Lance looked at Jessica standing in front of him. He could smell the bitterness of despair in the air, the fragility that seemed to dissipate in the strong wind at any time, like a fragile puzzle. With just a gentle force, the whole world would be broken. However, Lance remained indifferent.

Perhaps, he is indeed invulnerable.

"Because things are no longer the same, you have crossed that line." Lance's calm words were like an ice cone in the scorching summer, piercing Jessica's chest without mercy and without hesitation. "This is a game, and it is just a game. When the game starts to become serious, it is not fun."

The pain in her chest swept like a tide, making Jessica almost speechless. "But...but..." Jessica opened her mouth, but found that even her breathing became difficult, and all her defenses became pale and powerless. Her reason told her: she should now straighten her back, throw a dollar to Lance, and then tell Lance that it was the reward for the game and turn around and leave. However, she couldn't do it, and she didn't want to do it either.

"This is a game, this is a game!" Jessica, as if the drowning man had grabbed a life-saving rope, climbed up in the desperate cliff. She supported her hands on the coffee table, approached Lance, and then said earnestly, and even forgot that there were other guests watching around the cafe. "I can do it, believe me, nothing has changed, and we will not change. This is still just a game. Really, I mean it."

She knew that she looked as sad as a clown, but she didn't care. It was not until this moment that she truly realized that she was already deeply trapped and could not extricate herself. She had never gained any advantage in this game. She was always a loser, but she didn't care. The only thing she hoped was that the game could continue. How sad, but how earnest it was.

However, Lance did not give her any chance, and ruthlessly cut off the rope of life, "Jessica, the game is over." Then he watched Jessica fall into the cliff, but remained indifferent.

Jessica firmly grabbed Lance's right hand, but the palm was cold but icy. The palm that seemed to have no temperature stripped off the heat in her palm bit by bit. Then it cooled the whole world down, soaking her whole body like a pouring rain.

Jessica took back her palm in disbelief, but she was still reluctant to leave. She reached out and touched her again. The cold skin made her suddenly shrink back, "So, nothing is meaningless? For you, those days and those times have no meaning? All this is just a game?"

Lance did not answer, he just looked at Jessica calmly, as if he was enjoying a humorous one-man show. The calmness made Jessica's inner anger uncontrollably rise. She supported the table with both hands, leaned out and approached Lance. She gritted her teeth and said, "A game?"

Lance still didn't say anything, and the understatement between his eyebrows was like an outsider who was enjoying the good show.

A sense of sadness made Jessica feel extremely ridiculous and could only murmur in a low voice. "A game." At this moment, she truly understood what this meant, and she truly understood what a dangerous trap she had entered.

Jessica grabbed the cup of coffee on the table and wanted to pour it on Lance. However, Jessica saw those calm and indifferent eyes. Even though he was holding a cup of hot coffee in his hand, he still had no special reaction, as if he was the most focused audience in the world, enjoying the climax of this one-man show.

The one-man show, from beginning to end, is just one of her one-man show.

This idea completely defeated all Jessica's anger. She knew that she had always known it, but even though she knew, she still walked into this trap like a moth to the flame. The fatal attraction really pierced her chest like a sharp blade.

Then, Jessica's shoulders drooped and slowly put the coffee on the table. She couldn't do it after all. She looked at the man in front of her seriously, and her overheated brain vented the remaining anger in her chest with thrillingly, "Bastard! You shameless bastard! Self-righteous bastard! Do you know how sad you are? You can only pretend to be aloof, but in the end you are just a bastard who uses the lower/half of your body to think, arrogant, proud, shameless, disgusting bastard! Sad! Abominable! Dirty!"

But... but, even more sadly, her heart was still beating violently, and the surging emotions almost took away her breath. Poor, ridiculous, sad, hot tears poured out of her eyes and burned her cheeks, but she had no time to wipe them, so she could only turn around and escape in panic.

She had to escape, she could only escape, the clear pain was unforgettable. Her panic steps were getting faster and faster, and she fled from this man far away.

The customers in the cafe secretly retracted their gaze and discussed the recent gossip of the media, the triangle relationship between Lance, Jessica and Kaira. Although the three parties have never admitted it, today's episode undoubtedly confirmed this speculation. Everyone's eyes were filled with an excited look, and they were thinking about the complex triangle relationship.

Lance ignored the hustle noise in his ears, and his eyes looked in the direction of Jessica's escape. The figure that fled in a hurry gradually became blurred in the scorching sunlight and disappeared soon. There was only a twisted mist and misty water vapor left in the air, as if the whole world was shrouded in a halo.

The same was true that afternoon, that afternoon deep in my memory.

The hot air waves imprisoned him in place like a cage, and his panicked steps were at a loss. The white reeds could not see the end at all. The dazzling sunshine everywhere connected the sky and the earth. Even the horizon disappeared into the blurred shadow of the reeds. The huge world could not run out. All struggles seemed to be futile, and hope was strangled little by little in the dazzling light.

Just like the city of God with yellow sand all over the sky.

As long as you close your eyes, you can hear Frank's crazy roar, "I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you..." As the wind swept from all sides, as if it was narrowing his escape direction, it quietly pinched his throat, breathing became more and more hasty, and the panicked footsteps in his ears were getting closer and closer, like the footsteps of death, gradually pushing him into the corner. The afternoon sun was so bright that it was so rich that it could not be dissolved, but the darkness that was so rich that it could not be dissolved grabbed his ankles, making him unable to get rid of it. He was like a trapped beast caught by a hunter trap, screaming shrillly, struggling desperately, but it was useless, just accelerating his own death.

The thick smell of blood dragged him into hell, and the ubiquitous red gradually eroded his limbs. He tried to get rid of the sticky blood on his fingertips, but the bright blood could not be wiped away. Instead, he began to climb up his arms along his fingertips, as if he had life. Finally, he tried to devour his soul and let him completely escape into darkness.

The fear pinched his throat tightly, and despair was like an ant, slowly climbing up on his body one by one, biting his flesh and blood bit by bit, and slowly swallowing his vitality inch by inch... He wanted to shout, but he couldn't make any sound.

He once thought that it was an eternal nightmare, and he could never get rid of the cage of nightmare. Until later, Ian took him and Gao Wen to sneak into the cinema and watched the "Breakfast Club". The movie became a turning point in his life, making him simply believe that friendship can nourish his soul, friendship can light up the world, and friends can build dreams; it made him realize for the first time that there was a bright, confused, and magical movie world outside the dark basement.

In the end, he escaped, Theo and the others escaped, fleeing from the icy Wisconsin to the sunny California.

San Francisco, surrounded by clouds and mist, is like a fairyland on earth, thrillingly beautiful. This is a new starting point in his life. He started to go to school, he began to meet new friends, and he even began to have his own interests and hobbies. He also began to learn trust, learn hope, begin to understand dreams and persist in faith, and begin to try a life he never fantasized about. The memories of childhood are like luggage they abandoned, left forever on that land, covered in the snowy winter, and then penetrate into the stiff land. No one will mention it, and no one will find it.

The passage of time made that memory blurry, and even in the dream, he had forgotten it, and those fragments were left with only the incomplete smell that was looming. However, eighteen years later, life once again joked with him in a similar way.

Ryan Cavalug almost smashed the movie world he woven to pieces by destroying it, cruelly and cruelly teaching him the bloody reality, and the innocent and pure persistence seemed just a joke to others; George Clooney vividly staged a friendship lesson for him in the most ironic way, teaching him the cheap and profound friendship in the real society, just a string of numbers; Gwyneth Paltrow, the cute Gwen, Gwen who lives in his own world, chose to turn around and leave in a critical moment, and faced with the impact of reality, love is just a roll of cheap toilet paper...

And Jason, the dearest Jason Berkeley, in the sweetest, caring and friendly way, he personally stifled the light of dreams and faith in the shackles of trust, gently cut off the life-saving rope in his hand, and then watched him fall into darkness with tears in his face, falling to pieces. The innocent and kindness taught him that the beauty and happiness in life were just dream bubbles in fairy tales. Only a real fool would believe it.

So, he is indeed a bastard. He would rather be a bastard.

Retracting his gaze, put a piece of sugar cube into the coffee cup again, then picked up the cup, blew a lightly, and then took a sip slowly. The bitter and sweet fragrance lingered on the tip of his tongue, and a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of Lance's mouth.

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