Ch. 1Utterly Humiliated
At Old Madam Xiao’s birthday banquet, Ye Chen was humiliated for asking to borrow money for Aunt Li’s treatment, while Xiao Churan refused to divorce him for the sake of the loan. At the hospital, Ye Chen learned that his estranged grandfather had sent Tang Sihai to offer him a ten-billion-yuan card, leaving him to decide whether to accept help from the family he blamed for his parents’ deaths.
- Ye Chen asked Old Madam Xiao to lend him a million yuan for Aunt Li’s medical care, but she and the Xiao family mocked and insulted him.
- Old Madam Xiao offered to pay if Xiao Churan divorced Ye Chen and married Zhang Wenhao, but Xiao Churan refused and chose to leave with Ye Chen.
- Xiao Hailong threw a coin at Ye Chen as he left the banquet, while the Xiao family laughed at him.
- At the hospital, Ye Chen learned Aunt Li had been moved to Peking Union Medical College Hospital, where two million yuan remained due within a week.
- Tang Sihai told Ye Chen that his grandfather had searched for him and offered compensation, but Ye Chen refused to return or accept the black-and-gold card until Tang revealed it held ten billion yuan.