HP's Platinum Temptation

Chapter 119 Compromise

Clarence's words sound not only domineering, but also rascal.However, it really stopped Lucius, made him lose his voice in surprise, and at the same time couldn't look away.

"Don't need an explanation?" Lucius shifted his gaze from facing Clarence's eyes to the tattoo on his left arm, stretched out his right hand, and stroked those petals that slowly turned back to purple: "Hehe, It turns out that you have such a vicious face, and you hid it well before."

"It's not hiding, it's just that there is no need to show. Don't think I'm easy to bully, Lucius." Clarence kept kneeling on the ground, didn't get up, and didn't let go of Lucius' left hand that he was holding.

"What's the difference between you and the Dark Lord?" Lucius smiled wryly and looked at Clarence.

"Of course, I didn't deprive you of the right to refuse." Clarence said decisively.

"Really? Are you sure you're really giving me the right to choose? It's not too bad to retreat." Lucius said softly: "Such a despicable trick, do you think everyone will follow your trick? ?”

"As long as it works for you." Clarence did not deny that he was actually forcing Lucius to make a decision.Although it is said that the decision can be changed at any time, in fact, as long as Lucius does not try at the first time, Clarence has already won.

"Where did you get the confidence?" Lucius snorted coldly and raised his chin.

"You gave it." As if declaring victory, Clarence raised Lucius' hand again, brought it to his mouth, and kissed him delicately.

"You won..." Lucius' eyes were gradually replaced by softer emotions, and his tone became helpless: "I really can't treat you as a stranger. But don't try to control me, I won't let you help me Make the decision!"

"As long as you don't deny that you love me, everything else is fine." Clarence smiled brightly.

"Don't be too happy, it doesn't mean anything." Lucius withdrew his grasped hand and raised his voice emphatically.

"It doesn't matter, that's my own business." Clarence was not angry, and raised his hand to hold Lucius's side of the face: "Let me check the spoils first."

"Get out!" Lucius raised his hand to push away Clarence who was about to kiss him, quickly pulled down his sleeves, and fastened them again.

"mean!"

"My pleasure!"

"awkward!"

"..."

Clarence looked at Lucius with a bad face, and his mood improved.For a person like Lucius who doesn't know how many masks he has with him, real negative emotions are much rarer and more precious than false goodwill.Clarence enjoyed the feeling of successfully disarming the opponent.

"Stay here for dinner? But this time I didn't pre-order the ingredients, so I can't cook Chinese food." Clarence got up from the ground and stood up.The overbearing just now also disappeared completely.A bright, slightly silly smile remained on his face.

"You really cooked so many dishes waiting for me?" Lucius frowned slightly, remembering the numbers mentioned in the last letter.

"Is it necessary to deceive you about this kind of thing? If you will regret it because you missed it, I can make another reservation. It will arrive in two days. Anyway, I have lived here since today, and you can come anytime. Welcome to stay overnight. "

"Are you crazy? The shipping fee for a meal alone costs a hundred Galleons!" Lucius felt the pain for Clarence until the corner of his mouth twitched.

"It's okay, it's not really Galleons, it's just a Muggle currency that can be exchanged for one hundred Galleons. If you like, I can introduce those materials that can be grown and cultivated in the UK. But there are some that are really only It can be imported, but the climate difference between the UK and China is too great. It is difficult to make up the gap perfectly. It is not impossible to grow in the UK, but the taste of the finished product is estimated to be quite different. I still want to keep improving." Speaking of As for the ingredients for cooking, Clarence was a little rambling: "It's the first time I've made it before, and I don't have much experience. I will definitely make it better in the future. Oh, some dishes require special kitchen utensils, and I must pre-order them next time." .”

"That's not what I want to say. You are too..." Lucius probably wanted to say waste, but in the end he refrained from saying it, probably because he felt that he had no status to criticize Clarence.

"Don't worry, I can't eat enough of mine. Next time I will take you to see some of my Muggle specialty industries, and treat it as a date. It is said that the dating project of cross-border flower viewing is popular in pure-blood circles. I have a flower manor in the Netherlands , the scenery should be nice."

Lucius sank into the sofa stool he was sitting on, closed his eyes, and looked like he wasn't going to continue this conversation with Clarence.

Clarence raised the corners of his mouth slightly, leaned over, and at the same time Lucius opened his eyes when he felt him approaching, he kissed Lucius' thin lips accurately.He left with a light touch, facing Lucius' annoyed expression, Clarence looked proud of his scheme.

"Can you not be so boring?" Lucius gave Clarence a white look: "Why don't you go back to Lambert Manor, but live here?"

"It's convenient for you to come and spend the night." Clarence replied without thinking.

Lucius, who was obviously dissatisfied with Clarence's answer, silently glanced at Clarence, stood up and said, "I'm going back."

"No, don't go, I won't make fun of you." Clarence pushed Lucius back on the sofa, coughed twice deliberately, and put away his bright smile that was almost unstoppable: "There are many people in the family, It’s inconvenient to do things, and it’s also inconvenient for you or Sirius to come to me.”

"Are you busy?" Seeing that Clarence was so free to stay here with him for so long, Lucius showed an expression of "you can just lie casually", and didn't believe what Clarence said at all.

"That's true. The preparations for the Quidditch World Cup have come to an end, and the details of the organization and operation are the most troublesome, and they are prone to problems every year." Clarence sat back on the sofa he was sitting on just now : "Mr. Crouch has always emphasized that this year must be a World Cup without any accidents."

"The Quidditch World Cup? Hasn't the World Cup Park been built? What else needs to be prepared? The construction of the venue has been completed this year, and it has broken the record for the Quidditch World Cup in recent decades." Lucius seemed to be interested The Quidditch World Cup wasn't very interesting.There was a clear expression of indifference to the matter in his tone.

"It's now called the Golden Snitch Sports Park. Our playing field has also been completed. Thanks to Yvette and Sirius, they have been overseeing the project over there and have lived there for more than three months." Clarence Explained: "Because the venue was completed ahead of schedule, Mr. Crouch hopes to have better arrangements for the accommodation of spectators this year than before. He is also very interested in our live-action game system."

"He's still so motivated, it's a pity that all his efforts are in vain." Lucius curled his lips, and was quite unimpressed by the official of the Ministry of Magic that Clarence mentioned two.As he spoke, he took out a roll of parchment from his pocket: "I just remembered about Crouch. This is for you, a list of all Death Eaters I know, regardless of loyalty or not. I want to know these people The situation, the address. The Dark Lord was alarmed in Albania before, and the Death Eater problem must be resolved as soon as possible."

"The list? Did you plan to come and talk to me about this today?" Clarence took the parchment and found a long string of names on it: "There are so many, I will definitely not be able to check them all in one day. The requirement for magic power is relatively high. Is there any relative focus, I can check those first. You just asked me to check this, what have you been doing for the past three months? I thought you were busy dealing with Death Eaters The question just keeps ignoring me.”

"Combat training." Lucius said dryly, "We don't intend to let go of the alliance's dominance."

"Aren't you not going to play?" Clarence asked, "planning to violate our suspension list?"

"Of course not, but that doesn't mean that I can't provide effective and feasible suggestions for the participants." Lucius didn't want to continue to dwell on the issue of competition training, so he changed the subject before waiting for Clarence's response: "There are a few people who are relatively The important ones, I have listed them at the top, we must confirm their situation."

"How are you going to deal with the Death Eaters? Do you need help?" Clarence re-rolled the parchment, and did not immediately start the investigation.

"Not yet..." Lucius stopped in the middle of speaking, glanced at the violet mark on Clarence's arm, showed a thoughtful expression, and asked with a little hesitation: "Your prank, Can there be other functions?"

"This? It seems that you really like my idea." Clarence said with a smile: "In fact, it is something based on a magic contract, and the simple functions that the contract can achieve can be achieved. As for the complicated ones, it may not be easy. What, do you really want me to follow the example of the Dark Lord and use the Mark to control you?"

"Let me think about it." Lucius waved his hand, preventing Clarence from interrupting his train of thought: "If you have time now, help me check the situation of those people."

"Okay, think about it slowly. I'll go to the study, come and find me later." Facing Lucius' disgusting gaze, Clarence leaned closer.Sitting on the armrest of Lucius' sofa, he wrapped his arms around Lucius' shoulders and got a perfunctory tongue kiss before he reluctantly let go: "Don't leave at night, I'll make you dinner."

Lucius frowned again, raised his head to meet Clarence's gaze, neither spoke nor looked away.Clarence naturally looked back at each other very persistently, and refused to let go of the arm around Lucius' shoulder.

The strange confrontation was carried out in continuous silence, and finally Lucius was defeated, looked away, and nodded with a barely recognizable movement.

Clarence, who had forced Lucius to compromise one after another, regained that bright idiotic smile, hummed an incomprehensible tune in an extremely comfortable mood, and went back to his study.

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An afternoon passed quietly.Lucius stayed in the living room and didn't come up.Clarence also looked up the addresses of those Death Eaters in the study with peace of mind.During the period, Clarence ordered Link to serve himself and Lucius afternoon tea and stomach-filling snacks respectively, and asked Link to ask Lucius if he had any other orders.The latter required quills, ink, and parchment.It is obvious that his thinking has achieved preliminary results.

By the time Clarence finished his work and went downstairs to prepare dinner, Lucius had moved from the living room to the kitchen.

Because the kitchen only has a table and chair suitable for writing, and the living room only has a sofa.Probably because he didn't want to be harassed by Clarence halfway, Lucius didn't choose a more suitable study.

When Lucius saw Clarence coming in, putting on an apron familiarly, and then preparing dinner, he showed a rather complicated expression.Then he returned to his own business.

While processing the materials, Clarence looked at the serious Lucius from time to time, remembering one of the important reasons why he was bent in his previous life.

Compared with a woman with a more delicate and sensitive mind, the love between men will save a lot of inexplicable time wasting.It is probably used as males, and their thinking tends to be as simple as possible.So to be entangled is when you haven't made a decision; once you make a decision, you will face it calmly no matter what the final choice is.

Today, before Clarence forced Lucius to make a choice, even if the two of them lay hugging each other on the bed, there would be an embarrassment as if they were separated by a piece of sandpaper.Feelings and relationships didn't quite match up, that's why all the twists and turns before.Lucius' attitude has also been repeated many times, more often when the two look at each other, he can hide the emotions in his eyes.

And now, although Lucius just admitted that he didn't want to be strangers with Clarence, he didn't mention love at all.But in terms of attitude, it was the first time he was truly calm.Occasionally looking up, Lucius would stare back without showing any weakness when Clarence stared at him unscrupulously.It was obviously more like a domineering sword, but Clarence felt that the atmosphere was so pleasant that he could hardly move.

As for the next step, whether Lucius can be willing to admit his love depends on Clarence's ability to remove other objective obstacles between the two.As long as Lucius himself didn't set limits, Clarence felt that everything else was unquestionably workable.

After dinner, Lucius offered to go to the study with Clarence to discuss the results of his thinking.

Lucius' thinking revolved around how to write about the Violet Mark.He prefers to have Clarence put the new Violet mark on while removing the Dark Mark for the other Death Eaters.From his own point of view, he roughly explained the possible defection of the pure-blood family.Even Lucius himself admitted that if it weren't for the unbreakable spell between the two of them, he might not be able to stand firm now.From the point of view of the uninformed, it would be foolish for them to want to go head-to-head with the Dark Lord.

"Only I can make and operate this mark. Although you emphasized that its nature is different from that of the Dark Mark. However, printing this mark is at least to a certain extent subject to my essence and cannot be changed." Clarence asked with a smile : "I can understand that you are surrendering early and agreeing to let me lead the merged group of the Violet Alliance and the Pure Blood Alliance?"

"Don't be too happy." Lucius responded in an unhappy tone: "I admit that your combat ability is outstanding, but I absolutely don't believe that the final team you send can also reach your level. As for the marking issue , anyway, as long as it is in our hands, it has no direct relationship with whether you become the leader or not."

"Yeah, that's right, it's fine in the hands of 'us'." The corners of Clarence's mouth curved up greatly, and he repeated Lucius' words very happily, expressing that he couldn't agree more.

"Be serious!" Lucius couldn't remember how many times he said this.

"I'm very serious, and I'm very serious, you continue to talk." Clarence nodded like a chicken pecking rice, which made Lucius hold back his depression.

"How's the situation of those people?" Lucius asked aloud, his eyes wandering to the parchment on the desk.

"I checked more than a dozen people, but they are basically confirmed dead. Are they the same group of Death Eaters who were imprisoned in Azkaban?" Clarence waved at the parchment and handed the things to Lu Xiu s.

"Basically?" Lucius followed the parchment, but did not open it right away, but asked seriously, "Not all of them?"

"Obviously, not." Clarence clicked on the parchment and let him open it automatically: "Among the people at the front, Mr. Barty Crouch Jr. is obviously still alive and well. And the address shows that it is the same as that of Mr. Mr. Ty Crouch is exactly the same. What kind of attribute is this character, a diehard? Or a fool? It seems that Mr. Crouch has not heard much about his son."

"He definitely won't mention it. I didn't expect him to be alive." Lucius frowned with two deep lines: "Little Crouch is a die-hard Death Eater and a prisoner of Azkaban. In that Before the fire, the Ministry of Magic had announced the information that he was confirmed dead in prison. It was because of him that old Crouch changed from the director of Auror to the director of the Department of Sports and Sports. Otherwise, he might have He became the Minister of Magic. When he sent his son to Azkaban himself, he kept his job in the Ministry of Magic. I didn't expect him to hide his son at home."

"Doesn't he look like someone who would do such a thing?" Clarence raised his eyebrows, quite interested in this.

"Obviously. But it's been such a long time, and it's not sure whether old Crouch's attitude towards the Dark Lord has changed." Lucius glanced down at the other lists that had already confirmed the address, and there was nothing more serious than this one. It's worth noting: "It is necessary to understand the old Crouch's attitude towards this matter."

"I guess he probably won't welcome you to visit his home." Clarence said gloatingly, "Although many people already believe that you have been cleansed."

Lucius glared at Clarence again, but said nothing.

"The day after tomorrow, Chairman Hassan Mustafa will visit our sports park. The old Crouch invited him to come over to discuss the follow-up procedures of the World Cup, and I will also attend. It is estimated that there will be a dinner for Mr. Chairman that night. Take you?" Clarence repeated a solution: "It should be a good opportunity. If it is a dinner party, Mr. Crouch will at least ignore your existence. I think he still wants us to join you. A big investment in this World Cup."

"Old-fashioned, but also to save face. But thank you for your kindness." Lucius raised his chin arrogantly, and rejected Clarence's proposal to take him through the back door without hesitation: "A small dinner can't stop a Malfoy. .”

"Yes, I was wrong. I underestimated Mr. Malfoy's ability." Clarence admitted his mistake without sincerity: "Right, after a while, I may also temporarily live in the sports park. You and I Together, can we test our game reality system in advance by the way. The interval between the World Cup and combat games is very short, if you can help in advance, my pressure will be much less."

"A fireplace and a handful of Floo powder can solve the problem. I don't think I have any need to change my place of residence." Lucius refused again.

"Oh, okay." Clarence's voice dropped an octave for an instant, and then rose quickly: "Stay here tonight? We can continue discussing the Violet Mark thing tomorrow."

"I said, there is no such need." Lucius repeated unmoved.

"I thought I'd see you when I wake up in the morning," Clarence muttered.

Glancing at Clarence, Lucius made another small concession: "Prepare a guest room for me."

"My room is not a single bed!"

"I want a restful sleep."

"I won't do anything!" Clarence said a little unconvinced.

Lucius picked up the black tea cup, took a sip, and then glanced at Clarence, taking in his expectant eyes.Showing a very charming smile, Lucius leaned close to Clarence's ear and whispered a sentence: "There is no credibility."

The author has something to say: Today is another fat chapter, hehehe~~

What a group~~

It is said that the main station will restart tonight, I hope everything goes well~

Alright, Yuanyuan went back to coding again...

Slag speed, can't bring it up, it's so cruel~~~~~(>_<)~~~~