Chapter 847 — The Big Star's Strange Illness

Wang Jie didn't want it, but Xu Shilan insisted on doing it anyway.

"No — it's a scam company," Wang Jie said with a shake of her head. "That medical company belonging to that Doctor Guan Xuewen, the one the TV and papers have been making such a fuss over lately. It's nothing but a racket..."

"Heh..." Hearing this, Xu Shilan could only smile helplessly. "Wang Jie, Elder Guan is an expert in the medical field. How could he be a swindler?"

"If he's not a swindler, why can't he cure your illness? All those acupuncture sessions, and not the slightest improvement! He said at the start he could cure you!" Wang Jie retorted with disdain.

"You can't put it that way. So many hospitals couldn't cure me either, could they? My condition is simply a strange one..." Xu Shilan didn't think Guan Xuewen was a swindler — her case, after all, was far too complicated.

"Forget it, forget it. Even when we endorse a company, we have to keep our conscience. If he can't even cure your illness, what kind of miracle doctor is he? We can't have you spouting lies with your eyes wide open, can we?" Wang Jie said indifferently.

Xu Shilan shook her head with a smile. "It's not as if there aren't stars like that. False endorsements — they're everywhere these days! I'd still better call Elder Guan and apologize. When he was treating me, he was very dedicated."

"Suit yourself. Why bother with a great fraud like that?" Wang Jie was the type who loved and hated with equal intensity, a woman of strong character — unlike Xu Shilan, who was pure and clean, with no complicated schemes in her heart.

Still, a person like Xu Shilan — if not for Wang Jie, her manager, deflecting trouble on her behalf — would surely have been taken advantage of.

Xu Shilan smiled faintly, picked up the phone, found the number and called Guan Xuewen, but the line was switched off. She had no choice but to set the matter aside for the time being...

Fatty Lai, having failed to secure Xu Shilan, hurried to call Wei Zhao at once. But Wei Zhao never regarded the matter as anything important; hearing that the girl's manager was so high and mighty, he simply dropped the idea of finding a spokesperson.

An Liwen had been having a rough time of it lately. The pressure from his family and from the Fire Wolf Gang left him gasping for breath.

Fortunately, before the kidney-harvesting ring was destroyed, An Liwen had madly raked in a great deal of money for his family and the Fire Wolf Gang. Back when An Liwen's elder brother, An Jiande, had handled organ trafficking in Songshan, nothing had gone wrong — but because his business was buying kidneys for cash, the volume was small and the costs high, so a whole year's profit hadn't amounted to what An Liwen pulled in during a single month. That was precisely why the Fire Wolf Gang and the An family hadn't hauled An Liwen back.

An Liwen might have been arrogant and utterly reckless, but one had to admit he had a knack for making money. In one month he had brought in over ten million in profit, which made even the northern helmsman of the Fire Wolf Gang sit up and take notice.

At this moment, An Liwen was lying on the sofa, taking a call from his father in the An family.

"Jianwen, you're still too young. You were too rash this time!" His father, An Mingyue, said with earnest gravity. "Look at your cousin. A year in Songshan City, and though his performance doesn't match yours, he sought stability. And now hasn't the Fire Wolf Gang put him in an important post?"

"Dad, wasn't I just trying to accomplish something to show Grandpa and the Fire Wolf Gang? In our family, ever since I went abroad and the northern business was handed to Uncle, our standing in the An family and the Fire Wolf Gang has plummeted!" An Liwen said with a bitter look.

"Foolish! Your old man may have given up the northern business, and now I serve as liaison between the family and the Fire Wolf Gang — it looks less glorious than your uncle, but in truth, every transaction and every account with the Fire Wolf Gang passes through your old man's hands!" An Mingyue said. "Otherwise, why do you think the Fire Wolf Gang let you take charge of the Songshan City business the moment you got back? And your elder brother — do you really think the Fire Wolf Gang values him? He's been sent to the border to deal with drug traffickers. It looks like big money, but do you have any idea how dangerous it is? Those foreign drug lords — which of them isn't a cutthroat killer?"

"I understand, Father. I was rash..." An Liwen thought carefully over his father's words and decided it was indeed so.

"Hmph. Still, it's just as well — the organ-smuggling business couldn't last much longer anyway. An Jiande had already drawn the police's attention when he was running it, so it's fine to shut it down now. You've made the Fire Wolf Gang plenty of money; we'll let this matter rest!" An Mingyue said. "Fortunately the northern helmsman of the Fire Wolf Gang is a ruthless man who appreciates your unscrupulous way of making money, and with me mediating in between, he's finally agreed to give you a new assignment!"

"What? A new assignment? That's wonderful!" At his father's words, An Liwen's spirits soared. He had been worrying about what to do next — down one kidney and with no career, how was he supposed to pursue Gu Mengyao? And now a new career had arrived so soon!

"Mm. The most profitable rackets in the underworld these days are gambling, prostitution, drugs and organ smuggling. As for prostitution, every place has local gangs running it, so it's best we don't interfere," An Mingyue said. "And the drug trade — your cousin's already in that. What you're to do now is gambling!"

"Oh? You want me to set up a casino?" An Liwen more or less guessed his father's meaning.

"Yes — but not an ordinary casino. An underground fight pit!" An Mingyue said. "Ordinary casinos are run by the local gangs, and it's hard for us to get a foot in. So we'll run fight gambling. Not only can we sell tickets, but betting on the winners is a highly profitable business too!"

"No problem. Leave it to me — I'll do it right this time!" An Liwen nodded repeatedly. "But I don't have many reliable men left. That tattooed guy already took the fall for me."

"That's no concern of yours. The Helm Master has already sent two capable people to assist you. One is an external martial artist at the peak of the early Mystic rank, more than enough to hold down your fight arena. The other is Dr. Yin, whose specialty is researching the awakening of human potential — he will supply you with drugs that can make a man invincible in an instant. But mind you, these two are here to assist you, not to serve as your subordinates. You must treat them with courtesy and not slight them!" An Mingyue said.