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 Saunders.

She put a piece of spiced salt chicken on his plate and said gently,

“Forget it. Let's eat. I trust you."

When she had seen Sheffield and Dollie show up together at the gathering in the video, she was angry, but she wasn't stupid. Even while he was holding Dollie in his arm, she could feel no intimacy between them.

At least, she could tell from the way he looked at Dollie that he didn't love her. There was no passion or affection in his eyes; it was nothing like the way he looked at Evelyn.

She was just angry at the time, because he said that he liked her, but still had Dollie by his side.

Sheffield gently held her left hand, and kissed it.

"Evelyn, my mom passed away fifteen years ago. At that time, she was only forty-five, and I was just eleven.”

She looked directly into his eyes. He had only ever mentioned his family once, while they were in Flando. He had told her playfully that his father had a Lot of sons.

“She was a doctor in the nephrology department too. She had a good heart and was always so concerned about 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. I was only eight years old when my world came crashing down.”

Evelyn put her chopsticks down and stared intently at the man who was now lost in his past.

His eyes softened as he thought about his mother.

"I 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 days. It was normal for her, because work was her life. Most of the time, she ate and stayed in the hospital. But three days after that, news spread all over the city that Ingrid, the director of the nephrology department of First General Hospital, treated a patient with counterfeit medicine, and that patient died.

Someone testified against her for trading fake drugs," he said in a heavy voice, looking out the window. His hold on Evelyn's hand tightened, as if he was trying to restrain his emotions.

“Do you know..." He turned to Evelyn with a bitter, sarcastic smile.

“The one who had testified against her was a five-year-old girl."

According to the law, since children were too young to tell right from wrong and articulate clearly, they couldn't testify in court. The witness' testimony was to be verified, and then, it could be turned into evidence for prosecution.

But in Ingrid's case, the testimonies of that little girl were taken strongly into account.

A series of evidences were collected against Ingrid. At that time,

Sheffield saw a lot of people come to their home, looking for his parents. He asked his parents what was going on, but no one told him anything. He was a kid, after all.

Ingrid comforted him, saying that everything would be all right. He had believed her.

The day Ingrid was arrested, Sheffield's father sent him to a school in

America. Later, Sheffield's half-brother told him that his mother was in prison.