Killing Mary Sue [Comprehensive Anglo-American]

Jack and Ruth decided to disembark in the early morning of the 14th when the cruise ship docked at the port of Queenstown, and took her mother Ruth far away from the Titanic, leaving Carl, and living freely without restraint.

They thought very well: let Carl be taken away first, Marianne volunteered to drag him, and Ruth asked the waiter to bring her mother to the deck in the name of Carl, and stunned her when no one was prepared—Ruth knew The mother would not agree with her leaving, she would never allow her daughter to escape from her control and lose face in front of the Hockley family, she looked down on a "poor boy" like Jack, and she would do everything possible to hinder Jack and Ruth's plan.Ruth would not have treated her mother like this if she had no other choice.But things have come to this point, Karl will not let Jack go, and she can't bear to stay by his side, so she can only make a bad move and elope with her mother and Jack.

Everything was ready, and when it was midnight, a "waiter" disguised as Jack's friend politely knocked on the door, informing Cal Hockley, chairman of the White Star Line, that Ismay had something important to discuss with him.Although the timing was a little strange, Karl, who is a businessman, still decided to go to the appointment.He told Ruth in a warning tone to stay in the suite and not go anywhere, then he locked the door, straightened his tie, and walked towards the drawing room.

Ruth had been on guard against Carl for a long time. She stole a spare door key from him in advance, opened the door and walked straight to the third-class cabin, lowering the brim of her hat to keep a low profile along the way.Things have been going smoothly so far, and when another waiter who has been bribed in advance is walking towards Ruth's room, an accident happened unexpectedly——

Carl didn't go to meet Ismay as planned. His suspicious temper played a crucial role. Halfway through, he felt that something was wrong, and he turned back!

Although Jack's friends tried their best to stop him, Carl still didn't stop. Even when he recalled Ruth's mocking and relieved expression when he left, the ominousness in his heart grew deeper.He pushed away the waiter's arm and rushed back angrily, thinking that there must be some conspiracy he didn't know about--it's better not to let him catch that poor boy who coveted his fiancée with ulterior motives, otherwise he will There are ways to make the other party's life worse than death——

Just when the two of them couldn't figure it out, and the elopement plan was about to be killed, the savior finally arrived—Marianne, who had been waiting for a long time, stood up, her eyes were firm, and she used her thin body to block the scene without hesitation. Between Carl and Ruth, facing his eyes from astonishment to suspicion, Marianne took a deep breath, mustered up the courage, and clearly and forcefully——

"It's late, Karl," Marianne said without blinking. "She's gone. The woman who didn't love you, left with a man who loved her. Forever, away from you."

Cal Hockley suddenly suspected that he had heard wrong.leave?leave him?Where else could she go but by her side? !

"What do you mean?" Carl looked gloomy, looking at her like needles, "You have blocked me over and over again, what exactly are you trying to do?"

"I told you, and I will prove to you that what I said is correct." Marianne gritted her teeth, "This ship will hit an iceberg late at night and sink. Many people will die, and you... ...Your fiancée abandoned you with another man when the catastrophe was imminent, and she was unwilling to be with you until she died—"

"But I stayed for you." Marianne said, looking straight into his eyes with deep and sincere eyes, "I am the one who is willing to go to the end with you and do anything to save you! See clearly, Carl! Ruth she cheated on you for another man! She's going to elope with him!"

Carl was furious in an instant. He took a step forward, ignored the waiter to stop him, suddenly grabbed Marianne's neck, and pressed her against the wall of the corridor. Facing Marianne's flushed cheeks, he coughed out of breath and struggled feebly. , he had a ferocious complexion, with blue veins on his forehead, almost gritted his teeth, full of disgust and hatred, and said angrily, "Listen, you crazy woman, I don't have time to accompany your nonsense here! Your words are right I'm penniless! You're not a penny to me--what do you think I'll believe your shit? Huh? I tell you, if it weren't for being on this wreck, there would be more Things need to be dealt with urgently - believe me I will make you disappear without a trace, and no one will know that you have been on a boat or who you have seen!"

Marianne couldn't help but wanted to use her fingers to break the hand he was holding on her neck, but the man's strength was too great, she couldn't resist at all, and could only breathe with all her strength, trying to get a trace of precious breath from the gap. Air.She heard a bellows-like panting in her lungs, and she slapped the back of Carl's hand vigorously, but found that the other party had no intention of letting go. She could only close her eyes in despair, and two drops of crystal clear tears fell silently from the corners of her eyes ——

"Hey! Let go!" Jack's friend couldn't see it, and rushed over to push Carl away, forcing him to let go of his fingers, and carefully helped Marianne, who was limp on the ground and clutching her neck and panting heavily, he couldn't believe it. Looking at this well-dressed and handsome man, his eyes were full of contempt and anger, "No matter what, you can't hurt a woman who is powerless! Look at her, do you want to murder her!"

Carl sneered, disapprovingly, "Who do you think you're talking to, kid? Don't you want to do it?"

Just as the waiter was about to retort loudly, he suddenly choked up when he remembered the sacred mission he had undertaken tonight.This moment of silence made Karl feel that he was flinching, so he couldn't help but sneered, pushed his arm away, roughly grabbed Marianne's shoulders, and dragged Marianne, who was staggering and unsteady, to his room.

"Hey!" the waiter yelled, "Where are you taking her?!"

Karl didn't bother to respond at all, grabbed Marian's wrist, dragged and tugged mercilessly, completely ignoring the other's low cries and sobs, and his figure quickly disappeared at the end of the corridor.

The young man spun around in a hurry, suddenly punched the wall hard, turned around and left, and resolutely went to Jack for help.

Even though he guessed that this act was an impromptu idea of ​​this kind and kind girl in order to prevent Carl from going back to Ruth.But as a man, I will never let a lady suffer this kind of torture because of her own future.He had to find help quickly to rescue the girl, and I believe Jack would agree to help.After all, everything started because of them, and it would be bad to implicate other people.

……

Carl thinks that this woman is a lingering ghost, and he doesn't know which corner will jump out one day to ruin his good deeds.He felt that she couldn't let her go on like this any longer. Since the crew couldn't control her, he should lock her up in person, in a place where no one could hear her cry for help, and let her continue to go crazy inside. None of his business.

Carl angrily pulled Marianne's wrist, dragged her all the way to his suite, opened the door and pushed her into the bathroom, watched Marianne fall heavily to the ground with a muffled groan, and bowed her head forbearance without saying a word .Carl sneered again and again, slowly pulled out the key to the bathroom door, put it in his pocket, looked down at the disheveled woman, and said with a gloomy expression, "Now, I want to see what other tricks you can do? "

Marianne paused, and slowly raised her head.

Carl was taken aback.

Along the way, Marianne didn't struggle at all under his rough dragging, except when she bumped into the wall or rubbed against the floor, she didn't struggle at all, and let him throw herself here, without resisting, crying, or begging for mercy. It was unbelievably quiet.Carl thought she was playing with some bad idea in her heart again, but she didn't expect to have a normal reaction until she came here——

she is crying.There was no sound, but tears filled his eyes.She bit her lip hard, even biting a slight bloodstain, traces of blood meandering along the corners of her lips, pale cheeks reflected a shocking redness.She looked into her eyes, so earnest, so affectionate, so desperate, like a sapphire that was shattered all over the place, or a flame that was about to ignite, it was no longer as bright and hot as before, leaving only a faint wisp of smoke Gas and embers.

she is crying.And Ruth, unlike all the women he'd ever met.There was no hypocrisy at all, and there was no intention to win sympathy from men. He could even hear the faint sobbing in her chest, crying almost out of breath, but she stubbornly refused to let him hear a sound.She only bit her lip, held her fingers tightly, and curled up into a weak and pitiful ball, with her hair sticking to her cheeks, becoming weaker and paler, vulnerable, like a lily lily wetted by the rain.

Carl couldn't help taking a step back, not knowing why his eyes couldn't move away from her face, and subconsciously said, "You..."

"Why," Marianne suddenly laughed lowly, her voice was as weak as a mosquito, and she almost ignored it if she didn't listen carefully, "Why... I have traveled through a hundred years to save you, and for you, I boarded this ship The sinking ship that never returns, I abandoned all the dignity and pride of modern people, I bowed my knees, forced a smile, tried my best, and was desperate, just to let you see clearly the established ending of the future...Why, you just refuse Believe me, even a sentence, a word?"

Carl frowned, suddenly he didn't know what to say.Maybe it was because she looked too pale and desperate, and the almost shattered eyes made it hard for him to believe that a lunatic would do it.She looked as if she was heartbroken by him, even though he thought he had done nothing at all, but inexplicably, he felt... Guilty.He even felt that what she said, which seemed to him to be completely absurd, might not be all nonsense-could he be abnormal?Actually started to hesitate and want to continue listening to the other party's nonsense?

Marianne knelt on the wet floor of the bathroom, and let out an intermittent, hoarse and broken low laugh. She looked really embarrassed at the moment, and she was more humble and pitiful than any woman he had ever seen. In the past, Carl Hockley had no He would not even cast a glance at this, and he would even dislike the other party for dirtying his property and territory, but now he is standing at the door in a daze, letting this emaciated woman look directly at him with great disrespect, saying Words that were hard for him to understand—

"Since I saw you for the first time, Carl Hockley, you stepped out of the car and looked up at the Titanic, the incomparable light in your eyes..." Marianne laughed self-deprecatingly, and fell into a distant Reminiscing, the eyes became soft and hazy, "I knew that you were destined to be the one who attracted me the most among all the people."

Carl was taken aback.in the car?She means at the pier?She saw herself?And since then—

"They all praised Jack, thinking he was handsome and handsome," Marianne said the name that made him angry, but her next sentence instantly made Carl's anger disappear, and even his eyes changed slightly, "—but But I can only see you...your smile, your distress, your arrogance, your jealousy, your madness, your grief...they were moved to death by the love of Jack and Ruth, only me, Among the crowd, I understand you."

"You love her, don't you?" Marianne's eyes were watery, sad and sad, and she asked in a voice, "You love Ruth, don't you? Because of love, you gave up the chance to go on the lifeboat, because you love you Will give her the precious heart of the ocean, and then target Jack again and again, and even want to shoot and kill him—"

She smiled sadly, "Yeah, who doesn't love Ruth? She is so beautiful, so noble, so elegant, and also appreciates Picasso and Monet... Unlike me, I have nothing but love you."

Carl couldn't help but took a deep breath, his eyes were shocked, he took a step back as if he couldn't bear it, and held the door frame tightly, "You—"

What is she talking about?What lifeboat, what shot?How did she know that she gave Ruth the Heart of the Ocean?Could it be, could it be that everything she said...wasn't just gibberish?Did she really, really—

love him?

"Who the hell are you?" Karl couldn't help asking, his voice softened unconsciously, "Why do you know... these things?"

"Do you want to know?" Marianne smiled and said something, so softly that Karl didn't catch it at all.

"What did you say?" Carl subconsciously took a step forward, lowering his head, "Say it again."

Marian raised her head slightly, leaned close to his ear, and stroked Carl's shoulder with her slender fingers. Inexplicably, he didn't refuse, but quietly waited for her next sentence——

"If I can't save you in the end," Marianne's voice was as low as a sigh, "then, Carl, my salvation..."

"—You just sink into the bottom of the sea with me right here!"

Her voice suddenly changed, Carl's pupils shrank, and he caught a glimpse of her raised hand out of the corner of his eye, and subconsciously took two steps back, just in time to avoid Marian's sudden attack.He gasped in shock, and looked at Marianne with fear in his eyes. Anger, regret, and even more emotions he didn't want to know welled up from his eyes. Carl stood at the door with a gloomy expression, his fingers clenched so tightly that he could hear his knuckles. He took a deep breath, and said loudly in embarrassment, "You are simply hopeless! You just stay here until you think it through, and then come out after apologizing to me!"

After speaking, he slammed the door hard, locked it, patted the key in his pocket, and left angrily.

Marianne finally panicked. She crawled to the door, knocked on it, and yelled, "Carl?! Carl!! You come back! Carl! Please, come back—this ship is going to sink, don't put I'm left here alone—"

She was at a loss and cried out loudly, no matter how much she knocked on the door until her palms were red and swollen, no one paid any attention to her.She watched the sky outside turn from light to dark, and it was almost night. Marianne, who knew that the ship would hit an iceberg and be buried in the bottom of the sea, finally realized the seriousness of the matter. She leaned against the bathtub in despair, shivering. Trembling into a ball, countless thoughts passed through her mind, but in the end, she found that the last hope of life could only be pinned on the two people she hated the most, Jack and Ruth—she had helped them, and as long as they When he found himself missing, Karl was not dismissed according to the plan. Once he saw Karl, he would realize that the elopement plan had been revealed, so he would not disembark at the original time, and he would definitely come to find him, right?They were Jack and Rose, so kind, so friendly, they wouldn't leave themselves alone... would they?

Marianne hugged herself shiveringly, buried her head between her knees, and felt cold all over.She prayed for the help of Jack and Ruth, she prayed for Carl to change her mind, she prayed for kind strangers to hear her call... In a daze, she didn't know if she had some kind of illusion, but she actually listened. There was a rustling sound coming from behind this door.

Marianne raised her head suddenly, looked at the door without blinking, and looked at the slowly turning keyhole, her eyes gradually brightened.

Squeak—the door opened.

A face that was not unfamiliar appeared in front of his eyes.But it wasn't the one she expected. The light in Marianne's eyes dimmed instantly, and she murmured subconsciously, "You?——how could it be you?"

The black-haired woman stood at the door in a simple long dress, easily put aside the peacock blue brooch in her hand, exhaled, and smiled brightly at Marianne.

"Hi, good evening, Miss Anonymous." Jane Doy folded her arms, raised her eyebrows, her posture was not ladylike, and she was surprisingly neat and unrestrained.

"We're less than two hours away from hitting the iceberg, out of professional ethics, I'll ask you again—"

"You, want to go home?"

The author has something to say: I underestimated my own talkativeness... The shipwreck chapter will end tomorrow.

The main idea of ​​this chapter is in the summary.