[Famous Books] Desire for control and arrogance

Alice was concentrating on eating, until she heard the sudden silence around her, she didn't think something was wrong, she looked up and saw a barely familiar person in the distance - Aldrich Campbell.

Alice told herself countless times that she could bear any look in the face of her old friend, but when she saw Aldrich's face clearly, Alice's brain still felt as if it had been hit with a hammer.

That made her very sad, and she didn't want to be more sad, so she lowered her head slightly in panic and fear, and shifted the focus of her eyes to other places.

Wait, Aldrich's shoes, Aldrich's hem, why are they like that?

Alice bit her lip, and a sense of unwillingness suddenly overflowed her chest.

She couldn't believe it. Compared with the only time they met, Aldrich was dressed more solemnly at this moment. Why? !

He went to propose to her that day!How can you dress worse than usual?

Doesn't she deserve the grandest and most exquisite attire of the suitor?

Didn't he mean to marry her at that time? !

Alice is so angry!

It's one thing for her not to want to marry, but it's another thing to be rejected by others. She can't believe that someone can ignore her beauty at first sight, and reject her on purpose from the beginning.

No wonder when she finished her sarcasm at that time, he could smile and leave without hesitation.

The dissatisfaction in Alice's heart far outweighed the embarrassment of seeing an old friend when she was in despair, so when she learned that she was called out by Aldrich to speak alone, not only did she not show any embarrassment, but her eyes were burning like a torch, Aldrich When I first saw it, I was taken aback.

Alice stared at him for a few seconds, and became even more mad.

She didn't expect to see more details on Aldrich after she got closer.

This guy Aldridge is actually more delicate in detail than he looks from a distance, his clothes still have dark lines, and many places are entangled with gold threads and fine gemstones. The first time I saw it, it was darker and more shiny. It seemed natural and casual, and it was obviously taken care of with great effort.

Alice, a person who has studied beauty and clothing in depth, of course can clearly see at a glance that Aldridge's attire is superb at the moment.

She was angry again, even more angry.

Although she didn't like meeting those suitors very much at that time, every time she went there, she dressed up carefully, and Aldridge dared to perfunctory her!

If it was still her previous status, Alice would have turned her head and left as soon as she finished watching, leaving him with an indifferent back. Unfortunately, the situation made people bow their heads. In reality, Alice lowered her head silently, waiting for him to speak and taunt her.

He should be able to ridicule her, who doesn't like to ridicule those who used to speak ill of themselves in public?Even if you don't say it so gloatingly, you will definitely say it in a weird way.

At the moment, Alice doesn't like anything about Aldrich, and always treats Aldrich as a villain.

Surprisingly, Aldrich did not mock her, he asked gently: "What's your name?"

Alice looked up in shock.

Don't recognize her?impossible.She didn't believe that he was blind. She still looks so good now, it's impossible for him not to recognize her.

Could it be that he is really a kind person, kindly pretending not to know her down and out?

Alice was stunned for a second, and said, "Alice."

Aldrich raised the corners of his pretty lips and sighed slowly: "Alice, what a nice name. How long have you been here?"

He even said her name, it's impossible that he didn't have an impression of her.

Alice didn't want to have in-depth contact with him, so when he even asked a few questions, she answered him as briefly as possible.

"Don't you like talking to me?" He sensed it sensitively, and asked gently without getting angry.

She secretly took a deep breath and lowered her head: "No, Your Majesty, it is my honor to speak with you."

"It's okay, I like to hear people tell the truth, you can tell it directly." He reminded lightly, and asked again as if chatting, "When I just entered, I saw many people looking at you. It seems that although you have just arrived here , but you have gained a lot of popularity, how can you make so many people like you in a short period of time? Do you have any good ideas?"

Alice didn't want to chat with him, she looked at the shadows of the two people on the ground, and directly said that there was no possibility of further topics: "I don't understand either, maybe I'm better-looking, many people will always talk about me because of my appearance. Look at me."

Aldrich stopped talking, and he didn't speak for a long time. She slightly raised her eyebrows and looked at him, and found that he was staring at her in a daze, expressionless, and didn't know what he was thinking.

He quickly realized that she sneaked a glance at him, hooked the corner of her mouth, he smiled lightly, and said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I listened to what you said, and I also looked at you carefully, you are indeed very good-looking, no wonder Attractive." He sighed again, apologizing, "I'm sorry, it took a long time to be in a daze, and it's a bit offensive to stare at you for so long."

His words and demeanor were elegant and polite. Although Alice didn't know what he wanted, at least the two of them were getting on well, so she said politely, "It's okay."

"Can we go for a walk together?" he suggested.

He stared at her deeply, his too gentle eyes seemed a little sentimental.It is a great honor for a king to invite a woman to accompany her.

Alice has been favored since she was a child, and she has a good adaptability to this kind of gaze, and she will not indulge in it. She will only think about the motives of Aldrich's every word and every action.

Alice, who had never understood what the king wanted to do, seemed to understand something from this invitation.

It's not that it seems like, it's for sure. After all, I've been talking to her for so long, and I still want to take her for a walk, and look at her with ecstasy. It should be interesting to her.

But she didn't want to have an affair with an acquaintance who knew her details, and she didn't want to play some small games of pretending to reacquaint with Aldridge when she was down and out.

So she took a step back and said directly: "I'm sorry, it's almost time to get off work. I have been in the palace for almost 12 hours. I have something to do at home and I want to go home quickly, and I haven't finished eating. It's a bit uncomfortable..."

"Then next time," he asked calmly, not in a hurry, "for example, tomorrow is okay? It doesn't take up your time to go home and rest, or your time to eat, just take time out of your 12 hours. Take a walk together."

Alice nodded perfunctorily.Whatever he wanted, she was fine without working.

"Then you go to eat." Maybe he saw that she really lacked interest in talking to him, and it was meaningless to continue, so he let her go.

Alice saluted, and retreated quickly, without any hesitation, and to some extent seemed to avoid him like a snake.

When she entered the kitchen and closed the door, she had to take a look at him, and found that before he met her eyes, his face seemed to be angry and depressed.

All the maids in the house looked at Alice together when they were waiting for Alice to enter the door. Alice pretended not to see her, and went back to her seat and continued to eat quickly. Facing the questions from others, she only pretended to be tired and said: " Sorry, I have to go back quickly, let me eat first."

She quickly stuffed meat into her mouth, and soon after seven o'clock, she wiped her mouth and left directly, leaving get off work strictly on time.

Bill was waiting for her outside the palace gate. He had a dark face and looked in a bad mood.

He also had this expression when he sent her into the palace this morning. Although his face seemed to be darker now, it didn't rule out that the more he thought about it, the more depressed he became. Alice didn't care, and didn't even ask.

The two walked for a while in silence, far away from the palace. He took Alice to an empty corner of the street, couldn't help it, and said gloomily: "You enter the palace today, there is no woman to pursue you, right? Just now, when I saw several women leaving the palace, they kept staring at you, and there was something wrong with their eyes..."

"I don't know about them." Alice didn't want to talk too much, and she was perfunctory with Aldrich, but when it came to Bill, it was not perfunctory, and she refused to chat directly.

Seeing her like this, Bill demanded directly, "You must promise me not to mess around with these women."

"If you have time to worry about them, you might as well worry about the next king." Alice felt that she had not been in the palace for a long time, so she directly communicated with Bill, "Today he asked me to talk alone."

"Promise me first." He was still stubborn.

"No, shouldn't you be more worried about men? Especially rich and powerful men like your king?" Alice said speechlessly.

"Take care of them one by one. You first promise me not to have affairs with these women." He insisted, insisting to the point of urgency.

Alice didn't want to agree to his boring and unnecessary questions, and directly threw out something she thought would be enough to attract his attention: "Bill, you should really focus on the king, he is very funny today, Pretend not to know me, and I suspect your good king may want to seduce me as a mistress, so it is most convenient to pretend not to know me."

Bill: "..."