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But Qi Yang hadn't told her what had happened. She had looked it up herself using the Intelligence System. She had nearly forgotten she had it. Concern really did cloud the mind. Only after checking did she ask Qi Yang; at first, she had merely wanted to test his reaction.

She hadn't expected him to tell her everything the moment she asked.

He even said, "As long as you ask, I'll tell you anything I know. I'll never lie to you."

"Did you know Lu Li was hospitalized?" Song Qinghe, who had been silent beside them, suddenly spoke up.

"Heart trouble. I heard they managed to save him."

Qi Yang gave a cold snort. "Good. Dying now would be letting him off too easily."

At the same time, at the Municipal People's Hospital.

Inside the intensive care ward lay Lu Li, tubes running into his body and a ventilator breathing for him. Outside, Lu Yanshi sat on a bench with his head in his hands, utterly defeated.

Shen Anya stared at the scene in a daze. This wasn't how it was supposed to be. In her dream, Lu Yanshi had turned things around, hadn't he?

Things weren't supposed to be like this. The Lu Corporation was gone, and the Lu Family was no longer what it had been. Lu Li still lay in intensive care, where each day cost tens of thousands. The doctor had said his heart condition had caused a cerebral infarction. They would have to see what happened when he woke, but he might be paralyzed for life. Why had things turned out this way? She couldn't understand where it had all gone wrong. This wasn't the ending she wanted.

"Family of the patient in bed 504, remember to pay today's charges." A nurse walked past and