[Phantom of the Opera] Devil's Beauty

Eric seemed a little drunk.

Although he didn't look half drunk, his temples to the roots of his ears turned pink, as if he was blushing.

Bai Lanzhi took his arm with one hand and his waist with the other, helped him into the carriage, and said sullenly: "Don't drink alcohol in the future." If I had known that the 15-year-old whiskey had such a high alcohol content, it was equivalent to champagne. Five times as much, she would never let him drink it.

Eric got into the carriage with a steady body and a calm voice: "Okay."

Blanche leaned on his shoulder and nodded to the coachman.Hearing his answer, for some reason, she felt a pain in her heart: "You are too spoiled for me."

"You are my wife," he said emphatically, "mine."

As he said, he turned his head, as if he wanted to tell her a little secret, and put his lips on her earlobe: "I will give you the best life. I will give you whatever you want. I will give you a lot... ..." He frowned slightly, as if he was seriously thinking about the skills he knew, "I can do magic, ventriloquist, sing, compose music, carpentry, architectural design... I can continue to learn, I learn things soon."

"Blanzhi." He rested his chin on her shoulder, his voice was low and hoarse, "I can give you the most wonderful life."

His throat was a little congested, and his heart seemed to be overwhelmed by raging and hot emotions.She blinked hard, held back the tears that were about to fall, narrowed her eyes and said with a smile: "I believe in you."

He also smiled at her, his eyes were as pure as a boy who purely tasted love.

It took more than four hours for the carriage to return to their residence from the Paris Opera House.Afraid that he would be uncomfortable sitting, Bai Lanzhi put a cushion on his knees, helped him to lie down, and gently rubbed his temples with her fingers.

Soon, he closed his eyes and fell asleep.But even when he fell asleep, his fingers still clasped her wrist, which was so tight that he couldn't break it apart.

Eric is so insecure...

Sometimes, she just went for a short walk by the lake and forgot to tell him that when she got home, she would be interrogated coldly by him for a long time, and then for the next day, she wanted to get out of his sight, It's almost impossible.Although she was very happy and enjoying being loved so passionately by him, she was very worried about his mental state.

He was so emotionally unstable that it was almost abnormal, and she wanted him to face life like a normal person.

She wants him to believe that she really will not leave him, and will accompany him until he grows old.

Unknowingly, the carriage has reached the woods in the outskirts, and the moonlight shines through the branches, shaking down many shadows.Bai Lanzhi rubbed her eyes, yawned sleepily, and wanted to lie down and sleep.

"Stop—"

"The carriage in front, stop for me!"

The tired bird was startled, the leaves rustled to the ground, and the horse neighed and raised its front hooves, and was forced to stop.

Almost at the same time, Eric opened his eyes, propped himself up with one hand, and sat up.He took off the rope hanging from the car wall, wrapped it round and round around his arm, and comforted Bai Lanzhi in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."

Bai Lanzhi shook her head: "I'm not afraid."

Outside, the coachman asked displeasedly, "Who are you?"

"We are the servants of Ms. Odell. Mr. Eric, Miss Blanche, our master is waiting for you in the woods—she wants to tell you that she has a solution to your current predicament."

-

Deep in the woods, Odell turned around and smiled, "I finally see you."

Bai Lanzhi took a step forward and stood in front of Eric: "Ms. Odell, I thought the grievances between us were over."

"That's what you thought." Audrey suppressed her smile and stared at her sullenly, "Blanzhi, you and I will never end. Of course, there is a way to end it, and that is—to let the people around you Give me."

Bai Lanzhi hadn't figured out why Odell hated her so deeply, and was confused by the second part of her sentence: "You mean... Eric?"

"Otherwise, who else could it be?" Odell bent her index finger, pinched the tip of her nose, and smiled gracefully and seductively, "Eric, you don't want to know why I knew you were writing "The Triumph of Don Juan"?"

"I'm not creating."

"You are lying! I know that "Triumph of Don Juan" is your hard work, a set of tunes that you are going to take into the coffin... You have created it for more than 20 years, and it is impossible to give up halfway." She wrote the original work into Eric The original words were repeated, "I know you are a genius beyond Mozart. Mozart's Don Juan can only make people cry, but your Don Juan will burn everyone's emotions. I know you want to be the winner. Don Juan..."

"Is it."

The moonlight was cold, and the skull on Odell's left shoulder was also shining with a cold light.She grinned, as if she wanted to smile sweetly, but her cheeks twitched unnaturally: "You know what? The woman next to you can't understand your heart at all, only I can understand you... I know, you It’s Don Juan in Byron’s long poem. You are talented and have traveled all over the world, but because of your face, you are excluded from the world... I can feel the loneliness, pain, and resentment in your heart. You are a hero, and you are Don Juan. A hero like Juan! Come with me, I can heal your face and bring you victory like Don Juan!"

Bai Lanzhi finally understood what she meant, and was a little taken aback: "What, you want to be with Eric?"

Eric folded his arms, his eyes were indifferent, and he refused without hesitation: "Impossible."

The reactions of both of them were beyond Odile's expectation.

She clenched her teeth and tried to make her smile look sincere: "From birth, all the injustices you have experienced are all because of that crippled face. Now, just leave Bailanzhi and come to me, and you can wipe away all the injustices." Get rid of that flaw, let you stand under the sun... don't you want such a simple request? Don't you...don't think about it?"

Eric didn't answer, he put his arms around Bai Lanzhi's shoulders, and whispered, "Go home."

Blanche!

It's Blanche again!

She has a system and is a hundred times better than Bailanzhi. Why do these people always choose Bailanzhi?

Resentment, jealousy, and anger made her unconscious. When she woke up, she opened the system panel with a sneer and selected the appearance adjustment function.

Because the system progress has increased a bit just now, the appearance can be adjusted for a limited time now, but there are only three times to modify the appearance of people other than myself, whether it is for a limited time or permanently.She's already used it up once, and now it's the second time.

After a little hesitation, she chose OK, switched to the limited-time mode, and directly maximized Eric's appearance.

At the beginning, she only increased it by 1%, and she felt dizzy and her blood flow accelerated. If she increased it by 5%, the feeling must be a hundred times stronger than that of 1%.Sure enough, she saw Eric kneeling on the ground on one knee, frowning tightly, and snorted.

In an instant, a sense of swell, joy, and refreshing pleasure surged in her heart.So what if Eric is the main character in this world?Haven't you been played and applauded by her?His most secretive, darkest, and unmentionable secrets were played with wantonly by her like a puppet clockwork.

For a moment, Odell felt that she was the god of this world, and she didn't even have to abide by the rules of this world.

At this time, the progress of the system has skyrocketed again, reaching 90%.

-

Eric clenched the weeds on the ground with both hands, and the veins on his neck were clearly visible.Unknown power shuttled and crawled on his face, and he heard the sound of blood flowing. At this moment, the ravine skin seemed to be a piece of cloth that could be ironed, held down by a pair of invisible big hands, bit by bit. Flatten the ground.That power was kind and healing him.However, he didn't want it at all.

This is the only weakness in his heart, it is the seed of animal desire in his humanity, it is a secret that he has never delved into, but Odile dug it out, and displayed it bloody in front of the person he loves the most.

Cold anger like a storm surged in his heart, and he lowered his eyelashes to cover the abnormal red light in his pupils.

Bai Lanzhi wiped the sweat from his temples with a handkerchief, and asked anxiously, "How could this be?"

Then, she widened her eyes in shock, and the skin on Eric's face burst into tiny lines, which fell off piece by piece like dry bark.If the people present were not Blanche and Audrey, they would have screamed in fear.Bai Lanzhi only had distress in her eyes: "This is..."

Eric raised his eyes and looked at Bai Lanzhi: "Don't worry. I'm fine."

Bai Lanzhi was stunned.

In front of him was an indescribably handsome face.

Eric's bone structure has not changed, he is still as cold and sharp, but his brow bones are no longer protruding appallingly, his nose bridge is straight and delicate, his jaw line is almost graceful, his skin color is as cold and white as moonlight, his lips are moderately thick, with light Pale pink.

…What Odell said turned out to be true.

Odell took out a small vanity mirror, and showed his current appearance: "Look at your current face, is it possible for Blanche to give it to you? With this face, you can act freely in public. Show your talent and no longer be beaten by everyone like a stinking ditch mouse. You can get everything you should have, wealth, fame, status, love... as long as you leave her, I will give you all of these!"

Speaking of this, Odell sneered lowly, because this scene was so much like a god condescendingly judging mortals.

What about genius?

Not being teased by her, being fooled by her.

"I'll give you an hour, Eric. After an hour, tell me your options."

"No." Eric stood up slowly and looked up at her, "I'll tell you now."

It has to be said that appearance really changes the way people feel.Although Eric used to speak very convincingly, it is definitely not the way it is now. Just looking at his handsome face and special temperament, you will recognize everything he said.

Blanche grabbed his hand: "Eric..."

She was not afraid that he would choose Odell, she was afraid that he would do something irreparable and hurt himself.

Eric didn't look back at her: "wait for me here."

After finishing speaking, he walked towards Odell, his leather shoes rolling over dead branches and leaves, every step was quite indifferent and decisive.During this process, he never looked back at Bai Lanzhi.

Odell smiled contemptuously.

She won.

So what if he lost so many times to Bai Lanzhi?Anyway, in the most critical battle, she won with great glory, didn't she?

"Ms. Odell." Eric stood in front of Odell, with his hands in his pockets, and said in a calm tone, "I remember the last time I talked to you like this, it was at the salon you were in."

It was the worst defeat in her life.When mentioning the past, Odell's complexion was not very good, and in a blink of an eye, she chuckled again: "At that time, you and I were tit for tat. I didn't expect that we would soon become lovers."

Eric was noncommittal.He lowered his eyes, moved his wrists, unbuttoned his suit, and threw it on the ground: "I haven't written "Don Juan's Triumph". Do you want to know why?"

Audrey was a little alert, not understanding why he suddenly confided in his heart: "Why?"

"For a while, I really wanted to be the victorious Don Juan." He rolled up the sleeves of his shirt to his elbows, revealing the tangled ropes of gut, because it was a special rope, and the light at night was not good. Er didn't see the clue, "I want a normal life, I want to be treated equally by people, even if there is only one person who treats me like a human being, I will no longer be alone."

Audrey didn't understand at all: "So?"

"I have met." His tone suddenly became extremely gentle, "Because of her, I am no longer alone, and I have begun to integrate into this world. She is my own victory. With her, why do I need Don Juan's victory?"

Odell still didn't understand. After thinking about it, she pretended to understand and said, "But if you come to my side, I can give you a better victory."

"Really." Eric chuckled and pulled out the rope between his arms.Seeing the flexible rope in his hand and the slightly red eyes, Odell had a bad feeling, and immediately turned and ran to the depths of the woods, but it was still too late, the speed of the rope was faster than a flying bird, almost instantly , wrapped around her neck.She didn't dare to move anymore, but the rope was like a living creature, tightening itself, gnawing at the flesh of her neck bit by bit.Odell was about to go crazy, sweating like a waterfall, wanting to struggle but not daring.

She is going to die.

She was going to be killed by Eric!

Seeing the tall figure slowly walking towards her, tears of regret welled up in her eyes, and she realized what a dangerous demon she had provoked!She naively thought that she could do whatever she wanted to him because of the system...

Odell was scared, she was really scared, she was still young, she had a bright future and a bright future, she didn't want to die, she wanted to live.

The rope is slowly tightening.Life and death seemed to be between her thoughts.

"Don't kill me... I was wrong, let me go, spare me... I don't want you to leave Bai Lanzhi... I will give you this perfect face, okay? As long as you don't kill me... Please I beg you……"

The rope was getting tighter and tighter, and she could hardly breathe.

Eric held one end of the rope, like the owner of an animal, with a cold and cold expression: "Ms. Odell, I don't know why the person behind you wants you to target me. But I have a word for you , 'When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you'."

This is a famous quote from Nietzsche.In modern times, Odell would be found on the Internet every now and then, almost with PTSD.At this time, she didn't dare to mock Eric, her mind was spinning rapidly, thinking why he said this sentence... Who is the abyss, and who is staring at the abyss?

Also, what does the person behind mean?

"What do you mean... I don't understand, there is no one behind me, only myself."

"Impossible." Eric said coldly, "The person behind you has the same talent as me, or even higher, I can feel it. He is guiding you, imitating me, provoking me, chasing fame and fortune, Jumping outside the rules of society... Although I don't know what his purpose is, but obviously, his purpose has been achieved. Don Juan's victory," he smiled lightly, "you really need a victory."

Odell still didn't understand, but she vaguely felt the outline of the truth.After a while, she opened her mouth wide open as if she had been knocked stupid by a wooden stick, closed her eyes, woke up the system panel, and looked for the line of words that first appeared.

The Phantom of the Opera.

It turned out that it was so!

"The Phantom of the Opera" is not the task issued by this system, but the name of this system!

After figuring this out, she held the rope in her hands, and burst out laughing with tears in her eyes.

The author has something to say: _(:з」∠)_ I don’t know if I can understand it... The next chapter will explain it more clearly.