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The moment I said it, Damian's sobbing hitched to a stop.
He was staring hard at me, and something dark and ugly slid through his eyes before he could hide it.
"Doctor! Why would you curse my wife to die?"
The next second, he was helpless again.
He knelt there in the standing water, eyes swollen red from crying.
"You don't want to save her? Fine, I don't blame you!"
"The world is cold. I accept that!"
"But how could you stand here in front of everyone and curse her dead?"
"She's eight months pregnant, and she was just calling out to you for help!"
That lit the crowd's anger completely.
"Damn, this doctor is vicious!"
"Looks so respectable, so how is she this cold-hearted?"
"His wife's clearly still alive and crying for help, and she just curses her dead?"
"This is insane! If you don't want to save someone, fine, but why say something so cruel?"
"A healer's compassion? More like a healer's ice. Not a shred of kindness!"
Seeing that everyone had taken his side,
a flicker of satisfaction slipped through Damian's eyes, too quick to catch.
He turned at once to face the crowd and poured it all out through his tears.
"My wife and I grew up together. We've known each other seventeen whole years!"
"I've never asked for anything in this life except for her to safely have our baby and for us to live a good life together!"
"Every single day I've cherished her, never once let her suffer the smallest hurt!"
"If it weren't for this sudden accident, we'd have been the happiest family……"
By the end, he was crying so hard he could barely breathe.
"This doctor says my wife is already dead?"
"Then who was that just now, calling for help inside the car?!"
That line was the finishing blow.
The crowd's mood swung completely with him.
"Right! I clearly heard a woman's voice just now! A living cry for help, how could that be a dead person?"
"This doctor really is cold-blooded to the extreme! Making up a lie like this just so she doesn't have to save anyone!"
"We have to expose her! Get her fired! Show everyone what she really is!"
Plenty of people raised their phones and turned the cameras on me.
Some went straight to livestreaming, typing out headlines built to grab eyes.
【Major crash on the Bay Bridge! Cold-blooded woman doctor lets victims die, publicly curses injured pregnant woman!】
The moment the livestream went up, the traffic on it shot through the roof.
Countless viewers poured in, all of them cursing me.
Watching it all unfold, my heart went cold, piece by piece.
Public opinion, sympathy, the underdog act, the crowd's sense of justice……
Damian had turned every weapon he could reach on me.
I fixed my eyes on him and spoke evenly.
"If you love your wife so much, why didn't you call the proper rescue services the moment it happened?"
"Why is it that after the crash, instead of staying focused on your trapped wife, the first thing you did was fix your teeth into me, a veterinarian?"
"Is the traffic really blocking the rescue route dead, or is it because the person in that car has been dead all along?"
Three questions in a row, straight to the heart of it.
Damian's face went white in an instant.
His eyes wandered; he didn't know how to talk his way out.
Just then, from the wrecked car up front came a woman's pained voice again.
"Help……please, save me……"
"Honey, I'm so scared, I don't want to die yet……our baby isn't even born yet……"
Damian seized it like the last straw.
He shouted back toward the wrecked car with everything in his throat.
"Honey! Don't be afraid! You won't die!"
"I'll get you out, I swear! Just hold on a little longer! Don't be scared!"
He lunged forward and clawed at my car window,
both hands clamping down hard on my wrists.
"Doctor! I'm begging you! Save my wife and my child!"
"I'll kowtow to you! I'll get on my knees! Please, just have some mercy!"
His grip was frantic and brutal.
He screamed and begged and shook me like a madman all at once.
The crowd caught fire at the sight.
In an instant one shout drew a hundred.
"What are you waiting for? They're almost dead! Save them, now!"
"Stop wasting words on her! She's cold-blooded and refusing on purpose! Just drag her out!"
"Hurry! Every second wasted is two lives!"
In the chaos, two young men rushed up first.
Using the moment Damian had me held, they shoved their arms into the car and found the door-unlock button.
The next second, the door was wrenched open.
They grabbed me without a word and hauled me bodily out.
