At Pearl Airport, a plane slowly lands.
A large number of travellers swarmed out, with a man and a woman walking at the end of the crowd, at a brisk pace, seeming to enjoy the journey back to the Pearl.
The woman took off her sunglasses, gave the man a somewhat disgruntled look and queried, “Why am I the one accompanying you back to Pearl?”
Leo let the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose slide down slightly and looked at Caroline as he asked, “You don’t want to?”
“No, it took me effort to come to Valenham, but you made a fake death, but also go back to the Pearl to hide …”
Caroline said in a depressed voice.
At that, Leo smiled, “It’s all for the greater good, if I don’t leave and the royal forces in Valenham find out, it will be a lost cause.”
Caroline did not know what Leo wanted to do, but she knew that if Leo’s fake death was discovered by the Valenham royal family, then the matter would be ruined.
After a moment’s thought, she asked out loud, “I still find it a little unbelievable how you survived in temperatures of over twenty degrees below zero?”
“Have you forgotten that I’m a practitioner? You don’t know the business, you don’t have that concept.”
Caroline didn’t say anything, it was easy to say, but she knew very well that it was more than 20 degrees below zero, even if she was a practitioner, she must have had a brush with death.
“How many days are you planning to stay this time when you return to Pearl?”
She asked again.
“A week, or two or three days.”
Leo gave an ambiguous answer, and at that moment, the phone suddenly rang.
As soon as he saw the caller ID, his expression immediately turned serious and gave Caroline a no-speech gesture before he started to answer the phone.
The old Commander of Wyverns called in.
He told the whole story of what had happened inside the Wyverns base.
After hearing this, Leo smiled, “I really guessed right.”
“What do you want to do next?”
Sidney asked, “After all, I am now retired, I cannot sit at the Wyverns all the time, I still have to go back to the Holmes’.”
Leo pondered for a long time and said, “There is no hurry first, we can set it up. Hunter have to get the dissolution order if he wants to destroy the Wyverns, so we can start with this.”
Leo quickly hung up the phone and Caroline, who was listening on the side, was full of surprise.
“The Wyverns, you’re a soldier in Wyverns?”
She blurted out incredulously.
Leo thought it was time to let her know since this had been a long time ago, so he nodded.
At once, Caroline’s face was full of surprise and she didn’t know what to say for a while.
Previously, she only knew that Leo had disappeared for five years to become a soldier, but she didn’t expect it to be in the Wyverns.
“Then you were involved in an international case, as you said at the time —-”
Caroline wanted to say something but couldn’t.
When Leo returns to the Henderson family after five years, Chris is about to strike at him, but is stopped by a mysterious woman in black.
At the time, relatives in the family asked what this was all about, and Leo’s answer was that he was involved in an international case and this woman, who was protecting him.
Leo was not wrong in his answer.
“That was indeed one of my men.”
Leo said with a smile.
So Caroline went mad, full of shock.
In addition to the excitement, there is actually a small regret in her heart.
From the beginning, this man stood at the apex of a position large enough for them to look up to, yet they still treated him like a mole crawling on the ground.
“It’s all in the past, isn’t it?”
As if he could see through Caroline’s thoughts, Leo said with a smile.
Caroline was stunned at the words, and then was also infected with a smile.
“Let’s go and walk around.”
Pearl is a city of special affection for both men.
For Caroline, it was her old home.
She is a Pearl native.
And for Leo, it was the city where he was born and raised, where he was loved and hated.
Instead of going to a hotel, the two spent the afternoon checking out a number of places of memorable interest.
Such as their high school, and the places where the two played together as children.
By taking advantage of the time he spent faking his death, Leo could relax.
All these places are memories shared by both him and Caroline.
They used to go to the same secondary school and were even in the same class.
It is the memories of that time of youth that are most memorable.
“After all these years, the second school is still the same, not much has changed.”
Caroline stood at the entrance of Pearl Second High School and looked at the structure inside with emotion.
Leo smiled, “It hasn’t been renovated, but the teachers inside have left one batch after another, and now, I guess only the Principal O’Brien is left.”
At the entrance of the second secondary school stands a large stone with a sense of age, on which are written the words ‘One hundred years old school’ in large letters.
Below are the names of densely packed people, all of whom have been headmasters over the years.
One of the names at the bottom is that of the Principal O’Brien who was already in office in Leo and Caroline’s time.
Aydin.
This is his name.
Because he was a adopted son of the Henderson family, Leo was not well received at school and Principal O’Brien helped him a lot.
In this world, there are more good people after all.
“Come on, go in and have a look.”
Leo said to Caroline with a smile.
Caroline nodded with an imploring smile as the two strolled through the most famous maple gardens.
But what puzzled them was that many students and even tourists used to come visit, but today, it was so cold that not many people were walking at all.
The crowd was all concentrated in the playground and music could be heard faintly.
“It looks like the school is having some kind of event today.”
Leo looked at the sound and saw a dense crowd there in the playground, as if some grand ceremony was taking place.
At this moment, not far from the entrance of the school, several luxury cars worth a lot of money suddenly drove in, and with a beautiful tailing off, the cars were firmly parked in the car park.
These vehicles, ranging from sports cars to commercial vehicles, all have one thing in common, they are very expensive and can only be afforded by people with successful careers at first glance.
The door of the car opened and several men and women, scantily dressed and with expensive decorations, came over talking and laughing.
They also walked into the Maple Leaf Garden and talked about topics that were either stocks or business.
“So you’ve been invited too, huh? How nice, I thought not many people were invited?”
“Haha, it means that our graduating class is doing well! We can bring a lot of publicity to the school!”
“Come on, let’s go, the presentation is about to start.”
“…”
They walked over talking and laughing and were about to pick up the pace and head towards the playground, but they suddenly saw Leo and Caroline walking in front of them and froze for a moment.
“You are …”
“Leo Cohen!”
“Caroline Henderson!”
These people took a few glances at Leo and Caroline and instantly recognised them with faces full of surprise.
” Finley Stewart, Emma Gray, Amy O’Brien, it’s you guys?”
Caroline also recognised these people and was a little surprised.
Listening to these familiar names, Leo frowned slightly, finally remembering these people were the classmates from his previous student days.
Almost ten years have passed and they have made a name for themselves.
“Haha, it’s us, Caroline, we haven’t seen each other in ten years, have we? I never thought I’d run into you guys here, it’s really fate.”
Emma dressed a white professional outfit, and a high-class handheld laptop with a red and green stock chart reflected in the screen.
“Caroline, why did you withdraw from our class WeChat group? We thought you’ve gotten better now and don’t want to play with us anymore.”
A woman wearing gold and with a pretty face spoke up, and although she said it in a very intimate tone, the words that came out still made Caroline feel a burst of discomfort.
Amy, the class socialite, is married to a real estate tycoon.
Caroline wanted to turn around and leave, but because she was a classmate, she had to smile.
“I was busy with work and didn’t have much time to socialise, so I quit all my groups.”
Caroline explained.
“Well, you can’t quit our class group, but from what you’re saying, it does sound like you’ve been doing well lately, huh?”
Many people gathered around.
“Caroline, is this your boyfriend? I thought it was your driver?”
After exchanging pleasantries for a while, Amy’s gaze fell back on Leo and said in mock surprise.
“Not … he’s Leo.”
Caroline wiped cold sweat from her head and explained awkwardly.
All the classmates were shocked.
“Leo? Is that adopted son of your Henderson family, Leo Cohen?”
“Crap, it’s really him —- You guys aren’t really together, are you? Jesus!”
The girls chattered, full of incredulity.
Amy had a smile on her face, but it was a very sarcastic smile.
“Caroline, marriage is a woman’s second reincarnation, how can you find that lowly adopted son of your family? You are not match.”
“Yes, Finley used to like you so much that he went out of his way to ditch his girlfriend at the time, what’s her name again?”
“Karina, it seems she didn’t come to the school anniversary this time.”
“Isn’t she a supervisor at L Group? How can she not be invited?”
“…”
The women were surprised that Karina did not come.
Leo’s gaze was surprised, so he looked at Caroline.
Caroline blushed even more embarrassed and lowered her voice to explain, “Karina is the personnel supervisor that you fired, her boyfriend when she was a student is Finley.”
Saying this, Caroline’s eyes looked towards the handsome young man who was standing in the middle and had not spoken since the beginning.
Only then did Leo remember that he had previously dismissed a woman called Karina.
Karina hated Caroline was because her boyfriend at the time dumped her due to Caroline.
He didn’t expect it to be this man.
Finley smiled as he came in front of Caroline and said, “Caroline, it’s been a long time, are you also the outstanding graduate guests who came to be invited to speak at the school’s celebration?”