Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

Chapter 327

Then, the atmosphere between them froze.After silently buying what she wanted to purchase, she seemed to be apologetic and proposed to treat him to dinner.

Dining in a Muggle restaurant was also a novel experience for Snape.Although in the turbulent and dark childhood, he often wandered the streets and suffered from hunger, but he didn't have many opportunities to eat in restaurants.

Now at the orders of the Dark Lord, he had to agree to the invitation of the imposter who had just offended him rudely and was now acting nonchalant.This is really the biggest torment!

They sat facing each other at a corner table.Because of the coming of Christmas, the restaurant was crowded.

After their food was served, in order to make Snape appear more relaxed and comfortable, Willow cast Ignoring and Silencing Charms around them.

But that didn't make Snape feel much better.His hands, which were cutting the steak, moved stiffly, and the backs of his hands gripped the fork and knife so hard that the veins tensed.Every movement of his seemed mechanical, rigid and unnatural, like a robot. In the end, Liu Quan couldn't pretend he didn't see it, so he had to speak first to break the deadlock.

"...Thank you for agreeing to my invitation tonight, Severus," she said in a gentle tone.

"It seems that this is the first time I have eaten with you like this. What do you think of the chef's craftsmanship in this restaurant?"

Snape stopped cutting the steak.After a moment of silence, he said in a low voice, "...not bad."

Both pretended that the scene at the gate of the mall just now didn't happen.On this point, they actually reached a tacit consensus.

Liu Quan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.She picked up the water glass and took a sip of water, pretending to be indifferent and asked casually: "How are you doing recently, Severus?"

Snape was chewing a piece of steak. Hearing this question, he paused again, then swallowed the veal steak slowly, before replying, "... nothing special. What about you?"

Liu Quan smiled, "What else can you do as an Auror—"

She pretended that she didn't know that Snape was a Death Eater, raised her water glass, her eyes were hidden above the rim, she glanced at him quickly, and continued tentatively, "...I've been getting more and more busy lately. There are mysterious people's subordinates destroying and doing some bad things everywhere..."

Snape's eyes flickered, but he didn't speak.

Very good, with the qualities of a great double agent.Liu Quan thought.

It was already Christmas, so Trelawney's famous prophecy should have appeared.Dumbledore, however, said nothing about it.

Now she's still Lily Evans instead of Lily Potter.James married someone else and still gave birth to Harry Potter.But she didn't know whether the prophecy had also changed because of this change, let alone whether the new prophecy had become related to Beryl Potter.

In any case, Snape doesn't appear to have turned to Dumbledore for that prophecy - there's nothing to support this speculation.

So, without the Lily factor, is he still a complete Death Eater now?Want to serve the Dark Lord to the end?

Liu Quan felt an inexplicable anxiety.

She suddenly put down the water glass and knife and fork, and leaned forward slightly.Decided to go straight to the point.

"Severus, for the sake of the real Lily, don't let her come back and see you hanging out with... with a bunch of lunatics and thugs!" She lowered her voice—though it wasn't necessary, The Silencing Charm is still working well - the tone has become serious.

She suddenly cut into this topic, and Snape seemed a little unexpected for a moment, and a flustered expression appeared on his face for a moment, and then disappeared quickly.He also slowly put down the knife and fork in his hand, and raised his eyes to stare at her.

"...Excuse me, what did you say?" He asked slowly in a silky voice.

Liu Quan tried to be very sincere.

"I said, stay away from dangerous people, Severus. Especially You-Know-Who," she said.

"Don't be fooled by their demagoguery...you can make it in your own right—"

"No!" Snape cut her off suddenly.He clenched his hands on the table into fists, so hard that the veins on the back of his hands stretched.

"I have to become stronger to change all of this, to change my life... And all of these can be obtained by following 'that person'..." His expression was distorted, like pain, and also like some kind of strong determination .

"But if you do this, the real Lily won't accept it!" Liu Quan was greatly surprised, and blurted out involuntarily, trying to stop his crazy dream.

Snape gave her a cold look.There was a kind of sneer in those eyes, which made her gasp involuntarily.

"Then what do you think I have that can be put in front of her now? I don't have a good family background, as a Slytherin, maybe I don't have a good reputation and image; even if I do, you think I'm applying to enter the Ministry of Magic now As a small employee, you can get everything I want?" He sneered, his tone was full of sarcasm, looking at her expression as if she was an innocent idiot with a troll mind.

"I'm not that Potter, Miss Fake." He ruthlessly poked at the person she wanted to use as an example to stop him, "Maybe most girls like his type, pure blood, long family, conceited, like Showing off, laying out a bright future as soon as you enter Hogwarts... Do you think I can get everything he already has by myself? Or do you think I go to Duncan like those trouble-loving Gryffindors? Bleddore can have it all? Dumbledore can't give me what I want. Only 'the man', only he can-"

Liu Quan seemed to have just found her voice in extreme shock at this moment. She heard herself making a hiss like suffocation, and retorted weakly: "...but 'that person' will also make you pay a huge amount that you can't imagine. The price! Severus, don't trust him, he's... he's..."

She stopped and swallowed the following words.

Her reason clearly told her that she couldn't tell the truth about Voldemort now.This will definitely cause major changes in the plot, and then trigger the self-protection mechanism of "the inertia of the plot"!And, tell a half-blood wizard that Voldemort is also a half-blood?Then he probably just felt a little closer to that Dark Lord because of this similar background!Especially in this era when the Dark Lord is still buying people's hearts everywhere!

Snape didn't pay much attention to her near gaffe.With a cold face, he glanced at her arrogantly, then turned his eyes away again, a mocking smile slowly floated on his lips.

"I believe that I can still get a small price in exchange for what I want. Besides, I have almost nothing now, and I can't think of anything else that 'that person' wants to take away from me..."

Liu Quan suddenly interrupted him loudly.

"soul!"

Snape was slightly taken aback, a sullen look appeared on his face. "What did you say?!"

Liu Quan seemed to have gained some confidence from it suddenly.Propping her elbows on the table, she leaned her upper body close to his face, and said in a low but firm voice, "He wants you to sell your soul, Severus. Even so... are you willing to give it to him? Just for the sake of it." Everything that you can get by working so hard for so many years?"

Snape looked up suddenly!

His slightly sallow face was pale, without a trace of blood; but a fierce flame was burning in his dark eyes, as if to burn her, an unrecognizable impostor, to ashes.

He seemed to hide the confusion in his eyes, and instantly showed a contemptuous smile, looking at her as if looking at a futile clown.

"It's... naive." His deep voice rang in her ears, the voice that had gone through the voice-changing period, fully showing the famous smooth and velvety texture. "Fake, what advantage did Professor Dumbledore give you to speak for him so desperately that you even... threatened me with bad words? Oh, you really pretend to be a Gryffindor through and through, Blind trust in Dumbledore for no reason, even before he offered you any benefit—perhaps it was because you were so involved that you were able to fool him?"

Liu Quan was stunned.

It's not that she didn't think that this matter must not be so easy to achieve - after all, the "inertia of the plot" is there, and the real Lily failed to get Severus Snape out of the death eater's life by threatening to sever friendship. How could she, the counterfeit Lily who had been discovered by him and hated to the bone, convince him so easily?

But she didn't expect that he would not listen to her advice at all, but mocked her motives in this way; she couldn't risk being discovered by the "inertia of the plot"-that was almost certain-to put everything that was destined to happen in the future tell him!

She swallowed mechanically, feeling her throat constricted, and her mouth was so dry that it was about to smoke.She looked directly into his eyes, and for some reason her eyes were so astringent that she wanted to shed tears.

She said dryly: "... Maybe you don't believe it, but I care about your soul more than you can imagine, Severus. Your soul is still intact and clean, don't dirty it— - Dirty it is just a few years earlier in exchange for the success you should have had, it's not worth it..."

Snape frowned deeply.

His hands are still placed straight on the table, his whole body is tense, because of Liu Quan's slightly leaning forward posture, he leaned back a little, as if trying to avoid her touch in this limited space. Touch is the same as breath.His face was full of disgust and some kind of bewilderment, and after a longer than expected period of silence, he finally spoke.

"Sorry, I can't wait for those years you're talking about. I have to get the most powerful as soon as possible, or before that, I'll be tortured to death by the stupid actions of stupid and impulsive trolls like Potter It's gone." He rolled his eyes mockingly and said with a slight smile, but there was no trace of a smile in his voice, it was as cold as ice.

Liu Quan stared at him in shock, unable to say a word.

She wanted to tell him "you will regret it in the future", but suddenly she couldn't be sure of it.

He regretted it in the original book, and it was entirely based on his choice that he finally killed his beloved Lily.But now, since she'd made sure Lily didn't die that brutal Halloween night in 1981, how could she be sure he'd regret it for some other unknown reason?

As a boy with strong self-esteem who spent the first half of his life in poverty, hardship, ridicule, displacement, domestic violence, and isolation, Severus Snape chose to listen to the extremes that are still composed of a lot of gorgeous words. Voldemort, who uses theory to confuse people, wants to gain great power by virtue of his own personal efforts, and obtain the affirmation, reputation and social status he pursues from power, which is also understandable.

She could tell him "you can get the Medal of Merlin as long as you research the improved Wolfsbane/Pharmaceutical", but who knows if what he pursues is only what the potion brings him?Was not the attainment of great magic and charms part of his quest?She didn't forget that he developed powerful spells such as "Shen Feng Wu Ying" during his studies. She thought that what he pursued was probably all the glory that the status of a wizard could give him, not just a certain part.

How else can you convince such a person?

For a moment she suddenly felt extremely depressed.She thought, she had to admit that she didn't have such a powerful force to convince him, even though she was wearing a shell that he loved.

Now this situation made her feel powerless like never before.

Before she could continue trying to persuade Snape, however, he stood up abruptly.

He gritted his teeth, and forceful lines appeared faintly on his pale cheeks.Liu Quan noticed that he was holding his left arm—and she knew what was engraved on his left arm.

She couldn't help but stared at him worriedly, lowered her voice, and asked cautiously and tentatively: "Severus, you...you have something to leave first?"

She heard Snape gasp suddenly, as if he couldn't stand her stupid question any longer.He didn't answer her, didn't even bother to look at her again, just pushed the chair away, walked around the dining table, and walked straight out.

Liu Quan was even more surprised, quickly pushed away the chair and stood up, with a tone of doubt and worry, shouted again: "Wait! Severus..."

At this time Snape had already reached the door of the restaurant, paused by the door, but did not turn around, just whispered: "Don't call me that."

Liu Quan was surprised, feeling that all of this was suddenly too wrong.

"why?"

Snape sighed deeply.His thin back didn't look so straight anymore, as if it carried the weight and secrets of the whole world, so heavy that it seemed to bend his young back.

Then he suddenly raised his head again, straightened his body again, and said mockingly in a cold tone: "...because you make me sick."

Liu Quan: "..."

She was speechless for a moment.Just watched him stride out of the restaurant, squeeze past a group of Muggles who were talking and laughing loudly with a hint of impatience, and disappeared behind the corner.

At this time, the system bacteria came out uninvited.

[I'm hated, player. 】Its leisurely tone always makes people feel a hint of ridicule.

Liu Quan was silent for a long time.

Then she casually summoned the waiter to settle the bill in a hurry, picked up her coat, opened the door and walked out of the shopping center.

The icy cold air of the winter night blows towards the face, and for a moment, it makes people feel a chill in the mind.

"It's ok."

After walking a long way along the sidewalk, she said softly.

The system bacteria snorted. 【uh-huh? ! 】

Liu Quan put his hands in the pockets of his coat, and the shopping bag was hung on one wrist. He lowered his head slightly and walked slowly.At this time, she happened to pass by a street lamp, and the light cast by the street lamp stretched her shadow very long.

"Because... I won't just accept the result of failure forever."

She continued talking to herself.

"Because I've been told that every failure I experience is a trial and a way to grow."

The system was silent for a moment.

[...Tezuka Kunimitsu? 】It spit out a name softly, then laughed.

[I didn't expect that after such a long time, you still haven't forgotten this person. 】

[So, what about Keigo Atobe?What about Kuranosuke Shiraishi?What about Munakata Reishi?What about Zhou Fangzun?Where is Yatogami Gorou?What about Hijikata Toshisan?What about Okita Souji?What about Saitoichi? ...]

It reported a series of names one after another, and Liu Quan's eyes widened as each of these names emerged in his mind.In the end, she stopped involuntarily, and looked at the dark night in front of her on the strange street.

"...Do you want to make players who have just suffered a major setback cry?"

She asked softly in a joking tone.However, the heaviness in his tone did not disappear.

"So, that's what 'Looking like a world away' said..."

The ending sound like a sigh curled up in the dark night.

"...they are all in my heart."

"Every one of them, I remember."

"So, one day, I will also win here. Because I have my mission. It is the kind of mission that must be achieved while crying."

The author has something to say:

February 8:

Today, the author's power broke out after a long time! 【No

Here is the five thousand word chapter~~