Chapter 73: Become a person you cannot be?
Bai Ye felt like she had a long dream, and the scenes in the dream were bizarre. Sometimes she was a princess from an ancient kingdom, honored and loved; sometimes she was a popular actor in a well-known theater troupe, enjoying the cheers and sought after by the audience; and sometimes she was ordinary, like an ordinary girl, studying, living, and growing on campus, until everything broke, and countless pieces of mirrors flew past her. In every fleeting time and space, she saw her own shadow, familiar face and strange appearance.
When she was a princess, she was favored more solemn than the sun and moon in the sky. When traveling, she had to follow one hundred servants and one hundred maids, sprinkle rose petals and camellia petals on the road where the carriage passed. The crown she wore should be decorated with the brightest sapphires, the dazzling rubies and the deepest purple gems. Three hundred well-trained knights guarded her side, beware of all those who attempt to be detrimental to her. The civilians crawled on both sides of the street, dared not look up directly at her majesty. The most daring person would occasionally raise his head to be proud of seeing a corner of the shadow she cast in the sunlight.
When she was an actor, she became famous in the mainland for her beautiful singing voice, moving dance posture and pitiful figure. She was born to be a darling under the light, a guest of honor for princes and nobles, and a finale of celebrity dances. The most passionate poet would also fall to her glory, and the most talented playwright also regards her recognition as a lifelong glory, let alone those enthusiastic and fanatical audiences, the cheers during each performance can overturn the dome, just like the sound of a thousand whales, just for the faint smile she showed on the stage.
Even though she is just an ordinary girl, she has the most ordinary and happy life that many people cannot afford. She is loved by her parents, caring about her brothers and sisters, and also has a well-behaved and sensible brother and sister. Her family is not very wealthy, but it is not poor, which is enough to support her to spend the best youth on campus, or to visit a department store with three or two good friends, or to study silently in the library, hoping to one day get into her ideal university. Isn’t it more important than anything else to spend every period of her life in such an ordinary but stable manner?
But none of these are what she wants.
Bai Ye just wants to know who he is.
In a period of time that was so vague that she forgot many memories and pursued them hard, but this does not mean that she must accept every uninvited identity. Just like a child picking up shells on the beach, she will only leave what she really wants. No matter how precious other shells are, even if they open them, they are nurturing pearls, which is not what he wants.
So she was sure that she was not a princess or an actor, and she could not be an ordinary girl. She resisted these memories that appeared inexplicably in her mind, resisted their changes to herself, and could even be said to be hated. She smashed the brilliant crown with her own hands, smashed the precious gems into pieces, escaped the protection of the knights, wandered alone on the strange land; she refused to become a vase on the social stage, with her face
A smile like a speculates on the malice and madness under another mask. A fire burned her drama costumes and accessories and disappeared after she disappeared. She left her boring campus life without authorization, and was unwilling to end this established life track, and even took the initiative to destroy it. She changed the name of "Bai Ye" written on her personal belongings to the name of any character she saw in the novel, just like transferring one person's fate to another.
When she did these things, she had a revenge mentality. She didn't know what to change herself into another way, but with her personality, she would never let the other party succeed. However, after she did so much, she never got disappointed in the end. The king regarded the princess's behavior as a period of rebellion. In addition to strengthening her etiquette education, she also tried her best to persuade her to take into account the face of the royal family. The public regarded the actor's separation as a personality, and even triggered a new artistic trend, and even praised the critics who had always been picky. The family regarded the girl's drastic transformation as a psychological disease, and constantly invited doctors to treat her, which made her so sad that she couldn't sleep day and night...
When all this happened, Bai Ye watched coldly, feeling a huge irony about it. No one really cared about what this girl wanted. They were just shaping this personality according to their expectations or inertia. Even if she hysterically shouted that I was not the princess/actor/girl in your eyes, it was useless. Everyone was blindly following their memories. Even if that memory was false, forged, based on confusion and deception, there was no slightest awareness. The only girl who was aware of the truth did not want to be a doll of memory, but had not yet learned how to get rid of this curse, so she was caught in the gap of loneliness and was in pain.
Changes identity and implants memories again and again, struggles and resistances again and again, each time only makes her suffer more and deeper. The girl wanders in this endless maze, wandering repeatedly in countless specious memory fragments, but these footprints are just outward and none of them come back. During this long period of time, she has gained a lot and abandoned a lot. The only thing she refuses to leave is that she will one day defeat the obsession of curse, but forgets that she does not live in the world for this curse.
Suddenly one day, she felt a little tired. The child who picked up shells by the beach would eventually grow up, but her growth was not at the cost of innocence, but surrendering to fate. She told herself that I would never be replaced by these memories from nothingness, but perhaps there was no need to fight them. Loneliness is invincible, and the only thing she could do was learn to coexist with them until she grows old and dies one day. Even if she could no longer predict, was it aging or death of her heart.
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Until a voice appeared in her mind: "It's a pity to give up here after working hard for so long."
"You're talking simple." Bai Ye replied to her: "But working hard itself is the most difficult thing in the world."
"That's right." The voice said, "Then how about I'll help you?"
"How do you help me?"
"It's very simple. I'll help you play the roles you don't want to play. Bai Ye just needs to watch it."
"But why do you want to help me?"
"Because that's what you want, I was born from your wish."
"Who are you?"
It was not until this time that Bai Ye remembered this most critical question. The voice in his mind was silent for a moment, but the silence of this moment was as long as a century for Bai Ye. She was even a little scared. Did she ask too suddenly and scare her away? However, the voice soon reappeared, and she said to Bai Ye: "Gloria."
"Just call me that!" She decided the most important thing in her life with a pleasant tone. The question of "Who am I?" that Bai Ye was struggling to pursue seemed unworthy to her.
Bai Ye was stunned because she knew that this was definitely not the other party's name.
Gloria, Gloria Risberette, is her current identity name, another nightmare she always resists and refuses to substitute, but she easily accepts it. Is her mood to show that she wants to help Bai Ye in this way is not false? But if so, the price will be too high. In her future life, will she always have to live with a false name?
"It's no big deal." She said to Bai Ye. Although the girl has never appeared in front of Bai Ye, the latter seemed to have imagined such a picture. A girl with the same face as her was looking at herself with a smile and said softly: "Since Bai Ye doesn't want to be Gloria, then let me become Gloria."
"I will help you."
"Because, that's what you want."
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The Resberite family is a great noble of the kingdom. It has a towering castle on the high cliff. The age of the castle is as long as the reproduction history of this land. To this day, the vines have been covered with carved glass windows, and cannot see through the complex patterns behind the layers of green. The beautiful roses and camellias bloom all year round in the garden. Lady Lena, who is responsible for taking care of them, holds an afternoon tea party every Friday at 3:00 pm to pursue the past and present life in the family's blood through the fragrance of flowers. The manor under the cliff has a large field of wheat extending out. Two thousand tenants carefully take care of the wheat, peas and grapes in the fields. In their spare time, they whisper and discuss the family's family's family's family's family's family's most discussed are the two daughters.
Some say they are unique twins in the world, with their appearance and body shape almost carved from the same mold, and even the most inconspicuous eyelash is exactly the same; some say they were cursed by the witch in the forest and could not leave the castle at the same time, and one left, the other must stay; some say they had a strange disease, their personalities were as volatile as fog, and the doctors in the kingdom were helpless... The Risbelet family never responded or clarified any rumors, and even the maids who went to the town learned to keep silent without a master, and had a strange tacit understanding of such speculations.
Rumors became increasingly fierce, but over time they became quiet, because carefully speculation and hard arrangement of the distant and mysterious castle were obviously not as noticeable as the tedious and trivial matters around them. Only the couple who ruled this vast territory knew that the rumors were not groundless, but were far from the facts. They never had two daughters, but they just raised a girl named Gloria and a demon hiding in her body.
Most of the time, Gloria appears in front of others. She is well-behaved, sensible, and cute. She always responds to and satisfy others' expectations for her. Her careful study of the grammar and etiquette courses of nobles, and her impeccable performance made the tutor amazed; she respects her father and loves her mother, always remembers their birthdays and every memorable day in her life, gives them gifts, and thanks them for their raising of themselves.
The kindness of nurturing moved the couple to tears; she was noble but never arrogant and arrogant, and even treated her servants with courtesy. When the clumsy maid accidentally broke the dishes, her first reaction was not to scold her, but to care whether she was injured. Everyone in the Resberette family, from the beloved couple to the gardener who was responsible for the gardening, was proud of having such a beautiful lady, and took it for granted.
That's right, Gloria Risberette is such a person, her identity, her image, and her character. Everything about her is always vivid and profound in their memory. It was like this before, now, and of course it will always be like this in the future.
But sometimes, in a very rare occasion, the girl who appeared in front of them was not Gloria, but a demon named Bai Ye. She was extremely cold, arrogant, and arrogant, as if she was disdainful of everything in the world. She was unwilling to admit that the couple who ruled the castle was her parents, unwilling to admit that this land was her home where she grew up, and so unwilling to admit that she had anything to do with the name Gloria Risberite.
At first, the psychologist who came to the diagnosis told the master and his wife that when there were two souls in the girl's body, they were ready to accept another soul and determined to influence her with family affection and love. Even the maids and servants in the castle had a faint pity and expectation for her. However, the selfishness and evil of this soul hurt everyone's hearts, making them realize that this was not a simple disease, but a curse. If it weren't for the curse, why would such a cruel and ruthless soul be nurtured in the heart of Miss Gloria?
Fortunately, this personality does not appear frequently, and it is even rarer since she was invited to treat her. The master of Resberette was happy about this and began to look forward to the day when the demon disappeared completely and restored his cute and well-behaved daughter back. But one night he had a nightmare while sleeping, suddenly woke up, and sweated in cold sweat. He left the room in a state of restlessness and walked through the gloomy corridor, but saw a thin figure standing on the edge of the balcony of the hall, with long gray hair floating desolately under the night wind. The girl had half her foot in the darkness, and she would lose weight as long as she took a step forward. I don’t know if it was a coincidence, under the balcony, it happened to be the garden where roses and camellia bloomed. Even at night, the fragrance of the flowers was still so fragrant that it was a bit fatal.
The master was scared and sweated in a cold sweat and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, but the girl turned her head and looked at him coldly. In those eyes that were even colder than the mirror, he did not see any human emotions.
She is not Gloria.
She is Bai Ye.
The master was so scared that his face was pale and fled from the hall in panic, as if he was not facing his daughter, but a terrifying demon. Behind the embarrassed figure, a contemptuous and self-deprecating sneer came.
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