Since Cherish Turner returned from her trip, she hadn't gone back to the training center for her piano lessons. Lucas Max, who taught Cherish piano, was an old friend of hers. It had been half a month since they last met when Lucas finally contacted Cherish to tell her he was going abroad for further studies and wouldn't return to the country for a while.
They dined together in a restaurant, and this was Elijah Butler's first encounter with Lucas Max.
Elijah always had a negative impression of men, but since Lucas was Cherish's friend from high school, she could at least lower her guard. Over the course of the interaction, Elijah found out that Lucas appeared to treat Cherish as a source of comfort and solace, almost as though he was looking for someone else's shadow.
The next day, Elijah bought a karaoke system and set it up in the living room.
Cherish looked confused as the two workers installed the karaoke system, then she asked, "Elijah, why did you buy a karaoke system?"