Love in a mental hospital

Chapter 220 Every inch of time is worth an inch of gold
He Qingyan stretched out her hand and lightly flicked a taut spider silk with her fingers.

Gu Ran wanted to stop them, but because everyone's clothes were in disarray, he deliberately kept a distance, and it was too late.

"Qingyan!" Yan Hanxiang frowned.

The spider silk is like a musical instrument's string, spinning, floating, and dancing in the sunlight, appearing and disappearing from time to time.

"Princess Xiya, please, you are so smart, it's okay for you to skip a few days of cram school, come and participate in the tennis match with us! You will look great in a tennis suit, better than anyone else!"

A faint sound echoed.

The sound gradually weakened, and when the slight tremor stopped, it disappeared completely.

The spider silk also split into two strands at some point, one continued to entangle Xie Xiya, and the other shot towards He Qingyan like a sharp arrow.

"Be careful!" Gu Ran stepped over and grabbed He Qingyan's hand.

But before he could come to his senses, the spider silk wrapped around He Qingyan's fingertips.

Circle after circle, winding rapidly, reminded Su Qing of the scene in Gu Ran's fishing class where he used fishing line to tie fish hooks.

It was very fast and in the blink of an eye a whole finger was wrapped around it.

Everyone was summoning [Monsters], but their speed was far slower than that of the spider silk.

But the next moment, all the spider silk on He Qingyan's fingertips disintegrated, scattered in the air, and disappeared in the sunlight.

"Why don't you continue? I want to get another set of clothes to wear." Only He Qingyan didn't care at all and moved her fingers that were free from the restraints.

"Go to the back." Yan Hanxiang said coldly.

He Qingyan obediently walked behind her and massaged her shoulders in a flattering manner.

"Mom, do you want to play the towel-opening game again? I'm sure it will scare everyone this time!"

Yan Hanxiang ignored her and nodded to Gu Ran.

Although he was of no use, the thought is what matters most.

She also understood why He Qingyan, Su Qing, Chen Ke, and some other little girls all liked Gu Ran. Who could not like him if he really rushed to the front when they saw danger?

From ancient times to the present, whether it is female animals or human women, when choosing a mate, the ability to protect themselves and provide enough material to raise offspring is always one of the most important conditions.

"Is it because Qingyan doesn't care about other people's opinions?" Zhuang Jing guessed the reason why the spider silk was ineffective.

She raised her hand.

"Mom!" Su Qing said in a low voice.

"Aunt Jing!" Gu Ran also stopped her.

Zhuang Jing smiled at the two of them as if to comfort them, and then, like He Qingyan, gently flicked the spider silk.

"Xiao Han, relax. The ball that you can't catch will definitely be caught by Xiya behind you." An elderly voice.

The spider silk trembled in the sunlight, appearing and disappearing from time to time, as if for a moment it had really disappeared from the world.

Maybe she will really disappear, and influence people's views on Zhuang Jing.

These views become visible constraints, or spider threads, back to a small room on the first floor of the resort island.

The spider silk turned into two strands again, one wrapped around Xie Xiya and the other wrapped around Zhuang Jing.

Then, just the fingertips, not even the nails, were covered completely, and the spider silk that was wrapped around Zhuang Jing fell off as if without any force.

"Aunt Jing, you are so heartless." He Qingyan said, pinching her mother's shoulders.

Not to mention Chen Ke and Gu Ran, even Yan Hanxiang would hardly say this.

Su Qing might say it behind Zhuang Jing's back.

This may be the reason why spider silk is ineffective against He Qingyan.

Zhuang Jing naturally didn't care about the comment of this sentence. She looked at her fingertips. Although the amount was small and the time was short, she was indeed entangled.

Is this Su Qing?

She put away her gaze and thoughts, looked at the others, and said with a smile: "Do you want to try it?"

"Teacher, I shouldn't use it." Chen Ke said embarrassedly, "I will definitely be hung up."

"Xiao Jingni and Qingyan are the freaks." Only Yan Hanxiang could say this. "A normal person would have at least half of their body entangled. In my case, it would probably be one arm, and it wouldn't fall off. It would just keep replacing it with new spider silk."

"Let's save Xiya first." Su Qing looked at Xie Xiya who was entangled in countless spider silk.

If a spider silk is a requirement, then the world is too harsh on her.

It was taken for granted that Xie Xiya didn't need to go to cram school, and it was taken for granted that she could save the situation and would not fail in any major situation.

In addition, there is pressure from parents.

For seventeen years, perhaps Xie Xiya thought she had gotten used to living on thin air.

But in the end, when she was about to suffocate, her instincts got out of her control and she was unable to take off her school uniform.

She wants to tell people around her, especially her parents, that she also has shortcomings, even those that she cannot talk about and that are seen by the world as "brain disease."

She didn't want to bear the expectations that were taken for granted anymore.

She also wants to have the power to 'disappoint everyone'.

"Gu Ran," Su Qing turned around, "Can the black dragon you turned into burn these spider silks?"

"It should be fine, but I don't know if it will hurt Xie Xiya." Gu Ran said.

"What about tearing it off?" Chen Ke asked.

"It's hard to say. If the spider silk is also effective against the black dragon, I might be strangled to death by it, especially the one representing Teacher Zhuang Jing."

"No doubt about it." Su Qing said without hesitation.

A little bit of good-natured sarcasm, just like when you say to your friend, "I have the final say at home," and your wife says, "Really?"

"Without a doubt." He Qingyan said the same.

".Should." Chen Ke smiled embarrassedly.

"If Gu Ran is entangled, I must play it and listen to what Zhuang Jing wants from Gu Ran." Yan Hanxiang also smiled.

Gu Ran thought she was just teasing him at first, but he realized it the next second.

If he was really entangled in the spider silk, and everyone touched the spider silk out of curiosity - it was very likely, so the rest of the people would be fine, but what if it hit Yan Hanxiang's...
slower?
faster?
Lighter?
None of that!

Deadly!
"I think it's best for Aunt Jing or Qingyan to take action." Gu Ran said, "To me, Aunt Jing's spider silk is like a metal ring piercing a bull's nose. No matter how powerful the black dragon is, it will be led away."

After saying this, he added emphatically: "I am very confident about this."

"Let me try." Zhuang Jing said with a smile.

There was no [heart wall] either. A toad as big as a small hill was already crouching in the living room, with its mouth facing the bedroom.

It was so silent that it was heart-wrenching.

The toad opened its mouth and a slender, snow-white hand stretched out like a tongue.

The tongue hand grasps a spider silk thread.

"I've never heard Xiya sing, but her voice is so nice, she must be a good singer!"

There is no necessary correlation between having a nice voice and singing well.

People who don’t sing well feel a lot of pressure when singing in front of a crowd.

The spider silk forked and entangled the tongue and hands, but soon fell off.

Use your tongue and hands to pull hard.

He kept pulling, with his tongue and hands retracted into his mouth, and the spider silk was pulled out of the door before it was torn apart.

The spider silk, which was as taut as iron wire before, became as fluttering as catkins after breaking, and seemed to die at any time.

But the next moment, it was reassembled inside the house and tightened again.

"It's useless against spider silk," Zhuang Jing looked at Xie Xiya who was wearing the spider silk dress, "We can help relieve her pressure temporarily, but only she can take off the dress herself."

"Xiya unbuttoned a button during the day. Changing the environment might help her." Chen Ke took out a pen and a piece of comic paper with only two grids.

"It's not because of the environment." Su Qing shook her head gently, "It's us. We don't have any requirements for her."

"This statement is not right either. How could we not have any requirements for her?" He Qingyan said.

Their demands on Xie Xiya may be the thickest spider silk.

They asked her to let go of everyone's expectations of her and not care about other people's opinions. This was certainly for her own good, but it could not hide the harshness of this request itself.

In this world, except for a few things like bath water and waste paper, humans will feel more or less reluctant when discarding anything else.

When you throw away a data cable from a mobile phone that has long been broken, you will think that it may be useful in the future.

I know that every time I order takeout that requires gloves, they will give them away, but I still unknowingly accumulated a lot of disposable gloves. I always think that I will need them one day, but the number of disposable gloves keeps piling up.

We cannot even throw away the most insignificant items, let alone other people's opinions of us.

A total stranger may just say something like, "You are so handsome" or "Why are your teeth so ugly?", and you may never forget such a simple sentence.

Most people live for fame and fortune.

Those historical celebrities also pursued the goal of "leaving their names forever".

For the sake of fame, people are willing to sacrifice their lives. This shows how difficult it is to ignore the opinions of the world.

Take the current situation for example, without the spider clothes, it is equivalent to living in the world without clothes. How many people can accept themselves without clothes?
Primitive people wore clothes, from keeping warm and safe to symbolizing wealth and status. The more complex and beautiful the clothes were, the more respected they were.

"Once people have thoughts, they begin to weave webs of desire and turn themselves into ugly spiders, binding themselves and entangling others," said Zhuang Jing.

The spider silk flashed a faint light in everyone's eyes.

Every strand and every line was spit out by the spider. If you look closely, you can find logic in them. But when they fell on Xie Xiya and turned into clothes, they became tangled and complicated.

"My fragrance can make her feel more relaxed, but if she uses such a powerful fragrance, the result will only be to get rid of other people's opinions, but she will be constrained by the fragrance and become addicted to drugs." Yan Hanxiang said.

"It probably won't work on spiders." Su Qing fell silent.

"Now only Gu Ran has turned into a black dragon." He Qingyan said.

It sounds like 'Dagu turns into soup'.

"Let's give it a try." Zhuang Jing said.

Gu Ran really didn't want to, but there was no doubt that he should listen to Zhuang Jing rather than his own ideas.

"Okay, let me show you my final transformation." Gu Ran summoned the black bird with such determination.

wow——

The black bird rushed into the villa, passed over the [Hand Toad] at a strange angle and at a speed as fast as a black line, entered the bedroom, and landed on Gu Ran's shoulder.

"What kind of bird is this?" Chen Ke asked curiously.

"Crow?" Su Qing was also looking at it.

"Not like it." Zhuang Jing said.

"Anyway, it's not a good bird. It's pitch black. Just looking at it gives me psychological trauma." He Qingyan commented.

Although he was the only one who was dressed neatly from head to toe, Gu Ran felt like he was the only one without any clothes.

"I can't do anything here, I'll go outside." Gu Ran carefully avoided the spider silk and climbed out the window directly, which was faster.

Everyone looked out the window.

Only Zhuang Jing present had seen the Black Dragon.

The black bird turned into a completely black shadow, and then changed from a bird-shaped shadow to an irregular black shadow, and then the black shadow covered Gu Ran's entire body.

Just like an evil force gaining flesh, the black shadow expanded rapidly, filling the entire window in the blink of an eye.

boom--

A violent gust of wind blew in through the window.

Spider silk fluttered, sheets rustled, and the bathrobes of everyone behind the sheets spread out like wings.

Cheers and exclamations came one after another.

The strong wind came violently and went away quickly, and stopped soon.

Everyone looked out the window and saw a ferocious, majestic, and huge black dragon standing outside the window, looking in with its head down.

They all have the illusion that they have become pets in a box, being looked down upon by humans.

He Qingyan ran to the bed, took a look outside, then turned back in surprise and said to everyone, "It doesn't have genitals!"

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"Step back a little, I'll try to burn these spider silks." Gu Ran pretended not to hear.

"Let's go outside." Zhuang Jing said.

[Hand Toad] rolled up its tongue and rolled up the princess on the bed along with the quilt.

"Qingyan, come back." Yan Hanxiang said.

He Qingyan jumped out of the window.

She is like this in life too.

No one can do anything to her.

"uh-huh."

"What? Do you have any objections?" He Qingyan knocked on the scales on the black dragon's hind legs.

"I cleared my throat because I was afraid that the fire would be too big and would burn Xie Xiya to death." Gu Ran explained.

He took a small breath and blew it like a feather, and a thin flame shot out.

Like a sharp blade blasting out of its body, the flames stretched across the room, illuminating the surroundings in red.

The straight flame cut through the spider silk, breaking it instantly.

The situation that Gu Ran was worried about did not happen. The spider silk did try to wrap around it, but no spider silk could crawl along the flames towards the black dragon.

Xie Xiya fell onto the bed, and her spider clothes split open like a cocoon.

"We really can't underestimate her." He Qingyan laughed in a fun-loving manner.

Xie Xiya was wearing nothing, lying in the middle of a cracked cocoon like a sleeping beauty, her black hair like a fan.

Something unexpected happened and she opened her eyes.

"Xiya, why did you wake up?" Chen Ke asked in surprise.

".You can also have lucid dreams?" Su Qing couldn't hide her surprise.

Xie Xiya held up her upper body, and her weight was indeed not to be underestimated.

She looked around and lay back down bored.

"Another boring dream." She closed her eyes and held her breath.

As her breathing stopped, the solid dream swayed like water waves, like the sunlight shining on the kitchen sink outside the window.

Everyone woke up from their dream before they had time to react.

Gu Ran opened his eyes.

The sun was shining brightly at three o'clock in the afternoon. The half-drawn dream curtains swayed slightly in the air-conditioning wind. He was still lying in his room, with a wonderful feeling that he was still in a dream.

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"Private Diary": September 14, Saturday, Dream

Xie Xiya is actually a lucid dreamer.

In psychological counseling, whether the client is a lucid dreamer is very important information, but Xie's mother actually concealed it.

Maybe Xie's mother herself is the same.

My body feels a little itchy, as if spider silk is wrapped around me.

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"Doctor's Diary":
If you have a boring dream, just hold your breath and force yourself to wake up;

Just let yourself have non-boring dreams, such as dreaming about studying, dreaming about riding, and dreaming about playing chess. Is that right?

The same is true in reality, there is no 'wasted time', every minute is worth a coin, and every minute should be lived as valuable as gold.

How can people survive in a world full of gold?
Xie Xiya's heart is more depressed than any of us can imagine.

I hope my anger can wake her up.

(Zhuang Jing's comment: The effect may not be as good as expected, as can be seen from her holding her breath, but the psychological barrier of "can only wear school uniforms" should be solved.)
(End of this chapter)