Chapter 3227: Saving Zero Egg Bai Ze's Love Story 28

Jin Chen faced Bai Ze's near‑uncontrollable questioning, yet remained seated firmly like a mountain, "What's the rush? When you end up on opposing sides, there will be plenty of chances to witness his pain and sorrow. Better to desensitize early, so you won't be helpless then and he won't be able to let go."

Bai Ze's body swayed slightly.

He didn't know which untouchable corner of Bai Ze's heart this sentence had struck; he was afraid, afraid that the concealed things would eventually lie between them as an uncrossable chasm.

Bai Ze's face turned pale, he slumped back onto the sofa, head bowed in desolation, his breathing grew rapid and disordered, his chest feeling as if the sentence had shattered it, sharp fragments surging upward.

Jin Chen watched his state, thinking it wasn't good, and the next second saw Bai Ze suddenly clench his fist, jerk his head sideways, and actually spit out a mouthful of blood.

That mouthful of blood seemed to have been accumulated for a long time, a repressed blockage of who knows how many years.

Jin Chen jumped up from the sofa in fright, "……What the hell! Are you trying to pull a scam?"

On the other end of the surveillance, Yi Qi's head buzzed and exploded.

Bai Ze had spat blood……

He suddenly couldn't hear Jin Chen's voice, his ears rang, and only a glaring red kept expanding in his field of vision.

In the rain‑lane of District 13, Bai Ze covered in blood collapsing into his arms, those moments when he had almost lost Bai Ze……

Yi Qi instantly entered a stress reaction, jumped off the bed, rushed to the door in two‑step strides, eyes red, and began frantically pounding on the closed door.

Gritting his teeth, he exerted all his strength until the lock finally warped with a crack, Yi Qi flung the door open and shot out like a firecracker, heading straight for the main building.

Yi Qi therefore didn't hear the painful confession coming from the room.

Jin Chen found a towel for Bai Ze, feeling a bit guilty, wiped him, then held his wrist to take his pulse.

He let out a breath, all good, all good—just an upsurge of qi attacking the heart.

Bai Ze sat slumped on the sofa, his gaze falling on the few drops of blood on the floor; the expelled stagnant blood seemed to give him an outlet for venting.

"I took this mission…… because the Dean needs X medicine."

"I was the first to discover that Yi Qi had X medicine on him, and…… I, leaked the news, saying X medicine was in Yi Qi's hands, intending to put the mission target in a hunted situation so I could…… loot from behind."

Bai Ze's voice paused, his Adam's apple rolling: "But I didn't expect that."

He closed his eyes, and after a while continued speaking.

"I didn't expect that the mission target would be the boy I fell in love with at first sight in District 13."

Jin Chen remained silent, not interrupting him, glanced at Bai Ze, then poured a cup of water and handed it over, tapping his arm.

Bai Ze took the cup, his voice dry from being torn apart repeatedly: "These past years, every time Yi Qi fell into danger because of the X medicine, every time someone hunted him for this, I…… felt both guilty and miserable."

In that basement, when Yi Qi stood before him holding a whip, Bai Ze felt a sense of near‑release rising within him.

Being punished and questioned by Yi Qi was like using pain to atone for an eternally unforgivable sin.

Bai Ze's tone sank a little more, and with difficulty he got out the next words: "Furthermore, this mission is also…… for revenge."

Jin Chen furrowed his brows, a bad premonition suddenly rising in his heart.

He recalled the deep knife scar on Yi Qi's face in the video, and Bai Ze's wounds deep enough to show bone.

"What else do you and Yi Qi have a grudge over?"

Bai Ze lifted his eyes, like a pool of dead water that no light can penetrate, his face deathly pale without a trace of color.

"My parents died accidentally five years ago in the fringe zone, when District 10 was cooperating with them; Sai Lin Na, to protect District 10's elite, temporarily changed the plan, which exposed my parents to the crossfire."

Jin Chen: "Fuck."

How is there still this mess!

Jin Chen felt his temples throbbing, snatched the cup from Bai Ze's hand, and gulped it down in one go.

"Who told you that, or did you find it out yourself?"

Bai Ze lifted his gaze, weary, "Sai Lin Na told me personally."

Jin Chen: "……"

He slightly shifted his gaze, glancing at the surveillance camera.

Doomed.

Just then, with a bang, the study's door was flung open.

Yi Qi stood at the doorway, barefoot, his pajamas disheveled, several tufts of hair sticking up, eyes also red, but his aura was fierce; he stormed in, pointing at Jin Chen's nose and cursing, "Jin Chen you bastard! Bai Ze's already coughing blood and you're still bullying him!"

Jin Chen turned his head, also surprised, "You actually managed to smash that door?"

That was the anti‑theft door he had specially installed!

This human‑machine guy has some strength!

Yi Qi didn't respond to his remark, took two steps to Bai Ze and hugged him tightly.

He turned his body to shield Bai Ze, continued shouting at Jin Chen in a firecracker‑like domineering way, "Brother! What are you saying those things for!"

"You've scared him like this! If I lost my fiancé, would you be responsible for finding me another one?"

Jin Chen: "……"

Is that me being scared!

I'm about to be scared to death by him!

Fortunately Zero Egg didn't hear the later words; regarding the revenge matter, Jin Chen didn't say anything else on the spot, this needs further verification, so he simply left the room to them with a headache, and casually left the already‑askew door ajar.

The room grew quiet.

Bai Ze's arms wrapped around him the instant Yi Qi lunged forward, holding him tightly.

Yi Qi heart‑achedly wiped the residual blood from Bai Ze's lip with his fingertip, "Why did you cough blood? Does somewhere hurt?"

Dark, turbulent waves surged in Bai Ze's eyes, almost drowning Yi Qi. He raised his hand, placing it over the back of Yi Qi's hand that cradled his cheek, palm to back of hand, fingers slowly intertwining.

"Xiao Qi." He whispered softly.

In their fierce kiss they panted rapidly, the bloody taste gradually fading between their lips and teeth.

Yi Qi's hand withdrew from Bai Ze's cheeks, suddenly froze; he lowered his gaze, gently lifted Bai Ze's face, and met those wet eyes.

Bai Ze……wept.