My Healing Games

Chapter 561 A Choice That Changes Fate
The hotel was located at the end of an alley, in complete darkness, except for a light on in one of the rooms on the third floor.

Han Fei stood downstairs for a while before walking upstairs.

He evaded all surveillance cameras and appeared silently outside a room.

The dim light shone through the crack in the door into the hallway, and Han Fei could faintly hear the girl's laughter from inside the room through the door.

The illness did not destroy the girl; she remained positive and optimistic in front of her mother, perhaps because she felt that this was the only thing she could do for her mother.

Fu Yi and her mother were very poor and struggled to make ends meet. They also had to bear the burden of high medical expenses, but when they were together, their small rented room felt like home.

Han Fei knocked lightly on the door; he didn't want to run away any longer.

"Who is it?" Fu Yi's mother called out towards the living room door. She told Fu Yi to stay on the bed and went to the bedroom door herself.

As the door hinges turned, the woman opened the door to the rented room a little bit. Just as she was about to pull the door open further, the light from inside shone on Han Fei's face.

A mother who has nothing but her daughter stands under the light in her rented room, while Han Fei, who seems to have everything, stands in the dark stairwell.

The half-open door seemed to form a boundary between darkness and light, separating them into different places.

The woman gripped the door lock tightly, staring at Han Fei outside the door, hardly believing her eyes.

She had imagined what it would be like to see Fu Yi again. She thought she would lose her mind and be extremely angry, but when the moment actually came, apart from the initial surprise, all that remained in her eyes was indifference.

There was no hysterical shouting, no accusations or angry outbursts. She looked at him as if he were a stranger and asked, "How did you find this place?"

"That day, Fu Yi was rescuing a kitten, and I happened to be passing by."

While Han Fei was speaking, the woman had already come out of the rented room. She did not want Han Fei to enter the room she shared with her daughter.

After closing the door, the woman and Han Fei stood together in the darkness.

"I'm here with no ill intentions; I just want to cure Fu Yi's illness," Han Fei said in a low voice.

The child was sensitive; he didn't want Fu Yi to hear these things, nor did he want Fu Yi to feel like he was a burden to her mother.

The woman didn't reply, turned around and walked downstairs, so Han Fei had no choice but to follow behind her.

The woman stopped walking after the two left the hotel and walked out of the alley.

She turned to look at Han Fei, her eyes, which had grown numb to life, now held a hint of despair.

“Even if you don’t come to me, I might come to talk to you tomorrow. For nine years, I’ve watched my daughter grow up little by little. I wanted her to be the happiest girl in the world, but who could have imagined that fate would punish me like this?” Fu Yi’s mother slowly clenched her hands. She had suffered a lot over the years, busy and struggling to make a living, and had broken down countless times alone in the dead of night.

"Before I met you, I had my own job and my own life. Since meeting you, this liar, everything has been turned upside down." The woman smiled bitterly, "For the first year, I still believed you would change, and thought you would come back to me. I never expected you to be so utterly devoid of humanity."

Han Fei kept telling himself that the woman was cursing Fu Yi and had nothing to do with him, but strangely, in the world of memories in the shrine, he not only took on Fu Yi's identity but also Fu Yi's feelings.

"I can accept your hatred and your desire to kill me, but can you wait until Fu Yi's illness is cured?"

When Fu Yi's illness was mentioned, the despair in the woman's eyes intensified. The strength she had pretended to show in front of her daughter slowly faded away, and her thin body leaned against the wall as if she had been crushed: "Some diseases are incurable, and it is difficult to even maintain them."

“I asked Fu Yi before, and she said she had progressive muscular dystrophy. Later, I did some research and found that this disease, caused by a genetic mutation, mostly affects boys, with girls making up only a very small percentage.” Han Fei’s thinking was very clear: “Is it possible that it was a misdiagnosis?”

"We saw many doctors, and with the help of kind people, we found the most authoritative expert here for consultation."

The woman's words caught Han Fei's attention: "Help from a kind person?"

Through his conversation with the woman and by observing her demeanor, Han Fei was able to determine that the person who had come to his company during the day to hand out flyers was not Fu Yi's mother.

The other party, posing as Fu Yi's mother, distributed cheap black-and-white flyers before having any prior contact with her, making tearful accusations against Fu Yi. This was not an attempt to resolve the issue, but rather a deliberate attempt to escalate the situation.

In other words, those people didn't care about Fu Yi and her mother's lives; they just wanted to ruin Fu Yi's family.

"Is that kind person very beautiful, but has a rather unpleasant voice? Is her surname Du?" Han Fei had figured out Du Shu's personality. That woman wanted to experience the feeling of personally torturing Fu Yi to death, so she probably wouldn't let her subordinates do these things. After all, this was a very interesting "game" for her.

"That's right, that doctor's surname is Du. How did you know?"

"Don't trust her."

"Does that mean I should believe you?" Fu Yi's mother shook her head: "Actually, I don't believe anyone, but I have no other choice."

"Never mind that Dr. Du. What did the doctors say when you took Fu Yi to see them in other cities?"

"They also said it was a genetic disease."

"Did doctors in other cities tell you how much the total treatment would cost?" Han Fei really wanted to save Fu Yi; he wouldn't abandon her just because she wasn't as important as Fu Sheng.

"It will probably cost more than 200,000 yuan. In the past few years, I have incurred some debts to help her with her treatment, so it will cost a total of 400,000 yuan." Fu Yi's mother said very conservatively. After she finished speaking, the system's voice suddenly sounded in Han Fei's mind.

"Attention player number 0000! You have successfully triggered the shrine random quest - Life's Debts."

"Debts of life: These are the debts you owe in your life. You can choose to repay them or you can choose to deny them."

"Mission requirement: Pay off the debt within 72 hours!"

"Task completion option 1: Take out 720,000 yuan from your existing family savings and give it to Fu Yi's mother to pay off the debts."

"Optional completion method for the task: After the creditor disappears, all debts may be wiped clean."

Upon hearing the voice in his mind, Han Fei's expression changed slightly. This newly appeared random shrine task was the same choice that Fu Yi had to face back then.

The choice is to repay the debt or kill the creditor.

Two other points are worth noting. First, Fu Yi's mother only asked Han Fei to pay 400,000 yuan, but the system required Han Fei to repay 720,000 yuan. This shows that Fu Yi's mother herself spent a lot of money and suffered a lot, and she did not intend to ask Han Fei for that money.

The second point is even more crucial. Task option one requires Han Fei to take that money from his existing family savings, which means that the system has restricted Han Fei to the same situation as Fu Yi.

He couldn't use those 72 hours to "borrow" money from others or earn money himself; he could only take money from his existing family savings.

"What? Do you think it's too much?" Seeing that Han Fei didn't answer, the last glimmer of hope in Fu Yi's mother's eyes dimmed: "I've raised this child for eight years, and most of those eight years have been spent on medical treatment..."

"Four hundred thousand is too little. After leaving your house, I also consulted some doctors, and they said it would take at least six hundred thousand." Han Fei's words surprised the woman. She had thought it would be very difficult to get this money, after all, Fu Yi was a heartless bastard in her eyes.

"Three days, give me three days, and I will do my best to raise the money." Han Fei promised the woman, "I will bring 600,000 yuan to you in three days, but I have a small request."

"What are your demands? You don't want to tell your current wife and company boss about this?" Fu Yi's mother looked at Han Fei with a numb and cold gaze: "Don't worry, I have no interest in breaking up other people's families. I just want to protect my daughter."

"You've misunderstood." Han Fei looked at the woman calmly. He knew Du Shu would definitely make a big fuss about this: "Everyone in the company should know by now. I'll lose my job soon too. I hope what you did has nothing to do with this."

"Then what do you want me to do?" the woman asked, genuinely puzzled.

“Don’t have anything to do with that Dr. Du anymore. She misdiagnosed Fu Yi’s illness and has ulterior motives. After I give you the money, you can find a more professional doctor to treat Fu Yi.” Han Fei stuffed the five thousand yuan of his hard-earned money into the woman’s pocket: “Fu Yi’s illness will gradually get better.”

Fu Yi's mother stood there with the money in her hand. She felt that Fu Yi had changed a bit since they last met eight years ago.

That change wasn't about becoming more mature in appearance or more composed in temperament; it was a qualitative transformation of the soul.

Han Fei turned to leave, and the system notification sounded in his mind again: "Player No. 0000, please note! You have repaid 5,000 yuan of debt, and you still have 715,000 yuan left."

Recalling the building manager's tasks, and combining this with Du Shu's various behaviors, Han Fei felt that Du Shu was likely to first approach Fu Yi and her daughter under a certain identity, under the guise of helping them, to gradually push Fu Yi to the brink of despair, and then create an opportunity for Fu Yi to kill the mother and daughter with his own hands.

Not only were his family destroyed and his family killed, but Fu Yi also had to kill his own daughter. The surviving family members would live in despair and pain for the rest of their lives.

"What a vicious woman." Having solved so many murder cases, Han Fei's insight far surpassed that of ordinary people. He felt that his only chance now was to regain the trust of Fu Yi and her daughter.

"Given Fu Yi's current situation, it's impossible for him to come up with 700,000 yuan in cash unless he sells his house in the city center." His mind raced, and Han Fei suddenly felt his vision blur. He almost lost his balance and fell to the ground.

I reached up and touched my nose. This time, not only was my nasal cavity bleeding, but there were also some flocculent impurities in it.

After wiping away the bloodstains, Han Fei took a bus home.

Before entering his home, Han Fei straightened his clothes, not wanting to bring his fatigue and pain from outside into the house.

As he opened the door, Han Fei revealed a confident and warm smile.

He looked at Fu Tian, ​​who rushed over to open the door for him, and Fu Sheng, who was already sitting at the table, and felt as if he had regained his strength.

"Did you work overtime today?" His wife came over and took Han Fei's briefcase. "You must be tired. Go wash your hands and eat. The porridge is still warm."

"OK, thank you."

The family gathered around the dining table. Fu Tian secretly put the carrots from his bowl back onto the plate, but his wife discovered it. In the end, he stubbornly declared that when he grew up, he would create a world without carrots.

Fu Sheng was studying while eating, making plans to return to school.

Han Fei was quite confident in Fu Sheng's achievements, after all, Fu Sheng was a man who changed the times.

Han Fei glanced furtively at the book Fu Sheng was reading, and his expression slowly turned strange: "Fu Sheng, what are you studying?"

"I'm looking at writing materials." Fu Sheng took a sip of his porridge and turned to the next page of the book.
"Through my soul and body I have learned that depravity is necessary. I am bound to experience greed, to pursue wealth, to feel disgust, and to fall into the abyss of despair. I have learned to love this world, no longer comparing it to some desire or a figment of my imagination, some false fantasy of perfection. I have learned to accept this world as it is, to love it, and to find joy in belonging to it. —Hesse, Siddhartha"

"It's fine." Han Fei didn't offer any opinions; his approach to educating Fu Sheng was to let him grow up freely.

The cozy dinner ended quickly. Fu Sheng went back to his room to study, while Fu Tian pestered Han Fei to play hide-and-seek.

When his wife put Fu Tian to sleep at 10 p.m., Han Fei returned to his own bedroom.

He made his bed on the floor, covered himself with the blanket, and was just about to go to sleep when he suddenly felt the blanket being pulled back, and his wife lying down behind him.

"It's cold down there, you should go back." Han Fei sat up abruptly, but his wife did not leave.

She lay on the other side of the floor mat, gazing at Han Fei's face silently for a long time.

"Has something happened to you?"

Han Fei leaned against the wall and did not answer immediately.

The room was quiet, with only the sound of the clock ticking.

After a long while, his wife turned over, her back to Fu Yi, and covered herself with the blanket: "I want to lie here today too."

Thank you to the leader for the postponement!

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(End of this chapter)