Chapter Five: My Mother No Longer Knew Me

Forty-six hours remained before the seventy-two-hour deadline. The three escaped through a disused Exchange drain. Qin kept his daughter's footprint card inside his coat. Once the system recorded a proof, he explained, the contradiction could never be erased again. But all six originals still had to appear together at the midnight clearing desk to reverse settlement. The fourth person on the list, He Xiaoyu, was at Haicheng Cancer Hospital. She had sold the possibility of twenty-seven cancer-free years. The buyer had used those years to survive until today, while He had lived in the hospital since nineteen. Every record said she had been ill for eight years. But Su discovered that He had entered a drug trial before her admission.