Chapter 847 — The Big Star's Strange Illness
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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.