 During the mission, events resulted in the death of Ethan's family by rival Aramov factions within the group, and although the mission was terminated following the disappearance of Ethan to the Middle East, Ryan maintains contact with him for CHERUB and his follow-up missions against the Aramov clan become one of CHERUB's biggest assignments in history.Falling in love with contact Natalka during the Aramov mission, Ryan pines for her even after his return to the UK, and following his retirement from CHERUB in 2017, he is helped by James Adams to find her, resuming their relationship from where they left off three years before.Ning was adopted by Choaxiang and Ingrid from an [[orphanage]] in [[Dandong]] when she was young.