Chapter 357 Chapter 355: No More Treatment
Chapter 355: No More Treatment
With a sliver of hope, Dongfang Yang arrived at Chi Xiaocheng's hospital room, only to realize that the atmosphere inside was a little off.
Chi Xiaocheng was sitting on the bed, seemingly playing with her phone, but she kept looking up at Su Tao, who was sitting beside her.
Su Tao, on the other hand, was wearing her usual faint smile, sitting there peeling an apple. The reflection from the bright fruit knife in her hand was almost blinding.
It was mostly the same as usual, but it seemed…
The vibe was just wrong?
Dongfang Yang didn't dwell on it. He walked into the room naturally and immediately turned to Chi Xiaocheng. "You look perfectly fine. You slept for two whole days. How do you feel?"
Chi Xiaocheng deliberately gave Dongfang Yang a sweet smile. "Thank you for your concern, Dongfang-gege. I feel surprisingly great. I could even run a few laps right now. And I've recovered all my memories. Don't worry."
"Hey, I like being called Dongfang-gege. It's much better than you calling me Boss." Dongfang Yang rubbed the bridge of his prominent nose with the back of his finger. "Since you can talk about your memories, it seems like you really are okay. But we still have to wait for my seventh uncle to take a look before we decide."
"Okay, okay." Chi Xiaocheng nodded obediently. "I feel fine. Before, I always felt like something was off, but now, after sleeping, that feeling is completely gone."
"But if there are other problems, you might not even be aware of them yourself, right?" Dongfang Yang glanced sideways at Su Tao, his eyes questioning.
Su Tao's eyes dimmed slightly, but she still nodded helplessly.
She didn't say anything more.
But it planted a seed of unease in Dongfang Yang's mind.
Could it be that the treatment wasn't successful after all?
He wasn't a professional, so he didn't dare to make a judgment.
Soon, Si Chen arrived with Dongfang Wen and Professor Su.
Dongfang Wen entered the room with a mix of excitement, apprehension, and self-doubt.
He was excited because he had spent the last two days studying Chengzi's cells with Professor Su, and now there was one more person shouting about medical miracles.
He was apprehensive because he didn't know Chi Xiaocheng's true condition, whether she had really recovered her memory, and what memories she had recovered after sleeping for two days.
And his self-doubt went without saying.
When he finally saw Chi Xiaocheng, Dongfang Wen questioned her in detail and waited for her to wash up and eat breakfast. Then, after conducting targeted psychological tests, he turned to Su Tao and said helplessly, "It seems Chi Xiaocheng hasn't fully recovered."
Dongfang Wen saw that Su Tao wanted to say something, so he decided to let the young woman speak first.
Dongfang Yang and Si Chen had been completely dismissed, leaving only her, Dongfang, and Professor Su in the room. So Su Tao didn't hide anything and said anxiously, "Actually, when Xiaocheng first woke up, I asked her a lot of things."
"The memories she mentioned, they mostly… they mostly matched what happened between us back then, but…"
"She no longer has any romantic feelings for me."
Su Tao bit her lower lip, trying to suppress her emotions. "She used to like me a lot, and she said she wanted to be with me forever. You two professors know why I insisted on waking up her memories despite her pain."
"It's because I wanted her to be the same as before, to fall in love with me again!"
"But now!" Su Tao's shoulders began to tremble. "She told me… she told me she always thought of me as her older sister, that her love for me has turned into familial affection!"
If they had no feelings for each other, or if they were just friends or best friends, Su Tao could accept that.
She would have a chance to make Chi Xiaocheng fall in love with her again.
But now, this barrier of familial affection, wasn't it blocking that last path?
Rather than this, she would have preferred not to have hypnotized Xiaocheng at all!
She regretted it again.
She didn't know how many times she had regretted it.
Whatever she chose was wrong.
The result was worse than… choosing nothing!
Professor Su saw that Su Tao was upset and tried to comfort her. "Miss Su, don't worry too much for now. Maybe it's just temporary. Why don't you listen to what Professor Dongfang has to say?"
The ball was passed to Dongfang Wen's feet.
The balding, middle-aged man with white hair stroked his beard. "If I were to talk about my specific feelings, it would be that Chi Xiaocheng is still lying. She has indeed recovered her memory, but she's hiding it. And that hidden emotion…"
Dongfang Wen's intuition told him that Chi Xiaocheng should have recovered all her memories.
This so-called love turning into familial affection was also an act.
But after being wrong last time, he wasn't so sure this time.
Instead, he proposed a solution. "Besides the usual treatment methods for emotional loss, if you want to see results quickly, why don't we…"
"Why don't I hypnotize Chi Xiaocheng again?"
He suggested to Su Tao, "This time, we don't have to let her enter a dream. We can hypnotize her to make her obedient, and then ask her all sorts of things and have her answer. The answers spoken from the subconscious are definitely the truth. That way, we'll know if she's acting or not."
This was indeed a good idea.
And it was easy to understand.
It was like the content of those hypnotic apps on certain mysterious websites – after being hypnotized, she would do whatever she was told.
Dongfang Wen was very good at this.
Even now that he was old, he was often invited by the criminal police team in Beijing to hypnotize those tight-lipped criminals.
However, as soon as this suggestion came out, it was coldly rejected by Su Tao. "There's no need, Professor Dongfang. Let's just end Xiaocheng's treatment here for now."
"But…"
Dongfang Wen wanted to say something, but Su Tao interrupted him. "I plan to let Xiaocheng's memories take their natural course. Continuing like this will only make Xiaocheng more resistant. Whether she's acting or not, it's meaningless."
She hated Dongfang Wen.
He called himself a master and made countless confident guarantees.
But not only did he fail to improve Xiaocheng's condition, but he had also made a previously good situation worse.
Before the hypnosis, even though Xiaocheng hadn't recovered her memories, she would still be shy when we bathed together!
Wasn't that blushing and shyness proof that she subconsciously liked me?
Now that love had turned into sisterhood, wasn't that subconscious affection locked up even more tightly!
It wasn't that Su Tao didn't want to continue the treatment, but that she no longer trusted Dongfang Wen.
However, out of respect for the old man, she didn't show anything on her face.
These people were all untrustworthy!
Even if there was treatment, Su Tao wanted to work hard on her own, in her own way!
The young woman stood up and asked Professor Su, "Given Xiaocheng's current condition, can she be discharged from the hospital?"
Professor Su was stunned for a moment. "If you want to, she can be discharged today. But Miss Su, are you sure you don't want to reconsider?"
"No need." Su Tao said decisively. "Please process Xiaocheng's discharge. I know what to do with her affairs."
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