Chapter 512: Not Pure Love

"What do you mean it's not a complete story?" Harry looked at Cassandra and then at Zhang Qiu, "Could it be that this story wasn't thought of by yourself, but seen from her?"

"Hmm..."

In Zhang Qiu's silence, Cassandra opened her bookshelf for Harry. In fact, every guest who came to the Light Photo Studio could browse various miscellaneous books on the bookshelf in the gap of waiting in line. However, only those who were relatively familiar with the proprietress could borrow her private collection.

"Because I have many tear-jerking romance novels here." Cassandra explained, "Last time Qiu proposed that she wanted to find a touching pure love story, so I showed her this one."

Harry took the book. A beautiful girl with loose hair was drawn on the cover. Rather, all the books here were basically this kind of cover, and after opening them, they were all square characters that people couldn't understand. Harry looked at it casually for two eyes, and was about to put it back on the bookshelf—and just at this time, another book that was obviously moved recently caught his eyes.

Perhaps before this, Harry wouldn't pay extra attention to it because a book had a lighthouse or a round moon drawn on it, but at this juncture, he subconsciously pulled it out.

"Oh, that one." Cassandra introduced with a smile, "This is also a very touching story."

"What the story tells is one thing." Harry looked at the cover blankly, "But I want to know, has anyone else come to see this book recently."

"There is a girl in the snake house, maybe you also know her." She said, "Her name is Astoria, and she often comes to me to read books."

Zhang Qiu, who was still a little indifferent, sat up straight, and Harry's eyes began to become sharp.

"I just felt she was wrong," Harry analyzed to himself while Zhang Qiu was reading, "Draco's gentleness toward her during the day was too much. And Pan Xi didn't realize that the more she showed targeting and strength, the more Astoria's appearance could arouse Draco's protective desire."

"Perhaps he used soul magic to throw away the unimportant memories, and Astoria is trying to make him suspect that he threw away important memories—this also relates to the original plan of you and Pan Xi. I guess Astoria discovered Pan Xi's little actions, she is just counting the plan."

"That's right, Draco should have remembered the memory that Pan Xi wanted to instill in him, but as just said, the story itself is not rare, and it can even be said to be full of doubts." Harry clapped his hands, "And Astoria's trick is to make him unable to remember no matter what."

"Of course, how can a person recall things he didn't do at all? But the more Draco can't recall, the more he suspects that he has amnesia, suspects that he accidentally used soul magic to throw away important memories, he will feel guilty, and feel that he is sorry for Astoria."

"I think Astoria should have cast a spell." Zhang Qiu raised her head from the book, and Harry noticed that her eyes were red, "Perhaps she cast a memory charm."

Zhang Qiu gently wiped away the tears left by being moved with her sleeve, and then said angrily: "Using such a good story to plot such a despicable thing, the people in the snake house really have no conscience."

"Oh?"

"From the experience you described, I have already guessed how Astoria did it." Zhang Qiu took a deep breath to calm down, "According to Pan Xi's plan, the healer will cast a memory recovery spell on Draco, making him have an illusion that 'he seems to have forgotten something important.' Then, Astoria takes advantage of the moon landing newspaper to tell him a childhood story, and then immediately casts a memory charm to make him forget this story."

"So the story that Draco is muttering and can't remember no matter what should be adapted from this book: Astoria had a lonely, inarticulate personality because of the early death of her parents. Then perhaps one day, Draco met her by chance and walked into her heart."

"When she asked 'Will you come tomorrow?', Draco smiled and said he would, and Astoria asked, 'What if we get separated?', Draco answered 'We will always meet on the moon'." Zhang Qiu described a promise that was very childish, "But unfortunately, Draco forgot this. He might feel that it was erased by Lu Xiusi's memory charm, or he might suspect that he accidentally lost this memory by using soul magic."

"And this is the reason why he wants to go to the moon for no reason."

Harry, who still had a trace of doubt, couldn't help but take the book, but he couldn't understand Chinese and could only stare blankly at the moon on the cover, "Perhaps it is because I didn't see the cause and effect, I feel that this kind of statement is not special, especially—the matter of Lu Xiusi using memory charms on his children is originally a story you instructed Pan Xi to fabricate, the authenticity is very low, Draco might easily suspect it..."

"Of course you don't understand!" Zhang Qiu angrily took the book back, and then patted the table, "I want to tell Draco about this, not for anything else, just to punish Astoria for defiling such a beautiful story!"

Without the layer-by-layer progression of text rendering, Harry didn't understand the touching nature of the story at all at this moment. He shrugged somewhat indifferently, and then gave his own opinion: "If you go directly to Draco, it is not fair enough. I think you can tell Pan Xi about the matter and let her make a decision."

"Fair? I think things are already very unfair to Pan Xi." Zhang Qiu frowned, "According to my understanding, Astoria is a very typical female competition personality. She has studied Pan Xi very thoroughly. If we want to break the situation, we must start with Draco!"

"What is female competition?"

"It means she doesn't really like Draco. She just wants to prove that she is more attractive than Pan Xi by prying Draco away—more deeply, she wants a more greedy, more empty thing. She wants a 'sense of being chosen.' She doesn't want to get Draco, but simply wants to use the act of 'getting Draco' to prove to herself and this world: she, a girl whose parents died and whose body is weak, eventually defeated the healthy and energetic Pan Xi."

Harry felt that this statement was a bit arbitrary, but he also agreed with a point of view Ron had put forward: if Astoria was just a lonely and kind girl, she should actually be in the badger house, and it was unlikely to come to the snake house.

"I have given her great tolerance, Harry. You have to know that if I want to figure out something in school, it is very easy." She said this with absolute confidence, "I understand that she lacks a sense of security because of her background and experience, but when she wants to fill the emptiness in her heart with the recognition of others, she chooses to use Draco... I actually wanted to hand over my standing long ago, I have been restraining."

"I can understand you, Qiu." Harry nodded deeply, "Pan Xi is worth our support, not only out of that kind of empathy for resisting fate, but she also did a lot for Draco, whether it was establishing the Torchwood, managing the girls' club, or even I clearly saw her willing to fight for Draco last year, and got the response of the belt—but, I can't help but ask another question, is Draco worth it?"

"But Malfoy is worth it." Zhang Qiu smiled relievedly, "She knows why she paid so much. No matter what Draco is inside, what she craved from the beginning was just wealth and class, and maybe that beautiful young master's face."

"Because I am still considering another question." Harry's gaze drifted back to the book on the table, "It is understandable that Draco ran to ask me about going to the moon, but why did Astoria arrive first that day? She couldn't have run faster than Pan Xi. Could it be that she and Draco were actually colluding?"

"You mean?" Zhang Qiu showed a puzzled look, "Draco actually knows Astoria's calculation?"

"He of course knows, he told me the day he lost to Hufflepuff."

"Then perhaps, they want to get your acquiescence and endorsement." Zhang Qiu took a deep breath, "Even maybe they counted me in. After all, I told Pan Xi that if it could be proven that Draco was a scumbag, then I would support her breaking up instead."

"But you changed your mind now, feeling that since she just wants to get Malfoy's person, she doesn't force whether to get his heart, so for her previous efforts and dedication, she should deserve a fair return?" Harry thought, when he realized that none of the three looked like good people, he began to apply another set of simple values of "one point of cultivation, one point of harvest."

"And from our interests," Zhang Qiu smiled and leaned on the table, "If you have to pick one person from the three to control the resources of the Malfoy family, who do you think is the most rational and best partner?"

"But you've changed your mind now, thinking that since she only wants to obtain the person of Ma Erfu and doesn't insist on whether she gets his heart, then for all her previous efforts and sacrifices, she should deserve a fair return?" Harry pondered. Once he realized that none of the three seemed like good people, he began to apply a different, simple value system of "you reap what you sow."

"And from the perspective of our interests," Zhang Qiu leaned against the table with a faint smile, "if you had to choose one of the three to take control of the Ma Erfu family's resources, who do you think would be the most rational and cooperative candidate?"