"I won't! I just won't!" Sure enough, a somewhat rebellious voice came through the door.
He was tired of hearing this voice before, but when he heard it now, he couldn't help but smile.
"...Yingying, Mom just wants to take you to chat with an auntie. She's a very nice person. Mom took a day off today just for this. You..."
"What auntie! Are you looking for another psychiatrist? I'm telling you, there's nothing wrong with my mental health. I'm fine! Don't keep looking for doctors for me!"
What?
Xu Xin frowned suddenly.
Psychiatrist?
What happened to Yingying?
Psychiatry?
"...This time it's not a psychiatrist, just a psychologist... um, a counselor. I'm just taking you to talk. Come out quickly. I promise to be back before noon, okay?"
"I won't! Go back to work! You don't care about your own patients, and you still bother me, a healthy person!"
Xu Xin's mother is a doctor herself, but she is an internist, so if Yingying really has any mental illness, her mother really can't tell.
Of course, it shouldn’t be a problem to find someone through your connections.
"I've taken a day off today and don't have to go to work," Xu Xin's mother said earnestly. "Yingying, just listen to me this time and come with me. Your condition is really getting worse!"
"I'm not! I'm not sick! You are the ones who are sick! You forgot about your brother!" Xu Ying's voice rose again, and she almost sounded like she was crying.
What?
Xu Xin's eyes slowly widened.
...Forgot? Forgot what?
"Xu Ying! I'm saying it again, you don't have any brother! You're an only child!" The mother's voice rose several degrees again, finally annoyed by Xu Ying's stubborn attitude and what she had just said. "I only gave birth to you, a daughter. How can you have a brother? No one around you even remembers that you have a brother! Now you can't even go to school because of your imaginary brother! You must come with me to see a doctor today!"
Xu Xin was hit hard by his mother's words.
It made him feel a little dizzy.
……What's the meaning……?
His mouth opened slightly.
A possibility emerged in his mind.
A possibility he had heard before.
"I knew it was the doctor! I won't go!!! You've taken me to see them so many times! They all said there was nothing wrong with me mentally, and I am! I'm fine!"
"You...!" Xu Xin's mother was so angry that she couldn't speak.
At this moment, the sound of a door opening was heard upstairs, and then an elderly couple came down and walked to the door.
Xu Xin subconsciously made way for them, then realized that he couldn't touch them.
The older man in the couple knocked on the door and said, "Mother, don't be anxious. Shouting is useless..."
At this time, the door was opened, and what came into view was the face of Xu Xin's mother, who looked young even though she was over fifty years old because she was well maintained. However, now there was a worry expression on her face, and her eyes were a little red.
Seeing this face, Xu Xin's eyes instantly turned red.
"I'm sorry to bother you." The mother said to the two elderly people in front of the door with an apologetic look on her face.
"Hey, we're fine." The old man waved his hand. "You can't treat a child like that. Mental illness can't be forced. Otherwise, the child will go to extremes and regret it!"
"Yes," the old lady beside her also persuaded, "The child also came to us to ask about her brother
Although I don't know what's going on with her 'brother', I think she's doing fine, so there's no need to rush."
"How can I not be anxious..." Xu Xin's mother couldn't hold back her tears. "I've tried everything, but she just... These are clearly symptoms of schizophrenia... But I've taken her to so many psychiatrists, and they all said there was nothing wrong with her..."
"As long as it doesn't affect your life, it's fine." The old man advised.
"How can it not affect her life? She's even stopped going to school now, obsessed with proving her nonexistent 'brother'. I have no idea what she's doing when we're not home. How can I be at ease... She used to be such a cheerful child, but now..."
Xu Xin had roughly understood the situation.
He wanted to tell his mother that he was here, but his words could not reach his mother's ears.
He thought of what Lou Feier said to him when she first entered the red fog, and suddenly felt a chill all over his body.
"I feel like what I'm seeing is an illusion, but it doesn't seem like an illusion."
"This illusion is so real..."
"Everything at home, my parents..."
"In that phantom home, it seems... I've never been there..."
"Anything about me that I remember, in this illusion, is gone!"
"In that house, all traces of me have disappeared: my room, the marks I carved on the table with a knife, and..."
Damn it…!
The illusion that Lou Feier saw was real!
Now, he also saw that illusion!
Moreover, it was more real than what Lou Feier saw!
This is not an illusion at all, but the real world!
His existence was erased?
But it seems... his biological sister, Xu Ying, still remembers him?
So, could she...
At this moment, the door of the house was suddenly pushed open. Xu Ying's hair was disheveled, and her pretty face was covered with red eyes. She shouted to the people at the door: "I am not schizophrenic! You don't believe me! Brother absolutely..."
Her words suddenly stopped.
Then, her eyes slowly opened wide and she pointed at the door with a trembling hand.
"……Forehead……"
She opened and closed her mouth, but was unable to speak.
"Yingying! What's wrong with you?!" Her mother immediately ran into the house, grabbed her hand, and hugged her, her face full of panic. "What's wrong? Why did you suddenly..."
Xu Ying looked at Xu Xin, her almond-shaped eyes trembling wildly.
Her lips trembled slightly as she uttered two words.
"……elder brother……?"
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