Bringing a Strange Man Home in the Middle of the Night

Li Ming failed to notice the odd look on Bai Jin's face. Throwing an arm around Bai Jin's neck like they were sworn brothers, he dragged him off at a run. "Fuck! We're going to be late for our eight o'clock class. Hurry up and grab seats."

Bai Jin ran along with Li Ming.

From the corner of his eye, he saw two tall figures moving closely behind them as they ran. This time, Bai Jin did not find the people secretly following him quite so annoying.

Maybe it was because he loved the house and its crow.

But Lu Chengze, who had received the bodyguards' report on Bai Jin's recent activities, was furious enough to want to hit someone.

"Who's this brat? How dare he put his arm around my kid?"

"Lu Jin, go. Cripple this brat's hand too."

Loving the house and its crow? That did not exist.

Lu Jin and Lu Mu stood motionless by the wall.

"Fifth Master, this boy is Li Ming, from the Li Family in Xu City. He's Young Master Bai's only good friend here."

Lu Jin deliberately emphasized the words "only good friend."

Half of Lu Chengze's soaring anger extinguished. "Only?"

In truth, Lu Chengze had long memorized Bai Jin's information by heart. Naturally, he knew exactly who this Li Ming appearing at Bai Jin's side was.

But Li Ming had his arm around his kid in broad daylight... With Lu Chengze's temper!

"Yes, Fifth Master." Lu Jin sighed. "Since Young Master Bai returned to the country, Li Ming is the only friend he has made."

As for why Young Master Bai had been unable to make any other friends after returning home? They would have to ask his wonderful illegitimate younger brother.

Lu Chengze narrowed his eyes. "Looks like crippling only one of Bai Jianian's hands was letting him off too easily."

He should have broken both of Bai Jianian's legs.

Then Bai Jianian would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Let's see whether he could still go around ruining his kid's reputation.

"Starting today, Bai Jin is your future young madam. Watch your hooligan behavior around him from now on." The moment Lu Chengze thought about how his confession had succeeded this morning, his mood immediately brightened again.

Lu Jin: "...???"

Lu Mu: "...!!!"

If the information we received was correct, Fifth Master, didn't you force Young Master Bai to agree?

By kissing him until he passed out.

"What kind of looks are those?" The moment Lu Chengze raised his eyes and saw the faint contempt and speechlessness in Lu Jin and Lu Mu's gazes, he got angry.

Lu Jin and Lu Mu hurriedly turned and ran off.

Most of Bai Jin's classes that day were concentrated in the morning, and he spent the entire afternoon in the laboratory.

Having just taken over as leader of the experimental team, Bai Jin had quite a lot to do.

If Lu Chengze had not called to urge him to leave, Bai Jin might even have forgotten to eat dinner.

After quickly entering several sets of experimental data into the computer, Bai Jin habitually saved the relevant data separately and deleted all traces he had left on the computer before shutting it down.

The moment he walked out of the laboratory building, Bai Jin looked up and saw Lu Chengze leaning against the car door in the lab building's parking lot, one hand tucked into his pocket.

It had to be said that Lu Chengze's handsome looks accounted for more than half the reason Bai Jin had put so much effort into getting close to him.

Back then, it was with that cool, handsome face that Lu Chengze had pulled him out of the rubble...

Bai Jin instinctively reached down to cover his stomach. A scar roughly ten centimeters long stretched across his lower abdomen, left behind when he had nearly had his organs forcibly removed.

"What experiment were you so busy with that you even skipped dinner?" Seeing Bai Jin cover his stomach, Lu Chengze assumed he was hungry. With a frown, he strode over, grabbed him, and stuffed him into the car.

Then he placed a cup of milk tea, warmed to just the right temperature, into Bai Jin's hands. It was the only kind of milk tea Bai Jin would drink. "Have a few sips to tide yourself over. We'll have dinner once we get home."

Bai Jin stared at him in stunned disbelief, lifting his head to look straight at Lu Chengze with his clear black-and-white eyes.

Lu Chengze, who was still bent over fastening his seat belt, instantly darkened his gaze. After pausing for two seconds, he raised a hand and covered Bai Jin's eyes. "Kid, not here. We'll kiss when we get back."

Fuck!

Bai Jin did not even have to do anything. Just looking at him like that was enough to make Lu Chengze feel as though the tip of his heart was trembling.

The kid was simply too tempting.

Bai Jin: "..."

The warmth filling his heart was utterly ruined by Lu Chengze's words.

Was this bastard's brain filled with nothing but filthy thoughts in every color of the rainbow?

"Pervert!" Bai Jin pulled Lu Chengze's hand away, then stopped talking. Lowering his head, he bit down on the straw and drank his milk tea in a huff.

Lu Chengze rubbed his nose, feeling a little awkward. He circled around to the driver's seat and drove away.

The school was only a few minutes' drive from Bai Jin's home.

Lu Chengze's car was a modified Range Rover, with the license plate Jing A88888. Anyone with even a little family background should have recognized it as the exclusive vehicle of the capital's crown prince.

Therefore, when Lu Chengze's car entered the residential complex and parked in the space outside Bai Jin's apartment building, Bai Deye and Yuan Xiaohui, who were standing at the building entrance, looked utterly miserable when they saw Bai Jin get out of Lu Chengze's car.

"Bai Jin, how are you with Fifth Master Lu?" Bai Deye's expression stiffened slightly.

The two of them had originally come to demand an explanation.

Jianian's injuries and his crippled hand—no matter how they thought about it, something was off.

Then they heard Bai Jianian say that, before the incident, he had hired some street thugs one night to surround Bai Jin. Yet Bai Jin had been fine, while he himself had ended up injured instead.

The moment Yuan Xiaohui heard this, she exploded in the hospital.

Grabbing her handbag, she had wanted to rush out and settle the score with Bai Jin.

In Yuan Xiaohui's eyes, everything her son did was right. As Bai Jin's older brother, Bai Jin should have given way to his younger brother.

Knowing full well that Bai Jianian had his eye on that experimental project, what right did Bai Jin—a piece of trash rejected by the Bai Family and not even allowed through the Bai Family's doors—have to compete with Bai Jianian?

So Yuan Xiaohui had dragged Bai Deye here and blocked Bai Jin beneath his apartment building because she wanted an explanation from him.

Jianian had been hurt that badly. If she did not force Bai Jin to go to the hospital tonight and kneel before Jianian to apologize, this matter would not be over!

But now, Bai Jin had returned with Lu Chengze. Judging by the way the two interacted, their relationship seemed far from ordinary.

Bai Deye recognized Lu Chengze, the crown prince, at a glance. But Yuan Xiaohui, who was still burning with anger, did not have Bai Deye's sharp eye.

Yuan Xiaohui prided herself on being a wealthy socialite. She knew every young master and young lady in Xu City's upper-class circles.

The man standing beside Bai Jin was certainly handsome, but she had never seen him in the upper-class circle. That meant his family background was ordinary.

Seeing Bai Jin's carefree, happy smile, Yuan Xiaohui did not wait for Bai Deye to speak. She immediately sneered, "Xiao Jin, you're still a young master of the Bai Family, after all. Though your family doesn't like you, bringing some strange man home in the middle of the night, tsk tsk, that's just too... Ah!"

Before Yuan Xiaohui could finish speaking, Bai Jin rushed in front of her and slapped her across the face!