---- Chapter 28 No.28 Ava didn't want to have anything to do with Ethan, but she couldn't just leave a living person on the ground. She took out her phone, called 911, explained the situation, and hung up. She wanted to leave, but her conscience wouldn't let her. She wanted to go back to her room, but Ethan was blocking the door. She looked at him in frustration. "| don't know what you're doing here, but why do you have to do this to yourself?" A sharp pain shot through Ethan's stomach. In his blurry vision, all he could see was Ava standing a few meters away. Her words reached his ears, and the pain spread to his heart and limbs. He used to get upset if she so much as scraped her hand. Now, she was looking at him with indifference. Perhaps in her eyes, he was just a burden. He closed his eyes, not wanting to see or hear anything, deceiving himself into believing that she still cared about him After some time, the ambulance finally arrived ---- Ava breathed a sigh of relief and was about to go home to rest when a paramedic called out to her. She refused without a second thought. "| have something to do. Just take him with you." She paid the ambulance and hospital fees in advance, telling the doctor that if it wasn't enough, they could ask him for the rest when he woke up. When Ethan woke up, it was the next afternoon. After Ava left, he hadn't eaten a proper meal. He had taken a red-eye flight, and the moment he landed, he had rushed to her apartment. He didn't dare to leave or close his eyes, afraid he would miss her. But his body had given out. He leaned against the hospital bed, feeling dejected. In the bed next to him was a middle-aged couple. The wife was taking care of her husband. Ethan watched them for a moment, then looked away, a tightness in his chest and a stinging in his eyes. He remembered when he had been hospitalized with a stomach ache. Ava had come to take care of him, even learning to make millet porridge for him. Now, when he closed his eyes, all he could see was her ---- distant attitude. How could someone who had loved him so much just give up on him? He didn't want to think about it anymore. He closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep. In his dream, he was back at the moment of Ava's first confession. Ethan Hayes, | don't want to call you my guardian anymore. | love you. | love you very much. | will grow up quickly. Will you wait for me, and then be with me? Her face was shy and timid as she carefully handed him a box and a letter. This time, he didn't tear up the letter. He took her hand and confessed, "Ava, | love you too." In his dream, he promised to wait for her to grow up, to shield her from gossip, and to marry her. In his dream, they grew up together. He saw her in a wedding dress, walking down the aisle with him. She said, "You see, as long as you love me, I'm not afraid of anything. Now, I'm finally married to you."