Cheng Jianjun did not tell Xiaoxing about the threats He Wenjie had made, knowing full well that if she found out he was broke, their relationship would immediately end, and he still needed her to help him sell fake antiques. Up until now, Xiaoxing had no idea he was practically bankrupt.
A week after returning the money to Su Meng, Cheng Jianjun came home and was surprised to find an envelope by his door. Seeing no return address, he realized someone had dropped it off directly. Puzzled, he opened it to find his own medical report—and the results showed he was in the terminal stages of cancer. At first, he thought it was some kind of sick joke, but a nervous trip to the hospital confirmed that the report was genuine.
Refusing to accept it, Cheng Jianjun went to another hospital for a checkup, only for the second diagnosis to confirm the same terminal cancer. He sat slumped outside the hospital entrance, holding the report, unable to comprehend how his life had taken such a sudden turn. As he retraced the events of the past few days, he remembered He Wenjie mentioning that he had people following him. He Wenjie must have known about his previous hospital visit, which meant these test results had very likely been switched by him. As for why He Wenjie would do that, the answer was obvious: it was all for that sixty million yuan. If he had known earlier that he had cancer and was living on borrowed time, he never would have handed over that sixty million so willingly, even if …
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