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My emotions instantly spiraled out of control.
“How is that possible? His surgery was clearly successful–he even got married and had children later. How could he not have been operable?”
I clutched his hand desperately.
Robert heaved a heavy sigh.
“Elizabeth, I know this is hard to accept, but it’s the truth.
“No matter how fast medical science advances, there are still countless challenges we can’t overcome.
In the hospital corridor,
I sat alone outside the ward, feeling my heart gradually turn to ice.
From day until night.
Just as my thoughts grew overwhelming, Benjamin suddenly sat beside
- me.
“You came?”
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The moment our eyes met, the emotions I’d been suppressing threatened to erupt.
I fought back tears, but my voice still came out thick with congestion.
“Yeah.”
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Standing nearly six–foot–three, he was now so tortured by illness he could barely straighten up.
After a long silence, he said: “Come have Ho’s Wonton Soup with me. I suddenly crave it.”
The words stabbed my heart with unexpected pain.
In my past life, when I reached my end, Ho’s Wonton Soup was all I wanted–only to learn it had been demolished.
That became my lasting regret.
Seeing me look down,
Benjamin explained: “After you disappeared without a word, I went to Ho’s often.”
“Every time I sat by that corner window, I’d think of you–how you’d secretly buy me cake, then after our wontons, ask the owner to bring it out from the fridge.”
“I’d remember our anniversary too, you pulling me by the window for pictures.”
The image of you lingered in my mind, impossible to shake. Eventually, I bought Ho’s Wonton Soup and turned it into a dessert shop.
My palm clenched tightly around tender flesh. “That’s all in the past.”
Benjamin suddenly looked at me with intense seriousness.
Pure moonlight fell across his brow.
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“Elizabeth, I never actually hated you. I admit I’m a deeply selfish man.”
“I knew Victoria was with me because of my status, yet I still despicably used her to hurt you. I thought you loved me, so I dated her, flaunting our relationship publicly.”
“I just wanted to provoke you, to prove I was happier than you.”
My heart jolted violently.
I just helped him up: “Let’s go, I want some wontons too.”
Ho’s Wonton Soup.
When two steaming bowls of wontons were served,
it felt like I was back in my most cherished teenage years, when he always loved watching me eat.
He sat by the window and slowly finished his bowl,
then pointed outside: “Elizabeth, remember? That Christmas we planned to watch a movie together right under this tree.”
“I got too caught up gaming and forgot completely, leaving you waiting here for an hour.”
“When I finally showed up, you were frozen red but still hadn’t left.”
“I thought, ‘This is it, she’ll finally snap at me.‘ Yet I cheered you up instantly–you said you’d never truly stay mad at me, no matter what.”
He looked at me with burning eyes.
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“Elizabeth, you never tell me anything,”
“The more I try to prove I’m happier than you, the more I lose miserably.”
As he spoke, tears welled in the corners of his eyes.
“Elizabeth, look, my life is so short now. I just want to be selfish. Stay with me until the end, and I’ll let you go, okay?”
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