goodbye my sweetheart

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Caroline was waiting for him in his study.

Seeing him coming back from the outside, she greeted him with a face full of joy, but stayed where she was, "A lot of... blood."

"Well." Klaus looked at her vigilant and worried face, and explained, "I didn't kill anyone, it's Katherine's blood."

"Huh? You caught her? Killed her?" Her eyes widened.

"She threw herself into the trap," he smiled and took her hand, "I didn't kill her, I just gave her some necessary punishment."

The word "punishment" made her nervous, she withdrew her hand, bit her nails, and was a little dazed, "What punishment? Is it cruel?"

"Yes, very cruel. But it has to be. I'm not teaching a kid to wash his hands before eating." Klaus looked at Caroline's eyes full of fear and doubt, and said lightly, "I want to teach her to be in awe, I am using her to warn those vampires who are eager to try and challenge me, I want them to know what absolute authority is."

"..." She looked at the scarlet blood on his clothes.

"You're a cheerleader, Caroline, you should know that it's hard to tame that group of adolescent rebellious girls with just candy and ice cream."

Caroline silently recalled that in the past, she used various small methods such as coercion, sweet talk, and verbal humiliation to "suppress" them.

Although she pretends to be very democratic on the surface, the truth is: she is the captain, and the team members must obey her, and they will be punished if they don't.

"You are the captain, you must work harder and do better than them. Otherwise—"

"If you don't pay attention, you will be squeezed down by them." Caroline said.

"Your——just a girl's game. The world of vampires is different. Vampires are a bunch of arrogant, arrogant people. They are above humans. They always like challenges. They always want to prove themselves. Those who win don't want the cheerleader, or the homecoming queen's crown, but authority, authority that no one dares to challenge and challenge." Klaus was a little helpless, but he was very firm, "They must be thoroughly deterred, otherwise they will Facing never-ending reprisals. I hate the endless defense of those little mice. Like Katherine, if the situation is reversed, I fall into her hands, do you think Katherine will let me go?"

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When Klaus said these words, the majesty exuding from his body made Caroline shiver a little, but it also attracted her to move closer to him. She was so safe in his arms, and she was overwhelmed by his strength, calmness and reason.Nestled in his arms, Caroline sighed, "So this is the world of vampires. I doubt I'll ever get used to it."

He took her hand and put it on the corner of his mouth to kiss, "Caroline, don't worry. I don't want you to become like me, but I can't help but pray that you can try to understand me, even if you only understand me a little bit." Bit."

"I will, I will try my best to understand you." Caroline hugged him tightly, "At least, I can guarantee that I will not force you to change anything."

He stared at her deeply. "You surprised me again. I thought you were going to ask me to be a nice guy like Stefan, the vegetarian pacifist."

"No, Klaus, you are you, he is him, you have been yourself for 1000 years, why should I change you? Change may be beautiful, but it is not voluntary. Change from the heart will be meaningless .”

He was relieved, he was extremely moved, and what he feared most was that she would ask him to change himself.He doesn't want to disappoint him, but he's been himself for 1000 years, and he can't guarantee that he's strong enough to stand up to those 1000 years of habit.

He held her tightly in his arms, like holding a treasure.A warm feeling rose in his heart.

Yes, as Katherine said, no one can be confident when it comes to love, but at this moment, he has confidence in the relationship between him and Caroline, and he has the confidence to pass all the tests with her.

He wanted her to be by his side forever, and he wanted to give her eternal life in the true sense.

A thought flashed through his mind.

He hugged her and asked, "Do you hate Katherine? She killed you."

Caroline frowned and thought about it carefully, "To be precise, I'm very angry with her! She killed me for no reason! She doesn't even know me yet! ——But I think I'm more afraid of her than hate, she's too Strong too cunning—"

Klaus smiled softly, she was afraid of even a small character like Katherine, his Caroline was too weak, he didn't want even Katherine to threaten her.

While Klaus was thinking about something silently.

Caroline's eyes lit up suddenly, and she said proudly, "Although Katherine is very cunning, I managed to deceive her! That time, I was the one who tricked her into the trap set by Stefan and the others."

Hearing what she said, Klaus suddenly felt bad. Should he be thankful that she knew how to use deception to protect herself, or should he be full of doubts and question her: would she lie to him?Like she lied to Katherine?

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Consciously or not, Klaus always told Caroline many things, whether he should say it or not, he said it all.

Perhaps, he didn't even notice that he was waiting for a result.

If Caroline was going to lie to him, he wished she'd started earlier - before he loved her more.

Caroline snuggled into Klaus' arms, quietly listening to him talk about family affairs.

Since she accepted Klaus from the bottom of her heart, she took his heart as her heart and his will as her will.

She heard him keep talking about Elijah and Rebecca, and she keenly noticed the regret in his tone.She found that he was always planning for a future sibling reunion rather than working on it now.

Caroline asked him: "You love them, don't you?"

Klaus sighed, "Of course, very much."

"But does your love include trust?" Caroline looked at him deeply, "Klaus, actually, you don't even trust me, do you? I don't blame you for being suspicious of me, I will win your trust. But , how I hope you can learn to trust the person you love, because only then will you feel a little more relaxed, and it will be much easier for you to get along with each other."

His heart beat heavily.

"You don't know about them, I'm just protecting myself from harm." Klaus avoided her eyes, brushing his hair a little panicked.

"Love always involves hurt." Caroline squatted at Klaus' feet, put her head on his lap, and said softly, "Klaus, let Rebecca go, and most importantly, let go of yourself. Elijah loves Rebecca like that You, you have been together for thousands of years, no matter what deep hatred you have, you are still a family whose blood is thicker than water, sit down and talk, there is nothing unclear."

"Let them go? I can't imagine how they will retaliate against me."

"No," Caroline said firmly, "You just need to apologize sincerely. You also have to give them a chance to accept the apology."

"However, I don't think I should apologize to them."

"You should have it, you must have it," Caroline said softly, "They love you, they don't guard against you, but you use their love and trust in you to hurt them and put them in a coffin .They should be angry."

"—Let me think about it." He hesitated, whether to tell her about the murder of his mother.

"Caroline, I'm very, very bad."

"I didn't regard you as an angel in the world."

He smiled, still not knowing what to do in his heart, hesitating for a while, but he still mustered up the courage to say, "I killed my mother."

"I know." Caroline said, "Do you think I never thought about killing my father? At that time he locked me in the cellar and tortured me with all kinds of torture..."

"But you didn't really do that. And I...I couldn't forgive myself. I locked her in a coffin and never dared to open it for 1000 years, because I couldn't face it."

"Then let her out and beg her forgiveness."

Klaus remained silent, although intellectually he didn't think Caroline's whimsical and simple method would work, but his sensibility was encouraged, he thought: Is it really that simple?

"Let them go." Caroline held his face, looked into his eyes seriously, and made a serious promise, "Klaus, please remember, I will face it with you."

He looked at her, he smiled softly, but sighed in his heart: Sweetheart, you don't know what you promised.

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