Operation Red Book

Chapter 462: Love

"Why should I fall in love with you? In this world, the only thing I can fall madly in love with is gold."

Ivy said this coldly, but it was genuine.

“But I’ve tried so hard!”

"What did you work on?"

Ivy frowned and tilted her head to ask.

"I... I kidnapped Joshua for you, built the dreamy Monet Manor for you, destroyed the mirror trap I carefully set for you, and even gave my own body for you..."

The more he spoke, the more discouraged he became. In the end, he slowly lowered his eyes and remained silent like a child who had made a mistake.

"It seems that all I did was not for you, but for myself..."

Like a monkey in the mountains who suddenly came to his senses, he stared at the hideous black lines on his arm in amazement, and withdrew his hand as if he had been electrocuted.

"Cough cough..."

Ivy turned around and coughed. When she looked at the tall and thin figure again, there was less coldness and more relief in her eyes.

Cold-blooded and brutal monsters are often unaware of their own cruelty and ruthlessness, but once they are touched by human emotions, they will be irreversibly trapped in them.

Ivy knew that she could win the negotiation even without the cross and holy water.

"I wanted to say from the beginning that you are different since we first met."

Ivy's voice was light and soft, and Lord Leon had never heard her speak like that before.

This surprised him a little: "You like me like this?"

"Who doesn't like gentle people? Whether it's men or women, old or young, birds or beasts, or even elves and creatures, no one will force themselves to have a good impression of someone when they just meet."

"You like freedom, but don't others like freedom? Do others have to sacrifice their freedom for your revenge? This doesn't make sense..."

Ivy shook her head and spoke softly.

"Love is not something that happens overnight. It is nurtured through long-term companionship and companionship."

"I've read your story. It's tragic. I get it. I understand... Until now you still think you've done nothing wrong. If you don't kill them, they will kill you at some point. It's a matter of you pushing me."

"I cannot judge this matter with the perspective and thinking of two thousand years later, nor do I want to put pressure on you with those unreasonable arguments, but after so many encounters, I have only determined one universally recognized fact."

Ivy looked into Lord Leon's sad eyes and slowly held his cold hands.

"You don't know how to love, and you have never been loved. Maybe you have been loved before, but you have never realized it, let alone felt it."

"So you don't know how to love me. You don't love me, but you stubbornly demand that I must love you. Sorry, I can't do it."

Lord Leon looked at Ivy's eyes filled with tenderness and patience and remained silent for a long time.

After a long silence, he said:

"Joshua once said this to me."

Ivy was a little surprised: "During this period, you have been getting along very well, right?"

"He kept on nagging, as if he had some reasons of his own. When I didn't want to listen to his nonsense, I would decisively turn around and leave, and then drive the water to sweep him away, making him disappear from my consciousness."

At this point, Ivy and Lord Leon laughed together.

"I spent countless nights with him. He told me a lot of things, about you, about him, about the people around him, about those strange books and stories..."

"The most talked about thing was the strange world called the 21st century. He said that everyone there held an apple in their hands and looked at it all day long without eating or drinking. Even now I still find it very strange..."

"Although he is ugly and his physical fitness is poor... he is a good person and has a good heart."

Lord Leon pretended to be proud when evaluating Joshua, but for some reason, he wanted to slander Joshua maliciously in front of Ivy, but the last word he said was just "not bad".

"In fact..." Ivy looked at the injured little lion in front of her who was always unwilling to lower his noble head, and her eyes turned unconsciously again and again, "I think the same as you."

"Around me, there are many people who love me, many people who like me, many people who hate me, and many people who envy me, which leads to some of my unspeakable problems."

“Frivolous, arrogant, ignorant, fearless, rude… I took it for granted that the light of the world should shine on me alone, but I forgot that those people I looked down upon also had unexpected surprises and beauty.”

"Joshua is like this. To me, he is just an ordinary classmate. He is introverted, weak, unsociable and has strange behavior..."

"He stutters and can't even finish a sentence. He's so obedient and obedient, yet he always likes to refute this and that... In my opinion, his stupid head is not as smart as the buffalo plowing the fields!"

"You scold him much more harshly than I do." Lord Leon muttered quietly.

"But." Ivy changed the subject, her tone and eyes became much gentler, "I don't want him to leave me."

The sun rose and shone through the gaps between the leaves onto the dead leaves at the roots of the trees, casting dense spots.

Lord Leon didn't like the sun, so he took a few steps back, leaving Ivy alone standing in the warm and comfortable sunshine.

Half of Ivy's face was illuminated by the dazzling sunlight, and Lord Leon saw her beautiful dark brown pupils, like a handful of brown moon sand, scattered by the wind on the flat and open mountain plain.

"Joshua is my friend, my partner and my classmate. We accompany each other, trust each other and cherish each other."

Ivy stood there, letting the sunlight scatter from above her head and letting the breeze in the forest blow away her tears.

"If I had to choose, my finger would point straight to Joshua without any hesitation."

"Because he supports me, protects me, likes me, respects me, and most importantly, he will choose me without any hesitation and firmly, just like me..."

A drop of colorless and tasteless tear flowed down, sliding down the smile lines on Ivy's face and falling.

All of this is illuminated by the sunlight, like an oil painting hidden deep in an ancient castle, and that castle is called Leon.

His Adam's apple moved up and down, and his long golden eyelashes fluttered like a butterfly.

The layers of halos from the falling sunlight enveloped Ivy's smile, and from a distance, it looked as beautiful as golden sand.

He seemed to understand something.

"Is this love?" he asked uncertainly.

"Just barely." Ivy said cheerfully, with her hands behind her back.

"he loves you."

"If you think so..."

"Then do you love him?" Lord Leon looked at Ivy seriously and asked.

Ivy paused, then opened her mouth, hesitant but firm:

"I love him."