It reminded Shirley of her own situation back then with Davis, which was complicated. He had hated her once because Evelynn had been harmed in her Ashton Empire's Capital, but he wasn't able to be there for Evelynn because he had spent time protecting her from falling prey to her half-siblings, who acted against her using an aphrodisiac.
It seemed he had been fooled as someone faked a letter from her to bring him away so that they could target Evelynn. Therefore, he totally blamed her, feeling that his respect towards her was taken advantage of.
After all, they had rescinded their marriage agreement without butting heads, so they held a rare kind of respect for each other.
However, these two schemes from two different groups shattered that respect, but she still held that respect and started to like him even more, which turned into love.
