LOGINOn New Year’s Eve, a poolside party was held at the hospital. There, my fiancee Valerie Charlton’s medical prodigy junior colleague, Cyrus Zeigler, drew the wildcard in a party game. His task was to select a woman from the attendees and enact an explicit scene in front of everyone. He scanned the crowd, and his gaze landed on Valerie. “Valerie, you’re about to get married. I know I can’t have you. So let me have this one time. Okay?” Valerie’s eyes welled up, and she was about to nod. I scoffed and tossed the unsigned medical equipment purchase contract onto the table. “You’d better think carefully. Either he gets lost, or your family’s hospital shuts down for good. Your choice.” Cyrus glared at me angrily when he saw that Valerie was torn with indecision. “Is it that Mr. Everest can’t take a joke? He’s already controlling everything you do before the wedding. After you get married, he’ll probably keep you in a cage.” Valerie calmed down. Then, she turned to me and said scornfully, “You are a grown man. Have some grace. What era are we living in? Do you have to flaunt your masculinity all the time?” I watched calmly as they walked toward the pool. Then, I turned and made a phone call. “Since she doesn’t care about this marriage, she can watch the Charlton family crumble.”
View MoreThree days later, I arrived at my mother’s grave in a wheelchair.Valerie and Cyrus were escorted and forced to kneel before the grave. Their faces were as pale as paper.“Let’s begin,” I said coldly.A bodyguard walked toward Cyrus, carrying a box of steel nails.Cyrus trembled uncontrollably once he saw what the bodyguard was holding.“No. You can’t do this to me.”Two bodyguards stepped forward and pinned down his flailing arms and legs. Another bodyguard held a hammer in one hand and a steel nail in the other.When the bodyguard hammered down the nails, screams echoed through the cemetery.Cyrus’ face turned bright red from the pain. Beads of sweat rolled down his forehead. He opened his mouth wide to shout, but only whimpers came out.He reached for Valerie with a trembling hand, asking for help. Valerie was so frightened that she did not dare lift her head.“Keep going.”As the bodyguard continued, Cyrus kept screaming.Within ten minutes, he was completely pinned to
Valerie did not even have time to cry out in pain.Before Valerie could even react to the pain, the news hit her so hard it stopped her cold.She trembled and said, “Claude, you’re joking, right?”I smirked and said coldly, “Do I really look like I have that kind of free time?”Valerie slumped forward.Her voice trembled as she said in disbelief, “That hospital was my father’s life’s work. How could you... just destroy it like that?”I looked at her with a cold and indifferent gaze.“Your father’s life’s work? Then, did he ever teach you how to respect your elders? Or what does it mean to bite the hand that feeds you?”“You...” Valerie stammered for a long time but could not form a single complete sentence.Cyrus also looked pale at that moment.He clearly had not expected me to be ruthless enough to go after Charlton Hospital.“Claude, aren’t you afraid that what goes around will come around?”I let out a soft laugh and said, “What goes around comes around? This is you get
Valerie crossed her arms over her chest. She still looked disdainful as her gaze filled with contempt.I must have been blind before. How did I ever think she was dignified and composed? She was nothing but arrogant and full of herself.“A dark dungeon? What is this? The old days? That’s hilarious. You just say whatever comes to mind. Do you think you’re living in some kind of fantasy?”I ignored her.The doctor stepped forward to examine my mother.I felt anxious, yet I also held onto hope. “How is she? Can she still be saved?”The doctor hesitated. His expression was sorrowful. He seemed to want to say something, but he held back.I suppressed my grief and said in a hoarse voice, “So there’s really nothing you can do?”The doctor was stunned for a moment. Then, he slowly said, “Mdm. Everest was abused before this. She was only hanging on because of the oxygen supply. Now that her heart has stopped beating, there’s no bringing her back.”When Valerie heard this, she clicked
Just as I was about to lose consciousness, I heard faint footsteps from a distance. Then, I heard Valerie’s anxious voice. I thought she had come to save me.Then, she rushed forward and urgently asked, “Cy, are you alright?”When she noticed the red marks on his hand, she asked sharply, “What happened here?”The cruel look on Cyrus’ face faded. It was replaced with a look of bewilderment.He said aggrievedly, “I was just trying to run some tests on him.”Valerie turned to look at me. It was as if she could not see the blood pouring out of me or the steel nails. She said viciously, “Claude, how can you be so cruel? He’s just trying to do some human research. What’s the big deal if you make a little sacrifice?”I did not want to dwell on this with her. My mind was focused on my mother.“Save my mom. Save her.”In my current state, I could barely save myself. There was no way I could get my mother out.Her gaze landed on the elderly woman lying nearby, covered in dirt. She






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