under the mask

Going to the underground military shipyard again, and taking the elevator up inside the main artery-like building, Li Wei, like other students, has a completely different state of mind than a few months ago.The city in the sky, which is independent on the twin stars of Jialai Vance, has washed away all the prosperity of the noisy modern city, leaving only the endless desert and the blue sky.

The moment I stepped out of the Silver Building, the cold winter wind was accompanied by various aircraft whizzing by among the metal buildings, and holographic advertisements were played on many high-rise buildings.

"Ah... finally back to the city..." A girl next to her sighed.

Li Wei couldn't help but agree.

"How are you guys? Hall is here to pick me up, would you like to stay with me for a night first?" He turned his head and asked his friend.

Kashi glanced at Emilia, and said to Li Wei hesitantly: "I... I haven't seen my mother and the others for a long time, and the holiday is only a few days... Can you just send me back?"

Li Wei looked up at him in surprise, then turned his gaze to Emilia.

"The housekeeper will come to pick me up." Emilia put her hands in the pockets of her uniform coat and said in a calm tone.

Five minutes later, Li Wei and Kashi watched her board the pink aircraft engraved with the family crest of the Muka family. The housekeeper nodded slightly to them, and then drove the aircraft across the head like a rainbow, flying to the Royal Avenue.That section of the suspended road where the Paramount Palace is located can only be driven with a special license or pass, and all vehicles and aircraft are allowed to pass only on the day of enrollment every year.

"I thought you would want to have more chances to get along with her." Li Wei put his hands in his warm pockets and looked towards the distance of the garage square, where a bird-shaped aircraft was slowly descending.

Kashi took a few steps forward, then turned to look at Li Wei, his young face was full of melancholy and confusion.

"Wei..." he said with difficulty, "We, Amelia and I... will never have a future."

Li Wei frowned and stared at him.

What's going on here?

Kashi covered his forehead, his tall body shrunk slightly in the cold wind, his voice was a little erratic because of the wind: "She told me...her parents decided to separate...so her grandmother wanted her to be an heir after graduation, and then Into the army... I don't understand—"

He stared at Li Wei with painful eyes, and said hoarsely: "I don't understand, what does her parents' decision to separate have anything to do with her life? I don't understand, she obviously likes me too, why can't she be with me? She even — not even a normal marriage!"

Li Wei was stunned, and suddenly thought of Amelia's eyes, which were dim and indifferent.

A heart-wrenching guilt suddenly made him uncomfortable.

"Even if it's not me! Even if it's not me—" Kashgar grabbed his shoulders and bent down, with faint water dripping on the stony ground: "It doesn't matter if it's someone else, at least give her a normal life...Does Aimi exist? The only meaning left is...to give birth to an heir..."

The end of the voice has been muted.

Li Wei tightly held Kashi's hand on his shoulder, but he couldn't stop him from squatting on the ground covering his face, his broad shoulders trembling slightly.

After a while, Kashgar let out a heavy breath, wiped his face and stood up.

"I'm sorry bro, I just..." His eyes were red, and he said embarrassedly to Li Wei: "If she didn't tell you about Aimie, you...don't ask her."

"I know." Li Wei whispered, and patted him on the shoulder, "Let's go, I'll take you back first."

In the distance, Hall was standing on the edge of the square in a black windbreaker, waiting for them to walk over.

After sending Kashgar back to his home in District [-], Hall drove Lyle to District [-].

Sitting in the passenger seat, Li Wei looked at the flan tree passing by. The blooming season has passed, but her leaves are still shining bright green like emeralds. It looks so beautiful against the sky.

"Why didn't Amelia tell me?" He suddenly said, a little frustrated: "I've been a little bit overwhelmed recently, but...we're still friends, aren't we?"

Hall released his black leather gloved hand from the handle and activated autopilot.He turned sideways and held Li Wei's face with both hands, his handsome face was in close contact with Li Wei, and the two pairs of eyes with the same pupil color looked at each other.

"Why don't you think she told you, baby," Hall said in a low voice, his eyes were like magical swirls: "You obviously know."

Li Wei closed his eyes, leaned his forehead against the butler's, and sighed softly.

Yeah, maybe Kashi doesn't get it, but he's Levi's Parr, how can he not get it?

Emilia's grandmother's meaning is very clear: Honey, I knew you were having an affair with that commoner but I didn't stop it because I thought you were young and I wasn't so unreasonable. Besides, I believed you would know how to control yourself... But now, your mother who is desperate to fall in love and marry freely, now finally has to believe that Wentley is only with her for the power of the Miuka family—now that the Inqui family is highly valued by the Prime Minister, he no longer needs Your mother is gone.My dear, what a big scandal the divorce of the nobles is, our family will be the laughing stock of the banquet in the next few years, this makes me sober, I can no longer indulge you.

Be a little self-aware, Amelia.

The power of the Muka family must be in our own hands.

Men are unreliable.

Li Wei couldn't help but cover his eyes, no matter how smart and mature Amy was, she was just a teenage girl...she couldn't resist the power from the family.It's no wonder that something went wrong after Emilia returned to the auxiliary star for the holiday... He was responsible. He put all his energy on the twins and the competition, and he hadn't paid attention to his two friends for a long time.

Maybe it's because of Emilia's...education that she became self-aware as the lady wished.Compared with the friendship with Li Wei, she finally realized that they were both heirs of the great nobles, and Li Wei could not help her in any way.

Li Wei felt sorry for the little girl.

But damn it, he really... really couldn't help Emilia?What can he do?Elope for Amelia?

God, none of them are adults yet!

"Hall, don't you think it's abnormal for me, Abel and Jacob?" He couldn't help asking his butler: "Maybe I will shame Spal because of this in the future... If Andrew is still here, he What would you say?"

Hall straightened up, gently held the handle and slid the aircraft into the underground garage.The lights on all sides of the garage turned on at the same time, and the doors on both sides of the aircraft slid open automatically.

"Listen, master." He stepped off the aircraft, walked around to the co-pilot, and looked at him with his hands on the door: "Andrew is not that lady. Compared with Spal's reputation, he cares about your character, and you You may not be aware that Julie was a widow at the beginning, and her husband died suddenly on the day she got married, and she had just graduated from Imperial University that year, at the age of 21."

Levi's eyes widened. He had never heard Julie or Andrew say that... well, who would say that to a little boy who was only a few years old.

Hall raised the corners of his mouth, and his green pupils flashed a smile: "But Baruyer just fell in love with her, and insisted on marrying her into the Spal family."

Li Wei was dumbfounded.

His father, whom he had never met, actually did such arrogant things when he was young?

"Andrew...Andrew and Julie have a very good relationship." He said dully.

Hall held him in his arms, and walked out of the garage with his butt in one arm: "Yes, Andrew supports this matter. He believes that as long as everything follows his heart and does not harm the world, there is no need to care about other people's eyes .”

Li Wei was so shocked that he forgot to be shy.

It wasn't until he reached the living room that a small thing wrapped in a ball rolled over in the distance, and he blushed, realizing that this was the first time he was hugged by Hall like this since he was eight or nine years old, and it was too embarrassing.

"Googoo———" Issa's small mouth was covered in his collar, and he let out an indistinct cheerful cry, and rushed towards Li Wei with small steps.

Of course, in the end, he could only pounce on Butler Hall's long legs.

"Yeah... woohoo, give back Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!" the little thing hugged Hall's thigh and gnawed on Hall's thigh, making the drool in Hall's pants.

"Put...let me down..." Li Wei frantically suppressed his voice and stretched out his fingers to scratch the butler's neck.

Hall: "..."

He put the boy down regretfully, and watched Li Wei pick up Isa's back collar with a sullen face, put a small meat ball on the table and let him stand there alone.

"Cuckoo..." Isa rubbed her little boots, looked under the table uneasily, and then looked at her brother sadly, "Come down... come down..." The little thing was raised white and tender, with a chubby little face and a mouth As delicate as petals.

Li Wei's face darkened again.

"I've only been away for more than two months, what's wrong with you?" He twitched the corner of his mouth: "'Other'...Is this what boys say?! Who did you learn from!!" He glanced sideways at the butler .

Hall was wiping a vase carefully, and his monocular glasses flashed gorgeously.

Play a fart!Irresponsible parents! !That I can be so upright is my roots! !

Li Wei was so angry that he stretched out his finger and poked the little fat boy's forehead: "Say! Who did you learn to be so sissy from!!" He couldn't stop beating the child, but this kid had to teach him a lesson and correct him next time he came back Don't you have to find out that you are actually raising a little girl? !

Issa stared blankly at his brother, his little head tilted up and down.If it were an ordinary child, it would probably be crying loudly, but he didn't, he still found it quite amusing.I haven't seen my brother for a long time, and Isa's little friend feels that he is panicking. Since his brother wants to poke it, he should do it... Anyway, it doesn't hurt or itch.

So he grinned happily, revealing a mouthful of snow-white deciduous teeth with rice grains, and there was a big gap in the middle.

Li Wei was stunned at first, and then laughed out loud, the more he laughed, the more he couldn't help it, he bent down and hammered the table.Emma, ​​it's too funny, isn't it—the teeth are so virtuous, and I haven't consciously smiled like that... The small appearance is attractive!

Issa's personality is also very amazing. If it were an ordinary kid, he would be crying and screaming in embarrassment. By the way, brother took this opportunity to leave a bunch of saliva marks on his face.

Li Wei was at a loss, and couldn't let go of his anger.Holding the cub and letting him down, he looked at the butler with one hand on his hip.

Hall shrugged slowly, meaning don't look at me, I'm a housekeeper, not a nanny or a preschool teacher.

After eating at noon, Li Wei managed to put the little thing that was pestering him to sleep, and came to the living room to taste the milk tea and muffins that the butler personally made.

"It's a pity you didn't see Issa's first short play," Hall coughed lightly, "The little girl selling apples..."

Li Wei had an ominous premonition: "Could it be that..."

Hall nodded helplessly: "That's right, Issa is playing the leading role."

Li Wei: "..." Little girl?The apple...little girl?

"The response from the small theater was very good, so Isa was very excited." Hall spread his hands: "When he came back last time, he wanted to show me wearing a skirt."

Li Wei couldn't control himself anymore, he wanted to rush back and beat Isa fat again.

In the evening, he and Abel Jacob made video calls and couldn't help complaining.

Abel sat down on Jacob's buttocks, pouted and acted coquettishly at Li Wei: "My wife... I'm talking about that brat... let's have a shot..."

Li Wei almost choked to death on his saliva.

"Can you have something else in your head!!"

For example, how to punish my wife on the spot with one hundred and one tricks and a complete collection of sex poses... Abel and Jacob stared at his wife in the video speechlessly with double eyelids at the same time.

"Wife, when are you coming back?" Abel said sadly.

Jacob pushed him down with pouted buttocks, and looked at him plaintively with his hairy head outstretched.

"You guys didn't come back with me, huh?" Li Wei leaned back in the chair arrogantly, flung his legs to the sides of Guangnao, then took out the bird and swayed it around to show off before stuffing it back: "I want to see me call A pistol, huh? I don’t think so.”

The two brothers dripped a stream of nosebleeds at the same time, panting heavily, and leaned in front of the light screen. Li Wei was startled, and the corners of his mouth twitched as he watched the two pairs of fluttering big nostrils in the video, nosebleeds rushing.

An hour passed quickly, and Brother Abel cut off the video reluctantly, and Li Wei also felt a sense of loss in his heart. He lay down on his luxurious four-poster bed, and it was a little funny to think about it.I am also a middle-aged man in his 40s, why is he as nasty as a young man...

He reviewed the events of the past few days, and inevitably thought of the matter of the two friends again. The joy he had just now flew away and became heavy again.Regarding Amelia's parents, the aristocratic circle is only that big, and everyone pretends not to know it, but they also know it in private.

After all, the Muka family is quite special among the nobles of Jialai Vance, and it is the only family that has always been headed by a woman.

Li Wei knows that he can't control this matter at the moment. Although he has a mature soul and a strange background, he doesn't have a golden finger like those novels... In Central City, his only advantage is to put it bluntly. Andrew gave him, yes It was given by the ancestors.The few times that Mrs. Elizabeth saw him, there was reserved contempt in her blue eyes, because he was just a young boy who couldn't support his family.

He has to think about it, and after returning to school, he has to find time to ask Amy and Kashi what's on their minds.From now until they graduate, it may not be long, but if they can think of a way, there is still time to fight for the future, it all depends on how they plan.

Li Wei sighed for a long time. He had a lot of troublesome problems on his body, but things just became more and more difficult to deal with.Abel and the others also have their own tasks, and after all, those two guys are younger than themselves, and they can't take on some things.He fell asleep in a daze, and woke up suddenly in the middle of the night with a dry mouth.

He stretched out his hand to touch the bedside table, and the light in the room was on, so he took off his slippers and prepared to go downstairs to find some hot water to drink.Originally, Hall suggested that he live in the master bedroom of Andrew's owner. It was a luxurious suite with a wine cabinet and bar, but Li Wei always had a little emotion in it, hoping to keep Andrew's old days. In the original state of the residence, he still lives in his own room.

The two-story staircase is covered with soft and thick carpets, and delicate wrought iron wall lamps are welded on the walls at intervals, softly shining.The fireplace in the small living room was burning warmly, and the rocking chair and coffee table in front of the fireplace were covered with warm orange color, but it was not too dark. Li Wei walked through a small living room and a large living room, and walked towards the small tea room on the east side of the main entrance. Go, there is an arch leading to the large kitchen.

A low and cold voice suddenly sounded.

"...I used to betray...because my master is Your Majesty..."

"...It's not good to say it's His Majesty...but I can't see it...doubt..."

Li Wei paused, stunned.