Hours later, Du Fei and his wife Ye Huijuan sat in a booth at a coffee shop.
"Du Fei, it's fortunate you intervened this time. Otherwise, my grandfather..." Ye Huijuan's heart was filled with mixed emotions as she looked at Du Fei.
He was clearly just a young man in his twenties, yet he always managed to do things that shocked her and others.
She had already been extremely grateful when he cured her and her husband Su Hao's infertility.
Now, Du Fei had also cured her grandfather's serious illness.
Moreover, the process had been fraught with twists and turns, so dramatic it could be made into a movie.
After all, who could have imagined that her paternal uncle, Ye Jiancheng, would conspire with outsiders to defraud the family?
Ye Huijuan was also very curious about how Du Fei had seen through the con artist Smith Hansen's scheme.
However, despite her curiosity, Ye Huijuan asked nothing, knowing that some questions were best left unasked.
As long as the outcome was good, the process itself wasn't that important.
"Sister Juan, if you say that, I'll feel ashamed. I should be thanking you instead, after receiving so much consultation fee from Old Master Ye," Du Fei said with a smile.
The reason Du Fei said this was that after Old Master Ye woke from his coma and learned that Du Fei had cured him, and upon hearing Du Fei's assurance that a final dose of his prescribed medicine would lead to a complete recovery, Old Master Ye happily wrote him a check for an astronomical consultation fee of one hundred million.
Du Fei had initially strongly refused. After all, he had come to treat Old Master Ye at Ye Huijuan's invitation and had no intention of charging a fee.
However, Old Master Ye countered by asking Du Fei if his promise of a complete cure was false, if he was deceiving him.
Seeing Du Fei's expression, Old Master Ye told him that if he could agree to pay the con artist Smith Hansen one hundred million for consultation, then why couldn't Du Fei, who had first prevented Smith Hansen from injecting him with a semi-finished serum that nearly turned him into a terrifying zombie, and then saved his life, also receive one hundred million as a consultation fee?
After this serious illness, Old Master Ye had come to a realization: no matter how rich or powerful one was, survival was what truly mattered.
Otherwise, even with billions or trillions in assets, nothing could be taken away after death.
Therefore, Du Fei had to accept the fee.
Seeing that Old Master Ye had gone this far, Du Fei had no choice but to accept his exorbitant consultation fee.
This was also why Du Fei said he should thank them.
"No, no, no. How much grandfather gives as a consultation fee is his business. But your coming here this time has helped me immensely, and now my father..."
Speaking of her father, Ye Huijuan was also surprised.
Originally, Ye Huijuan had returned because, after becoming pregnant, she had come to understand the feelings of being a parent.
She also understood why her father had vehemently opposed her marriage to Su Hao back then. While a small part of it was due to family matters, a significant portion stemmed from his desire as a father to see his daughter live a better life.
It wasn't that people without money couldn't be happy, but Ye Huijuan, having grown up in the Ye family, even if her father was somewhat ostracized, he was still a vice president, and their family's circumstances were far superior to those of ordinary people.
Her father worried that she would suffer if she married Su Hao.
These paternal feelings were completely incomprehensible to Ye Huijuan at the time, when love was all that mattered.
Now, Ye Huijuan herself was expecting a child. Although the baby wasn't born yet, she was already planning for her unborn child.
She had returned this time hoping to reconcile with her parents. After all, blood is thicker than water, and the fact that Ye Jianming was her father was unchangeable.
However, she never expected that upon her return, by inviting Du Fei to treat her grandfather, she would inadvertently help her father, Ye Jianming, regain a central position of power within the Ye family.
Before Ye Huijuan left, Old Master Ye had stated that once his health had recovered, he would convene a board meeting and instructed Ye Jianming to attend.
Although it wasn't explicitly stated why, with her eldest uncle Ye Jiancheng colluding with outsiders and nearly causing her grandfather's death, and her second uncle Ye Jiande being skilled at flattery, the situation was clear.
Old Master Ye had always known the true nature of his three sons. Otherwise, how could he have built such a vast family empire from scratch?
It was just that when Old Master Ye was in good health, everyone in the Ye family, bound by his authority, had maintained a facade.
However, when the old man's condition became critical, and he was almost on the verge of death, the members of the Ye family gradually revealed their true colors.
First, the eldest son, Ye Jiancheng, progressively displayed his ambition to control the company entirely. This time, he had audaciously tenfold increased Smith Hansen's requested fee, intending to pocket fifty million for himself – a truly heinous act.
As for the second son, Ye Jiande, he wasn't any better. He had previously pleased Old Master Ye with his smooth talk, but after Old Master Ye fell ill, he had been rarely seen, apart from his initial frequent visits.
Just yesterday, he had found the time to go out drinking and carousing with friends, looking for young models. Upon hearing that Smith Hansen was demanding one hundred million for consultation, he had immediately revealed his true thoughts.
To him, money was more important than Old Master Ye's life.
In such circumstances, it was obvious what the two sons, who had broken Old Master Ye's heart, would do.
What Ye Huijuan hadn't mentioned was that by saving Old Master Ye, Du Fei had also helped Ye Huijuan's father, Ye Jianming.
Afterward, Du Fei and the couple, Ye Huijuan and Su Hao, chatted about other matters.
Du Fei knew very well that Ye Huijuan and Su Hao were both curious about how he had seen through Smith Hansen, but he couldn't tell them the truth.
After all, Du Fei couldn't reveal that he had X-ray vision.
If he did, Ye Huijuan and Su Hao would likely think he was crazy.
In fact, when Du Fei first saw Smith Hansen injecting the serum into the mouse, and the dying mouse regaining its health, he was also very shocked.
He realized that top international biological laboratories could develop such powerful substances. Although expensive, it was a significant medical breakthrough.
However, later, when Du Fei casually tried to look at the mouse in the suitcase again, he was horrified to find that the mouse had died, its appearance grotesque, indicating it had died in great pain.
It was precisely because he had used his X-ray vision to see the mouse's agonizing death in the suitcase that Du Fei had been able to stop Smith Hansen from injecting Old Master Ye in time.
In the end, it was confirmed that Smith Hansen was indeed problematic and had been colluding with Ye Jiancheng for some time.
After chatting for a good half hour, Du Fei noticed Ye Huijuan looking slightly tired. He then suggested that as she was pregnant, she needed rest, and the three of them left the coffee shop.