go back to South City to find out the cause of Xiao Shuang’s death.

Also,

What else…

He couldn’t die.

While several doctors were rescuing Qi Zi Zhi, the black ship was traveling in the fog.

The bearded deputy and the others were usually joking and laughing, but now they didn’t dare to take it lightly.

The fog was too thick, visibility was no more than twenty meters. Every kilometer they traveled was a gamble with their lives.

In addition, the deep sea was not like land, the flow of water, wind, fog, and other factors were irresistible, there were too many restrictions, and it could capsize at any time.

The Chinese man the lady liked was looking for relatives at sea. And he had to go to the sea area that they hadn’t been to in recent years.

The lookouts were all using the people with the strongest eyesight, and they would switch them out when they were tired, and the same rotation system was used for the other positions.

Everyone’s working condition was good, so they could try their best to make the ship avoid emergency situations in time.

The moment Qi Zi Zhi was rescued from the gate of hell by a German medical genius, an explosion rang out in the fog.

The black ship stopped.

At the same time, the ship’s whistle sounded.

A group of foreigners gathered on the deck, they saw the fog dissipate a little, and a large number of fragments appeared on the sea, a Chinese cargo ship was burning, and the Chinese characters on the hull were flying in the fire.

Those were the two characters “Ping Shun.”

Qi Lan’s hand gripping the railing fell weakly, hanging down. His fingers were colder than the wet trench coat.

Li Jue in the cabin ran out and fell to the ground, unable to stand steadily: “Jiao Bai…”

“Jiao Bai!”

Li Jue shouted at the burning cargo ship, he swayed and supported himself with both hands, murmuring sorrowfully, “You’ve gone to heaven… there’s no pain or suffering there, you must be happy…”

“Qi,” the British girl pointed at Li Jue on the ground, “Who is that person, why is he crying so sadly?”

Qi Lan didn’t look at Li Jue, he just stared at the fragmented ship parts with a pale face: “Continue to look, with this ship as the center, search in circles nearby.”

The British girl was extremely puzzled: “Qi, the ship is already…”

“Becca, I’m looking for my brother.” Qi Lan turned around, the sea breeze blew past his black hair and silver-white earrings, his eyes were deep and sad.

Becca apologetically made a “cross” in front of her: “May God bless your brother.”

Finally, she took his clenched hand, and left a kiss on the back of his cold, stiff hand, sincere and fervent: “I will also give you my luck, I wish you and your brother reunite.”

When the flames on the “Ping Shun” ship were at their most intense, Qi Zi Zhi’s heart suddenly stopped, and the doctors performed a second round of emergency treatment on him.

And on the ocean-going ship in the middle of the thick fog, the most spacious room was also filled with the smell of medicine.

The medical staff had all retreated, there was only one patient in the room who was covered in wounds, and a pair of master and servant.

Qi Yi Liao took off the earplugs on his ears, he propped his head up, his fingers with clear bone lines rested on a scripture.

He had been looking at this page for a few minutes, but he hadn’t turned it over yet.

Zhang Zhen sat on the ground with his back against the edge of the bed, his eyes a little unfocused. When he climbed onto the cargo ship and saw Jiao Bai lying flat on the deck, his stomach covered in blood, he remembered everything.

Changning Orphanage.

The little boy who stumbled and ran towards him when he was two or three years old.

He fell and was injured while climbing a tree to escape the orphanage, his stomach hit a rock and bled, and the little boy clumsily covered his wound, and after covering it for a while, he leaned over and blew on it, but the whole time he was lying on his wound, getting blood all over his face.

He remembered everything.

What the boy gave him was not candy, it was a painting.

Several of them.

All rainbows. The little boy painted all the crayon colors of the orphanage on it, messy and colorful.

The one who called him “Little Brother” was,

“Jiao Bai…” Zhang Zhen’s eyes gradually focused, he supported himself with his hand and slowly got up, not daring to look back at the person on the bed, only stealing a glance with his peripheral vision before quickly closing his eyes.

Zhang Zhen wiped his face randomly: “Third Brother, I’m a little uncomfortable right now, I want to go back to my room and stay by myself, I won’t come out before dinner.”

“Go ahead.” Qi Yi Liao’s gaze was fixed on the scripture, seemingly unaware of the abnormality of his subordinate.

As soon as Zhang Zhen left the room, there was a sob in his throat.

Why did he only remember now.

It would have been good if it had been earlier.

If he could have remembered earlier, he could have taken Jiao Bai to a place where no one knew them, let Jiao Bai go to school, work, start a family, and live a safe life.

Instead of being targeted by the old lady of the Shen family and her youngest son, his personality was humiliated, and scars were left on his body and mind.

Now, with only himself, he couldn’t let Jiao Bai live an ordinary life.

He could only rely on Third Brother.

But Shen Dong’s side…

Zhang Zhen’s worries were quickly gone, Third Brother could ignore the danger, put down his work, and personally go out to sea to find him for so long, which was enough to show how much he valued Jiao Bai.

That value couldn’t be long-term, and it wasn’t clear how long it would last, but it wouldn’t be a problem in the short term.

Furthermore, if Shen Dong wanted to attack Jiao Bai, then he wouldn’t mind breaking into the Shen family with a gun.

A few brothers came over to change shifts, and when they saw Zhang Zhen’s red-eyed and choked state, they were all shocked.

“Brother Zhen?”

“What’s wrong, is Master Bai not going to make it?”

The old brother had just finished speaking the previous second, and he was knocked down the next second.

Zhang Zhen pressed on him, his beautiful face was fierce and serious: “Quickly spit three times for me!”

The old brother did as he was told in a daze: “Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!”

He also knew to tilt his head to the side to spit, otherwise he could spit on Pillow Beauty’s face.

Zhang Zhen let the person go: “From now on, Jiao Bai is my brother, blood-related!”

“You have to treat him as me.” Zhang Zhen said firmly, “Did you hear that?”

The brothers looked at each other.

The boss actually grew chicken wings, flapping them so hard, he was afraid that others wouldn’t see him transform into a chicken daddy.

A brother rubbed his hands: “If we really treat him as you, then we’re going to have to drink and finger-guess with him, put our arms around his shoulders, yellow car swoosh swoosh… ow!”

He covered the head that was slapped by Brother Pillow, exaggerating and yelling.

The others couldn’t bear to look directly at him and distanced themselves from him. This acting was terrible, embarrassing.

That brother felt good about himself, he smiled and moved closer to Zhang Zhen: “Brother Pillow, do you feel any better?”

Zhang Zhen waved his hand: “Go do your thing, don’t be careless.”

His mood hadn’t improved.

He also didn’t deserve to be in a good mood, it was difficult to express.

A few months ago, he heard Jiao Bai’s screams from his nightmares at Xi Yuan, and he was still thinking that if the child who called him “Little Brother” was living in some corner of the world, he would definitely have an easier life than Jiao Bai.

Who knew…

Zhang Zhen walked up the stairs, a self-deprecating arc rising at the corner of his lips. In August, the “Little Brother” that was called out that night at “Di Ye” was fate’s guidance to him.

Jiao Bai became his online friend, that was fate’s second favor.

And Jiao Bai’s WeChat profile picture, that familiar color block, was fate’s gift.

Fate was so good to him.

He was the one who was too stupid, missing so many opportunities to see the truth clearly.

Fortunately,

He finally saw clearly.

The days were still long, whether for Jiao Bai, or for him, for them.

The fog was too thick, the ship didn’t return, it just stopped on a safe channel.

Jiao Bai’s injuries were not life-threatening, he was just too tired, and his mind was always tense, it was very tormenting. Once he sensed a safe atmosphere, he would enter a deep sleep.

Jiao Bai slept for ten or twenty hours this time, and when he was conscious, his throat was terribly dry, his mind was very dizzy, and his eyelids were stuck together.

“Awake?” A low and deep voice sounded next to him.

Jiao Bai moved his glued eyelashes, laboriously opening his eyelids. In his blurry vision, he saw a tall silhouette, surrounded by soft light.

I’ve gone to heaven and saw God.

After Jiao Bai blinked, his vision recovered a little, and he realized that the halo around the silhouette was mixed with black, and had a sizzling arc of pressure.

Oh, it’s not heaven, it’s the Asura Hall, the Asura King.

Looking again,

It was nothing at all, just a white cat that was completely dead, but it was staring at him with its eyes open, as if it had seen a wandering ghost, or as if it had seen its master.

The friend’s online reminder was delayed again!

Jiao Bai Cramp，Say it：“water……”

Qi Yi Liao stepped to the table, poured a glass of water, and brought it over.

Jiao Bai said, “I can’t get up.”

Qi Yi Liao put the water glass on the bedside table: “Then drink it later.”

Jiao Bai: “…”

Did he have to play like this?

Jiao Bai gritted his teeth and stretched out his hand: “President Qi, give me a hand.”

Qi Yi Liao raised his eyebrows elegantly: “You want help.”

“Then you should have said it directly the first time.” He sighed helplessly, “If you don’t say it, how will I know your needs.”

Jiao Bai’s eyes were about to roll to the ceiling. You have the nerve to lecture me about this.

You’re already dead, and you still have a compassionate and self-amused air of compassion for all things.

Dare you dissect your rotten heart?

The gaze that was cast over suddenly changed. Jiao Bai suddenly stagnated, he raised his head, holding his breath, and looked at Qi Yi Liao, who was close to him.

Qi Yi Liao looked at him expressionlessly for a long time, the corners of his eyes lifted slightly: “Your mental activity is very rich.”

Jiao Bai hehe.

“You look uglier when you smile now than you used to.” Qi Yi Liao commented gently.

Jiao Bai didn’t hehe anymore.

Qi Yi Liao helped Jiao Bai up, his body language was very unfamiliar.

But none of Jiao Bai’s serious injuries were affected.

“When the doctor was treating your wound, I was there.” Qi Yi Liao let him lean against the head of the bed, a few strands of broken hair fell from his forehead, making him look approachable.

The implication was that he had seen his whole body, so he naturally knew where his injuries were, and wouldn’t deliberately touch his more serious injuries at this time.

Jiao Bai was silent, and he took the water glass from the cabinet himself: “Was the doctor male or female? How old?”

Qi Yi Liao smoothed his hair with one hand: “An old doctor who could be your grandfather.”

Jiao Bai breathed a sigh of relief, it wasn’t that he was thin-skinned and shy, it was that he was afraid of polluting the doctor’s eyes and leaving a shadow on the doctor.

The old man had rich experience and could handle it.

Jiao Bai took a sip of water slowly, and then he drank it in small sips. In this gap, he sorted out his thoughts, and realized that he only remembered Qi Zi Zhi taking Li Jue to jump into the sea, and that he passed out on the deck, and then he woke up here.

He didn’t remember anything in between.

It was like drinking too much.

The room was very quiet. Jiao Bai was on the ship, and he didn’t feel nauseous, probably because he had already eaten the thickest dog blood from Qi Zi Zhi’s part, and because of the influence of the environment.

He was safe, he could go ashore.

Jiao Bai glanced at the old man standing by the window with his back to him, facing the blue sky, and said seriously, “President Qi, thank you for bringing people to find me.”

Qi Yi Liao didn’t turn his head: “You weren’t violated, your injuries were all self-inflicted.”

Jiao Bai’s face changed, was the old doctor that good?

“Yes.” Jiao Bai simply admitted, he roughly described the cause and effect of his self-harm, “If I didn’t do it, Qi Zi Zhi wouldn’t believe that I was really bullied.”

Qi Yi Liao said, “That stab in the stomach, he did it?”

“Yeah.” Jiao Bai subconsciously revealed the process to Qi Yi Liao, not only was he very detailed, he also gritted his teeth.

There was no disappointment, only complaints mixed with contempt.

This gave people the feeling that he had expected that scene to happen.

A seagull appeared in Qi Yi Liao’s eyes, it was gliding on the sea, foraging alone and resolutely.

People who appreciated the scenery would inevitably be attracted to it, stopping to see if it could return fully loaded.

Seeing that Qi Yi Liao didn’t ask any more questions, Jiao Bai pulled open his pajamas and looked inside, a medicinal smell rushed up. In that slightly fishy medicinal smell, he heard Qi Yi Liao’s question.

“After experiencing this tribulation, who do you blame?”

“Old Lady Shen, Shen Ji, Qi Zi Zhi, Li Jue, the old boatman on the cargo ship, and,” Jiao Bai counted his fingers, “Shen Er’an.” Only less, not more.

Qi Yi Liao listened to his tone of accounting like a child, shook his head and smiled: “Not yourself?”

Jiao Bai met Qi Yi Liao’s gaze and said two words: “No.”

Qi Yi Liao’s gaze seemed to deepen suddenly: “Good.”

Jiao Bai was inexplicable, good what? How I think is my business, I don’t need you to grade it.

Crap, did he just say Old Shen Dog’s name directly? He didn’t know what Qi Yi Liao, his old friend, would think.

Jiao Bai calmed down after not struggling for too long.

Whatever Qi Yi Liao thinks, anyway, he doesn’t need to pretend in front of Old Shen Dog anymore.

Qi Yi Liao walked towards him unhurriedly: “Old Shen’s side…”

Jiao Bai was about to say “it doesn’t matter,” when he heard the old man say: “I heard that you’re divorced.”

“…” Why say this?

Jiao Bai was very annoyed by the talk of marriage and divorce, he said sarcastically: “I didn’t know about the marriage or the divorce, it’s very funny.”

Qi Yi Liao bowed slightly: “Funny?”

“It’s just an adjective.” Jiao Bai’s breath had more sandalwood smell.

Qi Yi Liao was noncommittal: “Don’t use words randomly.”

Jiao Bai had a “I’ve been taught” expression on his face. It’s really not funny.

“This room is mine,” Qi Yi Liao’s hand reached out, touching the top button of the young man’s pajamas, he pinched it with two fingers, casually straightening it, “I’ll come over to sleep at night.”

Jiao Bai immediately said: “Then get a few people to carry me away.”

Other injuries were easy to say, he was just afraid that the wound on his stomach would burst open when he moved places.

Really, when they rescued him, why didn’t they just pick a room and settle him in, why did they put him here.

Qi Yi Liao didn’t seem to feel the young man’s ungratefulness, he pinched the bridge of his nose, his little finger rested on the small cinnabar mole on the side of his nose: “I’ll sleep next to you at night, you…”

“Help, right, no problem!” Jiao Bai quickly stated his position.

Qi Yi Liao smiled, he stroked the young man’s blue and purple chin as a reward, wiping away the traces of water on it.

“Good boy.”

Jiao Bai’s attention was all on the white cat.

At this moment, the cat was pulling on the thin wire with both paws, as if saying,

——Tear it off, please.

When Jiao Bai came back to his senses, Qi Yi Liao had already left, and the documents and laptop on the table were also taken away, this was changing his place of work.

The heads of large families weren’t easy, they were all under great pressure.

Even Shen Ji, who had a smooth rise to power and was protected by his mother, needed to decompress through young bodies, not to mention Qi Yi Liao, whose family had a graveyard of people lying in it.

Jiao Bai thought wildly for a while, and a friend came online, not Qi Yi Liao, but Zhang Zhen.

That guy didn’t come in, he was just outside the door.

Zhang Zhen had come over on impulse, and now he was adjusting his emotions. He learned from Third Brother about Jiao Bai’s encounter on the cargo ship, and in a fit of anger, he burst the sandbag in the gym.

In Zhang Zhen’s impression, Qi Zi Zhi was a gentleman, he didn’t expect him to be so cowardly, not fighting with the Shen family, but only bullying the little child who had