[The Phantom of the Opera] Boundary Bridge

How should one describe love?Is it redemption or destruction, is it going to heaven together or falling together?There are countless answers to love in the world, but none of them belong to Enid.

Blonde woman meditating by the window.She thought that true love should enrich a person's soul, make her tremble with the joy of new life, and make her bravely face any ordeal.But her love wasn't real love—she was just a vacant chunk of loneliness in her soul that needed someone else's to fill.

God said let there be light, and there was light.Enid wanted to love someone, so she fell in love with the most suitable Eric.However, Eric loves another person for similar reasons.

Does Eric care about her?indeed.But what he relies on is the channel of being heard, the last communication insurance between him and the world.Ariel's singing is beautiful, but not heart-wrenching because of loss-the former is not.Eric hasn't really reached the point of despair and helplessness, the edge of misery that no one can hear unless the song can't tell, but he already instinctively wants to cling to Enid.

His rationality denies this longing, and because of his yearning for light and a new life, he can't restrain her with his own hands, so he can only hope for various good reasons and weak friendship.

But Enid can really be persuaded by this excuse.She loves Eric, and if possible, she would never want him to suffer such horrific pain, but her keen mind senses that Eric will suffocate sooner or later in such a endless stagnant water.This made her worry about Eric in addition to the pain of love.

She wants to convince Eric that if she wants to break this cycle of death sooner or later, she must untie Eric's obsession with Christine-that is the root of everything.Enid knew that apart from singing and listening, Eric also had a tender liking for his own temperament and insight.However, how much of these good feelings can he retain when he touches the sunshine Christine in his heart?she does not know.

Her love for him had put her now in a most absurd situation.Enid had to be honest about this love, and had to try to fight for herself—a person who couldn't stand up for himself was destined to be a coward.But she wasn't sure if Eric was willing to stand up for his own true happiness, or would rather continue to live in his sunny fantasy.Her love will make her most persuasive words weak, and isn't that suspicion everywhere a woman's jealous provocation?But despite knowing this almost inevitable outcome, Enid still had to give it a try.

Perhaps this is fate, even if you know the ending, you can't help but be driven on that road of destruction by other affections.

And this last fight and struggle is both Enid's and Eric's.Enid can see fate more clearly than Eric, and she knows that this is the only chance for the two of them to be happy, and even survive.Enid will die from the pain in her heart, and Eric's pain will reach the extreme, and he will turn into an underground ghost again, and start to slaughter more recklessly.This is their only salvation, and Enid knows how to do it, but the irony is that it is Eric who controls the fate of the two.

They are so closely bound, but also so painfully inseparable.

——I am the last passer-by on your road, the last spring, the last snow, the last survival war.

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During the masquerade party earlier, Eric had planned to take Enid to the underground palace where he lived before.Although it was a casual remark to comfort her, and was disturbed by the affair of the noble men and women afterwards, in Eric, he didn't mind opening this residence to Enid again.Perhaps for Christine, he will feel a little nervous and cautious, but Enid has already seen through his mind, so what does it matter if it is only a part of the palace where the mind is projected?

But he still felt slightly shy when Enid offered to fulfill his previous agreement and asked him to show her his underground palace.Eric was delighted by her initiative, as if the dark world that belonged to him was now actively welcomed by a beam of warm sunshine-in fact, it should be the other way around metaphorically, but Eric was willing to describe it this way.

He once opened his heart to Enid, and now it seems reasonable to open his residence for decades-but as the girl stepped into the dark and damp underground, he felt that the corner of his heart had been covered with dust for a long time. Being illuminated by the light is a rather wonderful feeling, like...leading others to explore one's own soul and visit the deepest part that was once hidden by one's own.

Here he will expose the past and see her as a close friend who can talk about everything.This is not only the further advancement of the relationship between the two, but also seems to be a major step for Eric to get rid of the shadow of the past and move towards a new life.He was agitated and disturbed by this.

"If I told you that I killed someone here, would you turn around and leave?" Eric asked Enid before actually entering the underground palace extending in all directions.

Perhaps it was because he had returned to the place he was absolutely in control of, or maybe it was because the closer he was to the light, the more he couldn’t help running in small steps. Eric suddenly asked this question that he thought they had been tacitly avoiding—yes, Enid's cleverness and sensitivity made her know what kind of person he was, but the other party never mentioned it, and he should avoid it with interest and gratitude.However, at this moment Eric suddenly felt strongly unwilling. He didn't want to turn a blind eye and avoid him. He even wanted the other party to accept his most bloody and brutal side, even though he knew that the other party's moral standards were never unified with his own.

But so fortunately, Enid didn't let him down.

"Eric, everyone has a past." Enid said gently and calmly, "but from the first day I knew you, you were already on the road of trying to get rid of the past. From the perspective of law and universal morality Say, you should be responsible for your past actions. But taking our acquaintance as a starting point and looking at it purely from the meaning of personal life... I think your soul can still regain its clear and pure brilliance. What I care about is tomorrow and the future. You know, I'm always 'on the go', which means I can never demand another person's entire life. Everyone I meet shares only a few moments with me. It's just time."

Her answer, of course, should have pleased Eric, but the last part gave him a panic of loss.

Eric held back his mind, trying not to let the familiar environment underground inspire his dark side again - for a moment, he really wanted to imprison her, lock her up where no one could find her, even if it wasn't complete and harmonious. She shares all the rest of her life, and she wants to fill her last moments with herself.This kind of extreme selfishness doesn't even care about the loss of her life after being forced to stay, but only cares about satisfying her own spiritual demands.Eric was taken aback by the sudden appearance of such a terrible thought to himself, but forgot the warm and cruel original intention that led to this idea: to share all the rest of his life with her.

Unable to fight against the witch or the curse of fate, but can only force a weak woman to death, how cowardly and cruel it is-Eric whipped himself, he knew that in order to get a new life, he could not allow himself to be overwhelmed by the emotions of the past Control, he's on the verge of losing control recently.

And in Enid, she is still thinking about the murder question Eric gave before.It can be said that if any ordinary Parisian girl falls in love with Eric, this will definitely be the biggest problem between them, because it is difficult for ordinary people to bear Eric's indifference and cruelty to life.Even if he promises not to commit a crime in the future, the blood debt he has borne before is enough to make a weak and kind girl have nightmares every night.For example, Christine Daye—it can be said that the ugliness of the Phantom first drove her back, and this ugliness is not only the clear and undeniable arrangement of the facial features, but also the externalization of the inner violence and cruelty in the image.And then, Boukay's death was the final blow.Eric stamped his demonic image with behaviors that matched his ugliness.

But in Enid, murder is not the main problem.

As Enid herself said, the curse of being unable to stay has greatly cut off her communication with the world.To combat this isolation, Blonde has to learn to live with the short-lived relationships between people.She puts more emphasis on herself, taking what I see and feel as the first side of others, and this first side is almost the last side for her.Therefore, Enid cares about the "present" and may also bless the "future", but she only abandons the "past" decisively, just like she abandoned her own.And the first mark Eric left in her heart - so rich and profound, pain and struggle, hesitation and hope, that strong first impression is hard to erase.

Yes, that soul is dark, but the darkness is like stagnant water, and the first thing you see is a churning struggle, like a boiling oil pan in hell, and the spectacle makes you unable to take your eyes off it.The significance of Eric to Enid lies more in that he is a plump person, and blood or violence is only a part of that plumpness.Is it important?For her morals, perhaps.But to her most honest soul, that—didn't matter.

In the beginning, Eric didn't have the meaning to her now.Her impression of him was only that this man was deeply in pain and struggle, his soul frantically strangled the light, but he yearned for redemption.She decided to help him because they had similar experiences, and because she longed to talk to such a soul.At this stage, killing is naturally forgotten.Afterwards, love surged in like a tide, and Enid first gave up her own life for this love and for her own salvation.

The more she loves, the sooner she dies, she puts her own life aside first, and nothing else matters in the boundless splendor of this moment.But it wasn't Eric, or even love, that killed her.

That's just the soul's desperation to kill the body in order to survive.

"Let's go in." Eric said to her, coughed lightly and then pushed open the secret door used to hide.

Enid nodded.

Two lonely and desperate souls with different thoughts but equally in love entered the underground palace of the Opera House.After many months, the subterranean ghost returned, and this time he brought back a pure and pale maiden.Who is whose sacrifice?

The author has something to say: *Should be confessing soon.

And babies, reminders are certainly useful.

However, when an author does not intend to update an article, she will not scroll through the comment area.

So the reminder in the group is the unbearable pain of life xd

This chapter is mainly due to the comments left by the little angel Fusang in the old article, which inspired my long-lost shame emmm

In addition, the column asks for a wave of collections. The author produces a wide range of food, and there is always one that suits you.