Quick Transmigration: Kitten's Healing Handbook - Chapter 80

Chapter 80: Light In The Cracks 13

Bai Zhiheng subconsciously touched the hearing aid in his ear. That girl, Lin Yao, seemed different from others. Even though they were speaking face-to-face, she showed no curiosity about his hearing aid.

Liuli returned home, ate takeout, and habitually took out her workbook. She only realized what she was doing after completing a few problems, slapping her forehead. Lin Yao’s habits were truly ingrained, even a lazy cat like her had become diligent.

She tossed the workbook aside, picked up the new Pad she bought that day, and started watching a sitcom.

For years, she passively followed Lin Yao in studying diligently. Lin Yao had a powerful spiritual sense and could practically memorize everything with a glance. This knowledge was indeed new to her, given her cultivation system background, but she was simply not interested in cultivation; her aptitude and comprehension were not lacking. After all, not every demon could catch her master’s eye. So actually, she learned faster than Lin Yao.

If Lin Yao was a talented person who relied on hard work, then Liuli was a genius with full talent points, it only depended on whether she wanted to put in the effort or not. Therefore, she wasn’t worried about Liuli’s academic performance at all.

As for Bai Zhiheng, compared to Lin Yao’s experiences, she thought Lin Yao had it worse.

Bai Zhiheng was originally an orphan. At the age of ten, he was adopted by the Bai Family in G City. The Bai Family is a top-ten family business in G City. At that time, the head of the Bai Family only had one daughter, and despite ten years of effort with his wife, they had not been able to have a second child.

Letting their daughter inherit the family business was not impossible, but their daughter would eventually marry. After their daughter grew old and passed away, it was questionable whether the Bai Family business would still belong to the Bai Family.

So they adopted a boy the same age as their daughter. They had someone secretly observe him for a long time before choosing Bai Zhiheng—he was smart and obedient.

The family business would be handed to him, and later, their daughter’s son would be adopted by Bai Zhiheng. This was safer than handing it directly to their daughter.

After Bai Zhiheng joined the Bai Family, he lived a better life than ever before for two years. Although Bai Xiyan, the Bai Family’s daughter, always disliked him and bullied him, and his adoptive parents always favored their daughter, it was still better than his life at the orphanage.

It’s natural for adoptive parents to favor Bai Xiyan more. Also, when they adopted him, his adoptive parents made it clear to him that a ten-year-old child is already sensible, and orphans mature earlier than other children.

But plans change. Two years after Bai Zhiheng joined the Bai Family, the Bai couple had a second child—a boy. His position became awkward, transforming from a tool to inherit the Bai Family’s business for Bai Xiyan into something akin to a servant.

However, the Bai couple felt that since they hadn’t been able to have a second child for so many years, Bai Zhiheng’s arrival might have brought them good fortune. They could afford to raise another child, but they made it clear to Bai Zhiheng that the family business would have nothing to do with him in the future.

Bai Zhiheng was grateful to the Bai couple; they never mistreated him materially. They only tolerated their daughter bullying him, but that was to make him understand that even if he gained the right of inheritance, their daughter would be the one in charge after they were gone.

Bai Zhiheng’s truly difficult times began three years ago. To cultivate their younger son, the Bai couple took him abroad for education, shifting the business focus overseas. The house was usually only occupied by Bai Zhiheng and Bai Xiyan, plus the butler and servants. Bai Xiyan’s bullying became increasingly severe. Whether at home or school, he was essentially Bai Xiyan’s on-call slave, and she even got his classmates to bully him.

During the first semester of his second year of high school, a classmate, Li Mingshan, repeatedly gathered his gang to beat up Bai Zhiheng after school to curry favor with Bai Xiyan. Once, they hit him hard on the head with a stick, causing a temporal bone fracture and inner ear damage. Since then, he’s needed a hearing aid to hear.

He reported it to the police. According to the medical examination, his injuries constituted a Class 1 minor injury, and the other party was using weapons. Even if his previous injuries couldn’t be attributed to the same group of people to meet the conditions for multiple beatings, it was still enough to send these people to jail for over five years.

But Li Mingshan got away scot-free. His adult gang members received three-year sentences, and the minors were only detained for a few days.

Li Mingshan patted Bai Zhiheng’s face smugly: “Kid, see? Even the police won’t help you. As a stray dog of the Bai Family, you’re a disgrace. ”

Facing the dark side of society, the seeds of Bai Zhiheng’s resentment were sown then.

Liuli put down the Pad, got up, went to the small balcony, basked in the moonlight, and looked at the scenery outside.

Lin Yao suffered from day-to-day torment disguised as pranks and felt the despair of lacking family affection and redemption, while Bai Zhiheng faced direct violence, both at home and at school.

Liuli had already devised a solution. While in the hospital, she deliberately showed signs of bipolar disorder during psychological testing, then transferred to psychiatry for a diagnosis.

After all, Lin Yao had attempted suicide, and with her long-term self-harm, her wrists were scarred, and she showed clear symptoms of depression. Liuli only needed to exhibit manic symptoms such as elevated mood and irritability for four consecutive days, then switch back and forth between states, ruling out other diseases, and a bipolar diagnosis would be a sure thing.

Depression is a mental illness, but bipolar disorder is a definite mental illness. Once at school, she would simply respond to violence with violence. Overwhelming force will solve everything, and the mission to protect Bai Zhiheng will be easily completed √

Liuli smiled, excited at the thought of striking back at these bullies!

If Ling Sheng and Xu Qiuran hadn’t been imprisoned before her discharge, she would have definitely beaten them up. Poor physical condition was no problem; she would use a chair. It would be a test of whether their heads or the chair was harder.

But it didn’t matter. Ling Sheng and Xu Qiuran would soon have others taste their “medicine. ”

Because Lin Yao successfully reported the two bullies in L City and sent them to jail, many parents warned their children to behave. Parents know their children best, and Li Mingshan was among those who received a stern warning from his parents.

This allowed Bai Zhiheng to have a relatively peaceful winter break, except when facing Bai Xiyan at home. Unlike before, he wouldn’t even be safe while working part-time, as Li Mingshan and his gang would ambush and beat him.

Sometimes Bai Zhiheng wondered if he was less fortunate than other children, awaiting justice to punish those evildoers who should be torn to pieces.