You? You Could Barely Kill a Chicken

As one of Xu City's most elite and influential families, the Li Family's elders had long informed the younger generation about the renowned Lu Chengze, the young master from the capital, and his several subordinates.

Especially news of Lu Chengze's high-profile arrival in Xu City with a special operations team had spread through every social circle in Xu City on the very first day he arrived.

How could Li Ming not know Lu Mu?

After learning that the person who had brought Bai Jin to school was one of Fifth Master Lu's men, Li Ming did not dare ask further. "All right, pretend I never asked."

A big shot like Fifth Master Lu was not someone wealthy young heirs like them could gossip about.

Bai Jin secretly let out a sigh of relief. Li Ming was good in every way except that he was far too curious and especially fond of gossip.

Hardly anything that happened at school escaped his ears.

As Bai Jin's closest friend among Li Ming's circle of friends, Bai Jin had to listen to him share all sorts of gossip every day at school.

If he had not stopped Li Ming in time today, Bai Jin would have had to listen to him ramble on all day.

Li Ming did not dare dig into Fifth Master Lu's gossip, but when it came to gossip about other people, he was still delighted.

"Hey, did you know? Your dear little brother is apparently taking a leave of absence."

Bai Jin raised his brows. "A leave of absence? Didn't he just break one hand? Is it that serious?"

Bai Jin had been busy and had not paid much attention to how badly Bai Jianian had been hurt. He had heard that it was more than just a broken hand, but why was he taking a leave of absence?

Bai Jianian had some talent in medicine, but his college entrance exam score had been too low. Back when he had entered medical university, Bai Jin had heard that Bai Deye had pulled quite a few strings.

He was giving up so easily over one broken hand?

That did not sound like the way the greedy Bai Deye did things.

From what Bai Jin knew of Bai Deye, even if one of Bai Jianian's hands had been crippled, did he not still have another hand?

Taking pulses, performing acupuncture, writing prescriptions—didn't all of that just require hands?

If Bai Jianian had heard Bai Jin say that, he would probably have been so furious that he fainted on the spot again.

Did Bai Jin think practicing traditional medicine was like picking vegetables? As long as he had a hand, that was enough?

The hand that had been crippled was his dominant right hand!

How much determination and effort would it take to replace every habit and movement of his right hand with his left?

Of course, even if Bai Jin knew, he would not feel the slightest sympathy.

If he had not needed clues from the Bai Family to investigate the cause of his mother's death, the Bai Family would have been dead the moment he decided to return to the country.

"Who knows? But you need to be careful. I heard that when Bai Jianian sent someone to arrange his leave of absence, he was badmouthing you too. He probably spread more rumors about you." Li Ming lowered his voice mysteriously as he warned Bai Jin.

Bai Jin merely smiled and said nothing.

Seeing Bai Jin's reaction, Li Ming grew anxious. "Don't always be so good-tempered either. Some people don't appreciate kindness. The more easygoing you are, the more you refuse to fight or compete, the more they think they can walk all over you."

Bai Jin was good in every way, but his temperament was simply too soft.

How many twisted lies and misunderstandings about Bai Jin had Bai Jianian secretly spread around school?

Yet Bai Jin had such a gentle nature that he never explained anything.

If he had not been there as Bai Jin's good friend, helping shield him from rumors, would Bai Jin not have been bullied to death by those people?

Bai Jin laughed. "I'm not as weak as you think. If anyone truly angers me, I'll make sure they die horribly."

Li Ming curled his lips, utterly unconvinced. "You? You can barely kill a chicken, and you want to make them die horribly?"

Bai Jin looked exactly like the sort of good student who would hide somewhere and cry in secret after being bullied.

Fighting back? That was probably just something he said to comfort himself.

Bai Jin looked far too innocent and harmless, the sort of person who made others instinctively want to protect him. Yet his nature was cold, and he did not like getting close to others.

That always gave people the illusion that he was easy to bully.

From the first time Li Ming had met Bai Jin, he had been fooled by Bai Jin's frail, vulnerable appearance. Even when Bai Jin could dissect frogs and lab mice in the laboratory without changing expression, separating flesh from bone, Li Ming's filter remained deeply entrenched.

Especially since he thoroughly disliked the green-tea Bai Jianian, he became even friendlier and more protective toward Bai Jin, who was always bullied by that green tea.

Bai Jin: "..."

Sometimes, looking too innocent was rather troublesome.

The two of them only had one class that morning. Once it ended, they headed straight for the laboratory.

However, before they even entered, they heard people inside speaking in low voices.

"Hey, have you heard? Bai Jianian took a leave of absence."

"I heard! Apparently, someone crippled his right hand, and he needs to go abroad for rehabilitation."

"Damn, that's awful! Who has such a huge grudge against him? Crippling a medical student's hand is basically destroying his medical career, isn't it?"

"Exactly! And I heard that the person behind the crippling of Bai Jianian's right hand might very well be our newly appointed lab group leader."

"Really? Is that source reliable?"

"I don't know whether it's reliable, but I also heard that on the second night after Bai Jianian was hurt, his father and mother went to see Bai Jin... Tell me, if Bai Jin had nothing to do with it, why would they go looking for him?"

Just as Li Ming was so angry that he wanted to rush inside and argue with them, an enraged voice questioned them from behind. "Bai Jin, don't you have anything to explain?"

Li Ming turned around. At some point, someone had appeared behind them. It was none other than Chen Mo.

Chen Mo, the eldest young master of the Shen Family, had been betrothed to Bai Jin since childhood. However, after Bai Jin's mother had an accident and Bai Jin was taken abroad by his grandfather, Chen Mo had remained close to Bai Jianian. Gradually, the two developed feelings for each other.

Both the Shen Family and the Bai Family were pleased to see it happen, and they had even tacitly accepted that the person engaged to Chen Mo was Bai Jianian.

Then Bai Jin suddenly returned to the country.

He had even chosen the same university as Chen Mo and Bai Jianian.

Furthermore, due to his talent in medicine, Bai Jianian had been exceptionally admitted into the laboratory during his freshman year.

Less than a week after Bai Jin transferred here, he too had been assigned to Bai Jianian's laboratory group, and he had even taken the group leader position that should originally have belonged to Bai Jianian.

That day, Chen Mo had held the aggrieved Bai Jianian and comforted him for an entire afternoon. Before he could come find Bai Jin to demand an explanation, Bai Jianian had an accident that very night.

Chen Mo would not believe it even if he were beaten to death if Bai Jin had nothing to do with this matter.

Chen Mo had specifically come to the laboratory group today to find Bai Jin. Yet before entering, he had heard that perfectly reasonable speculation.

Chen Mo's fury instantly surged as he questioned him coldly.

Bai Jin looked at Chen Mo indifferently. "Explain what? If you all think Bai Jianian's hand was crippled by someone I hired, then bring out the evidence. Otherwise, stop yapping in front of me."

"Get lost!"

After saying that, Bai Jin grabbed Li Ming and openly pushed open the laboratory door before walking inside.