Chapter 134. Split Personality

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Arc 7: Hello, Director.

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Standing in the old street, looking around, there are many people, even more handicrafts, dazzling to eyes.

Chen You stopped in front of a small stall that was tinkering with wood carvings. Next to it hangs a very literary wooden sign with the price written on it and a poem in the lower left corner, and a small scene of emerald green and lonely bamboo forest serves as the background.

The master was a middle-aged man in his forties, with long hair tied up with a rubber band. He wore a light grey robe like an ancient scholar. He was concentrating on carving a rectangular dark brown piece of wood in his hand. The noise around him had no effect on him.

There were a few tourists who came to watch, and another one waited for the wood carving to be completed, paid and left. Chen You kept watching, and after that man left, he told the master that he also wanted one.

The master asked, “Which one do you want? Chinese zodiac sign or?”

Chen You pointed to the left in back and said quietly, “Carve one in his image, and then carve one in my image.”

The master seemed to understand, and without saying anything, he picked a piece of wood from the big box at his feet, “Xiao XiongDi, do you have a photo?”

Chen You said yes, and showed the master a photo he had taken earlier, and the master took a photo with his mobile phone.

He secretly looked at the man and was relieved to find that he didn’t pay attention to this place. If he was discovered, he would definitely not agree.

After standing in front of the stall for less than three minutes, Chen You lost his patience and wanted to go somewhere else. There were many handicrafts on this street, “Master, I’ll give you the money first, and come back to get the things later, okay?”

The master said OK!

Chen You turned around and went to the next stall, and the person behind him followed him. The two of them walked one in front and one behind. Whenever there was a stall selling stinky tofu, the person behind him would stride up and pull him away.

Nutjob is incomprehensible.

Chen You saw the ocarina seller. He walked quickly through the crowd and went there. The master was playing 《A Laughter Over The Azure Sea》. The melody of revenge and the heroic deeds of the Jianghu emanating from the small instrument has an indescribable sense of vicissitudes, which can easily make people whose ears have been baptized unconsciously slow down their pace, or even stop laughing and joking, and quietly feel the sadness.

As a versatile boy, Chen You is definitely a man of character, can enter the kitchen, climb the bed, fight with rare monsters, and can boast to the sky. In short, he is very capable. He can play the harmonica, play《Starry Sky》on the piano, play the guitar, play the drums, breakdance, and sing. Not only that, he has also studied the ocarina. No matter whether he plays it or listens to it, there is a feeling that an elderly is telling the stories of those long-gone years in his old voice.

The sound was so slow and leisurely that it seemed as if the elderly would fall asleep in the next second, but it kept lingering in his ears, penetrating his eardrums and going into his heart.

Chen You’s heart surged, and he couldn’t help but reach out to pick up an ocarina beside him and put it to his lips.

A voice came from behind, “You shouldn’t play it.”

Chen You turned his head with a confused look on his face.

Yan Shu took the ocarina from his hand and put it back for him, “Don’t play this, it’s dirty.”

The master selling ocarina, “…”

Chen You was dragged away. He felt like a kid who was out playing with his parents. He was told that he couldn’t eat this and couldn’t touch that. It was totally unreasonable.

Yan Shu said, “Let’s go eat sausage rice.”

When Chen You heard that he could eat, he was instantly happy and asked excitedly where it was.

Yan Shu’s face twitched slightly, and he took him to another alley.

A moment later, Chen You was sitting in a Chinese-style restaurant, with a bowl of freshly served sausage rice in front of him. The white rice was grainy, round and fragrant, and on top was a row of sliced sausages with some bacon in between, a few green vegetable leaves in the middle, and half a braised egg cut in half next to it.

The presentation was good. He picked up a piece of sausage with chopsticks and ate it. It tasted good and chewy without any floury texture.

Yan Shu opposite ordered the braised pork with preserved vegetables. The pork belly on top of the preserved vegetables was dipped in sauce, and the color of the juice was very even, which looked very appetizing.

Chen You set aside the sausage and ate it while looking at Yan Shu’s pork with preserved vegetables, “Why don’t you eat it?”

Yan Shu didn’t move his chopsticks, “I don’t eat meat.”

Chen You was stunned. I am not scolding you, but Director, why don’t you eat some of it? It is shameful to waste it, don’t you know?

Just as he was about to speak, he heard the man say, “You like to eat.”

Chen You raised his head, forgetting to swallow the food in his mouth. Who, who are you now? 1 or 2, maybe 3456789…

Yan Shu tilted his head away, then tilted it back, “I’m not going to eat.”

Chen You lowered his eyelids and continued to eat. After a while, he suddenly remembered the wood carving. He hurriedly told Yan Shu and ran downstairs. When he got there, he found that the stall was still there.

When the master saw him, he handed him the two wood carvings and said, “Take a look.”

Chen You took the wood carving in his hand and looked at it. He only glanced at his own one and was mainly looking at Yan Shu’s. The eyes were double eyelids, the nose was very straight, and the lips were very thin. All the features were captured, “It’s quite similar. Thank you, Shushu.”

The master asked, “This is your Ge?”

Chen You nodded, “Yes.”

The master smiled and said, “No wonder, when you were strolling in front, your Ge was always following behind. Once you bumped into someone, he got nervous. It’s really rare that you two XiongDi are this old, and your Ge still protects you so much.”

Chen You also smiled, put the wood carving in his pocket, and ran back to find Yan Shu.

On the second floor of the restaurant, Yan Shu was looking down. The running figure of the young man broke into his field of vision, like a gust of wind, blowing the area into chaos and making it difficult to restore peace.

Chen You ran all the way to Yan Shu and placed the wood carving under his nose, like a child waiting for praise, “Here you go.”

Yan Shu frowned, “What is this?”

Chen You glared, “It’s you, can’t you see?”

Yan Shu objectively commented, “I can’t tell.”

He glanced at the wood carving with disdain, “I’m not that ugly.”

“Wood carvings are somewhat different from real people, mainly in terms of shape and the expression between the eyebrows and eyes.”

Chen You pointed at the wood carving, and then vaguely pointed at the man’s brow, “Look, this carved 川 character is a complete restoration, like an old man, exactly like you.”

Yan Shu, “…”

Chen You was still chattering, “Really, that master is amazing. We weren’t even there just now, but he was able to carve you out in such a short time, and he even captured your most important feature,  川 symbol eyebrows. I think with his skills, he can open a class and take in apprentices.”

His mouth was dry after talking so much, so he picked up the teacup on the table and drank some water, “What do you think?”

Yan Shu stood up and walked away.

Chen You almost spit out a mouthful of water. He turned his head and shouted, “Don’t you want the wood carving? I also have my carving, but I haven’t shown it to you yet!”

Yan Shu said, “I’m afraid that watching it will scare me so much that I’ll have nightmares every day.”

“…” Chen You looked at the wood carving, “Okay, buddy, come with me from now on. I promise you’ll have a place to sleep, and I won’t let you get wet or blown.”

After catching up with the man, Chen You asked, “Did you see the text message I sent you before?”

Yan Shu’s footstep paused, expression strange.

Chen You was not stupid. He guessed something from the man’s expression. He shouted and swear, “Fuck, did you block me?!”

Yan Shu did not answer but asked, “What text message did you send?”

Sure enough. Chen You furiously glared at him. It’s fine if you set it to not accept messages from strangers, but you never intended to save my number in your phone, right? Director, you are too much.

He was dejected, rubbing his shoes on the bluestone road, feeling quite useless himself. After going through so much trouble up until now, to this person, he was just a stranger.

Well, there is a little gain, which is 0.8 evil points, nothing else.

It’s awful.

It was hard to explain the reason, but Chen You was feeling depressed and didn’t want to talk. Although he laughs all day long, he is not a robot and he also has unhappy moments. Ai, forget it, forget it, no strolling anymore. It’s boring. Maybe there will be conflict later, which would be even more boring.

“I’m going back to the hotel.”

Chen You said a sentence and left without looking back.

Standing there, when Yan Shu came to his senses, the young man was no longer there. He pursed his lips, unconsciously feeling helpless and flustered.

After Chen You returned to the hotel, he became more energetic. He was like a balloon that magically inflates itself when it runs out of air. He will not stay deflated forever.

Due to all kinds of reasons, the surgery was scheduled for 10 ‘o’ clock in the evening. There were still about five hours left.

Chen You took out the wood carving and poked its face with his finger. The wood carving fell backwards awkwardly, and was pinched to stand up and poked again. It was pitifully being bullied, carrying pots and pans for its owner.

“Am I not good to you? Hmm? Tell me, am I good to you or not?”

Chen You had a long talk with the wood carving, “Think about it, every time you fucked me, did I ever lose my temper? When you were harsh, I just snorted, isn’t that right?”

“I have a corner of the Hundred Family Surnames on my back, have I ever complained? I haven’t! And you, you treated me well at night, hugged me to death, and the next morning, you didn’t acknowledge me. What did I do? I didn’t pester you, did I?”

“You have no conscience. Even if you are different during the day and at night, it is your hand that touches me, your mouth that kisses me. It was you who cried for me and laughed for me, who told me you loved me, couldn’t live without me, and wouldn’t let me go even if you died. It was you who almost broke me.”

Chen You said he was tired, and hugged the wooden carving in his arm and patted its head, “It’s you, it’s you, it’s all you. So can’t you be nicer to me?”

“Actually, let me tell you something from the bottom of my heart. I died suddenly in the real world, and now I have to complete a mission to be reborn, which means I can still live. You, on the other hand, are my first target. Do you understand? The strange thing is, I really feel like you’re familiar.”

“Look, when you hug me, I really like it. It’s like, how should I put it, the feeling of being in love, it’s just happiness…”

There was a water stain on the wood carving. Chen You was stunned for a moment and called the system in panic, “It’s over, it’s over, I’m sick.”

System said, “You are idle.”

Chen You said, “No, I must be sick, otherwise why would I cry for no reason?”

System said, “You are just idle.”

“…” Chen You said unhappily, “Get lost.”

System said, “Get the task done as soon as possible and leave.”

Chen You was speechless. You think I don’t want to? I want to go home. Of course, the earlier the better, but the progress of the task cannot be controlled.

He wiped the water off the wood carving and threw it into his bag.

After browsing his phone for a while, Chen You went to find the director. He ought to say earlier that the gathering is not taking place. Speaking proactively and the director coming to ask are not the same thing.

At the door, a man in black clothes and black pants was standing with a bag in his hand.

Chen You was stunned, “Why are you here?”

Yan Shu handed him the bag and said calmly, “There is a microwave in the western part. Heat it up to eat for dinner.”

Chen You took it and smelled the faint aroma that came out, knowing it was the plate of pork with preserved vegetables. He didn’t expect the man to change his way to turn around and pack up the leftovers, “The surgery is at 10 pm, and I don’t have time to eat.”

Yan Shu said, “There is a refrigerator in my room, put it on my side first.”

Chen You twitched his lips. Fuck, a refrigerator? He doesn’t even have a computer there, and has to use data to access the Internet. Isn’t the difference too big?, “Okay, you take it back.”

Yan Shu took the bag away again and asked, “What is the content of the text message?”

Chen You said, “The director asked me to ask you, how about two departments having a meal together?”

Yan Shu frowned.

Chen You swallowed, can you stop frowning? You originally have a ‘川’ eyebrows, and still creasing seriously to the point of having no friends.

According to his understanding, Yan Shu would not agree. This kind of eating and drinking is a waste of time and meaningless. The director really took special care of him by giving him this difficult task. There is nothing to say.

He had given up hope, but heard the man asking about the time and place.

“I don’t know. The director didn’t tell me. I’ll go ask now. Wait for me.”

Yan Shu called the young man and said, “Let me know on the phone.”

Chen You watched the man enter the elevator, and it took him a long time to react. Is this indirectly telling him that his phone number has been saved? Why not just say it directly…

Half an hour later, people from the two departments met at a local restaurant.

Chen You had just eaten sausage rice and was not hungry. He just came here to make up the numbers. It seemed that everyone in the department thought that his presence would liven up the atmosphere and help them strike up a conversation with Yan Shu.

Someone rubbed his legs under the table, and Chen You’s expression suddenly became subtle. Who was it? He looked at them one by one to see if anyone was suspicious.

Everyone and everything is normal.

Chen You’s leg was rubbed again. He pretended to accidentally drop the chopsticks on the ground. When he bent down to pick them up, he observed the feet on his left and right and opposite. The dark brown leather shoes belonged to Yan Shu, the black high heels belonged to Miss Jiang, the blue sneakers belonged to an intern in the department, and the flat-heeled white leather shoes belonged to a doctor under Yan Shu.

It looks like nothing is wrong.

Chen You sat back down and continued to drink coconut milk as if nothing had happened. Who wants to cause trouble with whom?, “444, do you know?”

System said, “Miss Jiang wanted to rub against her director, but she didn’t get the direction right, so she rubbed against you.”

Chen You secretly looked at Miss Jiang. She had the shy demeanor of a little girl. There wasn’t a drop of wine on the table, but she looked drunk, almost floating in the air, ready to sing, I’m so beautiful, I’m so intoxicated, at any time. “She doesn’t know that she is rubbing against me, right?”

System said, “Don’t know.”

Chen You understood. It turned out that Miss Jiang is immersed in the state of thinking, “I rubbed against him, and he didn’t have any disgusted reaction, which means he is also interested in me, but it’s not easy to show it because of the relationship between superiors and subordinates.”

He looked at the man, who was talking to his director. The whole thing is that he is a textbook version of a handsome man.

The atmosphere on the table was good, no drinking, no smoking, no loud noises, just a few bites of rice and vegetables.

In the restroom, several doctors were chatting while fixing their hair.

“Today’s meal is very unusual. The director never deliberately interacts with other departments, but this time he made an exception.”

“I heard that it was Chen You who found the director.”

Miss Jiang pushed a strand of hair back and asked casually, “Who told you that? That’s impossible.”

“It’s Xiao Zhang. You guys may not remember him, but he and I are from the same hometown. We chatted on WeChat before coming here, I’ll play the voice message he sent me.”

The doctor took out the phone and turned to the chat window and clicked on a voice message. A male voice rang out, “If we want to invite your director, we can only use Dr. Chen from our side. You may not know that but this is what our director asked him to do personally.”

Just this one sentence made the atmosphere in the bathroom strange, and several women had their own thoughts.

“That Chen You, what’s he up to?”

“What else? Of course he wants to cling to the director, the big tree, and hope to be promoted to be resident doctor.”

“He has a high level of education and has returned from abroad. Isn’t it only a matter of time before he gets promoted?”

“The longer the night, the more trouble there is. He has several senior people waiting ahead of him, and they all have backdoors at home. It’s not that easy. If you don’t use some tricks, you will be brushed down.”

The atmosphere shifted again. After a moment of silence, a doctor said, “Hey, Xiao Liu from the neurosurgery department has been transferred to the emergency room. On her first day there, something happened. While rescuing a patient with alcohol poisoning, she was beaten by the drunken patient’s family members. It was a chaotic scene, and she still hasn’t gotten justice.”

“Everyone should behave themselves and not cause any trouble under the director’s supervision.”

“Aiyo, Jie, look at what you said, what kind of trouble can we cause? We can just talk about it in private. Who dares to gossip about it in front of the director?”

“I have something to tell you, but you must keep it secret. I bumped into the director four times this month. He went to the second floor every time. He seemed to be in a good mood after coming back. I guess he was interested in a girl in the internal medicine department.”

Miss Jiang wiped the water off her hands with a tissue, and only asked one question at the beginning, and didn’t say anything else afterwards. Not sure what she was scheming.

In the corridor, Chen You and Yan Shu stood there, hearing everything they should and shouldn’t have heard.

He looked up at the man, Director, don’t listen to their nonsense. I approached you for a purpose, but that purpose was not for the job of resident doctor. Really, I only have rubies on my chest, no big black moles. He said, “I haven’t any intention to use you to get promoted to resident doctor.”

Yan Shu glanced at him and said, “Even if you want to, you can’t use me.”

Chen You shrugged, “As long as you don’t believe what those people inside say.”

He leaned closer and whispered, “I also have something to say, it’s about that thing that I feel like you’re very familiar. We might have been lovers in our last life, or maybe in the life before that, or the life before that.”

Yan Shu turned around and left.

Chen You chased after him, and continued to chatter, deliberately trying to tease the man, “Why are you leaving? I’m not talking nonsense. I don’t believe you don’t feel anything. Every time you get hard before I even touch you.”

Yan Shu’s figure suddenly stopped, and he turned around to stare at Chen You.

Chen You was confused. After doing it countless times, why was he still acting like a pure old man?, “Your ears are red.”

Yan Shu’s ears were burning, “Chen You, what kind of person are you?”

“I am a long-legged handsome guy, you can see that with your eyes. I know a little bit of yoga, I am very resilient, no one knows this better than you, I like to eat snacks, I will eat them even if I die, you will slowly discover it.”

Chen You smiled, “Do you like peeling onions? If you like, you can try peeling me. I guarantee it won’t irritate your eyes.”

Yan Shu’s face darkened.

Chen You said, “I need to go to the bathroom, do you want to go? Let’s go together.”

Yan Shu’s expression suddenly changed and he ran away.

Chen You was stunned. What’s going on? He looks so scared. It’s so funny. Did he just say he was going to drink urine instead of going to pee?

After he went to the toilet, the party at the table had already dispersed.

“No one waited for me.”

Chen You muttered something and walked out. A voice came from behind him, “Chen You.”

The same name, called out by different people with different voices, feels completely different.

Yan Shu sent Chen You to the hotel room, “Give it to me.”

Chen You took another step back, pressing his back against the door, “No, I have a surgery to attend tonight, I need to stand for a few hours, I’ll give it to you tomorrow when I get home.”

Yan Shu’s ears turned red again, “I was talking about wood carvings, what are you thinking? Your thoughts are so unhealthy.”

Chen You, “…” Haha, you are mentally healthy, but you are so dirty when you do it. You don’t let me pee, but make me pee in my pants, and even make me cry. You are so crazy, okay? !

He opened the door with a sour face, took out the wood carving from his bag and gave it to the man, “Take it.”

Yan Shu said, “Not this one.”

Chen You added, “That’s the one.”

Yan Shu said after a while, “Yours.”

After standing there in a daze for a while, Chen You grabbed the bag and took out his own from a small corner. He couldn’t believe it. Although he hoped that the other party would accept it when he carved his own, there was a big gap between ideal and reality. He was still thinking about finding a way to give the wood carving to the other party after he returned.

For example, if he takes advantage of this person’s changed personality, then it is definitely possible.

“Do you really want this one of mine?”

Yan Shu looked at it and didn’t want it anymore, “It’s so ugly.”

Chen You rolled his eyes, “I’m telling you, now that you’ve got it, you have to keep it well and don’t throw it away casually. It’s also a life.”

Yan Shu looked at him with a look of, are you kidding me? and said, “This is a wood carving, a dead object.”

Chen You started talking rubbish very earnestly, “I have injected my soul into it. Put it on the bedside. I will watch you every night, sing lullabies to you, and also visit in dreams to look for you.”

Yan Shu, “…”

Chen You found that the man was still in the room, and he looked at him inquiringly.

Yan Shu said, “I want to do something.”

Chen You looked at him looking so serious and formal, and he also put away his lazy attitude, “What?”

Yan Shu’s Adam’s apple rolled, and he bent down and leaned on Chen You, his lips brushing Chen You’s forehead.

It was so quick and light that Chen You didn’t feel anything. That’s it?

He saw the man turn around and walk towards the door. He was really gone. The man who had treated him like that just now was the target himself. He could not only identify him by his butt, but also by kissing.

Sometimes it went deep into his throat, as if he was being torn apart alive, sometimes it was very lingering, sometimes it was very innocent, sometimes it was very gentle, sometimes it was not a kiss at all, it was just a nibble, and sometimes his kissing made him feel like he was being cared for, it’s really not the same at all.

Chen You felt it was amazing, one person doing the same thing to him, actually made him feel entirely different at that moment.

On the other side, Yan Shu met Miss Jiang downstairs in the hotel.

When the man cast a cold gaze at Miss Jiang, all the joy and excitement in her heart disappeared instantly. Her face turned a little paler and uglier. He was not the other person during the meal.

Who’s that?

Miss Jiang was nervous for a moment, but then she felt relieved. No matter who it was, it had nothing to do with her. She doesn’t need to panic.

“Director, I have something I would like to ask you for some advice.”

Yan Shu kept walking, “Speak.”

Miss Jiang walked over in her high heels and followed him, “I have a distant relative who suffers from coronary heart disease and is not in good health. He was recently diagnosed with an intracranial tumor. Which treatment method do you think would be relatively low-risk?”

“Intracranial tumor?” Yan Shu said, “You should consult a neurosurgeon.”

Miss Jiang said, “I asked, and they said it is unsuitable for surgery. I want to hear your opinion.”

Yan Shu said, “No.”

He tilted his head and said, “Don’t bring neurosurgery matters to cardiac surgery. If you don’t even know this, how did you complete your graduate thesis?”

Miss Jiang’s expression froze. She looked at the man’s back as he walked in and pinched her palms with her fingers.

A body came up from behind, and the rapid breathing sprayed on her neck. She was startled at first, then she knew who it was. She felt sick and wanted to vomit but she suppressed her emotions and said, “Are you crazy? Do you want to be seen by others?”

The man hugged Miss Jiang from behind and said, “Scared now? When you were fooling around with that director just now, I didn’t see you getting scared.”

He clicked his tongue twice, “You dared to rub the director with your feet repeatedly in front of two departments during dinner, Xiao Jiang, you are really brave.”

Miss Jiang paused in her struggle.

The man sniffed the scent of her neck greedily, “What a pity, every time you rub against that person named Chen You.”

Miss Jiang struggled hard to get away and turned back to stare at the man.

The man smiled, politely, not like someone who would do something like that. “Are you wondering how I knew that? Because I saw it.”

There was no change on Miss Jiang’s face.

The man said, “Isn’t it obvious that your director is not interested in you? Why are you circling around him like a fly? Why don’t you leave xx hospital and live with me? I guarantee you will be more relaxed and happy than you are now.”

Miss Jiang sneered, “Whether I am relaxed or not, whether I am happy or not, that is my business, it has nothing to do with you, so please stop meddling in my business.”

The man looked hurt, “Other people’s business, I don’t care. But you said you have nothing to do with me, so I have to clarify this. Last year, the year before last, and the year before that, in the past three years, the amount of T I’ve used on you would fill several large boxes. Don’t you remember?”

(T/N:- T means protection, cover, condom)

He shook his head and said, “It seems that as soon as you returned to China, you only cared about your director.”

Miss Jiang trembled all over, “Get lost.”

“You tried tonight, but got nothing. How pitiful.” The man sighed with a smile, and said with pity, “Guess, if your director knew that you had other thoughts about him, would he still keep you under his command?”

Miss Jiang’s voice trembled, “What do you want?”

The man whispered something in her ear.

Miss Jiang raised her hand to slap, then she put down her hand and clenched it tightly, “Not tonight, next week.”

The man was very easy to talk to, “Okay, I’ll wait for you.”

He stuffed a note into Miss Jiang’s collar, “For your new number. If you blocked me again, I will go directly to the hospital to find you, and talk to your director and your colleagues about your past.”

“Oh right, your director has a special relationship with that person named Chen You.”

Miss Jiang asked, “What do you mean?”

The man smiled and pinched her face, “When you come next week, I will tell you slowly.”

Miss Jiang took out the note, tore it up and threw it into the trash can.

After the surgery in the evening, Chen You took the sleeper bus back to the hospital. He couldn’t act independently, so he had to follow the crowd.

The berths on the bus were very narrow, and a single person could barely lie down, with no extra space for moving around.

After Chen You lay down, he couldn’t fall asleep. There was no one around to chat. He took out his phone and checked it. Yan Shu was still in the operating room, and it would not be done until tomorrow noon. It’s so hard standing for more than ten hours.

“444, can you show me a live broadcast?”

System asked, “Live broadcast of what?”

Chen You added, “Surgery performed by Yan Shu.”

The next second, a projection appeared in the void. He immediately looked at the other people in the bus, but no one reacted, including the driver. Only he could see it.

Soon, Chen You didn’t want to watch it anymore. The chest was cut open and blood was everywhere, really unbearable to watch. “Turn it off, turn it off.”

The system said, “Cannot turn it off midway.”

Chen You chuckled, “Teasing me.”

System said, “Traveling by bus is boring, just watch it slowly to kill time.”

Chen You wanted to cry, but he had no tears. What the hell? He closed his eyes and found that the image on the projection was actually connected to his brain waves. Shit, this is to force him to death, right?

After all this trouble, the others woke up the next morning with sleepy eyes, thinking about how to take a nap in the morning. When they were cleaning up, they found the young man leaning against the bed with his knees hugged, looking haggard. He had suffered a huge shock and was about to die.

“Xiao Chen, what’s wrong with you?”

Chen You looked at the director with bloodshot eyes. He grabbed the director’s arm and asked miserably, “Director, can I take a leave this morning?”

The director said no, “Are you sick?”

Chen You shook his head and also nodded. If you don’t agree to my leave, I don’t want to talk to you anymore. He heard the director say, “It’s your turn to be on duty tonight. Don’t think about being lazy.”

“……”

Yan Shu came back from LingCheng at noon, received a call from an old classmate, and went to his office to find him.

“Last time you told me on the phone that there’s some matter, what was it?” Bai Xu said while crossing his legs while taking a sip of tea, “If it’s a relationship problem, I can’t help you.”

Yan Shu crossed his fingers and placed them on his abdomen, “It’s a long story.”

Bai Xu was dumbfounded, “Listening to the beginning, it doesn’t sound like your style, Yan Shu. Are you really not having emotional problems?”

Yan Shu glanced at him.

Bai Xu coughed, “You continue with your long story. I just need to see a recovering patient this afternoon. I’m not busy.”

Yan Shu said slowly, “I have a friend who suddenly did some strange things for no apparent reason some time ago, and he has no memory of those things afterwards.”

Bai Xu became interested, “And then?”

“With just one action, he will become a completely different person, and throughout the day, he will become several different people.” Yan Shu said, “He felt that he had split personality and went to see a doctor, but it was ineffective. Recently, he found that those actions were not done for no reason, but through an event, a sentence, or even a song.”

Bai Xu didn’t understand, “Why does what you said sound like being possessed by evil spirits?”

Yan Shu narrowed his eyes, “That friend told me that he started to have a lot of blurry images in his mind and heard some voices. He suspected that there’s some issue with his brain.”

“Unlikely.”

Bai Xu said, “Did he suffer any setbacks in his early years? You know, everyone’s situation is different. Sometimes, one thing can be magnified in a person’s mind and affect his whole life.”

Yan Shu shook his head, “No.”

Bai Xu frowned and fell into deep thought. After a moment, he suddenly said, “Yan Shu, that friend you are talking about, it can’t be you, right?”

Yan Shushu remained calm and said, “No.”

Bai Xu asked, “Which friend? Do I know him?”

“You don’t know.” Yan Shu said, “Are you sure it’s not a split personality disorder?”

“Split personality is when there are multiple souls living in one body, one person plays multiple roles, and those roles are independent of each other and have no connection. They even want to kill each other and become the only personality.”

Bai Xu said, “Based on the information you provided, it is still too early to make a definite conclusion. Why don’t you give me your friend’s contact information so I can make an appointment to see him when I have time.”

Yan Shu leaned back and raised his head, saying, “I haven’t done speaking yet.”

Bai Xu’s face twitched, “Then you say.”

“As I said earlier, my friend discovered that those actions were not done for no reason, but through an event, a sentence, or even a song. Not only that, but it can only be done by the same person.”

Yan Shu said, “Same words, same thing, same song, changing the person, it has no effect on my friend at all.”

The air pressure in the office dropped a lot with these words, and an inexplicable chill arose, hovering in the air quickly and forcefully, and could not be driven away.

Bai Xu sat up straight and lowered his voice a little, “The key lies with that person?”

Yan Shu looked out the window, “It should be.”

Bai Xu stretched out a finger and scratched his chin, rubbing it from left to right, “There are many strange phenomena in this world that can not be explained by science, and there are also some that can not be understood by medicine.”

He stroked the edge of the teacup and said half-jokingly, “Perhaps there is an invisible thread between your friend and the other person, restraining and influencing each other.”

“If it’s not a malignant influence, then it’s actually okay. By the way, is your friend a man or a woman? What about the other party? If it’s a man and a woman, they can be together. The greatest power is love, which is absolutely omnipotent.”

Yan Shu rubbed his brows, “You have nothing else to say?”

Bai Xu spread his hands, “I can’t see him, so I can’t observe his inner thoughts, and you still expect me to come up with something.”

Yan Shu said, “Go and do your thing.”

Bai Xu put his legs down and brushed off the nonexistent dust on his body, “Next time, bring the person here. I’ll use hypnosis to enter his dream and maybe I can find something.”

He walked a few steps and turned back, “It’s really not you?”

Yan Shu waved his hand.

When Bai Xu reached the door, he said, “Well, when I came up, I saw Miss Jiang. She seems to be getting more and more beautiful. You have such a beautiful woman right next to you, and you don’t even touch her. What a waste.”

“There is something I have been wanting to tell you for a long time. I have doubts about your health problems, and it is almost confirmed.”

Yan Shu turned his chair and was too lazy to pay attention.

Bai Xu said as he walked, “Don’t be busy on the operating table all day, look at the outside world more, you will find that this world is much more beautiful than you imagined.”

Yan Shu held up his forehead, and those images appeared again, a little clearer than the last time. He could capture people in modern clothes, ancient clothes, and military uniforms.

His brain and tongue were out of control, and he couldn’t help murmuring, “Little liar, you can’t forget me,” “Ge, you have to wait for me,” “Ah Chou, we will never be separated again,” “Junior, you have to be good and obedient,” “Liao Qingfeng, I don’t hate you, I have loved you from the beginning to the end,” “Little lunatic, Daddy loves you.”

Yan Shu had a splitting headache, as if there were several hands in his head, trying to pry open his skull and come out.

He slapped himself twice and came to his senses.

Outside the half-open door, a doctor saw the director slapping himself and was so scared that he peed himself.

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