Denbuliu watched calmly throughout the whole process, until blood dripped down Li Xingbei's fingers, and then he reminded: "The floor is dirty, clean it up yourself."

Li Xingbei let go of his hand, and the glass shards in his hand fell down with blood. He looked at a certain point in the sky and fell into memories.

"Actually, my brother was the first person to be subjected to domestic violence. If you saw the injuries my brother suffered back then, you would know how inferior this old man is to a pig."

While helping him bandage, Danbuliu listened to Li Xingbei's story about the tragic experience.

When the twins were 7 years old, their parents divorced, and their elder brother Li Yuexi followed his father, while his younger brother Li Xingbei was taken away by his mother. When the two were in junior high school, their mother remarried and sent Li Xingbei back.

Soon after returning, Li Xingbei discovered the scars on his brother Li Yuexi. But Li Yuexi didn't tell him. Instead, he lied to him that he had fallen.

At first, Li Xingbei thought Li Yuexi had suffered school violence and protected him everywhere in school.

I don't know if it's because of the different nutritional intake after separation. Li Xingbei is a few centimeters taller than Li Yuexi, and he is even more fierce when they fight. No one in the whole school dares to bully their brother.

At that time, Li Xingbei thought that was the end of the matter. But he didn't expect that the scars on Li Yuexi's body still hadn't disappeared.

Until one time when he escaped from cram school and returned home, he accidentally broke into the scene of his father's domestic violence. Only then did Li Xingbei learn that Li Yuexi had been suffering domestic violence from Li Yi!

And when he came back, he was beaten even more severely. Because Li Yuexi took the responsibility for him, the beating that should have fallen on him!

Li Xingbei went crazy and rushed over to fight with Li Yi.

He beat Li Yi half to death, but it was of no use. As long as he didn't see him, Li Yi would beat his brother again, and even hit him harder every time.

Li Xingbei proposed to leave Li Yi and live alone, but Li Yuexi refused.

"Dad is just out of control and can't control himself. In fact, he still loves us." Young Li Yuexi recalled her father's appearance and murmured to herself, "Have you forgotten? When we were in kindergarten, my father would carry us when it rained. Back home. When we were in elementary school, he took us to the amusement park. He was not like this before."

Li Xingbei: "But he's beating you now!"

"He's just sick," Li Yuexi shook his head. "He promised me that he would try to control his emotions and would never hit me again."

Li Xingbei couldn't understand Li Yuexi's attachment to his father, and he couldn't understand why Li Yuexi continued to stay with his father even if he was injured.

He wanted to leave with his brother, but he was still in junior high school at the time, his mother had a family of her own, and other relatives in the family would not accept them, so they had nowhere to go.

Li Yuexi is still trying to change Li Yi and reshape the good father in his memory. He did a lot of things, and gradually, Li Yuexi found that he was beaten less frequently.

He laughed happily, feeling that their efforts had finally paid off: "Look, I just said that Dad loves us. He hasn't hit me for a month."

"You're right." Li Xingbei turned around and silently covered up the scars on his body.

He secretly took the beating for his brother, just as his brother had silently protected him.

Without telling Li Yuexi, this matter was almost no difficulty for him. Because he was so fierce and knew Taekwondo, he had a fierce fight with Li Yi on the first day he came back. Everyone thought he would not be beaten.

No one knew that he was facing the devil alone and created a false paradise for his brother. The father there was kind and kind, and he was the same good person they remembered.

To this day, Li Xingbei still practices this behavior.

But he never expected that Li Yi would use the same excuse to threaten his brother! He took advantage of their mutual defense and intensified his efforts without repentance!

"Li Yi!" Li Xingbei clenched his hands into fists, and his newly bandaged palms were stained red with blood again, "I'm going to kill you!"

Decanbuliu put away the medicine box and said coldly: "Our cooperation does not include this item."

Meeting the calm gaze of Dan Buliu, the scarlet red in Li Xingbei's eyes receded and he gradually calmed down.

"But I don't understand," he frowned and asked the question that had troubled him for many years, "Why is my brother unwilling to leave?"

Denbuliu: "I also don't know the reason why Li Yuexi stayed, but I don't think that is the focus of the problem."

Li Xingbei was stunned for a moment.

Denbuliu: "Instead of asking why the victim didn't resist, perhaps we should pay more attention to why Li Yi didn't stop the violence."

These words made Li Xingbei wake up from a dream. He was no longer obsessed with finding the reason in Li Yuexi, but instead focused on how to protect his brother.

"But..." He hesitated, "You just said that my brother wouldn't believe it, so what should we do?"

Decan Bu Liu: "I have a way."

Hearing is false, seeing is believing. Since Li Yuexi doesn't believe what he hears, let him see it with his own eyes.

*

Two days later, the interview with the twins ended. In the dressing room backstage, Li Yuexi raised her head in surprise: "Minister Decai? Why are you here?"

Decan Buliu: "Where is Li Xingbei?"

Li Yuexi lowered her eyelashes and lowered her voice: "He went out to play."

Li Xingbei's activities were nothing more than nightclubs, bars, and various clubs. Every time Li Yuexi talked about this, he couldn't help but feel ashamed.

Decanbuliu didn't comment too much and just said: "Follow me."

Li Yuexi had just taken off her makeup, and her face looked softer and harmless without makeup. He was pulled by the wrist by Denbuliu and did not struggle. He just asked in a daze: "Where are you going?"

Decai Buliu: "Follow Li Xingbei."

"Following my brother?" Li Yuexi was shocked for a moment.

"Don't you want him to fool around outside?" Danbuliu looked into his eyes with a heavy gaze, "Then go and see for yourself and see what he is doing."

Li Yuexi was half-forced to get into the car and followed Li Xingbei forward.

Autumn rain started falling outside the window, and the neon lights at night were reflected in the water, decorating every corner of the city. The lights in the sky echoed the reflections in the water, and there was an air of decadence in the splendor.

Li Yuexi grabbed her seat belt, her heart beating faster and faster.

He has followed the rules since he was a child and has never done anything out of the ordinary like stalking others. But Denbuliu was too forceful, almost forcing him to get into the car, making him unable to refuse at all.

The car broke through the rain curtain and moved forward, finally driving into the gate of a familiar community.

"Didn't he say he wanted to go out to play?" Li Yuexi realized something was wrong, "Why are you back home?"

Denbuliu didn't speak, but followed Li Xingbei silently. They saw Li Xingbei going all the way up, but instead of going home, they walked into the apartment nearby. That was Li Yi's apartment, separated by a wall from them.

Seeing this door, Li Yuexi felt fear almost instinctively.

Decan Buliu: "Let's go in too."

Li Yuexi took a step back, in disbelief: "Why did Xingbei go in?"

Den Bu Liu: "The answer is behind the door."

Li Yuexi clenched her hands into fists, her nails digging deeply into her palms without even realizing it. After a long silence, he entered the password and entered the room.

There was no light on in the living room, and the rich darkness almost overwhelmed him. In an instant, the darkness hidden under the peace crawled out again, like a dark poisonous snake, crawling across his body inch by inch, strangling him so hard that he could hardly breathe.

Li Yuexi froze on the spot with a dull expression, as if he was a hollowed-out body.

Coming again?

This never-ending punishment.

However, at this moment, a slightly cold hand grabbed his wrist, and a low and low voice sounded in his ears.

"Find a place to hide first."

There was the beeping sound of entering the password at the door, and Li Yuexi finally reacted and pulled Danbuliu to hide in the storage room aside.

Not long after, familiar footsteps approached, then crossed the living room and walked to the workroom at the end.

Li Yi opened the door, and warm yellow light poured out. The room was filled with various tools, and a single hard chair was placed in the middle. Li Xingbei sat on the chair carelessly, raising his eyebrows rebelliously.

"Hey, you old man, you're discharged from the hospital so soon?"

"Kneel down." Li Yi stood in front of him, his voice no longer as gentle as usual.

"You think I'm tall because you're short?" Li Xingbei sneered and stood up slowly, "You'd better not be so petty...fuck!"

Before Li Xingbei finished speaking, Li Yi kicked him, causing Li Xingbei to kneel on the ground.

"Li Yi, I am your mother..." Li Xingbei clenched his hands into fists and almost squeezed out these words through his teeth. Before he finished speaking, Li Yi raised his right foot again and kicked his other half-bent calf.

Li Xingbei fell to his knees on the ground, his face turned pale: "Fuck, are you done?"

"Kneel down for ten minutes." After Li Yi finished speaking, he walked to the shelf on the wall to choose a weapon.

In the storage room, Li Yuexi watched this scene through the crack in the door, her body shaking uncontrollably.

how so?

Li Yuexi's eyes were wide open, but his eyes were completely white, as if he couldn't see anything.

"Pah - pah -"

Two familiar voices came, and Li Yuexi suddenly came back to reality.

Li Yizheng was beating Li Xingbei with a leather whip, as if this was not his son, but just a lifeless inorganic thing.

The whip cut through the air and landed on Li Xingbei's back. It was as if the whip fell on him from the air, and Li Yuexi's body began to tremble.

The originally comfortable clothes became rough, causing pain to every inch of his body. It was like the burning pain every time I was whipped before.

But why does it become like this? Didn't dad agree that as long as he was obedient and allowed him to do whatever he wanted, he wouldn't do anything to his brother?

Section 45

"I'm sorry," Li Yuexi clenched her hands into fists and fell into huge self-blame, "I never knew that Xingbei also..."

The violence outside the door continues.

Li Yuexi watched this scene intently, and her nails had already sunk into her palms unconsciously, creating bloody wounds.

Not wanting to let him hurt himself, he forcefully opened his hands and held them, but still couldn't stop his trembling.

When Li Yi put down the whip, he replaced it with electricity. hit. At this time, Li Yuexi's patience finally reached its limit. He struggled violently, pushed away Dai Buliu and was about to run out.

"No," Danbuliu held on to his body firmly, "Now is not the time."

Outside the door was Li Xingbei's muffled voice in pain. Inside the door, Li Yuexi was imprisoned in her arms by Dan Buliu, with tears falling from her eyes.

After an unknown amount of time, the long torture finally ended.

Li Xingbei could hardly support his body. A horrible red mark appeared on his broad back, and there were bruises on his body from the electric shock.

Li Yi arranged the utensils with a fervent and cold expression: "This is a warning. If you go to find Dan Buliu without telling me again, the same punishment will fall on your brother next time."

Li Xingbei spat at him, but smiled: "You old pervert, why don't you die!"

Li Yi's eyes darkened and he slapped him with his backhand.

Li Yuexi's body tensed up and she almost screamed out of fright. However, the next moment, his lips were covered by Denbu Liu, and only tears fell silently from the corners of his eyes.

Li Yi adjusted the cuffs of his suit and looked at Li Xingbei condescendingly: "You should be grateful that you have so many fans who like you, otherwise what is waiting for you today would be more than just that."

Li Xingbei didn't speak again, he had no strength to speak anymore. Today's punishment was heavier than before, making it almost impossible for him to fight back.

Li Yi seemed to particularly appreciate his vulnerability and stayed in the room to admire it for a while.

"As a human being, you must learn to be grateful," Li Yi said slowly, looking at Li Xingbei lying on the ground, "If I hadn't protected you, you would have gone to drink and laugh like other artists, and now you don't know where you will be lying. In the bed of some perverted man."

"If you keep talking too much, get out of here." Li Xingbei finally came to his senses and sneered, "I'd rather be beaten by an old pervert like you."

"I don't know what is good or bad, you are not worthy of being my son, Li Yi." Li Yi dropped these words and turned around to leave.

Li Yi has a lover outside. Although he lives next door to the twins, he does it more to monitor them and rarely spends the night here.

The door closed and the room fell silent again.

Li Xingbei took a long time to recover, picked up his clothes, put them on and left.

Li Yuexi wanted to follow, but was stopped by Dan Buliu.

"it's not finished yet."

Danbuliu took Li Yuexi into the car and followed Li Xingbei to the bar.

The rain has stopped, and the neon lights are reflected in the water, blurring out large patches of rich color, which is so dazzling that it is nauseating.

Li Yuexi opened her eyes wide and looked at the passing street scene outside the window, but her eyes were empty, leaving nothing behind.

It wasn't until Denbuliu brought him into the bar that Li Yuexi saw Li Xingbei in front of the wine table, and his eyes finally regained their composure.

He saw Li Xingbei drink two glasses of wine, refuse everyone to talk to him, and then turned around and entered the toilet. When Li Xingbei came out two minutes later, he was already covered in an exaggerated lipstick.

Li Yuexi was stunned: "The lipstick on his body..."

Denbuliu: "He drew it himself."

Painted it yourself? But why...

No need to ask, Li Yuexi already knew the answer.

He should have known better.

He should have discovered it earlier...

It turned out that somewhere he didn't know, his brother was being beaten by his father again and again, and after it was over, he still had to make an indifferent expression in front of him.

What kind of mood did Xingbei have when he pretended to smell drunk and went home after being beaten, using lipstick to disguise the scars as signs of intimacy?

And what about himself?

But he talked about Li Xingbei every day, self-righteously disciplined him, and warned him to be a good man.

But he clearly failed to do even the most basic thing of protecting his younger brother.

Li Yuexi watched this scene intently, and his dry eyes became moist again.

After everything he had experienced in the storage room, he thought he would not be surprised by anything he saw. However, when he saw Li Xingbei walking through the crowd wearing lipstick, he still shed tears uncontrollably.

His brother failed too much.

Li Xingbei's figure disappeared into the crowd, and Li Yuexi chased after him as if he had just woken up from a dream.

Li Xingbei stood in front of the bar and took a taxi, fully armed. While he was still waiting for someone to take his order, a figure suddenly rushed up from behind him and hugged him tightly.

"Holy shit, who the hell are you?"

He was already feeling uncomfortable and was about to push the other person away, but he smelled a familiar scent between his breaths.

Li Xingbei was stunned for a moment, lowered his eyes in confusion, and almost shouted in panic: "Brother?"

Li Yuexi nodded and hugged his body tightly.

"You, why are you here?" Li Xingbei finally reacted and couldn't believe it, "Brother, didn't you go to bed early? Come here now... wait, how much have you seen?"

Li Yuexi hugged him silently, her tears flowing even more fiercely.

The next moment, a black car drove up to them. The door lowered, revealing a stern profile: "Get in the car first."

"Dean Bu Liu?" Li Xingbei looked behind him and then at Li Yuexi in his arms. He finally reacted and opened his eyes wide, "Dean Bu Liu, why are you crazy?! This is what you said. ?"

Decan Buliu honked the horn to urge.

Li Xingbei was afraid of being seen, so he finally got into the car with Li Yuexi.

When there were only three of them left in the car, Li Xingbei couldn't bear it anymore and quickly asked: "Why did you bring him here? How much does he know about my brother?"

"Xingbei," Li Yuexi raised his head, his originally warm eyes were already red and swollen, "I know everything."

Li Xingbei looked at his brother's red eyes, and his heart suddenly clenched. This feeling was so fucking uncomfortable, it hurt even more than when he was violently raped by Li Yi.

That's why he has been unwilling to confess, because he is afraid of seeing his brother like this. But now...

"I'm sorry, I kept hiding it from you..." Li Xingbei lowered his head and buried his face deeply in his palms.

"It's me who's sorry for you," Li Yuexi shook her head quickly, her tears red and swollen, "It's me who didn't protect you!"

Decanbuliu parked the car on the side of the road, opened the car door and went to the convenience store to buy a pack of cigarettes.

The rain outside the window gradually slowed down, turning from heavy rain to drizzle. He leaned his head against the streetlight and smoked, leaving the space in the car for the two brothers.

At this moment, they should have a lot to say.

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