The 26th floor of the Wayne Hotel has the most luxurious restaurant with the best view in Gotham. Sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, you can have a panoramic view of the entire city skyline. It is known as the Eye of Gotham.
The most famous thing about this restaurant is its extremely strict membership invitation system. After all, Batman’s suspicious character will not let anyone see Gotham’s skyline casually. There are many gourmets who want to explore the restaurant.
I was once turned away because of my unqualified status, but the more people scolded me, the more curious they became about what is in the restaurant of the world's richest man.
The decoration of this restaurant is exactly the same as Wayne Manor, showing a classic style due to the solid materials used, and at the same time it has Gotham's unique Gothic magnificence.
The floor is made of black and dark purple marble, with each color separated by gold lines. The bronze handrail columns are inlaid with monster statues that only exist in fantasy. Four huge and thick Roman columns support the Gothic
The dome and curtains slid down from both sides of the walls and pillars, and the sunlight filtered through the slender and sharp Gothic windows was filtered into gloomy and hazy tones.
Thalia has seen the interior decoration of countless magnificent buildings, but none of them gave her such a shocking feeling. The darkness in Gotham is not only like drizzle, but sometimes also like an overwhelming torrent. When she is in it, she only feels
I feel like a bird fluttering in a dark storm. Even if the wind supports me unconditionally, I cannot rely on each other at this moment.
Gloomy, lonely, and isolated from the world, these are the dark blades that pierce directly into people's hearts in every old Gotham building.
Thalia looked up at the Gothic candlesticks that were sometimes scattered and sometimes overlapped on the wall, and she felt her mind swaying with the heavy firelight.
Sitting opposite her, Bruce Wayne was wearing a very decent sapphire blue suit, and his eyes were as blue as the door that the wind and snow left for the world to see the truth of dreams. When he looked over intently, Thalia prepared
All the good words were forgotten.
"I'm sorry, ma'am, for taking the liberty of inviting you, but I think we should have a talk."
Bruce spoke first. He straightened his back, cut the food on the plate in an elegant but not overly restrained manner, and said: "To be honest, I didn't expect you to come to this city. This is so important to anyone."
It’s a decision that takes quite a lot of courage.”
"I'm here to find you." Thalia said bluntly.
"I knew it when we met again." Bruce nodded and said, "You expressed your intentions very fully, that's why we met here again."
"What are you going to talk to me about?" Thalia put one hand on the table, picked up a fork with the other hand, and fiddled with the food on the plate absentmindedly.
In a formal occasion, this would be a little rude, but Thalia was obviously dressed up carefully today. She wore a flowing fishtail skirt like a starry night. The upper body was made of thin suspenders and waist-cinching fishbones, and the lower body was soft.
The silk material is like flowing black honey, and when it blooms at the end, it is reminiscent of the mysterious deep sea undercurrent.
There is no doubt that Thalia is a beauty, and unlike most women Bruce has met, she knows her own charm and has honed it to a sharp edge, showing no trace of innocence or weakness, only
I want to tell everyone how dangerous she is as beautiful as she is.
This is an extremely unique temperament that makes it difficult to take eyes away from her. Thalia has always adhered to a principle. Her aggressive appearance can effectively filter out those who only covet her beauty but have no courage.
Bearing her dangers as a wimp, Thalia was content with Bruce's gaze so far.
In the past, most people looked at her with a cowardly lustful look, but when she looked back, they looked away as if they had seen a ghost, wishing to tear off their faces to make this look crazy.
Women don't give them any trouble.
But Bruce's gaze contained pure appreciation, and some very simple curiosity, not aggressive prying, but just curiosity.
Thalia wanted to be more straightforward. She thought it was time to ask Bruce for an answer. It would be better to gain his favor and make him his subordinate, but if not, just get his genes.
But just a second before Talia spoke, Bruce said as if he had picked the right time: "I haven't brought any female companions here because this restaurant has special meaning to me. You should have been to Wayne
It’s a manor, right?”
This successfully aroused Thalia's curiosity, so she nodded and said: "Yes, I can see the connection between the two locations. Their decorative styles are somewhat similar."
"Because these were all built by my parents." Bruce raised his head, rolled his eyes and looked around the ceiling, and said: "In their time, this style was popular for a long time. After they got married, they first built the West End style
Wayne Manor was moved to the South End intact, and the decoration style was updated, and then the Wayne Hotel was built in the same style."
"I don't know how to evaluate such a style." Thalia also turned her head to look at the deeper darkness behind the candlelight. It seemed a bit lonely and lonely, and also seemed to be threatening something.
"It's not like the decoration style that newlyweds would choose. When I first came here as a child, I had the same question, and the answer they gave me was that this was the style they chose after discussion.
I like it all.”
Thalia turned her head back and looked into Bruce's blue eyes again, which were suddenly filled with sincere apology.
"I'm sorry that I took such a big detour. What I want to say is that maybe this is the meaning of family. The great thing is that when they decide something together, they also see in each other that they are willing to cooperate with each other.
The courage to face all difficulties, and people call it love."
"This is completely different from the hormonal shock they received for the first time from each other's appearance and family background. If you choose family, it is like throwing the candles in the candlelight dinner into the fireplace and giving up a night of romance.
In exchange for long-lasting warmth and peace.”
Thalia didn't realize how long she was staring at Bruce. When she spoke, it was not the ambiguous teasing that she was good at. Her words were full of uncontrollable thoughts.
"So you've thrown the candle in?"
"This is the price you have to pay for making a choice." Bruce looked at Thalia's eyes intently and said: "I have been tempted by countless stunning beauties like you in the skirts of my skirts, and I have also been tempted by them.
Attracted by the beauty and liveliness, I chased a cat over the city regardless of the cost."
"But what really made me make my choice was that she jumped from the sky and plunged into the incomprehensible trivial matters from freedom and happiness. She didn't like taking care of children, she just liked me."
"I am a god to anyone who spares a little love from an already tight life to love me, and the same goes for you, ma'am."
Thalia looked back at Bruce, as if she was insulted, and asked in a ridiculous tone: "Why do you think I am as poor as your thief girlfriend? We are completely two different people!"
"Really?" Bruce put a piece of okra into his mouth and frowned slightly because of its sticky taste, but he still spread his eyebrows and said: "You don't have many choices, madam, if I don't have a choice
Respecting you, but publicly rejecting you in a rather nasty and insulting way, can you still convince yourself that sleeping with me is just to get back at me?"
"You know you can't." Bruce interrupted Thalia's retort and said: "You know clearly that in a patriarchal society, no matter how you stare at me, you can't bring pressure to me, no matter what your purpose is.
Steal my genes or whatever, and people will just think you're a slut."
Thalia squeezed the fork tightly, stared into Bruce's eyes and said, "I don't care..."
"But I have to consider my reputation and that of my daughter." Bruce continued to cut his head and cut the food. He said: "When I choose a family, I must consider every family member. Because of the existence of patriarchal society, some of the things I have suffered
The moral pressure will inevitably flow to my wife and daughter. To adults, this is just another affair of mine. But Aisha has just entered elementary school this year, and the children will amplify their incomprehension into greater malice. I
Such incidents must be completely avoided."
Thalia began to feel confused. She didn't fully understand what Bruce said. The main thing she didn't understand was family.
The apple of the eye of the leader of the Assassin League has understood most things in this world with talent and perseverance that are unimaginable to ordinary people. But if he has to find a blank, it may be family love and family.
When Thalia was young, her mother was killed, so she only remembered her father. But for her father Lei Xiaogu, her impression was only of endless cruel training and orders for various difficult tasks.
Thalia has never experienced any normal family affection, and has no understanding of the human social unit of the family. Most of the assassins of the Assassin League come from orphans raised by Lei Xiaogu all over the world, and they have no concept of family. This
The topic did not appear in Thalia's first half of her life.
As the saying goes, a book can only be read when it is used. When Thalia needed to talk the most, she came across a topic that made her brain go blank. She had only seen the most typical American blue-collar family in magazines. She didn't know what it was like.
Is it normal, so I can’t even say a few words of joking ridicule.
"You love your daughter very much." Thalia said dryly.
"And I'm very surprised that your father would instruct you to do such a thing." Bruce looked up at Thalia and said: "Usually a father will try his best to prevent his daughter from getting such a reputation, or even having something similar.
The tendency is, they all want to grab their guns and blast that bastard into pieces right away."
"I..." Thalia hesitated for a moment, then said: "This was not his instigation, I just... need your help."
"Why do you want my genes?"
"I need an offspring."
"Then why do you need offspring?"
After Talia was silent for a moment, she curled up one side of her long hair with one finger and said thoughtfully: "I am the daughter of the devil, with the blood of the devil Lei Xiaogu flowing in my body. They said this will make me powerful.
power, but not strong enough.”
“Not strong enough for what?”
Thalia was silent for a long time. She was not thinking, but she seemed very resistant to answering the question.
And Bruce gave her tangled answer: "You are not strong enough to create a new order for this world, you are not strong enough to affect the entire history of mankind, so you hope you have a descendant who is so strong.
Come to rule mankind and shape history."
As soon as Thalia's eyes met Bruce's, she heard Bruce say: "Because your father is never satisfied with you, he is never satisfied with his progress in changing the world, he is always longing for an end, and you are for
To end this torture, I desperately want to give him an end."