[The Phantom of the Opera] Boundary Bridge

From the moment Enid spoke, Christine understood why Eric had to let her sing Ariel.

This was incompatible with, and even more so than, Eric's wild infatuation with Christine.Enid herself is Ariel, from the inside out, through and through.Anyone who tried to be or play Ariel in front of her would be disgraced.Christine didn't know when she came to this thought.But since losing her mentor and angel, for the first time... she was completely dragged into a vast world of pure spirit by the singing of others.

In that world, she seemed to be looking out through the sea with Ariel's eyes.The world she saw was so pure and beautiful!Her heart is pure and innocent, and her face is beautiful.She is the daughter of the sea, but she has the faith and courage that burn like a fire.But she is so tender, gentle and touching.The character of this ancient legend is so charismatic.Christine almost believed that when she gazed into Enid's blue eyes, it was the ocean she saw.

She is broad, clear, and deep, even though she is trembling with pain because of love at this time, it does not diminish her charm in the slightest.Ariel is painful and happy in her hopeless pursuit, she is not humble in front of love and her lover, that is just—the shattered hope.Ariel chose to leave the sea and exchange her legs with singing, walking a lonely road of suffering.She either finds love or turns into a bubble.She is not afraid of the latter, nor does she regret her choice, she is just so sad that the handsome prince does not love her...

She is the heroine and the only protagonist of this tragedy.

What Erik appointed for Christine and Enid was the fourth act of the opera, which took place in the palace garden.Here, Princess Stele, who is about to marry Prince Lucio, can't help singing while reminiscing about the sweet love.Then the prince came, held hands and sang with her, and the two fell in love.Ariel, the Little Mermaid, stood alone on the other side of the garden, in a corner where the sun couldn't reach, hugging herself, weeping.Her heart is crying and singing, but no one can hear her voice, the prince is still in love with the princess...

Just now, Christine and Enid have completed the part before the arrival of the prince.She was a little puzzled, because although there were not many duets between the princess and the mermaid in "The Daughter of the Sea", there were also two sections, "Conversation Before Marriage" and "After the Storm". Why did Eric choose this part that also includes the singing of the prince? ?The next line here should be sung by the prince, but Eric can't sing.Just as Christine was going to skip directly to the next paragraph, omitting the part about the prince, she found Enid gesticulating quietly to her, closing her eyes and falling into a state of intoxication.Christine was taken aback, but found that Eric also had his eyes closed, with an expression of intoxication, fascination, and pain.

"Composer's perfectionism? Refusing to skip any measure? Is he supplementing it with a male voice in his mind?" Christine couldn't help admiring her when she thought of this, and at the same time blamed herself for being perfunctory.So she also imagined another male voice—the voice of an angel of music was instinctively pulled out in her mind—singing, and quietly waiting for her aria.

Unbeknownst to the angel's apprentice, the voice of the angel is sounding at this very moment.

Eric's singing, in Enid's impression, is mostly majestic, high-pitched and revolving.But now he interprets the touching tenderness to the extreme, and the angelic singing voice is just like the meaning of Prince Lucio's name - light!He illuminates the fantasy garden, also illuminates the people in love, and even illuminates Ariel's painful and melancholy face.

"I feel that I seem to have forgotten something, and I am not worried about it." Prince Lucio is so handsome, handsome and charming, love makes him excited and intoxicated, he can't help walking towards his lover, "Sterle, Do you sit yonder under the rock where the violets are hidden? I hear the wind and the brook calling with secret joy. Is that your name? My dear Stella, you allow me to love Come to kiss your sweet lips in the name of

"My God..." Ariel's heartbroken cry was heard by no one.

"Lucio, my love and light!" Christine cuts in before Enid's final note fades away, making the trio's chorus perfect—at least to Enid's ear. So, "God heard the voice of the world, this most joyful love lingering..."

Unlike Ariel's heart song that no one can understand in the opera, Eric in reality is the one who sings alone and no one can hear it.His extreme sadness and strong love set off Lucio's tenderness so thin.What they have in common is Ariel's soul, and the moment they spoke——

"My soul was born on the shore of your tearful eyes," Ariel sang softly, whispering, "Your tearful eyes are the starting point of the boundary of dreams. Now you don't need tears anymore, you leave them in the deep sea..."

"I am your new life and flame, we are like the sun and moon of this kingdom." / "You lead my eyes, the only bright light in the white belly of the east!"

"My soul feels empty, and I'm drowning in my tears. I'm trying to be less miserable, but my heart still aches. I don't care anymore, and I want to ask you: should I die or live? "

"The sleeping heart has awakened, and the bright future can't wait any longer." / "And I will tell the good news to the king and queen, and my kind dumb sister."

"No, no. Everything is fine, better than this silent lie. I only lied to myself. Your hand holds my beating heart."

"Happiness! Joy! Light! Freedom! Flowers in hand, beautiful celebration—soon we shall be man and wife, never to be parted! This love, this life, will never be parted!" ("Bury my love, sunk to the bottom of the ocean...")

The chorus of Christine and Eric is bright and magnificent, sweeping all the colors with the vision of the future, and it is soul-stirring.This wonderful chorus of angels wants to make everyone who hears believe in love, but Enid, the only one who can hear it, is also the only heartbroken audience on this stage, Ariel the Little Mermaid, but she looks at her with a sad cry. Follow, like her lost love.

After singing the last high note, Christine held her chest and gasped for breath.She was about to say something, her face was flushed, her chest was more excited than ever-yes, the chorus lacked the prince part, but there was this wonderful atmosphere in which she was surrounded, that feeling of the temple of music opening ...indescribable, and deeply intoxicated!No singer can refuse such a temptation!Christine didn't know that Eric finished his chorus in silence, she just felt that today's audition was incomplete in content, but the whole atmosphere was full, too full... Her energy was indescribable satisfied.

She even couldn't help staring at Enid with loving eyes—staring at Ariel, the little mermaid who hadn't left yet, and didn't see Eric panting slightly, looking at her with a little bit of sad hope hidden in his eyes.Christine was just surprised to see that Enid didn't open her eyes, she still closed them tightly, and sat in front of the piano bench, playing a sad note with both hands.That is the next paragraph following here, Ariel's solo song after the prince and princess left together.

Ariel slowly opened her eyes, the blue eyes were so tender and heartbreaking, so sad, so pitiful, but already doomed to death.At the beginning of the song, there is a whisper of weeping and complaining, and then the color gradually becomes thicker and darker, indulging in boundless pain and sadness.She recalled the past, recalled love, her complexion was pale and charming.Her blond hair was completely scattered on her shoulders, and her white feet were bare|naked on the ground, cut by stones and oozing blood.She seemed to be embracing herself, and with a trace of trance, she sang softly:

"I sank in the water and my bare feet were itchy and cold.

The ancient mystery can be subverted overnight. "

The sea is no longer my gentle mother, and the kingdom of the earth does not contain my dying love. "

"Your elegant demeanor once seduced people, making me intoxicated and confused, and at a loss."

Full of soul and graceful torso, the gods and I love it so much.

At that time I was still able to grasp my own direction, but now I am lost in..."

The hopeless and sad singing stopped suddenly, replaced by Enid's almost heart-piercing cough.

The author has something to say: *The arias in this chapter and the previous chapter are adapted from the songs of Cendora and the poems of Neruda.

*Ariel and Enid are similar, but please don't take all the lyrics as flags! (not convincing at all)

*And, at the beginning of this chapter, we enter [Zhou Geng Era], okay.