Melusina reminisced about her childhood.

She felt like she was watching a movie or starring in a stage play.

Melusina's childhood was not a happy one.

She lived in the family of a distant relative of the Bai family, whose father's previous generation was a citizen, but in this generation he lost his citizenship rights and became a commoner.

My father was constantly wandering, trying to return to the civic class of Rome, but he ushered in one failure after another, and after more than ten years of blows, he gradually declined, and then simply became a drunken and merry-drinking waste.

The mother is forced to take on the livelihood of the family, but she is not a good wife and mother, she will also be lazy, she will also feel tired, come and go, and cheat.

It is only a matter of time before such a family falls apart.

Melusina, who lives in this environment, naturally does not receive any attention from her parents, which also develops her somewhat dull and withdrawn personality.

It's just that what gave this family a fatal blow in the end, but it was not from the quarrel of the parents or the cheating of the East Window incident, but from the sacrifice ceremony of the evil mage.

She vaguely remembered that when the fire ignited the street, her father lifted the burning beams, and then she was buried by falling rocks, and her mother carried her half a street away, and a knife through her chest pushed her into the side alley.

Melusina still doesn't understand why her father and mother, who are obviously two irresponsible people, began to take on the responsibilities of parenthood in the end.

She ran in the fire for a long time, but was eventually caught

The sacrificial rites of the mages began one by one, and one by one the children were consumed by the flames.

Her luck was good, and when it was her turn, the flames of the curse only had time to damage her left cheek and one leg.

The ritual was then forcibly terminated.

She survived by the good fortune of being last in line.

However, many relatives and friends lost their lives in this disaster, and after learning what happened to her, some relatives avoided her...... Children who survive the sacrificial rites, mostly known as cursed children, bring misfortune.

Her best bet may be to go into a monastery and serve the gods for the rest of her life, only to die.

But then an elderly man came to her bedside.

The old man was well-dressed and very talkative.

The first time they met, he took out a coin and said guess it, there is a reward for guessing correctly.

Melusina guessed the head.

The old man said that he guessed correctly, and you will be my granddaughter from now on.

But he didn't even throw a coin.

From that day on, Melusina's life took its first turn.

In addition to the improvement in her quality of life, she did not feel much change, because she did not know how she should spend her life, she had no goals and no prospects, she just completed all the instructions of her grandfather step by step, and was praised as very talented.

Melusina gradually made this her goal.

As long as her grandfather said something, she would do her best to complete it.

At that time, she couldn't even tell the joke, and at the age of twelve, she ran to learn to fly an airplane, and even actually got a pilot's license.

Melusina is obedient and well-behaved.

But a child who is too obedient means that there is a mental problem.

It is in the nature of children to be naughty, and even if it can be overcome in an acquired way, it cannot completely erase their nature.

So it needs to be released.

If she doesn't get the instructions, Melusina will go down, like she is stuck in energy-saving mode, and she will live like a robot.

At that time, she didn't think there was anything wrong with her, and she didn't understand why her grandfather looked at her with such complicated eyes.

And then......

She ushered in the second turning point in her life.

Two months after her grandfather's departure, she saw a clear-eyed boy on the shores of the Mediterranean.

The boy stood beside his grandfather, the two held hands, she had never seen his grandfather's expression so kind and gentle, spoke so carefully, and was obedient to the boy's childlike words.

Even because the boy wanted to see whales, his grandfather really went to the sea and brought the family's killer whales to the nearby shore for a performance...... Of course, the time was also enough to give a reward, and the killer whale also stroked the two-legged beast very coolly, and the situation was a win-win situation.

The boy sat on the shore, clapping and laughing.

Melusina watched this scene, and for the first time there were emotions in her heart that she had never experienced before.

She developed an incomparably complex feeling about the boy that she was tempted to avoid him, and it was better not to meet him.

But grandpa's words 'take good care of him' made Melusina, who has always been obedient, unable to refuse, she could only suppress her emotions and get along with the boy.

There is a seven-year difference between them.

The boy was less than 10 years old at the time, she was already 16 years old, and she was introduced to the business of the Donghuang Group and held an assistant position.

The two sides are not of the same age, and their values and growth environment are very different.

A ten-year-old child, no matter how obedient he is, has a willful part, and even if he is well-behaved, he has endless questions and all kinds of whimsical ideas...... These have become problems for Melusina on the road with her children.

She was sixteen years old at the time, and she had the efficiency and ability to deal with things that adults would be ashamed of, but this was because everything related to work was traceable, and it would not be wrong to make appropriate adjustments step by step; But taking care of children is a work that requires emotional and emotional input, so as to kill energy.

The process of getting along made her hit a wall frequently, and she felt that she had never encountered such a Waterloo in her life.

The pressure that kept building up kept filling her empty heart.

There was the anger of the fist, and the joy that made her heart beat faster.

As she took the boy by the hand and walked along the Avenue des Champs, through the flower-filled gardens, and sat on the Place du Olive to listen to the open-air performances......

While accompanying the boy all over Rome, she also picked up the beautiful experiences she had lost, as if to compensate for missing out on the beautiful memories of her childhood.

When the shift change time came, the old man came to replace him in person, and took his grandson to take a trip in the middle of winter.

Melusina didn't go along, she could have gone together, but because she had a quarrel with the boy, she volunteered to stay in the group and work overtime.

She began to realize that something was wrong.

Inability to concentrate on your own.

In the past, the work that could always be handled smoothly has become full of mistakes and omissions, and I will always unconsciously run away, and my brain will be blank for a long time.

Unconsciously took out the photos and began to watch them one by one, and there were two and a half days in three days.

Some assistants and secretaries teased her that she had just come back from vacation and was not careful, everyone was like this, and it would take a while to adjust.

But Melousina knew that this was not the case, it was not that she could not take it away, but that she ...... I can't put it down.

For the first time, she realized that her feelings had already overflowed.

If she were a ship, after a long wandering, she longed for a bright lighthouse and a quiet harbor.

She can maintain an obedient and well-behaved image in front of adults, just because she knows that she won't be thrown away again, because she doesn't want to be alone.

But in front of a boy who is less than ten years old, she doesn't need to maintain this image at all, what the boy needs is companionship, a playmate who cries and laughs together and runs on the beach until he is exhausted.

Her defenses collapsed at the touch of a button.

When the boy returned, she hugged him for the first time.

The days that followed were peaceful.

Until an accident happened.

It was really just an accident, a group of stupid thieves who kidnapped the wrong person and took the boy away.

Driven mad, Melusina searched all the way until she finally found the boy locked up on a ship in the harbor.

But by this time, the sightseeing ship had already left the port.

It's too late to try to return.

In order to avoid the dead tide, the two could only hide in the cabin and snuggle up to each other.

In the dark belly of the ship, it survived three difficult days.

Fortunately, they were lucky.

The ship docked, and after making inquiries, Merusina confirmed that she had arrived in a remote area some distance from Rome.

This is an island, with a small town, the people are simple, and at the same time, they are a little backward, and they are not even covered by the World Tree's network.

She didn't even know how to return to Rome, but fortunately she brought some Roman gold coins with her before leaving, and easily bought a house here, and the rest of the money was enough for her sister and brother to eat and wear for the rest of their lives.

The two settled here.

This life lasted for about three weeks.

Although she has to run for life, she lives happily.

Here, she felt free and uninhibited, able to walk around town in a day holding the boy's hand, from dawn to dusk.

One night, after Melusina lulled the boy to sleep.

There was a heavy knock on the door.

She didn't want to answer, but the voice was too loud, and she was worried that it would wake the boy.

Then he opened the door and saw an old man with a calm face standing outside the door, holding a staff of civilization, with a silent sea in the background.

……

Melusina looked at the image from her memory.

Looking at the scene with vivid memories.

Breathing gradually shortened, and his eyes gradually darkened.

What happened next, maybe she will never forget for the rest of her life.

It was the biggest mistake she had ever made, and it was the sin she would have felt guilty for the rest of her life.

(End of chapter)