My husband searches for doctors everywhere to cure me of my stomach cancer. I think he loves me to the core, but after I recover, he takes away my left kidney to save his true love, who's been comatose for two years.

He leans down to kiss her as I watch. "She owes you this; I've finally made her repay you. You'll definitely get better after this."

What he doesn't know is that I'm already weak from the cancer. I die after he takes my kidney.

That's when he goes crazy. He breaks down in tears and screams at the doctors. "Didn't you say she wouldn't die?"

I lay weakly on the bed. After receiving treatment for so long, I finally felt my illness easing up.

I subconsciously raised my head when I heard some noises. My husband of three years, Caleb Grant, came into view.

My mom, Mary Cooper, was sitting beside me. When she saw Caleb, she hastily put on a smile and said, "Thank you so much, Cal. If it weren't for you, Liddy wouldn't have been able to recover so quickly…"

Instead of responding to my mom, Caleb stared at me expressionlessly. He had always been gentle to me, so his behavior came as a surprise.

He spoke. "You've recovered, huh?"

I was slightly stunned. I had never heard him speak in such a cold voice before.

I nodded, smiling. However, before I could say anything, Caleb scoffed. "Well, since you've recovered, it's about time you pay your debt."

When he had finished speaking, several people barged in behind him. They had a surgical stretcher with them, and as they ran over to me, they proceeded to drag me onto the stretcher.

I felt my heart leaping into my throat. I was overwhelmed by immense panic as I shouted, "What are you doing, Caleb?"

A look of hatred appeared on Caleb's face as he said in a low voice, "Lydia Wells! You vile woman! If it weren't for you, Eva wouldn't have ended up like that! You owe her that much! You'll be giving your kidney back to her right now!"

Panicking, my mom tugged at Caleb as she said in a trembling voice, "Cal, they've already looked into it and declared Liddy innocent, right?"

Caleb shook my mom off violently, causing her to topple onto the floor.

My mom hit her head against the cabinet. In an instant, blood gushed out in a steady flow.

Caleb shouted, "You're a family of wretches! You schemed and worked together just to bully poor Evie, who's all alone! You may be able to trick my mom, but you can never fool me! I know very well the sort of person Lydia is!"

The intruders began injecting me with anesthesia. I struggled frantically, shouting at the top of my lungs, "It wasn't me! I didn't do it! How could you do this to me, Caleb? We were fine just a few days ago, weren't we? Why would you do this?"

Caleb had a mocking smile on his face. "I can't have anything happen to you, of course… After all, I have waited for your kidney for three whole years."

When I heard that, I felt my entire body turning cold. The coldness even seemed to seep into my bones.

I asked in a disbelieving and shaky voice, "Caleb… What… What do you mean by this? Are you saying that… our marriage…"

Caleb scoffed, and I could hardly ignore the hatred on his face. "Lydia, did you really think that I married you because I fell for a vicious woman like you? I only wanted you to give your kidney to Evie. If not, if I had to be with you every day for the past three years… It disgusts me just to think of it!"

Every syllable he spoke was like a stab to my heart, which ached terribly.

Trembling, I couldn't say a word. I used to think that he loved me, but now, that feeling had turned into a sharp blade that pierced right through my heart.

Ignoring the pain in her head, my mom crawled over to Caleb to stop him. She tightly gripped the fabric of his clothes and cried until her voice turned hoarse, "Cal, please, I beg of you! Liddy is finally recovering, but she's still very weak right now. If you force an operation on her, she might not survive…

"As for Ms. Lane, I'm sure that she can get a better donor…"

The group of people glanced at Caleb with hesitation. One of them asked tentatively, "Do we still take her to the operating room now, Mr. Grant?"

Prying my mom's fingers off one by one, Caleb said in a cold voice, "Proceed as planned!"

My mom fell backward. Kneeling onto the floor, she begged Caleb with all her might. "Please, I beg of you… Mr. Grant, please have mercy on my precious Liddy…"

Caleb glared at her in hatred. He spat through his thin lips, "I am her husband. I have the right to make decisions for her. She owes Evie this much!"

With that, he glanced at several bodyguards in black, who came forward to stop my mom.

My heart was completely broken, and tears streamed down my face.

Ever since I had stomach cancer, I had held on with all my might for Caleb's sake, for he had been trying his best to save my life.

He had consulted famous doctors everywhere, and he had never stopped to rest. He had been doing everything he could to save me.

I had thought that he loved me deeply.

As it turned out, he was trying to save me only because he wanted my kidney for Eva Lane's sake.

My heart ached so much that I couldn't breathe. The anesthesia was kicking in. Right before I closed my eyes, I saw the nurses bringing a patient in.

It was Eva, who had been unconscious for three years.

As soon as Caleb saw her, his gaze softened. He gently planted a kiss on her forehead, saying, "I'm finally getting her to pay back what she owes you."

Three years ago, Eva and I had gone hiking together.

When we arrived at the ridge, we were suddenly caught in a flash flood in the mountains. Eva and I were soon swallowed by the flood.

At that critical moment, we had spotted a lifeboat passing by, so we had shouted for help.

The rescue workers in the lifeboat had pulled me out of the water and into the lifeboat.

My first thought was to pull Eva into the lifeboat as well, but then, Eva had suddenly let go of the pillar she had been holding onto.

I could only watch as the flood claimed her.

When she was found later on, she was already unconscious due to kidney failure, which was caused by her inhaling too much muddy water.

After going back, I had tried my best to explain the situation to those around me. The rescue workers had backed my claims, so I had thought that everyone believed me.

As it turned out, since the very beginning, Caleb was already convinced that I had done this to Eva on purpose.

It was no wonder that he had become so gentle and caring toward me since then.

I thought that he had actually fallen for me.

Now, I suddenly realized that since the beginning, Caleb had willingly approached me not because of love at all.

I remembered him looking at me with a complicated expression on our wedding night.

He had asked, "Liddy, if a day ever came when I needed your organs or something… would you give them to me?"

Back then, I was engrossed in the joy of marrying the love of my life, so I hadn't noticed the tentative and abnormal tone in Caleb's voice.

"Of course. I'll do anything for you," I had replied.

When Caleb heard my answer, he had smiled as if a weight was lifted off his shoulders. A scheming look had flashed across his eyes, but I had failed to notice it.

"I'm glad to hear that. That's great," he had said.

Since the very beginning, our marriage had been nothing but a huge scam.

…

I died.

Three years ago, Caleb had already found out that my kidney was a perfect match for Eva's body.

To save his true love, he had done everything with caution and put in all his effort.

After the operation, the various vital signs in my body gradually weakened.

When I was sent into the emergency room for treatment, my mom called Caleb as she sobbed. She said in an extremely trembling voice, "Mr. Grant, Liddy can't hold on anymore… Please come and visit her…"

When Caleb heard my mom's words, he frowned in hatred. "Enough, Mrs. Wells! I only answered your call because I still respect you as an elder! If you keep playing along with Lydia's tricks, I won't have mercy on you!

"Did you think I wouldn't know that Lydia won't die? Even if she does die, she owes Evie that much! She deserves it!"

With that, Caleb viciously ended the call.

Sobbing, my mom tried calling him again, but only an emotionless female voice rang out. "The number you have dialed is currently in use…"

In the next second, the nurses took my corpse out of the emergency room.

My mom's face was pale as she gazed helplessly at my corpse.

Then, her eyes turned red. Throwing herself on my corpse, she wailed with all her might. "Liddy… Why were you such a fool? He doesn't love you at all… And to think you even had his child!"

My mom was right.

I smiled bitterly as I gazed at my lifeless body and its hardly protruding abdomen.

It was around three days ago when I knew about the child.

When I joyously told Caleb the news, he didn't look as happy as I had anticipated.

On the contrary, after I gave him the news, his expression had instantly darkened.

Caleb had shouted angrily at me, "Didn't I tell you to take protective measures? Why didn't you listen? Who allowed you to have my child?"

His twisted expression was filled with hatred back then, and it had instantly broken my heart.

We had been married for so long, but I had never seen him lose control like that before.

When I froze on the spot, Caleb seemed to have suddenly realized what he had just said.

Softening his expression, he had said in a gentler tone, "Liddy… I mean… I'm not ready for a baby yet…"

I had felt a little uneasy inside, but I didn't dare ask too much when I heard his explanation.

Now when I thought about it, he hated me and thought that I was the culprit behind Eva's misfortune, so how could he possibly look forward to the birth of our child?

When he tried his best to treat my cancer, I assumed that he was finally responding to my earnest feelings.

However, now that I thought about it, if my kidney hadn't matched Eva's body, or if Caleb hadn't thought that I owed Eva something, I would probably have died a year ago.

My mom seemed to have aged overnight. She stumbled and struggled to handle my affairs after my death.

She seemed to have gotten much older since I died.

It was cloudy on the day she settled the arrangements.

As soon as my mom went out the door, she bumped into Eva, who had been unconscious for more than a year.

Eva looked much better compared to before.

My mom had been trying to contact Caleb so that she could get my things back from him. She just wanted my things to remember me by.

When my mom saw Eva, she was overwhelmed with emotion as she ran up to the latter. She called out to Eva in slight helplessness, "Ms. Lane… Do you remember me? I'm Liddy's mom…"

Eva had a look of disgust on her face when she realized who was talking to her. She said in a slightly harsh tone, "Who are you? Do you know who I am? Did you think I'd remember any random person on the streets?"

My mom lowered her head uneasily as she begged, "Please, Ms. Lane, you must have convinced Mr. Grant, right? Please tell him that I just want to get Liddy's belongings back… Please, even if it's only because Liddy gave you her kidney…"

Eva scoffed when she heard that. "And so what if she gave me her kidney? She owed me that much!"

She had just finished speaking when she violently shoved my mom forward. She had a ferocious look on her face.

With a thud, my mom crashed onto the ground. The urn she was holding rolled out of her hands as well.

My mom's eyes were filled with anger as she threw herself forward to pick up the urn.

Eva quickly noticed the urn, and her expression shifted. When my mom was reaching out to take the death certificate, Eva stepped on my mom's hand.

"Ahh!" My mom's pained cries rang out. I was overcome with anger, and I tried to shove Eva away, but I kept passing through her body.

Eva's expression took on a vicious quality, and she applied even more pressure on the heel of her shoes, which dug further into my mom's flesh. Blood streamed out of my mom's hand.

My mom was in so much pain that she broke out in cold sweat. However, she still refused to let go.

Enduring the pain, my mom said in a trembling voice, "Don't touch… my Liddy…"

Suddenly, Eva seemed to have noticed something.

She immediately moved her foot away and fell to the ground, stumbling. She began to sob. "Mrs. Wells, I know that you're upset because Lydia gave her kidney to me, but I'm still really weak. You can't just attack me like that…"

Eva had just finished speaking when Caleb lifted my mom off the ground and sent her crashing against the steel pipes nearby.

As a steel pipe stabbed my mom's arm, blood gushed out of the wound.

My heart ached immensely, and I felt like I couldn't breathe.

Trembling, I looked at the man I had loved for so many years.

I couldn't believe how heartless he was toward my mom!

My mom was in so much pain that she couldn't speak. Her face was pale as she removed her arm and crawled with all her might toward the urn.

With a concerned look on his face, Caleb pulled Eva to her feet and asked in a gentle voice, "Are you okay, Evie?"

His eyes were filled with worry and care.

I was slightly stunned as a bitter feeling welled up in my heart. In the past, I would sometimes complain that he wasn't attentive enough, and he didn't show enough concern for me.

I originally thought that he had trouble expressing himself.

As it turned out, I simply didn't deserve his concern.