Lin Fan and Liang Xue's Past

Knock, knock... knock.

"Come in!"

After the office door opened, Liang Xue walked in. A trace of panic was clearly visible on her face.

Indeed, ever since the battle ended, Liang Xue had remembered what she had done inside Lin Fan's mech cockpit, so she had consciously and unconsciously been avoiding him.

She had not expected him to summon her so soon. It was an order from her superior, so she had no way to refuse, but she truly felt flustered inside.

"Close the door!"

Lin Fan said after glancing at Liang Xue's slightly panicked face.

Come to think of it, this was the first time Lin Fan had seen that expression on her. He suddenly realized that as long as she was not wearing that icy expression, he loved seeing every expression she made. Lin Fan even began to wonder whether something was wrong with his mind.

"Have a seat!"

After watching Liang Xue close the door, Lin Fan pointed at the sofa in the office.

Once seated, Liang Xue lowered her head slightly and did not dare look at Lin Fan. Her hands rested on her lap, her fingers twisting together, making her nervousness plain to see.

Lin Fan walked over and leaned against his desk. His eyes were filled with interest as he watched Liang Xue.

"You must have asked your father and confirmed that I wasn't lying to you, right?"

"Mm, I asked him on the way back!"

"Then can you tell me what exactly I said eleven years ago? After all, I don't have even the slightest memory of anything before I was nine! Don't tell me I was already making vows of eternal love when I was eight."

Lin Fan had originally wanted to make a joke to ease the atmosphere, but he suddenly noticed Liang Xue looking up at him with her beautiful eyes wide open.

Uh... don't tell me I guessed it just by casually saying that? Was the previous Lin Fan really that amazing? He was only eight! Liang Xue should have only been eleven back then!

But Liang Xue's gaze clearly conveyed shocked disbelief. You remembered?

"Really?"

Lin Fan cautiously asked as he looked into Liang Xue's eyes.

Liang Xue nodded slightly.

Oh God, no way. They had already sworn eternal love at eight?

Lin Fan could not help covering his head, feeling a headache coming on.

Wait, why was he getting a headache? The woman in front of him was, after all, a rare, stunning beauty, and her figure was beyond reproach. Why should he have a headache?

Besides, he did not dislike Liang Xue at all. Ever since seeing her smile once on the bridge, he had been unable to forget it and had even wanted to see it again.

At that moment, Lin Fan recalled the scene on the bridge, the scene inside the mech cockpit, and...

There seemed to be no reason for a headache at all.

"Liang Xue, you know now that I have no memories from before I was nine. If possible, could you tell me about the past?"

Lin Fan walked over, sat beside Liang Xue, and looked at her as he spoke.

She nodded slightly and began to tell him.

That was when Lin Fan was eight. Back then, Lin Zhen was not yet President, and Liang Xingchen was not yet the Federation's renowned God of War. The two families even lived in the same residential compound.

Ever since he was little, Lin Fan had always followed three-years-older Liang Xue around. His favorite phrase was that he would marry Liang Xue when he grew up. No one knew how he had matured so early, but from the age of five until he was eight, he never stopped saying it.

Liang Xue's icy expression had not formed only recently. Ever since her mother died, she had always been like that. Yet even though she wore that same cold face before her own father, she alone would smile in front of Lin Fan, who called her his wife every day.

It could be said that Lin Fan's childhood had been spent together with Liang Xue. In Liang Xue's heart, Lin Fan's status was even higher than her father's.

After all, Liang Xingchen was already a lieutenant general at the time and was constantly away commanding troops. Liang Xue only saw him a few times a year, and at home, there was only a nanny Liang Xingchen had hired.

Until the year Lin Fan turned eight, Lin Zhen became the Federation's new President. Because of that, Lin Fan's family could no longer continue living there and had to move into the Presidential Palace.

At their parting, Lin Fan still did not forget to shout to Liang Xue that he would marry her once he came of age!

Eleven-year-old Liang Xue had even given Lin Fan her first kiss in front of Lin Zhen, though it was only a brief, feather-light touch.

"I'll wait for you!"

That was the last thing Liang Xue said to Lin Fan.

A few weeks later, on Lin Fan's ninth birthday, he accidentally fell down the stairs. When he climbed back up, he was no longer the Lin Fan from before.

At the time, the Presidential Palace guards immediately took Lin Fan to the infirmary. However, since the system had already repaired his body, the doctors naturally could not find any injuries.

Knowing that he had transmigrated and had not obtained the original owner's memories, Lin Fan had claimed from that day onward that he had lost all of his memories.

Yet Liang Xue kept waiting for Lin Fan to come back for her, because she herself had no way of entering the Presidential Palace to see him.

And so she waited for many years, until after Liang Xue had just graduated from the Interstellar Military Academy and entered Mars Base.

By chance, she helped Liang Xingchen deliver a batch of equipment to the Interstellar Military Academy, where she saw the man she had thought about for so many years standing at the entrance to the library.

Though the man had grown up, Liang Xue recognized him at a glance. What she did not know was that she had completely vanished from his memories.

Liang Xue had wanted to walk over and call out to him, but then she saw a Western girl emerge from the library, her appearance in no way inferior to her own. What followed was a scene that broke her heart.

Lin Fan immediately followed that girl, walking beside her as he smiled and kept talking, even though she barely paid him any attention.

That time, Liang Xue returned to Mars Base with red eyes, even startling Liang Xingchen. But no matter how he questioned her, she remained silent.

In the end, Liang Xingchen could only learn from the accompanying staff that Liang Xue's drastic change in mood had begun after she returned from the Interstellar Military Academy.

After some investigation, Liang Xingchen discovered a name—Lin Fan, a freshman who had enrolled that year. After several more days of investigation, he learned that Lin Fan spent all day hovering around Emma Campbell.

He knew about Lin Fan and Liang Xue's past. He also knew about Lin Fan's amnesia. How could he not understand why his daughter had become like this?

But what could he do? Go to Lin Fan and demand answers? What explanation could an amnesiac possibly give?

The matter could only be dropped, but from that day onward, Liang Xingchen began paying attention to Lin Fan's situation at the Interstellar Military Academy.

Two years later, Lin Fan graduated early and followed Liang Xingchen to Mars Base.

At the time, Liang Xingchen still wanted to help his daughter. Perhaps if the two came into contact again, Lin Fan might recover his memories? And even if he did not, did that mean Lin Fan could never get back together with Liang Xue? His daughter was no worse than that Campbell girl, was she?

That had been Liang Xingchen's thinking at the time, which was why he arranged for Liang Xue to serve as Lin Fan's adjutant.

Unfortunately, things worsened once again. When Lin Fan and Liang Xue met again after being separated for more than ten years, Lin Fan acted as though he did not know Liang Xue at all. It completely chilled Liang Xue's heart.

It was not until Liang Xue saw Lin Fan personally piloting a mech to rescue her, and, overcome with emotion inside his mech's cockpit, asked why he had pretended not to know her and why he had forgotten what he once said, that she heard a possibility from Lin Fan that she had never considered.

"Sorry. I lost my memory after being injured ten years ago, so I have no memories from before I was nine."