Back in the city, a little girl is sweeping the floor of the doghouse of a massive mansion. It's enraging to see a little girl working so hard to clean up the place, but what's more enraging is seeing her crippled mother washing piles of clothes only a few feet away. Athena Croft is just seven years old, but she has been forced to grow up to help her weak mother. She was brought into this world some seven years ago, when her mother was forced to give birth in this very doghouse by her wicked family. Why is Stephanie Croft so hated by her own family? That's because she fell in love with a young soldier seven years ago and got married to him, even though she knew that her parents wouldn't approve of such a poor soldier as an inlaw. He was deployed to the army the very next day, and she was left to announce to her parents that she was married and pregnant, but her useless husband was nowhere to be found. Her father and mother beat her up so badly that she fell from the stairs of

Athena is saying thank you with tears in her eyes, but Pumpkin has already gone. She hurries with the pack of cereal in a paper bag, pressed against her chest. She never thought that a day would come when her cousin would be nice to her…As she gets to the gate, normally, the security never pay any attention to her, but since she is holding something in her hands (which is unusual) they stop her. “Athena, what do you have in your hands?” Athena’s heart pierce with fear. They want to take her precious cereal?“Nothing! I mean, it's something, but it was given to me by my cousin! I didn't steal anything!” “We didn't accuse you of stealing, Athena.” “I know you are, by the way you are looking at me! My mother trained me never to take what's not mine, so you have nothing to fear.” Her words of assurance did nothing for them, and before she knew it, she had been forcefully turned around, and she was being pushed back to the house. “Well, if Miss Pumpkin gave it to you, then you don

.“I'm sorry, Roman, I tried to stop it, but they beat both of us and starved me. I tried to protect our daughter, I swear to you.” Roman is not even going to blame her. She is crippled, how can any of this be her fault? Instead, he picks her up in his arms and takes her to the helicopter that landed outside the house. Stephanie has never been in a helicopter before, and she is so startled by the entire experience. Captain Carmen also comes into the helicopter and he jumps into the pilot seat. “Where are we heading to, sir?” He asks Roman. “Take me to that place where my daughter has been turned into a maid!” He orders. In a few minutes time, commotion has set in the Kent compound as the helicopter is dangerously close to the roof. Roman steps out of the helicopter before it can even reach the ground and his eyes scans around for his daughter. She is not hard to recognize, she looks like an angel and not even the maltreatment from her maternal family has been able to break he

Stephanie throws her head back and laughs so loudly that everyone is stunned by this. “Regain my ability to walk? Oh, Doctor, don't flatter me!” she holds her hand over her nose, trying to stop herself from laughing. Roman immediately goes down on one knee in front of her, gently cradling her face in his hands. “This is not a joke, my love. I worked in the army for years, and I have seen many hopeless situations given hope to by people like Doctor Jenkins. He is the best doctor in the world, so let's have a little faith.” Doctor Jenkins clears his throat. “Mrs Croft, not to toot my own horn, but the General is right. From my little examination of your feet, this is not even a critical case.” “Please, Doctor, enough!” Stephanie raises her voice. “You are not giving me hope, what you are giving me is false belief! Look at my daughter, she has never seen me walk since she was born. How do you think she is going to feel if this treatment fails?” “Stephanie, this is not false hope.

Roman finds himself sighing over and over again. He is in his brand-new office, going through all the compilation of research that Carmen sent to him. Carmen didn't lie, the Beerson family is in trouble. They sold all their lands and other houses, and he destroyed their last mansion. Roman is tempted to laugh, this would surely teach them a lesson, but he knows that Stephanie is too good for this world. There is no way that she would be able to sleep knowing that her parents are being left under the scorching sun, and the cold winds of the night. See, John Kent has moved himself, Finna, and Pumpkin into a five star hotel, but he has refused to take the Beerson parents with him… Finna shamelessly turned her parents down at the entrance of the five stars hotel, and they were left with their bags under the gaze of passerbys. If not for Stephanie's timely calling, they would have been forced to go to the homeless shelter….A soft knock on the door makes Roman look up. It's Stephanie