3
“Caius, I…”
Before Vera could finish speaking, Caius suddenly grabbed her by the neck.
“Vera, this is the last time I’m warning you. Don’t say my name again. Hearing it from you disgusts me.”
After that night, Caius never allowed her to call him by his name again.
The only way she could address him was “teacher.”
“Teacher, I didn’t purposely get into your bed. She was the one who drugged you, and she was also the one who sent me to your bed. She admitted it herself…”
“Me?” Ophelia instantly put on a helpless expression. “It was me? No… not me…”
“Sister Vera, what should I even say? If you mean that I told you to drink the contraceptive medicine and not throw the bowl, then fine, I admit that part.”
Just a few simple words from Ophelia completely destroyed the explanation Vera tried so hard to give.
“Why didn’t you drink the medicine?”
Caius looked at the broken mess on the floor, his face dark with anger.
“That wasn’t contraceptive medicine. What Ophelia gave me was pregnancy preparation medicine. She admitted it herself just now…”
“Enough!”
Caius cut her off with an angry shout. “Vera, when are you finally going to stop causing problems?”
That single sentence completely blocked every explanation Vera tried to make.
The truth had been so close, and only then did Vera realize she had ignored the most important thing.
Caius loved Ophelia, not Vera.
Caius trusted Ophelia, never her.
“Bring over all the boiled medicine.”
After hearing his order, Ophelia poured the remaining medicine from the half-filled clay pot in the kitchen into bowls and carried them over.
Caius tightly held Vera’s chin with one hand, forcing her to lift her face and open her mouth.
The medicine tasted extremely bitter, but Vera didn’t struggle.
Because resisting only brought something even worse.
He forcefully made her drink two full bowls of medicine. After swallowing everything, Vera fell onto the floor and stayed there for a long time before recovering.
Before leaving, Caius coldly dropped one sentence behind.
“Clean this place up. For the next two days, no one’s giving you food or water. If you did something wrong, then accept the punishment.”
After that, only the cold sound of the door slamming shut remained.
Vera bent down to pick up the broken bowl from the floor, but her finger got sliced before she could grab it.
Drops of blood fell into the medicine, slowly spreading red through the soup.
She had already become used to this kind of punishment.
In the beginning, she resisted and kept trying to escape. The first time she broke out of confinement, Caius publicly brought her back and shut her inside for one whole month.
The second time she tried running away, Caius tortured her through three full days and nights during the full moon. By the end of it, she couldn’t hold on anymore and ended up in the hospital.
After that, she started behaving quietly. Resistance was pointless, so she gave up fighting back.
Caius only punished her in one way, by locking her up.
Because only while she remained alive could Caius continue living, he never dared truly harm her.
Vera had already suffered even longer periods of confinement before. Although she had just gone through a miscarriage surgery and her body felt weak, she could still survive two days and nights.
Caius finally let her out on the third day.
After eating a little food, Vera went straight to the laboratory.
As soon as she opened the laboratory door, Vera stood there stunned.
The worktable, the cabinets, even the incubator room… everything was in complete disorder.
All the test tubes had fallen onto the floor, the laboratory equipment had been smashed apart, the incubator room door stood wide open, and a revealing red lace underwear even hung from the door handle…
“Sister Vera, why are you standing there blankly? Did you finish the work Caius asked you to do?”
Ophelia walked inside from outside the room, and the smug look in her eyes was almost impossible to hide.
“After you finish your part, don’t forget mine too. Last night wore me out badly. My waist still hurts, and I don’t even have the strength left to work.”
