marvelous rosaline

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My dear Rosalind:

To your disappointment, the vast majority of this long parchment has nothing to do with the superweapon you're after, it's just me, William Moriarty, babbling.If you want to hear it, please read on; if you don't, please turn to the last page, which is the third divided manuscript, where da Vinci's design drawings are hidden.

I want to talk to you about the past, and I hope that I can have an open and honest chat with you as a friend-absent from your life, no matter what, I can't pretend to be your father.

By the time you read this letter, I should be dead.

Do not be sad, my Rosalind.This is a well-designed part of the whole plan. As for the plan, please allow me to start from the beginning.

Maybe you can roughly piece together the image of a failed father in James Moriarty's mouth, or in his image.That's right, Professor Moriarty has taught and educated people all his life, and his students are all over the world, all of them are pillars, but he is a failed father, and I am a failed son.

Before I was ten years old, I lived with my mother in London. After ten years old, a fire killed your grandmother, and then Professor Moriarty fell from the sky and confessed that he was the father I had never met. He was willing to raise me and marry me. Me, let me take up his mantle.

I look forward to my father's love and come to the United States with him.But what awaited me was the selfless treatment of Professor James Moriarty.

He has no human heart.

He will treat me as Professor Moriarty treats his henchmen.

When I do things for him, if I do well, I will be rewarded, and if I do badly, I will be punished.But I understand that the professor is not satisfied with me. He always said euphemistically that my heart's desire () is hard to fill, and he doesn't know what kind of reward he should give me to calm the disappointment in those green eyes .

But I know, what I need is love.

My Rosalind, you may think that I am "stingy", and I would rather give up Professor Moriarty's grand plan for the whole world, and pursue small-scale love and love.

But even so, I can't ignore my own needs. I don't want to manipulate the world, and I don't want to start a war. I just want a family that belongs to me.

So at the age of 20, I fled New York and boarded a cruise ship to London.

There, I met your mother.

I passed the village of St Mary Mead on my way from South Cape to London.At that time your mother was sitting in front of Miss Marple's house, wearing a gauze dress and red shoes that were too shocking for an English girl in the late nineteenth century, with her arms and ankles exposed.

You can imagine what a picturesque and beautiful scene it would be.

What really shocked me was not Edith Poirot's appearance, but the pair of light-colored eyes that were revealed after she pushed back her long red hair, but were cold and ruthless like reptiles.

That's the irony of genetics.

James Moriarty's son has a sentimental character like a poet, while Hercule Poirot has spoken out for the truth all his life, but has a daughter who was born without understanding how to understand emotions.

I became Edith's "mentor"—or so she called me.I taught her how to deal with interpersonal relationships, how to use words and actions to easily please strangers, how to correctly observe words and expressions to facilitate her daily life.

She studied well and made progress much faster than I expected. It didn't take long for Edith to have a lot of new friends and suitors in London.

But I know that she is just imitating it.

It is difficult for Edith to empathize with others. It is not impossible for her to do it, but it is very difficult.For the most part, she pretended to understand based on past experience and the secrets I told her.

And at this moment, Professor Moriarty's people found me.

I had to leave London, and at parting I confessed everything to Edith.

I told Edith the identity of the descendants of James Moriarty and the reasons for my coming to London, and left with apologies.I thought this would be a farewell, but to my surprise, Edith chased after her.

Thanks to Mr. Romano, I had a hiding place in New York, and Edith couldn't find me, so she chose a slanted way.

When she was in London, she said that she hoped that more people would like her, watch her, admire her and look forward to her.

The former Edith Poirot was troubled by this, for fear that if she was not careful, she would go astray and shame her father.At that time, I jokingly said, you don’t have to be the enemy of the whole world, you can also be the lover of the whole world, how about being a star?

Unexpectedly, she really chose to enter Broadway.

It was an instant hit, and Edith Poirot's name entered every New York home.She told me in this way: she is here, she will not ask for my opinion, will not listen to my thoughts, she will show her identity clearly, and let Professor Moriarty's people investigate her, and she will be exposed to danger under.

Because she knows that I will not let her meet the danger alone.

We are so in love, Rosalind.It sounds cliche, but it is true.

A man who longs for love gets love, and a woman who doesn't know what emotion is has emotion.

Edith was not one to hide from me, and she encouraged me to stand up against Moriarty, to fight it.

Yet even Sherlock Holmes didn't kill him, so how could I?

But we also have our way.

In the end, Professor Moriarty found me. He threatened me with Edith's safety, hoping that I could become his heir, and I pretended to agree.

Then I stole Da Vinci's manuscript and left New York hand in hand with Edith.

People all over the world are confused, where did Edith Poirot go?

We've been everywhere.

To the American Midwest, to Mexico, and farther south in South America.During this journey, Edith found that she was pregnant, and there was a little life in her belly, which is you.

But at the same time, Edith's doctor told us that besides you, there was a tumor in her abdominal cavity that could not be ignored.

A classic alternative.

You, or her life?

Edith chose you.

To be honest, my Rosalind, please forgive my selfishness, I did not agree with it at the time.

But Edith looked at me very seriously, and told me that your existence was the first time in her life, and she felt an extremely close connection with another life.

She said that her life was extremely painful, struggling with the strange eyes of others and her own fear.

It's ridiculous that I was weak and sentimental by nature, but my father forced me to be an ambitious man.Edith, on the other hand, has an extremely decisive and cruel heart, but she always strives to be a good person.

Edith also said to me that the time of traveling with me was the most carefree time for her, and you, who she conceived, was not only my best gift to her, but also the first time in her life that she clearly felt It turns out that she is a living human being.

She didn't want to break this precious bond.

No one can change the decisions Edith makes, and neither can I.

After the incomparable pain, I still decided to respect her wishes.

So the two of us hid Da Vinci's manuscript, made a fake copy, divided it into three copies, and gave them to different people.

We handed over the manuscript to each other's most trusted relatives and friends, and Edith personally arranged a guide for you to go through the needle.

She dug up Frank Kutch, a detective who was smart enough but not so smart, and funded him to set up the Kutch & Poirot detective agency, which is another gift left by Edith for you.

She let go of a poor Midland farm boy named James Getz.With just one glance, we can see that this poor and white boy has a pair of extremely clear eyes.His clarity not only comes from his pupils of the same color as the sea, but also from his sincere soul.

And me, I accidentally rescued a cowboy-like murderer on the way with Edith.

The crimes of "Mule" are too many to list, but he has two advantages, one is dangerous, and the other is keeping his promise.I told him to keep the master cipher copy and go hide in New York until you come to him for any clues about the manuscript.

If the plan goes well, when you are 20 years old, a theater manager will come to Frank Kutch and ask him to investigate the accounts of the Times Theater. He will find the door in it, and then of course notify you in London or Brussels .

Afterwards, you will know the Williams and his wife through investigation, learn of the existence of James Gates, find the mule, and meet Mr. Romano, so as to get all the clues you need, and piece together this manuscript and my letters .

Yes, my Rosalind.

Everything you experience in New York is carefully designed for you, a treasure hunting game.

It was Edith's idea.

She knows that her life is not long, and she is destined to miss you.I'm afraid there won't be any trace of her in your memory, she doesn't want to.Edith is a very selfish girl, she hopes that you can know her devotion, and that she can still have that connection with you after she dies.

So she chose to let you discover all the stories about her in New York, her and me bit by bit.

If you read this, you should have already done it, right?

After all this is arranged, Edith will take you out of New York and go to Europe.You are safest only with Detective Poirot.

And I, I must bear the thought of her, mourning for her, and continue to live.

Because as long as I live, James Moriarty will not give up the clues to follow the manuscript.

Of course, such a life is not without hope.

At least, I still have a chance to see you again, to see you as an adult.

Hopefully my future self does.

—William Moriarty.