826 A Million Times for You 188 (1/2)
”What do you mean?” Jin Qingyan asked.
Dr. Zhang explained, ”It all depends on yourself. If you've suffered any major emotional setbacks or have any insecurities about your life, you have to sort things out and overcome them. I think it's possible for you to recover completely. Mr. Jin, is this your first encounter with such symptoms?”
Jin Qingyan answered with a nod, ”It's the first time that that's happened.”
”Your condition should still be rather mild and easy to control, then, but I'll need your active cooperation. We'll try keeping it in control for a period of time. Once it's in check, you'll be fine for a long time. The decision lies with you.”
Jin Qingyan felt much more determined upon hearing his words. ”I'll do my best to cooperate with you, Doctor.”
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It was the wee hours of the night in V Nation when a raid was conducted on the rented house.
Everyone was brought downstairs and were made to squat on the ground with their hands on their head. An Xiaoning and her company were no exception.
An Xiaoning was wearing a long rag-cloth skirt and had a cloth wrapped around her head. She had used some makeup to downplay her features and added some freckles to her face on purpose.
She had also ingeniously turned her big eyes into slitted, narrow eyes with some double eyelid tape. Fan Shixin and Xiao Bai had also put on some makeup to disguise their features. To others, the trio was merely here to look for their relative.
”You, stand up,” said one of the men, pointing his knife at An Xiaoning.
An Xiaoning purposely swayed unsteadily from side to side while trying to stand up.
”What's your name?”
”Nainai…”
”Nainai, how are these two people related to you?”
”One of them is my husband while the other is my younger brother. We're foreigners and we're here to look for my missing mother.”
”Look up.”
An Xiaoning looked up slowly and gazed at the man timidly.
The man did not look again and said, ”Squat down.”
She did as instructed.
They managed to pass the raid successfully.
An Xiaoning heaved a sigh of relief once they returned to their room, after which they took turns to shower.
Wringing her hair dry with a towel while sitting on the bed, An Xiaoning said, ”They're not that strict and detailed with their search anyway. I feel like they're just doing it in a perfunctory manner.”
”I guess they're rather dense. They don't even conduct a raid properly when screening both locals and foreigners. But that's advantageous for us.”
An Xiaoning agreed with him. ”So far, things are getting far more complicated than we thought. It's such a huge mystery. Those people who've been searching for the treasure map for so many years probably never discovered this. Or maybe, they were killed after they found out. So, it's still unknown whether the map really exists or not.”
”Do you hope it exists?”
An Xiaoning glared at Fan Shixin and said, ”Of course I do.”
She wrapped her hair inside the towel and lay down in bed. At this point, she had no idea when they could return to S Nation.
It had only been a few days since they left and yet she was already missing Jin Qingyan, Jin Yiheng, and her mother.