I am aging gracefully in the world of famous books

Pei Xiang deeply felt that Theodore had underestimated her elegant view of love as a little fairy, and that he should suffer a round of beatings from society, so she rejected his marriage proposal without hesitation.

Facing the negative answer given by Pei Xiang, although Theodore was very disappointed, but because he was mentally prepared, he quickly suppressed the ups and downs in his heart.

"Sister Adele, will you alienate me from now on?"

"I will keep within the proper social boundaries. Theodore, you are too young, some things should not be too impulsive, and some feelings may also be a temporary illusion."

"I knew that Sister Adele would definitely say similar reasons," Theodore lowered his brows and sighed, his eyes melted, "I didn't expect to propose so early, but I just saw Adele standing in front of you. Bowing her head and smiling in front of the flowers, she was even more beautiful than today's bride, so she subconsciously spoke her mind."

Pei Xiang tilted his head and looked at the blue-eyed young man opposite him:

"Isn't it because of William that you are so restless?"

Theodore, who was exposed, smiled shyly, and said very sincerely:

"I can't deny that there are factors in this aspect. I am afraid of losing you. Sister Adele, give me a few more years to grow up, and I will convince you that I am the most sincere and reliable in terms of love. In or inside."

Pei Xiang didn't answer aloud for a while.

Theodore goes on to sell himself to his sweetheart:

"Adele, you don't have a lover yet, why don't you put me on the candidate list? Besides, you don't dislike my special friendship for you, do you?"

"Candidate?" Pei Xiang thought for a while, then said calmly, "But I don't particularly like you. Before that, I have always regarded you as a younger brother who needs to be taken care of and a partner who understands each other. Haven't seen you from the perspective of a future partner."

Theodore smiled softly, with a bewitching tone:

"Then from now on, you can regard me as an adult male who is pursuing you. Sister Adele, I expect you to observe me, evaluate me, judge me, and finally marry me and be my forever Adele alone."

"Even if I marry you, it doesn't mean that I will be alone with you forever," Pei Xiang smiled and shook his head, "Theodore, my life is very easy now, I have assets, a protector who respects my personal will, and friends I don’t want to make any changes when I have a social relationship. Marriage is an adventure, and if you lose, you will always be hurt.”

"Sister Adele, I know very well that I am not the one who makes you willing to take risks, but I can wait patiently."

"Maybe you will never wait for the result." Pei Xiang poured cold water on Theodore.

"What about the others?"

"I am not sure."

Theodore's eyes were dark, he pursed his lips and slowly paced forward, and put the white rose that he had picked off at some point in Pei Xiang's hand.

"It's okay if you can't wait for the result, the most important thing is the waiting process. Sister Adele, please let me stay by your side all the time? Brother, friend, confidant, partner, lover, I can play every role."

Pei Xiang blinked, thinking to himself why there is such a role as "lover" around him?

——Theodore, you really have misunderstood my emotional values, right?

The conversation between the two had no final result, but from this day on, Theodore's love and pursuit of Pei Xiang were all on the surface.

This surprised their relatives and friends, and William even had a talk with Theodore.

When the conversation was over, William was pale and dark with chagrin.He left London alone the next day, and did not return until three months later under the continuous summons of Viscount Rio.

One day a year later, Pei Xiang invited several wives and ladies to the theater to watch a performance. During the intermission, a waiter quietly handed Pei Xiang a carefully folded note.

Pei Xiang raised her eyebrows, she avoided other people's eyes and looked down to read the content on the note. After a while, surprise and thought flashed across her eyes.

——This lady would still appear in front of her?

Putting the note away, Pei Xiang ate a piece of cake slowly, and chatted with the friends in the box about the latest news and gossip about the soprano who sang on stage today.Afterwards, she used the universal excuse of being inconvenient to leave the theater box where she was, and searched for the designated place on the note.

"Adele, Adele, you're finally here, I know you haven't forgotten your mother! Oh, mother's little pigeon, mother's little melon, how have you been all these years?"

As Pei Xiang approached, a woman with a tired face suddenly appeared behind the pillars of the corridor at the corner of the theater. complex.

"Selina Varun?" Pei Xiang carefully looked at the woman's appearance, and found that she could still vaguely see the familiar outline from back then.

"It's so, my child, you really look like me when I was young!"

The woman was also observing Pei Xiang's facial features. After finding that the child looked somewhat similar to herself, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then said excitedly:

"In these years, I have been imagining what you will look like when you grow up, whether you are more like me, or more like... your father who never showed up... child, you are more beautiful and temperamental than when I was young, like a An authentic English lady. However, as long as we stand together, no one can deny the blood relationship between you and me. This must be a gift from God to me."

Pei Xiang secretly thought, then God is a bit unfair to me, isn't this obviously causing trouble for me?

She watched Celina Varun who suddenly appeared calmly, waiting for her to explain why she came.

Celina sighed a few more words, trying to wake up her daughter's longing and attachment to her mother.But she soon realized that being emotional didn't seem to be doing much.

"Adele, cough, how have you been all these years? How has Mr. Rochester treated you? Did he taunt you? Are you happy?"

Pei Xiang was sure that no one was eavesdropping around, so he said directly:

"I couldn't have had a better life. Mr. Rochester treated me like a jewel in the palm of my hand. I am very happy, and I have always been glad that you abandoned me back then, so that I was lucky enough to meet a very responsible guardian and receive better education and nurturing .”

Celina's expression froze for a moment, and then quickly covered it up, leaving behind genuine remorse and sadness:

"Adele, you are fortunate to be a respectable lady, and hereafter, if you make no mistakes, yes, no mistakes, you will surely marry a gentleman of good birth.

"But I'm miserable. I've been living in Italy all these years, and life is very hard. Adele, you have to help mother, who has spent all her money to come to England to find you. I, I really It’s a desperate situation.”

"Do you want money?" Pei Xiang's voice was cold, "I have some pocket money, which can help you in an emergency."

"No, no, mom knows that it's not easy for you. There must not be much pocket money on hand. Mom doesn't want it. Mom just wants to get to know you and live with you. Adele, do you still remember our days in France? I told you stories, taught you to sing and play the piano, let the guests praise you, and I dressed you up beautifully. At that time, our mother and daughter's life was like a fairy tale, Adele, although you are an illegitimate child Girl, but mother loves you."

Pei Xiang frowned, knowing that Celina was about to open her mouth.

——If she can find me accurately, she must have known the false identity arranged by Mr. Rochester for me.

—Since I am Miss Duran, who died of both parents, it is impossible to have a dancer mother named Celina Warren.In order not to reveal the identity of my illegitimate daughter, of course I cannot live with her.

——If you don't live together, you have to pay her off, and you have to pay a lot of money to keep quiet.

Pei Xiang asked softly: "Miss Warren, do you want to live with me?"

Celina Varun's eyes were full of longing, she nodded repeatedly, but she was waiting in her heart for Pei Xiang to give her a price to leave her far away, and then she could bargain...

Pei Xiang suddenly smiled, with a gentle tone:

"There is an unbroken blood relationship between us. Of course I am willing to live with you. But let me state in advance that every penny I spend now is given by Mr. Rochester. Before I get Mr. Rochester's permission, I can't use his money to support you. Therefore, if you plan to live with me, go to the kitchen or laundry room to help, be a self-sufficient and loving mother, and use labor to support yourself."

"You actually made me a low-level servant?" Selina Varun asked with a look of disbelief, her tone slightly sharp.

"Yes, for the sake of you being Celina Varun, I left you this highly competitive maid position. If it was someone else, they would not be able to get such a position without being assessed and recommended. A decent job. So, Celina, are you happy with what I have done for you? As long as you agree, we can live together every day and see each other whenever we want, how nice it is.”

"You let your mother be a real person, but you are a high-ranking young lady?" Celina Varun repeated loudly again.

Pei Xiang nodded his head as a matter of course, and under Celina's angry stare, his face suddenly turned cold:

"Why, you are not satisfied with my arrangement? Then I have nothing to do, you hurry up and leave here, don't come to me, and don't continue to disturb my life. "

Celina realized that she had been tricked, and embarrassment flashed across her eyes.

She took a deep breath, her brows looked sad, as if she had been hurt, she accused Pei Xiang in a low voice:

"Is this how you treat your own mother? Are you so cold-blooded? God, is my daughter possessed by the devil? I want to reveal your true colors, and I want to let the upper class in London know how you treat My, I want to tell everyone, you are not Miss Duran at all, you are just the illegitimate daughter of a dancer!"

Pei Xiang answered slowly:

"Selina, I'm ruined and kicked out of high society, and then? What good do you do, huh? I'm poor and you're rich?"

Celina's face turned blue immediately, and she looked suspiciously at every subtle expression of Pei Xiang.

After a while, she finally restrained all the unnecessary false emotions, and threatened coldly:

"Of course I won't be so stupid as to go around shouting that I'm going to sell your secret to your enemies, to people who hate you. Well, Adele, don't play tricks anymore, remember, you never I have a clue, look at your face, who would not believe my words? Ha, I advise you to learn to be patient and bow your head, maybe, I will read a little bit of blood relationship."

Pei Xiang shook his head helplessly, thinking that when you abandoned Adele back then, you already had no family ties, so why put on an air at this time.

She opened her purse and pretended to be looking for change, but was actually choosing which trick powder to use.

Pei Xiang was going to fascinate the sudden appearance of Celina Varun first, no matter whether she was purely seeking money or being instructed by others, she could always find out the truth.

——It’s just that it’s a bit troublesome when Tibetans transport people for a while, and I have to find a good excuse.

Celina Varun noticed Pei Xiang's movement of lowering her head and flipping her bag, thinking that the other party was finally willing to give in, her brows relaxed immediately, and her attitude became arrogant again:

"Would you like to send me with the change you have with you? Then you can think of it simply, silly girl. I have no comfortable lodgings, fine clothes, or good food, and that is all your fault, Adele." .”

Just when Pei Xiang was about to pop the drug, there was a faint sound of footsteps in the distance. She listened carefully and judged that someone must pass by the corner where she and Celina were talking.

Therefore, Pei Xiang temporarily stopped administering the medicine, intending to check the identity of the visitor first, and then decide how to deal with it later.

After a while, the more and more clear sound made Pei Xiang's eyebrows relaxed, and she had already judged the identity of the person coming from the sound of footsteps.

Sure enough, after a while, Theodore's voice sounded behind Pei Xiang:

"Adele, why are you standing here? Isn't today's performance wonderful?"

Pei Xiang glanced at Celina Varun first, and found that after Theodore appeared, she immediately put on a turban, covering half of her face. Obviously, she didn't want others to notice her appearance at the moment.

Such a cautious reaction made Pei Xiang raise his eyebrows slightly, thinking that life has finally forced him to have a brain?Or did you get some advice from an "expert"?

Many ideas were generated in an instant, which did not delay Pei Xiang and Theodore saying hello:

"I'm here to meet an old friend. This is Miss Warren. She used to take care of me when I was in France. Now we meet in a foreign country. I'm surprised and happy, and we're talking about the old days."

"Valen?" Theodore was confused for a moment, and then realized that when he first met Pei Xiang, the other person's surname was Valen.

It is said that because Mr. Rochester was careless and too obsessed with the flashy and romantic life in Paris, his adopted daughter has never had a formal identity and name, and had to temporarily take the surname of the person who took care of her until they returned to England. Changed to "Duran".

Theodore's eyes moved slightly.

He walked close to Pei Xiang, looked down at the smiling curve of her lips and the tranquility and softness of the corners of her eyes and eyebrows. Based on years of experience in getting along, he judged that Pei Xiang didn't like the old woman who was hiding her head and face.

——Since you don't like it, but you are standing here chatting patiently... There must be something wrong with this Miss Warren.

Pei Xiang raised his thick eyelashes and glanced at Theodore lightly. Theodore smiled at her and stood sideways in front of Pei Xiang very naturally, blocking between her and Celina.

"Since it is an old man who took care of Sister Adele, and we meet again after many years, why don't we find a comfortable and clean place, drink something, and sit down to talk about the old days. Miss Warren, my love for Sister Adele when she was young Things are interesting, and I guess you'd like to have an eager audience like me."

Celina received a friendly invitation from the young gentleman, and gave Pei Xiang a triumphant and warning look, as if showing off that she could easily expose Pei Xiang's true identity.

"It's my honor and my luck, young and kind sir." Celina immediately complimented her enthusiastically.

Pei Xiang lowered his eyes without saying a word, not thinking that falling into Theodore's hands was much luckier than falling into his own hands.

——How will Theodore react when he finds out the identity of my illegitimate daughter?