"When she died, she could neither see nor hear."
Caesar gently raised his right hand, "I can only hold her hand and tell her that I am by her side."
His slender hand slowly curled up and he made a fist. The joints made a slight popping sound. He clenched his fist tightly, "I didn't dare to let go of her hand, because I thought how terrible it would be."
"You can't see or hear. If no one holds your hand, you will feel like you are the only one in the world. In the dark... you are the only one."
"She had no idea of the honor given by her family. At that time, the only connection between the world and her was just the warmth from my palms."
He shrugged, "What was my strong and powerful family doing at that time? Where was my father, a business leader? Where were you, my uncle, the leader of the family?"
"For someone who has been declared dead by the doctor, you can't expect us to do anything else for her, Caesar." The old man spread his hands.
"This is the result you have been waiting for for a long time. You are naturally willing to watch it happen quietly." Caesar looked at the undulating Gulf of Genoa in the distance. Dark clouds were rolling and gathering over the waves, and their color was as heavy as lead.
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"You are so willful. Do you believe in your heart that your mother's death was caused by the family?" The old man shook his head, "Why would the family hurt a distinguished woman who married into the Gattuso family?"
"Forget it, uncle, there is no need to try to convince me. You have watched me grow up, and you know very well what kind of person I am. Things I believe in will not be changed easily."
The old man sighed faintly, "Caesar, the family chose you because of your self-confidence. But you have to understand that self-confidence is not everything to success. The black king or the white king have disappeared in history, and humans have killed
After all the four great monarchs of the Dragon Clan, the era of the Dragon Clan is completely over."
"At that time, we hybrids will be the best group in the world. We are far better than humans. We also master the spirit of speech and alchemy. We also understand science, and our enemies are all dead."
"At that time, the pattern of the world will be rewritten. Just like the Age of Discovery and the Industrial Revolution, history will usher in changes, and you will become the leader of the mixed race." The old man narrowed his eyes slightly, "This
It's not easy. Chu Zihang or Lu Mingfei may have the strength to compete with you, but the power of the family will help you, and you will become...the emperor!"
The old man's voice was low and hoarse, but it was full of cunning temptation, as if the snake in the Garden of Yintian said to Adam and Eve, "Eat the fruit from that tree, and you will be on par with God."
"Yes, Emperor."
"Stop being naive, Caesar, do you think that for thousands of years, hybrids have paid a huge price and constantly fought against the dragons just for justice?"
"No, this is a power struggle. After the Dragon Clan, the power of the world will undoubtedly belong to the mixed race. What the Gattuso family has been looking forward to for hundreds of years is a descendant with excellent bloodline who can control the huge
The right to become a king-like person and influence the direction of the world!"
"Now do you understand what your family's gift is to you? It's the whole world! You will become the person who writes the history of the world, just like Gaius Julius Caesar in history!" The old man stared at Caesar.
Sa’s eyes asked, “Are you going to refuse this gift?”
Caesar looked down at the glass in his hand and remained silent for a long time.
"Caesar, you still have a chance to make another choice. As long as you agree, the family will convene the next school board meeting and put the "Nibelung Plan" on the agenda again."
"This plan will cultivate a person who can end the Dragon Clan. After that, he will become the leader of the entire world." The old man smiled, "You have to understand that although the family has a say in the school board, the school board is not controlled by the family.
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"In order to fight against the dragon kings who are about to awaken, the "Nibelung Plan" will be launched sooner or later. If the candidate is not you, then it will be Chu Zihang or Lu Mingfei. Once they become candidates, you will
We are falling behind step by step in the competition with them."
"Opportunities never wait for a person for a long time."
"Like this cup?" Caesar raised the glass in his hand. "
"Cup?" The old man frowned.
"Uncle, what kind of family are you talking about?" Caesar looked at the old man with a rare seriousness.
"A family is a group united by blood. It is composed of people with the blood of the Gattuso family. All of us together are the Gattuso family. If we are scattered, the family will disappear."
"The family loves every member and expects every member to repay it with equal love."
"But in my eyes, the family thing is simply something imagined by some people. In its name, to establish one's own power. What flows in the blood of the family is the desire for power. If I accept the gift from the family,
I'm like this cup."
Caesar shook the glass, and the clear water in it swayed, "What is in the glass is the desire for power. The family gave me its desire for power and let me master the power."
"But if one day..." He raised his head and drank the water in the cup, "the water in the cup is gone, the cup will lose its meaning. At that time, the cup will naturally be abandoned."
He threw the glass on the ground, and there was a "bang" sound, and pink and white glass shards flew everywhere.
"Caesar, you think too much." After a moment of silence, the old man sighed.
"Isn't it like that?" Caesar sneered, "I will take over the power on behalf of the family? Don't fart, you just need a puppet, just like you need my mother, you have to use her blood and fertility ability in your life
In my eyes, she is just a fertility machine suitable for breeding high-quality offspring!"
"When this fertility machine gives birth to a child, it is like a cup that empties the water inside. It has no meaning anymore and can be thrown out and broken at any time."
"The family loves every one of its children!" The old man looked grim.
"The family only uses each of its children!" Caesar responded with the same coldness, "If I knew that this attendance was arranged by the family, I would not have come at all!"
After a long silence, the old man sighed, "It only takes a moment to establish hatred, but it takes a long time to establish love. Caesar, you are still too young. One day, you will understand what is meant."
What exactly is 'family love'?"
The old man took out an envelope from his arms. The seal was hot-stamped with Gattuso's family crest in red paint. "This is a letter from your father. He hopes you can calm down and think about it carefully."
Caesar lowered his head and pondered for a long time, then suddenly smiled and turned to look at the old man, "What exactly is your so-called 'family love'? I have lived in the Gattuso family for so many years and I have not felt even a trace.
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"With your proposal and your family," he bit the tip of his tongue and spat out a fierce word with the force of a mouthful of thick phlegm, "Get out!"
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Chu Zihang slowly opened his eyes, and the morning sunlight shone on his face through the white gauze curtains. Everything he saw was white, and the white was covered with a layer of warm light.
For a moment, he was a little confused. He didn't believe in God, and naturally he didn't believe in heaven, but the face in front of him was pure and beautiful, without a single flaw, just like an angel lowering his head to kiss a sinner's forehead.
He tried his best to move forward, trying to see the face clearly.
He smelled the warm and moist breath of the angel, the fragrance of plant leaves after the rain, and the faint fragrance of gardenia.
"Senior brother, morning." When Chu Zihang almost pressed his face against his, the other party put a white finger on his forehead and said slowly, "Are you going to act like a hooligan just after you woke up?"
"Xia Mi?" Chu Zihang was stunned. What blew towards him was Xia Mi's breath that smelled of unknown perfume.
"Who else could it be?" Xia Mi pursed his lips, "Senior brother, did you lose your memory when you woke up after a nap?"
"Where's Lu Mingfei?" Chu Zihang was stunned and turned to look at the bed next to him. There was an obvious dent in the junior brother's position, but he was gone.
"Senior Brother Lu..." Xia Mi sat down next to Chu Zihang's bed, his legs swaying, "He went shopping with Sister Nuonuo and said he would bring us breakfast by the way."
"Oh..." Chu Zihang asked, "Where is the principal?"
"Senior brother, did you really lose your memory during sleep?" Xia Mi's eyes widened in surprise, "The principal went back last night. He said he had to rush back to school to do something."
"My head feels uncomfortable, I don't know why." Chu Zihang rubbed his forehead, feeling that his memory was a bit confused.
"Speaking of which, senior brother, there was something wrong with you on the Ferris wheel yesterday." Xia Mi came over and stared at his eyes carefully, as if to confirm if there was anything wrong, "Is everything really okay?"
"It's okay." Chu Zihang replied. He tried his best to support himself and looked out the window at the river. The ships passing by were passing by. The bright sunshine in the morning seemed to coat the whole world with a layer of color.
"How about we come and chat," Xia Mi smiled with narrowed eyes, "I'm waiting for Senior Brother Lu to bring breakfast anyway, so I have nothing to do, so why not come here to kill some time."
"Well," Chu Zihang looked away, "What do you want to talk about?"
"I don't know," Xia Mi looked at the ceiling boredly, "Brother, please give me a start."
"Then..." Chu Zihang hesitated for a moment. He remembered that the information he read before said that Xia Mi had a younger brother.
"I saw in your profile that you have a younger brother."
"Well, I have a younger brother." Xia Mi paused, "My younger brother is a demented child."
When she said this, the sunlight outside the window filtered through the guardrail, and shadows were cast on her clean and soft face. Her eyes were deep and hidden in the shadows, and she could not see clearly.
"He and I are twins. He was born just over an hour later than me. Because I was my husband, my mother exhausted all her strength when she gave birth to him. She had no energy when she gave birth to him. She suffocated for half an hour, so he became a dementia child.
." Xia Mi thought carefully with his fingers.
"So my parents said that it was my younger brother who gave me the opportunity. So I should do better than others, because my share is half of my younger brother's. I deserve it no matter how hard I try.
You will be praised." Xia Mi stuck out his tongue.
"It sounds like you hate your brother?" Chu Zihang asked.
"No, how is that possible?" Xia Mi was stunned, "I like him very much, just like a puppy. Wouldn't you like your own puppy?"
"Wouldn't it be nice for you to use this metaphor to your own brother..." Chu Zihang complained.
"Okay! Senior brother! You actually learned how to complain like Senior Brother Lu!" Xia Mi glared at Chu Zihang fiercely.
"No, I'm just not good at expressing myself. It's not like I don't know how to complain." Chu Zihang replied.
"I've known it for a long time...Senior brother seems to be the kind of person who has a lot of inner drama, especially the eighth wife..." Xia Mi whispered, "Okay, don't interrupt, continue talking about my brother."
"When I was in junior high school, I took him out to go shopping. Everyone looked at him with disgust, saying whose adults were so irresponsible that they let a little girl come out with such a fool?"
"No one was willing to get close to him. Although he was stupid, he was very sensitive. He could only grab my skirt and glare at those people fiercely."
"I was ignorant at that time and felt that people looked at me strangely, so I also disliked him. I didn't allow him to follow me on the way home and asked him to walk ten meters behind me.
I will ignore him."
"He was afraid that I would ignore him, so he walked behind me. The distance of ten meters was enough. I felt unhappy and walked very fast without looking back."
"After walking for a while, I suddenly felt something was wrong. When I looked back, I couldn't find him. I was so scared that I ran back quickly. Finally, I found him in the alley. A group of people were pressing him to the ground and beating him. The leader was a boy from our school.
, you are not familiar with me, but you want to chase me."
Speaking of this, Xia Mi smiled sheepishly, "After all, senior brother, you know that I am pretty, and there were boys who chased normal ones in the past."
"Yes." Chu Zihang nodded, he was deeply convinced of Xia Mi's appearance.
"Anyway, the situation at that time was that the boy thought that my brother had ill intentions towards me," Xia Mi sighed, "I saw my brother in the crowd, with streaks of blood and dust on his face, and he smiled stupidly when he saw me
Well, I stepped on his face with a foot... I don't want to mention how sad I am... I just told my brother that I don't blame you, just beat them."
"What do you mean?"
"My brother is very good at fighting. He is very strong and not afraid of anything. But I don't allow him to hit anyone casually. If he hits someone once, I will ignore him for a month..." Xia Mi said, "So he just
All those boys were beaten to the ground, and I allowed him to continue to hold the hem of my skirt and follow me on the way home."
"You are very good to your brother."
"Sometimes when I look at him, I wish he had never been born." Xia Mi said softly, "and he wouldn't have to suffer so much."
To be honest, I have been reading books recently to catch up on updates, switch sources, read aloud with many sounds, and it can be used on both Android and Apple.】
Xia Mi stopped talking, and Chu Zihang sat silently on the bed, not knowing how to continue the topic.
He suddenly remembered that Ling Boli was lying dying in the ejection cabin in the EVA. Shinji Ikari, that bastard, desperately opened the hatch and stuck his head in, shouting, "Are you okay? Are you okay?"
Goddess Ayanami could only say, "I don't know what expression I should face at this moment."
Everyone has something to hide in their heart, right? Just like the absolute realm mentioned in EVA, the absolute realm of the soul, you don’t want others to come in.
In Chu Zihang's heart, there is an endless viaduct on rainy nights and a Maybach riddled with holes, which has been parked there for many years.
Chu Zihang felt that he often sat alone in the driver's seat of that car. It was raining heavily outside, and no one talked to him. The song played repeatedly on the stereo. He was very lonely, but he never thought about inviting others to sit in the car.
In the passenger seat.
For other people, sitting in that car and watching the rain over and over again is torture, right? Even Susie would be impatient, right?
But he somehow had a feeling that if it were Xia Mi, she would be happy to listen to him slowly.