Chapter 24 Chapter Six

"The play that day was constructed in a way that was different from the previous ones—even more appropriately, the structure was completely reversed. In this theater that night, the stage was the auditorium, and the auditorium was the stage." Junping finally shifted his gaze from the auditorium to Garner. "That's right? What she performed on the stage that night was indeed a dramatized version of her own life. The title of the play was also straightforwardly titled 'My Life'-but during the two-hour performance, it was not so much a performance. rather, she saw her forty-five years of life more clearly from the audience. In the play, the six men who were her fiancés only appear in the lines. But in the audience, except for the already Except for the boxer who passed away, the other five people were invited to attend. Not only her five fiancés, but also nearly a hundred men—her rivals in work, rivals in love—whom she loved, slept together A bed, or who hates, hates, hurts, causes pain, and thus suffers—that is, men and women who have anything to do with her—weeping, crying, angry, and complaining, for forty-five years, all sharing The people she loves are all on the real stage, and they appear on the stage. The face during the banquet that day can be said to describe every word on her resume. The audience of more than 100 people admired her acting skills, but they didn't notice it. This group of people in the audience is showing her life with a more real and richer appearance than her acting skills.——She is the only audience who appreciates this play. In order to watch this play, she planned only one show that night performances at the venue."

"Why is she world-weary?" Garner crossed his arms, with a tense face, almost staring at Junping and asked. "Probably, she has been tired of life for the past few months. One day, she suddenly stopped the pace of continuous progress and looked back at the past. Then, for the first time, she felt the burden of the past that she hadn't noticed in forty-five years .and suddenly feel the emptiness of continuing to live—” "It doesn't look like that from her appearance. On the morning of the incident, she was still on the show, happily talking about her future ambitions."

"She is an actress! Behind the happy face of a star, there is a tired and lonely face. After feeling that her forty-five years of life are just a void, she has secretly endured unknown pain for the past few months. .” "Painful enough to even contemplate death?" Junping nodded. "However, death means a complete admission of defeat. She is so strong, she still refuses to admit defeat until the last moment. She must have thought that her life is not just empty, there must be something that can be called proof of life ...I think that's why she wants to look back on her life with her own eyes again."

"The purpose of this performance is here. And it can also use the theme of the performance's own life story to bring together people who are related to me." "Exactly. It is just her excuse to say that this play is her own. For her, the public performance of the day is a play performed by more than a hundred characters. She named the play in the auditorium. For 'my whole life'." "Dim the lights on the stage and brighten the lights in the auditorium, and that's why?" "Yes. Of course, she is performing while watching 'My Life', which is more vivid and concrete than her own drama. As the real only audience on that day - she has been standing on the stage and enjoying the enthusiasm of the audience. She played an audience for the first time that night. This is a role that she, who has played all the roles, could never play on the stage."

Garner nodded frequently.And said he finally understood the motive for suicide. "That day, on the stage -- the stage to the audience, the auditorium to her. She still hadn't given up hope that people would be looking at me; everybody loved me and needed me Entrepreneurs who have resumed their relationship with their ex-girlfriends will be amazed by my beauty and regret the original look; seniors in the theater industry will be surprised by my star talent again, and their eyes will shine with admiration, and they will probably hope that I can reappear. Return to his theater troupe; a man who has just returned from prison after being sentenced because of me will definitely have an expression of determination to live with my memory in the future."

"However, the truth is that Kitahara left the meeting halfway through. Fujikawa was not interested in her performance, and only cared about discussing the meal with Akiko Omachi. Sakurai also got up and left with her ex-girlfriend..." "It's not just important people. None of the one hundred guests cared about her performance on stage. Some people yawned and smoked, some fell asleep because they were bored—I'm afraid that night, they were moved by her acting skills and completely intoxicated by her performance." Xiaozi and I were the only ones on the stage. From this she saw her whole life. In their eyes, she was nothing more than a faded relic of the past.—Her eyes also reflected a hundred The face is a distant relic of the past. When she felt that her free and unrestrained forty-five years of life was broken like these hundred rubbish and worthless faces, she had to admit the fact of defeat. Her life is not suitable for the audience Just like the drama that she performed last year with a happy ending. It just so happened that her dance drama "My Life" also wanted to end in tragedy. She made the most perfect performance of her mood at that time with her incomparable superior acting skills. Why? Because she has admitted Fail, intend to die but live."

"Regarding the method of suicide, she used a pistol loaded with only one bullet, how did she fire two shots on the stage?" "The reason is simple. The bullet found in the auditorium was not the one she shot through the glass door on the stage that day, but it was pre-loaded before the play. That night, she went on stage with a toy gun hidden on her body. Plan If the drama in the auditorium has a happy ending, shoot the glass door with a real gun, save the toy gun for the last man who can only see the scene. If you have to admit defeat, pull the trigger of the toy gun and shoot the glass The door, and then, throw the toy gun and the script into the stove and burn it, so that the man who only saw the figure picked up the real gun and shot her. Of course, she chose the latter."

"But why did she choose such a cumbersome method of suicide?" "She must not want others to know that she committed suicide because of failure! If the suspicion of suicide is revealed, then all the audience in the audience that day will become suspects. Perhaps this is her way of telling the hundred people at the banquet, which means her own life. Revenge!" "Who was the last person to shoot, do you know?" "I still don't know...and this person is completely unaware of the cause and effect, but she used it as a tool for suicide. He has nothing to do with this incident."

Junping stared at the auditorium.I don't know when the cleaning staff had left. In the completely cooled air and the dimness with only the lights left, empty chairs were stacked and lined up.Not long ago, the still bustling theater also closed, leaving only a feeling of emptiness and spaciousness. That night, what the only actress on stage saw was not the faces of a hundred spectators, but the same blankness as at this moment, right? "Just now you said that you only noticed it when you saw the photo. What exactly do you mean?" The Ghanaian criminal police suddenly thought of asking.

"I saw a half-length photo of a certain girl by accident. When I looked at her face, I felt as if she was staring at me. It was only then that I suddenly realized. Didn't Aoi Lanko's eyesight have this illusion that night? ——She is on the stage, but she is not appreciated by the audience as an actress, but as a woman, watching the auditorium that has become a stage!" After Junping said these words calmly, he finally looked around the theater slowly again. If the curtain falls, the seats are scattered, and the emptiness is the original face of the theater, then isn't the life of an actress a theater?

Empty, empty theater— Junping sighed deeply.