Chapter 245: You and What Isn't Beyond You (5k)
"Do you want to guess now?"
Lynn tilted his head to look at the girl, her eyes were distant and serene, like the surface of a windless falling star lake at the moment, reflecting a magnificent orange and red up and down, so clear that he could almost see the sunset through the other party's eyes.
"I can't guess." He said frankly.
Ever since Charlotte was steaming by his words, all of her actions seemed to be somewhat inconsistent with the way she had always behaved, and it was extremely abnormal.
Lynn can't read minds, and most of his ability to read through ideas is through his keen observation and the commonalities left by a large number of human beings throughout history, and when a person's behavior violates her standards, even he can't find out the truth.
Charlotte finally looked away from the setting sun.
She made eye contact with Lynn, but didn't speak immediately. And she didn't speak, and Lynn didn't say anything.
The two looked at each other at a distance on the same bench, and from a distance they looked like two sculptures that could not be put together.
In the end, Charlotte broke the silence with a shallow sigh, and then showed an embarrassed smile: "Well, you know, what kind of thought flashed through my mind when you said something like 'make me happy'?" β
"What thoughts?"
"Thoughts on the relationship between us."
"Huh?"
"At that moment, I felt like we were not friends and more like father and daughter," Charlotte twisted her skirt and turned her head to the side. β
"Huh?!"
Lynn really didn't expect her to say such a surprising thing.
Their relationship is like that of father and daughter? Which father and daughter? This is a bit of a big turn!
"Don't be surprised, it's really like it." Charlotte muttered, "You see, when we're together, no matter what happens, you're always in the way and leave me behind."
"If that's all there is, the guards will make the same choice." Lynn said, "Isn't that a little too far-fetched?"
Charlotte suddenly looked at him and said, "But they don't start with 'make me happy.'" β
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Lynn suddenly knew why she would say they were like father and daughter.
There are very few people in the world who would make it their goal to please others, with the exception of a few people.
One is extremely self-conscious, incompetent but with a brain full of fantasy waste, who have nothing but to deceive and curry favor with tenderness disguised as cowardice to keep themselves from being hurt or succeed in their appeals, but they usually end up sadly.
In addition to this, there is another kind, which is lovers.
In a real relationship, the proportion of emotional communication is much greater than the proportion of the real part, and most of the time, you can get the same pleasure while making the other person happy.
Both of these relationships will be based on "making someone happy", but when applied to Lynn and Charlotte, they are somewhat inappropriate, and they do not meet either of them.
So, excluding these, there is only the last one, the "loved ones".
This relative must be a direct relative, that is, parents and children.
Reproduction accounts for a very large proportion of the composition of human beings, and children with 50% of the same blood flowing in their bodies are the most cherished existence of most parents in this life, even more than their partners for each other.
With this gene-based link, they will indeed do everything they can to make their children happy most of the time.
Of course, if that's all it takes, it doesn't seem like that's enough to make Charlotte think so.
Lynn felt that it should be the previous contact that affected him.
When he was in the academy, he seemed to be able to stand in the sky with his hands stretched out and his feet stepped on, and the scenery was infinite, which was enough to get the admiration and admiration of most girls, as well as yearning.
Lynn had noticed what was in Charlotte's eyes when she looked at her, and he knew that Charlotte seemed to like some of her own traits, and most people's first idols in childhood seemed to be their father.
Combining various factors, Lynn found that Charlotte's words actually made some sense.
Shaking her head and throwing her messy thoughts out of her head, Lynn was a little embarrassed by her analysis.
Charlotte was actually a little embarrassed, and when she said what she just said, she was so shy that she almost ripped the hem of her lotus dress into kelp strips.
Relieved, she rubbed her face and affirmed Lynn's thoughts in a whisper: "When a father is in front of his daughter, he always looks like he is standing up to the sky, and he will change his way to make his daughter laugh happily, but in your words, 'Giving should be rewarded, and useless investment will only show stupidity.'" ββ
β.β Lynn thought back to her past and didn't realize that she had ever said such a sentence, but it did seem like a phrase she would use.
Is Charlotte already so familiar with the way she speaks?
Without continuing to think, he only followed the girl's broken words and asked, "And then?"
"And then I thought, what do you get out of making me happy."
"When the father sees his daughter happy, I think they should be able to be warmed by the child's innocent smile, so that they feel that their efforts are worth it, and then they are happy but you don't, so I will say yes, only at that moment I have such thoughts." Her voice suddenly lowered, "Your mood doesn't fluctuate, you seem to make me happy just to complete a certain task, or just want to repay some of the favors I helped you before." β
"I didn't like that, but," she said, pursing her lips, "I was really happy at that time." β
"I don't think it's necessary to repay the previous help, so at that time, I thought, you made me feel happy, then, should I also make you happy, after all, my daughter always can't help but jump up and kiss her father's cheek when she gets unexpected pocket money, so that he can get satisfaction, fulfillment, and pleasant emotions from his actions, and then there will be a next time."
As she said the last sentence, the girl bowed her head in shame because of what seemed to her selfish feelings.
But soon the shame turned to loss.
"I want to make you happy, too, but I don't know what makes you smile."
"Most of the time, you seem to be looking for power, the first few days it was for money, and later you may aspire to higher authority, I don't know if it's your joy or not, but I know ,,,,,," Charlotte's voice dimmed with the glow of the setting sun, "If you hold these things in your hand, I'm willing to give them to you, but I don't have any, none of them." β
When the manpower is exhausted, ordinary people will often scold their incompetence when they encounter something beyond their power, thinking that if they are born in the princes and nobles, all the trivial things in the world will not bother them, but they don't know that the higher they stand, the farther they see, the level of their troubles will increase exponentially, and the way to solve their troubles will become more and more difficult.
Sighing, Charlotte spoke again, and today she was talking extraordinarily.
"So I thought, besides these things, what else do you like more and I can get out?"
"I've been thinking about it for a long time in the carriage, and I haven't thought of what you like, but the one in the back has some ideas."
"People who play the role of fathers rarely ask their daughters for anything, and they prefer their daughters to live the life they want in peace rather than getting, so that they can end one of their stormy life journeys and feel at ease - and then I thought, 'peace of mind', is that what you need?"
"Galleys always need to resupply and inspect their hulls at passing ports on their way to their destinations, and this is when they are the quietest time, neither loading nor unloading goods or breaking through the rainstorm, but just waiting for the people to wait for them. And you, you were born to be the most heroic giant ship on the sea, and the Tearing Storm landing target is something you will definitely do, but even if you do, you should need to lower the anchor once in a while and be quiet for a while, right? β
"I see."
Lynn finally came to her senses.
Originally, he was still a little confused about the girl's chatter and not letting him interject, but now, everything is clear.
"You've been talking and not letting me interject because you don't want me to think about anything else, right?"
"Yes." Charlotte admitted very frankly, "I have seen this scene before when my father was looking for a conversation with a cabinet member - my father was babbling and talking, and the ministers below were afraid to listen and interject, and when they were concentrating for a long time and could not do anything else, they could easily fall into a state of sleepiness. β
Lynn smiled and said, "It seems that your learning ability is also unexpectedly strong, right, that song shouldn't be just a song, right?" β
"Hey, hey." Charlotte rubbed the hem of her clothes embarrassedly, "I've had a superficial understanding of the magic of relaxing the mind, and I've learned that they are the most hidden and difficult to detect when they are hidden in the midst of songs."
"Indeed, the legends of the Sirens are always accompanied by intoxicating songs."
"So." Charlotte looked at Lynn cautiously, "Are you really okay sleeping?" β
"Very good." Lynn said sincerely, "This is one of the few times I have peace of mind. β
In recent days, the overly intensive itinerary and complicated actions had consumed a lot of his energy, so much so that he didn't even have time to go to the Sea of Imaginary Numbers, and in Fang Cai's sleep, he was able to calm down and reach almost the same state as when he rested in the Sea of Imaginary Numbers.
This is not uneasy.
In fact, Lynn was a little puzzled after reacting, because he was absolutely safe in the sea of imaginary numbers, so he could achieve a state of complete relaxation, but in the real world, in the face of danger that could come at any time, how could he become so relaxed.
After returning to my senses, I think about it, maybe the blessing of the goddess has played a role again.
"What a lucky girl."
Lynn turned her head to look at the girl who was smiling shyly, and suddenly felt that if he had such a girl in reality who was dedicated to himself and even pleasing his status, he couldn't even pay attention to him, and even the goddess gave him an eye, it didn't seem to be bad.
Life is boring and needs to be spiced, and the rich emotions are formal and the best condiments.
As a true aristocrat, Lynn has few moral standards of loyalty that ordinary people must abide by in the eyes of ordinary peopleβin fact, ordinary people rarely abide by them when they are able to do soβso he is not resistant to developing abnormal relationships other than normal ones.
But after thinking about it, Lynn shook her head again.
Charlotte at the moment belongs to the type that is more emotional than rational in Lynn's eyes, and this type of woman is the most tricky.
When their eyes are full of love, even to the ends of the earth, they will want to take you out and take you away, and their perseverance is not comparable to ordinary people; But when their emotions dissipate, they who are not rational enough will fall into a cycle of dead entanglement that they obviously don't like but are reluctant to let go.
For Lynn, who has always used reason to control his behavior and act decisively and neatly, this type of person should be regarded as his natural enemy - in the case of equal status or even higher than him.
With a sigh of relief, Lynn stared at Charlotte, who had left at some point as she stood on the edge of a cliff.
When Fang himself fell into deep thought, Charlotte did not disturb him, but quietly left the place, crouching on the edge to look at the lake.
There was still some afterglow of the setting sun, and the orange ripples on the surface of the lake, the girl squatted obediently on the side, and let the orange flowers bloom in her sea-blue eyes.
Perhaps hearing the sound of rubbing between Lynn's clothes, Charlotte turned her head and pointed to the distant scenery and smiled: "Isn't it beautiful?" β
She didn't ask Lynn why he suddenly lost his mind, nor did she ask him what he was thinking, the habits she had developed since childhood made her obedient and sensible.
If you throw away your identity background and put her back into the crowd as she is, she should also become a "goddess" in people's minds, right?
But imagination is imagination, reality is reality.
She is not an ordinary person, nor will she become a goddess β a goddess does not try to like someone, she only speaks the truth of the world with her mysterious voice.
For example.
Not all love stories in the world have perfect endings, and the vast majority of them end without a problem.
"Let's go back." Charlotte had enough of the scenery and decided to go home.
Lynn nodded, took one last look at the afterglow in the girl's eyes, and decided to let the scorching temperature slowly drop with the night as cold as water.
However, at this moment, the girl suddenly spoke again.
"Hey, next time I want to invite you out to play, where do you need to stand?"
"Huh?" Lynn was a little confused at first, but he quickly understood something, but instead of pointing it out, he said, "No, if you have orders, I will come." β
He is trying to make Charlotte have some unrelated relationships with him, so that the well-bred and complicated girl will definitely hesitate to "whether it will disturb him".
Unfortunately, Charlotte could easily discern the meaning of Lynn's words through her unique talent.
"Really?" There seemed to be a deep meaning in her eyes.
Lynn couldn't help but sigh that the girl was so favored by heaven, and smiled bitterly.
"Don't be embarrassed." Charlotte said, "Just give me a goal to work hard when I'm lazy. As a 'father', this is something you should set up for your 'daughter', right? β
β.β The girl's bold words made the corners of Lynn's lips twitch, and in addition to being amused, he rose a little unnecessarily competitive, "Since I am the father of the 'princess', why do I have to be a 'king'?" β
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Charlotte craned her neck and stared wide, subconsciously looking around, for fear that others would hear her rebellious words.
After noticing that there was no one around, she breathed a sigh of relief and said shyly, "I'm talking about me, not you." β
"Also, my words are wrong." Lynn nodded clearly, and then asked with some confusion, "By the way, what should the queen's father be called?" β
Charlotte didn't react at the first time, but subconsciously began to think about this problem.
This is a very interesting question, because the Rhine did not have a Zen system, and the succession of the king must have been after the death of the previous king, and what should be the name of the king's living father is really worth pondering.
But soon, the question was put on her mind, because the deeper meaning of Lynn's words was even more surprising.
"This, this," Charlotte said with a blushing face, "this goal, probably, for me, um. It's a bit hard. β
"Why don't you try challenging yourself?" Lynn squinted and laughed.
β.β The girl glanced at him, and finally understood that he was amusing herself, and couldn't help but scorn him, "You're not only a fool, but also a villain!" β
"Compared with the previous evaluation, there are indeed many people who have shouted this in the back."
Lynn shrugged, clearly not caring much about reviews and the like.
The girl asked a few more questions, and when she found that Lynn refused to speak, she ran away in a huff, and Lynn then caught up and looked into the distance.
Night is about to fall, and the lights in the distance are lit up one by one, far better than the stars in the sky at this moment.
The next moment, Lynn turned her gaze back and rested on the girl's back.
"The Queen or something"
Rubbing her chin, Lynn thought thoughtfully.
How can the story of a girl who is favored by the world not have an ending?
As a writer, he felt the need to draw a stop.
As for whether it is complete or not
"Your Highness, have you thought about the future?"
"The future? I am not as tall as you, I can't see so far, and I still keep my head down every day, and I can only see my toes. β
"So you don't care if it's good or bad in the future?"
"Well, some care, some don't."
"For example?"
For example?
You and something outside of you.