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Chapter 1520 The missing dream wedding

Edward Bloom dipped his head in the fountain and changed into new clothes.

He was finally going to meet the girl of his dreams who he fell in love with at first sight.

Her name is Sandra!

Edward stood in front of a half-open door holding a large bouquet of daffodils.

He knew she loved daffodils! This is what the head of the werewolf circus told him!

Through the crack in the door, you can see a girl talking quietly to another girl. The person she is talking to is not visible outside.

After the conversation, the door opened, and the girl Edward longed for, Sandra Kaye Templeton, stood in front of the door. She is so beautiful, as simple and pure as sunshine.

Edward couldn't believe he had found this girl. His smile was stiff and nervous, which made the girl laugh, not expecting what was going to happen.

Edward looked at her and mustered up the courage to say: "You don't know me, my name is Edward Bloom, and I'm in love with you. For the past three years, I have worked nonstop to find out who you are. I've been shot at, stabbed with knives, stepped on, and had my ribs broken twice, but now that I'm here to see you and talk to you, it's all worth it. From meeting you at the circus From the first moment I laid eyes on you, I knew I was destined to be your wife. Now, more than ever, I am sure of that."

Sandra was at a loss, and in the end she just came up with one sentence

"I'm very sorry."

Edward said quickly: "You don't need to be sorry. I mean, I am the luckiest person."

The screen spins and Edward shouts: "Sandra Templeton! I love you! I want to marry you!"

But at this moment, a man's voice came: "Sandra!"

Edward's voiceover sounded: "Sometimes fate is cruel. After leaving Ashton, I have gone through so many hardships, and the girl I love is now engaged to the stupidest person in Ashton."

Sandra walked to the front of the building, a smile on her face, embarrassed, happy, and a little scared. All the students came here to watch this scene.

It was during that adventure to the old house to meet the witch.

Edward: "It's your favorite flower."

"The truth is, I've always been a fool."

Sandra walked on campus holding her textbook, shaking her head in disbelief. The camera looked up at the blue sky, and the clouds in the sky formed a heart-shaped pattern.

Sandra was a little angry: "Stop making trouble, this is not funny. That boy is quite pitiful."

He turned and walked down the steps.

Edward's voiceover: "Sometimes, a man needs to fight; sometimes, he needs to accept the fate of failure. The ship has sailed, and only fools will continue to wait."

A tear slipped down Sandra's cheek and she wiped it away.

Don Price also saw Edward and recognized him: "Bloom!"

The camera pans back again to see Edward and Carl leaving, with Don Price stamping out his cigarette butts in the background.

Edward solemnly said: "I will obey your orders."

The professor turned on the slide projector without looking at the slides. The students laughed secretly, and the professor didn't notice.

He left the screen, leaving only the girls' dormitory building in the background.

Sandra said to Edward: "He is Don Price. Promise me not to hurt him."

He won every time, but why did he lose completely all of a sudden?

Edward was stunned and gathered all his strength

Blessing him with some pretense of calmness: "Congratulations, sorry to disturb you."

Edward's heart dropped. He struggled to control his emotions and face the harsh facts bravely.

Edward walked into the frame again and looked at the dormitory building.

Sandra wondered: "How did you get so many flowers?"

Sandra: "No, I'm sorry, actually I. I'm engaged."

Sandra looked at him and said, "You're wrong. I know you, or at least I've heard of you, Edward Bloom from Ashton. My fiancé is also from Ashton, his name is Don. Price, a few years older than you.”

This result can be said to be unexpected by many people!

Why? Because this name is very familiar to them!

Isn't that the background board?

Remember the one in the group of people who went to that gloomy old house in the story Edward told?

The camera turned and Don Price Jr. was shining a flashlight on Edward.

Sandra's eyes were red: "You don't even know me."

As an adult, Don Price weighed 230 pounds and was muscular. His brothers followed him.

In the girls' dormitory building, Sandra and her sisters opened the curtains and looked outside. Is that guy crazy?

Edward said seriously: "I would like to spend a lifetime getting to know you."

A classmate nudged Sandra and she looked up. The slide read "I love Sandra Templeton." Sandra was surprised and delighted. The professor finally saw what was on the slide.

Sandra still stood in the doorway, feeling extremely uncomfortable. After a while she entered the house, and the giggles of girls could be heard in the house.

"I called florists in five states and explained to them that this was the only way I could get a wife," Edwards said.

Sandra: "Daffodils?"

In the dormitory, at the urging of her sisters, Sandra, who had just woken up, looked out from the second-story window and found that the lawn was filled with daffodils, a total of ten thousand daffodils. Edward stood in the sea of ​​flowers. He had been waiting there for six hours.

She put her left hand on the door frame, and the camera slowly took a close-up of her left hand, allowing people to see a diamond ring on her left ring finger.

Edward: "Don."

Also at the science fair, when Edward got the trophy, Don Price left the show angrily.

The economics professor was giving a lecture, and Sandra was not paying attention.

Climax scenes from several sports games in high school. Whether it was football, baseball or basketball, Edward beat Don Price every time.

When Edward left, he was almost in tears.

Don Price was furious: "What the hell are you doing? She's my woman, she's mine."

Edward shook his head: "She doesn't belong to anyone."

Don Price knocked him down, and Edward was angry but didn't fight back. Don Price struck him hard with his fist again.

Sandra yelled, "Stop!"

Don Price did not listen to the advice: "What's the matter, Bloom? Are you too afraid to fight back?"

Edward kept his promise: "I promised not to hit you."

Don Price shrugged and continued beating Edward.

Edward's voiceover said: "I have never been so beaten in my life, but in the end, Don Price was defeated."

The camera cuts to Don Price sitting on the toilet and defecating while looking at Playboy magazine.

Edward's voiceover sounded: "His congenital heart valve disease was aggravated by excessive exertion. In short, his heart was not strong enough."

Don Price squeezed hard. Suddenly, he grabbed his chest and fell face first to the ground.

"puff!"

There was a roar of laughter in the internal screening room.

They all remembered the scene inside the witch's eyeballs, and sure enough, the scene quickly flashed back to that time.

The glass eyes reflected the same scene as Don Price's death.

This way of death is indeed too weird, but it makes people want to laugh inexplicably.

Back in front of the female dormitory building of the university.

Don Price is still beating Edward. Edward tried to stand up, but was knocked down again. Sandra yelled, "Don!"

Don Price turned his head. Sandra took off her engagement ring and her sisters went "aha" and Don's brothers went "ohhh".

Sandra said loudly: "I will not marry you."

Don Price stood stunned, his mind in confusion.

Edward's eyes were swollen like buns, waiting for another punch. Where is this? What happened?

Don Price was in disbelief: "What, you love this kid?"

Sandra: "He's almost a stranger to me. But I'd rather choose him than you."

She gave the ring back to Don. Don punched Edward again before storming off.

Sandra leaned against Edward's bruised body, his head resting on the daffodils.

Sandra looked at him: "How can I make you stop?"

Edward also looked at her: "Come with me."

He smiled, his teeth bleeding.

Sandra also smiled: "Okay."

The onlookers applauded and cheered, and the camera rose up to take a bird's-eye view of the battlefield made of flowers.

Edward's voiceover sounded: "As a result, Sandra's wedding date has not changed, but the groom has changed."

The camera returned to the present, and it was clear that what had just happened was Edward telling Joseph the story of him and Sandra.

Josephine asked curiously: I remember you said that you did not hold your wedding in the church. "

Edward nodded: "Well, we are all ready, but a new problem has arisen."

He reached for the water glass and Josephine handed it to him. He slowly drank a whole glass of water, seeming very thirsty.

Will came back from the grocery store and came upstairs. He heard voices in the guest room.

Josephine: "Are you feeling thirsty after taking the medicine?"

Edward: "Actually, I feel thirsty all the time, and I don't know why."

Will walked to the door quietly, not sneakily, but he didn't want to alarm the people in the room. The door opened a crack and Will looked inside.

In the room, Edward continued to tell the unfinished story: "When I was 11 years old, once."

"You were talking about your wedding," Josephine reminded gently.

Edward: "I didn't forget, I just digressed suddenly. Look, most men like to be straightforward when telling stories. Although it is not complicated, it is also very boring."

Josephine smiled: "I like your story."

Edward also laughed: "I like you too."

He didn't want to let this moment linger, lest he get sentimental, there was a story to tell.

Edward finally returned to the topic: "Working for the circus had no permanent address. After a few years, I received a lot of undelivered letters."

In the aisle, Will shifted position so that he could hear the story again.

Just listen to Edward continue: "I lay in the hospital for four weeks, and finally the postmaster caught up with me."

In the hospital ward, Edward, who had a bruised nose and face, was wrapped in bandages and was sorting a large bag of letters with the help of Sandra. He tore open an official letter and his face fell after reading it.

Military music played by flutes and drums sounded.

Edward was drafted into the army and went to war.

Here Li Yi changed the background of the original version to the background of the Vietnam War.

Edward squatted in the cabin with a dozen other paratroopers. The noise from the engine was deafening, but Edward was intently reading an Asian phrasebook.

Edward's voiceover: "The average service time in the army is three years, but I can't wait that long. I won't be able to live without Sandra. So, I volunteer to perform all dangerous tasks, hoping to shorten my service period." Within one year.”

Skydiving commander: "Jump! Jump! Jump!"

One by one the paratroopers jumped. It was Edward's turn, but his parachute rope was caught and he couldn't get free no matter how hard he twisted. He looked down and saw that his companions were gone. Finally, he took out a knife from his bag and cut the rope. With a "pop" sound, Edward jumped out of the plane.

Sandra checks the letters, hoping to hear from Edward.

Edward's voice sounded: "I was trapped during the mission and could not return to the team on time. Unfortunately, I cannot send a message to the country."

A black car pulled up and two officers got out.

"So it's not surprising at all that the army was convinced I was dead."

Upon hearing the bad news, Sandra cried so sadly that her painful screams made the church bells ring.

Sandra hung sheets on the clothesline, creating a channel of drying fabric.

"Four months later, Sandra no longer has nightmares. When the phone rings, she no longer thinks it's me. She doesn't run to the window to look in the window when cars drive by."

Sandra took a dress out of the basket and looked up to see a man's silhouette reflected on the sheets in front of her. Sandra froze, watching the shadow move among the fabrics that were gently blown by the breeze. She knew it couldn't be him, he was dead.

She turned away, tried her best to restrain herself, continued to dry the clothes, and took out another item from the basket.

When she raised her head, she saw no longer a shadow, but a living Edward standing in front of her. She gasped, as if she couldn't believe it. But his hands were hot, and that was fate.

Sandra kissed him without hesitation.

The story is over.

The camera switches to Will and Josephine.

Josephine asked him: "You never told me how your parents met."

"They met in O'Byrne."

"What are the details? How did they fall in love? The circus, the war, you never mentioned it."

"That's because most of it never happened."

"But it's very romantic."

"Do you love your father?"

"Do you love him?" Josephine asked repeatedly.

Will was slow, he didn't want to answer yes or no!

He explained: "You have to understand that over the years he spent more time outside than at home. I was thinking maybe he had another life somewhere else. There was another house, another family. He After he left us, he went over there. Or maybe there was no other home, maybe he didn't need a family at all. But whatever the case, he liked another life. The reason he told these stories was that he couldn't stand it and it made him tired. s home."

"No! This is not true!" The wife shook her head.

"So what's 'real'? I've never heard one thing true from my father. I know why you like him. I know why everyone likes him. But I need you to tell me that I'm not crazy." Will was a little excited.

"You're not crazy."

"I want you to be on my side."

"I've always been on your side. I think you should talk to him."

(End of this chapter)