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The First Autopsy

Words: 3156 · Source Novel:: The Covenant of Thorns

Enter Dr. Alex Chen, a sharp-tongued forensic pathologist from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a man who trusts only the cold logic of ligature marks and tissue slides. Chen’s autopsy reveals tetrodotoxin, a rare pufferfish poison, injected into the cork of the champagne bottle. The investigation zeroes in on the couple’s private floor, where exclusive security codes reveal both had accessed the wine cellar. During a tense police reconstruction, Julian pins the murder on a leftist activist group that once protested the Monument removal, while Evangeline leaks doctored footage of Julian purchasing a syrette. Alone in their penthouse, they drop the masks: Julian reveals he knows Evangeline’s uncle was murdered to silence his testimony about the judge being bribed, and Evangeline laughs, revealing that Julian’s late father was the briber. They are each other’s hostages.