My chest tightened up, and I couldn't stop shaking and crying my eyes out.

The pain in my belly was so bad I started gagging, while the machines kept beeping like crazy.

Everyone snapped back to reality and stopped questioning Chase Chen's whereabouts. They rushed to get me on oxygen and called for Dr. Bai, who was originally supposed to operate on Claire Lin.

Dr. Bai showed up looking super confused, and when he recognized me, his eyebrows shot up: "Why would Dr. Chen switch cases? Isn't this his wife?"

The doctors around me gave me these pity looks and sighed under their breath: "No clue. Dr. Bai, we need your help now."

By then, I was barely conscious, but I could still sense everything going on around me.

The stopping heartbeat in my belly and my struggling breaths told me everything: something was wrong with my baby.

That's when I heard the doctor say with regret: "Such a shame... the baby didn't make it."

I couldn't hold back my tears anymore.

It all started with that car crash - that's when I got thrown into this novel I'd once read.

I saved Chase Chen because my heart broke for him - this amazing guy who, in the original story, got used by the female lead until it killed him.

That day, he was supposed to lose his legs and get bullied. But I showed up and saved him from all that.

We even got our own sweet love story after that. He never met the female lead who would've ruined his life.

I really thought we could have our own simple, happy-ever-after.

So why did everything go sideways the minute she showed up?

"Patient's bleeding heavily! We lost the baby - focus everything on saving the mother!" I was an orphan, and Chase Chen was my only family member.

They wanted to check with Chase Chen first, but there wasn't time to waste. They had to make the call themselves.

When the scalpel cut into my skin, I couldn't help shaking. Dr. Bai noticed and checked - turns out the anesthesia wasn't working on me.

Things got messy real quick. The surgeon freaked out: "What do we do? Keep going?"

Seeing I was out of it, Dr. Bai gritted his teeth: "Keep going."