A luxurious room was prepared separately. The girl huddled in the corner, covering the curtain or any place that could reflect the outside light.
Don't turn on the lights.
He just hugged his knees and buried his face in the darkness.
"Crack-"
Someone opened the door lightly and came in without paying attention.
At first, you will be attracted by the slightest movement, hoping that whoever you want will open the door.
But every time I am disappointed.
"Miss Xia."
This time is no exception.
"Can you turn on the lights?"
The man frowned slightly, probably dissatisfied with the dim environment.
However, since this is the daughter of the financial owner, it is impossible for her to express her opinion directly.
"Okay, it doesn't matter."
When she didn't get a response, she simply took advantage of the little light coming through the crack in the door and sat down on the sofa.
"Ms. Xia, I was asked by your mother to conduct the thirteenth interview."
"···go out."
“···”
The woman's expression changed subtly, but she soon returned to her professional smile.
It doesn't matter.
She had long known about the setbacks her previous colleagues had experienced, and she would never make the same mistake this time. She had prepared carefully.
"Then I'll tell you straight."
"I think the world you are talking about is fake. It may or may not not exist."
“···”
Sure enough, when I saw my target, I was finally willing to look at myself.
She said more confidently, "Whether the world exists or not, someone has long ago put forward the hypothesis that God created everything three minutes ago. We can't prove it to be true, nor can we prove it to be false."
"I believe what you said about another world."
"I didn't come here specifically to persuade you. I wanted to talk to you."
“···”
The female doctor who made the diagnosis confidently said a lot.
"go out."
However, the result was completely different from the smooth conversation she expected. Instead, the eyes looking at her became more and more cold, even disgusting.
"that--"
"Please get out."
He was interrupted unceremoniously again.
“···”
The female doctor originally wanted to speak, but in the end she didn't say anything.
Because she remembered that her colleagues had specifically told her not to continue delving into the matter if it didn't go well. The patient had mania and a high probability of self-mutilation.
"Please tell her I don't need a doctor."
Before going out, I heard another voice that I couldn't tell whether it was sadness or hatred.
Anyway, the door was closed again and the room became dark again.
——
The female doctor met Xia Liangzhen's gaze as soon as she left the house.
"Feel sorry."
The previous confidence was completely gone and I could only apologize.
“···”
Xia Liangzhen looked at her speechlessly, watching her disappear at the elevator entrance. Then he turned his eyes to look at the door of the room that had been closed again.
What exactly is it?
My daughter had been sleeping for more than two years and suddenly woke up.
This is of course a good thing.
I am also prepared, no matter whether my daughter has an IQ of less than ten years old, or whether she has any sequelae and is disabled. As long as she is alive, awake, able to talk to herself, and able to eat together again.
This is enough.
A very detailed diagnostic report was placed on the glass disc reception table in front of Xia Liangzhen.
[Patient name: Xia Xianyue]
[Patient age: 21 years old]
[Symptoms: The initial diagnosis was that the patient's body organs functioned normally, and there were no abnormalities in the limbs and other parts... The second consultation found that the patient was suspected of experiencing a dream world that was the same as the real time passage, so he suffered from cognitive impairment, mania, and depression...
·Multiple mental illnesses. Occasionally seen with suicidal tendencies, suspected of believing that one can return to the dream world after death.】
Xia Liangzhen still clearly remembers being in a meeting that day and her phone was vibrating.
The mobile phone only vibrates when she is working for a few calls.
When I saw that the call was from someone from the hospital, the numbness in my back was indescribable.
There was a buzzing sound in his head, and he burst into tears in front of his subordinates.
The sudden call now can only be bad news, right?
“···”
I didn't answer the phone until it rang the second time.
"President Xia, your daughter is conscious!"
That is probably the so-called feeling of falling from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the valley, and then climbing back to the top of the mountain in an instant.
I don't care about anything, no business, no meetings... it doesn't matter.
Go straight to the hospital.
The doctor who guarded her day and night said that Xia Xianyue woke up once in a daze.
"···Mother?"
These were words that made her more sad and happy than the first time her daughter spoke.
I feel like everything I have done over the years has paid off.
I feel like I have hope for living again.
"Where is Ah Yao?"
But what her daughter said next left her completely confused.
"Ah Yao? Which Ah Yao?"
"...Su Yao."
"Are you talking about your friends in college??"
Isshin cannot remember it, but the memory of her sleeping at that time is still vivid.
So he began to comfort her and lie to her, saying that he would find a way to find the person named 'Su Yao' later. Although he thought about it for a long time, he couldn't remember who it was.
"wrong···"
"Ah Yao, yes."
"My favorite person."
“···”
Who is that?
"Give me the mobile phone, can you?"
Xia Liangzhen watched her click on a series of numbers on the dialing interface with some difficulty.
[The phone number you dialed is unavailable, please check before calling again]
The air seemed to freeze at that moment.
“···”
I saw her making another phone call.
As a result, the name was displayed on Xia Liangzhen's phone.
Xiao Lin.
"Aunt?"
"I am."
“···”
The other end of the phone was silent for a long time before replying blankly, "The voice... is Xiaoyue?"
"Um."
"Are you awake? I'll go, you! This, this!"
She was completely incoherent.
“···”
But Xia Xianyue was not affected by the voice at all, and just continued to ask stubbornly, "Ah Yao, where are you? Why did you change your phone number? I want to ask you, do you know?"
"Ah Yao? Who is it?"
"My boyfriend."
"How can you have a boyfriend...ah, wait, let's talk about it after I come over, okay? I'll be over right away!"
“···”
What happens next is simple.
Although Lin Xiaowan was keenly aware of Xia Xianyue's problem, and deliberately came over to discuss with Xia Liangzhen and the doctor before talking, he still could not stop Xia Xianyue's stubbornness.
She is determined to find the person 'Su Yao' from this world.
Relying on Xia Xianyue's relationship, he found the president of Dongshi University and checked the school's student roster in recent years.
She checked all the high schools, junior high schools, and even elementary schools that Su Yao had attended.
No.
There is no such person.
She's going to the inspectorate to ask.
"Xiaoyue, there really is no such person!"
"You have seen so many results. This place is not something you can enter casually."
"A living person will not disappear like this. No way..."
“···”
Everyone could tell that she seemed to be holding on for an inexplicable amount of breath. She couldn't cry until she saw the coffin.
"As for the 'Su Yao' you mentioned, we have checked and there is no one with this name in Dongshi. If you are looking for someone, I suggest you find a way to post a missing person notice."
“···”
Today's technology is very advanced. Although in Xia Xianyue's eyes it is not as good as the one drawn by Youye, it is still an equal image.
The inspector kindly helped to use technical means to detect people who might meet these characteristics, and asked Xia Xianyue to personally select the faces from the big data.
None of them fit.
Everyone indulged her and did some strange things, but they all helped her to make things right.
But does Xia Xianyue really not understand the truth at all?
He rubbed his ring finger, which had no ring at all.
The body suddenly started to feel cold.
Understand.
How is it possible?
The person was clearly at the intersection in front of him, but he suddenly disappeared in the next second.
No matter who I waved to or shouted to, I was ignored. I could only let my body disappear.
"···asshole!"
"Go to hell!"
"asshole!!!"
The sudden words made the two people next to him jump.
"Why···"
"Always do this?"
"Ugh!"
"Why, you don't even let me share the burden..."
“···”
Since that's the case.
What Ah Yao can do, I can do too.
As long as I too am crushed to death——
"Xiaoyue?!"
Xia Liangzhen and Lin Xiaowan were shocked.
That day, Xia Xianyue was almost hit by a car in front of them. Fortunately, the car was a Volvo, and it sensed the person and rushed out to avoid it.
Now I finally understand that Xia Xianyue has a mental problem.
Because of this, they sent Xia Xianyue to a mental sanatorium.
——
Mental illness is one of the most difficult illnesses in the world to treat.
There are no precise instruments for diagnosing the disease, so we can only judge it artificially through observation, hearing, asking, and other basic methods that remain the same.
But regarding Xia Xianyue's condition, no matter which doctor looked at it, they would come to the conclusion that "there is indeed something wrong".
No one could persuade her.
Even now, she refused to talk about what was in her mind. She just asked people to come out and huddled in the corner, wrapped in darkness.
Xia Liang really didn't dare to take her out.
Afraid that she would try to commit suicide again and that she would truly lose her daughter forever.
Because she suffered from self-mutilation, the ward where she stayed was monitored 24 hours a day by specially invited women.
All the lethal things in the room were taken away. Even the corner of the table was wrapped with a thick layer of soft cloth, as if to protect a child.
“···”
After looking at his daughter's sad look from the surveillance camera for a while, Xia Liang sighed tiredly.
Get out of the control room.
think.
Su Yao···
Favorite person?
How could you not know when such a person existed?
If such a person exists in a dream, how should one bring such a guy out of the dream?
I always feel a sense of loss.
But I can't tell where it's missing.
I just suddenly remembered the past. At that time, my daughter suddenly broke up with me and insisted on coming to Dongda University for no reason.
But on the way to Dongda University, he was hit without warning. Although his physical injuries healed quickly, his consciousness did not wake up until two years ago.
Got hit?
no.
Why go to Dongda?
Ah, it's just to refute my own arbitrary management. There's nothing unusual about it. Anyway, it's all thanks to me, so I'm really sorry.
Then, next, go and ask doctors who have encountered similar cases. Even if they travel to the ends of the world.
——
It's quiet at night.
Xia Xianyue was still huddled in the corner, motionless.
Even though my body started to feel numb, I started to feel cold, and my nose started dripping, I didn't care, I just stared at the ground blankly.
I don't want to open the curtains.
I don't want to see the outside world.
This is fake.
How could it be?
I don’t even know my mother who did such outrageous things to Ah Yao.
I always thought that Xiaowan, who encouraged Ah Yao to establish a relationship with him, didn't know him.
How come there is no such person in the winter market?
asshole--
What a bastard!
Just say how could such a good thing happen?
Suddenly he proposed so tenderly and gave me a ring.
Treat yourself so gently...
How stupid.
I was completely immersed in joy and completely failed to notice what was really going on.
"Woo..."
It's not that I want to cry.
The tears fell involuntarily and completely uncontrollably. I couldn't even count how many times they fell.
What a perfect wife?
Why did you have the idea of getting married?
What is it... I want to see my smiling face again.
If this is really the case, something like this now——
What should be done?
laugh?
cry?
Or should you accept reality as it is?
How strong do you think you are?
Do you know or not that everything I reveal comes from you.
Isn't this completely regarded as a vase?
Because it is the only one that is protected.
So it's just like when I was a child, being treated so tenderly, I don't have to bear any bad consequences myself, I just have to laugh.
Want to die.
It's not because you want to die that you have such thoughts.
It's because I want to see you again.
Didn’t he say that he was one of the designated heroines of the love game?
If that's the case, it won't watch itself really die?
···
Even if you die.
In that case, in order to save herself, Ah Yao can only load the file and go back to find herself, right?
Even if this idea is too much.
But really...
Already going crazy.
Unable to accept, unable to identify with the present.
How could it be possible? The world, where everything was obviously going in the right direction, suddenly became what it is now.
“···”
Xia Xianyue staggered and stood up, holding on to the wall. She began to search the room for anything that could be used to commit suicide.
Not found.
Can't find it anywhere.
Want to jump from the window——
But the window was sealed with an air cushion film, and a security window was installed on the outside. It was impossible to jump out.
"Wow--"
Just embed your nails into the soft cloth wrapping the corner of the table, tear it open, and then bang your head against it.
"Miss Xia, you can't do this!"
But those annoying people are here again.
"Go away!"
"Don't touch me, go away!"
"Ooohhhh!!!"
“···”
Like crazy.
The person who came in controlled her and injected her with a sedative. In this way, she ended the repetition for an unknown number of times.
"Oh, how pitiful."
One of the female doctors who worked together to put Xia Xianyue back on the bed couldn't bear it.
"Who says it's not, but all we can do is keep an eye on her and don't let her hurt herself again."
Another doctor looked at Xia Xianyue's face covered with tears and sighed, "As for the issue of mental illness, I can only hope that the lady can find a good doctor and come back."
——
This is also a cycle.
In an endless cycle, as long as Xia Xianyue cannot identify with this world, she will never be able to get out of this room.
The two people who had just returned to the monitoring room from the ward did not know that the monitoring had been tampered with. Although it still showed Xia Xianyue sleeping soundly in bed, it was a repeated image. It was not real-time.
“···”
The petite shadow passed openly and openly in front of the surveillance camera that was useless to her, and then easily pried open the door and entered.
Seeing Xia Xianyue lying there who was forcibly hypnotized by sedatives.
She walked up to Xia Xianyue, paused behind her back, swayed her tail and placed it on Xia Xianyue's chest, closest to her heart.
wait.
For almost twenty seconds, Xia Xianyue's eyelashes trembled and she slowly opened her eyes. Her eyes seemed unfocused, dazed and helpless.
"Is sister planning to be Schrödinger's cat?"
“···”
"You Ye can just say that there is no point in doing that."
"Even if my sister has been hiding here, my eldest brother will not exist in the outside world."
"···Shut up."
"Big brother will be very sad to see his sister like this."
"I said... Shut up!!!"
“···”
When Xia Xianyue finally went to see You Ye, she was shocked to find that she was not the naughty or calm expression in her memory.
Like herself, she had tears in her eyes.
"This is what my eldest brother asked me to give to my sister."
"Youye will not interfere with whether my sister wants to hide here or go out. Youye will do what Youye should do."
Youye didn't seem to notice that she was crying at all, she just calmly handed the crumpled paper in her pocket to Xia Xianyue.
then.
She turned around and left the room without saying a word.