Seven years‘ marriage, Winter Bailey had given her blood 999 times for Dominic Thorne’s true love,
Aurelia.
Just because Aurelia suffered from a rare bleeding disorder, while with the rarest blood type,
Winter was the only perfect match for Aurelia in Northridge.
The first time, she asked Dominic to marry her. He agreed.
The second time, she asked him to say he loved her. He agreed.
The third time, she asked him to sleep with her. He agreed too.
By the nine hundred and ninety–ninth time, Winter was deathly pale, dizzy and fading. Through the haze, she heard the nurse’s urgent warning.
“Mr. Thorne, she’s already given 1000cc. We can’t continue or she’ll die!”
As death approached, the last thing she heard was Dominic’s ice–cold voice:
“Then let her die. I only care that Aurelia survives.”
With those words, darkness engulfed her completely.
When Winter woke again, she found herself reborn–on the day of her first blood donation for Aurelia.
She sat in the donation room, the thick needle in her arm making her shudder. Beside her was a bag containing 600cc of her already–drawn blood.
The nurse looked troubled and finally spoke up. “Miss, no one ever donates this much blood. Are you voluntary?”
Before Winter could respond, a familiar voice answered: “Voluntary.”
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Winter looked up to see Dominic’s handsome, cold face. When their eyes met, her heart clenched painfully as memories flooded back.
In her previous life, Winter had fallen for Dominic on her first day of high school. She pursued him
for three years, but he remained cold, rejecting her hundreds of times.
She followed him to Northridge University, only to learn in the first month that he was dating the
beautiful but poor scholarship student, Aurelia.
Everyone told Winter that Dominic truly loved Aurelia this time and advised her to give up. But despite countless attempts, she couldn’t forget him. She could only hide her feelings and watch him
love someone else.
She witnessed him passionately kissing Aurelia under the campus Platanus, watched him set off fireworks for three days and nights, declaring his love to the world, saw him endure ninety lashes from his family for refusing an arranged marriage to be with Aurelia…
Winter witnessed their passionate love story but still couldn’t let him go.
So when Dominic first asked her to donate blood for Aurelia, she demanded marriage in return.
To this day, she couldn’t forget the look in his eyes at that moment–shock, resistance, disgust–all eventually giving way to compromise for the sake of saving his beloved.
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‘Ok,” he had said. “I’ll marry you. Now go donate the blood. Aurelia can’t wait.”
Later, she got what she wanted and married him. But what did it matter?
Even after their marriage, his heart belonged only to Aurelia-
He filled their home with Aurelia’s photos. Called out Aurelia’s name when they were intimate. And in the end, he was willing to drain Winter of all her blood to save Aurelia, unconcerned about her
life.
Only as death approached did Winter finally realize how terribly wrong she had been.
Dominic and Aurelia loved each other deeply, and she shouldn’t have interfered.
Dominic only loved Aurelia, and Winter was foolish to imagine he might ever love her.
Forced love won’t last.
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Yet it had taken her life to finally understand.
Lost in these thoughts, the blood drawing finished.
Dominic took the blood bag and turned to leave, but Winter called after him.
“Dominic, our marriage…”
Dominic stopped, thinking she was rushing him, his voice cold.
“Don’t sweat it. I said I’d marry you, and I’m a man of my word. I’ve already had someone pull strings at the register office. Just show up with your passport and you’ll get the certificate. I gotta stay here until Aurelia wakes up, so I can’t tag along.”
Winter remembered that in her previous life, she had gone alone to get their marriage certificate.
No ceremony, no ring, no flowers… yet she had been content.
Watching his retreating figure, Winter lowered her eyes and smiled bitterly.
That’s not what I meant.
I wanted to say, let’s forget about getting married.
This lifetime, I won’t love you anymore.
After recovering for a while, Winter stood to leave but was stopped by the nurse.
“Miss, you forgot your bag.”
Winter reached for it but fumbled, dropping the bag to the floor. Seeing the unfamiliar pattern and style, she realized it must be Aurelia’s bag, which Dominic had left behind.
Lipstick, mirror, and eyebrow pencil scattered across the floor. As she picked them up, she found Aurelia’s passport.
Suddenly, an idea formed in Winter’s mind.
She took the bag to the register office and obtained the marriage certificate. But the names on the certificate were Dominic Thorne and Aurelia Reed.
Looking at the two names side by side, Winter suddenly smiled, feeling a sense of liberation.
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This lifetime, she wouldn’t forcibly take someone who didn’t belong to her. She would help them find happiness together and completely remove herself from Dominic’s world.
