Chapter 221: Hypnotherapy (1/2)

The hypnotherapist was a middle-aged male with gold-rimmed glasses and a scholarly air.

He pushed his glasses up as he replied to Cheng Xi, “His sense of self-preservation is too strong, so he’s completely unwilling to listen to my commands.”

Cheng Xi was speechless at the result. “Are there any other methods, then?”

“If the hypnotherapy were performed by someone he trusts, then the probability of success would increase significantly.”

But where was Cheng Xi going to find someone like that? And how long would it take, given how much time and effort it had taken Cheng Xi to reach her current level of trust with him?

“Then you can do it yourself, can’t you?” the hypnotherapist asked when he saw her despairing expression, “Aren’t you also a psychiatrist?”

“......I don’t know hypnotherapy at all.”

“If you don’t know how to do it, then learn. It’s really not that hard. All you need to do is hypnotize him. I can handle the rest.”

Cheng Xi looked at him unsurely, feeling that this was a very sloppy plan.

“It should work,” the hypnotherapist said with a shrug, “And nothing else viable comes to mind. And given his personality, I’m sure that you’d be hard-pressed to find someone he trusts as much as you.”

And so Cheng Xi rolled up her sleeves and started a crash course in the subtle art of hypnotherapy. Lu Chenzhou was more than happy with this change as he was naturally more comfortable and able to relax with Cheng Xi than a strange man.

After Lu Chenzhou lost his position as CEO, he found that he had far more free time than he could spend. He had accompanied Cheng Xi around as she visited her friends and family, and now that she was about to learn hypnotherapy, he was more than happy to keep her company at home—finally, they would have some alone time.

He fervently wished that Cheng Xi would take a long time to grasp hypnotherapy, so he continuously bothered her when she studied. For example, one day, Cheng Xi was reading a book on the subject when he sat down by her side. At the beginning, he was in a normal position, but eventually, he somehow ended up behind her, hugging her from the back.

Cheng Xi tended to take her reading seriously, and since she was trying to learn this foreign material with a pressing deadline hanging over her head, she was thoroughly engrossed in her book. Even though Lu Chenzhou pressed himself against her for quite a while, she didn’t respond at all.

Lu Chenzhou felt like she had forgotten about him, which left him unsatisfied. He continued trying to provoke a response from Cheng Xi, and slid his hands into her clothes. His fingers crept over her underclothes as they pinched and kneaded her soft and jade-like skin wherever they went.

But Cheng Xi only softly chastised him. “Don’t make a fuss.”

However, her soft words only further encouraged him; he tilted her chin back and kissed her, gently wrapping their tongues together even as his fingers’ movements turned somewhat rough, pinching her in retaliation for her ignoring him.

Cheng Xi groaned in pain, and he asked, “Does it hurt?”

Cheng Xi made a pitiful expression. “It does.” She hoped that this would satisfy his craving for attention, but Lu Chenzhou pressed his forehead against hers and softly said, “Really? Then let me see.”

“......”

And then, before she could even respond, he pulled her clothes up, buried his head in her chest, and lapped at her skin as he asked, “Where does it hurt? Here? Here?”

Cheng Xi lowered her head, and her gaze was filled with his dark brows and clear eyes. They usually gave off a sense of sanctity and purity, but now that he was doing something like this……

She felt her heartbeat speed up slightly as her hands and feet went numb, leaving only her intellect. She clutched his ears in resistance as she weakly muttered, “Lu Chenzhou…”

But he grabbed her waist, breaking her words off. “I want to have sex with you.”

And then they had a half-day-long marathon session. By the end, Cheng Xi was so tired that she just lay in bed without getting up. When she finally found the energy to stand up, the sky was already dark. Lu Chenzhou was in the kitchen making dinner, and Cheng Xi was no longer in the mood to read, so she grabbed a bowl of fruit, plopped down on the sofa, and started idly scrolling through her phone.

Her classmates were making a huge commotion about something in the group chat, and her original colleagues were actually calling for her to join them. “Dr. Cheng, come out and have fun with us!”

Temptation was lurking behind every corner.