Mental Illness Evolution Manual - Chapter 41

Yan Xianchuan used to think that people who only had their lower body on their minds were either idiots or fools.

She had seen many of these people. In the escape game, there were no laws or morals, everyone’s evil thoughts were released, after all, you never knew when you would die, so you might as well live one day at a time.

There were many who had fleeting romances, and many who relied on sex to cling to the strong.

Every time she saw this, she would look down on them with disdain, she would ignore them.

Love was a poison that corroded the mind, it was a trap that only fools would fall into, she was a smart person, she wouldn’t be tempted.

Now, though, she bent and picked up the remnants of the broken white cheongsam. The cotton fabric felt soft and cool in her hand, strangely smooth. Yan Xianchuan vividly recalled how it had shattered beneath her fingers, like a ripped package revealing its contents—a cold, yet soft, jade statue.

Something crackled in her blood, there was a knock on the door, Yan Xianchuan suddenly woke up, she realized that she had been standing there in a daze for almost ten minutes, Lu Mingqiu in the corridor had waited for a while, seeing that she hadn’t come out, she knocked on the door and asked.

“Coming.” She replied loudly.

She hurriedly found a bag, packed the torn costume, put it in the bottom drawer of the wardrobe, then Yan Xianchuan changed into a set of clothes without looking.

Fortunately, her clothes could all be matched, she could wear anything without making a fool of herself.

She pushed open the door, Lu Mingqiu was combing her hair with her hand, the black hair passed through her fingers, like a black river.

Her hair was as cold and soft as she was, it was wet with sweat, it stuck to her body strand by strand, like a randomly patterned tattoo.

Yan Xianchuan remembered the feeling clearly.

“I’ve taken two days off.” Lu Mingqiu said.

Her voice woke Yan Xianchuan up from her reverie, the latter dazedly asked herself in her heart, what’s wrong with me?

She forced herself to focus on what the other party was saying. Taking a break, taking a break… Lu Mingqiu was wearing a black gauze skirt, the neckline was cut just right to cover the marks on her neck, her forearms were exposed, there was nothing on them, her legs were covered by the skirt, they were also tightly covered, no gaps.

Taking a break, so she was taking a break, to wait for these bite marks to fade.

Yan Xianchuan’s vocal cords got stuck, she stammered out a sentence, “Sorry, I…”

“It’s okay.” Lu Mingqiu interrupted her—thank you for interrupting me, Yan Xianchuan didn’t know what to say next. She repeated, “It’s okay, I’ve put on medicine, it will be fine soon.”

“This is an inhibitor.” She reached out her hand, a syringe lay quietly in her palm, “Su Hong still has one.”

Yan Xianchuan didn’t say anything, she silently picked up the syringe and stabbed it into her arm.

“What do you want to eat for breakfast? Do you want to go out to eat, you’ve been cooped up in the crew for a few days, it’s a good time to go out for a walk.” Lu Mingqiu said.

In her usual caring tone.

Yan Xianchuan’s tongue turned into wood, her body, her bones, all turned into wood, so she walked stiffly, her eyes were dull, her tongue was clumsy, she couldn’t speak, she just hummed.

What kind of answer was a hum?

Calm, the person who suffered a loss repeatedly emphasized that it was okay, she had a nonchalant attitude, but the one who had taken advantage of her was ashamed and hesitant, when did she become this kind of person.., who is indecisive?

Yan Xianchuan clenched her fist subtly, her neatly trimmed nails dug into her flesh, the slight pain that came from her palm was like a ray of light, it cleared her muddled brain.

“I’ll do whatever you say.” she said, she pursed her lips, she focused all her attention, making herself show the same expression as before.

“Then let’s go, a dessert shop just opened on Kuanfu Street, a few friends in the circle have been there, they all said it’s good, we can go there later.” Lu Mingqiu said.

She walked in front, Yan Xianchuan followed behind her, step by step, as if there was a transparent chain, it was tied to her hand.

Lu Mingqiu was still driving, she looked like she was moving more freely, or maybe she was relying on willpower to endure the soreness in her body.

She rarely wore jewelry, but she never took off the electric shock ring on her hand, Yan Xianchuan also had one, the two rings were similar in style, they looked like a set of wedding bands.

They were indeed a couple in the legal sense.

Her hand rested on the steering wheel, her fingers were long and slender, each one had been kissed by her repeatedly.

When her joints were gently bitten, you would hear a sweet cry.

Why am I thinking about this again? Yan Xianchuan almost came to her senses in a panic, she said in a low voice, as if she was asking for help, “It seems like the effects of the drug haven’t worn off yet.”

“I…” She stammered, her voice became even lower, “I keep thinking about what happened yesterday.”

Lu Mingqiu was serious at first, then surprised, and finally she couldn’t help but laugh, her eyes also curved into a smile, like two blue crescents, “Was this your first time?”

Yan Xianchuan nodded.

Lu Mingqiu said knowingly, “This is, um, normal, it will be fine in a couple of days, I won’t lie to you.”

Yan Xianchuan was still a little suspicious, “Do you feel this way too?”

“Yes.” Lu Mingqiu replied.

How could she not? Although she didn’t care in her heart, she didn’t think it was a big deal, in her mind, sleeping with someone was no different from eating a meal together.

But setting aside her indifference in her heart, the feedback from her body was very obvious.

This person was like a dog, she was clumsy, there were hickeys and bite marks everywhere, she had almost no good flesh left on her body.

Her crotch was red and swollen, it was almost bleeding, making it awkward for her to walk, she felt that her bones were sore and weak, it hurt to move.

These abnormalities were constantly reminding her how absurd last night had been.

But looking at the person’s expression, Lu Mingqiu found it very amusing.

Look at her previous spirited and arrogant appearance, as she looked down on everyone equally, now look at her, she was timid and flustered, she even blushed.

Lu Mingqiu felt a little affection in her heart, it was as if she was a little puppy that had been rained on and was drooping.

Yan Xianchuan reluctantly believed her, after all, Lu Mingqiu had said she wouldn’t lie to her.

Honesty is a good virtue, it can make flowers bloom from stones, but she was worried about something else—she didn’t seem to be able to act like nothing had happened.

She couldn’t act like the other party, she couldn’t talk and chat naturally, she couldn’t be as indifferent and calm as her.

Yan Xianchuan stirred the shrimp congee in her bowl with a spoon, she was eating without tasting, she deeply realized this.

She couldn’t do it.

She now had a problem.

After dinner, they were about to leave, but Yan Xianchuan accidentally dropped her spoon. She bent down to pick it up, and suddenly realized that she had put on her socks the wrong way around in her rush this morning. The seams of the socks should have been facing inwards, but now they were facing outwards, greeting her.

Her heart skipped a beat.

There was a small blue wind chime hanging at the entrance of the dessert shop. Whenever someone came in, the airflow from opening the door would blow its hem, making the star-shaped crystals collide with each other, making a clear, crisp sound.

They both wore sunglasses, they were just trying to cover their faces. The prices here could be considered the standard of a luxury goods store, few people would go crazy and chase after stars, besides, Nanjin City was full of entertainment companies, they didn’t lack stars, everyone was used to it.

A few people recognized Lu Mingqiu and wanted to take photos with her, she agreed to all of them.

Yan Xianchuan wandered around the counter by herself, looking at the delicate and delicious desserts in the glass cabinets, she wasn’t surprised to find that she wasn’t interested in them.

But she still picked one, she couldn’t come all the way here for nothing.

The bright red, round cherries were dotted among the white cream, it must taste very sweet, like a lover’s lips.

The two of them really should spend some time apart, let this matter cool down, let the emotions in their hearts also cool down, but Yan Xianchuan hadn’t even considered this path.

She followed Lu Mingqiu back to the film base, she went out to eat with her, and when someone came, they pretended to be a loving couple.

Lu Mingqiu would hold her arm, she would casually make up some funny stories about “my Ah Chuan,” she would tell the made-up stories in a tone that was both helpless and sweet.

She only had a faint scent of perfume on her, a kind of flower fragrance that Yan Xianchuan didn’t recognize, it smelled good, and it was very peaceful.

But she secretly thought that the scent of pheromones would be better, she still remembered the other party’s description, the scent of baked bread.

Because they had to hold hands, the two of them would inevitably get closer, their shoulders rubbed together, they were tightly pressed against each other.

Yan Xianchuan had already accepted this level of physical contact without much thought, but it was different today.

For a moment, she wanted to dodge, she thought she would dodge, but in fact, she stood still, she even cooperated by opening her arm a little.

She also thought she would be tongue-tied and stumble, but in fact, she seamlessly picked up Lu Mingqiu’s words, as if it were true.

During Lu Mingqiu’s days off, Shu Mingyu didn’t do anything special, her scenes weren’t finished, and the Shu family wasn’t a family that could just get up and leave, they were rooted in Nanjin City, they couldn’t move.

Shu Mingyu naturally couldn’t let her go easily, she had used such a low-down method, she definitely had to be dealt with properly.

Dealing with Shu Mingyu was easy for Lu Mingqiu, but how to deal with her was left to Yan Xianchuan, the victim of the drug, to decide.

As soon as she said this, Yan Xianchuan immediately stopped being worried or conflicted, she said fiercely, “I’m going to break her neck, then use her head as a pen to write a word for ‘death’.”

Lu Mingqiu pondered for a moment.

Yan Xianchuan saw that she didn’t immediately agree, she guessed that this matter might be a little difficult to handle, she didn’t want to make the other party uncomfortable, so she took a step back and said, “She likes to climb high branches, she’s unscrupulous, then let her be disgraced.”

“Okay.” Lu Mingqiu said.

There was still a difference between killing someone and ruining someone. Shu Mingyu liked to use her body as a bargaining chip, it was possible that her family was behind it.

She was beautiful and had a little fame, she should be an important figure in the younger generation of the Shu family, she could be sold for a good price, if she died so inexplicably, it’s hard to say if the Shu family wouldn’t retaliate.

If she was just ruined, it would mean that she had messed with someone she shouldn’t have, she would be punished, but she would also be given a chance, her life wouldn’t be taken.

After setting the goal, a few people came to the film base the next day, they were arranged into Shu Mingyu’s hotel room, and then photos were taken and exposed.

They didn’t show any private parts, but they could still see what she had done.

The entire network exploded again, there were countless articles about Xiao Shu Mingyu’s scandalous affairs. No one would say anything like “she’s decent,” the comments were all discussing it with relish, saying that she had many tricks.

This kind of gossip wouldn’t affect her work, what was really affected was her marriage, her shortcut to the top.

Although the thinking was open, these chaebol families at the top still required their wives to be pure, those who had slept with others would naturally be excluded.

She could still marry, after all, now that the thinking is open, they don’t care about these things, anyone can marry, but she just couldn’t marry into the top level she had been dreaming of.

She liked to sell her body, so let her body ruin her “dream.”

How Shu Mingyu collapsed and how angry she was, Yan Xianchuan didn’t care anymore. After this incident, the entire filming process went very smoothly, there were no other problems.

Lu Mingqiu’s last scene was not the scene where she died in the movie, but a scene where the singer was walking alone in an alley, a few children were running around with pinwheels, they accidentally bumped into her.

Her white cheongsam was stained with a few gray marks.

The children timidly apologized, the singer smiled instead, she took out two pieces of fruit candy from her bag and gave them to them.

This scene was seen by the adults who were chasing after them, a few women walked over, they snatched the candy from the children’s hands, they gave it back to the singer, and then they slapped their children’s butts, they cried out in pain.

The singer could only turn and leave, she heard the adults gossiping behind her, one said that the candy she gave them had foreign writing on it, it was expensive. Another said, that was money earned from selling smiles, it was dirty, who knows what was on the candy, dirty money bought candy was also dirty, you couldn’t eat it.

The singer patted her skirt, she patted off the dust on her skirt, but she couldn’t pat off the dust in her heart.

The final shot of the scene stopped on her stunned eyes, the director shouted “Cut.”

The staff all applauded, celebrating Lu Mingqiu’s wrap for the day, she blinked a few times, she came out of the scene, she thanked everyone one by one, she said things like “thank you” and “you’ve worked hard.”

By the time she finished greeting everyone and walked to Yan Xianchuan, a long time had passed.

“Have you been waiting long?” she said. “It’s finally over.”

“Not long.” Yan Xianchuan shook her head, she looked at her nominal lover who had tied up her hair.

After filming was finished, they left the film base and returned to their home in Nanjin City. Two days later, Mirror sent a message, the Holy Healing Church was going to make a big move.

She figured it out from the movements of the people in the bar.

Mirror disguised herself as Poison Sting, the undercover agent, she contacted the masked person who was the liaison for the Holy Healing Church once, the other party just said to wait for instructions, not to contact him privately, and then he left him alone until now.

But Mirror hadn’t been idle either, she occasionally pretended to be Poison Sting, she would go out for a walk, sometimes she would change her appearance and go to the Holy Healing Church’s bar to monitor and scout.

She could change her appearance at will, no one would notice, as for the necklace she was wearing, she would only wear it when she was at the base, it was convenient for her teammates to identify her.

When she was on a mission, she wouldn’t leave such an obvious flaw.

The people in the church used Poison Sting as a pawn, they naturally wouldn’t tell him about any internal actions of the organization. But Mirror was a master of observation and imitation, she could deduce their hidden secrets from their expressions, details, and conversations.

Besides, there were more people coming and going to the bar recently, some people would go to the backstage, to the workroom, and then they would never come out again.

The bar was crowded, no one would pay attention, but Mirror wouldn’t miss these anomalies.

The crazy people in the Holy Healing Church had a different kind of aura than others, you could easily tell them apart after you had been in contact with them for a while.

Most of the people who came to the bar were there to relax, some drank, some danced, some chatted about everything under the sun, and of course, there were bounty hunters who talked about missions there.

They were mostly people at the bottom, people at the bottom had their own characteristics, the people in the church had a kind of indescribable nervousness, it wasn’t obvious on its own, but when you put them in a crowd, that strange characteristic was very obvious.

It was as if they weren’t from the same world as normal people, they didn’t fit in.

There were too many church members coming and going recently.

Mirror impersonated Poison Sting, she also risked going to the black market to find the prosthetic doctor named Black Heart, she asked him if he had any work recently, he wanted to leave the Resistance as soon as possible.

He seemed very irritable, he looked like he was about to be driven crazy by himself, the people in the church could tell at a glance that this pawn was about to be scrapped, they naturally wouldn’t be stingy with using him.

As expected, in the evening, the liaison contacted him.

He was still wearing a white smiling mask, it was heart-shaped, his eyes were curved, his mouth was curved, and he had pink blush on his cheeks.

“You’ve been a little too jumpy recently.” he said, his voice was low and smooth, as sweet as chocolate sauce.

“If you hadn’t kept breaking the conditions you promised, I wouldn’t have to be so worried.” Poison Sting said with a bad expression.

“It just so happens that we do have a new mission for you.” White Mask said with a light laugh, “Go and tell the Resistance that you’ve discovered that there are church members at the Ping’an Wharf, they might be doing something, lure everyone over there.”

Poison Sting’s pupils contracted slightly, “Are you going to wipe out the Resistance?”

“How could that be?” White Mask chuckled, “These people are like lice on a wild dog, you can’t catch them all, we just want to make them focus their attention there, so that they won’t be able to pay attention to the church’s real actions.”

“If I lure people over there, but there’s nothing, I’ll be dealt with on the spot.” Poison Sting bargained, “And just with my few words, they won’t send that many people, they’ll only send two to scout.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll arrange a few scapegoats to go there beforehand.” White Mask said with his hands behind his back, “You just need to bring them there, and from then on, you’ll be free.”

Poison Sting’s eyes lit up, then he hesitated, “My mental coordinates…”

“The device I gave you before can block your coordinates.” White Mask stroked the priest’s robe on his body, “The church won’t break its promises, you leave, and someone will naturally meet you.”

“Okay!” Poison Sting couldn’t hide his excitement, “When exactly are we doing this?”

“This Wednesday.” White Mask said with a smile, “Congratulations on your freedom in advance.”

After saying this, he cut off the connection and went offline.

Poison Sting, or Mirror, snorted coldly, the people in the research department had already figured out that little thing, it didn’t have the effect of blocking mental coordinates at all, if Poison Sting was still alive and believed him, he would be the next one to die.

The only important information in White Mask’s words was Wednesday.

Mirror immediately contacted Lu Mingqiu and reported her findings.