"But he is a good father, a competent father. When we make mistakes, he never uses sticks to educate us rudely like my classmate's father. Instead, he puts himself in the same position as us, patiently explains what we did wrong, why it is wrong, and teaches us how to solve it next time we encounter it."
"Most adults are very concerned about their reputation, even me, but my father is not. I remember when I was five years old, I asked my father why my family was so poor that we couldn't afford meat, but other students could eat meat every day."
"I still remember that he said to me apologetically, Zhiming, I'm sorry, this is Dad's fault, but I will work hard to make money so that my good son can eat meat every day."
"What a great father, isn't he? On the contrary, I am not a qualified father. I don't know why I didn't inherit this from my father."
005 continued to listen silently without saying anything, and had no intention of expressing any opinion.
"My mother is a traditional middle-aged woman. She likes to gossip with the neighbors, study recipes, and pull my sister and I out of bed by our ears with her cold hands whenever we have a day off."
"Her love for us is unconditional and wholehearted, but it is integrated into the trivialities of life."
"When I was very young, I didn't have money to eat at KFC. Western food was very expensive at that time."
"She would secretly save up her own money and take us to buy two burgers, then watch us eat with a satisfied look on her face."
"Later, when we became better off, we discovered that she actually liked to eat KFC."
"Her love seems trivial, but I know that if something serious happened that day, she would definitely stand up to protect us."
"And my sister, my dear sister."
Charles burst out laughing at this. "You know what? When we were very young, we slept in the same bed, but her sleeping posture was very bad. She always took up a large part of the bed, pushing me to the corner."
"When she was older, she always relied on her greater strength to bully me, and made me cry."
"We fight for everything, food, toys, and even who gets to lie in our mother's arms."
"You may not believe it, but the first sentence I learned was 'my sister is bad.'"
"Although we have been quarreling since we were young and no one is willing to give in, family is still family after all."
"When I got into a fight at school, she rushed over with her schoolbag to help me without a word, and when we got home, she helped me lie to my mother."
"When she was sad and crying, I would always go over to tease her and make her angry, because as long as she was angry enough to hit me, she would have no time to be angry anymore."
"We always fight and quarrel and dislike each other. But it is precisely because of our quarrels that the whole house is so lively."
“This is my family, and they are the memories I can never forget.”
"Because of them, my childhood and youth were really perfect. This is also the reason why I always wanted to go back to the surface."
"I rarely talk about them with other people. You're the first one."
005, who was listening attentively, nodded. "And one last thing, a sweet love."
The five Chinese characters for sweet love are written beneath the unforgettable memories.
Three rows of Chinese characters are neatly arranged on the table.
"Love..." Charles pondered over this word that didn't quite fit him.
"Maybe I had a deep and unforgettable love with Twinkle's mother, but I forgot her. Fortunately, I had other women in Earthsea."
Charles fell into deep thought, his memory returning to the distant past.
"I first met Margaret on the deck of the Narwhal. She was a slave at the time."
"When I learned that she was the Governor's daughter, my first reaction was to use her to blackmail her. Now that I think about it, I'm really a straight man."
"She likes me, but I don't know when she started and why she wanted me to be such a desperado."
"After that, I had no contact with her again until I went crazy."
"There are some gaps in my memory. I forgot what happened before. I only remember that I don't know this memory."
"Later, when I realized how much she had done for me, I realized what I had missed."
"I tried to make amends, but I guess I was married by then and she wasn't the same person she was before, and we went our separate ways."
"A lot of things happened during that time. When I became what I am now, she came to find me."
"Although I can no longer be with her, we have reconciled with each other."
"this is not OK."
005's sudden words made Charles look over immediately. "What?"
"I talk about sweet love, but this is not sweet at all and tastes very bitter."
Charles was a little embarrassed for a moment, as he did not have much emotional experience.
Elizabeth couldn't do that. She certainly loved herself, but she also loved the beauties in her harem in her governor's palace. This kind of love was not sweet at all.
"Are you really sure I have this love? I think I'm done talking."
005 shook his head. "All three conditions must be met. If one is missing, the deal will be invalid."
This made Charles very embarrassed. He searched through his memory for a long time and finally found a passage.
"Lily was dying at the time, and in order to fulfill her last wish, I became her boyfriend for a while."
"I accompanied her shopping, I also accompanied her to dinner, and at the end we also kissed."
Regarding this short paragraph about Lily, Charles thought that the other party would say that it was not possible, but he did not expect that he guessed wrong.
"Well, I tasted it. This love is good. It is definitely sweet."
005 said, and gently touched the kitten in his arms.
The reveler opened her mouth and spit out a white ball, which appeared in her hand. "When you want to make a wish, just speak to it."
005 floated over and placed the white ball in his hand on the table in front of Charles.
With a slight flick of Charles' hand, the white ball instantly came into his hand.
Looking at the ball, Charles showed a relieved smile on his face.
With this thing, I have one more option for my backup plan.
005 gently wiped the hand with black bandage on the table, and the three lines of words carved on it were taken away by her directly.
Then from the next second, the three stories that Charles had just told disappeared rapidly.
It wasn't deleted, it was completely erased.
Charles was not surprised at this. Since she had exchanged a wish, it must not be as simple as listening to three stories.
005 "took" away three stories from himself.
(End of this chapter)