Li-wei had ended up
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paying Jia-ko‟s hospital bill that night. The fool had been
broke, and he‟d forgotten his insurance card at home. Li-wei originally kept the
receipt because he expected Jia-ko to pay him back someday. Stapled to that receipt
was the hospital paper work. In his typical haphazard manner, Jia-ko had asked Li-wei
to keep it all together for him and hang on to it so he could file a claim with his
insurance and get them to pay for it later.
Of course, he never did. He never bothered to file the claim, and he never paid
Li-wei back, despite Li-wei reminding him several times. Well, he would now, in
spades. Not that Li-wei really cared about some measly old debt of a few thousand
dollars from nearly twenty years ago. It‟s just that this deal was way too big to let slip
away, not to mention the fact that Li-wei‟s superiors would be very displeased if he