Chapter 6

I followed behind them, watching all this impassively.

I didn't understand why Lily was reacting so strongly after hearing the news of my death.

Could it be that she was so happy this annoying pest was finally dead that she was overjoyed?

Soon Lily reached the entrance of the morgue. She suddenly became extremely calm, slowly walking up to the row of freezers and stopping.

Andy caught up, looking at her hesitantly several times before finally raising his hand to point at one of the freezers in the middle row.

"Dr. Lu... Mr. Chen's... body is here."

I floated over to stand beside Lily. She lowered her eyes to look at that spot, raising a trembling hand to grasp the handle.

But she didn't pull it open right away, just staring at it silently.

I looked at her bloodless face and couldn't help but quip:

"Don't tell me you're so happy to hear I'm dead that you don't know how to react?"

After all, now that I was dead, there would be no one to bother her anymore.

She could marry Ethan without any obstacles. The star-crossed lovers could finally be together.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but curse.

"Lily! I've been with you for five years, you weren't even with Ethan for that long!"

"If you don't shed a single crocodile tear when you see me, I'll become a vengeful ghost and haunt you forever!"

I shouted loudly by her ear, but of course Lily couldn't hear me.

With a click, the freezer was pulled open.

Accompanied by a gust of cold air, my battered body finally appeared before Lily's eyes.

The sight was so gruesome it made even Andy suck in a sharp breath.

Lily suddenly collapsed to her knees, staring fixedly at my corpse. She began to tremble uncontrollably, tears streaming down her face like a broken dam.

I was stunned.

I never expected her to be this kind of person, still putting on an act of deep love in front of others even after I was dead.

Before I could puzzle it out, I saw Lily's shaking hand slowly reach towards my head. But she stopped a few centimeters away.

Seeing her like this, I sighed helplessly.

It made sense - my skull was completely shattered. Even though it had been pieced back together, my head still looked dented and horrifying. It was natural she couldn't bring herself to touch it.

But the next second, a heart-wrenching wail suddenly rang out in the silent morgue.

"Adam!!!"

Lily cried out, throwing herself onto me,

repeating over and over, "I'm sorry... I'm so sorry..."

My heart seized, my eyes stinging inexplicably. "Your acting is pretty good. I never realized you were such a good actress before."

Andy hurriedly crouched down and pulled the distraught Lily away from me with all his strength.

"Dr. Lu! We barely managed to reconstruct Mr. Chen's body to look like this. You can't touch him!"

Sure enough, when I looked over again, the corpse that had somewhat held its shape before had now fallen apart.

Lily's eyes were brimming with tears as she stared at the body in the freezer, murmuring, "This isn't real... you must be tricking me, right?"

"I know you always liked to use little tricks to get my attention, but Adam, can you not joke like this?"

"Wake up... please wake up..."

Lily was crying inconsolably, curled up in Andy's arms and clutching his collar so tightly it seemed she might faint at any moment.

Seeing this, Andy's eyes reddened too, but he still calmly told Lily:

"Mr. Chen is really dead!"

"Dr. Lu... my condolences..."

"It's impossible!" Lily shouted, violently pushing Andy away. "He loved me so much, how could he bear to leave me?"

"He can't be dead... this must be a dream..."

She said this as she sank to her knees in front of me, carefully raising her hand to grasp my left hand.

"Adam, wake up."

"I'll never bring up divorce again. We'll live well together from now on."

"Please..."