The devil is by your side

Chapter 60 So She Was Just a Substitute
"The young master went out on business and hasn't come back yet, Miss Luoluo, if you have something to do with the young master, you might as well wait for him in the study." Uncle Zhong said to Xia Luoluo.

"Okay." Xia Luoluo nodded, went up to the second floor familiarly, and walked towards Long Zeye's study.

Looking at Xia Luoluo's back, Uncle Zhong sighed silently, turned and walked towards the kitchen.

The study was large, with windows on one side hung with heavy velvet curtains, and bookshelves on three sides, soaring to the ceiling.

Xia Luoluo looked curiously at the bookshelves in Long Zeye's study. The books on the bookshelves were not only in Chinese, English, and Japanese, but also many works written in characters that Xia Luoluo could not recognize.

After a while, Uncle Zhong pushed open the door of the study with a plate of exquisite pastries and a pot of black tea, and walked into Long Zeye's study, interrupting Xia Luoluo's wild thoughts.

Uncle Zhong put the refreshments on Long Zeye's desk, and respectfully said to Xia Luoluo: "Miss Luoluo, please have some refreshments first."

"Uncle Zhong, thank you." Charlotte thanked Uncle Zhong very politely.

Uncle Zhong picked up the teapot and began to pour tea into the teacup. After pouring the tea, he handed the teacup to Charlotte.

Xia Luoluo reached out to catch it, and Uncle Zhong let go of it just as he touched the cup.

A cup of hot tea was spilled on the desk, and the tea soaked the documents on the desk. Uncle Zhong hurriedly put down the teapot, and said to Charlotte: "Miss Luoluo, I'm sorry, I was too careless, didn't I hurt you?" I’m going to get a towel right now, please help clean up the documents on the table first, these documents are very important and must not be damaged.”

Hearing what Uncle Zhong said, Xia Luoluo hurriedly started to rescue the documents on the desk.

Before leaving, Uncle Zhong told Xia Luoluo: "Miss Luoluo, please be careful of that ivory pen holder on the desk."

After speaking, Uncle Zhong walked out of Long Zeye's study.

Charlotte quickly rescued the documents on the desk, and put them all on the sofa to dry.

Thinking of Uncle Zhong's special explanation about the ivory pen holder before he hurried out of the study, Xia Luoluo secretly guessed that this ivory pen holder must be very expensive, that's why Uncle Zhong gave a special explanation!
I wonder if ivory is afraid of being soaked in water?

Just in case, Charlotte walked over quickly and picked up the pen holder.

Suddenly, on the desktop under the pen holder, a small button appeared in Xia Luoluo's sight.

Charlotte was a little curious, her hands reacted faster than her brain, and before she had time to think, she stretched out her hand and pressed the button.

There was a sound of "cracking".

The bookshelves slowly descended.

Charlotte was startled, and was about to run away, but her footsteps stopped abruptly.

The huge portrait hidden behind the bookshelf slowly appeared in front of Xia Luoluo.

In the painting, the girl holding flowers smiles sweetly, her face is full of innocence and happiness.

Xia Luoluo was stunned in place, until all the bookshelves on the three walls were lowered, and she suddenly came back to her senses.

The entire three walls are covered with portraits. The girls in the paintings either smile sweetly, or close their eyes and meditate. From a little girl of six or seven years old to a girl of sixteen or seventeen, there are every age group. Their appearance There are slight differences, but if you look closely, you will find that they have a common soul. The only thing that remains unchanged in the painting is the pair of dark and bright eyes, which are almost exactly the same as hers...

Xia Luoluo stared blankly at these portraits. She always felt that these portraits looked familiar, but she couldn't tell why they looked familiar.

At some point, Uncle Zhong appeared behind her.

Uncle Zhong's deep and steady voice sounded, "Miss Luoluo, you have seen it all, this is the secret that the young master keeps in his heart. Before signing the contract with you, he would draw a portrait with his own hands and hang it up every month. It's been ten years, and over time, the three walls are covered. In the past, the young master used to stare at these paintings all night until dawn. He didn't get rid of this problem until you came. These days, the young master can sleep soundly. It's all because of you. Thanks, your eyes are exactly the same as the people in these paintings."

After hearing Uncle Zhong's words, Xia Luoluo's face instantly became extremely pale.

Is that why he'd force her into a contract and dote on her because she has the same eyes as the girl in the portrait he's painted for ten years?
Who is the mysterious girl in the painting?
Did Long Zeye regard her as a substitute for the girl in the painting?
Thinking of this, Charlotte couldn't help but shudder.

His kisses, his pampering...they all have ulterior motives? !What he saw through her was another girl, right?
There was a dull pain in Charlotte's heart. She clutched her chest, staggered, and fell to the floor of the study.

Seeing Xia Luoluo clutching his chest, his face was pale, and his eyes were ashen, Uncle Zhong's eyes flashed with unbearable, but he quickly lowered his eyelashes, putting away the softness in his heart, and exited the study expressionlessly.

Even in the sunny study, Charlotte still felt a bone-chilling chill.

Tears fell from her eyes like broken pearls.

Like an abandoned child, she was extremely helpless and wronged, so she could only curl up into a small ball, hugging her knees with her hands, and weeping silently.

At this time, there was a sound of steady footsteps outside the study door, and then the door was opened by someone outside.

"Luoluo, why are you here? It's cold on the ground, get up quickly." Long Zeye walked towards Xia Luoluo while talking.

He walked up to Charlotte and held out his hand to Charlotte.

Xia Luoluo raised her head, bit her lower lip tightly, and looked at Long Zeye with tears in her eyes, but she didn't put her hand into Long Zeye's outstretched palm.

"What happened?" Long Zeye squatted down, reaching out his hand to wipe the tears on Xia Luoluo's face.

But Xia Luoluo turned away angrily, not letting Long Zeye touch her. She got up, pointed to the picture quality of the girl's portrait on the wall and asked Long Zeye, "Long Zeye, should you explain to me what's going on? thing?"

It was only then that Long Zeye noticed that all the bookshelves in the study had been lowered, and the secrets he had hidden in the study were completely exposed in front of Xia Luoluo.

Long Zeye's face gradually darkened, and his eyes became extremely cold.

He stepped forward quickly and pressed the button.

The bookshelf slowly rises.

Long Zeye was upset at the moment and had no patience. He pulled Xia Luoluo up from the ground and looked at Xia Luoluo coldly, "The person who needs to explain is not me, but you! Xia Luoluo, Who allowed you to tamper with the things in my study?"

"This... it was just an accident. The point we want to talk about now is not this matter." Xia Luoluo was frightened by Long Zeye's cold appearance, but she still didn't give up. Unable to solve the doubts in his heart, he vowed not to give up.

"Long Zeye, tell me who is the girl in the painting?"

"Who is she, you are not qualified to ask!" Asked by Xia Luoluo, Long Zeye's heart suddenly became angry, and his dark and deep eyes were fixed on Xia Luoluo, his eyes were gloomy.

"Okay, then I'll ask in another way." Charlotte forced herself to bravely look directly at Long Zeye's gloomy black eyes, enduring the feeling that a knife was piercing her heart, and said word by word: "You've never heard of it from the beginning. Start forcing me to sign a contract with you, and bring me back forcibly, just to let me be her substitute?"

"Charlotte, listen carefully. There is no substitute, and there is no difference between you and her. If I say you are her, you can only be her." Long Zeye narrowed his eyes and said the same word by word.

Long Zeye's words made Xia Luoluo's heart, which still had a trace of fantasy, instantly shattered into slag, and tears flowed down again uncontrollably.

"Playing with me within the applause, don't you feel very fulfilled? It's a pity, Long Zeye, let me tell you, I, Charlotte, don't want to be anyone's substitute. I am me, she is her, and I will always It is impossible to become her because of your selfish decision!"

After Xia Luoluo finished speaking, she wiped the tears off her face vigorously, stared at Long Zeye, picked up the bouquet of daisies that she had put on the desk that she intended to confess to Long Zeye, and smashed it hard on Long Zeye. wild face.

"Long Zeye, how could I fall in love with a scumbag like you! I don't want to see you again in my life!" After speaking, Xia Luoluo quickly ran out of the study.

The study gradually quieted down.

Long Zeye felt cold in his heart.

What disturbed him even more was that now that Xia Luoluo had learned his secret, she would no longer be her in his mind. Would he really give up on Xia Luoluo?
But why did he feel heartbroken and suffocated because of Charlotte's heartbroken eyes when he ran away?
Is he in love with the real Charlotte who would laugh at him and make noises at him, or the girl in his memory that he has been looking for for ten years and still has no clue?

Countless memories surfaced in Long Zeye's heart.

He was horrified to find that the memories he thought would last forever were gradually fading and being replaced by the memories belonging to Charlotte. In the end, countless faces he had fantasized about overlapped together, and finally only the one belonging to Charlotte was left. bright smile.

"Lanlan, I'm sorry..." Long Zeye covered his chest, slowly closed his eyes, and murmured softly.

At this moment, he already had the answer in his heart.

Xia Luoluo rushed out of Long Zeye's villa in one breath.

Mu Kewei, who was hiding in the dark, couldn't help being extremely surprised when she saw that Xia Luoluo ran out of Long Zeye's villa crying.

She quickly caught up with Charlotte and stopped her.

"Luo Luo, what happened? Why are you crying?" Mu Kewei tentatively asked, "Have you seen Master Long, and have you confessed to him?"

"Kewei, I'm so sad, don't mention that scumbag Long Zeye to me! I don't want to see him again in my life!" When Xia Luoluo saw Mu Kewei, the grievance in her heart burst out instantly. She threw herself into Mu Kewei's arms and burst into tears.

Mu Kewei was taken aback, and quickly racked her brains to appease Xia Luoluo, but she keenly grasped a few key words in Xia Luoluo's words.

Long Zeye is a big scumbag?She doesn't want to see him again in her life?What the hell is going on?

Mu Kewei, who has always been smart and witty, was also confused by Xia Luoluo's words this time.

(End of this chapter)