The 13th Therapist

#My Wife Cured My Mental Illness and Turned Me into a Lovesick Fool

"He changed therapists again?"

"That's number thirteen."

[On the brink of emotional collapse and liable to lose control at any moment. A patient with paranoid disorder, reliant on long-term medication, with CPTSD, a suspicious nature, and a violent streak. Severe insomnia, often unable to sleep for a full week.]

Lin Xu tightened his grip on the case file.

He looked down at Qin Zhaoye, who was sleeping soundly with his head on Lin Xu's lap. For the first time, a look that could be called "confusion" appeared on that unruffled face.

As a therapist with an emotional disorder, unable to feel emotions or make complex facial expressions of his own, he had scoured the medical textbooks and still couldn't come up with a treatment plan.

Lin Xu felt he had encountered the most difficult case of his career.

[He's having another episode... Why does he have so many triggers? And why does he keep staring at me?]

[No reaction? Wait, how can he keep a straight face?]

When his possessiveness flared up, the man insisted even as they walked down the street, "Please, don't look at anyone else."

Lin Xu calmly nodded and put on his sunglasses. "It's fine. Now no one can see anyone."

Playing hard to get, drawing close and pulling away, the two madmen finally snapped.

[Next time you kiss me, don't squeeze my neck. It hurts.]

[If I don't, you won't make a sound.]

[You fucking lunatic.]

[Right back at you.]

Such intense possessiveness and hysterical longing were almost suffocating, yet the madman called it "love." And he didn't understand love, let alone a madman's love. He didn't even know what it meant to suffocate.

Adrift in the vast ocean of the mortal world, all sink into its depths, and only the self can offer salvation.

Toward a deeper night and a darker room, he walks alone, until he meets the light.

Until he is illuminated. In the madman's eyes, light is a gift from the Lord.

Emotional disorder; psychological control; [Power Couple] Two madmen, neither of them quite right in the head.

Theme: Saving each other, with light in the heart.