The benevolent face of the Saint Virgin looked blurred in the weak light, the maid and the lost lamb were swallowed by darkness, and even looked hideous under the messy lines.
Catherine solemnly knelt on the ground, folded her hands, and had a cross necklace in her hand.
The beautiful girl had a sad face, and there were still tears on her cheeks, which shone lightly under the firelight.
She was begging for forgiveness from the Saint Virgin.
"Please forgive me, I am guilty, I fell in love with someone I shouldn't and should never fall to. He is just a humble male servant in the family. He doesn't know that I love him. My father wants me to marry a wealthy businessman to pay off the debt. I have to marry someone else with this secret in my heart. I know this is a sin, but I can't forget him. What should I do?"
The girl was heartbroken. Anyone who looks at it would think that this girl is deeply suffering from love. The man she loves doesn't know that she loves him, and she is about to marry someone else. She was full of pain and disappointment, but had no one to talk about. She could only kneel in the corner in the lonely night, confess her love and sin to heaven, and yearn for salvation.
If the servant who she had crushed in love hears the young lady's confession, how can he not be touched? How could he not be heartbroken? How could he not fall in love with her? Such a noble and beautiful noble lady fell in love with a humble servant like him. Even if he had to die for her, he would not hesitate for a second!
The sound of my footsteps alarmed the young lady who was confessing. She looked at me in panic, as if she didn't expect me to appear suddenly. Her eyes flashed with panic, shyness, regret, and other emotions, but in the end she just lowered her eyes and remained motionless. Kneeling in place.
"Lady Catherine, are you telling the truth?" I looked at her in amazement, as if I could not believe it was true, and then there was an expression of ecstasy on my face.
"No...I...I didn't..." She was like a little girl whose secret had been discovered and refused to admit her thoughts.
"But, you just said..."
"Forget what I just said!" She covered her face regretfully: "You didn't hear anything just now, and I didn't say anything, just as we haven't met tonight."
"How can that be possible for me? After hearing that you love me, how can I ever forget you!"
"Just forget about me, we can't be together, I shouldn't pray here, shouldn't fall in love with you, shouldn't let you know, I must marry the person my father wants me to marry." She wept softly. Weeping: "My father can't help it. He wanted me to marry the man I love... I'm sorry Owen, you must forget me!"
I helped her up and took her hands and stared into her eyes. She is indeed a beautiful woman, especially when she stares at you with tears, as if all her heart is haggard for you, she is saying she loves you, she only sees you in her heart.
"Lady Catherine, it's all my fault, but I didn't find your admiration earlier," I said.
"No Owen, this is my own business, I fell in love with you myself." She trembled and threw herself in my arms.
"I'm just a humble servant, and you are a fair noble lady, how can I be worthy of your affection."
"Don't you say that. I know you have a kind heart and a down-to-earth good man. I have known you for a long time and I have fallen in love with you a long time ago. I even confessed to my father that I love you."
"What! Did you tell the Lord Viscount?"
"Yes, my father was very sad. He said he was sorry for that, but he can't let me marry the man I like. I understand his suffering. Unless I marry a wealthy businessman to repay the debt, my father and mother would have to live on the streets due to the debt."
"I can't believe it, Lord Viscount would actually said that." I was act like a silly boy who felt so honored, feeling helpless, and extremely excited.
"Father said that you are a good lad and you have been helping us a lot. If I could ever marry you, I will be very happy." Catherine looked at me shyly, but then dropped her head in disappointment: "It's just..."
"That's why you asked me about it, but I..."
"Stop talking about yesterday's incident, let's just forget it. I can't let you do such a dangerous thing for me. It's all my unrealistic mirage for a moment, please don't take it to heart."
"No, I want to help you, if that thing was originally belonged to the Viscount Lord, so I should help you to get it back, there is nothing wrong about it."
"Really? Are you willing to take risks for me?"
"I am willing, I am willing to do anything for you, my lady."
"We don't want you to steal something valuable. We just want to get back what belongs to my father. With this stuff, I don't have to marry a rich businessman. My father said I can marry the person I want to marry."
I looked into her eyes and said, "What the hell is it?"
Catherine's expression became solemn, and she said: "It's a gold box studded with precious gemstones with a statue of the Sistine Virgin. You can tell from a glance, and the baron must have placed it in a very secret place."
"I see, don't worry." Then I stared at her and said, "Lady Catherine, in fact, I have fallen in love with you a long time ago."
"Owen." She looked at me affectionately, then slowly lowered her eyes, seeming to be shy, then she raised her head, as if suddenly mustering up courage, and kissed me on her tiptoe.
"Lady Catherine!" I looked at her excitedly.
"Don't say anything." She covered my mouth with her little hand: "I'm waiting for you, I'm waiting for you to save me, I am all count on you."
After speaking, she picked up her skirt and ran towards the depths of the castle...
When she disappeared from vision, I sneered and touched my lips.
What happened just now was so familiar, the same scene happened in my previous life, and I was deeply trapped in such an obvious deception, and I got stuck deeper and deeper, until I buried myself, buried the baron who trusted me.
Could any viscount let his daughter marry a humble servant? The only person who believes such things is me, a whimsical idiot.
I don't know what the role of the golden box played in my previous life. The day after I handed the box to them, the baron was taken away by a large group of soldiers, and then he was sentenced to death. Everything belonged to him, the assets, properties, collections, were inherited by the Viscount's family, and I was also charged with theft and sent to court.
This time I want to let them suffer the consequences, thinking about this, I walked deep into the corridor.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I reached the corner, a tall and thin figure appeared in front of me.
It's Lord Baron!
Hasn't he already rested? I left after serving him and lying down. How could he appear here? Did he hear our conversation?
A cold sweat came out of my forehead, and I was scared to look at him. I only heard his cold voice. He said, "Come to my study."
I followed him in horror, fear followed. All kinds of thoughts appeared in my mind for a while, when did he come over, how much did he hear, did he hear Catherine ask me for a gold box?
Entering the study, the baron said nothing.
He stood at the window with his back to me, and the atmosphere became more and more depressing.
My heart beats fast. Just as I was trying to fabricate lies in a panic, the Baron turned around. His cold eyes didn't have a trace of temperature, and his words were more like a sharp knief, which pierced my heart deeply.
"I didn't know how stupid I was today..." He took a deep breath, the veins on his forehead were very bright under the candlelight, and he was holding back the anger in his heart.
"Lord Oscar, please listen to my explanation..." I said in a panic.
"You don't have to say anything! I can see it clearly!" He said loudly, "I saw you and my cousin kissing! What else you want to say!"
"Ha, what a fool am I. In the beginning, I was lying in bed, but I couldn't sleep as much as I wanted. So I came downstairs to find you and wanted to apologize to you because I was too indifferent to you these past two days. I thought maybe I misunderstood you. "He shook his head painfully: "But I was wrong. You are simply a dirty, mean, shameless evil! You haven't changed since the beginning, you have been lying to me all the time!"
Finally, he gritted his teeth and said: "You fooled me! How dare you! How dare you!"
"Listen to me my Lord, I can explain." I took two steps forward: "Catherine wants me to steal your golden box. They have no good intentions for you..."
"Stop! Don't come near me." He clenched his fist, and the late-night candle light shone on his pale face, looking angry.
"My lord, do you have a golden box? Just put it in your locked safe. Is that box important?" I asked eagerly.
"How do you know I have a box like that?" The baron frowned.
"The Viscount wants to use that thing to harm you." I said.
"Ha, are you changing the subject? It's just an empty box." The baron said angrily.
Why doesn't the Baron know? I was so surprised, what is the secret of that box? Why can the Viscount use this thing to frame the Baron, but the Baron knows nothing.
"I don't want to hear anything you said about the box, I want to listen to you explain, didn't you want to explain? You explain now!" The baron is obviously unable to calm down.
"I, I..." I couldn't say anything, I could only stare at him blankly.
He walked over and grabbed my collar, pushed me down on the wall, and yelled at me: "Say! Why do you have a private meeting with my cousin? You said you hate my uncle's family, so you are trying to ruin it again? Are you deliberately seduced Catherine to ruin their reputation? Or you are just full of lies and you have fallen in love with Catherine for a long time, but my uncle didn't allow it, so you deliberately framed him into bankruptcy?"
I looked at him, I couldn't say a word, I couldn't explain it at all.
The baron grabbed his hair and pulled it twice, then he closed his eyes in pain, and shook his head desperately as if he could not believe it, as if he had exhausted all his strength, he whispered: "Well, I don't care what your reason is. , You only need to answer one question for me."
He looked at me, his tone almost begged: "Do you love me? Tell me, do you love me?"
Love... My heart was instantly pulled, and a sour and bulging feeling filled my chest. I looked at him, and my lips trembled. I should tell him that I love him, even if I lied to him, say it, I talked to myself, just say it, say you love him, say it quickly...
The baron's eyes gradually turned into ice. He pushed me to the ground all of a sudden, and then madly swept all the porcelain, vases, books, and letter paper in the house to the ground. Things fell on the ground and fell to pieces, with a broken sound. The broken sound filled the whole castle in the silent night.
He was furious, and walked back and forth in the room: "I can't believe it, you actually slept with me only for this reason, you just want to shut me up, so I won't send you away , and don't hand you over to the governor, that's why you climbed into my bed! You are fucking shameless! Why are you doing this!"
He was like an angry beast, his eyes were red and furious. Suddenly, he stopped, his angry eyes fixed on me.
He said, "Come here."
I didn't know what he was going to do, so I got up from the ground and walked to him.
"Turn around," he ordered coldly.
Then I heard the rubbing of the clothes' fabric.
Then a silk bow tie appeared in front of me, the baron took off his bow tie, and then covered my eyes with it.