Her words were full of emotion, and Caesar's hands were shaking violently.
"What is this, your new trick? What else do you want to get from me? I've left a long time ago. You won't get anything from me!"
"Caesar, it's not like that. I have left the organization and paid a price for it. This time, I am here for you."
"You left after learning about the truth. Now, we are free, and no longer need to carry the burden of the country. Let's start again, shall we?"
Caesar looked at her coy smile and thought of how she used to be by his side. "Caesar, I like that little bear, can you buy it for me?"
Caesar used to think that she was the purest and most kind-hearted woman in the world, and he wished he could even pluck the stars from the sky for her.
But it was the same woman that murdered all his men in cold blood as if she were Satan itself, crawling out of infinitely burning inferno, bringing out all the fury of hell with her.
Caesar suddenly pushed her to the ground. "Start over? Well, why don't you bring Mill back to life and we'll start over from there?"
With Everly's skills, she could completely avoid Caesar, but she allowed him to push her to the ground.
"Although I can't let the dead come back to life, I can exchange my life for it."
"What do you mean?"
Everly pulled loose her belt and let her kimono fall. Her tender naked body was exposed completely in Caesar's eyes.
Caesar didn't know what she meant, so he fixed his eyes on her belly.
There was a long scar on her belly, which curled up like a centipede.
"I did seppuku on myself, but God let me live, for no reason I can think of. I told myself that if I had to live and I would definitely come to you."
There was also a bullet scar on her chest. As time went by, it faded to a not-so-obvious slit.
There were also countless whip marks and other scars on her body.
With those scars on her body, her originally tender and white skin seemed rather hideous.
Everly had always been a strong woman but being a spy was nothing ordinary, even more so for a woman.
"These wounds..." Even Caesar, who had been through a lot, felt shocked when he saw the scars all over her body.
"Blessings by my father, but it doesn't matter now. I have broken up with him. In the future, I am not Everly Houghton, but Everly Tang."
Caesar knew that it was not easy to break away from the organization. Everly had suffered far more than he could now see.
"What's done is done. And whether you did it on your own free will or it was just an order you were following doesn't matter now, water under the bridge."
"There's no turning back for us now. I've got someone I love."
Everly did not seem surprised at all. "You're talking about that little girl named Rose, right? Caesar, you don't love her at all. The only reason you are with her is that you are using her as a substitute for me."
"Everly, don't think too highly of yourself. I admit that I loved you very much in the past, and I also wanted to marry you and be with you for a lifetime."
"But after what you've done, you doomed our only chance together. I love Rose and she's no substitute for anyone."
"I have seen her, although we look different, her character and eyes are the same as mine. Are you sure that's not why you love her?"
Caesar thought of the first time he saw Rose open her eyes on the boat. Her eyes were so innocent that there was no impurity in them at all.
He had never thought about it in this way but now that he did, he realized how similar the two of them were.
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