The air was heavy and quiet, and no one dared to breathe. It was hard to believe that Old Pansy, the head of the Pansy family for generations, had passed away just like that. Jane walked out of the operating room exhausted, took off her mask and looked apologetically at Patrick.
“I’m sorry,” she said. “I can’t believe Old Pansy died. I did everything right.”
Jane’s voice trembled as she spoke, her eyes turning red with guilt. She wanted to walk towards Patrick but stopped herself.
“You promised me you had a hundred percent chance of curing my grandfather!” Patrick finally broke his silence and spoke up. His eyes were cold as he looked at Jane with brewing anger.
“Jane, you have disappointed me too much.”
“I’m sorry; it’s my fault,” Jane kept apologizing while her usually confident face turned pale without any color in it.
Melissa interrupted before Jane could defend herself; this was an opportunity for her to add fuel to the fire since Patrick was already so angry with Jane.
“It’s all your fault! If you hadn’t tried acupuncture on Grandpa against our wishes, he might still be alive! You are a murderer!”
Melissa blamed everything on Jane while calling her names like ‘shameless’ and ‘bitch.’
“When you canceled your engagement with your cousin at our engagement party in front of everyone, not only did you embarrass us but also caused Grandpa’s heart attack which led him into a coma! Now look what happened again!” Beatrice joined Melissa in scolding Jane.
“I warned you earlier that this woman is unreliable; she isn’t even a legitimate medical graduate from any university or college! That so-called master who saved your grandfather before is just some quack doctor!”
Patrick glared coldly at Jane as he said: “You killed my grandfather.”
“This is an accident; don’t you trust me?” With hurtful eyes full of weakness and exhaustion from defending herself over again without success -Jane lowered her arms helplessly-
The atmosphere between the two of them was tense. Candice suppressed her schadenfreude and quickly spoke up, “Jane didn’t mean to do it. She was probably just too nervous during the surgery, which led to this mistake. She definitely didn’t intend to harm Grandpa.”
Although Candice’s words seemed like she was defending Jane, in reality, she was throwing her under the bus by telling Patrick that Jane wasn’t taking the surgery seriously enough and that’s why tragedy struck.
“Cousin, we need to call the police right away! This woman definitely wanted to kill Grandpa!” Melissa glared at Jane with intensity. “Ever since she joined our family, nothing good has happened. She’s a jinx.”
“She killed Old Pansy! We can’t let this go unpunished,” Beatrice added with anger.
Jane clenched her fists and looked at them all sternly. “I didn’t kill Old Pansy; someone poisoned him!”
Everyone froze when they heard her say this; they had no idea why she would make such an accusation.
While everyone else was surprised by what Jane said, Beatrice and Melissa were visibly shaken.
“I think you’re just trying to shift blame from yourself by saying that,” Melissa shouted out first. “There were so many people present during the surgery; how could anyone have poisoned him?”
“Jane, don’t think for a second that you can escape your responsibility for killing Old Pansy,” Beatrice threatened as she pulled out her phone and called 911 without hesitation.
“Patrick, do you believe me?”
As they accused her of wrongdoing one after another, Jane furrowed her brows tightly as she looked at Patrick silently hoping he would give an answer.
“Now that Grandpa is dead because of you… does it even matter if I believe you or not?” Patrick’s voice sounded cold like spring water as he turned his head away from Jane without looking back at her – clearly agreeing with Beatrice’s decision on calling 911 instead of siding with his former lover who caused his grandfather’s death.
Melissa and Beatrice were overjoyed when they saw Patrick turn against Jane so easily – proving once again how insignificant she really was in front of Old Pansy.
They couldn’t help but laugh inwardly about how confident and arrogant Jane had been before claiming that she could cure Old Pansy earlier on – now only making herself look foolish.
If there weren’t so many people around them right now then both Melissa and Beatrice would have burst into laughter on spot.
But not only were they happy about their victory against their former friend – Candice also felt excited witnessing everything unfold before their eyes.
Jane killed Old Pansy, and Patrick will never love her again. But if she stays by his side long enough, he will surely fall in love with her again. After all, she is Candy!
“Well, Patrick, it seems your feelings for me are not that strong. From now on, we’re done!” Jane said resolutely.
“Even if you don’t end it, we’ll still break up with you. You’re a woman with evil intentions and not worthy of my cousin,” Melissa looked at Jane with disdain.
Jane gave Melissa a cold stare and immediately shut her mouth.
Seven or eight police officers walked towards them. The leading officer showed his badge and sternly surveyed the crowd before speaking up: “We received a report that someone was intentionally killing people here. What’s going on?”
Beatrice quickly walked over and pointed at Jane angrily: “This woman said she could cure my father-in-law using Chinese medicine but ended up killing him instead! Arrest her!”
“Then please come to the police station with me,” the officer said coldly to Jane.
Jane didn’t struggle as she was taken away by the police while Melissa, Beatrice and Candice watched gleefully.
Before leaving, Jane looked at Patrick who remained silent. She opened her mouth as if to say something but stopped herself before turning her gaze towards Melissa, Beatrice and Candice.
“Patrick,” she spoke out loud despite being taken away by the police already.”I advise you that since your grandfather has raised you so lovingly all these years; you should dissect his body to see whether he was poisoned or not.”
“What nonsense!” Melissa sneered while feeling uneasy inside as though afraid that Jane might have discovered something important.
“Cousin,” Candice chimed in quickly.”Don’t listen to what this wicked woman says! Grandfather is very traditional; if you dissect his body after death he would be very sad about our lack of filial piety.”