Chapter 161: Control
There were two cups of steaming tea on the table, and the mist was in the air, blurring the faces of Chen Yang and Lin Weiwei.
The two sat opposite each other, Chen Yang stared at Lin Weiwei, who lowered his head a little uneasily, fiddling with his nails.
Chen Yang sighed a little in his heart, he had the habit of rubbing clothes when he was nervous, but when Lin was slightly nervous, he would keep fiddling with her nails.
Chen Yang chuckled and said, "I'm already a doctor of psychology, but I don't know how to hide my emotions." ”
Lin let out a slight "ah", his hands stopped moving, and his face had changed, and after being stunned for a long time, he sighed lightly and said, "Yangzi, you know everything?"
Chen Yang picked up the teacup, took a sip and said, "Weiwei, why are you still lying to me now?"
Lin Weiwei had a miserable look on her face, her eyes were slightly red, and her voice was choked: "I'm afraid that after you know everything, you will blame me and hate me." ”
Chen Yang sighed and said, "No matter what mistakes you had before, it's all in the past, now I just want you to tell me everything in person, don't let me live in these mysteries anymore, okay?"
Lin nodded slightly, and said with a smile on his face: "Okay, I believe you, Yoko, I will tell you everything, because the only one who is best for me in this world is you." ”
Chen Yang smiled helplessly, the twenty-eight-year-old Lin Weiwei in front of him was still no different from the eighteen-year-old her, when she was by her side, she would put away all her disguises, just like a little girl.
"You didn't go abroad because of a blood disease, did you?"
Lin Weiwei's expression was a little panicked, but she quickly calmed down, and she sighed lightly and said, "Yes, I went abroad for other reasons. ”
"Why didn't you leave me a word when you left, and just left quietly?" asked Chen Yang calmly.
Lin Wei held the teacup and thought for a while, then raised his head to look at Chen Yang and asked, "Yangzi, can you tell me how you got rid of it?"
Get rid of it?
Get rid of what?
A perfect life, or a perfectionist?
With the memory of being twenty-eight years old, Chen Yang was able to know the content of the call between his twenty-eight-year-old self and Lin Weiwei more than three years ago.
However, in that call, except for the twenty-eight-year-old's crazy questioning and roaring, Lin Weiwei's words were very pitiful.
The last sentence "perfect life" made me even more puzzled.
Chen Yang asked, "You mean a perfect life?"
Lin nodded slightly, waiting for Chen Yang's answer.
Chen Yang didn't know how to answer, he couldn't say that he didn't know what the so-called perfect life was, could he say that he came through time, this was obviously impossible.
For the perfect life, even the memory of the age of twenty-eight is only a vague understanding.
It was a beautiful belief, but in Chen Yang's view, it was a mental illness.
Because of the belief in perfection, there will be extreme ideas and practices in many things, so that you will fall deeper and deeper, and you will not be able to get out of the so-called perfect life trap.
Chen Yang shook his head and said, "Weiwei, I don't want to lie to you, and I don't know how I got rid of it." ”
Lin Weiwei's expression was a little surprised, but he turned to a wry smile. He has experienced seven years of pain and suffering, and he has not completely gotten rid of its control, but in front of him, he has completely gotten rid of it without knowing it, which is really a trick.
Lin took a sip of water, his mood slowly calmed down, and he began to speak.
"Perfect Life is a psychology topic that I got by chance when I was in college, I don't know where this topic came from, maybe by chance, I got all the information on this topic. ”
"In the early days, I just used it as a textbook to understand it simply, but as I slowly got deeper into it, I realized that the subject was like a poison that had begun to erode my soul. ”
"I didn't expect this subject to be so magical, it guided me step by step into a fantasy world, the so-called perfect life. ”
"It's a world where everything is perfect, there's no trouble, there's no fear, everything negative is gone. We will live in perfection, life will be perfect, marriage will be perfect, love will be perfect, everything will be perfect. ”
"It was like opium that addicted me, and even though I knew it was unreal, I was so caught up in it that I couldn't get out of it, and I couldn't escape from it. ”
"I call it spiritual opium. ”
At this point, Chen Yang interrupted Lin Weiwei's narration: "A perfect life should be said to be a mental illness, right?"
Lin nodded slightly and shook his head again: "Yes and no, if a person does not have the basic knowledge to understand it, does not understand it in depth, and contacts it, he will not be affected by it at all." ”
Chen Yang was puzzled: "Then why am I... ”
Lin smiled slightly bitterly: "Yangzi, don't interrupt me, I will explain it to you." ”
Chen Yang picked up the teacup, pursed his mouth, and motioned for Lin Weiwei to continue.
Lin thought for a moment, and then began to speak again.
"For normal people, even if they come into contact with the subject of a perfect life, it is impossible to fall into it. Because there is too much complex psychological knowledge in it, ordinary people can't parse it at all. ”
"And I, because my father was a psychologist, I have been exposed to it since I was a child, and I have a strong curiosity about this subject, so I devote myself to researching this subject. ”
"But when I tried to escape from this subject, I realized that it was too late, that I was already controlled by the idea of a perfect life that I had created, and that there was no way to get rid of it. ”
"Yoko, you still remember that in my sophomore year, I was on leave due to illness for a while, and you couldn't find me in a hurry, and I didn't return to school until more than a month later. ”
Chen Yang nodded and said: "Remember, I was about to die at that time, and when I asked your mother, she didn't tell me where you went, only that you were not feeling well and needed to recuperate for a while." ”
Lin sighed slightly, and said with a miserable smile on his face: "It's not to recuperate, but I want to find a place where I can get rid of the control of my perfect life." Because I found out that I actually had an unusually terrible idea invisibly, which is why I left in the first place. ”
"What thoughts?" asked Chen Yang.
Lin Weiwei's face changed slightly, and his expression became a little painful: "I found that I was inadvertently spreading the concept of a perfect life, and I was a virus-like existence at that time. After a pause, Lin said with a slightly frightened face: "The most terrifying thing is that I try to control other people with a perfect life. ”
After a long pause, Lin raised his head slightly to look at Chen Yang with a stunned face, and said with a wry smile: "And you, the person I love the most, are the first to be controlled by me." ”
Chen Yang's eyes widened, and he froze in place with a shocked expression.