[Pride and Prejudice] Red and Black Queen

At midnight, a speeding carriage rolled over the muddy road, passed through the purple-gray fog, and stopped in front of Darcy's mansion.

The gatekeeper opened the door sleepily, only to see the coachman climb down in panic.

"Quick, quick, our master is dying. I hope to see Priest Wickham before he dies, and I want to confess to her."

The gatekeeper shuddered and immediately came to his senses.

He looked in the direction of the carriage and saw a somewhat familiar family crest.

"Who is your master?"

The coachman didn't answer, but waved his hands back.

Soon, two strong servants lifted a gentleman down and rushed into the house.

The gatekeeper hurriedly stopped, "Hey, wait, wait, I'll tell my master first!"

However, the two male servants broke open the door as if they didn't hear it, and broke in.

The gatekeeper had to try to stop him, shouting loudly, and asked someone to tell Mr. Darcy.

Darcy was wearing pajamas and a golden-red nightgown, standing behind the railing upstairs, looking down coldly.

"What's the noise, what happened?"

The gatekeeper immediately had a backbone and told the story.

Darcy glanced at the boy lying on the stretcher, who was none other than Dorian Gray.

Mr. Darcy was startled, and came down at once.

He saw Dorian Gray's face was pale, his eyes were closed tightly, and he looked like he was about to die in the next moment.

Darcy: "What happened? Why did Mr. Gray suddenly become like this?"

The two footmen kept shaking their heads.

"We don't know either. Originally, the owner was about to fall asleep, but in the end, he suddenly leaned on the wall and opened the door, struggling for us to send him to Miss Wickham's place."

"Oh, the master seems to be hallucinating, talking to the air all the time, shouting about the devil, I am not afraid of you this time."

When facing Mr. Darcy, the two servants did not dare to be as rash as they were facing the porter, and they all answered honestly.

Mr. Darcy turned to let the maid come upstairs to call Jo.

"Be gentle and don't frighten Miss Wickham," he instructed.

The maid nodded.

Soon, Joe, who was wearing a white nightgown, came downstairs.

Because in recent years, it is rare to see Joe wearing clothes other than monk's clothes. Mr. Darcy couldn't help being stunned when he suddenly saw it today.

The memory seems to go back to the year.

He didn't come back to himself until Joe came to him.

"Why did you come down so quickly?"

Joe showed a pale smile, "I was lying in bed and couldn't sleep, feeling as if something was going to happen."

She lowered her head, came to Dorian Gray step by step, bent down, and held his hand.

"Mr. Gray? Can you hear me?"

Mr. Darcy drew back a few steps, and motioned to the maid to fetch a coat.

Dorian Gray lying on the stretcher did not respond for a long time, as if his soul had been taken away, leaving only a remnant body.

The system whispered: 【His soul was swallowed by the devil, right? 】

Joe said in his mind: "This is the price of the contract with the devil. No matter what the result is, their souls cannot escape the fate of being swallowed by the devil."

"Fortunately, I have swallowed up all the energy in the painting that is closely related to his body, and I will not let his beautiful body become as incomplete as in the painting."

System: [What about him?What's the point of leaving only one body... ah! 】

The system understands.

No wonder the master said at that time that he wanted to get a puppet, which was what he was referring to.

Joe stretched out his hand to cover Dorian Gray's forehead, injecting his spiritual power into it.

With compassion and tenderness in his eyes, Joe watched him without blinking.

"Mr. Dorian Gray, remember the agreement between you and me? Didn't you promise me that you would correct your mistakes and start all over again?"

She said this, but she explained to the system in her head: "I left a mark on him with spiritual power, which can help him save a little soul fragment, but this soul fragment will make him become the original Dao It is impossible for Lin Gray, he can only maintain his basic vital signs, and now only by letting my mental power manipulate this body can I ensure that he acts like a normal person."

Qiao chuckled softly, "I didn't do it on purpose. It's all the devil's fault."

She bent down and whispered in Dorian Gray's ear: "Everything is a new beginning, get up."

...her puppet.

As soon as she finished speaking, Dorian Gray's eyelashes trembled slightly.

"Move, move!"

The footman who had come with Dorian Gray cried out at once.

Mr. Darcy also moved closer. "Mr. Gray, are you still sober? Can you talk?"

Slowly, Dorian Gray opened his eyes.

He didn't seem to have regained his senses, and his eyes were a little divergent.

Joe quietly waited for him to return to normal.

"Well!"

Dorian Gray snorted softly and covered his forehead.

At the same time, because Dorian Gray has a lot of Jojo's spiritual power in her body, she now has three visions opened by herself - Joe, George, and Dorian Gray.

Jojo admired Joe's beauty through Dorian Gray's eyes, and said slowly, "Miss Wickham, you saved me."

Joe: "No, it was you who saved you, Mr. Gray, what happened?"

Dorian Gray is now being manipulated by Jojo like her puppet on a string.

Dorian Gray lowered his head, and after a long while, he said slowly, "Miss Wickham, you are right. Dealing with the devil is a wrong choice."

"If it wasn't for Miss Wickham's sincere prayers for me to allow me to return to the world, I might have been dragged into hell by the devil."

Dorian Gray's words were like a thunderclap on the ground, and everyone was stunned.

Darcy immediately said: "Mr. Gray, are you still awake?"

He pressed Dorian Gray's shoulder with one hand, "You take a rest first, what's there..."

"No, Mr. Darcy, I am telling the truth."

Dorian Gray: "I have done many wrong things, but I have accepted Miss Wickham's teachings and decided to reform myself."

He looked at Joe, "Miss Wickham, is it not too late?"

Qiao smiled and said, "As long as you really change your mind, it's never too late."

However, with Dorian Gray's consistent character, who would believe that he would really change his ways?

The people looked at Jo's beauty, and couldn't help thinking that this must be another conspiracy of Dorian Gray's, and it was his way of trying to seduce the lady.

Even Mr. Darcy had a hard time trusting Dorian Gray all at once, but his character would not drive Dorian Gray out of the house directly.

Darcy: "Stay here and rest for the night, Mr. Gray, I hope you will remember your words."

Dorian Gray raised his trembling hands and folded them together in a gesture of prayer.

He said softly: "Most of my soul and health have been taken away by the devil, and now I am a person who crawled out of hell, my God, I am willing to offer my sincere belief, and I am willing to pay for what I have done before. Responsible."

The people who heard this were stunned.

Had Dorian Gray really changed for the better?

My God, how on earth did Miss Wickham work a miracle to bring Dorian Gray from the devil to the side of God!

……

Early the next morning, Dorian Gray bid farewell to Darcy and Joe and left. His respectful and polite appearance was not at all like the previous Dorian Gray.

It didn't take long for them to hear that Dorian Gray apologized to everyone he had hurt.

However, most people were unwilling to accept his apology, and even taunted him severely.

Dorian Gray, far from being angry, let his head down with a calm face, allowing them to curse.

After that, he offered his property one by one, hoping to compensate them.

"Do you think it will be useful if you take the money?"

Dorian Gray hung his head, dressed plainly, and whispered: "I know I can't make it up, and I'm willing to give everything to pay for my sin."

He donated his property to orphanages, monasteries and churches, and almost wiped out his family wealth.

He himself declared that he would be abstinent, and took a vow of chastity-although he had no chastity to speak of.

He will be an ascetic at home, and to show his penance, he even wears a spiked iron collar directly around his neck.

Now the whole capital is fried.

Everyone is curious as to why Dorian Gray's sudden transformation.

Slowly word of what happened at Darcy's mansion, and what Dorian Gray said to Miss Wickham, became known.

According to rumors, Miss Jo Wickham is like a saint, making the dissolute Dorian Gray realize his mistakes, re-believe in God, and resolve to remain chaste.

For a while, Qiao's reputation spread among the nobles, and her previous deeds were also mentioned one by one.

……

North Baron's Mansion.

Friedrich North stared thoughtfully at the newspaper in his hand.

"Miss Jo Wickham, a devout monk who aspires not to marry, is that you? Miss Unknown?"

"Brother, brother! Do you know what I found?" Christian rushed in suddenly.

Friedrich put down the newspaper and glared at him coldly.

Christian paused and couldn't help shrinking his shoulders.

He whispered: "I haven't had enough gas yet, it's been a few days..."

Friedrich: "Tell me, what can you do? Go to church and be kicked out by the church, go to the army and be driven back by the army!"

He pinched the bridge of his nose, "You won't be able to inherit the family business in the future, how will you support yourself?"

Christian said with a shy smile: "Isn't there still brother you, I believe brother you will not ignore me."

Friedrich: "You still haven't told me why you came back like that the day after you were driven back by the army? Did you go somewhere to fool around again?"

Mentioning this, Christian couldn't help feeling guilty.

He was obviously afraid of being bumped into by his brother, so after running out of the church, he plunged into the bushes. Who knew that the bushes had thorns, and he almost turned into a hedgehog.

Christian changed the subject and said, "Don't mention this..."

Friedrich sighed, "It's good if you can get out of the army, after all, if you go to war, you're going to die."

Christian: "Hey bro, do you know who I met today?"

Friedrich looked at him.

"It's Dorian Gray, do you know what that boy is doing?"

Friedrich sat upright, "What are you doing?"

Christian: "He actually distributed bread to the poor in the slums, my God, is that really what he did?"

Friedrich's eyes darkened, "It was impossible for him in the past, but it may not be impossible for him today."

Christian: "I haven't forgotten the good things he did, so I went straight up to trouble him."

"This guy seemed to have changed his temper and ignored me. I wanted to throw away his bread basket. Now he finally paid attention to me."

"But he actually apologized to me, I said, apologizing, then kneel down and lick my boots."

Christian: "Brother, guess what, he actually knelt down and licked it!"

He said with disgust on his face: "This guy is even more shameless now."

Friedrich: "Maybe you misunderstood, he is earnestly making up for his mistakes."

He stood up, with a sullen face, and said to Christian seriously: "I received the news that Dorian Gray didn't have any special items in his hands. I also asked my sister about it later, and she finally admitted it."

"You don't want to target him again."

Christian: "That's okay! Brother, why don't you just let it go?"

"Of course not. This is his insult to the North family."

"Since he has corrected himself, I will also duel with him openly and restore the honor of the North family!"

Friedrich: "I'm going to fight him."