At that moment, the call finally ended, but Dr. Kai remained frozen in place, his breathing uneven, his eyes still locked on the glowing screen of his phone as if the device itself had betrayed him. His fingers trembled slightly as he lowered it, and a cold sweat broke across his forehead. A woman. The antidote something that should have been beyond reach, something he himself had spent years of painstaking research trying and failing to create had been accomplished by a woman.
The realization was not only humiliating but devastating to his pride. It was a wound to his very identity, a mark of disgrace on the reputation he had built so carefully.
