The Master and His Wealthy Fiancée

The doctor who entered the room was a man in his forties wearing thick glasses. Even through the lenses, it was clear how agitated he was, with veins bulging on his neck.

Seeing the doctor’s wild-eyed excitement, Qin Baining asked, ”Dr. Wang, what miracle?”

”President Qin, look! You have to see this! On these scans, the lesion on your heart is gone, and the blockage has cleared up. You’re completely healed!” Dr. Wang said, holding up the scans and pointing frantically in front of Qin Baining. ”It’s a medical miracle. A heart that was practically failing has suddenly recovered! It makes me wonder if we made a mistake admitting you to the ER this afternoon.”

”But then I found your scans from this afternoon and compared them—they’re like night and day. Could you tell me how you recovered? I’m planning to conduct an in-depth study on this topic...”

Qin Baining didn’t hear the rest of what he said. His mind was a complete blank. Even with the doctor holding the scans right in front of him, he couldn’t quite believe he was actually healed.

Sensing Chen Dong’s flicker of annoyance, Sister Li quickly ushered Dr. Wang out of the room.

The room fell silent. Chen Dong stared at Qin Baining and said calmly, ”Do you still think I’m a con artist?”

Qin Baining finally snapped out of his daze. The comfortable feeling in his chest was real, the scans were undeniable proof—his heart disease was really gone.

Immediately, he bowed his head in a sincere apology. ”I’m so sorry, Mr. Chen. To think I actually doubted your medical skills... It was all my fault. Please, don’t take offense.”

He then added, full of shame, ”A fee of ten million really isn’t too much. It’s just... I can’t produce that kind of money right now.”

Qin Baining, once worth tens of billions, felt utterly mortified. Now, he couldn’t even come up with ten million.

Chen Dong ignored Qin Baining. Instead, his eyes flashing with anger, he strode over to Qin Yun and viciously pinched her cheek.

He squeezed her face and said, ”Well now, my little superstar. You never intended to pay me from the start, did you?”

Wincing in pain, Qin Yun didn’t dare to fight back. With tears welling in her eyes, she mumbled, ”I didn’t realize how bad things were at home... The thirty million from the He Family’s commercial appearance was gone in just a few days!”

Chen Dong didn’t take any pleasure in bullying women, so he let her go.

”Forget it. Just my luck to run into you. I’ll just take the three million, then.”

Qin Baining sighed. ”Mr. Chen, could you please wait a little longer? I can come up with three million, but that’s the company’s last bit of money. It’s for operating our new film—it’s our only hope! If that movie can just get released...”

”That’s enough!” Chen Dong raised a hand, cutting Qin Baining off. ’I can’t see any sign of good fortune in Qin Baining’s face. Qin Yun’s face, on the other hand, is practically glowing with wealth, but I have a bad feeling she’ll just end up screwing me over. I should stay far away from this woman.’

The hand he had raised now covered his eyes, and a pained glint of tears flashed between his fingers.

”You only have three years left to live, anyway. Just my luck. I don’t want the money anymore. I’m going back to Jiangzhou!” As he spoke, he started to leave the hospital room.

”Wait!”

”Hold on!”

Qin Baining and Sister Li both cried out at the same time.

Qin Yun went a step further, spreading her arms to block Chen Dong’s path. ”You’re not leaving!”

Anger crossed Chen Dong’s face. It had taken a great deal of resolve for him to decide to give up the money, and now the Qin family wouldn’t even let him go.

He arched an eyebrow, his voice laced with anger. ”Are you going to try and keep me here by force?”

Qin Yun said frantically, ”You haven’t finished treating my dad’s illness, you can’t leave yet.”

”I’ve already done all I can for your father’s condition. The lack of medicinal herbs is not my fault!”

Sister Li quickly added, ”We’ve never even heard of the herbs you mentioned. We wouldn’t know where to buy them. Why don’t you come with us to the auction tomorrow? What if they happen to have them?”

Chen Dong said flatly, ”Every single top-grade medicinal herb is, I imagine, not going to be cheap. Can you even afford to buy them? There’s no point in talking anymore. My business with your Qin family ends here!” He pried Qin Yun’s hands off him and once again tried to leave.

”Mr. Chen, I actually have a way to get the money...” Qin Baining started to say.

At that same moment, seeing that Chen Dong was really leaving, Qin Yun panicked and shouted at his back without thinking, ”If you go, I’ll tell your wife that you slept with me!”

Qin Baining froze mid-sentence, staring blankly at Qin Yun.

That was a lot to take in. He couldn’t quite process what his daughter had just said.

Sister Li also stared at Qin Yun in horror.

Qin Yun realized her mistake and frantically tried to explain. ”Dad, I misspoke! He *wanted* to sleep with me, that’s all. He just thought about it.”

When he heard that, a murderous glint appeared in Chen Dong’s eyes as he stared at Qin Yun.

’What the hell kind of explanation is that?’

Qin Yun shot Chen Dong a pleading look.

Hearing this, Qin Baining surprisingly calmed down. ’My daughter is beautiful and has a great figure,’ he thought. ’It’s only normal for Mr. Chen to have such ideas.’

The look he gave Chen Dong was no longer as hostile, but it was now filled with wariness.

”Mr. Chen, I will pay your fee, you don’t have to worry. I, Qin Baining, am a man of some stature in Qianzhou City. I would never stoop to cheating you out of your fee. But since you already have a family, Mr. Chen, you should not entertain any ideas about my daughter.”

Chen Dong cursed internally but swallowed it down. He let out a cold snort and said, ”Your precious daughter’s bodyguard fee and your medical fee. The total is twelve million, two hundred and twenty thousand.”

Qin Baining nodded. ”I’ll have it for you by the day after tomorrow at the latest.”

Hearing this, Sister Li asked in surprise, ”Old Qin, are you going to sell the villa? If you sell the villa, where will we live?”