Li Yunhui tightly held his brother, constantly comforting him, “Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, it’s okay… We’ll be at the hospital soon.”

The car quickly stopped at the hospital entrance.

Li Yunhui used both hands to help his brother out of the car. The cold sweat had already soaked the bangs on his brother’s forehead, his face was as pale as paper, and he was so weak from the pain that as soon as he got out of the car, almost half of his body weight was pressed against Li Yunhui.

Seeing this, Li Yunhui called out to the butler, “I’ll carry him in!”

The butler, upon receiving the order, immediately cooperated with Li Yunhui, helping the young master onto his back.

Just then, a car stopped beside them.

Li Yunhui was anxious and had no mind or energy to pay attention to what was happening on the side.

Until a familiar voice came from beside him, “…What’s wrong with Shuyun?!”

Only then did he, in his anxiety, spare a little attention to look back.

He saw Cheng Huanzhen’s serious expression, his clothes and pants unusually mismatched, clearly having left in a hurry.

Li Yunhui’s brows furrowed tightly, and he said quickly, “I don’t know. No time to talk now. I’ll take Shuyun to see a doctor first!”

His brother was still suffering beside him. How could he have any energy or mood to deal with Cheng Huanzhen?

Li Yunhui quickly brought his brother into the hospital, through the VIP channel, and into a special examination room.

Blood tests, X-rays, all kinds of examinations. Li Yunhui was already overwhelmed just by accompanying his brother and comforting him.

It wasn’t until the examinations were almost complete, and Li Yunhui had taken his exhausted brother to a special ward, that he was finally able to let out a sigh of relief, his anxious and uneasy mind briefly cooling down for two seconds.

However, at this moment, he turned his head to the side and suddenly found—

“…Why are you still following?!”

Li Yunhui looked at Cheng Huanzhen beside him in astonishment.

In fact, Cheng Huanzhen had been following behind Li Yunhui from the moment they met at the hospital entrance.

When Li Yunhui was taking Li Shuyun for X-rays, he stood beside the doctor, personally watching the various images of Shuyun’s insides appear on the doctor’s computer.

It was at this moment that Cheng Huanzhen suddenly realized a huge problem.

His crazy guess could indeed find corresponding similarities to prove it from Qi, Fang, Little Uncle, and Shuyun.

But… he had been overlooking a most important problem.

The four of them… whether it was their appearance, bone structure, height, or age, were all different!

Different personalities could be explained away as being like his father’s.

But appearance, bone structure, height, age… how could these be changed?

Through makeup? Human-skin masks? Cosmetic surgery? Bone-lengthening surgery?

Not to mention how long a recovery period bone surgery requires, and the great risks the surgery itself carries.

And as for Qi Wendong and Fang Chengyu… they had even been cremated and buried, and their funerals had already been held!

Personalities and identities could be fake.

But could death also be faked?

Even if death could be faked.

But the pain and torture before death, the huge tumor seen on the X-rays, could those also be faked??

The moment Cheng Huanzhen realized this problem, he fell into a huge and suffocating confusion.

He had originally thought that his crazy guess had brought him a glimmer of hope in finding his Little Uncle. After interviewing Qi Xiuyi and Fang Ji, his confidence in the guess had grown even more with the discovery of each extraordinarily similar point.

He thought that as long as he found one more key piece of evidence, he could completely solidify this guess.

However, in just under half an hour of following the examination, all the confidence he had built up in this guess over the past few months collapsed!

Cheng Huanzhen had never been so clearly aware:

Qi Wendong, Fang Chengyu, Little Uncle, and Li Shuyun, they might be very similar. But how… how could they be the same person?

Fortunately, his body could move on its own, and his mouth could also speak on its own.

Faced with Li Yunhui’s question, Cheng Huanzhen answered hoarsely and automatically, “Shuyun is my friend. Of course I should follow him to see how he is.”

Li Yunhui’s mind was in a mess at this time, and he had no energy to bother with Cheng Huanzhen’s affairs.

The doctor gestured to him, indicating that all the examination results were out. Li Yunhui tucked his brother in, was silent for a moment, and said to Cheng Huanzhen, “Then you stay here with Shuyun. I’ll go see his examination results.”

Of course, Cheng Huanzhen replied, “Okay.”

After entrusting his brother to Cheng Huanzhen and the butler, Li Yunhui walked quickly into the doctor’s office.

Cheng Huanzhen, on the other hand, sat down by Li Shuyun’s bedside.

The brown-haired young man was curled up on his side on the hospital bed, his eyelids drooping, looking exhausted from the examinations.

But he was still holding on, not letting his eyelids close completely. When Cheng Huanzhen sat down, he even showed a weak but happy smile. “Senior Huanzhen, you came to see me.”

Cheng Huanzhen looked at Li Shuyun with a complicated expression, covered Li Shuyun’s eyes with his hand, and said in a low voice, “If you’re tired, just sleep for a while.”

Li Shuyun’s eyelashes trembled slowly and gently in his palm. He said softly, “I’m not sleeping, senior. Brother will be out in a while. I’ll wait until I get home to sleep.”

Cheng Huanzhen had already followed the doctor and seen the examination process.

He had a premonition that after Li Yunhui came out, Li Shuyun would probably have to stay in the hospital and wouldn’t be able to leave for a while.

But he couldn’t bear to say it.

So he said, “It’s okay. Who knows how long he’ll be in there. You close your eyes. When he comes out, I’ll wake you up.”

Li Shuyun seemed to be persuaded by him, his eyelids, which he had been struggling to keep open, drooped more and more.

“Really? Then… Senior Huanzhen, you have to remember to wake me up…”

Li Shuyun finally couldn’t hold on anymore. He slowly closed his eyes, and his breathing gradually became even.

The ward became quiet.

Cheng Huanzhen sat by the bed, looking at the young man on the hospital bed with a complicated expression.

Is it Little Uncle? Is it not Little Uncle? Is it really? Is it really not?

…He didn’t know. He didn’t know. He didn’t know. It was so confusing. So confusing. So confusing!

Cheng Huanzhen quietly stayed by the bedside.

After waiting for at least twenty minutes, Li Yunhui finally came out of the examination room.

Cheng Huanzhen looked up.

He keenly noticed that Li Yunhui’s face was much paler than before he went in. He was tightly clutching a form in his hand. As soon as he came out of the examination room, he almost roughly stuffed the form into his pocket.

There was no expression on his face, and it was difficult to tell whether he was happy or angry just by looking at his expression. But Cheng Huanzhen, just by the feeling of his aura, could tell that Li Yunhui’s mood was absolutely terrible.

The sound of footsteps woke up Li Shuyun, who was not sleeping deeply.

Li Shuyun’s eyes opened a crack in a daze.

Seeing Li Yunhui, a smile appeared on his face, and his spirits seemed to lift. He even intended to prop himself up from the bed. “Brother, you’re back.”

But he had just been in so much pain that he had no strength. He struggled for a moment, and before he could get up, he was pressed back down by Li Yunhui, who had strode to the bedside.

Li Shuyun looked at his brother in confusion. “Brother?”

Li Yunhui’s lips were tightly pressed together. He tried hard to squeeze out a smile for his brother. “It’s nothing. The doctor said it’s best for your condition to be hospitalized for a period of observation. It’s also more convenient for medication and treatment to be done in the hospital.”

Seeing his brother’s smile gradually disappear, he immediately added, “But Shuyun doesn’t have to worry. Look, there’s another room next door. I can stay here with you. Uncle Zhao, can you help us bring our clothes and daily necessities over later?”

He looked up and gave the butler a look.

The butler immediately picked up his phone tacitly and, before the young master could speak, said, “No problem, Eldest Young Master. I’ll have someone pack it right away.”

Li Shuyun opened his mouth, wanting to say something.

But he was a step too slow. The butler had already dialed the number and was giving instructions to the other end of the phone. Li Shuyun had no choice but to close his mouth in confusion and grievance, swallowing his words.

But he was still very reluctant.

He reached out from under the quilt, gently tugged on the corner of Li Yunhui’s clothes, and asked him in a soft voice, “Brother… how long do I have to stay in the hospital? If I’m hospitalized, what about my classes at school? What about our project? And…”

The more Li Shuyun spoke, the more reluctant he became, and the more aggrieved his voice sounded.

At the end, he even added, “It doesn’t hurt that much now, brother. I can go home!”

Li Yunhui: “…It doesn’t hurt now because the painkillers have taken effect!”

Li Yunhui squatted down in front of the hospital bed and held his brother’s hand in his palm.

He hesitated for a moment with his wording, then said in a low voice, “It’s hard to say how long you’ll be hospitalized. It depends on your recovery. You can rest assured about school and the project. I’ll help you take leave from school, and I’m still here for the project.”

He raised his eyebrows with feigned ease and said to his brother, “You just need to stay here and rest assured. Don’t worry about anything else—does Shuyun believe brother?”

Li Shuyun wanted to ask more questions, but his questions were blocked by his brother’s words and got stuck in his throat.

He blinked slowly twice, a faint smile on his face. He said, “Yes. I believe brother.”

Li Yunhui also smiled and praised his brother, “That’s my brother.”

He tucked the quilt tightly around his brother’s neck, hesitated for a moment, then got up and said to the butler, “You stay with Shuyun for a while.”

Then, he gave Cheng Huanzhen a look, and the two of them left the ward together.

The moment he stepped out of the ward, the smile on Li Yunhui’s face disappeared.

The suffocating feeling in his chest, which was almost unbearable, became particularly obvious.

His mood was extremely agitated and difficult to regulate for a moment. He asked a male doctor passing by for a cigarette, lit one for himself, then asked for another and handed it to Cheng Huanzhen, asking, “Do you want one?”

They had now gone outside the building.

The cool wind blew on their faces, and their minds, which had been messy due to various thoughts, cooled down a bit.

Cheng Huanzhen refused Li Yunhui’s cigarette.

He frowned and asked, “You still smoke this?”

Li Yunhui glanced at him, didn’t speak, the emotions in his eyes suppressed and agitated.

He took a deep drag on the cigarette. The next second, Li Yunhui burst into a violent cough. “Cough, cough, cough… Damn, it stinks!”

Li Yunhui, quite annoyed, stubbed out the cigarette on the trash can, and threw the other un-offered cigarette into the trash can as well.

Cheng Huanzhen waited quietly on the side. After he had thrown away both cigarettes, he finally asked, “So what’s wrong with Shuyun?”

The atmosphere instantly became heavy again.

Li Yunhui was silent for a moment, and finally took out the crumpled diagnosis from his pocket.

“See for yourself,” he averted his head and handed the diagnosis to Cheng Huanzhen.

Cheng Huanzhen took the diagnosis.

With one glance, he immediately remembered the despair of being helpless when he took his Little Uncle to the hospital and learned from the doctor that his Little Uncle’s illness was difficult to control and they could only pray for a miracle.

Li Yunhui’s voice was extremely suppressed. He said, “I asked the doctor. This kind of cancer is almost impossible to be induced by human means… and Shuyun couldn’t have fallen into that kind of environment.”

Cheng Huanzhen looked at him.

He felt that Li Yunhui’s hair color seemed a little duller at this moment. The fearless feeling that always clung to him had also receded to the point of being almost imperceptible.

“So… Shuyun can’t be related to those three. You don’t need to investigate him anymore, and don’t approach Shuyun because of this matter.”

Li Yunhui turned his head to him and said softly, “You also had a seriously ill Little Uncle. You should understand my mood now.”

“For the next period of time, I will be with Shuyun all the time. I probably won’t have time to care about things that are not directly related to me and Shuyun for now.”

Li Yunhui didn’t say it directly.

But what could “things that are not directly related” be, other than the matter they were currently investigating?

Li Yunhui added, “Shuyun will also need to spend all his energy on overcoming cancer next. Don’t bother him with things that are not related to him.”

Cheng Huanzhen didn’t agree to his words.

He just said, “I will come again.”

Li Yunhui was a little unhappy. He didn’t know if Cheng Huanzhen had understood his meaning.

But now his brother’s matter was the top priority. He had no mood and no energy to argue with Cheng Huanzhen anymore.

After sending Cheng Huanzhen off early, Li Yunhui returned to the ward, only to see his brother with his eyes closed, once again fallen into a sleep. This time, his brother was sleeping more deeply than last time and was not woken up by his arrival.

Li Yunhui sat silently beside his brother, feeling that this sudden turn of fate was absurd and cruel.

Just this morning, his brother was still energetically working on the project with him!

His brother was even dreaming about the future of the project, dreaming of making the project bigger and stronger, becoming a new economic pillar for the family, becoming his and Li Zhengshen’s pride and support!

But how, in the blink of an eye, did his brother… did he…

Every time Li Yunhui thought of the doctor’s diagnosis, he felt a tightness in his chest and couldn’t breathe.

The doctor said that the tumor in Shuyun’s abdominal cavity had already spread to his liver and lungs, and was in the advanced stage.

Even with the most advanced medical resources available, there was no guarantee of a cure. The entire treatment process was complex and difficult. Surgery was inevitable, but the effect was hard to guarantee. They could only try to extend the patient’s survival period as much as possible.

The doctor also told him very tactfully that even if he was extremely lucky and completed all treatments smoothly, and achieved quite good treatment results, the prognosis was not optimistic, and the mortality rate from various complications was still very high.

But, how could this be?

Shuyun wasn’t even twenty years old. How, how could he…

Li Yunhui sat blankly by his brother’s bedside.

The dead silence in the ward made him constantly dwell on his despair. He replayed the doctor’s words over and over in his mind, imagining a terrible future from those words. Just the thought of it made his heart tremble.

Shuyun, Shuyun, his Shuyun… Shuyun’s life had not yet unfolded. He couldn’t just fall in the hospital like this!

“Knock, knock, knock.” Just then, a knock came from outside the door.

The butler opened the door to the ward, and the doctor came in with a few IV bags.

The noise woke up Shuyun. Shuyun opened his eyes in a daze and called out confusedly, “Brother?”

Li Yunhui immediately came back to his senses, a relaxed smile on his face. He turned around, took his brother’s hand, and said, “Just an IV drip. Shuyun isn’t afraid of needles, right?”

Seeing him, a reassuring faint smile appeared on Li Shuyun’s face.

Li Shuyun: “Yes. With brother here, I’m not afraid.”

Li Yunhui also smiled at his brother.

But his heart was far from calm at this moment.

Even now, he still didn’t dare to tell his brother about the chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and the inevitable surgery he would have to go through…

He simply didn’t know how to open his mouth and explain all this to his brother!

Perhaps…

He should contact Li Zhengshen?

The connections and resources Li Zhengshen had were certainly countless times wider than what he could access. There might be better medical resources hidden among them!

Li Yunhui had originally been accustomed to waiting for the butler to inform Li Zhengshen of such matters.

But when he realized the medical connections and resources Li Zhengshen possessed, he took this matter upon himself almost without hesitation.

But he couldn’t leave immediately.

He had to stay with his brother until the IV drip was finished.

It was the first time Li Yunhui had accompanied someone for an IV drip. He didn’t know what to do. He could only try to recall the image of parents accompanying their children for injections that he had seen in his memory and learn awkwardly.

First, when the doctor approached his brother and wiped the back of his hand with a cotton swab, he covered his brother’s eyes.

Then, in as relaxed a tone as possible, he started chatting with him about light topics—for example, some gossip about someone in the project team, for example, some eye-catching rumors in the capital’s wealthy circles.

But this method of distraction didn’t seem to work.

When the needle was inserted into the back of his brother’s fair, thin right hand, his brother’s left hand, which was originally resting on the edge of the pillow, instantly tightened, clutching the bedsheet tightly