Simon found himself alone in the middle of the streets, with his father nowhere in sight, and his headache was increasing.

Shit.

What has he done he is really a fool to run away like that, why did he forget that he is just a vulnerable child.

"Child, are you lost?"

Great, fucking great.

Simon looked at the lady with a sweet smile too sweet for her own good, he had this feeling that this lady was a piece of bad news.

"No."

He didn't fail to notice how her smile fell a little after he had said that, now he saw fifty percent sure that she was a child stealer, just great now he has to deal with this as well.

"Oh, where are your parents."

"There." He pointed his fingers backward.

The woman looked in that direction, "Where?"

"There," Simon said but then suddenly his head ached not now, not now please if he fainted here then he will surely be abducted and might never be able to see his father again, oh god no, he never hated himself more than now.

A grown man his ass, he behaved like a child and now he was going to suffer this is why parents teach their children not to run in-crowd.

"Child? are you okay?" the woman asked and moved forward she wanted to touch him but he suddenly ran away, god knows where he was going but he ended up in an alleyway.

Great, he wanted to just cry now.

"Child?" Goddamn this woman is so persistent, 

"what do you want!" he asked.

"I just want to take you to your family."

"I can go on my own bitch now get lost."

He said and the woman was shocked for some time before she spoke again and this time she was angry, "what did you say you mutt, I am done being nice I am going to sell you to the cruelest merchant."

She said and raised her hand but Simon ran past her without her being able to catch him he had fast reflexes after all, and thankfully he had seen his father. "FATHER!" He yelled at the top of his lungs and Yibo saw him after a few seconds Yibo ran towards him but he was quite far the woman on the other hand just pushed him forwards.

Making him fall on the ground, his head was spinning and he suddenly felt powerless, and dizzy and he didn't notice the horse carriage running towards him, "Simon GET UP!"

Yibo yelled and ran towards his son as fast as he could in the crowd pushing people Haoxuan also did his best to reach him Yibo's heart stopped when he saw the horse carriage coming at him at full speed with no intention of stopping, "SIMON!"

Yibo yelled his heart nearly stopped beating when he saw the carriage approaching Simon even Haoxaun was anxious he was almost there but still not close enough to reach Simon, "YOUNG MASTER."

Simon saw the carriage from but his body was unable to move he was just too powerless, 'Oh goddess please don't let me die so easily' he thought as he saw the carriage too near, but before anyone could do anything, a man picked him up from the ground and moved out of the carriage's way.

Simon gently opened his eyes feeling himself floating in the air, he saw the face of the man that saved his life and when he did he couldn't take his eyes off him, he kept on staring at the man he had longed to meet.

The person he wronged the most and the person he desired to see so much, he was the same just a little bit younger than before, same eyes same mole, the same face, same face as Sean. the man caught him staring and asked, "What are you staring at Brat."

Simon smiled, typical of him to behave like this hate on the surface and love on the inside.

Simon suddenly hugged the man and the man's eyes widened and his body became stiff, "I missed you Zhan!"

Xiao Zhan was the commander of the Northern Army, the area under the Wang Dukedom. 

The man who had always called Simon a brat and had often said that he was troublesome and what not but his actions were always different from his words,  in his last life Zhan's entire family was ruined because of Simon.

Simon's one lie that Zhan was abusing him made Yibo make his life a living hell, Yibo had taken command of the Army and demoted him but the temple made and the royalty didn't let Zhan go that easily was demoted to the status of that of a commoner and he was made to work like a servant all of this was done to lessen the power of marchioness family that worked under the Wang Dukedom and were neutral like them.

And this is what would happen to those who were neutral just one mistake and  the temple, royalty, and nobility will make sure to ruin these people

And because of the temple and Royalty, even Yibo couldn't interfere much. Even if Yibo wanted to help Zhan it would only invite trouble but Simon knows that Yibo had always taken care of Zhan from behind the scenes.

And even after all this in his last life, it was Zhan who had saved his life, by taking the sword that was aimed at Simon in his heart.

Simon hugged him tightly as he remembered the past. In this life, Simon will never let Zhan go through any such problem ever.

"SIMON!" Yibo came and snatched Simon from Zhan before hugging him tightly and after that, he put him on the ground and was ready to slap him, "HAVE YOU GONE MAD HUH WHO TOLD YOU TO RUN LIKE THAT, I WILL BREAK YOUR LEGS IF YOU ANYTHING LIKE THAT SPOILED BRAT!"

However, Yibo didn't slap him because Simon was already sick and pale so he just picked him up before he looked at Simon's savior and when he did Yibo paused, he just stared at Zhan and Zhan stared at him.

Both were having this staring competition, there was longing, but there was anger as well.

Now that Simon remembers Yibo and Zhan never confirmed their relationship there was always this understanding this weird attachment and glances that made it obvious that they were in love and obvious to only those who paid attention.

Like Simon's mother who had told Simon to accuse Zhan in the first place because she wanted to break dukedom and she started by breaking the bond between Wang and the Xiao family, Zhan and Yibo never made any move, and the entire empire thought that these two hated each other and Simon thought that two, and the way they are glaring at each other with hostility also shows that they hate each other.

"Commander Zhan," Yibo said, but the tone of his voice was rather firm and sounded angry.

While Zhan just moved back and smirked his smirk more like an angry smirk, "Greetings duke."