The puppets' stage play

Chapter 279 The destination of the lone traveler

In the dim room, a petite girl about 15 years old was facing a floor-length mirror, and her current posture was reflected in the mirror.

She had eyebrows as thin as willows, pupils as dull as gray, a face as white as snow lotus on an empty mountain, and wearing a hollow white dress that looked like mourning clothes. The corners of her lips suddenly curved slightly, and a cold smile bloomed on her face.

That was not the pure smile that showed the girl's joy, but the last remaining self-esteem of a traveler who knew that he was about to go to hell.

"……time to go"

She turned around and left without any hesitation, her face turned cold, she opened the door and walked out of the house, heading towards the rendezvous.

But behind her, the figure in the mirror that should have disappeared still existed. 'She' stared at the girl's leaving figure with indifferent eyes. It wasn't until the girl went out that she disappeared in the mirror, as if... following the other person.

The girl walked out of the room, and the servants along the way bowed politely to her, and then continued to do what they were doing.

In the main hall ahead, a fat middle-aged man was walking away with a heavy heart. After hearing the footsteps of the girl, he looked up. His face was happy at first, and then his expression changed. hesitate.

"That...Xiaoyi..."

The girl walked past the hesitating middle-aged man expressionlessly, without looking at his face that turned gray in an instant.

She walked outside to her parking lot. There were only about a dozen scattered vehicles inside. She looked at it for a moment and chose the highest-end vehicle left, a blue-gray fifth-generation car called 'Bo Chang'.

Although it was considered below average at best in the past, now she has no choice.

She got into the car and told her today's destination. The car slowly floated into the air and drove towards the horizon.

Not long after, 'Bo Chang' stopped over an area scattered with construction materials, and then descended to an area where several vehicles were parked.

She opened the car door and walked out, but not far away, several people were talking there. She paused, then walked to them, and the discussion stopped instantly.

"Oh! Isn't this our 'little princess'? It's really easy for us to wait. It's really..."

A boy with playful eyes and deliberately dyed blond hair smacked his mouth, then raised his hand and pulled his blond hair back, looking arrogant.

"Don't be like this, Wu Dao, we are all friends." A dark-haired boy with a steady temperament frowned and then advised.

"Okay! I must give you the face of the eldest son of the palace. Oh, I am such a good-tempered person!" The blond boy looked serious for a moment, and then said narcissistically.

Seeing this, the boy named Gong didn't say anything more, but just shook his head in silence.

There were three boys behind him, one with glasses, one with an expressionless face, and one of the boys who looked similar to him shrank behind him, ignoring the situation here.

Another little girl in a pink skirt looked at this place for a moment, then showed a pure smile and said sweetly.

"Now that Sister Bai has arrived, let's start today's game."

The girl nodded coldly, agreeing with the other party's opinion.

When the blond boy saw this, he no longer ridiculed the other party, but enthusiastically played the recently popular theater role of 'great detective and novelist'.

A few people put aside their little verbal disputes and began to play various roles.

Then halfway through, the blond boy raised his glasses, pushed the girl down, pointed his index finger at the girl, and said with an intoxicated expression.

"Ah, stupid guy, do you know what a big mistake you made?"

"You think you used to have a high status and a great reputation, so you can criticize the characters in my works and call them false. How arrogant, cold and ignorant you are."

"So, who is the person who is begging me now?"

"Not the great detective who is admired by others, but the homeless man who can hardly even support himself."

"But I still welcome you to play a 'hypocritical' character in my writing. At least, you will have your next dinner, so give up your boring self-esteem and play the role of -"

Snapped! The blond boy's eyes were stunned. He couldn't help but stop talking and stared blankly at the person in front of him.

The steady boy had a gloomy expression at the moment. He just took his hand away from the boy's face, and then he said to the woman in pink skirt who was watching here.

"I'll take care of everything. Bai Lian will help Yi Yi up."

The girl in the pink skirt nodded obediently, helped the silent girl up, and then looked at the dissatisfied blond boy with cold eyes.

"Yan Wudao, your father's position has not been stabilized yet. Now that you are like this, don't you think you are disgusting?"

"Gong Shoucheng!" The blond boy stared at the other person, chanting the other person's name hatefully. He wanted to beat the other person, but when he saw the two cold-eyed people behind him, he still stopped in despair.

"That's not right," the steady boy sighed, and then he stared at the unwilling blond boy.

“This is not normal”

He looked at the girl whose eyes were still cold and sighed deeply.

"This is an anomaly"

"Let's call it a night. I'm going to calm down."

He sighed, turned and left, and the other three followed him closely.

The blond boy snorted, looked at the two girls with disdain, lost interest in their hearts, and turned around to go home gloomily.

The girl in the pink skirt exhaled softly, and then looked at the girl aside, with a trace of worry in her eyes.

"white……"

But before she could say anything, the girl broke away from her arms, turned around and left with a natural expression, leaving only the girl in the pink skirt behind.

The latter paused for a moment, looking up at the sky. There was both nostalgia and sadness in her eyes, but in the end they turned into deathly silence. She smiled bitterly and left with heavy steps.

"This time...it failed again, but there is...next time"

The girl got into the vehicle again and murmured to herself. Her cold eyes flashed with determination. No matter what, she would...

When she returned home, the middle-aged man was long gone, and the girl didn't care. She returned to the room, pointed the mirror at herself, sat on the bed and stared at herself in the mirror.

The gloomy eyes, somewhat pale face, and white skirt give it a ghostly feel.

Only then did she notice the clusters of stains on the left and right sides of the skirt. She grabbed it and slapped the dust hard. The smell of the dust made her nose itchy, and she suddenly sneezed.

She took the paper towel on the side of the bed and wiped her nose. Then she looked at the stain in front of her eyes that had not changed. She couldn't help biting her lip. Her eyes were a little sour. She twitched her nose and rubbed the corners of her eyes with the back of her hand. .

She was a little frustrated for a moment and couldn't help curling up on the bed, not wanting to pay attention to other things for the time being.

Gradually, she fell into sleep.

The girl in the mirror showed a cold smile, as if she was mocking the person in front of her. The mirror suddenly reflected light, and then the girl's reflection disappeared.

The sky gradually darkened, night fell again, and the already dark room became even darker, making it impossible to see even one's fingers.

In the darkness, the girl opened her eyes, straightened her body, and just stared at the scene in the house quietly.

I don't know how long she stayed in the dark, but there was noise outside the house, and the middle-aged man's somewhat high-pitched tone kept ringing. The girl picked up the night vision square screen on one side, and the time on it showed 3:45.

But the noise outside became more and more intense, and the source of the sound became even clearer.

She got up and got out of bed, intending to check the situation. She opened the door, and saw a chaotic figure walking away from outside. There were three servants around her. They tried to help each other, but were blocked by the figure with a wave of hands.

The man smelled heavily of alcohol and his eyes were a little hazy, but after seeing the girl, a look of reason flashed through his eyes.

The girl recognized that this was her uncle, Bai Furen.

He walked a few steps quickly, his steps were very flustered, so naturally, he fell to the ground all of a sudden. Then he refused the support of the servants and crawled to the girl's side, his face turned into a stream of snot and tears. Tuan cried to the girl.

"I'm useless! I'm useless! One by one, I failed again..."

The girl looked at him calmly, then waved her hand to signal the servant to leave. The latter bowed respectfully and then left slowly.

She reached out and stroked the other person's hair, while Bai Furen cried like a child.

Bai Furen is just an ordinary young man with a good nature. He is even quite generous in the eyes of others. Of course, such a person has nothing to do with his position as the head of the family.

Therefore, the Bai family in the past were unanimously optimistic about his brother, Bai Yiyi's father, that brave and decisive man.

With the Bai family's previous momentum, it was more than enough to raise even one idler. Therefore, Bai Furen lived freely like that. No one cared about him, no one expected him, and even he didn't value himself.

Until a man appeared, he wiped out the Bai family and exiled all the original master's family. As a result, Bai Furen, the only remaining member of the direct lineage, took on the role of head of the family that he had never dared to think about. Bit.

This is his luck and his misfortune.

He was full of ambition, but full of fear, so he began to ask for help from the "partners" who usually played with him. Those people originally supported his power, and now they were even more reluctant to leave him. The two hit it off.

At that time, he admired one sentence.

As long as you treat others sincerely, people will treat you sincerely.

He firmly believes that he is the master of the Bai family's revival, and in his hands, the Bai family will become rich and powerful again.

In the beginning, the situation did go according to his ideas. After all, those people who can hang out with him naturally have two abilities, so he is not lacking in pride in his heart, and even secretly said that he wants to let that man Pay the price!

Then, the man took action. While he was still sleeping soundly in his dream, his 'partners' abandoned him and handed over the remaining property of the Bai family to others. They made a lot of wealth and left the city one after another.

So, when he woke up again, he was driven out of his mind by a series of blows. He tried to regain those things through outside moves, but he just fell deeper and deeper into the trap set by the opponent, and finally lost all the huge Bai family property.

For this reason, he also swore in the name of the head of the Bai family that he would no longer be involved in certain industries, so that he could barely get out of that quagmire.

After that, he cut off all expenses and relied on the few remaining stores to fall into an endless cycle of making money, finding people to cooperate with, being defrauded, and continuing to make money. Although he still tried to restore the Bai family's previous momentum, he couldn't after all. As wished.

Now he is just complaining to his niece after another failure.

This is what the girl originally thought.