[Count of Monte Cristo] Love and hatred

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Plum Tess nearly collapsed when she came down the spiral staircase.

The last time I passed by here seems to have been centuries ago.

Mei Tess still remembers that after making up her mind, she prepared food and water bottles, hurried through the spiral staircase, and locked herself on the top floor of the abandoned lighthouse.Then she put the key into a narrow crack in the brick, along with the medicine bottle the duke had given her, so that she could not reach them with trembling fingers during the attack.

Next, Plum Tess spent the longest days and nights of her life, every moment, every minute and every second, she seemed to be hovering between reality and countless nightmares.

The scariest time was when I was half asleep and half awake.In the haze, she saw a figure slowly coming up from the spiral staircase.It was a blond woman in a dark green dress and a feathered hat from the last century, but when she saw her face clearly, Mei Tess could hardly breathe.

That was the heroine Jasmine in the last movie of her life.

Or in other words, that was my former self.

There was no expression on Jasmine's pale face, her expressionless eyes were fixed on the sea outside the window.Plum Tess quickly realized what she was going to do, and felt infinite panic in her heart, but she was powerless to stop it, and could only watch Jasmine jumping from the window.

At that moment, the fragments of memory buried deep in Mei Tess's soul finally became clear.On the night before she died in the previous life, no one had ever broken into her room and thrown her into the sea.It was she who walked out of the hotel step by step, went straight to the nearby Swan Harbor Lighthouse, and jumped into the sea in the same way as the heroine in the movie.

Plum Tess was clutching her hair in pain. She must have been hypnotized at that time, or had been drugged with hallucinogenic drugs.But who did all this, and who held such a great hatred for her?

During the time under the Duke of Buckingham, Mei Tess finally realized that what the Duke used to control people's hearts was human nature rather than fear, and she herself gradually learned to penetrate the truth through human nature.

Therefore, it didn't take much time for Mei Tess to come to the conclusion that the person who put her to death was none other than the great director Sid who was kind to her.She died in the same manner as the leading lady before the movie was released, and it was sure to make that movie a hit.

Plum Tess clenched her fists tightly.

In the last life, she was persecuted and lost her life. In this life, she will never succumb to fate again.

It was this belief that got her through the next few days.When she was sure that she would not be addicted again, she took out the medicine bottle and threw it into the distance with all her strength.

The moment the medicine bottle fell to the sea, Plum Tess suddenly caught a glimpse of the brilliant sunset outside the window, dyeing half of the sky red like a phoenix nirvana.

At that moment, it seemed that she herself had truly gained a new life.

......

The Duke of Buckingham stared at the sour scarlet liquid in the cup.

"Isn't it to your liking?" Meera walked slowly towards the wine cabinet.The cabinet is full of all kinds of fine wines, including those from the Aegean Sea, Asia Minor, and the Cape of Good Hope. They are all packed in strangely shaped shiny bottles, which seem to increase the sweetness and purity of the wine.

Her eyes roamed the shelves for a week, and finally she chose an amber wine.The Duke took the glass and took a sip, "This wine is not bad."

"My lord duke, I'm afraid you didn't come here to drink wine with me." Meera showed a charming smile, "Tell me, what do you need me to do for you."

"I need you to help me find a girl..." the Duke said slowly.

"It seems that there is really no one around the Duke," Mera said with a sarcastic smile on her face, "I heard that one of your two remaining planets has run away and the other is injured, so you need me urgently." Help you find a new candidate?"

"No, I still have a trump card in my hand, Mercury. It's just that she's still too immature to come out of the mountain." The Duke sneered, "All I want you to find is a girl who looks similar to Venus. "

"It seems that you still can't forget her, you always have a heart for the woman who betrayed you," Mera commented.

"As long as she lives, she will come back," Duke Buckingham said confidently, folding his hands. "No one can escape the control of that drug."

"Why did you find a girl like her when you were sure she would come back?" Mera asked suspiciously.Although half of the same blood flowed from their bodies, she found that she could not guess the Duke's mind more and more.

"I didn't look for it for myself," the Duke of Buckingham pondered for a moment, "but for a man who is madly in love with her."

"I see," Meera said with a smile, "you want that man to be your pawn."

The Duke of Buckingham did not deny it.

"Meera, do you want gold coins or jewels this time, please make an offer."

"I said, my lord, don't just ask for money." Meera chuckled, "It will make me look vulgar."

"Then money can no longer satisfy your appetite," the Duke of Buckingham showed an annoyed look.

"No, don't be angry." Meera blinked. "I mean this task is more difficult. In order to help you better, I have to try to integrate into the upper class of Venice."

"Well, I'll pack you up as a nobleman and marry you to a lord, or viscount..." the Duke said impatiently.

"No, at least a count," Mera insisted.

The Duke pondered for a few seconds, "Deal!"

......

When I returned to Yanina, this beautiful ancient city had been looted and destroyed by the Turks.At this time Fernand had already left in disappointment. She heard that when he left, he only dragged away from the royal court of Yanina a statue of Venus whose arms had been blown off and was not wanted by the Turks.

That statue was brought by her from Milos Island. In her memory, the treasure of the Louvre Museum is Venus with Broken Arms, but her arms were not in the battle of Yanina. Destroyed, but damaged in a melee between British, French and Greek fleets over her.

This also gave Plum Tess a sense of destiny, as if no matter how much her butterfly flapped its wings, some things would never change.

At this time, Governor Ali's head was hanging high on the city gate.

Plum Tess heard he died a heroic death.When Ali was besieged in the monastery, he told the Turks, "My head will never surrender and become the head of a slave." He fought on until some Turkish soldiers sneaked up below him and the bullets pierced the The floor of the room, and his head was chopped off and given to the Sultan.

She will not forget her promise to Ali.In the days that followed, she kept searching for the traces of Valyse and Haidee in the city.The Turks found their portraits in the royal court of Yanina, sent painters to copy them, and pasted them all over the city walls, offering a huge reward.

Plum Tess quietly walked along one of them and carefully hid it in her bosom, but within a few days she got news from Valysej.