Upon hearing this, the caregiver screamed, "What? You're firing me? Give me this month's salary then. Since you are broke, why do you want to hire a caregiver?"

Olivia regretted deeply that she shouldn't have hired this cheap caregiver online for her mother.

"Here, take it, and get lost!" Olivia was trembling with anger and swearing.

With delicate fingers, she tapped on her phone and transferred the money. After the caregiver received the money, she grunted and left.

Olivia sat on the edge of the bed and hugged Haley tenderly. "Mom, are you hungry? I'll go buy you something to eat."

Haley shook her head. "I'm not hungry. What has your father been doing lately? Why hasn't he come to see me?"

Olivia hesitated. She looked at Haley and clutched her clothes tightly, unsure of how to broach the topic with her mother.

Her father wasn't busy. He had a new family now, and he was very happy.

A few days ago, her dad stopped paying for Haley's medical expenses and her tuition before leaving for his new family.

After a while, Olivia looked at her mom and said, "Mom, Dad has a new family now. Don't think about him anymore."

"Okay," Haley responded with a hint of disappointment in her eyes.

After Olivia comforted her mom, she left the hospital. At that moment, she received 4000 dollars transferred from Alex.

A wave of shame washed over her instantly, but she felt she had no choice. For her mother's medical expenses, for her tuition, she had to keep this relationship with Alex.

Olivia knew she needed his money, and Alex needed a woman to satisfy his physical needs.

Olivia looked at Alex's profile picture on her phone, it was a completely black picture, just as mysterious as he was. She didn't even know his real identity.

She was about to put her phone away when another message came in on WhatsApp, [See you tomorrow night.]

Olivia was speechless.

She couldn't help but be surprised as she thought, 'Is he even a human being? Does he ever need a break?'

Her delicate fingers tapped on the phone screen. [Mr. Adams, I'm feeling a bit tired. I'd like to take a few days off.]

*****

After sending the message, she stared at her phone intently. It took a while before Alex replied, "Meet me at the Empire Hotel in three days."

Seeing the message, Olivia finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Dragging her weary body, she returned to the dormitory.

Since she didn't have classes that day, she crawled into bed and fell into a drowsy sleep.

In the afternoon, her roommates returned from class and saw Olivia. One of them spoke up, "Olivia, you're back?"

After a pause, she hesitantly said, "Olivia, there's something we're not sure if we should say..."

Olivia looked up at them and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Just now, Rosa said in class that she wants you to kneel to her in public..."

Rosa Hall was her stepmother's daughter, which means she was her half-sister.

Her stepmother, Nancy Hall, was the first love of Toby Hall, her father.

Before Toby and Haley got married, he had an affair with Nancy and eventually had Rosa.

Later, after Haley had a car accident, Toby eagerly divorced her and brought Rosa and her mother back home.

Since then, Olivia had faced many unpleasant situations every day.

Rosa couldn't stand her. Not only did she cause trouble for Olivia but she also rallied classmates to bully her.

"Bullshit." Olivia's friend, Grace Hunt, walked over, looking displeased. "Why would Olivia do that?"

In an instant, Olivia realized what was going on. It was probably because of her mother's medical expenses and her own tuition that Rosa thought she needed money.

But she was wrong. Olivia would rather sell herself than beg those scumbags from the Hall family.