Chapter 188: Does Your Heart Hurt? (1/2)

Cheng Xi turned around, took the note, lowered her head to look at it briefly, and then said, “The question’s unfinished. I made a mistake.” She waved it in the air. “Can I take it back?”

Lu Chenzhou stared at her for quite a while before finally assenting. “Alright.”

Cheng Xi clutched the note in her hand as she left the room. As she exited, she saw Xu Po. “Please tell Tian Rou that I’ll be going home first.”

She brushed past him as Xu Po brought the other girl back into the room. He immediately asked Lu Chenzhou, “Are you really going to let Dr. Cheng leave just like that? She…… doesn’t have a car, right? This place is a bit far from her apartment. Isn’t it risky to let her catch a taxi back by herself?”

Lu Chenzhou remained motionless, not saying anything.

At this moment, Baldy ran over, his face slightly unhappy. “Don’t worry about that. It’s fine. My girl drove over, and she’ll send Cheng Xi back.” He then looked at Lu Chenzhou. “I just saw Dr. Cheng. She was crying, and my girlfriend even scratched me because of it! Look!” He tilted his head up, revealing a big red scratch mark.

Xu Po couldn’t bear to look at him any more; he had never seen a person be proud of being clawed by his girlfriend.

Xu Po sighed as he said, “I’d better go make sure they’re alright.” He also took Lu Chenzhou’s “new girlfriend” out with him. Boss Lu clearly wasn’t feeling very well, and having a random stranger stay here wouldn’t do him any good.

But Baldy didn’t leave. He sat down, faced Lu Chenzhou, and asked, “So the talk with Dr. Cheng didn’t go well?”

Lu Chenzhou’s voice was dispassionate as he replied, “Yes.”

“Does it hurt?”

Lu Chenzhou hesitated for a moment and then slowly closed his eyes, thought a while more, and then softly answered, “Yes.”

“Then why’d you break up with her?” Baldy’s small brain was unable to process the deeper meaning behind Lu Chenzhou’s words. “Is it because you think that your life is too boring, so you want to find a new way to torment yourself? Or…” Baldy’s tone turned strange as he continued, “Did you think that it would be cool to be like me, who chased my girlfriend away due to my personality, and then fell into despair while trying to get her back?”

Yup, that’s right. Baldy had lost his old girlfriend because she couldn’t put up with his behavior anymore.

Baldy thought that Lu Chenzhou’s current behavior was very similar to his behavior back then.

Unexpectedly, Lu Chenzhou actually didn’t look at Baldy like he was an idiot. Instead, he asked a question that almost shocked Baldy to the point of wetting his pants. “When she left you, did you…… want to kill her?”

Baldy almost fell over. “No, of course not! It’s just a break up!”

Lu Chenzhou smiled wryly. “I almost killed her.” Then, he spread his hands out as he said, “Just a little bit away.”

Baldy was so shocked that it took him quite a while to process Lu Chenzhou’s words. After a few minutes, he tentatively asked, “Is it…… because Dr. Cheng wanted to break up with you?”

“No. She was just doing her job as a doctor. I didn’t like it when she spent so much of her time worrying about other people, so I reported her and made her lose her job. Then, I almost killed her……” As Lu Chenzhou continued to talk, his smile took on a cruel glint. “The more I like her, the more I want her for myself. I want her eyes to always and only be on me. I want to tie her up, build a cage, and keep her in there forever…… In psychiatry, there’s a condition known as ‘Stockholm syndrome.’ If a perpetrator kidnaps a victim and treats the victim appropriately for a sufficiently long period of time, then the victim will start to depend on the perpetrator, both physically and emotionally.”

Lu Chenzhou’s tone was so serious that he really seemed like he would try it.

Baldy looked at him in disbelief for a few seconds, and then laughed uproariously for a few more, and then finally stopped when he realized that Lu Chenzhou wasn’t joking. He scratched his face awkwardly. “You’re not serious, are you?”

Lu Chenzhou’s gaze made Baldy’s remaining hair all stand up on end. He braced himself against the wall and seriously said, “Zhou, you can’t do something like that.”

Lu Chenzhou didn’t respond.

Baldy didn’t dare to say anything else; he was afraid Lu Chenzhou would force him to aid him in this crime! Perhaps he would be forced to swindle Dr. Cheng into coming back, or maybe he’d have to build a cage or something…… Baldy very much regretted not sneaking out with Xu Po. My goodness, it was frightening listening to Lu Chenzhou recount what he wanted to do to the person he loved!