When Bai Yi was four years old, he was taken back to the Bai family.
Everyone knows who he is.
The illegitimate son left behind by his father's cheating, the thorn in his stepmother's silence, and the extra seat at the Bai family's dinner table.
And Bai Zang was the first person to see him standing at the door.
The true heir of the Bai family, he is naturally domineering and hates everything being taken away.
He hated Bai Yi from the beginning.
I hate him living in the Bai family, I hate him sitting at the dinner table, I hate him being ignored, targeted, and treated as nothing by everyone, but he always lowers his head and says:
"Anything is fine."
"It doesn't matter."
"I know."
Like a broken clockwork rabbit.
No winding, no struggling, no crying or screaming.
Bai Zang just wanted to bully him at first.
Steal his things, change his arrangements, and turn every "casual" sentence he says into an inescapable consequence.
But Bai Yi didn't cry, make trouble, or complain.
Not even annoying.
Bai Zang finally got fed up.
He started to stare at Bai Yi.
Watching when he was scared, when he lied, when he nodded even though he clearly didn't like it.
He asked: "Do you like it?"
Bai Yi said: "Anything is fine."
So Bai Zang really said "anything is OK" and did it.
Until Bai Yi was forced to endure it no longer, he finally whispered:
"I don't want to."
Bai Zang smiled.
"That's not what I would say."
From then on, what Bai Yi was most afraid of was not that Bai Zang hated him.
But Bai Zang saw it too clearly.
Others see Bai Yi as quiet, sensible and without temper.
But Bai Zang saw his hidden disgust, fear, hesitation, and a little bit of love that even Bai Yi couldn't distinguish.
The rabbit did not return to Bai Yi's room later.
Bai Zang put it on the highest shelf in the study.
Bai Yi can't reach it.
Didn't ask.
But Bai Zang knew he saw it.
Know he cares.
I know that he obviously wants it, but he is used to not saying it.
Bai Yi thought that as long as he was quiet enough, he could live as safe as air in the Bai family.
But later he understood——
It's not that Bai Zang couldn't see him.
Quite the opposite.
Bai Zang kept watching.
See when he retracts, and then pick him out bit by bit.
Years later, everyone thought that Bai Yi had finally grown up and could finally leave the person who weighed him down.
Only Bai Zang knows.
Bai Yi will not leave.
Later someone asked Bai Yi: "Do you hate him?"
Bai Yi was silent for a long time and looked at the old rabbit on the top of the bookshelf.
It has chipped paint, short ears, and crooked stitching.
But it's always there.
Like evidence.
It also feels like home.
Bai Yi said softly:
"I don't know."
Bai Zang stood behind him and reached out to hold the back of his neck.
"I don't know, just think about it slowly."
"Anyway, I have time."
Bai Yi was once like a broken clockwork rabbit.
Later, only Bai Zang knew how to make him move.
Works released by xp
Intention: Forced Hate