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I found that after we got the prizes, the people who lined up and waited for the competition to wrestle their arms became more confident. It may be that the knight's easy victory brought them a glimmer of hope.

On the way back, I saw that the knight was holding his breath and contemplating all the way, so I asked curiously, "What's wrong with you?"

"Hmm...we seem to be being followed."

He stretched out his hand to touch his smooth chin and murmured, as if he was talking to himself: "One? No... two people, one is a master, it seems that they are not in the same group."

"track?"

I was about to continue asking questions, but I was bumped head-on by a skinny boy in a hooded jumper, my body was unstable and I staggered and fell to the ground.

"sorry."

The boy apologized in a low voice, and then ran away in a hurry. Looking at his back, he always thought he had seen it somewhere, but he couldn't think of it all at once.

The knight helped me up, and patted the dust off my skirt: "Are you all right, Xiao Sha?"

The place where the arm was hit by a strong force is aching, but I don't want to worry the knight, and this kind of small injury will naturally heal after drinking a cup of potion modified with my ability, so I smiled and shook my head: "I fine."

Unexpectedly, as soon as the words were finished, I saw the knight frowned and turned his head warily, so I also turned my head back. The one who didn't want to stand in front of me was the petite girl in the hat I met when I was looking at the prize.

After the knight glanced up and down, he let go of his vigilance and asked in doubt, "Maggie? Are you the one who used 'absolute'?"

Maggie raised the brim of her hat slightly, and I only saw her fair and beautiful chin, and her pink lips, but her voice was still as cold as before: "You only pay attention to who is following you, but you don't care about it at all." Unaware that the people around me have been stolen by crappy technology."

After all, she stretched out her right hand, and the gem placed in the palm was the gemstone that the knight won for me earlier.

I touched my pocket, and sure enough it was empty.

"Thank you!"

I gratefully stretched out my hand to get the gemstone, but I saw a blur in front of my eyes, and I didn’t see Maggie’s hand movements clearly. A bracelet was already put on my wrist. In fact, I prefer the cheaper prize, but how could she...

This matter is really inexplicable, I don't want to thank you, and I don't want to take off the chain and return it to her, so I can only look at the knight for help. According to their conversation just now, the knight should know this girl, right?

The knight glanced at the chain on my wrist and said, "What are you doing?"

"Send a Gift."

"So, why did you give Xiaosha a gift for no reason?"

"Because my gut tells me she likes this bracelet better."

"..."

Maggie's seemingly straightforward answer was actually completely irrelevant, and the knight was a little helpless, so he changed the question: "What are you doing in Khakistan? You also used 'jue' to secretly follow us."

Maggie put her arms around her chest and said calmly: "Now it's time for free activities. Where and what I want to do is my business."

"That's right, I don't care where you want to go or what you do," said the knight with a smile, "but please don't meddle in my affairs."

Maggie snorted softly and said, "If it wasn't for me just now, the things you won with great difficulty would have been stolen by them again."

After being awakened by Maggie's words, I suddenly realized that the boy in jumpsuit who bumped into me earlier was the one who just wrestled his arms and lost to the knight?

Xia Ke's focus is completely different from mine. He yelled dissatisfied at Maggie's words: "Hey, what is it called hard work! It's easy for me to win, okay? Although I'm not ranked high in the group, But it's still easy to win these boys! And the thief is nothing to be afraid of, so I didn't take it to heart."

Maggie didn't bother to pay attention to the chivalrous man's thoughts at the side. I saw her turn her gaze to my side, and thought she was going to say something to me, but after a blink of an eye, her figure had disappeared into the air.

"...You guys who can read, why do you always like to play disappear?"

After thinking about it seriously, the knight answered me like this: "Well, because it will make you look more handsome, right?"

"..." I stretched out my hand and flicked the chain on my wrist, and asked, "Is it really okay for me to just accept the bracelet Miss Maggie gave me?"

"She never does meaningless things. Since she said that this is a gift for you, you just accept it." The knight paused, and then said, "Since you like this bracelet more, why did you just accept it?" Won't you tell me?"

I shifted my gaze a little guilty: "No, no, I don't like this bracelet..."

"Maggie's intuition has never been wrong, Xiaosha, I don't like the feeling of being cheated, especially being cheated by you."

The knight had no expression on his face when he said this. I was afraid that he would be angry, so I panicked and quickly took his hand and disarmed and surrendered: "Because, because, I think you like gems more, and you are willing to go I'm already happy to win a prize for me, it doesn't matter what the prize is."

After being silent for a few seconds, the knight sighed. He stretched out his index finger and poked my forehead: "Idiot, I told you that I was going to win a prize for you. The prize is naturally the one you like. You don't have to For my sake."

I stretched out my hand to touch the place where he poked, and I was a little dazed. Suddenly, my father's furious face flashed because I refused to marry the Case family. He murmured in his chest: "Xia Ke, do you think we can go on like this forever?"

He didn't answer, just slowly hugged me back.

On the bustling street, we hug each other tightly, just like a pair of ordinary couples, how I wish time could stay at this moment forever.

The day my father came back was a week before my birthday. On that day, the sky was overcast with dark clouds, and the thunder rumbled among the low clouds. The pond in the backyard of Nestola’s villa was as calm as a cloud of dust. Looking at the mirror, even the air seems to be full of depressive and restless factors.

Before the knight went to his father's study, I held him back because of anxiety, but I didn't know what to say.

He reached out to cover the back of my hand, and gave me a gentle and sunny smile as usual, I felt a little more at ease, bit my lip and told him: "Even if Dad doesn't agree with me being with you, you Don't... quarrel with him, okay?"

"Do not worry."

He kissed my forehead, then let go of my hand, and after knocking on the door three times to get the answer, he pushed open the door of the study.

The sound insulation effect of the study is very good, even if I am close to the thick rosewood door, I can't get a glimpse of the conversation inside.

Butler Spein at the side seemed to be a little helpless to my behavior of being a thief in my own house. He pulled me away and persuaded: "Miss Linsha, why don't you go back to your room first? If the master If there is any progress in the conversation with Mr. Knight, I will send someone to inform you immediately, okay?"

I hesitated at the door for a while, and finally listened to Spein's words and went back to my room.

I fidgeted on the bed holding the doll and waited for more than an hour, but I didn’t see Spein sending someone over. I bit my lip, got up and threw the slightly deformed doll aside, no matter what my father would do later. I won't be angry, and I will go into the study together to participate in their conversation.

Just as he opened the door, he was taken aback by the knight standing at the door. He almost screamed, and subconsciously took a step back.

He had a gloomy face, half-closed eyes, and looked down at me from above. There was no trace of gentleness in his cold eyes. I had seen this kind of eyes in Rinca City a month ago, and that Mr. Feitan looked at me with eyes that seemed to be looking at a dead person.

I don't understand why after talking with my father, Xia Ke became so scary, suppressing the anxiety in my heart, I mustered up the courage to hold his hand: "Xia Ke, what's wrong with you?"

Unexpectedly, he opened my hand in disgust, and even threw out my entire right hand with such force.

I was in pain, holding my shoulders and gasping for cold air, but the burst of pain on my shoulders at this moment was not comparable to the coldness that surged from the bottom of my heart when I saw his disgusted eyes.

"...What's the matter with you?" I felt aggrieved, but I didn't dare to ask him loudly, "Could it be that the conversation with Dad was unpleasant?"

He stared at me without saying a word, and after a while, a smile gradually appeared on his face: "No, the conversation with Mr. Albert was very pleasant, and he has promised not to ask about your marriage any more. gone."

As he said that, he took my right hand and pinched my shoulder carefully: "I'm sorry, I was a little too excited just now, didn't I hurt you?"

Obviously he is smiling, obviously he is caring about me, obviously he is apologizing for what happened just now, but I only feel the utter coldness, after being with him for so long, the truth and falsehood hidden under his smile, I How much can still be distinguished.

I said worriedly: "Are you really... all right?"

He narrowed his eyes to cover up all the emotions in his eyes, smiled and said, "Of course."

I knew that he was lying to me, but I didn't have the courage to ask him the truth of the matter. I had a vague premonition that if I broke through this fragile lie, everything would become irreversible.

My adult birthday is coming soon. During this week, my father did not step out of the study. No matter how much I begged, he just asked the servants to block me from the door and refused to see me.

Regarding the explanation for this matter, the knight told me that it was because I rejected the marriage with the Keith family, and my father was still angry. After a while, our relationship will naturally return to normal.

Looking at his innocent smile, I believed it was true.

On December 1994, 12, I celebrated my birthday. Early in the morning, I was dragged from the bed by the maid at home, put on a beautiful dress, and combed the most popular curly hair style nowadays, because I was really sleepy , I also let them help me around like a well-behaved doll.

Finally, after the maids helped me complete the styling that satisfied them, it was almost one o'clock in the afternoon.

Even if we met every day, the knight could not hide the astonishment on his face when he saw me, but in the next second, an inexplicable and obscure undercurrent flashed in his eyes, like pain and hatred.

Aware of my uneasiness, he closed his eyes, suppressed all those emotions, and said with a smile: "There is still enough time before the dinner party tonight, would this beautiful lady be willing to give me the honor to go out with me, and let me How about buying the best birthday present for you?"

"But……"

"I remember Linsa, you told me that ten years ago, you and your sister sneaked out on the day of the birthday party. Today, let's relive the memories of that day, okay?" Seeing me hesitate After deciding, the knight took a step forward and held my hand, and said softly, "Don't worry, everything will be over when you come back."

I couldn't hold back him, and finally went out together.

Maybe today is my birthday, the knight has been extremely gentle and patient with me, and has fulfilled all my requests, as if the dark and terrifying knight at the door of my room seven days ago was just my illusion, everything seems to have changed Back to the original.

He has been walking with me until the evening, the setting sun leaves long shadows, and everything that comes into view is blood red.Before going back, I was still a little worried. As the protagonist of today’s birthday party, I was late, and my father and Spein must be angry again, but when I stood at the gate of Nestola’s villa with the knight, I noticed The atmosphere is a bit solemn and weird.

It was too quiet, there was no sign of a lively banquet at all, and there was not even a guard guarding it, and there was still a faint smell of blood in the air.

Looking at the knight next to me, I seemed to have taken a dose of heart-boosting medicine, suppressing my uneasiness and pushing open the falsely concealed door.

There seemed to be something blocking the door, I tried harder to push the door open, the strong smell of blood hit my face and made me almost nauseous, and then I saw mutilated corpses all over the ground, just standing at the door , the bright red blood has stained my skirt.

There were three people standing in the hall, one was Mr. Feitan, who had met me twice, the other was dressed as a warrior with braids, and the other was tall, mighty and muscular. There were several boxes piled up beside these three. , which is full of belongings belonging to the Nestola family that my father treasured.

There seemed to be some kind of ball rolling around my feet. I lowered my head stiffly, but it was the head of Butler Spein. His eyes had all been gouged out, and the empty eye sockets were filled with red and black tears of blood.

I screamed, only to feel black in front of my eyes, almost untenable, like a life-saving straw, I tightly clung to the arm of the knight, as if my nails were about to dig into his flesh.

I thought that if I didn't have the support of the knights by my side, I would have been unable to hold on and passed out.

He raised his head with trembling lips, but the knight was not as shocked and panicked as I expected. He had the usual gentle smile on his face, almost indifferent.

Then, I heard him say, "Is everything done?"

The last straw that broke the camel's back fell softly.

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I haven’t updated in the past two days because I’m not feeling well. Today is a small burst of words. Finally, I’m going to write the part I’m looking forward to. Please support~

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