q“This is all your fault, you know? When you finally wake up, you'd better pay me one billion for the treatment fees! All right, I've stuck the needles into all your acupuncture points now. You'd better show me some response now!” Francesco said, slapping Zachary's cheeks in a not very gentle manner. Yet, Zachary remained motionless.

She sighed helplessly and turned around to pull a notebook out of a drawer. Then she flipped to an empty page and wrote: The fourteenth day of treatment. Owing three hundred seventy million in fees.

Then, she took Zachary's hand, pressed his right thumb onto an ink pad, and stamped his thumbprint onto the treatment sheet she had just written up.

“There we go!” Francesco blew at the wet thumbprint and smiled in satisfaction. “If you live, you'll have to pay me your treatment fees with interest, and if you die, I'll take this bill to your wife and children! Although your wife is the aunt of my precious babies, my fees should still be paid. This is not personal, just business. You understand, right? Ah, forget it! It's useless for me to talk to you. Looking at you, I highly doubt you'll live much longer. I don't want to waste any more time on you. Tomorrow morning, I'll take you to the furthest mountains in Northridge and leave you there. Whether you live or die will be up to fate...”

One by one, Francesco started removing the acupuncture needles from Zachary. She fully intended to give up on him.




























Suddenly, Zachary's fingers twitched slightly.

Francesco immediately froze. Her eyes widened as she stared at him in astonishment. Did my eyes play a trick on me? Or maybe the wind blew a strand of hair into my eye and blurred my vision? Or perhaps I was hallucinating? This man has been lying here motionless for more than ten days, and now, suddenly...

Just as Francesco was speechlessly staring at him, Zachary moved his fingers a few more times.

This time Francesco was sure of what she had seen. He moved his fingers!

Francesco laughed ecstatically. “How wonderful that you are finally conscious! It seems my efforts weren't in vain! It wasn't a waste for me to read through those old books in your wife's study!”

Following that, Francesco excitedly stuck all the needles back into Zachary. She wanted to continue with the current treatment plan since it was proven to work.

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