Reborn as a Good Child

124. He Came. I'm Not Crazy

JingYuan grabbed YiHan, tucked him in, held tightly onto him and said, "HanHan, no matter when and where, please trust in me. You and I are one. From now on, tell me if anything is bothering you. Two heads are better than one. If you find that you're stuck on a problem, come to me. We can discuss it. Perhaps it'll lighten the load off your shoulders. HanHan, don't push me out of your world. I'd be miserable."

YiHan nodded and responded with a serious "mn". In his heart, he thought: I'll never keep anything a secret from you, apart from this.

"Also," JingYuan said, "promise me you wouldn't hurt yourself again. If you're unhappy, you can hit me. Please don't harm yourself. If this happens again, I won't speak to you for a we–no, three days."

YiHan nodded again, paused in contemplation and said, "I won't hit you."

JingYuan kissed the younger man on the top of his head. "That's a good boy," he said, satisfied. "HanHan, you might not understand but I'd rather you beat me up than for you to be harmed in any way. I don't want a single drop of your blood to flow."

YiHan chuckled in dopey glee, his head bopping up and down. A moment of silence later, he spoke, "There's nothing wrong with Tao Qi's mind at all. What she said was what she believed to be true."

JingYuan's mouth twisted as he let out a spine-chilling laugh. "Since she likes Wei Quan to the point of doing it with him, how could I bear to separate a pair of lovers? It doesn't matter if there's anything wrong with her at all. Her fate was to fly off together with Wei Quan. I'll fulfil their wish and let them be together forever."

***

As JingYuan expected, after further questioning of Tao Qi, Captain Chen Jing came to the same conclusion as the man did. Tao Qi was spouting nonsense from the bottom of her heart. She said she should be married to Mu JingYuan and be the great CEO's wife. She claimed that Bai YiHan should be dead, that he should die a horrific death, that the Bai YiHan they knew now was a dead man reborn, and so on.

Such a conclusion enraged the police. It rendered them speechless from laughter and tears. All they could do was forcefully admit her and Wei Quan into a mental hospital with a special warning to the staff that the two criminals had intense violence tendencies.

***

Separated by a pane of glass, JingYuan silently watched Tao Qi, tied to her bed, staring blankly up at the ceiling in exhaustion. She'd been struggling against her bonds and crying for the whole morning. Now, an endless stream of tears flowed down her cheeks as she thought back to what Bai YiHan said to her. She thought about how if she had stopped the moment she realised things weren't going the way she expected, she could've taken advantage of her knowledge. Perhaps she would've carved out a place for herself in this world. Perhaps she could live a life of luxury free from worries even without her parents' love. Perhaps she might have met an outstanding man who'd truly love her. Perhaps they'd live a life filled with love. Such a life was something she'd risk her life to attain before her transmigration. Why was she so obsessed with climbing up to the top of the world? Why was she so engrossed in becoming Mrs CEO, something out of her reach?

She's still so young. Would she really be spending the rest of her life with these four white walls among the insane? If so, she'd rather die! Could she go back to her original world after her death? If she could go back, she'd have her mother cook up a feast for her. She'd cry her heart out before her parents and tell them all the suffering she'd been through.

Her sore eyes vacantly roamed around the room. They swept across the white ceiling and the white walls. When they reached the white door, her pupils shrank while her eyes went wide. Mu JingYuan!