All the things that she had silently done for him were irreplaceable by others. What was the use of having more maids at home? They could not put things in place as she did. They could not arrange his closet the way she used to do it.

Most importantly, they could not say to him, “Alex, I love you.”

Alex, I love you.

Her shadows seemed to have been nailed in his mind.

It turned out that he had not wasted the past decade because he had waited for Lily. It turned out that he was actually