I Share the Same Face with a Monster - Chapter 12

Chapter 34

Our faces couldn’t be separated.

At least, not anytime soon.

The longer Zhou Yan wore my face, the more I could feel the eyes of the outside world.

Those gazes no longer stabbed directly into my face.

They passed through him first.

Hot ones, cold ones, greedy ones, critical ones, malicious ones.

He was stared at every day.

And every day, he became a little more human.

But I knew he was suffering.

Because there was too much filth in those gazes.

Once, after an event ended, he returned to the hotel and stood in front of the mirror for a long time without saying a word.

In the mirror, I wrote: Does it hurt?

He shook his head.

I wrote: Tell the truth.

He raised his hand and touched my face.

No.

The face of mine that was on his face.

“When they looked at you, I used to feel hungry.”

“Now I feel dirty.”

He paused.

“Were you always like this before?”

I looked at him.

I wrote: Yeah.

Chapter 35

Zhou Yan was silent for a long time.

That night, for the first time, he didn’t work in my place.

He canceled the brand dinner.

Sister Lin was furious.

“Xu Zhiyi, do you have any idea how much the penalty for breach of contract is?”

Zhou Yan said, “We’ll pay it.”

“With what?”

He looked toward the mirror.

I immediately wrote: Don’t look at me.

Zhou Yan looked away.

“I’ll figure something out.”

The next day, evidence broke online that Chen Guan had manipulated actresses for years, forced them to get plastic surgery, and secretly filmed them.

The whistleblower was anonymous.

But all the evidence came from an account no one could trace.

Zhou Yan said the Faceless Actresses had provided it.

After leaving the photographs, they hadn’t vanished right away.

They wanted to take back their names.

I watched the trending topics explode one after another from inside the mirror.

For the first time, I felt that being seen wasn’t entirely a bad thing.

Some things should be seen by everyone.

Chapter 36

Su Man came to the hospital to see me.

Or, more accurately, to see Zhou Yan.

She stood in the doorway of the ward and took off her sunglasses.

“Xu Zhiyi, you’ve been acting very strange lately.”

Zhou Yan sat by the bed.

“Mm.”

“You’re admitting it?”

“Mm.”

Su Man frowned.

“Were you threatened by Chen Guan?”

I froze inside the mirror.

Zhou Yan looked at her too.

Su Man gritted her teeth.

“I auditioned for his film once too.”

“He said my face was too clean. That it didn’t have enough of a story.”

She gave a small laugh.

“After that, I started pretending to be cold and aloof.”

“I kept pretending for so long I almost forgot how to talk like a normal person.”

The ward fell silent.

Zhou Yan didn’t know how to handle a moment like this.

He looked toward the mirror.

I wrote: Let her sit.

Zhou Yan said, “Sit.”

Su Man paused.

“Why do you sound like customer service today?”