Chapter 646

"Don't think about marriage in such a scary way. The upper class focus on strong alliances, while the commoners focus on matching each other. Isn't that true?"

David said, then looked at her and laughed, "Child of the marriage, my son will be now the heir to the Cullen family,while your children are not to be considered, so it seems that I am the one who is at a advantage now. After ten years of leisure, when I return, there is still such a large business waiting for me to inherit."

He said it as if he was the one who got the benefit.

Alice looked at him with red eyes and said, "I'm asking you, do you want to get married? Do you want to?"

The expression on David's face froze for a moment. He turned to look at her, and a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes. After a long while, he leaned back against the chair and said, "Alice, don't blame yourself so much and feel so guilty towards me." 'How about this, I'll tell you one thing,and maybe you'll feel better." David said as he placed his hands on his lap and lowered his eyes to look at his fingers, "There was a time when I was greatly burdened, and the things that father arranged for me to do were always completed poorly. Father always scolded me, and always said that half of William's intelligence was fine, but that was the period when I was under the greatest pressure."

Alice listened quietly.

"That was when I met your brother."

Hearing him mention his own brother, Alice's body shivered. He had finally reached this part of the story.

However, why now?

"In the beginning, I only thought of him as a lively and cheerful little girl. He was like a pistachio fruit that intruded into my world. Whenever I felt depressed, he would always enlighten me and bring me happiness." David said, and then mentioned the person with his lips curled up slightly, "His paintings always have a bright color, which makes people feel comfortable looking at him."

Alice listened quietly, her eyes turning red from the wind.

"We are a bit younger, but I was attracted to him. That feeling was indescribable, like a huge magnetic field that made people unable to control themselves. This feeling is growing stronger and stronger. Therefore, when the day comes, I'll give him a letter and write, York, Big Brother likes you. When you grow up, I'll marry you, okay?"

Alice looked at him.

On the observation platform, David suddenly laughed bitterly and said, "He told me that your Chinese is bad; my name is not a beautiful jade; it has a golden character beside it, which means it is a Gold Hardening Jade, a name that only boys would use."

York, York.

The adamantine person, the precious gem, and the hard gold were indestructible. They had a strong will and were completely different from the jade characters that girls often named.

Hearing that, Alice shook and looked at David blankly.

"At that moment, I realized that my Chinese is really not good." David said with a wry smile, and an indescribable sorrow flashed past his eyes. "Back then, I was like a fool as I stood in front of him, and then, I left."

"You left?"

Alice asked in a daze.

"I've had a girlfriend since I was 16. I can't accept that. After I returned to England, I was scolded by my father once again. At that time, my pressure had already reached its limit, so I decided to bring forward the plan of faking my death that I had been preparing for this entire year."

"Is that all?"

Alice asked.

"At that time, I had already given up on answering York's phone calls, but one time, I accidentally picked up a phone call. He was really concerned about me, so I just casually said a few words. David said, "I thought that if this goes on, the relationship between him and I would slowly fade."

Usually, there would be a sad "but" here.

"But that little fool actually came to England to chase after me. I perfunctorily answered his time, and he asked for me, and William also asked for me, and that day was exactly that I was going to faked my death and escape." David said, his voice low and deep, "I cannot change the time. I have researched so much; the corpses have all been prepared; the degree of burning of cars has been calculated; even the weather's condition is calculated. I cannot change the time."

"Therefore, you still chose to feign death on that day."

Alice said, so William blamed himself for this matter for many years, and even committed self-mutilation.

David's plan affected two people.

"Yes." David nodded; his long eyelashes trembled slightly, "I thought that my death would be a matter of me alone. William will be fine after feeling sad for a while, as for York, who is younger, he will soon forget about me."

"Alice, I am such a selfish person, when the plan succeeds, you don't know how excited I am. I have never considered my father, my little brother, the butler and servants, and even more so, York." David paused for a moment before saying York's name, his voice trembling.

Alice looked at him, "This is where you said you feel sorry for York."

"After I succeeded in faking my death, I felt a sense of relief that I had not felt before. It was like a long time that had passed by leisurely." David said, then said, "Later on, on a coincidental occasion, I met York, and at that time, he just came out as a soldier, and a photo of him fell from his book, and it was mine."

Alice's eyes were extremely red.

"At that time, I ran away like a cowardly deserter, and he, he stayed in that place from day to night." David said as he looked at Alice, his eyes slowly turning red, "For an entire month, he went to that place every single day. I know that he was looking for me and he was waiting for me, but I really hoped that he would see me as an illusion."

As Alice sat there, she couldn't help but feel uncomfortable listening to her and said, "You're really a bit selfish."

"At that time, I knew that I owed him and that I had been protecting him in the dark for the past few years. I tried my best to protect him and no matter what he did, I always wanted to find a chance to explain everything clearly so that he wouldn't have to wait any longer."

"Did you?"

Alice asked.

David shook his head, blaming himself for closing his red eyes, "Until the plane crash, I had never been in front of him. When his corpse was retrieved, I was the first one to walk to his side."

After the plane crash, Alice thought of the suffocating feeling she had when she thought of it. That was the first and last mental connection she had with York.

"He put a book on him before the plane going down and I opened it. There was still a picture of me in it." David said, "Do you know what was written on the back of the photo? It's what I wrote on the note at the time in Chinese."

"York,I like you. I'll marry you when your brother grows up, okay?

"He tied the book to himself. I didn't understand why he did it at first, but then I did. Maybe he always knew I was watching him." York knew that he would be the first to walk in front of him, so she had to carry the book on his body even when he died.

Upon hearing this, she could no longer hold it in. Her tears flowed down as her voice trembled, "So, my little brother was waiting for you all the way to his death?"

He clearly knew that York was waiting for him, yet he did not reveal a single part of it.

Just like William, even though he knew how much William had endured because of his death, he was not willing to appear.

"I'm sorry, Alice." David closed his eyes, "Only now did I understand why father looked down on me so much back then. It was because I was a cowardly, useless, cowardly, selfish man.

Alice bit her lips, raising her hand to wipe her tears.

She had finally heard the story of her own brother, but why was this story so sad? She had even thought that David had run away in fear of death, or even thought that York had faked his death by accident.

She had never thought that this story would be like this.

Her good brother had been waiting for someone from his teens until he died.

David's eyes were also red; his eyes was covered by a layer of tears; his voice had become a little hoarse, "So Alice, please do not apologize to me. I am a person who can't do anything well.

At this moment, the two horses came back one after another. The red one had returned to the stable first.

"I've lost." David said to the servants below, "I bestow a set of jewelry to the winner; come to my room later for them."

"Thank you, young master."

David laughed with red eyes, "This horse runs really fast, the Cullen family is so vast, and it came back so quickly."

Alice could not bear to listen any longer, she stood up and walked down, tears flowing down her face.

"Alice!" David shouted from behind her, "I'm sorry!"

The voice was filled with guilt.

This apology shouldn't have been for her; it should have been for York, but York had never heard of it.

Alice ran back to her room and found William sitting on his bed barefooted. There was a pile of ancient books on his bed and he was wearing a pair of black framed glasses as he rummaged through the books.

Seeing him, Alice immediately turned her body, using her hands to rub her eyes, wiping her face, not wanting to make herself look like that she had just cried. William flipped through the books quickly. After flipping through one, he threw the book on the ground and started flipping through the second book.

Books were strewn all over the floor.

Alice walked over to look at him, "What are you doing?"

"Search for something!" William said coldly.

"Looking for what?"

Alice asked.

"Find a way to overturn the title of eldest son and seize the inheritance right."

William impatiently threw out the book in his hands.

Damn it, so many rules, so many rules, was there a precedent for a second son to inherit?

So annoying.

It's tiresome reading this kind of book.

Hearing that, Alice quietly looked at him, then bent down to pick up the book on the ground and organized it. She sat on the floor with her body leaning against the bed.