The Shen Brothers Were All Oddballs

Shen Shenxing had just been chewed out, while Shen Zhishan was still heading straight into danger despite knowing it was there.

Not one of the Shen brothers could spare anyone a headache.

After breakfast, Shen Zhishan went to work at the lab as planned.

But after hearing his seventh sister's thoughts that morning, Shen Zhishan, who normally focused solely on research and ignored everything else, had kept his guard up.

After organizing his data, he tested his drinking cup and the bottled water on a whim. To his surprise, he actually detected a highly toxic substance in his cup.

The poison had been smeared inside the lid, in a spot easily overlooked when washing the cup. Hot steam would dissolve it, making it drip into the cup.

At that moment, his mind went completely blank.

Someone really had poisoned his cup, trying to kill him.

And whoever it was clearly knew his routine, including that he was the only one who worked overtime at the lab on Sundays.

Then he remembered how his fourth brother had asked him yesterday to tap their father's phone when he had time.

Shen Zhishan realized someone was targeting not just his father, but him as well-and possibly their third brother, who had nearly been in a car accident that morning.

After returning home, Shen Zhishan immediately found his fourth brother and told him what had happened.

"So after hearing our seventh sister's thoughts this morning, you still went to the lab?" Shen Ruogu looked at his fifth brother, fighting the urge to strangle him.

"I thought she was joking with me!" Shen Zhishan replied innocently.

"Are you an idiot?" Shen Ruogu grabbed his fifth brother's shoulders and shook him, wishing he could shake some sense into that waterlogged brain.

"Sorry!" Shen Zhishan apologized awkwardly.

He really hadn't taken it seriously at the time, treating it as nothing more than a joke. But if he hadn't heard his seventh sister's thoughts and kept his guard up,

it would have been no laughing matter now. He would already be lying in a hospital waiting to die. The thought still sent chills through him.

Shen Banxia skipped into the living room just then and saw her fourth and fifth brothers coming downstairs.

She hopped over to her fifth brother, tilted her little head up, and studied him in confusion.

His color doesn't look great, but he's moving just fine. He looks poisoned, but also not really. Did the poison stop working?!

Or did Xu Junshan grow a conscience and change his mind about having someone poison my fifth brother?

Shen Zhishan's already pale face turned white as a sheet.

Just before he and his fourth brother came downstairs, they had heard their father talking to someone through the listening equipment. He still couldn't accept what he had heard.

Now his seventh sister's thoughts dealt him another brutal blow.

Didn't this further confirm that their father had ordered someone to poison his cup? He had no choice but to believe it.

Uh-oh, is the poison kicking in? His face has gone white.

"Shen Zhishan, should you go to the hospital? You don't look very well." Shen Banxia couldn't help warning him.

Although she had decided from the start to be a spectator, coldly watching Xu Junshan and Xu Mingyue destroy the Shen Family, then bow out once the whole sequence had run its course,

now that her fifth brother was standing before her, alive and breathing, she honestly couldn't bear it. She didn't want to see him die in agony like that.

"I'm... I'm fine!" Shen Zhishan replied.

"Who says you're fine? You're going to the hospital for a full checkup!" Ignoring his fifth brother's protests, Shen Ruogu marched him off to the hospital and made sure to bring their seventh sister along.

Even if he hadn't been poisoned today, who knew whether someone had already started poisoning him earlier with something slow-acting that hadn't taken effect yet? Getting him checked would be safer.

"Shen Ruogu, if he's going to the hospital for a checkup, why do I have to come too?" Shen Banxia asked in confusion from the back seat.

"Your fifth brother isn't feeling well. As his seventh sister, don't you have a responsibility?"

"What responsibility do I have?" Shen Banxia was even more bewildered.

"You have a responsibility to look after your older brothers. If I can't handle everything, shouldn't you help?" Shen Ruogu replied irritably.

"Oh, that makes sense!" Shen Banxia nodded.

Shen Ruogu looked away and said nothing more.

He didn't actually need his seventh sister's help. He had brought her along as a precaution. If anything unexpected happened, she would surely start commenting on it again.

Once they heard her, they could prepare in advance.

Before they reached the hospital, Shen Ruogu bundled himself up like a wrapped dumpling.

He wore a hat, a mask, and glasses, with a long down coat wrapped around him for good measure.

"Shen Ruogu, are you cold?" Shen Banxia asked hesitantly.

"No!"

"Then why are you dressed like that?"

"I'm worried fans will recognize me at the hospital. If they crowd around me, it'll cause trouble for the hospital.

"And I'm even more worried the paparazzi will take pictures and write a bunch of nonsense," Shen Ruogu explained.

"Won't wrapping yourself up like that attract even more attention?" Shen Banxia asked the crucial question.

Apart from medical staff, everyone at the hospital was either a patient or a family member. They were all worried sick. Who had the time to notice someone passing by, unless that person looked so strange they couldn't help taking another look?

And with her fourth brother dressed like that, it would be hard not to notice him.

Shen Ruogu stared at his seventh sister in surprise.

"Really?"

"Of course. Just keep your mask on," Shen Banxia replied earnestly, nodding.

In the end, Shen Ruogu took her advice and removed his glasses, hat, and long down coat.

Once they reached the hospital, there really was nothing Shen Banxia needed to do. Even Shen Ruogu didn't have to do anything.

The Shen Family was one of the hospital's shareholders, so arranging a checkup for a family member couldn't have been simpler.

Besides, they used the VIP entrance and received SVIP treatment. Forget running into fans-they barely encountered any strangers apart from medical staff along the way.

To make his fifth brother look more like a patient, Shen Ruogu even had an orderly bring over a wheelchair. Without allowing any argument, he pushed his fifth brother into it and insisted he stay in it until the test results came back.

"Shen Zhishan, I-"

"Sit down!"

Under his fourth brother's dark stare, Shen Zhishan could only obediently sit back down. Cramming his tall, broad frame into a wheelchair felt humiliating. He lowered his head, wishing he could find somewhere to hide, but from the side, his deeply hunched posture really did make him look like a patient.

Between the blood draw and the examinations, they went through quite an ordeal.

Shen Banxia hadn't expected her fourth brother to be such a wimp. When he saw his fifth brother having blood drawn, his eyes suddenly rolled back and he fainted, nearly scaring her to death.

It turned out her fourth brother fainted at the sight of blood!

In the end, the person having his blood drawn was fine, while the person accompanying him was carried onto a hospital bed for emergency treatment.

Just after her fourth brother woke up, Shen Banxia heard someone howling in the next room. Why did that voice sound so much like her second brother?

Unable to resist checking out the commotion, she ran outside and peeked through the doorway. Sure enough, it was her second brother!

Afraid of getting an injection, he had climbed onto the bed like a child and was playing cat and mouse with the nurse and their third brother.

"Shen Jinyan, are you possessed?"

Shen Jinyan jerked his head up as though he'd been electrocuted and saw his seventh sister, who had appeared in the doorway at some point, watching him with a curious expression.