Roses for Rosalind

"My dear lady." Viscount Capulet knocked lightly on the door, opened the door and walked into the room: "Are you asleep?"

"Not yet, mylord. 1" The body is obviously very tired, but the mind is not sleepy at all.Mrs. Capulet sat up against the head of the bed and ran her fingers through her hair to make herself look more presentable: "What happened?"

"The Earl of Paris just came to propose to me to Juliet." The Viscount got straight to the point without hesitation: "I think this is a good idea, what do you think?"

Mrs. Capulet was silent for a while: "Why are you dragging her into the church in such a hurry?" There was no special emotion in her voice: "Give her a little more time, Tybalt just happened to be like this." She needs time to calm down."

"But we have no time to waste on useless tears." The Viscount continued without pausing.Just like he had already imagined what Mrs. Capulet would say before coming here, and prepared the corresponding answer: "Time waits for no one—and I believe that Paris will soon be able to appease her unstable mood."

"but……"

"Of course I didn't do it entirely for the sake of the family. You can't deny that the Earl of Paris himself is a good marriage partner: noble birth, young and handsome, and he has proved his sincerity well, can't you? Viscount Capulet knew what she wanted to say: "I'm afraid that if I refuse him again, he will change his mind."

"I don't think he's such a fickle man."

"We must not take any chances on the couple's oath. Because Jupiter 2 may be secretly laughing at the weakness of this oath in the sky." Viscount Capulet continued to persuade: "Now we desperately need another powerful person. Support, and Earl Paris himself is also a rare good choice, this is a good idea to kill two birds with one stone, isn't it?"

"...Well, I admit that what you said is indeed very reasonable, mylord." Mrs. Capulet was finally moved by his persuasion.

"Yes, then what are we waiting for? I think we should strike while the iron is hot and take action immediately." Viscount Capulet interjected: "I think, as a parent, I should boldly take charge of my children's rights I still have it, and I think she will obey my will, won't she? So, my dear lady, you can go and see her when she gets up tomorrow morning, and woo the Earl of Paris to her Tell her what I mean; then tell her what I mean, and tell her to get ready to be a happy bride."

Lady Capulet nodded in agreement.Satisfied, the Viscount helped her to lie down, and tucked her quilt thoughtfully. "Okay, let's rest early, ma'am." He touched Madam Capulet's cheek: "You have worked hard these days."

However, what he didn't expect was that this incident caused an uproar in Capulet's house the next day.

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"What did you say?" Mrs. Capulet almost suspected that she had misheard.She tried to grab the armrest of the chair, pointing her pointed and thin fingernails tremblingly at Juliet: "Say it again?"

"By the name of St. Peter's Church and St. Peter, I will never let Paris marry me as his happy bride." Juliet raised her neck stubbornly: "I already have a beloved lover, if I must Marry, I only want to marry that one person." 3

"who is it!?"

Juliet bit her lower lip, and stubbornly raised her head higher: "Benvolio." Her body was tense, like a fully drawn bow. "It's Benvolio."

"What did you say? How dare you? How dare you!" Mrs. Capulet screamed and was about to fall back. The nurse rushed up to support her: "Benvolio, Benvolio!" Capulet Mrs. Wright's eyes were dark and her chest was aching. She felt that she had difficulty breathing, so she had to rely on the nanny to gasp for air: "You actually! And the murderer who hurt your cousin!"

"It's not Benvolio's fault." This was the first time Juliet spoke to her so forcefully: "Mother, please tell my father that I don't want to get married yet; I would rather marry Benvolio, whom you hate, than Paris."

"I won't! Tell your father yourself!" screamed Lady Capulet. "Go and fetch the Viscount, and see if he will listen to you!"

Viscount Capulet quickly rushed over under the notice of the servants. "Why did you make such a fuss?" He looked in surprise at the madam who was furious and the daughter who was timid but did not back down: "Why is Juliet crying?" He looked at the tears on his daughter's face in surprise: "Why? Madame , didn't you tell her our idea?"

"I told her! But she said thank you, she doesn't want to marry! She... I can't say the next thing, you ask her yourself!"

"Oh, don't be angry." Viscount Capulet patted his wife on the back to comfort her. "What's the matter, my dear Juliet?" he turned to Juliet. "Isn't it a great blessing to have such a noble gentleman ask to be your bridegroom? What can you not be satisfied with?"

"I..." Juliet, who has hardly resisted since she was a child, grabbed the corner of her clothes in fear: "Father, I don't like Paris, and I don't like it. You can't force me to marry someone I don't like. , but I appreciate your kindness in loving me." 4

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Viscount Capulet frowned: "Your mother hated you, so we kept you at home for two more years, and now a woman of your age in Verona Which of the children has become a happy mother? Didn't they and their husbands have a deep relationship before marriage?"

Seeing that this reason was unable to convince her father, Juliet took a deep breath: "I...I fell in love with Benvolio of the Montague family. I don't want to marry anyone but him."

"What!?" Viscount Capulet gasped, causing a new round of confusion.

"Come on! Send someone to Anderson's house to call Rosaline!" Viscount Capulet yelled angrily in the confusion: "She is usually so close to Juliet, so it's impossible for her to be ignorant of this matter!"

When Rosie arrived, the Capulet house was already in disarray.The soft-backed chair was overturned on its side, next to the fragments of a broken vase.Viscount Capulet was throwing a tantrum at Juliet in the middle of the room. Lady Capulet and the nanny stood by, screaming in terror from time to time, but they dared not come up to stop him.

"Shameless girl, bastard!" Viscount Capulet slapped Juliet hard on the face: "Listen to me, you must go to St. Peter's Church on Thursday to marry Paris; if you don't If you are willing, I will lock you in a wooden cage, and I will drag you away!" 5

"Father!" Juliet covered her face in shock, it was the first time her father hit her.She didn't dare to resist, so she knelt down on the ground and begged bitterly: "Father, I kneel down and beg you, please listen to me patiently!"

"I won't listen! You damn little bitch! Unfilial bastard!" Viscount Capulet pointed at Juliet's nose and cursed: "I tell you, if you don't go to church obediently for me on Thursday, from now on you Just don’t see me again. Don’t speak, don’t answer me, my fingers are still itchy—Madame, we often complain about our poor fortune and only have this one child; but now I know that it’s this One is already too many! We are so unfortunate that we have this injustice!" 6

"Mylord!" screamed Mrs. Capulet and hugged her husband, preventing him from moving any further. "How can you say that about her!"

Rosie took the opportunity to rush up and help Juliet up.

"Why can't I?!" Viscount Capulet threw his wife away. "You, yes, and you." Viscount Capulet's anger at its peak did not diminish in the slightest, and he turned his suspicious and angry eyes to Rosie: "You already knew that, didn't you?"

"You and my daughter are so close on weekdays, you can't be completely unaware, can you?"

Facing the furious Viscount Capulet, Rosie flinched subconsciously.However, in the blink of an eye, she suddenly calmed down.She shielded Juliet behind her and looked up at Viscount Capulet.

"No," she said, "I don't know."

Sensing Juliet's surprise behind her, she squeezed Juliet's hand quietly, signaling her to believe in herself.Rosie looked up at Viscount Capulet's suspicious eyes, and said calmly, "How could Juliet let me know about this kind of thing?"

In the original book, Juliet was closely monitored after this episode, and Paris took her to the church to discuss the wedding with the priest to discuss the plan of feigning death.But after that, because of a mistake in information transmission, her lover would drink the really poisonous drug in front of her "corpse", which led to the tragedy.

Since she has no way to stop the development of the plot, then, rather than passively accepting the plot, at least she can take a step ahead of the plot and firmly control the extent and direction of the plot development in the palm of her hand.She can personally deliver the news for the two, and she can find reliable medicine in person, so that perhaps the tragedy of Juliet and Benvolio's death in love will not happen.