Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 1293 Are you really willing?
Bai Ye suddenly felt a little bored.

She always thought that love was a boring thing, but it was not because she had never felt love, but because she had felt it too much. In the past, she had experienced the love from others in every memory of her life: when she was a daughter of the royal family, she was loved by her noble status; when she was a popular opera singer, she enjoyed the crazy love from the audience and admirers; even if she was just an ordinary daughter in an ordinary family, she could feel the love from her parents and brothers and sisters.

It seems that there is no lack of "love" in her life, but it is precisely because of this that she understands its falsehood and fragility. Whenever she meets their sincere and earnest eyes, and whenever she hears their caring voices, Bai Ye feels ironic. Although she knows that it is not their intention and no one can resist the power of the girl's royal power, she still can't help but wonder, do those people know that the object of their pampering, love, and care is just a ghost that lives in memory rather than in reality? Do they naturally have the qualifications to express love to another person just by virtue of their identity? But if that identity is just forged, then their love has lost its foundation, just like a high-rise building without a foundation, it will collapse one day.

Memories can be false, so love can be false; identities can be forged, so love can also be forged; the relationship between people is so fragile that perhaps one time you open your eyes and your life loses the person who was once extremely important to you, but you are unaware of it, as if she had never existed in your life, so that kind of love is also fragile and disappears into thin air.

After going through so many things, she would not say that love is ridiculous, but to her, it is at least very boring, just like playing with sand on the beach. No matter how tightly you hold on, those tiny things will eventually slip through your fingers one by one, and then only the sticky touch will be left. When you close your palms, you can feel that they are still there, and it hurts, but when you open your palms, you can't see anything. You are suspicious and uneasy all day long. Just thinking about such a thing is boring.

So, does the love between Lingge and Saint Shallia also have the same nature?
Bai Ye really wanted to give an affirmative answer, and could even find countless reasons, for example, he was a human being, and she was the young queen; for example, he was destined to be silent with time, while her soul was brand new after countless reincarnations; for example, he was from reality, and she only belonged to a beautiful dream... Bai Ye had seen that dream, but did not remember it.

But all of this is not enough to serve as decisive evidence to prove the girl's point of view.

Whenever she wanted to say that love is false, Lingge's serious face would come to mind; whenever she wanted to say that love is fragile, Saint Xia Liya's gentle call would echo in her ears; whenever she wanted to say what love is like, it seemed to be always broken by a fact, and now, he and she have taken the last step. Does this mean that in the face of love, identity, character, strength, life span, and even the illusory fate are powerless to stop it?

Bai Ye didn’t understand. She had never thought about loving, and she instinctively rejected being loved.

Perhaps the silly little Gloria would be happy to accept it. Her personality was born out of loneliness and self-isolation, so she naturally desires to be loved.

Although……

The thought in his mind was cut off before it even emerged. Bai Ye completely lost interest and returned to the consciousness space without saying a word, handing over the control of his body to Gloria. The latter did not expect her to do this suddenly, and took over the body without any psychological preparation. Suddenly, he felt a lot heavier physically and mentally, and subconsciously cried out "Ah".

It attracted everyone's attention in an instant.

Gloria blushed immediately. Facing the "what's wrong with you" looks from everyone, she subconsciously waved her hands and tried to find a topic to divert everyone's attention: "Well, it's nothing, I was just wondering what Ling Ge and Xiao Xia are doing now..."

Unexpectedly, after this sentence was uttered, everyone became even more silent.

I can understand your intention to find a topic to ease the awkwardness, but can you please not find such a sensitive topic?
"What else can they do? Of course they are in school." Ovilla, who was lying on the table, snorted twice, breaking the strange silence: "It's broad daylight now. Even if they are in love... ahem, passionate? That's not right! Are they in love? Oh, never mind. In short, they can't do that kind of thing."

"That kind of thing?"

Yieta blinked curiously, her eyes full of curiosity: "What's the matter?"

This sentence was even more shocking than Gloria's previous words, and everyone was speechless again.

After a long pause, seeing that Miss Angel's expression did not seem fake, Ovella asked incredulously: "Don't you know, Yieta?"

"Uh, should I know this?" The country girl from Saizeriya Field was a little panicked. Could it be that this was common knowledge, but she was the only one who was ignorant and knew nothing about it? But she really couldn't think of it. She only knew that something must have happened between Ling Ge and Sister Xiao Xia that made their relationship better. If they had a tacit understanding before, now they were in tune with each other. That kind of relationship made Miss Angel feel very beautiful, looking up to, envious and longing for it.

As for who he envied, Lingge or Saint Xia Liya, it was unknown, but probably both.

"this--"

Olvera and the others looked at each other, confused, not knowing how to explain it to her.

After a while, Alice suddenly shuddered, slowly straightened her back, and gave everyone a look that said "leave it to me". Then, under everyone's uneasy gaze, she called out Yieta's name, letting her eyes lock on her. Then, the genius player slowly raised the index finger of his left hand, and then slowly bent the thumb and index finger of his right hand to form a circle. Finally, with a serious look on his face, he extended his straight index finger towards the circle...

"Waaaaaaaa! Alice, you're so dirty! Stop it! Don't spread this kind of wrong knowledge to Yieta!"

Olvera screamed, her upper body almost falling on the table, and she hurriedly stood between Alice and Ieta, blocking the latter's sight and protecting the angel's pure heart from being tainted. As a disseminator of knowledge, Alice was dissatisfied: "What do you mean by wrong knowledge? This is obviously the simplest, most vivid and most vivid metaphor. If you think it's not okay, then find a more concise and clear explanation from your own library!"

"I mean no!" Olvera put her hands on her hips and firmly refused such behavior that would harm the physical and mental health of young people. Besides, was her library used for such things?
"You are hindering the spread of knowledge!"

"I am defending the morality of justice!"

"Tyranny opposes!"

"invalid objection!"

Seeing the two people arguing endlessly, Yieta couldn't help but tilt her head and think, what do the fingers and circles mean respectively?

Without relevant knowledge, such thinking is doomed to produce no results, and of course, the same goes for quarreling. So in the end, Olvera and Alice were tired of quarreling and sat down on their chairs to temporarily stop the fight. And Lorena, who had been watching silently from beginning to end, finally confirmed one thing when she saw this. She crossed her hands, held her chin, and swept her intriguing eyes over everyone present, and finally revealed a smile.

"I say," she whispered, her sweet voice like the whisper of a siren in a fairy tale, charming people, "Don't you feel... very unwilling?"

As if the freeze button had been pressed, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly stagnated.

It seemed like I heard something extraordinary.

Rorona seemed not to notice their vigilance and embarrassment, and continued to talk to herself, "I am somewhat unwilling to accept this, otherwise I would not be sitting here. Alas, when you see others' happiness, you first feel envious, and then jealous. This is actually human nature, and there is no need to blame yourself."

"I'm not envious!" Aoweila subconsciously retorted. Seeing that everyone was looking at her, she felt a little guilty and added hesitantly, "Of course, I'm not jealous either."

"Let's just take it as it is."

Rolena was still smiling. She was always like this, making it hard to tell what she was thinking. "But, no matter what, we have to take action. Otherwise, we will suffer in the future."

Avella's eyes flickered, and she was obviously a little moved, but at the same time she felt a little guilty: "...Isn't this a bit bad?"

"What's wrong with that?" Lorena asked back, "We're not going to do anything immoral."

Hey, isn’t what we are about to do something immoral?
In a play or novel, the jealous sisters would secretly plot to destroy the love between the kindhearted heroine and the handsome and upright hero. The final result would be that their plots would be in vain, and they would be exposed and cursed by the audience both inside and outside the play. Even in a fairy tale, such characters would not have a good ending - for example, Cinderella's stepmother and several vicious sisters.

Olvera is a super popular rising star writer (self-proclaimed) who started out writing fairy tales, so how could she not understand this truth?

Miss Alchemist has a different opinion on this.

"We are just fighting for our rights." Rolena's tone was full of confidence, making people want to believe her words: "Apart from the facts, even if Sister Xiaoxia and Lingge really became that kind of relationship, she can't always monopolize Lingge, because we also have our own needs."

After that, she looked at Princess Bemang and said bluntly: "Ovira, don't you always ask Lingge for some writing advice? Now the novel is not finished yet, and the creative ideas are often changing. Once you encounter problems in this area, don't you have to ask him for advice again? Can Sister Xiaoxia stop you for this?"

"Yes, yes..."

Avella's eyes were evasive, and she was obviously feeling guilty. After all, she didn't just need to rely on Lingge to discuss writing, there was another more important matter that she couldn't reveal to everyone, so it was better to keep it in her heart.

Rorona didn't notice her concealment and turned to look at the genius player: "Alice, don't you always ask Ling Ge to play games with you? Well, it's not a serious matter, but it's not a bad thing to have some fun occasionally. I think Sister Xia should be happy to see Ling Ge to relax."

"Well...it seems to make some sense."

Although she was dissatisfied with Rorona's comment that playing games was "not a serious matter", Alice still thought about it. She remembered the experience of Lingge playing games with her that night. Although playing games with two people was not as focused as playing alone, nor as lively as playing games with everyone, it felt... not bad.

"And you, little Letty."

Rorona looked at the little bat that was baring its teeth at her. She knew that her last use of her had caused a lot of dissatisfaction. But it didn't matter. She was an alchemist who was well versed in human nature and naturally knew the little bat's weaknesses - or where the flaws in her character were. "After being taught a lesson by Sister Xiaoxia last time, your plan to rely on Lingge to become an adult has come to nothing, right? Are you really planning to lose this game?"

Lose? Hearing this sensitive word, Leticia almost jumped out of her chair: "How could I lose!?"

Her strong character made her unwilling to admit defeat, although she didn't know what kind of competition Rorona was talking about. Well, maybe it was a competition with Shemi to see who could become an adult faster? "This time she took the initiative to help Metien and treat the wounded for the rebels. Although she was not the one who played a major role, the boss lady still praised her sister and thought that she had finally grown up after a long journey, which also brought some sense of crisis to Leticia.

If Xie Mi, who is always treated as a pet by everyone, is about to become an adult, what about me?

She couldn't allow herself to lose this game.

It must be like this! She used this reason to explain her sudden desire to win, because it was logically self-consistent. The little bat, who originally preferred to think with her fists instead of her brain, directly accepted this fact and stopped investigating it.

"And you, Yieta!"

Rolena pointed her finger at the next person, who turned out to be the bewildered Miss Angel. However, before she could give Yieta a wake-up call and arouse her competitive spirit, the latter shrank back and wrapped her body with her wings, revealing only an innocent little face. She said weakly, "Well, I don't need to do that, do I?"

Give me some meow