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Shen Fu admitted that he was also a mortal, and sometimes curious about other people's private lives.
"Sister Su, was that Uncle Li who just left? I grew up watching his plays!"
Su Yu Qing sighed: "That handsome face is indeed too recognizable. He's my boyfriend. You won't go around spreading rumors, will you?"
"Certainly not. I just didn't expect Uncle Li to still be unmarried." Shen Fu remembered this handsome old man was already in his forties.
"He was married, but..."
"Uh..."
"Don't misunderstand. He secretly married and divorced fifteen years ago. We didn't even know each other back then."
"Actually, I didn't think much of it. Other people's lives have nothing to do with me."
Su Yu Qing beckoned with her hand, and a young girl began to prepare tea for them. The process was very elaborate. After completing this set, a hundred yuan worth of tea could be steeped into a thousand yuan worth of tea.
"So, tell me your problem." Su Yu Qing saw that Shen Fu was not in the mood to appreciate the art of tea drinking, so she asked directly.
"It's my friend's problem," Shen Fu clarified, "it's related to multiple personality disorder. I want to know, when the number of personalities exceeds three, can the sub-personalities switch directly with each other, or do they have to go through the main personality?"
"Multiple personality disorder, huh? That's a very serious mental illness. How many personalities does your friend have?"
Hearing the words "very serious," Shen Fu frowned: "Nine, nine of them."
"Huo, so many!"
Originally, Su Yu Qing simply intended to trick people into buying tea, but now hearing about someone with nine personalities, it immediately ignited the professional ambition of the psychologist within her.
"Sister Su, you still haven't answered my question~" Shen Fu reminded her.
"Ah, this. Normally, sub-personalities can switch directly. At least, all the cases I've encountered were like that," Su Yu Qing said. "Good tea, please enjoy it slowly."
Shen Fu indifferently took a sip. So Xiao Die's judgment was wrong?
He asked again: "How many cases of multiple personalities have you encountered at most?"
"Five," Su Yu Qing said. "When I was studying abroad in the US, I once encountered a murderer with five personalities."
"A murderer?"
"Yes, the sub-personalities of people with multiple personality disorder are often extreme, violent, and prone to crime. Of course, it's not always like that. I once saw a person with a dual personality: the main personality was a warm uncle, and the sub-personality was a vibrant teenager, both very upright and kind." As she spoke, Su Yu Qing subtly licked her lips.
Shen Fu asked again: "Is there a situation where the main personality appears less and less, and the sub-personalities take up most of the time?"
"Yes," Su Yu Qing nodded. "Our current research shows that sub-personalities often appear to protect the main personality. So they often have personalities that can confidently face the cruel competition of society, weak personalities to gain sympathy, aggressive personalities to deal with potential violent threats, and so on.
When the main personality feels danger, or its emotions fluctuate intensely, which could harm the coexisting body, it usually hides, and a sub-personality comes forward to deal with it."
Shen Fu pondered. Xiao Die used to be very stable. She had a psychology degree, and she was very good at managing her emotions. Besides, what danger could she be in?
Su Yu Qing added: "Of course, this is just a common situation. Multiple personality disorder hasn't been discovered for long, and research is still at a superficial stage. It was only officially named over twenty years ago. It is now known that in this situation, multiple personalities basically have their own behavioral habits, ways of thinking, living environments, and even self-perceptions. So it's very normal for one body to have various personalities with different tones and ages."
Seeing Shen Fu listening intently, Su Yu Qing added: "Just like in the past, in rural areas, there were often so-called cases of being possessed by ghost spirits or deceased fathers. In reality, these could be manifestations of multiple personality disorder, but they might also only appear once in a lifetime.
It's a pity that in those years, our country didn't have a scientific psychological system, especially in rural areas. Otherwise, there might have been many interesting cases."
Shen Fu had heard old men talk about the kind of situations Su Yu Qing described. After all, he grew up in the countryside, and in those years, things that couldn't be explained by science were attributed to ghosts and spirits.
Hearing her say this now, Shen Fu felt a sense of clarity. The occasional manifestation of multiple personalities could indeed be a reasonable explanation for those strange occurrences in the countryside.
But he didn't care about those things; he only cared about his Xiao Die!
"So if the main personality is suppressed by sub-personalities for a long time, doesn't that mean the main personality will disappear?"
Su Yu Qing shook her head: "If that's truly the case, I recommend you consult a qualified psychologist who can prescribe medication. I recommend Dr. Long as a good choice.
Because situations where the main personality is overwhelmed by sub-personalities have occurred before. Usually, the main personality lacks the desire to live, loses the will to fight for survival, and is then taken over by a more dominant sub-personality. This kind of thing, like other illnesses, should be detected early and treated early. The most effective method is personality fusion."
"Personality fusion?"
"Yes, I once led a case of dual-personality fusion. A patient had an irritable personality that once harmed his wife. Afterward, I helped him fuse that violent personality, and now their marital life is very harmonious."
"I, I will advise my friend to consider it." At this moment, Shen Fu's mood was a bit heavy. Before, he would have unhesitatingly advised Xiao Die to fuse her personalities, like a tumor growing in the body; of course, everything had to be removed.
But over time, living and interacting with Bai Jiao Yue, Bai Sheng Nan, and the other personalities, they truly seemed like independent, vivid individuals with bright personalities, experiencing both sorrow and joy. Fusing them felt truly like "killing someone."
He could now understand Xiao Die's feelings from before. No wonder she didn't want to do it.
But all things considered, between watching Xiao Die be killed and killing the other personalities, Shen Fu would rather choose to "kill the other personalities!"
If Xiao Die's weight in his heart was 100, then all the others combined wouldn't even reach 10.
Shen Fu stood up: "Sister Su, thank you very much today. Before, I worried blindly for her alone. Now I know what to do."
Su Yu Qing smiled, her eyes narrowed: "Drink tea, drink tea~"
Shen Fu prepared to leave, so he picked up the teacup and drank it all in one gulp: "Hmm, good tea!"
Su Yu Qing smiled even more happily: "Then would you like to take some home to taste?"
When Shen Fu walked out of Qing Yu Tea House, he had a light bag of tea leaves in his hand, along with a bill for 28800 yuan.
Why did something feel a little off?
Su Yu Qing was still at the door, waving goodbye to him: "If you like it, you can come back here to drink tea and chat. I also have other exquisite tea flavors."
Shen Fu quickly turned around and nodded: "Thank you, Sister Su!"
Getting into the car, he had only driven halfway when his phone rang.
It was Bai Shan Shan. What was wrong? Had she freeloaded a meal again?
Shen Fu answered, and just as he was about to speak, he heard a gentle and familiar voice from the other end: "Husband, have I been gone for a very long time~"
"Click!" Shen Fu quickly pulled over to the side of the road: "Xiao Die!?"