Yu Jingchen gently took her hand and continued to ask her, "So now, can the Yun'er from before no longer hide out of fear?" Yu Jingchen held her hand and gently placed it under her own mask.

"Let's find her together, okay?" Yu Jingchen's gaze softened, and his tone was gentle.

“…Okay,” Nan Zhiyun agreed.

Yu Jingchen smiled faintly and slowly removed the mask from Nan Zhiyun's face, holding her hand.

"This is the most beautiful and lovable Yun'er. Yun'er likes it herself, doesn't she?" Yu Jingchen gently stroked Nan Zhiyun's face, and Nan Zhiyun seemed to be still in a daze.

Then... Yu Jingchen leaned forward slightly, placed one hand on the back of Nan Zhiyun's head, and then... placed a devout kiss on Nan Zhiyun's forehead.

Nan Zhiyun stood there, stunned, as if the scene had been frozen in time.

A person in the distance was watching this scene. His well-defined knuckles gripped the bamboo pole with the lantern hanging on it. Who else could this person be but Luo Yuncheng?

Voiceover — Jung believed that the socialized self is also the self wearing a persona. The concept of the persona originates from Greek rituals and dramas, where the person wearing the mask identifies with and performs the function of the role they are playing.

In psychology, personas are not entirely negative, because they are also a necessary means for people to perform social functions. The social function of any position requires a certain socially expected image to match. In fact, for a relatively healthy mind, it is often possible to successfully play different persona roles according to the needs of different situations.

Therefore, the persona is public, but an overly formulaic persona not only has the potential to lead to a loss of individuality, but in severe cases, it can result in the excessive suppression of individuality, causing the self to find itself so fragile that it is in crisis after the persona is removed.

That extreme anxiety of not knowing what to play after taking off one's mask can, for some, be an opportunity to reset one's life direction and even turn to pursuing profound experiences. That is, a growth process of moving from a defensive mask to facing the shadows.

Rogers believed that becoming a person means "stepping out from behind the mask." Only such a person can fully realize their personal potential. The essence of humanism is to enable people to understand their own nature, no longer rely on external values, and to allow them to trust and rely on the organism's evaluation process to process experience again, eliminating the values ​​imposed on them by the external environment through internalization, and allowing them to freely express their thoughts and feelings.

(This is just fiction, don't take it seriously. This plot has no basis in reality; it's purely made up. Don't take it too seriously. And, in real life, be more rational.)