Chapter 75: Helping Long'er take a bath

  5:00 AM, Beijing Huaxia Mental Hospital, Room 707.

  There were two beds in the room, and Xiao Long Nu and Guo Xiang were quietly sleeping on one of them. Tang Xiao Sheng had already woken up and was lying still, thinking about something in his mind. He decided that he would recover spiritually this morning and start living a normal life again.

  He is now a mentally ill person and needs to recover spiritually. This requires an acceptable transformation process, which cannot be too abrupt.

  After some consideration, Tang Xiaosheng decided to use a fake dream approach to transform this process.

  He closed his eyes, took a light breath, hesitated for a moment, and then began to pretend that he was dreaming, talking incessantly about his dreams:

  "Long'er, where are you? Long'er, where are you......" Tang Xiaosheng lay on the bed, repeatedly saying this sentence, his face showing a look of panic.

  Before long, Little Dragon Maiden and Guo Xiang were awakened by his murmurs in sleep. They got out of bed one after another. Little Dragon Maiden sat on the edge of the bed, grasped Tang Xiaosheng's hand, and asked softly with concern: "Xiao'er, I am here."

  "Dragon boy, where are you? Dragon boy, where are you......"

  Tang Xiaosheng continued to repeat the sentence, and then his body suddenly started convulsing violently, with intense tremors, his hands tightly clutching his head, his face contorted in agony, as if his head was about to split open.

  He's doing all this just to pretend that he's in the process of fusing two souls, and then use it as an excuse to get his spirit back to normal.

  A moment later, with a sudden movement, Tang Xiaosheng suddenly sat up from the bed. He collected his thoughts, looked around and pretended to be confused, saying: "I... how did I end up here?"

  When he spoke, his tone returned to normal, his crooked mouth straightened, and his originally dull eyes became spirited. Xiāo Lóng Nǚ's thin eyebrows opened wide as she exclaimed with joy: "Guòér, you've recovered your memories?"

  Tang Xiaosheng gazed at Little Dragon Girl, silent for a moment before raising an eyebrow: "You... are you Long'er?"

  As soon as she heard this, Little Dragon Maiden knew that his spirit had indeed recovered normally, and her heart was overjoyed. For a moment, she was so happy that she couldn't speak, and just kept nodding.

  On the side, Guo Xiang saw this and immediately came forward, looking at Tang Xiaosheng with a pouting mouth and asking in a childish voice: "Big brother, do you still remember me?"

  Tang Xiaosheng turned his head, looked her up and down, pretended to think for a moment, then said: "You... oh, you're Xiang'er!"

  Guo Xiang also nodded repeatedly, excitedly saying: "Big brother, you're really better."

  "Long'er, Xiang'er, what exactly happened? How did I end up here?" Tang Xiaosheng had been pretending to be mentally ill for over half a month, so he naturally also pretended not to remember the events of the past half month.

  Guo Xiang then briefly told him about what had happened over the past dozen or so days.

  After listening to her statement, Tang Xiaosheng was grateful to Guo Xiang: "Xiang Er, these days have been letting you take care of big brother, it's really hard on you."

  Guo Xiang shook her head: "Not hard work." She pointed to Little Dragon Girl with her small hand, "Dragon sister is the one who works hard! Every day she goes to the supermarket to buy things, then returns home to cook, and brings it to the hospital to feed big brother. The day before yesterday, Dragon sister even helped big brother take a bath!"

  Upon hearing this, Little Dragon Maiden's beautiful face turned slightly red, and a hint of shyness appeared in her expression.

  Tang Xiaosheng was crystal clear about the fact that Little Dragon Girl had helped him bathe, and he also understood the entire process of bathing. He naturally knew why Little Dragon Girl would be embarrassed. After a pause, he turned his head, took the initiative to hold Little Dragon Girl's small hand, and said with deep feeling: "Long'er, letting you help me bathe is really troubling you."

  The little dragon girl's face was flushed, her lips slightly pursed, and she shook her head gently: "It wasn't hard."

  Tang Xiaosheng cleared his throat, looked at her and said seriously: "Long'er, don't worry, I'm absolutely not the kind of person who shirks responsibility. For Long'er helping me take a bath, I will definitely take responsibility to the end."

  The little dragon girl's beautiful eyes blinked, somewhat puzzled by his meaning, and she asked softly: "Guo Er, what are you in charge of?"

  Tang Xiaosheng pondered for a moment, then said seriously: "Long'er helped me take a bath once, this great kindness, I will definitely remember it in my heart." He paused, then continued with a serious tone, "If there's an opportunity in the future, I'll definitely help Long'er take a bath too."

  As soon as she heard this, the little dragon girl's pretty face suddenly flushed with a wave of heat, and she shyly turned her face away, with two red clouds rising on her pale cheeks.

  Tang Xiao Sheng said so, but he didn't really mean it. Although he also thought that helping Little Dragon Girl take a bath was a very good thing, before confirming whether Yang Guo had crossed over or not, this matter would have to be carefully considered for the time being. His previous mention of taking a bath was actually just to see what Little Dragon Girl looked like when she was shy.

  Ever since he saw her blushing face while taking a bath the day before yesterday, Tang Xiaosheng had taken a liking to her and couldn't help but tease her with two sentences.

  Finally back to being a normal person, Tang Xiaosheng felt for the first time in his life that it was such a blissful thing to be able to become a normal person. During this period of pretending to be mentally ill, he had been living on tenterhooks every day, and even sleeping couldn't make him feel at ease, fearing that he would reveal some flaws while asleep.

  It's all over now.

  Neither Little Dragon Maiden nor Guo Xiang suspected anything about his sudden recovery. On the one hand, he had pretended to be mentally ill for more than half a month and was almost indistinguishable from a real mental patient; on the other hand, both Little Dragon Maiden and Guo Xiang were simple-minded by nature and never thought that Tang Xiaosheng would deceive them.

  Now that his mental state has returned to normal, leaving the psychiatric hospital is a matter of course. However, before leaving, he must first go through the formalities of discharge.

  The next morning, Little Dragon Girl and Guo Xiang took Tang Xiaosheng to the psychiatric department of the hospital's outpatient clinic, preparing to ask the director for a discharge request. The director of the psychiatric department was the psychiatrist who had diagnosed Tang Xiaosheng more than half a month ago.

  Upon learning that Tang Xiaosheng's mental illness had recovered overnight, the psychiatrist was also baffled. He had always thought that Tang Xiaosheng's condition had deteriorated to the point of no return, but now he suddenly recovered, completely beyond his expectations.

  Actually, from start to finish, the psychiatrist never fully understood Tang Xiaosheng's condition and was always studying it. As a result, before he could study it thoroughly, Tang Xiaosheng's condition had already recovered.

  Out of caution, psychiatrists conducted another examination on Tang Xiaosheng. Tang Xiaosheng was originally mentally sound and naturally passed the examination without any pressure.

  However, although Tang Xiaosheng's mental state appeared completely normal, psychiatrists did not think that his mental illness had fully recovered, but rather believed that Tang should have been suffering from intermittent mental illness.

  What is called intermittent mental illness, simply put, is that the spirit is sometimes normal and sometimes abnormal. When it's normal, there's no difference from ordinary people; when it's sick, it's completely a mentally ill person.

  The so-called mental health experts who claim that Tang Xiaosheng suffers from intermittent mental illness are simply trying to cover their own embarrassment. Because more than a decade ago, they had solemnly told the media that Tang Xiaosheng's mental illness was extremely severe and that the possibility of recovery was minimal, and that he might not be able to recover for his entire life.

  It was unexpected that Tang Xiaosheng's illness had miraculously recovered in just half a month, even more normal than a normal person. This undoubtedly gave the psychiatrist a slap in the face. The psychiatrist naturally did not want to admit his previous serious misdiagnosis, so he came up with "intermittent mental illness" to give himself an excuse to save face and appear somewhat dignified.

  However, Tang Xiaosheng's current mental state is indeed no problem, and the psychiatrist can only agree to his discharge procedures. Afterwards, he opened a "Discharge Certificate" form, handed it to Tang Xiaosheng, and said with a heavy heart: "Congratulations, I didn't expect you to be discharged so soon."

  Tang Xiaosheng politely said: "I have to thank you for your meticulous treatment, otherwise I wouldn't be able to recover so quickly."

  Upon hearing Tang Xiaosheng's thanks, the psychiatrist felt a bit awkward in his heart because he seemed to have done nothing. He paused for a moment and reminded him: "Although you seem to be mentally fine now, don't take it lightly. You are suffering from intermittent mental illness, which may relapse at any time, so be more careful in the future."

  Tang Xiaosheng nodded: "Thank you, doctor, for reminding me. I will pay attention."

  After chatting for a few sentences, Tang Xiaosheng and Little Dragon Girl, Guo Xiang, together with the "Discharge Certificate" form, were about to leave when they suddenly heard a chaotic footsteps coming from afar.

  A moment later, with a whooshing sound, a crowd of people rushed into the clinic like a surging tide.

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