"Yeah, I have such bad luck today."
How stupid of me to follow out even though I knew nothing good would happen.
Falling into self-doubt, Wayne's eyes were blank.
"Speaking of...do you think Echos will be surprised after hearing the news that I came to find her?" Lawrence suddenly asked with a bit of anticipation.
No, there is no such thing as a "surprise" at all.
Scary enough.
"Lawrence!" Wayne stopped and shouted his name solemnly.
"Huh?" Lawrence looked at him confused.
There was about half a meter between them.
The fallen leaves on the street were blown up by the wind, slowly drifting through them, and then they seemed to be affected by some kind of air current, and they sped away.
"Why do you want to pursue Ecos?" he asked.
The smile that had always been on Lawrence's face faded.
"Is this question important?"
Wayne replied without any hesitation: "It's very important, otherwise I won't be able to provide you with any useful advice."
——Although, it wouldn’t provide any useful information originally.
However, some things, once noticed, are difficult to ignore.
Whether it was her approach to Tasia at first, or her sudden pursuit of Echos now. In Lawrence's mind, is he really doing these things out of love?
I'm afraid not so.
Under Wayne's stressful gaze, Lawrence exhaled as if feeling frustrated.
"If you have to find a reason, wouldn't it be enough to be good-looking and well-qualified?"
If such a perfunctory explanation were told to ordinary people, they might be believed.
However, the person standing in front of him now was Wayne.
He didn't believe a word of it.
"Since I don't have the most basic trust, I can only be helpless when it comes to helping you." Wayne said calmly.
It wouldn't be a bad idea if I could take the opportunity to get rid of this big burden.
The atmosphere was silent for a while.
"I didn't expect...that the flaw would be discovered so quickly."
It didn't contain any anger, but simply stated the facts. Lawrence smiled to himself.
In the end, he gave in first.
After all, it was him who was asking for help now, not Wayne.
"It is true that those external conditions can only have a more or less partial impact, but what really prompted me to take action was another reason..."
When he said this, he did not look at Wayne's face, but turned to the sky on the other side.
The seemingly random movements and the seemingly casual tone, but the profound meaning contained in them make people feel slightly chilled.
"I'm not going to watch...Richard in front of me, enjoying himself."
Hearing this, Wayne's expression couldn't help but pause.
really……
It’s not that you pursue someone because you like the other person, but you pursue them for the sake of winning.
It's all wrong from the very beginning.
"If you fall in love with this idea, even if you take ten thousand steps back, even if the other person really likes you, there will be no good results." Wayne shook his head.
"A good outcome? For people like us, as long as we stay married until the day we die, that's a good enough outcome."
Lawrence twitched the corners of his mouth, dismissing what Wayne said.
"Just like...my father and queen."
Wayne didn't know what was going on between the king and the queen.
But every word Lawrence spoke seemed to be venting his resentment towards them.
After a moment of silence, Wayne sighed: "There is a warning recorded in a certain ancient book: Those who take the top will get the middle, and those who take the middle will get the bottom. Now I will give this sentence to you."
After understanding the inside story of the story, although I occasionally feel a little pity for Lawrence, the unlucky child, in the end, everyone needs to wade through the muddy waters in life alone.
There has never been a hero who could save someone from the sewage.
——Neither myself.
"When you see the bad side and use it as a benchmark, you are actually just repeating the spiral of tragedy." He said softly.
While saying that that was impossible, this would be good; while lying peacefully on the spot motionless, waiting for the fairy in the sky to fall into his arms out of mind...
This is a life I would never choose.
Precisely because life is so short, spending time with someone you truly love is so precious.
"If you surrender to fate before meeting the person you really like, wouldn't it be equivalent to accepting the worst arrangement?"
He wouldn't accept that kind of ending that he didn't want.
Everyone understands the truth, but the joys and sorrows of people are obviously not the same.
Lawrence was not persuaded.
"No matter what, I will chase after Echos and let Richard feel the pain and failure!" he said stubbornly.
He wanted to see Richard frustrated so much that he was not even interested in pursuing his own life.
For some reason, Wayne suddenly remembered the way he danced when he talked about the piano and concerts.
Probably, it's not that he can't feel the true happiness that belongs to him, but that he is just blinded by jealousy and hatred...
"I don't think you can catch me."
Wayne said with a bit of indifference, "Not just you, but also Richard. Don't waste your efforts."
Why do I always have to be involved in such weird plots?
Ah, yes, maybe it’s because I took the heroine as my own without permission.
Richard and Lawrence lost the heroine who was supposed to be between them and persuaded both sides, and then gained themselves, the original male supporting characters, as their good friends... huh?
So, the heroine is myself!
Just outrageous.
Wayne shook his head, punched away those messy thoughts, turned around and walked towards Lawrence's carriage on the other side of Qingshi Street.
…
Rejecting Lawrence's invitation to continue playing elsewhere, Wayne returned to the Duke's Palace exhausted both physically and mentally.
Chrissy couldn't wait for him, and before he could sit down and take a sip of water, she ran over with a gossipy face to find out what kind of girl Lawrence wanted to pursue.
"Actually, although Lawrence's character is quite extreme, his nature is not bad..." she said.
"You know him very well." Wayne said coolly.
Chris' originally very eloquent expression suddenly paused.
"Uh... I don't know much about it. I just heard from friends about some things that happened in the royal family..." She spoke vaguely.
"Go, get me a glass of water." Wayne lay down on the sofa chair and crossed his legs.
Since Chris felt guilty, of course he had to seize this rare opportunity to help her.
