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.

Seeing the familiar date, Ezekiel breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that she was waiting for their wedding.

Little did he knew that she was just waiting to leave.

Half a month later, Ivy was finally discharged from the hospital and taken home by Ezekiel.

Ezekiel covered her eyes, led her to the master bedroom and then slowly let go of her hand.

The pure white and holy wedding dress comes into view, so dazzling under the light.

“Ivy, our wedding dress has arrived, go try it on.”

Ezekiel urged her, stuffed the wedding dress into her hands and said expectantly, “Ivy, you must be very beautiful in this wedding dress.”

But when her eyes fell on the wedding dress, Ivy suddenly felt ironic.

There was a red lip print there.

She understood that Letitia had tried on the wedding dress in advance and deliberately left traces to provoke her.

Ivy pushed aside the wedding dress, lowered her eyes to block the mockery in her eyes and said firmly, “The wedding dress is very beautiful, but there is no need to try it on.”

After all, she was not originally the owner of this wedding dress.

Before Ezekiel could speak, the phone rang suddenly. There was an urgent patient who needed him to go back.

He left in a hurry, completely unaware of Ivy's silence.

She reached out to pick up the phone, her eyes happened to meet the phone screen which he had not had time to cover.

On the screen was Letitia, wearing a white wedding dress and with a bright smile.

Ivy was a little dazed and when she looked up, she just happened to see Letitia who appeared out of nowhere.

Letitia raised her eyebrows slightly and reached out to touch the lip marks on her wedding dress contemptuously.

“Ivy, I won't beat around the bush with you. I think you should know that this wedding dress was bought according to my size.

“You are not worthy of touching my wedding dress.”

Looking at Letitia's resentful expression, Ivy calmed down and smiled faintly.

“So what?”

She asked back, opening her red lips and speaking word by word, “Our wedding is in ten days and your Ezekiel has no intention of canceling the wedding.”

As long as Ezekiel did not cancel the wedding and as long as she did not leave, Letitia would never be seen by others again.

Ivy hit a sore spot and Letitia's face turned red with anger, but she was powerless to refute. She could only watch her close the door and prepare to go to sleep.

Her chest heaved violently, Letitia's eyes darkened and her heart moved.

Before the wedding, Ivy finally recovered from her injuries and returned to work at the hospital.

But after the operation, she ran into Ezekiel and Letitia head-on.

As they looked at each other, she vaguely saw a flash of pride in Letitia's eyes. She frowned and inexplicably had a bad premonition.

Just as he was about to dodge, Letitia, holding a cup of black coffee, bumped into her.

Letitia screamed from the scalding heat of the hot coffee and reached out to grab Ezekiel beside her, her eyes reddened, “It hurts."

After saying that, she seemed to be threatened and quickly explained, “Ezekiel, please don't misunderstand Doctor Reid. She didn't hit me on purpose.

“It's just that I have an intern observation meeting this afternoon and my clothes... I don't have any spare clothes.”

After saying that, she lowered her head and sobbed.

Of course, she had no spare clothes because her other white coat was hanging on the balcony of Ezekiel’s house.

Obviously, Ivy and Ezekiel both thought of it.

Ezekiel looked at Letitia's tears and the soiled white coat with an expression of pity. He turned his gaze to Ivy and spoke in a tone that did not allow for negotiation.

“Ivy, be good. Let Letitia wear your clothes first.”

Listening to his commanding tone and looking down at her own hands that were also scalded red, Ivy felt a prick of pain in her heart, but her face remained cold, “Ezekiel, find out, it was she who bumped into me. Besides, I only have one piece of clothing today.”