- 10.
As soon as I went downstairs, I saw Ethan
with his back to me.
My heart skipped a beat, and I instinctively
wanted to leave.
But he seemed to sense something, and
suddenly turned around, his hoarse voice
calling out.
“Sarah!”
I was dazed for a few seconds.
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It wasn’t Ethan.
I took a few steps back, and he looked at me
in surprise: “Sarah! You can see?”
He walked over again: “Sarah, I miss you so
much, why did you come here? Just because
you’re angry?”
After more than a month of not seeing him,
he had lost a lot of weight and had stubble on
his face.
Andrew wanted to hug me.
I pushed him away hard: “Enough, haven’t you
acted enough? Andrew, what do you take me
for?”
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The loneliness in his eyes was undisguised.
“Sarah… I’m sorry… Don’t be mad at me.”
“That’s funny. What do I have to do with you?
Who are you?”
His face became paler and paler.
Just then, I saw Ethan.
Ethan had lost a lot of weight, his eyes were
sunken, and he rushed towards me as soon
as he saw me.
Ignoring my resistance, he held me tightly.
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“Sarah… It’s really you, Sarah…”
“You can see? That’s great! That’s really
great!”
“You must have suffered these days. Come
home with me, okay?”
His affectionate appearance made me sick.
“Sarah, you’ve been gone for so long, I was
so scared.”
I kicked him hard in the groin.
He cried out in pain and had to let go of me.
Ethan and Andrew stood together, and I
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realized they didn’t look that much alike.
At that moment, I felt ridiculous again!
To get rid of me, he actually dumped me on
his brother.
I remained silent, “You guys leave, I don’t
want to see you.”
Ethan frowned: “Sarah, haven’t you had
enough?”
I looked at him amusedly.
“Enough of what?”
I took a step back “Don’t you see I’m doing
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I took a step back. “Don’t you see I’m doing
well?”
Ethan shrugged helplessly.
“Sarah, I pushed you to my brother before
because I was sick, I didn’t want you to know,
so I asked my brother to help me act out a
play.”
“You’re carrying my child now, stop fooling
around, come home with me.”
Andrew stood by the side, without even the
right to speak, looking at me with red eyes.
Acting?
Laughed angrily.
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I laughed angrily.
“Ethan, what do you take me for? Do you
think I don’t know about everything you and
Vivian have been doing?”
I pulled him back and threw all the chat
records at him.
Looking at these records, his face turned
uglier and uglier.
“No…it’s not like that…”
I clicked on Vivian’s voice message, her
mocking voice ringing out.
“Sarah, what kind of cheap thing are you, stay
away from Ethan!”
away from Ethan!”
Ethan’s face was extremely ugly.
“Sarah.”
Andrew suddenly seemed to make up his
mind, walked up and grabbed my hand.
“Sarah, then can you give me a chance! Let
me prove that I’m the one who loves you!”
Ethan’s eyes instantly reddened.
“Andrew! How can you do this?”
They glared at each other, arguing in front of
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me, hitting each other until their noses and
faces were bruised.
I remained silent, quickly leaving the place.
But both of them seemed to be possessed.
That day, neither of them left, just knelt
downstairs at my house.
It rained heavily that night.
I didn’t go home, staying at the landlord’s
house, which was in another alley.
It just so happened that I could see the front
deer of my house
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door of my house.
The landlord hesitated for a moment, then
spoke: “Are those two going to be alright?”
The rain was heavy.
So heavy that I could barely see them.
I shook my head.
“Their bodies are their own, they insist on
degrading themselves like this, what does it
have to do with me?”
If it were before, I would have been happy
that there was someone who cared about me
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that there was someone who cared about me
so much.
But now, I just felt bored.
I drew the curtains and smiled at the landlord.
“Kate, go to sleep! It’s going to be a nice day
tomorrow, let’s go camping.”
In the middle of the night, the sound of an
ambulance suddenly came from downstairs. I
woke up and then fell back asleep..
- 11.
Early the next morning, as soon as I turned
off airplane mode, my phone was bombarded
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with notifications, freezing it.
Vivian’s messages popped up one after
another.
“Bitch, you’re good! You actually made the
two brothers fight for you!”
“Do you know that Ethan had a fever last
night, if it weren’t for passersby calling 911,
he would have died!”
“Sarah, who the hell do you think you are!
You better not show up near Ethan!”
“What kind of love potion did you give Ethan.
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why does he keep looking for you!”
I turned off the screen, stretched, opened the
curtains, and sunlight filled the room.
It was destined to be a good day.
For the next few days, Ethan and Andrew
didn’t appear again.
Several friends came to ask me if Ethan and I
had broken up, saying Ethan refused.
treatment at the hospital and insisted on
seeing me
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I politely replied, refusing to hear anything
more about him.
I thought the matter was over.
But unexpectedly, a week later, the front of
my shop was filled with bouquets, and more
and more kept arriving.
Sunflowers, red roses, lilies, hyacinths.
All kinds of flowers, in different colors.
I grabbed one of the delivery guys and asked
him who sent them.
He looked envious and told me it was a
handsome guy who ordered them.
My heart sank, I already had the answer.
I silently wanted to throw them away, but
Ethan walked out at that moment.
“Sarah, do you really hate me that much?”
His eyes were red and swollen: “I was wrong, I
was really wrong. I’ll take you and the baby
home, okay?”
The baby.
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The baby.
Hearing this, my tears fell silently, I closed my
eyes, “Ethan, we don’t have a baby anymore.”
The person in front of me instantly froze.
“What did you say?”
I took a deep breath, raised my phone, my
voice trembling: “The baby, it’s gone!”
“Ethan, why bother? Why bother pretending
to be affectionate? Is it interesting? I feel
disgusted when I see you!”
“I could already see when Andrew called and
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begged you to come back and celebrate my
birthday.”
“I used to hope that I could be with you
forever, but now I realize it was just a pipe
dream. Ethan, you don’t deserve it!”
Perhaps because of his illness, his whole
body was unsteady.
Hearing my words, he suddenly started to cry.
“Sarah, listen to my explanation, it was my
fault. When I was with you, I was indeed
acting out of spite. I thought I liked Vivian, but
I don’t. After you left, I realized that I’ve
always liked you!”
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“The love at first sight was real, please,
forgive me, okay?”
The initial love at first sight was like a sharp
blade, piercing my heart.
I never questioned true love, but true love
changes in an instant.
He might have really loved me, but what’s
missed is missed.
He knelt down, looking extremely pathetic.
Androw also
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Andrew also came out from the shadows,
looking extremely dejected.
I silently pushed him away, “Let it end here,
can’t we end this with some dignity?”
But I didn’t expect him to hug me like a
madman, and seeing that I didn’t speak, he
kissed me hard.
The unfamiliar kiss disgusted me, and I raised
my hand and slapped him hard.
“Ethan, don’t push me! You disgust me like
this!”
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He smiled bitterly, his voice pleading.
“You still love me, don’t you?”
I sneered.
Just then, Andrew rushed out and looked at
me hopefully.
“Sarah, do I have a chance then?”
Ethan pushed him away angrily: “Andrew, she
never had you in her eyes from the
beginning!”
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Andrew got angry and punched him in the
face.
“Ethan! If you weren’t my brother, I would
have killed you! Are you even human?”
“Sarah was so good to you, and how did you
treat her these past six months?”
Ethan’s mouth was bleeding, but he still
struggled to fight with Andrew.
He looked at me with particular devotion.
“Sarah, I promise you, I will love you well in
the future. The past is the past, it’s different
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now, give me a chance!”
I had once loved him passionately.
Enough.
I slowly shook my head. His body stiffened,
tears streaming down uncontrollably.
I wanted to move the flowers away.
But just then, a black car sped towards me
like crazy.
It was clearly aimed at me, giving me no
It was cleanly aimed at me, giving me no
chance to react.
I heard Vivian’s frantic screams.
“Die! Die! It’s all your fault for ruining my
relationship!”
“Sarah! Run!”
I couldn’t tell whose voice it was.
It was too close, I was in a blind spot, I
couldn’t run.
Vivian had gone mad.
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But just then, a pair of hot hands pushed me
hard.
Then, a huge crash broke the silence.
It suddenly started to rain.
People on the street were running.
But time here seemed to have stopped.
I was thrown out, staring blankly at the sky.
Cries, painful gasps, surrounded me.
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“No!”
“Sarah!”
A strong smell of blood filled my nose.
I couldn’t hold on any longer and fainted.
- 12.
Waking up again, I stared blankly at the
ceiling, the strong smell of disinfectant filling
the room.
A pair of warm hands grabbed me, bringing
me back to my senses.
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“Kate…”
Kate’s eyes were swollen from crying. Seeing
that I was awake, she both laughed and cried.
“Sarah! You’re finally awake!”
My whole body ached terribly as I struggled
to sit up.
“What… what happened?”
Kate wiped her tears, silent for a long time.
Tears silently streamed down my face:
“What’s wrong? What about them… where are
they?”
She sighed deeply and told me Andrew was
still alive.
Ethan was still in surgery, and the doctors
said he might not make it.
The culprit had been taken to the police
station.
It turned out that during the month I was
gone, a lot had happened to them.
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Vivian’s family went bankrupt.
Ethan was her lifeline.
The once pampered and high–and–mighty
Vivian couldn’t accept the current gap.
What’s more, her parents had given her an
ultimatum: if she couldn’t get the resources
from Ethan, she would have to marry a man in
his sixties.
The proud Vivian couldn’t accept it, putting all
her assets into it.
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But unexpectedly, Ethan stopped loving her
just like that.
Kate’s expression was complicated, and she
hesitated to speak.
“Kate, we’re close, just say what you want to
say.”
“Sarah, you won’t forgive him out of guilt, will
you?”
I heard my own voice, incredibly firm, and
shook my head: “No, he saved me, yes, but I
saved him too. We’re even.”
As for Andrew, there was even less between
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Because I wasn’t seriously injured, Kate and I
went home before Ethan came out of surgery.
Later, I heard that Ethan didn’t die, but he
would never be able to walk again, paralyzed
in bed for the rest of his life.
Vivian’s parents completely gave up on their
daughter, and they also faced a lot of
lawsuits.
Andrew silently withdrew, taking Ethan away
from here.
Later, I heard from friends that Ethan had
gone insane.
He drowned his sorrows in alcohol, never
recovering, and died that winter.
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He drowned his sorrows in alcohol, never
recovering, and died that winter.
Andrew also became increasingly silent, never
marrying.
Late one night, I received a call from him. He
asked me tearfully,
If it weren’t for Ethan, would I have been with
him?
I chuckled and shook my head resolutely:
“No.”
