I thought he was the only cure for my nightmares;
Only later did I discover that he was the deepest nightmare of all.
Renowned psychotherapist Gu Chengjin is a savior in the eyes of countless patients, and a sudden ray of light in my dark life. He cured my long-standing fear of blood, giving me the chance to start over. We fell in love and got engaged. Everything was so perfect it felt like a beautiful dream I never wanted to wake from.
Until I found an old, yellowed photograph tucked inside a copy of Abnormal Psychology, hidden deep in his bookcase. The girl in the photo looked remarkably like me, but had been missing for seven years. She was smiling at the camera. The day she disappeared was exactly when the first patient with similar symptoms that Gu Chengjin had "cured" in his career died in an "accident."
Fear wound around my heart like a vine. I began investigating in secret, only to find that there seemed to be untold secrets behind all his "cures." A mysterious person using the codename "Nightingale" kept sending me warnings: "Leave him, or you'll become his perfect 'collection.'"
When I finally worked up the courage to escape this tender trap, Gu Chengjin gently clasped my throat with the same hands that had once soothed all my anxiety, and whispered in my ear:
"Wanwan, you are my greatest masterpiece, and my only cure. We... can never be apart."
I was rescued from the abyss, only to be pushed back into hell by his own hands.
