Chapter 2

"Julian's brother didn't mean it. The body was going to be cremated with the trash anyway. There's no need to be so particular. What's there for him to be angry about?"

Seeing the body pushed into the garbage, covered in filth and stinking so badly it made people gag, I laughed instead.

"Vivian, you're going to regret this."

When she finally learned that the body she had degraded was her own father's, I hoped she could still be this generous.

"What do I have to regret?"

Vivian covered her nose in disgust and did not spare Robert's body a single glance. She ordered me, "My time is valuable. I don't want to waste it on meaningless things.

"Hurry up and sign the forgiveness letter. Then I'll have your father's body fished out.

"Julian's brother has a bright future. It can't be ruined like this."

I looked at her expressionlessly.

"Dream on."

Robert had only caught Caleb Blake installing surveillance cameras in Vivian's room and tried to stop him.

Caleb had deliberately rammed him with a car, then reversed and ran him over again and again.

To vent his anger, Caleb had even used a steel pipe to beat Robert while he was barely breathing.

And this thing, worse than an animal, wanted a forgiveness letter?

Vivian was a doctor, yet she was creating false testimony for the man who had killed her own father. Wasn't she afraid the dead would never rest?

Vivian grew irritated under my stare.

"Nathaniel, I'm not discussing this with you. I'm informing you.

"With my ability, even if this goes to court, I can get him acquitted.

"I just don't want you humiliating yourself in court. Everyone knows you're my husband. If you act petty over something this small, you'll embarrass me too."

I said calmly, "If you're so afraid of embarrassment, let's divorce."

Vivian glared at me in anger.

"Nathaniel! You're threatening me with divorce over a tiny matter like this?"

She looked at Caleb with righteous indignation.

"Even if he accidentally kicked Dad's body into the garbage, wasn't he helping clean up?

"He already knows he was wrong. Why shouldn't he be forgiven?"

Caleb was spitting and urinating on the body that had just been retrieved.

I stared at Vivian in disbelief. I genuinely thought something in her mind had broken.

An obvious act of desecration had somehow become "helping" in her mouth.

Where was the Vivian Stone who once spent five years stuck in a basic post because she refused bribes and insisted on a doctor's principles?

It seemed everything had changed after Julian appeared.

As a trainee assistant, Julian prescribed medication casually without even reading patients' conditions.

Vivian not only covered for him, she deliberately allowed patients to worsen just to pave his way.

I warned Vivian that as a doctor, she had to be responsible to patients.

She said carelessly that she simply didn't want a young newcomer to feel disappointed.

My eyes turned cold.

"I'll give you the divorce agreement tomorrow. Remember to sign it."

Julian wrapped his arm around Vivian's waist and said in a theatrically gentle voice, "Nathan, Vivian only went to a hotel with me on Valentine's night because she pitied me for being alone. Don't be angry over that. Vivian and I are innocent.

"How about this? I'll apologize to you. Take back what you said about divorce. If Vivian takes it seriously, I'm afraid you'll regret it later."

When Vivian heard that, rage flared in her. She slapped me across the face and jabbed a finger at my nose.

"Nathaniel! You really don't know when to stop!

"People with dirty hearts see filth everywhere. Let me tell you this: divorce is impossible.

"Not only will I refuse to divorce you, I'll sign the forgiveness letter as your wife and help Julian's brother."

She immediately had someone bring a forgiveness letter and signed her name on it right in front of me.