The Lost Mermaid [Zhongyingmei]

After dinner, it's the usual dance.

Ladies and gentlemen left the restaurant with a graceful step, and the small deck outside was already set up. Friends in 1900 were employed by White Star Company as musicians, and at this time they had moved to the deck.

As the music sounded, the gentlemen bent down gracefully and extended their hands, inviting the ladies to dance together.

Almost everyone threw themselves on the dance floor.

Doris and Carl did not attend their social dance.The two found a place in the corner of the deck where they could barely hear the music.

Doris would love to dance with Carl—otherwise it would be too poor for Carl to stand alone!Holding on to the railing, she stood up slowly.

Her movements startled him, and he hurriedly put his arms around her waist, letting her relieve the pressure on the soles of her feet and lean into his arms.

Doris imitated the movements of the ladies and put her hand on Karl's wrist.

The shadows of the two merged into one, slowly swaying under the moonlight and lamplight.

The music in the distance was very charming at first, but as the atmosphere became more and more heated, the music was replaced by passionate and romantic ballroom dancing.

Gradually, Doris was no longer content with rocking gently like this.

"Teach me how to dance! Carl!" Doris raised her head so suddenly that it almost hit his chin.

Her eyes were bright, and there were stars in them—yellow lights and the reflection of a full moon.

Carl stared into her bright eyes.

Not getting a response, Doris shook her head and bit his lip in a strange way.

"Hiss—" Carl was startled, and subconsciously opened his mouth.

Logically, it was another solid kiss.

Both of them couldn't help closing their eyes.

In the ear is the rustling sound of the Titanic riding the wind and waves, and the cheerful and sentimental violin and piano music, as well as people's laughter, are faintly floating in the distance.

Doris's breath was completely Carl's breath.

This reassuring tobacco note and unique ocean clean taste.

Between the lips and tongue, the ambiguous sound of water gradually occupied Doris' five senses.She felt as if every cell in her body craved his comfort and intimacy.

Gentle and moist, it gradually migrated from her soft lips to her closed eyes, forehead, nose tip and chin, and finally, a warm hot air sprayed on her neck.

Doris felt as if she had been robbed of all resistance by the legendary vampire, allowing her blood-pulsing blood vessels to be punctured between his cold teeth and warm lips.

The heart beat violently, deafeningly.

Suddenly, there was a mechanical clicking sound in my ears.

Doris opened her eyes suddenly.

She feebly pushed away the person in front of her, and looked around vigilantly.

Carl was suddenly awakened from the fragrant and charming atmosphere, but he hadn't reacted yet.

"What's wrong? Did I make you uncomfortable?"

Doris didn't answer. She listened carefully, but the voice seemed to be a hallucination and never appeared again.

Seeing her nervous expression, Karl stopped talking.

Doris tried her best to listen again, but found no heresy, so she shook her head: "Maybe I'm hallucinating."

She hoped it was just an auditory hallucination.

but……

"I heard a distinct 'click' just now, like a metal collision - maybe someone is knocking on the hull? I'm not sure."

Carl's heart skipped a beat, but he didn't want Doris to worry, so he comforted: "It's normal for steel to make some noise when it expands with heat and contracts with cold, don't worry."

He stroked Doris's long hair and comforted her in a low voice.

Doris half-understood, seeing Karl's straightforward explanation, she no longer cared about it.

"Keep dancing, Mr. Hockley! Don't—don't let us digress!" She blushed, and held his hand, enduring the tingling pain in the soles of her feet.

Carl led her to continue to take simple dance steps under the moonlight, and he smiled softly.

But secretly woke up in my heart.

The sound Doris said must not be the sound of a pistol/gun being loaded.

The night before had been so crazy that Doris didn't wake up until lunchtime the next day.

Since there was no servant, Doris ordered some meals on her own and asked the restaurant to deliver them to her room.

She went to the next room and knocked on the door again, but no one answered the door after a long time—perhaps 1900 went to rehearse a new repertoire with his musicians again.

Doris had no choice but to go back to her room. When she was at the door, she manipulated the wheelchair and turned a corner.

Haven't said good morning to Caldor yet!

Doris thought sweetly, and she raised her hand, ready to knock on the door.

But before her hand touched the door, the door was opened from the inside.

"Good morning, my..." The rest of the words disappeared between the kisses.

After a short kiss, Carl, voice still hoarse, invited Doris to dine in his suite, but was declined.

"I've called for breakfast—no, lunch!"

"How many copies?"

"Ah!" Doris then remembered that she only ordered one.

Carl understood, and pinched her cheek helplessly.

"I'll order another one, I'll go to your place later, let's have dinner together."

Doris nodded, blushing.

Carl still needed to wash up, so Doris turned and went back to the room first.

She had just opened the door between the private corridor and the living room when she heard the door of the suite being knocked again.

'Carl?Or my lunch? Doris guessed as she went to open the door.

But the person came unexpectedly: "Oh! Ruth! You're here! Do you have anything to do with me? Come in and have a seat."

Ruth's eyes were red and swollen, and they were not as lively as they had been when they were full of perseverance and courage.

Doris frowned as she silently followed her into the room, sat down on the sofa in silence, lowered her head in silence, and lost all words.

"What happened? Was it last night..."

"I tried to commit suicide by jumping off the boat last night and was saved by Jack." Ruth's words startled Doris, and she wondered if she had heard it wrong.

"What?" Doris didn't know whether to comfort her or ask the cause of the incident, but she couldn't help but asked back, "When we first met, you once said that you would not do that for the sake of your mother." Choose, why is everything going well now, but you—”

"Doris!" Ruth choked out her name, "Mother? Mother! I'm such a fool! Why? Why would she do that? She put me in Edward Roose's bed, didn't she?" Do you think I will accept my fate so that all her plans can come true?"

Doris was really startled, the teapot in her hand shook and landed on the tea tray.

"What!? What did he do to you? When did this happen? My God!" Doris grabbed her hand, only to see bright red faintly visible under the bulging lace puff sleeve on her wrist. colored bound imprint.

"Little Edward is such a pervert? There are countless beauties who want to be his wife. Why does he..."

"It's not him!" Ruth grabbed her hair in pain.

Doris asked in surprise: "Didn't you say, Edward Rose... Wait! What?" Doris really didn't know what to say at this moment, and she hoped that her guess was completely out of thin air.

Ruth raised her head slowly, the despair and unwillingness in her eyes hurt Doris' eyes.

"It is he, Edward Roose... the Earl."

The silence of the room.

Doris was speechless, she had absolutely no idea what to say.

If so, she could understand why Ruth, a canary who was about to be free, finally couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to destroy herself completely.

Immediately, great anger burned in the bottom of my heart.

For the first time, Doris had a vicious urge to tear up that ugly face and throw his bloody limbs into the deep sea to feed the sharks for the sake of others.

How can there be such a person?How could there be such a mother?

Ruth was silent, her sore eyes could no longer shed any tears.

She looked at Doris' angry, worried and... pitying eyes, and said softly, "Jack, Jack Dawson saved me twice, Doris."

"That night, he heard my cries for help, climbed in through the window, and took me away. Doris, do you know? The window was very narrow. When we crawled on the iron deck, There are snow-white waves under our feet, and if we are not careful, both of us will die in the sea."

Ruth recalled the thrilling escape experience that night, and said slowly, her voice lost all tone, calmly like a machine.

"Edward Roose didn't succeed, but I...lost everything. Do you understand, Doris. If he kidnapped me and raped me, I might just want to drive a knife into his heart and make him Pay the price. But...but, the hands that pushed me into the abyss wear a ring that symbolizes the Bookett family."

Doris could barely breathe, and she didn't even dare to imagine being in her shoes.

Doris almost drowned at the thought of such a betrayal happening to her.

"But the next day, as if she had done nothing, she dragged me to the dinner party to deal with those two disgusting and ugly Edward Ross! Doris, I am very familiar with the look in your eyes that little Edward! Ruth took her hand. "I don't want you to be like me!"

Doris shook her head weakly, but she couldn't say anything.

"Last night, standing on the edge of the deck, under the searchlight, I saw the dolphins dancing in the white spray - so free and so beautiful."

"How much I want to be like them, to breathe freely in the sea, without others or pain."

"Jack is holding you!" Doris finally answered, "He must not want you to give up your life and yourself like this."

"Yes, Doris." Ruth's normally straight back lost her strength at this moment, and collapsed on the sofa armchair. "Maybe I should repay him. He even helped me teach Joey Love a lesson."

"He likes you! Ruth!" Doris suddenly noticed that Ruth's attitude towards Jack seemed to be very different, maybe this was a breakthrough point.

But Ruth shook her head: "I can't bear such a liking."

Having said that, Doris didn't believe that she really had no idea, otherwise why would Ruth come to her today?

What Ruth said just now exposed what Jack did. He taught Joey Love a lesson?He, then, was the thing that the three men had kept from themselves when they disembarked together at Cherbourg yesterday!

Perhaps Jack took the initiative to volunteer and came to Karl's side as a personal servant, originally for Ruth.

Doris bit her lip and continued to comfort her when she heard the door open.

The two people walking against the light, to the two girls, are the light in their hearts.