Bumping into Pottery

Three million yen was no small sum.

If the colleagues from Huxi City Seventh People's Hospital who had come to Japan on a group tour pooled all their resources, they might just be able to scrape together enough.

But... why should they?!

People were cold-hearted nowadays, barely able to look after themselves. If everyone chipped in a few hundred thousand, they could fill this huge hole, but even close family and dear friends might not be willing to shoulder that kind of burden.

"I... I'll ask Li Bai."

Nurse Su Mei had no other choice. She pulled out her phone and asked Li Bai for help.

"Fish's Eyebrows (Su Mei): Li Bai, do you have any money?"

Then she held the phone to her chest and prayed he would reply soon.

At this critical moment, Su Mei placed all her hopes on Li Bai.

If even Li Bai refused to help, she could only ask her parents to sell their house to get them out of trouble.

"Doctor Li? What good would asking him do? He's from out of town. He probably can't even afford the down payment on an affordable apartment. Even if he wanted to help you, he wouldn't have that much money!"

The senior nurse from the inpatient department knew Su Mei was close to Li Bai, but being close wouldn't solve a problem of this magnitude!

Nearly two million yuan—that wasn't the sort of money someone could conjure up out of nowhere.

Li Bai was doing well at the moment, and perhaps in ten years he could have saved up a couple million yuan or so. But right now, even if the hospital leaders valued him, he'd only been at Huxi City Seventh People's Hospital for a little over a year—not even two. His seniority was