Chapter 170: I Got Together With Him (1/2)

It was very rare for a patient to strike Cheng Xi speechless, because she believed that even the weirdest patients had some sort of a consistent thought pattern that she could analyze and understand them through.

But trying to understand someone like Meng Qingyang was…… quite difficult.

Cheng Xi asked, “Are you sure that you want my help? After all, in a certain sense, we’re love rivals.”

Meng Qingyang’s expression was as innocent as a pure white bunny’s. “Then are you going to hit me? I’m not afraid of fighting or shouting.”

Cheng Xi thought to herself, ……I can see that.

“Furthermore, when I snatched him away, I asked you what you felt and you said that you were happy for me.”

Cheng Xi thought for a while, but couldn’t remember ever saying anything like that to her, but it didn’t matter anymore. She picked up the questionnaire that Meng Qingyang had filled out. There were twelve questions, and Meng Qingyang had marked “No” for ten of them.

Cheng Xi then asked, “What does your insecurity stem from?”

“Lin Fan. I feel like he doesn’t truly love me. Everyone else says that he treats me very well, but I know that he doesn’t love me. He’s just taking care of me, like the nanny that my family hired.”

“What do you think about when you can’t sleep due to your insomnia?”

“Him. I want to have a big fight with him. I want to shock him awake and force him to talk to me.”

Cheng Xi continued asking a series of similar questions, and all of Meng Qingyang’s answers showed that all of her fretfulness, restlessness, and negative emotions had to do, in some form or another, with Lin Fan. Cheng Xi then asked her two final questions. “What would you consider true love to be?”

Meng Qingyang unhesitatingly answered, “To be willing to live and die for the other party, and to give the other party everything that you have.”

“And you? What will you leave for yourself?”

Meng Qingyang stared stubbornly at Cheng Xi, as if she were really willing to give her whole body and soul up for love.

Cheng Xi had to admit: Lin Fan’s mother’s eyes were really sharp. She had wanted to give Lin Fan a helpful wife, and this woman in front of Cheng Xi was willing to give everything she had to Lin Fan.

And, more importantly, she had the power and leverage to help him.

Cheng Xi sighed, not wanting to discuss what love was with her anymore. “But I feel like love can only be established between two independent people. If one person has to carry too much of the weight, then even if they love the other party with all their heart, it may be too much for them to bear. More importantly, if a person loses sight of themselves because they fell in love with someone else, then they’ll be nothing in that person’s eyes. And how could that person love them back? The only way true love can exist is if, no matter what, two people remain independent entities. The only thing that can’t be replicated is you yourself.”

This therapy session left her unusually exhausted. As Meng Qingyang left, Cheng Xi asked, “Do you know Shu Ting’s A Delicate Oak?” Meng Qingyang nodded, and Cheng Xi became relieved. “Copy it down ten times every day. Whenever you feel like he doesn’t love you, copy it down. If you can’t sit still for too long, then recite it silently.”

“When you find yourself and when you regain your independence, you’ll know if he truly loves you.”

When Meng Qingyang went back home, she sent Cheng Xi a picture of her collection of Shu Ting’s poetry, as well as a handwritten copy of A Delicate Oak, leaving Cheng Xi uncertain if she should be happy or not that Meng Qingyang trusted her word so much.

Meanwhile, Cheng Xi’s students asked her, “Professor, will this really help her?”

Cheng Xi could only say, “We’ll wait and see.”

In the end, it turned out to be quite effective; otherwise, Lin Fan’s mother wouldn’t also have come looking for Cheng Xi. On the day that Lin Fan’s mother showed up, Tian Rou was also searching for Cheng Xi. In the bright and early morning, Tian Rou ignored Lu Chenzhou’s sideways glance and shamelessly pushed her way into Cheng Xi’s apartment. When she arrived, she even feigned ignorance, saying, “My goodness! Why do you have two apartments, Dr. Cheng?”

She had knocked so hard that she even woke Lu Chenzhou up. He was walking around in a thin morning gown and stared coldly at Tang Rou from the bedroom door as he unhappily said to Cheng Xi, “Make her leave!”

This guy was indeed cranky in the morning.

But something big must have happened to Tian Rou, because she was gutsy enough to bicker back against Lu Chenzhou. “I’m not going to scram! I won’t, so what’re you going to do about it?” She clung to Cheng Xi so tightly that Lu Chenzhou couldn’t separate them even if he tried.

Black streaks marred Cheng Xi’s forehead, and she felt like the green veins on Lu Chenzhou’s forehead were about to explode. She quickly brought Tian Rou next door and asked her, “What’s the matter with you? Why’re you here so early in the morning?”

Tian Rou looked at her pitifully, and then dropped a bomb on her. “I got together with Baldy last night.”

“Hmm?” Cheng Xi yawned unresponsively. She’d stayed up too late last night, and she wasn’t completely awake yet. Her head was still slightly muddled, and her thoughts weren’t clear yet.

Tian Rou slapped the table out of frustration. “What’re you yawning for? What I mean is that I slept with him last night!”

Cheng Xi slowly said, “……Oh.” Her mouth formed an “O” shape, and then slowly morphed into a “__” shape. She then asked, “Is that strange?”