Amazing Doctor Richester

Chapter Three

The atmosphere was unbearable as he watched his wife who made no move. She seemed comfortable at her current position.

"Who's this douchebag?" The man who was comfortably lying on his bed snorted.

He was light in complexion with properly tanned skin, he looked thin with an aggressive face covered with white beard.

"What are you doing here?" Stella finally found her voice, she questioned in disgust.

"What am I doing here? I'm your husband, why do you hate me so much?" He wondered in confusion as he couldn't tell if it was the same woman he married years ago.

Stella was confidently sleeping with another man on their matrimonial bed. She would do anything to bring in more clients into their company, and she doesn't mind offending her lame husband.

"Get out before I get angry!" She yelled at him in contempt and relaxed on the man's shoulder.

His name was Joshua. He was deeply in love with Stella though Stella only wants him for the benefits. He was a famous investor and rich in the city, he had heard of Richester from everyone's mouth and still couldn't picture why she left him for someone as useless as Richester.

But he was satisfied since Stella gave him the attention that he wanted. He tapped her softly and she lifted her eyes at him.

"Let me take care of this fool." He said when he noticed that Richester wasn't moving.

Richester was clouded in anger and dissatisfaction. He knew shame quite well and also what was right. His wife was doing the wrong thing yet he couldn't reprimand her.

Immediately, some men entered the bedroom and pulled him out. He didn't even get the chance to plead or talk with his wife. He followed them into the mansion store room where he was beaten to pulp.

"Did he annoy you?" The room was quiet except for their rustling sound, Joshua shook his head.

"No. I'm happy that you are with me." Stella turned the bedside lamp off and cuddled into his embrace.

She felt more secure with another man than her husband.

"Please stop." The men were ordered thus they didn't relent.

They continued punching and kicking him so hard that his mouth bled. He finally got an escape route and ran out of the store room into an empty guest room, he didn't fail to lock the bolt.

"Doctor System Level, Activated!" immediately something echoed in his head, he looked around the room and noticed that he was alone.

"What's going on?" He sat on the bed, staring at the entire room while wondering if he had heard something mistakenly.

"Congratulations, your system is activated. In order to welcome you into this system, you will have to accomplish a task." This time, something was speaking automatically and he heard it inwardly.

Something was in his brain speaking to him.

"System? Task? What's happening?" He was shocked, anxious and confused.

He sprang up from the bed as the voice in his head was sounding like a speaker.

"I will explain to you the rules of this cultivation. Whenever you accomplish a task, new skills and points to mastering the next level will be added to you but whenever you fail a task, your points will reduce and you will be punished. The punishment might cost you your life." The system explained everything meticulously to him, it felt unbelievable and like a dream yet it was obvious that something was speaking to him.

"What do you mean…?" He decided to play along and get to know what was happening.

"You are a system and with this, you can gain medical skill and become the best surgeon in the world." The system informed him.

"What? Really? Is this real?" He was speaking to himself so seriously and excited.

"Yes. But every mission has its own terms and conditions. You have already unlocked the system thus you will have to pay for it by accomplishing a task." The system said.

"A task?" His mouth hangs in the air waiting for a response.

The system left him hanging and all through the night, he was restless.

He wanted to know if everything that happened to him last night was an illusion but there was no way to find out.

Maybe it was a dream, he had to start the day filled with crisis and humiliation. Inwardly, he wished there was something like that system that he had imagined.

The beating from those bad guys left him in pain, his eyes were swollen and his lips had few bruises. He struggled with his neck tie as he came out of his bedroom.

"Where are you going, you prick?" His mother-in-law stopped him and he turned, lowering his head to the ground.

"Good morning ma'am." He greeted her courteously.

Soon, Stella stepped out of the bedroom with Joshua. They were already dressed in their office clothes and ready for work.

"First thing first, make up breakfast, clean the kitchen, wash the dishes and make sure everything is spotless." His mother-in-law faced him.

"You also have to arrive in time and submit the necessary files to me." She snorted in disgust and shoved him apart.

They all walked away from him to the dining room, and he followed them.

"Stella, you are the woman here. Can't you cook?" He questioned her as he reached the dinning and she shot a dirty look at him, her eyes were like bullets.

"Seriously? I will pay your bills and still cook for you? As what? Mother Christmas?" She rolled her eyes disdainfully at him and he swallowed hard.

"Don't just stand there, head into the kitchen!" His mother-in-law shouted at him and he went into the kitchen to prepare breakfast.

They intentionally asked the servants to idle around while he did their work. It was as good as calling him a nobody in their present.

"I'm still asking you, Ella. Why did you choose him?" Joshua broke the unbearable silence and she cleared her throat.

"I thought he would do better than you with his pretty face." She said with a bit of sarcasm in her voice and they laughed.

"That's the worst decision I regret making." Madam Harriet nodded her head vividly.

Richester arranged their breakfast on the large tray and carried it, just as he was about to step out of the kitchen something flashed in his eyes.

"[FIRST TASK: Help a needy girl within 24 hours!]" it was flashing vividly in his eyes that it caught him by surprise.

The system was real, he has been chosen and he has his first mission that needs to be accomplished.