After Li Gaoyang was discharged, he did not leave China. He worried that if his illness changed after returning to the United States, he would not receive timely treatment. His accompanying team rented an entire floor of a hotel near Sanbo Hospital as his temporary residence.
Huang Jiacai was reviewing the training plans of European partners at three in the morning when he received a call from an encrypted international number.
"Mr. Huang, this is James Walker." The voice on the other end had the steady tone unique to the East Coast elite of the United States, "I apologize for disturbing you so late at night. But my father's situation may not wait for the regular approval process to conclude."
