The Seven-Year Itch

Chapter 9

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After the door closed, there was only one person left outside the door.

Tang Xipin continued to walk downstairs, shaking his head and sighing.

Just a paranoid obstacle, is it worth it? I am afraid that the life and death of other people's terminal cancer are not so sincere, right

Love is really troublesome.

The initial throbbing thoughts, the mid-term entanglement of desire, and then—

Or it will be reduced to mediocrity and finally boring.

Either fall into obsession and go to extremes.

After discovering that Han Ning was pursuing his friend, Tang Xiping went to investigate and understand the situation in the other's family.

As a result, he discovered a very interesting fact—Han Ning's family has a family history of hereditary intractable mental illness for several generations.

There is schizophrenia, there is depression, there is mania, there is bipolar... In short, it is almost impossible to find a normal person with a sound mind.

— except for Han Ning.

It stands to reason that most hereditary mental diseases will develop in adolescence, and the symptoms are mostly dominant, so they can be easily discovered. But Han Ning didn't show any abnormalities until he was in his twenties.

Not only that, but his aptitude can even be called a genius-like superiority. He has been the focus of attention since he was a child. After working, the name Guangguang Han Ning is in the cloud altar in the professional circle, unattainable exist.

Han Ning in the public perception is almost perfect, just like the most proud masterpiece when God created man, without any blemishes.

-until now.

Tang Xiping recalled the diagnosis written by himself last night.

... It turned out that it wasn't that he didn't have the disease, it was just that it had been well hidden all the time.

"Paranoid psychosis, aka 'idiopathic paranoid delusions.'"

Yesterday afternoon, after listening to Yan Qingshan's description, Tang Xiping told the other party in this way.

After carefully reading a certain page of the thick medical book that he handed over, Yan Qingshan couldn't understand some of the technical terms on it: "...is it the so-called obsessive-compulsive disorder?"

Tang Xi denied it by shaking his head: "No. Most of the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder are generalized and not idiopathic. The specific manifestation is that the patient does not have sufficient self-control awareness, and needs to repeatedly confirm one thing to show emphasis."

"As for the patients with the disease I'm talking about, they have an overly strong desire to control, a pathological possessive desire, or an extreme sense of ritual for a 'specific' thing. That is to say, it is characterized by Focused seizures—idiopathic."

He deliberately added the accent on the word "specific", Yan Qingshan raised his brows slightly when he heard it, and suddenly realized something.

As if to verify the conjecture in his heart, Tang Xi concluded with the following tone of conclusion:

"Yan belongs to Han Ning's specific cause of disease, in short, it is you."

After listening to Tang Xiping's words, Yan Qingshan fell into deep thought, not knowing what he was thinking, and asked after a long time: "Can it be cured?"

"This kind of intractable mental illness is generally rarely cured completely. The main goal of treatment is to control the onset and no longer affect daily life and work."

Saying this, Tang Xiping smiled slightly: "So Han Ning's situation is only for you anyway, and he is still his popular male god outside, so as long as you don't mind being imprisoned by him one day play... It doesn’t matter if it’s cured or not.”

Yan Qingshan couldn't help showing a very disgusted expression on his face. I don't know when I woke up and suddenly found some weird props on my body? Sorry, he was insensitive to this taste.

"How to cure it."

Regarding his reaction, Tang Xiping was not surprised, and replied according to his words: "For now, hypnotic psychological induction is more effective. There are two specific directions of operation."

"The first one is to start from the initial inducement—on what day and what happened specifically, he began to have an uncontrollable obsession with you—as long as you know this factor, then hypnotize him and induce him at the subconscious level. He avoided that, which would have ideally controlled his condition."

Hearing this, Yan Qingshan frowned slightly, and before making a comment, he heard him add: "However, even if you ask him himself, you probably won't get a definite answer—maybe it's not specific at all. Which day, but the accumulation of days and months... "

"Then, the second method is safer." At this point, the voice paused indistinctly, and then continued:

"—make him forget you completely."

The expression on Yan Qingshan's face was slightly startled.

Tang Xiping's tone was very relaxed: "If you hadn't appeared in his life from the beginning, of course he would have no incentive to get sick."

"The specific operation is hypnosis, subconscious induction, plus multiple repeated psychological hints - it is not difficult to do."

Having said that, he paused for a while, and when he spoke again, his voice sank in a low voice, inexplicably revealing a strange sense of confusion: "Well, I have decided to divorce anyway, why not be a complete stranger in the future... okay?"

Hearing this, Yan Qingshan fell into silence and did not answer for a long time.

Tang Xiping waited patiently for a long time before finally waiting for the other party's answer.

It's a pity that the content is not the answer to the question.

Yan Qingshan looked at him fixedly, as if he had made an unknown decision, and he said: "Seven years ago, do you remember our graduation trip?"

Seeing his expression, Tang Xiping was taken aback for a moment, but when he realized what he said, he felt even more dazed.

That year's graduation trip

... How could it not be remembered.

Due to the different majors of Yan Qingshan and Tang Xiping, the trip routes organized by their respective colleges were not the same for the graduation trip that year.

The destination of the bus convoy of the law school is City C, but no one expected that when passing through a long tunnel on the way, a landslide unexpectedly occurred, and the tunnel collapsed severely, although luckily no one was killed , but it is true that many people were seriously injured.

The news of this accident caused an uproar in the outside world.

But it was only later that Tang Xiping found out that Han Ning was also in that convoy by some means—because Han Ning was one of the dozens of people who were seriously injured.

Moreover, as far as he knew, it was during the period when Han Ning was hospitalized that Yan Qingshan officially agreed to the other party's pursuit.

Seeing that he still had memories of what happened back then, Yan Qingshan continued: "Just hypnotize us and relive the events of that day."

"..."

His thoughts slowly withdrew from the memory, and the other party's words wandered in his ears twice, Tang Xiping finally grasped the word slowly.

-us

He froze for a moment, and immediately blurted out: "You want to come together too?"

Yan Qingshan didn't seem to feel how strange his words were at all, but nodded calmly.

Seeing him like this, Tang Xiping suddenly felt an inexplicable uneasiness in his heart: "... What do you want to do?"

From just now, Yan Qingshan's tone has been very calm: "If it is really like what you said, my existence is the root of his illness, then in my opinion, his obsession with me is not too deep, but It's not deep enough."

—So I still thought about how my illness might hurt him, and even dared to divorce.

He lowered his eyes to cover up the emotion in his eyes, and whispered slowly: "At the beginning he was the one who provoked me... Now it's too cheap for him to let him get away?"