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Chapter 164
Chapter 164
Cecilia’s words set off a storm in Christopher’s heart.
His embrace tightened involuntarily, causing her to experience a slight twinge of pain.
Cecilia pushed Christopher’s arms away, looked up at him, and asked curiously, “What’s wrong?”
She hoped he was not feeling jealous just because she saved a young man when she was a child.
Christopher looked at Cecilia carefully and did not see the boy on her.
He felt he was overthinking and immediately calmed down.
At the same time, a little hope flickered in his heart.
Therefore, he asked, “Ceci, was your assassination mission in Erihal when you were eight years old?”
He didn’t hold much hope when he asked.
Cecilia sat up and looked at Christopher coldly. “You found out about my past?”
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from being investigated. Seeing that Cecilia had misunderstood, Christopher hurriedly explained, “Ceci,
I did investigate you, but I only found the information that you openly shared without delving deeper. I
brought up Erihal because, during that year, I became a mercenary and coincidentally took on a
mission in Erihal.”
Then, he met Cecilia’s eyes and continued to move his thin lips.
“The incident where you saved that young man is reminiscent of a situation I experienced.”
Hearing this, Cecilia looked at Christopher strangely and
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asked, “Is there really such a coincidence?”
Christopher hoped for such a coincidence to be true.
He asked, “Ceci, what did you say to the young man back then?”
Cecilia was eight years old and had a good memory.
So, she repeated what she had said word for word.
“There are killers who want to kill you. You need to go and eliminate the threat.”
She couldn’t afford to speak at length, as her accomplices were watching her closely. So, she feigned
she had failed to approach the young man and was pushed to the ground.
Christopher’s heart beat violently after hearing Cecilia’s words.
He didn’t expect such a coincidence in the world.
Thirteen years ago, Cecilia saved his life in a foreign country!
He held Cecilia’s face and kissed her red lips repeatedly, full of joy from toe to hair.
Cecilia looked at the ecstatic man, covered her lips when there was a chance, and asked, “So the
young man back then was you?”
When she asked the question, her vague memory suddenly became clear.
The Christopher of today bore little resemblance to the 16–year–old version of himself, not just in
temperament but in appearance as well.
The young man she met back then looked much thinner than in the photos.
He looked skinny, and his exposed wrist seemed delicate and prone to breaking.
Cecilia didn’t know why the organization wanted to kill him, but she knew that this mission provided a
good chance for her
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to escape.
The organization took this assassination mission very seriously and had formulated numerous
contingency plans.
So, she made a gamble with her life.
Christopher gazed at Cecilia, who wore an expression of disbelief, and nodded in confirmation. “It was
me.”
Then, he hugged Cecilia tightly in his arms.
It appeared that fate had been kind to him, for he had already crossed paths with Cecilia.
Regrettably, he hadn’t recognized Cecilia as a girl during that time, and as a result, he spent countless
years searching for her in vain.
Cecilia found the world to be incredibly surreal and asked, “Why were you hunted down back then?”
Christopher pondered for a moment and told Cecilia the
reason.
He was given the task of protecting an important political figure in Erihal.
After repeatedly helping his employer solve the crisis, he was targeted by his employer’s enemies to
get rid of him.
He had already been rounded up twice before he met Cecilia. At that time, Cecilia disguised herself
well as a boy. If she had chosen to attack him, he would have undoubtedly fallen for her ruse.
Losing combat effectiveness would have equated to awaiting death.
After hearing that, Cecilia said with a smile, “You were so lucky to meet me, who treated the assassin
organization as my enemy. If I were another person, you would have been dead for 13 years.”
Christopher nodded in agreement and hugged Cecilia.
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“Ceci, you gave me my life. If the opportunity arises in the future, I will repay you.”
“I’d rather not have this opportunity. It feels ominous!” she responded.
Then, she gently extracted herself from Christopher’s embrace and inquired, “Were you involved in the
downfall of the
assassin organization?”
It had taken nearly three months from the time of her mission’s failure to her eventual rescue.
The time span was a little long, so she had never considered that the young man might have been
behind it.
She had assumed it was just good luck, and a glimmer of light had finally broken through the darkness
in her life.
Looking back, she realized she had taken everything for granted.
Christopher was just a mercenary, and it would be difficult to deal with the huge assassin organization.
Three months was probably the limit for him.
When Cecilia was immersed in her thoughts, Christopher said, “It had something to do with me, but I
wasn’t the one who struck. I was only responsible for incriminating evidence against the assassin
organization in Erihal and providing it to the police.”
The evidence he provided was one–sided, and the police couldn’t extract any valuable information from
it.
Plus, he was busy, so he didn’t follow up on the case.
It was only after he had gained fame among mercenaries and established numerous connections that
he thought about revisiting the issue.
However, that was already two years later!
Many children had been rescued, and the police had erased
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their troubled pasts to facilitate their smoother reintegration into society.
Therefore, even when Christopher had great ability, he could not find the boy who had saved him.
“Ceci, I wish I knew you were a girl.”
He thought about the eight–year–old Cecilia, who had been thin, bald, and appeared no more than six
years old, her face bearing an innocent expression.
Cecilia leaned into Christopher’s arms again and said with a smile, “If you could tell my gender, I would
have suffered more than a slice on my thigh.”
Hearing this, Christopher looked at the scar on Cecilia’s leg.
His quivering fingertip glided along the pink scar. “Was this the injury?”
“Yes. It served as punishment for my failure to complete the mission. Thankfully, I had some medical
knowledge back then. Otherwise, this leg might have been disabled.”
She was not exaggerating.
The leader had been particularly merciless. The knife tip was dipped in pepper water before it pierced
through her skin into the bone and pulled down.
Cecilia didn’t continue to immerse in her memory. She closed her eyes tiredly.
Christopher’s fingertips moved gently back and forth across her scar. His heart was filled with
sympathy for the suffering she had endured.
“Ceci, I’ll help you get rid of this scar.”
“There is no need for that. I don’t like wearing short skirts. There is no need to waste time doing such
boring things.”
Since Cecilia didn’t want to, Christopher didn’t force her.
He asked, “After being rescued from the assassin organization,
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were you adopted by the Shaw family?”
“No, I was sent to the orphanage. I met Evan, who was also in the orphanage, and he treated me
well.”
Evan was the first person to be nice to Cecilia.
When she first arrived at the orphanage, she had been distant and subjected to bullying by the other
children.
Although she didn’t suffer a loss, her life had still been far from
easy.
Evan took the initiative to approach her, gave her delicious food, entertained her, and took the blame
for her mistakes.
She finally knew what warmth was.
Not long after, Evan was found by the Shaw family, and they brought her back as well.
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