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At Serenity University Affiliated Hospital.

Ava watched Hayden storm out of the hospital angrily and sneered.

"Relying on his ex-wife to set up a small company, he thinks he's a big shot."

"Make it big? Daydreaming."

However, Stella sensed that Ava wasn't as relaxed as she appeared.

Ava kept fiddling with her hair, a sign that she was unsettled.

"Mom, are you really afraid of him?"

Thinking of Hayden now made Stella feel nauseous.

She had called that useless man, who repeatedly sold out his daughter, "Dad" for over twenty years.

Ava frowned, "It's not because of him. It's just that since this morning, my heart has been pounding, like something is about to happen."

"I'll call your uncle."

Ava had always had a good relationship with her brother, who ran a gynecology hospital. For things that were inconvenient for Ava, she would have her brother handle them.

Driven by intuition, Ava dialed her brother Uriah Davis's number.

However, the voice on the other end was not the familiar one.

"Is this Dr. Davis's sister?"

The other end sounded very chaotic, with urgent sirens and noisy voices coming through the headset, heightening Ava's anxiety.

"...There was a major fire at the hospital, and Dr. Davis is now in the emergency room, his condition unknown."

"If it's convenient for you, could you come over?"

Ava felt her mind go blank, and the whole world seemed to quiet down.

Only a distant, vague sentence kept echoing in her mind.

"...If I die unexpectedly one day, don't come looking for me."

At that time, Ava thought Uriah was just being sentimental about something at the hospital and didn't take it to heart.

Now, that sentence, along with the sirens on the other end of the phone, became increasingly clear in her mind.

"Ms. Davis? Ms. Davis?"

The nurse's voice on the other end brought Ava back to her senses, and she hung up the phone without a word.

Ava adjusted her expression in front of her phone and walked into the ward as if nothing had happened.

"There's something at home, I need to go back."

"You take good care of yourself in the hospital, Serenity University won't abandon you."

"Make sure to seize the opportunity for graduate school at Serenity University and marry James."

After hesitating for a moment, she added, "That Freya is not a good person, but she's your attending physician now, so don't offend her."

Stella looked at her in confusion, "Are you going back for a long time?"

"Is something big happening at home?"

"Nothing major, I shouldn't be gone for too long."

"I just can't stop worrying about you, take good care of yourself."

Ava spoke vaguely.

Stella knew nothing, and Ava didn't plan to involve her only daughter.

Besides, what if she was just overthinking?

Stella, annoyed by Ava's mysterious behavior, said, "If it's nothing major, why are you saying so much nonsense?"

Ava felt a pang in her heart.

Forget it, Stella had mental issues, it wasn't her fault.

Without arguing with Stella, Ava quickly left the hospital, gathering all the liquid assets she could access, including those in Hayden's account, while booking a flight abroad.

Seeing the airport getting closer and the money in the account gradually in place, Ava felt a slight relief.

It seemed this might really just be an ordinary accident...

At the corner, a man wearing a hat and mask suddenly bumped into Ava, "Sorry, sorry!"

The man kept apologizing, and Ava sensed something was wrong, but it was too late.

A handkerchief with a strange smell was quickly pressed over her mouth and nose from behind.

Just before losing consciousness, Ava heard a few fragmented conversations.

"...Pretend to be her and go abroad..."

"...The daughter doesn't know... don't alarm..."

Don't alarm who, Amelia?

So it was the trouble brought by Layla and her daughter.

Uriah, sorry...

"Layla was in poor health and had to take medicine every day after giving birth to Amelia."

"Ava learned about Layla's prescription from Uriah and bribed the maid at the time to switch her medicine."

"The replaced medicine conflicted with one of the main drugs, and Layla was killed by Ava..."

Under the threat of Alexander's knife, Hayden tearfully confessed the events of that year.

"Ava thought I didn't know, but the maid was scared and told me everything..."

Alexander's face showed no emotion, but his pupils seemed to be brewing a storm.

"That was your wife."

Under immense pressure, Hayden suddenly exploded.

"But she didn't act like my wife at all!"

"She wouldn't let me touch her! She always seemed preoccupied but never told me anything! She often hid away to mess with strange things, all behind my back!"

"We started the business together, but she overshadowed me in everything!"

"If she hadn't gotten sick, no one would have known I had a share in the company!"

"She didn't care about anything except her damn daughter!"

"Layla deserved to die!"

Hayden's face twisted into a smile, "Ava was different, she was from a wealthy family too, but she always went along with me."

"Yes, she's vicious! But so what? As long as she's ignorant and easy to control, it's not a problem!"

"How could I have known that this fool was deceiving me from the start..."

"...Ava, Layla... they really fooled me badly..."

"Is there anything else you want to confess?"

Alexander straightened up, staring directly into Hayden's bloodshot, crazed eyes.

"For example... about the children?"

Whether it was the mention of the child that triggered Hayden's memories or Alexander's deep eyes that intimidated him, the madness in Hayden's eyes gradually faded, replaced by a bit of confusion.

"What's there to say about the children?"

"Amelia had two children... one died..."

"It's all karma..."

Alexander squinted, "Died?"

"Yes."

Hayden seemed to have completely given up.

"Died!"

"Ava, that bitch, couldn't even get an abortion right, one survived, one died!"

"It is said that the one who died was a boy!"

"Such an unlucky dead child, better to throw it in the grave to avoid trouble!"