Corina sat in a chair in front of the dresser, looking at the girl in the mirror, looking at the chaos reflected in her eyes.

Half an hour had passed since she left the study, and she still couldn't wake up from her father's decision.

She couldn't understand why her father had made such a decision.

Through the mirror, she looked at the world other than herself.

It was a familiar place, with a lot of unbranded cosmetics in front of the mirror, which were expensive just from the packaging, and on the wall hung the knight's spear she had used in her first practice, which was crossed with the same longsword she had used for the first time.

The furniture in the room is as clean as new, and the slightly wrinkled clothes hanging in the corners and corners contain traces of life—originally only traces of her.

After a long struggle, Corina finally looked into the mirror, the creature other than herself.

The boy lay lazily on the single sofa, holding a book he didn't know what it was, and read it with relish, as if he didn't feel too embarrassed by the silence.

But Corina couldn't take it anymore.

"No, I'm going to go and tell my father that you can't stay in my room."

Lynn said without looking up, "But he just explained that there are no empty rooms in the manor." ”

"How is that possible!" Corina shouted.

Although she hadn't counted them or investigated them in detail, she knew that there were only about five or six out of ten rooms available in the manor, and the rest of the rooms were dusty every day, so she could move in with a little cleaning.

How could there be no room!!

Faced with the girl's "naïve" idea, Lynn couldn't help laughing.

"What the truth of the matter is, in most cases it doesn't matter, what matters is that when the person who has the power to decide makes some kind of decision, then things will inevitably go the way he wants them to - admittedly, I also decided that your father was lying, but what does it matter."

"If you need to, he can make up 10,000 reasons why he shouldn't let me stay in another room."

“.” Corina gritted her teeth and said, "Then you go back to your house!" ”

"Really, you're letting me go home?" Lynn blinked, "So you already have the courage to want to stand up against your father." ”

“.”

Unable to resist the blow, Corina collapsed in a state of decadence in front of the dresser.

"Why. How so?"

"If you're referring to why your father did this, I can explain it to you."

"Explain. You said. ”

"It's simple." Lynn turned the book over a page and said casually, "Your father, after all, still doesn't want you to enter the family center. ”

Corinna was slightly stunned.

"Actually, it's not that I look down on myself and my surname, it's just that the reputation is here, and any parent who loves his child and thinks about his child will not give her to such a notorious person, even if he is really good, even if the child resolutely states - and you don't say anything." After a pause, Lynn continued, "But your father, when he heard that I was 'coveting' for you, not only did he not stop me, but he pushed me along the way, and let me live in the same room with you, as if he wanted to marry you off. ”

"Why? Because lately, you've been standing too high. ”

"The huge wealth makes your position in the family more and more high, more and more indispensable, and almost everyone benefits because of you, and is willing to sell you a face—this is bad news for your brother."

"Your presence has threatened your brother."

"The reason why a family is a family is because it is composed of a network of relationships brought about by various blood connections, it is not a one-word hall, and your father, as the head of the family, cannot influence the entire family to go against the trend. And in the face of incomparably huge interests, and under the backdrop of your brother's weak ability, how insignificant is the obstacle of the gender column. ”

"If you are allowed to develop for a long time, your brother will inevitably be suppressed by you, and then as long as you find a random reason to throw him out, no one cares if he dies in the wilderness."

"I'm not going to do that!" Corina said unhappily.

"You won't now, but who knows later." Lynn waved his hand indifferently, "Don't say that it won't happen in the future, in short, your father won't believe it, there is nothing more ridiculous in the world than an oath, and if you want to make an oath a fact, you can only erase the possibility of it happening." ”

"So, what will you do to erase your threat to your brother?"

"It's easier because you're a girl."

"As long as you change your surname and let you go to another family to be the housewife, then you will be spilled water, and it is not easy to return home - the nobles take the surname as glory, and changing the surname is equivalent to changing the family, and when the time comes, if you want them to help you occasionally, it's okay, but you want to put your hand back. They won't recognize you as a compatriot. ”

"That's not right, right?" Corina bit her lip and said, "Even if that's the case, it shouldn't be. I'm in such a hurry, I still have so much money in my hand now, if he throws me away like this, won't it be equivalent to giving you all the money?"

"Didn't you hear what I just said?" Lynn turned his head sideways and glanced at her: "You want to put your hand back, no, but if you don't put your hand back, you have to help the family, it's not impossible, it's even inevitable - after all, your origin is Christine, and if you don't feed the family, you're a little 'sorry' for giving birth to your parents who raised you." ”

"You say, yes."

“.”

Lynn looked back at the book, "So, your father understands." Marrying you off can not only take benefits for nothing, but also bring your brother back into everyone's sight, and even pave the way for your brother with what you create. And the object is still me, if something happens, they will not have the slightest sympathy, and they will not hesitate to cut like a thirsty person who pounces on pure water for half a month. ”

“.”

When she heard this, Corina suddenly felt a little weak.

No matter what she does, she doesn't get recognition, does she?

Just because, she's a girl?

It's too much!

Corinna lay on her back in her chair with mixed feelings.

Why did things become like this, it was obviously a conversation between my father and him, but why did the evil fall on me in the end?

When Corina thought about it, it seemed that it had started with Lynn initially using her as a "shield".

As for Lynn's outrageous words that didn't have any sincerity, Corina could figure it out after a little thought, it must be a lie made up to deceive her father's trust and allow him to take root deeper in Christine—he probably made it up when he killed the Marquis earlier.

Moreover, she has not yet been told about this plan.

Thinking of this, Corina suddenly became a little angry.

"Hey! Why are you pulling me out as your shield! ”

Lynn blinked: "Didn't you say before that you could cooperate with me?" ”

"I think I did, but. . . That's a bit too much! The girl was a little angry, "How can you take all the major events of my life and don't even discuss them with me!" ”

Lynn was slightly stunned, and subconsciously said, "You really think we will get married."

The moment these words were spoken, the world suddenly fell silent.

Lynn realized that she might have said the wrong thing, as the expression on Corina's face was gone, and she stared straight at Lynn before getting up from her chair without saying a word, coming to the bedside, pulling up the quilt and getting in.

That's when he reacted and realized something.

In fact, Lynn never included Corina in her marriage, because in his eyes, it was an option that didn't get much benefit, so he wouldn't do it.

But for Corina, there is more than good and bad in her eyes.

As a child of a noble family, the girl must have been instilled with all kinds of truths that she must listen to and not resist when she is assigned to marry, unless that person really annoys her, she will resist a little for personal reasons, but in the end, she may still succumb to the family's arrangement.

For her, even if she doesn't want to agree with her father's decision, in her heart, she may have been paving the way for the future.

However, Lynn's words directly shattered her illusions.

If that's all it takes, it's okay, if you take it out alone, with Kelina's fairly firm heart, she will definitely not have too many losses and blows because of this, but the problem is that there are too many things that have been experienced before this sentence.

Whether it was her father's irresistible arrangement, or Lynn's plan to secretly use her as a pawn, it made her feel how small her ability was, and how powerless her existence was, and after this sentence came out, she directly became a rag that no one wanted.

The father did not want her, because she would take away the light of her brother; Lynn doesn't want her either, because she doesn't deserve to be his wife!

If this is a different person, let alone digging into the quilt without saying a word, and not directly picking up the bench and making a life and death situation with him and then beating him to death, it is considered good-tempered.

Sighing slightly, Lynn shook her head helplessly, and began to wonder how she should fill this hole.

Corina has been of great use to him so far, and he doesn't want to bury his plans because of this mistake.

However, just as he was thinking, a hand stretched out of the bed pressed against the wall.

The room was dark, and only a silver ray of moonlight streamed through the gap in the curtain at the end of the bed.

Lynn, who reacted, was wondering why the girl did this, and then he heard something like a mosquito.

"Come here."

Lynn honestly walked to the edge of the bed, sat on the edge of the bed, and quietly waited for the girl's next words.

I waited for almost half an hour.

Perhaps it was the girl's emotions that finally calmed down, and she slowly spoke.

"Sometimes, I always wonder if I would be better off if I didn't have the background I have now."

Before she could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by Lynn.

"No, it won't." Lynn coldly vetoed, "Without the protection of your identity background, your superior appearance will cause even more trouble." ”

"Then don't have this face."

"In the final analysis, appearance is just something outside the body, and if you give up this face, the wisdom you have will also cause the jealousy of ordinary people."

For a moment, Corina wanted to curse.

She forcibly covered her face with the quilt and said sullenly, "I don't have much wisdom, so don't do it." ”

"If you don't want identity, appearance, or wisdom, it's really not much trouble, but. Didn't you go to the people, they had nothing, and they were really doing well? ”

"You're so annoying."

Lynn smiled, turned her head sideways, looked at the girl's hidden head, and said, "Troubles cannot be escaped, as long as you live in the world, even animals will be troubled by the lack of things." ”

"If you want to make your troubles dissipate, you can only solve it."

"You're right, but I can't." Corina seemed frustrated, and said, "I don't have that ability." ”

"Actually, I knew a long time ago that I wasn't a piece of jade, but I wasn't willing to do nothing, and I wanted to struggle, but the result was always unsatisfactory, so I could only comfort myself with lies like 'if not', you bastard, and I didn't even let myself comfort myself."

"It's not that you won't let it." Lynn reached out and touched the girl's hidden head, and said softly, "It's not necessary. ”

"Remember what I said after the dance? I said, if you are willing to stand by my side, I can bring you the applause and cheers you hope for - then you just have to accept it, and I will help you solve all your troubles. ”

“.”

Suddenly the voices in the world disappeared again.

After a while, a pair of eyes came out of the bed: "I thought you were teasing me at that time." ”

"No, it's not." Lynn squinted and smiled, "That's serious. ”

"But it doesn't seem to do you any good, and you even denied it."

"I denied it? What did I deny? ”

“.”

Thinking about it carefully, Lynn seems to be just asking rhetorically, and not really denying it, but that tone, doesn't he just think that it is impossible to happen? Isn't that just denial?

"No, no, no, it's just in my plan, it's not part of it, but that doesn't mean it's not possible."

“.” Corina wasn't happy with that, but reacted, "Do you think I'm still useful, so you want to make up for something now?" ”

Blinking, Lynn admits calmly, "Yes, I still need you now, but as for making up for something. I'm just making a follow-up to my previous words. ”

"Hush."

Corina rolled her eyes and sighed again.

"No, you don't have to comfort me, I understand."

"Indeed, compared to you, I am incompetent, useless, powerless, and have no value except for this identity, and once I lose my value, I will become a piece of rotten cloth that can be thrown away at any time, you don't have to think about how to argue with my words, unless you are really willing to raise a waste."

“.”

Lynn took the prepared words back.

At this time, the girl seemed to have opened her mind, and she was particularly able to understand people's hearts—perhaps she had understood it before, but it was just out of the false cover-up instinct that the nobles liked, and she never said it directly.

She's never been an idiot.

Like now, she seems to have seen herself clearly.

"You're right, it's pointless to give up what you have, and it's better to use the knife in your hand to face it than to run away." She pulled the quilt down, revealing a face that was beautiful even in the dark, and then Lynn realized that there seemed to be no sense of frustration or loss on her face.

She stared at Lynn and whispered, "So you want to know, what would I do?" ”

Lynn hesitated for a moment and nodded, "What are you going to do." ”

"Huh."

Corina pulled back the covers, sat up, and laughed.

She smiled brightly and dangerously, like a rose soaked in blood, dazzling and hidden.

"Don't you want to take advantage of me, well, I'll let you use it however you want, and then, as you said, I'll have to stand by your side and enjoy the spotlight I wish to enjoy—but, I don't want to be abandoned afterward, so the way I stand next to you can't be because of your 'charity.'"

"Just now, I thought back to why I ended up where I am today, where you are in control of everything, and then I figured it out - my foresight and timidity have caused me a lot of trouble."

"I was afraid of your ethereal threat, afraid of my dark future, afraid of all that might happen, and then consciously jumped into the pocket you knitted for me, and let you knead it."

"Under your false truth, I always thought that I really didn't have any ability, so I honestly gave everything to you. When I looked back, I realized that if I ignored the threats you gave me, I seemed to be the one who should be more dominant. ”

"After all, my needs are obviously more important than yours."

"If you still want to continue, then"

She held her head high, as if looking down at Lynn condescendingly.

"Now, it's up to you to please me."

(End of chapter)