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20/12/2025

"I'll Give You $100,000 If You Serve Me Chinese" — A Millionaire Laughs at a Waitress Who Speaks Nine Languages, But What Happens Next Silences the Room
It's a bright Tuesday evening in Manhattan.
Under the golden chandeliers of the Prestige Club, laughter and the sound of crystal glasses fill the air.
Sitting at the center table is Richard Blackwood — a famous real estate tycoon with a tan as expensive as his suit. When he laughs, everyone around him listens, because his money makes them listen.
That evening, his attention is drawn to a waitress named Jasmine Williams.
She's twenty-nine years old, graceful in a black uniform, moving silently between tables with a silver tray that barely shakes. As she pours champagne worth more than the rent, the bubbles sparkle under the light like little secrets. She thanked the customer quietly and turned to leave.
Then Richard's loud voice echoed throughout the room.
"I'll give you a hundred thousand dollars," he said with a smirk,
"if you serve me—in Chinese."
Laughter rang out across the tables. Even the pianist missed a note.

A hundred thousand dollars.
The bills fell onto her tray like an insult. To the men at the table, it was a game. To Jasmine, it was everything—enough to clear her mother's hospital debt and send her sister to a better school. But she knew it wasn't generosity. It was control.
Richard turned to the three Japanese investors sitting next to him.
"My friends will decide if her Chinese is good enough," he said.
"To see if she can say 'thank you' properly."
Their polite laughter was strained. No one dared to speak up.
Jasmine’s fingers tightened around the tray.
Just three years ago, she had been Dr. Jasmine Williams, a professor of computational linguistics at Columbia University—an expert on Chinese dialects. But when her mother suffered a severe stroke, everything fell apart. Denied insurance, hospital bills, bankruptcy—she had lost everything.
Now she stood here, facing a man who saw her as nothing more than a pastime.
She took a deep breath.
“I accept,” she said softly.
Richard blinked.
“You what?”
“I accept your offer,” she said. “I will serve you in Chinese. And when I’m done, you will pay me here—in front of everyone.”

The room froze. Then a wave of murmurs arose.
Richard laughed and clapped his hands.
"Perfect! But if you fail, you'll have to bow down and apologize for wasting our time."

He turned to his guests.

"Gentlemen, this will be a lesson in self-confidence."

Hiroshi Tanaka, one of the investors, frowned.

"Richard, maybe—"

"No, Hiroshi," Richard interrupted him. "It'll be fun."

Jasmine remained calm.

Let him bury himself, she thought.

Richard hesitated, then smirked.

"Fine. But if you fail, you get a month's work for free."

Jasmine looked him straight in the eye.

"Fine."

A waiter brought out the restaurant's Shanghai Investor Menu—a thick, leather-bound book filled with rare dishes and detailed Chinese characters.

"Perfect," Richard said. "Let's see how far she goes."

Jasmine opened the book and smiled weakly.

When she finished speaking, the entire restaurant fell silent —

and the millionaire's smirk was gone completely.

Little did he know that the woman he was trying to humiliate would soon turn his world upside down.
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20/12/2025

New: After my husband passed away, my son told me, “Don’t expect anything from dad’s $55 million estate.” His wife added, “We’re in charge now.” But at the will reading, the lawyer’s first words left them both speechless....
I buried my husband in a red silk dress. Not to be scandalous, but because it was Richard’s favorite color on me, and because I knew it would absolutely infuriate my son, Eric, and his calculating wife, Vanessa.
After the burial, as mourners gathered at my estate, I heard Eric’s voice from the adjacent hallway, low and confident.
“Don’t expect a dime from Dad’s $55 million,” he said, smug satisfaction in his voice. “She’s been living off his success for decades. Now it’s our turn.”
Vanessa’s reply was dripping with an entitlement that made my blood run cold. “We’re in charge now. She can play the grieving widow all she wants, but the real power moves to us.”
I stood frozen, a crystal wine glass impossibly heavy in my hand. Hearing them discuss my husband’s fortune while his body was still warm in the ground—that was the moment I decided. If Eric wanted a war, I would give him elegance, precision, and complete annihilation.
I walked back into the reception, my head high. Richard used to say that the most dangerous opponent was the one who smiled while they planned your destruction. He had taught me everything about business, about reading people, about the art of strategic patience.
My son was about to learn that his mother had been an excellent student.
And at the will reading, the lawyer’s first words would leave them both speechless….
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20/12/2025

After My Wife’s Funeral, I Didn’t Tell My Son About the Second House She Left Me. Glad I Kept Quiet…
The morning after my wife’s funeral, the house still smelled of lilies and rain. Portland’s sky hung low and gray, the kind of gray that seeps into your bones. I was standing in the kitchen, holding a chipped green mug — the one my granddaughter painted for me years ago — when the phone rang. My wife had been gone for barely two weeks, and already my son was on the line.
His voice wasn’t broken with grief. No greeting. No pause. Just business. His tone was clipped, impatient, the kind of voice that’s already made a decision and is now just waiting for compliance. It was sharp, clipped, impatient. “Dad, we need to talk about the house.” Luckily, I was one step ahead. I set the mug down. I hadn’t even taken a sip. The house he spoke of was the only one they knew about—the home my wife and I had paid off six years ago in silence. My children assumed it was still under mortgage. I never corrected them. Why would I? Some truths are safer when left unsaid. He pushed harder. “This place is too big for you. We already found a buyer. It’s time to be realistic.” Realistic. That word carried more weight than the dirt still settling on her grave. To him, I was a burden. A number on a spreadsheet. Something to be liquidated. What he didn’t know—what none of them knew—was that Helen had left more than memories. Tucked away in a blue folder, buried in her study, was a secret that could turn their plans upside down. Later, my daughter tried her turn. “Dad, you could move into our basement. It’s perfect.” Perfect. A basement with no windows, no garden, no sunlight. They called it safety. I called it surrender. And still—I said nothing. Because silence can be sharper than a blade. That same night, I walked into Helen’s study. Her perfume still lingered on the curtains, faint but unshakable. I pulled open the bottom drawer and found it: the pale blue folder she had left for me, her handwriting on the sticky note: If you’re reading this, you need to know what’s inside. And when the moment finally came, I placed just enough truth on the table. In that instant, I saw confidence drain from their faces—two pale expressions, trembling hands, rehearsed words collapsing, voices breaking, and finally, nothing left but silence. What exactly did I reveal that left them speechless? And why had Helen made sure it would only surface after she was gone?
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20/12/2025

I had covered the payments on my daughter’s house for three long years, but then she demanded that I sign the contract or “get out of our lives,” shoving me to the ground. Humiliated, I drove home and called the real estate agent. The next morning, she opened her door and found something on the doorstep that left her stunned...It had been three years since Michael Turner had signed the cashier’s checks that quietly paid for his daughter’s new house in Portland, Oregon. He had done it out of love, a father’s instinct to protect his only child, Emma, after her divorce. She had been broken, carrying the weight of raising her son alone, and Michael, recently retired from his long career in logistics, felt it was his duty to give her stability.

During those years, he lived modestly in his small condo, carefully managing his own finances to continue helping her. He never complained. To him, the joy was in seeing Emma and his grandson settled in a safe neighborhood.

But gradually, something began to change. Emma stopped expressing gratitude. The invitations to dinner stopped coming. Michael told himself it was just stress—parenting, work, the pressure of life—but the growing distance between them weighed heavily on him.

One autumn evening, Emma handed him a thick envelope. “Dad, you need to sign the co-ownership contract,” she said sharply, her tone more like a command than a request. Michael blinked.

“I already paid for the place, Emma,” he replied gently. “Why would I need to sign anything?”

Her jaw tightened. “Because this is our house. If you won’t put it in writing, then maybe you should just get out of our lives.”

The words sliced deeper than she could have imagined. Michael tried to steady himself, but the room seemed to tilt. “Emma… after everything—”

Before he could get the words out, she shoved him hard in the chest. He staggered back and fell onto the carpet, the impact jarring more than just his body—it shattered his pride. Emma didn’t reach out to help him. She only glared.

Humiliated, Michael drove home that night in silence, his hands trembling on the steering wheel. Once inside his condo, he sat at the kitchen table until the sun came up, replaying the scene over and over in his mind. The pain wasn’t just from the fall—it was the sting of betrayal in its rawest form.

At 8 a.m., he picked up the phone and called the real estate agent who had originally closed Emma’s deal. His voice cracked, but he was determined. “I need to talk about the deed,” he said.

That same morning, Emma opened her front door and froze. On the doorstep lay a document she never expected to see—a legal notice that would change everything. Her face went pale, and for the first time in years, she realized she had underestimated her father.....
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19/12/2025

After eleven years of marriage and four children, love in my home had turned into a weapon. My husband cut me down with constant remarks about my appearance, sneering that I had “let myself go.” Then, one evening, he looked me over like I was a stranger he despised and delivered the blow. “I’m still young,” he said, his voice cold as stone. “I can’t be trapped forever with someone who looks like… this.” He left that night with a suitcase in hand. But within days, karma struck fast and hard—forcing him back to my doorstep, begging for forgiveness....I never thought eleven years of marriage could unravel in a single evening, but it did. I can still hear the sound of David’s suitcase wheels rolling across the hardwood floor, echoing through the house like a funeral march. Our four children—Ethan, 10; Chloe, 8; twins Ava and Liam, 5—were already asleep, blissfully unaware that their father was about to walk out of their lives.
For months, David had grown colder. He’d sneer at my reflection in the mirror, make cutting remarks about how I “let myself go” after the kids, and compare me to women half my age at the grocery store or on television. I used to brush it off, convincing myself he was stressed from work, or maybe I just wasn’t trying hard enough. But that night, his contempt became undeniable.
He stepped into the living room where I sat folding laundry, his face twisted in disgust. “Look at you, Emma,” he said flatly. “This isn’t who I married. You’ve let yourself go, and I can’t keep pretending I’m happy. I’m still young. I won’t be stuck forever with… this.” His hand gestured at me like I was nothing more than a piece of worn-out furniture.
My throat burned with unshed tears, but I refused to let him see me break. “So that’s it? After everything—after four children—you’re leaving?”
“I deserve better,” he snapped, dragging his suitcase to the door. “Don’t wait up.”
And just like that, he was gone. The silence that followed was suffocating. I sat there staring at the laundry basket, the shirts and socks blurred by my tears. My heart ached, not just for me, but for the kids who would wake up to a fatherless home.
But as the hours stretched into days, something unexpected happened. The woman he left behind—broken, exhausted, and humiliated—began to awaken. It wasn’t immediate, but it was real. I started cooking healthy meals for the kids, not because David ever cared, but because I wanted my children to feel stability. I began walking every morning, pushing the twins in the stroller, slowly reclaiming pieces of myself I had long buried under diapers, school schedules, and late-night feedings.
Meanwhile, whispers trickled in from neighbors and mutual friends. David hadn’t gone far—he was living with a younger woman he’d met at the gym, bragging about his “new life.” At first, the news gutted me, but then a quiet strength stirred inside. If he thought I was going to crumble, he was wrong.
What I didn’t know was that karma was already circling, and soon, it would hit David harder than either of us could have imagined..
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19/12/2025

“The Groom’s Family Welcomed Me Warmly—Until Our Wedding Night Revealed the Real Reason They Chose Me...”
“Even though they knew I couldn’t have children, they still asked for my hand.
And on our wedding night, when he lifted the blanket —
I realized everything I believed about love, trust, and family was a lie.”

My name is Anna Williams, I’m thirty, and I live in Seattle.
Three years ago, a quiet sterile room at St. Luke’s Medical Center became the place where my future shattered.
The doctor’s voice was calm, almost rehearsed.
“Anna, the surgery went well… but the complications mean you won’t be able to conceive naturally.”

Those words were supposed to sound professional — instead, they sounded like a sentence.
The next morning, my boyfriend of five years, Ryan, sent a text.

“I’m sorry. I can’t do this anymore.”

That was it.
No explanation. No goodbye. Just silence.

After that, I stopped believing in “forever.” I focused on work, paying rent, and keeping my heart sealed behind small daily routines — grocery lists, podcasts, cold dinners.

Then came Daniel Parker.
He was thirty-seven, a trauma surgeon who had just transferred to the hospital.
He wasn’t loud, or arrogant, or flirtatious. He was simply… kind. The kind of man who noticed when you were exhausted and quietly left a coffee on your desk without a word.

One evening, after a long shift, he asked, “Can I walk you to your car?”
That simple question — respectful, gentle — cracked something open inside me.

Months later, when he proposed, I could barely speak.
“Daniel,” I whispered, “I can’t give you children.”
He just smiled, touching my cheek.
“I’m marrying you, Anna. Not a dream of someone else’s family.”

His mother, Margaret Parker, was warm and elegant.
She told me over tea, “Any woman who can make my son smile the way you do will always be part of this family.”
Her words felt sincere. I wanted to believe them.

Our wedding was small — a garden ceremony with white roses and soft music. When Daniel took my hand, his eyes glistened. For the first time in years, I felt safe.

That night, in our hotel suite, I sat by the mirror, unpinning my hair.
Daniel walked in quietly, removed his jacket, and smiled.
“Ready?” he asked softly.

He lifted the blanket —
and in that second, my world stopped.

What I saw made my breath vanish —
and I knew, instantly, that everything I thought I knew about my husband was a lie....
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19/12/2025

My name is Laura Bennett, and I was never supposed to be a hero. I was just a tired, grieving single mother trying to survive each day. My husband, Michael, had passed away from a sudden and aggressive cancer while I was still pregnant with our son, Ethan. His death had broken something deep inside me, but life didn’t stop for grief. It demanded rent, formula, diapers, heat. I worked two cleaning jobs—night shifts mostly—scrubbing office floors in the same corporate building where powerful people discussed things I couldn’t even imagine affording.

That particular morning, winter had wrapped Chicago in its coldest grip yet. My fingers stung, my breathing was shallow, and exhaustion weighed heavily on my bones as I walked home after another long shift. The streets were nearly silent. Snow dusted the sidewalks, and every sound felt muffled—as though the city itself had gone to sleep.

Then, I heard crying.

So faint I almost thought I imagined it. But there it was again—a thin, weak cry full of fear and pain. I followed the sound to a bus stop, and what I saw nearly stopped my heart: a tiny newborn baby wrapped in dirty, thin blankets, shivering violently on a cold metal bench.

No mother. No note. No explanation.

Just a helpless baby freezing in the dawn cold.

My instincts kicked in before any logic could. I pulled off my own coat, wrapped it tightly around the baby, and held him close to my chest, trying to warm his icy skin with my own heat.

“You’re okay,” I whispered, even though I wasn’t sure if that was true. “I’ve got you.”

I ran home. My mother-in-law, Margaret, gasped when she saw me burst through the door. Together, we warmed and fed the baby while calling the police. When the officers finally took him, I felt an unexpected pain—as though I was letting go of something I wasn’t supposed to lose.

I didn’t sleep that night. I kept hearing the baby’s cry in the cold.

The next afternoon, my phone rang.
A calm, authoritative male voice said:

“Miss Bennett, my name is Edward Kingston. The baby you found… is my grandson. Please come to my office at four o’clock.”

I froze.

My life was about to change in ways I could not yet imagine.

The corporate building where I worked felt completely different that day. Normally, I was invisible there—a person in a faded uniform pushing a mop bucket while executives walked past without a glance. But when I gave my name at the front desk, the security guard stood up straighter and guided me to a private elevator. No one had ever looked at me with respect in that building before.
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19/12/2025

Snow fell softly over the cracked streets of Eastbrook, a forgotten corner of the city where laughter had long gone silent. Streetlights flickered weakly against the biting wind, revealing rows of broken windows, rusted fences, and families doing their best to stay warm.

It was Christmas Eve — but here, Christmas was just another cold night.

Inside a small apartment, Mason, a boy of seven, pressed his face against the frosted window. His breath fogged the glass as he whispered, “Mom, do you think Santa will come this year?”

His mother, Lydia, smiled faintly while stirring a pot of thin soup. “Maybe not the way he used to,” she said, “but sometimes, he shows up when you least expect him.”

At that very moment, far across town, a low rumble began to echo through the streets. It wasn’t thunder — it was the sound of engines.

Twenty motorcycles, all gleaming chrome and red lights, rolled out of a garage. The riders wore red suits, white beards, and black boots — the Brotherhood of Steel Angels, a biker group that spent the year fixing bikes and the winter bringing hope. Their leader, Duke Henderson, a burly man with tattoos and a heart twice his size, shouted over the roar:

“Alright, boys — tonight we ride for the forgotten! Helmets on, hearts open!”

The engines thundered to life, and the night trembled.

As they entered Eastbrook, people peeked out from behind curtains, startled by the noise. But when they saw the flashing red hats, the laughter, the bags of gifts tied to the bikes — gasps turned into smiles.

Mason heard it first — the deep growl of engines growing louder, closer. He ran to the door, barefoot, stepping into the snow. His mother called out, but he was already outside.

Through the swirling flakes, he saw them — a line of Santa Clauses on motorcycles, headlights cutting through the night like stars. Mason’s eyes widened, and his heart skipped.

He shouted, his voice trembling with wonder:
“Mom! Santa’s got a motorcycle!”

And at that instant, one of the riders stopped, turned toward him, and smiled beneath his snowy beard.

The rest of the group slowed down too, the engines idling softly — unaware that this little boy’s voice was about to change everything they thought they knew about Christmas.

The riders slowed their engines, the deep rumble fading into the hush of falling snow. Duke parked his Harley by the sidewalk and lifted his helmet, revealing kind eyes beneath the white Santa wig. The other bikers followed, their headlights casting halos across the icy street..
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19/12/2025

Twenty Doctors Can’t Save a Billionaire — Then the Black Housekeeper Spots What They Missed...
The private hospital suite cost four million dollars to build, but its silence was suffocating. Machines beeped steadily around Victor Blackwell, a billionaire tech magnate known for his iron will and limitless wealth. Yet now, his skin was pale, his hair thinning in clumps, and his body was wasting away. Twenty of the best doctors in the country hovered helplessly, whispering in corners, flipping through charts that made no sense.

Victor’s son paced the marble floor in frustration. “You’re the best specialists money can buy, and you can’t even tell me what’s wrong?”

The lead physician sighed. “We’ve run every test. Nothing explains this… He’s slipping away, and we don’t know why.”

In the corner, almost invisible, Angela Bowmont mopped the floor. She wore a faded uniform, her name badge scratched. To everyone else, she was just the night-shift housekeeper. But behind her tired eyes lived memories of another life—years ago she had been a chemistry student at Johns Hopkins, forced to drop out when her family collapsed financially.

As she worked, she noticed details the doctors missed: Victor’s fingernails stained yellow. His gums discolored. Hair falling not in patches, but in strands. His speech slurred slightly when he tried to whisper. Angela froze. She had read about this before—in an old toxicology paper she once studied late at night.

Thallium poisoning.

Her heart pounded. Who would believe a janitor over twenty doctors? But she couldn’t stay silent. She stepped forward cautiously. “Excuse me… I think it might be thallium. A heavy metal toxin. The symptoms match—nails, hair loss, weakness—”

The doctors turned to her, some frowning, some scoffing. The chief physician snapped, “We don’t have time for wild guesses from staff. Please leave.”

Angela’s face flushed, but she refused to back down. “Check his personal items. Anything he touches daily. Thallium can be hidden in cosmetics, lotions—”

At that moment, an attendant brought in a silver case with Victor’s belongings. On top sat a luxury jar of imported hand cream, a gift regularly delivered by his business partner, Jefferson Burke. Angela’s eyes locked on it.

Her voice was firm. “Test that cream. Now.”

The room went silent. For the first time in days, there was a thread of hope...
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19/12/2025

“I Can Fix It.”A Homeless boy Heard a Millionaire’s Cry for Help—Then He Taught Him What He Couldn’t...
“We’re out of options. The project is doomed.”

The conference room fell into a suffocating silence. Around the long glass table sat some of the city’s brightest engineers and investors, all staring at complicated blueprints projected onto the wall. A sleek design for a next-generation airplane had one fatal flaw: the math didn’t add up. Millions had been spent, and if they failed now, the entire company would collapse.

At the head of the table sat Richard Grant, billionaire entrepreneur and aviation tycoon. His jaw was tight, his eyes burning with exhaustion. He had built empires before, but this—this was his dream. And he was watching it crumble.

From the corner of the room came a small, shaky voice. “I… I can fix it.”

Everyone turned. Standing in the doorway was a boy no older than eleven, his clothes ragged, sneakers torn, a tattered backpack hanging off one shoulder. His dark eyes, though tired, sparkled with certainty.

Security moved forward, but Grant raised a hand. “What did you say?”

The boy swallowed hard. “The numbers. They’re wrong. But I know how to fix them.”

Laughter rippled through the room. An investor scoffed. “Are we really taking advice from a homeless kid?”

But Grant didn’t laugh. There was something in the boy’s gaze—sharp, unflinching, desperate to be heard. Against his better judgment, Grant pushed the blueprints toward him. “Alright then. Show me.”

The boy dropped his backpack, pulled out a battered notebook filled with scribbles, and began working furiously. Pencils scratched, equations flowed, symbols twisted into solutions. Within minutes, he circled a final number, tapped it twice, and looked up...
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19/12/2025

“Do you have any leftovers?” the hungry child whispered? The billionaire’s answer made everyone cry…

The little girl’s whisper was barely louder than the sound of forks and knives clinking at Le Jardin, the most exclusive restaurant in the city. Richard Hale, billionaire CEO of Hale Industries, froze mid-bite. He looked down at the child standing beside his table—a girl no older than seven. Her dress was faded and patched, her shoes worn out, and her eyes wide with a mixture of fear and hunger.

“Leftovers?” Richard repeated softly, trying to mask the tightening in his chest.

The waiter rushed over, mortified. “Sir, I apologize—”

But Richard raised a hand. “It’s fine.” He looked at the girl again. “What’s your name?”

“Maya,” she whispered. “I’m not asking for much. Just… if you’re not gonna finish.”

Her words transported him back to his own childhood—nights when his mother skipped meals so he could eat, days when hunger gnawed so hard it blurred his vision. He saw himself in her, and something inside him shifted.

“Sit down,” Richard said firmly, pulling out the chair beside him. Patrons gasped, some stared, others shook their heads in disapproval. But Richard ignored them...
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19/12/2025

Millionaire kicks a poor beggar in the market not knowing that she is the lost mother he has been searching for years...
The Saturday market in Boston was alive with chatter, bargaining, and the scent of roasted coffee drifting between stalls. Families browsed colorful produce, children tugged at their parents for candy, and vendors shouted their prices into the crowd. Cutting through the noise was Adrian Cole, a man who seemed entirely out of place.

Adrian was a millionaire investor, owner of Cole Properties, known for his sharp mind and sharper tongue. In his tailored suit and polished shoes, he walked with a swagger that made space for him even in the busiest crowd. To him, poverty was nothing more than the cost of laziness.

Near the corner stall sat a frail woman, wrapped in a worn coat. She clutched a cardboard sign: “Hungry. Please help.” Her hands shook as she extended a paper cup toward passersby. Most ignored her. Adrian’s jaw tightened in irritation as he approached. He hated beggars—reminders of weakness he thought the world had no excuse for.

When the woman’s trembling hand accidentally brushed his leg, Adrian recoiled. Without thinking, he shoved her away with his foot. Coins scattered on the pavement as she fell back against the wall. People nearby gasped.

The woman’s lips quivered, her eyes wide with shock. And then, in a trembling voice, she whispered one word that froze Adrian in his tracks:

“Adrian?”

Something in the tone—familiar, fragile, cutting through years—made his chest tighten. He glanced back, shaken, but forced himself to keep walking, his pride unwilling to stop. The whispers of the crowd followed him as he disappeared down the street...
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