Alan didn't say anything as he stared at Ike.

Ike glared at him. "Why are you looking at me like that? Am I wrong?"

"Ike, didn't you enjoy the cookies that Dr. Ophelia made? You shouldn't be so rude to someone who offered you hospitality.

"I feel like Mr. Maxwell is happier than before. There's nothing bad about that."

"You're a fool. Don't you know that a forced relationship never ends well?

"Besides, if Mr. Maxwell falls hopelessly in love, his enemies will tear him to pieces. A man like him can't have any weaknesses."

"Even if it isn't Dr. Ophelia, he might fall for some other woman. You can't just expect Mr. Maxwell to be single forever."

Wayne led Olivia to a dilapidated old building with ease. The house would be easily flattened by a typhoon if it was built near the ocean.

There were no elevators in the building, and there were countless ads posted by the stairwell. There were all sorts of odors in the building.

Wayne stopped before a wooden door. He took out a key from under a potted plant to open the door.

to where he used to live. She hadn't expected to see such a homely place when the door

place was quite

wooden floorboards on the ground, just bare concrete

was covered with

some cats in the house. They weren't any famous breeds, but all of them looked

gardenia flowers on the windowsill exuded a faint fragrance, and there was also

the ancient television was covered

that the owner of the house

always people

to turn a normal housing unit

the home. The owner of the house should be quite old. "I thought you were an

the side. They were of

boy had Wayne's eyes.

someone entered the house. A woman wearing

old, but her figure and demeanor resembled that of

was holding a basket of vegetables

"Wayne, you're back!"

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