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“Teacher… save me… my stomach hurts so much…”
Before Vera finished her words, Caius stopped her and walked right past her into the laboratory.
“I came for the files Ophelia asked for.”
He stayed only two minutes from entering to leaving. Even with blood spreading all over the laboratory floor beneath her, Caius never asked one question.
When the sound of the closing door echoed out, Vera finally collapsed onto the ground.
The pain was unbearable. Her lower stomach hurt, and her heart hurt too, so much that even breathing felt painful.
Later, the hospital ambulance arrived and carried her away.
By the time Vera woke up again, it was already the following day.
Vera pushed herself up from the hospital bed as the nurse stood beside her during rounds.
“Heavy uterine bleeding, caused by frequent sexual activity after miscarriage.”
“The uterus was kept safe. If it happens another time, even a top surgeon like Caius can’t save it.”
Those were the nurse’s original words.
Vera laughed bitterly after hearing that final sentence.
Everything she had become now was because of him.
She looked at the time on her phone. Two more days had already passed.
Only two days were left before everything ended.
The following day, Vera was discharged from the hospital. While taking care of the paperwork, she bumped into Ophelia.
Ophelia had come to arrange hospital admission.
Caius held Ophelia with one arm while holding the little girl’s hand with the other.
Before this, Vera would’ve asked Caius why he never saved her…
But after seeing their happy little family, she didn’t want to ask anymore.
She was the sinner the child talked about, someone who could never openly appear beside him.
“Sister Vera, I’m pregnant.”
Vera wanted to leave, but Ophelia’s words stopped her in her tracks.
Those words felt worse than public humiliation.
Vera stood there blankly for a moment, said nothing, then left.
After walking out of the hospital, Vera headed to the laboratory.
Until the day she left, Vera planned to stay there the whole time.
As long as she waited until tomorrow morning, the antidote would completely finish merging.
Looking at the little incubator, Vera unexpectedly felt tears sting her eyes.
She was leaving soon, but she couldn’t feel any attachment at all.
After staying there for five years, other than the ID card in her hand, she strangely had nothing she could bring away.
The laboratory stayed quiet, while the outside sky slowly became dark.
Sleep slowly covered her, and she fell asleep on the empty laboratory table.
In the dream, the people who revealed her identity tied her up.
After tying her down, they placed her above burning firewood. The heat burned badly. No matter how hard she fought, it was useless.
When pain suddenly spread across her body, Vera opened her eyes at once. The laboratory had caught fire.
The huge fire swallowed the whole laboratory. The flammable chemicals inside the cabinets had all spilled out. The flames rose as tall as two people.
Vera had no time to think. She grabbed the experiment box in her arms and ran toward the door.
The door had been open. Just as Vera was about to run outside, Ophelia shut the door from the other side.
“What are you doing, Ophelia?! Let me out!”
“I’m going to burn alive in here! Open the door!”
She screamed toward the outside, but nothing happened.
“Vera, why?! How far do you want Caius to go for you?!”
“Doesn’t he hate you? Then why does he panic so much after you faint?!”
“Why did Caius punish the people who exposed you and send every one of them to the police station?!”
“Why did Caius throw away the project he followed for five years just to save your uterus and personally do your surgery?!”
Every word Ophelia shouted carried anger and hate.
But Vera, behind the door, could barely hear anymore… She kept gasping for air, but the harder she breathed, the less air she got.
The burning doorframe suddenly collapsed and crashed onto the incubator in her arms.
As darkness slowly covered her sight, she heard glass breaking and someone calling her name.
“Vera!”
“Vera, are you in there?!”
That voice sounded so familiar. Was it Caius?
