At first, he thought that the couple didn't care about their daughter.
But later on, it seemed like there was more to it than that.
This man might have deliberately kept Selena in Beijing.
The reason could be related to the Turner family.
Hanley gestured across the table and said, "Sit."
Osvaldo smiled without expression and calmly sat down opposite him.
This person had opened his doors wide to welcome him in. He must have already decided to tell him everything.
Hanley glanced at Osvaldo and said, "You should thank the Turner family."
Osvaldo's eyes grew cold, with a sharp edge of hostility flashing through them.
That sentence revealed too much information. No one knew Selena's past with the Turner family better than Osvaldo did. She helped them because her Uncle David had caused harm to their entire family out of guilt and responsibility. Strictly speaking, it had nothing to do with Selena herself. But Hanley said that he should thank the Turner family anyway. However, he only cared about Selena.
It means that Selena owed the Turner family something...
In a flash of inspiration, Osvaldo's mind raced.
Even his breath was thrown off balance for a moment.
Hanley's voice was calm. "Do you know why she forgot about you back then?"
Osvaldo slowly lowered his eyelids.
After a long pause, he spoke in a cold and mournful tone. "... She couldn't make it when she was five years old?"
He should have thought of this earlier.
When Selena was taken away from his arms by someone else, there wasn't much life left in her.
Even with modern medicine being advanced, such fragile little people...
And this man standing at the pinnacle of power wouldn't just watch his only daughter die.
So everything that followed became easy to guess.
There was something extra in Hanley's indifferent expression. "When she was sent back to the Wang family back then, there wasn't much life left in her."
"And coincidentally, at that time, a man named Callum came to the Wang family with another little girl who also didn't have much vitality."
Osvaldo shook rarely and unexpectedly not for truth.
But it wasn't for revenge, it was for the man named Callum.
Once a dragon slayer, the warrior had become the very dragon he despised under the harsh winds of time.
"Callum brought his daughter to King's Court," Osvaldo lifted his eyes and stared at the person across from him. "He used 'God's Light' to save two children. Since then, Selena hasn't been herself."
Hanley looked at the young man across from him. "As powerful as 'God's Light' is, it can't exchange two people's souls without preparation."
And more than a decade later, when Aarav realized that his twin sister was in danger, he somehow managed to switch their misplaced souls back through thousands of miles and space.
A wave of emotion surged in Osvaldo's dark eyes when Selena left him years ago and became someone else. And now that she had become herself again after all these years, she met him once more.
There seemed to be an invisible thread connecting them together through time and distance that brought Selena back into his life after so many years.
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