Ivy thought about it, then nodded and said calmly, “Okay. You bought the house, so you decide.”

Ezekiel's heart suddenly tightened when he saw her expression as if she did not care about anything.

Since when did his Ivy seem to have changed?

In order to bring Letitia home, he actually thought of many excuses.

For example, the house lease was over, or she wanted to find someone to talk to.

But he did not expect that she agreed readily after he just mentioned it.

Ivy's generosity made him feel a little uneasy and he felt like he was losing control.

Letitia's voice of thanks disrupted Ezekiel's thoughts and he could only watch Ivy walked towards the bedroom in silence.

Perhaps to comfort her, Ezekiel held Ivy tightly in his arms, rubbed her ears and gently patted her back to coax her to sleep.

In the middle of the night, the phone beside the pillow suddenly vibrated a few times, waking Ivy up.

She frowned, raised her hand to light up the screen and then found that it was Ezekiel's phone.

Letitia sent a message, it read, [Ezekiel, I'm so scared to be alone, can you come and accompany me?]

[Letitia: Honey, I miss you so much, just come over.]

The disgusting remarks she saw made her feel nauseous for a moment and she put the phone back.

Then there were continuous vibrations and after a while, Ezekiel woke up.

He quietly walked past her, fumbled to put on his coat and tiptoed out of the room as if afraid to wake Ivy.

He did not notice that Ivy opened her eyes the next second after the door closed.

After a moment's silence, she got out of bed and looked at Ezekiel standing in front of the guest room.

The next second, Letitia, wearing sexy black stockings, threw herself into his arms, raised her head and kissed him on the lips.

“Why is my Letitia so clingy?” Ezekiel sighed, his eyes overflowing with love.

She watched the two of them kissing, watched Ezekiel wanting to hold Letitia in his arms and watched the two of them walk into the study in a daze.

When Ivy caught up, Ezekiel had already hugged Letitia and sat her on her desk, with saliva dripping on her book.

In an instant, her heart suddenly stagnated and a feeling of nausea and discomfort surged up at the same time.

Letitia scolded, “Ezekiel, don't be like this, what if Doctor Reid finds out?”

Ezekiel was so distracted by love that he did not care about those things. He said in a hoarse and impatient voice, “Why bother with her? Don't mention the person who spoils the fun.”

He lowered his head and kissed her lips again, “It seems that I am not strong enough, so you still have the mind to think about other things.”

The two of them lowered their heads again and embraced each other.

Ivy widened her eyes and covered her mouth tightly. The bitterness in her heart almost made her faint.

Tears could not help flow when she saw her lover making love with another woman on her desk.

She raised her hand and felt the wetness on her cheek, then she suddenly realized that she had been in tears for a long time.

Like a walking corpse, Ivy walked back to the room, reminding herself again and again that she would be leaving soon and would have nothing to do with them anymore.

She told herself not to cry, that the ungrateful man was not worth her tears.

The next day, Ezekiel got up early.

Ivy came to the restaurant and met his gentle eyes.

“Ivy, you finally woke up.”

His tone was gentle. He walked behind her and pushed her towards the dining table, showing her the fried heart-shaped eggs on the table.

“Ivy, I made it myself, why don't you try it?”

Ivy looked in the direction of his movements and the first thing she noticed was the mahogany dining table.

It was similar to her desk, the place where they made love last night.

The nausea came back again and she knocked over the plate in front of Ezekiel's face and retched.

“Take it.”

Hearing the sound of the plate breaking, Ezekiel was stunned and suddenly a trace of confusion and panic flashed across his face.

“What's wrong? Is it not to your liking?”

Ivy did not answer.

The silence on her face exacerbated his helplessness, and in a trance, he recalled the past.

When he first started learning cooking, he began with the simplest fried eggs.

He fried an egg until it was burnt and tasted bitter.

Ezekiel was annoyed and ready to throw it away, but Ivy stuffed the egg directly into her mouth and gave a thumbs up, “Delicious.”

He was shocked and belatedly asked her to spit it out.

But she said, “Ezekiel, no matter what you do for me, I like it.”

But the person who always said she liked me actually turned the plate upside down that day.

Ezekiel recalled the details of the past few days and always felt that something was wrong and frowned subconsciously.

However, Letitia's exclamation soon interrupted his thoughts.

Looking at Ezekiel, who was in a trance for a while, then quickly walked towards Letitia and fed her a sandwich with his own hands, Ivy's eyes were filled with mockery.

Ezekiel got up and went to the kitchen to get something for Letitia and she was also ready to leave.

Unexpectedly, the moment she turned around, Letitia called her with a smile on her face.

“Miss Reid, I saw you last night.”

She blinked at Ivy, her eyes full of pride, “Your desk is really comfortable. Ezekiel asked me for it several times, but he wouldn't listen no matter how much I begged for mercy.

“Oh, by the way, maybe you don't know this yet, Ezekiel has already bought me a house and he asked me to move in now because he wants to see me and be intimate with me every day.

“How annoying.” Letitia shook her head and pretended to be annoyed and said, “Ivy, your fiancé really can't live without me for a day.”

Seeing that Ivy did not say anything, she warned, “Since you 've already seen it, I advise you to be sensible and take the initiative to break up with Ezekiel and let him marry me. Don't force me to do it myself.”

Unexpectedly, Ivy just stared at her for a long time and suddenly smiled.

Initially, she planned to break up with Ezekiel before leaving, but then, she wanted to delay him for a while longer and not let Letitia get her wish.

Her smile grew bigger and bigger until Ezekiel came out.

The silence continued until the three arrived at the hospital.

Ezekiel suddenly called Ivy and took out a bottle of warm strawberry-flavored milk from his pocket.

“Ivy, be good, drink your milk before you leave, otherwise your stomach will feel uncomfortable.”

She was a little surprised, her eyes fell on the light pink milk, her face still indifferent, “Thank you, but no thanks.”

After saying that, she turned around and went back to the office.

After the consultation, Ivy went to make rounds as usual. When passing by the stairwell, he heard a sob, followed by a familiar voice of comfort.

It was Ezekiel.

“How can my Letitia be so cute, yet she gets jealous over a bottle of milk?

“It's a pity that my painstaking efforts were in vain, Letitia, you didn't even think about who likes to drink strawberry-flavored milk.”

Letitia suddenly realized and burst into laughter.

Ivy's footsteps suddenly stopped, she smiled self-deprecatingly, pretending that she heard nothing and turned away.

Not long after the ward rounds, Ezekiel and Letitia came in one after another.

Enemies often meet on a narrow road.

On the way back to the office after checking the room, she ran into Ezekiel and Letitia again.

The crowd surrounded them, making a lot of noise, shouting, “Is this how you treat patients?”

She frowned and glanced at him, thinking to herself that it was not good.

That was a medical dispute.

Thinking of that, she lowered her head and dialed the security department to prevent the situation from escalating further.

Unexpectedly, when they looked up again, the angry crowd became excited again when they saw her wearing a white coat.

In an instant, she was pushed to Ezekiel's side.

Ezekiel just glanced at her coldly, then tightly clenched his hands to protect Letitia, fearing that she would get hurt.

Ivy regretted getting involved and reached out to comfort the angry family members.

Who knows. The next second, a cold silver light flashed.

“Letitia.”

She only heard Ezekiel scream and then he pushed her away and faced the dagger head-on.

Soon, the dagger stabbed her heart fiercely.

The pain spread, blood gushed out, Ivy became hoarse, her face turned pale in an instant and her consciousness gradually became blurred.

Like the tide receding, the sounds around went from noisy to silent.

Before Ivy gradually lost consciousness, she seemed to see the man who had proposed to her at the age of 18 and vowed to marry her in this life, running towards her with red eyes and hugging her shaking body.

When she regained consciousness, the anesthesia wore off and her heart felt like it was being bitten by millions of ants, the pain was unbearable.

Feeling the twitching in her palm, Ezekiel, with red eyes, immediately came over and held her hand, his face full of heartache and self-blame.

The black bag could be seen under his eyes, as if he had not rested for several days.

“Ivy, it's all my fault. The incident happened suddenly and I failed to protect you.”

Ivy looked at his self-blaming and haggard appearance, but her heart was like a pool of stagnant water.

Even though she knew that Ezekiel no longer loved her and even though she was extremely disappointed in Ezekiel, she did not expect Ezekiel to be so determined and did not expect him to treat her life as a joke.

In Ezekiel's eyes, what on earth was she?

Since Letitia could not get hurt, so did that mean Ivy should die?

She watched Ezekiel's performance intently, suppressing the pain and disappointment in her heart. After a long moment, she let out a sarcastic smile.

“Did you fail to protect me, or did you never think of protecting me at all?”

Ezekiel's hands froze, a trace of panic flashed across his face and in desperation he grabbed her hand and slapped himself in the face.

“Ivy, I know you are angry, but the situation was too urgent at the time and I mistakenly recognized the wrong person. Or you can hit me, as long as you calm down, I am willing to do anything.”

The wound on Ivy's chest was touched again and she pulled her hand back abruptly.

Looking at his hypocritical appearance, Ivy felt annoyed and bored.

Ten years of love were not as good as Letitia's two years of interference.

The moment she was stabbed by the dagger, she could not tell whether the wound hurt more or her heart hurt more. Disappointment and resentment occupied her mind.

She was leaving anyway, so let it be.

She closed her eyes and said coldly, “I'm tired, please go.”

Seeing Ivy closing her eyes and sending the guest away, Ezekiel pursed his lips helplessly, always feeling that something was wrong. 

After a moment, he tucked the corner of the quilt for her in silence and went out.

Because she was in the hospital, even though she did not want to see anyone, Ezekiel still stayed by her side every day, carefully preparing nutritious meals and various gifts.

But she rejected them all, except for a countdown calendar she requested.

The days of the divas were circled in red by Ivy and the first thing she did when she woke up every day was to check the calendar.