"You're looking for Wei Zhao?" Guan Xin was startled for a moment. Looking at Fatty Lai, she couldn't help but pity him. "How about I tell you, then? If he blames you for it, just say I was the one who gave it to you..."

Guan Xin was kind-hearted and could not bear to watch the fat man kneeling at the gate, sobbing his heart out, so she gave him Wei Zhao's phone number.

"Thank you, thank you! Miss Guan, you have such a good heart—surely you're Divine Doctor Lin's girlfriend, aren't you?" Fatty Lai might be a sniveling crybaby, but he was a seasoned old hand in the business world, and his talent for reading faces was nothing short of formidable. The moment he saw that blush steal unbidden across Guan Xin's cheeks when she spoke Wei Zhao's name, he guessed that the bond between the two of them was anything but ordinary.

No wonder Guan Xuemin and Wei Zhao were so close—so this was the reason! Fatty Lai had wondered about it at the time: why would Wei Zhao open a pharmaceutical company together with Guan Xuemin? Was he really that trusting of the man? Wei Zhao's medical skills were far superior to Guan Xuemin's!

So this was the connection behind it all!

"No, really... We're just... good friends." Guan Xin was thrown into such embarrassment by Fatty Lai that her face burned red and she even began to stammer—yet in her heart she was delighted. The fatty might love to cry, but he certainly knew how to say nice things; telling him the number had not been a waste after all.

"Heh heh, then I won't keep you any longer, Miss Guan—I'll go make the call!" Fatty Lai was eager to get himself tangled up with Wei Zhao as soon as possible.

Guan Xin had been embarrassed enough already; at his words she breathed a sigh of relief and ran back into the villa.

Only after Wei Zhao got home did it occur to him that Tang Yun would probably be joining the tree planting tomorrow too—and did she have a sapling or not? He took out his phone, about to call and ask, when it rang first. He thought it was Tang Yun, but it was a number he didn't recognize.

"Hello?" Wei Zhao answered.

"Is this Divine Doctor Lin?" Fatty Lai asked, overjoyed.

"Divine Doctor Lin? Who is this?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback.

Just look at the calls he had been getting these days—a few days ago someone hunting for the Great Thief Lin, and today someone hunting for Divine Doctor Lin...

"Divine Doctor Lin, it really is you! I'm Lai Changyi!" Fatty Lai hurriedly introduced himself.

"Lai Changyi? Never heard of you!" Wei Zhao said, and made to hang up.

"Boo... Divine Doctor Lin, you don't remember me? Boo hoo hoo..." Fatty Lai started crying again.

"Oh, I remember now!" The instant Wei Zhao heard that sobbing, he matched it to a face. "You're that crybaby fatty, aren't you?"

"Yes, yes, that's me! Divine Doctor Lin, you remember me?" Fatty Lai was astonished and delighted all at once.

"I do. What's the matter?" Wei Zhao asked.

"It's like this: that Life-Extending Detox Pill worked wonderfully, so I came specially to pay you the medical fee. Shall I transfer the money to you?" Fatty Lai asked.

"Oh, that. No need—I already told you it was a gift." Hearing what Fatty Lai was after, Wei Zhao turned him down. A hundred million was no small sum, and Wei Zhao was short of money besides, but that pill had been smeared with dog shit—and Kang Zhaoming had thrown it away in the first place—so Wei Zhao could hardly take payment for it.

"How can that be? You must take this money, or my conscience will torment me... boo hoo..." With that, Fatty Lai began to weep again.

"Huh?" Wei Zhao was left rather speechless by the man. "Isn't saving you money a good thing?"

"Then how about this, Divine Doctor Lin? Aren't you starting a pharmaceutical company? What if I give you an office building? I just put up a new tower and was planning to move the company I'm in charge of into it, but I don't need that much space—a few floors will do. I meant to rent out the rest, but how about I just give it to you?" Fatty Lai asked.

"If you really want to give it, then give it." When Wei Zhao heard it was an office space for himself, he stopped refusing—it saved him the trouble of finding a place.

"All right—and should the property deed be in your name as well?" Seeing that Wei Zhao no longer refused, Fatty Lai was overjoyed.

"Put it under Grandpa Guan..." Wei Zhao had meant to say Guan Xuemin's name, but on second thought, Guan Xuemin would never agree to that, so he said, "Put it in Guan Xin's name."

"All right, I've noted it down." Fatty Lai nodded hurriedly. So Wei Zhao and Guan Xin really did have a deep connection—it seemed his guess had been right after all.

"Is there anything else?" Wei Zhao was anxious to call Tang Yun and had no patience to dawdle with him.

"There is. That Life-Extending Detox Pill—could you sell me another one...?" Fatty Lai finally came out with what he wanted.

"Oh. Well, your grandfather won't be dying anytime soon," Wei Zhao said. "In a few days, when the pharmaceutical company opens, I'll put some up for auction. Buy it then."

"Yes, good! As long as I can get my hands on some!" Fatty Lai wasn't short of money and couldn't care less about auctions. "Boo hoo, I'm so happy..."

Wei Zhao hung up and let out a breath of relief. This fellow was far too long-winded—truly unbearable. He shook his head and dialed Tang Yun's number.

"Hello? Wei Zhao? Is something the matter?" Tang Yun had just gotten home from the hospital when she received his call.

"There's tree planting at school tomorrow—do you have a sapling?" Wei Zhao asked.

"I do. Do you want one? There are plenty in my yard," Tang Yun said. "I can just break off a couple of little saplings."

"Uh—" Wei Zhao smacked his own head. Only then did he remember that Tang Yun's family lived in a single-story house in the shantytown, with a yard right at the door and plenty of wild little saplings growing around its edge. "No, I just thought that if you didn't have one, I'd buy some for you..."

"No need, heh heh..." Tang Yun sounded very happy. His concern sent wave after wave of sweetness rippling through her heart. So this, then, was what it felt like to be in love—a wonderful feeling... She had always pushed such things away before, but once you truly fell for someone, there was no holding it back.

"All right then, see you tomorrow." They chatted idly for a while longer, and only when Tang Yun's mother called her to eat did Wei Zhao hang up.

Inside the Awesome Floating Cloud Bar, An Jianwen sat beside Li Cihua, his face grim. "Brother Cihua, this time you have to help me. Send a few tough men to teach that brat Wei Zhao a lesson—Taizao and I took a huge loss this time!"

Li Cihua, however, only pondered in silence.

"Brother Cihua, you know as well as I do that the Fire Wolf Gang's best men were taken away by my elder brother, and the new ones aren't in place yet. Otherwise I wouldn't have come to you with this!" Seeing that Li Cihua still said nothing, An Jianwen grew anxious.

"How... what level of expert?" Li Cihua sighed, and finally spoke.

"Early Yellow Rank. It was agreed he'd stay here at my side, but my elder brother—the man has no character at all—actually took that expert away with him!" At this point An Jianwen's eyes brimmed with venomous hatred. "If not for that, could I have been humiliated by some petty bodyguard?"

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