The doctor Yancey Wayne was famous across the land, yet for more than ten years he'd been locked in this twisted cycle with his childhood sweetheart and junior disciple, Corah Shaw—she poisoned, he cured. Over and over. And Joelle Holt, his wife, was the one who kept getting dragged into their mess and paying the price. Every time Corah poisoned herself, he'd soothe Joelle with a soft, it's just Cora being childish… but he never actually protected her. Not once. Until the day Corah used a lethal toxin. Yancey rushed to write an antidote, but got called away halfway through and missed a critical ingredient. That's when the system awakened: the only way Joelle could return to the modern world… was to die by her husband's hand. Already drained and numb, Joelle quietly drank the so-called antidote Yancey handed her, letting the slow-acting poison seep through her veins. She watched the two of them put on their little show of tragic devotion, and she calmly started gathering evidence in the shadows.
