Stendhal Syndrome [Entertainment]

"A road does not lose its beauty because it is covered with thorns, and the traveler proceeds as usual, leaving those nasty thorns to die there. -Stendhal "The Red and the Black""

(This is the story of that world, you know.)

"He has already left, Mr. Meroving, you are late." Xu Linduan said while arranging the materials on the table, he didn't even stand up, which did not conform to his social etiquette.

"I didn't come to see him."

"You didn't come to see Mr. Mo, did you come to me?" Xu Linduan took off the glasses he usually wears and put them aside, "But it's a coincidence that you came, I have nothing else to do for the rest of the day. I can listen to the talk of the big man who made the secretary point a gun at my head yesterday, um, it should be the secretary, or the assistant."

"I'm sorry about what happened yesterday." Meroving said, and then took two steps forward, standing opposite Xu Linduan, across the table.

"There's no need to apologize, I can't accept it," Xu Linduan smiled, that kind of gentle and polite smile, which is specially used to deal with difficult or hard-to-let clients. Meroving obviously belongs to the former, and he is not yet a client. . "I just didn't expect that someone would take out a gun so easily here. After all, this should not be the United States."

"I just wanted to get some information about my sweetheart yesterday, but Mr. Xu, you are indeed a good psychological counselor, and you didn't disclose the content of your communication even when you were threatened."

When Xu Linduan heard the other party use the word "threat" to easily dismiss yesterday's incident, he just shrugged his shoulders, "But I guess you already know what you want to know, so what? This is what you want ?"

Meroving didn't answer Xu Linduan's question, after all, he couldn't describe it simply as wanting or not wanting.He wanted to know all the illogical things about Mo Ci, and he got the answer, but at the same time, he was doomed not to get the love he wanted.

I don't know if it's good or bad, it makes people frown like a fog, and it's complicated and unspeakable to know the truth.

"He told you too?"

"Not so detailed," Xu Linduan said, "I'm just an innocent bystander and simple listener. Even before you came yesterday, I didn't even know who Mr. Mo's lover was. After all, he only used Mr. Y pronoun."

Mo Luowen's eyes were deep, "But you not only know now, but also found out my surname, and it's only been less than a day, Mr. Xu, this kind of ability is not like the 'simple' and 'innocent' you said yourself. innocent'."

Xu Linduan laughed, looking clean and indifferent, "It's just for self-protection, or the reason just now, I really didn't expect to see a gun here, it sounds a bit...well, magicism."

"You didn't show your cowardice yesterday."

"Because I know that's useless." Xu Linduan put the things he had organized into a drawer, "Mr. Meroving, actually you don't care whether a little person like me is innocent or not, you just doubt whether I have treated Mo Luowen It's just what you did, especially after you investigated me, and then deepened your suspicion."

"I think it is necessary." Meroving said, after all, this Dr. Xu is not as gentle and easy to get along with as he seems.

"Of course, but since you have investigated me, you should know that I won't do something to ruin my own brand. I still have to eat in Pingjing. And you should also trust Mr. Mo, right? There will be no hypnosis, there will be no Excessively detailed communication, he just needs someone to help him verify his own ideas, and it just so happens that this person is me." Xu Linduan simply sat on the chair when he said this, and he raised one hand to prop his chin, gesture It seemed casual, "You can actually consider sitting down, Mr. Merovingian, I am not threatening, and I can even provide you with consulting services, and it is completely free."

Merovingian did sit down, and he said, "You know these secrets before I do."

Xu Linduan made an exaggerated shocked expression when he heard this sentence, it was obvious that it was fake. "You don't want to be too possessive just because you and I know this. I really just happened to know this, and I will definitely rot in my stomach. Even when I was old, I wrote "Memoirs" will not be written in. And, I am suddenly worried that Mr. Mo will not be able to leave. Although he told me that he has properly resolved this matter, but in view of your desire for monopoly, I think he should be the only one who thinks that he It's solved."

"It was indeed resolved, and I will not interfere with his departure. Going back and forth is not my code of conduct." He made a decision at that moment, and he couldn't change it overnight. He couldn't do this kind of thing.

"By the way, what did Mr. Mo say, how did he tell you the difference between 'here' and 'there'?"

Meroving closed his eyes, "He said he came from the future and went back to the past."

"Hmm." Xu Linduan nodded, feeling that Mo Ci treated his sweetheart very gently, unlike directly questioning the possibility of the existence of this world in front of him, threatening that they were just hallucinations of his brain, like saying these things It's just an npc in the game, not even a person, just a piece of data.

However, Xu Linduan felt that Mo Ci's telling Meroving like this did not mean that Mo Ci had changed his mind and did not think it was a brain illusion. It was just that he was more considerate to his lover, but it was a cruel truth revealing to him.

Well, what makes Xu Linduan feel a little sad is that he suddenly discovered Mo Ci's double standards and cruelty, but there is even greater joy.He knew more secrets than Merovingian, although it was not a good secret.

He suddenly remembered the "curiosity" he had agreed with Mo Ci, and planned to further verify his true suspicion.

He still believes in parallel worlds more, and this logic is what he thinks is the evidence of heaven, but he didn't tell Mo Ci at the time.

"Well, in fact, we can think of it this way. Since he comes from the future and returns to the present, when he leaves, Mr. Mo who was originally 'here' will naturally come back. This is the balance. There is only one person in a world, and there can be no Two leaves of the same tree. Mr. Mo also said that, Mo Ci from 'here' should also come back, they will love each other, the same love as we did back then." Xu Linduan thoughtfully omitted Mo Ci's sentence "If there is really 'here'".

"But how can you tell the difference between two leaves?"

"Just ask him directly." Xu Linduan smiled, "But maybe you have a more romantic way, as long as you don't insist on distinguishing the difference between 'here' and 'there' like him."

"There's no 'here' and 'there' for me, the distinction doesn't matter."

The important thing is Mo Ci, not Mo Ci at any point in time.

Xu Linduan helped Mo Luowen say what he wanted to say in his heart. In fact, he still prefers people who are honest and talkative, unlike these two, one throws stones at him for directions, and the other asks his subordinates to point a gun at his head.So interfering in politics and manipulating elections is really true, and maybe black and white can take both.

"In that case, Mr. Meroving, I wish you good luck, and hope that we will not have the chance to meet again in the future."

"Thank you for your blessing, Mr. Xu."

He didn't mention the phrase don't meet again.

Xu Linduan sighed, he was indeed a businessman.

Meroving still saw Mo Ci, and again, it was the old bridge under the Arno River in Florence, which was famous because of the story of Dante and Beatrice falling in love at first sight.

The first time he met him was on this covered bridge, but Mo Ci didn't know, whether it was Mo Ci at that time or Mo Ci from the future, they didn't know.Although Meroving couldn't understand why his future self didn't tell Mo Ci about this matter, after all, if it was him, he would definitely tell it, and use this to advance the time of their story, and in exchange for a certain amount of love.

He thought this way, and at the same time found that he hadn't really fallen in love with Mo Ci, but only stayed in love.

This is actually a good thing, it made him leave his love to Mo Ci "here" completely, and gave him a reason to stop him on the covered bridge this time and say to him "Mo Ci, long time no see."

"Yes, long time no see." Mo Cijie smiled at him, "The me from the future disturbed some things, which I already know through memory, but he also let me know more things , for example, he said we were destined to love each other?"

Merovingian asked him, "Do you believe it?"

"To be honest, I actually don't believe it. I think it's unbelievable. I can't understand it. After all, love doesn't exist at all. I always think that love is just something artificially created. To put it bluntly, it's a fake."

This point of view comes from Mo Ci, and Merovingian takes it for granted.This can completely explain his pursuit of those beautiful and delicious bodies and his obvious fickleness.

"But I didn't expect that the future me would believe this thing. But after I actually met you, I felt that if the other party was you, it would not be so absurd for him to believe it." He stretched out his hand to He took out something from the pocket of his clothes and motioned Meroving to stretch out his hand, "A friend told me that this bridge has the aura of love, and you will meet the lover of your dreams, so you must buy a ring as a token before going up. "

When he said this, he put the thing in his hand on Merovingian's hand, which was a ring.

"I still don't quite believe it, but I think we can try to be lovers, what do you think, Lance Meroving?"

"Of course." Meroving held the ring, "Mo Ci, this is the development I'm looking forward to."