Chapter 23
I stared at her in confusion; she was physically intact and had a healthy complexion, not at all like someone on the verge of death.Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.
It wasn’t until a colleague informed me that she had contracted HIV.
I was completely stunned.
I thought Benjamin was the one with HIV, so how did Sophia become infected?
I didn’t have any other thoughts.
I just figured Sophia had been promiscuous and this was the consequence.
But HIV is incurable, and no matter how hard she tried, I couldn’t save her.
Listening to her wailing cries, my heart remained unmoved.
In my past life, when I was diagnosed with this disease, she was the one who suggested I should be drowned.
Now that I’ve divorced Benjamin, I naturally have no ties to Sophia.
But I underestimated her brazenness.
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She actually expected me, a doctor, to care for her, just so she could live a few years longer.
I was so furious that I almost laughed
Never mind that she had such a serious infectious disease; even if she were healthy, I’m under no obligation to look after her.
So I coldly refused her and told her to leave.
To my surprise, Sophia began to cut herself with a knife, then lunged at me, screaming like a maniac, “If you won’t take care of me, enjoy HIV as well!”
I was caught off guard.
Just as I thought I couldn’t avoid this disaster, Sophia tripped and fell flat on her face.
The knife she held sliced her own face, and blood trickled down her cheek onto the floor.
She was disfigured.
At over forty, as a woman, being disfigured was as devastating as having HIV.
It was a classic case of hoist with her own petard, as she ended up causing more harm to herself than to me.
The security guards rushed over and took the dangerous maniac to
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the police station without hesitation.