Chapter 3 — Me Five Years Later

In the morning I completed all the procedures, in the afternoon I put on a mask, changed clothes and went to the sports lottery center to receive my prize. The four-match parlay betting ticket purchased with 150 yuan won all. After tax deduction, I received more than 1.1 million yuan. This amount of money is enough for me to live abroad and complete my studies. I walked out of the lottery center, raised my head and looked at the bright sun in the sky. The gentle breeze brings each wave of floral scent. On the phone, the future me sent a text message again. "Thank you, Tham Vy. I'm waiting for you in the future!" Because I no longer work and bring money home, my parents have to work night shifts for nearly half a month to pay for Tham Minh's extra tuition. Finally, one night, Dad couldn't stand it anymore and fainted in the factory. Mom and younger brother rushed dad to the hospital. Test results showed that he had late-stage stomach cancer. Mother fainted on the spot. Tham Minh quickly asked the doctor about the specific situation. The doctor said the total cost of the surgery was about three hundred thousand yuan. "Dad, stomach cancer cannot be cured! The possibility of recurrence is very high!" "Dad once said that our family must operate stably, we cannot sell the house! Selling the house cures my illness, how will I study abroad in the future, how will I get married?" Dad raised his head in disbelief. After a long while, he trembled his lips and uttered one word: "Okay." Tham Minh breathed a sigh of relief, then lowered his head to look at the medical record. Tham Vy and her father both have stomach cancer, perhaps this is a hereditary disease in the family. It also requires a health check and careful maintenance! Mother's medical record states that she works too hard and has high blood fat, so special attention must be paid. As for him, the doctor called him into the office. "The CT scan results showed that the pancreas had abnormal signs. Combined with the blood test indicators, we highly suspect that this is a pancreatic cancer." Tham Minh's mind was blank. "What?" The doctor tried to speak in a gentle voice: "Of course, an additional biopsy is still needed to confirm. We recommend that you quickly complete the hospital admission procedure..." "The treatment of cancer." Pancreatic cancer is quite complicated. In the first stage, you should prepare about one hundred and fifty thousand yuan to be relatively safe. If things don't go well..." Tham Minh could no longer hear the words behind. The TV at the end of the hallway was playing the nightly news, the volume was very low. Tham Minh wandered absent-mindedly, until a line appeared on the screen: "A mysterious buyer won the sports lottery jackpot, the prize amount is up to 1.1 million yuan." He raised his head and looked indifferently at the screen. In the picture is the check-in counter of the reward center. A woman wearing a mask and hat is completing the procedure. The camera couldn't capture her face, only her hands. Tham Minh's pupils suddenly shrank. 5. Autumn in Hai Thanh, the sky is high and the clouds are light. I haven't returned for seven years. Time passed very quickly, now I am twenty-seven years old. For the first twenty years of my life, I was locked up in a prison named after my family. Now I relied on myself to fly out. “General Manager Tham, the car is waiting outside.” Tieu Tran turned around from the passenger seat and gave me a cup of coffee. “The hotel has been booked, the conference materials have also been arranged.”This time I returned home for an international cooperation project. The AI technology company I run has reached a cooperation agreement with a domestic medical facility. As the chief technology officer and founder, I needed to be personally involved in the initial communication process. The car runs along the highway into the city center. I looked at the forest receding behind me, my thoughts couldn't help but drift back to seven years ago. At that time, I took my new household registration book, brought the winning money, and went to America alone. My academic background

Very good. Even though I have never taken extra classes, my achievements are always in the top two positions in the entire grade. After that, my homeroom teacher introduced me to participate in a contest. I suddenly got the opportunity to be recruited directly. If it wasn't for my family's refusal to pay to study abroad, I would have gone abroad soon. But now, with 1.1 million yuan enough to sustain my life, I confidently embarked on the journey to a foreign country. The day I went abroad, I was alone with my suitcase. The suitcase was very heavy, but I felt extremely light. However, during the first two years abroad, my life was not easy. Most of the people around come from prestigious schools. Their universities were Stanford and Cambridge, and I was just a random guy who appeared halfway. The mathematical formulas the professor teaches, others can understand after just looking at them, but I have to spend several hours after class to digest them. But I'm not afraid of hardship. Since childhood, I have been very good at suffering. When other people go out, I stay in the library. While others sleep, I write programming code. When others came home for the holidays, I repeatedly ran the data in the lab. The amount of 1.1 million yuan seems like a lot, but the direct admission does not include other living and studying expenses abroad, so the money just flows like water.