Seize the Throne

Chapter 3: The Madman And The Father.

The knife, which was bought in the Supermarket for 39 yuan, was shaped like a dagger, and the shape of the blade was also very beautiful.

At that moment, the hand holding the knife was also being severely held by Kou Li, making Bian Yi unable to move.

When he was still trapped inside that hellhole, Bian Yi thought countless times, and dreamed countless more, about what he would say to Kou Li if he were to see him again.

Now, when that person was right in front of him, staring at him with a psychopathic expression….

‘What is Kou Li angry about? And what right does he have to be angry?!‘

From the moment he escaped until now, all of the emotions he had buried deep inside him finally surfaced. Bian Yi then screamed at Kou Li, with such force that even his face was slightly distorted: “Are you fucking blind?! How couldn’t you recognize me?! Why?!

Bian Yi’s chest rose and fell violently. Since his neck was still being held in a choke hold by Kou Li’s hand, his heartbeat felt like it was ringing inside his throat. Bian Yi struggled under Kou Li’s hands. Using all of the strength remaining, he raised his right hand, which was still holding the knife and pointed the sharp tip of the knife towards Kou Li’s eyes.

Kou Li, however, wasn’t moved. As if he hadn’t heard or seen him.

Suddenly, the smell of blood could be smelt between them

Bian Yi’s neck was numb with pain. That pain was so distinct that he could feel Kou Li’s teeth bite through his flesh. It was such a strong and vivid type of pain that Bian Yi could clearly tell that he wasn’t dreaming, that he wasn’t crazy.

The rest of the words in his throat were blocked by the numbing pain, making it impossible for him to speak

It was unknown how much strength Kou Li used to bite him, but Bian Yi could feel the blood flowing down his neck. Due to his current posture, some of it dripped onto the floor.

The hand on Bian Yi’s neck didn’t tighten any further. Instead, it gradually let him go, including Bian Yi’s hand that was holding the knife.

Kou Li’s lips were still stained with Bian Yi’s blood. However, Kou Li’s hands weren’t withdrawn. Instead, he tightly imprisoned Bian Yi in his arms. The hug was very strong, making Bian Yi feel even more suffocated than when Kou Li was choking him.

Bian Yi wanted to struggle free, but Kou Li kept tightening his arms, as if he wanted to absorb Bian Yi into his own body.

Then, Kou Li’s hoarse voice sounded in Bian Yi’s ears; which sounded like a man who had been working alone in the desert for a long time, who hadn’t had the opportunity to drink water for a long while. It was hard to hear.

Bian Yi heard him say with such an unpleasant voice: “It has been 17 years, but you’re finally back.”

Bian Yi’s eyes suddenly opened wide.

When Bian Yi was about to open his mouth to ask something, he suddenly heard a voice coming from the stairs.

“Dad, what are you doing?”

At the top of the stairs, a small child stood while rubbing his eyes, as if he had just woken up. He curiously looked at his two parents, who were downstairs. They seemed to be hugging each other.

The knife that was pointing at Kou Li’s face suddenly fell down, producing a sharp sound. Bian Yi was stiff.

Kou Li then stepped back, hiding the knife under his feet. His eyes were staring at Bian Yi’s wrist, as he replied to the child who was upstairs: “Daddy One accidentally fell down, so Dad had to hold him up.”

After saying that, Kou Li let go of Bian Yi, but his left hand was clutching Bian Yi’s wrist, while his right hand rested on Bian Yi’s shoulder.

From the child’s point of view, he wouldn’t see the blood flowing down his father’s neck, not to mention the knife hidden under Kou Li’s feet.

The child was at a carefree age, so he simply laughed at Kou Li’s words. This laughter was very childish, but it was easy to infect the hearts of adults.

Bian Yi’s gaze crossed over Kou Li’s shoulder, carefully falling on the child upstairs.

The 3 year old child wasn’t very tall for his age, so he was a small cute kid.

The kid was still laughing at him as he said: “Daddy One is so silly haha. Xiao-Shu won’t fall down!”

Bian Yi and Kou Li’s son, who was “born” through Kou Li’s biotechnology, was named Kou Sen, while his infant name1 was Xiao-Shu.

When he was more than one year old, Bian Yi taught him how to speak and call him “Daddy Yi”, but this little villain couldn’t distinguish between ‘Yi’ and ‘one2’, so he would always call him “Daddy One”. However, Bian Yi was happy with this.

At this moment, Bian Yi was looking at his son, feeling like his heart was being clenched by Kou Li’s hand, which made it difficult for him to breathe. His throat felt stuck, making it even harder for him to speak: “Yes, Xiao-Shu is right. I’m so stupid, ah…. Daddy is so stupid…..”

Xiao-Shu, his Xiao-Shu was standing in front of him now. He was well, with his eyes shining and his smile looking so bright. It was such a beautiful sight, so vivid.

It felt wonderful.

When Bian Yi thought of Xiao-Shu in his past life, and when he looked at the one in front of him, Bian Yi suddenly felt a bit overwhelmed. His legs were weak, and if his hands weren’t still clenched by Kou Li, he might have collapsed on the ground.

Kou Li said a few more words to Kou Sen, but there was a buzzing sound in Bian Yi’s ears, so he couldn’t hear what Kou Li said. However, the gentleness in Kou Li’s words wasn’t difficult to see through his face.

It was different from how Kou Li looked at him, but this was the way Bian Yi would commonly see him in the past.

This made Bian Yi fall into a trance.

When he came back to his senses and looked upstairs again, the child standing there had long disappeared. But he could still hear the sound of his tiny feet walking in the corridor.

That sound not only calmed Bian Yi’s unstable state, but it also made his eyes sore.

When the child’s footsteps became completely inaudible, Bian Yi finally slipped to the ground and sobbed out loud.

Kou Li was standing in front of Bian Yi, looking at him.

Looking at Bian Yi bury his head and whimper. Watching his shoulders trembling, until finally, he started crying, as if he was tearing his heart apart.

Kou Li was still holding Bian Yi’s wrist, while his other hand was silently hidden behind his back. His trembling fingers were clenched into a tight fist, until the veins on the back of his hand were exposed

But, Kou Li looked indifferent the whole time.

…

The news that Bian Yi appeared in Beijing, claiming to have been kidnaped, soon spread all over the internet.

Guan Xi’s show was stopped halfway through the recording, after the Director received a call. At that moment, Guan Xi noticed that there was something wrong in the eyes of the people around him.

Guan Xi gave an excuse to hide in the dressing room and took out his phone to see what was going on. The first thing he saw was that there were a dozen missed calls from his agent. It seemed that there was something really urgent going on.

At that, Guan Xi’s heart began to accelerate, as all kinds of possible situations began to pass through his mind. What kind of events could involve him. As he turned his phone in his hand, he dialed to his agent, whose name was Nie Fang.

The call didn’t get through, as if his agent was on another call. The same thing happened after three consecutive calls.

Guan Xi was biting his nails as he stared at the several apps on his phone, hesitating to click on them.

The screen was tapped repeatedly to keep it from turning off. After an unknown period of time, Nie Fang’s call finally came.

Guan Xi didn’t delay, as he immediately picked it up. Then he opened his mouth to ask: “What happened? Is there a big problem? The Director suddenly stopped me from recording the show.”

“A big problem?” Nie Fang’s voice sounded quite angry. “Someone claiming himself as ‘Bian Yi’, is saying that he had been kidnapped. Do you think that problem is big enough?”

Guan Xi’s heart seemed to miss a beat, as his brain went blank for a second. He recovered right away, smiled, and said: “You mean to tell me, that someone who used plastic surgery to look like me, came out to say such bullshit?”

“That’s right!” Nie Fang drank a mouthful of water to calm the fire he felt after receiving several phone calls, and the anger he felt when seeing the news. “I don’t know what that man is thinking. Is he crazy? He really looks just like you, and he also made himself look like he had been kidnapped. I heard that the Police and someone from your father’s side was there, which made it look even more real.”

“But, if he’s the real ‘Bian Yi’, then who are you Xiao-Yi? It’s really….”

‘Ridiculous’. That’s what Nie Fang was about to say, but since there was no reaction at the other end of the call, his heart suddenly thumped as he called tentatively: “…..Xiao-Yi?”

“Yes, yes.” Guan Xi laughed dryly twice as he stroked his chest, feeling how his heart was beating at an extremely abnormal frequency. Then he added: “Nie-ge, does he really look exactly like me?”

Nie Fang, on the other end of the call, didn’t reply right away. He was looking at the latest photos sent by his assistant. These photos were very clear, some were taken close by and some from afar. Some were even close-up photos of his face. While Nie Fang looked carefully at the man in the photos, he heard Guan Xi talking, and the phone nearly fell on the floor.

“Nie-ge, I mean- the technology of plastic surgery these days is quite good, it can even make the eyes of the paparazzi be fooled. If they spread those photos, we’re legally allowed to sue th-….”

“He looks exactly like you.” Nie Fang interrupted Guan Xi, and for a moment, he felt a chill down his spine. As he held the nearest chair and sat down, he repeated: “He looks exactly like you. I can’t even tell the difference between real and fake.”

Guan Xi laughed again as his sweaty palms rubbed against his leg. He wanted to open his mouth to say something, but he soon found that his throat was full of deafening heartbeats.

“Xiao-Yi…. Are you really Xiao-Yi?”

The agent’s last question made Guan Xi panic.

‘It can’t be! It’s impossible! There’s no way!’

Guan Xi had never seen any original character, from a transmigration setting, come back on his own. Someone must have been jealous of him, spent a lot of money on plastic surgery, and came out to mess with him! Discredit him!

Moreover, the Bian family had secretly done a paternity test for him before. Who else can he be?

He’s clearly Bian Yi!

…

When Bian Yi opened his eyes, his teeth bit hard on his lower lip. The stabbing pain made him come back to his senses.

As he opened his eyes wide, the first thing he saw was Kou Li, who was standing at the edge of the bed, staring at him with downcast eyes.

Bian Yi looked away.

The light in the room wasn’t very bright, but Bian Yi still squinted his eyes. The once familiar environment was now unfamiliar to him.

After making sure that he had gone back in time, 16 years ago, and that he hadn’t gone back to that hellhole, the hand that was tightly clenched in the quilt finally loosened a bit.

There were many people outside the room, talking in a noisy and disorderly way. There were even some quarreling.

Someone outside the door shouted ‘Kou Li’ three times. At that moment, the gaze that Bian Yi could sense which had been locked on him ever since he woke up, had finally moved away.

When Kou Li walked away, Bian Yi was left alone in the room.

Bian Yi then sat up and carefully looked at the whole room. It was the master bedroom. The bedroom in which Bian Yi and Kou Li had slept in on their wedding night. Even the bed was the same one.

His stomach felt somewhat nauseous. Bian Yi then closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he saw a glass of water on the nightstand. He took a sip and squeezed the glass.

Not long after Kou Li came out of the bedroom, the sound of glass breaking was suddenly heard. The noise outside the bedroom immediately quieted down.

The people outside the bedroom looked at each other as Kou Li pushed open the door. Then, everyone rushed in.

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The first thing they saw was Bian Yi, who claimed to have been kidnapped and escaped on his own. He was sitting on the bed, with one bandaged hand on top of the quilt, while the other was covered by the quilt, looking at them very defensively.

His eyes were like knives, cutting coldly across their faces. This didn’t look at all like a Young Master who had just returned home after being missing for a year. He looked more like a demon who had been trapped in Hell for a decade, who had finally managed to crawl back onto Earth to take revenge.

His face was pale and beautiful, but it was also plain and cold, making other people’s hair stand up for no reason.

For a while, no one spoke.

Bian Yi’s gaze fell on his brother, Bian Yu.

He raised a smile towards him, and everyone’s eyes fell on Bian Yu.

In a situation like this, Bian Yu had to go to Bian Yi’s bedside. As he squatted down and looked at his brother with ‘overflowing’ concerns, he asked: “Ge, are you okay? Who the hell is that person? And why does he look exactly like you?”

Bian Yi didn’t reply to him. Instead, his eyes kept glancing at Bian Yu without looking away.

Bian Yu wasn’t sure how to feel about this, but the feeling Bian Yi gave him was so bad that he felt goosebumps on his arms. But since his arms were hidden under his clothes, no one noticed.

Maybe it was because he wanted to get rid of Bian Yi’s strange glance at this time, or maybe it was because he had grown accustomed to getting along with ‘Bian Yi’ for a whole year living together. Bian Yu quickly squeezed out tears from his eyes, and with a crying voice, he said: “It’s our fault. We are the closest people around Gege, but we didn’t even notice….”

As he said this, his eyes glanced towards Kou Li. Kou Li didn’t look at him, as if he hadn’t heard him. He was looking at the broken glass beside the bed.

Although Kou Li wasn’t looking at Bian Yu, everyone else in the room was looking at Kou Li along Bian Yu’s line of sight.

Yeah, the closest man around Bian Yi couldn’t even tell the difference between fake and real.

The Young Master of the Kou family got along with that ‘Bain Yi’ day and night. It could even be said that Kou Li ‘cheated’ on the original Bian Yi many times, isn’t it?

If the Bian Yi in this room was the original one, then how should that debt be settled?

Looking back and forth between Bian Yi and Kou Li, Bian Yu got a little closer and reached out his hand to hold Bian Yi’s hand as he said: “Ge, you don’t know how worried I was when I heard the news about you. It’s great that you’re safe now. Although the man pretending to be you just escaped, it won’t be long before-”

Bian Yu’s pretentious performance was stopped by a fragment of broken glass that Bian Yi held in his hand.

The thin, sharp piece of glass was placed against Bian Yu’s throat, who had just spoken with a sobbing voice. Bian Yu’s eyes bulged as he stared with shock. He wanted to swallow saliva, but he was afraid that if he moved even for a little bit he would get cut, so he could only rattle his teeth and endure it.

He looked at the crowd for help, but he didn’t expect that the people present would be as stunned as he was.

Except for Kou Li, who remained unresponsive.

“Bian Yu, I can see that you still love to sound sweet by saying words that are designed to touch people’s hearts, huh?” Bian Yi smiled again. Although his face looked so pale, as long as he smiled, he would attract anyone’s attention. “But what should I do? Your brother has been watching you, hearing you, all this time. Don’t you know that when I hear your voice, I can’t control myself from wanting to kill you?” Bian Yi pressed his hand harder against Bian Yu’s throat, as he sneeringly admired the fear flowing in Bian Yu’s eyes.

‘Yes, kill him. Kill Bian Yu and Guan Xi! They’re the one who ruined my sweet Xiao-Shu. They deserve to die!’

As Bian Yu screamed with pain, a hand beside him stopped Bian Yi’s movements.

Kou Li took Bian Yi’s hand and firmly pressed down on Bian Yi’s shoulder, kicking Bian Yu away, whose legs were too soft to move on their own. Bian Yu stared deeply at Bian Yi…

As if asking: ‘What are you so mad about?!’

Bian Yi raised his eyebrows and looked at Kou Li, who was in front of him, and said with a smile: “Yes, and you too.”

‘How could I forget about him? I won’t let anyone go!’