"Great! I'm curious too. How did you two meet?"

Yang Zhao picked up his coffee and took a sip.

After returning home yesterday, he made a special note of his conversation with Xu Nuo. He believes that Xu Nuo's condition may be an exception in his career!

"We've known each other for so long, I don't even know where to begin!"

Xu Nuo pulled a bottle of wine from beside the chair:

"I'd like to have a drink and chat, is that okay? But you can't tell my brother!"

"Can."

While drinking the liquor he'd taken from Ye Linyan's wine cabinet, Xu Nuo recounted to Yang Zhao how he and Ye Linyan had known each other since they first met.

"Actually, our relationship started with my deception and misleading him..."

He picked up the bottle, promising not to use a cup, and poured it directly into his mouth...

Xu Nuo said a lot, from the beginning to now, but it didn't sound like he was talking to Yang Zhao; it sounded more like he was reminiscing!

He only stopped reminiscing when the bottle of wine he had promised was half empty...

Yang Zhao listened quietly without disturbing Xu Nuo's recollection.

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"It's obvious you two love each other very much!"

Yang Zhao had worked for many years and had accumulated a wealth of experience, but he still couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness regarding Xu Nuo and Ye Linyan's past...

"You're wrong, Dr. Yang!"

"Where did we go wrong?"

Yang Zhao continued with the promise and asked a question.

He thought he should be finding the cause of Xu Nuo's illness soon!

"He doesn't love me! You all, including himself, think he loves me! But you're wrong!"

Xu Nuo smiled sadly:

"My brother is such a responsible person! So back then, I just pretended to be pitiful and acted cute, and he fell for it!"

Xu Nuo looked up at Yang Zhao:

“He just felt that he couldn’t abandon me! He shouldn’t abandon me! Especially now, he felt that if he abandoned me, he would be an ungrateful person! So, he would never abandon me no matter what!”

"His kindness towards me is just because he feels indebted to me!"

Xu Nuo picked up his glass again, took a sip of wine, smiled bitterly, and said:

"It has nothing to do with love!"

"If it weren't for me, or... if I died! He would be very sad for several years..."

Xu Nuo turned her head to look out the window, licked her lips, and continued speaking:

"But time heals all wounds, and he will start his new life, a normal life..."

"A life without me!"

Xu Nuo loosened his grip, and the bottle fell to the ground, scattering the remaining liquor and the broken bottle fragments everywhere...

"I might have had a little too much to drink! I'm sorry, Dr. Yang!"

"It's alright."

Xu Nuo smiled and changed the subject:

“I have a childhood friend whose mother is a drug addict! I witnessed it with my own eyes when I was little. She tried to sell my friend to a human trafficking organization just for that drug! Do you know how terrifying it is when drug addicts are on the rise!”

"That's just an isolated case, the one you saw!"

Yang Zhao specifically emphasized the word "isolated case".

"Maybe, but I almost killed him yesterday!"

Yang Zhao still had a smiling expression: "That was just an accident, Xu Nuo!"

"No! Did you see his left hand? If it weren't for me............"

Xu Nuo took a deep breath and, after a long while, finally raised her head:

"I have nightmares every night! I haven't had a good night's sleep since that day!"

"Actually, some things, once you talk about them, will prove that you will soon feel relieved!"

Yang Zhao mentally reconstructed the timeline and made a judgment: Xu Nuo most likely started experiencing psychological problems starting with that incident involving Ye Linyan's left hand.

"Dr. Yang, do you believe in reincarnation?"

"I believe it, and I don't!"

Xu Nuo laughed again, looking out the window once more, and said with a soft smile:

"I think if there is such a thing, it must be that he owed me in his past life, which is why he's so unlucky to have met me in this life!"

“He always wanted me to go to school, but I refused, and he got very angry! But what he doesn’t understand is that I’m just not cut out for it, so what good would it do to go to school?”

"Xu Nuo, why do you think President Ye doesn't love you?"

After Yang Zhao finished asking, Xu Nuo still had that smile on her face.

Why does he love me?

Xu Nuo countered with a question.

Then he laughed out loud, turned his head, and looked at Yang Zhao:

"Dr. Yang, do you like looking at the moon?"

"It's beautiful, I love it!"

Yang Zhao replied.

"The moon hangs in the sky, so it should be surrounded and accompanied by countless stars!"

Xu Nuo's smiling face suddenly furrowed, then immediately relaxed again:

"Dr. Yang, I'm sorry, I still want to sleep. I didn't sleep well last night, and I got up too early today. I'm really too sleepy!"

Yang Zhao nodded, put away the recorder on the table, and stood up:

"Then you should rest well. I'll come to see you and chat with you when I have time."

"Okay, I hope to see you again!"

Xu Nuo didn't see Yang Zhao off. Instead, she went straight back to bed and crawled into bed without even taking off her coat.

Yang Zhao left behind a sentence:

Sweet dreams!

After leaving the bedroom, Ye Linyan stood waiting at the door of the study. When Yang Zhao came out, she immediately went up to ask him questions.

"Dr. Yang, how is he today?"

Yang Zhao pondered for a moment before replying:

"I don't think it's very good..."

Ye Linyan was silent for a while, then walked to the bedroom, gently opened the bedroom door, and after a few steps, saw Xu Nuo asleep with her eyes closed and covered by the quilt.

She turned around and came out, gently closing the door behind her.

"Dr. Yang, let me see you off."

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Xu Nuo, who was in the bedroom with her eyes closed, vaguely heard the two people coming downstairs before she opened her eyes.

Her whole body started to feel uncomfortable again, and the desire emanating from within her body terrified Xu Nuo!

He felt his heart racing and all the bones in his body starting to shift. It had already started while he was talking to Yang Zhao!

But he dared not show it; he could only endure it...

Xu Nuo felt both very cold and very hot; this feeling was quite unbearable, but he knew that this wasn't the worst part...

I got up and left the bed. From the chair by the window, I picked up a relatively sharp shard of metal...

She straightened up, glanced at the light rain still falling outside, and then turned and went into the bathroom.

In the mirror, Xu Nuo was wearing a white tracksuit, his favorite outfit from the past.

Xu Nuo looked at her emaciated reflection in the mirror, smiled sadly, and raised her head, revealing her fair neck.

His right hand, holding the shard of glass, trembled slightly. He used his left hand to feel the location of the artery and pressed it hard!

He felt he had used a lot of force, but only a small patch of redness appeared, and his left hand began to tremble uncontrollably...

We can't wait any longer!

Xu Nuo said softly to himself in the mirror.

Raising her still trembling right hand, Xu Nuo tilted her head and pressed the glass shard onto the reddened spot in the mirror.

"Brother, don't blame me! You forced me to this! I don't want to die here..."

Xu Nuo tried his best to control the trembling of his right hand, pressed it against the artery, and forcefully slid downwards...