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"Your Mrs. Zong is quite something. I heard she's been investigating Zong's Hospital all over the place lately?"

Zong Zhengqing gripped the pen tighter and tighter, as if he wanted to break it.

"I don't understand you."

His words were still gentle, but carried a hint of perfunctoriness.

"If there's anything you don't understand, I just want to say one thing: tell her to tone it down, otherwise..."

She paused, then added softly with a hint of a smile, "Be careful when walking at night."

Zong Zhengqing did not answer, and the air was silent.

He had hoped to hear a panicked reaction from the person on the other end of the phone, but instead there was silence. The person on the phone then continued, somewhat disappointed, breaking the awkward atmosphere.

"Oh, by the way, I don't need that ledger anymore, I'll give it to you as a gift."

The content of his speech was full of hints, reminders, and even threats.

He hung up the phone as soon as he finished speaking, no longer waiting for a response from the other end.

Zong Zhengqing held the phone to his ear with one hand, not putting it down for a long time. He gripped the pen tighter and tighter, and the veins on the back of his hand were exposed to the air.

He suddenly remembered how firmly Yan Ran said she wanted a divorce, and his heart ached with pain and worry.

About three or four minutes later, he picked up the photo frame containing a picture of his family of three from his desk and murmured to himself softly, his tone gentle and full of affection, as if the person was right in front of him. "Ranran... what am I supposed to do this time?"

He took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled, leaning back in his chair and staring blankly at the small, luxuriously decorated chandelier on the ceiling.

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Meanwhile, Yan Ran, who was fast asleep in Yu Xiao's house, was completely unaware of all of this.

Yan Ran slept very comfortably and didn't wake up until 5 p.m.

She rubbed her sleepy eyes, then went to the bathroom and splashed cold water on her face to wake herself up.

Looking up at her pale and haggard face in the mirror, she suddenly felt a little dazed.

Who is this person? Is it me? I don't recognize them...

And who am I? Am I really Yan Ran, or am I Yan Ran who traveled from another time and space...?

Realizing something was wrong with her, Yan Ran shook her head and patted her face, trying to stay awake.

"Having traveled through too many timelines, causing memories to be fragmented and overlapping, resulting in some confusion...?"

She muttered to herself, talking about her own affairs, but her words were calm.

"Phew... It's okay, I can keep going." Looking at herself in the mirror, Yan Ran's expression was firm.

Yu Xiao and the others called to tell Yan Ran that they wouldn't be coming home for dinner that night and apologized, saying that Yan Ran would have to take care of her own lunch. Yan Ran smiled and replied that it was okay, since she couldn't always freeload off them.

After hanging up the phone, Yan Ran casually ordered takeout using an app on her phone, then returned to her room to sort out her thoughts.

Now many things are starting to make progress: Shen Yuxin's matter, Zhang Xinyi and Ye Ting...

He traveled back in time and saved Zhang Xinyi, who was supposed to jump off a building and die. After being saved, Zhang Xinyi's family did not have enough money to pay for the expensive medical expenses. So Zong's Hospital suggested that the hospital had a "poverty assistance" program and that they could use a new type of drug.

Zhang Xinyi and her husband thought it was a good idea, so they happily agreed.

The result was that they were treated like guinea pigs, subjected to all sorts of drug experiments on their bodies, a living hell.

Later, the last dose of the drug "X501" caused her death. Her husband discovered the clues and believed that his wife was killed by Zong Zhengqing. He agreed to an autopsy, but the body was taken away. Ye Ting provided a clue about the blood sample, but she was killed and the sample was stolen. When she went to observe the scene, she, Sheng Xuanling, and Qin Zhiyuan were ambushed and almost killed by a bomb.

Then came the matter of Shen Yuxin. When Shen Yuxin was in the Children's Disease Center, the hospital did not discover her symptoms of pulmonary edema for a long time, and it was only discovered when she was critically ill. Isn't that too strange?

It is very likely that, as written in that file, they detected a match between Shen Yuxin's liver and someone else's during her medical examination, perhaps even the buyer.

It is very likely that there is a dedicated channel, no... based on the many files we have seen before, this is likely already a well-established and mature "commercial chain", and Zong's Hospital occupies a significant position in it.

So, in order to obtain Shen Yuxin's liver, the people in this business chain devised a plan to pretend they were unaware of Shen Yuxin's condition, or to tamper with things so that the hospital didn't detect it, or to bribe the doctor—this is the most likely explanation.

If it's the former, then it means that the current children's disease center... is in cahoots with the Zong family.

Thinking of this, Yan Ran felt a chill run down her spine. Looking at the analysis in front of her, she felt a sense of shock. She stopped what she was doing, took a deep breath to calm herself down, and then continued analyzing.

The latter would be more acceptable than the first, since the second scenario would not necessarily involve the entire children's disease center.

Based on these two cases, we can analyze the general pattern of Zong's Hospital, which can be roughly divided into two categories.

One method involves using "poverty relief" as bait to lure people who cannot afford medical expenses, and then using these people, who are overjoyed at receiving help, as a pretext to conduct "clinical trials" of unapproved and illegal drugs under the guise of using new, effective drugs.

The second is a massive "commercial chain." After a buyer places an order at a certain stage, Zong's Hospital secretly conducts matching tests during the physical examination. They also collude with or bribe other hospitals to have them conduct matching tests as well. After a matching liver is found, at another stage, or even within the hospital itself, they "devise strategies" to cause the patient to become critically ill. Then, during emergency surgery, they take the opportunity to remove the organ and immediately send it to another stage.

The subsequent steps can be roughly deduced: either it will be handed over directly to the buyer, or it will be transferred to another hospital for surgery, or perhaps...

Another possibility is that those organs were kept in the hospital!

The other two scenarios are difficult to investigate, but this one might be a breakthrough!

Thinking of this, Yan Ran excitedly drew a circle heavily on her notebook and added a small five-pointed star symbol.

Finally, judging from the mountains of documents in the archives, such cases were not uncommon, meaning that there were quite a few innocent people like Ye Ting who died knowing the truth...