Mr. Shen, your love-struck wife doesn't want you anymore!

Jiang Yu suddenly looked up, her eyes wide with shock and disbelief: "What?"

These words shouldn't have been said by Chen Junhai. Moreover, after Shen Chengyan fainted, he instructed him not to tell Jiang Yu or his mother.

Seeing him lying motionless on the stretcher, Chen Junhai couldn't help but call Jiang Yu over again after receiving her call.

He felt that his brother had too many things weighing on his mind. Those things that he couldn't say were like stones pressing down on him. If they weren't released, they would eventually crush him.

So he asked Jiang Yu to come over.

He even went so far as to say things he shouldn't have said.

Seeing that he turned his face away and remained silent, Jiang Yu frowned: "What do you mean by only saying half of what you mean? Are you trying to make me pity him?"

Chen Junhai smirked. "Doesn't he deserve sympathy?"

"His name was Song Yanjia before he was 13 years old. He had always lived in Beijing. After Aunt Tang and Song Yihong divorced, they left him with the Song family."

"Aunt Tang never imagined that the decision she made would become her son's nightmare."

"Song Yanjie is Song Yihong's illegitimate son. Before he married Aunt Tang, a woman outside the marriage gave birth to Song Yanjie. When Shen Chengyan was about three years old, Song Yihong brought Song Yanjie, who was nearly 10 years old, back to the Song family."

"Aunt Tang didn't know that her husband had a child before marriage and had been hiding it from her. She couldn't accept this. Later, she found out that Song Yihong seemed to be entangled with other women. Unable to accept such a marriage, she divorced Song Yihong when Shen Chengyan was 5 years old."

"Aunt Tang was in poor health. When she was pregnant, the doctor advised against having the child, but she wanted a bloodline, so she ignored the doctor's advice and gave birth to Shen Chengyan. As a result, she almost didn't make it out of the delivery room."

"She has developed serious health problems, and the doctor advised her to rest and avoid getting angry. Divorce may be the best option for Aunt Tang."

"The Song family was better off than the Tang family. She thought that her son would be better off materially if he stayed with the Song family than with her. Moreover, Song Yihong wouldn't let her take the child with her. After weighing the options, Aunt Tang gave up custody."

"After Aunt Tang moved out of the Song family, Deng Wen moved in less than two years later. You know, bullying and abuse usually have a gradual escalation process."

"Like a frog being slowly boiled in water, the victim doesn't realize at first that they are being bullied. They just keep looking for reasons within themselves, thinking that they didn't do something right, which is why others don't like them."

"And what's more, it's just a child who's only a few years old."

Chen Junhai took a deep breath: "The information I have is not very specific. I only know that Song Yanjie physically and mentally abused him, while Deng Wen focused on psychological abuse."

"I've known Shen Chengyan since we were toddlers. Before we were seven or eight, our two families were quite close. Later, my family moved to another city because of business reasons."

"I saw him again when I was thirteen. Aunt Tang almost went to jail for stabbing Song Yanjie and Deng Wen. My mom is a lawyer, and that winter she took me to see Shen Chengyan. Do you know how shocked I was when I saw him?"

"He was very thin, and his eyes were full of wariness, vigilance and fear, like a frightened bird. If I touched him, he would smile at me, but his body would tremble."

"Before we broke up, he was a lively and cheerful kid with his own little temper. How did he become so gloomy and haggard in just a few years?"

"I didn't know what was going on at the time, but I could roughly tell from my mother's phone call that she was being abused."

"My mom said that if she were Aunt Tang, she would have killed those two people too."

The corridor outside the operating room was unusually quiet and the temperature was unusually low.

Jiang Yu sat there, feeling that the quiet was eerily terrifying.

She could even hear her own heartbeat, pounding away.

She seemed to say something, but she wasn't quite sure what she said.

"What did you say? Later?" Chen Junhai heard this, wiped his face hard, thought for a moment, and said, "I remember my mother telling me that Shen Chengyan secretly went to find Chen Yanjie and Deng Wen, knelt down and kowtowed to them, and promised never to go to Beijing again or appear in front of them, only then were they willing to give up pursuing Aunt Tang's responsibility."

"Later, Aunt Tang took him to Jiangcheng, changed his name and surname, and lived with the Shen family."

"Isn't that what they write in the news and on TV? Children who have suffered severe trauma and abuse in their childhood will generally have some psychological problems. Shen Chengyan also received psychological treatment for a period of time."

Jiang Yu suddenly thought of Shen Chengyan's obsessive-compulsive disorder.

When he is anxious, his obsessive-compulsive disorder about cleanliness becomes more severe.

When they went on their date, his obsession with cleanliness was quite severe.

So was he in a state of anxiety at that time?

Jiang Yu heard Chen Junhai continue, "I don't know if psychotherapy is effective, but I do know that being bullied and abused for several years can't be easily erased."

"About a year later, I remember it was summer vacation, Shen Chengyan suddenly contacted me and said he wanted to come visit me and stay at my house for a while."

"He was seeing a psychologist at that time, but it seemed like there was no progress. He hadn't made any friends and was talking less and less every day. Aunt Tang was in tears every day, but her body couldn't allow her to do that, so she often went to the hospital. Shen Chengyan was very sensible so as not to worry his mother."

"He said he wanted to come visit me, and Aunt Tang was overjoyed, thinking that he could finally get out of the shadows and start a new life."

"So I agreed immediately and even personally delivered him to our house."

"But Shen Chengyan only stayed at my house for two days before saying he was going somewhere and asked me to keep it a secret and not tell his mother."

"Of course I wouldn't agree. He came to visit me, and I have a responsibility to him. I asked him where he was going, and he said he was going to X city to meet someone. He also said that if I didn't agree, I would go with him. He knows that we have relatives in X city, and he told me to tell my mom that I was going to X city to visit and to take him with me."

"That bastard planned everything all along. Coming to my house to play was just a pretext."

When Jiang Yu heard the name X City, her heart almost jumped out of her throat.

She asked reflexively, "What's he doing in City X?"

Chen Junhai glanced at her: "It's normal that you don't know, because he has never shown his face in front of you."

"But he stayed with you for five or six years, in places you couldn't see."

"That's not quite accurate either. It should be during the summer and winter vacations every year, from spring and summer to autumn and winter. In corners you don't notice, in an accidental brush past you, in places you never thought of, he might be watching you."

In that instant, Jiang Yu suddenly felt goosebumps rise all over her body, but more than that, she was bewildered: "Is he... following me?"

Chen Junhai chuckled twice: "Yeah, that's what I said too."