Chapter Five: My Mother No Longer Knew Me

Lin walked onstage and raised his banking app toward the live cameras. “I'll increase Changqing Capital's thirty-million pledge to one hundred million, if the director personally shows me the specimen archive.” Cameras flashed. The director recognized “President Lin” from the rewritten system and offered an eager handshake. Zhao could rewrite memories, but he could not make a greedy man refuse one hundred million quickly enough. The director opened the basement door. Su jammed the fire lock behind them. Qin delayed security while Lin followed the reference number to an eight-year-old freezer case. Inside were two samples from He Xiaoyu. One swarmed with malignant cells. The other was as clean as if she had never been sick.