Chapter 63: Chapter 63: Refusing to be a father, what are the nice words?
"So there are thousands of choices~ Of course you can follow your original plan."
'What did you say about Lilia? It seems like I can help her?'
"Isn't it possible?"
'You are pushing me into the fire pit.'
"The butterfly's wings never stop fluttering. Isn't your existence itself helping her?"
"Look up."
"Alan."
Alan paused, as if he noticed something, and slowly raised his head.
Senis and Rudy at the dinner table had already cast their eyes over without knowing when, and Paul on the side showed a strange look of astonishment, shock, disbelief, and even a little discomfort, and also locked his eyes on Alan.
It was like a substantial 'sense of identification' surrounded the 'outsider'.
Alan opened his mouth and looked back at everyone helplessly.
Obviously, the fact that he ran away from the dinner table immediately after the incident—plus his rich and tangled facial expressions, and his posture as if he had prepared in advance—immediately drew everyone's suspicion to this character who did not belong to the original storyline at all.
And this extra male child out of thin air—his height did not look like a child. In this precocious world, he was nearly ten years old, and his sexual characteristics were fully developed under the swordsman template. When using fighting spirit, he would even be as hard as iron, and even had the "criminal record" of interacting with Mrs. Somar in an abnormal way in Rudy's eyes.
"Am I right? The current situation is—"
Alan looked at the expressions of everyone and answered the system's question dully, but because he was too stunned, he couldn't help but speak.
"The current situation is... I am a father again?"
After the voice fell, there was a dead silence in the room.
At this time, Lilia, who had been looking down, finally realized that the atmosphere was not right. She looked up at the wonderful expressions of everyone in confusion, and followed everyone's line of sight to look at Alan, who hurriedly covered his mouth by the wall.
The two looked at each other.
There was only the sound of the candle licking the air.
"Turning the tide!"
"At this moment, among the thousands of choices, the host used his strong personality charm to immediately curb the dispute in the original storyline, saving Paul from being slapped in the face, shrinking on the ground and trembling, and losing the face of the head of the family."
"You are Paul's God!"
"Go away!!!"
Alan looked at Lilia's puzzled and confused expression, and his mind went blank.
"What is this!!!"
At this moment, in Alan's dull eyes, Senis stood up. She stared at Alan in a daze, and then smiled bitterly.
"Alan. I didn't expect that you would be the first to stand up."
Alan felt that his hair was about to stand up. He looked at Paul in astonishment. The latter just looked at Alan with a horrified and confused expression, as if he was completely confused.
Then Senis moved. She sighed slightly and stood up.
The sound of the chair was particularly harsh in the silent atmosphere at this time.
Then—
"Pa!"
A loud slap sounded. Without even looking at Paul, Senis slapped him.
Paul covered his face and turned to look at Senis in astonishment.
Senis looked back at him coldly.
"Paul, how long are you going to hide behind the child? Don't you even have the courage to take responsibility? How long will you react to Alan's completely unreasonable remarks?"
Paul was stunned for a moment, and then his reason came back.
"How could Alan get involved with Lilia? What's wrong with me? I was so flustered that I didn't even have the responsibility that a man should have?"
His face instantly became depressed, and he held his head and was about to admit his fault.
But then he heard Senis's light and floating words, like a hydrogen balloon in the air, without any sense of being down to earth.
"Forget it. In your eyes, the promise you made to me is just empty talk."
Senis left this sentence and walked to the second floor without looking back. She returned to her bedroom, and the door was closed with a bang.
Only then did Rudy come back to his senses.
Because of Alan's presence, his attention was obviously diverted. Before he could do anything, Senis had left.
Lilia lowered her head again. She had realized that Alan's words just now were just a clumsy response to try to make some efforts when she was caught off guard. But Senis's departure made her obviously a little overwhelmed.
She was ready to be scolded, beaten, and even kicked out of the house immediately by Senis, but she never thought it would be this result.
Senis left immediately—why?
Paul grabbed his head with both hands and was hitting his head against the table helplessly, showing an expression of the sky falling.
Looking at this scene, Alan, who failed as a father, was in a state of shock.
The current situation is completely different from the original plot!
Why did Rudy have the opportunity to get involved in the original plot?
That was because after Senis got angry, she saw that Paul looked like a boneless person, and immediately put on the posture of the hostess and held a family meeting, which gave Rudy the opportunity to excuse Lilia.
But at this time, Senis, who was supposed to hold a family meeting, actually went back to the bedroom directly?
What happened?
Alan reviewed the situation for a long time before he came to a conclusion.
Alan's behavior that set him on fire led to various chain reactions. Paul, who should have immediately admitted his dirty deeds, was confused and failed to react immediately. As a result, Alan spoke first, but his hasty words of admitting his fatherhood were really illogical, and Alan looked straight at Paul, which made Senis instantly confirm that the culprit was her husband.
Up to this time, Paul did not even admit the intention of his behavior.
Senis was very disappointed with him.
In the original work, Senis's confession clearly mentioned that her mood at the time had been forced into a desperate situation, and her heart was filled with anger. As long as she struggled for control a little, she would probably yell at Lilia to get out, or announce her departure.
And the reaction just now was the latter. Even Senis might have gone back to pack up!
This plot line is completely different from the original work!
Alan thought of this and immediately looked at Rudy, speaking very quickly.
"Rudy, do something. Madam is not in a good condition now!"
Rudy came back to his senses, hesitated for a moment, and then glanced at Lilia, who looked ashen.
"...The only way now is to put all the responsibility on Father. In this way, there is still a possibility of keeping Lilia."
Alan was furious when he heard Rudy's words. He kicked Rudy off the chair, grabbed his collar and lifted him up, saying word by word:
"You are crazy!! If you continue to do this, she may feel that she is the redundant one in the family! Do you still think you are playing a family game at this point? You are good, I am good, and everyone is good? Let Madam bear it alone!? How to bear it? Let her leave home by herself?!"
Rudy saw Alan's oppressive attitude for the first time, and he couldn't help but shrink his neck.
"Do we have to kick Lilia out? But if we kick her out directly, she will die on the way. It's freezing outside. Wait, Alan, aren't you good at talking nicely? Think about how to get your mother to stay!"
Lilia lowered her eyes and glanced at Paul, who was still lying on the table and pulling his hair in vain. Her eyes dimmed for a moment, but her words came out of her mouth in an instant.
"I should go. This is the punishment I deserve. Sorry, please make sure to let—"
"Lilia, I think I need to calm down first."
"Enough!"
Alan shouted angrily, interrupting Rudy and Lilia's conversation.
He took a deep breath, turned his head and looked at the stairs, and his thoughts flashed through his mind.
'In the original plot, the reason why Senis accepted Lilia was that she noticed that Rudy, her son, valued the family. So does Rudy need to show his importance to the family again here?'
'No! This is not the root cause. The root cause is the attitude of the family! She couldn't bear to see Rudy, who valued family so much, sad. In the final analysis, she was a person who cared about family very much. It was true that people of the same family were like one another.'
He turned his head and glanced at Paul, who was lying on the table and felt that the sky was falling and the earth was collapsing.
'Paul also realized that his family might fall apart, which was why he had such a panicked expression of the destruction of the world. He couldn't make any rational judgment at all, because the scumbag was now panicking and completely lost his sense of proportion.'
'Care about family? If we start from this point, the best way to reverse the plot is...'
Alan narrowed his eyes, and a flash of understanding flashed across his eyes, and he spoke quickly.
"Rudius, do you think your mother really has the perseverance to let go of this life, or does she really not know anything about her husband?"
Paul suddenly straightened his neck from the table and looked at the two of them blankly.
Rudy looked at Alan quietly. He felt that the other party had already found a solution, and it was more appropriate to listen now instead of interrupting.
Sure enough, Alan didn't intend to get an answer from Rudy at all. He asked and answered himself very quickly.
"You know very well that she is reluctant to let go, and I also know your thoughts. You can't bear to see Lilia, a pregnant woman, being driven out of the house and violently dying, so you hurriedly threw the responsibility out. It doesn't matter if it's your uncle who did something wrong or me who has the conditions to commit the crime. As long as there is a candidate who attracts the current hatred of the lady, then you think this matter can be easily let go, right?"
Rudy blinked. This is what he originally thought.
Alan looked at him with a very sincere expression.
"Your way may work, but you completely ignore the lady's feelings. It is equivalent to completely imposing your will on her and making a choice for her. Rudy, ask yourself, is this right?"
Rudy's eyes froze.
"I tell you, this is not right. It's uncle who is wrong, not Madam! She, Senis, is a complete victim. Why do you have the right to make choices for her?"
Paul opened his mouth in astonishment and was about to say something, but Alan slapped him on the table, which frightened him. Lilia was attracted by the movement and looked at Alan with a dead look.
The latter looked around at the three people.
"Uncle is concerned about how to prevent the family from breaking up. Rudy is concerned about not wanting to face Lilia being kicked out of the house. Lilia is concerned about how to quickly get rid of her guilt so that she can face punishment and her own judgment."
"The three of you are now completely considering the problem from your own selfish perspective. You all want to solve your own inner 'dilemma', but no one is considering Senis's position. Is this really good?"
The three of them were stunned.
Alan stretched out his palm, spread it flat in front of everyone, and tapped his fingers one by one.
"There are five things that uncle and Lilia need to do right now:
One: Get rid of your own selfishness and put yourself in the madam's shoes, instead of subconsciously thinking about how to lead the situation to the result you want.
Two: Go upstairs to find the madam, kneel down to admit your mistakes and apologize, begging her to give you a chance to speak.
Three: Express your views on this family, whether you like the current family atmosphere, and what you hope this family will be like in the future.
Four: Beg for the madam's forgiveness and make your future promises to her."
As Paul and Lilia gradually came back to their senses, Alan clasped his last finger and turned his head to look at the stunned Rudy.
"Finally! Hand the right of choice back to the victim! Wait for the lady to judge the two of you! Instead of someone forcing her to make a decision, this is the greatest respect for her."
"Do you understand? Let Senis, a living person, feel valued by this family, loved and cherished by her family, and let her regain her expectations of her 'family'. This is the only thing you can do. This is the best choice to save the current situation, instead of ignoring the feelings of the victim and then thinking about how to achieve the results you want! Forcing her, a victim, to accept the bitter fruit and digest it herself, I just want to ask you, who the hell did it wrong? Huh?!"
Alan suppressed his voice and threw words at Paul and Lilia like a machine gun. Then his expression suddenly became indifferent. He no longer paid attention to Paul and Lilia with different expressions. He slowly turned his head and looked deeply at Rudy.
'At this point, the arrangement is complete to make Senis feel that her family is valued, and redirect the matter to the original plot, where Senis accepted Lilia's situation because of her family's attitude.'
'This is the best solution to the current dilemma.'
Alan raised his hand and pointed to the stairs.
"Go ahead. If you wait any longer, she will probably have packed her luggage."
Rudy, who had just exchanged glances with Alan, suddenly smiled silently.
'Alan is still the same. He always speaks nice words.'
'Then, in order to cooperate with his thinking, what I should do is—'
Rudy stopped smiling and turned to look at Paul, who was breathing heavily to prepare himself, and Lilia, who was pinching the corner of her clothes and seemed to be very troubled and about to cry.
"I think what Alan said is right. So, father, Lilia."
He said in a childish voice pretending to be innocent, as if it was a matter of course.
"Shall we go?"