Chapter 22 Epilogue: three years later

This is the end of Dr. Cong Changmin’s record of the above-mentioned case in his "Clinical Diary". He told me that he would also like to record the subsequent psychotherapy process in detail.However, after waiting for a long time, he did not give me any further information about this case.According to the professional rules of my peers, if he doesn't want to show it to me, I can't just ask him for it. However, I have developed a special interest in this case, which is the most rare and precious case since our psychological clinic opened several years ago.The development of the fate of several parties involved in this case has also aroused my great concern.So I had to keep it from Dr. Cong Changmin, and asked someone to investigate and inquire on my own. I only got some general reports as follows.

in Manchester City, England. It is a beautiful city that has been famous since the pre-industrial era.During the day, it has a charming, inviting, bustling urban character.But at night, it looks like a city in a fairy tale.Along the rows of brightly lit buildings and dreamy streets, you can walk to the port near the sea, like a fashionable old lady going to meet her old secret lover. It snowed again at night. The snow that had been on the streets a few days ago hadn't melted yet, and now there were new snowflakes pressing on them.The street lamps shone through the snowflakes, and the shadows of the lampposts were lonely on the snow.The few pedestrians in the street hurriedly walked, and the footprints left on the snow quickly disappeared silently.

Pei Xiaolong was walking alone on the street.I have a limp on my left foot, and I can't walk very well.The doctor said that it was caused by the wind-cold paralysis he suffered, or it might be the aftereffects of the nerve system damage in a certain part of the body in the jumping incident a few years ago.At the moment he is rushing back to his residence. He lives in an old-style building, because the rent is cheap, many international students rent and board there. The only drawback of this building is that there is always a power outage.When Pei Xiaolong went to study in the UK, he changed his accommodation in several places, and he didn't move here until recently.

Pei Xiaolong walked into the gate and wanted to turn on the lights in the corridor, but the lights were not on, and the power went out again today.He was going upstairs when he heard a figure rise up in the darkness to meet him. Pei Xiaolong vaguely saw the figure of a woman in the darkness. "Excuse me, who is it?" he asked. But the other party didn't answer, only her eyes were shining in the darkness. "You are looking for me?" Xiaolong asked again, "Have you been waiting for a long time?" "Yes..." The other party finally replied in a low voice.

Pei Xiaolong heard from the voice that it was a very young female voice. He felt a little familiar, so he stepped forward and said, "What's the matter? You are..." The other party stopped talking again, and in the darkness, she vaguely heard her nose twitch, and her rapid breathing. "You are... Huang Minmin?" Xiaolong took another step forward, took out a lighter from the pocket of his coat, and with a "pop", a bright flame spewed out.In the light of the fire, Huang Minmin's handsome face could be seen turning pale from the cold, her eyes were full of tears, and she couldn't speak a word.

"You...you have come to England too, are you studying abroad?" Pei Xiaolong asked in surprise. Huang Minmin nodded, and said with a choked voice, "I've been looking for you since I arrived in England, and I've been looking for you for more than half a year..." "Thank you very much for coming to see me." Xiaolong said emotionally, "Let's meet again another day, shall we?" "I won't leave you again!" Huang Minmin said stubbornly, shaking her head suddenly. Pei Xiaolong walked around her for a few steps, and then said calmly: "Look, I'm already limping, and I can't move."

"You need to find a crutch." "Well, I'm thinking about finding a suitable one." "Let me be your crutch, okay?" She raised her eyes to look at Pei Xiaolong and said, "Forever, forever..." Pei Xiaolong stood still, he was stunned.The two of them stood like this for a long time in the dark.Suddenly, Xiaolong stepped forward and held Minmin tightly in his arms. At this moment, their tears could no longer be controlled, and they flowed together... Yu Meilin was transferred to a new middle school as a clinic teacher, and the work went very smoothly.Her appearance returned to its former youthful beauty.In a few days, she will marry her boyfriend Cheng Yifen.Yu Meilin's father and her boyfriend's parents have urged her many times, saying that she is no longer young and it's time for a lifelong event.

That day, when Yu Meilin was tidying up the clinic, a school worker brought her a letter.It's from England, and there's no signature on the envelope.Looking at the letterhead, there is a bright red maple leaf and a white lily petal wrapped inside, they are cuddling together like a happy couple.Transcribed from the letter: "When you like someone, you are always happy when you are together; When you love someone, you will often worry and cry. Like someone, when you haven't seen each other for a long time, You will suddenly think of him (her); Love someone, when you haven't seen each other for a long time,

You will think of her (him) every day ..." There is still no signature at the bottom of the letterhead, but the following paragraph is attached: "Whenever I want to smile, you make me cry; whenever I think of you, I break down again. No matter how long I wait, I can't be near you anymore. But what remains in my memory is not only the love Your favorite." Yu Meilin burst into tears as she read it.She shed tears, but she still stroked the maple leaves and lily petals repeatedly, and sat there reading again and again. She cried like this for a long time, then took out an alcohol lamp from the glass cabinet in the bathroom, lit it, and set the letter on the fire...