Hospital.
Laying weakly in her hospital bed, Cao Huo Er quietly watched the television mounted on the wall.
Her eyes widened.
Breaking news about a wanted fugitive appeared across the screen.
And at the center of it all...
Was Ye Chen.
Even though the image of him running naked through the streets had been heavily blurred...
Cao Huo Er still recognized her son instantly.
Her trembling hands slowly covered her mouth.
"...My son..."
Her weak voice barely escaped her lips.
Hooked up to multiple IVs and medical equipment, she could barely even move properly right now.
A single tear slowly rolled down her cheek.
"Why... why did you walk down such a path?"
Her eyes lowered sadly.
Then slowly, she began questioning herself.
Was leaving him on that mountain truly the right choice?
Had she ruined his life herself?
Before she could spiral deeper into those thoughts...
Click.
The hospital room door slowly opened.
Shen Tian walked inside alone.
Bai Xue had remained in the car.
The moment Shen Tian saw the television screen, he already understood everything.
"...It seems you know now," he said quietly.
Cao Huo Er glanced toward him before silently turning off the television with the remote.
"...Yes."
Her expression looked tired.
"I didn’t realize he had fallen this far..."
She lowered her eyes sadly.
"I can’t even recognize him anymore."
Then suddenly, she tried forcing herself out of bed.
"I’ll stop him... Just let me speak to him."
Her trembling voice became emotional.
"I’ll convince him to surrender himself to the police."
But before she could stand, Shen Tian gently stopped her.
"Don’t move."
Cao Huo Er looked at him in confusion.
"...What?"
Shen Tian helped her back onto the bed.
"Your son will come here himself."
"Huh?"
Cao Huo Er looked completely confused by his confidence.
But Shen Tian already understood how protagonists worked.
With Ye Chen’s remaining Fate desperately trying to protect him, the heavens themselves would naturally guide him toward the source of all his problems.
The villain.
Him.
So Shen Tian wasn’t worried in the slightest.
He calmly walked over to the chair in the corner of the room before sitting down casually.
Then he grabbed an apple from the nearby fruit basket.
Crunch.
"Let’s just wait."
Cao Huo Er hesitated briefly before slowly nodding.
"...Alright."
Not long afterward, Ye Chen entered the hospital.
Wearing stolen clothes from a homeless man and covered in dirt and blood.
As he walked through the hospital lobby, his eyes constantly scanned the surroundings.
He had a strong feeling Shen Tian was here.
"Excuse me, mister!"
A small sick child approached him nervously.
Behind the child stood several other children holding a board game.
All of them smiled innocently.
"Do you want to play with us?"
Ye Chen coldly glanced at them.
Then his expression twisted with irritation.
"Piss off, you little brats."
The children instantly froze.
Their eyes quickly filled with tears before they all ran away crying.
Ye Chen didn’t care in the slightest.
He simply walked toward the front desk.
"Is there someone named Shen Tian here?"
The woman at the counter looked up from her computer.
"I’m sorry, sir, but I can’t disclose patient informatio—"
Ye Chen suddenlyexhaled softly.
A strange pressure spread from his breath.
The receptionist’s body instantly froze.
Her eyes widened in terror.
Paralyzed.
"If you don’t tell me," Ye Chen said coldly, "you’ll stay like that forever."
The receptionist tried desperately to make sounds.
Tears formed in her eyes.
Ye Chen smiled cruelly.
"Good."
Then he inhaled, releasing the paralysis.
The woman immediately gasped for air while trembling violently.
"H-He’s in the luxury section... Room 301... Please don’t hurt me..."
Ye Chen ignored her completely.
He immediately headed toward the luxury ward before eventually reaching room 301.
Without hesitation...
BANG!
He kicked the hospital room door wide open.
"YOU CAN’T HIDE FROM ME, SHEN TIAN!"
Inside the room, Shen Tian calmly finished eating his apple.
Crunch.
Then he casually stood up while wiping his hands.
"Hey, keep your voice down. There are sick people trying to rest."
"You!" Ye Chen was just about to charge at him...
"...Little Chen."
A weak female voice came from the bed.
Ye Chen froze.
Slowly, he turned his head.
On the bed sat a frail woman connected to several IVs.
Skin and bones.
Bald.
Weak.
At first, he genuinely didn’t recognize her.
Then Cao Huo Er slowly spoke again.
"Don’t you remember me?"
Her eyes became emotional.
"I left a photo of myself in your basket when you were little..."
It clicked.
Ye Chen’s eyes widened slightly.
"...Mom?"
But instead of joy...
His killing intent exploded even harder.
"Why do you show up now!?"
His furious roar shook the room.
"Are you also my enemy!?"
He looked at her with anger instead of affection.
Inside the original webnovel, Ye Chen had always carried resentment toward his mother for leaving him behind.
But right now...
That resentment had become something far uglier.
Much more unstable.
Shen Tian immediately stepped in front of Cao Huo Er to shield her from Ye Chen’s pressure.
With her current condition, the killing intent alone could have seriously harmed her.
"Woah, woah," Shen Tian said while raising both hands slightly.
"That’s your mother. Why are you trying to kill her?"
Shen Tian quietly narrowed his eyes.
’He definitely wasn’t this unstable in the original webnovel...’
Then he quickly understood.
’He’s already mentally collapsing from everything else.’
"WHY DO YOU KEEP TAKING EVERYTHING THAT’S SUPPOSED TO BE MINE!?"
Ye Chen’s furious roar echoed throughout the hospital room.
BAM!
He slammed his hand directly into the wall beside him.
Cracks instantly spread across the surface while a visible handprint remained embedded.
The medical equipment nearby shook violently.
But Shen Tian didn’t even look impressed.
Instead of responding to Ye Chen, he calmly glanced back over his shoulder toward the hospital bed.
"Are you alright, ma’am?"
Cao Huo Er didn’t answer him.
She simply stared silently at Ye Chen.
At the son she barely recognized anymore.
The hatred in his eyes.
The madness in his expression.
The violence in his voice.
One by one, the emotional walls she had built around herself slowly began collapsing.
"...That isn’t my son," she whispered weakly.
Her eyes trembled.
"That can’t be my Little Chen..."
She sounded like she was trying to convince herself more than anyone else.
Denial.
Pure denial.
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