Li Qiao spent half an hour with Duan Jingming at the hospital before she promptly left after receiving a phone call from the laboratory.
After she left, a figure slowly emerged around the corner outside the door—her grandaunt Duan Shuhua.
With a complex expression on her face, Shuhua gazed at the slightly ajar door of the hospital room, her eyes flickering restlessly.
The old man had secretly commissioned a lawyer to notarize the division of his property and had informed Li Qiao before telling anyone else.
Did he really regard his own flesh and blood as less important than an external granddaughter?
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Back in the laboratory, Li Qiao met up with Lian Zhen. The two sat in front of the testing equipment, flipping through the freshly printed reports.
