At past six in the evening, Yan Feifan, Yu Suye, Duan Yu, and Tian Yu were sitting around the table having dinner together in the Yan family’s dining room at Zuimo Court.

Yu Suye had barely taken a few bites when she couldn’t hold back her curiosity. “Feifan, that guy who came back from Canada claims he grew up with you. From the looks of it, you seem to really dislike him.”

Yan Feifan didn’t reply directly. Instead, he rolled up his left sleeve and showed his arm to Yu Suye.

Tian Yu leaned her little head over and asked, “Mr. Yan, what are you showing us?”

“Look here!” Yan Feifan pointed to a spot on the outer side of his left wrist with his right index finger.

Yu Suye and Tian Yu leaned in a bit closer. Finally, they spotted two faint, pea-sized scars right next to each other.

“Feifan, what is this?”

“I was bitten by that guy’s younger sister when we were kids. It bled a lot back then.” Yan Feifan explained, pulling his arm back, his face flashing with indignation. “He and his sister were both absolute jerks when we were kids. They always picked on me, and me alone. After they graduated from elementary school, their family sold the apartments they had received as demolition compensation, and they all emigrated to Canada on an investment visa.”

Yan Feifan scoffed. “He came back this time acting like nothing ever happened, playing the part of a childhood friend. But I haven’t forgotten the bullying I endured from him and his sister.”

Yu Suye stifled a laugh and said, “Feifan, you’ve always been smart and precocious since you were little. Couldn’t you deal with two bratty kids your own age?”

Yan Feifan glared at her and defended himself. “A lot of things can’t be solved with brains alone, especially for kids. Those two, especially his sister, were absolute terrors. She was a demon in pigtails. The moment things didn’t go her way, she would throw screaming tantrums, kick, and bite. She was completely violent. Plus, there were two of them. I was no match for them in a fight, so all I could do was stay as far away from them as possible.”

Yu Suye chuckled. “I didn’t expect you to have such a complicated history with those siblings. So, what did he come back for? Is he returning to the country for his career and looking you up to catch up?”

Yan Feifan let out a soft sneer. “He specifically returned to the country to ask me to perform surgery on his son.” With a look of disdain, he added, “He’s three months younger than me, yet he has a nine-year-old son. That alone should tell you what kind of piece of work he is.”

Tian Yu gasped in shock. “Mr. Yan, you’re twenty-five, and the kid is nine. Doesn’t that mean he had him when he was fifteen or sixteen? Wow, what a totally shameless guy!” Pausing for a moment, she asked, “Mr. Yan, what’s wrong with his son?”

Yan Feifan explained, “He said there was an accident. Their vehicle suddenly caught fire, and the boy’s face was disfigured. I saw the photos. About fifty percent of his face is covered in burns. It’s quite severe!”

“Did you refuse?” Yu Suye guessed.

Yan Feifan shook his head. “No. The grudges between adults shouldn’t be passed down to children. However, since I finally caught an opportunity to avenge the bullying I suffered in my early years, I couldn’t just let it slide. We’re all adults now, so it wouldn’t be appropriate to beat him to a pulp to vent my childhood frustrations. I can only make up for it financially. So, I told him I could take the surgery, but the fee wouldn’t be cheap. A flat rate of five million!”

At this point, Yan Feifan suddenly looked a bit depressed and said, “He actually agreed to it right away.”

Tian Yu asked eagerly, “Mr. Yan, were you trying to make him back off by scaring him away with the high price of five million?”

Yan Feifan shook his head again and sighed softly. “Not exactly. The quote was negotiable. I just wanted him to humbly beg me a few times so I could fulfill my childhood wish.”

Yu Suye’s eyes curved in a smile. “Feifan, when you were being bullied as a kid, did you always furiously think to yourself, ‘Just you wait, one day, I’ll show you’?”

Yan Feifan said, a bit embarrassed, “You’re not far off. It’s just that this guy agreed without a second thought, so he didn’t give me the chance to live out that fantasy. It seems they’re doing quite well for themselves in Canada. At the very least, they’re making a lot of money.”

Yu Suye comforted him. “Feifan, no matter what, at least you get to make a lot of money out of it. It still counts as venting your frustration.”

“I suppose I’ll just have to look at it that way.”

Yan Feifan agreed. Just then, his phone started ringing. It was a call from his sister.

Yan Feifan’s sister informed him that Mrs. Tian had just called, saying the tenant family currently living in the apartment at Happiness Garden wanted to exercise their right of first refusal to buy the property. This made Yan Ziruo extremely angry.

When they first decided to sell the apartment, they had asked the tenants, but the family had replied that they didn’t want to buy it. The apartment had been listed for several months, and they had negotiated with a few interested buyers on and off! Seeing that the buyer they were currently negotiating with genuinely wanted to buy it, Yan Ziruo had appropriately lowered the price a bit. Unexpectedly, right as they were about to sign the contract, the tenants suddenly popped up, demanding to exercise their right of first refusal.

“Feifan, that family only jumped out to interfere because they saw I lowered the price. I’m so furious!”

Yan Feifan said nonchalantly, “People are naturally profit-driven. Seeing a chance to take advantage of a good deal, they obviously jumped out to snatch it up. What do you want to do about it now, Sis?”

He could hear Yan Ziruo huffing angrily over the phone. “I’m not selling it! We’re not short on cash, so it’s not like we have to sell it. If they had wanted to buy it in the beginning, I would have given them an even bigger discount. But popping out now to ruin the deal? What kind of nonsense is that? I’m so mad. I’m not selling. Once their one-year lease is up, I’ll kick them out, and then we’ll sell the apartment.”

Yan Feifan chuckled softly. “It’s up to you, Sis. We don’t lack money right now, so we can afford to be a little willful.”

He ended the call with his sister and looked at Tian Yu. “Xiaoyu, try to talk some sense into your mom. She’s almost seven months pregnant, and she’s an older expectant mother. If she doesn’t have to work, she really shouldn’t.”

Tian Yu swallowed the food in her mouth and said, “Mr. Yan, I doubt I can convince her. My mom feels like she’s still in great shape and can run around just fine. Besides, she even bragged that there are a lot of perks to working with a big belly. Not only are the buyers and sellers much more accommodating, but she’s also closed several more deals than her colleagues. She wants to take advantage of this rare opportunity to earn enough money for the baby’s formula.”

Hearing Tian Yu say this, Yan Feifan couldn’t really say much else. He could only let out a soft sigh.

After dinner, Tian Yu went back to school to study, Duan Yu cleaned up the dining room, and Yan Feifan and Yu Suye returned to their respective rooms. Tomorrow was Wednesday, and they both had a lot of work to prepare for.

At nearly nine o’clock that evening, Yan Feifan received a call from Dr. Gu Lin. He was informed that after some discussion, the five top experts had decided to conduct animal trials for the heart-splicing surgery first. If the results of the animal trials were promising, they would submit a project application and officially launch the research.

In Dr. Gu Lin’s words, if the heart-splicing surgery was proven feasible—setting aside whether it could reduce immune rejection in human heart transplants—it would at least open up the possibility of using a single donor heart for two patients. After all, donor hearts had always been incredibly scarce!

Yan Feifan imagined slicing a heart in half and transplanting it into two different people. It seemed like pure fantasy. However, with the continuous advancement of medicine, many impossibilities of the past had become realities. With breakthroughs and progress in medical technology, even the most magical concepts had the potential to become real…

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