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Covering his face, Li Yan figured this was probably the local way of welcoming people, so he did not dare say anything.

Even when the district chief reminded him that he should say thank you, he forced a cheerful expression, bowed obsequiously, and smiled as broadly as he could. "I am Li Yan. Thank you, sir, for the big slap."

Chen Yu stared at Li Yan for a moment, then patted his shoulder in satisfaction. "A stomach ulcer. It was almost developing into a gastric perforation."

"Um... forgive my impertinence, but are you a doctor?"

"Yes. The licensed kind."

Li Yan thought for a long time, feeling as though his brain was about to start smoking, before finally squeezing out, "I've paid plenty of medical insurance too. How could you treat me like this?"

"It has nothing to do with medical insurance. I'm treating your illness. Forget it, you'll understand later anyway."

"Oh."

Li Yan entered Sunshine Inn in a daze, then lay dead on the bed.

Watching Li Yan stagger into his room like a walking corpse, Chen Yu grabbed the district chief and asked curiously, "What happened to him? He doesn't look like he's from the Lower District."

"The Central District. He got into a little trouble and was exiled here. Employees like him are usually rather fragile. You have to take care raising them, since you never know when they'll die."

"Doesn't he have anywhere else to go? Does he absolutely have to come to the Lower District?"

The district chief looked at Chen Yu with pity, her gaze as indulgent as though she were looking at a child who had not grown up. "You don't understand. At a big company, even retiring normally is difficult, let alone for an employee like him who made a mistake.