In Lu Chengze's heart, Bai Jin was a delicate, soft-natured little kid with a particularly good temper—obedient and well-behaved.
If someone could anger him enough to pick up a baseball bat and beat people... then it definitely wasn't Bai Jin's fault. It was everyone else's problem.
So when Bai Jin pointed at the two people on the ground and said they had bullied him, Lu Chengze did not doubt him in the slightest.
As for the scene Lu Chengze had initially witnessed, with Bai Jin swinging a baseball bat and beating someone... hadn't Bai Jin said it himself? They had bullied him.
"How did they bully you?"
Bai Jin raised his face. His beautiful peach-blossom eyes were red, looking heartbreakingly pitiful. "Fifth Master, they said my mother was a mistress... They called me a bastard... Sob..."
As he spoke, he cried. Tears filled his peach-blossom eyes, bright and glistening, every drop telling of endless grievance.
Lu Chengze had never seen Bai Jin so sad and wronged before. His heart became even more outrageously biased. He pulled Bai Jin into his arms, but his gaze fell on Bai Jianian and Shen Mo.
"As far as I know, the mistress of the Bai Family was Jing Xianya of the Jing Family, wasn't she? Even if the mistress of the house has passed away, the woman who enters afterward can only be called a second wife."
With every word Lu Chengze spoke, Bai Jianian's face turned a shade paler.
"Besides, Bai Deye never publicly remarried after Madam Bai passed away. So how did you and your mother enter the Bai Family? Have you occupied the magpie's nest for so long that you really think you're the masters of the house?"
Those words were practically throwing Bai Jianian's self-respect onto the ground and grinding it beneath Lu Chengze's heel.
Bai Jianian trembled all over. It was impossible to tell whether Lu Chengze had frightened him or whether the humiliation had enraged him.
He covered his bloodied mouth with one hand, ignoring the injury to his other hand as he desperately tugged at Shen Mo, begging him to take him away from here.
The mocking looks from those around him and Lu Chengze's merciless words were already more than he could bear.
He had to get out of here!
He had to leave this place quickly!
If he stayed any longer, he was afraid he would hear even more unbearable ridicule and humiliation.
Shen Mo wanted to run as well, but he did not dare. He pulled Bai Jianian up only after checking Lu Chengze's expression and confirming that he had no intention of stopping them. Only then did he dare to drag Bai Jianian away in disgrace.
That was it?!
With his head buried against Lu Chengze's chest, Bai Jin quietly watched the two flee in panic. From an angle no one could see, a cold, vicious smile slowly curled across his lips.
But because he was nestled in Lu Chengze's embrace, he did not see Lu Chengze discreetly give Lu Jin, who stood some distance away, a look.
Having received the instruction, Lu Jin quietly followed Shen Mo and Bai Jianian as they left.
This time, Lu Jin did not need to hide his identity at all when beating people. In Xu City, while the Shen Family and the Bai Family could still be considered wealthy and influential, compared to Lu Chengze—the young heir of a top-tier capital family—even if Lu Chengze personally beat them up, so what?
If the Shen Family and Bai Family found out, they would not even dare let out a peep.
Everyone else quietly slipped away.
Watching the excitement was one thing, but they had to know when to leave.
At a time like this, it was time for spectators like them to make their exit.
Thus, when Bai Jin had composed himself and stepped out of Lu Chengze's arms, he "surprisingly" discovered that the area around them was completely empty. There was not a single person left.
Only Lu Chengze still looked thoroughly pleased with Bai Jin throwing himself into his arms.
"Fifth Master, I'm sorry. I... I dirtied your clothes." Bai Jin was embarrassed and annoyed, not knowing where to look.
Because of the difference in their heights, when Bai Jin had buried his face and cried just now, his tears had dampened the man's collar and the front of his shirt.
Of course, Bai Jin would never admit that he had done it on purpose.
"It's fine. So what if it's dirty?" Lu Chengze did not care at all about soiling a custom-made shirt worth five figures. He wiped Bai Jin's tears away. "Don't cry anymore. From now on, if anyone bullies you, bully them right back. Even if you beat someone to death, your boyfriend will still have your back!"
"Your boyfriend's family background is enough for you to run wild and do whatever you please in A Country."
"Mm, Fifth Master, you're so good to me." Moved, Bai Jin threw himself into Lu Chengze's arms again and rubbed against him.
This time, however, he switched to the other side of the man's chest.
Since the shirt was already dirty anyway, there was no problem with wiping a little more tears on it, right?
Lu Chengze smiled and let Bai Jin rub around in his arms. His gaze remained fixed on the stretch of porcelain-white skin at the back of Bai Jin's neck, exposed beneath the collar of his biker jacket whenever he moved his head.
That was how lovers were.
It was clearly just a perfectly normal hug, yet merely seeing that sliver of Bai Jin's exposed skin was enough to set Lu Chengze's imagination running wild.
Bai Jin's neck was so fair, so easy to hold. If they were in bed, he could seize it from behind with one hand, and then...
Suddenly, as though he had sensed something, Bai Jin looked up in shock and disbelief. "Fifth Master..."
But he had no idea that such unintentional seduction was the most alluring of all.
What was more, the man holding Bai Jin was a hungry wolf who had coveted his body from the very first time he saw him.
Meeting Bai Jin's horrified gaze, Lu Chengze gave a light cough and tried to explain away his lapse in composure. "Little one, you have no idea how tempting you are..."
Bai Jin looked innocent and pure as he glared at him, firmly defending himself. "I wasn't tempting you!"
That glare held no threat at all in Lu Chengze's eyes. It was only adorably fierce and irresistibly provocative, making Lu Chengze clench his molars.
Lu Chengze covered Bai Jin's eyes, his voice hoarse. "Baby, if you keep looking at me like that, I really won't be able to hold back."
"Have some restraint!" Bai Jin snapped, finally at the end of his patience.
It was not that he feared Lu Chengze would dare take him right there in public. Rather, someone had arrived.
"Oh! You got here pretty fast?" Huo Jinnian's teasing voice rang out from behind them.
When Lu Chengze turned around, he did so with one arm around Bai Jin, turning him along as well.
Then Bai Jin met Huo Hongbao's eyes. Standing beside Huo Jinnian, Huo Hongbao stared in horror and disbelief. With a trembling finger, he pointed at Bai Jin, who was pressed tightly against Lu Chengze. "Y-you... you're Fifth Master's little lover?!"
Bai Jin was puzzled. "..."
Lu Chengze narrowed his eyes. "..."
Huo Jinnian immediately shoved his foolish, oblivious younger brother behind him and explained awkwardly, "Chengze, ignore him! His womanizing habit is acting up again. I'll beat him up when we get back."
Lu Chengze and Huo Jinnian had been close friends since childhood, so naturally, Lu Chengze knew exactly what kind of person Huo Hongbao was.
He tilted his head toward Huo Hongbao, who was peeking out from behind Huo Jinnian with only half his head visible. "Huo Hongbao, you've got some nerve! You even dared set your sights on my person?"
"Ugh..." Huo Hongbao quickly shrank back behind Huo Jinnian in fright, looking pitiful. "Bro, save me! I don't want to get beaten up by Fifth Master after getting my heart broken!"
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