[Comprehensive Anglo-American] Vampire Love Story

Catherine was not without brains.

The reason why she was able to get the approval of the Rael family, successfully engaged to James Rael, and being brought out to socialize by Vanessa's father Rachel, is enough to prove that she has some real skills.

But Vanessa seems to have her own #智智buff#, and every time she sees her, Catherine always plays abnormally, as if her brain has lost a muscle, and she stubbornly wants to compare with her.

——As if they were still children, arguing over a new dress and a new jewelry.

After Caius made a joke, most of the flames in Vanessa's heart were extinguished.She looked at Catherine seriously for a moment, then returned to her normal tone, and said with a light smile, "Be more cautious in your words in the future, Catherine."

"We are not children anymore." Vanessa played with Caius' fingers, picking them up and putting them down one by one, "You always think that I will be self-willed, but you never thought that your words and deeds would be harmful to me." What kind of disaster did you bring yourself?"

Catherine's mind finally cleared up for a moment, and then she broke out in a cold sweat from what she had just done.

Not to mention Vanessa's threat, just say that if her boyfriend is really a high-ranking figure in Vrituo...then the trouble she caused by her outspoken speech today is enough to make her suffer for a long time to come.

"Catherine, I never wanted to compare myself to you, but you did challenge me all the time—from the doll to my father."

Vanessa is too lazy to mention that Catherine ridiculed and insulted her when she was called "Idiot Rose".

By now, she no longer wanted to turn over those old accounts.

"Shh, don't be too quick to deny it." Vanessa raised a finger to her lips, "I don't necessarily like things that you can take away directly, but there are some things that are different—some people , you are never worthy to touch."

Vanessa narrowed her eyes.She recalled the haughty look of Catherine's mother at her house when she was a child. That was the first time she understood what the arrogance of "seeing people with their nostrils" was.

But they are all afraid of their mother Xie Jia, that powerful oriental beauty.With her sharp words like a sword, she can easily repel the outsiders and protect her young daughter.

Caius on the side had no intention of pondering their conversation—in his opinion, if he really felt that a person was too much, why bother with him?Isn't a straightforward solution a better way?

Caius would not have chosen to enter this cafe if he hadn't felt Vanessa's violent mood swings in the moment before and worried about her accident.

But now, the scent of human blood here made him feel uncomfortable, and Caius moved his body closer to Vanessa: "Shall we go?"

Vanessa intertwined his fingers, she nodded, stood up and said, "The wedding dress is just a small warning. Catherine, don't deliberately show off those in front of me in the future—maybe you are like a treasure, but I just think it's childish and annoying." .”

"That's the end of the relationship between the two of us. If we meet again unfortunately, I hope you can pretend that you don't know me. It's getting late now, I think you can go to the car and wait for your good uncle to finish talking, and then Let's go back to the hotel together."

Catherine lowered her eyes, she suddenly felt a little frustrated for some reason.

Hit the cotton with a fist—isn't what you can show off and have that you should be proud of at all?

The benchmark of her life focus is Vanessa.Since childhood, my mother has demanded herself, others, and even Catherine according to the standards Vanessa possessed.

From appearance and posture to aesthetic conversation.

The name "Vanessa" almost became Catherine's spell.Even though she bullied Vanessa and excluded Vanessa when she was young, relying on how old she was, she still felt the pressure in her heart.

So later she took advantage of Vanessa's mother's death to tamper with her marriage, and relied on Uncle Rachel's character of admitting death and showing family members to ruin Vanessa's 16th birthday party.

"...sorry Vanessa, I just... really envied you all the time."

Vanessa's life has been so smooth since birth.She got everything she wanted so easily. Compared with her, Catherine felt that her life was full of cracks.

She can only rely on false pride to maintain all these "perfect lives" that are as fragile as white paper.

The whispered words dissipated into the air, and Vanessa pretended not to hear them at all, and she didn't even stop in her footsteps.

What is the use of these words of confession now?

When the harm has been done, the words of apology are nothing more than the perpetrator's forgiveness of himself.

Vanessa felt that her mind had never been clearer, and she finally decided to officially say goodbye to the past.

It sounds easy, but those who have really come this far know how difficult it is.Saying goodbye to the past means that all the joys, sorrows, joys, and pains of the past will be thrown away.

But Vanessa also understands that if she indulges in the past and gets entangled with it, she will only sink deeper and deeper——the turbid darkness of the Lancaster family will swallow her together, leaving her dead.

Caius, who has been walking alone in the world for 3000 years, knows that after a long time, all the difficulties will become small embellishments in the past pictures, and time will take away all their colors.

The secret and unspeakable little thoughts between girls today may become a joke that can be casually chatted with others one day after many years.

The years do not live, the preface of the Spring and Autumn Dynasties.

Ordinary people are annihilated among all living beings, but heroes will be forever remembered and even immortalized by future generations.

After finally leaving the smelly coffee shop, Caius couldn't help hugging Vanessa. He buried his head on Vanessa's neck and took a deep breath.

It looked like a wronged child came to complain to his parents, and Vanessa was amused by him.

"Why did you come here suddenly? Didn't you agree to meet upstairs?"

Caius took her shoulders and replied in a low voice: "I feel your emotional fluctuations, which makes me a little worried."

"I know you can solve many things by yourself, but I still want to be by your side." Caius' voice was almost sighed, "I want you to know that you are never alone."

He has always been able to soothe Vanessa's emotions so appropriately, which seems to be his natural skill.

It is not for nothing that Vanessa feels that her dependence on Caius is increasing day by day.Because as long as Caius is by her side, she can always get peace—the real peace comes from the stability of the soul, and even the "ghost" hasn't appeared for a long time.

"Wow, my little sweetheart, why did you come back so late today?"

Tony's voice came from not far away.Vanessa's father, Rachel Lancaster, was standing beside him at the moment. Rachel's complexion was very bad, and the previous conversation did not reach an agreement.

Hearing the call from Mr. Stark, Vanessa immediately put down Caius' arm and stepped forward obediently.

At this moment, she is as docile as a rose in a flower shop that has been cleaned of thorns on its branches, and she is completely different from the sharp-mouthed and menacing appearance before.

"I had a conversation with my cousin before." Vanessa brushed away the previous smoke, "Have you finished talking with Mr. Lancaster?"

The unspoken alienation from her own daughter stabbed Rachel's heart.Feeling that her dignity as a father was being challenged, while trying to redeem something, Rachel said with a straight face, "Come here, Vanessa."

His rigid and stern tone made the two men present frown, and the next second he continued: "Come back to England with me—next month, I will take you to Gotham."

He deliberately slowed down his tone, trying to make himself look kind.However, in fact, Rachel hadn't communicated with her daughter calmly for too long, which made his facial expression stiffly distorted.

"I don't want to go back to the UK - it's not a quarrel, it's a decision I've made after much deliberation and I'm going to be an official adult soon."

"But you're not an adult yet!"

"Vanessa can temporarily put the information under my name." Tony watched the excitement, and he joked, "Not everyone is as generous as Mr. Lancaster—willing to give up the treasure .”

Vanessa naturally heard the maintenance in Tony's words, and she glanced at him gratefully.Noticing Vanessa's gaze, Tony winked at her again, and the two smiled tacitly.

Turning her gaze to Rachel, Vanessa said, "I think we need to talk. If you don't mind, I would like to requisition that small meeting room, Mr. Stark?"

"Of course, my sweetheart." Tony immediately took a few steps back and spread his hands, "Then I'll leave it to you."

Seeing the two people turn around and enter the meeting room, Tony put on his sunglasses and smiled arrogantly: "I have already seen a bright future."

Caius naturally knew that he meant that if Vanessa really came under his name for the time being, then the identity was very likely to be the adopted daughter of Iron Man.He looked at Stark and smiled, "I saw it too."

After Vanessa sorted it out, she returned to the Volturi with him.

From then on, he no longer had to spend long nights alone, and she accompanied the sun, moon and stars.

"—Remember to mass-produce the imitation blood reagent." Caius said thoughtfully, "We will need it very soon."

conference room.

"I absolutely don't agree!" Rachel put down her harsh words as soon as she entered the door, and said forcefully, "If you still want to stay in the United States, then you must completely leave the Lancaster family!"

Vanessa: Big brother, you have a good idea, that's exactly what I mean!

"Then, should I directly report to the newspaper to declare my separation? Or do I need to go through the formalities?" She asked expectantly.

This unexpected answer will also stun Rachel for a few seconds.He couldn't believe it: "It's not good for you to break away from the family, Vanessa, I can treat you as just a moment of nonsense—"

"Not only to break away from the family, but also to sever the relationship between father and daughter."

"Are you crazy?!" Rachel stood up, and he breathed a sigh of relief, "You still have an unmarried girl-admit it, Vanessa, you need a father."

"Father? If I want, I can find many for myself." Vanessa looked a little uninhibited at this time. Before Rachel could continue to preach, she stepped forward and stood in front of him.

"Look at me, please. Take a good, hard look at me."

Rachel was taken aback, and then he really looked at Vanessa carefully.

Her small and exquisite face shape and tall and exquisite figure are inherited from her mother; the occasional disdain in her gray-blue eyes is a bit like that little gentleman from the Sherlock Holmes family; her temperament is no longer as well-groomed as before Indifference, but somewhat reckless arrogance—maybe this was influenced by that Mr. Stark?

Vanessa no longer has the Lancastrians in her—no trace of him anymore.

Even if Rachel didn't want to admit it anymore, the facts were right in front of him.The girl in front of her has lost the childishness she remembered and has become like a mature woman.

she has...

"I don't need a father that much anymore."

This sentence lingered in Vanessa's heart for a long time, and when she finally said it, she felt extremely happy in her heart.

"You missed the many years when I needed my father." Vanessa smiled gracefully, just as Rachel had expected, but with a little difference, "And now, I don't need it anymore."

"If you really feel that your cold violence has hurt me in the past years—even if you feel that you owe me even the slightest bit, then in the days to come, let's not bother each other."

After saying these words, Vanessa lowered her eyes.

She wasn't as tough as she said, so she didn't have any mood swings.All kinds of memories from the past turned into mist and shrouded her eyes.

It took a long time for Rachel to speak, and he looked a little depressed: "I still don't think this is the right choice."

He is still so stubborn.

Vanessa chuckled, got up and wanted to leave, and then heard his next sentence: "Your mother and I used to love each other very much...I mean, your name is not something we made up at will."

"I know you have always been concerned about this, but today I want to tell you that some of the 'truth' you think may not be all the truth." Rachel looked at the blue sky outside the window, and the weather in New York was indeed rare. Seeing the sunshine in London is much brighter.

"Your birth was full of our great expectations, you were our favorite treasure..."

"Once upon a time..." Vanessa didn't know what expression she should make at the moment, she just thought it was all absurd and ridiculous.

"Yes, once."

Rachel repeated the word, and her not-so-old face revealed the reminiscence of the past that only the elderly would have.

He was also a young man with a handsome appearance, open mind, interesting and romantic personality, otherwise Xie Jia would not have been willing to go his own way and marry here for him.

Even though they are falling apart now, they once had a happy time.The bold and smart Xie Jia is a very good wife candidate. Her wife's diplomacy has won the favor of many people in the social circle for Rachel, and even made new contacts such as the Holmes family.

But in the end, Rachel believes that it is not only her own character flaws and infidelity that ruined the marriage, but also herself——

Xie Jia, in the end, she also has her heart attached to others.She met her "fate" in Gotham, and even postponed her return due to it.

And because of this, she stayed there forever.

This is why Rachel always wants to teach Vanessa to be obedient - he stubbornly tries to obliterate all the shadows about Xie Jia in Vanessa, it seems that as long as Vanessa's future life can be achieved happiness.

Rachel rubbed the cold coffee cup on the table and spoke again: "Vanessa, your Chinese name is 'Xie Mei Mei'... You always feel that this is the product of our perfunctory, but it is not. Although I I know you don't like the Lancaster family, but you should remember what the family's crest is, right?"

This time the person who was stunned became Vanessa.

Of course she knew.

The Lancaster family has lasted for nearly a thousand years, and the family emblem has never changed——

A bright red rose in full bloom.

"Vanessa, no matter what happens now, you were born with the expectations and blessings of all of us."

The author has something to say: "Seeing is not believing"

So what Rachel knows is not the truth 233333

I'm so excited to finally get to the end of Gotham

My friend said that the setting of the heroine of my book is a bit like Mary Su, and asked me if the heroine of the next book is also like this?

Me: The heroine of the next book is a purple eggplant who loves to snap her fingers. This setting is full of sand sculptures. Su can’t get up, right?

My friend:? ? ? ?