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Knowing that I don't have much appetite to eat, Xia Ke brought a bowl of porridge and a few dishes of side dishes. Seeing that he was gesturing to feed me, I felt embarrassed and spontaneously picked up the spoon and started.

After swallowing a few mouthfuls of porridge, I raised my eyes and asked him, "Is your going out this time also related to your main business?"

"Well," he sat beside me, watching me eat while resting his chin, "The leader asked me to check something, and some confidential information can only be found through the hunter channel."

My eyes widened in surprise: "Xia Ke, do you have a hunter's license? That's amazing! I heard that the pass rate of the hunter's exam is very low."

He squinted his eyes triumphantly: "It's nothing at all, it's a trivial matter! With my smart brain, I can pass the level that the old stubborn thought of with my eyes closed."

"Xia Ke, you are awesome!" While praising him, he couldn't help feeling a little worried, "Then did you get injured during the exam?"

He blinked, and said helplessly: "Why did you forget, ordinary attacks can't hurt me at all."

I nodded, and stuffed another spoonful of white porridge into my mouth. I felt that my appetite improved after chatting with him like this: "Xia Ke, you must have a good relationship with that Mr. Ku Luoluo. Whenever he asks you for something, you just say nothing." Not to mention helping him."

Xia Ke was not willing to talk about his own affairs before, I thought he would go all out to deal with me this time, but unexpectedly he replied: "I have known the leader since we were young, he can be said to be a very A wise and great man, we all respect him."

I bit the spoon and tilted my head: "Respect?"

"Well, respect," he affirmed these two words, reached out and wiped the oil stains around the corner of my mouth, but his eyes became misty, as if caught in some kind of memory, "We are all abandoned 'things', The leader is, I am, and she is too."

I knew who the "she" was in Xia Ke's mouth, so I didn't ask any more questions, but I didn't like the word "something" he used to describe himself. The demeaning, self-deprecating and sad tone made my heart feel like I was being raped. It's like being pricked by a thin needle, and it hurts faintly.

This is the first time that Xia Ke is willing to tell me about his past, and it is inconvenient for me to bother him.

"I still remember that she was thrown into our district that year. Her face was clean and her dress was gorgeous. She was completely incompatible with ours. She was a spoiled princess. Once she was thrown in, she was like a sheep thrown into a wolf's pile. People, both adults and children, have attracted attention because of such a novelty, and want to get a piece of her pie."

"A piece of the pie?" I asked. "Is it her possessions?"

The knight paused, and a gloomy sarcasm flashed in his eyes that I couldn't understand: "It's more extreme than this. For you, it should be incomprehensible. It will definitely make you want to vomit, but for us It's just the most basic way of survival."

He didn't elaborate on the details of this so-called "share of the pie". I knew it was his consideration for me, so I wisely didn't ask.

"Looking at her terrified appearance when she was 'robbed', I made a bet with the group leader to see how long the girl can live here. I said she couldn't last a week, but the group leader told me after observing Said he thought she would survive."

"I was convinced that this was the first time the head of the group had misjudged him and planned to make fun of him afterwards. Unexpectedly, the girl only took three weeks to integrate herself into it, as if she was born and raised there Normal." The knight chuckled and continued, "In the first week, she understood that she could never escape from there; in the second week, she figured out the law of survival in that hell; , she cut off her long hair and forced herself to abandon the past in order to survive."

"I admire her with admiration. That girl is smart, calm, and decisive. She knows how to use all her strengths and weaknesses. She is very handsome. Not long after, the team leader offered her an olive branch. She knows that joining us is definitely more beneficial than If there is any disadvantage, I will gladly accept it.”

I was already ready to listen to the story told by the knight, but unexpectedly he stopped abruptly, looked at me and said, "Have you finished eating?"

"Huh? Ah, huh." I urged him with my eyes, "And then? Then what happened to you?"

He smiled and said, "I'll tell you about that later."

"Oh..." I put the spoon back into the bowl and asked, "Why are you telling me this all of a sudden?"

"Because that's what you should know."

"I should know?"

He smiled, reached out to help me clean up the dishes, but said: "You guessed it right, in fact, I really decided not to come back."

My heart tightened: "Then you..."

"But I didn't expect that the young lady who I thought was weak and docile would be so brave, daring to face disobedience to the master's order," the knight paused, and said, "Your heroic deed in the living room for me refusing to marry the Case family It has been spread throughout the Nestola family."

At that time, I was only ashamed that the knight learned about this, but I never doubted where he got the information about what happened in Nestola's house when he was in a different place.

I was a little embarrassed and said: "I... I'm sorry, I, I didn't want to involve you in this matter. At that time, I was so hot that I only wanted to refuse the marriage with Arman. If it bothers you , I'm sorry, I know you don't like me..."

"I like you, Xiaosha," he interrupted me, stretched out his hand to take a lock of my long golden hair and twirled it casually around his fingertips, the infatuation in his eyes was obvious, "If it wasn't for liking you, I would How could you change your mind and come back to see you?"

I couldn't believe it. I thought I would never hear him say these four words to me in this life. My mind was like a flower exploding and my heart was beating wildly. I looked at the knight , I didn't even dare to move casually, I was deeply afraid that this was just a vain dream, as long as I moved a little, he would disappear in front of my eyes like smoke.

As if to relieve my uneasiness, he left a kiss on my hair as tenderly as possible, then looked up at me and smiled and said, "So after your birthday is over, are you willing to go with me? Became my most cherished 'collection'."

I was still immersed in the previous surprise, and just repeated his words in a daze: "Collection?"

"Yes, in our place, collectibles are synonymous with love." Seeing that I was still hesitant, the knight said again, "When you become an adult, your father will still promise you to Case regardless of your wishes." Isn’t it home? But the person you like is me, so instead of this, you might as well go with me, and I can give you everything the Stola family can give you.”

The confidence and demeanor displayed by the chivalrous man are not possessed by a pure hacker at all. I gradually recovered from the happiness of being confessed by him, but I was hesitant to look at his green eyes. I really wanted to be with him. He was together, but he couldn't bear to just leave the Nestola's house and walk away. My father had already lost my mother and Elisa. If I also left him, how would he be lonely in his later years? spend it?

After thinking for a long time, I still looked at him apologetically, and replied, "Let me think about it again, okay?"

He nodded in understanding, with a calm smile on his face: "It's natural, my lady."

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I'm very glad that when the knight came back, my father went out for a while and would not come back. If he came back, he would definitely target the knight and set off a bloody storm at home. Thinking of this, I can't help but feel worried about this gloomy future.

The person walking in front stopped without warning, and I bumped into it because I was absent-minded, covered my face and wailed: "Xiaxia, why did you stop suddenly..."

He turned around and smiled like a successful little fox: "It's not Xiaosha, you dare to lose your mind while walking on the street, this is a small punishment for you."

I pursed my lips and "hummed", raised the hands they were holding, and pretended to be angry and said, "Because you are holding me, I dare to be distracted. Who knew that you betrayed me, it really made me feel so angry." Sad!"

"Hey, hey, miss, you're wronged." The knight raised his other hand as a sign of surrender, "This is not betrayal, it's obviously just a small trick."

"I don't care, you are betraying me."

I turned my back and waited for him to coax me with a smile on my face. I have been with the knight for more than a week, and I have found that I am getting more and more comfortable with my temper with him, and he knows that I am trying to play my temper. , but also indulged me to coax me patiently.

"Okay, okay, it's my fault, I finally got Mr. Spein's permission to take you out alone, so don't be angry, look over there."

The chivalrous man dragged me towards the crowded crowd. In fact, I had already noticed the crowded scene here, and I was not really angry, so I followed him.

"Don't miss it when you pass by!" A slender boy with an unusually loud voice shouted enthusiastically, holding a simple microphone made of waste newspapers, "As long as you have ten rings, you may win a prize worth 100 million rings! ! We never stay in one town for more than three days, and today is our last chance!"

I shook the hand that I held with the knight, and asked curiously, "What are they doing?"

The knight smiled and said, "It's a liar's stall by the side of the road."

"fraud?"

"Well, you can wrestle with them for 10 rings, and if you win, you can win the diamond worth 100 million."

"Then why do you say they are liars?"

The knight looked around, leaned over as if hugging me, and said softly: "The few people who set up the stall, including the young man hosting the host, can read it, and asking them to wrestle with these ordinary people is like Let a giant man wrestle arms like a baby, is there any reason not to win? And seeing how calm and composed they are, they must have cheated a lot of money by this trick."

I tilted my head in confusion: "Then why did you bring me here to expose them?"

The knight poked my forehead with a funny hand: "Little fool, you are too naive. What good will it do me to expose them? There are three prizes over there. Let's see which one you like. How about diamonds? I will help you." You win, today I will let them know what it is like to kick the iron board."

Although I don't know much about what I am reading, I am really happy to see the knight so confident and eager to help me win the prize.

When I walked to the side of the boy receiving the prize, because there were too many people, I accidentally bumped into a person wearing a simple white kimono and a wide hat. Seeing that the person was petite, he should be a girl, so I apologized Said: "I'm sorry."

The man lifted his hat slightly, glanced at me with amber eyes hidden under the purple bangs, then quickly glanced at the knights who were queuing not far away, and said coldly: "It's okay."

It's strange to say, I just glanced at the prize, and when I turned my head, I couldn't see the girl's figure anymore. There are so many people here, how did she disappear all of a sudden?

I shook my head and stopped thinking about it.

There are three kinds of prizes, namely a bracelet worth 25 yuan, a game console worth 100 yuan, and a brilliant diamond worth [-] million yuan.

To tell you the truth, I prefer the small, exquisite and unique bracelet to the diamond, but it seems that the knight is more inclined to help me win the diamond, and he told me earlier that the group of scammers have already won by this trick. A lot of money, in order to maximize the vigor of these villains, my eyes lingered on that bracelet for several seconds, and then I went back and said to the knight: "Then that diamond?"

"Good~"

It was so easy for the knight to win, and even the host boy habitually started shouting: "It's such a pity, please invite the next challenger."

After shouting, everyone was just standing there dumbfounded. The boy realized that something was wrong. After being shocked, he stuttered nervously: "Come on, the last challenger won, won, won..."

The knight smiled and stretched out his hand and said, "Can you give me the prize?"

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