Chapter Thirty-Four: The Ignorant Youth's Dream

  (Vote for me~~)

  After hearing Alfa's words and seeing the handsome young man in front of him looking at him with expectant eyes, Lin Feng couldn't help but feel a great weight in his heart.

  It can be said that Alpha's future is bright! If he follows the Earl's arrangement, serves in the military at a young age, and has a bit of brains, he can gradually build up his own power, and when he inherits the Earl's title, this life will be at least a powerful minister with control over one side of the empire!

  The power that is high above, I don't know how many people envy!

  If someone else had heard Alpha say "I don't want to be an earl", they would have thought he was crazy, or simply that he was a fool!!!

  How many people dream of a position that they can't even dream of, yet Alfa says he doesn't want it. What is this if not being an idiot?

  But now Lin Feng heard Alpha's words...

  "Alpha, what do you really want to do? Be bold and say it out loud, there's no one else here, you don't have to worry about being overheard. Tell me, even if I can't help you, at least you'll feel a bit more at ease."

  Lin Feng didn't mock Alpha, but instead spoke in a very serious tone: "I've always believed that everyone has the right to pursue their own dreams. However, many people's dreams are slowly strangled by themselves or reality as they grow up, and they end up working hard in ways they don't like under the pressure of others, until they become objects of envy for others. These people are both suffering and happy at the same time - suffering because of their own inner struggles, but happy because of the envious gazes of others."

  Here is the translation:

  "Up to this point, Lin Feng took a deep breath and on his face floated a hint of... melancholy that didn't match his age at all: 'And I myself have always felt that instead of living under the spotlight of others' envy, why not grit my teeth and live the life I like? What do other people's gazes matter? When you walk step by step towards success according to your own ideas, when other people's originally disdainful gazes gradually turn into admiration, only then will you truly feel happy! That is the true meaning of life! Only then can you stop living every day under the gaze of others' envy, while in your heart you are numb or suffering.'"

  Lin Feng finished speaking, and with a forceful sigh, he let out the pent-up frustration in his heart. It was only after experiencing death once that he came to realize this truth. When he arrived in this world, he had already carefully thought through his past life. He discovered that his previous life was spent living under the gaze of others - without an education, he couldn't find a good job; without a stable job, he couldn't find a girlfriend; he didn't have a house or a car, and he didn't even qualify to get married!

  However, when faced with the houses and cars that were so important in other people's eyes, at the moment when he was critically ill and needed someone to take care of him, his girlfriend still left him without emotion. At that moment, Lin Feng finally understood that the things that used to be important had become so fragile, and while feeling a deep pain in his heart, he couldn't help but carefully reflect on his life.

  After coming to this world, he finally figured out that true love has nothing to do with houses and cars. He also discovered that many people in his previous life, including himself, had fallen into a prison of thought set by the secular world. He felt that if he had lived according to his own ideas in his previous life, regardless of other people's opinions, even if he had endured endless criticism, at least he would have been true to himself!

  Moreover, even in his previous life, he had his own dreams!

  But under the enormous pressure of secular society, like many others, I was strangled in my cradle...

  If you didn't ignore others' gaze and abandoned your fixed job to pursue your dreams, although you had to endure endless criticism and ridicule in the process, but one day when you succeed, yesterday's ridicule and abuse will no longer exist!

  Even if I fail, at least I can be true to myself!!

  At least I had the courage to pursue it...

  ……

  Lin Feng had long wanted to say this sentence, but he hadn't found a suitable opportunity yet.

  But now, facing Alpha who has the same confusion, Lin Feng finally spoke out his true thoughts in his heart!!

  After finishing this speech, Lin Feng finally felt a long-lost sense of relief in his heart. But after saying so much, he couldn't help but feel a little thirsty again. He patted Alpha's shoulder comfortingly and walked back to the table, picked up the water cup, and brought it to his lips.

  And Alpha, after listening to Lin Feng's long narrative, was apparently stunned...

  At his young age, it's hard to understand the meaning of Lin Feng's words, but he also heard that Lin Feng was comforting himself, however, his heart is now extremely entangled.

  Alfa, at this moment, was like a child who had done something wrong, lowering his head and rubbing the hem of his clothes hard. He sneaked a peek at Lin Feng, seeing that he was drinking water with his back to him, but suddenly a surge of courage welled up in his heart: "Lin Feng, I don't want to be a warrior or an earl, I just want to be a traveling bard roaming the continent!!"

  This sentence was spoken by Alpha with a crisp tone, obviously having been thought over countless times in his heart.

  But...

  Pfft——

  Lin Feng had just taken a couple of sips of water, but suddenly spat it out again. He held the cup and quickly turned around to face Alpha, his face showing an expression of crying and laughing at the same time: "Yin... Yin You Shi Ren? Alpha, you... you didn't make a mistake, did you?"

  In Lin Feng's mind, the wandering poet has always been a "career" that is both free and easy-going, an absolute idealist, just like the traveling singers he often encounters in his past lives, singing their favorite songs, pursuing their dreams, many people are clearly hungry every day, but still have a smile on their face that is almost silly...

  Although Lin Feng admired the spirit of those wandering singers in his previous life, even if Lin Feng had opened up this life and decided to live according to his own ideas, at least there was a premise, that is, first fill his own belly!

  Only when you have solved the problem of having enough food can you qualify for pursuing your dreams!

  But... can a wandering poet... fill an empty stomach?

  Looking at Alpha in front of him with scorching eyes, a complex aftertaste surged up in Lin Feng's heart...

  After a long time, he let out a sigh and looked at Alpha with a serious gaze, saying: "Alpha, although I don't know if the profession of a traveling poet can fill one's belly, at least you have your own dreams, that's good..."

  "Fill your belly?"

  Alfa was taken aback, he had never thought of this question!

  Looking at the environment he grew up in, he didn't know what it's like to be hungry. His life of having food and clothes readily available made him take it for granted that he wouldn't think about this issue. Plus, he was still young, his thoughts were not mature, so he didn't consider this point either.

  Lin Feng gazed at Alpha's expression, his heart already vaguely guessing a few things. He sighed inwardly, recalling his own ignorant youth dreams, but a smile of encouragement appeared on his face. He patted Alpha's shoulder firmly and said with a smile: "Alpha, no matter what your dreams are, I will always support you, just like you once said. No matter what difficulties you encounter in the future, I will do my best to help you! Although...I am not a noble, but I will do my best to assist you."