On the Seven Towers

It was very dark, but the lights were still on in Li Jia's room.

Li Jia's eyes were wide open, but his gaze was wandering outside. His hands were frozen in the air, trembling slightly. He looked like a piece of rotten wood about to be blown down by the wind. He stood alone and helpless in the wilderness.

Xiao Chen held the wine glass and looked at his expression calmly. He laughed at his impatience in his heart, but said sincerely: "Alas, I don't know why the count has such a strange idea. Maybe this is the style of feudal patriarchs. But I didn't agree to him."

Li Jia was stunned for a long time, then rubbed his face with his hands, muttering: "Not strange, not strange, no wonder, no wonder."

"Hey, are you okay?" Xiao Chen asked, looking at Li Jia's puppet-like movements.

"I'm not... It's okay. I'm just recalling what he said to me before. I've figured it out a little bit now. Haha, I didn't expect that in the end, after traveling to another world, I would still be looked down upon by others."

"Don't look down upon others all the time, you guy, can you be more confident." Xiao Chen couldn't stand Li Jia's bitter face. "In your previous life, you were a graduate student of a prestigious university, and now you're a magician, can you stop being so pitiful?"

"You understand! In the past, everyone thought I was just a timid and useless nerd. Apart from good grades, what else can I show? Those girls didn't bother to pay attention to me!" Li Jia finally recovered from his dull look and said angrily.

"You can prove to them that you are not. I know you are sometimes smart and can get things done. Last time, when we were doing business with those guys in Floro Town, you contributed a lot. Besides, you are the only one in the school who can pick up beautiful girls in this other world!" Xiao Chen comforted.

"That was just a coincidence. Serinda herself said that she approached me at first just to gather intelligence."

"But you took her down, a typical case of eating the sugar coating and sending the bullet away."

"What's the use of this!" Li Jia's voice became louder, "I want to marry her, but her father doesn't like me!"

He snatched the wine glass from Xiao Chen's hand and poured the remaining wine into his mouth. The sweet fruit wine choked his throat and made him cough uncontrollably.

"Cough cough." Li Jia coughed for a long time before he recovered. He raised his face, which was red because of his anger, and shouted, "I was wondering why I arrived more than half a month earlier than you, and the old guy never talked to me about practical things. Why is his attitude towards me always lukewarm? It turns out that he just thinks I'm not good enough! This old fox is too cunning!"

"It's just a different standpoint on the problem. You don't have to say that to him. After all, he is still your future father-in-law." Xiao Chen said.

"He looked down on my strength. He thought you were much stronger than me. That's why he wanted to marry you. These shameless nobles only care about the immediate benefits. I have also awakened the power of magic. I am not strong enough now, but will I be unable to do so in the future? He actually abandoned me like this!" Li Jia yelled a few times, and began to breathe heavily because of his emotional excitement.

He walked back and forth in the room angrily, and tried to smash the glass in his hand to the ground several times, but finally put the glass heavily on the table.

"Smash it, smash it, if you smash the earl, you will have to buy a new one. Anyway, we will make a small profit." Xiao Chen chuckled.

"Why are you not anxious? You still want to joke." Li Jia said angrily.

"I wonder if you will be angry with the earl or drunk to death because of a little wine, which will be a bargain for me. After all, Serinda is a beautiful woman with exotic style. It is not a loss for me to match her. Why should I be anxious?" Xiao Chen took a sip of wine leisurely and asked back.

"You bastard! You're still saying this now!"

"Okay, do you still want to hear what happened next?"

"Don't talk nonsense! Tell me, what did you say in the end?"

"Before I tell you, let me ask you a question." Xiao Chen sat up straight and asked seriously, "If the Earl insists on his opinion and doesn't let Serinda marry you. But the school really needs the Earl's support, so it is unwilling to make the relationship awkward for you, what will you do?"

"I, I..." Li Jia was like being splashed with a basin of cold water, and suddenly became quiet, "I can't afford to provoke, but I can afford to hide. Since you all want to make things difficult for me, I will take Serinda away!"

"Where to go? Are you sure she will go with you? Are you sure you can support her? Are you sure you can escape to a new place and start a new life?"

"There is always a way out."

"Also, what about the school? If The Earl breaks with us, and then he wants to take back his land, even at the cost of starting a war? "

"This..." Li Jia wanted to say something harsh at first, but when he carefully thought about the current situation in his mind several times, his expression began to become lonely. He held his face with both hands and sat down slowly, "I... don't know."

"If the Earl, the school, and everyone said that as long as I married Serinda, these things would not happen, would you really jump out to oppose it?"

Li Jia was reluctant to speak, but his head slowly lowered, "I... I really don't know."

Xiao Chen looked at him for a long time, and when he saw that he was silent, he suddenly said: "Coward! Where is your temper before?"

Li Jia looked up and glanced at Xiao Chen and said: "You said that the school needs his support. I, I can't insist on ruining everyone's business. What if it affects everyone's survival?"

"This reason is really bad. It's more like what the count said to persuade me." Xiao Chen shook his head and said, "If you want it, just work hard for it. Don't be afraid of pressure. If you are afraid of the wolf in front and the tiger in the back, what can you achieve? If you don't have determination, I How can I help you?”

Li Jia was a little stunned. He wiped his face with his hands a few times, raised his head and said, "You're right. I was confused."

Xiao Chen continued: "I rejected the earl at that time. I told him clearly, 'If anyone among us will marry Selinda, that person will only be Li Jia. If Li Jia marries Selinda, it is not Because we regard them as a bargaining chip for marriage, but because they love each other. 'Of course, the count laughed at my naivety, but I have tried my best to convince the count that you are a person qualified to marry her.

"I..., well, I may be really useless. But, you said it very well." Li Jia whispered.

Xiao Chen stood up, patted Li Jia on the shoulder and said: "In the face of huge interests, things like marriage are ultimately unreliable. What we have to do now is just to stabilize the earl and give us enough time to settle down. If a marriage that you already long for can make him trust us more, then it will kill two birds with one stone. But this marriage may not be a good thing and may give you a huge test. I am a little worried about you in the future. Faced with tremendous pressure, will you regret this choice?

"A lot of pressure?"

"The society we grew up in is completely different from here. Our concepts and ideas are incompatible with the people here. If we survive, we will definitely be a challenger to the order, and all the beneficiaries of the old order will become our enemies. . Unless we are willing to give up our cherished ideas and settle down to be a screw in the feudal society, bowing to those in high positions and lashing out at those in low positions." Xiao Chen said slowly, with a sense of historical heaviness in his words. I know that some of us can do this and are not ashamed of it at all, but I can’t do it, Principal Guo can’t do it, and neither can Luo Ling, what about you?”

"I, I will not be a feudal lord, but will liberate them like you did. I can't stand the way those nobles completely ignore the common people. Since I got here, I have been treating this place very kindly. residents, but...sometimes they are really too afraid of me," Li Jia replied.

Xiao Chen immediately asked: "Didn't you notice? You have only been here for more than half a month, and you are already used to facing civilians who bow and kneel to you. What's more, you will grow into a powerful magician, surpassing others. Status and power will keep you standing high. I don’t think you can imagine how difficult it is to be in a high position without looking down at others. Are you really that confident?

Li Jia was shocked, and cold sweat was already flowing down his back. He knew that he was not a strong-willed person, but the feeling of mastering others was so wonderful. Over the past few days, everyone's respect for him had made him accustomed to this feeling. ‘Power is more seductive than beautiful women and strong liquor’, what the Earl said one day rang in his mind.

"What's more, you will be a member of the feudal lord's family. If Selinda asks you to 'act like a lord and take good care of those untouchables?', what will you do?"

"I..." Li Jia couldn't help but hesitate.

"I don't want you to degenerate and degenerate because of her relationship, and become a superior and disgusting person."

"I, I will try to change her. In other words, we all represent something more advanced. I don't know what you think of Selinda. But I can feel that she is a kind person in her heart." Li Jia said solemnly.

"But if we inevitably break with the count in the end, this kind of pressure from both sides is what you have to bear. This is not just a plywood, it may be a real life and death decision. Have you figured it out?"

Li Jia was silent. Xiao Chen was not impatient, but slowly waited for him to figure it out. From Xiao Chen's heart, he was conflicted. He never thought Selinda was a good match, but Li Jia was interested in her. My thoughts are as clear as a torch in the dark night...

"I can't guarantee anything. I only know that if I don't fight for it now, I will regret it for the rest of my life. Even if I become someone I despise, it won't make me give up." Li Jia raised his head and said.

Xiao Chen looked at Li Jia for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking. After a long time, he said: "I understand. In this case, we will find a way for you to gain enough strength as soon as possible."

Xiao Chen stood up, opened his duffel bag, and took out a heavy book from inside.