Come Daybreak

Xue Yang (xviii)

The two had arrived at A Country and resided in Feng Xinya's mansion to await his next set of orders.

Not even two days after they had settled into the mansion, the special force soldier's superior came knocking on the door in his intimidating military attire to confirm Xue Yang's identity.

With some deliberation on Xue Yang's behalf, the three had agreed that the superior would talk with the younger boy's parents about him the next day, hoping to arrange a date and time for the family to reunite.

While Xue Yang didn't want to have anything to do with them anymore as he wouldn't be able to hide his disappointment in them if he saw them, he knew that he had to compromise so as not to make things difficult for Feng Xinya as there was no way someone with his background would be able to just ignore everything and live freely as he'd wished.

At least, now that he had remembered who he was and especially since others were also aware, he would not be able to escape his fate as the Xue family's true and only heir. This was one of the reasons he couldn't forgive Feng Xinya despite the fact that the man had saved him.

At the same time, he already knew that his dissatisfaction with Feng Xinya's action was unreasonable--if the man hadn't saved him in the first place then he would still be stuck in another brothel after Shadow fell, on the streets, or even dead.

Feng Xinya knew about the boy's inner conflict, but he didn't regret his action of jogging his memory. He'd rather deal with Xue Yang and help the frail boy live safely for the rest of his life than play babysitter for the protagonist. It wasn't only the matter of difficulty but also personal preference.

He would never judge the boy for wishing to remain clueless and ignorant, though, because wasn't he the same? Even if their circumstances were different, it didn't change anything.

Even more so, if Xue Yang wasn't held in higher esteem than the protagonist in his superiors' eyes, then there was no telling what would happen to the youth in the fight for the protagonist's safety with the male lead and his male lead halo. Only if Feng Xinya could fully invest in Xue Yang's safety alone without having to care about anyone else, would he be completely assured that nothing would happen to the boy.

As for matters concerning B Country, after their special forces got rid of Shadow and lost the male lead, Feng Xinya and Xue Yang as well as all of A Country decided to keep out of B Country's business from that moment forth. It's not like the male lead had the means to start anew in A Country. In fact, he wouldn't be able to even set foot inside A Country because of the high-leveled security checks at the borders and airports.

When his superior showed up on their doorstep with the news of their lost son, the Xue parents were in disbelief at first but set up the meeting time to be the soonest possible which was the next day. They had lived the past ten years believing that their son was dead only to find out that he was still alive!

Of course, they were extremely happy to know that they didn't have to grieve anymore. But the man at their doorstep didn't forget to mention the things the boy had gone through in order to prepare the couple for the negative treatment they were most likely to receive the next evening.

With his forenotice, the couple headed to the meeting whilst excited, happy, sad, regretful, and filled with remorse all at the same time.

In a private room on the top floor of a luxurious restaurant in A Country sat four individuals. A forcefully composed man and a fidgety woman sat across a tall and bulky indifferent man and a shorter thin boy whose head when seated next to his companion barely reached his shoulder. The room was large yet felt so small with the oppressive silence that surrounded everyone.