Ye Qingqing checked Li Hongming's pulse and found that his condition was indeed not good, but it was not yet a matter of life and death.
"I need to recover slowly. The time without medication has been too long. I'll start with acupuncture."
Li Hongming remained calm and asked, "How much longer can I live?"
"It's hard to say. If you hadn't stopped taking my medicine, you would definitely be fine for twenty or thirty years. But now that your vital energy has been damaged, it's hard to say. It could be as short as five or six years, or as long as ten or twenty years. It also depends on your own mood."
Ye Qingqing didn't say he was dead. Li Hongming's condition was indeed not optimistic, but his situation was somewhat special. It wasn't a matter of functional changes. Although he had undergone heart bypass surgery, he wasn't at the point of certain death. So as long as he maintained a good mood and took her pills, he could live for a few more years without any problem.
Li Hongming breathed a sigh of relief. He hoped that he could live another five or six years, enough time to make arrangements for his funeral. If he could live another ten years or so, it would truly be a blessing from God.
After the acupuncture was administered, Li Hongming fell asleep. His breathing was steady, and his complexion was not as pale as before.
Relieved, Dong Siyue led Ye Qingqing out of the house and said gratefully, "Thank you so much, you even came all the way here during the New Year."
"It's okay, it's not like I don't charge money."
Ye Qingqing was joking, but Dong Siyue knew what was going on. With Ye Qingqing's current wealth and power, she didn't need to struggle for money at all. It was really kind of her to come over.
"What do you plan to do?" Ye Qingqing asked.
Dong Siyue was somewhat bewildered. "I don't know either. Right now, I just want to take care of Hongming. Let's talk about it when he gets better. I don't want to think about anything else."
Dong Siyue's phone kept vibrating, so she had no choice but to answer it. It was her agent calling.
"I don't care. If you don't like it, then announce your retirement from the industry. I'll pay the advertising breach penalty. I'll explain to you later. Right now, I have something very important to do." Dong Siyue's tone was very serious, not just a momentary impulse.
After saying that, she hung up the phone, feeling even more grateful for Li Hongming's foresight.
She was originally planning to sign with an agency like other actors, but Li Hongming disagreed, saying that signing with an agency would make her too restricted, like selling herself. Li Hongming found her a film and television company run by a friend in Hong Kong. Although she signed a contract, she was a free agent, unlike other actors who had to sign for five or even ten years, and who would have to pay exorbitant penalties if they breached the contract.
She's different; she can walk away anytime without any constraints.
Moreover, her agent was also found for her by Li Hongming. Unlike the agents arranged by the company, who would try to squeeze every last drop of blood from their artists, her agent followed Li Hongming's arrangements and would not force her to do anything.
So now that she says she wants to retire from the entertainment industry, her agent has no objection because they can't control her. Dong Siyue now truly understands Li Hongming's intention in saying that she should take the initiative.
"My agent said the paparazzi photographed me and dug up my past, asking if I wanted to spend money to smooth things over. I told her not to worry about it," Dong Siyue explained.
Ye Qingqing frowned slightly, "If the paparazzi report this, you might really have to retire from the entertainment industry."
"So be it. That circle isn't for me. I used to think that circle wasn't so complicated because Hongming was there to protect me. Now I realize how naive I was." Dong Siyue said sarcastically.
Even after separating from Li Hongming, she was still under his protection and never witnessed the filth of that circle. But since Li Hongming became seriously ill, some scoundrels have emerged, all baring their teeth and claws at her, and Dong Siyue was truly fed up with it.
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