Until today, he always thought Lily Shaw had been avoiding him for the past month because she was healing from heartbreak.
But the words she just said made him realize that the woman who adored him for ten years, who always looked at him with loving eyes whenever and wherever they met, had already severed all her feelings for him.
In the past, he felt that being loved by Lily Shaw was both painful and joyful—the pain came from having to carry on a secret relationship with the woman he truly loved, the joy came from having a woman like Lily so deeply devoted to him, which greatly satisfied his masculine pride and vanity.
In his eyes, as a member of a distinguished family, Crystal Shaw might carry the title of the Second Miss of the Shaw Family, but her mother's way of entering the Shaw Family was far too disgraceful, so at best, she was nothing more than an illegitimate daughter.
