Chapter 314: Is This Legitimate Weight Loss Medicine?

Chapter 314: Chapter 314: Is This Legitimate Weight Loss Medicine?

When Hannah Thompson grabbed her deskmate’s arm, she realized that the once-soft limb was now so skinny it felt like skin stretched over bone.

This extreme, almost unnatural, degree of weight loss sparked a terrible suspicion in Hannah’s mind.

But she was too desperate to lose weight, wishing she could just wake up thin the next day.

This desperate feeling made her subconsciously ignore how strange her deskmate looked.

"Of course. Remember my sister who’s a vlogger? She used to be really heavy too, but she lost all the weight by taking that diet pill." As if afraid Hannah Thompson wouldn’t believe her, the deskmate took out her phone and searched for a vlogger’s name on a video app.

After she tapped on it, the video indeed showed the entire process of the person going from her starting weight to being thin.

Hannah Thompson was still skeptical, thinking it was probably faked.

But the deskmate was clearly prepared for her questions and opened her chat history with this sister.

It contained their entire conversation, as well as a daily log from when they both started taking the pills.

This time, Hannah Thompson was truly convinced. "Please," she begged, "I want to lose weight too. You have to tell me."

The deskmate put on a reluctant act, enjoying Hannah Thompson’s pleading for a while before continuing as if she were doing her a huge favor. "Well, I guess I can tell you.

My sister specially brought this diet pill back from overseas. It’s super effective; everyone over there is taking it. You don’t have to diet or exercise. Look at me—I took it for three courses, and I slimmed down completely.

I have a little left on hand right now. I can give you some to try first. Later, if it works and you want to keep using it, you’ll have to buy it yourself."

’This is my deskmate, and her sister is a vlogger with a lot of followers,’ Hannah Thompson thought. ’They wouldn’t fake something like this.’

She was just too desperate to successfully lose weight. After hearing her deskmate’s words, she let go of the last shred of doubt in her heart.

"Okay! No problem!" Hannah Thompson agreed without a moment’s hesitation.

The next day, her deskmate brought her several packets of pills.

After she finished them all, Hannah Thompson was shocked to find she had really lost a lot of weight. And just as her deskmate had said, she didn’t have to do anything—she just sat around, and the weight just melted away naturally.

Having gotten a taste of success, Hannah Thompson asked her deskmate for the purchasing channel and, under her guidance, bought the "second course."

As she watched herself take the "diet pills" on time every day and get thinner and thinner, a strange sense of panic grew in Hannah Thompson’s heart.

’What if I stop taking the pills and gain all the weight back?’

’Go back to being ridiculed all the time?’ Hannah Thompson felt she couldn’t accept that.

Moreover, Hannah Thompson discovered that even after taking the pills for half a month, she wasn’t losing weight as fast as her deskmate had.

A strange sense of competitiveness took over, and Hannah Thompson began to increase her dosage, hoping for a stronger effect that would make her even thinner.

But the thinner she got, the more irritable her temper became, and her body began to show some strange symptoms.

When she found she had lost her appetite, was getting dizzy spells, and her whole body ached, Hannah Thompson finally realized something was wrong.

She went to find her deskmate, who had been taking leave from school and was at home.

But when she arrived at her house, she discovered her deskmate was nothing but a bag of bones, her face sallow and covered in a dense breakout of acne.

Upon seeing Hannah Thompson arrive, the deskmate had no reaction. She just sat there blankly, her body twitching from time to time, accompanied by strange howls.

Only after her deskmate’s mother took out a disturbingly familiar pill and fed it to her did the abnormal behaviors gradually subside.

Hannah Thompson finally knew something was terribly wrong.

"The pills you gave me... are they really diet pills?" Hannah Thompson’s voice trembled, her eyes filled with disbelief.

Her deskmate had now regained her senses and didn’t seem surprised to see Hannah Thompson there.

Hearing this question, the deskmate couldn’t help but laugh. "How could there be? Do you really think a diet pill that works this fast with no side effects could exist in this world?

It’s a drug! Don’t you get it? You’re an addict!"

It was only then that Hannah Thompson understood. From start to finish, it had all been a scam.

The sister her deskmate had mentioned was real, but she had somehow been tricked into using drugs.

To recruit a downline, she started using the cover of reviewing diet pills, a method to screen for customers who were crazy desperate to lose weight.

This way, she could not only meet her quota but also earn some money to buy more of the stuff for herself.

As for the deskmate, she was simply a convenient target.

In the beginning, the deskmate had been just like Hannah Thompson is now, truly believing in a side-effect-free diet pill.

By the time she realized the truth, she was already completely hooked.

Unable to get out, she followed her sister’s example and started recruiting her own downline. And Hannah Thompson was her first target.

Hannah Thompson wanted to call the police, but her deskmate sensed her intention and threatened her in a low voice, "If you dare call the cops, I’ll have my family spread the word that you’re a drug user.

Do you think your family will have any face left to live here then? I remember you have a sister who works at the police station, right? If her bosses find out her little sister is a junkie, do you think she’ll be able to keep her job?"

Hannah Thompson wanted to say that wouldn’t happen, but seeing the confident expression on her deskmate’s face, her heart began to pound with doubt.

’What if I really do affect my family’s jobs and lives because of this? What would I do?’

Hannah Thompson returned home in a daze, her mind replaying that question over and over.

When the withdrawal symptoms became unbearable, Hannah subconsciously reached for her "diet pills," only to find that the supply she thought would last until next month was already gone because she had been taking extra doses.

The physical discomfort completely consumed Hannah Thompson’s thoughts. She wanted to buy more, but she had already spent all of her allowance and New Year’s money.

She asked her mother for money but was refused.

Her head spinning, Hannah Thompson called Hayden Shaw, but again, she didn’t get what she wanted.

At that time, Hannah Thompson was lying in bed, enduring a pain that felt like thousands of ants were gnawing at her from the inside. Just as she was thinking of jumping from her window to end it all, her mother knocked on her door.

She said she would give her the money to buy them.

As for what happened after that, Evan Keller and the others already knew.

After listening to the whole story, Evan Keller rubbed his temples, feeling a sense of relief.

Hannah Thompson was, after all, a colleague’s sister. If possible, he naturally didn’t want anything bad to happen to her.

From Hannah Thompson’s account, it was clear she had been deceived in the early stages and had only realized something was wrong today.

She hadn’t dragged anyone else down with her from beginning to end.

If everything she said was true.

’Then there’s still hope!’