Love Began with the First Meeting

Maggie shook her head helplessly. "I have no idea at all."

Her expression brought Tompson even more concern, and he couldn't help but frown before changing the topic of discussion. "What about your special training these days?"

"Not fun at all," Maggie answered and smirked darkly. She had thought that it would be possible to have more opportunities to be together with Edgar, but it had ended up backfiring, and his harsh face was the only thing that she saw every day! She gained no benefit in the end, so she exclaimed, "It could be the darkest moment in my entire life!"

Tompson was amused by her complaint. "So are you saying that you are unhappy with your beloved Edgar?"

"Unhappy with what?" Maggie's face became streaked with bitterness. "Could you ever imagine that your lover would wear a poker face while being with you? Meanwhile, you need to tolerate the fact that your love rival has re-united with him, and tortures you. Of course you can't say a word about this. Besides that, there is a super handsome guy, who is an eye candy for others, but a nightmare for me." Finishing with her initial rant, Maggie let out a half repressed shriek of frustration. While speaking, she couldn't even bear it. "The more expectation, the more frustration. You're so damn right."

Hearing what Maggie said, Tompson sensed that it was far more complicated and frowned again. So he called a taxi and invited Maggie to get in the car. "Why don't you go home first?"

"Why don't we leave together?" Maggie couldn't figure out the reason for Tompson's sudden farewell.

Tompson shook his head. "One of my friends will be arriving in two hours, so I need to wait for him." While speaking, he gave the address to the driver and shut the back door without waiting for Maggie to reply. When Maggie's car was out of his sight, Tompson called another taxi, and identified his destination to the driver, "S Army, please."

The driver turned back to cast a brief glimpse at him, and then started the car. "I can only drive you to the vicinity of the security fence. There's a cordon in effect, now that it's approaching the Spring Festival."

"Fine." Tompson agreed without paying too much attention, and dialled Edgar's number instead. The beautiful and sweet artificial voice which sounded over the phone always had the habit of instilling the angry impulse to throw the phone on the ground in everyone who heard it.

Tompson didn't give up and dialed again, but again what he got was, "Sorry, the number you have dial is not in service." Hearing this, he hung up and dialed William's number, but to his surprise, it wasn't connected either.

Now that was so weird! It might be possible that Edgar couldn't be connected, since even though he was the Captain of Eagle, he also fulfilled the same duty as the other team members did. However, the fact that William wasn't connected felt so unbelievably strange. "Sir, would you please hurry up?" Tompson urged the driver, and his face turned increasingly serious at the same time. He just hoped that he could make it. After he couldn't reach either of the men, however, he predicted that events were already unstoppable.

*

Looking at Cain sitting next to him, Richard was so shocked that his mouth opened slightly, since he had never imagined it would be him. A great number of people had been possible candidates in his mind, but he had never even considered Cain as a potential for his list. "Uncle Richard, you seem pretty surprised." Cain smiled sweetly at Richard.

Richard nodded, and his staunch face filled with astonishment. "You... You're... You're not..."

"Yeah, I'm still alive!" Cain reclined further back in the seat with a victorious smile. He looked out through the window and then continued, "Sometimes humans are too vulnerable to withstand a single accident. Well, that was what you said back then, if I remember it correctly."

Richard seemed embarrassed, and his Adam's apple moved up and down as he tried hard to calm himself down. "I'm glad to see you now, two decades later."

Cain smiled and leaned closer to stare intently at Richard whose facial expression was still nervous. Then he voiced his doubt at Richard's words, "But from my point of view, you are not happy at all?" There was an almost humorous tone in his voice that mocked the other

man.

"What? I'm glad to see you." Richard's face grew pale and he appeared to be anxious now. "When did you return?"

Cain was irritated by this silly question and burst out in laughter. "Uncle Richard, my permission was illegally granted by the supervisor. I'm wondering, whether you know about my present identity, or not."

As a matter of fact, Richard already knew it and because of that, he suffered and seemed to be choking on it. When he had glanced over Cain's appearance, he had known him instantly. But Cain was such a perfect combination of all the merits of his parents, so people could easily be deceived by his appearance. Of course, another reason for Richard's consternation was that things had taken an unexpected turn. Even though he had thought that he had already settled everything, but... Richard took a deep breath in order to summon up the nerve to ask, "Just say it. What do you want?"

"You are still exactly the same as when you betrayed my dad." When Cain stared at Richard's dimming eyes, his expression also became morose. "Just as decisive as that time."

Richard's facial expression couldn't help changing and he instantly objected, "I had no choice back then. If you've come to me for revenge, I have nothing to say. If that's not the case, then speak your piece. I would like to hear it." He drew back his searching gaze, and held his breath, but he wouldn't give in right now. Cain had dared to come alone, so he must be one hundred percent sure that Richard would be frightened by his subsequent moves. Clearly, he had some trump card to play.

The light in Cain's eyes turned cold and cruel as he said word for word, "I want Edgar to die."

Being bowled over in astonishment, Richard frowned and rejected the request at once. "It's impossible!"

Cain's mouth trembled and he tightened his lips. "Since you are capable of buying and reselling national confidential techniques, it cannot be a big deal for you to kill one man!" When he finished, his rage filled eyes turned on Richard, and his gaze dripped with hatred and malice.

It had taken great effort and many years of toil for Richard to achieve what he had today, but Cain's words sobered his mind to some extent. "Aha... It isn't that I am afraid of the consequence of killing him. But keep in mind that it took a considerable amount of money to cultivate such a high-calibre talent like him. I can tell you with quite some assurance, Edgar won't do something silly which would get him in trouble. Even if he did something shameful, the army would choose to force someone else to receive the punishment on his behalf in a bid to protect him!" After a lengthy pause, Richard put on an indifferent smile. "Moreover, once Edgar dies, I'm afraid that I would likely be next to perish."

"Well... That makes sense, and I've thought about it before." Cain nodded to show his agreement. "But what should I do? You framed my dad for Edgar's father, for the sake of protecting only one person. I'm my father's son. Do you think that I should take revenge, or not?" Richard was taken by surprise and he asked quickly, "How did you know that there was someone else involved?" However, as he uttered these words, he saw Cain's proud smile, and he instantly realized that he had made a mistake. "You are luring me into telling the truth!"

The smile around Cain's lips intensified. Then he slowly continued speaking with an air of irony. "You're half right. To be more specific, I got the information from the people involved first, and then I came to you to test you and see if such a person existed. Three days," he sneered. "That is the longest time that I could give you." After reaching a compromise, Cain looked away and got out of the car.

"Bang!" The sound of the car door closing seemed to break Richard's nerve as well. His hands began to grip the steering wheel even tighter until white knuckles stood out on his fingers. He had no idea of how reliable Cain's threats were, but right now he had to take him seriously.

After making sure that Cain had long vanished from his sight, Richard took out his cell phone and dialed a number that he had never before called and then drove to S Army.

"Richard, what's going on with Edgar?" the male voice on the other side of the phone enquired in an aging but powerful tone.

"Sir." Richard took a deep breath. "There's been an emergency."

"What is it? What do you mean?" the man asked in a tone which accepted no lies.

"The boy of the Luo family... He just appeared." Richard ground his teeth, angry at himself for not seeing the family likeness. "He is the newly hired instructor introduced by our supervisor. Cain Nan."

*

After getting out of the taxi, Tompson walked towards the front gates of the military region. Since he was the army medical officer, he was familiar with many of the guards on duty, so they just let him through without asking him for any papers considering that the New Year was approaching.

However, Tompson didn't head to the clinic, but instead went straight to William's office. He rushed at great speed all the way, but when he entered the office, William was not there.

Searching around the building, William was still nowhere to be found. Tompson had no choice now, but to randomly ask one of staff, "Where is Mr. William Du?"

The guy looked serious and remained silent while shaking his head. Finally, he advised, "Officer Tompson, you'd better call Political Commissar Wang. They are supposed to be working together."

"Which Political Commissar Wang?"

"It is Political Commissar Wang with the armored brigade."

Tompson nodded and dialed the number immediately. He still had a sense of belonging towards this place, so fortunately, he had kept the the phone numbers of his previous colleagues in S Army in his mobile phone.

Since he was in the military region, he was becoming more and more anxious. Perhaps due to his experiences at Eagle's clinic, but his sensory organs were far more sensitive than before, and he sensed the severe atmosphere. "Hi, is that Political Commissar Wang? This is Tompson Lin. Yeah, right, I've come back to pay a visit. I'd like to speak to Mr. William Du, since I hear that you are with him. Okay, I'll wait."

Tompson hung up the phone, and aimlessly wandered back and forth in the passageway. Nearly twenty minutes later, his phone rang, and he hurried to answer it. "Hello" "Is it about Edgar?" William interrupted him. Hearing his solemn tone, Tompson frowned again and mumbled, "I'm too late."

"What do you mean? Are you hiding some secret?" William was astonished and opened his eyes wide. "Just wait for a second. I'll be right back, son. Just stay where you are. And wait right there for me."

"Yes, sir!" Tompson replied with determination while automatically standing at attention.

The busy tone came from the other side of the phone.☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐