Flowers, Swords and France

Julie, who was glaring at Ciel, became slightly stunned after hearing her sister's words. Then, she slowly turned back, as if she wanted to scold Matilda, but looking at Matilda's calm look, she finally reluctantly looked away.

"Forget it, if you want to do this, that's up to you!" She sighed helplessly, as if she had absolutely nothing to do with her sister.

Then, she walked towards her husband, and as she passed Charles, she spoke coldly in his ear.

"I originally thought you were a little different, but I didn't expect that you were just the same as them, or even worse... I am so disappointed. You are no longer my friend, Mr. Treville."

"I'm sorry," Charles replied in a low voice.

But Julie didn't look at him again and walked straight towards her husband.

So, only Charles and Matilda were left. Although there was still noisy noise around him, Ciel turned a deaf ear to it, as if he was in the wilderness. Matilda didn't speak either, so the two of them fell into an unusual silence.

\u0026 Top\u0026Point\u0026Novel {} After a while, Ciel opened his mouth, reluctantly wanting to say a few compliments as a prelude, but he couldn't say anything.

Fortunately, Matilda finally spoke first.

"Sorry, Charles, what my sister just said may have been a little too much, please don't take it to heart."

Her tone was so calm that it even calmed Ciel down.

"No, it's me who should apologize. She didn't accuse me of anything wrong." Charles made a gesture. He motioned for both of them to sit on the sofa.

Although the host of the banquet did not care about other guests, but got tired of being with a girl, it must have seemed strange. Maybe it would even cause some rumors, but Ciel didn't care that much.

"Now only my sister knows about this matter. Speaking of which, it was my mistake. I thought it was easy to hide it beforehand! I didn't expect that my sister would find out..." After sitting down, Matilda apologized a little. Dei smiled at Ciel, who was thoughtful. "But don't worry, my sister has been taken care of by me. I won't tell anyone else, and my parents don't know yet."

"No, I'm not worried about this kind of thing." Charles shook his head slightly. "Matilda, are you feeling better now?"

"After such a long time, everything must be fine." Matilda smiled, "It's you. Are you fine?"

"I'm fine. You must have heard that I have been transferred by the president." Charles picked up the wine glass on the coffee table and took a sip. "Although it didn't go as smoothly as I imagined, I finally completed it. Yours, Matilda."

"I've heard it from dad." Matilda nodded, and then breathed out a sigh of relief, "I was quite worried at first, for fear that I might have guessed wrong. Or maybe something would go wrong... Well it didn’t disappoint, even you weren’t snubbed by Mr. President. ”

"So you have no idea? Then why were you so confident that day?" Charles looked at Matilda with some confusion.

"Of course, if I don't look confident, how can I scare you?" Matilda said matter-of-factly, "I thought about it at the time, if things go wrong, what will happen to me?" ...Take that as an apology to you. Maybe it will make you less angry with me." Then, Matilda's eyes became hesitant, "Am I taking myself too seriously? Is it too expensive?”

Listening to Matilda's answer, Ciel's expression became strange.

At last he couldn't help but laugh.

"No, don't worry, you are just that valuable."

Ignoring the glances from the side, Ciel kept smiling. Matilda was a little confused at first, but then she also smiled slightly. The slightly awkward atmosphere between the two people before slowly disappeared amidst the laughter.

"Well, now that everything has passed, let's not talk about these things." After laughing for a while, Matilda looked at Charles carefully again, "You don't seem particularly happy tonight?"

"I can't say I'm unhappy, I just don't particularly like this kind of occasion." Charles replied with a smile, "It's too noisy. I personally like to do things quietly."

"Me too, so I never like to attend such places. No wonder my sister always talks about me." Matilda smiled bitterly, and then continued to look at Charles, "By the way, I can ask you another question. ”

"Of course, just ask." Charles quickly agreed.

"Did you marry your cousin, Miss Treville, on a temporary basis, or was the family prepared for it a long time ago?" Matilda asked in a low voice.

"It can be considered that we have made arrangements a long time ago..." Although he didn't know the intention of Matilda's question, Charles still answered truthfully, "Charlotte and I have been playing together since we were young, and we have a very good relationship. "

"Well, I can see this. Although you may not really love her, you undoubtedly don't want to break her heart - this is already rare for a person with your personality and behavior. ." Matilda nodded seemingly understandingly, and then seemed to be lost in thought, "No wonder, that's how it is..."

"What's wrong?" Charles asked quickly.

"My grandfather, when he was alive, highly praised the Duke of Treville, calling him one of the few intelligent people among the old aristocrats who returned from exile. I was still surprised before, because he seemed to be such a dead-head. Now that I think about it, I can figure it out..." Matilda whispered, "So Speaking of which, the 'discord' between Duke Treville and your grandfather is just an illusion for others to see? So, haven't Duke Treville's family become more enlightened recently? The actual situation is that you The family has always been a unit? Have they been helping each other secretly? "

Although he was very surprised in his heart, Ciel still nodded with slight admiration.

"Yes, that's it. That's awesome, Matilda."

"I just discovered this now, what can be called amazing?" Matilda smiled and shook her head, "Fortunately, our family has never had any grudges with your family." After a pause, she spoke again, "You Don’t worry, it won’t happen in the future either. I will look at dad and let him continue to listen to your arrangements. After this incident, he values ​​my opinion more than before..."

"That's great." Charles took another sip of wine. "Also, I must say, I have the utmost respect for you, you are so admirable."

"There's no need to go to such an extent? Grandpa's last wish before he passed away was for me to take good care of this family. I'm just fulfilling my obligations..." Matilda smiled bitterly and shook her head, "Besides, sister Please don't take what you just said to heart. It was just what she said in anger. I will let her calm down. I ask you to continue to treat her and Mr. Lefrier as friends. After grandpa passed away, they are even more so now. Need your help..."

Matilda stared at Ciel, her brown eyes seemed to be able to see through everything Ciel was thinking, "Of course, I am not blindly asking for your help. I think this is not completely useless to you? Lovely Mr. Er is an honest man, as long as you give him He will definitely repay you for his kindness. Since you want to do big things in the future, you must need help? As long as I am here, my family and my sister's family will definitely be your helpers. You shouldn’t refuse such a prospect?”

Charles did not answer, but looked at the girl in front of him quietly.

This was the first time since he traveled to this world that someone had clearly told him that they wanted to be his collaborator and helper. This girl had already given her a strange surprise before, and today he discovered that an even bigger surprise was yet to come.

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Has she seen through it to this extent?

In addition to surprise, Ciel felt extremely excited again, just like that night.

"That's not impossible." He immediately nodded and agreed, "But, I also want to ask you to promise me something."

"What's going on?" Matilda looked at Charles with some confusion.

Ciel took out a business card from his pocket and handed it to her.

"This is a false identity I used." After Matilda took it, Charles explained in a low voice. "Of course, that address is the real address, it's the house I bought. Tomorrow afternoon, if possible, can you find an excuse to come out of the house and go there? Can we have a good talk?"

Matilda was a little confused at first, but soon understood what he meant.

For a moment, her eyes widened, and then her face quickly turned red.

"That night...that night was just...just...I didn't...didn't make a deal with you," she wanted to say in a trembling voice.

"This is definitely not coercion. If you don't think it's necessary, you don't have to come." Charles interrupted her directly and kept staring at her. "No matter what you do, the promise I just made will not be invalidated. I just... …I just want to have a good chat with you again…”

Before Charles's burning gaze, Matilda rarely avoided his gaze.

"But, but today, today you are not..."

"Those are two different things." Charles interrupted her again.

However, he is not as careless as he appears on his face.

He knew how much of a scumbag he was by directly making an appointment with someone else to have fun together at the place where he and Charlotte were about to announce their engagement, but... the passion in his chest made him unable to give up this idea.

Fortunately, before he could flinch, Matilda finally nodded.

An unspeakable feeling instantly made Charles feel a little dry. He had never really been excited until now tonight.

Matilda still lowered her head, as if she didn't dare to look at Charles.

"Where is your sister? Long time no see, I want to chat with her..." (To be continued...)