[Zongmeiying] Soul Mate

On the night of her 16th birthday, after the carnival party with her old friends, Elizabeth dragged her way home.

The opera "Turandot" was playing in the car speakers, and the moonlight shone on her fair face, adorning her light green eyes with starlight, and her slightly curly long hair was loosely scattered on her shoulders.

Elizabeth thought she needed a little private time to gather her thoughts, but unfortunately when she got home she was surprised to find that Grandpa was still up.

"Elizabeth, why are you back so late?"

Harry was sitting in an armchair by the fireplace, the butler not standing behind him as usual.

The old man had a dignified appearance and was dressed in elegant nightgown.Even though his hair is gray, it is not difficult to see traces of his once very handsome appearance from his face.

"At midnight on the first midnight of your official 16th, clues about your soul mate will be displayed on your wrist, remember?"

At the beginning of this month, they had a tacit agreement not to talk about this matter, but now it is finally time.

"Of course I remember this. I just want to tell you the result tomorrow." Elizabeth rolled her eyes, took off her windshield coat, and gently hugged the old man.

She sat on the armrest of the chair, leaned her head gently against his neck, and enjoyed a few minutes of warm silence before Elizabeth spoke.

"Actually, I don't know if I really want to have this lead... I mean, the odds of finding this person are so slim to know that the other half of my soul has drifted through history and never met me , it's painful."

Harry thought for a moment, then kissed her forehead lightly.

"Lisa, you have seen the happiness of someone who finds their soul mate, and the devastation of losing their soul mate... To be honest, I used to hate this line on my wrist. Reminding me in my life that a woman I would never know should have been my true love prevented me from loving my wife with all my heart in the first place."

"Even at this age, I can't say exactly whether the words that appear on the wrists of everyone in our family are a blessing or a curse, but since it will not be late and will not disappear, then we can only face it This is the way to go for it.”

"What I want you to know is, honey, you have to believe that your soul mate is the person in this world who most wishes you to be happy and safe. Whether you are lucky or not this time, you are worthy of the future Having love may not be the same as what a real soulmate can give you, but it is also real and true, and it is what your soulmate will want you to have."

"My luck has never been good, I can only hope that he will be a lucky man." Elizabeth gently rubbed Harry's shoulder.

Suddenly, she felt a slight itching and tingling on the inside of her left forearm, and she sat upright all of a sudden, her face blushing with excitement.

Harry's face became serious, and he urged in a low voice: "Go to the room, Elizabeth."

Elizabeth stood up stiffly, holding her left arm under the chiffon cover with her right hand. When she reached the corner of the stairs, she stopped and looked back at her grandfather helplessly.

Harry was watching her too, with the love and support in his eyes as he had every moment for all these years, and he said, "When you're ready, tell me, I'm here."

This made her feel better, Elizabeth took a deep breath, turned around and opened the door.

The soul mate thread is passed down the family to only one child -- each oldest male offspring.For women, unless she has no brothers when she reaches the age of 16, she will have clues. The previous generation who did not have clues will not pass this talent to the next generation, but I heard that they still have different clans scattered around the world In various places, these branches also carry the clues of the soul mate, which is unknown.

In family history, most of the clues about soul mates are vague, like some anagrams, but the owner of the clues will eventually realize who his soul mate is at some point in his life, just like somewhere in the dark. The pull of fate.

Interestingly, the clues of soul mates also appear to point to a very obvious situation. There is a pair who were lucky enough to be born in the same era and find each other's partners-that was already the time of Charles II.

Elizabeth sat down on the bed, feeling a tense spasm in her stomach.

After patiently waiting until the scorching heat finally disappeared, she let out a long breath, solemnly rolled up the left sleeve with her right hand, and raised her wrist to her eyes.

As if being punched in the face, the moment her eyes touched the line of writing on her wrist, she froze, and the blood on her cheeks quickly faded.

It was a line of sharp, bright red characters, deeply imprinted on her arm, it took up a small area, but it was resolute and irrefutable——

The treasure belonged to the eternal king of Mycenae.

A few words rang in her mind like a bell, Elizabeth's history was very good, and at this moment she clearly recalled-Mycenae was a civilization in the Bronze Age of ancient Greece.

By no means a history of peace and happiness.

A great king living at that time must be brave and good at fighting. The spear in his hand will pierce the body of the enemy in order to safeguard the dignity and interests of himself and the country. It is full of the loyalty and awe of the people.

What kind of face will this king have, handsome or ordinary?What kind of eyes will he have, focused and cold, or deep and majestic?She doesn't care about beauty, she has seen too many beautiful people, she is also a beauty, but she has never been proud of it.

But imagining what kind of person he would be, Elizabeth's heart still tightened in pain, because even if she vaguely saw his light through the barrier, she was destined to never be able to see his bright soul clearly.

Does her soul mate have a queen she loves deeply? Will her king think that he has a soul mate who will never meet again?

More than 3000 years separated them, and she wondered what a cruel gift fate had given her.

After a weekend of bewilderment, when she went to school again, Elizabeth decided to put this matter behind her temporarily. She was only 16 years old and had a long life ahead.

Although her parents had shown her the appearance of a soul mate when they were alive, and they certainly loved her, their relationship with each other was so close that the young Elizabeth thought that they actually existed in the same place. A planet with just the two of them.

And after her mother died in a car accident, her father's unhesitating act of killing himself in front of her finally proved her point in an extremely sad way, and it also made her hate everything about the whole soul mate thing for a long time.

But fortunately, her grandpa Harry's meticulous love and guidance made her come out. She no longer hated them. Regret and pain for a fairytale love.

Coincidentally, she was fascinated by ancient history and mythology. Perhaps this is another sad omen, but in any case, it is much better to never have it than to lose it after getting it.

"Good morning, Lisa," Morgana walked towards her excitedly, holding Arthur on her arm.

"You didn't go with us today, and you've been listless since you were late, what's wrong?" Arthur asked while trying hard to break free from the clutches of his twin sister.

"It's nothing, it's just the bad weather." Elizabeth pouted, trying to quickly skip all topics about her mood.

Morgana and Arthur are twins with very different hair colors, Arthur's blonde hair is as bright as the sun, while Morgana's hair, like Elizabeth's, is as black as night.

But they both have blue eyes, except that Morgana's is like an arctic ice field, and Arthur's is like a deep sea.They are Elizabeth's neighbors and the closest friends Elizabeth has made since she moved here. The three walked into the biology laboratory together, talking and laughing.

"Lisa!"

The girl who stood up suddenly to say hello was Carrie, from the class next door, who joined Elizabeth's class in Literary Appreciation and Biology.Two semesters ago, when Elizabeth had not transferred to Cleveland High School, Carrie had been bullied by girls in her class because she was an introverted and quiet girl, and they laughed and bullied her without fear.

And Elizabeth, a beautiful girl who was sent to report to the class by the principal of Cleveland, her grandfather's friend when she was young, no one dared to mess with her. After all, gossip in the school spread quickly, so she chose to protect Carrie. Since then they have become good friends.

Carrie did nothing wrong, and Elizabeth was happy to deal with the boring discrimination and insults for her. In fact, she always thought Carrie was beautiful, and perhaps it was this unconscious beauty that caused her jealousy.

What Elizabeth didn't know was that after standing in front of Carrie for the first time and mocking her partial teacher, she became Carrie's hero.

"Good morning, Carrie." Elizabeth and Philip, who greeted her excitedly, made a regretful expression—he was a member of the school rugby team and Elizabeth's physics class partner, who had been trying hard to ask her out.

Arthur laughed evilly: "I warned that kid for you, but it seems that he still needs you to give him a firm rejection." Arthur is the vice captain of the football team, which is very unusual at his age , Morgana sneered when she heard her younger brother's silly words, and stroked the end of her thick curly hair with her right hand.

Elizabeth and Carrie were seated in the front and rear with the twins.

The whole classroom was noisy discussing the upcoming holiday, and many people stopped to say hello to them when they passed by.Elizabeth decides to strike up a conversation with her friends before Philip wanders over to strike up a conversation, ignoring Arthur's warnings.

"The summer vacation will start next week. How are you going to spend this summer vacation?"

"I was just going to ask you, we are going to travel to England, and Arthur wants to find his friends." At this point, Morgana rolled her eyes sincerely. "Mom and Dad have jobs and compensated a large amount of travel expenses. Do you want to come together, Elizabeth?"

"No, I'm not in the mood. I'm going to wander around the country and go to small towns around Seattle to shoot forests—the Photographic Association sent me an invitation. Then maybe go to Harvard to visit my cousin, who and his friends are doing To start a business, I will not go back to my hometown of Brazil for the whole summer vacation.”

"Have you decided, Harvard?" Morgana asked with interest. "Ha, family tradition, do you still have your cousin working there?"

"No, he is a student, the son of my grandpa's younger sister. She is about 20 years younger than my grandpa, and not much older than my father. Our relationship has always been very good, but he is very busy recently. I don't want to disturb him too much. So maybe just two days there, and he's off to New York for an internship in the second half of the summer."

"Are you still planning to join the photography department? I thought you were only interested in history." Arthur calmly commented, "Harvard has nothing to say, but the small towns around Seattle are too backward, and it is difficult to find a decent one." Come to the hotel."

Whether food and housing are good or not is actually not what Elizabeth is worried about, but safety issues. Having a grandpa who is super protective has both advantages and disadvantages. Although he always supports Elizabeth's ideas, he will never allow Elizabeth to run alone beyond his reach where to go.

"Well, actually... you can go to Forks with me, a small town near Seattle, where there are forests and beaches. Maybe you don't remember, the cousin's house you contacted for me is there, their eldest daughter Angela is graduating this year and doesn't want to go on a family trip, so she invited me to be her company so her family can leave with peace of mind." At this, Carrie cut in suddenly, her blue eyes sparkling with anticipation.

"Oh, that sounds good." Elizabeth combed Carrie's beautiful golden hair and added points to the plan in her mind. She was tired of music festivals and summer parties, and maybe a quiet town could help her sort out her mood , and Grandpa knew Carrie too, he knew she was a good girl, he would be at ease.

"But, your mother?" Elizabeth suddenly remembered the thin and gloomy devout, who once tied Carrie at home like a dog, and pissed off the social worker and Elizabeth who came to look for her.

After seriously expressing to her that no matter whether Carrie is the "devil" she thinks, as long as she dares to do it again, Elizabeth will help Carrie hire a lawyer to cancel her guardianship, so that she can no longer "monitor the devil", And after finding the only distant relative for Carrie, she restrained a lot.

"As long as you're willing, she won't be our problem, Lisa, I assure you." Carrie lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes covering her eyes.