Chapter 8
The medical investigation team quickly intervened, thoroughly examining this nationally shocking medical incident.
How Quinn had gradually killed my children, relying on Caspian’s favoritism-every detail was systematically reconstructed.
Her crimes were ironclad, and those so-called “family members” who caused trouble at my home that day were merely thugs she’d hired.
When she was taken away, she still wouldn’t give up, crying out:
“Caspian, save me! I did this for you! You can’t abandon me!”
Caspian just stood there expressionless, his eyes filled with coldness and deep resentment.
Unfortunately, no matter how thoroughly the investigation team searched, they found no evidence of Caspian’s participation or instigation in Quinn’s crimes.
He was even completely unaware of how the children actually died.
He was actually innocent.
At most, as the lead surgeon and hospital director, he had failed to investigate thoroughly after such a major incident.
When I learned this conclusion, I said nothing-just grabbed a glass from the table and smashed it violently on the floor.
ilass scattered everywhere, but my expression remained blank.
or the next several days, Caspian followed me around like a homeless stray dog.
Lis face was haggard, bloodshot eyes speaking volumes, appearing to want to say something but holding back.
never looked at him directly.
Intil I finished my routine hospital inspection and was preparing to leave, he suddenly blocked my path.
he bodyguards stepped forward, ready to beat him up and throw him out as usual.
ut he dropped to his knees, gripping my wrists tightly.
Luna, give me one chance… let me explain everything, and I’ll go to Africa and never return.”
gestured for the bodyguards to step back and looked at him coldly.
Speak.”
le lowered his head, his voice low and hoarse:
Nothing inappropriate ever happened between Quinn and me. I… just saw in her what you looked like when you were young.”
You were so talented back then… but for me, to let me focus on being a doctor, you chose to give up medicine and start managing hospitals instead.”
I always felt I owed you, so I thought… at least I could compensate Quinn for that regret.”
scoffed and slapped him directly.
Compensation? Don’t disgust me.”
Caspian’s head snapped to the side from the blow. After a moment, he looked up to continue explaining:
That day at Disneyland… there really was emergency surgery. The patient’s family gave us tickets to thank us and help us relax.”
“My mind was blank then. The children had just died, and I was escaping the grief. I didn’t know she had killed our children. I didn’t want Quinn to bear the shadow of medical malpractice, so I accompanied her to Disneyland briefly and took those photos.”
“I really didn’t know about her social media posts-I only knew about the later one. She said she was just joking around. That kiss was her initiative-I was just… just holding her when she stole a kiss.”
“1… I didn’t dare tell you the truth because I was afraid you’d blame her and suffer more.”
“I really didn’t know about those things. Quinn said you were having delusions from the trauma of losing the children and suggested I take you to a psychiatric hospital. That’s why I thought about having you step down from your position to recover properly.”
“But I never expected… one lie after another, until finally, there was no going back…”
I slapped him again, my eyes bloodshot, staring at him intently.
“What about the seafood porridge?”
“When my children had heart complications and wouldn’t break their fever, when I was busy with hospital affairs and collapsed from exhaustion caring for them-you couldn’t even think to buy them a cafeteria meal, but your mind was full of Quinn’s seafood porridge?!”
“You believed everything Quinn said. She said I’d interfere with surgery, so you wouldn’t let me enter the patient room? She said not to let me check the footage because it might worsen my condition, so you believed her and forced me to stop investigating?”
“Use your brain-think about what she said. For our children’s sake, you should have checked the surgical recording! If you’d checked, you’d have known something was wrong. Did you check? No!”
“You weren’t fooled by her-you didn’t dare check! You were afraid that once you knew the truth, you’d never be able to face me and the children again!”
My voice was hoarse as I screamed with all my strength:
“Even now you won’t admit you’re a bastard who fell for her! You protected her so much that my children died!”
Caspian knelt on the ground, tears falling one by one, like a soulless wreck, constantly sobbing apologies:
‘I’m sorry… I’m sorry… Luna, I’m sorry to the children… I was really wrong…”
had no mood to look at him anymore and stood to leave.
He lunged forward, hugging my legs, crying:
Please… let me see them before I go… just once, just once…”
shook him off, my voice cold without any warmth:
Dream on.”
You’re not worthy.”
I signed the papers on the spot, firing him from the hospital.
Honestly, keeping him at the hospital to punish him by sending him to Africa disgusted me.
Letting him stay in the hospital I’d built would insult the institution.
Later I heard that after being fired, he attempted suicide but called 911 himself and was saved.
Then he went to Africa alone in a daze, working as a volunteer doctor at a local hospital, claiming he wanted to “atone.”
A year later, someone told me he’d contracted a malignant infectious disease there and died in a crude hospital room in a foreign country.
Before dying, he had the local embassy help bring his ashes back, begging me to bury them beside the children.
I only replied with one sentence:
“Sorry, I have no relationship with him. I don’t accept his request.”
I called the person responsible for handling his ashes:
“Scatter them.”
I no longer cared how they actually handled Caspian’s ashes.
This retribution had finally ended.
I stood before my children’s grave, wind lifting their favorite Superman flags, sunlight falling on the headstone, quiet and bright.
I said softly.
“Mommy avenged everything for you.”
“From now on, no one will ever disturb your peace again.”
