Inside the room.
Two people.
One sat upright, back straight, while the other stood up, brows furrowed, holding a diagnosis report in hand.
“Mr. Zhao, as your psychological doctor, I sincerely hope you can accept my advice and go to the hospital for a proper rest for a while. Your current mental state…”
The white-robed man looked at the mental state diagnosis in his hand, his brows tightly knit. After a long pause, he finally spat out two words.
“Very bad.”
“I actually think my mental state is pretty good. I’ve just been having nightmares recently.”
As he spoke, Zhao Yicheng let out a yawn. Seeing that the white-robed man wanted to say more, he waved his hand to cut him off and shifted the topic to something else.
“Do you have time recently?”
The white-robed man was taken aback, then replied, “Yes.”
“I want to undergo hypnosis again.” Zhao Yicheng thought about the endless nightmares lately and the bloodshot, savage eyes in his dreams, his voice growing heavy.
“Preferably within these few days. No, better make it today. Arrange it. The price is negotiable.”
He expected the white-robed man to jump at the money as usual, but this time, the man shook his head.
“I sincerely do not recommend you undergo hypnosis again. This method only treats the symptoms, not the root cause. And sometimes, it only makes things worse.” “My suggestion is: take a few years to rest properly, get a cat, get a dog, stay away from the noise of the big city, spend more time with nature, and be with your parents and loved ones. It’s better for your mental health.”
Hypnosis? Mental illness?
So Zhao Yicheng’s mental illness isn’t cured yet!
Outside the door, the two women eavesdropping on the big secret exchanged a glance, both seeing the surprise in each other’s eyes.
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Inside the luxury airplane, Bai Xu Yinsheng was swirling the red wine glass in her hand, watching the liquid ripple inside.
The wine was as red as blood, and the fragrance wafting from it undoubtedly told Bai Xu Yinsheng that this was top-quality goods.
Meanwhile, the other party involved, Hei Xu Yinsheng, was gazing through the airplane window at the massive clouds in the high sky and the dense, orderly high-rise buildings beneath them, lost in thought.
After Zhao Yicheng returned to his room, he had booked plane tickets for the two of them. It was a noon flight, and they would land in another half hour.
As for Zhao Yicheng, in his own words, he was staying in Tianlin City for a few days to investigate what really happened on the day Xiao Hei was drugged.
Of course, the real reason was something Xiao Bai and Xiao Hei knew well, but they tacitly didn’t expose it.
After a long pause, Bai Xu Yinsheng lightly pressed her brow: “Xiao Hei, what do you think about A’Zhao’s mental illness?”
“Sit and watch, lie down and watch, watch while eating.”
“Tell me what you really think. I know you actually care about me and A’Zhao; you’re just tsundere on the surface. Like this time, you said you wouldn’t come, but you still followed along.”
“Me? Care about him?” Hei Xu Yinsheng scoffed, letting out a cold snort.
“A lunatic like him deserves to be shot dead. Alive, he wastes air; dead, he wastes land!” “And you! Why did you have to come out with him to attend some wedding for no reason? You made me take the blame!”
“And that Zhao Yicheng, with his own illness not even cured, still has the nerve to pursue me. He should look in the mirror first. Even if I liked men, I’d only like normal ones!”
Listening to Hei Xu Yinsheng’s complaints, Bai Xu Yinsheng took a gentle sip of the red wine in her glass, rarely refuting. She then set the glass down, stood up, and walked over to Hei Xu Yinsheng, reaching out to take her hand.
“Xiao Hei, let me show you the memory of that night.”
“After you see it, you’ll know who in this world cares about you the most.”
No sooner had she spoken than their skin touched. At the moment of contact, a series of blurry yet clear images flooded into Hei Xu Yinsheng’s mind, and she unconsciously furrowed her delicate brows.
From her crying and begging him to satisfy her, to Zhao Yicheng remaining unmoved, his heart like a rock;
From her lying in a bathtub filled with water, crying and screaming “no, no,” to Zhao Yicheng replacing ice packs for her time and time again;
From her blurting out her true feelings while confused, to Zhao Yicheng’s face darkening with lines, only to quickly let it go, while Bai Xu Yinsheng, assisting on the side, egged him on and shouted for him to just sleep with her to settle the score.
After a moment, Bai Xu Yinsheng let go, and Hei Xu Yinsheng snapped out of that memory. She remained silent, but the tips of her ears flushed slightly red.
“Now you know how much he loves us, right? Even if he’s a lunatic for the rest of his life, I’ll accept it!”
Bai Xu Yinsheng sat down next to Hei Xu Yinsheng, pressing close together. She bit her finger, then continued.
“I know I’m under the love curse, but I still like him. Maybe it’s because of more than 20 years of friendship, or maybe there really is some masochistic side to me, or both. But at least now, I understand that I love him.” Bai Xu Yinsheng gently clenched her small hand, placing it over her chest, a sweet smile appearing at the corner of her lips.
“Before, I had so many girlfriends, but I never knew what it meant to have a heart flutter until I met A’Zhao.” “Perhaps during those 20-plus years of mutual companionship, I had already fallen for him, but I kept it hidden deep in my heart due to male pride, refusing to let it show.”
“Xiao Hei, what do you think?” Bai Xu Yinsheng turned her gaze to Hei Xu Yinsheng, seeing her eyelashes trembling slightly, her teeth biting down on her crimson lips, and her ears flushed red.
Surely, as a one-soul-two-bodies entity, Xiao Hei understood her feelings too.
Bai Xu Yinsheng thought silently.
Suddenly, Hei Xu Yinsheng went into a frenzy, clutching her head and letting out a wail.
“Dammit! I actually blurted out what I was thinking!!”
“Black history! Black history!!”
“When did I develop a habit of talking in my sleep?! I even revealed everything from my dream! How embarrassing! I might as well die!!”
“Xu Jing, Xue Xue, Chen Jia… I stole them all from him! Ugh! Xiao Bai, do you think Zhao Yicheng has already held a grudge against me, and that’s why he didn’t make a move on me that night?!”
Bai Xu Yinsheng: …
Suddenly, she subtly moved her arm, tapping the tips of her fingers lightly on the other’s hand.
In an instant, Bai Xu Yinsheng looked at Hei Xu Yinsheng, who was wailing but still cursing under her breath, and a mysterious small smile curled at the corner of her mouth.
Xiao Hei, oh Xiao Hei, your true nature really is the cold and tsundere bottom!
Hehehe, I’d love to see you saying “no, no” with your mouth, but your body being very honest in bed.
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In the murky darkness, Zhao Yicheng seemed to fall into a sweet dream, as if returning to the womb, curled up in amniotic fluid.
“Zhao Yicheng~ What do you see?”
The white-robed man’s voice seemed to come from beyond the heavens, but it clearly poured into Zhao Yicheng’s heart. His limbs felt light and floating, every muscle relaxed, and even the corners of his mouth unconsciously lifted into a faint smile.
“I… I…”
In the darkness, a flash of blood-red light passed by, and the man’s eyes gleamed with a bloodthirsty glint.
“I see a person.”
“No, that’s not a person. That’s the source of all your disasters. He, no, it’s a wild beast.” “Now, you need to seal it again. Forever and ever~”
The first session of hypnosis came to an end.
Feeling refreshed, Zhao Yicheng picked up his suit jacket and left. The white-robed man, as if relieved of a great burden, slumped down onto the bed, his forehead covered in dense beads of sweat. A young boy serving as a temporary assistant handed him a cup of cool tea.
He downed it in one gulp, but his gaze unconsciously drifted toward the direction Zhao Yicheng had left, and he let out a sigh in a barely audible voice.
“I have a feeling that one day, something big is going to go wrong.”