Jealousy (22)
This time without Bo Wen's company, Song Shu just felt that Lian was really annoying.
He was clearly just sitting in a chair explaining the academic performance of the three princes. He praised Klein as agreed and secretly praised Alice. However, before he finished speaking, the king, who had been sitting upright, suddenly became restless and came down from the main seat. “Do you think Klein is excellent?”
The lights in the living room became dim for some reason, just like the study room the night he and Bo Wen quarreled. Only the place where Song Shu sat was bright, while everyone else was in the dark.
This arrangement made Song Shu very uncomfortable. He felt like he was on a stage, and Li An was the audience.
After he frowned, Ryan turned up the magic lights, but it didn't help much.
Song Shu continued to speak expressionlessly, wanting to finish quickly so that she could go find Alice, but Ryan was relentless, like a wife who had caught her cheating husband and wanted to get to the bottom of things aggressively.
It’s not that Song Shu thought too much, but Lian always looked at him with that nagging gaze.
Lian's smile was very deceptive. He was very good at using his harmless appearance to make Song Shu think that he was a child who had just grown up, and never thought that he was the father of six children.
Song Shu was annoyed by that look and could only repeat mechanically: "Klein is a very good child. He has outstanding abilities and talents in all aspects."
"Of course, Alice also worked very hard."
Song Shu thought he was being fair in his comments, and he praised almost everything except the annoying Anthony. But Ryan seemed to be a selective listener. After he finished speaking, Ryan asked again, "Do you think Klein is excellent?"
Song Shu repeated it almost for the third time, a little impatiently, "Yes, he is a very good child."
Ryan's gloomy expression seemed to last only for a moment. He smiled and said, "This child is indeed excellent. Come to think of it, Klein was almost your fiancée."
Song Shu: “?”
Ryan: "The year you were born, your father made an agreement with us. If the first child of Lilith and I is a girl, then the two families will arrange a marriage for the baby."
"It's just a pity that Klein is a boy."
Song Shu was a little confused.
This is just a past event with no results. Is there anything worth talking about?
Now he and Klein were just a teacher and student, so what Ryan said only made him smile awkwardly but politely.
Song Shu smirked: "Really?"
The lingering gaze continued, and Ryan moved closer, "Do you think it's a pity that Klein is not your wife?"
The distance was still safe, but Song Shu still felt subtly uncomfortable. Every word of Li An seemed to have a hidden meaning, but he couldn't understand it. Li An was just like talking to a deaf person.
It doesn't matter whether Klein is his wife or not. Does Ryan really not know why the villains adopted so many beautiful boys? Does anyone really think they are teaching seriously?
The villain likes men, so wouldn't it be more convenient if Klein is a man, or do they all agree that the villain is bisexual.
The more Song Shu thought about it, the more abstract it seemed. Li An kept staring at him, as if he had to give an answer. He thought about it and was about to speak when Li An suddenly said, "It's not a pity. It just means that you two are not destined to be together, right?"
Song Shu: “…”
Ryan had finished talking, and Song Shu could only continue to fake smile. After faking smile for ten minutes, Ryan finally let him go.
Song Shu thanked God and didn't want to say a word to Ryan.
Without Song Shu, the lights in the living room returned to normal. Li An sat back in the main seat and tapped the handle with his fingers. Klein appeared in the living room, right across from where Song Shu had just sat.
Ryan leaned forward slightly and said in an exaggerated tone, "Did you hear that, Klein? He is praising you."
Klein was tied to a chair with his hands and feet bound. His gray-black shirt was soaked with sweat, outlining his firm and muscular abdomen. His dark-skinned face was flushed with pain.
Ryan was like a naughty child. He went forward and held his face, his round eyes slightly widened. "How do you feel when you see him sitting opposite you? He was almost your husband."
"Klein, I can forgive you for not being a girl, but you are not even my child."
Klein was the product of Lilith's forbidden magic. To be more precise, he was the product of Lilith and Song Shu's mother's joint research on forbidden magic.
Ryan shook his head, "You should be glad that he likes you."
Klein couldn't help but gasp and tried to break free from the restraints on his body, but all he got in return was more annoying pain.
The pain of such abuse has been with him since adulthood, and he should have been used to it.
Ryan is emotionally indifferent. He seems to prefer brutal abuse to sex. Blood can directly stimulate his senses, and watching other people's suffering can bring him pleasure.
In short, Ryan, this psychopath, just likes to torture people.
Since childhood, Klein had been instilled with the name "Song Shu". Others didn't know, but the first word Klein said was not "father" or "mother", but "Song Shu".
The sense of pain of magic forbidden items is much lower than that of ordinary people. When he entered adolescence, the moody Ryan often abused and tortured Klein in inhumane ways, and said to himself, if you were a girl, I could raise Song Shu together.
Magical forbidden objects that are still in the embryonic stage have no gender, and most of them will differentiate into different genders according to the wishes of their masters.
Klein finally turned into a boy, which was the reason why Lilith and Ryan ignored and hated him, and because of this, they lost the custody of Song Shu.
In Klein's memory, Song Shu was more like a symbol, a symbol of pain.
The past was buried deep inside, sealed by the span of nearly ten years and Lilith's deliberate memory magic. The symbol of Song Shu was originally meaningless and transparent. Klein had not remembered these cruel admonitions for a long time.
Because of the meeting with Song Shu and because of Ryan's sudden attack today, the gray symbols in the memory became vivid.
Song Shu...
Song Shu...
Klein gasped as he crushed the name and tasted it again. A faint, oppressive, dark smell of blood rose up.
Li An sat in the seat where Song Shu had sat, propping up his chin with a smile, "Come on, tell me about your first meeting."
…
Although Song Shu was allowed to leave, he did not see Alice when he walked around inside. He still learned from the system that Alice had left for another urban area for inspection.
Song Shu thought that Shui Lian was about to rebel, and after escaping from the rebellion, he indeed met Alice in another district. Alice also decided to participate in the fight for the throne because she witnessed the suffering of the lower class people.
In summary, the plot is still moving forward steadily.
Unable to find Alice, Song Shu was afraid of meeting Lilith again while walking, so he had to return home regretfully.
But he met Klein at the door.
It was almost afternoon, when the sun was at its hottest, but Klein was emitting a cold, sickly aura, and his face was extremely pale.
Song Shu also noticed that there seemed to be a wound on his hand? But before he could see clearly, Klein had already retracted his hand and smiled at him: "Teacher."
Klein's face looked really ugly, but he was handsome and was pleasing to the eye even when he was sick.
Song Shu was a little curious: "Are you sick?"
Klein shook his head: "No."
The topic seemed to have been killed here, and Song Shu responded dryly: "Then you should rest early."
The scorching sun shone on the wall, and the surrounding plants were all wilted. But they were standing in the shade, and with the protection of magic, the temperature was actually comfortable. But why was Klein sweating so much?
Song Shu seriously suspected that Klein would fall into his arms in the next second.
Is Klein here to commit fraud?
The wet black skin had a strange luster, and Klein still had a decent smile on his lips.
"I came to see the teacher this time because I want to ask him a question."
Song Shu: "What's the problem?"
Although he asked a question, his tone did not contain any doubt. Klein seemed to be discussing the weather: "Does the teacher hate black?"
Song Shu understood.
Klein was probably frustrated by the king. Because Klein was dark-skinned, the king, who followed the God of Light and was extremely superstitious, disliked his son.
The healthy and sunny color was an ominous symbol in the eyes of the king. He even thought that the eldest prince's darker and darker skin was a curse on him?
In response, Song Shu said: Wake up, there is a grand duke who loves black by your side.
Song Shu instantly felt that Klein had a hard time, and couldn't help but feel a sense of sympathy between the two villains.
Poor child. Song Shu shook his head: "Not annoying."
How can a dark person hate the color black?
Klein seemed to smile. It was a very quick smile, with a rare childish innocence. It was like the relief after finally finding the answer to the question that had appeared in his mind when he was five years old at the age of twenty.
Klein: "Thank you, teacher, for clearing up my confusion."
Song Shu wanted to ask something else, but Klein had already left with the servant, and his back looked shaky.
One can't help but wonder if he really wouldn't faint on the street. But if he fainted, there would be servants to take care of him, so it wasn't Song Shu's turn to worry about it.
So Song Shu just took a look and turned to get on the carriage.
The carriage rumbled along the road. In the reception room at the end of the palace road, a wisp of smoke appeared behind Ryan, slowly revealing the tall figure of a man.
"Klein went to find Song Shu. Don't worry?"
Li An blew the tea in his hand and asked, "Is it really okay for you not to go back to the ancient house and watch over him these few days?"
Bowen was silent.
Ryan said with a smile: "Since you think it's okay, then I don't care even more."
Klein was just a pawn abandoned by Lilith. From the moment the gender differentiation was wrong, Klein had no need to exist.
"Are you really not going back? It's been a few days, you should have calmed down by now." Ryan was curious: "And how could you get angry at that face?"
Bo Wen sneered: "You are meddling too much."
Ryan: "If you don't go back, just give him to me."
"roll."
Bo Wen was upset and couldn't understand why he felt guilty when Song Shu said that that day?
Originally, he was being raised as a substitute, so why didn't he dare to admit it? Was it just because of Song Shu's tears?
Bo Wen didn't want to think about it too much, and even turned off the voice at the beginning.
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No matter how many twists and turns other people had in their day, Song Shu knew nothing about it. For him, the whole day was spent without seeing Alice.
At night, Song Shu had just laid down when he saw the bedroom door pushed open. Shui Lan, who had been ill for several days, was standing at the door. Her sickly face had become a little thinner, and she looked more like a harmless little white flower.
His knuckles gripped the doorframe. “Father, I need to tell you something.”
Song Shu grasped the quilt solemnly.
I understand. They are here to rebel.
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