again.
But Paige couldn’t just ignore it, and she flipped over his hand to examine it, her brow furrowing even deeper, ‘It’s stuck in so deep, it needs medicine, it won’t do without medicine.’
“As soon as you use medicine, it’ll be obvious,” Enrico stared at her brows and eyes, “If it’s not stuck in deep enough, how will you be able to get through it?”
Hearing this, Paige looked up at his deep eyes, a little distressed. “Their hypnosis techniques are already so powerful that you can’t even hold on to them?”
“It’s the drugs combined with their years of practice,”
Enrico said, “Their minds are a little stronger than normal people. When I was forced to stare into their eyes, I really got a little lost, and for a while I thought I was JT, so I had to resort to this desperate measure.”
“…”
The process of fighting against strength and drugs must have been quite torturous.
Paige felt even more distressed. She took his hand in hers and gently blew on it. “What a bunch of psychos. I don’t know why I have to hypnotize you guys.”
As she watched her movements, Enrico’s lips curled up. “They didn’t just pick people at random. Each character and role has to have certain commonalities in order to be hypnotized better, so that they can adapt more quickly, and when problems arise, it’s easier to reconcile the logic without doubting anything else.”
“You and JT have commonalities?” Paige was stunned.
Kevin was originally the head of the Lautners family and is now the head of the Folsom family; Nick was originally a person with such a loose style, but now he has become the playboy Landon, which is still quite plausible.
How could Enrico share commonalities with JT, the person who brutally massacred the Folsom family?
Upon hearing this, Enrico said, “Do you know the truth about the chaos among the plutocrats a hundred years ago?”
Bringing this up at this time.
Paige’s gaze trembled, “It can’t be…”
“JT did it.”
Enrico confirmed her suspicions, “JT was born in the countryside. When he was a child, he encountered a disaster in which the wealthy man set fire to the house and his family died a violent death. Later, he stayed in a traveling troupe and saw the coldness of people’s hearts. He was bullied, beaten, and humiliated along the way. The arrogant and domineering attitude of the wealthy and powerful left a shadow on him, so he began to take pleasure in playing with those in power.”
Paige was greatly shocked, “Then who did he learn hypnosis from?”
“He learned some from a street performer, but he was able to become accomplished at it all on his own.”
Enrico let Paige support his hand as he spoke in a low voice, “When he was ten years old, he felt that this would be an amazing skill, so he kept studying it. He learned pharmacology from the troupe’s doctor, honed his mind, and almost wherever he went, he found someone to practice on.”
“Practice?” Paige was shocked by this word.
“He practiced hypnosis on children, and after he succeeded, he went to adults. The first time he hypnotized someone to the point of losing their mind, he was afraid that others would see the difference, so he killed the person,”
Enrico said, ‘He hypnotized and killed people along the way, until he could skillfully hypnotize and awaken people.’
What a top-level demon this is.
Paige was too shocked.
She had thought that in this scene, JT would portray himself as a good guy and Leonard as the absolute villain, to conceal the ending that she would not get.
However, that was not the case, and he had fully incorporated his own experiences into the script.
The Chamber of Commerce clerk was not JT’s true self at all, but only the JT Hazel thought he was.
Hazel didn’t know that JT could hypnotize people, and she didn’t know that his hands were already covered in blood. This was probably the reason why Hazel would later choose Leonard.
“The script I received only covered the period when he was playing with those in power, when he let these so-called families kill each other, thus gaining psychological comfort,”
Enrico said, ‘at this stage, he was not yet capable of hypnotizing someone into becoming another person, and he should have only figured it out when he built this city later.’
In the class of hypnosis, JT could be considered a master.
She looked up at Enrico, ‘But I still don’t understand, where do you and JT have anything in common?’
There is none at all.
Hearing this, Enrico laughed softly, “Am I really that perfect in your eyes?”
“Don’t forget, in other people’s eyes, I’m a ruthless killer,” Enrico stared at her, saying each word slowly, his eyes dark.
“That’s not true, you’re completely different from him.”
Paige refused to admit that Enrico had been forced step by step, while JT was a demon who kept killing people in order to practice hypnosis.
This defense…
The curve of Enrico’s lips grew even greater, and he lowered his head to once again embrace her lips, with a somewhat charming tobacco flavor.
Paige did not refuse again, reaching around his neck and responding tenderly.
The kiss lasted a long time.
“The wedding in three days may not necessarily go through,” Enrico said, kissing her lips.
“What do you mean?” Paige was puzzled.
“JT has always set the beginning of the script a few days before the wedding, which shows that he thinks this time point is important. It is from here that Hazel and he diverge. He is waiting for these hypnotized characters to start playing on their own from here, giving him a different ending.”
Enrico spoke almost in her ear, staring into her eyes with lingering affection.
It makes sense.
Paige agreed with his analysis. In the real story, Hazel should have parted ways with him soon, which is why JT kept remembering this place.
“Then…” she whispered.
Knowing what she was going to ask, Enrico said in a low voice, “JT never got a different ending until the day he died.”
Not only did the real Hazel not choose JT, but the hypnotized Hazel one after the other also never chose JT.
Upon hearing this, Paige was at a loss for words for a while.
In fact, it wasn’t that surprising. In an era like this, Hazel didn’t live a life as aimless as many women at the time. She was kind, clear-headed, and had dreams and ambitions…
How could a woman with such awareness choose a devil?
No matter how many rehearsals JT had, he would never get the ending he wanted.
He was doomed to not even get a fake sense of fulfillment.
…
Enrico gave Paige a bit too much information.
When she returned to the Folsom family, she was still a little dazed.
She sat by the fountain in the courtyard and quietly watched the old sycamore tree in the moonlight.
The many hardships and upheavals of her childhood had made JT and Hazel completely different people.
One was cynical and hated the wealthy and powerful in the world; the other embraced the trials and injustices of the world with greater kindness.
The two of them may seem to be in love, but in reality they are like two intersecting lines. After meeting at that one point, they will only grow further apart and never intersect again.
Paige let out a small sigh.
She tried hard to stop thinking about the story in the play, which was not that important for their current self-rescue, and she could not let herself get caught up in it.
Yes, she must not get caught up in it.
Wait.
Paige suddenly thought of something. Enrico said that the wedding three days later might not work out, and he was right in his analysis. There must be some kind of watershed here.
But… what if this watershed is after the wedding?
What if the wedding can still work out?