Andre revise his speech.
Ever since the pair reconciled, Andre couldn''t bear to be apart from his sweetheart even for a second. She was now sitting on his lap, with the red ribbon around her waist played by him with his hand. Every now and then, he would lower his head to kiss her tender earlobes from behind.
"This paragraph is too plain. Look, if you turn it into a rhetorical question, wouldn''t it be more motivational?" Edith said as she swiftly sketched on the paper. "No wonder people always criticize you for being too aloof. You should learn from Danton''s style."
"Danton has already been dismissed from the Committee of Public Safety by the vote," Andre replied.
"That''s a pity! Raphael now admires him more than ever."
"Raphael?"
"He''s more and more motivated now," Edith said with some pride, "and has become a brother that Charlene can be proud of."
He buried his head in her hair, his voice sounding muffled, "I don''t like it when you call his name like that."
Edith reacted for a while before bursting out laughing, "Are you jealous now? I''ve known the siblings since childhood, and we''ve always addressed each other as ''thou''. It''s nothing."
"I knew you as a child too."
"That''s different. You were already an □□ then." Edith teased him intentionally.
Andre turned her body sideways and looked at her eyes with complaint, "Do you have the heart to let me continue to suffer?"
The girl laughed so much that she couldn''t close her mouth. She reached out her hands to smooth out his furrowed dashing eyebrows, trying to quell the valentine''s jealousy with a kiss, but he dodged it.
"It''s so unfair. Saint-Clemont actually knows more about you than I do. Every time I hear you talk about those lightsome childhood memories, I envy him so much."
Edith pouted, "But Andre, you haven''t been completely open with me either, have you? Where are you from, how did you grow up, and what are your family like? I find that I know almost nothing about your past."
"My past? I''m not as fortunate as you, Edith." Andre sighed, "My childhood was just a bleak and gray expanse. Before I met you, I could hardly say that I had any happy experiences or anyone partic