The Lost Mermaid [Zhongyingmei]

Doris narrowed her eyes and carefully looked at the woman in front of her.

The name was familiar to her, and 1900 had inquired about it, and she would probably become Cal Hockley's fiancée in all likelihood—the Heart of the Ocean would also be in her pocket.

'Maybe I should hate her. ' thought Doris, 'she's going to take my...things. '

But Doris was looking at her with gentle and clear eyes, but it was difficult for her to feel malicious.Ruth didn't look like the coquettish and vain woman she had imagined before, her gray-blue eyes were like the gloomy sky, faintly revealing incomprehensible sadness.

'Ruth Bukett may be the breakthrough, since she is likely to be Hockley's fiancée and owner of the Heart of the Sea. ' thought Doris, ashamed of herself to take advantage of an innocent person whom she had just tried to help.

But for Doris, the Heart of the Ocean is her only goal and hope.

"My name is Doris Boardman." Doris made an excuse at random, "My necklace fell into the water, it is more important to me than my life, so I will risk it Dangerous, want to find it too."

Ruth was stunned by her voice, but quickly pretended not to notice her abnormality, sighed, and sat beside her, brushing away the wet hair on Doris's face.

"God, you must be in a hurry—did you find it?"

"No." Doris lowered her head, not wanting her to see her guilty conscience, "Maybe it has been eaten by fish."

"Ah!" Ruth frowned, "This lake is bottomless, maybe, maybe it's really hard to find, but I can help you find someone to salvage it."

Doris looked up and gave a smile: "Thank you, Ruth, I need help so much! You are such a good person! By the way, why are you by the lake? I mean, it's so early , the sun has just risen." At this time, the sunlight penetrated through the clouds, crossed the window sill, and sprinkled into the house.

The golden sunlight lit up Doris' sea-blue eyes, and dark blue and light blue halos flowed in her eyes.

In Ruth's eyes, it was simply the eyes of a siren. She stared blankly and did not speak for a long time.

"I just want to go out by the lake and have some quiet time."

"Do you want to die?" Doris asked in a particularly indifferent and calm tone.

"No!—how can you ask that?" Ruth interrupted hastily, exasperated, "how can I commit suicide!"

Shamed and angry, she stood up abruptly, avoided Doris's probing gaze, walked to the window, and opened the window roughly.

"I, I'm not as fragile as you imagined, I just want to blow some air and calm down." Ruth leaned weakly by the window, her eyes looked at the rising sun slowly rising on the horizon, the golden and orange light covered her Hair lit like a burning flame, "This dark room is driving me crazy."

"I'd like to hear from you, Ruth."

Doris stood up and wanted to walk to her side, her cheeks twitched involuntarily due to the stinging pain, she held on to the bedpost tightly, exhaled slowly, her voice trembling.

"I see struggle and unwillingness in your eyes, Ruth, the dark room may trap you for a while, but the sun will rise every day."

"A painter once said to me that although I am in chains - as you can see, my legs are not perfect, and my voice is hoarse - I can still swim freely like a fish. Go, if I want."

Doris's voice was hoarse and dull, not the voice a girl should have at all, but in Ruth's ears, it seemed to come from the distant sky and ocean, unfathomable.

Ruth was silent for a while, turned her face away, revealing her slender and pale neck, the pulsating blue blood vessels, revealing the touch in her heart.

"The water is ready, Doris, go take a bath to warm yourself up. I'll find someone to take you home later." She turned and rummaged through the closet to find a set of loose dressing gowns, carried them to the side of the bathtub and put them down up.Doris moved slowly to the bathroom, and Ruth closed the door for her.

There are gold-plated decorations everywhere, and the warm yellow light illuminates the whole bathroom with warmth.Doris flicked the water in the bathtub, which had been carefully brought to the right temperature by Ruth.She tore off the long white dress that was already dirty and stepped in.

The warm water quickly turned her pale skin red, and the stiff joints were scalded by the cold wind, and Doris buried her whole body in the water.

She hadn't walked such a long distance in a long time, and the energy she had absorbed from the living water at the bottom of the lake this morning was exhausted.When she talked with Ruth with tense nerves, she temporarily forgot the pain in her body, but now, the pain like being crushed by a boulder penetrated from every inch of skin to the bone marrow.

Doris opened her mouth in the water, she even talked a lot more today than before, and her throat became dry.

She slowly lost consciousness, her body swayed slightly in the deep water of the bathtub, and she vaguely felt as if she had turned into a fish again.

"Brother must be going crazy..."

This was her last thought before she passed out.

Ruth sat in front of the drawing board, her eyes were lost, she unconsciously daubed the paint on the drawing board, her mind was full of what Doris said just now.Suddenly, there was a noise outside the window, and Ruth woke up suddenly.

There was no sound of water in the bathroom. Ruth dropped her pen and knocked lightly on the door.However, she got no response.

Only then did Ruth realize that something was wrong, she knocked harder on the door, and shouted: "Doris, are you okay? Can you hear me?"

No response.

Ruth unscrewed the door in panic, and when she saw the situation in the bathtub in front of her, she screamed in fright: "Ah—help! Come on!"

Doris's whole body and face were soaked in the water, her face was flushed and purple, her eyes were closed tightly, and only tiny air bubbles floated up from her mouth.

Ruth rushed forward and fished her out, wrapping her tightly in a heavy towel.Just after finishing all this, there was a violent and disorderly knock on her door.At the same time, there were voices of men arguing outside the door.

Just as Doris regained her consciousness, the voices of men and women arguing rushed into her eardrums. She turned her face in pain, feeling that her head was about to explode due to the noise.

A pair of warm hands covered her ears.

"Stop making noise! ​​Doris is already awake." She heard 1900's impatient scolding.

A man and a woman shut their mouths for a moment, the woman sobbed softly, the man quickly reacted, and rushed out the door: "Joelov! Go and invite the best doctor in London! Hurry up!" The man ordered , regardless of 1900's opening, hurried downstairs and left.

Doris frowned, and she wanted to speak, but her throat hurt so badly. 1900 tacitly handed a cup of warm tea to her lips, and Doris drank it in gulps.

After replenishing the water, she finally had the strength to open her eyes.

What came into view was 1900's self-blaming and concerned eyes. He lifted her up and skillfully placed the pillow behind her.

Doris looked around. By the window, Ruth leaned against the wall with her face covered, seemingly choking.The culprit who made her almost collapse was standing by the door, looking at the weak Doris through 1900's shoulder.

Doris clenched her hands unconsciously under the quilt.

Why is Cal Hockley here?

Doris turned her eyes away and lay down, pulled the quilt under her eyes, covering most of her face, and she wondered more and more whether she hadn't woken up yet?otherwise……

The expression on 1900's face became more serious. After he tucked the quilt for Doris, he turned to Ruth and said, "Miss Bucket, thank you for saving my sister—yes, I don't believe you Didn't hurt her."

Ruth showed an expression of disbelief, and tears filled her eyes again.

"Mr. Boardman, do you trust others too easily! Doris is so weak—"

"Mr. Hockley, no one knows my sister better than I do. She is just tired and needs to rest. There is nothing serious." 1900 will not let strange doctors approach Doris, "And, you should call her For Miss Boardman, I don't know when you and Doris are familiar enough to be called by your Christian name."

Hockley choked, the veins on his forehead popped up, and he was about to be furious, but he found powerlessly that in front of Danny Boardman, he had no chance to take the lead.

"At least as a friend." Hockley gritted his teeth, "Dolly... Miss Boardman's health worries me very much. Mr. Boardman, with all due respect, you don't care enough for her! Otherwise, how would make this woman—”

"Karl Hockley! I told you, I didn't mean to hurt Doris, and I don't know what happened to her!" Ruth screamed, she was going crazy, "Doris is me too My friend, I have no reason to hurt her, but you!"

Ruth pointed at the violent man in front of her: "What position do you have to accuse me? You are not Doris's friend, nor her family, nor her lover! Even her brother believes me, why do you cannot!"

"Because—" Hockley was speechless.

He looked at Doris, and saw that her whole body was buried in the thick velvet quilt, only the thick and curly black hair like seaweed and the pair of sparkling eyes were exposed, looking at her innocently and puzzledly. Own.The anger in Hockley's heart was extinguished in an instant.

Ruth won the quarrel, snorted triumphantly, walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, she stretched out her hand to touch Doris's forehead, and was relieved that it was no longer as hot as before.

The jealous poisonous snake bit Hockley's heart fiercely, and the venom spread from the heart to his limbs.Hockley's face became paler than Doris's, and his cold hands were stiffly propped against the wall. He suddenly felt that everything in front of him was extremely ridiculous.

He was actually jealous of a candidate for his fiancée?Jealous of how easily she could be her friend, sit by her side, call her Christian name, even stroke her forehead.

But he can only be like a poor believer, bound by his own identity and controlled by his own choice, humble and far away asking for an unintentional look from the goddess.

It was only when he saw her lying on Ruth's bed, her breathing almost completely gone, that he realized that he cared more about Doris than he could have imagined, and it had already made him lose control since he didn't know when.

When Doris was carried into the car by 1900, her head was buried in his chest, avoiding someone's sight.

She knew that Cal Hockley had been watching her.She didn't understand, that man was obviously ruthless and exclusive, and he was extremely cruel to her future fiancée Ruth, why did he look at her with such hesitant eyes?

"Danny, why did Mr. Hockley come here because of Ruth?" she asked quietly.

"Hmph, probably, I met him at the bottom of Miss Buckett's dormitory. By the way, why did you go to Miss Buckett's room? You even made yourself like this!" 1900 faces With a little anger on his face, "Do you know, your body can no longer stand the torment! You must not interfere with the affairs of Hockley and Miss Bucket!"

"I didn't want to interfere." Doris was a little aggrieved by what he said, "I just thought that Ruth is the person closest to Mr. Hockley, and with her relationship, I might be able to take back the Heart of the Ocean. "

Doris explained to 1900 exactly what happened today, and his expression became more serious.

"What's going on with your body? Is that distant power you mentioned the heart of the ocean?"

"I'm not sure."

"I don't know how to help you." 1900 sighed, looking at her still tired and weak expression, whispered: "Today is my fault, I shouldn't leave you alone in the lake. Since I can’t buy the Heart of the Ocean, so I plan to use the saved money to rent a small manor with a lake, and live there until at least April—until I get on the Titanic.”

Doris nodded, her eyelids could hardly be opened. Today's consumption was too great, and she almost couldn't hold on.

The car was driving on the road, and the road was not smooth, and Doris fell asleep soon after being shaken.

Doris didn't dare to tell 1900 that just after she woke up in Ruth's bed, she felt that power was already by her side.Otherwise, she would not be able to wake up so soon after her strength was exhausted.Ruth is not that source of power, neither is her brother, so the only answer is Hockley.

The last time I saw Hawkley, he was just an ordinary human being.But this time, his soul has been mixed with the breath of the heart of the ocean.Doris has no ancestor's experience to refer to, and can only guess based on the changes in her body.

Doris had a terrible headache.

The heart of the ocean has fallen into the hands of Hockley, an ordinary human being, and it will definitely bring him disaster.Doris did not deny that she had special feelings for him, and she herself did not know where such feelings came from.Is it really just because of their unintentional intimate contact when they first met?

She thought of the mermaid legend, and wondered if her feelings for humans would get out of control—if Hockley was really that person, then she might die.

Cal Hockley is a shrewd businessman who does not trade at a loss.Even if it wasn't Ruth, it would be other noble ladies-those who could contribute to his wealth and his status would not be a worthless mermaid with a disability anyway.

The mermaid that lost its tail and singing voice will turn into foam on the sea on the wedding day of the prince and princess, and disappear from the world.

Doris was terrified.