Kill the Heroine

I was pulled into the book I wrote. No, to be precise, my heroine pulled me in.

The heroine of my book had awakened.

The world I created cannot be changed. I have to kill her.

-

"You're arrogant and self-important. You're furious about my 'betrayal,' but you're also afraid of it. Why?"

"Because you know I'm you. I can replace you at any moment."

"There can only be one Lan Jiaoyu in this world. If I kill you, I'll be the only one."

As the knife approached my heart, all I felt was suffocation, a helpless kind of suffocation. Little by little, I couldn't tell whether I was in the book or the real world. I no longer knew whether I had created Lan Jiaoyu, or Lan Jiaoyu had created me.

-

We were destined to be unable to coexist in the same world. There could only be one Lan Jiaoyu in the world, yet once again she broke the rules and barged into my world.

She grabbed my hand and fastened a chain around me.

"Lan Jiaoyu! You..."

"Shh..." She pressed a finger to my lips. Her familiar rose scent curled around my soul. "Darling, you disappeared once before. I was so scared."

"At first, only one of us could survive, but I'm not as heartless as you. I can't bear to kill you."

So she trapped me in her world...

Freedom was always an illusory concept. If the rules could be broken once or twice, they could be broken a third or fourth time.

"Have you made up your mind? Once we're out, we..."

"Lan Jiaoyu." I said her name. "I created you. I can give you everything, and I can take it all away just as easily."

"Anyone can betray me. You can't. Because you are my only... heroine."

-

"You're so pitiful, Lan Jiaoyu."

That night, rain poured down. We stood on a swaying deck, drenched from head to toe. She held me and kept me under her control, each word like a knife driven into my heart.

"Shut up," I said.

She ignored me and continued. "When you realized I'd become self-aware and started 'betraying' the story you'd written, you flew into a rage. You even did whatever it took to kill me and destroy me. Why?"

"Because you're afraid. You know I'm you, and you're me. I'm the embodiment of your desires. I'm more powerful than you, and I can replace you at any moment..."

I turned my head away to avoid her, but at that moment, she kissed me.

She threw the umbrella to the ground, and the coat slipped from my shoulders. The two of us, two madwomen, stood on the storm-tossed sea. As the rain grew more and more violent, our bodies got soaked, and so did our hearts.

"I'm supposed to kill you," I said.

-

Lan Jiaoyu was a good teacher, but an excessively mad control freak.

She taught me to face my desires, but I could only feel desire when I was with her.

That night, the stars were scattered across the sky. She pulled the tie I'd cried on loose and tugged at the collar around my neck. She said, "Give me all of your body and all of your heart."

I laughed and looked at the corner of her mouth, where I'd bitten her. "We're both so pitiful, Lan Jiaoyu."

Theme: People in books have paths of their own