Beneath the Scalpel: A Dead Wife's Secret

My husband has a PhD in medicine. He's fair, just, and kind... until the day his true love kills someone in an accident. He uses all the medical knowledge he has to help her get off scot-free. He turns the corpse into preserved specimens and displays them in his lab. When he's dealing with the corpse, he sees that there's an embryo in the womb. He's always been calm and composed, but he can't stop his heart from racing at the sight. What he doesn't know is that the corpse is mine, and the embryo is his child...

Beneath the Scalpel: A Dead Wife's Secret

My husband has a PhD in medicine. He's fair, just, and kind... until the day his true love kills someone in an accident. He uses all the medical knowledge he has to help her get off scot-free. He turns the corpse into preserved specimens and displays them in his lab. When he's dealing with the corpse, he sees that there's an embryo in the womb. He's always been calm and composed, but he can't stop his heart from racing at the sight. What he doesn't know is that the corpse is mine, and the embryo is his child...

Chapter 1 Chapter 1

Hovering up above in the laboratory as a ghostly specter, I watched as my corpse lay naked in front of Nathan Lowe. My face was disfigured beyond recognition, and both my arms were crushed to a pulp. Nathan heaved a sigh before looking over at Gina Mason, who stood beside him with an innocent expression. "Why did you go so far?" Hearing that, Gina exhaled in relief. She deduced that Nathan hadn't recognized the body to be mine. "You'll help me, right, Nate?" Gina asked, her voice inspiring pity and compassion in all who heard her. Nathan's gaze steeled. He inhaled deeply, looking like he'd made a tough decision, before replying, "I'll protect you, Gina. I always will!" As soon as he finished speaking, he put on a pair of gloves and cleaned up the wounds on my body. Then, he stripped my hair and skin off. Finally, he took a scalpel and sliced my abdomen open to start taking out my organs. However, immediately after Nathan made the incision, his hand trembled. He gulped nervously before wiping the sweat off his brow with a fearful expression. His voice was laced with disbelief as he exclaimed, "S-She was pregnant?" Gina's eyes widened. She stared at me in alarm before stammering, "W-Was she?" She spoke loudly to hide how panicked she was. After cutting open my womb, he saw a still-developing embryo inside. Instantly, an overwhelming sense of guilt washed over him. He felt suffocated—as if someone were clutching him by the neck. Noticing that Nathan had stopped what he was doing, Gina quickly lied to him. "I didn't know she was pregnant. I really don't know what happened, Nate. I was just driving along the road when she ran out like a madwoman." She grabbed Nathan's arm and begged, "You have to help me, Nate. I don't want to go to jail. I don't want to die!" As Nathan looked into Gina's pleading eyes, his heart softened. Steeling himself, he cut out the embryo and tossed it into a concentrated sulfuric acid solution. "No! My baby!" I watched as Nathan made the vicious decision to destroy my baby. I lunged at him right away, but my spirit passed through him. All I could do was watch as my baby's body started bubbling and liquefying gruesomely in that vat of acid. I screamed my heart out, my face contorting. But soon, an inexplicable sense of malicious joy filled me. Nathan, would you crumble to pieces if you found out that the embryo you destroyed was your child, one that you'd been longing for?

Chapter 2 Chapter 2

Once Gina knew what Nathan had done, her eyes flickered strangely. However, she swiftly put on a show of sadness, saying, "Nate, I know you adore children, but…" She clutched her abdomen, looking as though she had suddenly recalled a sorrowful memory. "I don't care if Charlotte bears your child. As long as you're the father, I'll love the child too!" Gina declared as she stared lovingly at Nathan with teary eyes. Nathan glanced at Gina before lowering his gaze to the body in front of him. "I won't let her bear my child. She's not worthy to be the mother of my child.""But you guys…""I switched her vitamins out for birth control, so there's no way she can get pregnant with my child." Hearing this, I felt as though I'd been struck by lightning. Nathan and I had been married for five years without me ever getting pregnant. We both went to the hospital for health examinations and confirmed that everything was fine, but somehow, I just couldn't conceive. Now I knew it was b

Chapter 3 Chapter 3

I glared at the couple kissing passionately beside the remnants of my dead body. I wanted to float away, but I couldn't. Even after dying, I'd turned into a lingering soul that couldn't go anywhere. I was forced to hang around Nathan. I felt so pathetic. When I was still alive, Nathan treated me as if I didn't exist. Now that I was dead, I was forced to witness him and Gina in each other's arms. They were glued to each other when Nathan's phone rang, interrupting them. With a dark expression, Nathan picked his phone up and checked the screen. It was a call from his mother, Marie Walker. Nathan rejected the call without hesitation before getting all hot and heavy with Gina again. All of a sudden, I recalled that I'd promised to take Marie to the hospital for a health check today. It was already nighttime, and I was a no-show. She couldn't get in touch with me either. She must've been worried sick right now. By the time Nathan left the laboratory, it was already past 10