CH 87

Sick collector (15)

Translated by Jev Kaez

Edited by Jev Kaez

Although the Xu Musi in his memory was gloomy, he was still high above the others, and he felt cold and withdrawn to others, but now Xu Musi was like a timid hamster, and like an ostrich that would only bury its head in the sand when faced with danger.

These were completely two personalities. You must know that Xu Musi had only disappeared for less than a month. The character developed over the past twenty years had undergone such a big change in a short period of time, and Lu Yi couldn’t help but wonder what happened to the other party.

He was curious, and He Si, who was standing beside him, was equally curious: “Old Xu, Mu… What happened to your son?”

The name Xu Musi was given to his son by Xu Zhen before He Si attended the wedding, which meant he loved his wife Sisi.

But who made Xu Musi really interested in him in the end? In the past, he regarded the other party as a junior who was a family friend, and it was nothing to call him affectionately. Now that he and Lu Yi had established a relationship, he couldn’t shout as affectionately as before.

In fact, it had been a long time since he changed this title, but there was little contact between the two sides. Xu’s father did not pay much attention to it on weekdays. Hearing his deliberate change in the title, a heart that had been tossed by his son and discouraged immediately fell to the bottom.

Man with love, do not want friend brotherly affection, looking at this couple with excellent appearance but no ill will, he could not help but scold a dog man in his heart, and expressed regret and spit on his previous idea of actually expecting He Si to appease his son.

That’s it, he didn´t came to comfort his son, and it would be nice not to aggravate the stimulation.

He snorted coldly: “Okay, now you have seen it, my son has become like this, you have seen enough, you are satisfied, you can get out.”

He looked at He Si angrily, waved his hand to chase away guests: “Go out!”

What he said was not pleasant, but Lu Yi was not annoyed, and there was no joyous expression on his face, and his attitude was still very calm: “Mr. Xu is so anxious to rush the guests, is it possible that he is covering up something, when we came in, we just saw a black shadow getting under the quilt, and Xu Musi was not seen.”

His fingers pointed to the arched quilt: “Call anyone, get under the quilt, cover your face, can you say it’s your son?”

When he came in, he only saw a person who was wearing the clothes Xu Musi usually wears and whose body shape was similar to Xu Musi. It was not impossible for a person to have such a big change in a short period of time, but the problem was that no one else had seen it. he didn’t know what Lin Miao said about being excessive and what he had done.

He specially asked his secretary to reject some meetings for him, and added a day’s shift, not to come to Xu’s house to listen to Xu’s father’s yin and yang, and then look at the shivering quilt in the room.

He Si, who was on the side, naturally supported his boyfriend unconditionally, and immediately echoed behind him and said, “That’s right, there is a black cloth in this room, and no one even makes a sound. Isn’t this fooling people.”

Xu Zhen was so angry that he shivered to touch the medicine on his body, and the young housekeeper immediately went to bring him a cup of warm boiled water.

After taking the medicine, Xu Zhen said, “Okay, don’t you want to watch it? I’ll let you watch it!”

He said it as if he wanted his son to be like this. For the Xu family, a son who would cause trouble but was extremely talented was far more useful than a cowardly and incompetent person who was honest and responsible.

He would also rather have his son as he was before, not as he was now.

The quilt was pulled off by Xu Zhen forcefully, revealing the terrified face of the boy.

Realizing that he was forced to be exposed in the sight of everyone, Xu Musi immediately covered his delicate face.

Although his movements were fast, Lu Yi, who had been staring, was sure that this was Xu Musi himself.

The appearance of the other party was still as delicate as before, but the momentum was obviously much weaker.

In the past, as long as he heard He Si coming, Xu Musi’s heart must be floating, and he was absent-minded in doing anything.

But now, in front of a living person like He Si, he was astonished like he didn’t see it, which was really unusual.

Lu Yi wanted to go to Lin Miao’s house for a while, and wanted to ask what he had done to Xu Musi.

But he was now in the Xu family, and next to him was a father Xu who had nowhere to express his resentment. Maybe in the near future, he better not contact Lin Miao.

He Si’s understanding of Xu Musi was not very deep, otherwise, he would not have realized that the other party had other thoughts about him after so many years.

Even so, in just a short meeting, he still found Xu Musi’s unusualness, enough to see the latter’s change was very huge.

After hesitating for a while, He Si asked Father Xu: “Xu Zhen, he, did you take him to see a psychiatrist?”

Xu Zhen rolled his eyes at him: “You think I’m the kind of stubborn old man? I’ve had people come to enlighten me long ago, but it’s useless!”

With his son like this, he was also very worried. After his son came back, he immediately went to a doctor to examine the whole body.

The result of the inspection was that there was no violation or injury by outsiders. Although Xu Musi did have wounds on his body, the doctor’s inspection result was that it was caused by Xu Musi’s own self-harm and had nothing to do with outsiders.

At that time, Xu Zhen scolded: “Let me catch that person, I must let him have no good results!”

He originally hoped that Xu Musi would be able to draw the prisoner’s portrait. After all, his son was at home and had high artistic attainments. Based on memory, it would be absolutely no problem to draw a personal portrait.

But in the face of the psychiatrist’s earnest guidance, Xu Musi didn’t cooperate at all.

When the two were talking, Lu Yi didn’t say a word. He just continued to look up and down at Xu Musi carefully. He heard the words of the psychiatrist that came out of Xu Zhen’s mouth, and thought about the family situation that Lin Miao said.

The fact that Lin Mao could keep his sanity under such circumstances and was able to escape by committing suicide had to do a lot with his family who were doctors.

Thinking of Lin Miao’s hint to him, he could vaguely guess what the other party did to Xu Musi.

Probably, he was locked in a small dark room with only one person, and he was not given anything except basic meals.

For someone like Xu Musi who was withdrawn but desperately longed for love and companionship, there was nothing more painful than mental torture.

Maybe it was not just mental torture. In the midst of the chaos, Lu Yi said again: “Okay, He Si, I’m going back, do you need to stay?”

He Si turned his eyes away from Father Xu and immediately said, “No, no, I’ll go with you.”

He didn’t want to stay and face Father Xu’s wrinkled old face.

Fifteen minutes later, He Si drove Lu Yi home. On the way, they inevitably mentioned what happened just now: “Lu Yi, do you think Xu Musi’s performance is normal?”

He always felt that Father Xu was hiding something, after all, something was revealed in many places.

Lu Yi didn’t answer directly, but instead asked him, “Why do you ask this all of a sudden?”

“I just think that in such a short time, without trauma, it will not change a person so completely. If it is for acting, it is possible.”,

“Actually, you should trust Xu Zhen a little more. He would rather his son be healthy than acting to prevent others from retaliation.”

Xu Musi’s mind was indeed not stupid, but according to his identity, there was no need to deliberately act this kind of play to gain sympathy.

And if he really wanted to win sympathy, Xu Musi’s performance just now was too calm. Make a clean face dirty, and then paint a circle of blue and black under the eyes, it was best to make scars all over the body.

It was better to hang a few beautiful big photos of Xu Musi in the room. In this strong contrast, wouldn’t it make people feel more distressed?

Although he was working very hard now and was considered a rookie in the circle, it was not easy to overthrow the flourishing Xu family with his own strength alone.

The Xu family was also an old-fashioned family, pampered for generations, many good things had not been inherited, but bad temper had been inherited.

Such an arrogant person, it was impossible for him to kneel and lick with sincerity after he had achieved some results.

Knowing that being with He Si and doing so many wrong things, but still acting confidently, was in line with the nature of both the father and son of the Xu family.

He continued: “There is a famous psychological experiment, have you heard of it? A scientist showed a death row prisoner hot water, then tied his eyes and poured cold water on the death row prisoner’s hands, then there were burn marks on the hand.”

There are actually many versions of this story. For example, a small incision was cut and the tap was used to create the illusion that the blood was always flowing. In fact, the blood had stopped long ago, and the blood was just water, but in the end the prisoner died of blood loss.

In the same way, the young people trapped in the Xu family were the same. No one took any action against them, and they didn’t even give them too many psychological hints. They were just ignored and didn’t communicate with the outside world, and they quickly became waste people.

In the last life, when these people were about to break down, all the valuable parts of them were removed by the cold scalpel, and they were well preserved.

In this life, they had not been physically harmed, and with his efforts, the psychological harm suffered was not so serious, but they were still affected more or less.

Lu Yi said, “I still have the same attitude towards the Xu family. My ultimate goal is to make the Xu family go bankrupt.”

He looked at the rearview mirror, and He Si’s lips moved in the mirror, trying to say something.

But Lu Yi stopped him, he put his index finger on He Si’s lips: “Today still has a long time, before sending me back, you and I will go to a few places, and then decide whether to say yes to me or not.”