[Comprehensive] Love between the two worlds

"I was determined to correct all this, so I went back to Little Hangleton and followed my original life trajectory." Old Riddle's voice was full of infinite vicissitudes, "I thought about going to her later, but in the end I didn't go."

Old Riddle got out of bed, picked up a black umbrella hanging on the opposite wall, and stroked it gently, "I don't know how she is now?"

"She died. She died the day I was born." Riddle said calmly, as if he was talking about an irrelevant stranger instead of his own mother.

"Yes, is it?" Old Riddle's tall body seemed to tremble, and he felt a little fragile for a moment, "That's right, it's hard for a pregnant woman to live alone in London."

He suddenly raised his head and said eagerly: "Isn't she magical? She should be able to live a little more smoothly?"

"As far as I guess," Riddle said, "because of your refusal, she thought you couldn't accept magic, so she rejected magic, even when she was dying, she was unwilling to use magic to save her life."

Daiyu thought, maybe it wasn't just because she rejected magic that she refused to save herself, maybe it was because Merope was already too desperate at that time, and she didn't want to live anymore.

She didn't even want to live for her newborn child, but just handed him over to an orphanage to be raised.

Perhaps, it was the two names Tom and Marvolo for her son, the names that bore her so much pain, that she would abandon him cruelly and bury all the unfortunate past, and she was happy but not disappointed. To die responsibly and with peace of mind.

Old Riddle's back slumped all of a sudden, and the vitality escaped from him, as if he had aged a lot all of a sudden.

"Knowing that it would be difficult for her to live on, even hard to live on, but I still left her." Old Riddle laughed at himself, as if telling himself, "...I was a selfish and cruel person. "

It was the first time that Riddle took a serious look at his father. Although he was tall, the skin exposed outside the pajamas was already slack. There were deep forehead lines on his forehead, and two bluish-black spots under his eyes that couldn't be removed.Although he is only in his 40s, he has actually entered his twilight years from middle age.

"You are." Riddle said, he almost pulled his emotions away completely, and was just analyzing rationally: "But such a choice is very correct for your life."

"I failed you too," said old Riddle.

"Then be it." Riddle said hastily, turning around, with a premonition that the next conversation would make him uneasy, "I can leave now that I know the truth."

"A few years after that, I went to London to look for you." Old Riddle said loudly, "I asked about your existence, but no one knew about you. I know I have such a child."

Riddle turned to look at him.

"I've been suffering from insomnia these years." Old Riddle said, "Although I've made up my mind not to take care of Merope's affairs, I always dream about her and you."

"Didn't you say before that I came here as a farce?"

"You are my child after all." Old Riddle said, "How have you been doing these years? From the looks of you, you seem to be a wizard."

Riddle froze in place for a moment, and Daiyu also looked at him in surprise.Does he want to take on the responsibility of being a father?

"I go to Hogwarts." Riddle replied stiffly.

"Hogwarts?"

"It's a magic school." Daiyu added, secretly thinking that Riddle had forgotten to explain Hogwarts, "It's one of the best magic schools in the world."

"That's quite an achievement." Old Riddle said, "Is life there still interesting?"

"...It's okay." In front of his father, Riddle's precociousness disappeared, and he was at a loss like a real teenager at the moment.

"What kind of courses do magic schools teach?"

The conversation went on smoothly like this, and the normal father-son conversation happened for the first time after an interval of 16 years.

"Well, I thought every wizard had toads in their hands to eat them when they were hungry." Old Riddle said.

"It would be too nauseating to eat a toad." Daiyu laughed, "But maybe someone really wanted to try to eat it, so they made a chocolate frog."

Old Riddle laughed and said, "You are really lucky to know this little oriental girl. What's her name?"

"Daiyu, surnamed Lin," Riddle said, "she is the person I want to spend my life with."

Daiyu smiled back at him.

"I found it so quickly. Faster than when I was young." Old Riddle said, "Life in the magic school must be very tiring, right?"

"Fortunately, it's not a problem."

"Then... if you learn magic, it will be difficult to face the eyes of the world, and it will be difficult to live a dignified life."

"what?"

"I didn't take care of you when you were a child. Didn't I grow you up in an orphanage, where people looked down on me?" said old Riddle. "I think you should live a normal life, a decent life like me. , respected by all."

"Being a wizard has no future, and learning magic is not a good thing after all. Your mother's family is all wizards, but isn't life like that?" Old Riddle said after considering, "...I don't want you to leave your mother that way."

"What do you mean?" Riddle's tone became cold.

"Give up your studies at the Magic Academy and return to the property under the Riddle family."

"You know I don't want to."

"Why don't you want to?" Old Riddle said in amazement: "I will teach you how to manage the property. After my death, most of the property will belong to you."

"You lack an heir?" Riddle asked unexpectedly.

"...That's right." Old Riddle was speechless for a while, and said for a while, "I don't know why, Rosa has been unable to conceive. You are my only child."

"So when you suddenly changed your mind to look for my whereabouts, it wasn't because you remembered that you had a child," Riddle said, "It was just because you needed a descendant, an heir."

"The two are the same."

"Not the same!" Riddle retorted.

"You've got a very bright mind."

"I can't afford the compliment."

"You despise wizards, don't you?"

"There's nothing to look down upon," said Old Riddle. "The fact is that in real life, wizards live very badly. If you don't believe me, just go and see that Moffingand and you'll know what it's like to be a wizard."

"I've seen it."

"Then you should be clearer," Old Riddle said with a smile, "With your intelligence, I think you know how to choose. Inheriting my estate is good for you and me. Anyway, my Riddle family Property must never fall into outside hands."

It was obviously the same expression, but the smile that made Daiyu feel comfortable just now only made her feel ironic.She remembered that old Riddle had just said that he was a "selfish and cruel person", and he was right.

"What if I say 'no'? What if I really like magic?" Riddle said.

"Silly boy, don't you understand what you like and what is good for you?"

"So you fell in love with my mother at the beginning, but she was not good for you, so you left her; you don't like Rosa anymore, but you married her because she was good for you."

"It can be said that," Old Riddle exclaimed, "You understand me very well."

"..."

"Marrying a lady will help restore my reputation. In fact, feelings are not that important to people." He looked at Riddle and Daiyu meaningfully.

"I'm glad I don't understand you." Riddle said, only now did he realize that the tender conversation between father and son just now was for this real purpose, and he actually believed this cunning and clumsy trap.

"Do you know what people in the village say about you?" Riddle said, "selfish, indifferent, greedy, exploiting like a vampire."

"I'm tired of hearing all of this." Old Riddle said, "It's just the slander of a group of incompetent people. Besides, so what? People live in the world, and everything they do is not for themselves. Do you have a plan?"

"I think you're more like a human being when you've taken the love potion."

"What do you want to do?" Old Riddle asked vigilantly, "I won't be fooled again."

"Don't worry, I don't bother to do anything." Riddle sneered, "Stay guarding your property for the rest of your life."

"You want to go?!" Old Riddle couldn't believe it, he had never seen anyone refuse such a big temptation, "Go learn some shabby magic! Stupid!"

"I am your father! You must obey me! Riddle's bloodline cannot be broken!" He rushed to the door and shouted at the servant, "Stop them!"

But unfortunately no one heard him.

"I wish you a long life and a lonely family." Riddle said, "You don't deserve the truth."

Holding Daiyu, he jumped out of the window on the second floor, gliding steadily in the air, and was already tens of meters away from the window when he landed.

"You'll come back sooner or later and beg me to come into this house!" shouted old Riddle after him.

Quickly out of Little Hangleton Village.The snow outside didn't know when it fell heavily again, and the cold and clammy wind blew on her face like tiny needles, Daiyu's fingers became stiff from the cold.

They came to the shade of a small hillside, where there was no one else, so it was relatively hidden.

Riddle suddenly hugged Daiyu.

Daiyu was not surprised, she stretched out her hand and hugged Riddle silently.

"Hogwarts is my home," Riddle said.

"Ah."

"I was scared. He said I understood him. In fact, he was right. Although I didn't agree with him, I completely understood his thoughts. Without you, I know I would become a person like him."

"Ah."

"Even scarier than him."

"But you didn't become like that."

"Day, don't leave me." Riddle hugged him even tighter.

"You don't want it either." Daiyu smiled, covered her mouth, and coughed.

"You're sick." Riddle probed her forehead, feeling a little hot, "I seem to have a fever, it wasn't that serious when I first came here, it's too cold here, let's go back to Hogwarts, you need to see a doctor. "