Alex listened to Stanley’s words, knowing they were the truth.

When Sheila first saw him, she had been momentarily stunned by his appearance. Okay, it felt a bit strange for a man to be looked at with that kind of admiring gaze, but after that, she truly treated him no differently from anyone else without any special consideration.

She even seemed eager for him to be discharged.

Probably, in her eyes, his staying in the hospital for such a minor injury was simply taking up a hospital bed, especially since beds in major hospitals were always in high demand.

Sheila had been in a relationship before.

She and her first love had been together for two or three years. Naturally, there were feelings involved.

However, after he “made it” and had climbed the social ladder, he felt that Sheila could not help pave his way to success, and so he broke up with her.

When Alex had asked someone to look into Sheila’s family background, he learned about her past relationship. He had even seen phot