I return to the exact day my life was destroyed, standing once again between a fiance who defends her best friend and a man whose hidden illness once cost me everything.
In my previous life, revealing Miless condition led to accusations, suspension, and a fire set by the two people I trusted most.
This time, I confront every scheme with the certainty of someone who has already died once.
I will take control of the narrative they used against me and prepare to reveal the truth they tried to bury.
“What’s wrong with Miles? Tell me already!” Vivian’s voice snapped me back to reality.
I looked at her impatient face, then glanced around, realizing I was in my office. So I really had traveled back in time.
It seemed even the heavens didn’t want me to die so senselessly.
“What the hell are you spacing out for? I’ve been asking you for ages,” Vivian said angrily, shoving me.
I came to my senses and looked at Miles’s blood test results in my hand.
Sure enough, just like in my previous life, he had AIDS.
He was Vivian’s male best friend, and they were very close.
In my previous life, on this day, he had suddenly been in a car accident and brought to the hospital. Vivian had been beside herself with worry.
After learning he had AIDS, I agonized for a long time before deciding to tell Vivian.
But she didn’t believe me at all and slapped me hard across the face.
“I know you don’t want me hanging out with Miles,” she had said. “But you need to know when to draw the line. You’re a doctor – you can’t just accuse patients of having infectious diseases because of your personal feelings!”
No matter how I tried to explain, she wouldn’t listen.
Legally, I shouldn’t have disclosed a patient’s condition to her anyway. It was private medical information.
But out of concern for her safety, I had selfishly told her.
Little did I know that my loose lips would lead to my brutal death in my past life.
So in this life, no matter what, I won’t make the same mistake again.
“It’s not too serious, just some minor injuries. He’ll be fine after a few days of treatment in the hospital,” I told her.
Hearing this, Vivian let out a sigh of relief. “That’s good.”
But the next second, she was irritated again: “Then why didn’t you say so earlier? I thought it was something major!”
“Ethan, let me tell you – Miles is my best friend. Don’t you dare try anything sneaky.”
I smiled at her. “Don’t worry, I won’t.”
After she left, a colleague came in and patted me on the shoulder.
“Hey Dr. Grant, didn’t you tell your girlfriend that Miles has AIDS?” he asked. “I saw her go feed him some soup just now.”
“The law states that a patient’s condition is private. Doctors can’t disclose it to others without permission,” I replied formally.
My colleague looked at me in surprise. “But that’s your girlfriend!”
“She used to be. Not anymore,” I said.
I’ll never forget what Vivian did to me in my past life.
After I told her Miles had AIDS, she thought I was deliberately lying to drive them apart.
So she started giving me the cold shoulder and stopped coming home.
Before long, rumors spread online that I had caused a patient’s death through malpractice. People were calling me an incompetent doctor.
The hospital was terrified of the public backlash and suspended me under pressure.
That’s when Vivian came to find me.
“I’m the one who spread those rumors online. I hired people to smear you,” she admitted. “That’s what you get for lying about Miles having AIDS!”
My heart shattered. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
“Vivian, you’re my girlfriend! You’ve ruined my entire career!” I cried in anguish.
“So what?” She glared at me furiously. “Miles has been my best friend since childhood. I won’t let anyone say he’s sick. Not even you!”
In that moment, my heart died completely.
I broke up with her and left.
I moved to another city by myself. But her mother kept contacting me, urging me to go back and marry Vivian. I refused.
Soon after, Vivian called to yell at me: “You deliberately got my parents to scold me, didn’t you? You’re trying to keep me and Miles apart. Just you wait!”
The next time I saw her was when my house suddenly caught fire. I saw her and Miles pouring gasoline outside.
She even said: “You deserve to die for keeping me and Miles apart!”
I’ll never forget the agony of being slowly burned alive.
Vivian, in this life I won’t be your doormat anymore.
I contacted Vivian’s parents to break off the engagement, saying I no longer wanted to be with her.
No matter how much her parents tried to persuade me, I insisted on ending things. They finally had to agree.
That night, Vivian called me.
“How dare you, Ethan! Just because I took care of Miles for one day, you want to break off our engagement?” she yelled.
I calmly replied, “It’s not because you took care of him. I just think you really like him and you two are a good match. I don’t want to come between you. So I’m stepping aside to let you be together.”
She spent all her time with Miles anyway. It would be hard for her not to get infected with AIDS.
So I had to stay away from her.
“Fine, have it your way. But don’t come begging me to take you back later!” she snapped.
“I won’t. I wish you and Miles a lifetime of happiness together,” I said before hanging up.
I had never stood up to Vivian like this before.
She bombarded me with angry texts afterwards:
“Who the hell said you could hang up on me?”
“Ethan, where did you get the nerve?”
A few minutes later: “You didn’t pay Miles’s medical bills?”
She had brainwashed me into thinking she and Miles were just friends before.
So I had always covered Miles’s hospital bills whenever he came for treatment.
They both got used to it over time.
Looking back now, I was such a fool.
I didn’t reply to her and blocked her number.
I had no patience left for someone like her.
The next day, Vivian came barging into my office with a pale-faced Miles in tow.
“Give me money,” she demanded.
“Hurry up. Don’t make me slap you.”
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