Chapter 1

My husband, Ethan Carter, was a renowned pharmaceutical researcher. To support his career, I secretly signed up as an anonymous volunteer for his high-risk clinical trials, willingly enduring all sorts of agonizing side effects just to help his project succeed.

After I was diagnosed with a terminal illness, the only thing that could save me was an experimental drug he had developed.

I pinned all my hopes of survival on Ethan. But when my condition finally became critical, he vanished—along with my life-saving medicine.

When I finally found him, I watched him give my cure to Chloe, his childhood sweetheart.

I rushed forward to confront him, only to be met with his cold, contemptuous gaze.

"Chloe volunteered for my clinical trials years ago just to help me! Now she has a terminal illness because of those side effects!"

"Can't you show a little compassion?!"

Later, without the medicine, I died an agonizing death in a cold hospital bed.

But when he finally discovered the truth, he completely lost his mind.