Nicholas watched John Nash sit in a chair with his son in his arms, and the child was crying bitterly, but John was indifferent, just looking at an angle stupidly, stiff. Inexplicably, Nicholas felt choked, all his emotions were stuck in his throat, and he couldn't vent them at all.

On the surface, John's life is back to normal, but in fact, everything is no longer normal.

Alicia became extremely sensitive, and whenever she heard John talking to herself, she suspected that his hallucinations had appeared again, and it was later revealed that it was just her own crankiness, and even she could not stand it, so she could only laugh dumbly; During the long night, Alicia longed to be able to get John's hug, and even respond to her physical needs, but John had no choice but to give her a back indifferently......

The tremendous pressure caused Alicia to completely collapse, and she could only get angry in the bathroom in the mirror, angry at herself, angry rants could not give her a solution, and the dazed and oppressive life left her overwhelmed and exhausted. But so what? When she woke up the next day, Alicia still had to go back to work, and even had to work overtime to support the family, and John had no way to take care of the child, and she had to send the child to her mother to ensure that the whole day of work would not be distracted.

John stood in the doorway, his lonely figure becoming smaller and smaller, he looked like an extra burden, he had no way to help, but was still dragging down the family; He was like the walking dead, the whole world stopped turning, he couldn't do anything but take out the trash, and his once proud mathematical prowess was turned into a pool of stagnant water.

John paused his medication, and although every time Alicia reminded him that it was time to take it, he would secretly put it away, which made his brain slowly start working again, and he could see the passwords hidden behind the words again, and he could see the ...... William Patcher.

William sets up a secret base in the woods behind his house and allows John to rejoin the ranks of cracking codes. John began to tell himself that Dr. Rosen was right and that William was just his hallucination...... But William managed to convince John - or in the back of his heart that he had always wanted William to exist, "I'm afraid you're not real." John's watery eyes revealed relief, and he let out a long breath.

For the next year, Alicia didn't notice anything unusual, until one stormy day, she went out to collect clothes, and John took her son upstairs to help him take a bath, although Alicia was a little worried, but John's excellent performance for more than a year still convinced her.

After putting away her clothes, Alicia heard the indeterminate sound of the radio in the midst of the storm and followed the sound all the way, and then she saw John's secret cabin, with countless newspapers, magazines, and numbers hanging on the walls, and the whole room was densely covered, which made Alicia fall into endless fear and run back into the house.

John is closing the window, but there is no child in sight, Alicia runs to the bathroom and finds the child left alone in the bathtub, the hot water almost drowning him, leaving him drowning. Alicia picked up the child like crazy. John, who realized something was wrong, walked over and said blankly, "Charles is here, he's fine." ”

"There's no one here!" Alicia roared frantically and angrily, "There's no one here at all! ”

Alicia ignored John's remark that "he was injected with the invisible serum", and quickly ran downstairs and dialed Rosen's phone. John quickly followed, he watched Alicia's movements and was overwhelmed, and then William appeared, and William tried to warn John that Alicia's actions would endanger countless lives, and she knew too much, so her life had to be ended.

Seeing William walk towards Alicia with his gun raised, John rushed forward in despair, but knocked Alicia into the corner of the wall without wanting to, and the child in his arms cried even more. John looked at Alicia at a loss and tried to explain her actions, but Alicia was completely shocked, she pushed John away, and left the house as if fleeing for her life, and rushed to her car in the storm.

John stood there and lost himself, William appeared, Charles appeared, Marcy also appeared, they all kept urging John to deal with Alicia, and William even began to force John to act with a pistol. Countless fragments of memories flooded into his mind, making John's brain almost explode, he only felt that he was about to suffocate, and the words and memories of the three people kept echoing in his ears, as if they were everywhere, and the whole world was completely thrown into chaos.

John rushed out of the rain, stopped Alicia's car, looked through the rain curtain into his wife's eyes, and said in despair and confusion, "She never grew up. Marcy can't be real, she never grew up. "The shock and fragility mixed together, rippling in the depths of those amber eyes, it was unbearable.

"John, why are you stopping taking your medication?" Rosen came to the house and sat down face to face with Alicia and John.

John looked at Rosen, then at Alicia, and out of the corner of his eye, he could see Charles and Marcy staring at him, "Because I can't work, I can't help look after the kids...... I can't respond to my wife's needs. Shock slowly spread in Alicia's eyes, "Do you think that's better than being crazy?" ”

Rosen said that John needed to accept more intensive information, but this time John shook his head and refused, firm and persistent, "No, there must be another way." It's just a 'problem', that's all, a problem that I can't find a solution to at the moment, and what I'm best at solving it. ”

"It's not math, you can't invent a formula and change the world's mind."

"I just need to use my brain!" John was stubborn, but Rosen was still trying to refute him, which made John cry out angrily, "Why? Why not? ”

"Because your brain is the root of the problem." Rosen didn't back down.

John still didn't waver, "I can fix it, just give me time, and I can fix it." But even now, Marcy's laughter echoed in John's ears, and the illusion never seemed to go away.

Alicia decides to send John back to the mental hospital, but John sits in the room, refusing to pack, holding the handkerchief she stuffed into his suit pocket on his first date with Alicia, with a stubborn and dazed face. "Are you ready? Rosen is waiting for you outside", Alicia's voice made John look up, and he looked at his wife sadly, "I can't go back to the hospital. Both fell silent, "If you go, you won't come back." ”

It became incredibly difficult for Alicia to say every word, "He said that if what you said happened, he had a power of attorney for me to sign. ”

"Can you please not sign it?" Alicia's pleading voice stunned, "Just give me a little more time, and I'll definitely find a solution." No matter what you decide, Rosen is right about one thing, you can't stay here. I'm no longer safe. ”

Alicia looked at John, who was full of loneliness, "Are you really going to hurt me?" ”

Faced with this question, John's eyes were red and full of unease, he could still see Marcy running behind Alicia, and he shook his head in pain and struggle, "I don't know either." Maybe you'd better ask Rosen to send you to your mother's house. This answer made Alicia's shoulders extremely weak, and she slowly turned away and walked downstairs.

John tried to pack his luggage again, but there was no way but to sit on the edge of the bed nervously, overwhelmed. But then, he heard the sound of the engine starting—Rosen left, and when he saw Alicia go upstairs again, John's eyes were filled with a layer of translucent mist, and he looked at his wife blankly, "Rosen said, if you want to kill me, call him immediately." This sentence made the smile on the corner of John's mouth pull up slightly, so difficult, but so happy.

Alicia walked up to John and got down on her knees, keeping her gaze parallel to John, "Do you know what's real?" Then she gently stroked John's cheek with her right hand, "This." This made John slowly close his eyes, revealing a serene expression, and then she took John's right hand and placed it on her cheek, "This", and finally rested on her chest, "This." ”

John felt Alicia's steady, powerful heartbeat, "That's true. Amber eyes flickered slightly, and he couldn't take his eyes off the woman in front of him, "Maybe what will wake you up from your dreams may not be in your head, but here." Alicia's right hand rested on John's chest, feeling the heartbeat that had calmed her.

Tears slowly overflowed from John's eyes, and his heart began to tremble slightly with the mixed emotions rippling in the water.

"Whew", Nicholas suddenly gulped in a big gulp, because he had stopped breathing for so long and so long that his brain began to run out of oxygen, and tears just ran down his cheeks and his cheeks became hot. He finally understood what that strangeness was, and he finally understood how to deal with the cold and isolated cruelty of the mental hospital.

It is love, trust, care, and companionship.

When seeing Alicia risk her life and choose to stand by John's side, the two decide to work together to get through the difficulties; As he watched Alicia and John's right hands resting on each other's hearts, John's eyes twinkled with a touching and fragile light; When you look at John's haggard and crazy look, lonely and sad, helpless and dazed...... Nicholas knew that he was not crazy, that he was just sick, no different from normal people, just sick. No one needs to avoid him, no one needs to treat him in a cold and brutal way, no one needs to make his life more difficult in a strange way.

All he needs is to stop being "different".

The shock that penetrated into the soul completely turned the world known to Nicholas upside down, the neurotic was no longer a neurotic, the madman was no longer a madman, he was just a patient in need of companionship.