Chapter 215: Chapter 215

So it turns out, she wasn’t really allergic, was everything truly wrong?

Huo Danru noticed something amiss and squinted at Shi Nian, "So what do you think it is?"

Shi Nian closed her eyes, "I thought... he was the one locked up with me. That’s why I loved him, why everything happened later. But it turns out, was it all truly wrong?"

Her heart surged uncontrollably, and she couldn’t help but whisper, "Why did he lie to me?"

"Because he wanted to protect you." Huo Danru shook her head gently, "Because you couldn’t see the person with you, but he could... he saw with his own eyes that person hurting you, doing those things men do to hurt women. So he wanted to protect you, couldn’t bear to watch you get hurt."

"And the reason he later got involved with Rosa, using such intense methods to express himself sexually, was also because he was stimulated by those surveillance footage in the darkness..."

Shi Nian was stunned, unable to grasp it. Her mind was like a suddenly blue-screened computer; though strings of letters seemed to flash through her mind, she couldn’t comprehend their meanings.

She couldn’t find any specific memories related to that period — what exactly did the person locked up with her do to her? Was it not those sweet and shy fragments occasionally flashing in her dreams, but rather—harm?

Seeing Shi Nian so dazed, Huo Danru couldn’t help but feel sympathy. After all, such things are an absolute nightmare for any girl that she never wants to revisit.

Huo Danru softened her voice, "Shi Nian, I’m sorry, I know this is truly a difficult thing for you. Yet, we ultimately have to face it, we can’t escape forever, can we?"

Almost unable to breathe...

But Shi Nian still reached out and tightly gripped the chair’s armrest, secretly encouraging herself to persevere. She smiled pale yet determinedly, "You’re right."

Huo Danru sighed softly, "Shi Nian, as a woman, I understand your feelings. It’s unbearable for us to have a husband who betrayed our marriage and is entangled with another woman. Except Xiang Yuan’s situation is unique—he was wrong, but it’s not that he knowingly made the mistake; he’s sick."

"His situation is similar to yours; you both went through an unimaginable nightmare, so your psychological states have more or less issues. Your symptoms are the same; you both suffer from PTSD, which is post-traumatic stress disorder."

"Patients with PTSD repeatedly and involuntarily revisit trauma-related scenarios or content in their thoughts, memories, or dreams, and can show severe situational reaction, even feeling as if the traumatic event is reoccurring—Shi Nian, tell me, have you experienced similar situations?"

Those dreams... the person in that dream...

Huo Danru nodded, "Patients with PTSD may also experience selective amnesia, unable to recall details related to the traumatic events... This is a self-protective form of avoidance. Your instant reaction just now likely belongs to this situation."

Shi Nian reached up to cover her mouth.

Huo Danru nodded with compassion, "Like you, those symptoms are also present in Xiang Yuan."

"Another point I need to clarify is that you might suspect Xiang Yuan would use his lawyer’s expertise and lies to gain my trust—but these things I mentioned are not from his conscious narration but from my hypnosis of him."

"So Shi Nian, you need to believe this time, what he’s expressing are his most honest innermost feelings from his subconscious."

Below the office building, three men stood in the street.

Mark stood straight as ever, smiling under the light but with a contemptuous gaze, "Professor T, why are you here too? If there’s anything, it can be said here, right?"

Xiang Yuan was somewhat surprised, "You knew each other before? Yanqing, you’re a professor?"

Tang Yanqing laughed, raising his eyes to Xiang Yuan, "That’s right, I’m also a guest lecturer in behavioral analysis at Kangchuan University. My pen name for collaborations with Kangchuan University is Professor T, so the students call me that too. Mark is a student from my class."

Mark was equally surprised, "Yanqing? Professor T, your name is Yanqing? And Lawyer Xiang, you also know Professor T?"

Tang Yanqing chuckled, hands in his pockets, lifting his head high, "No need to ask him; he might not be able to explain clearly. Let me unveil the truth myself."

The orange streetlights, through the dark blue night, enfolded from afar and near, casting layers on Tang Yanqing’s face.

The dim light did not diminish the dazzling brilliance on his face, in his eyes. He sneered softly, staring at Mark, "Professor T is just my part-time job. My main occupation is as a detective at the city police department. Mark, from now on, you can call me Mr. Tang."

In Mark’s black eyes, a dark blue light suddenly surged, and he stared fiercely at Tang Yanqing, "So it was because of you, Professor, that I ended up ?"

Tang Yanqing squinted, meeting the dark undercurrents in Mark’s eyes, "Indeed. I originally intended to arrest you myself, but unfortunately, that day, you acted first in broad daylight... Mark, that day, you harmed her. Though I didn’t have the chance to apprehend you then, I assure you, in the process of sentencing you next, I will give you no chance to escape the law."

Xiang Yuan frowned and stepped forward, "Yanqing... I am Mark’s lawyer; I hope you won’t say anything threatening to him in my presence."

Mark laughed too, "Professor, you say I harmed Nana? Ridiculous, didn’t you see her upstairs just now? She’s fine, not injured at all."

Xiang Yuan was startled, "What are you saying, Mark?"

Tang Yanqing sighed, turned his gaze to Xiang Yuan, "I suppose I have to reveal this to you too—the case she said she was going to interview was also the Kangchuan University case. And your client, the victim Nana he harmed, is indeed her."

"What are you saying?!" Xiang Yuan was shaken, incredulously looking at Tang Yanqing, then turned his gaze back to Mark.

He stepped forward, standing before Mark, "Mark, I ask you again: the woman you saw upstairs, is she the girl you intended to harm?"

Mark nonchalantly shrugged, "It’s her. But I didn’t intend to harm her; I like her."

"Shut up!" Xiang Yuan roared in anger, suddenly punching and hitting Mark hard in the face!

In the consultation room, Shi Nian took a deep breath, "Doctor Huo, may I ask, during the hypnosis, what did A Yuan say? Did he really say he saw with his own eyes that the man locked up with me was hurting me?" New ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄhapters are published on noⅴelfire.net

"And did he really say that man was the one who kidnapped us?"

Huo Danru nodded slowly, "Yes. Shi Nian, I’m sorry, but I cannot conceal the truth from you."

Before Shi Nian’s eyes was only a blinding light; suddenly, she couldn’t see anything else.

Turns out she was wrong again?

It turns out the person in her dreams wasn’t Xiang Yuan, not even those gentle treatments... The truth was harm, it was revenge inflicted by the person who killed her dad?

She was sick, truly sick; otherwise, why would she twist the harm of her enemy into the dream’s tenderness and compassion?

Huo Danru, full of sympathy, couldn’t help but rise and walk to Shi Nian’s side, placing a hand on her shoulder.

"...Shi Nian, but at this time, you really can’t leave Xiang Yuan. You understand, right? You are his mental support now. If you resolutely leave, you’ll completely destroy him."

[Three updates of ten thousand words finished~]