Love Began with the First Meeting novel Chapter 1292

Edgar's deep eyes were fixed on Maggie. Her face was firm and her eyes stared back into his. Although she said that in a pretended casual voice, he knew that she wasn't lying. "If you did that because I once rescued you in your childhood, then you are saying that you chose to join a military college just for me, but to serve our country as a competent soldier is for your own good." His tone was devoid of any emotion. "Maggie Du, don't waste your time pursuing me any longer. It doesn't matter if you're trying to play a prank or if you're serious. The result will not change."

Edgar's eyes looked increasingly distant and Maggie felt her heart shatter in an instant. "Sir, you taught us that nothing is impossible in the world." She pursed her lips and looked intensely at him before turning around and leaving in a fit of anger and agony. She didn't bother to wait for him to finish his sentence.

Edgar looked at Maggie's proud back, striding away from him. It was not until her figure had disappeared from his sight into the dark night that he withdrew his eyes from her. The roast lamb leg had lost its warmth. Edgar smiled bitterly and grabbed a piece of it, taking a big bite and chewing it fiercely.

"I think I'm too old to understand what young people are thinking,"

a voice came from a short distance away from him. Edgar turned slowly to look in the direction of the voice. A man was walking towards him in his military uniform with a shoulder mark indicating that he was a major general of the army. He looked like he was in his late forties.

"But I just realized that I don't understand what you are thinking either. They say that even a meagre three years' difference in age creates a generation gap. If you look at it that way, there are a few generation's worth of gap between us," the man joked.

Edgar cleaned his hand, stood in attention and was about to salute him. But he was stopped half-way by the man, who simply waved his hand. "Don't try to shut my mouth by interrupting." He glanced at the roast lamb leg beside Edgar and asked with a smile at the corners of his mouth, "How does it taste? The roast lamb from Maggie Du is especially yummy, right?

"Every member of the Eagle Special Brigade has at least once been stuck in the mountain forest, where there is absolutely no meat to grub on, and I'm no exception. For us, this is a delicacy." A smile appeared on Edgar's face. He raised the roast meat to the man, inviting him to enjoy the meal with him.

The man shook his head and said, "I already had supper. I got off work just now, so I came here to see you, but I wasn't expecting to stand witness to such a dramatic scene." With a grin, he continued to tease Edgar, "I didn't want to disturb you when I saw that Claire Qin was here talking with you. I wanted to go for a walk, but before I went away, Maggie Du appeared and I watched the show."

Edgar didn't seem to mind being teased by him. As he took a bite off the meat, he said, "This is not the first time that you are enjoying a joke at my expense, and it seems that you take quite a lot of pleasure in it."

"You can't blame me. Stories around you are always so interesting. Mr. William Du was planning to visit here today. Lucky for you, he went to the armored brigade instead. If he had come here at the wrong time, I wonder how you would have handled the situation."