He Gave My Life-Saving Cure to His Childhood Sweetheart

Ethan Carter is a celebrated pharmaceutical researcher, and his wife has spent years secretly serving as an anonymous volunteer in his high-risk clinical trials, enduring agonizing side effects so his work could succeed. When she is diagnosed with a terminal illness, her only hope is his experimental A9 drug — the single existing dose, which he keeps in his possession.

But when her condition turns critical, Ethan vanishes with the medicine. She tracks him to the private studio of Chloe, his childhood sweetheart, and watches him place the vial in Chloe's hand. He accuses his wife of faking her illness and credits Chloe with the volunteer work that built his career, then leaves with her. The volunteer report now bears Chloe's photo.

Abandoned without treatment, she dies alone in a cold hospital bed. Yet death does not release her: her soul is bound to Ethan's side, forced to watch him care for Chloe in his private laboratory, where colleagues mistake the two for husband and wife.