Some people die for beauty.

There are those who die for the truth.

Gwen died for politeness.

Her natural reaction was to let out a hysterical giggle, laugh at pleasure, bang the table with her palms, and maybe even fall off her chair and laugh until her stomach was sewn.

But Gwen backed down.

Anyone who can walk the talk in front of Guo is an asset that Gwen wants to keep. Who knew that one day Tao would become a useful speaker, even if she just needed him to say a few words in the right place, at the right time?

So he called her "hoe", and seriously, maybe it was flattering? Maybe he didn't know anything more? Anyway, her nose didn't fall off.

"I'm your cousin. "Gwen Song," she replied, standing in her seat and shaking his hand. He gracefully walked in and staggered over to the table to greet a new family member.

"I've found Chu, Dad. Tao threw her a gang sign.

They trembled.

Gwen couldn't help but notice that the young man's palm was slippery and a little sticky.

They sit.

If there really exists such an elemental plane of "royal fury", Guo Jingming will tear a gap in the space-time continuum and open a portal.

The bishop waited until his blood pressure had returned to a manageable level and his face had returned to its usual pale before introducing Gwen and Moyer to those who came after.

Nen let out a gasp sound, his eyes round as quail eggs.

"Sea!"

You didn't notice?!, Gwen glanced at her aunt quizzically. Then, Nen pushed away the chair and ran to Moyer, hugged him, and began to rub her hands on his face, pecking him a few times on his gray cheek.

"Oh, I miss you! we all thought you were dead!"

Moyer calmly and gracefully withstood the attack, leaning back as if trying to survive a sudden blizzard.

After the greetings, the banquet was finally ready to begin. At the head of the table sat the patriarch and the matriarch, and beside them were their children, Nen on the left and the two sons on the right. Next to Nen is her daughter Mina, who is still glaring at Gwen, and finally Tao.

Tao stared at the food for a few moments, then turned his gaze to Gwen, running around on her fine dress like a dog panting on a steak. It was more comical and straightforward than lascivious, for the young man was small in stature but had a large, clean, shaved head, and two watery, sleep-deprived eyes that protruded slightly from his pancake-like face like boiled eggs. After thinking about it, Gwen realized that it wasn't Tao peeking at her, but that he couldn't "no" appear in front of her. **'s intentions were entirely due to the unfortunate structure of his unfortunate face, and the poor man couldn't do anything about it, was he, she also noticed, his back hunched and his chest sunken and shallow. Had he been injured before?, Gwen wondered, her eyes moving up from his torso to his face, his injured eyes very noticeable.

"Where are you from?" Tao shook his head as he spoke, giving the impression of a nervous but impatient chicken.

"I'm Sydneysider, if you ask. ”

"Wow! You're from the Frontier, man? It's the core, man, the prop. There's got to be a bitch in life there!"

"Wait a minute, Tao. Gwen turned to her uncle. "Uncle Jun, I won't say it Chinese...... Is Tao's 'vernacular' true? Or is my IOU stone doing the trick?"

"Hey!" Tao protested. "That's how I play with my kids, man. Don't hate this show!"

Jun also put on an embarrassed expression.

"He's uh...... 'really', like they say. ”

"yes, bitches!

"Well, I'm glad to be here, Tao. Gwen held out a white hand and patted Tao's arm, opening up a little intimacy to break the ice.

When he noticed her perfect, slender, slender fingers, he began.

"I thought you hillbillies were farmers, you know?" he took her hand and sniffed her fingers. "Why are you all dressed spotlessly, put on a party dress, I bet you're going to make Mina look like a bitch, haha!"

"Dear brother!" Mina yelled at her brother, and her pretty face turned into a sad one. "me off again, and I'll give you another pair of wisdom teeth. ”

Tao winced.

"Hi, I'm Gwen. Gwen turned to Mina and held out her hand as well.

Mina stared at Gwen's hand as if it were an alien appendage.

"Hello. She hid Gwen's thick eyelashes, and her doll-like porcelain face showed a grim expression. She grabbed Gwen's finger and shook it half-heartedly.

Gwen withdrew her hand and turned to look at Moyer, who was also gloating. At the same time, Jun seems to have been exhausted by the shameless performance of his nephew and niece.

"It's great to see you guys getting along so well," Nen announced with a sudden clapp. "The family should be united! Hai, I'm so glad you're alive again! They say you're dead, and I don't believe you for a moment. ”

Mo Xie smiled, smiling as fake as water, and Nen fought back with absolute seriousness. The radiant look she displayed made him feel guilty immediately - as if he had accidentally stepped on a puppy.

"Enough!" her grandfather growled. Guo liked it very much, or rather, he listened and watched in dead silence before suddenly making a noisy statement. "Let's start eating!"

So the feast began in earnest, but Gwen wasn't sure if there was a dish she liked. Her aunt Nen is overzealous in filling her bowl with every exotic thing, forcing Gwen to grit her teeth and embark on an adventure of interracial hedonism.

As dinner progressed, Mr. Guo sat there, surveying his realm like a lord, his gaze shifting from Gwen to the others, to her father, and back to Gwen. As Guo Meimei absentmindedly munched on each dish, she could almost hear the sound of gears turning in his head, and the pinions landed in place, forming hooks and loops, connected to each other.

"Try this, honey, it's good for your mana pool. Nen handed Gwen a bowl of brains like tofu. No, Gwen told herself. It's tofu. Bean curd. Elvia loves tofu, so she loves tofu too.

"Thank you, Auntie. ”

There were a hundred questions, and Gwen wanted to ask her father, but she had to wait until after Guo's soft questions. Next to Moyer, Jun talked patiently and meticulously, asking him about his brother's life in Sydney and how he had survived without the family's resources for more than a decade.

"I'm okay, you know? I guess the gift of not using any salt magic is that I have to have children, even though the curse is that I have to have children.

"Ha, you got me there. Joon chewed the rice with a blank expression. If anything, Jun would love to have children. When Moyer disappeared and he had to continue in line, he found out that he was sterile. To heal his life force meant giving up his talents for ten years. Or expose yourself to extensive experimentation, neither of which is an option.

Gwen's Pabria seemed to be talking to her grandfather, their lips motionless, talking to each other, avoiding her best attempt at eavesdropping.

Meanwhile, Mina fiddled with what appeared to be some kind of slate, half-distracted from her dinner, not dealing with anyone at the table.

With no one to talk to, Gwen turned to Tao, who, like a man who had just survived the famine, was flipping over the plates.

"So, cousin, who gave you your dark circles?"

"Senvanstas. Tao hummed under his breath, chewing on pig's trotters in his mouth.

"Maybe it's the details? Someone like you will definitely give as well as you get. ”

"You talk like a grandmother," Tao said casually.

"Maybe she can borrow Tao's inflection point?" "So, tell me about the fight." ”

Tao put down his trot to find a pie.

With breadcrumbs in his mouth, he began to tell his story with relish.

"It turns out that there is a bastard of the Lin family who wants to fight with my men. Me and my kids, we were like hanging out together and caring about what we were doing at K, right. And then this stuntman showed up, and he said, "What's the wind blowing you in?" and I was like, 'What does this have to do with you, damn face?' and he'd say, 'Clean your mouth, dip shit.'" Then I said, 'No, get out of here.' ’”

"Oh my gosh. Gwen was fascinated by the fact that Tao Yuanming's epic was captured.

"Dalin bastard is such a tool, you know, that bitch face actually dares to turn around my back. Like the fuck who's going to turn away in a fight?So I thought, "Bitch, take the frost ray!"!" I'll just nail them to the back of his neck, hahaha. ”

"Go on. And then what happened?"

"Damn, what do you think happened bitch?" he turned around, like pissed. You know, good fucking pedigree, glowing, and jazz. And I was like, "Oh shit!" he said, 'yes, you little bastard,' and I was like, 'Brothers, protect me, my brothers love to protect Peaches!'"

"Who's Peach?"

"Shoty, are you listening? I'm a peach! A peach is a Chinese peach, okay?"

"Okay, Momoko. Go ahead. ”

"Anyway, this Lin bitch is right, he's going to sleep with me, you know. He's such a mess, fucking college scum. Either way, I was like "Brother, you're trying to mess me up!"! Do you know who my dad is? "Fuck, are you retarded?"? Our dad was playing golf on Sunday and I wanted to fuck you! That's when he hit me with his fucking hands! That bastard knew we weren't allowed to fight in public, so he beat me up!"

"You say he's bare-handed?"

"Fucking beat me up like a pancake, bitch. All tenderness and shit. ”

"When did he stop?"

Tao, aka Momoko, looked around the table before answering quietly.

"When he's fucking tired, I guess?"

"The security services don't like kids who interfere with the military," Moyer explained, probably from experience without spells flying around and without trouble. ”

Gwen turned to the others at the table to see if anyone could have experienced the peach epic as she had just done, which only the Gilgamesh epic could tell in the same gorgeous way.

"It grows on you, doesn't it?" said Jun after a while. "Sometimes I even miss it. ”

"You are the best, Uncle Jun, a world star!"

Gwen turned to look at Guo.

"He's not a song," he announced a few minutes later, under Gwen's sneering gaze.

"Tao is wrong...... was stripped of his inheritance," Joon added helpfully.

"It's so unfair!" protested Nen, her face immediately unhappy and cute. "Momoko needs all the help he can get!"

"Can you turn the volume down a bit?" Mina interjected suddenly. "I want to have a meeting here. ”

Gwen noticed a faint light flickering in Mina's ears.

She's been talking to someone on the phone?!Gwen looked around for the device, but couldn't find it. Is that girl a soothsayer? No, she exudes the aura of a healer, and a strange perfume wafting over her, is it an ability, or is it a gadget?

"Mina too...... Well, you know," Jun added. "At least until they prove themselves. ”

Percy, you lucky bastard. Gwen said to herself silently. If Percy can be as obedient as these two living examples of filial piety, then he must have the ability.

Dinner went on for another half hour, and then the servants brought bowls of water to wash their hands.

The final course is a taste cleanser made with herbs and a little syrup soup, and then the banquet is over.

Grandpa Rose.

"Gwen, Sea, June, is now in the conference hall. "Nen, take care of your children. ”

Those whose names were called stood upright.

Gwen felt her stomach pound a little.

This is her second chance.

There will be no third.

The meeting room is a meeting room on the side of the main dining room.

Grandfather sat on the head. Pabria sat next to him.

Jun sat aside. Ning is gone, although Gwen suspects that the ethereal-minded aunt is likely not good at keeping secrets, which explains her absence.

Gwen and Jasmine stood in the middle.

The room is supported by four huge pillars, also painted crimson. Above them, a huge plaque reads, "Heart of Justice... One..."

"Which of you will speak first?" Grandpa asked them.

Gwen turned to her father, and he shrugged.

"I will. Moyer held up a hand.

"Gwen, sit down as your father speaks. Pabria pointed to the chair next to Jun.

Her father thought intently, and Gwen patted her dress to keep the skirt from hitting her thighs. The skirt was partially pleated, but when she bent over, the Chinese-style torso pulled up to the hem.

"Before I start," Moyer said to his parents, please allow me to apologize. Father, especially mother, I'm sorry. ”

Moyer allowed for a dramatic pause.

"I'm sorry that I faked my death in the Battle of the Hunan Army. ”

Gwen's eyes stammered, and her hazel orb flashed with surprise and suspicion. Her father had said he had "killed" someone he shouldn't have killed, but so far there is no indication of who he murdered. So the person he "killed" was himself?

"Is inheriting the clan an impossible task for you?" grandfather's voice was anxious, frustration and pent-up anger forcing calm on the surface.

"Yes," Moyer announced directly. "Neither of us, Father, wants to be tactful, let me say it again. I don't want to inherit this family, and I don't want to be its leader. I just want to be myself and do what I want to do. You should know that I am not a responsible person. I insisted on this when we fought for it many years ago, and I do it now. ”

"A mage's talent is not just his own. Her grandfather clung to the handle of the chair.

Moyer noted: "That's why in my shenanigans, I never relied on Yin's talent and the bloodline of the song. ”。 "When I survived Sydney, I did it entirely on the basis of the earth element, which I did with elemental conversion and my self-taught confession. ”

"You're a mage now?" Pabria looked up, her face full of surprise. "That's good news. ”

"Well, maybe unintentionally. Moyer shrugged. "I mean, I'm very happy there, surviving with my strength, untethered... All of them. ”

"Tell me about your life in Sydney and how you've lived your life for over 20 years. Kravdia chanted, her useless son inadvertently becoming a mage, and her heart was filled with joy.

"Well, I'm here on a freighter, under the pseudonym Moyer, which means ...... of the ocean"

"In Russian, I know," Claudia replied enthusiastically. "Pray, continue. ”

Maya was clear about his experiences, but many of them, Gwen had known or guessed in the past. Her father worked hard to join a vocational college in Sydney, through which he won a scholarship to the University of Sydney, and then met Gwen's mother. They fell in love, had children, and then divorced because of differences in their philosophies of life. Maya was questioned and said that Gwen's mother already knew Maya's abilities and wanted a better life, a life of prestige, but Maya refused, so they came. At the time of the divorce, he took care of both children as much as possible until they graduated from junior high school and realized what they were capable of.

"Is this true, Gwen?" Pabria asked Gwen to corroborate Moyer's story.

Her father's story is, of course, "true". If the only other option is "Fars". The more than 100 times Moyer deceived his mother are also gone. Personally, an obvious jerk is that when Gwen returns home after being reborn, she feels suicidal, only to find out that Moyer has invited a girlfriend over to celebrate Gwen moving out of the house. Again, for a year or so that they didn't see each other, it was because Maya was busy with his private life.

But Gwen thinks Moyer owes her one.

"I don't know when we grew up, I didn't know what I wanted, I was hungry, or I didn't feel safe," Gwen said cautiously, avoiding looking at Moye as a good father, better than many people had hoped. ”

"So you can be in charge!" Pabria said happily to Moye. "Hai, why don't you reconsider your father's suggestion? ”

"It's death. Moyer shook his head, I want life. ”

"You arrogant little one!" Grandpa's expression looked as if he was about to give Moyer another beating.

"Now, now. Pabria rubbed his chest to relieve his congested qi and calm the old man. "Hai, whether you listen to your father or not, I think we should all apologize, don't you think?"

Moyer took a deep breath.

If the father had asked, he would have fought the old man until he was black and white. But now that his mother has spoken, what choice does he have?

Gwen watched in fascination as her father cautiously walked up to the two old men and knelt down.

"Mom, Dad, I'm sorry for my selfishness and the pain I've caused you over the past twenty years. Please accept my apologies. ”

Then he put his head on the ground and kowtowed, repeated the ritual three times, and then stood up.

"Thank you, dear. Pabria stretched out her hand and put her hand on his face. "You must have suffered a lot in a second-tier city, didn't you? All those merfolk and lizardmen, even the Avians, are constantly attacking and never know peace. ”

Sydney is safe!, Gwen wanted to blurt out. Moyer spends all her time chasing dresses and pising off my mom!Gwen bit her tongue hard. How could grandmother talk nonsense when she melted the cynical heart of her hard-hearted grandfather?

"Don't you regret it?" Gwen's grandfather asked her father wistfully. "Not at all?"

Moyer's expression was tragic and arrogant.

"What is regret when I have no choice?"

There was silence in the room.

Each of them took a moment to digest Moyer's philosophical manifesto.

"Hai, go sit down," her grandfather told Moyer. "Gwen, now it's your turn. ”

Gwen pushed her tired nerves away and climbed out of her hardwood chair. Their eyes met as she passed Moyer, and her father nodded to her in comfort.

Gwen sat in the middle.

A severe mental stress descended on Gwen, forcing her hair follicles to stand on end, numbing her scalp and her skin beginning to crawl.

Gwen took a deep breath, savoring the last few seconds.