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What do kittens know?
This is a sender whose heart is really racing.
Should she open emails that have already been deleted and are in the recycle bin?
According to the countdown to the emptying of the recycling bin, it was a week before the female protagonist's divorce.
These are traces she left behind.
In that instant, Xu Huaihuai had thought about many things.
Could this deleted but not completely removed email be a Pandora's box?
What will happen after it's opened?
She thought of an anime she had once watched. The protagonist of the anime had a very good friend who brought her a lot of warmth.
There are many versions of the ending, one of the more poignant ones being that the good friend was merely the protagonist's fantasy, and that the protagonist was just a lonely mental patient.
Is this world just my fantasy? Or a dream I can't wake up from? Are the comments I see the only part of my imagination? Is my existence just someone else's fantasy?
No. I have memories from childhood to adulthood, I have a complete life, I am real.
Xu Huaihuai hovered the mouse over the email for a long time before finally opening it.
The email was very brief, consisting of only one sentence.
[Dear Ms. Xu: Hello! Below is your psychiatric medical record.]
The attachments include several inspection reports.
Head MRI plain scan diagnostic report, CT scan report, laboratory report, electroencephalogram report, and psychological assessment report.
Xu Huaihuai looked through each attachment one by one, and finally saw the diagnostic certificate issued by the Mental Health Center.
No organic lesions were found. The patient presented with significant somatization symptoms, including insomnia, vivid dreams, forgetfulness, and frequent tinnitus. Psychological evaluation revealed that the patient had moderate to severe anxiety disorder.
It is recommended that patients receive psychological intervention and treatment as early as possible.
The female lead has serious psychological problems.
What were she thinking when she went for the checkup? Why did she delete the medical records in the end?
Xu Huaihuai searched the bedroom thoroughly but found no medications to help with sleep or reduce anxiety.
The medicine box in the living room was empty. Xu Huaihuai knelt on the carpet, looking down at the bottles and jars in the medicine box that she had rummaged through.
When do people start to doubt themselves? When do they feel like they have a mental illness?
—I encountered something far beyond my comprehension.
Does Zhong Xuelu know? Does Lin Xu know? Does Ling Zhou know?
If she was able to make the decision to get checked, it means she wanted to receive treatment, so why did her medical records end up in the recycle bin?
If she hadn't accidentally touched it, it might have been automatically cleared when the time was up.
What is the source of anxiety?
Work?
Xu Huaihuai denied it. The female lead's career is on track. Judging from her past work, she truly loves the beauty brand she built. She is capable and decisive, so work shouldn't be a source of her anxiety.
Interpersonal relationships?
Is it Xu Jianshu and He Qiongzhi? No, that's not right either. Over the past few years, the female lead has maintained a relationship with them where she provides the money and they play the roles of loving father and mother.
If they hadn't sold their house to gamble, causing this mess and having their secret exposed by Xu Huaihuai, their precarious relationship could probably have lasted a while longer.
Xu Huaihuai had a gut feeling. She felt that the female lead wouldn't make herself so anxious over such hypocritical family affection.
There must be other reasons.
Is it friendship? That's unlikely. The female lead's social circle is very stable; aside from some close subordinates at work, she only interacts with Zhong Xuelu.
Excluding family and friendship, what remains is love—that marriage that deviated from the original ending.
Could Ling Zhou be the source of the female protagonist's anxiety? Could it be related to the reasons for the divorce?
Everything seems to have returned to square one, so why the divorce?
Will the answer lie with her ex-husband, Ling Zhou?
Xu Yangfan got tired of playing games and went out to pee, only to see a slender woman's figure in the living room.
His mother, Liang Jiajia, and his sister, Xu Jingya, could never have such good figures.
With the woman's long, flowing hair and snow-white skin, he could only imagine those monstrous female ghosts who devour human essence. Before he could even see her face clearly, he shouted, "Holy crap, there's a ghost! My parents are haunted! There's a ghost in the living room!"
The sound was extremely piercing. Xu Huaihuai turned her head and saw Xu Yangfan, who was still in shock and wearing only his boxer shorts.
This "cousin," who was always playing video games, turned pale, his eyes darting around. He backed up against the wall while screaming and calling for his parents.
"Son, don't be afraid! Mom's here!"
Liang Jiajia came upon hearing the news. She didn't see the ghost her son was talking about, but she did see Xu Huaihuai, who seemed to be lost in thought. She couldn't help but scold him, "What are you doing? Standing here at night with your hair all disheveled, who are you trying to scare?"
Xu Huaihuai reminded her with a slightly cold expression, "This is my home. If anyone should be saying anything, it's me saying what your son is yelling about in the middle of the night. If he's blind and can't see clearly, he should go to the hospital."
Liang Jiajia choked, and Xu Chengbin, still sleepy, also came out with his belly sticking out. Like Xu Yangfan, he was only wearing boxer shorts.
One is like a braised pig that has come to life, and the other is like a spare rib that has come to life; the father and son are equally despicable.
Liang Jiajia got angry when she saw her useless husband. She grabbed Xu Chengbin's ear and said, "Are you dead? Can't you do anything about your niece? She's out there in the middle of the night with her hair all messed up and no lights on, just trying to scare your son?"
Xu Huaihuai found this family utterly disgusting. "Second Aunt, please keep your husband and son in check. Don't let them strut around naked and irritate our eyes."
She slammed the door shut, cutting off the family of three.
Outside the living room, Liang Jiajia was still taking the opportunity to criticize Xu Chengbin for his daily behavior. Xu Yangfan tilted his head and looked at his parents with their deformed faces. Then he thought of his cousin's cold face and for some reason, he blurted out, "Mom and Dad, you are so ugly."
He also wanted to say, "You ugly people gave birth to an ugly me. Our whole family are ugly things."
Before he could say anything, Liang Jiajia slapped him on the forehead. "What nonsense are you spouting now? Go back to sleep!"
Xu Huaihuai slept very soundly.
She dreamed about Bingbing. Bingbing is an orange cat.
A gentle and affectionate little orange cat.
When Xu Huaihuai first met Bingbing, it was still very small.
After her run, she planned to sit on a park bench and rest for a while.
There were several children squatting and playing in the flower bed not far from the bench, which Xu Huaihuai didn't pay much attention to at first.
Then I heard a faint meow, like the sound of a kitten being startled.
She didn't see any kittens nearby, but she followed the sound of the kittens' meows and found the children.
"What are you doing?!" Xu Huaihuai shouted as she saw the children burying a kitten.
The kitten's head was the only part of its body sticking out. It kept meowing and making rapid noises, and some children were throwing dirt at its head.
These children are so young, how could they be so vicious?
Xu Huaihuai was both shocked and furious: "Stop it, all of you! Where are your parents?!"
The boys, who looked to be six or seven years old, ran off in a hurry.
Xu Huaihuai was seething with anger, and for a moment a wicked thought flashed through her mind: she really wanted to make these children experience being buried alive.
The kitten's soft meows dispelled the gloom that had risen in her heart. She quickly knelt down and began to rub the kitten, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I won't hurt you..."
The kitten seemed to understand and meowed very softly.
Unsure if the kitten was injured, Xu Huaihuai took off her coat, wrapped the mud-covered kitten up, and took it to the vet.
The kitten was very well-behaved the whole way and didn't move around much. It was also very quiet when we arrived at the hospital.
"It's only a month old, and the little guy is quite healthy. After we dry-clean it and do a deworming treatment, we can take it home." The doctor's words relieved Xu Huaihuai.
“Um…” Xu Huaihuai hesitated for a moment. The doctor noticed her hesitation and said, “What’s wrong? Are you worried that you don’t know how to take care of a kitten? You can consult our pet advisor later.”
"Oh, no, I wanted to ask if it's possible to get the kitten admitted to the hospital?"
"Aren't you going to take it home to raise?"
"I may not have time to take care of it."
“I see,” the doctor said understandingly. “We can arrange for kitten daycare, but the fee is 450 yuan per day. If you’ve made up your mind, you can go to the payment counter to arrange it.”
"Thanks."
When filling out the daycare card, Xu Huaihuai was having some trouble with the pet's name. Just then, the nurse brought over the cleaned and dewormed orange kitten and said, "I've never seen such a well-behaved kitten."
The little orange cat nestled on Xu Huaihuai's lap and fell asleep. It was soft, and its fur, cleaned of dirt, was fluffy, like a freshly baked loaf of bread or a baked cookie.
Let's call it Bingbing.
Xu Huaihuai arranged for Bingbing to be placed in kitten daycare for a month.
She goes to the vet to see Bingbing whenever she has time after get off work.
Bingbing grew very quickly and was very affectionate. Every time Xu Huaihuai came, Bingbing's tail would stand up high, like a little question mark. Sometimes, when it was sleeping, it seemed to sense that Xu Huaihuai was coming to see it, and it would always cling to its cage and look towards the door.
But Xu Huaihuai couldn't spend much time with it. She was just too busy. Even though she had been promoted to brand director, it seemed like she could never finish her work. Work-related messages kept multiplying on her phone.
She visited Bingbing again, and Bingbing rubbed against her. Nurse Fan Chunmian chatted with her, "You like Bingbing so much, are you really not planning to take Bingbing home and raise her?"
“I hardly have time to spend with it, so I can’t take good care of it.” Xu Huaihuai shook her head. Bingbing seemed to understand her words and quietly put its paws on her lap, very well-behaved. Xu Huaihuai stroked its fur. “I’m looking for an adopter for it.”
Fan Chunmian sighed and went to get busy.
The adopters were a young couple with stable jobs and addresses. Judging from their posts on social media, they both loved cats. When Xu Huaihuai handed the cat carrier to them, she repeatedly told them to take good care of Bingbing. She also told them that if they didn't want to keep Bingbing anymore, she could come and take Bingbing back, and they should never abandon Bingbing.
In addition, she told the adoptive couple that she could cover the cost of Bingbing's subsequent sterilization.
As the young couple left with the cat carrier, Xu Huaihuai saw Bingbing lying on the transparent cover of the cat carrier, looking at her.
Bingbing's eyes were round and bright, as if they were filled with tears.
But Bingbing is just a kitten, what does a kitten know?
Don't be sad, Bingbing. Your adoptive parents will treat you very well. They will spend plenty of time with you, and you won't have to stay in that little cage anymore.
Xu Huaihuai blinked, suppressing her tears. She told herself that if she cried while wearing colored contact lenses, the tears would leak out and look bad.
I heard news about Bingbing again a month later.
The adoptive parents said that Bingbing ran away.
[Author's Note]
Suddenly I noticed so many warm-hearted moms! [Floppy-eared bunny head] Oh my god! I really want to play with you all! But I still have to write, sob sob, I haven't finished collecting all my Fantasy Stars yet! [crying]
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