True Love Waits

During the meal, Sheffield rested his chin on his hand as he watched Evelyn gracefully drink her wine. "Evelyn, I am so much in love with you. What spell have you cast on me?" After a pause, Evelyn asked, "How many women have you said that to?"

"Only you. You are the one I love the most in the world." His words were genuine; there was not a drop of lie in them.

Evelyn couldn't help laughing. "Yet, you stand beside another woman right in front of me."

Sheffield sighed. He felt it was time to explain his intentions to her. She had the rights to know. "I don't care about Dollie; it's Sidell whom I'm trying to get close to."

"What do you mean?"

"Evelyn, do you know why I chose to be a doctor?" No one knew the truth.

But to reassure her that she was the only one he loved, he had to tell her everything.

Evelyn stopped eating.

But Sheffield didn't continue.

She raised her eyes to look at the man sitting opposite her. He was lost in thought, and his eyes had turned gloomy, without the usual cheerfulness.

This was the first time Evelyn had seen him this way. He looked more mature than ever.

But this melancholy side of his kind of... broke her heart.

Everyone had their own secrets of the past, which they kept to themselves, just like Evelyn did. She had never told anyone about her ex-boyfriend and Melody Song.

plate and said gently, "Forget it. Let's

together at the gathering in the video, she was angry, but she wasn't stupid. Even while he was holding Dollie

love her. There was no passion or affection in his eyes; it was nothing

angry at the time, because he said that he liked her,

fifteen years

into his eyes. He had only ever mentioned his family once, while they were in D City. He had told her playfully that his

her patients. My mother was like an angel to me. She was beautiful and gentle, and my father was good to her too. But everything changed one day.

and stared intently at the man who was now lost in

as he thought about

was pretty good at school. By the time I was eight years old, I had skipped to the fifth grade, while my peers were still in the second or the third grade. Mom was always so busy, but I still worked extra hard so that I could be like her someday. Once, she didn't come home for two

drugs," he said in a heavy voice, looking out the window.

you know..." He turned to Evelyn with a bitter, sarcastic smile. "The one who had

from wrong and articulate clearly, they couldn't testify in court.

Ingrid's case, the testimonies of that little

saw a lot of people come to their home, looking for his parents. He asked

everything would be all right. He had

was arrested, Sheffield's father sent him to a school in America. Later, Sheffield's half-brother told him that his mother

permission to come back. His father not only forbade him from coming back, but also arranged bodyguards to make sure that

was then old and isolated from the outside world. His grandpa

her beauty. She seemed much older in such a short time. She was only in her

time in so many days. "Sheffield! You're back?" she

the middle-aged woman in shock. He wanted