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――I remember him as a very cheerful and optimistic person, yes, basically the same as Lin Youde now.

He was very self-cooked, and I hated him at first, but as I spent more time with him, I suddenly realized that I was starting to think that his self-cooking was becoming a selling point.

When I realized that, I knew I was already in love with him, he had a strange magic, and I think it was probably because he was always so positive.

With him, there is a feeling that everything will be successful.

In addition, he also has some very cute things, such as suddenly saying very affectionate words to me like he reads lines from Shakespeare's famous plays. Although I "beat" it every time, I actually like it, even if a teenage girl is a new human, she can't stand the love words of a boy......

Of course, in the past, it would have backfired because boys were ugly, but the new humans don't have that concern.

Sometimes he would suddenly become very childish and tell me about his dreams, just in a special way - like suddenly standing on a tree and shouting, "I'm the man who wants to be the king of the pirates!" ”

Children like us who come from big families are born and their future paths are decided, so most of them are just carrying out the tasks assigned by their elders, living every day mechanically, and only he is seriously dreaming.

I would have stopped dreaming like this for a long time, and on the day I was six years old, my father burst into the room, ordered the maids to remove all my dolls, and said to me in earnest: "Childhood is over, Catherine. ”

And I have known for a long time that there will be such a day, the new humans are very precocious, and when I grew up, I always thought that this phenomenon was abnormal, and it was thought that the accelerated growth led to the distortion of many new humans. It's just that human society is in the midst of drastic changes, and human beings have made more progress in this century than in the past 1,000 years, so human experts attribute this distortion to the rapid progress of society.

And I think the thing is actually very simple, the new human beings have all been robbed of their childhood, and a child like me, who was born into a family, has been deprived of childhood even more completely.

There is a novel in ancient times about a steampunk-style alternate world about a young man named Lin Youde in the same world, which is a very ordinary novel, but I like it very much. I especially like Lin Youde's attitude of educating his children, and his children in the novel are all superhumans called Shenji, similar to the high-level psionics in today's real society. This superhuman grows very fast, especially intelligent, and will soon be able to possess the intelligence of a normal human teenager and girl - but the protagonist of the book does not allow his daughters to be educated to take over his empire too early, and he is obstinate to give his childhood back to his daughters.

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Xia's mother looked at Hiroko, who smiled and said, "I've read that novel too...... I'll just say why I am familiar with the name Lin Youde......"

"Hmph, do you think it's a lover from a previous life?"

"No, it just feels familiar."

"Actually, the reason why Lin Youde is called Lin Youde is probably because when I was Lin Zhengyi's finger wife, I told him that if he had a son, he would be called Lin Youde. I loved the role so much at the time. Mother Xia sighed softly, "When I got the DNA, I had forgotten about this stubble - no, I didn't forget, the new humans will not forget, but they will selectively ignore some memories, and in fact play the same effect as forgetting, realizing the self-protection of the new humans - protecting their hearts." But as soon as Lin Zhengyi saw me, he knew who I was, but he didn't show it, but calmly said, 'If there is a baby boy who survives, it will be called Lin Youde, and if the baby girl survives, it will be called Lin Qianxun', at that time I almost wanted to re-enter his arms, but at that time I had a more beloved husband, and an incomparably precious daughter. ”

Rina suddenly buried her head on the table, and it seemed that she was embarrassed by Xia's mother's heated words-

Hiroko stared at Xia's mother, her expression extremely focused.

"Please go on......"

"There's nothing to say, it's all old and green things."

"But I think it's very interesting, the company's actions have always been following in the footsteps of Lin Zhengyi, and I hope to know more about this person - Lin Youde must think the same way."

Xia's mother smiled.

"That's what I thought, too. I...... You know, I was really happy when I learned that he was still alive - I knew it shouldn't be because my husband had only been gone for three years......"

"What kind of person is your husband?" Hiroko asked.

"From a certain point of view, he is a bit similar to Lin Zhengyi, both are upright personalities, and they are both cheerful, but they ...... If Lin Zhengyi is a hero soaring in the universe, my husband probably belongs to the kind of soul bound by gravity. Sometimes I think he's so dreamless, and other times I'll think his mind is too boring. But most of the time, he was brave, generous and positive...... I really, really love him, and if there's only one thing in this world that I don't regret, it's marrying a tiger. ”

Mother Xia's expression gradually became sad, and Hiroko sighed softly. (To be continued.) )