陳果子只活到45歲，不久後祥和也因病過世。關於他們的犧牲，流傳著許多恐怖的傳說。大約在1988年，他們帶著百川和桃艷去跟利老爺一起生活。老父因為祥和娶了陳果子而瞧不起他們這對小夫婦。
利老爺認為兒子已經墮落到，只能夠娶農科女孩的地步。雖然利老爺疼愛孫子特凡，但他無法接受陳果子，即便小媳婦曾經像祥和一樣有醫學學位。
祥和向父親要錢，以便在索興村（當時還是個落後的漁村）生活。祥和想著可以跟身為醫生的妻子一起開個小診所。利老爺嘲笑他，斷然拒絕他的要求。
命運的轉捩點終於到來。陳果子告訴他，她從一張神祕的紙牌中得知自己只能活到45歲。她會盡一切努力幫助他出人頭地。於是，她把祥和的老朋友何醫生叫到茶館。
何醫生告訴他，沒有人想讓他加入香港的醫學界，因為他的朋友或徒弟在醫學界地位很高，老前輩害怕老師會榨乾他們的錢財。如果他想行醫，就必須和他做個交易。有兩個選擇：要嘛他可以幫本地少女做非法墮胎手術，每次3000元；要嘛他可以把自己的器官賣到黑市去，他得英年早逝，只活到45歲。其間他可以預支一些費用。
祥和不能讓無辜的女孩遭受非法墮胎的傷害，但是他無法忍受只活到45歲。他大吼一聲，準備離開，這時果子媽留了下來。他的孩子們不知道最終發生了什麼事。那天，特凡曾經和他們一起吃過飯而已。
Apple Chen only lived to an age of 45, and Heaven died shortly afterwards in sickness too. There are horror myth their sacrifices. Around 1988 they took Coast and Peach to live with Court Ri. They were looked down by Court Ri because he married Apple.
Court Ri thought his son had stooped to a low level where he had no better choices than marrying an Agriculture girl. Although Court loved his grandson Tefan he couldn't accept Apple Chen even she had earned a Medical Degree in later year like Heaven.
Heaven asked his Dad for some money for living away from home in Shocking Village. It was an undeveloped fishing village back in those day. Heaven thought he could run a small clinic with his doctor wife. Court Ri laughed at him and bluntly refused him.
The fateful day came when Apple told him that she had read in magic cards that she only got to live to 45. She would do all that was possible to see the rise of him. So she called his old friend Dr Ho to a teahouse.
Dr Ho told him that no-one wanted him to join the Medicine Circle in Hong Kong, as a friend or his apprentice would be so highly positioned in Medicine Society that an old teacher would rob them of their wealth. If he wanted to practise Medicine, they must cut a deal with him. There are two options. He could undergo illegal abortion for local teenagers for 3000 a case, or he could sell his own organ to black market and die in a young age of 45. He can have advance.
Heaven would never harm an innocent girl with illegal abortion, and he couldn't bear to live to an age of 45 only. He yelled and was ready to go when Apple stay behind. His children didn't know what happened in the end. Tefan went with them that day.
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