Fighting For My Wife With Myself After Being Reborn - Chapter 27

Breakfast was settled in an awkward atmosphere between the two. Both harboring their own thoughts, they tacitly ignored each other’s abnormalities, packed their things, and went out to work.

As usual, Shen Huaixu drove Gu Yinghuai to the office building.

“Thanks for the hard work, I’m going in now.” Before leaving, Gu Yinghuai gave Shen Huaixu a kiss.

“Bye-bye, I’ll come pick you up after work tonight.” Shen Huaixu pecked Gu Yinghuai’s lips in return.

Gu Yinghuai smiled: “Alright, I’ll be waiting for you.”

The two bid each other farewell. It wasn’t until Gu Yinghuai’s figure disappeared from sight that Shen Huaixu drove away.

Perhaps Shen Huaixu’s phone call yesterday had truly frightened Jiang Rui, as she uncharacteristically showed mercy and gave her a day off, although the words she said weren’t very pleasant.

Shen Huaixu tried hard to recall Jiang Rui’s original words at the time:

“I’m giving you a day off. Regardless of what the final check-up results are, I hope you can honestly explain everything to Gu Yinghuai. I don’t want to hear news one day that you’ve been dumped.”

What on earth? Her Huai would never dump her, okay? At most, she would give her the cold shoulder…

Fine, a cold war wouldn’t work either!

At the thought of various possibilities, Shen Huaixu gritted her teeth and tapped on the navigation. Listening to the sweet voice of Sister Zhiling from the voice pack, she arrived at No. 185 Tai’an Road, Fuqing District.

Fuqing District was a suburban area. Most people living here were commuters who had just arrived in City S from other provinces to work and couldn’t afford apartments or residential areas near their companies.

Compared to the prosperity of the city center, Fuqing District was somewhat desolate. The yellow-tipped leaves of the green belts curled and fell from the branches, and car tires rolled over them, crushing the withered leaves into small pieces.

Shen Huaixu parked the car in a roadside parking space. Her clean soles stepped on the leaves, making a “crunching” sound.

She looked at the building in front of her. The three-story small Western-style house surrounded by a courtyard was covered in Boston ivy. Large trees lined the road, their massive, dense canopies blocking the sunlight, shrouding the entire house in shade. The red stone bricks were covered with the marks left behind by time.

A blue metal plaque was nailed abruptly and disjointedly next to the gate of the house.

[No. 185 Tai’an Road]

This was exactly the place where the doctor introduced by Jiang Rui was located.

To be honest, the first impression the small house gave Shen Huaixu was a bit like a place where the protagonist in a domestic horror movie goes to seek death, possessing a unique gloominess from the Republican era.

“…” I really don’t want to go in.

Shen Huaixu sighed. For the sake of “curing the illness,” she obediently pushed open the rusty, paint-peeled iron gate of the courtyard. The iron gate, which hadn’t been oiled for a long time, let out a tooth-aching screech.

The floor tiles in the courtyard were overgrown with weeds. They weren’t tall and looked as if they had been stepped on several times, flattened, with the green grass juice soaking into the tiles, turning them a very deep dark green.

The main door on the first floor of the house was tightly closed. Shen Huaixu reached out to push it but couldn’t move it.

Shen Huaixu: “…”

Broken door, watch out or I’ll kick it down.

Having held it in all morning, Shen Huaixu, whose mood was already very unpleasant, felt even less “beautiful.”

She left the vicinity of the front door, walked halfway around the house, and found the back door half-open. It opened with a slight push.

A steep and narrow staircase appeared before Shen Huaixu’s eyes.

The wooden floor was overwhelmed. Every step she took emitted a groan.

Shen Huaixu arrived at Room 206 as indicated in the address. She knocked on the liver-colored wooden door, and soon a voice inside said “Come in.” Shen Huaixu twisted the doorknob, opened the door, and walked in.

The space inside the room was very small. Except for the wall with the window and the wall behind Shen Huaixu, the remaining walls were occupied by floor-to-ceiling bookshelves filled with books.

In front of the bookshelves was a desk piled with a mess of papers and books, with a computer surviving in the gaps.

“Good morning, I’m glad you weren’t late.” It wasn’t until the doctor spoke that Shen Huaixu saw a person hidden behind the computer.

The other person looked very young, wearing black-framed glasses, with long hair casually tied behind her head, a few strands falling over her shoulders.

“Please sit.” She pointed to the stool in front of the desk, gesturing for Shen Huaixu to sit down.

“I have already learned about Miss Shen’s situation through Jiang Rui, but I still hope you can repeat it once more. I’m worried that Jiang Rui’s retelling might differ from what you want to express,” the doctor said. “Oh right, you can call me Dr. Su.”

Shen Huaixu tucked away her petty emotions and told the doctor everything that had happened recently, bit by bit.

Su Xi listened to her seriously without jumping to a conclusion immediately. She pondered for a few minutes, weighed her words, and said: “Have you considered that you’re not suffering from amnesia, but rather a dual personality?”

Shen Huaixu: “??”

“Why would you say that?” She felt that amnesia wasn’t unacceptable now.

Su Xi didn’t answer Shen Huaixu’s question directly, but instead threw out another question for Shen Huaixu to answer: “Has Miss Shen suffered any serious injuries recently? Or did you experience any extreme trauma in your childhood?”

Shen Huaixu: “That’s not the case. In my childhood, I was the only one who caused others to have traumatic experiences… Oh, I remember now. Last month while working, I injured my head, but it was just a mild concussion. It shouldn’t count as a serious injury, right?”

Su Xi didn’t think so. “That’s just what you think, Miss Shen. The brain is a very strange existence. It is the most precise organ in the human body. Once it determines that an injury exceeds the range of what you can bear, it will take measures to reduce the harm to itself.”

“An injury Miss Shen finds insignificant might be considered by the brain as something that will cause it harm. Emergency avoidance then triggers the birth of a second personality to bear all this on your behalf.”

“It’s a very extreme way of protection.”

Shen Huaixu was speechless. Hearing Su Xi say it this way, she felt it actually made some sense?

Since her concussion, many things had happened at home.

For example, her water cup would occasionally move to a different position for no reason. The beer chilled in the refrigerator would always have a bottle or two disappear, yet Gu Yinghuai was someone who didn’t really drink.

She also remembered that last time she had a fever, she woke up to find that her Huai was already home and sleeping. What was ridiculous was that she was the one who had supposedly picked her up.

What a joke. She had slept all the way until the middle of the night after taking medicine.

Su Xi rested her chin on both hands and said to the pensive Shen Huaixu: “I think Miss Shen should have the answer in her heart. After you go back, you can also check your phone or see if you have a habit of writing in a diary? There should be clues on them.”

“If it is the case, how is it treated?” Shen Huaixu went straight to the point.

Su Xi was slightly surprised. “I thought Miss Shen would need some time to adapt. Conventional treatment methods might not be suitable for Miss Shen’s situation. Miss Shen’s second personality appeared after an injury. According to your description, the other party might have appeared many times without your knowledge.”

“Perhaps Miss Shen can try communicating with the other party through a journal to see what their demands are.”

Shen Huaixu frowned: “Besides that, is there no other fast and effective way?”

Su Xi shrugged: “None. But don’t worry, take it slow, you’ll succeed eventually.”

“May it be as you say, Dr. Su?” Shen Huaixu was not satisfied with this answer. What she wanted was an absolute answer.

Su Xi ignored the dissatisfaction in her tone and took out a long-prepared QR code, smiling brightly. “If there are no other questions, Miss Shen can scan the code to settle the bill. You can also add me on WeChat and contact me anytime if anything comes up.”

Shen Huaixu took out her phone speechlessly and scanned the code. “How much is the fee?”

Su Xi smilingly quoted a figure.

“…” It’s a rip-off joint.

Shen Huaixu complained silently and paid the money honestly.

“Thank you for your patronage—ah, no, safe travels, Miss Shen. Watch out for safety on the road.” With the “ding” of Alipay, the smile on Su Xi’s face became much more genuine than before.

Shen Huaixu was speechless again. If it hadn’t been for the fact that this person was introduced by Jiang Rui, she would have turned and left as soon as she reached the bottom of the stairs. For a “talk therapy” session lasting barely over ten minutes, the fee was as high as five figures—this was treating her like an ATM.

“I’m leaving. Goodbye, Dr. Su.” That said, Shen Huaixu couldn’t be bothered to argue further with Su Xi. She put on her mask and left this place that was filled with a bizarre atmosphere everywhere.

Shen Huaixu: [Sweat] Is this doctor you introduced reliable or not?

Jiang Rui: [How so?]

Shen Huaixu: […She just said a few words and then said I have a dual personality, not amnesia.]

Jiang Rui: […?]

Jiang Rui: [What’s the situation? What exactly did she say?]

Shen Huaixu: [Explaining it is too much trouble, ask her yourself. Now I’m going to buy a diary.]

Jiang Rui: [??]

After sending the message, Shen Huaixu didn’t care what Jiang Rui thought and exited WeChat directly.

She left the courtyard, returned to her car, and began to think about the words Su Xi had said.

Perhaps she should follow Su Xi’s suggestion and check her phone? Maybe she could really find some clues.

No sooner said than done. Carrying a nervous mood, Shen Huaixu was the first to tap on the Memo app.

She thought that if there really was a second her inside her body, then based on her habits, the Memos were the most likely to have been used.

The Memos were still as she had last opened them, but the time of the first memo was clearly wrong.

This memo had been modified by someone.

Shen Huaixu stared intently at the time in the lower-left corner. It was a certain day shortly after they arrived in Dali.

In Dali, Shen Huaixu had lost her memory briefly several times.

Because the time was short and Gu Yinghuai’s reaction was no different from usual—oh, wait, except for that massage.

Shen Huaixu’s finger stopped in mid-air.

So, did Huai discover something? That’s why her attitude was so strange.

But that didn’t make sense either. There was no reason for Huai not to tell her the truth.

Unless—

Shen Huaixu envisioned the worst-case scenario.

If—and she meant if—the truth was really what she thought it was, what was Huai’s reason for doing this?

Shen Huaixu didn’t dare think about it in detail.

She closed her eyes, trying hard to drive the messy thoughts out of her mind.

“The most important thing now is to verify Dr. Su’s words…” Shen Huaixu hypnotized herself, her fingertip lightly tapping open this memo. The travel guide for Dali came into view.

There was nothing unusual in the first part of the content; it was all guides she had asked for from friends or searched for online.

She scrolled through the screen, checking it bit by bit, until—

A photo Shen Huaixu had never seen before appeared in the middle of the screen.

In the photo, the waist was thin and white. Ambiguous red marks spread from the ribs to the mermaid line. Judging from the lowest marks, the red traces even seemed to spread further down.

A well-defined hand was stroking downward.

At the bottom of the photo, a sentence was written:

[I’ve taken your girlfriend.

Although the photo didn’t capture the face of the waist’s owner, Shen Huaixu recognized it at a glance—this was Gu Yinghuai’s waist.

She blurted out a curse word and slammed her fist onto the steering wheel to vent her anger.

Damn it, she had been burglarized by her second personality!!!