Obsessive Tycoon and His Swan Girl
Chapter 356: Things from Four Years Ago

Chapter 356: Chapter 356: Things from Four Years Ago

The existence of the auxiliary personality was still a great hidden danger, which is why Qin Jingchen, four years ago, contacted a well-known psychologist to come and treat him.

But wasn’t that psychologist a cool and aloof woman in her thirties?

Red lips, long hair, wearing extremely high heels, and adorned with jewelry, she had nothing to do with Jiang Zhe.

Fen Ye suddenly had a realization, "Last time, sister-in-law went to Lisi’s, she was disguised. So, the person who treated you could really have been sister-in-law in disguise... However, after that treatment, she only left medicine behind, and then disappeared without a trace."

Probably because the treatment wasn’t thorough, Qin Jingchen had to take large amounts of the medicine she left behind to suppress his inner auxiliary personality.

He looked through the rearview mirror and saw Qin Jingchen’s face shrouded in a deep gloom and dimness, as if a heavy storm was about to break.

"Jingchen, what’s really going on?" Fen Ye asked.

Qin Jingchen did not respond further but instead rapidly flipped through more content.

The information about Pei Yuan and La Xiu was only a small part of what they knew.

But when there were clues, it was like the direction to comb through a tangled ball of yarn had been found.

All kinds of truths came flooding into his mind.

The atmosphere in the cramped car became tenser, and Qin Hai, who was driving, felt as though he was being overwhelmed by a powerful presence, almost losing his grip on the steering wheel.

He and Fen Ye dared not speak again.

Fen Ye secretly took out his phone, ready to call La Xiu—

Before he could dial, Qin Jingchen interrupted, "Don’t call him, I’m fine."

Fen Ye had no choice but to put down the phone, and seeing the storm in his eyes had not stopped but was severely suppressed, he knew Jingchen was not overtaken by the auxiliary personality.

But his current state seemed to be even worse than when it was suppressed by the auxiliary personality?

Fen Ye was very worried but didn’t dare to make any rash moves.

The car stopped at Qin Jingchen’s apartment, and when alighting, Qin Jingchen’s steps were unusually unsteady for a moment.

Fen Ye followed for a few steps and saw Qin Jingchen quickly return to the apartment, unsure what to do for a moment.

Qin Hai looked concerned, "Could it be that Qin Lord is having an episode?"

Qin Jingchen returned to the apartment, and his emotions did not subside.

He swiftly took out his phone and dialed a number.

The person answering was Wei Minglan, who wasn’t surprised to hear Qin Jingchen’s voice, "I’m sorry, son, I didn’t make it to have dinner with you and Xiaozhe today."

"So when you all implanted Qin Kuo’s memories into my brain to coexist with me, could his memories take over my body?"

Qin Jingchen’s voice was laden with intense emotion.

Wei Minglan spoke softly, "Why ask this all of a sudden?"

"I’m asking, could it?"

Qin Jingchen laughed, but the laughter held no mirth, sending a slight shiver down one’s spine.

Wei Minglan, noticing his loss of control, quickly said, "It shouldn’t. Moreover, all those memories have been removed now, they shouldn’t affect you anymore. Are you feeling unwell now?"

"It shouldn’t?"

The usual soft voice carried a layer of darkness, making it difficult to discern what emotions it hid.

But one could tell that those emotions would not be easily relieved.

Wei Minglan fell silent for a moment.

"Jingchen, don’t overthink it. Both you brothers are my life, how could I wrong one for the sake of the other?"

The smile on Qin Jingchen’s face widened, but the sorrow in it became even more evident.

His fingers unconsciously ended the call.

He stood before the mirror, in which his tall, prominent brow and nose bridge were reflected, but the shadows clung to him like a second skin.

His fingers touched the dagger on the tabletop, he picked it up and ran his finger along the sharp edge of the blade.

In the years that his mind harbored Qin Kuo’s memories, he had always thought he was suppressing an alter-ego, along with Qin Kuo’s memories.

However, all the information tonight suggested that might not be the case.

Qin Kuo could not only peer into his innermost thoughts but even, at one point, seized control of his body.

The scar left on Jiang Zhe’s body was the most compelling proof.

In the moment Qin Kuo took over his body, he had done something irrevocable.

Qin Jingchen’s wrist flickered, and the sharp blade of the dagger slashed through flesh and blood, causing blood to gush forth.

...

After Jiang Zhe finished reviewing the materials in her hand, the chewing gum in her mouth had long lost its sweetness, sticking uncomfortably to her teeth.

She spat out the gum and rinsed her mouth, then her thoughts slowly coalesced.

The psychological treatment she provided for Qin Jingchen four years ago was still vivid in her memory.

She had taken on Qin Jingchen’s case because he offered a high price.

That year, she was only fourteen but tall enough that a wig and a tube of lipstick were sufficient for her to transform into someone else.

Qin Jingchen had a dual personality, and his alter-ego was difficult to deal with, sensing that the psychologist’s goal was to eradicate its existence by slowly integrating it into the dominant personality, and the alter-ego struggled and resisted fiercely.

The stronger an individual’s sense of self, the more difficult it was to intercede psychologically.

This was the most challenging case of psychological treatment Jiang Zhe had ever handled, where conventional methods were utterly ineffective.

It took her an entire week to get Qin Jingchen’s alter-ego to be integrated as scheduled.

Until the last day, when she said goodbye to Qin Jingchen.

The man, with his usual gentle demeanor in his eyes—though distant, he spoke kindly.

Jiang Zhe shook hands with him to say goodbye.

But suddenly, he grabbed her, pulling her into his embrace.

His unexpected movement took Jiang Zhe by surprise, the emotions in his eyes utterly foreign to her.

The cold dagger touched her skin, chillingly cold.

Even though Jiang Zhe was prepared, she still got stabbed by him.

The wound eventually ended up at the location between her back and waist.

When Jiang Zhe was losing too much blood, all she could make out was the darkness and paleness in his eyes.

She eventually escaped, the coldness of her blood-drained body desperate for any bit of nutrition.

In the end, it was the sugar from two pieces of chewing gum that sustained her as she rushed back to her residence.

After that, she never went without chewing gum again.

At the time, she thought the stabbing was a backlash from Qin Jingchen’s alter-ego, which she had failed to subdue.

When she met Qin Jingchen again, her reluctance to firmly reject the marriage proposal, opting for a year’s deferment, was because she was preoccupied with the failure of her psychological treatment.

She wanted to know the reasons and investigate her mistakes.

Where exactly did the problem lie?

She kept an eye on Qin Jingchen all along.

Through uninterrupted interaction, she knew that Qin Jingchen’s alter-ego no longer existed, that her treatment had been quite effective.