"Maggie, why haven't you seen your brother come to you these days? Has he left the capital?"

After lunch class, Laqi asked suddenly at Maggie next to her while tidying up the books on the table.

"Ah--" Maggie was a little surprised and turned to look at Laqi and whispered in confusion: "He is still in the capital, why did you talk about this?"

Laqi chuckled softly with malicious intentions: "You are often absent-minded these days, so I'm wondering if it's related to your brother."

"Where is it?" Maggie said softly with a slightly red face: "It's just that she has been considering the arrangements for the college anniversary ceremony recently."

"Oh?" Laqi's long voice approached her little face and said, "Then why do you often suddenly smirk alone?"

"Laqi, you--"

As if his thoughts were exposed, Maggie was a little shocked and shy, staring at Laqi with her round eyes widened.

"Haha--" Laqi smiled proudly and said, "Is there any hidden secret between you and your brother? Otherwise, why is it so strange?"

"No." Maggie swayed in a panic, "It's just that I'm lonely studying in Wangdu. I never thought that someone would come to visit me, so I-"

"Is that true?" Laqi said with a smile and stared into Maggie's eyes.

Maggie lowered her head and whispered: "Really."

Laqi shook her head, patted Maggie's soft shoulder and said, "Okay, I won't tease you anymore, but I must tell me if you have any worries. Don't forget the people around you who care about them."

"Thank you, Laqi." Maggie raised her head and showed gratitude.

"Yo——"

Yaves raised his hand from the front row and greeted him, "What are you talking about?"

"It's not your business." When Raqi saw that it was Yaves, her face instantly snorted coldly and said, "It's very busy. If you have time to care about this place, it's better to think about your association."

Hearing the thorny in Raqi's words, Yaves looked a little unpleasant and said, "Raqi, I know I've been indifferent to you recently. I'll apologize first here-"

"Stop—" Raqi stretched out his hand to stop Yaves and said, "What does it mean to be cold? What does it have to do with me if you are cold or not? It seems that you don't need to apologize, right?"

"You!" Yaves frowned, his face tense, and his eyes looked at Laqi with anger and said, "Laqi, you're enough!"

"What do you mean? I think you're enough!" Laqi stood up, slapped his hands hard at the table and said in confrontation with Yaves.

The noise of the quarrels made classmates who had not left yet come forward to dissuade them. Although the people around him are not unfamiliar with the relationship between Raki and Yaves and often fight and fight, this time the situation seemed to be full of anger and the problem was a little big.

"Unreasonable!" Yaves, who was pulled apart by his classmates, shook his hand and left angrily.

"Raqi--" Maggie came to her senses in amazement just now, and pulled Raki, who was beside her, and said with a loss, "Are you okay?"

Laqi looked up at Maggie, and a tear slightly slashed across the corners of her eyes with a bitter smile.

Soon, Laqi wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and took a deep breath and said to her: "Don't worry, I'm fine."

How come this way is fine?

Maggie thought so in her heart, but she couldn't think of any words of comfort at this moment.

"Let's go, let's have lunch together."

Laqi left her seat and Maggie followed closely.

On the way.

"Raqi, are you and Yaves really okay?" Maggie said with some caution.

"Haha--" Laqi held up a smile and shook her head, "It's okay, you know that our tempers come quickly and we go quickly."

"But-" Maggie bit her thin lips and said, "Recently, you start quarreling less than three sentences every time. It's really abnormal. This is not like you used to."

Laqi stopped, put his hands on Maggie's shoulders, and said seriously: "Maggie, I know more about Yaves than anyone else. Although he looks a little impetuous on the surface, he is actually a man with strong self-esteem, whether it is his career or love."

Close your eyes and relieve your breath.

Opening his eyes, Laqi continued: "The ghost school he participated in was suddenly promoted to the backbone. He seemed to have received unprecedented attention and all his thoughts were placed there. I don't say anything about this, because it is worthy of praise for a man's efforts to work hard for a career, but that ghost school is a bullshit career! And most importantly, he also exposed his true attitude towards me because of that school."

"What's the attitude?" Maggie asked in a daze.

Because she had never seen Laqi look like this before.

Rude, serious.

"I said that Yaves is actually a man with strong self-esteem." Raqi gasped slightly and said: "I thought my relationship with him for more than ten years was enough to let him put down these things and treat me. He had been like this before that."

"So not now?" Maggie continued in confusion.

"Of course!" Laqi sneered unconsciously and said, "Actually, his self-esteem in his bones is unwilling to bow to women. Even for his lover who has been in love with for more than ten years, have you not noticed it recently? His patience with me is getting worse and worse, and he leaves angrily after less than a few words."

"It seems like this." Maggie shrank down a little and looked at the terrible expression that rarely appeared in Laqi and said carefully: "But Laqi, say less thorny words and encourage more comfort, maybe your relationship will improve."

"No!" Laqi turned around and snorted and said, "Isn't that what he wants? He just hopes that I am a obedient lover and that everything should be done according to his words. Should I lose my own self like this and let him knead it?"

"This-" Maggie covered her little mouth lightly, looking incredible.

"Maggie." Laqi shook her head, turned around and looked at her seriously and said seriously: "Women are not vassals of men, playthings. We must prove our value of living and freedom."

Maggie was silent with her head down. Raki's words had a great impact on her because she had never thought about this issue.

There is no shortage of outstanding women in Elderland's history, but very few, that is more like a distant legend and story.

But in fact, there are even fewer such women around you, or rather, none.

When such a woman appears, people will forget her female identity, as if they have lost the qualifications of a woman.

"Rachi, are you and Aves stalemate all the time?" Maggie looked up at her and said.

Laqi sighed and said, "Because I am also a woman with strong self-esteem. When someone lets go of that self-esteem between us, maybe we may be able to reconcile."

Maggie shook her head. She was different from these noble girls. She had different environmental conditions and her ideological values.

"Maggie, why not talk about your brother?"

Perhaps the atmosphere was too heavy, Raqi smiled again and quipped.

"He?"

Maggie's little hands were tangled and rubbing the hem of her clothes. She was hesitating whether to confess to Laqi.

When you share a secret from someone else, you will always want to repay the other person with a secret.

Because in this way, there will be no emotional relationship between the two.

"It doesn't matter if you don't want to say it." Seeing Maggie's appearance, Raki waved her hand and smiled.

"No-" Maggie clenched her fists and said with a red face: "I'm just thinking about where to start."

"Then start with when you meet." Laqi suggested with a smile.

"OK."

Maggie calmed down and her eyes floated to the clear and gentle sky and said slowly: "I remember that I was only in my teens that year. My father and mother and I lived in the town of Fokka. But one day, a disease suddenly appeared and infected many people. My father was one of them. The church staff and pharmacists who rushed to the town to treat were helpless. My mother knew that my grandfather might be able to treat my father, so she hurriedly wrote a letter to ask my grandfather for help, but my grandfather had been late after his father died."

"So you hate your grandpa?" Laqi interrupted.

"Yes." Maggie nodded and said in a low voice: "If Grandpa had arrived in time, maybe his father wouldn't have died."

"What does it have to do with your brother?" Laqi said in confusion.

"After my father's death, my mother and I were both sad. In order not to stay in this sad place, my mother sold all the things in the family. She wanted to take me back to my mother's family." The memories of the past seemed to arouse Maggie's sadness, and her voice was soft and choked: "On the way back with the caravan, a group of bandits suddenly appeared and killed everyone. When they wanted to defile my mother and I, Brother Xialan appeared."

Laqi sighed lightly, reached out to hold Maggie in her arms and stroked her gently. She had known Maggie for so long, and this was the first time she had heard about her past.

How heavy it was to look back on.

"What happened later?" Laqi whispered to Maggie with tears in the corner of her eyes.

"Later—" Maggie said excitedly at this time: "As soon as Brother Xia Lan appeared, he cut off the heads of a few bandits who were close to me and my mother. He was very fast and his sword was very fast. Then he killed the bandits in the blink of an eye. I even remember the cruel scenery of blood and corpses at that time."

"It seems that Little Maggie deeply admired your brother at that time, right?" Laqi chuckled and joked.

She needed to get Maggie out of her sad memories and would inevitably stir up other emotions.

"Yes." Maggie nodded embarrassedly and said in detail: "My mother and I were both frightened at that time. We even thought that Brother Xialan would kill us together, but he did not. Instead, he escorted us back to the town of Fka safely. Although he looked very cold, he was really a good person."

"He's very cold?" Raqi recalled the young man's face and said in confusion.

"Yes." Maggie looked at Laqi and nodded, "Yes, his eyes seemed to have lost their color at that time, and his whole body was as cold as if they had no feelings."

"But-" Laqi frowned slightly and said, "Why did it make people feel warm when I saw him last time?"

Hearing Raki's words, Maggie was embarrassed and said, "I don't know either. After all, we haven't seen each other for more than three years. Maybe something changed at that time."

"So that's it." Laqi nodded and said, "So you and your brother are not real brothers and sisters?"

"Yes." Maggie lowered her head and said shyly.

Laqi chuckled and said, "No wonder something was wrong last time."

"Rachie." Maggie grabbed her hand and begged, "Don't tell this."

"Don't worry." Laqi patted Laqi's little head and smiled: "After all, this is the secret between us."

After lunch, the breeze is cool.

"Maggie, you might as well invite your brother to come together for the anniversary celebration the day after tomorrow."

Walking on the neat stone road to stay, Raqi looked up at the sky and said suddenly.

"Why?" Laqi said inconsolably.

"Ha ha--"

Laqi laughed out of control and ran forward a few steps, turned around and looked at Maggie and teased, "Otherwise, how can you solve your thoughts for him in your heart!"

"Rachie!"

A scream of shame and anger rang out in the fresh and vibrant academy.

The girls had their own thoughts and were ignorantly pursuing unknown dreams.

Simplicity is a hymn, echoing in the academy of youth.

In the black vortex in the depths they still don't know yet, a stone will be cast by them.
Chapter completed!