Chapter 20: Prom (5)(1/2)
"I have asked about Miss Shelley in detail."
"How is it?" Elin listened to Abby Robles' report, holding a wine glass to greet the other nobles from afar, smiling, and paying attention to the every move of Gray and Shelley in the middle of the dance floor in the distance.
"Miss Shelley is not engaged or has no lovers for the time being. However, I heard that the heirs of several families in the city were her suitors. It is not surprising that she is the beloved granddaughter of Count Gruglu. Marrying her is equivalent to establishing an unbreakable alliance with the Gruglu family. For ordinary nobles, this is great. However, Count Gruglu does not seem to be in a hurry to get this granddaughter married. Moreover... her own behavior is indeed a bit inappropriate."
“Is there anything particularly outrageous?”
"This is not. However, there is evidence that she is deliberately provoking conflicts among several families."
"Provoke conflict? For what purpose?"
"Maybe it's... a hobby," Abby Robles stammered: "She didn't benefit from it, but she seemed to enjoy the feeling of making others conflict because of her."
"Oh? Is it? I don't mind if Gray marry her, but she wouldn't want Gray to be one of her many suitors, right?"
In peaceful times, there were very few nobles like Elin who had huge crises in a family. And like Gray, who could get the title and title by himself, could not find the second one in Baicheng.
For the vast majority of nobles, their lives are actually just two things that they marry and have children.
Only with offspring can there be heirs, otherwise no matter how big the family is, it will be in vain. Not to mention marriage, this is the only way for the nobles to climb upward. Even every noble family will have a dense spectrum of blood relationships marked with various blood relationships. They strive to expand the territory of their family day after day, year after year through continuous marriage, inheritance, marriage, inheritance, year after year. At the same time, they compile the blood relationship network of the entire country into a mess.
From a certain perspective, marriage is second only to the army in hand. Naturally, many people are making a fuss about it. Shelley is just one of them.
Another song ended, and Elin watched from afar as Shelley took Gray's hand away from the dance floor.
"Stay at them."
"Miss Elin thinks Gray will be hooked away by Shelley?"
"It's not that I think, but that he might have been hooked."
Yes, although Gray's expression could not be seen, Gray's eyes had never left Shelley since the beginning. At the same time, Shelley's eyes were glowing when she looked at Gray. This was the worst.
This Gray was like a husky who was released to have fun. If he didn't watch it for five minutes, something might happen. If he ran out and never came back, Elin wouldn't find it strange at all. After all, his appearance was also sudden.
Of course, it is very desperate to happen under the current situation.
Does Earl Grugru want to take away his most important bargaining chips in this way?
He looked at the Earl of Grugru from a distance and found that Earl of Grugru was also struggling. It seemed that it was not his strategy.
However, Yilin was nervous after all.
...
After opening the Knight Line and the Bible Line, Grey successfully opened the Love Line.
Is this considered love?
Doesn't it count?
Do you count it?
Doesn't it count?
Well, I don't know either. You have to understand that the lich is not available in the Bible, and it is really hard to define.
Anyway, Gray thinks it is, so let's just consider him.
Gray's plan is roughly like this: "First, become a knight. Then, you have to get the commendation from the church and get the recognition of the church. Just like the protagonist in "The Guide to the Knights", start a family, kill the evil dragon, save the princess, walk a path and trip and find it is a treasure, and then distribute it to the poor... Do you still think anyone will suspect that I am a lich? Of course, in such a perfect story, love is definitely indispensable. Otherwise, there will be flaws. So, you have to fall in love!"
Well, the plan is quite complete. I have to say that he is a very motivated knight. He is simply flawless except being a lich.
"Open the family... do you want to give birth to a small lich?" The black cat asked Gray in a low voice.
"Well... it seems that no Lich has ever been born."
"Yes. It's great that you can understand this."
"But without a Lich, it doesn't mean it cannot be born! Without a Lich, I won't be a knight, too? Have a dream!" Gray said confidently.
Black cat looked confused, and suddenly he had an idea: "Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?"
In any case, what the Lich decided was obviously not something that the ghost could change. So Gray began to step forward boldly towards a new goal.
"I think I might need a ring in a desperate situation."
"What?"
"Don't you need a ring for proposals? I read it."
"Wait, are you going to propose now?"
"Or else when should we propose?"
The black cat felt that he was almost blind: "Listen, things like love are not that simple. First of all, you have to know them."
“We’ve already met.”
"Don't interrupt! First of all, you need to know each other, and then you need to cultivate feelings."
"How to cultivate it?"
"chat."
"We've already talked."
"I know, but it's not enough. We need to cultivate feelings and cultivate them until the right time, and then she will agree to be your lover."
"Become a lover?"
"right."
"Then you can propose?"
"Uh...yes."
“So, when is the right time?”
"How can I know this? Anyway, it's definitely not now! Based on your feelings, it's appropriate if you feel it!"
Grey silently raised his head and thought about it, and suddenly felt that human species was too difficult. They first had to determine the size and size without standards, and now they had to determine whether it was appropriate without standards?
Just thinking about it, Gray felt that his mind was about to get stuck.
So, in the spirit of the lich "If you can't figure it out, try it. Anyway, if you fail, it will be an explosion" and "the undead will not die anyway", he turned his face and looked at Shelley and said, "Miss Shelley, are you willing to be my lover?"
With a "slam", the wine glass she was holding fell and broke all over the ground. She stared at Gray blankly, her face turned red.
Everyone's eyes gathered towards this side.
The black cat's eyes fell off. How can you still talk about this in love?
Shelley hurriedly took Grey's hand and walked into the yard. In the distance, Elephant Earl Grugru stretched his neck, and several followers around him quickly followed him quietly.
"Male, Baron, is this a little too fast? We just met."
"Is it soon?"
“A little quick.”
"Can't it be so fast?"
"It's not impossible. It's just a little... it's too fast. And I haven't even seen your face before." Shelley's eyes kept flashing, pursing his lips, lowering his head to fiddle with his fingers. This was the girl's entanglement.
"Look, this is not the time. Do you understand? You need to slowly cultivate your feelings." The black cat breathed a sigh of relief in the armor. It was not easy. Finally, he predicted it right once. It was like the last time he was promoted to a knight. If this lich was always allowed to succeed easily, he would let himself go even more. Then he would be finished.
Just as the black cat was about to prepare some words to educate Gray, Shelley suddenly looked up and said with a red face, "Okay, I promise you!"
After saying that, he stretched out a hand, looked at Gray with a pair of eyes open and firmly looking at him.
The black cat's eyes that had just been stuffed back fell off again, almost choking to death with his saliva.
"So can I propose now?" Gray asked again.
"Don't ask me, I don't know anything..." The black cat has become petrified and begins to doubt life. Could it be that his previous life is just an illusion? Why did the truth he knew fail to do with the lich?
Logically, Gray should kiss Shelley's back of her hand at this time, but Gray didn't. Yes, he didn't. You can't ask a lich to be familiar with human etiquette, right?
So, the two people standing in the courtyard got stuck and could not start the next step.
After a brief silence, she thought she had promised so quickly and hesitated. So Shelley mustered up the courage to add: "Although it's really fast, life is short, so what's the point of being faster?"
"Do you really think so?" Gray asked seriously.
"Of course!" Shelley had a firm face: "I have thought it through. Although I have never seen your face under your mask, it doesn't matter! I love your soul, your majestic figure! It's your courage to defeat all knights! Love should not be superficial!"
The words were said loudly. For a moment, the Black Cat almost thought that the one standing in front of him was another Gray.
This world is really crazy, and the lich has a target.
However, the craziest thing was Gray, who said seriously: "So, can I propose to you now?"
In an instant, the atmosphere solidified.
The original enthusiasm in Shelley's eyes gradually turned into hesitation and horror. His mouth was wide open.
This is too big to play! Is it so exciting?
"Will it... be a little too fast?" she said carefully. She completely lost the momentum she had just now.
"Didn't you say that life is short and it doesn't matter if it's fast?" Gray continued to ask seriously.
"I said so, but, but, but..."
To be continued...