Wen Yifeng’s eyes widened, and he turned around abruptly. “Car accident? Who??”

At this moment, Wen Qingcai couldn’t care about her husband’s voice. All her energy was focused on the phone. “…Okay, no problem. Use the best of all medical resources, don’t worry about the cost, we’ll head over immediately…”

Hanging up the phone, Wen Qingcai instantly seemed to lose all her strength. Her face was pale, and she staggered, almost collapsing to the ground.

Fortunately, Wen Yifeng was a step faster and stepped forward to support her shoulders, preventing her from falling. Wen Yifeng looked grim and asked anxiously, “What is going on?!”

Wen Qingcai gasped for air in low breaths. She felt dizzy, and even breathing was difficult. “Go to the Imperial Capital Third Hospital… Go! Now, immediately, hurry!”

Wen Yifeng wanted to ask more, but seeing his wife in this state, he knew it wasn’t the time for questions. He quickly called the driver, asked him to drive into the community, helped his wife into the car, and then continued asking, “I heard Shaozhuo was in a car accident?? Is the information accurate? Was it an accident or… or did Shaozhuo try to harm himself again?!”

Wen Qingcai weakly explained the situation simply to Wen Yifeng, feeling so terrible that tears were about to fall. “Shaozhuo has been so stable for the past year, how could he suddenly think of crashing a car?? It must be some goddamn person who wasn’t watching the road and hit Shaozhuo!”

“…Why did Shaozhuo run so far away on such a nice birthday? Hearing Director Huang say Shaozhuo suffered massive internal bleeding!”

Wen Yifeng was frightened. “That serious?! Is the Third Hospital capable? Is the blood bank reserve sufficient? How about contacting the First Hospital directly! …Wait, where is Siheng? Where was Siheng when the car accident happened? Shouldn’t he have been with Shaozhuo all along?”

Wen Qingcai murmured to herself, “Right… Right! Where did he go? How could he let Shaozhuo get into such a car accident while watching him? …Call him!”

Wen Qingcai started calling Wen Siheng. Wen Yifeng was still somewhat skeptical about the source of the news, so he started calling Wen Shaozhuo.

But they each made one, two, three calls… mobile calls, WeChat calls, they tried everything, but no one answered at all!

Wen Qingcai was so angry her voice was about to turn shrill. “Where did Wen Siheng go?! Shaozhuo got into a car accident, why isn’t anyone answering his phone?!”

She immediately switched to calling Lin Chen. No one answered the mobile phone, so she called via WeChat… also no answer!

Her vision went black, and suspicions of “tearing up the contract and running away” or hit-and-run all came out. Fortunately, Wen Yifeng looked more closely and pointed out Lin Chen’s new WeChat status to Wen Qingcai.

Lin Chen: [1.27~2.3 Annual Leave, traveling without internet ^^]

Wen Yifeng angrily punched the seat in front of him. “Taking leave at this specific time!”

The driver was startled, almost swerving the steering wheel. Sweating coldly as he straightened the car, he awkwardly said to the boss behind him, “Mr. Wen, Mrs. Wen, please calm down. Young Master Shaozhuo is blessed and lucky, he will definitely be fine… There’s some traffic on the road today, I’ll try to drive faster, but safety comes first.”

Wen Qingcai’s reaction was in stark contrast to Wen Yifeng’s anger.

Huge anxiety and fear swept through her brain. She dialed Wen Shaozhuo and Wen Siheng’s numbers over and over again, but no one ever answered.

What happened… what is going on?

How could Shaozhuo be so careless and get hit by a car?!

It wasn’t Wen Shaozhuo’s first time in the emergency room. Last March, Shaozhuo was in emergency care due to excessive blood loss from wrist cutting.

But this was different.

At that time, Wen Qingcai thought her son’s behavior was just to scare and threaten them, not really aiming for death. Plus, with their strict monitoring and timely discovery, it was impossible for their son to really be in danger!

But today?

…Car accident, car accident! Who could have predicted this car accident!

Fear filled Wen Qingcai’s brain.

The long journey of over an hour felt like nineteen years to her.

Fragments of memories from Shaozhuo’s childhood, which had appeared intermittently in her mind over the past year, now surged into her brain like an avalanche.

She remembered her son secretly drawing in class to prepare a wedding anniversary gift for her and Yifeng, remembered her son wobbling into her arms when learning to walk…

These memories gushed out like a flood, filling her brain to the brim and making her heart heavy.

…No. No. Nothing can happen! That is her child!

Director Huang kept updating Shaozhuo’s real-time emergency status in their WeChat window.

Wen Qingcai’s mood rose and fell with it, sometimes collapsing, sometimes hopeful.

Strangely, amidst these complicated emotions, Wen Qingcai actually felt her brain gain a trace of clarity.

ever since Wen Shaozhuo grew up, those anxieties about grades, performance, future, face, everything that had been occupying her brain, all vanished at this moment.

At the center of all consciousness, only the simplest thought remained:

Don’t let anything happen… please don’t let anything happen!

…

Wen Shaozhuo didn’t expect his phone to take so long to repair.

From the initially agreed twenty minutes, it was dragged out by various reasons to half an hour, then an hour, an hour and a half, two hours, three hours…

Until dinner time in the evening, his phone still wasn’t fixed!

Wen Shaozhuo was getting impatient.

He wasn’t necessarily in a hurry to get his phone back.

But his brother clearly said he would just walk around nearby and return soon. How come he still hadn’t seen his brother after so long?!

Wen Shaozhuo instinctively felt uneasy. In the middle of winter, a layer of fine sweat broke out on his back.

Eager to see his brother, Wen Shaozhuo rarely needed much mental preparation. The moment he decided not to wait anymore, he immediately stood up and said to the clerk, “Hello, if my phone can’t be fixed anytime soon, please give me a spare phone. I need to contact my family.”

The clerk was obviously in a terrible mood because of this inexplicably unfixable phone. He immediately agreed, “No problem, I’ll just…”

Before he finished speaking, the phone that wouldn’t light up no matter what techniques he applied a moment ago, suddenly lit up as the words “no problem” fell!

The clerk looked dazed, absentmindedly taking the lit-up phone for a simple test. All functions were fine!

Clerk: “…”

The clerk awkwardly handed the phone back to Wen Shaozhuo. “This… it’s fixed just now. Sorry, I don’t know what the situation was…”

Wen Shaozhuo: “…”

Wen Shaozhuo felt a bit angry. He could completely reasonably suspect that this clerk was fooling him!

But he held back his anger again and again. Taking the phone with both hands, his personality instinctively drove him to say politely, “It’s okay, thank you. As long as it’s fixed. How much?”

After paying, Wen Shaozhuo turned around with a belly full of grievances, lowered his head, and planned to call his brother immediately.

WeChat opened, and while messages were still being received, SMS notifications suddenly popped up one after another—dozens of missed call SMS alerts instantly occupied his entire SMS inbox!

???

What’s going on??

Wen Shaozhuo’s brain went blank.

Opening the SMS, he saw that these dozens of missed call alerts were all from Mom and Dad!

Coincidentally, WeChat finished receiving messages at this moment.

Mom and Dad’s message notification boxes all jumped to the top of the message list, just one spot below his pinned chat.

Clicking in, he saw that the chat windows for both of them were also densely packed with missed call alerts.

…What is happening?!

…

Wen Shaozhuo hung up the phone in a daze.

Mom and Dad’s voices on the phone were almost hysterical.

Dad was a bit better, just asking him over and over: Are you really okay? Where are you now?

Mom’s voice was almost completely broken, shrilly telling him to stay put, saying she would bring the driver to pick him up directly.

But until now, no one had told him what exactly had happened.

Only the premonition in his heart grew worse.

So, Wen Shaozhuo started calling his brother.

Once, twice, three times, no one answered!

What happened… where did Brother go? Why did Mom and Dad sound like that?!

This panicked confusion lasted until Mom and Dad’s car arrived.

As soon as the car door opened, Mom almost threw herself onto him, smearing snot and tears all over him.

Mom cried so hard she couldn’t catch her breath. “It’s good you’re okay, it’s good you’re okay. I thought the person in the emergency room was you… It’s good you’re okay, it’s good you’re okay…”

…What does that mean? What emergency room? What do you mean ‘it’s good you’re okay’??

Wen Shaozhuo saw Mom and Dad act like this for the first time.

Uncomfortable, unaccustomed, wanting to run away, but under the huge fear and anxiety, all these emotions disappeared without a trace.

He tremblingly grabbed Mom’s hand and kept asking her, “What does that mean? What happened? Who is in the emergency room? …Did you see Brother? Where did Brother A-Heng go?”

Mom was crying herself, unable to catch her breath, so naturally she couldn’t answer him.

It was Dad who was slightly calmer. He opened his mouth with difficulty and told him, “Siheng… got into a car accident. He is in the emergency room now.”

Wen Shaozhuo was stunned, his legs instantly lost strength, and he sat on the ground.

Wen Shaozhuo repeated in disbelief, “Brother A-Heng… car accident? He is in… the emergency room?!”

His question received no answer. Mom and Dad lifted him together and carried him into the car. Mom told him they planned to take him home first.

But how could that be?!

Brother A-Heng… his Brother A-Heng was still in the emergency room!!

Wen Shaozhuo almost screamed in collapse, “Let me out! I want to see Brother!”

Usually, losing control like this would definitely result in severe and angry criticism and punishment from Mom and Dad.

But for some reason, today, as soon as he showed such an expression, Mom immediately broke down. “Okay, okay, go to the hospital! Go to the hospital first!”

Wen Shaozhuo stumbled into the hospital like this, arriving at the door of the emergency room.

The light of the emergency room quietly extinguished the moment he arrived.

A doctor hurriedly opened the door and came out of the emergency room.

Seeing them, he immediately jogged over. “Mr. Wen, Mrs. Wen, the patient’s bleeding has been temporarily stopped, temporarily out of life-threatening danger, but the subsequent situation is not optimistic. It is recommended to transfer to the First Hospital for follow-up treatment.”

After learning that the car accident victim wasn’t his own son, Wen Yifeng’s emotions slowly calmed down.

He frowned and asked, “Can’t your Third Hospital conduct follow-up treatment?”

When the doctor approached, Wen Shaozhuo didn’t stop but continued running towards the emergency room.

Hearing this halfway down the corridor, he turned his head with eyes wide open in anger, hair almost standing on end, asking incredulously, “Dad?!”

Wen Qingcai keenly realized her son’s emotions and immediately slapped Wen Yifeng heavily on the arm, scolding him with a terrifying expression, “What are you saying! Since the conditions at the First Hospital are better than the Third Hospital, of course Siheng should be transferred to the First Hospital for treatment!”

Wen Yifeng reacted immediately. “I’m worried about the bumps on the road during transfer! The Third Hospital and the First Hospital are so far apart, the journey takes at least an hour and a half. Siheng’s condition is unstable now. If he gets on the road like this, what if an accident happens in the middle?! I think… I think we should apply for helicopter transfer directly!”

Wen Shaozhuo’s expression slowly returned to normal. He turned his head back and ran quickly towards the emergency room.

He couldn’t care how Mom and Dad discussed.

Now he just wanted to see his brother, just wanted to confirm his brother’s condition!

Wen Shaozhuo stumbled to the front of the emergency room.

A nurse stopped him, gently telling him it wasn’t suitable to enter now.

But just standing in front of the emergency room, the smell of blood hit his face, completely freezing his brain.

Wen Shaozhuo’s gaze was stiff, staring fixedly at the figure on the emergency bed.

That figure lay quietly on the bed, covered in tubes, wearing a breathing mask, bright red dazzling blood almost soaking the entire bed board red!

Bone-chilling coldness shot from his palms all the way into his body.

Wen Shaozhuo’s blood all over his body seemed frozen and hard to flow.

Brother A-Heng…

His Brother A-Heng…

Tears flowed uncontrollably from his eyes.

Wen Shaozhuo’s vision was quickly blurred by tears.

Suffocation, terror, pain, collapse… all the emotions that once haunted him for a long time, after finally ceasing for a year, surged out from the depths of his body once again.

His legs went weak, hard to stand, forcing him to support himself with one hand on the door frame of the emergency room.

He opened his mouth with difficulty, struggling to suck in air. The strange low gasping sound scared Wen Qingcai behind him so much that she immediately left the doctor and ran to him in her high heels, clack clack clack.

“Shaozhuo… Shaozhuo… Son…?!”

Wen Qingcai called Wen Shaozhuo anxiously.

But Wen Shaozhuo couldn’t hear anything or see anything now.

In his eyes and ears, the only thing left was the young man on the bright red hospital bed in the emergency room.

That was the other half of him in this world who had the exact same appearance.

That was another him in the world. Also the Brother A-Heng he wanted to spend his whole life with.

“Mom… Mom…”

Wen Shaozhuo’s voice was hoarse beyond recognition.

Just squeezing out these two words made his throat ache terribly.

But how could he care about this now? Tears streamed down his face as he desperately grabbed the woman’s sleeve beside him, crying and begging Wen Qingcai, “Mom, please, save Brother, save Brother…”

Wen Qingcai immediately hugged her son, patting his back to comfort him. “Okay, okay, no problem! Don’t worry, your father and I will cover all of Siheng’s medical expenses. The medical resources in the Imperial Capital are so good, we will definitely be able to save Siheng!”

Wen Qingcai coaxed her son, “Leave things here to us. Shaozhuo, listen to Mom, go home with Uncle Li first…”

Wen Shaozhuo’s eyes widened, almost screaming in a low voice, speaking quickly: “No! Mom, I want to stay by Brother’s side! I don’t want to leave Brother, I can’t leave Brother…”

Wen Shaozhuo spoke anxiously, almost losing his breath again.

Seeing this, Wen Qingcai immediately stopped persuading and quickly said, “Okay, okay, then stay, then stay! Have you eaten dinner tonight? I’ll ask Uncle Li to buy some food first…”