Cloud Thinking

Perhaps it was because Ansel's words touched her heart, or perhaps it was because the seed of love that had been buried deep in Helia's heart and frozen for decades finally melted and sprouted under the other party's fiery passion.

As if possessed by a ghost, she grabbed Ansel's neck, pushed his chest, and pressed him down on the bed.

He closed his eyes, but accurately found the position of the other person's lips, touched them, and rubbed them with a raw desire.

Ansel held her waist with one hand and pressed the other on the back of her neck. He opened his mouth slightly and slowly and tenderly guided her deeper, step by step.

Their lips and teeth touched, exchanging each other's warmth, and all the words that could not be said were melted in their mouths.

They kissed quietly but passionately.

In the end, it was Helia who took the initiative to end this meaningless kiss. She sat astride Ansel's waist and abdomen, slowly stood up, breathing slightly, and looked at him hazily with misty eyes.

If we don't count the previous accidents and being forced, this should be considered the first kiss she offered. Her inexperienced kissing skills left a lot of "evidence" on Ansel's lips, but he seemed to enjoy it.

"Does this count as... catching your eye?"

Ansel looked at her with a smile, supported himself with one hand and sat up, and put the other hand on her waist to prevent her from falling backwards.

Helia raised an eyebrow, the corners of her mouth curled up slightly, and her arms naturally wrapped around his neck, "At least for now."

She got up from Ansel, turned over and fell on the bed, spread her arms and legs rudely, and occupied his bed in a spread-eagle position.

Seeing this, Ansel just smiled and adjusted the rolled-up hem of her skirt, pulled a small blanket beside her to cover her, and then chose a seat in the corner to sit down.

He took the book on the bedside table and turned to the page with the bookmark. "Look, I'll stay here with you and won't go anywhere."

Seeing that he was really reading the book seriously, Helia withdrew her gaze and took out the two image stones from her pocket.

To avoid confusion, she even marked it.

She placed the first image stone on her forehead and took several deep breaths to relax herself. It was not until she felt a little sleepy that she slowly injected her magic power into it.

The first scene was still the one they had seen before, the scene of her eighteenth birthday party:

[Earl Henry brought Stella to meet Claude, but was targeted by Helia, who said many unpleasant things to him in public.

Claude also disliked Count Henry's behavior. He wanted to use the rumors to force him to recognize a daughter of unknown origin and unknown background, which showed that he was not taking him seriously.

But after all, it was Helia's eighteenth birthday party, and all the important people in the empire were here. He didn't want such a person to ruin Helia's birthday party, nor did he want so many people to laugh at the royal family, so he asked someone to take Stella and Earl Henry away first and deal with them after the party.

Helia did not participate in the discussion about whether Stella should stay or go. On the third day after the birthday party, she was called by Claude to inform her that she had a new sister.

She was shocked, puzzled, and couldn't believe that Claude had really betrayed her mother, her and Eric.

She angrily went to find trouble with Stellar, but happened to see Eric caring for her. She felt a sense of crisis, and in anger, she slapped Stellar and threatened to kick her out.

Claude and Eric initially tolerated Helia's constant troublemaking of Starley, but human patience is limited and love will be worn away.

Compared with the aggressive, spoiled, overbearing and unreasonable Helia, the kind and gentle Starley is naturally more likable.

In addition, someone with ulterior motives stirred up trouble, and soon Helia ended up being hated and despised, while Stella stepped on her and became the imperial princess who was like the white moonlight in everyone's mind. 】

The image on the first image stone was interrupted when Helia was pushed onto the gallows. Her consciousness was pulled away from the image in the image stone, and she frowned and rubbed her swollen forehead.

Although she didn't know much about the original owner, almost all of it came from the description in the original work, but after coming into contact with him in Camelin's sea of ​​consciousness, she felt that he was definitely not someone who was obsessed with so-called favor and crazy about competing for females.

Even though the original owner was mentally unstable due to an incident when she was six years old, she did not retain any memory of her life during that era.

But the character formed in that environment is not so easy to change.

As the actual mistress of the palace, she was able to control Claude's harem at such a young age that there were no more brothers or sisters. This was enough to show that she was no ordinary person.

Even though she did not choose to learn magic like herself, and was just a spoiled little princess living in the palace, she would definitely not be ignorant of the secret of her life experience.

Moreover, the reason why Helia had a reputation for being arrogant, domineering, cruel and ruthless was that at least 80% of the things she did were to help Eric and Claude deal with those guys with ulterior motives.

Therefore, it is hard to imagine that such a smart, calm and ruthless person, who can be decisive and ruthless when necessary, would end up in such a state because of so-called favor and eventually kill herself.

It feels like my intelligence has been forcibly lowered, which is really ridiculous.

Moreover, in the original plot, the original owner seemed to have a natural hostility towards Starley, and he was determined to fight to the death before he would give up.

But she really couldn't figure out where this hostility came from, where it came from, and what was supporting the original owner to keep targeting Stellar at the expense of herself and the enemy?

And Claude and Eric's attitudes and choices are also very strange.

There was something particularly wrong with Eric.

It was not difficult to see from the few contacts she had with him that he was an extreme sister complex, and his heart and eyes were filled with Helia.

From Eric ignoring Claude's dissuasion and traveling across the country to find her missing, to facing the Fire Dragon, he tried his best to save Helia.

Even though she hadn't spent much time with Eric and had only experienced a few things together, these were enough to prove that he was the one who truly stood on Helia's side.

He was even willing to challenge Claude for her.

The original owner also completely stood on Eric's side. They were a true family, relying on each other and protecting each other silently.

So how could Eric transfer his affection for Helia to Stella? It didn't make sense!

His love for Helia came from family affection. They were born of the same mother, and he watched Helia grow up. They were the closest siblings.

In terms of benefits, what can Starley, a helpless person who comes to the royal family, bring to Eric?

From the plot point of view, it seems that Eric has always been the one paying for Stellar, he has been giving without getting anything in return.

He got nothing.

If love from a younger sister can be considered a gain, haha, then isn't Helia's love love?

Is the original owner a despicable person who wants everything taken away from him? He doesn't deserve anything? He has to give up everything for the so-called protagonist?

In terms of emotions, Helia is his biological sister who he has watched grow up since childhood, while Stella is just a cousin who showed up halfway. How can they be compared?

How could Starley shake Helia's position in Eric's heart?

Eric seems to be blind in this plot.

And Claude's choice was even more puzzling.

She had dealt with Claude so many times and knew very well what kind of person he was - a person who put profit above all else.

He always puts the interests of the empire first.

He is willing to use his own sons and daughters, his own wife, and even sacrifice himself.

In a sense, he was a good king.

As early as when she first came here, she knew that Claude determined his attitude based on someone's value.

Helia, a daughter he had raised and doted on for eighteen years, was not as good as a wild niece?

The fact that Claude has been doting on Helia for so many years is enough to prove that Helia is worthy of his doting.

What kind of value does Starley have that can offset the investment Claude has made in Helia over the years?

But in the end, wasn't it just that Starley married the prince of the Turton dynasty? This was the most basic value that a princess should have. Claude didn't gain anything at all, and even lost money.

Moreover, because she came through, by accident, Starley appeared on the stage earlier.

And Claude's actions at this time completely explained everything.

He could accept Starley's existence, but he would not give her a formal status, nor would he offend Eric and Helia for her, because it was not worth it.

This is in line with Claude's principle of putting profit above all else.

But in the plot, Claude seemed to have lost his mind and was just short of saying the classic line "Spoil me! Spoil me to death!"

From this perspective, not only was the original owner seriously ooc, but Eric and Claude completely deviated from their character settings and reversed their personalities.

When it came to Stella, they were all under a spell, going against their own nature.

You may say that this is to highlight the heroine Starley, and that in order to make readers enjoy the show, the other supporting characters are deliberately distorted and their intelligence is lowered.

That’s OK, that’s acceptable.

After all, the purpose of reading novels is just to have fun, so why bother about so many things?

But the problem is that this so-called novel plot actually happened!

Once upon a time, this world developed according to this plot!

This is absolutely ridiculous!

Is there some higher-dimensional power outside of this world that forces them to become less intelligent and brainless?

But after she came through, everything was normal?

Except for her, Helia herself had a completely changed soul, and everyone else was normal.

So how does this explain the weird OOC of the three people in the plot that happened in the future?

"what happened?"

Ansel noticed the movement from Helia's side, put down the book in his hand, and moved closer.

He held her neck with one hand, slowly lifted her head, placed it on his thigh, and gently massaged her head.

Helia's mind was almost spinning. She came to Ansel tonight in the hope that he could give her some advice.

But she couldn't say the question she was thinking about directly, so she had to change the way she said it and asked:

"It's just that I can't understand why a person would keep targeting another person for no reason, even at the cost of his own life. It's simply incomprehensible."

"I don't think there is hatred without reason in the world." Ansel expressed his understanding, "Maybe it's just because you haven't found the interest connection between them yet."

"One of the main reasons why people make enemies is because the other party's existence threatens their own interests."

"Humans are selfish animals. Just as the saying goes, one does not feel pain unless the knife cuts oneself. Only when one's own vital interests are truly touched will people be forced to point the knife outward for self-protection."

Helia moved her body to a more comfortable position and said:

"Then tell me, if one day I suddenly become enemies with my sister, what do you think is the reason?"

While Ansel was massaging her gently, he was thinking seriously about this question which was similar to "If your mother and I fell into the water, who would you save first?"

Helia has a very good relationship with Stella. It can be seen from the fact that she is willing to give up the role of the heroine at her 18th birthday party that she likes and dotes on her sister very much.

He certainly couldn't sow discord between the two sisters, let alone say that there was something wrong with Stella, and of course he couldn't say that there was something wrong with Helia.

That’s a really difficult question to answer.

Ansel thought for a long time and gave his answer: "Sometimes, love appears in the form of hate, and love at its extreme becomes hate."

“Death is sometimes a kind of freedom and a kind of relief.”

“In order to achieve the same end, the means in the process can be varied.”

"For example, if I want someone to die, I can either give him a quick death or let him hang on to his death after suffering great physical and mental torture, and slowly die of old age in pain and madness."

"In the southern continent, some people choose to commit suicide because they can't stand the torture of hunger. Because they know that they will die in the end, and they would rather hold the freedom of death in their own hands than live in fear of not knowing when they will die."

He said a lot, but he felt like he didn't hit the point at all, and he couldn't help feeling a little annoyed.

"What I mean is, suppose one day you and your sister become enemies, is there a possibility that it is for her good?"

A very novel and unique perspective.

Helia raised her eyebrows, got what Ansel wanted to say, and continued with his words:

"You mean...if one day, staying with me becomes a danger, I might try my best to push away the people I love in order not to implicate them..."

"Especially when I know they will not abandon me in danger, and even say they are willing to sacrifice themselves for me, and would rather die than fear, so I have to speak harshly to them in order to force them to leave me."

Ansel gave her a new guess: the reason why the original owner had been targeting Starley was not necessarily because the other party's existence infringed on her interests.

It is possible that she had foreseen something and wanted to save Starley from a disaster, so she tried every means to drive her away.

So, what did the original owner foresee?

Or is it that she knows that she herself is a huge threat, so she wants to reduce the number of people implicated by her as much as possible, and is willing to do those vicious things to drive people away?

But this still doesn't make sense, because later on, the original owner repeatedly tried to kill Stella, which didn't seem like he was trying to protect her...

and many more.

Helia suddenly thought of the example Ansel had just cited, where some people in the southern continent chose to commit suicide in order to avoid starving to death.

Is it possible that the original owner wanted to send Stella off early in order to let her avoid a more tragic death? ? ?

But it still doesn’t feel right.

Not to mention the relationship between Starley and the original owner, even if there was no hatred, the original owner would not have bothered with Starley, who was no different from a stranger.

The original owner's relationship with Starley wasn't as good as hers with Starley.

In other words, what does the original owner have to do with Stella's life or death? Is it worth it for her to risk her own life just to prevent the other person from dying miserably?

The original owner's attitude towards Starley actually changed gradually. At the beginning, he just disliked her and tried to trip her up to make her life difficult.

The next step was to try every possible means to drive the person away, but it did not seem to go to the extent of killing him.

In the end, he was so extreme that he wanted to kill Starley, even at the cost of his own life.

That eager attitude, as if if she wasn't killed, something worse would happen.

Helia had a vague idea, but these were just her guesses. She had to figure out what happened after the ending of the original novel.

"It turned out to be the right decision to come to you tonight." Helia pulled Ansel down by his collar, tilted her head back and kissed his chin as a reward.

"It is my honor to be appreciated by Your Highness." Ansel replied with a smile.