"Hey, Mr. Yan..."
She reached out and patted Yan Feifan’s shoulder. "I came here today to apologize to you in person."
"I’m sorry!"
Zeng Ni rushed through the apology, then quickly added, "And thank you for not holding a grudge and agreeing to operate on Yein Xiaomei’s mother."
Yan Feifan turned to look at the scenery blurring past the window. "No need to thank me," he said casually.
"I’m just fulfilling my contract with the Baining Group—three surgeries every two weeks. It doesn’t matter who the patient is."
Zeng Ni said with a serious expression, "It might not be important to you, but it’s extremely important to Yein Xiaomei."
She patted his shoulder again.
"Mr. Yan, how about we partner up on something?"
"Not interested," Yan Feifan replied flatly.
"It’s like this..."
Zeng Ni ignored his refusal and launched into her pitch. "There’s this jewelry store that sells jadeite. All their pieces are top-grade."
"The store is running a promotion to test your eye for quality."
"Of course, it’s targeted at amateurs, not jadeite experts."
"They mix one real piece of jadeite jewelry in with nine nearly identical fakes. For just one-tenth of the real item’s price, you get three chances to pick it out."
Zeng Ni’s voice was full of excitement. "Mr. Yan, you have a photographic memory. We can work together! If you pick out the real piece, I’ll give you a cut equal to one-tenth of its value."
She added, trying to entice him, "And don’t think that one-tenth is a small amount."
"A lot of the jadeite pieces they sell are worth over a million."
"If we just pick out a few pieces, you could make hundreds of thousands, even a million. That’s way more than you make from a day of surgery."
Yan Feifan shot her a sideways glance. "You’ve already tried this a few times and never picked the real one, haven’t you?"
"How did you know?" Zeng Ni asked, surprised.
Yan Feifan said scornfully, "As the saying goes, the seller is always shrewder than the buyer. If they’re running a game like this, you can bet they’re confident you won’t win."
"In my opinion, it’s just a disguised form of gambling. It’s best to stay away from it."
"Just consider it the price of learning a lesson."
Zeng Ni grabbed his arm. "I can’t do that! Mr. Yan, I’ll be honest with you..."
"I wanted to buy my grandmother a jadeite bracelet for her birthday, but I ended up spending all my money and still didn’t get it."
"It was so embarrassing at her birthday party."
"I just can’t let it go."
"Mr. Yan, please, just help me this one time. Okay?"
Yan Feifan rolled his eyes and replied curtly, "No. I don’t have time."
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