Chapter 744: Chapter 744: Anyway, we haven’t slept together
When Charles McIntosh stopped the car, Lilac Serval was still asleep.
McIntosh took out a cigarette from the pack and held it between his fingers.
He didn’t light it, he just toyed with the lighter quietly.
Outside was a deep night sky, a heavy blanket of black interwoven with white mist.
Inside the car, it was completely silent.
McIntosh sat without moving, while Lilac slept soundly beside him.
Half an hour later, she stirred from her sleep, bleary-eyed and confused, only then realizing that the car had stopped at some point.
“We’re not going anymore?” Lilac asked in a hoarse voice.
Her blurry eyes looked at the man sitting in the driver’s seat.
“You really let your guard down, sleeping so soundly in my car.”
“What do I need to guard against? Are you going to drug me? Doesn’t matter, we’ve never been to bed together anyway, so giving it a try doesn’t bother me.” Lilac murmured carelessly.
“Lilac!” Charles McIntosh sounded angry, “Now all you can talk about is ‘men’ and ‘going to bed’, have you no sense of shame? Huh?”
“No, I don’t. What about it? Are you going to criticise me? Or are you going to dunk me in a pig cage?” Lilac said indifferently.
McIntosh swallowed his resentment, finding himself at a loss for words.
“Where are we? Not letting people sleep in the middle of the night? I want to go back to the hotel…” Lilac propped her head up languidly, utterly fatigued.
Arguing was a physically exhausting affair, completely draining.
“Picking Stars Tower.” McIntosh replied monotonously.
Many years ago, probably when he was eight or nine, he was sent to his master to learn martial arts.
At that time, Lilac was an orphan adopted by his master.
She was young, only three or four years old, and was curious about everything.
Upon hearing that he was from Landon, she was always pestering him to tell her about the fun places and delicious foods in Landon.
After he ran out of stories, he started making up stories to fool her.
Once, he told her that there was a tower in Landon; tall and magnificent, called Picking Stars Tower, where one could reach the stars if they stood on top of it.
‘The tower so high and hundreds of feet tall, that one could pluck the stars from the sky.’
The little girl looked up to him, repeatedly pestering him to take her to pick stars.
The idea of actually touching the stars was such a magical and wonderful thought!
From then on, whenever Lilac saw him, she wanted him to take her to Picking Stars Tower to pick stars!
She was very curious, what did the stars look like? Were they five-pointed? Yellow?
And furthermore, she firmly believed that Brother McIntosh had picked stars before! That Brother McIntosh had many stars at home!
However, the story was his fabrication, there was no Picking Stars Tower and no one could actually pick stars.
Later, whenever Lilac mentioned Picking Stars Tower, he would divert the topic.
But the little girl was very persistent and insisted on going to Picking Stars Tower, pestering him every day.
Only when Lilac grew a little older and perhaps understood that stars couldn’t be plucked, did she stop asking him about it.
However, she always believed that there was a tower in Landon called Picking Stars Tower.
McIntosh snapped back to reality, tapping his steering wheel with the lighter in his hand.
Later, when he gained power and money, he built a tall tower in Landon and named it “Picking Stars Tower”.
Lilac’s heart stirred.
She raised her head and looked out the window —
There in sight stood a high tower, layer upon layer, imposing and magnificent.
There were ripples dancing in her eyes like when a stone is cast into a calm lake, creating waves.
There were lights on the tower, illuminating the entire building and its staircases.
The top of the tower was hidden by a haze of white mist, the full view was obscured, but one could still glimpse the impressive solemnity of Picking Stars Tower.
The tower is so high and hundreds of feet tall, that one could pluck the stars from the sky.