Attack on Titan's Silent Watch

Honey, I don't know one thing. "

Before, my father would answer whatever he asked. One day, Vanessa suddenly asked a question: "In the past two years, I have met almost all the nobles in the north, but I have never met any members of the Morrison family. .”

Vanessa's father's eyes flickered, "Before meeting each other, you must first know the details of each other. Tell me, how much do you know about the Morrison family?"

Vanessa stood there and thought for a while, "As a famous family in the north, the Morrison family has a small territory, but they control one-fifth of the wealth in the industrial city, and they manage many mechanical engineers." She glanced Father, after confirming that he was right, continued: "Industrial City is the production place of all military facilities, including three-dimensional mobile devices and black gold bamboo blades. In a sense, the Morrison family is one of the main forces that manufacture weapons for the king. [-]. However, the Morrison family currently only has one underage female heir - Delise Morrison. If there is no male heir, the property of the Morrison family may be taken by other nobles .”

"That's good, but you missed two points." Father nodded appreciatively, and added: "First, you also have half of the Morrison family blood. Second, the property of the Morrison family can only be owned by us. The Tring family will inherit."

"Huh?" Vanessa's eyes widened and she couldn't believe her ears.

The father stood up, took Vanessa's hand to the window, and found that she was not tall enough, so he picked her up and let her sit on his arms.

"Did you see that patch of white roses?" Father pointed to the bright white in the garden, and said with emotion, "That was your mother's favorite flower when she was alive. In order to pursue your mother, I even bought out the rose. I have all the white roses, but unfortunately, she fell ill and died of a high fever after giving birth to you."

Then, the father slowly told the story of how he and his mother met. Only then did Vanessa know that her mother is the younger sister of the current head of the Morrison family. The blessing also indirectly led to her current embarrassing situation.Probably because other people didn't want to see her, so that her father also alienated her.

Now, Vanessa just wants to regain her father's attention, "Father, do you still remember when my birthday is?"

"Uh..." my father put down Vanessa and touched her head, "I'm sorry, I've been busy with work recently, so I don't have time to celebrate your birthday." Perhaps because he felt owed to Vanessa, his father didn't look directly at her when he spoke. her eyes.

"How about this." My father got up and walked to the storage shelf to take a glance. There were some expensive works of art neatly displayed on it, some of which could not even be measured by money.Father chose for a long time, and finally chose a royal blue crystal swan the size of a fist to give to Vanessa, "You take this first, and I will give you another big gift on your birthday next time."

"Thank you, father." Vanessa carefully held the crystal swan, which was heavy for her, with both hands.She knew in her heart that this gift was just a perfunctory act from her father, but she couldn't help being a little moved when she thought that this was the first gift from her father in several years.

Not long after Vanessa left, Niobe walked into the study, and she saw the difference in the study at first glance, "Honey, where is the crystal swan I gave you earlier?"

"I gave that to Dolores. Girls must like shiny things."

"So that's how it is." Niobe didn't say anything, but the dissatisfaction in his heart increased again.

Since Vanessa used Icarus's birthday party to attract everyone's attention, both the guests present and the fathers of the children have formed the stereotype of the elder sister with virtue and skill, and the younger brother with stubborn nature.Especially in these years, the fact that Earl Sterling only took Vanessa to meet the king made her extremely resentful.

cause (1)

One day not long after, my father called Vanessa to the study again.After entering the door, her father ignored her and was concentrating on writing something in a book.Vanessa just stood there quietly, and when her father finally finished writing, he raised his head and found her.

"So you are here." The father's tone was a little surprised, it seemed that he really forgot about her.

"Are you wondering what this book is?" Father read Vanessa's thoughts from her eyes.

Vanessa quickly lowered her head, "No."

"You are not too young, you should also understand the family's 'business'. In the future, you and Icarus, one of them will inherit this ledger." The father stood up as he spoke, and gently turned the picture frame on the wall behind him.

'That is to say, do I also have the chance to become the head of the Sterling family? ' thought Vanessa.

When the picture frame turned to 90 degrees, my father squatted down and uncovered the carpet next to the desk, and pressed one of the wooden floors with his palm, and the floor opened with a 'click'.

Vanessa looked over, and it turned out that there was a safe embedded under the floor.

Father put the ledger in, closed the floor, covered the carpet, and turned the painting back to its original state, "I called you here today to tell you that tomorrow, you will be able to see your uncle you have never met, don't forget to give People say hello."

"Yes." Vanessa cheered up, "Why?"

"Thanks to Russell's mediation, it's time for this cold war between families to end." The father said with a long sigh.

It was as if a ray of sunshine shone into Vanessa's heart, that is to say, others would no longer look at her strangely.

Sure enough, a few days later, Vanessa, who was practicing embroidery in her room, heard a message from a servant, "Miss, Earl Morrison is here, sir, please come over."

"Okay." Vanessa stood up excitedly.

"It's been a long time, Father, Earl Morrison." Vanessa lifted her skirt and slightly bent her knees to greet the two sitting in the living room.

"Sit down." Father patted the empty seat on the sofa beside him.

"Yes." Vanessa glanced at Earl Morrison, who looked only in his thirties, much younger than her father.Like most of the nobles she has met, even sitting still has an indescribable aura.

It's just the way Earl Morrison looked at her...is that 'sympathy'?Vanessa didn't know, she had complicated feelings about this uncle who ignored her because her mother decided to live her life privately.

After Earl Morrison exchanged a few words with Vanessa, he began to concentrate on talking about "business" with his father. There was no Vanessa to intervene. She could only listen quietly, and the information she got was : Since then, the Morrison family and the Sterling family have settled their feud, and made a marriage contract with each other. When Icarus of the Sterling family and Delise of the Morrison family became adults, their wedding was held.

In the end, Earl Morrison said to Vanessa before leaving: "Next month is Delise's ninth birthday, I hope you can come and see it then."

Vanessa glanced at her father, and she immediately understood what her father was thinking after years of observation.She politely replied, "Yes, Lord Morrison."

Until the figure of Earl Morrison left her sight, Vanessa still did not ask those questions that had been accumulated in her heart for many years. It was the older maid who told her after learning of the reconciliation between the two families that Earl Morrison had sent her mother The blame for his death was on his father, so he cut off contact with the Sterling family.As for ignoring her these years, the main reason is that Vanessa's father did not allow Earl Morrison to meet her, perhaps because he was afraid that she would be 'abducted'.

Vanessa didn't take it seriously. If her father really cared about her so much, why did he ignore her for a long time? It felt more like he was playing with her.She might not be able to understand the true thoughts of these adults for the rest of her life.

cause (2)

A few weeks later, Earl Sterling brought Vanessa to the Morrison family's mansion. The garden was very lively, and the small dining tables scattered everywhere were full of lovely decorations and tempting snacks, and these Among the dim sum, most of them are related to meat floss, such as meat floss cake, meat floss bread, meat floss sandwich cake, meat floss egg roll...

The adults are all walking or chatting together, and the children are playing and playing together.Among them, the black-haired girl wearing a red dress and showing off with a doll is Delise Morrison.

Earl Sterling glanced at Delise from a distance, lowered his head and said to Vanessa, "Go and say hello to her."

"Yes." Vanessa nodded respectfully.When she raised her head again, her father had walked into the house without saying a word, as if to talk to Earl Morrison.

Seeing someone coming to her birthday party again, Daier ran up happily.

"Happy birthday, Delise." Vanessa was so frightened by Delise's sudden appearance that she couldn't even speak coherently.

"Thank you, but everyone usually calls me Dai." Dai raised a dog-shaped doll in front of Vanessa, "This is a birthday present that my mother made for me. It's called Doug, isn't it cute? "

"Very...cute." Vanessa looked enviously at this child who smiled innocently. If her parents could always love her like this, she would be able to live happily ever after, and maybe she would be able to inherit the title and property of the family justifiably. .

"Oh, by the way, I don't think I've seen you before." Dai'er looked at Vanessa strangely, "What's your name?"

Vanessa turned her head and said with a little embarrassment, "Dolores Sterling."

"Doris...Trin?" Dai'er looked embarrassed, feeling that the name was hard to remember.

"It's fine if you don't remember." Vanessa scratched her cheeks, anyway, there will be more in the future