A Lone Leaf on a Boat

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It was previously titled: "The Yandere I Raised Wants to Be with Me in a Narcissistic Romance"

I was reborn as a renowned psychotherapist.

I inherited all his knowledge and skills, as well as his most important client: a boy with serious psychological problems, Ye Luobai.

I had been reborn from a terrible person into a respected psychotherapist,

but I couldn't feel happy about it.

Because this boy, Ye Luobai, was me in my previous life.

Ye Luobai gave me a white shirt smeared with red dye as a welcome gift,

introduced me to a doll with its throat cut as a friend,

and drew a picture.

In it, he was bound tightly, covered in blood. The sky was bloodred, and even the tears running down his face were bloodred.

He showed me the picture,

wearing a chilling smile no child his age should have, his voice sweet and defiant at once. "Dr. Shi, you're not the first person to come here, but you'll end up just like everyone before you..."

As he spoke, he tore apart the other figure in the picture, a black silhouette holding a sword, right in front of me.

"You'll be torn apart, destroyed, and then disappear, just like the you in this picture."

I looked at his contemptuous, faintly triumphant face. He thought I'd leave in frustrated helplessness, like all the other therapists.

Instead, I went over to him, grabbed his hand, and gave him two smacks on the butt.

He shouted angrily, "Damn it, why did you hit me?"

I said, "I'm not going anywhere, Ye Luobai. I'm the person in this world who understands you best."

That evening, Shi Yuzhou insisted on taking Ye Luobai to the piano gallery, though Ye Luobai wasn't keen on going.

With his baseball cap pulled low over his face, he kept both hands in his pockets and never once looked up after entering the gallery.

Shi Yuzhou sat down at a piano and gently curled his fingers. As they danced across the keys, a graceful, flowing melody rang through the gallery.

Teenage Ye Luobai finally responded to the music.

He raised his head and looked at Shi Yuzhou's long fingers on the keys. The scorn in his eyes gave way to surprise, then disbelief, and finally... fervor.

At last, there was a light in his eyes.

Shi Yuzhou turned his head and smiled gently at him.

Well, well. Our love of the piano is in our bones.

And at that moment, the soul we share, existing in both the past and the future, resonated deeply.

Note: The correct idiom is "a leaf-like boat," but the title uses a homophone that evokes favoritism, being the exception, and obsession.

PS:

1. Both are inexperienced, one-on-one, happy ending. There is a twelve-year age gap between the top and the bottom.

2. First-person narration. Please don't read if that's not your thing.

3. All psychology-related content in this story is not professional knowledge, but the author's subjective speculation and imagination. Please don't scrutinize it!

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Theme: Loving yourself is the only salvation