Failed To Cure His Blind Heart, I Walk Away

On the eve of her third wedding anniversary, Evelina watched her husband Cary Gibson, CEO of Gibson Group, spend three hundred million at an auction on sapphire earrings. "To the one I've always owed my true love," he said. She cried, thinking he had finally come around. The next day, she prepared a feast and waited. Cary came home, glanced at the table, and asked if it was a special day. He had forgotten. When she mentioned the earrings, he barely looked at her. "Those are for Esme. She finally agreed to come back to me." Esme Barton—Cary's first love, the woman who caused the accident that blinded him, then abandoned him. The one who took credit for the four eye surgeries Evelina herself had performed, in secret, at his grandmother Demi's request. When Evelina told him she was done, he said, "I've endured you long enough." She walked out without looking back. The divorce settlement gave her a rundown apartment, a beat-up car, and three million. He spent a hundred times that on earrings for someone else.

Before leaving the Gibson household for good, Evelina threw firecrackers into her old car and let it explode in the driveway. Everything she had used in that house stayed in the flames. Her best friend Christina, the Anderson heiress, took her to a bar. Evelina, tipsy and defiant, bought ten roses and handed them all to a stranger in the hallway—a man with chiseled features and an air of cool elegance. She didn't know then that he was Leo Russell, the fifth son of the Russell family and heir to a multinational conglomerate. Hours later, Margie Gibson's thugs cornered her in a rundown factory. Two other girls were tied up inside. One of them was blind. Evelina took down every thug despite an injured arm and a burning wound in her back. The blind girl called the man who arrived to rescue them "Uncle." It was Sylvia Russell—Leo's niece. And the man Evelina had given roses to the night before was standing right there.

Leo asked Evelina to name her price for curing Sylvia's eyes. She didn't hesitate. She wanted Esme to apologize. That request set the stage for everything. On the day of Sylvia's surgery, Esme swept into the hospital in an expensive gown, playing the miracle surgeon for the cameras while the Gibson family fawned over her. What she didn't know was that the real miracle surgeon she had been begging for help—the one she paid ten million to guide her through the operation—was the very housewife she was stepping on. When Esme entered the OR and found no surgeon waiting, she picked up a scalpel herself, hands trembling, with no idea how to proceed. The ophthalmology experts Leo had invited watched from the next room as every mistake she made was magnified a hundred times. Then she charged at Evelina with the scalpel. Leo caught her wrist. She was dragged out. And Evelina performed the surgery—four and a half hours of precision that left a dozen top ophthalmologists stunned. "My god, the technique, the precision. This is the real miracle surgeon."

Cary burst in and laughed when he saw Evelina at the operating table. "She never even went to medical school." He had no idea she had saved his own sight through four surgeries. When Sylvia opened her eyes and said, "Evelina, I see you," the truth was already spilling into the open. Days later, at Professor Mitchell's grave, Evelina removed her mask in front of every camera. "I am Professor Mitchell's last student. The one and only miracle surgeon. Evelina Marsh." Esme collapsed. Cary's face went white. Aurora—Leo's supposed fiancée—watched with poison in her eyes.

Cary chased Evelina to the airport and knelt before reporters, begging her to remarry him. "Your surgery gave me back my sight. You're my savior." She didn't slow down. "You're kneeling to the wrong person. You should be kneeling at Professor Mitchell's grave." Leo stepped in front of her, and Cary backed away. On the flight to Irea, the plane hit a thunderstorm. Leo, a former fighter pilot, took the cockpit. She made a silent promise: if she survived, she'd give that man a chance. The plane landed safely.

But danger was already circling. At a hot spring resort, snakes swarmed the water—Aurora's doing. One bit Evelina. Leo charged in and caught her before she went under. His voice shook. "If anything happens to her, the entire Marsh family will pay with their lives." When Evelina woke in a hospital bed, he was beside her with red eyes. Then she gave him the news that changed everything: Aurora's body bore a tattoo of the Children of the Gods, the criminal organization that killed with poison capsules hidden in their teeth. Years ago, Evelina had seen the same death method when she rescued Christina. Now they had set their sights on her. The woman who walked away from a blind heart was about to face a threat far bigger than a broken marriage—and the truth about her own origins was only beginning to surface.