Spade was silent for a moment and said, "I don't understand."

Bai Liu smiled lazily. He seemed to find Heitao's expression very interesting and continued, "What's there to not understand?"

"I don't understand why you only hate me." Spade answered honestly.

Bai Liu pulled away from his embrace and sat across from him, holding her chin with her hand, her eyes were dazed and she said with a half-smile: "You dug out my heart, made me lose a very important game, and killed the most important person to me. Isn't that enough for me to hate you?"

A drop of wine dripped onto the end of Hei Tao's hair. He breathed evenly, "You've had many enemies. Every one of your current teammates has hurt you before, and you don't hate them."

"You don't dislike someone just because of winning or losing a simple game."

"And I didn't kill anyone." Heitao looked directly into Bai Liu's eyes, "I just killed the monster you hid your heart in."

"I'm not the only player trying to destroy this monster. People around you, your teammates, have tried to kill this monster before."

Bai Liu turned his face away coldly: "But only you succeeded."

"No, I didn't succeed." Spade stared at him, "My intuition tells me that the heart of this monster is still alive because of you."

He paused. "I thought you killed it after you left the game."

Bai Liu's breathing became very light, his eyes blurred for a moment, and the fingers of his drooping right hand twitched slightly.

"no."

"…it was suicide."

"So you can't blame me for its death." Spade looked at Bai Liu, "I am no different from the players around you."

He pressed his lips into a straight line. “But you don’t hate Tang Erda, or anyone else on your team, or Alex who was hostile to you before.”

A genuine confusion appeared on Heitao's face: "Why do you only dislike me?"

Bai Liu turned his eyes away: "--Don't act like you know me so well. This is only the third time we've met--"

After saying that, he stood up to leave. Heitao reached out and tightly grasped Bai Liu's wrist. He looked at Bai Liu intently, with a barely perceptible sense of depression in his tone:

"——Why are you targeting me so specifically?"

Bai Liu's drooping eyelashes trembled, and his index finger stretched out involuntarily, and the wine on the back of his hand slid down.

"Answer me, Bai Liu." It was as if a bunch of dark thorns grew in Hei Tao's eyes, wrapping around Bai Liu layer by layer, and making him spit out the true answer hidden under the bushes of thorns, "--Why am I different to you?"

But before Bai Liu could answer Heitao, a huge noise coming from the door of the tavern interrupted the stalemate in this small corner.

Deafening whistles and some sharp salutes came from the door, accompanied by some surprised and unbelievable laughter and ridicule from time to time.

Bai Liu quickly pulled back his hand: "There is a game incident coming, deal with it first."

"You haven't answered me yet." There was no expression on Heitao's face. He stood in front of Bai Liu stubbornly and looked at Bai Liu straight in the eye. "Why?"

Bai Liu took a deep breath, raised his head and sneered: "I just hate you, for no reason. You don't need a reason to hate someone. Can you understand this?"

Spade was silent for about ten seconds. He didn't say yes or no, nor did he make way. He just stood there and said "oh".

"You got the answer." Bai Liu looked up at Hei Tao, "Can you move aside?"

For the first time, Heitao turned his eyes away from Bai Liu. He lowered his head and raised the whip hanging beside his knees, as if he was going to hit a non-existent enemy: "...Then how long are you going to hate me?"

Nishen told him that there was a time limit for unexplained dislike, so he wanted to ask.

Bai Liu was silent for a moment, his shoulders sank as if he was relaxed, and he said softly: "——"

The moment he opened his mouth, the sound of huge champagne bottles being opened drowned out Bai Liu's voice.

Hei Tao only saw Bai Liu looking at him with a smile and saying a few words amid the huge crowd's noise and cheers, but he couldn't hear clearly what these words were.

Then colorful wedding fireworks fell down and covered their heads.

Heitao frowned and approached Bailiu and asked, "I didn't hear what you just said."

"Forget it then." Bai Liu smiled and brushed past Hei Tao's shoulder and ran forward.

Hei Tao followed Bai Liu's back and turned around. He saw Guy in the crowd, wearing a wedding dress and a snow-white veil, holding fireworks, and Alex, who was standing opposite Guy and looked completely stunned.

The soldiers around formed a circle in a friendly manner, holding their hands high, tapping their feet and humming a tuneless wedding march.

Guy knelt down amid the booing. He held up the bouquet to Alex, who had a blank expression, and smiled brilliantly: "Alex, please forgive me for secretly planning this wedding without telling you."

"I hope this is a surprise rather than a shock to you." Guy joked humorously. He said gently, with tears in his eyes. "Hey, although my clothes are a bit strange, you shouldn't have this expression, right?"

Alex seemed to have just reacted. He knelt down stiffly, tremblingly, and with a flushed face. He hugged Guy, who was wearing a wedding dress, tightly. He couldn't help but shed tears. His voice was hoarse and he could only repeat a few words meaninglessly.

"Oh my God, oh my God!"

Guy stroked the back of Alex's head, his eyes reddened. He couldn't help laughing, and his tone became softer: "Maybe I can interpret your reaction as your willingness to marry me?"

Alex almost broke down in tears: "Guy! I love you Guy!"

Guy helped Alex, who was crying loudly, up. They did not ask a priest to officiate the wedding - the priest was still in the military medical camp praying for the dead soldiers, so they took the wedding vows together in front of everyone.

Besides, their wedding was not blessed by God.

These soldiers, who hadn't seen a happy event for a long time, were so excited that Guy's wedding dress was almost trampled to pieces by these rude soldiers.

Even if this was an absurd and unconventional wedding, on the eve of the war, there was no more comforting sight than seeing two lovers hugging each other and kissing with tears in their eyes.

It doesn't matter whether the protagonists of this picture are men or women. What matters is that they are alive and they love each other.

God may not bless them, but God has never blessed anyone here.

The crowd was noisy. In the corner, Hei Tao and Tang Erda stared at each other expressionlessly.

Tang Erda: "..."

Bai Liu accompanied Guy to deal with those things, and then handed Spade to Tang Erda, asking Tang Erda to help look after the half-drunk, top-ranked player.

Actually, even though Bai Liu said that Hei Tao was drunk, he didn't look very drunk, but...

Spade asked word by word, "What is marriage?"

Tang Er racked his brains and answered, "It's a ceremony that people hold when they reach a certain age to introduce each other to other people in order to be with the person they love forever, and it complies with legal procedures."

Hei Tao was silent for a while, as if digesting the information, and then asked, "What age is a certain age?"

Tang Er held his forehead with a headache. He had already answered countless questions from Hei Tao - this man didn't cry or make a fuss after drinking, but he had a lot of questions.

And he is particularly persistent. If you don't answer, he will use various ways to make you answer.

Tang Er sighed: "Probably women are in their twenties and men are in their thirties?"

Spade squinted at him: "How old are you?"

Tang Erda was stunned: "Thirty-five or thirty-six."

Heitao said, "Then why don't you get married? Don't you have a partner?"

Tang Erda, who was shot, said: "...The situation is a bit complicated."

Spade asked: "The person you like doesn't exist?"

Tang Erda, who was shot twice, said: "..."

Seeing that Tang Erda didn't answer, Heitao continued, "The person you like is married to someone else?"

Tang Erda, who was shot three times, said: "..."

Seeing that Tang Erda still didn't respond, Heitao continued to speculate: "The person you like..."

"Okay." Tang Er let out a long sigh, "I'll tell you."

If Spades can't get his own answer, he will keep guessing, and for some reason, he can always guess the most painful answer with a weird intuition. Tang Erda has been stabbed all over by Spades since he started answering Spades' questions, and he is almost numb.

Tang Erda took a big sip of wine and stared at the empty glass in a daze: "The person I like...he likes me, but he has left."

After getting the answer, Hei Tao was silent for a while, and then suddenly asked: "Will Bai Liu hate the person she marries?"

"?!?" Tang Erda was confused by the jumpiness of Spade's question, but since Spade's questions were always jumpy, he thought hard for a moment and gave a tentative answer, "Probably... not, right?"

"Everyone... generally likes the person they marry."

Although Tang Erda found it hard to imagine who Bai Liu would marry.

Tang Erda remembered that he had seen in Murphy's magic mirror that Bai Liu had liked someone when he was young, but that person had long been tortured to death in an orphanage. It could only be regarded as an unrequited premature love affair of the great devil Bai Liu.

The whip that Spade had placed on his knees shook, he sat up straight, uttered a heavy "oh", and nodded seriously.

Tang Er was confused: "???"

What's with this expression of having found the answer?

Alex hugged Guy's shoulders and cried, then laughed. This young man who had previously advised Bai Liu and Hei Tao not to drink, held the bottle of wine and drank passionately with all the people who came to congratulate him. In less than fifteen minutes, he was drunk and leaned on Guy's shoulder and said "I love you".

This informal, carnival-like wedding finally reached the last step - the bride throwing the bouquet.

"The people who catch it will be the next couple to get married!" Guy stood on the stage and supported Alex as he threw the bouquet back. He counted down happily, "3-2-1-!"

A group of big bosses were very curious about the bouquet and rushed to grab it.

But at the moment Guy threw the bouquet, a black whip swung out and hooked the bouquet and went away like a flash.

A group of soldiers who were trying to grab the bouquet: "!!!"

It appears again! The mysterious oriental Kung Fu!

Spade hooked the bouquet back into her arms and held it dignifiedly with Guy's wedding veil, which she had stolen from him at some point, tilted on her head. Her look was exactly the same as the one she had seen when Guy proposed to her.

Then Hei Tao knelt down upright and raised the bouquet to Bai Liu, whom he had forcibly pulled over to him.

Bai Liu looked at the man with no emotion on his face, without making any movement.

Spade paused for a moment after Bai Liu's one-sided refusal to cooperate with him in proposing. He recalled Guy's opening words when proposing: "Hey, even though I'm wearing something a little strange, you shouldn't have this expression, right?"

Bai Liu: “…”