Chapter 227: The Rich Old Lady (1)
(The background of this plane is around 2000 h that k~)
(I chose this time because the decade between 1990 and 2010 was TVB’s golden age, with many classic dramas. I watched quite a few of them as a kid, so I’m a bit nostalgic.)
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January 5, 2001.
In the luxurious single room of a high-end private hospital in H City, a famous financial and trade port.
Drop...drop...drop...drop...drop...
The heart rate monitor was running smoothly.
Lying on the hospital bed was a 60-year-old woman named Zhou, and everyone called her Old Lady Zhou.
She closed her eyes tightly, her skin was dark and shriveled, but from her outline, one could still tell that she was a great beauty when she was young.
This old lady is a member of the famous Zhou family in the local area.
Her late father was one of the top ten richest men in H City and had four sons and one daughter.
Old Mrs. Zhou is his only daughter and the youngest child.
She was born in 1941, when her father was 52 and her mother was 41. It was a bit like having a daughter late in life, and the media that loved to chase gossip wrote headlines in the news, praising her as the "millionaire's youngest daughter."
Mrs. Zhou was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, pampered by her parents and raised in a honeypot. Her life, studies, and social life were all cultivated according to the typical path of a wealthy and famous lady.
But she is humble and low-key, always living a disciplined life and has never crossed the line.
But when she was 19 years old, she encountered a long-planned kidnapping while studying abroad, which changed the trajectory of her entire life.
The kidnappers used her as a hostage and demanded a huge ransom from the Zhou family.
After her father agreed to pay, the greedy kidnappers raised the price again and again and refused to release her.
In the 1850s, technology was far less developed than it is today, and the situation around the world was quite turbulent. This kidnapping case dragged on for nearly a year, and the Zhou family spent a huge amount of money and mobilized a lot of connections before finding a breakthrough.
During this period, Mrs. Zhou was locked up in a small dark room, a truck compartment, a ship, and an airplane. She was hidden in many places and suffered inhuman abuse such as beatings, rape, and feeding foreign objects.
Although she was successfully rescued later, she was already dying and was only one breath away from meeting the devil. Her body and mind suffered a fatal blow and she suffered from a very serious post-traumatic stress disorder.
After being rescued, her personality changed drastically and her behavior became strange. The sharp-tongued media had new material to look forward to, and the report "The 'Millionaire's Little Girl' is gone, the 'Rich Crazy Woman' is here" was placed on the headlines of gossip magazines.
At the time, there were no medications or treatments specifically for this type of trauma, and some of the medications the doctor prescribed only made her mental condition worse. She received repeated treatment for many years, but to no avail.
During her prime years, Mrs. Zhou did not continue her studies, nor did she get married and have children. Instead, she hid in her mansion all day to avoid the almost pervasive questioning of gossip reporters.
A few years later, her parents passed away one after another.
One day, the dazed old lady Zhou accidentally fell and seriously injured the back of her head.
Although he was rescued, he fell into a deep coma and became a vegetative state lying in bed, with only various machines to keep him alive.
He lay there for 21 full years.
Mrs. Zhou is 60 years old this year. The criminals in the kidnapping case have long been brought to justice, but her life has been stuck in the nightmare she had when she was 19...
Click——
The ward door was pushed open.
The attending physician and the head nurse came to make their routine rounds.
They carefully recorded the values on the instruments and conducted daily physical examinations for Mrs. Zhou.
The two began to chat while watching.
Doctor: "It was raining when I came here this morning. It's so cold... Oh, right, today is the Lunar New Year's Eve. The New Year is less than 20 days away."
Nurse: "Time flies! Another year has passed... Mrs. Zhou is so patient."
Doctor: "It's better to be rich. You can extend your life for so many years. Ordinary people would have given up treatment long ago."
The nurse curled her lips and said, "Just lying there like this, unconscious, unable to do anything, is there really any point in prolonging his life like this? It's just a waste of money."
"Don't talk nonsense, please. Research shows that some vegetative patients can feel and hear things, but they can't move." The doctor finished his explanation and smiled. "Besides... without these wealthy people spending money, who would pay our salaries?"
The nurse agreed with a laugh. "That's right, but I saw in a magazine that the brothers in the Zhou family's Dahe Group are fighting over the inheritance. It seems to be a big deal, with new revelations every day!"
Doctor: "Rich people are always troublesome. As for us common people, we can just treat it as gossip. They will fight to the death and won't give us a penny..."
As the two were talking and laughing, they suddenly noticed that the index finger of Old Lady Zhou's right hand was slightly raised with an almost invisible amplitude!
Old Mrs. Zhou is one of those people who can occasionally regain vague consciousness but is completely unable to move.
But the finger-raising movement just now was actually the effect of Tokiho controlling her body...
Old Mrs. Zhou has been in a coma for 21 years. Her four brothers jointly inherited the huge business left by their father and established the Dahe Group, whose business covers real estate, hotels, engineering construction, department stores and retail... It is the leading industrial group in H City.
The Zhou family also became a prominent family, firmly occupying a place in the upper class society, attracting many people.
Times have changed, and in the blink of an eye, it is time for the old to hand over the baton to the new.
Rich families believe that having many children brings good fortune. Mrs. Zhou’s four brothers have a total of almost 20 children.
This time, the struggle for inheritance and profit has not officially begun, but it has already caused a bloody storm and become a popular after-dinner talk in the city.
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