Common Ground

Mu Yuqing lay back down on the hospital bed.

Li Yichen sat in the chair beside her bed.

Only then did the two of them slowly realize that they had actually been pushed down?

Li Yichen stood up indignantly and was just about to grab Zhu Yu by the clothes.

Shen Jingmo noticed his movement and silently pressed a hand on his shoulder, making him sit back down.

Just then, the doctor in charge of Mu Yuqing hurried in. His patient had suddenly tried to jump off a building—what was going on?

Zhu Yu grabbed the doctor as though he had spotted a savior.

"Doctor, hurry and take a look. Does this woman need a sedative?"

"And this man—I suspect there might be something wrong with his brain. Someone wanted to jump, and he rushed to jump with her." Zhu Yu pointed at Li Yichen's head and even reached out to shake it, trying to shake all the water out of his brain.

Li Yichen felt that he had suffered the greatest humiliation of his life.

The moment the doctor heard that, he hurriedly took out his equipment and prepared to give Li Yichen a thorough examination.

Li Yichen's face turned green. "There's nothing wrong with us. It's love."

"I know, Doctor! I know what illness he has!" Zhu Yu grabbed the doctor.

"What illness?" Feeling the patient's lack of cooperation, the doctor sighed helplessly. Hearing Zhu Yu's words, he asked curiously, "I haven't even examined him yet, and you already know?"

"Love-brain! Doctor, isn't this textbook love-brain?" Zhu Yu looked at Li Yichen with an expression of bitter disappointment, his face practically screaming, I'm so disappointed in you.

Shen Jingmo lightly covered his mouth and coughed.

The doctor was speechless. Were they here to make jokes?

Just as the ward fell silent again, the door was pushed open once more.

A man in a suit, standing around six-foot-three, walked in.

"Li Yichen, what trouble are you stirring up again? Didn't you say you were coming to intern at the company today?" The man launched straight into a tirade the moment he entered.

"Brother." Li Yichen called out softly when he saw him.

"A-Yan." Shen Jingmo greeted Li Yiyan.

"Old Shen, he's really caused you trouble." Li Yiyan and Shen Jingmo were clearly very familiar with each other.

Zhu Yu fell silent at the side. This man was Li Yichen's older brother? Li Yiyan?

[Well, here comes another older brother doomed to die young.]

While Li Yiyan was talking with Shen Jingmo, he suddenly heard those words. He touched his ear in confusion and glanced around. No one had opened their mouth.

The moment Shen Jingmo saw his friend's expression, identical to his own earlier, he wondered if Li Yiyan could hear Zhu Yu's thoughts too.

And what had that remark just meant? Would Li Yiyan die?

[Li Yiyan's death was the most unjust of all. No one in the family harmed him—he just had an unlucky younger brother. Li Yichen chased the female lead, Mu Yuqing, into the deep mountains. Li Yiyan had no choice but to join the search-and-rescue team to find his brother, only to fall straight off a cliff. It was because of this that Li Yichen slowly started to get serious later on and inherited the company. But Li Yiyan really died so unfairly.]

Li Yiyan's eyes widened. What the hell? In the future, he would fall off a cliff while trying to save his brother?

Shen Jingmo composed himself, tugged at his friend's sleeve, and shook his head at Li Yiyan.

Li Yiyan frowned when he saw Shen Jingmo's gesture. Could Old Shen hear it too?

Shen Jingmo seemed to understand Li Yiyan's question and nodded.

Li Yiyan took a deep breath. Something this bizarre had actually happened to him?

"Big Brother Li, please save me!" Hearing Li Yiyan's voice, Mu Yuqing got down from the bed, knelt on the floor, and begged.

Zhu Yu's mouth twitched at the sight. He could already imagine what Li Yichen would say.

[You're trying to seduce my brother too?]

"Mu Yuqing, you're trying to seduce my brother too?!"

The two voices reached Li Yiyan and Shen Jingmo's ears at the same time.

Li Yiyan looked at his younger brother with disgust. How could he possibly have such a stupid brother?

"Doctor, it seems he doesn't just have love-brain. He also has delusions." Zhu Yu pointed at Li Yichen, who was also kneeling on the floor, and spoke earnestly to the doctor.

The doctor looked speechlessly at the boy on the floor. The girl had only said one sentence—how had he leaped to her trying to seduce his brother?

Li Yiyan directly made a call and had the bodyguards downstairs come up to take the two of them away. If there was nothing wrong with them, they should stop wasting public resources.

Zhu Yu could finally get off work on time as well.

Li Yiyan followed Shen Jingmo to a nearby teahouse. The moment they entered the private room—

Li Yiyan could no longer suppress his curiosity. "What exactly is going on? What's up with that assistant of yours?"

"It's like what just happened to you. The two of us can hear his thoughts. No, it's not just the two of us—my grandfather can hear them too." Shen Jingmo calmly poured a cup of tea.

"Only the three of us can hear them?" Li Yiyan took the tea and sipped it.

"I don't know. So far, it's only the three of us. We still don't know why. Maybe the three of us have something in common." Shen Jingmo guessed.

"What could we possibly have in common? Since Grandpa Shen can hear it too, it definitely isn't age. Could it be because we're rich? Then why can't my brother hear it?" Li Yiyan frowned.

Shen Jingmo looked thoughtful. "I know."

"Know what?" Li Yiyan looked over curiously.

"Because we die early." Shen Jingmo said it with a calm expression.

"You're joking, right? You really believe what he just said about me dying?" Li Yiyan dismissed it.

"Don't dismiss it. Everything he has said on my side has come true so far. Also, someone poisoned my grandfather before, and over the past few days we found out who did it. It was the housekeeper."

"Really?" Li Yiyan's expression turned serious as he set down his teacup.

"It's true. You'd better keep an eye on your brother. Don't let something really happen because of him in the end." Shen Jingmo looked at Li Yiyan and refilled his empty cup.

"Got it." Li Yiyan nodded. He would never joke around with his own life.