The legendary life of a manga

Chapter 129 My First Love Cypher
in the courtyard.

Lake sat on a chair with a glass of bourbon, watching the snowflakes fall from the sky.

That's right.

Christmas, Christmas, there is no Santa Claus anymore, if there is no snow, then what's the point.

Skye, who was wearing a white down jacket and a snow velvet hat, opened the door and came out.

Lake tilted his head.

"Hi."

"Hi."

Skye sat on the chair next to him, looked at Lake, seemed to be thinking about something, and said after a while: "You don't seem to have mentioned to me that you were also adopted."

Lake frowned and looked at Skye: "No?"

There should be.

Lake remembered that when he asked Skye why he didn't go to a foster family in the hospital, he seemed to have mentioned that he had a resonance with Skye.

Skye shook his head: "No, you didn't."

Lake shrugged: "Well, now you know, how about it."

"...how about what?"

"Do you feel lucky to have met me?"

"If you say lucky, you mean that the first time I met you with appendicitis, and the second time I met you with craniotomy, if that's the case, yes, I'm really lucky."

"..."

Lake laughed and shook his head.

This is probably the deepest memory of the two of them. After all, meeting once was an accident, and the second meeting in a row would make them lie in the hospital bed. Wow, this is no longer an accident.

Skye clapped his hands and looked at Lake: "So, can you tell me your story?"

Lake looked at Skye: "The story is the same as yours, at most, I'm just a little bit luckier than you."

There was nothing much to tell about that story either.

But Skye is willing to listen, and Lake thinks it doesn't matter if he talks about it. His story is not a movie, and there is no exciting point, and there is no ups and downs at all.

The story is simple.

Lake was already three years old when he awakened his memory, and he was in a rescue center in Washington, DC. Perhaps because he was too demented before awakening, no foster families were willing to adopt him.

And then Lake stayed at the shelter until he was five years old, and one day Karen and Thaddeus came over and wanted to adopt a child from that shelter.

The social atmosphere at that time was different from the exaggerated one now. To put it simply, the Federation at that time was in its golden age, and it was not like many low-level trashy white people who liked to adopt children to cheat for relief funds.

At that time, the foster family was undoubtedly a paradise for the children in the rescue center.

and so……

The children in the rescue center where Lake was at that time laughed and ran to the meeting room, looked at Karen and Thaddeus inside, hoping to choose themselves as if they were picking numbers.

Lake didn't go then.

He has Su Hui, and it feels strange to recognize his parents for no reason, so when everyone ran to the conference room, Lake went to the library to continue to recognize ABCDE.

Hearing this, Skye blinked: "Then why would you..."

Lake shrugged: "Karen was looking for the bathroom and found the library."

At that time, when Lake was looking at the illustrated book in the library, Karen appeared behind him at some point.

After Lake came to his senses, he pointed to himself and said, he is not for sale, and the ones that can be sold are waiting for you to choose at the door of the conference room.

In hindsight.

Lake thought it might be because of this sentence that Karen abducted him back home.

But at that time, Karen was only stunned by this sentence, and then told Lake that she was looking for the bathroom. Lake oh, and led Karen to the bathroom.

three days later.

People from the Children's Department informed Lake to pack up and prepare to go to his new home.

Lake looked sideways at Skye: "That's it, I'm coming to Karen's house."

Skye blinked: "I think Karen must have been touched by the words not for sale."

Lake smiled and said, "You're not for sale, aren't you?"

A small smile appeared on Skye's face.

Lake rubbed his chin: "However... Speaking of this matter, in fact, Thaddeus wanted to adopt a friend of mine at that time."

Skye froze.

Lake thought about it, and then shook his head: "However, I looked for her at the time. If this is the case, I will definitely not leave. Even if I want to leave, I will take her with me, but she denied it at the time."

"and then?"

"No more."

Lake came back to his senses: "About the tenth day, I persuaded Karen to go to the ambulance center again, but at that time, she had already been adopted."

"she?"

"Correct."

Lake smiled, looked at Skye, and the corner of his mouth curled up: "Speaking of which, she and I both gave each other our first kiss."

Skye made a disgusted face: "Hey, I'm only 13 years old."

I lost my first kiss when I was five years old.

Am I in a wolf's den?
A picture suddenly appeared in Skye's mind, she was a little white rabbit grazing leisurely, and then the picture changed, and she fell into the wolf's den.

This guy doesn't want to play with some ghost father, does he?

This is punishable.

Skye looked at Lake with a frightened look in his eyes.

"boom!"

"Ow!"

Skye covered his head: "It hurts, is this corporal punishment?"

Lake shook the badge on his waist: "You go to the police."

"..."

Skye rubbed his head angrily, and changed the subject: "So, the girl from the rescue center is your first love?"

Lake nodded: "Yes, don't tell Karen."

Skye smiled and looked at Lake: "Then tell me, do you still remember the girl's name?"

Lake looked up at the heavy snow falling in his eyes.

He remembered that the girl's original name had something to do with snow. After all, their first kiss was on a snowy day when they were four years old. Lake also wrote a poem at that time.

Today I come to think, the snowy night is flying.

"Cypher!"

"what?"

Lake looked at Skye, thinking that the picture became clearer and clearer under this memory, and said with a smile: "Her name, Cypher!"

Skye muttered a few times, then looked up at Lake: "Don't you have a last name?"

talking.

Skye seemed to think of something, and made an apologetic gesture towards Lake.

What kind of surname can a group of orphans have? Although many orphans know the surname of their biological mother, there are also some who don't know the names of their biological parents.

Like Skye.

That Cypher, Skye thought, should be just like her.

"Haven't you thought about finding her?"

"found."

Lake said lightly: "I've been looking for it for three years, but I can't find it, so I haven't found it."

Skye tilted her head: "She was adopted, maybe she changed her name and surname."

Lake shook his head: "Maybe, but she probably won't change her name."

"why?"

"We made an agreement."

Lake took a sip of bourbon: "We said in the aid center that even if we separated in the future, I will still be called Lake. Maybe we will have an extra surname, but our name will never change."

With a thought in his mind, Skye looked at Lake cautiously: "So..."

she died?
Lake shook his head: "Maybe. Later, after I couldn't find a match in the system, I went to the rescue center, but it had already been changed to something else. At that time, most of the materials in the rescue center were paper-based. Yes, but I can't find her information in the system, so there are only two possibilities."

or die.

Or become a foreigner.

but……

The second possibility is very low. When Lake and Karen went to the rescue center, they heard from the reception staff that Cypher was adopted by an ordinary family.

and so.

Most likely dead.

Skye stuck out his tongue and said to Lake, "Sorry, I didn't mean it."

Lake waved his hand: "I've already seen it, but I told this story not to tell me anything, but to tell you something."

Skye pointed to himself and blinked: "Me?"

Lake nodded, sat up from the chair, and looked at Skye with a smile on his face: "Do you have any friends who have made promises? Maybe, you can make up for my regrets on you."

Skye was taken aback for a moment, then laughed dryly: "Thank you, unfortunately, I don't have one."

Done.

Skye got up directly and walked into the house.

real or fake.

It's a pity that I fell in love at the age of three. You thought I was you. My first kiss was well preserved.

Lake looked at Skye who disappeared from his sight with his ponytail tossing, laughed haha, got up and walked into the room, ready to add some wine to his glass.

inside the house.

Betty and Skye, who had just walked in, were decorating the Christmas tree that Lake had bought in the afternoon by the fireplace.

Ross had promised to bring one back from Quantico.

pity.

This year, there was an extra minor in the family, which made Betty very excited, and asked Lake to buy one first, while Karen didn't say anything.

But if you don't speak, you don't stand in line by default.

It is clear.

Lake couldn't entangle Betty, so he had to call Ross to tell him not to bring a tree home, so he went to the town to buy such a Christmas tree.

Since Betty, the decoration of the Christmas tree has been done by Betty, and all the decorations are kept by Betty. A few years ago, Betty became a little irritated after the novelty, but today, there is an extra little loli, Betty's The novelty seems to be back.

At this moment.

Betty is teaching Skye, telling Skye how to hang the Christmas tree with extreme decorations without bending the Christmas tree, and how to draw circles around the Christmas tree so that he can tell Santa Claus who comes out of the fireplace at night, How should his presents be placed, and also save time for Santa Claus.

"Is Skye's gift ready?"

"get ready."

Lake, who was at the bar of the wine cabinet, heard Karen's whispered words, smiled and said, the gift is stored in the storage space, just take it out at night and put it away.

"Jingle Bell!"

Lake took out his old-fashioned mobile phone, looked at the calling number on it, and connected.

"Hey!"

"...Long time no see, Lake!"

"..."

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