Just as Jin Yao was baring her teeth and brandishing her claws, the office door suddenly opened.

Approaching them was the mysterious, aloof beauty Lin Jing had mentioned.

That adjective describing her is indeed very accurate.

She was tall and slender, dressed in a simple, crisp white silk shirt and light-colored jeans, with nude pointed-toe high heels on her feet. Silver-rimmed glasses perched on her high-bridged nose. Behind the lenses were a pair of indifferent eyes that seemed to look at everyone as if they were stones.

Her gaze only briefly swept over Jin Yao.

Without turning his head, he waved to the people in the room and said, "Don't forget what I said."

Jin Yao didn't come to her senses until the woman disappeared into the elevator.

She sighed deeply.

This woman certainly has the ability to compete with Tang Xia.

But so what!

In her heart, only Tang Xia deserves to be her sister-in-law!

After thinking it through, Jin Yao counted on her fingers, strode inside, and prepared to settle accounts with her brother.

But what she saw was Jin Xinghan lying weakly on the sofa.

If it weren't for the slight rise and fall of his chest, Jin Yao would have truly thought—

"Brother! What's wrong? Are you alright? I'll get Wen Qi over right now!"

"Need not!"

Jin Xinghan opened his eyes and stopped her.

Jin Yao had never seen her brother like this before, and her voice trembled with anxiety as she cried out, "Brother, what's wrong with you? I'm your own sister, why do you have to keep this from me?"

Jin Xinghan could only smile helplessly.

"If I tell you, can you promise me you won't tell Tang Xia?"

Upon hearing this, Jin Yao immediately stopped what she was doing.

She looked at her brother with a suspicious gaze: "You wouldn't have really fallen for someone else, would you?"

The next second—

"Ouch! My head!" Jin Yao chuckled foolishly, "It can still hurt me this much, so it seems I'm alright."

Jin Xinghan remained silent for a moment, then struggled to his feet and took out a medical examination report from the drawer.

"What is this?"

There were many technical terms inside that Jin Yao couldn't understand.

But there was one line that she noticed immediately.

"The patient's heart is overloaded... What does that mean? Didn't Wen Qi say that your heart could last at least another three years? How could it be so short? I don't believe it."

Jin Xinghan simply patted her head.

Jin Yao cried uncontrollably: "So, this is why you've been abroad all this time and haven't come back, and why you've kept it a secret from all of us, right?"

"Yes."

A clear, cold female voice suddenly came from behind.

Jin Yao turned around and saw that it was the same woman who had just left but returned.

She looked at her with a puzzled expression, not knowing what she meant by what she had just said.

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Qin Huaiyu, and I am a doctor specializing in congenital heart disease." Qin Huaiyu glanced at Jin Xinghan and continued, "I went to great lengths to trick your brother into going abroad for treatment."

Jin Yao has a strong ability to grasp key words, and immediately pressed on: "Then you can definitely save my brother! Please save him!"

Qin Huaiyu sat down on the sofa and crossed his legs.

"Heh, I don't have that kind of ability." After saying this with a hint of resentment, Qin Huaiyu paused for a moment, then continued, "I really can't control your brother's temper. He just started to show some results, and then he secretly ran back to the country. Once is one thing, but this kind of thing happened twice right under my nose!"

"But my brother did it to save Sister Tang Xia—"

"I don't care who he's doing it for. In short, in this world, patients who don't follow doctors' orders usually die very quickly."

"Pah! Pah! Pah! You're not allowed to curse my brother!"

Qin Huaiyu didn't want to argue with a child, so she rolled her eyes at her.

Then he said to Jin Xinghan, "I'm giving you one last chance. Come abroad with me, and I'll at least let you live for another ten years."

"No need." Jin Xinghan's eyes were now only indifferent.

The moment he saw Tang Xia lying on the operating table, he had already decided that even if he could only stay by their side for a moment, that would be enough.

My crippled body, clinging to life until now, will only become a burden to them.

During this period, he hardly ever went home.

But in private, he had already made a will.

After his death, all his property will be left to Tang Xia and her daughter.

That's all he can do.

"Stubborn fool!" Qin Huaiyu was furious. She had never seen anyone who didn't even care about their life. "Jin Xinghan, even if you do this, do you think that woman will feel the slightest bit sorry for you? Once she knows you're about to die, do you think she'll still stay by your side?"

"I won't allow you to insult my sister-in-law!"

Jin Yao is unconditionally on Tang Xia's side.

Moreover, she had no idea that Tang Xia would be the kind of person who would start something and then abandon it.

Qin Huaiyu sneered, "Fine, then we'll see. Jin Xinghan, you'll definitely regret this!"

She strode out the door.

When he saw the woman hiding outside the door, he couldn't help but sigh silently.

She had just gone downstairs to leave when she spotted this woman in the crowd.

This is Tang Xia, the woman who haunts Jin Xinghan's dreams and makes him willing to abandon everything to return to China.

She was very curious about what kind of person could make a prodigy like Jin Xinghan willingly give so much.

"Hello, are you Tang Xia?"

Tang Xia came over today to deliver food to Jin Xinghan.

Aunt Ruan kept nagging her for days, saying that Jin Xinghan had lost weight again.

Looking at the unfamiliar beautiful woman in front of her, Tang Xia was wary, but nodded.

Then, what just happened occurred.

Qin Huaiyu wanted Tang Xia to know what Jin Xinghan had gone through.

"Let's go, let's talk."

The two went to the coffee shop downstairs from the company.

Tang Xia still looked absent-minded.

Their conversation in the office just now really left her unsure how to react.

Is Jin Xinghan going to die?

How is this possible?

Just a month ago, he said he would protect me and Niannian for the rest of our lives...

"Miss Qin, what is your purpose in letting me hear all this?"

"My goal is simple: I want you to break up with him." Qin Huaiyu, always straightforward, was no exception. She stated her demands frankly to Tang Xia: "To be honest, we met no later than you. When I was in medical school, he was in business, and I fell in love with him at first sight. Let me tell you a secret: initially, I didn't plan to study medicine—it's tiring and boring. But ever since I learned he has heart disease, I changed my major to congenital heart disease. I'm not some saint; if you want me to save him, he has to marry me. And the biggest obstacle between us is you, Miss Tang."

Qin Huaiyu placed his hands on the table and leaned forward.

His eyes were filled with a sense of oppression.

"Leave him, and I will save him."

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