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It felt like the cops were just trying to give Vivian a lifeline, slowing down the surveillance footage to make her excuses seem more believable.
They ran it back ten times, finally freezing the moment her hand shoved me.
The dim lighting made it hard to see clearly, but when they cranked up the brightness, her wrist came into sharp focus.
This time, she was silent. No way to talk her way out of it.
As I walked out of the interrogation room, I spotted Marcus pacing outside, on a phone call that sounded pretty heated.
He was talking to someone from the hospital, his voice a mix of urgency and frustration. “What? It’s online? Who’s getting bullied? That’s all a lie! It’s just a misunderstanding; you gotta trust me. I’ll
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be right back!”
He was backed into a corner, arguing at the
wall.
I pieced together what had happened from bits of his conversation: a video from the hospital lobby had gone viral, and since he was in his white coat, it blew up into a whole harassment situation. His boss was giving him a final ultimatum.
I plopped down in a chair in the hallway and checked my phone.
Sure enough, the video was already trending, sitting at the top of the charts.
The comments section was a battlefield, with people picking sides.
Some were mindlessly backing the “innocent wife,” while others were tearing apart the whole situation, claiming the original wife was getting bullied without any proof.
The online fight was intense, and Marcus’s
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identity had been dragged into the chaos.
Sane folks were calling him out, saying this whole mess was his fault, that he shouldn’t be turning on the two women caught in the
middle.
No wonder he was freaking out on the phone.
Suddenly, he hung up, looking annoyed. When he noticed me, his tense brows
relaxed a bit.
He stepped closer, a hint of regret in his eyes. “There’s some stuff at the hospital I need to handle. Can you wait for me? I’ll be right back.”
He looked at me like if he could just take care of the hospital issues, everything would go back to normal. Just like all those times before when he’d glance back, and I’d be waiting for him.
But this wasn’t the past.
I turned my gaze back to my phone, letting
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out a dry chuckle.
“Do whatever you want. Whether you show up or not doesn’t matter. You’ve already seen what you needed to see. Just make sure you’re there when it’s time to sign the divorce papers.”
The word divorce seemed to have hit him
like a ton of bricks.
He opened his mouth to say something, but when his eyes fell on my fingers scrolling through my screen, he fell silent.
The weight of reality must have crashed
down on him.
I heard him let out a heavy sigh as he walked away. I glanced at him and saw his shoulders slumped.
I shook my head, chuckling bitterly to myself. It was clear: his job and his first love were way more important to him than me and our baby.
About half an hour later, Vivian finally
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wrapped up her statement. Faced with the undeniable proof, she had no other option but to plead guilty
After scrolling through the comments for a bit, I decided to ask the cops for the hallway footage. I poured out the details of that day, writing over a thousand words, and posted everything online along with the footage.
With the trending topic tag, my post shot straight to the top. The reaction was instant and explosive.
Thanks to my detailed write up, netizens found Vivian’s social media accounts. They unearthed her travel videos and the times she flaunted her hospital stay like it was a badge of honor. Every post was bombarded with comments, flying in fast.
[Is someone else’s husband really that irresistible? Do you think he actually likes you? Gosh, free stuff isn’t always a good
idea!]
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[Childhood friends? More like a free ride. The original wife may look pitiful, but she’s the one who’s really escaping.l
I couldn’t help but admire how ruthless the internet could be. Too bad Vivian wouldn’t see this epic downfall anytime soon.
In the end, to mitigate the backlash, the platform had to ban her account for good.
Those who missed out had nowhere left to
vent their frustrations but on the hospital’s official page, where they went off on Marcus, calling the top surgeon out by his
name.
