Lost and Found: Return of My Mysterious Fiancee

Vivienne watched helplessly as Tina methodically removed her decaying organs and then sutured her abdomen closed. The machines that signaled her life was nearing its end were slowly springing back to life. Mute, she could only stare dumbly at Tina, mouth agape. When Tina finished the final stitch, she looked at Vivienne’s stomach, furrowed her brow in distress, and said, “This looks terrible, let’s do it again.” With that, she began to remove the stitches.

Vivienne heard the sound of the cosmetic thread cutting through flesh, feeling no pain. Yet, the phantom pains and visual torment she experienced were unbearable. Tina repeated the stitching process three times until she was finally satisfied.

“Vivienne, is risking your life for Tiger truly worth it?” Tina covered Vivienne, picking up Lily-who still had a scalpel embedded in her eye-and placed her in a chair beside her. Vivienne, unable to move her head, could only look on sideways.

“When will your little games end? They’re hardly exciting,” Tina sighed, pulling the scalpel from Lily’s eye, with blood following the blade and splashing onto Vivienne’s face. Lily screamed in agony, her fingers trembling uncontrollably as she tried and failed to faint. One eye was bloody and hollow, the other full of pleas for mercy, ignored by all.

Tina flicked out Lily’s now-useless eyeball as if discarding trash and tossed it into a bin. Only one eyeball remained in Lily’s face. “Treating someone who doesn’t want to live is much easier,” she remarked. Lily, numbed, knelt on the floor, begging repeatedly, “Tina, please spare me, I won’t dare anymore.”

Tina was more fearsome than someone known as Five Poisons. Lily had thought the severe bone fractures inflicted by Five Poisons were the worst torture possible, but Tina’s torment was incomparable. Ignoring Lily’s pleas, Tina picked her up again and sprinkled some powder over her hollow eye. “This will save your life,” Tina said thoughtfully.

“A single healing pill costs five million, this powder is even more expensive at ten million, plus the treatment,” Tina shook her head. “You owe me a lot of money. How will you pay it back?”

Lily, bereft of any capacity for thought, accepted whatever Tina said. “I’ll do whatever you say.”Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

“Good, then go to Lockie. He needs a capable assistant,” Tina nodded. Recently, Wraith from the YQ lab had sent her a message. He needed someone for human experimentation and had assured her repeatedly there would be no life-threatening danger. Initially, she had refused, but looking at Lily now, she seemed a fitting candidate. As a prominent figure in the medical field, Lily could communicate effectively with Wraith in the experiments.

Shivering, Lily faced an uncertain future. Meanwhile, Vivienne could feel the changes within her body; she knew her organs were being repaired yet also felt them continuously deteriorating. The machine connected to her sounded off, and Tina observed, “Not bad, the recovery is going well.”

Tina removed various tubes from Vivienne. “However… how will you repay me your debt?” Vivienne shuddered internally, for her body was still immobile.

“Let’s just hand you over to the uncle,” Tina covered Vivienne, “I forgot to tell you, from now on, you’ll never leave this bed.”

To put it accurately, Vivienne would endure the agony of her diseased organs day after day, no matter where she was.

And she couldn’t even take her own life.

She could only lie on that bed, living a life worse than death.

Tina pushed Vivienne out and took Lily away secretly.

Everyone thought Vivienne was better, just speechless due to the aftermath.

Clara finally shed a genuine tear.

It was unclear whether she was crying for herself or for her daughter.

From now on, no one would be around to provide her with a prosperous life.

Joshua and Logan took turns caring for Vivienne, while Tina and Jared exchanged greetings before leaving the hospital.

She still had important matters to attend to.

Otherwise, Wraith’s messages would just become spam.

After Jared helped Tina and Lily, who was stuffed into a trash bag, into the car, Courtney was instructed to take them away. Jared also received a call.

It was a landline number, with a prefix indicating the headquarters.

“I’m on my way now.”

After hanging up, Jared looked back at the busy Farrell family, the closest people he had known all his life.

Tina arrived at the YQ lab early the next morning.

She had slept comfortably in the car, and the fatigue from the night had dissipated.

Upon getting out, she opened the trunk and unfolded the trash bag that had bunched up overnight.

Lily opened her eyes, now more blurred with only one left.

She tumbled out of the trunk, her body aching as if it had fallen apart, “What… what place is this?”

Courtney picked her up, silently following behind Tina.

It had been over half a month since their last visit, and the lab hadn’t changed at all, except that the 3D biological printer was now halfway done, a considerable achievement.

Timmy greeted Tina as she arrived, “Ma’am, are you here looking for Lockie?”

Tina nodded, and Timmy pointed to the innermost lab, “Right there, you can go ahead.”

The other lab personnel rarely dared approach Wraith’s lab; the last time Timmy rushed in urgently, he almost got consumed by toxic gas and only survived by taking Lockie’s pills.

Since then, no one dared go near it again.

Tina gave Courtney and Lily each a gas mask and pushed open the door to Wraith’s lab.

“Damn it, failed again! It’s killing me! Tina, you bastard!” Wraith hadn’t noticed Tina enter.

He always cursed like that to vent his frustration whenever an experiment failed.

Tina frowned, “What did you say?”

Wraith paused, then looked up to see Tina, his eyes lighting up, “You’ve come at the right time, take a look at this potion. I feel like it’s not meant to poison anyone, but has some other purpose, yet I can’t figure it out.”

Wraith seemed to have forgotten his earlier curse.

Tina looked over, and the potion had separated into many types of cells, constantly recombining and showing increasingly obvious healing effects.

She had always wanted to develop an antidote for the potion, but unexpectedly, the potion itself had separated out healing cells.

It was strange.

At that moment, Wraith noticed Lily, who was missing an eye, and examined her, “Is this my test subject?”

Tina nodded, “Satisfied?”

“Very satisfied, come here and try this injection first.”

Wraith administered an injection to Lily, who immediately convulsed.

Tina paid no mind, her eyes fixed on the cellular structures emerging from the potion.

Mother!

What really is the true nature of this potion?