The winner will be decided by who caves in first.


    "La, you don''t know my condition well enough." Eric could understand how she felt, but he could not allow her to waste her time on him. "I can die at any moment."


    "I''m not forcing you to marry me right now," she blurted out. "Rest for half a year, and if everything goes well, you will feel much better. If you are fine by then, I will get my parents to n our wedding. I don''t care when you die. So long as you are alive before the wedding, I am marrying you."


    He lowered his head and did not argue, because there was nothing he could do to change La''s mind unless he dropped dead at this very moment.


    "Are you really that appalled by the idea of marrying me?" She sat down by the bed and stared at him. "If you are dying, why won''t you want to enjoy what time you have left? Why won''t you want to make me happy? Do you want to see me upset?"


    He looked up in shock. Upsetting La had never been his intent.


    "If that''s not the case, why won''t you listen to me? No matter how long you have left, I want to spend it with you," she said and decided to end the topic. "Where are the gifts from Ivy and Robert? I want to see them."


    "They don''t want you to see them." Eric had ced them in his desk drawer.


    La ignored him.


    She had been in his room before, and since the disy cabs took up a lot of space, the only ce he could keep something would be in his desk drawer.


    She walked over and opened the drawer to find the gifts from Ivy and Robert.


    Eric was worried that it would be inappropriate for La to see the gifts and stood from the couch hastily.


    "I will open it." Eric knew that she would not give up and offered to open the gifts himself.


    "Ivy bought you a book and you can open thatter. I just want to know what Robert bought you." La trusted y, so she handed Ivy''s gift


    back to Eric and picked up Robert''s gift, before tearing the wrapping paper to find a disc inside.


    She sighed a breath of relief and handed it back to Eric. "It''s fine now."


    He epted it and asked, "Were you concerned that he would buy me something weird?"


    "I wouldn''t have thought so before,


    but he hired an escort so..." La looked at Eric, seeing the unspoken question in his eyes. "Yeah, the exact kind of escort you are thinking of right now."


    Eric stared at her in shock.


    "Do you want to lie down for a while?" she asked. "You need more rest, so you should. If you are bored, I can stay with you."


    He set the gifts on the desk and tried to continue their discussion earlier.


    "I came here before," she said abruptly and pointed at the iPad on the desk. "I went through your iPad."


    Eric nced at it and blushed.


    "Eric, I know that you like me, so whyN?velDrama.Org owns this text.


    won''t you admit it? No one is


    stopping us now. Not even death."


    La took a deep breath. "Even your


    parents are on my side."