User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 02-03-'12 — Leaked AC3 info!/@comment-220.255.1.39-20120303104223/@comment-25419730-20120303111539

Wait, it might make sense if Lee was still fighting for the Brits back then, when Connor was a boy. And then he spares him because he's a child, or something, and joins the Continental army.