After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots' Beloved novel Chapter 397

Chapter 397: Chapter 397: The Fruit Knife Held High

Hearing someone call her name, Shi Luochen finally stopped spacing out. When she saw it was her mother calling her, she instinctively walked toward Lin Fangling.

Shi Erya noticed Lin Fangling’s sudden arrival and asked, "Sister-in-law, what brings you here so late to see Chenchen? Is something wrong?"

However, upon hearing the question, Lin Fangling’s face changed. Unhappy, she retorted, "I’m his mother. Do I need a reason to see my own son? Do I have to consult you first?"

"No, that’s not what I meant, sister-in-law..." Shi Erya immediately stood up, flustered. She began explaining helplessly.

Her question was simply due to the fact that, every night, the two children were looked after by the nanny and put to bed.

It was already almost eleven o’clock now, and she assumed Lin Fangling had gone upstairs to sleep with her brother. But Lin Fangling had come to find the child, and she had called only Chenchen.

Yet in the Shi Family, Shi Chengyun had always disliked Shi Erya, and as a result, Lin Fangling’s attitude toward her stayed distant as well.

Shi Erya was trying to ease the tension, but every small remark like this seemed to lead to misunderstandings.

Seeing her son come to her side, Lin Fangling lost interest in continuing the exchange with Shi Erya and pulled Shi Luochen away.

Watching them leave, Shi Erya could only sit back down in her chair.

Lu Sheng frowned slightly but didn’t say anything. She simply returned to the earlier topic, asking, "Auntie, what did you mean when you said Chenchen can’t talk?"

"Oh... that," Shi Erya sighed, "Chenchen can’t speak because he has an intellectual disability."

"An intellectual disability?" Lu Sheng was taken aback.

Shi Luochen—a child so beautiful he resembled an angel—actually had an intellectual disability?

"Yes," Shi Erya confirmed. "Luoyu and Luochen are twins. They were born less than a minute apart. But Luoyu was already calling ’Mom’ and ’Dad’ by the time he was eight months old, whereas Luochen hadn’t uttered a single word by the age of two."

"At first, everyone in the family thought he was just a late talker. But when Luochen turned two and a half and still hadn’t spoken a word, my brother and sister-in-law got worried and began suspecting he might be mute."

"Later, they took Chenchen to the hospital for tests. The doctor said that Chenchen wasn’t mute but had an intellectual disability where his brain lacked the ability to process language. They said his intelligence might remain frozen at a level similar to a child’s for the rest of his life."

"And that’s exactly how it played out. Chenchen is already ten years old now, but he always seems so dazed, completely different from Luoyu. Honestly, I don’t even know if he can understand what we’re saying most of the time."

... So that was the reason.

After hearing Shi Erya’s explanation, Lu Sheng couldn’t help but recall Shi Luochen’s appearance earlier and felt deeply moved.

Although Shi Chengyun treated her badly, those grudges among adults had nothing to do with an innocent child. If possible, Lu Sheng still hoped Shi Luochen could recover and live a normal life.

But intellectual disabilities aren’t the same as physical illnesses.

Physical illnesses might be treatable with medicine, but even Lu Sheng couldn’t make a child’s brain fully develop to overcome an intellectual disability.

A few minutes later, a servant arrived to escort Shi Luoyu away as well. After finishing acupuncture therapy for Shi Mingxiu, Lu Sheng bid Shi Erya goodnight and returned to her room to rest.

But upon entering her room upstairs, Lu Sheng immediately noticed a faint, elusive fragrance lingering in the air—something absent when she had left the room earlier in the afternoon.

Lu Sheng instinctively frowned.

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