The Billionaire Stands Up for Me Chapter 54: You Saved Me Twice

Daniel raised a hand slightly, "Let’s go, let’s sit on the terrace over there, there are fewer people."

I opened my mouth slightly, paused, and asked, "Don’t you need to entertain the guests?"

"Aren’t you a guest?" implying that keeping company was also entertaining a guest.

My cheeks flushed again, and I walked with him to the second-floor terrace, feeling the cool night breeze outside and the fragrant grass and trees in the mountains. The question resurfaced in my mind.

"Mr. Carter, I—"

"Lily, you..."

After a mont of silence, we both suddenly turned to look at each other and spoke at the sa ti.

Then our eyes t, and we both stopped, unable to help but laugh.

Daniel raised his hand, "You go first."

I pressed my lips, trying to calm my chaotic heartbeat, looked at him, and asked, "I want to know if you have known for a long ti? And if you’ve been intentionally getting close to all this ti?"

Daniel’s Adam’s apple moved, and his deep, captivating eyes fixedly looked at . After a mont of contemplation, he spoke, "Lily, do you really have no impression of at all?"

I was puzzled, eyes wide open looking at him, "We... did we know each other before?"

As I said this, I frantically searched my mind for any trace of this person in front of , but there was indeed no impression.

Seeing my face full of confusion, Daniel smiled elegantly and gave a hint, "It was many years ago, so it’s normal that you don’t rember."

"Many years ago?" I was even more puzzled, tentatively asked, "Could it be when I was a child?"

"Yes, when you were eight or nine, in Granshire."

He ntioned a place na, and my eyes suddenly lit up, "My grandmother’s hotown?"

"Yes." Daniel leaned slightly on the terrace railing, and his handso face seed lost in mories, "I was about ten years old then, and because I was rebellious and unruly, my grandfather took to his army’s station, and I stayed in Granshire for three years."

I frowned, trying to recall, but the ti was too long ago, and it was hard to rember.

"I was quite bold as a child too. My grandmother said I dared to fight with the boys in town, could it be that I happened to beat you up?" Otherwise, why would he rember after so many years?

Daniel laughed even more, shaking his head, "You didn’t beat up, you actually saved , and you saved twice."

"What? I saved you? And saved you twice?" I was even more shocked, having no mory of such heroic deeds when I was a child.

"Yes, one ti was when I and a few kids from the army’s family quarters got into a fight with a group of kids outside over basketball. The other kids were a bit older, and we got beaten badly. Later, the police ca and we were saved. If the police hadn’t arrived, things could have gone really bad—later I learned that it was a little girl who ran to the police station that day and told the police about the fight at the basketball court, with heads broken and bleeding, and that lives were in danger..."

Daniel hadn’t finished when a distant, vague image flashed through my mind.

It seed like there was such a thing...

That day I was on my way ho from playing at a friend’s house, and as I passed the basketball court, I saw a group of boys fighting, throwing bricks from the grass, with blood flowing from their heads, still fighting.

I shouted for them to stop, saying soone would get killed, but no one paid attention to , so I sprinted to the town police station and called for the police.

But when I and the police were halfway there, I t my grandmother calling ho for dinner, and I went ho with her.

"You were among the injured?" I was shocked, my voice so high it went out of tune.

"Yes, the one with a bloody head was ." Daniel nodded in acknowledgnt, then bent down and pointed to the spot on his forehead at the hairline, "It’s right here, but it was many years ago, and the scar isn’t obvious anymore—it got five stitches back then."

I followed his words and looked over.

Sure enough, on the right side of his forehead, at the hairline, there was a fine scar, lighter in color, and not noticeable unless you looked closely.

"When I recovered, I learned that we were saved because a kind person called the police, so I went to the town police station to ask about the person who called in, but by the ti I found your house, your grandmother had already taken you back to the city, and we missed each other then."

I stared, stunned, looking at him, not knowing what to say.

It turned out that my "connection" with him could be traced back to childhood.

So amazing!

"Then... what about the other ti?" Since we missed each other, how did I save him another ti?

Daniel nodded, continuing, "The other ti was the following sumr vacation when I went swimming with two kids from the family quarters by the river. Actually, I’m a pretty good swimr, but I was unlucky that ti, and I got a leg cramp shortly after getting into the water. The kids with saw being carried away by the water and tried to save at first but couldn’t catch up, so they ran to find an adult..."

As he said this, I suddenly rembered!

My eyes lit up, and I continued, "At that ti I was passing by Granshire Bridge, about to go to the street to buy ice cream. I saw soone struggling in the river and quickly called for help, but it was midday and there was no one on the road!"

Seeing I rembered, Daniel’s eyes and brows showed a smile again, "You hurriedly ran down to the riverbank, first threw a rotten stick to , but it was too light and small and was washed away imdiately. You then picked up a tree root and handed it to . At that ti, I was holding onto water weeds, and the weeds were about to break. Luckily you handed the tree root to just in ti. I luckily grabbed it — just then, the friends who went to get help also called over so adults and successfully got out."

I had a pretty vivid mory of this incident.

Because afterward, I rember a few officers in uniform brought many gifts to my grandmother’s house.

But I was so nervous and shy back then, hadn’t seen much of the world, that seeing so many officers in uniform visit my house scared so much that I hid in my room and didn’t co out.

"My grandpa took to your house to thank you, but you refused to co out, only your grandmother greeted us. I saw you hiding behind the bedroom door, and I even smiled at you."

"Really?" I asked in surprise, having no mory of that scene.

Daniel said helplessly, "It’s the first ti I’ve been ignored so thoroughly in my life."

I felt a bit embarrassed, my smile awkward, and modestly said, "Actually that ti it didn’t really count as saving you... Even without , your friends had called for adults."

"No, I had already drifted far in the river by that ti, my leg was cramping and I couldn’t exert strength, I could only try to keep my face above water, but I swallowed quite a bit of water, and my strength was completely exhausted. If you hadn’t thrown the tree root to in ti, when the water weeds broke, I would have sunk directly. Even if help had arrived, they might not have gotten to in ti to save ."

After Daniel finished speaking, his deep, intense gaze fixed on , and he said seriously, "So it was you who saved ."

My cheeks burned hotly, completely unexpected that he would rember sothing so vividly from over ten years ago.

I lowered my eyes shyly, remained silent for a mont, and suddenly thought of sothing, "Have you been keeping an eye on all these years? Then why didn’t you ever... ever—"