Knowing yourself and accepting yourself is almost the hardest thing in the world.
Lestat did a great job. He knew a long time ago that he was a thorough homosexual—so thorough that he almost disdaind to cover it up.
When he first saw Louis, he was completely attracted by the latter's eyes-so helpless, so innocent, so ruthless. So like the place where Lestat always wanted to be buried.
Lestat followed Louis all the way, and the latter supported each other with a wandering warbler. After coming out of the bar, he went straight into a dim alley, ready to quickly complete the disgraceful transaction.
A robber suddenly rushed out from an unknown place, opened the Oriole fighting between Louis's legs, pinched Louis by the neck and asked him to give up all his money. In the next second, the robber was twisted and his neck was broken and he was lying on the dirty and damp ground in the dark alley.
Lestat rescued Louis who was drunk and turned into a mud. This is the beginning of their story.
Without hardly any effort, Lestat easily made Louis fascinated by himself. On the farm in New Orleans, two people lived a life of shameless moral decay.
If the story ends here, it would be too happy, the real world does not allow the existence of fairy tales.
Unlike Lestat, Louis is a weak person, too weak to be a complete homosexual.
He cares about other people's gossip, and believes that such sinful feelings will eventually drag himself into hell. He gradually couldn't do his own way in the whispers of the slaves, and after the female slave who served him eating and living broke through the guilty feelings between him and Lestat, he decided to end it all.
Although flaunting morality, Louis is a selfish person in the final analysis. In order to protect his reputation, he killed the maid and disbanded his slave. He lit his house with the intention of turning it into ashes. Once again, Lestat rescued him.
But this just made him hate Lestat even more.
He believed that Lestat must be the incarnation of Satan. He made him discover the evil and filth that was originally hidden in his heart, and as long as he looked at Lestat's eyes, he could not refuse him at all.
Louis began to chase death in a vague way. He wandered in the dirtiest corner of the city, hoping to be forgiven by God for giving him a black death. But finally not. In another hopeless wandering, he met the little girl Claudia. Claudia's mother was eroded by disease and turned into a terrible corpse. Louis decided to adopt Claudia.
With Claudia, the relationship between Louis and Lestat gradually eased, or rather, it was Louis who reduced his resentment towards Lestat. So the three people formed an unusual family.
Everything was fine at first, and until a few years later, Claudia began to grow into a beautiful girl. She fell in love with the gentle Louis, and gradually understood the sinful feelings between Louis and Lestat. She is a girl who resembles Lestat, she is so smart, she is almost scary. She saw through Louis’ weakness and nostalgia for the orthodox world, she began to deliberately anger Lestat-she knew that Louis would quarrel with Lestat for sheltering her, which was exactly what she wanted, she wanted to destroy them a little bit. The fragile connection established by the relationship. She did it very successfully. After another argument, when she proposed to Louis to leave Lestat together, although Louis said "It's not that easy", she knew that Louis had shaken.
So she started. Lestat has always loved her very much, and the pocket money given to her has always been large enough for her to get a lethal dose of opium. When she handed the added snacks to Lestat in the name of an apology, Lestat was still secretly happy that she was finally sensible. He thought she was the little girl Louis picked up. Finally, he lost consciousness.
In order to cover up Claudia's stupid thing, Louis had to set fire to the place they rented. Louis and Claudia fled the American continent and started a new life in Europe. The clever Claudia quickly turned Louis into her man.
However, people are always responsible for what they have done. When they travelled to France, they met Armand, a prominent nobleman in Paris. After attending several noble dinners, Louis was quickly appreciated by Armand. Claudia is a very exclusive woman, and Armand seems to like Louis too much. The woman's instinct tells her that Armand is a difficult character to deal with, and she wants to leave here.
Armand is certainly not a good character to deal with, especially when he sees the murderer of his son. From what Louis said, he realized that Louis seemed to be related to Lestat. So things became simple, and soon, the people sent out brought back various news about Lestat. That girl who was as pretty as a doll dared to kill her son, she would definitely die miserably.
On the night Claudia convinced Louis and herself to leave, a group of people suddenly rushed into the place where they lived, captured Claudia, and claimed that she was a witch. Louis was taken away as an accomplice.
Early the next morning, Claudia was burned alive amidst the scolding of the citizens. Louis was released on bail by Armand.
The grieving Louis angered the police last night and burned the police station on fire. Once again, he was exempt from legal sanctions because of Armand's cover. Armand admired Louis very much, thinking that Lestat had died in a foreign country and would never be able to return, so he decided to trust his son to choose Louis as the heir. But Louis refused, left Paris, and continued his purposeless wandering.
However, no matter where he is in the world, he can't escape his heart. Although he strongly denies it, he is always attracted to beautiful men. He gradually understood that Lestat didn't change him, he just found him. His resentment towards Lestat turned into guilt and longing. He decided to go back to New Orleans.
The original gorgeous manor is now deserted. Louis cautiously opened the door and stepped back into the homeland destroyed by his own hands.
Although dilapidated, Louis has this feeling-there are people living here who don't want to be noticed. Louis shuttled around the house lightly. In the bedroom where he and Lestat played shamelessly back then, a chair was placed with its back facing the door. A long-lost voice came from the chair.
"I'm glad you are back."
Lestat has always been a strong and confident one. But in this night, Lestat curled up in a chair with a blanket and looked haggard and helpless. When Louis approached, he even avoided it subconsciously. Of course, both of them knew that Louis would not hurt him. No one knows what Lestat has gone through, he is just a habitual defense.
Louis finally left the deserted manor alone—not accepting Lestat's retention. He knew that there was no way between them to go back to the beginning, his acquiescence to Claudia's actions, Claudia's death, the inescapable sense of guilt... Various problems lie between them, extinguishing the last slim chance between them.
And there are some reasons that Louis is unwilling to admit. Lestat is no longer the enchanting beauty in his memory, he even regretted seeing Lestat again. Time leaves traces on them, in some unknown way. He just doesn't like Lestat anymore.
Later, Lestat and Louis never met again. Each rotted silently in the dark world that originated from the heart.
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