Chapter 31 Section 30

He had already engraved the flush on Chantal's cheeks on the first pages of their love story.They first met at a party.The round table in the VIP room is filled with glasses of champagne, plates of toast, ham and clay pots full of food.It was a hotel on a mountain.He was a ski instructor at the time and was invited to a meeting one night by chance.There is a cocktail party after the party every night.Someone introduced him to her.But the time was so short that none of them had the chance to exchange names.Surrounded by people, they can only communicate very few words.The next day, Jean-Marc came uninvited, just so he could see her again.When she saw him, two red clouds immediately flew up her cheeks, and then spread to her snow-white jade neck, all the way to the neckline of her low-cut evening dress.She was so popular that everyone saw it.She blushed because of him, it was a sign of love, it determined everything from now on.Thirty minutes later, they successfully avoided the crowd and had a date alone in an empty corridor. In the silence, they kissed.

She had not blushed since that time, and that long-remembered experience was to him a priceless ruby, a testament to an extraordinary force of nature.And one day, she complained that men stopped paying attention to her.That statement itself wasn't important, but the memory of that blush made it.He couldn't play deaf to that sentence, because it was part of their love.As far as he was concerned, that sentence seemed to refer to her distress about age.That's why, pretending to be a stranger, he wrote to her: "I follow you like a spy—you are beautiful, simply too beautiful."

When he put the first letter in the mailbox, he didn't even think about writing to her again.He didn't have a plan, he didn't envision the future, he just wanted to make her happy, he just wanted to get rid of her frustration that men didn't pay attention to her at once, and he didn't think about how she would react.If he had ever imagined it, he would have thought that she would tell him to look at the letter and say, "Look! Men haven't forgotten me after all!" Out of a great unselfishness of a man in love, he put His own admiration for Chantal was added to a letter from a stranger.But she showed him nothing.This matter has not yet come to an end, and another episode has begun.That day, he saw her desperate expression begging for death.Whether he wanted to or not, he started again.

As he wrote his second letter, he said to himself: "I have become Kairano, the man who made love to the woman he loved behind a mask, the man who gave up his real name and found A person whose eloquence has greatly improved. Therefore, at the end of the letter, he put "c·d·b". It is his own code name. It is as if he wants to keep a secret mark to indicate his existence. c.d.e - Kerano di Bergerac. He continued to play the role of Kairano.Suspecting that she has lost confidence in her own charms, he describes her body in great detail.He tried to note every part of it—face, nose, eyes, neck, legs—to make her proud of them again.He was happy to see her grooming with joy, and her mood finally improved.But at the same time, his success stung him.Before, she never liked to hang the string of red beads around her neck, even if he asked her to wear it.But now, she obeyed the wishes of another man.

It is impossible for Kairano to live without envy.He had indeed noticed her embarrassment when he came unexpectedly into her bedroom that day, while Chantal was searching for something in the closet.But instead he talked about scrubbing his eyelids and pretending he didn't see anything.When he was alone at home the next day, he opened the closet and found his two letters hidden under Naxiong's bra. He was lost in thought.He was confused, why didn't she show him the letter?The answer seems simple: if a man writes to a woman, his purpose is to approach him and seduce her; if the woman keeps those letters secret, it is because she wants to use today's caution to protect tomorrow's adventure , if the woman keeps them, it means that she is ready to expect tomorrow's adventure to be love.

He stood for a long time in front of the open wardrobe door.Afterwards, whenever he put a new letter in the mailbox, he would come back and check to see if it was there, under those bras.