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After that day, I never saw Sarah again. It seemed she had returned home, spending her nights drinking herself into numbness at local bars.I stopped paying attention to her. Instead, with the support of my friends, I slowly poured all my energy into picking up the paintbrush again.Once my wrist injury healed, I spent almost all my time in the studio. After a period of quiet focus and experimentation, my paintings began to attract attention. Having a solo art exhibition—a dream that was once shattered—no longer seemed out of reach.The next time I heard news of Sarah, however, it was connected to Joseph. Word was that while in prison, Joseph faked severe abdominal pain. On the way to the hospital with the prison guards, he jumped out of the vehicle and escaped.He still held a bitter grudge against Sarah and me for putting him behind bars. He even sent me a threatening text message. [Daniel, you ruined my life! Don’t think you’ll get off easy. I will never let you or Sarah off t
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After winding down and taking a breather, Clara accompanied me to my scheduled appointment at the clinic.The doctor completed the preliminary exam, pointed at the scans, and spoke with absolute confidence. “I can guarantee a one-hundred percent recovery for your right hand.”The crushing weight that had been weighing on my chest finally lifted.Over the following days, I diligently cooperated with every treatment session. Slowly but surely, the nerves in my right hand began to heal.Eventually, a month later, I could pick up a brush and paint once again.“We should celebrate!”Clara, who was genuinely happy for me, pulled out two tickets like a magic trick.“There’s an emerging artist exhibition at the art gallery tomorrow. I think you’ll be interested.”In a great mood, I smiled and took the tickets. However, the next day, Clara and I walked into the gallery only to run straight into a familiar face.“Daniel, I’ve been looking everywhere for you.”Sarah walked over and grab
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“You didn’t actually think I would marry you, did you?”Sarah casually pulled out two marriage certificates. Then, right before Joseph’s wide eyes, she tore them into pieces without a moment's hesitation.As the scraps of paper fluttered down, she said with a scornful look in her eyes, “The marriage certificates are fake. I paid someone off long ago. From the start, this was all just an act.“If I weren't afraid you’d keep coming after Dan, I’d feel disgusted even touching you.”Only after losing me and realizing my love for her was gone did Sarah finally understand. By struggling and playing along with Joseph, she was losing the person she loved even more.“How… how could you…” Joseph stammered incoherently, the color completely drained from his face. “How could you do this to me?”Before Sarah could answer him, the police immediately stepped forward and took him away. Sarah didn't answer, nor did she need to. Several police officers stepped up quickly and took Joseph away.All
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“It’s not real! None of this is real!”Seeing all his misdeeds exposed online, Joseph’s first instinct was to smash his phone to pieces. Then, he rushed over to Sarah to explain.“Honey, trust me… You have to believe me! Those are all fake, generated to set me up!” He sobbed, clinging to Sarah, whose face was dark and menacing. His voice trembled as he said, “I didn’t bribe the doctor. It was Daniel! He’s jealous, and he’s trying to get revenge–”“Are you still trying to lie to me?”Sarah shoved him away and slapped the medical record right into his face.She said sarcastically, “You’re infertile. So tell me, how exactly could you get me pregnant? Besides, I just had a checkup. There is nothing in my belly.”Joseph suddenly stopped with his flimsy excuses, and his face drained of all color.“You bribed the doctor, faked the pregnancy report, drugged me, and put on this grand illusion…” Sarah let out a smile that was uglier than crying as she continued, “All just so I’d act l
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[Joseph Greer, Male, Sterility, Male Infertility.]Sarah’s eyes fixed on those few words. Suddenly, she felt her world spin, and she could barely keep her balance.“How is this… even possible?”She didn’t dare to entertain the thought that if Joseph Greer was infertile, then what was growing inside her belly? What was the point of all her struggles and compromises over the past few months?Panicking, Sarah pulled out her phone and sent me a message.[This report is fake, isn’t it? Dan, where are you?]She desperately wanted me to deny it. So, I replied simply. [It’s real. As for your pregnancy, you might want to get a second opinion at a different hospital.]Only then did everything click. She remembered how, for every prenatal checkup, Joseph had insisted on taking her to the same private hospital to see the same renowned specialist.The appointments were always quick, and the reports consistently read “fetal health normal.” Yet, besides the initial blood test, she—as a moth
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I watched as she walked away and let out a self-deprecating smile. Then, I walked toward the trauma and emergency department myself.I signed the consent form and had the wound cleaned and sutured up. The process of the needle and thread pulling through flesh was agonizingly slow. Each of the forty-nine stitches felt like a blade carving straight into my heart.Finally, the doctor administered a rabies vaccine and told the nurse to help me over to a bed to rest. However, the moment I stepped into the ward, an intense wave of dizziness washed over me, and everything went dark.In my dream, there was no Joseph, no infidelity, and no death. There was only a scene of our family of four, living happily together.My grandmother and Sarah were gathered around a doll-like little girl, smiling as they called out to me, “Dan, come quickly! Look, our little daughter, Ella, is smiling at you!”I reached out my hand, but right as my fingertips were about to touch the child’s cheek, the dream s
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