Chapter 70: 69. Please Give Me Love

69. Please Give Me Love

Just as Elton said, the cooperation between the two families was each taking what they needed.

They talked about various cooperation matters, and finally involved the issue of the cooperation period.

"Elton, as you said, in the early stage of cooperation, Spark Port must open the door for you, but your monster taming will only be able to provide us with the quota in three years. It is really hard to say that this is a transaction of the same nature."

The Count calmly raised an objection: "Your sister is an extremely rare beauty and can give birth to excellent children."

"Who wants to give birth to children for your family." Dorothy muttered in a low voice, her peripheral vision looking at Li Ang's reaction, finding that he was concentrating on eavesdropping, and then looking back at the room.

"However, there are several problems here." Count Finat said: "Although I didn't intend to let the third one inherit the family, he now has a decisive strength."

There was no need to repeat the drama of fighting for inheritance among nobles. The Count also knew that if Winders really wanted to kill his two brothers, he couldn't stop it. Therefore, in a certain possibility, the woman who married him would become the mistress of the Finat family in the future.

Even if he had no intention of fighting for power, as the strongest in the family, when the child appeared as a bond between husband and wife, the wife could interfere with the husband through this, thereby affecting the family again.

"Then, you brother and sister are still half-elves."

The elves of Newbis also had a long lifespan. Although half-elves couldn't compare to them, they could still live for more than two hundred years.

So even if the Finat family was brotherly and friendly, the peers couldn't outlive the half-elf mistress and her child with one-quarter elf blood, and eventually the family power might fall into the hands of the Campbell family.

Elton knew what the Count was talking about. He smiled gently: "Your worries are correct, but our family is different. My sister has advantages that other noble ladies don't have."

Li Ang turned to look at Dorothy. She also looked over, and the half-elf girl's eyes dimmed: "Second brother, he still said it out."

The half-elf young man in the room said: "Dorothy can only live to be thirty."

The Count's fiery red eyebrows picked. Before he could speak, Winders scolded first: "Are you kidding?! I heard your sister is a monster, but she's still a short-lived ghost? Then what do you want her for!"

Winders' shouting was a bit noisy even in the secret passage. Li Ang asked the girl in front of him: "Is it because of the Demon Life Flower?"

Dorothy nodded and leaned gently against the wall beside her.

"Third, noisy." The Count stopped Winders.

"Oh?" Elton smiled: "We seem to have never mentioned my little sister's situation. How does Lord Winders know?"

"We both know that there are eyeliner in each other's homes, so don't pretend. Of course I will check the marriage object! I thought it was strange because she is a beauty on the surface, but she is covered in spots when she takes off her clothes, so she wears it so tightly every day! What kind of advantage is living to thirty!"

Elton shook his head: "That thing doesn't affect the body surface. She inherited her mother's fairy-like appearance. Even the dolls made by top artists might not be as beautiful as her. She also has a fresh life, which will definitely satisfy you."

Winders was about to speak again, but the Count raised his hand to stop: "That's right, this is really an advantage."

"Advantage?" Dorothy couldn't believe it: "What is second brother saying? What is the Count saying?"

Li Ang patted her on the shoulder: "Don't listen, I'll just do it. They won't say anything good."

Hearing this, the girl immediately raised her foot, but just as she took half a step, she peeked at Li Ang again, and finally her footsteps didn't step out.

"I'm going to run away anyway. If I heard the beginning but don't know the specific content, I'm afraid I will care more."

Facing his surprised son, the Count shook his head, as if he was speechless about him.

Elton took over the topic: "Your father is worried that our family will seize the Finat family through my sister. Isn't her short life a good thing? If she is gone, relying on the child, the situation will not be out of your control at all."

Winders tasted the other party's words: "Seems to be this truth."

"You don't have to worry about this. I don't have much time, so I want to live a real time."

The half-elf girl held Li Ang's sleeve gently.

The people in the room were randomly judging the benefits brought by her life and death. Li Ang understood that she was very fragile now, so he didn't move and let her hold him.

"It is indeed like this, so I look at the passage of time day by day, so I regret my ignorance at sixteen."

Dorothy's eyes were filled with water.

Li Ang recalled the information about the Demon Life Flower given by the system. It did mention that when the Demon Life Flower matured, it would break the host's body, but it also said that if the host extracted the power of the magic flower by will, it could delay this result.

The Campbell family's cognition of this might be because they didn't know this point.

In the room, Winders said: "But that is the child's mother. I heard that children without mothers will not be raised well."

"Before the child understands, won't you just remarry." Elton smiled: "Who said that nobles can only marry one woman? Lord Winders, are you so dedicated?"

"That's of course not. At twelve, I was with a maid... uh."

Winders was about to try to brag about something, but seeing his father's somewhat gloomy expression, he closed his mouth again.

"How many benefits there are in marrying my sister, I will reveal a little more."

Elton's tone was as calm as if he didn't know what he was saying at all.

"Her 'monster' part will make her die before thirty, but it will also make her not die no matter what before thirty. Think about it, such a beauty, you can let you... at will..."

Li Ang reached out to cover Dorothy's ears, isolating his subsequent words from the outside.

However, those words were enough for the girl to understand her brother's meaning.

She was silent like a sculpture for a few seconds, then gently removed Li Ang's hand.

"... Actually, our family was also very troubled for a while, because although this point is an advantage, if she is unwilling, her kind of power is not something ordinary people can subdue. It still has to be a high-rank Sky Knight like brother Winders to deal with it, so our two families are such good cooperative objects."

The Count said nothing, and Winders opened his mouth, then gave a dry laugh: "You make me a little moved, but she is your sister? I am a little afraid of your family."

The half-elf girl looked blankly ahead.

"Second brother, I was just thinking, even if you hate me, but I can have fine clothes and food, it is all because of you, so I can't hate you, but this is too much."

Elton said to the Finat father and son: "Sister? The Finat family has ruled Spark Island for so many years, and naturally knows that relying on some tenderness cannot continue the family business. Father is betting everything on the chessboard, which is why the Campbell family now controls part of the Elf Forest, which is of course relying on the blood relationship of our mother.

"However, fate does not favor our family. Mother got a strange disease for no reason. Just on the eve of being cured, she gave the thing that could save her life to this sister of mine."

"Mother..." Dorothy's pupils shrank violently, "Why, it was really mother who gave it to me. Why did she do this, and why did you say I grabbed it."

The girl leaned against the wall, supporting her body entirely by the wall surface, and slowly slid down.

"Such a sister cannot convince the elves to retreat. What is the use of her? My eldest brother and I can undertake the governance of the territory, but she grew up to be a waste. How do you let her repay the loss caused by our loss of mother?"

Dorothy's eyes gradually became empty. Li Ang saw that her gaze was now on Count Finat.

The middle-aged lord hadn't spoken since just now. Dorothy was very familiar with the Count because of her status, and listening to her speak also had this feeling.

The Count was the person in the room who looked most like an elder. Maybe she hoped that the Count could say something decent, even if it was just pretending to be a polite noble.

Count Finat nodded slowly: "I understand. Since the Campbell family has this kind of practical thinking, I can cooperate with you more at ease."

Both sides looked at each other and smiled.

"Let's go."

Li Ang pushed Dorothy gently and supported her so that she didn't slide down the wall to the ground.

Dorothy faced Li Ang, and the river of tears flowed quietly from the charming corners of her eyes to the tip of her exquisite chin, and then wet the clothes on her chest.

"Let's go, today's adventure is not over yet. Don't you want to see what's in the treasure house guarded by the Count's magic dog?"

"Okay, adventure, I've been looking forward to it for so long, okay."

The girl smiled at Li Ang, took a step, and then fell forward.

Li Ang hurriedly hugged her to prevent her from hitting the ground with her face.

Her light and soft body seemed to have all her strength drawn away, soft and boneless. Once hugged by Li Ang, she immediately sank into his arms like a cloud.

Her body didn't move, just buried her face in his chest.

A trembling, tiny voice came from the gap in the fabric: "My, my feet won't move, my whole body won't move, sorry."

"Rest for a while."

Facing her current state, Li Ang couldn't throw her on the ground, so he could only exert strength to hug her.

Fortunately, her charm didn't rely on plumpness, but like a sculpture emphasizing length without any excess, so there was no pressure on weight at all.

But she also maintained the curvature that could suck people's sight in the necessary parts, so he was inevitably embarrassed.

All the strength the girl had left was used to soak her tears on the clothes on his chest.

Li Ang said softly: "Cry, cry, bird in a cage, forget these things. Open the cage, fly to the clouds, throw away this past, and go to a new world that completely belongs to your fate."

Dorothy shrank again, lying steadily like a sleeping baby.

After a while, Dorothy spoke with her face buried.

"Bird in a cage, this metaphor is really appropriate.

"I also want to open my wings, but I don't have any strength now."

Li Ang looked down at her and said: "It will be like this after hearing those things. You are stronger than I thought. In short, don't forget the determination you said before. Do something after you rest."

"Do something..."

Dorothy repeated this sentence in a low voice, then her body moved, and half of her left Li Ang's embrace.

Her eyelashes were covered with tears, her eyes were blurred, she stared at Li Ang for a while, and reached out to her neckline.

"What are you doing!"

Li Ang suppressed himself from shouting. In front of him, Dorothy unbuttoned the buttons one by one.

"You said it, do something."

She glanced at the secret passage exit: "There are my brothers, the nominal fiancé, and the father Count. They traded me as an object in a few words.

"I want to take revenge on them and give the things they used to trade to the person I fancy. Even if I am an object, I will only let you hold it."

Across the gap in the secret passage, the detailed consultations between the nobles came one by one, but they had lost their meaning and became pure background music.

The white and greasy peaks like ointment, the deep valleys between them made them more dangerous and mysterious, fascinating.

Li Ang knocked on his temple and sighed: "Don't be like this, it's dangerous to go on like this."

Li Ang grabbed her hand and closed the curtain to isolate that beautiful scene.

"Listen, my animal instinct is indeed on the verge of rioting, but I think—"

Dorothy's eyes flowed: "In this place separated by a wall, I let you do anything you like, put it in any shape. You have stepped on their heads invisibly. Don't you like this kind of back-handed conquest?"

"Can I ask you a question?"

"Hmm?"

"After I help you 'revenge' like this, do you plan to really give up everything?"

Dorothy stiffened, the red tide on her cheeks and neck stagnated and retreated slowly.

"You, how did you know..."

"Because you have been tossing yourself for so many years even if you are alone, and you haven't sought outsiders. Although it feels very strange, you have been supporting yourself. You clearly have something called, but you want to say it doesn't matter now."

"But I suddenly," Dorothy's emotions broke the dam instantly, "I suddenly don't think being alive is a good thing. In this world, no one loves me. It's not that I did something wrong, I don't understand, I really don't understand."

"Or maybe I was redundant from the beginning. If so, there is no point in taking more risks, and no one will love me."

The girl cried, and her body curled up more and more.

Zi la.

Li Ang heard the sound of cloth tearing. Tender green vines pierced the skin of the girl's shoulder blades, spreading and growing behind her. They intertwined and stretched in the secret passage.

A white flower bud bloomed at the tip of the vine, and then bloomed into a beautiful five-petaled white flower with sharp blades all over the stamen. It sniffed the surroundings like some kind of creature, and Li Ang felt its spirituality gradually restless, as if it was about to break free from the connection with the girl and start looking for blood and death.

Dorothy looked at the blooming white flower blankly, and a warm feeling suddenly touched her cheek.

The girl was startled and found that it was Li Ang's palm transmitting temperature to her.

"Love is a complicated thing, it's hard for me to summarize, but I can confirm that your mother has always loved you."

"Liar. She loves me, why let me suffer this kind of torture?"

"Maybe in her view, this is the best result she can leave for you."

Li Ang said: "The temperature of the palm, or the temperature of the hug, this is the first kind of feeling that a baby feels from the mother. This feeling establishes the baby's understanding of the connection between people. This is a kind of love, the love passed from mother to child.

"Based on this, the child can perceive other people's emotions and have empathy.

"Whether it was eight years ago or now, I don't think you are someone who can't perceive other people's emotions, which means you must have grown up in your mother's arms. She always held you when she was healthy, and later she would ask you when you made a mistake. She must have loved you."

The restlessness of the Demon Life Flower eased a bit.

Li Ang shook his head: "But just like you saw through your second brother just now, your mother might have seen through the Campbell family because of a series of things.

"Planting seeds can fully recover. She is an elf princess. If she wants, the seeds of the Demon Life Flower cannot end up with you.

"But she still gave the seeds to you. It should be that in her view, living with the seeds is the choice that is most likely to let you find happiness."

"However, this is more like a curse." Dorothy cried.

"I have read some ancient documents, which wrote that the Demon Life Flower was used by ancient elves to cultivate legendary warriors. Your mother should know a little bit of news. She certainly knows that this will make your life more difficult, but she also planted the power for you to break the shackles of fate.

"Go tear fate apart with the sword stamen of the Demon Life Flower."

The floating light in Dorothy's teary eyes made Li Ang's face outline unclear. The green vines behind her swam and intertwined at a gentle speed, extending like unfolded wing bones.

Then, dense small white flowers bloomed on each green vine. They opened one by one quickly, and soon covered the vines. In an instant, it seemed as if two wings made of flowers unfolded behind the half-elf girl.

She got up, took Li Ang's hand, and took a step.

Passing through the darkness of the secret passage, arriving at the room where the Pale Dog slept, a flower wing rolled towards the magic dog in an instant, separating into strips of flowering vines upon contact, binding it tightly.

The sharp-bladed stamen of the white flower cut the magic dog's skin in an instant. It screamed miserably, and the gushing blood watered the magic flower to bloom even more.

The body strength of the two was of the same rank. The Pale Dog's struggle was tearing the green vines, and it made a creaking sound, as if it couldn't bear it.

However, the other flower wing behind the girl also extended. Each vine on it seemed to be rooted, directly piercing into the void, and small thunder could be heard faintly.

Li Ang looked at this anomaly and couldn't help but sigh. It was worthy of being a monster used by ancient civilization. Its root-like vine stems were born to be rooted in the magic dimension and draw power from it.

Pure magic power made the Demon Life Flower wrapping the magic dog grow wildly. A huge flower bud at the tip bloomed after it was formed, as if it were a creature full of sharp teeth, biting off the Pale Dog's head in one bite.

Throwing the corpse aside, the white flower vine stretched forward, grabbed the metal door of the treasure house, and twisted it into a twist in an instant, revealing the things placed behind it.