Translator: SJade, Editor: Dj22031
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The light in the room was a little darker, Liu Ye sat on the sofa holding the pillow, and Qiu Li sat on the bench beside her, giving her the final relaxation training.
“For privacy reasons, Aunt Liu can choose to chat with me alone.”
As per the industry rules of psychological counselling, under the premise of respecting the wishes of the counsellor, the hypnosis process should not have many people present.
Liu Ye glanced at Xie Yuan on the opposite side of the sofa and said, “It’s okay, I remember some bits and pieces of things from the past, there is nothing shameless, you can share them with Xie Yuan.”
Jiang Yu consciously left the living room, went back to her room, and sent a text message to Jiang Manyi asking her about Liu Ye. After all, her mother and Liu Ye were still quite familiar.
Jiang Manyi had been angry since a long time ago, but now she was worried about Xie Yuan and didn’t want him to go his own way.
“Xiao Yu, stay with your dad more and persuade him. He may not listen to us when we speak, but he will definitely listen to what you say.”
“I don’t know what will be the result of hypnosis later, but what if Dad is right?”
“This probability is comparable to buying a lottery ticket.”
Jiang Yu hung up the phone and waited anxiously for the result while waiting in her room.
After half an hour, the hypnosis was over.
Jiang Yu came out of the room door and saw Liu Ye still lying on the sofa taking a nap. Xie Yuan took a blanket and put it on her, then returned to the study without saying a word and closed the door.
The result was obvious.
Jiang Yu was about to ask something, but Qiu Li’s long fingertips fell on his lips, and he made a soft “hush” gesture, then returned to the room and closed the door.
“How was it?”
Qiu Li shook his head: “Although she has forgotten some things in the past, she still retains the remaining memories in her mind. These memories do not belong to Bu Tanyan.”
“So, they aren’t the same person?”
“No.”
Qiu Li penetrated into her subconscious and learned that she had had a husband and a child.
Later, the husband seemed to have been found guilty of a crime and was taken away by the police, and the child was nowhere to be found, but the memories of this period were vague and fragmented. Even she herself didn’t know what was going on, and Qiu Li couldn’t find out more details.
After her husband’s accident, her memory became clearer. She had been single for many years and had not met a man she wanted. Because she could dance ballet, she worked as a dance teacher in a hobby organization and taught children to dance. Life was simple and happy. Now, she came to know Xie Yuan.
Jiang Yu suddenly thought of a clue and asked: “She can also dance ballet, so does she remember her ballet teacher’s name?”
Qiu Li shook her head: “Her memory is obviously broken into two lines. Before the accident of her husband and child, the line was very vague and light; then the memory became very clear and concrete. But in any case, she is not Bu Tanyan.”
Jiang Yu sighed. She knew how disappointed and sad Xie Yuan must be at this moment.
Jiang Yu did not go to the study to disturb Xie Yuan, but went straight to the living room. Liu Ye had slowly come to her senses, and Qiu Li informed her of the hypnotic process and results.
“I have met many psychologists before.” Liu Ye seemed to be prepared: “Their results are the same as yours. I have indeed forgotten a lot of things, including my past life, including my child, and my childhood memories… A lot of specific details just seemed to be sucked away by the vacuum cleaner, and what was left is torn apart.”
“If you still want to retrieve those memories, we can try again at another time.”
Qiu Li was also a little unwilling. He had never encountered such a situation when he helped people in the past.
As long as it was the memory of his patient’s experience, no matter how deep it was hidden, it could be explored through his hypnosis. He had hardly encountered a situation like Liu Ye.
Unless she really didn’t experience that memory, how could she not be able to find it.
He was in trouble, it was hard to say that he didn’t want to try again.
Liu Ye saw Qiu Li’s unwillingness, so her eyebrows curled up, and she smiled and said, “You really are quite willing for this experiment.”
Jiang Yu hurriedly went to intercede and said: “Don’t mind him Aunt Liu, he has been a top student since he was a child, and it is rare for him to encounter something like this.”
“It doesn’t matter, if Xiao Li wants to try again, we can make another appointment.”
“So, next Friday night, okay.”
Jiang Yu gently pulled his sleeves.
Aunt Liu said casually, but he was quite honest… really went to make an appointment.
“All right, then next Friday night, Xiao Li, you will come to my house, and Xiao Yu will come with you. Auntie will make you some good food.”
Jiang Yu nodded helplessly.
Liu Ye really liked Qiu Li, and this like seemed to be instinctive. Seeing him riding his bike in the rain that night, Liu Ye’s heart seemed to be hit.
If her child grew up safely, he should be the same age as him.
“Aunt Liu, Dad said you can also dance ballet.” Jiang Yu asked Liu Ye curiously: “I also want to watch Aunt Liu dance.”
“Now, here, are you sure?”
“Well, the third floor of our house has a big dance studio, Aunt Liu, come with me!”
Jiang Yu took Liu Ye to the third floor. The third floor was supposed to be Xie Yuan’s gym, but when Jiang Yu moved in, he transformed it into a dance studio again.
“At what age did Aunt Liu start to learn ballet?”
“Ah, I really don’t remember this. Anyway, I was dancing since I can remember.”
Jiang Yu pressed: “The process of learning ballet is particularly difficult. I may forget about going to school, but the process of learning ballet is just like a brand in my mind. I still remember the first time I pressed my leg, the teacher pressing on my legs made me tearful.”
Liu Ye shook her head: “I really have no memory at all.”
Jiang Yu brought her own dance clothes, let Liu Ye put it on, and then opened the solo variation in Act III of “Swan Lake”.
Liu Ye smiled and said, “Does it have to be difficult?”
Jiang Yu also smiled: “Aunt Liu can dance casually, it doesn’t matter, even if you can’t dance…”
Before the words fell, Liu Ye began to whirl on tiptoe, following the melody of the variation, dancing lightly, and successfully completed thirty-two whiplashes, and every detail was almost perfect!
When Jiang Yu asked herself, she realized that she herself might not be able to maintain such a high level of movement without warming up at all!
What’s more, Liu Ye was not young anymore, she could still dance at the same level as Jiang Yu, no…her level was higher than Jiang Yu!
Qiu Li couldn’t see any way, but when he saw Jiang Yu’s dumbfounded expression, he was also a little suspicious.
In this world, except Bu Tanyan, who could make Jiang Yu show such an expression.
After Liu Ye turned the corner, she didn’t feel dizzy at all. She stood steadily, even her breathing was not disturbed: “How about it Xiao Yu, you are a professional dancer, how did I do?”
Jiang Yu didn’t know what to say, she was not qualified to comment on this ultimate dance.
Since childhood, she had watched Bu Tanyan’s video more than a thousand times, the dance of Liu Ye…., it was exactly Bu Tanyan’s style!
Her eyes flushed slightly: “You are…you are…you are mother…”
Before Jiang Yu could finish speaking, Qiu Li took her hand and deliberately joked: “You started calling Aunt Liu even before your dad married her?”
Jiang Yu immediately realized her gaffe, calmed her mind, and said, “I’m sorry.”
Liu Ye didn’t care, waved her hand, smiled and said, “If I had such a good daughter, I would wake up laughing even from my dream. There will be a chance in the future. You are all my children! How happy I am.”
Jiang Yu looked at Liu Ye’s smile. She remembered that Teacher Ling Xuan had said that Xiao Tan loved to smile very much. It was really broken when she smiled, and she didn’t look like everyone else.
She finally understood why Xie Yuan stubbornly thought of Liu Ye as Bu Tanyan, she was really…so much like her.
Even though Jiang Yu had never been in contact with Bu Tanyan, after seeing her dance, she began to wonder if Xie Yuan was right.
That night, Jiang Yu saw that Xie Yuan’s study was lit up late, and her father was not asleep.
She gently opened the door and called out, “Dad.”
There was a faint smell of smoke in the room. Xie Yuan held an old photo frame in his hand. In the frame was a photo of him and Bu Tanyan on the railroad track.
That was the only group photo between them.
Dad was thinking about mom again…
Seeing Jiang Yu coming in, Xie Yuan immediately put out the cigarette butt, then opened the curtains to ventilate the room.
“Not asleep yet?”
“I think Dad must have insomnia tonight.” Jiang Yu walked to Xie Yuan, leaned back on the desk, and took his hand: “I will accompany Dad.”
Xie Yuan put down the frame and smiled slightly: “Daddy is okay.”
“Not disappointed?”
He shook his head: “Not disappointed, I still insist on what I believe, Liu Ye is your mother.”
“But Qiu Li said…”
“That kid is not capable enough, it’s not that I made a mistake in judgment.” Xie Yuan said calmly, “I will not be wrong.”
Bu Tanyan was the love of his life, even if the whole world didn’t recognize her, Xie Yuan would definitely recognize her.
The appearance could be changed, and the habits could also be changed…but you could never change in the eyes of your lover.
“It must be that kid Qiu Li who is not good at learning.”
Jiang Yu said to Xie Yuan: “If Aunt Liu is willing, we can ask a more powerful counsellor to help.”
Xie Yuan was slightly surprised: “Xiao Yu, are you on my side?”
“It’s not because you are my father that I want to help you.” Jiang Yu took Bu Tanyan’s photo frame and gazed at the woman in the photo tenderly, “I have seen Aunt Liu dance, even if she has lost part of her brain memory, her muscle memory cannot be deceiving. She is my mother.”
Liu Ye saw that Xie Yuan always worked overtime whether it was a working day or a rest day. So in the afternoon on the weekend, she personally made his favourite snacks and brought them to him.
Xie Yuan could feel that Liu Ye really liked him, just like Bu Tanyan. When she liked him in the past, she found excuses to run into his shop almost every day. It was totally unlike the girls of that era, who were expected to be reserved and not say out their likes and dislikes.
Bu Tanyan liked him, and she liked to be open and upright, even if she was turned away by him several times before, she chased him cheekily and vigorously.
The same was true for Liu Ye, no matter how the people in the company whispered, no matter how meaningfully other people look at her… She liked Xie Yuan, even if the two people were far apart nowadays, she didn’t care.
She brought a small snack into the lobby of the Yuefang Group’s office building. The receptionist saw her and immediately opened the door for her graciously, ready to send her to the elevator.
“It’s okay, I’ll go by myself.” Liu Ye glanced at the badge on the front desk’s chest and said, “Thank you, Su He.”
“It doesn’t matter, it is what I should do. Mr. Xie is on the 48th floor. He should be in a meeting now.”
Su He returned to the front desk flattered, and whispered to the other front desk Zhou Zhenru: “She just called my name.”
Zhou Zhenru said half jealously and half mockingly: “What’s there to be happy about, this woman comes every day, who is not familiar with her in our company.”
Someone started to gossip about the company’s biggest gossip news recently-Xie Yuan’s girlfriend. Several receptionists around heard it and gathered together and said, “Mr. Xie has been single for so many years and has finally learned to care about women. It’s not good. That’s why she hurries up, and comes every day to please him, for fear of losing it.”
“I think Mr. Xie is just having fun, after all, her age…”
“With Mr. Xie’s identity, what kind of woman can’t he get, you don’t even know how insecure she must feel in her heart.”
“I think so, no wonder she comes every day.”
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