Talent mission

David and Jack talked again later.

When David told him that the child was young and in poor health, Jack was noncommittal and said calmly, "I'm not going to do anything."

Silence spread for a while, and David couldn't help but ask, "Who is your fiancee?"

Jack looked at him questioningly.

David tried to pretend to be relieved: "You chose her, at least let me know who she is."

Jack replied, "You'll find out at the engagement."

Then there was nothing more to say between them, and David looked at Jack, who was staring at him without focus.

During the brief crush on Michelle, David couldn't figure out whether Michelle was interested in him or not, and doubted what he felt from Michelle, but now facing Jack, David knew that they hoped to be able to each other. Stay together, just can't do it.Their identities brought them together and separated them.

After David came back, Jack's last farewell to him echoed in David's mind. The tears that Jack never shed, in his memory, overlapped with Jack's smile after drinking together that day.

He knew that Jack was for Joseph that day, and it was him who was hurting Jack at this time.David regretted bringing up the subject of his fiancee.

David has been able to see the real Jack from under the appearance of the unruly and indifferent prince. He knows that Jack is not a good person, so he asks Jack to swear not to do anything to Seth mother and son. He also knows that Jack is not a bad person. Jack is just... working hard Go be a bad guy.

It seemed that Jack would feel less pain only if he was convinced that there was no cure for him.

Whether watching Jack hold other people's hands, or watching Jack build a shell with indifference to seal himself in the severe cold, it is a torment for David. He wants to help Jack, but he is now a part of Jack's wound.

Added to this, David is pained by the fact that he has betrayed the trust of the king, that he has failed his family, failed Jack, and failed the king when he wanted to be faithful to all his spoken and unspoken vows.It seems that he has a lot of glory, only he knows that he has nothing.

In this gloomy mood, David confessed to the king.

David confesses this part of himself: "I lied to you, I have a secret."

Silas didn't show any expression, stared at David silently, and asked after a while, "What?"

David said desperately: "I can't say, I can't say what it is, I'm very sorry, Your Majesty, I..."

Silas held him back and said in a low voice, "You can go."

David's lips twitched, and he wanted to explain, but he knew that he was irrefutable, so he got up and saluted, and he walked out of the council hall heavily.

He was called back here in less than half a day. This night the charter was stolen from the history museum, and all officials were called to a meeting in the middle of the night.

But the meeting came to no useful conclusions, and after the meeting, David was left behind, and the king gave him a mission to regain his confidence by sending him south to recover the stolen charter.

Being able to get away from here for a while and get a second chance is exactly what David needs right now, and David gratefully accepts the order.

The fact that David was sent out was not made public, and the people and officials did not know it. On the surface, the king had decided to abandon the old charter.

As the Minister of Intelligence, Jack guessed that David was sent to find the charter, so he was not worried. He believed that David would return triumphantly.It's just that he didn't know that David's confession had completely angered the king, and the king's dangerous mission without support was just to let David die.

After David left, his engagement party took place as scheduled.

Jack didn't tell David who his fiancée was, because the matter was quite complicated. The CD-ROM Joseph sent to the media fell into Gent's hands, and Gent and the Queen were very wrong, threatening the Queen to make it public. Jack negotiated another condition with her, she handed over the disc, and Jack would marry her, making her a royal and one day queen.

Ghent, who readily agreed, obviously underestimated the queen's methods. After the queen sent her away, she quickly got Jack engaged to the young, beautiful and noble Lucinda Wolfson.

Lucinda is an innocent and well-behaved woman, she almost fell in love with the handsome and gentle Jack at first sight.The grand engagement banquet was like a sweet dream that Jack bestowed on her.

She took Jack's arm, leaned on his shoulder and said she didn't want to wake up.

Jack smiled and said nothing.

In the middle of the banquet, Jack temporarily left the banquet hall, and Silas was standing in front of the huge portrait of the king in the corridor.

Their brief conversation revolved around pretense, deceit and indifference. Fortunately, Jack's choice of fiancée finally satisfied the king once, and this was Jack's answer to Silas.Jack will follow the path set by his father and one day become King Jonathan.

Finally Jack asked, "Have you ever had a loved one, before Mom?"

Silas looked at him for a long time and said, "I have."

At this time, David was in the far south, experiencing the first subversion of his faith in his life.

David originally embarked on the trip full of guilt for the king and a state of atonement. In a small bar in the south, he met a man who claimed to be his father's comrade in arms in the old year. The man told him that his father did not die in a glorious homeland defense war. , but was sent to die because he refused to carry out the king's order to massacre civilians and stand up.

He didn't believe it, left that place, and continued on the tracking journey.But deep down in his heart, he couldn't deny that the mission the king gave him, as the man pointed out sharply, was indeed an order to die according to common sense.

Along the way, he has been accompanied by poverty, loneliness, and hardships. What makes him go on is no longer the opportunity to regain the trust of the king, but for the country. This original wish once again returned to occupy the highest position in his heart.

Besides, he couldn't help missing Jack.

David thought that staying away from Shiloh would ease his lovesickness and pain. On the one hand, this effort was completely futile. The farther he went, the more he remembered it. On the other hand, it was quite effective. Being able to look at this untimely love calmly, what comes to his mind the most is no longer the sorrow of parting, but the happy time of being together in the past.

When Jack came to the throne, David decided to resign and return to his hometown.

He didn't know how long it would take to let go of Jack like Michelle, maybe it was impossible at all, after all, he and Michelle had never started, but all he could do now was, as his father told him in his dream, to let go of Jack. Go with the time.

Following the guidance of his father in the dream, David found the charter and brought it back to Shiloh.

Amidst the cheers and glory, David requested a private meeting with Silas, still having faith in the king, so he asked bluntly: "I want to know the truth about my father's death and the purpose of this mission, are you Want me to get the charter back, or die on the mission?"

The king stared at him, and replied slowly, with a cold and forceful voice: "I intend to test your strong will, just like I asked my own son, either return with honor or die."

David was disappointed to find that Jack was never wrong, and that as a father, Silas didn't care about Jack and didn't love him.

Silas's words didn't end there: "As for your father, that's too long ago, but I'll give you an answer."

The king took the charter and left the council hall, leaving David alone at the conference table.

Jack walked in from where Silas had left, closing the door behind him. "David, you don't look well."

David turned his head to look at him, wanted to call him "Prince", but finally said: "Jack."

Jack walked towards him slowly: "I got engaged while you were away, and my fiancée is, before someone told you, her name was Lucinda Wolfson."

David didn't know whether to be grateful or resent Jack for telling him this himself, and he pulled out a smile: "Congratulations on your engagement."

Jack said, "Congratulations on being a hero, once again."

David stared blankly at Shiloh outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, Jack stared at him, took a step back, and said softly, "Live, my hero." Then he turned and strode towards the door.

David turned sharply to look at him, and Jack had already left without looking back.

Back home alone, David kept thinking about Jack, and the peace he had established during his long journey collapsed when he actually saw Jack.He had never felt so powerless and uncontrollable in his thoughts.

David sat on the piano bench, with his back to the piano, where he and Jack had their last date.There are shadows of Jack everywhere in this small room.

Suddenly, heavily armed soldiers broke into the house and arrested David, the king himself ordered, on charges of treason.

There was no need to wait for the news about David the next morning. Jack knew it before night fell. The order issued by the king himself did not require his consent, but at least he would know it as the Minister of Intelligence.

Jack spent the evening thinking about how much this order related to him, and gathering his mood so that he didn't show the slightest surprise at the family breakfast.

The queen gave the newspaper to the king for father and son to talk among themselves, and the king erected the paper so that Jack faced the big "David Sheffard, Traitor" headline.

"There will be an interrogation soon," Silas said. "You will be asked to recall your experiences with Shefford."

Jack raised his eyebrows: "We just became friends... We had a good time playing together."

Silas put down the newspaper. "I'm sure you're not as happy as you look."

Jack pretended to think: "I thought you thought highly of him. He was loyal to you and doing the right thing, even when he didn't know what it was."

"You are my son and my heir, Jack. You have a lot to lose in his success, do you see what the people think of him? We must end his legacy."

Silas picked up the coffee cup: "On the day he is executed, I will publicly announce you as my heir, ushering in... the future king for the hereditary dynasty."

It wasn't until the king left the breakfast table that Jack took his last sip slowly.

Jack didn't know whether Silas knew about his relationship with David, nor whether Silas's decision was to force him to choose again or simply for the king's own authority.

All he knew was that he wasn't going to turn David into another Joseph.

"What an attractive proposition..." Jack reached for the newspaper, staring at the headline, "You want too much, Father."

He made a phone call: "Uncle, it's me, Jack."

The preliminary hearing was held in the Council Hall, and there was no broadcast or live broadcast. David was obviously surprised to see that the prosecution was Jack. The person who asked him to live a day ago would charge him with capital crimes, and then his eyes shifted to Silas. body.

He didn't know whether what Jack said to him yesterday was a coincidence or a warning, it didn't matter in front of the person who really wanted to put him to death.

Jack did, without objection, sue David for treason, as Silas demanded, accusing him of having acted heroically at the hands of Gath, and that the king had faked The evidence and witnesses, including the motivation, are very sufficient-David hates war because his father died in the war, and wants to fight for peace at all costs, Jack just needs to follow the script.

After the hearing, David was going to be taken back to the prison. He met Michelle who was waiting there in front of the corridor. Michelle asked to have a few words with David, and the guard who guarded him allowed it.

Michelle said sadly: "I can't believe Jack would do this kind of thing..."

David said: "He did." Jack's calmness in the process of accusing him surprised him. At first he thought that the king was persecuting Jack, but then he thought that maybe Jack could help him in any way. In short, he didn't believe Jack. It would really make him die unjustly.

Michelle said angrily: "How could he..."

David reassured: "It's okay, princess."

Michelle looked up at him: “I will do my best to help you.”

David shook his head. He knew that it was not Jack who regarded him as an enemy at this time, but only the king. He said, "Take care of yourself and help me take care of Jack."

He turned to the sergeant and followed them away.

Michelle stood hesitantly in the hall, she really wanted to ask her father, how could she believe such absurd accusation and really let David stand trial, how could Jack attack David!

She may be the only one who knows that David and Jack are in love. Even though Jack said that he and David had separated when they got engaged a few days ago, this feeling did not disappear with their separation. No one knew better than her.

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