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Hearing his words, Samson turned his head and said, “Do you treat your male patients the same way?”

Watching his movements, Byron said, “Be gentler.”

“You’re not going hard enough.”

“I don’t need to treat male patients like this.”

“I haven’t seen you treating female gynecology patients like this too.”

Byron refastened his button and said with a nonchalant. attitude, “I don’t have any female patients in my clinic.”

Indeed, there weren’t any.

However, he was very warm, kind, and patient towards the female family members of his patients.

That patience felt different from this.

It was the difference between official and non-official.

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The former was a doctor’s rule and principle while the latter was a man’s nature.

After examining the injuries, they got ready for the anesthesia.

Byron exited the operating room and closed the door when al voice came from behind him.

“Professor Wilson.”

She was pretty clingy.

He turned sideways and met a pair of gentle and hazy eyes.

Unable to suppress it, he reached out to caress her face.

“You won’t die from this.”

Candice was initially hoping to hear something nice from him and she didn’t expect it to be this.

“What else?”

“Just go to bed and once you wake up, everything will be over,” Byron said with pursed lips.

He was indifferent and stable without a single trace of panic.

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Feeling incredibly aggrieved, Candice turned her head away to have the back of her head facing him.

After the anesthetist finished the injection, she noticed Samson staring at the door. She stepped forward, only to see Byron’s figure in the void.

“Professor?”

Samson shrugged his shoulders to warm up a little and picked up the scalpel.

“Doctor Byron has excellent medical skills and his character is excellent but he’s too straightforward.”

Samson was still a bachelor in his forties. If he was as handsome and capable as Byron, he would have gotten married a long time ago.

Yet, Byron messed up such a good chance.

In fact, Byron wasn’t ignorant.

Vicky was a top expert at flirting and seducing men. If he wasn’t capable enough, he wouldn’t be able to deal with her.

The truth was that he hadn’t considered whether he wanted

to be in a serious relationship with Candice or not.

Candice was different from Vicky, because she was much sillier and purer. She could actually put up with a scu mbag like Rufus.

Byron, Enos, and their circle of friends all followed a common principle where they wouldn’t date any girl who might be difficult to shrug off, like Josie.

Those who could be sent away with money could at least be considered, even if they were tacky, sc ums, and players.

Those who were after a real relationship and dated with the objective of getting married would be too restrictive.

Byron had just smoked a cigarette in the gents’ and went outside to the public sink where he washed his face with

water.

There were two nurses in the ladies’ next door, who were touching up their makeup to get ready for a date after work.

“Maggie is in charge of changing the medication in bed 2, and the patient said she didn’t know Doctor Byron.”

Byron turned on the tap and didn’t move.

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“Who’s Percy?”

“Her fiancé!”

“Didn’t she get beaten up and hospitalized by her ex- husband?”

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“Can’t she marry a handsome man after a divorce? Are you discriminating?”

“No! I’m envious.”

“Doctor Byron and Doctor Harry are great too.”

“Not as good as Percy. Percy’s a big boss who drives al Bentley.”

They came out of the bathroom after putting on their makeup and bumped into Byron.

“Doctor Byron.”

He nodded indifferently and switched off the tap before going to the security office.

Harry was standing in front of the monitor, pulling up yesterday’s footage, when a gust of wind swept in. He turned around, only to see Byron staring at him with a sullen

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expression.

He seemed to be hopping mad.

“Did you get reprimanded?”

The hospital had been quite unhappy with him lately for being slack at work.

“Check yours,” Byron said, holding back his anger.

Pointing at the screen, Harry said, “I have it all pulled up.”

A man dressed in a gray T-shirt and black shorts charged straight to the stairway after knocking Candice over on the 7th floor. A woman was waiting for him and she handed him an envelope containing lots of money.

Harry zoomed in but due to the slightly off position and the dim lighting, the features of the person were a little blurry. However, they could tell that it was Vicky.

She was too pretty and her makeup was heavy, coupled with her eye-catching curly, burgundy locks.

She then parted ways with the man, went into the gynecological operating theater and wandered around for three minutes. When the doors opened, she was holding on

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to the wall, and her entire body was so weak that Robert’s driver came out of the elevator right after her and picked her up to leave.

It seemed that she had gotten an abortion.

However, the surgery definitely couldn’t have been completed within that time frame so she was obviously just putting on an act to fool the driver who was supposed to keep an eye on her.

Vicky was in the hospital for a total of 21 minutes.

She had committed such a huge sin within that period of time.

Byron’s gaze was cold as ice and his face was sullen too.

After taking a glance, Harry thought that Vicky was really pretentious.

In his opinion, women who were related to the entertainment industry were definitely indecent.

Harry’s ex-girlfriends were all highly educated and came from educated families. They tended not to get up to such crazy acts because they would consider their family’s reputation before they act.

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Staring at the video, Byron said, “What does she mean by that?”

“She probably wanted to teach Candice a lesson.”

“Out of jealousy?” he suddenly blurted.

He didn’t lose his temper like Harry imagined he would and instead, said those words calmly.

Harry stood up and asked, “Are you serious?”

He was in the mood to figure out if Vicky was jealous or not. but he didn’t intend to seek justice for Candice.

“What a ruthless method she’s resorted to.”

“Yeah.”

Harry panicked and said, “What kind of relationship are your in?”

He was flabbergasted that Byron didn’t seem annoyed at all.

Byron turned his back towards him and faced the hallway.

What kind of a relationship?

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Candice was rather restrained in terms of her soul and her body.

She may have pestered him at first but later on, she began to withdraw and shut herself out.

Like cocaine.

The speed of addiction was not too fast nor hard, and he didn’t find it too intense. However, it was just a little hard to quit.

When facing her and reminiscing about his time with her, he would feel strong, lustful desires but he didn’t have any intention to avoid her.

Her tears, laughter, calmness, craziness, and casual micro- expressions were all incredibly alluring to him.

The more he was exposed to complicated, toxic, and destructive relationships, the more unique Candice seemed.

Byron couldn’t clearly state the specifics.

In the afternoon, Harry passed by the ward to see that Candice was having some almond milk.

The straw was hanging over the headboard and she was

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sucking as hard as she could while lying on the bed, with veins bulging from her neck.

Her chest was heaving up and down, and she was gasping for air in pain.

Leaning against the door frame, he asked, “What are you doing?”

“Trying to get a meal in.”

“You didn’t hire a caretaker?”

“I can’t afford to,” she clipped.

Candice had done the math. Deducting her and Patrick’s medical bills, she would have about a thousand dollars left. in her card. The main issue that was bugging her was that she might lose her job.

Fortunately, Rufus had turned himself in to the police.

Percy’s secretary Rose called this morning and said he had been hiding in a bridge hole for five days and four nights, and that Lawyer Seth was currently presenting evidence.

Patrick’s wife scolded Candice every day and the authorities of the hospital tried to intervene and make peace but to no

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avail. She insisted on creating a stir in the hospital.

They couldn’t stop her because she wasn’t calling out anyone’s name.

Fortunately, Candice had a good mindset. Otherwise, other women would have been forced into depression.

“Are there surveillance cameras on this floor?”

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“Yeah. Let Doctor Byron feed you instead. He’s on his lunch break now,” Harry said as he gave her straw a little squeeze.

Byron was very stubborn.

He knew that Candice couldn’t move about easily but he refused to help her.

“Have the nurses called the police?”

Harry smacked his lips and said, “Vicky is pregnant with Robert’s baby, and the Wilson Family is powerful. If you mess with her.it would be the same as messing with Robert…”

He paused, realizing that he had let it slip.

“Vicky?”

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“Forget that I said that.” Harry turned around and ran.

“Stop…” Candice lifted her arm and propped herself up against the bed while bearing with the pain. “Was it someone Vicky hired?”

“I… I’m not sure,” he answered with a sheepish grin.

“Does Byron know?”

Harry didn’t dare betray Byron, but he had already been exposed, so he couldn’t lie. Hence, he gave her silence as a

response.

Candice’s face turned pale again and she asked, “Has he decided not to pursue the matter?”

“The current partner will forever be the target of the ex’s schemes. Likewise, the ex will always be the enemy of the current partner.”

Harry tried to downplay the matter as far as possible by making it seem like a universal phenomenon. Otherwise, Byron’s actions would really be pretty disappointing.

Candice felt really exhausted.

She wasn’t in an actual relationship with Byron at all.

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Although Byron was courting her on the surface, he didn’t put in any effort or made it clear to her at all.

It was as if she wasn’t worth his energy and effort at all.

That wasn’t the way a boyfriend would treat his girlfriend.

Apart from Vicky, no woman can live long if they were to become Byron’s partner.

He tortured her too much.

Harry advised Candice, “Hang in there for a while longer. It’s very difficult to make men like Doctor Byron fall in love.”

“You’re on the same side. It’s not fair,” she interrupted.

“Don’t malign me! I’m not a scu mbag or a jerk!” Harry retreated.

He went back to the office. Still feeling upset, he headed to the clinic, only to see that Byron was on duty. The patient had left to collect their medication on the first floor so he was left alone.

“I used to take the fall for you when I was an intern. Now that it has been a few years since I was transferred, I’m still taking the fall for you!”

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Byron ignored him as he was writing a report.

“Candice asked me about it and she wants to call the cops,” Harry said.

He put down his pen with a sullen expression.

“I had no choice because she insisted on taking the footage from me. We had no choice but to cooperate since the hospital is responsible.”

Byron looked at the corner of the table to see that there was a bunch of wilted blue roses, which were from Vicky. She

said that they resembled her.

Hot and enchanting.

The petals had already wilted and he didn’t bother to dispose of them.

“Is Doctor Roger in?”

“Yeah,” Harry answered.

Byron looked down and continued writing.

“She must have put a hex on you.”

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“I didn’t say anything.”

“Well, why didn’t you protect her? You might as well ruin your old flame and keep your new love?”

“New love?” he asked with a frown.

“Candice, duh.”

“She’s never been my new love,” Byron said, drawing a clear line.

He had purely been traumatized after being hurt by a

woman once.

Harry dusted the hem of his white coat and said,

“Doctor Byron, don’t regret hiding the truth for a bit ch like Vicky.”

‘Bit ch.’

It was the first time that a man who was aware of the unforgettable relationship Byron had been in, to blatantly call Vicky a bit ch in front of him.

Vicky was in the midst of a negotiation with Robert when she received Byron’s letter.

Her phone vibrated and she swiped it to unlock it, only to see that it was a number ending with 1018.

She recognized it.

Her birthday was on October 18.

Byron stayed up all night for half a month doing financial. calculations for companies, just so he could spend 15 grand to buy that number from the original owner for her.

Standing under the Eiffel Tower, with the romantic Seine in the distance, he said he would use that number for the rest of his life.

She laughed and asked teasingly, “Are you going to use Vicky for the rest of your life or the number?”

Byron answered, “Both.”

Other men’s promises would more likely than not be broken. but his promises were worth a lot.

He hated men who cheated.

Reason being, George Wilson had betrayed his mother and abandoned him.

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Vicky believed Byron’s promise.

However, she couldn’t resist the material world and the glitz. and glamor that came with it.

France was just so dazzling and fascinating to her. The wealthy people on the south bank of the Seine, the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs Elysées, were incredibly tempting to her.

Hence, she chose to throw herself into the arms of wealthy businessmen from any country, regardless of whether they were married or not.

In fact, Byron was her only safety net.

Vicky was extremely generous with his money. She would splurge on him too by getting him watches and leather shoes that cost dozens of thousands of dollars. However, he had never worn them because he hated the story behind them.

It was too filthy and sleazy.

She was different from him.

This time, the text message was unpunctuated.

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[You did it]

She guessed that Byron would definitely investigate the

matter.

That was the outcome Vicky wanted.

She wanted to see who he would gravitate towards.

26 hours had passed since the truth of the matter came to light.

The fact that she was still safe and sound meant that Byron had suppressed it or at the very least, he was trying to downplay the matter.

It seemed that Candice didn’t mean much to him.

Vicky had always been the one he loved and protected.

Vicky laughed and replied to him.

[What?]

The next second, he replied: [Her.]

Vicky didn’t reply. She put down her phone and said to

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Robert, “Robert, I’m really glad.”

The men of the Wilson Family were all gentlemen, especially when they got out of bed and pretended to be men of class.

Robert, who was already in his fifties, was known to be a gentleman among the wealthy businessmen.

He wiped the sauce from the corner of his mouth with a square towel as he asked, “Have you checked your balance?”

Robert thought that she would be happy as long as the money was credited.

Vicky fed him a piece of steak while asking, “Do you know who my ex-boyfriend is?”

“I don’t care.”

“Maybe if you heard his name, you would care?”

Robert sensed something was wrong and looked over at her.

“Byron Wilson.”

She smiled mischievously as if it was a prank.

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Robert, an experienced old man, was actually tricked by a scheming greenhorn.

He laughed and shook his head.

“Vicky, you’re really something,” he remarked.

Vicky gazed at him with her cheek in her hands.

“Robert, he doesn’t get why you did those things.”

“What do you want?” asked Robert, who was smart to know she was after something.

“Promise me one thing.”

“What is it?”

She got up, walked around the table and bent over to hug him.

“I’ll let you know when I need it.”

Robert said sneeringly, “Don’t get too greedy.”

Vicky tugged on his tie and said, “You men are too treacherous. I have to give you a hard time.”

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In the evening, Byron came into the ward with a box of food. He wasn’t wearing his work attire and was merely clad in a shirt and long pants. Clearly, he had already gotten off work.

“Here’s some soup. Is it okay?”

Candice stared at him in a fit of pique.

He pulled a chair back and asked, “Are you not feeling well?”

Byron didn’t respond.

“Are you still mad at me?”

He took a careful look at Candice and realized that she was much thinner. He remembered how he had denigrated her on the rooftop and she retorted indignantly.

“I just have wider, athletic hips. The gym used my photo for an ad! How dare you say my figure is common?”

He had indeed seen a photo of her at the gym across the street from the Shelton Building.

She was standing on the treadmill with her hair in a ponytail, clad in a white tank top and jeans with her side facing the camera. She was pure and lively, with a curvy

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figure that was just right.

Now, she was nothing but gaunt, which seemed rather pitiful.

Byron raised his hand to unbutton her hospital gown but Candice pushed him away. She pushed him so hard that her face turned pale.

“What are you kicking up a fuss for?” he snapped, suppressing his anger.