Since Curtis had a fiancée yet unmarried, Helen felt a ray of hope and was unwilling to give up, hoping to marry Curtis.

This humiliation was vivid in Sheldon’s memory as the woman that he had proposed to did not only rejected his marriage proposal but also announced publicly that she was still waiting for another man.

Ever since then, he hated Curtis to the core of his soul.

Not long after, Curtis got married in Eastcliff.

That night, Helen cried devastatingly and then refused to leave the house for a month.

Every day, Sheldon would go to the Dunn residence with flowers to see her, and it went on for thirty-nine days. With thirty-nine roses, he finally won Helen’s heart.

Helen, who had lost nearly twenty pounds, walked out of her room and out of the house. She said a sentence to Sheldon, who was holding a bouquet of roses outside the door.

She asked Sheldon if he was still willing to marry her if she might not be able to forget Curtis for the rest of her life.

Sheldon agreed