Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

"...What?!" she murmured subconsciously.

"What did you say, Severus?"

Snape had looked up.His face was pale, but there was an abnormal flush on his cheeks; his eyes were slightly dodged, as if he was always unwilling to directly touch her eyes.But when she was really not looking directly at him, his eyes moved back and fell on her face with a silent eagerness; his lips quivered slightly, and the fingers of the hand holding the wand It seemed to spasm slightly from too much force.

He did say it again, his voice terribly hoarse.

"...Stay." he said.

After saying this keyword twice in a row, it seemed that the plug in his heart was pulled out at once; the emotions and words that had been crowded for a long time suddenly rushed out, making his tone and speed of speaking become hasty Some.

"Stay. Stay here...don't go back." He said, his voice trembling slightly, but it sounded more like the sound of a cello—low, beautiful, magnetic, with a slight tremolo, like The bow slides over the taut strings, and the notes hum in the piano box, creating the most beautiful and intoxicating melody.

But his feet seemed to be rooted in place.He didn't come over, but raised his chin slightly, his slightly long greasy black hair slid to the sides along with his movements, and the expression on his face was fully displayed; he looked at her from across the room , his eyes drifted back and forth a few times, and finally stayed on her face.

Although his face is undoubtedly owned by a weather-beaten adult man, the pleading and longing in his eyes at this moment make him inexplicably look like a child looking up at a candy placed on a high place , so uneasy, not knowing whether I can get it; and so looking forward to it, as if all the infinite hopes are placed on this moment——

Perhaps because she didn't answer, his gaze flickered for a moment, and for a moment she had an illusion, as if he was looking at her eagerly, waiting for her to give him an answer that would make him happy.

Liu Quan didn't speak immediately, but just stood there with his back against the door.Across half the room, in fact, she couldn't see the expression on his face very clearly, but the feeling of being tense to the limit, like a fully drawn bow, emanating from his body was unprecedented. It was as if he was about to be overwhelmed by the nervousness in his heart in the next second - that made him look like a reckless teenager for a moment, not a person who had been honed in his undercover career for a long time. A grown man with a character as deep as the ocean——

For some reason, this unprecedented feeling made her heart suddenly soften.She looked at him full of sympathy and confusion, hesitated for a moment, left the door, walked towards him slowly, until she stopped in front of him; she raised her head slightly, trying her best to make the smile on her face look gentle, peaceful and peaceful With a little consolation.

"Is there something wrong... Severus? I'm not the real Lily." There was a hint of playfulness in her tone as always, neutralizing the low pressure in the room without being overly frivolous. .She looked at him with a smile, her eyes full of tolerance and sympathy.

"You must be too nervous... this magic is difficult." Her tone was exceptionally gentle, speaking to him like a gentle big sister carefully comforting a sensitive and irritable child.

"Today is Christmas Eve. It is indeed a bit too much to force you to complete such a difficult task on such a special day... It doesn't matter. We can temporarily forget about these things that have happened today, whether it is magic or other things. Well, we can all talk in a few days—”

Severus Snape paled.He lowered his eyes, and just listened to her talking so quietly. Up to this point, as if he finally couldn't bear it anymore, he took a breath and interrupted her hoarsely.

"I...I want you to see something." His voice sounded like every syllable was extremely difficult, as if saying this sentence in full would kill him immediately; Gasping for air hissingly, the fingers holding the wand tightened and loosened, loosened and tightened again, and repeated several times like this.In the end, he took the initiative to take two steps back, creating a little distance between him and her.

Liu Quan watched his actions in confusion, and when he took two steps back, she blinked her eyes in surprise, and couldn't manage her expression well for a moment, showing a slightly hurt look; but In the next second, she quickly put on the gentle and serene mask-like expression just now, and even smiled, showing a little curiosity in cooperation, and asked, "Oh? What is it?"

Snape squeezed his wand and took one last deep breath.There was a clear look of self-loathing on his face, and a blue vein on the side of his cheek was tense and throbbing.

Then, without warning, he suddenly raised his right arm, waved his wand in the air for two weeks, and shouted: "Call God to protect you!"

A silver-white ray of light flew out from the tip of his staff, and condensed in mid-air—the image of a phoenix.

The phoenix flapped its wings and flew in the room for a week, then flew straight in front of Liu Quan.

Liu Quan unconsciously opened his mouth slightly, followed the trail left by the silver-white phoenix's long tail feathers as it slid through the air with his eyes in astonishment; when it was about to hit her face, She couldn't help taking a step back subconsciously - but, it dissipated in the next second, only a few inches away from her eyes; however, its silver-white silhouette seemed to remain on her retina forever, Its light was so bright that it hurt her eyes.

She seemed to be dreaming, feeling that her consciousness had been directly snatched from her brain by the phoenix-shaped patron saint, floating in mid-air; now she felt as if her whole body was suddenly wrapped in a huge As if in a bubble, all the noisy sounds around disappeared, the brain was buzzing, and the blood in the whole body was changing back and forth from cold to hot, and finally gurgling like magma with dangerous bubbles, It burned her whole body, making her cheeks so hot that the flesh and blood were almost cooked directly.

"Oh my God," she murmured, hearing her voice shake.

At this moment, she finally forgot to perfectly disguise herself as a wizard—and as a wizard, she should say "Merlin" instead of "Oh my God" when she was amazed——she sent out something completely from the heart. amazed.

For some reason, in her chaotic brain, filled with many irrelevant memory fragments, details and human voices, such a strange scene suddenly emerged——

It was at the Battle of Hogwarts, when she fulfilled her promise to Dumbledore, put the memory wire in the Pensieve, and told Harry that he had to go out and let Voldemort kill him, so they would finally get The chances of fatally weakening Voldemort and killing him - and then, pale-faced, Harry asked her a strange question.

He asked her what his mother's patron saint was.

When she answered, "It's a doe," Harry breathed a sigh of relief.Then, he began to thank her for taking care of her for no reason, and told her inexplicably, "I got the sword of Gryffindor, and everything went well."

She was a little confused at the time.Because the sword of Gryffindor was never in her hand.She didn't even know where it had been all this time, or how it had gotten into Harry's hands.In her limited memory of the original work, she can't remember the details, but she vaguely remembers that before the final battle, Harry was attracted to a certain place by a patron saint in the shape of a deer, and then he took it to Granville. The sword of Fendor.

... Now, too, the last missing link in that reasoning became clear.

It was Snape who used his Patronus to guide Harry to the Sword of Gryffindor.And the reason why Harry said gratefully when he parted from her in the decisive battle that he successfully got the Gryffindor sword was because he thought that the patron saint was the owner of her!Because of--

The form of the patron saint is not a doe, but a phoenix!

That is to say - Severus Snape's Patronus is no longer a doe, but a phoenix - and, long before the final battle at Hogwarts, has been a phoenix, until now - —

For some reason, the moment this conclusion was formed in her mind, the tip of her nose suddenly became sour, and mist formed in her eyes.

"...oh my gosh," she said again.

When she came back to her senses, she found that her right hand had been raised at some point, covering her mouth.But even if it does this, it can't prevent the water vapor in the eye sockets from gradually condensing and forming.

She knew she might look ugly now.But this completely subconscious reaction could not be controlled by her own reason at all; she stood there blankly, and the series of attitudes and expressions of tolerance, gentleness and understanding that she could express smoothly before, At this moment, like a paper mask, it was shattered under the bombardment of this explosive truth.

Now it is difficult for her to describe what kind of mood she is in—maybe, the "task purpose" she has been obsessed with for the past 20 years has finally evolved into real emotions subtly and integrated into her Between soul and blood.

And what is her "mission purpose"——

Let the person in front of her trust her sincerity, accept her kindness, and live a good life no matter how many dangers and hardships she experiences.

She murmured, "...Severus?"

After using the Patronus Charm, the man in front of him, who had straightened his back and raised his chin, stood straight and motionless, as if he had suddenly turned into a puppet, after hearing the name she spit out, However, he suddenly relaxed his tense face, and let out a long, silent breath.

However, he still didn't say a word, as if he lost his language skills in an instant, he could only stare straight at her face, his deep eyes stubbornly looked directly at her floating pupils, as if thinking It seems to go straight to her heart from there.

Then, under his gaze, she slowly lowered the right hand covering her mouth.In this way, her entire face was exposed to his sight.

Liu Quan felt a scorching gaze rest on his face, as if two holes were going to be burned there.Unlike before, those eyes no longer contained burning anger, but instead, a much deeper emotion—maybe begging, maybe nostalgia—stayed persistently on her face, making her ears They all slowly became bloodshot and hot under such gaze.