1 Chapter 1 - My Sister Shot Me (1/2)

Shen Shikong sat by the window of his laboratory in his wheelchair.

His face showed slight impatience and anxiety. He is waiting for the test results of his experiments. He slowly reached with his hand towards the thread near his chin and slowly moved it down to the the dragon shaped pendant hanging around his neck. It gave a slight silver lustre even though it is slightly rusted at few places. Whenever he is anxious, he touched the pendant. Strangely, it always relieved him of his anxiety and gave him peace and calmed him down.

At 31, Shikong is a very handsome man, only if not for his messy hair and sleepless crazy eyes. It has been six and half years since he lost function of the lower part of his body in an accident. Since then he is crazily trying to find a cure to stand again. He failed repeatedly until everything changed one year ago. He once again touched the dragon shaped pendant which brought a big change to him last year with a wry smile on his face.

As he touched the pendant, he remembered his father, who he hadn't met in seven years, the person who abandoned him after his unfortunate accident. Irony is, the reason for the cure is a gift he received from his father when he was a kid. His father, Shen Huang, is a very famous archaeologist. He discovered an ancient tomb twenty years ago which turned the world upside down. When he got back from his expedition, he gifted Shikong with a strange rock found in that site.

He was suddenly interrupted from his thoughts by the sound of door opening.

He turned his head to see a cute girl with a beautiful face, slender hands and legs wearing a beautiful red dress standing by the door.

”Brother Shikong”, the girl smiled sweetly and walked towards him. He turned his wheelchair to look at her with a kind smile on his face.

”It's been a while. How are you brother Shen?” she asked.

”I'm great. How are you Miér?” Shikong asked with a smile on his face.

Shen Shenmi, 24 years old, his step sister, the one and only person who was kind to him after his accident. She met her for the first time six months after his accident when she introduced herself as his step sister. His father got married to another woman and started living with her in USA. After his mother passed away when he was 6 years old, even though his father was not always there, he never showed interested in any other woman. So it came as a shock to him. She said his father is busy with an archaeological finding and unable to come and she came to visit him on his stead.

At first, he was not sure how he felt about her. He suddenly had a sister and it was hard for him to accept it. But, she stayed with him for three months after meeting him. She said she was on a holiday and it was her first time visiting China. She was very kind to him at the time when there was no one for him. She encouraged him to find the cure and helped him in anyway she could. He got close to her at that time and started to really consider her as his sister and loved her like one. Even after she left, she kept in touch him everyday, and visited him every year since then.

”I'm fine brother. Why did you ask me to come suddenly?” She suddenly thought of something and exclaimed ”Is it that you finally succeeded?” She couldn't hide her enthusiasm. There was also some complicated emotion shown in her face.

”Hahaha Miér, you guessed it right. I injected the cure to him yesterday. He will be conscious any minute now.”

”I wanted you to be here when I finally reach my dream” he smiled kindly to his sister.

He thought about the last time he met his sister a year ago. She came to visit him like every year. But this time, she brought a letter with her from his father.

The letter mentioned how he was disappointed of his son and don't want to see him ever again. He was so angry at that time.

After not seeing his father for so many years, this is what he gets from his father? A written letter saying he was disappointed in him. He was not even willing to even speak with him in person, or at least through a phone.They did have their disagreements in the past due to his choice to become a scientist, but he didn't expect that letter at all and his father's disappointment in him.

More than sadness, he felt angry at his situation and his father, and he smashed the rock he received from his father as a gift when he was a kid.

He was astonished at that time to find the dragon shaped pendant inside the broken rock. It gave off a medicinal smell. He took the pendant and found the smell coming from the moss like substance on top of the pendant. He was intrigued at that time, and on a whim tested the moss like substance. Who would have that when he tested it, he found some new medicinal effect from the moss substance.

He believed this medicinal substance is what is necessary for his cure. With determination to prove his father wrong and to cure himself, he became crazier and dwell deeper into his experiments. He tested the results he found in various animals and got positive results.

He even lessened his contact with his sister due to him being busy with the experiments. Finally after almost a year and after various tests on animals, he found the cure and he required a patient to do final test.

He finally found a person, Marvin, who was introduced to him by his sister. He was a veteran who was injured in an international military operation and lost functionality of lower half of his body, just like him. He made some tests on him first to understand his condition, then he stabilised Marvin to optimum condition and finally yesterday he injected the cure into the patient.