"But… it's okay now… Big brother… so that you could wake up anytime, so that we could say we're a family again… we fixed everything…!"
The story he had barely been listening to ended like that.
Just then, a loud and quick footsteps came rushing down the hallway outside.
With the sharp sliding sound of the hospital room door opening, a voices suddenly rang out.
"Li Shen!!"
"Li Shen! You're awake!!"
The two people who almost stumbled as they rushed to the bedside were familiar faces, though they looked somewhat older than he remembered.
One of them was the man he had once called father, the man who had never shown much interest in him.
The other was the only person he had ever wanted to be loved by so desperately, the woman he had called mother.
The two of them pushed past his younger brother and crowded around his pillow.
They dropped to their knees on the floor, took his unmoving hand, and spoke through tears.
