Chapter Three: The Price of an Apex

They both fell silent. He knew he had changed the question. Yet the most dangerous temptation was not greed. It was the knowledge that you truly had saved someone. They went to the private hospital the next afternoon. Shen Yan imposed three conditions: the entire fee would fund medical trusts for Duoduo and six other children; Lin Wan would retain an undeletable record; and any negative taken as collateral belonged to him. Qi Man smiled. “You are already pricing miracles.” The client was Chen Boqian, founder of a shipping empire. Disease made his hands tremble. At four, his board would vote on a hostile takeover. He wanted the mind he had possessed at forty-five, when he gambled three old freighters and won an ocean of routes.