[Gotham] She's from Gotham

【eleven】

"Oswald, before I met you, I was going to be a hermit."

Jade goes to see him backstage before the inauguration.

"what?"

He suddenly understood.

"You spoke Chinese."

"Ah..." Yu also realized it.

"Hermit... just... don't want to go out, are you autistic?"

"Are you autistic?" Oswald was taken aback for a moment.

"Ah... I can't explain it either. Anyway, I just go to a place where no one knows me because I'm annoying to see everyone... Do I speak Chinese again?"

"Yu, maybe you try to change your tone to be less blunt, so that you don't realize that you suddenly spoke Chinese—"

"But it's normal for me to have an accent. Forget it, it doesn't matter. Maybe I lecture too much and some words are understood by students, so I don't realize what I'm saying."

Yu waved his hand and brought up another topic.

"Before you told me that it was funny that you became the hero of Gotham, and I actually thought it was funny too."

"...Really." His expression was strange.

"Yes." Jade nodded. "This world is inherently dark, and it's the same everywhere. But some people just like to deceive themselves and others to make bad things good, as if they still live in a very good and just world, how ridiculous it is."

"...bad?" Oswald looked at her.

"Yu, do you think I—"

"I've seen too many kinds of people."

She interrupted him.

"We all know how the world works, but there is always someone who wants to put on a gorgeous disguise... Oswald, we all know that the world is dark, but I just don't bother with hypocrisy. As for you, how about you?" It's not hypocritical."

"what."

He gave a dry laugh.

"Isn't that hypocritical? Humanity and desire are those things, and I'm just a serious criminal."

"Professional criminals are better than well-dressed beasts. Real villains and hypocrites, I still prefer the former."

"Jade……"

"Okay, I know I speak Chinese." She stood up.

"So anyway... you dragged me back into this annoying world, sir. You're responsible."

"……I will."

The inaugural speech did not go well.The Red Hood gang rushed and fired randomly, completely disrupting the situation.

Yu under the stage and Oswald on the stage looked at each other in a hurry, and then lost contact.

One month, two months.

Oswald talked nonsense on the TV show, and his image was completely destroyed.

Therefore, the approval rate has been falling all the way.

In fact, they are not supporting him.

Yu thought.

What they supported was just an imaginary savior. They didn't dare to be the savior themselves, but they fell on Oswald by mistake.

The reason why he fell from the altar was simply because he did not belong to the position of "Guang Zhengwei".

Oswald Copper is a real villain who doesn't bother to hide his ambition and evil, not a hypocrite.

But the real villain and the hypocrite, Yu still prefers the former.

【twelve】

Oswald is no longer mayor.

The criminal license thing is out again.

Yu couldn't help yawning when he was talking about how perfect and excellent his ideas were across the long table.

"..."

Oswald was momentarily embarrassed.

"Is it too boring?"

"Really." Yu dragged her chin with one hand.

"Your idea is really interesting, but I'm really not interested."

"Then—" He smiled nervously for no reason. "—Is there anything interesting about you lately?"

"Me?" She thought for a while.

"By the way, next Wednesday will be my first class as a professor... If you're free, I'll reserve a seat for you in the last row of the auditorium?"

"Take... class?" He froze for a moment.

"Actually, there are many people who will come to see you. No one will know who you are, or whether it's because of the witchcraft disaster of the Han Dynasty that I mentioned."

"Witch Gu?"

"It's just a villain cursing you to die early... I almost died laughing when I was preparing for the lesson, but I almost cried when I saw it at the end. The relationship is the least important for the big things. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che used to like Queen Wei so much. In the end, it still drove her to death..."

Yu suddenly stopped. When she said these things, her thinking was very active, and her speech speed was always very fast.But Oswald looked at her so seriously, and kept every sentence in his heart so seriously.

She was flustered by those blue eyes.

"Anyway... it's a story about the supremacy of imperial power."

She added.

"Yu, I'll go."

But as soon as the words were spoken, Oswald suddenly became very scary.

What we care about makes us vulnerable.

He said this when he stabbed a small obstacle to death a long time ago.

What about now?

What does he care about.

The bait is always in front of him, that mixed contradiction, desolate and pyrotechnic.

But the one who was willing to fall into it was himself.

He pursed his lips tightly, and the hand holding the black umbrella was trembling.

【Thirteen】

Before the class started, the classroom was almost full of people.

Except for the last row near the corner of the rear door, it has been empty.

Just when Yu thought that Oswald couldn't come because of something, he appeared.

Looking at each other, everything is still going on.

But her lecture speed stopped, and when she turned to write on the blackboard, there was a hint of a smile on the corner of her mouth.

Oswald looked at the woman on the podium, with a slender waist and soft features.

She still spoke straight English, not without ups and downs, but it was hard to hear her emotions.

He turned on the phone, and the sniper said it was in place.

His hand holding the umbrella was shaking badly.

Until the end of the get out of class, the students poured out of the classroom, and the remaining few Heyu were still discussing the problem.

She finally pulled out to look for him, but saw a strange look on his face.

"What's wrong?" She pressed the back of her hand to his forehead.

"I don't have a fever. It's been too cold recently, do you want me to cook hot noodle soup?"

He suddenly regretted it.

"No, it's nothing." He waved his hand and left the classroom with her one after the other.

When passing the corner of the corridor, Oswald subconsciously glanced at the sniper's position.And Yu also noticed.

"Then what—"

"No, it's nothing." He suddenly grabbed her wrist, making her turn around.

She frowned vigorously.

"Oswald?"

"I……"

The phone rang.

He withdrew his hand and pressed the button hard, his breath was unstable and he was shaking violently.

He regretted it.

Yes, sorry.

Oswald revoked the order and finally let out a sigh of relief.

And Yu glanced at the place he had just looked at.

The sniper stood up, his scope reflecting.

The smile froze suddenly.

"Oswald." She looked at him expressionlessly.

"Did something happen?"

"What?" He raised his head in a panic and stuffed the phone back into his pocket.

"No, no, nothing. You're... fine today."

"oh, I see."

Yu smiled, the corners of his mouth raised, his eyes remained unchanged.

"You too."

Then turned away.

No questioning, no goodbye, no more words.

Yin Rongyu knows how the world works, knows that everything is black, knows that there are only two kinds of people in the world, and knows that emotions are not greater than power after all.

But she was still disappointed.

Maybe I should be a passive true hermit.

Jade rubbed her eyes.

If you don't make trouble, don't cause trouble.

Everyone sweeps the snow in front of their own door, and takes care of the frost on other people's tiles.

But at the beginning, she actually thought that someone would be different.

Maybe I'm wrong.

she thinks.

"Miss Yin, our boss invites you—"

"roll."

Go home and open the door.

There are people I don't want to see.

So Yu slammed the door and left.

She hid from him for half a year, and he looked for her for half a year.

In fact, she didn't hide it, but her refusal attitude was indeed too firm.

Then I didn't know who gave up again.

I heard that he killed His Excellency Falcone, that he entered Arkham again, that he betrayed his relatives, that he made a comeback.

"Miss Yin, our boss invites you—"

"……roll."

She didn't lift her head, only the rustling sound of the pen tip on the paper.

So Victor closed the door and left.

The sound of writing suddenly stopped.

Then came the sniffling sound.

The writing sounded again—interrupted by the ringing of the telephone.

"Ruyu."

"……how."

"Business is not doing well recently."

"...What is he doing against you?" She suddenly realized something.

"He's using business backwards to force me—"

"He can't hold on for too long, and it's easy for anyone to step down if given a step."

The voice suddenly shrill.

"But he wanted to kill me before!"

"But you're still alive."

There was silence for a while.

"And he later regretted it."

"Are you speaking for yourself, Mr. Yin?" She sneered.

"That's right, you really regret it. But it's true that you all wanted to kill me. He knows what Oswald did, and you're not too old to remember, right? Liu Che is willing to Absolute power is forcing your wife and children to death, but I think you can do better—”

"—then do you want me to watch your brother die—"

"—Then you will stab me with your own hands!"

silence.

So she hung up the phone in mutual silence.

In the evening, Yu took the initiative to find Oswald.

As soon as they met, he stood up excitedly and walked towards her.

"Yu, I'm sorry for my previous behavior—"

A loud slap.

Oswald looked at her in shock.And she just forced a loaded gun into his hand.

"If you want to kill me, why don't you do it yourself."

She looked at him lightly.

"Oswald, you are not a real villain. To say you are a hypocrite is an insult to the word hypocrisy."