588 Don't believe in fairy tales Looking at Charlize in frustration, Hugo didn't know what to say, so he could only say intermittently, "This happens, you know, it happens a lot, it can happen to anyone, right...... Hugo struggled to organize his language, "as if it were ...... Well, women have their own intuition, only after feeling that atmosphere, everything will develop naturally, if not, then no. That's it!" As he spoke, Hugo found the direction of his answer, and said with certainty, "So, you should trust your instincts, and then slowly develop, and things will go in the right direction." ”

Charlize held his forehead with his right hand and looked at Hugo, "What if I never feel right?"

Belch...... Hugo choked on this, and then said hesitantly, "So this means that this is not the right person?"

Charlize let out a long breath, "If Stu wasn't the right person, I wouldn't have gone out on dates with him so many times, you know, every qiē feels very good, and every qiē is ......" Speaking of this, Charlize saw Hugo in the corner of her eye, even she didn't know how Hugo entered her sight, she could clearly see the horrible scar on Hugo's elbow, but her heartbeat missed a beat, which made her retract her gaze in a panic, "So, I always feel ......"

Originally, Hugo thought that Charlize was going to continue, but found that Charlize was silent. Hugo is also not sure how to comfort Charlize, there is a big difference between men and women, if you are comforting your male friend at this time, whenever you don't know what to say, drinking is the best solution, and the problem will be much simpler. But not women.

Just as all the noise in the hall had settled, Charlize suddenly spoke again, "Maybe it's because he's so perfect, you know, I'm afraid of perfection because I don't believe in fairy tales." Truly perfect things can only appear in fairy tales, where the prince saves the princess and lives happily ever after, as if all the troubles could be solved with just a kiss, but ...... That's a fairy tale, and we live in reality, and there are no fairy tales in reality. ”

Charlize seemed to have really found the reason, and she said with some chagrin, her voice a little cold in the midnight moonlight. Hugo hesitated and stood up gently, but Charlize was caught up in her own thoughts, but she didn't notice it, and when she got out of it, she found that she had a glass of warm honey water in front of her, and Hugo's vigorous fingers were holding the glass in front of her eyes.

Charlize took the cup, and Hugo picked up the blanket from the sofa and draped it over Charlize's shoulders. Charlize could clearly feel the warmth conveyed to the bottom of her heart with both hands, and her stiff heart gradually eased because of the unexpected time tonight, and it was only now that Charlize felt that she was alive again, she lowered her head and drank a sip of honey water, and her whole person was warm.

Charlize took another sip of honey water, then bent down to find a pack of cigarettes from his satchel he had dropped on the ground, and glanced at Hugo, "Can I?"

Hugo knew that Charlize had a smoking addiction, Charlize once told him that this was a bad habit in the modeling industry at the beginning, because the pressure was too great, and he had to smoke to relieve the pressure, but later it evolved into a smoking addiction, and now she can't quit if she wants to, and there is a tendency to become stricter and stricter, and now she often smokes a pack of cigarettes a day. However, Charlize also knew that Hugo was allergic to nicotine, so when Hugo was at home, she and Alex would go to the kitchen or their room to smoke.

Hugo looked at Charlize's slightly trembling fingers, he didn't know that Charlize was finally surging up at this time because of what had just happened; Or because of the memories she just said, the director fell into instability, but Hugo knew that Charlize needed to settle down.

Hugo shrugged his shoulders and agreed, but he sat down on the far end of the couch anyway, "Why don't you try to quit?" Although Charlize had said it before, Hugo asked anyway in order to change the subject.

"If I was waiting for someone who could convince me to quit smoking, would you believe me?" Charlize hooked the corners of his mouth slightly, which made Hugo laugh dumbly.

In fact, appreciating beautiful women smoking is sometimes a visual pleasure, Charlize has a kind of elegance and laziness when smoking, like a Persian cat who has just woken up, and the paws without sharp nails gently scratch on the skin, which makes people feel particularly enchanting.

Charlize sat on the couch and swallowed the smoke, watching the smoke change shape in his vision, and his feelings were calmed little by little, "I was very weak when I was a child, and the two front teeth in my upper jaw were destroyed by antibiotics very early, and I couldn't speak until I changed my teeth for the second time when I was nine years old, but interestingly, I loved to laugh very much. So when I took a group photo at elementary school, I covered the roof of my mouth with my upper lip, revealing only the lower row of teeth......"

Charlize's faint words made Hugo laugh out loud, even Charlize himself laughed, imagining the stupid things he did when he was a child, it is indeed unbearable, "When I was studying, because I didn't have front teeth, and I wore round glasses, no one liked me at all, and it could even be said that they hated me, I was the group of people who sat next to the garbage heap every time I ate in American movies." Charlize also gestured with his hands to the shape of the round glasses and placed them in front of his eyes, although he could laugh and tease at this time, but it is conceivable that Theron was not happy in his childhood.

"I was a joke at school, I had a lot of crushes on men, but never had a boyfriend, you know ......" Speaking of which, Charlize glanced at Hugo, which reminded the two of them of the madness of that night, which was Charlize's first time, "When I was eleven years old, I accidentally fell off my horse, and not only did I break my bones, but I was also in a coma for several hours, and since then, I have encouraged myself to be strong and not to let those fears haunt me all the time, because life is not a fairy tale, Charming princes don't go everywhere, and Cinderella isn't that simple. Instead of waiting for the prince to save me, I should take the initiative to be strong and win my happiness. ”

Hugo never heard Charlize talk about these things, perhaps because they never had the opportunity to talk about these things, just as Hugo never mentioned the things he had fought hard in the underground rock circle, not because those things were his own experience before he crossed over, but because there was no suitable opportunity.

Listening to Charlify's slightly mocking narration, Hugo fell silent, and Charlize, shrouded in smoke, looked distant, covered with a halo of alienation.

"Remember when I told you that my father died in a car accident?" Charlize raised his eyes and looked at Hugo through the smoke, Hugo did not speak, just looked at himself quietly, Charlize could see Hugo's calm and warm amber eyes, she knew, Hugo remembered; She also knew that she could trust him. She never sued anyone about this, but today, she wants to sue Hugo.

"That's a lie, in fact, it was my mother who killed him." Charlize's simple and clear words plunged the hall into a terrible silence, Charlize looked at Hugo like this, she could see the surprise in Hugo's expression, but she couldn't see the contempt or rejection or fear in Hugo's expression, and there was no sympathy or pity, more incomprehension, more trust. This made Charlize feel a warm current in her cold heart, and she knew that she could trust him.

"My father, Charles, he's an alcoholic and his partner," Charlize said intermittently, in the smoke, Hugo couldn't see her expression clearly, but he could hear a little cry in Charlize's voice, which was quickly cut off by Charlize, and Hugo knew that Charlize would not allow herself to be weak, and she was forcing herself. "In my memory, he was barely awake when he's, he, you know, he ...... He always likes to vent his unhappiness in life while he is drinking, and my mother and I are often beaten by him, and my mother always asks me to hide under the bed in order to protect me. I could always see the chaotic footsteps from under the bed, and then listen to my mother begging for mercy, hoping that Charles would not come and beat me. ”

At this, Charlize paused, and she took a deep breath, as if wishing she hadn't been defeated by this terrible memory. Hugo wanted to say a few words of comfort, but he didn't know what to say, so he could only look at Charlize in silence but firmly.

Although Hugo didn't say anything, that look was enough for Charlize, "It was l991, June 21, yes, I remember it very well, it was raining outside that night, crazy rain, and I almost suspected that the sky was going to fall." Charles was drunk again, he had just come home and started arguing with his mother, Charles had lost his mind, he started trying to beat my mother and me again, and my mother quickly returned to the room with me and told me to hide. Then Mom wanted to confront Charles, but this time, Charles was really crazy, he took out his pistol and roared to shoot Mom and me, because we were all a burden to him, and he thought his life was ruined because of us. ”

Even though Hugo has watched countless bloody TV series, he was shocked and completely lost his words when he actually heard that such a bizarre and terrible thing happened to Charlize.

After Charlize opened her mouth, there was no way to stop, it was like a toxin, and once she started to squeeze out, there was no way for her to stop, otherwise she would suffocate to death" Mom frantically pressed against the door, but Charles had lost his mind, he started shooting at the door, the bullet went through the wooden door, but it didn't hit me and Mom. Mom picked up the revolver in the room, loaded it, she wanted to protect me, opened the door and rushed out like crazy. I was lying on the ground and crawling out desperately, I had a shotgun in my bedroom, I was going to get that gun, I was going to kill Charles, I couldn't let him hurt me and my mom, I couldn't ......"

Looking at Charlize who was trembling, Hugo couldn't hold back any longer, he walked over like this, sat down next to Charlize, and then took Charlize into his arms, but Charlize began to struggle violently, Hugo clamped his arms hard, and whispered, "It's me, it's me, it's me......"

Charlize gradually quieted down in Hugo's warm voice, and said in a choked voice, "Then I heard a gunshot, and when I got back to their bedroom, I saw my mother cowering in the corner in pain, and Charles ...... Charles was lying in a pool of blood like this, a lot of blood, really, really a lot of blood......"

(To be continued.)

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