I Share the Same Face with a Monster - Chapter 19

Chapter 55

A year later, Zhou Yan grew eyes.

They were a very pale gray.

The first time he opened them, he looked at me for a long, long time.

So long that I started to feel uncomfortable.

“What are you looking at?”

“You.”

“Didn’t you look at me before?”

“It’s different.”

He said softly, “Before, I was borrowing your face to see.”

“Now it’s me.”

His voice was very quiet.

But it made my heart go soft.

His eyes were beautiful.

Cool, clear, and carrying a faint bewilderment, as if he was still unfamiliar with the human world.

I said, “Congratulations.”

“For what?”

“You have your own gaze now.”

Zhou Yan blinked.

Very slowly.

Like he was learning how to use it.

After a while, he asked, “Then can I look a little longer?”

I said, “Not too long.”

“How long?”

“Ask again and you’re closing your eyes.”

He immediately shut up.

But he didn’t close his eyes.

Chapter 56

After that, I rarely hated my face anymore.

Not because I had made peace with it.

Made peace was too pretty a phrase.

The truth was, I had finally admitted that it was part of me.

Not all of me.

And not a sin.

If someone liked looking at it, they could look.

If someone stared with malice, I could turn away.

And if all else failed, Zhou Yan would step in front of me.

Of course, he was being kept on a very tight leash now.

No gouging out eyes.

No scaring brand representatives.

No answering “she doesn’t want to answer that” for me during interviews.

The third one was the hardest for him to follow.

Once, a reporter asked me, “Do you think the most important thing for an actress is her face or her acting skills?”

I hadn’t even opened my mouth.

Zhou Yan had already said coldly from beside me, “Her brain.”

The whole room went silent.

I held it in for a long time, but I still laughed.

Later, that interview clip trended again.

The tag was: Xu Zhiyi’s security consultant is so fierce.

Chapter 57

Sister Lin went from having a breakdown at the beginning to accepting it very quickly later on.

She even arranged an employee badge for Zhou Yan.

Name: Zhou Yan.

Position: On-site Security.

Zhou Yan stared at that badge for a very long time.

“This is my name.”

Sister Lin said, “Yes.”

“Not hers.”

“Not hers.”

He put the badge away carefully.

That night, he placed it by his pillow.

I saw it, but I didn’t expose him.

Even monsters could treasure a cheap employee badge.

It was strange.

And also very cute.

Zhou Yan noticed me looking at him and lifted his eyes.

Those newly grown eyes still didn’t quite know how to hide emotion.

“You’re laughing at me.”

“I’m not.”

“You are.”

“Fine, a little.”

He was silent for a moment.

“That’s allowed.”