Who would study psychology if they didn't have some kind of problem?

Chapter 543 The Final Blow, Complete (5K Chapter)

Wang Zhenhai's answer caused the audience in the gallery to stir again.

However, since they were all adults, and had already been warned twice by the presiding judge for causing a disturbance, they had learned their lesson. Therefore, they didn't overstep any boundaries this time, and their whispers subsided considerably.

As a result, their discussion lasted longer.

"That statement... is a bit narcissistic, isn't it? This young expert is right..."

"They made a fortune by luck, thinking it was due to their own abilities, and then they want to keep making money through opportunistic means. Isn't that bound to lead to losses?"

"They still think that way now, that's quite remarkable..."

Regardless of what professionals like the presiding judge think, psychology is still quite intimidating to the general public. After a previous micro-expression analysis, the scales in the minds of onlookers had already involuntarily tipped in favor of Nan Zhuren.

The psychological conclusions given by Nan Zhuren were quite credible to the audience.

It's a pity that China doesn't have a jury system, otherwise Nan Zhuren would have won by now.

Sitting in the corner of the audience was an older man in a blue uniform and a hat, presumably there to observe and learn. He looked at Nan Zhuren thoughtfully and said, "This method of analysis is very similar to profiling..."

Nan Zhuren, who was in the witness stand, was unaware of what was happening in the spectator stands, but Wang Zhenhai seemed to be pricked by a needle and looked around in a panic.

Wang Zhenhai seemed to want to say something more, but Nan Zhuren didn't ask him any more questions. During the witness presentation of evidence, except for those who needed to cooperate, others were prohibited from speaking.

To prevent disruption of court order, Wang Zhenhai's excessive urge to vent was once again suppressed by the defendant's lawyer.

Wang Zhenhai couldn't help but roar at the defendant's lawyer in a low voice again: "Aren't you going to object? He's calling me mentally ill! Isn't that an insult to my character? If you object now, the presiding judge might just stop him from submitting any more evidence!"

The defense attorney tilted his head back slightly; he hated clients who tried to direct their lawyers in court.

But in order to control the volume of his voice, the defense attorney had to lean back in: "He didn't say you were mentally ill; the charge he brought was 'mental disorder'..."

[Why should I, the lawyer, have to do this anti-stigmatization explanation? Isn't there a psychologist standing not far away?] The defendant's lawyer couldn't help but mutter to himself.

The stigma surrounding mental illness and even spiritual illness in China is still too severe. Why don't those who specialize in psychology do their jobs well first? Now it's making it so difficult to carry out work in the courtroom!

We can't communicate with the person involved!
The defense attorney glanced at Wang Zhenhai, took a deep breath, and said, "Raising objections now... is not the right time. Trust me, wait until he finishes speaking, and I'll refute him all at once; that will be more effective!"

……

The defense attorney was unaware of the consequences of his actions.

Nan Zhuren was perfectly aware of what she was doing at that moment.

We're almost at the final step.

He began to explain the last symptom in Supplementary Evidence Two—Paranoia Personality Disorder.

"Paranoiac personality disorder is typically characterized by a pattern of general distrust and suspicion of others, to the point that the individual often perceives the motives of others as malicious."

Nan Zhuren glanced at Wang Zhenhai: "The most prominent characteristics of paranoid personality disorder in the defendant Wang Zhenhai are 'excessive suspicion' and 'persistent resentment.' Because of investment failures and being cheated in business, he felt that he was being targeted by society and began to take revenge on society, starting to form his own fraud gang to engage in illegal and criminal activities. From this perspective, his paranoid thinking pattern and antisocial and narcissistic personality disorder also have mutual influences."

A person's behavior pattern may meet the diagnostic criteria for multiple different diseases, depending on which category the individual's overall behavior pattern fits more closely.

Of course, it's also possible that this person has more than one problem.

“The second is ‘loyalty suspicion.’ This symptom manifests as unfounded suspicion of the loyalty and trust of friends, colleagues, and subordinates,” Nan Zhuren said. “In the chat records of the defendant Wang Zhenhai’s gang, the employees’ flattery, in addition to satisfying Wang Zhenhai’s narcissism, also had the purpose of deliberately dispelling Wang Zhenhai’s suspicion.”

"Or rather, the way these employees communicated was gradually forced out by Wang Zhenhai's skeptical tendencies."

Sitting in the dock were not only Wang Zhenhai and his lawyer, but also other key members of the gang. However, they were not the main characters in this part, so their presence had been relatively low until now.

Whether it was an illusion or not, after listening to Nan Zhuren's words, these "key members" all tilted slightly, moving away from Wang Zhenhai.

He suddenly showed an expression of agreement.

The defense lawyer felt that Wang Zhenhai's inner turmoil had become even more intense beneath his outward appearance, unsure whether it was due to the actions of these "key members" or Nan Zhuren's wording.

Yes, Nan Zhuren's wording has become increasingly direct.

At first, Nan Zhuren would try to use professional terms to refer to Wang Zhenhai, and the wording was generally neutral.

But now, Nan Zhuren is speaking in increasingly colloquial language, and his words are becoming more and more aggressive.

However, the defendant's lawyer still did not intend to voice his objection, believing that Nan Zhuren should be finished speaking soon and there was no need to step forward now.

……

Nan Zhuren is indeed about to end all of this.

"The defendant, Wang Zhenhai, ultimately met the symptoms of paranoid personality disorder, namely, excessive sensitivity and excessive retaliation to stimuli. After our victim, Nan Zhihao, reported the incident to the police, Wang Zhenhai chose the unplanned act of revenge by 'distributing fabricated indecent videos,' which is a typical example of an overreaction. This reaction ultimately led to his own arrest and that of his entire gang."

Nan Zhuren looked up and said, "The three types of personality disorder with antisocial personality disorder as their underlying characteristics—sadistic personality traits, narcissistic personality disorder, and paranoid personality disorder—are all concepts from abnormal psychology."

Wang Zhenhai suddenly looked at the defendant's lawyer again, clearly hoping he would do something.

The stigmatization of proper nouns based on cultural context is starting to take hold again. The word "abnormal" in "abnormal psychology" actually means "deviation from the norm," but certain conventional colloquial descriptions can unconsciously evoke particularly offensive connotations.

There seemed to be some movement in the audience.

Nan Zhuren seemed oblivious. His explanation was directed at the presiding judge, but at that moment his body was turned towards Wang Zhenhai.

It was as if they were simultaneously having a direct conversation with Wang Zhenhai.

Nan Zhuren began his final summary: "Wang Zhenhai is indeed an above-average information engineering talent. His brief success in his early work may have triggered his narcissistic traits. His first entrepreneurial venture, fueled by the industry's era of prosperity, allowed him to accumulate capital, which exacerbated his narcissism to the point of personality disorder."

"Ultimately, he misjudged his own abilities and overestimated his understanding of the industry, which led to his failure at work."

"Under the influence of real-life failures and narcissism at the level of personality disorder, Wang Zhenhai's antisocial and paranoid traits were also triggered. He attributed his failures to external factors, believing that society's targeting caused his failures, and thus began to retaliate against society. In the process of retaliating against society, his paranoia also intensified to the level of personality disorder, and his antisocial behavior extended into sadistic traits."

“‘Sadism’ made him addicted to mental manipulation and derive pleasure from the psychological torment of his victims; ‘narcissism’ gave him a greater sense of power in the process and washed away the frustration he had felt from his previous failures in his legitimate work; ‘paranoid’ made him sink deeper and deeper into this fraud.”

"Until the very end, our victim, Nan Zhihao, appeared. At first, Nan Zhihao pretended to cooperate with Wang Zhenhai's team, using words and actions to assist the fraud gang in their fraudulent activities. During this process, he went to the police station and ultimately provided the police officers with important intelligence."

"This behavior challenged Wang Zhenhai's 'narcissism' and caused him to suffer another setback; his 'paranoia' led him to overreact to this setback, and ultimately, with the superposition of his 'sadistic' traits, he chose the most harmful form of revenge against our victim, Nan Zhihao."

The presiding judge hesitated, even before the defendant's lawyer voiced any objections; he felt that Nan Zhuren's words were a bit too aggressive.

But upon closer reflection, it seems that Nan Zhuren did not mix in any personal emotions; he only used objective professional terms and professional analysis.

Nan Zhuren summarized: "Our evidence is to prove that Wang Zhenhai may have had certain mental abnormalities from the beginning of his work. After being deceived, he completely became a mental patient and began to commit crimes."

"His condition worsened and became more complicated during the crime. This ultimately led to his being provoked by our witness, Nam Ji-ho, and retaliating irrationally, which resulted in his arrest."

As he said this, Nan Zhuren turned slightly to the side, as if trying to see who was behind him; but then, as if he was mindful of something, he returned to his original posture.

Nan Zhuren continued, "However, Wang Zhenhai's condition does not meet the definition of 'mental illness' under the Criminal Law, but rather 'non-psychotic mental disorder.' He not only has full criminal responsibility, but also has extremely high subjective malice."

"We believe that a severe sentence should be handed down!"

……

Got here.

Nan Zhuren stopped mentioning things like "technical supervisor" and "hidden account" from before.

It's as if they're so engrossed in their professional field that they've lost all sense of the world around them, relentlessly attacking the "mental illness" label to the point of losing their rationality.

Nan Zhuren really didn't want to bring it up again.

He hoped that Wang Zhenhai would say these things himself.

Nan Zhuren was certain that Wang Zhenhai was hiding something, and he had complete confidence in his micro-expression analysis skills.

During the previous court hearings, Wang Zhenhai displayed a sense of pleasure when discussing matters related to accounts and technology.

It was a kind of joy, like a rat in a sewer eyeing its stolen and stored cheese under dim light.

This person is hiding something—Nan Zhuren is certain of it.

This person is very restrained, very shrewd, and has strong self-control—Nan Zhuren immediately concluded.

Wang Zhenhai was, after all, a highly educated intellectual, and the fraud he was engaged in involved technically sophisticated methods.

To defeat someone like this in court, the only way is to make him lose control. Everything Nan Zhuren said before served this purpose.

In some ways, Wang Zhenhai and Nan Zhihao are quite similar.

They were all people who had unrealistic fantasies about their own image, and their ideal selves collapsed due to unexpected events in their real-world circumstances.

This can be considered another level of the shared origin between enemies and allies.

Because of the collapse of his ideal self, Nam Ji-ho lost control of himself, which triggered abnormal post-traumatic reactions and social phobia.

How will Wang Zhenhai react?

He has already lost control of himself once because of his arrest; now, in court, in front of everyone, and under Nan Zhuren's verbal attacks, how will he react?

However, Wang Zhenhai is still a little short of losing control.

Just one last breath away.

Nan Zhuren had planted too much gunpowder; he was just missing the last spark.

Then—

That's what I was thinking.

Nan Zhuren raised her chin slightly, as if she were very satisfied with herself, and turned her gaze to Wang Zhenhai.

He met Wang Zhenhai's bloodshot eyes.

Then, he turned slightly to the side, as if trying to see something behind him.

……

From the moment Nan Zhuren began to speak, Wang Zhenhai's eyes were fixed on her.

At this moment, his breathing was heavy, his forehead was covered in sweat, and his eyes were wide open in anger, as if he wanted to devour Nan Zhuren.

Naturally, as Nan Zhuren moved, he couldn't help but look in the direction of Nan Zhuren's body movement.

That's the audience section.

The first row is usually occupied by people who are highly relevant to the case, such as witnesses or family members of the victims.

There was an empty seat there; that was originally Nan Zhuren's spot.

To the left of the empty seat sat Bai Qinghua, also an expert witness; to the right, a man completely covered up...

【Um? 】

Wang Zhenhai's eyes widened even more.

He suddenly recalled a sentence that the defendant's lawyer had told him before the trial.

[The last veteran you tricked, named Nan Zhihao, seems to have developed some kind of mental illness; he's always completely covered up. This might be something they use to attack us and give us a harsher sentence, so be careful...]

Is this person Nan Zhihao?
This is the person who tricked himself, pretending to be deceived but then went to the police station, which led to his arrest.
……

In the audience, Nan Zhihao met Wang Zhenhai's eyes.

His thoughts involuntarily drifted back to the conversation he had during the recess not long ago.

……

"Teacher Nan, if the consultation draft cannot be submitted, then I won't be able to do anything, and it will be the same as if I didn't come at all?"

After Nan Zhuren submitted the evidence, Nan Zhihao approached Nan Zhuren again and whispered, "This is clearly my own problem, but now it's all your help, Teacher Nan..."

"You just need to observe the trial and win, and then find healing in it," Nan Zhuren thought to herself.

But then, Nan Zhuren had another flash of inspiration.

"No, Zhihao, you are the most important."

"Huh?" Nan Zhihao suddenly looked up.

Nan Zhuren put his hand on Nan Zhihao's shoulder: "Although I am confident that I can continuously break down his mental defenses, he is, after all, an extremely cunning criminal boss and a high-IQ criminal. I believe his lawyer must have rehearsed with him countless times the unexpected events that might occur during the trial."

“Even if I’m very confident, I still have to consider that the other party might be wary of me—in this case, Zhihao, you’ll be responsible for the final blow.”

Nan Zhihao pointed to himself: "Me? Can I?"

Nan Zhuren nodded: "Of course, you tricked him in his area of ​​expertise, shattering his illusions about power and ability, which directly led to his arrest and his current predicament."

“Your every move is more damaging than any lengthy statement I make—of course, at the right time.”

Nan Zhihao nodded, seemingly understanding but not quite: "Then what should I do?"

Nan Zhuren said meaningfully, "Laugh."

"laugh?"

"Yes, I will draw his attention to you at the very end, when he is on the verge of collapse. You must smile defiantly, smile successfully, smile triumphantly, smile in a way that makes him want to punch you, and become the last straw that breaks his back."

"Ah... I'm not sure I can laugh like this."

"It's okay, just lift one corner of your mouth and hold it for a while. He'll read the emotion he needs."

……

Remembering Nan Zhuren's instructions, Nan Zhihao took a deep breath.

Under Wang Zhenhai's gaze, he deliberately pulled down his mask to reveal his face.

Then--

"Ah."

He leaned back in his seat, slightly reclining, and gave a forceful laugh.

Perhaps because I used too much force, my shoulders, neck, and head were all shaking.

--boom.

It's like dropping a spark into a powder keg.

It exploded completely.

……

As Nan Zhuren finished speaking, the defense lawyer took a deep breath, preparing to question Nan Zhuren's evidence and dismantle this argument with weak legal basis.

But before he could speak, a voice exploded in his ears.

"Do you think you know me well?" Wang Zhenhai suddenly stood up and shouted at Nan Zhuren.

"You think you've won against me? Are you a hero?" Wang Zhenhai turned to Nan Zhihao again, roaring so hard he almost vomited out his black heart.

The bailiffs nearby quickly stepped forward to try and subdue the suspect who had suddenly lost control.

"I've had enough!"

"What arrest, what impulsiveness, what loss of control, what mental illness!"

"I'm still lying to you, and you've all been fooled. If I didn't tell you, you wouldn't even know!"

Wang Zhenhai looked around the courtroom, and at that moment all eyes were on him.

He felt as if he had returned to his own company and was standing at the highest position.

There was an uproar.

(End of this chapter)