Flowers, Swords and France

Hearing the suppressed crying behind him, Charles felt very bad. He silently took Agnes along the corridor and prepared to return to the living room.

"I originally thought I would have to face a violent storm, but I didn't expect to get through it so easily." Agnes suddenly said, "He was more restrained than expected. He was just sad but did not lose his mind."

"No one will be happy to see someone who kills his only son." Charles replied slightly unhappily. "You were a little too mean to him."

"Is this still my fault?" Agnes sneered, "Did I kill your father for no reason?"

"...That's not what I meant. Of course you have your reasons, so we don't want to mention it anymore." Charles finally sighed. "Let this matter go away completely, and no one should mention it again."

Agnes regarded her grandfather as one of the people responsible for the tragedy, so she could say a few words to him in a nice manner and tell the old man where Edgar was buried. many.

"Yes, then let everything go." Agnes nodded lightly. The sharpness on her face suddenly disappeared, and she looked a little sad. "Now that everything is over, you have become the right person." Alice is an indispensable outstanding figure in the country. As for me, I can finally live according to my own preferences."

"Then, I congratulate you." Although technically Agnes is his 'father-killing enemy', Charles feels that Edgar should die early, otherwise Agnes will not be delayed for so many years.

Yes, it took too long.

He looked at his aunt in front of him.

Although her face is still fair and smooth, with the aftertaste of youth remaining, fine wrinkles have appeared at the corners of her eyes, and she has obviously begun to go downhill.

Suddenly he felt a little sad.

Yes, who am I to blame her? She was the victim and the one who paid the most. I should even thank her for solving a problem for us.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have talked to you like this." He bowed slightly and then apologized, "I sincerely hope you can live happily in the future."

"At last you still have the last bit of conscience left." Agnes smiled slightly, "By the way, there is something I want to ask you."

"Excuse me?" Charles was a little curious.

"I heard some things about you, um... relatively negative things." Agnes hesitated for a rare moment, looking a little embarrassed. "I want to check with you."

"What is it?" Charles was still confused, "You... you also know that in our profession, no one can avoid doing some less honorable things, and each of us has many political enemies, so it is inevitable that there will be Many people say bad things about us, I ask you not to take it to heart.”

"No, it's not a political matter. I don't care about the issues you politicians are fighting about. It's dirty enough anyway. Everyone knows there are no good people in Vanity Fair. It's none of my business what others say about you. I want to It's about other things." Agnes shook her head, "I heard that you have a very romantic life in private, and have been with many ladies, right?"

Well……

For a moment, Charles didn't know how to answer. He subconsciously denied it, but he couldn't say it in front of his aunt's eyes. She seemed to have heard a lot of rumors. There was no point in denying it.

"Not a lot." In the end, he could only give such an ambiguous answer. "There are only one or two people who are very close to each other."

"You really..." Agnes frowned.

After ten years of not seeing each other, the man in front of me has grown from a boy to a young man, to a powerful man, and has made proud achievements. However, he also became a libertine who attracted bees and butterflies like other young people. While pursuing fame and fortune, he also indulged his own desires.

She is not a child who doesn't know anything. When she was with her father, she also knew that most of the best people in the Vanity Fair were attracted by others. Although she had watched him grow up since she was a child and loved him from the bottom of her heart, But she could only face the reality. He was completely different from the boy she remembered.

But...she still found it a little hard to accept.

"Don't you feel guilty? Charlotte loves you so much." Finally, she couldn't help asking.

"I...I do feel a little guilty sometimes," after hesitating for a while, Ciel finally nodded, "I do feel very sorry for Charlotte."

"Yes, of course you are sorry for her. She loved you, married you, gave birth to your child, and was willing to spend her life with you." Agnes sneered, "But what about you, what do you use To repay her with private betrayal? Don’t forget, no matter what she does to others, she is very loyal to you. Do you want to find a better wife than this? "

"I know what you said, I know everything..." Charles nodded again, "So I will use everything I can give to compensate her. You see, now she is the focus of the entire social world, the wife of the country Everyone is envious of her status..."

"What a compensation! Do you think you can use money, status and title to offset the debt of love?" Agnes couldn't help but raise her hand and tugged his ear just like she did before, "When will I teach you Have you ever treated others like this? Can't you repay loyalty with loyalty and treat your wife wholeheartedly?"

"I'm sorry, I can't."

"What?" Charles answered so simply that Agnes didn't react for a moment.

"Yes, I can't, I'm very sorry." Charles sighed, then suddenly reached out and took the other person's hand, and walked to the window of the second floor corridor.

At this time, the sound of music and people's conversations downstairs went straight into their ears, making it very noisy.

"Did you hear it? It's noisy here, isn't it? Because there are too many people. Yes, there are too many people, and they are getting more and more. I have many subordinates and many friends who are loyal to me and through them I To seek power and achieve my own goals now they. Their future and their hopes all depend on me. They advance and retreat with me. If I become prosperous, they will be able to follow suit. If I lose power, they will definitely have no future... I... I am no longer alive alone. Okay, can I do whatever I want? Do you want to crush their hopes casually? No, I can't! The same is true for some... well, I also do this for some women that I admire very much, they are either my assistants, Either they have helped me a lot, they have done it for me I have given too many things and placed too many expectations on them. I can’t just throw them away. I must do it to the end for their expectations. Yes, I can’t give up until now. I can only sleepwalk with them. Keep going with the confidence of the reader until the end!”

"What a fallacy! According to you, are you being responsible? It's obvious that you can't restrain your desire and show mercy, but you act as if you are doing something good!" Agnes laughed angrily. "Is the way to repay those women is to have affairs behind their wives' backs? Can't you seek happiness for them in other ways? No, don't lie to yourself, you have a way. The reason why there are not so many is not at all out of What a high-sounding reason, but your personal desires! You do those debauched things behind your wife’s back just to satisfy your selfish desires, just like everyone else.”

"Yes, you are right, I am such a person. Maybe there is a way to make them leave me and still be happy, but I don't want to choose." Charles lowered his voice, but his tone was very firm, "I just enjoy it. The joy of them staying with me I tried saying goodbye to one of them, but. It's... God, it's so uncomfortable, I don't want to feel that way again. You can despise me, but that's how I feel about it. If you curse, curse. I am a shameless bastard and will continue to be so!”

"Is there any pleasure that your wife can't give you?!" Agnes asked loudly. "Are you considered a husband like this?"

"I'm sorry, but that's the fact...Charlotte is good as Charlotte, but I can find other fun in others." Charles replied in a calm manner, regardless of how his words sounded. How shameless. "Since they are happy to stay by my side and bring me different pleasures, then why should I change everything!"

"Crack!"

Agnes couldn't bear it any longer, she waved her hand, and then she was slapped hard on the face. Her hand strength was not stronger than that of ordinary people. When she was angry, she naturally didn't think about controlling her strength, so she slapped hard on the face. The blow made Charlotte couldn't help but cry out in pain.

He was questioned face to face and slapped. In the past few years, everyone has been flattering and flattering him. How could anyone treat him like this? This long-lost feeling made it difficult for Ciel to adapt to it.

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But Ciel didn't intend to fall out with his aunt, so he had to bear the blow silently.

"Char, when did you become such a person?" Agnes's expression became very serious. Not only was her face flushed, her hands were also trembling slightly. "Look at yourself, how can you be a good husband and father like this? I really didn't expect...I really didn't expect..."

"I am explaining the situation to you seriously, Aunt Agnes." Charles replied very earnestly, "Of course, from your standpoint, I don't expect you to fully understand my decision, but I want to ask you Don't tell Charlotte what I said, lest it make her sad and make our lives turbulent. You see, although I can't be a perfect husband and father, I can try my best to be a pretty good husband. and father.”

"By what? By deception?" Agnes asked. "Is this what you should do to play a good husband and father to your wife and son?"

"If you can only rely on deception, then let's deceive. Even if it is a dream weaved by deception, it is better than the cruel reality, right? Besides, I didn't completely deceive her. After getting married, I respect her very much. Except for this little thing Apart from that, all other matters have been obeyed by her. Charlotte at least enjoys A glory that no one else can match. No one in our family dares to argue with her. Isn't that enough?" Charles replied in a low voice while enduring the pain on his face, "I'm not doing anything for myself. Justification, I know what I did was evil, but I obeyed my own wishes.”

"This is really..." Agnes was speechless. She found that besides being angry, she was more worried and bitter.

Unconsciously, she suddenly thought of his father, the same bohemian man.

Grandpa is like this, father is like this, how could the child not be like this? She suddenly thought to herself.

This family is fundamentally evil, yet it attracts women every time. It's really an unpleasant fact.

Are you going to follow your father's old path again? Will the tragedy of that year happen again?

This is terrible.

"I understand. Now it seems that it is impossible for you to restrain your desires and be loyal to Charlotte wholeheartedly - just like she did to you, right?" After a long silence, Agnes asked in a low voice. "You told me your thoughts bluntly and you will continue to do so, right?"

"That's right, I love and pity her very much, but I can't be loyal to her wholeheartedly, so even though I feel guilty sometimes and make a lot of compensation because of my guilt, I still continue those relationships." Charles sighed. , "This will be the case in the future. I will not tell Charlotte these words, and I hope you will keep them secret from her, because...well, it seems too cruel."

"You..." Agnes wanted to say something more, but in the end she said nothing.

She already understood that it was impossible to make him wake up with verbal criticism. This man was conceited and arrogant, and became more stubborn because of power and the ingratiation of others. Now that he had made up his mind, he would probably Do it to the end.

Will the pain and tragedy continue like this from generation to generation?

Maybe he was right and Charlotte was better off not knowing about these things, God knows what would have happened.

That's all, it's a matter of one generation, and she doesn't want to deal with it even if there is any tragedy. After all, Charlotte and Charles are both members of the Treville family, not her immediate family members, and she has no right to control them too much.

However, there was only one thing that she felt she had to interfere with.

"I don't live in an illusory world. I also know that many people are like you, but they at least have a bottom line. Charles, I hope you understand that even as an imperial minister, there are some things you must never do. You Remember my advice. Otherwise, not only will you lose everything, but you will also make everything your wife and son have come to nothing and become a laughing stock."

After throwing her handkerchief into Charles' face, Agnes turned and left.

"Remember my words, otherwise it won't be a slap in the face." (~^~)