16 years

How did it all start?

If Joe Eden is allowed to recall by himself, it will be difficult for him to clarify this boundary.

He just heard a saying that if a pair of blood-related brothers and sisters are raised separately so that they don't know each other's existence, then after many years, the man and woman who meet again have a high probability of falling in love and having a lifetime of love. A kind of fateful love.

"So what's the difference between family affection and love?" The young Qiao closed the book and asked crisply: "If even a scientific existence like genes can't tell the difference, why not generalize the vague concepts into same category."

"There is no difference, Joe." The majestic middle-aged man stretched out his hand to caress the top of his head, and said lightly: "Any relationship in the world begins with desire. The so-called family affection and love are nothing more than the difference of desire."

"Understood, father," said Joe Eden.

This brief father-son teaching finally ended with the departure of old Aiden. The young boy stroked the book in his hand, then jumped off the tall armchair, walked to the bookcase, and put the book back in place by himself.

This is a very old miscellaneous book. I don’t know which old bookstore it was found out of.

The poor young man went through hardships and tribulations, and finally succeeded in rescuing his beloved daughter from the prison-like rich castle.

In a romantic love package, they held each other's hands tightly, ran in the sunset, and fled to a free future.

Joe Eden was not interested in this kind of plot, and lost interest after only reading half of it.

He is not curious about complex emotions like ordinary children. He doesn't love anyone, and he doesn't desire any emotions. In this world, the only thing he cares about is himself.

Miraculously, Joe was not an apathetic kid.On the contrary, he has a very rich emotional reserve. His art history teacher has praised Joe to old Aiden countless times, saying that he is a rare genius seedling who can connect with any kind of emotional experience and find the most perfect feeling from it. That point at the core.

But he rarely used this "talent". Like a black dragon guarding treasures, he stingily collected these treasures and refused to share them with anyone.

Even when he watched the execution scene of his biological mother and aunt, he didn't feel any fluctuations in his heart, and he even watched the whole process quietly, and by the way he completed his homework for the day with one heart and two minds.

He is like a glutton who can't project his emotions, he can only gather them, but can't release them.

There was no one in the world who knew himself better than he, thought Joe Eden, and no one could be trusted more than himself.

If he had to find a companion soul mate for his boring life, he couldn't find anyone else except himself.

This kind of thought continued until a long time later, when he grew from a young child to a teenager—with a slender figure, perfect self-awareness, and gradually took the embryonic form of an adult.

On his sixteenth birthday, old Aiden got drunk, so Joe Eden was able to take a break from his rigorous upbringing and get away from the boring ballroom for a while.

When he stepped out of the banquet hall, the gears of fate began to turn, and the "warning" that fate had come to him many years ago began to take effect, but unfortunately no one paid attention.

Then, Joe Eden met Irene that very day.

Before that day, Joe Eden knew that he had a blood sister, but had never met her.Old Aiden was a pagan at heart. For him, only his son was the continuation of his bloodline surname and family glory, and his daughter was a male vassal and medal. He only needed to be carefully raised like a flower, and the rest did not need to be paid too much attention to. .

Joe Eden's knowledge of blood was only superficial, so he never had any interest in this "sister" who had never appeared before.

But that day, his cognition was broken.

Eileen was born just an hour behind his, so it was her birthday too.She was not allowed to attend the banquet, so she hid alone in the library loft and ate small cream cakes from a silver plate.

Joe Eden broke into the attic by mistake, and recognized her at the first sight when he saw her.

It was hard for him to describe his mood at that time, but he suddenly remembered the miscellaneous book he read many years ago. contour.

"Brother." Irene also saw him intruding, she hurriedly put down the silver plate, pursed her lips and smiled at him, straightened her skirt like a lady, and said embarrassedly: "Happy birthday. "

"You know me?" Joe Eden asked.

For the first time in his life, he became interested in something, and this interest made him excited and excited, making him instinctively want to hold it in his hands.

Erin shook her head.

"But we are so similar." Irene said softly: "Anyone in the world can know our relationship as long as they see you and me."

The girl's long chestnut hair curled down her cheeks, and her dark green pupils were reflected by the sun with a clear jewel-colored light. Her eyes were bent, and there was a gentle smile on her face that Joe Eden would never show.

She was completely opposite to Joe Eden in terms of temperament and personality, but Joe Eden stood under the wooden frame and looked at her, feeling as if he saw another self in the world.

Whether he was hopelessly in love with Irene or himself, Joe Eden didn't care.

Anyway, there is no difference, they are the same person, they share the same appearance, genes, life experience, they are the two most compatible semicircles in the world.

So he tried to get Irene.

It was not difficult for him. Old Aiden didn't care much about Irene. Joe was already a surefire heir at that time. Even if what he wanted was his own sister, in a deformed family, no one would say anything .

As for Irene, Joe Eden forgot to ask her opinion.

Maybe, maybe not... But it doesn't matter, Jo Eden thought, she's me, like me, of course.

Although she became more and more silent, and never smiled and licked the cream off the spoon like when they first met, Joe Eden still knew that she loved herself just as much.

Because they are connected to each other and their souls are in harmony, Irene is the flesh and blood molded by his "rib".

But unfortunately, the gods are always selfish and cunning, 21-year-old Joe Eden thought gloomily, he could not tolerate people challenging the gods, nor allowing people to find their true ribs.

Just as he created "language" so that the Tower of Babel could not be built, he gave soulmates in the world a kind of "gene" shackles so that their lives could not continue.

So his and Irene's child died of deformities and severe genetic diseases as soon as he was born.

Joe Eden couldn't accept it, so he used cryogenic technology to take away the child's blood, frozen him, and decided to get out of God's trap and recreate a "Garden of Eden" by himself.

"...Didn't you think about one thing?" He Tang felt chills all over her body. She looked at the man in front of him who was waving his arms and giving a loud speech, as if she was watching a lunatic: "Irene only thinks of you Brother, she doesn't love you at all, and she doesn't want to have children with you, you're the one who made her love her, and you forced her!"

"Impossible." Joe Aiden frowned, as if he had been poked by Nilin, he turned around instantly, stared at He Tang coldly, pointed at He Feng in another room and asked Said: "Don't you love him?"

"Not all love needs to have children to continue life, and there is no sister in the world who would fall in love with a brother." He Tang sneered: "You are so pitiful, you don't even understand feelings, and you still say you love her—I Seeing that you might as well buy a mirror to love, it is also environmentally friendly and energy-saving.”

Joe Aiden was not angered by her, he looked at He Tang with pity, like a statue in a church that peeks into the depths of people's hearts.

"Really?" Joe Eden said softly, "Then prove it to me."

As soon as Joe Eden finished speaking, in the mirrored room, the soft rubber instrument He Feng was biting on his mouth made a soft ding sound, and the electronic lock automatically opened and fell from his mouth.

He Feng's jaw clenched, the thing fell to the ground and rolled forward.

He Feng seemed startled by the sound, he coughed heart-piercingly, and woke up from his drowsiness.

He Tang couldn't care about the psychosis for a while, she stretched her neck, and couldn't help calling out brother.

The glass curtain wall didn't seem to be soundproof, He Feng's figure moved slightly, after a while, he slowly raised his head, and looked at He Tang through the glass curtain wall.

He Tang saw his lips move slightly, as if calling her name.

Joe Eden tilted his head and looked at them for a while with interest, then waved at the monitor.

A bunch of red dots landed on He Feng's left leg from the side at high altitude, and He Tang hardly had time to react when he heard a violent gunshot from the opposite side of the glass curtain wall.He Feng's whole body trembled violently for a moment, and forced himself to suppress a cry of pain.

"elder brother--!"

The blood slowly spread from the ground, and within a moment it formed a pool. He Feng knelt in the pool of blood, his face as white as paper.

His chest was heaving violently, and his teeth were almost crushed.

"You fucking—"

He Tang's eyes were about to burst, she turned her head to look at Joe Eden angrily, all the muscles in her body tensed, and the handcuffs made a shocking crisp sound.

Joe Eden had no doubt that if she hadn't been tied up at this moment, she might have rushed up and bit her own throat.

"Just say what you want, kind of—"

"Don't you not love him?" Joe Eden interrupted her: "Then what are you angry about?"

"Stop doing this!" He Tang scolded: "You are a lunatic, no one in this world loves you, you deserve to drown in the daffodil pond!"

"Our views are different, but fortunately, the conditions for proof are right in front of us, and it is easy to see who is right and who is wrong." Joe Eden turned a deaf ear to her words: "Well—as long as you go and have a baby with him too Son, I won't torture him."