Chapter Four: No One Behind the Door

“The ugliest bargain isn't buying someone's conscience,” Chenzhou said, pushing the papers away. “It is stealing a life, breaking it into pieces, then selling those pieces back as favors.” Wanqing stared at the drive without releasing it. “What if this really contains the last images of my mother?” “Then they have even less right to set the price of seeing them.” Bai Yi smiled. “Refusal is easy. Principles become expensive when family is lying on an operating table.” As if summoned, Zhou Ye's phone rang. A kidney had been matched for his grandmother, but the Lu medical fund had withdrawn its guarantee. If he failed to pay the deposit within six hours, the organ would go to the next patient. Zhou Ye stared at the agreement, his eyes red.