[Titanic + Comprehensive] Annie

"Annie?"

Seeing that the little girl was just staring at him blankly, Karl was a little surprised, this is... scared out of his wits by being kidnapped?

"Ah!" The cheeks of Annie who came to her senses quickly turned bright red.

----Looking into a man's eyes, or something, such a shameful thing is definitely not my doing!

But it's strange, seeing Karl so many times, this time my heart beat faster than when I didn't dare to face him at home last time!

With a light cough, Annie warned her beating heart: This is your good friend, good friend, sidekick, understand?Stop jumping around!

Originally, he was surprised by Anne's reaction, but when he saw the blush on the girl's face, Carl was taken aback, and then felt a little uncomfortable.

Annie is the most beloved little sister of a good friend, and his relationship with the little girl has always been very natural and pleasant.When he went to Robert's house to apologize, he felt that the girl was evasive to him and didn't even look at him, as if it was different from before.

After more than two weeks, he didn't see the little girl on several occasions where he might have met her. At that time, Carl understood that the little girl might be avoiding suspicion or feeling embarrassed. shy?

He pretended not to notice Anne's red cheeks that could be fried, and pretended to be natural, walked to the sofa opposite the girl and sat down, "I really didn't expect to see you on the boat."

"Oh! I didn't expect that I would be here." Annie smiled at Carl awkwardly, and then shifted her gaze a little to study the texture on the sofa he was sitting on.

Sure enough, I still can't look directly at my good friend!

Ahhh!How could this embarrassing feeling be swollen?She can't keep looking away, can she? !

In fact, the little girl's shy and dodging appearance is really cute!

It feels very "real".

After turning around and ordering the servants to bring Annie fragrant milk tea and small cakes, and looking at Annie's apple-like face, which was still red, Karl felt that it was a little strange!Although Annie blushed and blushed several times in front of him, it was all because of embarrassment. This was the first time that Annie blushed because she realized the relationship with the opposite sex!

"Cough!" With a light cough, Karl decided to start the topic by himself, and it was impossible to count on the shy little girl.

"I received a telegram from the steward before. Robert has found that you are missing and is looking for you everywhere, but I didn't know you were on the boat at that time."

Annie fixed her eyes on the extremely delicious cake, but her ears were pricked up listening to Carl's words.

The man's voice, which was a little lazier than before, inexplicably added a little magnetism. The topic was his own concern, but the mellow and seductive voice, which was as intoxicating as top red wine, attracted Annie's attention even more at this time. The voice of the same person, just Because I pay more attention to him than usual, have his characteristics been infinitely magnified?

Annie rubbed her ears uncomfortably, stretched out her hand to pick up the milk tea and took a sip slowly--when she was nervous or overwhelmed, she always liked to eat or drink to cover up. At the end, she didn't dare to leave the delicate little cake to glance at the man who made her feel abnormal.

Seeing the little girl's expression of being attracted by the pastries, who clearly cared about the content of the conversation, Karl's gloomy mood gradually improved after waking up --- it seemed that he saw each other when he was in a bad mood. This girl will have a magical calming effect in front of her eyes!

He looked at the girl with a red face facing him with a half smile, and continued in a slow tone: "Davidson just sent a telegram to tell Robert that you are here, so that he and your sister won't worry too much."

"Although you haven't received a reply from Robert, you don't have to worry. Even if he doesn't have time to pick you up in Queenstown tomorrow, I will accompany you to wait for him in Queenstown.

Hearing the last sentence, Annie ignored her shyness and awkwardness, raised her head to look at Carl in surprise, and asked in surprise, "Are you going to accompany me to wait for my brother in Queenstown?" Are you not going back to the United States?

"Well," Carl smiled lightly at Anne, and pointed to his injured forehead, "My head is very uncomfortable, so I'll get off the boat to see a doctor by the way."

Suddenly, like a spring breeze overnight, thousands of pear trees bloom...

Mr. Capitalist's faint smile gave Annie a knowing blow!The blood tank is instantly emptied!

Emma!Blood tonic...blood tonic...System, do you sell blood tonic?

Annie felt that the aftereffects of being knocked out seemed to be still there, and she was dizzy, but she remembered the correct explanation of a word again - "a smile".

She has been reviewing her Chinese knowledge today. Could it be that the Chinese teacher finally couldn't bear the English teacher taking his job and decided to come out and regain his authority?

This... what the hell is going on here?

It’s not the first time I’ve seen Carl’s smile. In the past, Carl’s smile was always shrewd and arrogant. Annie also admitted that her good friend’s appearance is very handsome and charming, but before that, she regarded him as her brother. , the two can laugh and curse, although occasionally she also noticed that she was quite in tune with Mr. Capitalist, but she had never felt the attraction of this young brown-haired man as intensively as today. What's wrong?

(→_→) Could it be that Carl with his swollen forehead looks extra attractive?

After staring at Carl's smiling face for a while, Annie found her voice: "Then what about your business in the United States?" Isn't it necessary to rush back to deal with things? "And Rose, I heard from Davidson that she smashed your forehead?" The engagement has been broken, so why are you involved with this woman again? "Will it not affect your arrangements if you disembark at Queenstown?"

Annie didn't know why, she clearly wanted the handsome and charming man in front of her to disembark with her, but before she even said a word, he offered to follow her, which made the girl who had thought of various reasons quite frightened. I couldn't believe it, and I kept asking to make sure it was true?

When Carl heard Rose's name, Carl's eyes were darkened for a moment, and the corners of his lips curled up into a smile, and he said relaxedly, "It seems that we have to terminate the contract with her."

Annie, who was hit with a knowing smile again, felt dizzy and dizzy, and her head seemed to be a little insufficient, "Co-contract?"

Had Ka, Ka, Karl ever laughed so much before?

"Well, for my father's request, I hired Miss Bukett to play my fiancée a while ago, but at this time, at that time, health is always more important, and the boat ticket is just like I send her and her mother to America. Let’s go, and then find someone to play my fiancée.”

Anne felt that since meeting Carl, things seemed to have been going in a very strange direction: what the hell is the heart beating so fast?What the hell is playing fiancee?

"Oh, the body is indeed very important." Annie didn't know how to respond, so she had to say embarrassingly.

"I'm going to disembark tomorrow, do you want to hang out on the boat at night?"

"Okay!" Anne was very happy to have the opportunity to witness this famous luxury ship that became popular all over the world because of a movie a hundred years later.

It’s not good to lower your head and stare at the table even if you raised your head. Besides, it’s basic politeness to look at people talking, so Anne had to bite the bullet and look directly at Carl’s handsome face that made her feel so handsome today, and discussed the Titanic with him. What are the places to visit.

"It's late at night, shall we visit the library first?" At least the room is brighter.

"Okay, I'll go to the library after dinner, and it's a walk to digest." Carl agreed with Anne's arrangement with a smile, his brown eyes were shining brightly, and he was blushing as he watched bravely overcome his shyness , looking at his girl, "Do you have any preference for books? Do you want to borrow a few and go back to your room to read?" However, it may be difficult to find children's books on the ship--this sentence, Carl, who is more tactful than ever, Swallowed it in the stomach, and did not say it to increase the little girl's predicament.

Annie scratched her face, feeling a little embarrassed about her favorite books: "All I read are novels and stories, not professional books, but it's good to borrow a book and go back to the room at night to pass the time." After thinking about it, I was a little curious Ask: "Do you like to read books?"

"Well, I will read some when I have time, but most of them are about finance and economics."

Anne's mind quickly came up with the appearance of her brother's study room. No wonder she and Robert were friends. The books on the bookshelves of these two people must be similar.

Different interests, how to chat? ╮(╯_╰)╭

Seeing Annie's expression of "that kind of book is so ugly, I really don't understand why you can read it", Carl laughed, "Little girls should read some light books, just pick the ones you like, no need Caring what other people read."

Well, it’s the same as what Robert said, Annie is very satisfied that her good friend didn’t persuade herself not to read or look down on herself because the books she read were not good enough.

"Speaking of which, in addition to the library, I also suggest you to try the Turkish bath. You have experienced an adventure, and you may feel a little uncomfortable. Go to the warm room to relax and let the high-temperature steam help you sweat, and then Then let the masseur give you a massage, and you may sleep better tonight."

"You don't need to get up too early tomorrow morning. We won't arrive in Queenstown until noon. You should rest well and don't force yourself to visit the whole Titanic. Anyway, there will be a chance to take a boat in the future, so don't rush it. "

After arranging the itinerary, the two chatted casually, and made an appointment to have dinner together in the restaurant of the first-class cabin in the evening, Anne bid farewell to Carl.

In addition to feeling tired, she felt that Karl also needed to take a break. After all, they didn’t have dinner in the cabin, and they would have to spend some energy to deal with other people’s curiosity (Karl’s head injury, being kidnapped), so she had enough rest. Spirit is necessary.

"Alright, I'll pick you up at night. If you need something, you can find me or Davidson." Carl nodded slightly, and got up to send Annie out. He was going to take Annie back to her room, but Annie insisted on refusing, so he had to leave. One step, only sent to the door of his own room.

"Well, I see. If your head is still uncomfortable, please ask the doctor to come over and have a look. You don't have to go to the lobby for dinner, and it doesn't matter if you eat in the room."

Annie looked at Carl's forehead with some concern. She was so uncomfortable that she had to disembark for medical treatment. If it didn't work out, she should stay in the room and rest!

Carl received Anne's concern, and felt the warmth flowing through his body again.

His mother is the duke's youngest daughter, so she can't take care of children, let alone Mrs. Hockley herself is a girl who hasn't grown up, living her own love dream wholeheartedly, putting old Hockley first in everything , When the dream of love was shattered, although she had hesitated, she finally left little Karl and went to pursue her next love.

Old Hockley is a big man who doesn't know how to take care of children, besides, he is busy with his career and hooking up with other women. The time he can spend on Karl is only when he is cultivating heirs, but at this time he is strict and cruel. It's too late, how can there be extra time to care for a little boy who left his mother?

The younger brothers and sisters are enemies with only half blood relationship, and they will only fight openly and secretly with Karl. Even if he shows concern for Karl, Karl has to think about whether these people are about to have some kind of moth again?

When he saw Annie and her sister Lily at the racetrack for the first time, he was attracted by the friendship between their sisters. After becoming friends with Annie, he also loved this little girl as his own sister.After Annie was kidnapped this time, he clearly noticed that the little girl's dependence on him had increased significantly. Presumably this incident frightened her, and she subconsciously sought a sense of security from acquaintances.

Smiling and rubbing Annie's hair, Carl endured the strange feeling in his heart, and smiled with a sigh: "I see, I am already this old, and I understand my physical condition very well, and I will never force myself."

So, Anne asked Karl to stay, and under his watch, a person walked slowly back to the room not far away.As soon as he got back to the bedroom, he threw himself on the bed, and at the same time covered his eyes with the back of his hand--Carl, was it like this before?always feel something different...

After all, what is different?

☆、Chapter 48 Rebirth

After watching Annie safely return to his room, Carl sent Davidson and the servants away, restrained his facial expression and turned back to the bedroom, and put himself into the soft and comfortable bed, and happened to be in the same position as Annie— ---Cover your eyes with the back of your hand, and close your eyes tiredly.

What exactly is going on?

Was it Satan's evil joke or did he really crawl back from hell?

A person whose head has been crushed by a gun will never survive, right?

He deeply remembered that in 1931, the day of his birthday was also the day when the Hockley family declared bankruptcy. He had always looked down on the poor poor who were struggling to survive. How could he allow himself to fall into the same situation as those people?

When I think of myself and a group of people wearing cheap clothes, sweating profusely, competing for rough labor, living in a dirty and desolate slum, the daily survival goal is satisfied as long as I have a bite of food

----He would rather kill himself with a gun, at least he can die dressed decently.

Carl, who declared bankruptcy, had grown more hair on his temples in just a few months than in the past ten years. He sat quietly in the study all afternoon, as if he had thought about many things, but he seemed not to think about anything at all. In the evening when the setting sun was red, he took out a pistol from the drawer, and ended his unlovely life as he wished.

boom!

He still remembered the painful feeling when the bullet hit his head. In fact, at that moment, he also felt relaxed and relieved at the same time, right?

He was fed up with this life of being alone and wearing a proud mask all the time!

Finally... everything can finally end!

When he lost consciousness, he only thought about whether in his next life, there would be someone who loved me, cared about me, and accompanied me...

However, is a person who has given up his own life still eligible to have an afterlife?

Then, he woke up again in excruciating pain.

It's unbelievable! ! !

Is modern medicine so advanced?Can people with brains blooming be saved?

Reluctantly turned his neck and looked around, Carl's heart was full of turbulent waves!

He is familiar with the layout of this room!

For several years, this was the place where he most frequently appeared in his nightmares!

After seeing a psychiatrist for a long time, I barely let the dreams and past events continue to trouble me, but the sequelae of not liking boating remained.

Is this another nightmare?

Do the dead also dream?

Why does my head still hurt so much in my dream? ----He fainted from the pain.

In a coma, he relived his youthful experiences.

This is a very strange feeling, he played two roles, one he was the young Carl Hockley in the dream, he dealt with the various events that he had experienced, and relived his feelings for these people An emotional view of things; one he is like a bystander, watching with cold eyes.

The experience in the dream came to an abrupt end after Carl was knocked unconscious on the boat, and everything was exactly the same as his original memory - except for Robert's house.

It turns out that my friendship with Rob Hank Robert can be so good? !

When he first came to the UK, among all the people he knew, Carl admired Robert the most. Although he and Robert still kept in touch with each other by letter after returning to the United States, they had less and less contact with each other. On the one hand, it was true. Very busy, on the one hand, time and space are separated, no matter what kind of friends, without the opportunity to meet and contact directly, there will inevitably be a sense of strangeness, life circles do not overlap, the only thing that can be talked about is business, letters in black and white, Finally, it gradually became formulaic.

In the past, he never found out that Robert would go around to inquire about dessert shops for his sister, and he didn't insist on meeting with Robert in person to discuss various matters out of curiosity. Naturally, he would not ask Robert to go to the club for dinner because of his general friendship. , There will be no such deep friendship later.

Robert's red-haired sister had the impression that before she committed suicide, she had never been married, and she was a strange story in high society.

As for the blonde one...

Carl was thinking while having a pleasant conversation with the little blond girl in his memories.

oh!Yes!Robert seems to have two younger sisters, but the younger one is said to be missing?I never got it back.I haven't seen this little girl for nearly 20 years, so it's no wonder that I didn't have any impression of her at first.

But at the beginning, I only saw the little girl once at Robert's house, and I didn't have so many contacts at all.

Carl stared at himself and the blonde girl who were talking in the clothing store with a soft gaze that he didn't realize.

This girl was different from any woman he had ever seen before!Maybe it's because her family has a good environment, so she doesn't look at him with the kind of greed and desire that Karl usually sees; Under the protection of the girl, the girl is quite soft and caring, her personality is not strong, but she has her own ideas and opinions.

Carl was in a very happy mood after interacting with the girl a few times. He could feel that no matter he was young or old, he liked this little girl who blushed very much.

Re-experiencing the memories of his youth in his dream, what surprised Carl was the relationship between Robert and the little girl named Anne, and the marriage contract between him and that bitch that was shattered earlier.

Carl is a little confused, because this memory is obviously different from what he has experienced. Maybe he has forgotten many things about his youth, but the shame brought to him by that bitch Rose will never be forgotten in his life.

What is going on with this different memory?

When he opened his eyes again, Davidson came back with the ship's doctor.

----It is another place that is different from what I have experienced before!

On that wrecked ship full of nightmares, I didn't see a doctor on board.

"Mr. Hockley is all right. He just needs to rest for a while."

Carl nodded to the doctor, and asked Davidson to follow the doctor to get the ointment, while he leaned against the head of the bed, stroking the lump on his forehead, trying to clarify the strange situation.

The year was 1912, a rather dark year in my 47-year life.

During this year, he came to England for the first time. Apart from visiting his mother, he also met a beautiful but maverick daughter of a down-and-out aristocrat.

He put his hope of forming a warm family on her, who knew that this thorny woman would bring him only quarreling and painful life and the humiliation of trampling on his heart!

This woman, Rose DeWitt Bukett, she and her mother ate his, used his, wore his, and helped pay off the Bukett family's huge debt, but never gave herself a little She has a good face, and even put on a cuckold for herself openly, and let her Pintou draw a nude painting for her and keep it in her safe. She has no shame at all!

I am so stupid that I will insist on getting engaged to this woman when there is no cure!

After being rescued, Carl also stopped thinking about finding someone to form a family with, because he felt that the women he met were no different from Rose, they all came for the Hockley family's money, and he didn't want his children to be with Rose. Like him, he grew up in a cold family, so it would be better to have no children from the beginning, and naturally there would be no need for Mrs. Hockley.

As for women, scoff!Use it when you need it, and don't put it in front of your eyes when you don't need it.

It has to be said that this approach caused him a lot of trouble, because the old Hockley had a reason not to hand over the family power to him.

After the sinking of the Titanic, the Hockley family suffered a serious blow-they bought too many shares of White Star Company. After the news of the sinking came out, those stocks became waste paper, and the property of the Hockley family Significantly shrunk.

In addition, people are very harsh on the men who survived the shipwreck, especially the first-class men. In order to restore his reputation and go to court to claim compensation from the White Star Company, he was really busy at that time.

However, those bastards born to old Hockley jumped out to make trouble for him at this time, trying to make him lose control of Hockley's house.

This time, old Hockley made a quick cut and gave those illegitimate children a sum of money, but they didn't have any equity at all, and announced that no one would even want money if the trouble continued.

But he also set restrictions on Karl, requiring Karl to marry the woman he was looking for, and give Karl 20% of the shares after marriage, and another 20% after giving birth to a son. After he dies, the rest will belong to Karl .

How good can old Hockley see women?

After meeting once, Karl has already seen her pursuit of material desires and ambitions that cannot be ignored from the woman's dress and eyes.

He procrastinates and procrastinates, unwilling to marry this woman.

"If you want to marry the Stone family, why don't you marry yourself? Anyway, your wife is also Mrs. Hockley!"

Carl remembered his taunts at old Hockley.

----And then old Hockley actually married that woman!

ha!He shouldn't have thought old Hockley had a damn thing about moral integrity.

This woman's methods are better than those illegitimate children and mistresses. At least Old Hockley said that those bastards are his own tempering stones, and mistresses are just playthings, but Karl has never figured out what this woman's role is.

But Carl doesn't care about these!

Old Hockley didn't give him the power of the company, so he went out to start his own business!Anyway, he had had enough of old Hockley's coercion of him.

Carl is not a dude who only knows how to eat, drink, and have fun. He has means and ability, not to mention the surname Hockley. Among them, they just descended from the top to the bottom. As long as they are given a little time, they will climb back to the top sooner or later. Therefore, no one dared to blatantly embarrass his fledgling company for a while.

It's just that old Hockley might really be an idiot, he actually listened to the woman's suggestion and invested a lot of money in the frothy stock market.

And myself, because I was the only son of old Hawkley, I had to bear a huge debt for my father, and I paid for everything I had worked so hard to get over the years, but I only paid back a small amount.

Old Hockley died of a heart attack, and the woman quietly left Hockley's house with a pile of jewelry and cash that Old Hockley bought her when the investment failed.

The home is gone, the career is gone, and the father he hates is gone. Carl doesn't know what else he has?

After being at a loss for a long time, he finally wore a suit that he was most satisfied with, and ended his penniless life the day before the mansion no longer belonged to him.

He didn't expect to return to this year full of dark memories as soon as he opened his eyes. He didn't want to come back and relive his lonely life full of all kinds of darkness!