Perhaps due to extreme fear, coupled with being caught in the rain, he developed a fever that night and fainted from the heat.
When he opened his eyes, he heard the trafficker come to his brother to return the child, saying, "This child is no good, too weak, and now he's gone stupid from the fever. We don't want him anymore."
And so, he was returned by the human traffickers because of a high fever. But when he saw the way his brother looked at him, he instinctively pretended he remembered nothing...
Later, he was adopted by Zhou Shanhuai and Song Xiaowen and began to live the life of a young master that he never dared to dream of before.
His brother seemed to genuinely treat him like a younger brother, and he tried his best to truly forget about that incident.
But it seems that the beautiful sibling bond really doesn't belong to him. After his family unexpectedly went bankrupt, his brother abandoned him once again.
At first, he didn't believe it. He thought he had encountered some danger, so he searched for him everywhere like a madman. Because his family had gone bankrupt and he had no money, he practically walked all over Shanghai to find him, even daring to venture into the foreign concessions several times without fear of death.
In the end, Song Xiaowen couldn't stand it anymore and told him the truth.
That night, Chen Zhuo felt as if he had died again, and the darkness devoured his heart like a demon.
At this moment, darkness descended upon him once again, like a recurring nightmare. Chen Zhuo pressed his hand tightly against his heart, his body began to spasm, and finally, with a "thud," he collapsed to his knees in the mud.
"Brother, brother, I'm afraid of the dark..."
Chen Zhuo curled up in the mud and groaned in pain. Even though his fear of the dark was a lingering effect of Chen Ke abandoning him, in his extreme fear and pain, he still subconsciously wanted to seek Chen Ke's protection.
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Two headlights suddenly lit up at the entrance of the alley. In the blinding light, Chen Zhuo groggily opened his eyes and saw a figure running towards him at top speed.
"Brother..." Is that you... back?
Before he could finish speaking, Chen Zhuo's vision went dark again, and he completely lost consciousness.
"Young Master! What's wrong with you!" Li Gang, who was sitting in the car, seemed to hear Chen Zhuo's shout. He drove over and saw that it was indeed Chen Zhuo!
Seeing Chen Zhuo lying in the mud in great pain, Li Gang anxiously looked around, but couldn't find Chen Ke.
Did the two of them encounter thugs, and then the young master was injured and his master went to chase after the thugs?
"Young Master, where do you feel unwell? Are you injured?" Li Gang asked several times, but Chen Zhuo did not respond. He was worried that Chen Zhuo was really injured, so he could not care about anything else and could only carry him back to the car and drive to the hospital.
When Zhou Shanhuai and Li Guaizi, who were waiting at the hospital, saw Li Gang rush in, they were stunned for a moment. Then, when they realized that he was carrying Chen Zhuo, they stood up abruptly.
"What, what happened?"
"Chen Zhuo! What happened to Chen Zhuo?" The two were shocked and quickly stood up to help Li Gang take Chen Zhuo to the ward next door.
Looking at the unconscious Chen Zhuo, Zhou Shanhuai felt like he could barely stand. "What happened to him?"
Just then, the doctor rushed in. "Huh? It's you again?"
"Doctor, please take a look at my son, what's wrong?" Zhou Shanhuai asked anxiously, his voice trembling.
The doctor felt sorry for Zhou Shanhuai, who was heartbroken. His wife had just been comforted and put to sleep when his son fell into a coma again.
The doctor took out his stethoscope and examined the patient, then sighed, seemingly wanting to say something but stopping himself.
"Hey doctor, don't hesitate, just say what you want to say, we can handle it!" Li Guaizi urged anxiously.
After hearing Li Guaizi's words, the doctor stopped paying attention to other things and asked Zhou Shanhuai tactfully, "Sir, has your family recently experienced any sad events? Your wife and son fainted because they were overwhelmed with emotion and grief."
"Chen Zhuo is overwhelmed with grief?" Li Guaizi was surprised by this. It was understandable that everyone was saddened by Aunt Liu's sudden accident, but apart from Aunt Song, no one else would faint from excessive grief.
Besides, Chen Zhuo wasn't overly saddened when he first learned the news at the hospital, so there's no reason for him to be overly saddened now.
"Where's Chen Ke?" Zhou Shanhuai suddenly asked Li Gang.
“I, I don’t know either. The young master and I walked together down the alley where you were robbed that day. A few minutes after we went in, I heard the young master calling out ‘brother.’ I ran over and saw the young master lying in the mud. I searched everywhere but couldn’t find the young master.”
"Then what are you still standing here for! They must be in danger, Chen Ke must have gone after someone! Let's go help him now!" Li Guaizi stood up and rushed out the door.
"Oh, okay!" Li Gang followed.
Before Zhou Shanhuai could say anything, he saw the two of them rush out in a hurry.
Looking at Chen Zhuo, who was still unconscious, and thinking of his wife who had just cried herself to sleep next door, and his eldest son who was missing and whose fate was unknown, Zhou Shanhuai sat weakly on the edge of the bed, holding his head.
I don't know how things suddenly turned out this way; everything was fine yesterday.
In that instant, Zhou Shanhuai felt as if the sky had fallen.
Just as he was lost in confusion and pain, Chen Zhuo on the bed suddenly opened his eyes and shouted, "Brother! Brother!"
"Chen Zhuo, here! Dad's here! Don't move, don't move! Doctor, doctor!" Zhou Shanhuai never expected Chen Zhuo to be so strong; he couldn't hold him down no matter how hard he tried.
"Doctor!" Chen Zhuo still had an IV in his hand. Zhou Shanhuai was afraid that he would hurt his hand, so he held his hand down tightly. But Chen Zhuo used his other hand to grab and shake wildly, not only overturning the table next to him, but also knocking the IV stand down and hitting Zhou Shanhuai.
"Hmm!" Zhou Shanhuai groaned, still holding his hand tightly as he received the IV drip.
"What's going on!" At this moment, the doctors and nurses heard the commotion and rushed in to help.
"Sedative! Sedative! Prepare sedative!" The doctor instructed the nurse to prepare to inject sedative while helping to hold down Chen Zhuo's hands and feet.
Has the patient experienced this loss of control before?
"...Yes, but he's lucid at times, just a bit irritable. His behavior is controllable. My child isn't sick," Zhou Shanhuai explained immediately, thinking the doctor was about to diagnose Chen Zhuo with mental illness.
The doctor knew Zhou Shanhuai had misunderstood, but now was not the time to explain, so he had the doctor who was helping tie Chen Zhuo's hands and feet to the hospital bed.
At this moment, Chen Zhuo was completely like a madman. His eyes were wide open, his face was flushed, the veins on his neck were bulging, and he was screaming "Brother, brother!" in a heart-wrenching voice.
Repeating the same single word over and over, Zhou Shanhuai had no idea what had happened. He just felt that this Chen Zhuo was too unfamiliar and too heartbreaking.
All she could do was hug him and comfort him again and again: "Dad's here, and your brother will be back, he'll be back."
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