âBut hypnosis doesnât necessarily mean forgetting. Thereâs another way where you can remember everything, but⦠that feeling can be erased,â Mason said.
Veronica stared at him in shock. Erased⦠what does that mean? âWhat do you mean by erased⦠I donât understand,â she said nervously.
âTo erase means that everything that happened between us, for me, is like watching a movie as a bystander. And now that the movie is over, thereâs nothing left,â he explained.
âA movie? Everything between us is just like a movie to you now?â she asked.
âYes, just like a movie,â he replied, his gaze cold as he looked at her. This kind of look was like how he usually looked at his classmates in class. She had never thought that he would ever look at her with such eyes.
But now, reality has slapped her hard in the face.
âAre you joking with me? Howâ¦how is it possible to have that kind of hypnosis? Are you still angry because of my previous misunderstanding?â She asked anxiously.
But his expression remained calm, so calm that it made her extremely uneasy.
âYou know, I never joke. I voluntarily underwent hypnosis during my time abroad,â Mason said.
âVeronica, as I said before, I wonât call you Veronica anymore, so you donât have to treat me like a younger brother. If thereâs no need in the future, we donât have to meet again. You can go back now.â
After saying this, he turned around and headed back the way he came.
She watched his gradually disappearing figure and suddenly lifted her feet, rushing towards him and reaching out to stop him in his tracks. âMason, do you really not care about our years of relationship?â
she asked.
âI donât care,â was his reply.
Her hand finally fell weakly to her side as he continued walking forward.
She bitterly smiled, never having thought that one day she and he would come to this point.
He hypnotized his feelings for her, their past was just a movie to him, and now that the movie was over, they should naturally go their separate ways.
www Is this their ending?
Just now, she even wanted to blurt out that she could try not to ay just treat him as a younger brother, and see if she could fall in love with him!
But in the end, she didnât have the chance to say those words!
At this point, even if she did say it, it would only be self-defeating.
Veronica returned to the Barlow family in a daze, only to face her father and stepmotherâs repeated questioning, âWhat did you say to Mason when you went to the Reed family? Will Lionel be found guilty in the final judgment?â
âSpeak up! What are you staring at!â
In her ears, her father and stepmother kept asking questions, but she seemed to have trouble hearing them clearly. All she could think about was Masonâs cold gaze flashing through her mind.
Was all the love they had shared now only in her heart?
Did it mean nothing to him anymore?
And the irony was⦠he was the one who willingly underwent hypnosis. At that time, he was in pain and chose to undergo this kind of hypnosis.
Veronica felt like there was a hollow space in her chest. She realized that something was lost and she couldnât get it back no matter how hard she tried.
This time, she had truly lost Mason.
She had lost her closest family member!
During the next few days of the trial, Mason never appeared again. Although Veronica showed up, she looked very haggard and even spoke very little. This made Jasper even more worried.
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