Chapter 4

"She gave you her whole heart, yet you want to take her life!"

"Cancel the order immediately! And apologize to Vanessa!!"

Perhaps due to excessive emotional excitement, a series of sharp pains shot through my abdomen, followed by a warm flow from below.

I fled the hospital in a disheveled and panicked state.

Just as I was about to open the car door, a figure blocked my way.

It's Vanessa.

She looked down at him with a smug and arrogant air.

"Medical sage, tsk tsk tsk, it's not bad to be a rat in the gutter, is it? No one's praising you anymore, you must be feeling quite uncomfortable, right?"

“You don’t need to look at me like that. You probably already know that everything back then was a carefully planned scheme by Ethan for me.”

"You probably already know that I'm using you as a test subject in my drug development, right? But even if you do know, what can you do about it?"

She stepped forward and leaned close to my ear.

"By the way, you don't know this, do you? Why is Ethan so obedient to me? It's because I helped him get his family property back and saved his grandfather. Speaking of which, I have to thank you for this, Dr. Bennett."

"This was all meticulously planned by me. How to capture the hearts of two men, how to get them to willingly hand over their resources to me, even if I only use them, so what?"

"As for you, a cripple with nothing, whether you live or die in the lab is entirely up to my mood!"

I can't believe it! The hellish torment and excruciating pain I endured were all part of her scheme!

"Aren't you afraid of backlash if you do this?"

"You treat everyone like playthings, aren't you afraid of the inevitable consequences? Can you really be at peace with yourself for what you gain by relying on men?"

Vanessa scoffed, then snapped her fingers, and a group of people rushed out of the darkness and pinned her down.

"Relying on men? So what, Sophia? I've received all the benefits I've gained. Otherwise, how come I'm a top doctor now, while you're just a cripple who can't even lift a scalpel? If it weren't for keeping you as a test subject for my experiments, do you think you'd still be by Ethan's side?"

"Ethan doesn't love you. All these years of yours are a joke. If you don't believe me, just look for yourself. See how crazy things Ethan can do for me when I'm in danger!"

Before I could fully grasp the meaning of her words, Vanessa, her face contorted in pain, knelt down and begged for mercy: "No...don't kill me! Ethan, please save me!"

When Ethan arrived, a group of men in black had Vanessa pinned to the ground.

What's going on?

She groaned in pain, "I'm sorry, Senior Ethan. I just wanted to talk to Senior Sophia, but I never expected her to be so determined to kill me. These people... these people were all sent by her to kill me..."

Ethan's expression was cold and stern, his eyes like ice, radiating endless chill.

"Sophia, get these people out of here!"

He held me tightly, and when he saw the blood flowing between my legs, he paused for a moment in surprise.

"you……"

However, the next second, the other person's words made him instantly suppress all his emotions.

"Although we are acting on someone else's behalf, we have heard that you have experimental subjects of ancient poison strains. If you hand over the data, we can cancel this assassination operation!"

"Can!"

Ethan agreed almost without hesitation and forcibly dragged me into the experimental chamber and locked me up.

"Speed up data collection, and if that doesn't work, increase the dosage! Ten times, a hundred times! As long as the data is available immediately!"

It was the first time I'd ever seen panic on Ethan's face.

And all of this was for Vanessa.

"The subjects' conditions are not suitable for a hundredfold dose, Chairman Carter, this..."

"Just do as I say. I know what's going on with her. Nothing will happen to her!"

I was forced to take a hundred times the dose of the medicine, but the pain in every cell of my body was nothing compared to the pain in my heart.

In my remaining moments of consciousness, I sent some messages to people on the dark web, instructing them to give them to Ethan after my death.

I once thought I could fake my death and be reborn, to reclaim the life that belonged to me, Sophia.

It seems that's no longer possible...

At this moment, Ethan paced anxiously, oblivious to my pain. The moment he received the data report, his tightly furrowed brows finally relaxed.

He eagerly handed the data report to the group of men in black, then carried Vanessa back to the hospital for a thorough full-body examination.

After confirming that everything was alright, they breathed a sigh of relief and hugged each other tightly.

The new interns in the lab couldn't stand it any longer and stepped in to interrupt Ethan and Vanessa's intimate moment.

“Chairman Carter, your wife’s heart has stopped beating…”