Yan Xianjue put himself in Lin Shi's shoes and thought about it.
If he had a father who abused and beat him whenever things did not go his way.
A mother who only knew how to shop, and hid away whenever her son was being beaten.
Would he hate the entire Lin Household?
Would he want to grind the entire Lin Household's bones to dust?
Would he want everyone who had seen him at his most miserable to vanish from this world?
He definitely would.
Yan Xianjue knew he was not an especially broad-minded person.
Nor was he saintly enough to forgive parents like that.
Just imagining himself in that position was unbearable.
And Lin Shi had already lived under that kind of pressure for eighteen years.
Coupled with Old Master Lin's occasional teachings about raising venomous creatures.
It seemed only natural that Lin Shi had turned out warped.
Then it would not be surprising if Lin Shi, who was even crazier than him, did anything at all, would it?
*
Yan Xianjue thought it over carefully for a long while. "Lin Shi wants to borrow the Yan Household's influence."
He stated it decisively to Yan Yi'an.
He was almost certain that this was some crucial turning point.
[In the story, the male and female leads' relationship entered a period of rapid development during the summer after the Gaokao.]
[The male lead suffered serious injuries. His father must have beaten him.]
[Lin Shi moved out of the Lin Household and into a hotel, which gave the female lead the chance to visit and take care of him often.]
[That makes sense. A high school romance novel would get taken down by the website!]
What troubled Yan Xianjue was whether he should make use of this turning point.
[In the novel,