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The 444th time they drew her blood, she lay in the sterile isolation room, her body feeling like it had been crushed to pieces. She could hear the doctor’s desperate voice trying to stop what was happening…
“Mr. Seibert, if you keep pushing her like this, Ms. Caylor’s body will completely collapse!”
The room fell into an eerie silence, but as long as Vincent didn’t say stop, nobody dared to remove the needle.
Alice stared at her blood pouring through the tube as her body grew colder little by little, and her eyes started to lose focus as darkness closed
- in.
Her breathing grew shallower and slower, and just as she was about to lose consciousness, she heard Vincent’s cold voice. “Keep going. Juliana can’t wait any longer.”
Right then, she finally realized she had always just been a living medicine for that woman.
When she next opened her eyes, she found herself back five years earlier -on the very day she was forced into the phlebotomy room for the first
time.
A cold needle stabbed into her spine, making her fingers quiver from the
I sharp pain. The nurse noticed her pale face and hesitated before asking, “Ms. Caylor, this surgery is very dangerous. Are you… Really willing to do this?”
Before the nurse could finish, a low and cold voice sounded from the doorway. “She is, of course.”
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Alice slowly lifted her head and locked eyes with Vincent’s cold, merciless gaze.
Memories of everything she had suffered came rushing back.
She had loved him for 12 long years, but all he did in return was hold hist beloved crush close and tell the doctor, “I don’t care if you drain every drop of her blood.”
In her previous life, it was at the high school freshman opening ceremony that she first fell for Vincent, who stood confidently on the podium giving a speech.
She spent three years chasing after him, brought him breakfast every
single day for a year, stayed with him in the library until midnight to help him study, and even carried him to the school clinic when he hurt himself playing basketball.
But Vincent always kept a cold distance from her, and he even gave back. the love letter she had poured her heart into without bothering to read it.
When she finally worked hard enough to get accepted into his college, she saw him holding Juliana Flynn’s hand during the opening ceremony, boldly declaring in front of all the teachers and students, “This is the only person I will ever love.”
People around her whispered that Vincent had truly fallen for Juliana and urged Alice to move on as soon as she could.
But no matter how hard she tried, she just couldn’t let go.
She saw him waiting outside the girls‘ dormitory in the pouring rain all night long, hoping the sick Juliana would forgive him.
She watched him smash a priceless emerald necklace into pieces only because Juliana said, “I hate feeling tied down by things like this.”
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She also witnessed him set off a multimillion–dollar fireworks show on the rooftop of the Seibert Group’s building to celebrate Juliana’s birthday, making sure the entire city saw how crazy he was about her.
Alice felt like a pitiful outsider, silently observing this intense love story but unable to leave even the smallest mark in his heart.
So when Vincent begged her to save Juliana for the first time, she somehow found herself asking him to marry her instead.
“She can still vividly recall how red his eyes were that day.
His shock, shame, and resistance eventually turned into hopeless acceptance.”
He told her, “Fine, if being Mrs. Seibert is what you want, I’ll let you have it. But you need to go donate your blood now.”
Later on, she did end up becoming his wife, like she had always dreamed.
But what did it even matter?
Their marriage certificate was kept locked away in a safe, but his heart remained forever with Juliana.
Every corner of the house was filled with photos of Juliana, even the nightstand in the main bedroom held a framed picture of her.
Whenever Vincent touched Alice, he whispered Juliana’s name instead of hers.
In the end, he personally forced her onto the surgery table, ignoring whether she lived or died, and took every drop of her blood to save Juliana.
As the anesthetic started flowing into her veins, Alice finally understood how foolish she had been.
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She had made a terrible mistake.
Vincent’s heart only ever truly belonged to Juliana.
She should never have trapped him in a marriage by using such cruel
tricks.
She finally realized that his kindness was always meant only for Juliana.
She shouldn’t have been so naive to think a marriage certificate could make him stay.
A relationship built on force will always be filled with pain.
But she only came to see this after she lost her life.
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As she drifted in and out of her memories, the blood bag had already filled up.
Vincent picked up the blood bag and turned to walk out, but Alice called out to stop him, “Our marriage…”
He halted, his tone annoyed as he replied, “Don’t worry, I’ll keep my word. Everything’s set up at the City Hall. You can go by yourself later.”
Alice thought back to her previous life, when she stood all alone outside the City Hall, clutching the marriage certificate and crying helplessly.
There had been no wedding ceremony, no honeymoon, not even a simple pair of wedding rings.
Watching Vincent’s figure as he moved to leave, she slowly shook her head. “That’s not what I meant.”
She wanted to put an end to this absurd marriage.
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In this lifetime, she would never fall in love with him again.
But right as she was about to walk away, a nurse called after her, “Miss, don’t forget your bag!”
Alice reached to grab it but didn’t get a good grip, and the bag slipped from her hands onto the floor.
All the items inside spilled out everywhere, and as she squatted down to pick them up, she was shocked to find Juliana’s ID card and a stack of legal documents.
It was only then that she recognized the unfamiliar designer bag as Juliana’s.
A wild thought suddenly popped into her head.
About 30 minutes later, she stepped out of the City Hall holding a newly issued marriage certificate.
Two names were printed clearly on the certificate: Vincent and Juliana.
As she looked at the freshly signed marriage certificate, she finally let out a calm, relieved smile.
In this lifetime, she had personally delivered the woman he loved back into his arms.
And now, she could completely step away from this ridiculous love triangle drama.
