Jiang Long looked down to a Bai Wei who was shaking and grasping onto his hand with both hands.

"Please don't leave" Bai Wei said while looking at Jiang Long as if he was his only lifeline.

...

Jiang long looked at Bai Wei's hands that were firmly grasping onto his own and felt another wave of confusion as well as amusement.

In the past Bai Wei regarded Jiang Long as a filth of the earth. In addition, he was very vocal about this and constantly picked fights with Jiang Long despite being a mere count's son. Jiang Long found it was remarkably interesting to see the same Bai Wei who would try to trip him in the halls now hanging onto his hand with absolute dependency on himself.

At the same time, it changed Jiang Long's previous ideas about Bai Wei's mental state. Bai Wei might have been a lunatic in the past ,but he still had a very high self-esteem. Such a Bai Wei would never stoop so low as to curry favor with himself in order to gain the affection of Jia Jinjiang. Jiang Long came to a conclusion in his mind: either Bai Wei had finally gone completely insane or he had actually awakened as a prophet.

Bai Wei watched as Jiang Long's favorability flickered between -14 and -15 as Jiang Long thought of this matter.

On the outside, Bai Wie was shaking like a leaf as he clung onto Jiang Long's hand. In the eyes of the people in the room he was the very essence of fragility and dependence. However, inside his mind it was a completely different case.

In the past, Bai Wei was able to openly combat the crown prince because Jiang Long's position as the crown prince was very unstable due to the status of his mother, a maid that later fell pregnant after a night with the king ,who was drugged at the time. Jiang Long was only able to hold onto his position as the crown prince due to the fact that there were no other children of the king besides himself. As such, his status was currently very low despite him being the crown prince.

However, despite this Jiang Long was still a prince so when Bai Wei had previously tried to corner Jiang Long on campus grounds, the king had to step in and heavily berated the Bai Family. Bai Dong and Bai Dayi took this shame to heart and no longer considered Bai Wei their relative.

As such, at the end of the plot when Bai Wei was to be executed for his crimes towards Jia Jinjiang Bai Dong and Bai Dayi personally blinded and quartered their own family members, Bai Wei and Bai Qing, in order to be left out of Jiang Long's revenge.

At this moment, the most important thing for Bai Wei is to improve his relationship with Jiang Long as well as isolate himself from his cold-hearted father and brother.

...

"Brother Jiang, I want to stay with you!" Bai Wei swiftly added onto his earlier words. His eyes seemed to shine with the starlight of broken galaxies as he looked at Jiang Long.

Jiang Long: since when did I have a brother like you??

Jiang Long was taken-aback by Bai Wei's gaze for the Nth time before he replied with a simple and concise "No".

To this Bai Wei's face paled and he deflated at a speed visible to the naked eye. As he looked down at the hospital bed that he was sitting on, his eyes seemed to contain a tangible sadness and he didn't speak anymore. The hands that he was holding onto Jiang Long with also tightened imperceptibly and even began to shake slightly. He cut quite the sorry figure with his hospital gown, thin frame, and pale face.

At this sight, Bai Wei's mother finally could not help it and stretched out her palm to comfort her youngest son that she had always spoiled to no avail but, just as she put her hand on her son to calm him down the medical device that was measuring Bai Wei's mental state suddenly went berserk and started beeping loudly to alert the doctors in the area.

Jiang Long ushered out by the doctors along once again with Bai Wei's family. All four of them stood silently as they watched more and more people flood into the room where Bai Wei sat. Only Bai Wei's mother was worried as she looked at her son and quickly asked Jiang Long to explain the full situation. Jiang Long looked at Wei Dong measuring his reaction for a moment before telling them about Bai Wei's supposed awakening.

None of the Bai family had any suspicion reactions to this information. Bai Wei's mother stood smiling from ear to ear with happiness for her son while Bai Dong and Bai Dayi's eyes flashed with greed as they quickly made calculations to use this situation to their advantage.

"Seeing as how the first forty-eight hours are the most difficult for a newly a wakened profit, I am sorry to trouble you to temporarily look after Bai Wei until he calms down. After all, to our understanding Bai Wei became injured on your account" Bai Dayi took the opportunity to push Bai Wei into in Jiang Long's care. After all, what good was a profit to them if they died immediately after awakening.

Jiang Long quickly thought back to Bai Wei's image as he pushed himself out of the ray. He paused for a moment before begrudgingly accepting.

Seeing Jiang Long's nodding, Bai Dong and Bai Dayi smiled a fake smile before leaving to deal with their own matters. After all, they originally had no closeness with Bai Wei even if he was their own flesh and blood. Even now, he was at best a slightly more valuable pawn at their disposal.

Only, Bai Qing stayed behind and silently looked at her son who was now being held down by several doctors to be sedated.

After a long while, a doctor came out to talk to the two and led Bai Qing away to deal with the matters for Bai Wei's discharge.

Jiang Long stayed outside the door looked at Bai Wei who was now asleep once again. He sighed while thinking that it would have been better to just get injured himself. At least there would be less trouble.

[Ding! Target's Favorability has dropped 3 points. Favorability is now -18]

Bai Wei, who was supposed to be asleep due to heavy sedation: this dog man

Small theatre:

Outside the hospital room-

Jiang Long: has a civil conversation with his future in-laws even if he doesn't know it yet

Inside the hospital room-

Bai Wei fighting the hospital staff: come and try me you foolish mortals

System 496: lalala~ picking flowers for my grave, lalala~ we are both gonna die~