die by your hands

Bai Wei didn't know how long it would take him to believe that An Tianming would never appear in his life again.Maybe that would be a lifetime.He couldn't help but suspect that one day he believed the other party's words, maybe he would fall into a trap again.Believing in An Tianming means disaster.And even if, in some rare moments, reason allows him to understand that An Tianming has no intention of doing anything bad, maybe An Tianming has really given up revenge, but that doesn't work either.Four years ago, Bai Wei hoped that An Tianming would never come back after going abroad. It took him two years to finally settle down with some luck. Then, his hope came to nothing.Then it was a year ago.It took him another year to gradually accept the possibility of An Tianming's departure. As a result, An Tianming suddenly reappeared at his door.

Bai Wei waits for things to develop in a bad direction every day.He could no longer tell whether it was he or his father who made An Tianming want to take revenge. Most of the time, he would minimize the number of visits to prison because he was afraid that he would implicate his father. Facing his father, he didn't dare to talk about the nightmares that troubled him.

These days, every time the door is knocked, even if he is waiting for an appointment with a friend, or a courier, when the door opens, Bai Wei is still worried that he will see An Tianming behind the door.

Perhaps it is not the pain itself that can drive people crazy in this world, but the process of waiting.Sometimes, Bai Wei even wished inexplicably that he could see An Tianming behind the opened door.When he was a child, Bai Wei often had nightmares about being chased by bad guys.In that dream, he would run away desperately at the beginning, but in the process of running away, because he became more and more afraid, he would deliberately stop and let the bad guys catch him-the moment when he was caught by the bad guys, it was precisely when he was running away. The most reassuring moment of this nightmare.

Later, Bai Wei guessed that he had such a dream because he was weak and lacked courage since he was a child. Because he couldn't bear the pressure, he could only hold the consciousness of bearing the consequences from the beginning.

Bai Wei just waited and prepared every time he opened the knocked door.Until this day——

After opening the door, Bai Wei didn't see An Tianming, but a man wearing a mask.As soon as Bai Wei opened the door, the man quickly reached out to hold his neck, and covered his mouth and nose with a pungent handkerchief.

Before he had time to struggle, Bai Wei lost all his strength and consciousness...

Bai Wei woke up on a comfortable bed.This bed and this room are all very familiar to him.Not long ago, he lived here for nearly a year, while pretending not to remember An Tianming, while being left by his side.

In his chaotic mind, Bai Wei vaguely remembered what happened.The man who attacked him.Although it was only a momentary picture in memory, as a result, it was very easy to deduce what happened later, including the cause of what happened before.

——Why did he come to An Tianming's villa after being stunned?

That's naturally because the man who attacked/assaulted him was sent by An Tianming.The only thing that Bai Wei couldn't figure out was why An Tianming did that?

... Then again, he found himself not paying much attention to the answer to this question.In the dream, he was caught by bad guys, so he no longer needed to run away in panic.

Bai Wei, who found that he was not restricted by any freedom, tried to get up from the bed after looking around and seeing no one.He didn't think about the option of running away at all. After all, no matter whether he could hide in a place where An Tianming couldn't find him, his father had nowhere to escape in prison, so it would be meaningless for him to run away.

After confirming that there was nothing unusual about his physical condition, Bai Wei tried to walk to the bedroom door and turn the doorknob.The room was not locked, Bai Wei who was slightly surprised by this opened the door carefully.Then, he was almost taken aback by the two men standing outside the door.

"Why are you standing at the door, do you want to come in and sit for a while?" Bai Wei was stared at by two people, so he could only bite the bullet and speak.

The man on the right shook his head: "We are ordered to protect Mr. Bai's safety, and we are asked not to disturb Mr. Bai himself."

Do the current kidnappers/bandits respect the freedom of hostages/hostages so much?Bai Wei was speechless.The man continued: "Mr. Shen Shi, he wants to see you, and has been waiting downstairs for you to wake up. Is it convenient for you to see Mr. Shen now, Mr. Bai?"

Bai Wei knew Shen Shi.During the year he lived here before, he met Shen Shi several times, because he knew that the other party was An Tianming's business partner, so he didn't chat with him a few times. At this time, he couldn't help but wonder what the other party could do. Talk to yourself.Of course, no matter how unwilling he was to talk to any of An Tianming's partners, as a hostage, he couldn't find a position to refuse.

Bai Wei shrugged: "I guess I don't have anything inconvenient right now."

Soon, Bai Wei was led downstairs by those two men.Shen Shi was checking his phone on the sofa, when he heard footsteps, he turned to look at Bai Wei, then got up to greet Bai Wei with unnecessary politeness.

"Long time no see, Mr. Bai."

"Be safe, Mr. Shen." Bai Wei replied counting the words.

Shen Shi always looked at Bai Wei with some kind of inquiry, and at this time he was even more thoughtful. After the hypocritical greetings, the former was silent for a moment, then jumped straight to the topic: "So, Mr. Bai, you Do you know how you got here?"

Bai Wei didn't want his tone to be mistaken for sarcasm, but the question itself was ridiculous. "I was stunned by ether and transported here."

There was a flash of astonishment in Shen Shi's eyes, and it took him a while to calm down, "So you think it was done by An Tianming? He obsessed/stunned you and forced you here?" When asking such a question, some Vaguely incredible.

"What I stated was objective facts, and I did not say who did it."

"But you obviously think it was done by An Tianming."

Shen Shi's expression as if Bai Wei had made a big mistake made the latter feel a little shaken: "Could it be that An Tianming didn't do this, but you, Mr. Shen?"

"I'm a legitimate businessman, I only do business, and I don't do kidnapping." Shen Shi declared angrily.

Bai Wei followed this logic: "So, you paid someone else to do it?"

Shen Shi was dumbfounded for a long time, before coming to a conclusion with difficulty: "Are you kidding me?"

Bai Wei is very innocent, as the kidnapped person, he has no room for joking, at most, no matter what the other party says, he can't take it seriously, so there is no need to take this conversation too seriously. "I just liven up the atmosphere."

Shen Shi stared at Bai Wei. "An Tianming saved you." The former said suddenly.

It was hard for Bai Wei to imagine that one day An Tianming would be willing to save himself, let alone what he was doing right now was clearly not saving him.

"If that's the case, thank him for me." He replied perfunctorily.

Shen Shi observed Bai Wei indescribably.

Bai Wei suddenly thought, "If An Tianming saved me, can I go home now?" He was really curious how the other party who really hoped that he would believe this statement could refuse this request.

However, Shen Shi didn't answer, but started another line: "An Tianming is doing acquisitions recently. The background of a company we plan to acquire recently is a bit complicated, and in order to prevent the acquisition, the forces behind that company want to blackmail An Tianming through you. The person who went to your apartment to attack/attack you belonged to that company. An Tianming saved you because he received the news in time. Because he was worried that the other party would continue to try to kidnap/take you, An Tianming had to take you back here."

Shen Shi spent a long time going around in circles before, but this statement was concise and clear enough. After listening to this explanation, Bai Wei finally understood An Tianming's script - An Tianming pretended that someone was going to kidnap Bai Wei, and then took Bai Wei She is under house arrest in this villa, and hopes that Bai Wei will thank him for it.

"Do I need to thank him personally?" Bai Wei asked after thinking about it.An Tianming hasn't shown up so far, is he waiting for himself to take the initiative to thank him?

Shen Shi applied a little strange gaze to Bai Wei, "You didn't believe my words at all." Unknowingly pointing out with a trace of helplessness.

Bai Wei wants to cooperate with the other party's script, but he is not the actor. "It doesn't matter whether I believe it or not."

"You can continue to hate An Tianming. No matter how many things he does, I believe you still have the right to hate him—but why do you still doubt his intentions after he has done so many things?"

"I didn't doubt his intentions." To be honest, even Bai Wei couldn't see any "intentions" in the other party, so why would he doubt it?

"... Has anyone ever told you that you have a heart of stone?"

In the past, he couldn't stand being scolded for being arrogant, but now, his attitude towards accusations has matured a lot.If there is, change it, if not, encourage it. "Did I do anything to bring you to that conclusion?"

Shen Shi flew in another stroke: "Because the study is far away from his bedroom, An Tianming moved all the computers to the bedroom, so as to prevent himself from walking too much in this villa. He locked himself in the bedroom because He promised that you would never let you see him again. In order not to break the agreement with you, now he has to sneak in and out of his villa."

Bai Wei tried hard to keep up with the weird logic of the other party who was completely out of the normal dialogue process.No matter why he came here, at least, he thinks that the other party's statement has loopholes: if An Tianming insists on keeping his promise as a script, he can be locked up elsewhere.Why bother?But then again, pointing out doubts was clearly not doing him any good.What he has to do is to cooperate with each other as much as possible.The more non-confrontational and non-challenging he was, the more likely An Tianming would consider letting him go.

Thinking over the script that Shen Shi reminded him, Bai Wei pondered: "So, should I take the initiative to meet An Tianming and ask him not to continue to insist on that promise that I didn't need in the first place under the special circumstances?"