[Comprehensive] Light and Shadow

"Are you kidding me!" Leo yelled loudly while sitting on the sofa. His resolute face was covered with bruises and his wrists were bandaged. He yelled loudly at another man, eyes full of anger, "How could Vincent buy pets from you three months ago! He doesn't know you at all!"

"Calm down." The earl stood aside and watched the lizards displayed in the glass cabinet in the shop, then turned around slowly, looked at Leo with a slight smile on his lips, and said in a calm and gentle voice, "I If you don’t believe me, there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Leo glared at the count viciously, as if he wanted to see through this handsome man.

He doesn't believe it!

Leo would never believe it!

When he mentioned Chinatown and the earl to Vincent a month ago, Vincent didn't even know about it!

[Do you believe everything I say? 】

Recalling the last time he met Wen Sen, the boy's gaze was calm and empty, but after he said he believed it, his pale and sad face smiled like a radiance. The smile bloomed deep in his heart, but those beautiful and pure eyes were red, and he seemed to be smiling happily but he was about to cry.

Leo believed, he believed everything Vincent said!

As long as he faintly recalls this smile, Leo's heart will be in pain beyond control.Why did he let Vincent go!Why didn't he go desperately to find Vincent that night!Why was he so dull and didn't think carefully about Wen Sen's words!

Vincent shouldn't die, shouldn't die!Vincent was only in his teens, and he only knew a few people. He hadn't even been to Times Square a few times in New York!There are still many things, many people, and many places that Wen Sen has not yet seen. How could a good-looking young man die!

my fault.

It was my fault!

I should have found out sooner!

Obviously, I am the only one who stays with Vincent...

"In this world, no one is obliged to save another person."

Leo stared at the person who said these words with his red eyes. He was wearing a black robe, but there seemed to be ink-colored light floating on the Tang suit.The slightly long hair sticks to the side of the fair face, and the earl has a very calm smile on his beautiful face, but his eyes always make people feel alienated and cold.

"Leo, you don't have to blame yourself so much."

"Count, you don't understand, you don't understand at all." Leo murmured, his expression was painful and struggling, his head was clasped tightly with his hands, and cold sweat broke out from his forehead.Vincent's mother said that even when Vincent was locked in a dark box and addicted to drugs, she was still calling Leo's name, waiting for him to save him, "Vincent is waiting for me to save him, he ...Damn it! Why didn't he say anything! What's the use of him just saying that he likes me, tell me everything! I will save him, I will definitely save him!"

"How do you know he wants to be rescued by you?" The earl turned his head and looked at Leo who was in deep pain and self-blame.

"After saying what you want to say and doing what you want to do, you have the right to choose the death you want in the end."

"It's a very lucky thing."

The count sighed softly, and rubbed his fingernails lightly on the edge of the wooden table, and then he didn't know what he thought of, a few dim colors appeared in his pupils of different colors, and there was a bit of sadness in his elegant voice.

"But...it shouldn't be like this." Leo pursed his lips tightly and shook his head secretly.

"What kind of pet are you going to sell to that woman?" Leo took a few deep breaths, frowning tightly, trying to suppress his chaotic and depressed thoughts, and then looked up at the count.

"It's not for sale, it's just for Mr. Vincent's mother to take care of the pet that Mr. Vincent's mother ordered for him." The earl shook his head, walked slowly and gracefully sat on the chair opposite Leo.The man leaned his right elbow on the armrest of the chair, resting his chin with his hand idly, his black hair hanging down slightly around the corner of his eyes.

"So, what the hell is it!" Taking care of it is just selling it, and it is impossible for Vincent to come back to accept the pet.But what is the earl's purpose this time? Weird cases always surround this pet shop, and this time the earl's behavior of delivering pets to the door by himself is even more weird.

Even being treated with such a violent attitude by Leo, the Earl did not look angry.

The man pursed his lips lightly, with a slight curvature at the corners of his mouth, then slowly stretched out his right hand to pick up the teacup and saucer from the table, while his left hand elegantly held the white and elegant teacup to his mouth, and took a few sips.

"Yes, what is it?" The earl narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked the question back with a smile.

"You!" Leo glared angrily at the indifferent Earl, then suddenly thought of something, slammed his hands on the table and stood up, staring at the Earl, "Could it be that you put some weird The pet was sold to Wensen, so this happened to Wensen!"

"..." The Earl raised his eyebrows unexpectedly, with a little helplessness in his eyes. He never thought that Leo would associate these two completely unrelated things together, "You don't believe Wen Is Mr. Mori here to buy pets?"

Leo was silent, although he didn't believe it, but his thoughts would still be involuntarily going here.

"The pet that Mr. Vincent ordered has remained in the shop. Of course, Mr. Vincent's matter has nothing to do with pets." The earl gently put the teacup and saucer in his hand back on the table, and then looked up with a smile. Standing Leo, "Also, Leo, do you have any prejudice against my pet shop? I'm in the business of selling love and dreams."

like?Dream?

Leo gritted his teeth and sat back on the sofa, what a joke!Are those dead people and those cases all fake!

The door of the pet shop was slowly pushed open, and an old man in a black suit walked in. Then the man bowed his waist slightly and bowed his head respectfully, and then a woman in a deep purple dress walked in with high heels, black and wide The brim of the hat showed strands of blond hair and traces of bandages.

The woman raised her eyes slightly, looked around the store with a haughty and cold expression, then glanced at Leo who jumped up from the sofa and glared at her angrily, and finally landed on the man who was walking towards her. On the Earl.

"Welcome, Mrs. Chris." The count walked up to the woman, respectfully raised his right hand to his left chest, and lowered his head slightly.

"Here I am, where is the pet Vincent ordered?" The woman looked at the earl coldly, until now she has no record of Vincent's visit to this pet shop, but the man said that Vincent bought it here Pets, in the end is true or false.If it's true, she must, but if it's false...

"Madam, please follow me." The earl didn't seem to notice the dangerous and oppressive look in the woman's slightly squinted eyes, but smiled calmly and turned slightly to lead the woman.

Leo watched the count and the woman out of sight with complicated eyes, clenched his hands tightly, and finally loosened them weakly and sat back on the sofa limply.If his gun hadn't been taken away yesterday, after seeing Vincent's body and hearing those words from that woman, he might really lose his mind and draw his gun and shoot at that woman out of anger.

But now, Leo didn't know if he had calmed down. When he saw the woman, all the cells in his body were still shaking with grief and clamor, but all his voices and behaviors seemed to be inexplicably suppressed. Existence is stuck.He felt that he couldn't say anything, he couldn't do anything, Vincent was dead, and he couldn't save Vincent.

Even the last photo Vincent gave him was ruined by that woman.

Leo took a deep breath and took out his mobile phone. There were so many text messages with Vincent before.I randomly opened one to read, and I used to think that Vincent's words were long-winded and polite, but now I felt a bitter dull pain spreading from the bottom of my heart.

[I don't know if you have time, Mr. Orecht, this weekend. If you are free, can you have a meal together? 】

Leo's hand holding the phone trembled slightly, and then leaned his head on the sofa.

From now on, there will be no more...

The light made his eyes hurt, and he felt that tears were about to fall. Leo covered his eyes with his arms, and felt that the corners of his eyes were a little moist.

When the woman followed the earl into the corridor inside the door, she was a little surprised in her eyes. The winding and spreading corridor seemed like a labyrinth in what she thought was a small shop.His vision was dim, and he could hear his own footsteps every step of the way. The sound seemed to be synchronized with his own heartbeat, and he felt extra nervous and different.

In the field of vision, you can vaguely see the walls with intricate patterns in the ancient oriental style, and you can smell a faint fragrance at the tip of your nose, and the man in the black Tang suit robe is just leading the way in front of him, his hair swaying slowly with his steps, The small candlestick in his hand exuded a faint halo, which made the man look even more mysterious.

"Ma'am, here it is."

The count stopped walking, turned around and looked at the woman following behind.

The woman didn't speak, but raised her eyes coldly and looked at the door in front of her seriously. The complicated and strange patterns spread wantonly on this door, and the bright red on the door stimulated the eye nerves, as if a cold feeling came from her mind. Li Sheng was in pain.

The count turned his head to look at the door, his pupils of different colors shone with a strange brilliance, the corner of his mouth slowly raised a strange arc, and then stretched out his hand and gently pushed the door open.

The moment the door was opened, a cold air gushed out, filled with a shivering chill, and a sense of fear soaked in the ice cellar spread from the heart for no reason.

The woman paused, squinted slightly but walked into the door with her head held high.

The inside of the door was still pitch black, and it was only after the door was closed that I couldn't see anything. It was like an isolated dark world.

Suddenly a candlestick was lit by the earl, and such a candle seemed to follow an invisible thread, and the candlesticks were lit one after another. The square and ancient style candlestick was quietly burning with a faint light. , and the whole room was engulfed in a faint light.

When the woman finally saw the things in the room clearly, cracks finally appeared on her cold expression, and she stared in disbelief.

There was nothing in that empty room except candlesticks, only a huge crystal stood in the middle of the room, which was as transparent and pure as ice-like amber, reflecting the cold light under the candlelight.

And inside that transparent crystal is a person.

Light purple shoulder-length hair, fair skin that is almost transparent, white wide shirt, black trousers, that long and thin body seems to be frozen in this huge crystal.

The boy's body was suspended in the crystal like that, with his limbs stretched out naturally. In the invisible locked space, the purple-haired boy was like an exquisite and handsome doll. The loneliness of the whole world surrounded the boy before falling into the sky. Into the eternal cold.

The boy's appearance, time, and even life seemed to be frozen here.

Extremely cold but pure and extremely beautiful.

The woman opened her eyes tremblingly, looking up almost yearningly but fanatically, tears shattered into the air soundlessly.

"Vincent..."