5. Who Is She?

However, he immediately remembered that he was a patient. Suddenly, an idea flashed through his mind. He immediately walked over to some female nurses and pretended to be in pain.

"Sir, can I help you?"

"Which room are you in? Let me help you get back there."

"Who is your doctor? I will call your doctor immediately."

The three nurses immediately offered to help Ethan, whose face still looked a little pale.

Ethan shook his head, "I ... just feel a little pain in my back."

"Oh, do you have a broken bone?"

Ethan shook his head again and said, "No, but I don't know why my back hurts so much. Can I ask for help?"

"What kind of help, Sir?" one of the nurses asked.

Ethan, with a pained expression on his face, replied, "Can you look at my back? I mean ... is there anything strange on my back?" 

The three nurses immediately fell silent and glanced at each other, looking suspiciously at the man in front of them. 

Ethan, noticing the change in the nurses' expressions, quickly added, "I don't know if my back is injured because I bumped it earlier. I just want to make sure."

The three nurses looked a little hesitant, but one of them nodded, "Okay, Sir. Please go to the room next door."

In the end, his two friends also entered the room with Ethan.

Damn, if it weren't to check that damn tattoo, I wouldn't have done this, Ethan thought to himself.

Slowly, Ethan lifted the back of his shirt so that his back was clearly visible. 

"How is it? Are there any wounds or scratches?" Ethan asked anxiously.

One of the nurses replied, "No, Sir. Your back is free of any wounds."

Ethan nodded and asked again in a more cautious tone, "Are you sure there's nothing? Or maybe a wound like a tattoo?"

"A tattoo?"

Ethan grimaced and began to worry that the three nurses would think something inappropriate about him.

"Absolutely nothing, Sir. Your back is clean," the nurse, who had first agreed to look at Ethan's back, said.

Ethan bit his lower lip and then quickly smoothed his clothes again and turned to face the three nurses, "Well, thank you. Maybe it's just the effect of ... the beating I received."

He saw the two nurses were startled by his words, but Ethan quickly said, “I’ll go back to my room.”

After saying that, Ethan left the room and hurried off in the other direction.

He didn't want to spend time just talking about the beating that had landed him in the hospital.

"No, no. They're nurses. They could have bribed them to say what they wanted them to say," Ethan said.

And so the man was determined to find a few more people.

This time he chose two patients. They were an elderly couple who he thought would be much easier to persuade.

Sure enough, with just a few sentences they immediately agreed to help Ethan.

"Nothing, Son."

"That's right, there's nothing on your back."

Ethan furrowed his brow, "Are you sure, Sir?"

"Yes, Son. Your back is smooth, not a single mark. The tattoo ... that you mentioned earlier isn't there either.

Could it be that you dreamt of having that tattoo?" the old man asked.

Ethan smiled wryly but quickly thanked the two elderly people and left the examination room. 

He leaned against the wall and muttered, "They are elderly. They also wear glasses. Which means their eyesight is not very good."

"So, it's not certain that they can see properly," Ethan added, trying to convince himself.

The man sighed softly and immediately looked around to choose another person.

But when he looked toward the open elevator, he saw a woman he knew. 

"Louise. What is she doing here?"

As if he remembered that the incident that caused him to suffer many injuries was related to that woman,

Ethan immediately walked toward the woman who was standing with a cell phone to her ear. 

"Louise."

The beautiful young woman who was a customer at the restaurant where he worked apparently did not hear Ethan's call.

The woman seemed busy with her cell phone, oblivious to her surroundings.

Perhaps it was because they were quite far apart that the woman could not hear Ethan's voice.

Ethan really wanted to talk to the woman. He wanted to know about the man who had beaten him up.

After all, he had been kidnapped and beaten to the point of near death, partly because of her.

Even though he and Louise had broken up amicably. She had said she was tired of being with a poor man like him. 

Ethan never tried to stop Louise from leaving him. He let the woman go. Although he was disappointed with her decision, Ethan accepted it.

For a long time, they never communicated until the day came when he had to deal with Louise again.

Louise is a fairly popular model. That night, Louise went to the restaurant where Ethan worked and reserved a private room.

Since Ethan was just a restaurant waiter, he had to do his job and serve Louise.

He remembered how Louise looked normal when he met her at the restaurant. Nothing unusual happened except for exchanging greetings.

However, when he brought food to the private room, Louise asked him to accompany her while she ate. Ethan agreed and just sat there. He didn't even touch the food or drinks that Louise ordered.

So, Ethan was very surprised when he walked out of the restaurant and was kidnapped by someone he didn't know.

"Louise," Ethan used his last attempt to call his ex-girlfriend. 

However, his efforts were still in vain. He saw that Louise was actually meeting someone at the hospital. 

Not wanting to interfere with whatever Louise was doing, Ethan decided to wait. 

The man sat on one of the waiting chairs while staring at Louise, who was still engrossed in conversation with someone he didn't know. 

Meanwhile, in the control room, Xavier and Joss didn't take their eyes off the monitor in front of them. The two men began to wonder.

"Who is she?" Xavier asked with furrowed brows while continuing to watch the woman's movements.

Joss, who also did not know the woman's origins, said, "Let me investigate for a moment, Sir."

Xavier nodded his head in agreement. 

Joss immediately turned away from the monitor and began searching for the woman Ethan was watching.

Meanwhile, Xavier began to think seriously. 

"Could she be ... the woman who caused Ethan to be kidnapped?"