Faking Death to Escape - My Ex Learns the Truth

At three in the morning, in the dissection room.

I was about to prepare pathological slices from a cadaver when the medical pod issued a vibration anomaly alert.

Checking the surveillance feed on my phone, I saw my husband, Giovanni, passionately entangled with Lianna inside the pod.

Lianna laughed boldly. "Doing this right under your wife’s nose... It's so thrilling!"

Giovanni’s voice was hoarse as he said, "You’re getting better at this."

"Unlike her—always dealing with corpses. What would she know about romance?" Lianna sneered and rolled her eyes.

I glanced at the message Giovanni had sent me not long ago, and my heart sank to the depths.

[Honey, pulling an all-nighter must be so hard on you. My heart aches for you.]

At that moment, an unknown number called. "Project X has been activated. Evacuate within 48 hours."

I watched the two entangled figures on the screen and calmly replied, "I’ll disappear completely once the mission is over."

Giovanni didn’t know—I was a secret agent.

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The scene on the screen was enough to make anyone’s face flush.

Giovanni’s voice was raspy. "Babe, am I good or what?"

Lianna giggled. "Your wife’s invention adds a nice touch of romance."

Though I had discovered their affair long ago, my chest still tightened painfully.

A year ago, Giovanni had an acute appendicitis attack. I drove through the night to rush him to surgery. The attending surgeon happened to be Lianna.

Giovanni’s medical research company was renowned in the industry, and from that day forward, Lianna became a frequent guest at his side.

It wasn’t long before they ended up in bed together, shamelessly.

At the time, I was working tirelessly, developing the most advanced medical pod for Giovanni.

Naively, I thought his late nights were all due to business engagements.

I never imagined his only "engagement" was with Lianna.

On the screen, Giovanni and Lianna were still tangled up in each other.

Two hours later, Giovanni got dressed and expertly prepared to delete the medical pod’s usage records.

Immediately, Lianna pouted. "Don’t delete them!"

"Imagine how thrilling it’d be for Alice to find abnormal data—doesn’t she analyze data all day?"

Giovanni’s face darkened. "Enough. Don’t destroy my family."

Lianna raised her eyebrows. "Oh funny, you weren’t thinking about your family when you kissed me."

"Men like you are all the same—so bad!"

What Giovanni didn’t know was that I held the highest-level control over the medical pod. Any abnormal operation immediately triggered an alert to my phone. I had also secretly installed micro-cameras inside the pod.

By morning, I was recording the previous night’s pathological data when I suddenly felt arms wrap tightly around my waist.

Giovanni embraced me from behind, his warm breath brushing my ear.

"Babe, I missed you."

He pressed me onto the lab table, impatiently unbuttoning my clothes.

The scenes from the night before flashed in my mind, and my stomach churned.

The scratches on his back likely hadn’t faded yet.

Suppressing my nausea, I casually made an excuse to evade him.

"I have experiments to run soon."

Instead of getting upset, he gave me a doting smile.

"Then at least let me join you for breakfast, okay?"

At the dining table, I deliberately served him a piece of braised pork.

Sure enough, the thought of the cadavers in the dissection room sent him rushing to the bathroom to vomit.

When Giovanni returned, he put on his usual facade of concern.

"Babe, is the experiment going well? I feel terrible seeing you working so hard and staying up all night."

"Once this busy period is over, let’s go abroad for a vacation and get some proper rest."

"Oh, by the way, the first surgery with your intelligent medical pod is scheduled for tomorrow night."

I lowered my head and took a sip of soup, replying indifferently, "Yes, I know."