They all rushed off towards Ethan's ward.

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As the door swung open, Vivian caught sight of Ethan, casually lounging in an armchair, flipping through a magazine.

The setting was eerily similar to a past memory at the Lakeside mansion, where she'd found him pretending to be crippled, casually thumbing through a book in his comfy home clothes.

Now, as the past and present images overlapped in her mind, there was no sign of the agony he was supposed to be experiencing ...