Spades was quiet for a moment then said, “I don’t understand.”
Bai Liu curled his lips lazily and smiled. He seemed to find Spades’ appearance amusing, so he answered: “What don’t you understand?”
“I don’t understand why you only hate me.” Spades answered honestly.
Bai Liu withdrew from his arms and sat across from him. He raised his hand to support his chin with a kind of drowsiness in his eyes. He said with a half-smile, “You ripped out my heart and made me lose a very important game. You also killed the most important person to me, isn’t that enough for me to hate you?”
A drop of wine dripped from the tip of Spades’ hair, and he breathed calmly: “You have had many enemies. Every one of your current teammates has hurt you, and you don’t hate them.”
“You don’t hate a person for simply winning or losing a game.”
“And I didn’t kill anyone.” Spades looked directly into Bai Liu’s eyes, “I just killed the monster whose heart you hid.”
“I’m not the only player trying to destroy this monster. People around you, your teammates, have all tried to kill this monster.”
Bai Liu turned around coldly: “But you were the only one who succeeded.”
“No, I didn’t succeed.” Spades stared at him, “My intuition tells me that this monster’s heart is still alive because of you.”He paused: “I thought you killed it after you got out of the game.”
Bai Liu’s breathing became very light, his eyes suddenly unfocused, and the fingers of his right hand twitched slightly.
“No.”
“…It committed suicide.”
“So you can’t blame me for its death.” Spades looked at Bai Liu, “I am no different from the players around you.”
His lips pursed into a straight line: “But you don’t hate Tang Erda, you don’t hate anyone in your team, and you don’t hate Alex, who was hostile to you before.”
There was a visible confusion on Spades’ face: “Why do you only hate me?”
Bai Liu looked away: “——Don’t make it sound like you know me well, this is only the third time we have met——”
After saying that, he stood up to leave. Spades stretched out his hand and grasped Bai Liu’s wrist tightly. He looked at Bai Liu with a keen eye, and there was an imperceptible depression in his tone:
“——Why do you target me in such a special way?”
Bai Liu’s hanging eyelashes fluttered, and his index finger moved involuntarily with alcohol sliding down on the back of his hand.
“Answer me, Bai Liu.” Spades’ eyes were like a dark bunch of thorns growing, enveloping Bai Liu in layers, ensuring he spat out the heartfelt answer that was hidden beneath the tangle of spikes, “-what is it about me that is different for you.”
But before Bai Liu opened his mouth to answer Spades, a huge noise from the door of the tavern broke their stalemate in this small corner.
Deafening whistles and some sharp salutes came from the door, accompanied from time to time by some surprising, unbelievable laughter and teasing.
Bai Liu quickly withdrew his hand: “There is a game event coming, let’s deal with it first.”
“You haven’t answered me yet.” Spades had no expression on his face. He stood stubbornly in front of Bai Liu and looked directly at him, “Why?”
Bai Liu took a deep breath, raised his head and sneered: “I just hate you. There is no reason. You don’t need a reason to hate someone. Can you understand this?” ℞ã𐌽ՕBƐS̈
Spades was silent for about ten seconds. He didn’t say yes or no, nor did he get out of the way. He just stood there and said ‘oh’.
“You got your answer.” Bai Liu looked up at Spades, “Can you get out of the way?”
For the first time, Spade averted his eyes in front of Bai Liu. He lowered his head and raised the whip hanging next to his knees, as if he was going to hit a non-existent enemy: “…How long are you going to hate me for?”
The Judge had told him that hatred without reason has a time limit, so he wanted to ask.
Bai Liu was quiet for a while, his shoulders sank as if relaxed, and he said softly: “——”
The moment he spoke, the sound of huge champagne bottles being opened one after another drowned out the sound of Bai Liu’s answer.
Spades only saw Bai Liu looking at him with a smile and saying a few words amidst the roar and cheers of the huge crowd, but he couldn’t make out what those words were.
Then the colorful wedding bouquets fell down one after another and covered their heads.
Spades frowned and approached Bai Liu and asked, “I didn’t hear what you just said.”
“Forget it.” Bai Liu smiled, brushed Spades’ shoulder and ran forward.
Spades looked back after Bai Liu and saw Guy wearing a wedding dress and a snow-white veil in the crowd, holding fireworks, and Alex standing opposite Guy, who looked completely dumbfounded.
The surrounding soldiers formed a friendly circle. They raised their hands in the air, beat the rhythm with their feet, and hummed an out-of-tune wedding march.
Guy knelt down amidst the cheers. He held a bouquet high to Alex, who had a blank expression, and smiled brightly: “Alex, please forgive me for secretly planning this wedding without telling you.”
“I hope this is a surprise for you rather than a shock.” Guy joked humorously, gently, with a layer of tears in his eyes, “Hey, although I’m dressed a little weird, you shouldn’t have this expression, right?”
As if he had just come to his senses, Alex knelt down stiffly, tremblingly, and with a red face, he hugged Guy who was wearing a wedding dress, tightly. His tears couldn’t help but roll down. His voice was hoarse and he could only repeat several words meaninglessly.
“God, God, God!”
Guy stroked the back of Alex’s head, his eyes flushed. He couldn’t help laughing, and his tone became softer: “Maybe I can interpret your reaction as if you are willing to marry me?”
Alex cried almost convulsively: “Guy! I love you Guy!”
Guy helped the crying Alex up. They did not ask a priest to marry them – the current priest was still praying for the dead soldiers in the military medical camp, so they took an oath of marriage together under the witness of everyone.
Besides, their wedding was not blessed by God.
These soldiers, who had not seen a happy event for a long time, were so excited that Guy’s wedding dress was almost trampled to pieces by these rude soldiers.
Even if this is an absurd and secular wedding, on the eve of the war, there is no more comforting scene than seeing two lovers hugging each other and kissing with tears in their eyes.
It doesn’t matter whether the protagonist of this picture is a man or a woman. What matters is that they are alive and they love each other.
God may not bless them, but God has never blessed anyone here.
The crowd was noisy, and in the corner, Spades looked at Tang Erda expressionlessly.
Tang Erda: “…”
Bai Liu accompanied Guy to deal with those matters, and then handed Spades to Tang Erda, asking Tang Erda to help look after the half-drunk number one player.
Actually, although Bai Liu said that Spades was drunk, he didn’t look very drunk, although…
Spades asked one word at a time: “What is marriage?”
Tang Erda racked his brains and answered: “It is a ceremony that when people reach a certain age, in order to be with the person they like forever, they introduce each other to other people and comply with legal procedures.”
Spades was quiet for a while, seeming to digest, and then asked again: “What is a certain age?”
Tang Erda held his forehead in pain. He had already answered Spades’ countless questions – this man didn’t cry or make a fuss after drinking, but he had a lot of questions.
And he was very persistent. If you don’t answer, he will use various methods to get you to answer.
Tang Erda sighed: “Probably more than 20 for women and over 30 for men?”
Spades looked at him from the side: “How old are you?”
Tang Erda was startled: “Thirty-five or six.”
Spades made a sound and asked: “Then why don’t you get married? Is it because you don’t have a partner?”
Tang Erda, who was shot once, said: “…The situation is a bit complicated.”
Spades asked: “The person you like doesn’t exist?”
Tang Erda, who was shot twice, said: “…”
Seeing that Tang Erda didn’t answer, Spades continued, “The person you like is married to someone else?”
Tang Erda, who had been shot three times, said: “…”
Seeing that Tang Erda didn’t fight back, Spades continued to speculate: “The person you like…”
“Okay.” Tang Erda took a long, long sigh, “I’ll tell you.”
Spades will keep guessing when he can’t get his answer, and this person doesn’t know why, but he can always guess the most miserable answer with his strange intuition. Until now, Tang Erda has answered Spades’ questions to the point where he is numb from the holes Spades has put in him.
Tang Erda took a big sip of wine and looked at the empty wine glass in a daze: “The person I like… he likes me, but he has left.”
When Spades got the answer, he was quiet for a while, and then suddenly asked: “Will Bai Liu hate the person who marries him?”
“?!?” Tang Erda was confused by the jumping nature of Spades’ question, but since Spades’ questions had always been jumping around, he thought hard for a moment and tentatively gave an answer, “There should be…… no way?”
“Everyone… generally likes their marriage partner.”
Although it was hard for Tang Erda to imagine someone Bai Liu would marry.
Tang Erda remembered that he had seen in Murphy’s Magic Mirror that Bai Liu had fallen in love with someone when he was young, but that person had long been tortured to death in the orphanage. It could only be regarded as a premature love of the great devil Bai Liu that ended in nothing.
Spades’ whip on his knees shook. He sat up straight, let out a heavy ooh, and nodded seriously.
Tang Erda was confused: “???”
What is this look of having found the answer?
Alex hugged Guy’s shoulders and cried, then laughed again. This young man who had previously advised Bai Liu and Spades not to drink, clutched a bottle and drank passionately with all those who came to congratulate him. Less than ten or five minutes later, he lay drunkenly on Guy’s shoulder, just saying ‘I love you’.
This unorthodox, carnival-style wedding finally progressed to the last step – the bride throwing the bouquet.
“The person who receives it will be the next couple to get married!” Guy stood on the stage and supported Alex to throw the bouquet backwards. He counted down happily, “3-2-1-!”
A group of old men were very curious about the bouquets and rushed to grab it.
But the moment Guy threw the bouquet, a black whip was thrown out, and just like a flash, it hooked the bouquet and disappeared.
A group of soldiers who were trying to grab the bouquet: “!!!”
There it is again! Mysterious Eastern Kung Fu!
Spades took the bouquet into his arms and held it up in a dignified manner with Guy’s wedding veil, which had been stolen from him at some point, tilted on his head, exactly like Guy’s proposal just now. The scene was imitated without any attempt at originality.
Spades then knelt down upright and raised a bouquet to Bai Liu who had been forcibly pulled over by him.
Bai Liu looked at this man with no emotion on his face, without any movement.
Spades, who had his proposal script interrupted by Bai Liu’s unilateral non-cooperation, paused and recalled the opening lines of Guy’s proposal: “Hey, although I’m dressed a little strange, you shouldn’t have this expression, right??”
Bai Liu: “…”
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