Huo Nianci shook her head and said, "He is not my boyfriend."

"Isn't he your boyfriend?" Dr. Nangong frowned. "But you two seemed very close, and you didn't let go of him the whole time you were in the therapy room."

At this moment, Lin An also turned to look at her.

Huo Nianci added, "He is my wife."

"My wife?" Dr. Nangong was surprised and asked curiously, "Is there any difference between the two?"

Huo Nianci said, "The difference is that I prefer to call him 'my wife'."

"Alright," Dr. Nangong knew Huo Nianci's personality, so she didn't dwell on the matter.

Dr. Nangong smiled, his gaze shifting from Huo Nianci's face to Lin An's: "So you want... your wife to describe your current condition to you?"

Huo Nianci tightened her grip on Lin An's arm and nodded gently, "Mm."

"Alright," Dr. Nangong took a pen and a notepad from the pen holder next to the coffee table, placed them on his lap, and then looked at Lin.

"Then please describe her situation."

"The more detailed the better. Don't be afraid of being wrong. The more details you provide, the more helpful it will be for my judgment."

At this moment, both Huo Nianci and Doctor Nangong turned their attention to him.

He could see a hint of expectation in Huo Nianci's eyes, as if to say, "Just say what I tell you to say, I won't get angry."

After obtaining her permission, Lin An recalled for a moment and then slowly said, "Before I came, she needed to take sleeping pills to fall asleep at night."

Dr. Nangong nodded, and wrote a line on the paper: "I understand this situation."

"When she came to see me before, I prescribed her sleep aids for a period of time, keeping the dosage within a safe range."

"But after I arrived, she stopped taking sleeping pills," Lin An continued, "but she often wakes up in fright at night."

"Then, she would come to my room carrying a very tattered teddy bear, which had lost an ear."

"She would tremble, cry, and say some things."

"For example, 'I'd rather die in her place,' or 'Why wasn't it me who died?'"

When Lin An finished speaking, he turned his head and glanced at Huo Nianci.

Huo Nianci had her head down, her chin almost touching her collarbone, and she was huddled in the corner of the sofa.

She was a completely different person from the Huo Nianci who had led him in by the hand outside the clinic earlier.

Dr. Nangong also glanced at Huo Nianci. She didn't show any particular emotion; she was simply confirming something.

Then she looked at Lin An, signaling him to continue.

"But there are exceptions," Lin An said. "One night she didn't have a nightmare."

"She slept very soundly that day, and didn't wake up at all until dawn."

Dr. Nangong paused, keenly sensing this crucial point: "So what happened that day?"

"Forehead……"

As Dr. Nangong began to inquire about the details, Lin An's ears started to feel hot.

That day was actually the day Huo Nianci said, "I'll give it to you."

So what happened is self-evident.

Lin An's Adam's apple bobbed, and he stammered noticeably when he spoke.

Dr. Nangong noticed his unusual behavior, and she seemed to understand something as well.

She crossed her legs, adopting a more casual posture: "It's okay, there's no need to be shy in front of the doctor."

"Okay," Lin An began, "It's just... we did it many times that day."

"So we were both very tired, so she didn't wake up that night."

Dr. Nangong nodded thoughtfully, as if she had obtained a key piece of information she was looking for.

She glanced at Lin An, then at Huo Nianci, who was leaning on his shoulder with her head down, and asked, "And after that day? How was she the next day?"

Lin An thought for a moment: "She woke up very early the next morning and was in great spirits, completely different from usual."

"That day we also went shopping, bought clothes for her sister, and had hot pot. Her condition was very stable throughout the day."

Dr. Nangong wrote a few more lines on the notepad.

Then she put down her pen, looked up at Huo Nianci, and asked, "Miss Nianci, so what are your feelings for Lin An?"

Upon hearing Dr. Nangong's question, Huo Nianci's body shifted slightly.

She slowly raised her head, lifted it off Lin An's shoulder, and sat up straighter.

She looked at Dr. Nangong, then at Lin An beside her, and said, "My feeling for him is that I want to become one with him."

"I want to keep him by my side forever, because I feel safe and happy when he's around."

"To become one with him, to be bound to him..." Dr. Nangong jotted down some keywords in his notebook, completely unaware that Lin An was already sweating.

Then, Dr. Nangong asked, "After that day, you never...?"

Lin An shook his head and said, "It happened last night too."

"But she also woke up in a fright last night."

"Miss Nianci, did you have a dream last night?" Dr. Nangong asked.

Huo Nianci nodded.

"What did you dream about?"

Huo Nianci said, "I dreamed about Xiao Qing."

"She was being tortured horribly by the kidnappers right in front of me, and all I can hear in my head is her screaming. I..."

When Huo Nianci spoke of this, her whole body began to tremble violently. She buried her face in Lin An's arms, trying to get some comfort from him.

Seeing this, Lin An gently patted her back.

I tried to calm her down.

At the same time, he also obtained more crucial information.

Huo Nianci and a girl named Xiao Qing were once kidnapped.

Is it because the Huo family is very rich that they kidnapped them for ransom?

We don't know for now.

As he thought this, he gently stroked Huo Nianci's back with his palm until her trembling completely disappeared.

Throughout the process, Dr. Nangong remained silent and made no movement, simply sitting opposite them and carefully observing them.

After a long while, once Huo Nianci's emotions had stabilized again, Dr. Nangong closed the notepad and placed it on his lap.

Then he pulled a piece of paper out of the drawer under the coffee table.

It was a questionnaire, neatly printed with two pages of questions, ranging from multiple choice to short answer.

She handed it to Huo Nianci: "Fill this out, it's the new version of the assessment scale, it's more detailed than the previous one."

Huo Nianci glanced at the two pages of paper, then took them with her slightly trembling little hands.

She took a pen from the pen holder on the coffee table and began to fill in the paper.

Huo Nianci filled out the forms very quickly, hardly hesitating for long on any of the questions.

Lin An sat beside her, not leaning over to see her answer, but simply waiting quietly.

About ten minutes later, Huo Nianci put down her pen and handed the questionnaire back to Dr. Nangong.

Dr. Nangong took it and read it from beginning to end.

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