"Actually, I know, Loki has all sorts of problems." Odin frowned, and began to talk to himself, he said: "Because he is weaker, the Asgardians do not approve of him, and Frigga has taught him more time, so he is more like a girl, with a sensitive mind. ”

"But in fact, this is not a shortcoming at all, anyway, he doesn't have to be the god king of Asgard, he doesn't have to take responsibility, he doesn't have to pursue perfection." ，

"Or rather, the Asgardians don't actually discriminate against him that much, and he thinks that the main reason why the Asgardians discriminate against him is that the Asgardians don't respect him as much as they do for Thor."

"However, the Asgardians will respect Thor, not because Thor, who was much stronger than Loki at that time, but completely for the sake of my face, that is my designated heir, how dare they disrespect?" ，

"But I can't say to everyone because he feels sorry for this, you also have to honor Loki so much, and then the authority of the heir whom I established before will not be shaken again?"

Odin waved his hand vigorously in front of him and said, "I know the reckless men of Asgard too well, they don't know the subtle colors, and they can only see how many more beards I have grown when they sit in front of me for a year, and they can only understand the literal meaning of the order." ”

"I said, Thor will inherit the throne in the future, and they will treat Thor like a god-king, and if I say that you should treat Loki the same way you treat Thor, then they will feel that Loki may also be a god-king in the future......"

Odin put his finger against his temple very helplessly, and said: "Frigga often tells me that I always don't care about Loki, but I can't care about Loki as much as I care about To, I'm not afraid that the Asgardians will misunderstand him and he still has a chance, I'm only afraid that he will misunderstand." ”

"I know you may want to accuse me of not giving him the throne and not compensating him somewhere else, but believe it or not, if I really compensate him somewhere else, some Asgardians and himself must think they can do it again." ，

Schiller touched his lips with his fingers, and he realized that this really formed a closed loop.

Odin was right not to give Loki any hope when it came to the battle for the succession, as long as he didn't have hope in the first place, he wouldn't be disappointed.

But if he doesn't give hope, he has to keep not giving it, and if he gives it halfway, it may make the other party more painful, and it will lead to all the previous efforts being in vain.

But this kind of low-recognition, low-care fatherly love is impossible for Loki to understand when he was a teenager, he can only understand that Odin doesn't love him, and only thinks that Odin is partial.

The root cause of this deadlock is that in the family relationship of the royal family, in a sense, partiality is correct, and a bowl of water is even, which may lead to greater disasters.

Some people may think, so if he didn't pick Loki back in the first place, wouldn't it be fine?

But at that time, Loki was dying, and compared to his current situation, of course, it was better than his current situation, even if he didn't get approval from his father, but at least he still had his mother and brother.

The biggest problem with the father-son relationship between Odin and Loki is that Odin made the right choice, but Loki is also a victim.

"Actually, I didn't expect Thor to succeed to the throne so quickly." Odin said with some hesitation: "I thought he would stay on Earth for hundreds of years. ”

"Without Thor's foil, Loki might feel better, but I didn't expect that everything happened so quickly, Thor suddenly succeeded to the throne, Loki didn't have any objections, and I was ready to deal with Friggya's crying."

"After that, Loki suddenly became a goddess, and I was overjoyed, Loki deserved to be my smartest child, and he himself came up with a better solution than me, if she married Thor, wouldn't she enjoy the same honor as the god-king?"

"I thought Loki thought so, so I wanted to talk to Frigga about it, but he didn't seem to be very willing to ...... himself."

Odin shook his head and said, "I still haven't figured out what's going on. ”

When Odin was puzzled, Schiller had already laughed quietly, and found that Odin was silent, and he still said with a smile: "Did anyone say it?" Your family is so ridiculous. ”

"You don't turn where you should turn every time you dry up, and you make a sudden turn in every place where you shouldn't." Schiller rubbed his fingers lightly, rubbed his eyebrows and said: "Inexplicable, chaotic, a few people made a scene more interesting than dozens of people...... Is this the royal family? ”

"As a doctor, are you smiling a little too much?" Odin looked Schiller in the eye and said, "Don't gloat, isn't that your basic professionalism?" ”

"Theoretically, that's right." Schiller couldn't hold back his laughter again, and he said, "But you should be glad that I can laugh because the situation of your family is only a pleasure at best, and if I look serious, you should know how serious the situation is." ”

"Okay, don't laugh, I'm here because I'm going to make some changes." Odin poured himself another full glass of wine, and after pouring half a glass of wine, he wiped his mouth and said:

"Thor's rule is already stable, so I don't have to worry about any other thoughts from the Asgardians, but lately, I've found that it seems to have been a bit overkill."

"Although Loki is not the heir, he is still the noble prince of Asgard, but some people seem to be ......"

Odin's expression did not change, he was still smiling, but his tone gradually brought some murderous intent.

"Whether Loki is my own or not, whether he is too weak to inherit the throne, whether he meets the Asgardian expectations of a prince, whether he makes a big mess."

Odin sat up straight, and Schiller felt an indescribable sharpness emanating from the old god-king's body, and he knew that Thor still had a long way to go if he wanted to practice such an imposing force.

"I said, he's my child, I said, he's the prince of Asgard, then everybody must respect him enough, because it's honoring me."

"I don't want people to look up to him more than Thor, but they'd better not take the opportunity to make fun of him provoking me......"

"They should obey Loki, and they should respect Thor more, judge the situation, grasp the scale, it is not what I should do, but what this group of courtiers should do, if they don't grasp it well, it will prove that they are not qualified, this has nothing to do with our father and son."

The topic shifted here, Schiller smiled, looked at Odin and said, "Are you going to liquidate?"

Odin shook his head and said: "In terms of politics, I have nothing to liquidate, it's just that those people who can't use their brains, or are too lazy to use their brains, really should go home and retire." ”

"Then have you ever thought that the habit that they don't like to use their brains is actually developed by you?" Schiller leaned back in his chair and put his hands on the back of the sofa and said.

And Odin's answer surprised him a little, and Odin said confidently: "Yes, that's right, I raised it." ”

"Once upon a time, I asked them to be like a finger, and they would strike wherever I pointed, without thinking too much, without questioning, and to obey me completely, and to regard me as their only father."

"But now, I ask them to think independently and learn to observe the situation, otherwise they will be eliminated...... Do you think I'm excessive? ”

Odin looked at Schiller, and Schiller didn't nod, because now, Odin's momentum prevailed, and he gave an answer that Odin didn't like to hear, which was tantamount to the courtier's disobedience to him, and would only fall into a more passive situation.

"But that's the Emperor."

Odin's voice was marked with undisguised indifference and cruelty: "This is a quality necessary for a good emperor. ”

"When I need them to bite, they must be extremely vicious, crazy and cruel, and when I need them to stay obedient, then they had better be docile and quiet, and not even scream, otherwise there will be no place for them in the future."

"And, I firmly believe that there are no heroes in this world, I don't have any courtiers, it's still me, and they are nothing without me, it's they who need me, so it's better to understand everything, I want them to understand the truth."

Schiller placed the wine glass on the table, and at this moment, he saw from Odin's body the long river of time that spanned thousands of miles.

Among them, there are countless majestic figures, perhaps, they have also used their words and actions to interpret what it means to be "ruthless is the most emperor".

Tyrants are not mediocre monarchs, they may be cruel, indifferent, and even cruel, but if you look at merit alone, they may still be a good emperor, or in feudal society, the more arbitrary and powerful they are, the more merit and benefit will be for a long time.

Schiller sighed softly, if there is really anything he is not good at, it may be the so-called imperial mind." ”

This sounds like a very mysterious subject, but to put it bluntly, there is only one sentence: "Learn to be arrogant, learn to be ruthless." ”

And this is precisely to turn oneself into a criminal and a sick man, to learn to put aside morality, to put aside feelings, to artificially create a madman, diametrically opposed to what Schiller did.

At the end of the conversation, there was not much wine, but both of them felt a little drunk, and for the first time Odin said so much to a man, the emperor was just as lonely except for glory.

For the first time, Schiller was truly confronted with a great king, and in his communication with him, he was face-to-face with more emperors of the ages.

In the same way, he understood why Odin was called the "Father of the Gods", he was as powerful as his father, but he was also as authoritative as his father.

In the end, Schiller could only ask one question:

"You say that Thor is like you, and if he becomes you, will you really feel happy?"

"Who am I?" Odin asked, "Actually, I am not Odin, I am the father of Asgard, and Asgard is my child......"

"For a boy to become a father, he must go through the process of abandoning himself, he needs to constantly strengthen all his characteristics that can bear the responsibility of the family, be diligent, hardworking, and have the courage to take responsibility......"

"But is he really such a person?" Odin shook his head lightly and said, "Maybe not. ”

"But as long as he gets more happiness from his father's identity than he is alone, it doesn't matter who he is."

"Someday, Thor will be a father, and so will Loki." As Odin's words fell, Schiller saw a hint of pain on his face for the first time.

When the gray-haired god-king's voice fell in the room, Asgard was at sunset.

"I just hope that one day, they will understand that I get no less pain from decisions that I don't seem to love them than they feel."