Love Began with the First Meeting
Chapter 789 Old Stories (Part Two)

comedies, tragedies, or plain ones.

It was said that every member of the Long Family was born affectionate. Every member of the Long family had a person imprinted deep in his heart whom he allowed to paint his unique life. As a whole, the members of the Long Family had different kinds of lives, The setting sun was moving to the west slowly as if it hated to be neglected and wanted to give out all its remaining heat till the end. Dragon Empire Group had bought this seacoast in order to facilitate oil exploration and transportation. It was still a piece of pure and clean beach right now. However, the natural beauty of this place would gradually change in the future. It would be a huge development for mankind, but at the same time, a very sad twist too. Different people might have different views of the same thing. Just like how one might think that love was bitter while the others thought it was sweet.

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Brian was sitting alone in the garden-styled cafe of a hotel. The cup of coffee before him had already cooled down. A waiter came to him and asked whether he wanted to replace it with another cup of hot coffee. Seeing that he shook his head slightly, the waiter left. Brian had been staring at that cup of coffee for some while. Since he had forced Molly to leave two years ago, he had come back to his original lifestyle and stopped drinking milk.

"Beep-"

His cellphone began vibrating on the table and drew him back to the present. He picked up and answered the phone.

"Brother Brian!" a lively voice came through the phone together with the sound created by a car running on uneven ground.

A faint smile instantly made its way to Brian's lips upon recognizing who was on the other line. He asked, "Are you carrying out a task?"

"Hmm,"

Cathy answered and smiled brightly. She was indeed inside a military car right now. Thus, she said, "It will take a long time to complete the task this time. I don't know when will I have another vacation, so I'm calling you to say hi."

"Okay," answered Brian in a plain tone. "Come back to see me when you take a vacation next time."

"I know. I will," responded Cathy, still in a lively voice. "I called my mom just now. She said that my younger sister has been admitted to the Army Aviation Military Academy."

"Yeah, your mother called me earlier about that too," Brian had always been grateful to Cathy. Molly should have been blind all her life if Cathy hadn't donated her eyes to Molly. "Do you need me to get in touch with the person in charge of that academy? You know that I can always do that for your sister, right?" he asked.

"No, you don't have to." Cathy answered while raising her eyebrows. "I believe that my younger sister is capable of doing well. She can do it by herself."

"Cathy, there is only less than two miles before we arrive,"

a middle-aged woman's voice resonated on the background of their call. Cathy responded to it and then told Brian hurriedly, "Brother Brian, I'm about to arrive the area. I will call you again once I take a vacation." "Okay." Brian answered.

Cathy hung the phone up then and pressed her lips with a smile. She slid her cellphone back into her pocket.

"Lieutenant Xiang, was that your boyfriend you were talking with just now?" the girl sitting next to Cathy asked. She was also wearing a military uniform despite her sub-lieutenant rank.

"No," Cathy answered with a grin. "He is just a brother."

"I don't believe that. You called him 'brother Brian'. It just sounded so intimate and sweet!" the sub-lieutenant teased her while giving her playful winks.

"Whoa! He is really not my boyfriend," Cathy explained in a hurry. "He is a nice person who helped me cure my eyes. He is as kind as a brother to me." While saying that, she shook her head and sighed, "Argh! How was it even possible for a person as good as him to have a lot of trouble with his lover? Why couldn't he have a peaceful relationship?"

"Yikes!" The sub-lieutenant responded as if she understood everything.

"Don't think too much!" Cathy turned her head abruptly to the sub-lieutenant beside her. "Brother Brian belongs only to Sister Molly. He will never fall in love with anybody else except Molly."

"Oh, I see..." said the sub-lieutenant with her eyes still shining with curiosity. She was really up for good gossip. "You'd better be honest! Do you have a crush on this brother Brian ?"

Shaking her head immediately, Cathy answered, "No. I see him as a brother, almost the same as a biological elder brother. On the other hand, he treats me like I'm his younger sister. I haven't had any special romantic feelings towards him!" She pursed her lips after saying that as if she was recalling something in her memory. Then she mumbled, "He is cold outside but warm inside. I'm just wondering if Molly would come back to him. I hope so!"

Hearing what Cathy had said, the sub-lieutenant and the major sitting ahead looked at each other. Obviously, both of them became curious about the so-called "brother Brian". As a top student in a military academy, Cathy had been admitted to the Battle Research Department of the academy at the early age of seventeen. Unfortunately, something had gone wrong with her eyes while she had been still a freshman. She had had to suspend her schooling without losing her status as a student for several years. Her eyes had not recovered until summer last year. Since she had missed a lot of courses, she had worked hard to complete all the courses for three years in just one and a half years. She just had to finish it by all means. As soon as she had been deployed to the army, she had caught the attention of the top leaders by her outstanding performance.

"Ahem!" Cathy could not help but sigh again. "I hope to see him together with Molly once I take a vacation and visit him next time."

"If they really love each other, they will meet each other again and get together in the end, no matter how many detours they make," said the major. Her voice was full of wisdom as if she was talking from her experience.

Hearing that, Cathy nodded abruptly and said, "Yeah. Thank you, boss!"

The major just smiled at her. Looking at the young and lively faces of Cathy and the sub-lieutenant, she could not help but sigh with the feeling that time and tide wait for no man.

*

The setting sun looked charming. The silent wind was blowing gentle waves to the shore one after another. Everything seemed to be a part of a beautiful painting while the sun slowly kissed the sea.

Molly was still quietly listening to Eric's stories. Hearing that Richie had gone so far as to cut off Crystal program because of Shirley, she could not help but feel speechless. Tears filled her eyes when she heard of how Shirley had been willing to be misunderstood for Richie's sake. Her love had been immeasurable, she had gone as far as marrying a man she had never loved while drawing the portrait of the man she had been missing every day. The story was just too heartbreaking.

Lying on the sand with his hands crossed under his head, Eric was not the superior man who controlled the Dragon Empire Group and even the Dragon Island. He was a nobody that time but a regular man who couldn't even escape his fate.

"In order to give Uncle Richie and Aunt Shirley a life that which was not bound by political power, my dad gave up the freedom he had always pursued and took the highest position of Dragon Island. In order to relieve Aunt Shirley's guilt, my dad married my mom..."☐☐☐☐☐☐☐