Mr Carlos Huo, She's Your Wife

Erica dissolved into tears. The pent up emotions in her heart seemed to find an outlet. Erica threw herself into her husband's arms and cried bitterly.

Matthew took off his overcoat and wrapped it around her. He inhaled her scent and kissed her long hair gently. "Honey, don't cry," he said, trying to comfort her.

'You won't die without my permission!

If the King of Hell wants you, he'll have to defeat me first!' Matthew thought to himself.

Erica didn't say anything and kept crying.

They just stood by the river, holding each other tightly. The woman choked with sobs, while the man reassuring her.

Occasionally, when someone came near, they couldn't help but take a look at them. The sadness of the two people was replaced by warmth and happiness.

Ten minutes later, Matthew suddenly said, "You still have your test results with you? Let me see them again."

With swollen red eyes, Erica took out the crumpled piece of paper from her pocket and handed it to him.

Matthew straightened the paper out so he could read it. On top it said that it was the electronic endoscopy examination report of Y City First General Hospital. He was not in a hurry to read it. Instead, he asked her a question first, "Did they give you anesthetic before the exam?"

"Anesthetic?" The woman was confused.

"Yes!"

Erica thought for a while and answered, "No." They never gave her anything for the pain, nor did they sedate her. Nothing.

Matthew held her in his arms and asked in a trembling voice, "Silly girl, why didn't you opt for the anesthetic?" Usually, these kinds of procedures involve knocking the patient out using some sort of anesthetic. A tube with a camera is inserted in the throat so the doctors can look around the stomach. It's generally painful even when sedated.

Erica didn't know what was going on. They never offered her anything. She hugged him and said sadly, "It doesn't matter. They'll have to use it when I go under the knife!"

Sighing silently, Matthew continued to read the results.

paragraph in the middle consisting professional medical instructions. He could understand most of them. "Did the

his arms shook her head.

mind. He would take her to do the examination again. Do it right this time,

was still drowning in sorrow, and couldn't find a lifeline. Matthew suddenly raised his

atmosphere changed abruptly. Things felt

head and looked at him,

her, a weird expression on his face. Erica couldn't describe

examination results in his hand, and then shifted

"Are you out of your mind?" Who was

his eyes in despair. When he opened his eyes again, he gritted his teeth and asked, "I'm out of my mind? I think that describes you better than me. How carefully did you check that report? Think hard before you

looked at every line. Why?" She kept reading the line "stage III cancer" over and over. It seemed like she'd read it thousands of times.

He really wanted to strangle the woman in front of him

cry? Want me to laugh instead?" She suddenly

Li? When did that happen?" Since when did she change her name? Did

angry and she spat, "Are you insane?" How could he still tease her like that now she was deathly

"You're not sick!"

a rhetorical remark, so she retorted angrily, "Maybe

eye level, pulled out his phone, and turned on the

Stop it Matthew, please. I'm not in the mood." Hands on her hips, Erica was now

put the report in front of her eyes, pointed at the name printed on the paper and gritted his teeth.

It's not my fault... Wait a

results and thought she finally got what he was trying to tell her. She was

is Erica Li. These are not my test results!" She started laughing hysterically. She was so excited that she was

in his heart, Matthew asked her again calmly, "Look at the procedure. Did they jam a camera

She looked up what it was, checking Baidu to make sure

in her arms. "They didn't do anything like that to me. These results aren't mine at all.

eyes. After a long while, he gritted his teeth and squeezed out, "Know what I think? I think you lied to me