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Staring at the photo, Mark Stevenson felt a lump in his throat. As it turned out, accompanying Ryan Davis’s son to the amusement park was her so-called urgent matter.A sharp pain stabbed his chest, and a mixture of humiliation and rage made his entire body tremble. Just as he was about to call Claire Baker to confront her, he noticed the comment section under the post, where mutual friends had started teasing her. [After all these years, Claire still has a soft spot for Ryan.]Ryan quickly replied with a lengthy comment. [All these years later, Claire is still the kindest person I know. We agreed to meet at seven, but I overslept, so she stood downstairs waiting for three whole hours with zero complaints. Then, she took us out for some fine dining. I heard she drove down to the restaurant the day before just to get a reservation.]Someone immediately chimed in. [Is this really the same Claire Baker who canceled an intern’s qualification just because they were five minutes late on

Only then did Ryan seem to realize what he had just said, and he looked at Mark with a panicked expression.“Oh, Mark, I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to imply that you’re filthy or anything… I saw that you were drenched, so I…”He looked frantically toward Claire. “Claire, please explain to him. I really didn’t mean it like that. I don’t want Mark to get the wrong idea.”Claire reached out and gently smoothed his slightly messy hair, reassuring him, “I know what you meant. How could Mark be mad at you? He’s not that petty.”Then, she turned to look at Mark and added, “Leo just put on fresh clothes, and you’re dripping wet. You’ll get him dirty. You have no idea how mischievous he is. I just bought him ten sets of clothes yesterday, and he’s ruined eight of them.”Claire, Ryan, and the child, Leo Davis, looked remarkably like a family as they stood there together. Mark, however, did not look at Claire. Instead, he kept his gaze fixed on Ryan as he said, “Take off my shirt.”It was

Seeing Claire step out of the operating theatre, Mark hurried forward. “Why are you out? How’s my dad?”“I have an urgent call to take. Just a second.”She answered the call, and Ryan’s voice echoed through the phone. Her expression instantly shifted. “Ryan, don’t panic! I’ll be right over!”As soon as she hung up, she walked away.Mark grabbed her arm, asking, “Where are you going?”“Something urgent came up on Ryan’s end. I have to go there right now.”“What will happen to my dad if you leave?”Claire pried his fingers off her arm. “There’s an entire medical team watching over your dad. Nothing will go wrong just because I’m absent. Have the attending doctor step in for now. I’ll take a quick look and come back right away.”With that, she turned around and walked briskly into the elevator. Mark ran after her, but the elevator doors shut right in his face.“Claire! Come back!”The doors to the operating theatre opened once again, and the attending doctor stepped out, looki

It was the height of summer at noon, and the car was as hot as an oven. The leather surface of the seats was scorching hot, and any contact with his skin stung.Mark fumbled for his phone and dialed Claire’s number, but she did not pick up. As the temperature inside the car kept climbing, his vision began to blur, and a loud ringing filled his ears. Knowing that he would die in there if that kept up, he gritted his teeth and turned around, pulling off the seat headrest with all he had. Then, he smashed the metal prongs at the bottom against the car window.Time after time, he struck the same spot with all his might. Eventually, the window shattered, and cool air poured into the car, helping him barely regain his senses.He scrambled out of the car window, dropped onto the ground, and gasped greedily for fresh air. Only after a long while did he brace himself to stand up and realize the car was parked halfway up a winding mountain road. And on a nearby slope, an outdoor camping eve

“What did you say?” Claire was taken aback. “Wasn’t he relatively stable yesterday?”The attending doctor sighed. “Four hours ago, the patient suffered sudden heart failure. We did everything we could. Dr. Baker, you’re an exceptional cardiologist yourself. You should know better than anyone how vital time is for a patient.”With that, the attending doctor walked past her with the medical chart in his hand. Before he left, he could not help but add one last comment.“If Dr. Sloan had arrived just three hours earlier, we could’ve saved him. Sigh…”Claire clenched her fingers into a fist and staggered back against the wall. She had only taken Ryan to get a checkup. How could this… Dr. Sloan frowned as he looked at Claire sternly. “Claire, you said they were going for preoperative checkups. What on earth actually happened here? I always thought you were a person of principle. I can’t believe you’d do something so utterly foolish! As a doctor, you shouldn’t be playing with a patient'