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Sylvia got her answer from Ethan's silence.Then she laughed almost maniacally."Hahaha,Ethan,what Ryan said at the funeral that day was really right!You're a coward!!You could be so good to me out of pity,but what about Amelia?In all these years,what you put into her is not even one-tenth of what you did for me!She loved you for so many years but didn't even get your pity.Now that she's dead,you realize you love her...Hahaha,Ethan,you're so ridiculous!"
"Shut up!Stop talking!!"Ethan's voice was trembling.I saw his face losing color little by little.
But Sylvia's cruel words continued."If Amelia knew that you hurt her again and again for someone you didn't love,she would hate you to death."
Listening to her words,Ethan's body trembled involuntarily,as if he was suffering great pain.
I thought of those painful pasts,the criticism from others,Ethan's partiality towards Sylvia,Sylvia's mockery of me...These fragments constantly reminded me of how humble and ridiculous I was in this marriage.I used to resent Sylvia for causing trouble in our marriage,but later I found out that it was Ethan's repeated partiality and indulgence towards her that gave her the courage to act like this.
Before Sylvia left,she only left one sentence."Ethan,now I finally realize that your love is worth absolutely nothing."
Ethan seemed not to have heard.At this moment,he was like a soulless walking corpse.After a long time,he seemed to suddenly remember something,got up,and walked out.He went straight to the parking lot and started the car.
He went back to our home again.
Ethan entered his room and seemed to be looking for something.He opened one drawer after another,rummaged through the cabinets,but it seemed that he couldn't find what he wanted.He refused to give up and opened my wardrobe to continue searching.His eyes were drawn to a small object in the corner of the cabinet.
It was an embroidered purse.
I made it myself the year before last.Inside the purse was a talisman I got from a temple.The old monk there said that writing a wish on a piece of paper,putting it in the purse together with the talisman,and then putting the purse in the wardrobe could make the wish come true.So I secretly put it in Ethan's wardrobe.
I didn't expect Ethan to find it now.
He carefully took out the yellowed piece of paper in the purse.
"May Ethan and I be safe every year.May Ethan have me by his side every year."
The tiny piece of paper carried the most sincere wish,but this wish ultimately didn't come true.I would never be safe every year again,and Ethan and I would never have a future.
In the following few days,Ethan stayed at home,shutting himself off from the world.
He acted less and less like his usual self.He started to stare blankly at the things I left behind,as if he was feeling the traces of my existence.He also started smoking and drinking non-stop.When he was drunk,he would curl up on the bed and whimper.And the frequency of him relying on sleeping pills to fall asleep was getting higher and higher.
And my soul was getting weaker and weaker as time passed.My consciousness was gradually becoming less clear.I knew that my time left in this world was running out.
The angel suddenly appeared beside me and reminded me that I only had three days left in this world.
