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  Chapter 190: Return in Vain

  "Husband!" Xia Xue excitedly linked her arm with mine. Although there weren't many pedestrians on the road, they still couldn't help but glance over at us. Ah, it's really embarrassing, although what they're thinking in their hearts is probably "such a young kid already..." and so on.

  As soon as everyone was ready, I dialed the phone number on the business card. A calm voice answered, and I told him that Dr. So-and-so had introduced us. There's a patient with "selective amnesia" who needs his treatment. He gave me an address, and we hailed a taxi to head there. We arrived at a very ordinary office building, took the elevator to the designated floor, knocked on the door, and a refined-looking woman opened it for us. I explained our purpose, and she invited us in to sit on the sofa and wait.

  This is a fairly large office, but the decor is very simple. There's a mahogany desk, a leather sofa, and a single-person soft bed. In the corner, there are some evergreen potted plants, and that's it. However, even though it's daytime, the curtains are tightly closed, making the room quite dim and adding to its mysterious atmosphere. There are other doors in the office that lead to other rooms. The woman walked into one of them and never came out again. After a while, a middle-aged man in a suit emerged from the door, presumably Liu Yanfu, whose name was on the business card. I quickly stood up and said, "Hello, Dr. Zhao."

  Liu Yanfu nodded and asked: "Who wants to have psychotherapy?" Ye Zhan stood up: "It's me."

  Liu Yanfu smiled: "Such a young child, how can he get this kind of disease? With food and clothing not being a worry, what would he be worried about?" Ye Zhan pulled down his face: "I just want to know why I'm worried, that's why I came to find you..."

  Liu Yanfu chuckled and said, "Alright, let's get down to business." At this time, the woman came out to pour us tea, and Liu Yanfu continued, "By the way, I charge by the hour, one thousand yuan per hour, so please keep it brief."

  I was shocked to hear that, I didn't know psychologists could make so much money. Ye Zhan looked at me and I said directly: "A thousand yuan is just a thousand yuan, as long as it can help my friend remember, it's fine." There was 10,000 yuan in the pocket, it seemed to be prepared for Ye Zhan.

  "Alright, the timer starts." Liu Yanfu sat behind his office desk and placed a small clock on the table in front of us. Since I was just an observer, I could describe Ye Zhan's symptoms and experiences more clearly, so I started speaking up. The other party was a doctor, so I didn't hide anything and told him everything I knew, including what Zhou Mo said at the old hot pot restaurant, hoping that Dr. Liu could get more information.

  "The whole process was like this," I said: "My friend Ye Zhan had some unpleasant things happen with Qi Siyu, and afterwards Ye Zhan hid at home for two months without going out." After finishing speaking, I glanced at the clock and saw that it had been about twenty minutes. I thought to myself, "This guy has already earned over 300 yuan from me!"

  Liu Yanfu nodded: "The whole process is very consistent with the symptoms of 'selective amnesia', but..." Suddenly stood up, walked straight to Ye Zhan's front, and asked coldly: "Did you really forget?" Ye Zhan's eyes were filled with confusion: "I really forgot... otherwise, why would I come looking for him?"

  Liu Yanfu nodded: "Sorry, because there are often people who pretend to forget things in the past and then are brought over by their friends for me to treat. Since it's pretended to be forgotten, I have a defensive psychology, no matter what I do, it's useless."

  "I see." I nodded, but still puzzled and said: "Since that person remembers, why pretend to forget?"

  Liu Yanfu smiled: "It's very simple, if it wasn't for owing someone money, then it was owing someone a favor. The only way to pretend that nothing happened is through this method. In the case of friends, it belongs to owing someone a favor, and there is a great possibility of 'pretending to forget' in order to escape the girl's questioning."

  "I hastily said: My friend really forgot!"

  "I know," said Liu Yanfu: "Whether it's fake or not, I can tell from his eyes."

  "Is it really that amazing?"

  "It's not a difficult thing in psychology." Liu Yanfu pointed to Xia Xue and said, "For example, I can tell that she is your girlfriend, not Ye Zhan's. Although Ye Zhan looks more handsome and matches her better." Ye Zhan laughed and said, "I think so too." Xia Xue also started laughing, and I held back my urge to curse: "How did you figure this out?"

  "Look at the eyes." Liu Yanfu pointed to his own eyes and said, "The eyes are the windows of the soul. Actions can be fake, language can be decorated, but the eyes are always sincere. So when I look at people, I prefer to look at their eyes. It's easy to tell if someone is lying. Of course, it's not foolproof, some people have reached the point where they can even change their eyes."

  I nodded: "Hearing you speak is better than reading ten years of books. But I want to know, with all this nonsense we've been talking about, does it count as part of the paid time?" Liu Yanfu looked at me and said: "Of course it counts." Then he turned his head to look at the clock: "Half an hour has passed."

  "Are you kidding me? You're charging 500 bucks just for chatting with us? That's a bit too black-hearted!" I said, feeling somewhat helpless.

  Liu Yanfu said calmly, "In fact, the conversation between a psychiatrist and a patient is a necessary process. Only in this way can he put down his guard, and I can prescribe the right medicine and use different methods to treat different patients."

  "It's been so long, and I've always been chatting with you, not with the patient!"

  "Right, so I also think some words are unnecessary, why not give patients some opportunities, always asking endlessly."

  I almost went crazy, Xia Xue pulled me and said: "Wang Hao, every word now is money..." I quickly closed my mouth and said: "Hurry up and treat him, best to help him remember within half an hour."

  "I'm not so sure, it depends on how deeply the patient has forgotten and how much that thing affects him. Some severe patients may need to be treated for a year or two, this is something that can't be rushed, only done slowly."

  I knew very well that what I said was worth money, but still couldn't help asking: "What did that severe patient forget?"

  His wife has been dead for ten years, but he still can't forget about it and always feels like his wife is still by his side. When cooking, he will make an extra portion of food; when watching TV, he will turn on the programs his wife liked to watch; in the middle of the night when waking up from sleep, he will ask if the person beside him is cold or not, and whether they need another blanket. In short, he just can't accept the fact that his wife has passed away.

  "It's really touching." Xia Xue's eyes were a little moist: "Is he really a good man? Did he remember later?"

  "I remember," said Liu Yanfu. "But life is even worse than before, every day drowning my sorrows in wine, yearning to forget this painful thing again and return to the past when I conversed with the air for 40 minutes - are we sure we want to continue?"

  "No, no." I hastily said: "Let's chat with my friends for a while." Ye Zhan took a deep breath, his face solemn and serious, saying: "Okay, now let me try the feeling of one word being worth a thousand gold. If we don't speak up, those two will spend all the money." Me: "......" Xia Xue: "......"

  I furiously said: "My money, I'll spend it however I want!" Xia Xue pulled me: "Say a few less words and give Ye Zhan a chance to perform, after all he's the main character." I looked at Liu Yanfu: "Continue."

  Liu Yanfu turned his head to glance at the clock, smiled complacently, and then asked Ye Zhan: "Are you sure you want to recall that matter? After going through countless sufferings and hardships to forget it, I was able to walk out of the house again and face the sunlight. Now if we recall that matter, there's a possibility that we'll fall back into suffering and hardship."

  My heart is racing, Ye Zhan's current state is actually very good. If it's really like Liu Yanfu said, and after recalling the memories, his life becomes even worse, what should we do? Xia Xue has the same thought as me, and she anxiously grabs my hand. Ye Zhan takes a deep breath: "I'm sure, I want to recall that matter."

  "Why?" Ye Zhan said after a long time: "So much money has been spent, isn't it a waste to give up now?"

  "Good job, Ye Zhan." I gave him a thumbs up, what a down-to-earth kid.

  "Alright then," said Liu Yanfu: "Let's come again in two weeks."

  I widened my eyes: "Why two weeks later?!"

  Liu Yanfu said: "As we said, Ye Zhan just suffered a strong stimulus yesterday and his brain hasn't had a good thorough rest yet. If he comes for treatment today, his brain's tolerance is not very strong and it's possible that he'll be stimulated again like yesterday. It should be okay in two weeks, let's come back then."

  After finishing speaking, Liu Yanfu walked over and pressed the button on the timer, saying: "Exactly one hour."

  "My grass, this rivers and lakes swindler!" I couldn't help but scold: "I won't pay a single cent to him!" Xia Xue and Ye Zhan both had angry faces, feeling that they were indeed deceived. Which doctor is like this? Dragging on for an hour with nonsense, and finally telling us to come back in two weeks? Who knows if we can even find the person in two weeks?!

  Liu Yanfu was not in a hurry or annoyed: "I didn't say to pay now. Never mind, let's go. As long as Ye Zhan still wants to recover his memory, he will definitely come to me. After the treatment is over and you are satisfied, it's not too late to pay me."

  "It's still a sentence like this." I let out a breath: "Then we'll leave." This trip was in vain, but looking at Liu Yanfu's confident appearance, I believe that next time there will definitely be some gains.

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