Although it is a bit shabby, this heroic spirit is super strong

However, he had to continue the show.

For the sake of his sister Marianne, and also for his wife and children to have a more stable future.

"Father, how about you wait a moment..."

"Oh, forget it. There's no rush."

Hearing Owen's request to stop, Byron also put down the chain in his hand in order to appease him.

He understood his son and knew that what he was doing made Owen feel very uncomfortable.

What happened today made Byron want to start repairing his father-son relationship with Owen so that he could train him to be his ideal successor in the future.

"Thank you father."

*

"Mr. Xiao, the plan has been going very smoothly so far. Now all that's left is to notify the Wyatt family."

After dealing with Byron, Owen found Xiao and others who were having tea and taking a break in a cafe.

At this time, the real Crystal saw Owen coming and stopped joking and bickering with Xiao.

"Really? But Mr. Owen doesn't look like everything is going smoothly as planned."

Seeing Owen looking like he had swallowed a bitter melon, Xiao joked in a friendly manner.

"Alas, although I also know that the eldest daughter of the Wyatt family has a very bad personality, but..."

Owen was unable to continue speaking.

"Are you ashamed of this?"

"Um…"

"No matter how much I explain to you that she's a scumbag, you won't feel any better. And I won't comfort you by saying she's a bad person and deserves what she gets."

Xiao gestured for Owen to sit down and asked the waiter to bring him a cup of black coffee, which Owen liked.

"I personally think you should maintain that guilt, and at the same time, continue to do it even if you feel really guilty about it."

"Mr. Xiao, what do you mean..."

"It's very rude to say this, but both your mother and Mr. George, who raised you, are very kind and gentle people, but..."

Owen shuddered when he heard Xiao mention his mother and uncle.

"They failed to protect the things they cherished, and they couldn't even protect themselves, right?"

Owen couldn't refute Xiao's statement.

It was because his mother was too innocent and kind that she was deceived by the scumbag Byron, and in the end she even went crazy and did such an excessive thing to her own daughter.

And it was indeed because his uncle George was too honest that he did not conflict with Byron, causing the once beautiful Michel Street to fall into its current state.

In the end, even his wife and daughter were brutally murdered by Byron's bastards.

"Mr. Owen, to be honest, I admire your kindness even now. However, this world is not kind to kind and gentle people, is it?"

"I…"

"I don't want to change you, I just hope you can be prepared. I believe in giving up in order to gain, so I hope you will be prepared to protect the things around you that you cherish."

Don’t regret it like I did...

Xiao's tone sounded more like a request than an instruction, which surprised Owen.

Owen was silent for a moment, clenching his fists.

"I understand, Mr. Xiao. Thank you very much for forgiving Marianne and for helping me."

"You don't have to be like this. Even if I tell you to, you'll still do it."

Xiao looked at Owen bowing deeply to him and smiled bitterly helplessly.

"This is the most respectful way my grandfather taught me to show others. Please forgive me."

"As expected..."

Xiao is now basically certain that Owen and Marian's grandfather should also be a time traveler.

"I won't disturb you guys from now on. I'll go and finish the rest of the things."

Before Owen came, he planned to leave after reporting the situation. After breaking the atmosphere between Xiao and his lovers, he felt even more embarrassed.

"Then I'll trouble you from now on."

Chapter 135: Xiao's Past with Childhood Friends

"Looks like I can bring a nice souvenir to that Hildreth girl later."

"Why do you suddenly bring up that woman?"

When she heard Hillilite's name, Crystal pouted as if she was throwing a tantrum.

"I'm planning to leave Owen and Marianne with Hildreth. It just so happens that she's short of trusted personnel. But wouldn't that mean I'd owe her a favor?"

Thanks to Xiao's help, Hildreth has now gained an unshakable position in the O'Neill family.

However, this also led to many people in the family who were dissatisfied with Hillilite to start colluding with external forces.

Hillilite also complained to Xiao in her letters more than once that there were few people around her whom she could trust, and kept hinting to Xiao whether he should come to help her.

So Xiao felt that Hillelite would be happy to accept the Owen siblings.

"That's true...but doesn't that woman owe you a lot?"

"But isn't this a bit of a loss? How much effort did we put in to make her owe us a favor?"

"That's true..."

Crystal thought about how hard she worked to protect Pierre and agreed with Xiao's words.

"So, I plan to discuss this with Owen later and use the fact that his grandfather is a time traveler like me to negotiate with Hillilite."

"Eh?!"

This information surprised Chris.

The Empire began summoning time travelers as heroes over 20 years ago, and large-scale summoning has only occurred in recent years.

Owen's grandfather is obviously not among them.

This news can be regarded as a super blind box for Hillilite.

Maybe nothing will be gained, but maybe through the matter of Owen's grandfather, the O'Neal family can obtain the magic of summoning from another world that has been controlled by the royal family, or similar magic with similar strategic significance.

"Ah, you're still the same."

Knowing Xiao's plan, Crystal smiled helplessly.

"By the way, Sister Crystal, what exactly happened between you and that woman named Qiong? I have a feeling that Brother Xiao is very angry with that woman because of you."

Rose watched as the two tried to start a new conversation.

"Xiao, is this what it looks like?"

"That's the way it is. Now that you know what I'm thinking, don't tell anyone."

Seeing that Crystal looked very surprised, Xiao admitted it helplessly, and pinched Rose's soft and elastic little face in revenge.

"why?"

"Well, I'll explain it. But it might not be a very interesting story."

The girls were very surprised to see Xiao's unusually gloomy expression.

*

That was before Xiao traveled through time, and before his relationship with his two childhood sweethearts completely broke down.

At that time, he was just an ordinary high school student who had just returned to campus after a short winter vacation.

"Good morning, Shuji, Akira."

"Good morning, Xiao."

On the first day of school, Xiaozheng greeted two boys with whom he was on good terms, but their reactions were very abnormal.

"Why are you two so nervous? Are you looking at something weird?"

When Xiao noticed that the boy named Ming subconsciously put his phone behind his back, he moved over curiously.

"Watching something like this in school is really bold. Be careful not to be thought of as a pervert by the girls."

Noticing that there were no girls around, Xiao approached the two and started joking around with them.

"Hey, isn't this Nao and Hirohito-nii?"

"Xiao, do you know this man?"

"Yeah, he's Nao's brother. We don't meet often, but he's a very capable person."

"Is it my brother?!"

Looking at the two boys' astonished expressions, Xiao just smiled and didn't take it seriously.

Every time he thought back to himself at that time, he felt regretful and blamed himself.

Because of his close relationship with his childhood sweetheart, he was somewhat aware of the complex situation of the Nangong family.

When Nao was very young, her parents divorced because of her father's infidelity.

After that, her mother raised her two daughters alone.

However, Ms. Nangong was not in good health and died of illness when Nao was nine years old.

After that, Nao's brother Hirohito, who ran away from their father's family, took care of the two.

Nao's brother was very busy at work, and even Akatsuki hadn't seen him very often.

So he didn't take the two male students' surprise seriously at that time.

"Good morning, Xiao. You came unexpectedly early today."

"Good morning, Nao. I'm just a little early, that's all. Are you so surprised?"

The lovely and energetic voice called out, drawing Akatsuki's attention to the cute girl who had just entered the classroom.

With beautiful and bright eyes, a delicate face like a porcelain doll and a well-proportioned figure, this campus idol-level beauty is Akatsuki's childhood sweetheart, Nanmiya Nao.

"I found it strange because you usually arrive very late."

"I've changed my ways and stopped staying up late playing games. Why did you change your hairstyle today?"

Xiao felt a little fresh when he saw his childhood sweetheart tie her long hair into a lively side ponytail.

"Guess?"

Nao walked briskly towards him.

"But I don't have any clues. How can I guess?"

"Hey, there's really no fun in this. Let me give you a hint."

Looking at the cute girl's somewhat evil smile, Xiao suddenly had a bad feeling.

"There's a small compartment inside the cupboard in your room that even Ms. Huixiang doesn't know about."

"Huh?! H-How did you know that?!"

"Last time when Ms. Huixiang came back from vacation, she asked me to teach her how to cook, and she stopped by to explore your room for a bit."

"Could it be that time..."

Xiao recalled that when his mother got a long vacation some time ago, she often invited Nao to her home to play.

"Do you have any idea now?"

"No...wait a minute, you're not going to give those things back..."

"Hehe, although Miss Liliana is indeed cute, it's not good to daydream like this all day long."

Xiao then realized that Nao was deliberately using the hairstyle of the heroine in the bishoujo game to tease him.

"You, you didn't play that game, did you?"