Chapter 7 I Won't Leave You, Great Knight 3
Compared to me, you are extremely weak!
Suzaku's last words seemed to be recorded in my brain, replaying and replaying all morning. I had a terrible headache and was in a trance when doing everything.
Within a few days, I went from being the lowest commoner in TK Academy to being in the top ten of the most unpopular people in TK Academy, and my name was also known by all the students in the academy. When encountering such a thing, I really didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
"Where is the best place to put this flower?" I heard a staff member ask. I took out the chart Suzaku gave me and directed their work. More flowers will be delivered later. Princess Red's wedding is not a trivial matter. Every detail must be perfect.
I directed the workers in the church to work, temporarily driving away the messy thoughts in my heart, working, working. Whether Suzaku is really going to marry the princess, whether Cisse will come to grab the bride, and what Yun Que will do, don't think about these things, don't care!
While I was working, I suddenly smelled a familiar fragrance. It was not the fragrance of flowers, but it was more charming than the fragrance of the most beautiful flowers in the world.
My body stiffened the moment I felt that familiar breath, and then I fell into uncontrollable ecstasy. I turned around, and sure enough, in that light, was the most important person to me.
"Yaoyao!" I rushed over without thinking, and hugged tightly the person I had always missed in the magnificent and magical light.
I haven't seen her for a long time, and so have everyone in this academy. Ever since Takamiya Naoto detained her, she seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth, with no news of her.
I hugged her tightly, looked her up and down, touched her carefully, and only after confirming that it was her and not an illusion did I cry with joy.
"Yaoyao, I miss you so much! I miss you so much!"
"I miss you too, tomorrow!" She looked at me, her beautiful eyes as transparent and clear as ever, but there seemed to be a hint of melancholy between her brows.
I stroked her long hair and felt my heart almost stop beating. After crying for a long time, I realized that she was accompanied by Madam Gongcheng and two other girls. I knew both of those girls. They were the most loyal members of Yaoyao's personal guard. She was with them. Madam Gongcheng must have used them to fill my position. But why did Madam Gongcheng appear here?
As if to answer my question, Mrs. Gongcheng said coldly without waiting for me to ask, "Yaoyao said she wanted to come and see her wedding venue anyway, so please take Yaoyao to have a good look at the church's layout."
After that, Madam Gongcheng and Yaoyao looked at each other. Both of them had unfriendly expressions, as if they were having an eye battle. After Madam Gongcheng said a few words, she walked out of the church with her servants.
Watching Madam Gongcheng walk away, Yaoyao suddenly grabbed my hand and said to me with a wicked smile, " I was on a hunger strike at home, and she had no choice but to bring me out! But... I can't escape. You may not know that every time I go out, she will bring more than ten bodyguards to follow me. Now, I can guarantee that those bodyguards will be guarding the several exits of the church to ensure that there is absolutely no way for me to escape."
"Yaoyao, how are you doing? Do you know how worried I am about you? I can't contact you, and I can't tell you what Zhuque has been doing. Yaoyao, I think you can trust Zhu..."
"Don't mention that guy to me, okay? I hate him so much now!" Yaoyao interrupted me, frowning even more. A member of her personal guard immediately echoed, "We mobilized all our friends to go to Zhuque's personal page on the school network every day to curse him. I didn't expect that person to be so strong. The whole page, even the whole website, was filled with people cursing him. I don't know how ugly the curses were, but he still had the nerve to continue doing these shameless things."
"Yes, yes!" the other sister said, "There's no place left to put up signs on his door, and he still has the nerve to continue living in his big knight's house."
Those hurtful words and slogans... Listening to what they said and looking at their delicate and beautiful faces, my mood suddenly became very strange.
"Tomorrow! I have a plan. I tried my best to come to see you today just to tell you my plan." Yaoyao took my hand, took me aside and said, "The Black Princess has been trying to rescue me. Although I don't like Ling Ruosu, it is undeniable that she still has a strong sense of justice. Now everyone in the school is condemning Zhuque. As long as he does something more outrageous, I can use the rules of TKG to abolish his status as the number one knight in my capacity as a princess. So, you must help me!"
You must help me! Because you are all I have, tomorrow!
I thought of what Yaoyao said, and looked at her two new companions, feeling very complicated.
"The Black Princess plans to launch a school-wide crusade against Suzaku, with a parade throughout TK Academy on her wedding day. On that day, if Suzaku loses control a little and has a small conflict with the marching students, I can say that he violated the basic ethics of a great knight, and then I can disregard his high score and revoke his status as a great knight."
"But Yaoyao..." These words may not be suitable for me to say, but after being with Suzaku for so long, I have gradually understood that the choices of the Grand Knight and the Red Princess of the Red Knight Branch were actually arranged by Gao Gong Shangren, and they cannot be changed so easily.
"Suzaku is not your enemy! There are many things he can't do anything about. In fact, he has been trying to find a solution..."
"Of course he is my enemy!"
"No, Yaoyao, listen to me. I have been with Zhuque for so many days, and I found that he is actually..."
I really don't want to say something good for someone, but... "He's actually a pretty good person. He didn't want things to develop to this point. He has his own ideas and plans. I think you can try to trust him. You can try..."
"Ashiri! Are you on Suzaku's side?"
Yaoyao interrupted me again, a little angrily, and said, "You are the one who doesn't understand! If he wasn't there, Yun Que would be the only heir of the Gao Gong family. No matter how stupid Yun Que is, he is my only legal partner, do you understand? Yun Que doesn't need to work so hard to be with me. If there was no Suzaku, no one would care whether Yun Que is incompetent or useless! I don't care either, as long as he treats me well, as long as he always listens to me, doesn't order me around like others, doesn't ask me to do this or that like others, and just stays with me, that's enough! If there was no Gao Gong Suzaku in this world, Yun Que wouldn't have to do anything to be with me. I wouldn't have so many troubles, don't you understand?"
turn out to be……
As long as that person doesn’t exist, as long as that annoying guy disappears, as long as... I suddenly remembered what Yaoyao said to me, that annoying guy turned out to be... Don’t you understand?
It turns out that Suzaku is a person who doesn't need to exist in this world.
It turns out that there are people in this world who are not needed by anyone. If they didn't exist, others would be much happier.
turn out to be……
"Yaoyao, have you ever thought about Zhuque's feelings? Have you ever thought about the feelings of the other people in the Red Knight Branch..."
"Mingri! Have you ever thought about my feelings? Have you ever thought that I am your only friend, the only person you need to care about?" Yaoyao interrupted me, staring at me, her big eyes full of questioning.
Yes, I am her only friend, she is the only person I need to care about, she is... But why is my mouth filled with bitterness at this moment? Why do I feel heartache, as if Suzaku and I are one, and he who has been abandoned by the whole world is just like me?
"Of course I have thought about your feelings. I worry about you every night. I call your turned-off phone over and over again. I would be distressed for a long time before I could restrain myself from sneaking into your room to see you, even if that would cause me to be expelled by Dean Gao Gong or your mother again, and lose the opportunity to study and the help to survive, I would not be able to help it. Yaoyao, you are the most important person to me, because in this college, you are the only one who is willing to value me. Do you know that?" I held her hand and spoke slowly, tears hanging on the edge of my eyes, which might fall at any time.
"So, Yaoyao, please believe me, okay? Believe that I love you more than I love myself, okay? Give Suzaku a chance, I don't think he will let you and Yunque down..."
"Tomorrow! Haven't you figured it out yet?" Yaoyao interrupted me again.
She looked at me as if I were a monster, shaking her head, her eyes full of distrust.
"I don't need Suzaku at all! As long as Suzaku is gone, all problems will be gone. I don't need Yun Que to work hard for me, nor do I need other knights to do anything for me. I am the Red Princess. As long as Suzaku is gone, I will be the future queen, and Yun Que will be my husband. Everything will be perfect and there will be no obstacles. So..."
She put a bottle into my hands and forced me to hold it tightly.
"What is this?" I was so shocked that I almost dropped the bottle in my hand.
"It's nothing, just some potions that will make people temporarily lose control. It's not life-threatening." Yaoyao stared at me and said. The guards around her were keeping an eye on the surroundings to prevent others from discovering what we were doing.
"Tomorrow, you have to help me. Now you are the closest person to Suzaku, and only you can do something to him. He is such an outstanding person, I am afraid that he is really so shameless that he will survive even if he is hated by everyone. So..." Yaoyao stared at the bottle and said, "Help me. Let me have a reason to abolish his status as the first knight. For Takamiya Naoto, as long as the Takamiya family can marry the Miyagi family, if Suzaku loses control, he will choose Yunque. This is my revolution. On the day of my wedding, I will revolt with the help of the Black Princess. Do you understand? Completely defeat Suzaku, Akizaki Xun and Osto, choose my great knight, and then become the queen!"
Become...Queen?
Queen?
"When the time comes, I will appoint you as my Grand Knight. You will become the proudest female Grand Knight in this academy, just like Gao Meimei from the White Knight Branch and Qing Nana from the Black Knight Branch, and you will no longer be a humble commoner. Do you understand, tomorrow?" Yaoyao said to me with clenched teeth, touching my face.
"This is the most important decision in Yaoyao's life. Yaoyao can only succeed and cannot fail!"
"Now it's time for you to repay Yaoyao, Mingri!" The guards around her immediately echoed, staring at me with a fatal expression.
A lowly commoner? My mind went blank and I didn't even know what I was saying.
"Yaoyao, in your eyes, am I just a lowly civilian now?"
"What?" Yaoyao shook her head, as if she didn't quite understand what I meant, but she quickly smiled and comforted me, "But don't worry, you will soon become a great knight, as long as you help me."
"Yaoyao, Lord Yunque is not stupid or an idiot at all. He is fighting for you. He has always been fighting for you. Do you know that? He has lost everything for you. Can't you see it? Can't you see his struggle?" I said calmly.
"I know, but he really..." Yaoyao's expression changed and she seemed to have a headache.
"Yaoyao, we are all fighting for you. Every one of the 588 knights in the Red Knights branch is fighting for you. Do you know that?"
"This is what I should do. I'm a princess!" Yaoyao raised her head and said to me without thinking.
No! A queen shouldn't be like this!
I smiled. I think my smile must be very unpleasant, because after Yaoyao saw me smile, her expression became very bad, and she left with her guards without saying a few words to me.
Looking at her back, I sat alone in the empty church. The people who set up the venue had left long ago. I thought it was already past noon, or even afternoon. I still had classes in the afternoon. My grades were very poor and my scores were very low. If I didn't attend the classes, I would be kicked out of TK by the dean. If... I just couldn't get up from the chair, walk out of this empty church, and face my life.
My phone kept vibrating and the information on it kept changing. A lot of people were scolding me, really a lot of people, even though I was such an insignificant civilian.
"Idiot, have you had lunch?" Suddenly, someone called me. I looked up and saw a tall figure holding a paper bag in his hand.
"I……"
"If you haven't had lunch, here are some non-nutritious burgers." He threw the paper bag into my arms, and the smell of the burgers immediately filled my nostrils.
Holding the lunch he gave me, I couldn't control my tears anymore and they flowed down.
I heard myself burst into tears, and I couldn't control myself and fell into someone's arms. He held me gently and patted my back. In the silence, I heard his voice with a strong aristocratic accent gently say to me: "If it is so painful, you should go back to the Red Princess."
