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Caius kept hurting her until sunrise before he finally stopped.
When it was over, Caius didn’t spare Vera another look. He turned around and headed straight to the bathroom.
Vera dragged her exhausted body and pulled the blanket over herself to hide her ruined state.
The sound of running water came from the bathroom, and every drop felt like a knife stabbing into her pride.
Caius hated her because he thought she was dirty.
After their first night together, Caius scrubbed himself in the bathroom until his skin started bleeding.
The second time, Caius would rather suffer through the pain than touch her. In the end, when he was close to passing out, Vera chose to help him herself.
Later, Caius realized fighting it was pointless. Every time after sleeping with her, he would repeatedly wash himself until none of her scent stayed on his body.
The bedroom door opened, and Ophelia walked in while holding a bowl of medicine.
She sat beside the bed and looked over Vera with disgust in her eyes. “Looks like this time you didn’t get tortured until you passed out. Drink it.”
It was contraceptive medicine.
The drug inside Caius’s body was too powerful. Every time, Vera would suffer until she fainted, and afterward, Ophelia would force the medicine into her mouth.
This was the first time Vera drank the medicine while fully awake.
For five years, she drank medicine every time after it ended, yet she still became pregnant five times.
Vera opened her mouth and swallowed a large mouthful, but after one sip, she immediately noticed something was wrong.
This wasn’t contraceptive medicine.
It was an herbal root soup, a medicine used to help prepare for pregnancy.
Vera’s eyes widened in shock as she stared at Ophelia. Then she threw the bowl in her hand onto the floor.
The bowl broke apart, and the medicine spread everywhere across the ground.
“This isn’t contraceptive medicine.”
Watching her reaction, Ophelia smiled. “Only after losing five children do you finally react, Sister Vera. That’s all you can do.”
Those words stabbed into Vera’s heart like a bloody knife.
Those five children weren’t roadside weeds or flowers. There were five living children.
Even the last child had almost fully formed already.
A loud slap suddenly sounded.
Vera lifted her hand and slapped Ophelia across the face.
But one slap wasn’t enough. It could never repay the lives of her five children.
Before Vera could react again, Ophelia lightly pushed her, and she instantly rolled off the bed.
Right now, Vera was far too weak. That slap earlier had already drained the last bit of her strength.
“Sister Vera, do you really think all I can do is make you drink pregnancy medicine?”
Ophelia lifted her eyebrows and looked back at her.
“Why is it that even though we started from the same place, Caius is always the one choosing you?”
“Why am I not worse than you, yet you’re always the one receiving the awards?”
“Why do you always have to be better than me in everything? Even when it came to getting pregnant with Giselle, it took me two whole years! But you only needed two months for your first pregnancy!”
“At first, I only planned to make you miscarry once to get revenge, and I thought that would be enough. But it wasn’t enough!”
As Vera listened to Ophelia’s words, she tightly bit her lips, while her eyes showed nothing except fear and shock.
“You already think this is terrifying?”
“Sister Vera, let me tell you something. Not only those five miscarried children, but even these three years of suffering were gifts I personally gave you.”
Vera’s entire body shook as she collapsed onto the floor.
“It was you… You drugged him, and you were the one who pushed me into his room…”
The truth was already so close.
Vera struggled up from the ground and quickly ran toward the doorway.
She wanted to tell Caius everything, wanted to explain the truth clearly, wanted to prove her innocence, and wanted to leave this nightmare behind.
“Caius… Caius, can you hear me? I didn’t intentionally climb into your bed…”
Yet before she even walked out the door, Ophelia struck her across the face.
Vera’s sight suddenly darkened. Her body had already become too weak to endure another slap, and she immediately fell backward onto the floor.
When Vera finally regained consciousness and opened her eyes again, Caius already stood before her.
