Matils, who is 58 years old in 2 months, has nothing.
However, he just inherited a box of French books and a Paris residence. Apart from that, he has no money or a place to live.
This single-family house located in the center of Paris increased his foreign debt of 2,400 Euros per month.
Matils lives alone in New York, and he inherited this lifelong apartment from his father. The so-called lifetime apartment——
To put it bluntly, lifelong apartments also mean selling houses for retirement.
This is a pretty good house! The living room is on the first floor. There is a grand piano and a few comfortable armchairs in the bright room. Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, you can enjoy a garden with the size of the house. There is a door leading to the library. Pick a book at random and return to the armchair in front of the living room window. With the greenery outside the window, it is a comfortable afternoon. There is a long corridor and several bedrooms on the second floor.
Matils didn't want such a mansion. He had contacted the seller on the way to Paris, waiting to take the money and leave.
After learning that this is a life-long apartment, this plan almost fell through. No financial owner is willing to pay 2,400 euros a month for an old lady who is extremely healthy after buying a luxury house.
If so, Matils still wanted to let go of the house and leave Paris. He hates Paris, which is why he doesn't want to live in this mansion.
His childhood was very unhappy!
My father was a successful businessman, except for his career, all his love and attention were given to his lover. Even as an only child, there is no share of the pie. In his childhood, Matils had only his mother-a sad, depressed mother. One day when Matils came home from the University holiday, he bumped into his mother and committed suicide.
Although he was born and prosperous, Matils has no money after three marriages.
At 58 years old, he was alone, with no property, no children, and no career.
The "nail house" who lives in this mansion is called Mathilde, she is 90 years old! Mathilde lived here when he moved to France from England seventy years ago. The house was originally owned by Mathilde and her husband. Forty-three years ago, after the death of the old lady’s husband, she sold the house to Matils’ father at a price much lower than the market price, provided that she still lives here and accepts 2,400 per month. The cost of living in Euros lasts until death. Matils' father died, and the son who inherited the house continued to pay 2,400 euros.
Mathilde is the lover.
Matils found an old photo in the dusty cabinet. The young father and Mathilde were cuddling. The back of the photo read: If you don't love me, then I won't be loved by anyone.
This sentence is also the epitaph of his father.
The past flooded like a tide. When I was young, my mother was always crying alone; my father did not return home for many years, and he and his mother lived in a luxurious but deserted house on Pike Avenue in New York; everyone stayed temporarily in Paris. They hide themselves from their young ones, and even their father ignores themselves.
The childhood memories of a jumbled ball of yarn suddenly unraveled. Mathilde said that the name Matils was in memory of his father.
The past has faded for almost half a century. Mathilde hasn't seen a lover for 43 years. Although he has been writing to her and has a monthly fee of 2,400 euros, he has never been to Paris until his death.
Mathilde has already let go of the past, after all, she has lived to be 90 years old, and all the people who have loved are already waiting for her in another world. But Matils never let go, even though he was almost 60 years old.
The young and injured self in his heart has never grown up and never healed. He couldn't forgive his father for never caring for himself. When he was young, he didn't understand why he did nothing wrong, but he couldn't let his father love him. He couldn't get out of the pain of his mother's suicide, and he didn't understand why his mother couldn't live. My mother needs the husband who never returns home, but I need my mother even more!
Matils has been seeking love and being loved all his life. He devoted himself to a marriage enthusiastically and ended in failure; then enthusiastically devoted himself to the other two marriages that ended in failure. He longs for intimacy, but he is also afraid of intimacy. This is probably the reason why he always can't have a relationship that grows old together, and why he has no children.
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