Mom, Look at My Heart

John Chance, my archeologist father, suddenly received a call. Due to a nearby avalanche caused by the recent snowstorm, an ancient tomb was revealed.John led his team straight to the uncovered tomb to start the excavation. During the dig, they found three ancient corpses and the headless corpse of a recently deceased woman.The team immediately called the police. With the officers' assistance, John was able to dig up the woman's corpse. However, because it was headless, there was no way for them to immediately identify the corpse. Thus, it was sent to the morgue. The officers told John to contact them as soon as his team found the head.Zack Moran, one of the team members, noticed the scar on the body's hand and hurriedly said, "Denise has the exact same scar on her hand. Hopefully, it's not her. Do you want to call her to confirm it?"John was focused on excavating the ancient corpses they found and carefully moving them to a box to preserve them. He distractedly replied, "That

I felt a tugging sensation. Suddenly, my soul was brought to the morgue of a hospital. My body was being autopsied.The coroner in charge was Ian Jensen, my mother's current husband. After slicing my chest open, he frowned and made a call.A few minutes later, Wendy came walking in. Despite being in her forties, she looked as beautiful as before. What a shame that I never inherited her beauty."Look at the corpse. The girl had a congenital heart disease, specifically a rare primary aortic dilatation," Ian said.Wendy reached out and confirmed his discovery for herself. Then, she picked up the scalpel with gloved hands and cut out my heart. Ian hurriedly stopped her. "That's illegal!"Wendy did not care at all. "I just so happen to need this heart as a teaching tool for my class. I also want to research a targeted cure for congenital heart disease. Her family will surely be honored if they know about this. Leave me be. I know what I'm doing."Wendy carefully stored my heart away a

John's face was covered in disbelief. "Denise was actually my daughter?"Wendy scoffed and angrily said, "I already told you that I never cheated on you."With the DNA test report in hand, John fell to his knees in agony. "I have ignored and neglected my real daughter all these years! I'm a terrible person!"Wendy got up to leave. When the police officer stopped her, she coldly said, "You know that it's Denise now. Her dad is here, so just contact him for whatever you need.""But you're her mother!"All of a sudden, all sense of rationality fled her, and she roared, "Who cares if I'm her mom? I still have a sick daughter to take care of..."She slumped to the ground like a deflated balloon. Under her breath, she mumbled, "That heart was Denise's."Then, she began to sob. Standing behind her, I watched her cry. Despite how warm her tears were, my soul was still cold.John and Wendy cried for a very long time before the police officer could get them to look at my body. Someone ha

I followed my parents back to Mount Fang. John tried to immediately run off, but the police stopped him.The police officers were determined to search Mount Fang once more. As part of the archeology team, John had to go along to prevent the police from destroying the ancient tomb out of carelessness.For once, Wendy proactively wanted to go along. Once they arrived at the tomb, everyone began searching the area. John was distracted during the search.I found his stumbling figure laughable as it was all an act.During this search, the police discovered Fred's student ID. Wendy swiftly ran over to slap John. "Your son killed my daughter! You're a deranged fool! No wonder you've been stalling!"As they argued, one of the officers found my phone. Unfortunately, it was broken and needed repairs.The officers brought my parents back to the station to wait for Isla and Fred, who were summoned to the station as well.Out of fear, Fred hid in Isla's embrace. Isla was calm as she said, "O

Under police questioning, Ian hung his head in silence, tacitly admitting to everything. Wendy broke down and shouted, "Why? Why did you do that to my daughter, you beast?""Denise, I'm so sorry! I was so horrible to you, yet you still wanted to protect me..."Wendy began to slap herself in the face. The loud slaps echoed through the station. Even so, I felt nothing.That was because she had already shattered my heart.To reduce his sentence, Ian reported Wendy for ethical violation as she stole the heart from my body. It was pretty hilarious to watch them betray each other.Ever since I became a ghost and had to endure all the abuse, this was the happiest day of my life.Fred and Ian were detained for further processing while John and Isla went home. Wendy would have to be investigated by the hospital. Still, she dazedly refused to return home and insisted on going with John to demand retribution.As John was feeling guilty, he let Wendy follow along. When Wendy opened the door