After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots' Beloved

Chapter 155: Chapter 155: Doctors Can’t Save Me, Maybe You Can

Lu Sheng had just opened her eyes in the morning when she saw her phone vibrating beside the pillow—it was a call from Li Muchen.

"Baby, did you wake up?"

The man’s voice on the phone was deep and magnetic, only slightly weary probably due to taking an overnight flight and the time difference.

Lu Sheng checked the time and asked on the phone, "Did you just land?"

"I arrived in Suli a few hours ago, now at the hotel," Li Muchen said, "I just thought about your daily routine, figured you’d be waking up about now, so I called you."

After he finished speaking, both fell silent for a few seconds, then almost as if by agreement, they spoke simultaneously.

Lu Sheng straightforwardly said, "I miss you."

The man’s voice turned slightly hoarse and alluring: "...I miss you so much."

After speaking, it was as if both could sense each other’s emotions through the phone.

A sweetness surged in their hearts, but this intangible emptiness of hearing yet not being able to touch brought a sort of indescribable loss.

Perhaps this was the feeling of being in love.

For both Li Muchen and Lu Sheng, everything now was an indulging experience.

Thinking of the message Li Muchen sent before boarding the plane last night, Lu Sheng asked about the serious matter, "What exactly is going on with your grandmother?"

"I went straight to the nursing home as soon as I landed," Li Muchen said, "My grandmother disappeared while she was sleeping at night, and it was only discovered the next morning when the nurse did her rounds."

"I initially thought it could be that she wandered out of her room while not completely lucid, and the nurses didn’t notice. But, the surveillance in my grandmother’s room was tampered with last night."

Lu Sheng couldn’t help but pause her breath for a moment: "...You mean, your grandmother didn’t wander off by herself, but someone actually took her from the room last night?"

"...Yes," Li Muchen took a deep breath, his tone deep, "And if someone really took my grandmother intentionally, it’s definitely targeted at me."

Lu Sheng slightly frowned.

Indeed, no one would lay hands on an elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer’s in Island Country unless it was targeted at Li Muchen.

But with the sudden disappearance of Li Muchen’s grandmother, and no one coming forward, they currently had no idea who the opponent was and what their motives were.

"Could it be done by your uncle?"

Lu Sheng asked, then thought it over and felt it was unlikely, "But your uncle is your grandmother’s son, no matter how ruthless, he wouldn’t harm his own mother, right?"

Li Muchen paused then said, "My uncle is my grandfather’s illegitimate child; my grandmother is not his biological mother, his biological mother passed away a long time ago."

"If it was my uncle who took action, it’s not impossible; it’s just that I’ve deliberately kept my grandmother’s whereabouts a secret, and he didn’t know she was in the nursing home in Suli."

"But just because he didn’t know before, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t know now."

"Anyway, my grandmother should still be in Suli. I have already made arrangements with the local police here, and we will use the city’s police force to find her."

"Now the biggest problem is..."

"What is it?" Lu Sheng asked.

Li Muchen took a deep breath, "The biggest problem now is, my grandmother not only has Alzheimer’s disease. If it was only this disease, I’d have her stay domestically and take care of her myself."

"Besides Alzheimer’s, she has a rare disease called Primary Pulmonary Arterial Paralysis."

"There is currently no effective medicine for this disease in the world, and she must undergo targeted treatment at that nursing home every week to survive, otherwise she could die from cardiopulmonary failure and respiratory distress."

"That means, I must find my grandmother within a week. Otherwise, even if the people who took her don’t harm her, she would still be in mortal danger."

Hearing the situation was so thorny, Lu Sheng couldn’t help but take a deep breath.

Perhaps sensing that the girl on the other end of the phone was also anxious, Li Muchen said, "Don’t worry, let’s first see if we can find the person, or I’ll wait for the other party to contact me."

"These days I might be very busy, you need to take good care of yourself alone in the country. Be good, okay?" The man’s tone was low and gentle.

"I know, rest assured," replied Lu Sheng.

Lu Sheng did not tell Li Muchen about the incident that happened at the gathering last night.

The man already had enough to worry about; knowing that she was almost stabbed to death by her third brother last night would likely make him unable to put his mind at ease about the situations at home.

Fourth Brother’s condition was no longer a concern.

Lu Youming woke up early in the morning and was shocked to see the wound on his neck had almost healed.

But thinking that the person who healed his wound was Lu Sheng, he felt it was reasonable.

After all, many things his sister did from the first time they met were beyond his expectations.

Lu Sheng was not worried about Fourth Brother’s condition; she could slowly help him with his health in the future. _{𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑝𝘶𝘣.𝑐𝘰𝘮}

What worried her now was her third brother.

As Lu Sheng walked to the second floor, she saw Lu Jingyan and Jiang Ting both standing outside the room with worried faces, with many broken fragments outside the door, a complete mess.

"This is..." Lu Sheng paused.

Lu Jingyan took a deep breath and looked at Lu Sheng, "Shengsheng, I told you last night, once your third brother has an episode, he goes into a state of frenzy."

"Last night I said we should tie up his hands and feet in advance, but mom couldn’t bear to do it, no matter what."

"As a result, once your third brother woke up, he started thrashing things immediately, drove her out of the room, and locked the door from the inside."

"There’s no noise from inside the room now, we don’t know how your third brother is now."

Lu Sheng glanced at the room; inside was indeed silent. The quieter it was, the more worrying it became.

Lu Sheng looked directly at Lu Jingyan, "Big brother, can the house’s spare key open the door?"

"... It can," said Lu Jingyan, frowning.

"But your third brother is very unstable now, we don’t know what might happen if we go in. I’ve already called his psychologist over; let’s wait until the doctor arrives."

Upon hearing this, Lu Sheng took a deep breath and said earnestly, "Big brother, actually, there’s something I wanted to tell you last night."

Lu Jingyan was momentarily stunned, "What is it?"

"I think, the psychologist you mentioned has never truly cured our third brother."

"After that incident, third brother probably didn’t want you guys to worry, so he pretended to be normal and came back home."

"That day I went into third brother’s room to chat with him, accidentally saw traces of self-harm on his body, he seemed very panicked. After I left, he was secretly taking medication."

"Thinking about it now, he might have had the habit of self-harm for many years and has been taking medication to maintain his mental state. He has always been living in that shadow and never truly walked out."

Hearing Lu Sheng’s words, Lu Jingyan and Jiang Ting were stunned.

They had always thought that Lu Ziye had long blurred the memory of being kidnapped. They never imagined he had been secretly medicating himself and had even thought about self-harm.

"You, you mean..." Jiang Ting’s eyes turned red in a flash, her lips quivering as she spoke.

Then, Lu Sheng continued, "I think that psychologist can’t save third brother, but I, perhaps, can."