All Chapters of After My Father Woke Up, I Pulled the Plug: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

"Mercy Ryan! What are you doing!"Daniel Shaw was the first to rush over, but I locked him outside the room.He slammed against the door like a madman.My mother knelt outside the glass wall and struck the door with all ten fingers. Blood quickly smeared across the glass."Mercy, that’s your father!“He went into that fire to save you! He finally woke up, and you pulled the tube out?! Please, Mercy, I’m begging you. Put it back in!”I did not move.Three minutes earlier, my father opened his eyes, and everyone in the room burst into tears.The first thing he saw was me, and he called me by my childhood nickname."Marshy."He gave me that nickname the year I was born. Even my mother had not called me that in over a decade.He remembered me falling into the river at seven and pulling me out.He remembered me running away from home at twelve and searching for me all night at an abandoned train station.He remembered our terrible argument before the fire, when I told him I would rather die

Chapter 2

In the interrogation room, the police played the livestream recording seven times in a row.Each time, my father woke up all over again.Each time, he looked at me and called me "Marshy."Each time, I leaned over and whispered something he could not hear before pulling out his breathing tube.Hundreds of thousands of comments had already condemned me.[Gordon Ryan was a firefighter who saved twenty-seven people, yet he ultimately died at the hands of his own daughter.][I heard severe burns require lifelong treatment. Did she resent her own father for becoming a burden?][Dr. Shaw treated her father for free, and she not only showed no gratitude but actually killed him!][Give her the death penalty! Carry it out immediately!]Detective Ethan Carter paused the recording at the moment I leaned over."What did you ask him?""I forgot.""Your father clearly showed an emotional reaction after he heard it.""People become afraid when they are close to death. That’s normal."The young officer

Chapter 3

The legal aid office assigned me an attorney named Nathan Parker.When he came to see me for the first time, he did not even open the case file."The evidence is conclusive. You killed him on a livestream, confessed voluntarily, and had a clear motive."He sat on the other side of the glass, his voice completely flat. "Your mother refuses to forgive you, and the public outrage is enormous. Mercy, the most I can do is try to help you avoid immediate execution.""I want an acquittal."Nathan finally looked up."What did you say?""Do three things for me, and I’ll make you the most famous lawyer in the country.""Are you under some kind of delusion about your situation?""First, go to the hospital and ask Daniel Shaw what my father said after he woke up."The livestream showed everything. I want the complete record, word for word."Nathan stared at me. "And then?""Second, visit the families of the people my father saved and ask them what he feared most. “And the third thing?""I’ll tell

Chapter 4

Nathan fractured two fingers while fleeing the hospital.But when the security footage was reviewed again the next day, my father had not moved at all.Daniel personally accompanied him to examine the body.My father lay quietly inside the refrigerated drawer, his skin grayish-white, lividity clearly visible, and his right hand stiffly resting at his side."People can hallucinate when they’re under extreme stress," Daniel said gently. "Mr. Parker, you have been under too much pressure lately. You should get some rest."Nathan demanded to examine my father’s hand.There was nothing beneath his fingernails.But five distinct black-and-purple fingerprints were clearly visible around his own wrist.He brought the photographs to show me."You knew the body would move.""I didn’t.""Stop pretending!"Nathan slammed his chair against the floor with a loud crash. “Mercy, what happened to your father? Why did you pull out the tube? What did you whisper in his ear?”I looked at his hand, which

Chapter 5

My mother suddenly lifted her head."Before?""Gordon had been lying in the intensive care unit ever since the accident. When did he ever wake up?"Daniel stood up. "The patient was confused after regaining consciousness. A vague, delirious murmur does not prove anything.""Then why was it deleted?" Nathan asked."It wasn’t deleted. The livestream equipment experienced a brief malfunction.""Why did the hospital surveillance system, the voice recorder, and the nurse’s body camera all malfunction at the same time?"Daniel did not answer.Whispers spread through the public gallery.But I laughed."Mr. Parker, you don’t honestly think one incoherent sentence can save me, do you?"Nathan turned to look at me."Whether my father woke up before or not has nothing to do with whether I killed him."I simply resented having to care for a disabled man and wanted the insurance payout. Don’t make up some ridiculous story just to become famous."The shock in his eyes slowly turned to anger."You we

Chapter 6

The sentence shot to the top of the trending charts on every platform within ten minutes.No one knew who "Marshy" was.But my mother did.She sat at the press conference, and the cup in her hand slipped to the floor and shattered."Marshy is Mercy’s childhood nickname."She stood up, her face deathly pale. "How do you know that? Why are you speaking in Gordon’s voice?"Chloe slowly turned her head from the hospital bed.A familiar smile, one that belonged only to my father, appeared on the nineteen-year-old girl’s face."Mara."She called my mother by name.“During our second year of marriage, you hid your paycheck in a cookie tin because you thought I wouldn’t notice.”My mother staggered backward.“When Mercy was eight, she stole my medal and hid it in the kitchen. She thought I never found it, but I knew exactly where it was and pretended otherwise so she would think she had gotten away with it."And that mole on your left shoulder...""Stop!"My mother screamed and cut her off.On

Chapter 7

On the day of the appeal hearing, Daniel did not bring the seventeen people.He brought seventeen corpses.The bodies were sealed inside transparent refrigerated pods and wheeled into the courtroom in a single row. There were men, women, elderly people, and even a nine-year-old child.The public gallery erupted.Daniel stood among the bodies, his eyes bloodshot."They were all brain-dead patients who underwent experimental treatment over the past three years."When the treatments failed, they died one after another. Mercy Ryan accused me of murder."I brought them here today so they could undergo the most thorough autopsies possible and clear the medical profession of any wrongdoing."The medical examiner conducted the autopsies in court.The seventeen patients had died at different times from different causes. None had external injuries or traces of poison, and everything matched the medical records Daniel had submitted.Daniel looked toward me. "Mercy, do you have anything else to sa

Chapter 8

Three years ago, Daniel’s wife was declared brain-dead.He refused to authorize the withdrawal of life support and secretly moved her to a private research facility, where he used a silver-white neuro parasite to stimulate her brain.His wife woke up.She could speak, walk, and remember everything about the time they fell in love.Daniel thought he had defeated death.Then one night, his wife stood beside the bed and asked him, "Daniel, why did you save only me?"The next day, she killed every animal in the laboratory and implanted a neuro parasite into three other brain-dead patients.All three woke up.They retained the memories of their own bodies, yet they obeyed the same voice.Then there were seventeen.After that, there was my father."How did you know?" Daniel demanded. The bailiffs had him pinned to the floor, but he continued staring fiercely at me. "You’re only a relative!""Because my father woke up once after the first treatment."The entire courtroom fell silent.The fir

Chapter 9

The courthouse doors locked automatically.Every light went out.When the emergency lights came on, more than forty people were already standing in front of Daniel. Silver-white strands trailed from behind their ears, making them look like puppets lifted by the same hand.Nathan stepped in front of me."What do we do now?""Burn this place down."He whipped around. "What?""Neuro parasites can’t survive extreme heat. Raise the temperature to 1,472°F, and not one of them will survive.""There are hundreds of healthy people in here!""That’s why I was sentenced to death."I pulled a red cord from the lining of my prison uniform.It was connected to an old-fashioned ignition device beneath the defendant’s table.Before the first trial ended, I pretended to trip and stuck it beneath the table.An abandoned gas line ran beside the courthouse’s underground archives. At my request, Nathan opened the main valve under the pretense of investigating a fire hazard.He thought I had done it to for

Chapter 10

The fire killed twenty-three people.Among them were Daniel, the seventeen experimental subjects who had already been dead, and my mother.Chloe and thirty-one other people who had been controlled by the neuro parasites survived. Once the parasites were killed by the intense heat, they regained their own memories.Chloe cried nonstop after she woke up.She remembered my father borrowing her body to hold my mother. She remembered the parasite searching through someone else’s memories inside her mind, but she could not remember why she had left home before the car crash.The doctors said that part of her memory would never return.I did not become a hero either.Some people online said I had endured humiliation and sacrificed my reputation to save everyone.Others said I could have gone to the police but had allowed my mother and innocent people into the courtroom just to stage a sensational reversal.They were all right.I could have revealed everything sooner.Perhaps no one would have

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