Emily kept reading and studying every day as she did at school. In the evening, she often sparred with the guards. After dinner, she would go for a walk with Vincent.
After Vincent returned home after the treatment, his leg became crippled for several days. Rex bought him a lot of tonics for his recovery. Emily also massaged him from time to time. A week later, Emily decided to ask him for a walk when he had almost recovered.
Since the New Year was approaching, a cheerful atmosphere was generating on the streets. Emily couldn't help dragging Vincent into every supermarket she saw and bought some goods in each supermarket.
When she passed by a movie theater, Emily paused as she watched the couples on the other side of the glass door snuggle up to each other and feed each other popcorn. She turned to Vincent and asked, "Mr. Vincent, do you want to watch a movie with me?"
Vincent leaned close to her ear and whispered, "Are you sure? Do you know the real purpose of coming to the cinema for the couple?"
Emily seemed to have heard that before. After thinking for a moment, Emily remembered that Roger had asked her the same question before.
She imitated Vincent and tiptoed to him. Leaning close to him, Emily whispered in his ear, "Yes! Are you coming with me?"
Words failed Vincent.
Emily bought six tickets, and the attendant asked, "Why did you buy so many? You only need to buy two tickets."
"There are six people in total," Emily said while pointing at somewhere.
The attendant looked in the direction she was pointing and saw four men in black clothes standing beside the couple.
The four guards stared at the movie tickets for a long time.
Guard A said, "This is our first time seeing a movie in the cinema!"
Guard B added, "Look! We are sitting behind them! I'm more excited!"
Guard C said, "Really? Does that mean we will see all their movement?"
Guard D despised the other three guards.
Emily bought six bags of popcorn and six cups of Coke. Each held a bag of popcorn in the left hand and a cup of Coke in the right. As they walked into Hall 3 valiantly and spiritedly, it looked as if they were going to fight instead of watching movies.
Fortunately, the lights in the hall were dim. When they entered it, many couples talked in a low voice, and no one was paying attention to them.
Emily led Vincent to their seats. Only then did she take off the mask and take a deep breath. "It's so hot here," she murmured.
She took off her down jacket and turned to look at Vincent. "Do you want to take off your coat?" she asked.
The light above her head was not bright enough for Vincent to see her expression. But seeing her eyes shining in the darkness, Vincent couldn't help wallowing down his saliva. "Help me to take it off!" he said.
When Emily went forward to help him, she asked in confusion, "Your voice sounds so husky! What happened to your voice?"
Vincent did not answer her. When Emily took off his coat and was about to put it aside, Vincent gently pulled her over to sit on his lap.
She gently struggled and said, "People can see us!"
"No one cares about us!" Vincent said as he took off his mask and kissed her ear.
"Are you sure?" Emily asked. She then poked his chest with her finger and raised his chin to show him the direction.
Vincent looked back and saw the four guards aiming at them with binoculars.
It was a romantic movie, but Emily couldn't remember any plot. The only thing she learned was that the movie theater was indeed not only a place to watch a movie. Surrounded by kissing noises, her face was red from the beginning to the end. Vincent seized the chance and kissed her for a long time before letting her go.
After returning home, Vincent had been weak for several days because of blood loss. Rex prepared various kinds of food to help his recovery. Emily stopped sharing a bed with Vince to save his energy. She worried that sleeping with him at night would delay his recovery. Thus, the couple had not been so intimate for over a week.
After returning home from the cinema, Emily quickly took a shower and locked the door.
After finishing taking a shower, Vincent came to find her and found Emily had locked the door to the bedroom. Burned with anger, Vincent knocked on the door and said in a low voice, "Open the door!"
Holding her phone, Emily covered herself with a blanket and shouted joyfully, "No! I reject it!"
Vincent was speechless.
Several minutes later, it became so quiet.
Emily strained her ears to listen and couldn't hear any noise made by Vincent. To make sure whether Vincent indeed left or not, she could not help but get out of bed, pressed her ear up against the door, and listened intently. Then she heard Rex speaking to the guards at the door. "Mr. Vincent went to the study room. You guys can go to sleep now," Rex said.
Following that were the footsteps of the guards.
Hearing the sound of turning off the lights, Emily quietly opened the door to get herself an ice cream in the kitchen. As soon as she stepped out of the bedroom, she immediately covered her mouth, scared by a black shadow at the door.
"Mr. Vincent?" Emily awkwardly stepped back and said, "What a coincidence!"
Just as she was about to close the door, Vincent stopped her by sticking his leg through it.
Vincent entered the room with a long face and asked, "What are you going to do so late at night?"
Emily knew that he seized on the incident to exaggerate matters, but she had no solution. She backed into the wall and said, "Well, I'm thirsty. And I want to drink some water."
Vincent walked over and lowered his head.
He only stared at her silently.
Emily couldn't help but surrender, "Alright! I'm sorry that I lied. Actually, I want to have some ice cream," she said.
The moment she finished her words, Vincent pressed both of her hands against the wall and then lowered his head to kiss her on the lips.
When Emily woke up the following evening, she felt so weak that Vincent had to carry her to the dining table. When she looked up and saw Rex, she snorted angrily.
Rex didn't dare to say a word.
It was hard for Rex to keep an even balance between them.
After carefully weighing up the pros and cons, Rex decided to sacrifice Emily.
After finishing dinner, Emily said, "Mr. Vincent, can I borrow Rex for a while?"
Vincent wiped her mouth and said, "As you wish!"
Rex was shocked.
However, Emily did not say anything but gave him an evil smile.
As a result, Rex had nightmares in the following days. He dreamt that Emily asked him to do hard labor at the construction site. A dog kept chasing after him for more than ten miles. Therefore, he hadn't slept well for days and looked exhausted with dark circles under his eyes. The night before New Year's Eve, he could not bear the torture anymore. He directly went to ask Emily, "Lady Emily, what do you want me to do?"
Emily smiled slyly and said, "Nothing! You deceived me, so I wanted you to sit on a thorn and have nightmares."