“You are a doctor, a psychiatrist or a psychologist perhaps, and you have some achievements in your career. You pursue a relaxed life.
You came to Sun City for business. You visited a friend you met online for a few days here, and you had sex with her.
Today, she was the one who sent you off. However, you didn’t really like her and that’s why you decided to go back early,” Stella Grace said.
The guy was impressed. “How did you manage to come up with these? They are very accurate.”
“First, there is trace of ring on your ring finger. You haven’t been divorced for a long time. If you had a child, you would be much more irritable.
Second, you are wearing a Patek Philippe watch. This watch is valuable, so you must be very successful in your career.
Thirdly, there is a faint smell of medicine on your body. From the way you speak, you don’t seem to be an ordinary doctor. In addition, based on your comments about me, I concluded that you are a psychiatrist.”
Fourth, you smell of women’s cosmetics and perfume. The smell comes from your face, clothes, and hands. Clearly not a platonic relationship.
Five, you don’t have a lot of luggage, only a briefcase. You are on a business trip.
Six, you didn’t fly or get sleeping accommodations, unusual for a successful man with a taste for the finer things in life. You must have left earlier than planned.
Seven, there is a lack of stress lines on your face. However, you accosted me so solicitously and your pupils were enlarged, which shows that you’re a womanizer. From your psychological state, I can predict your personality,” Stella concluded.
The man was not angry at all. Instead, he was confounded. He analyzed Stella.
“In this field, I get to know girls who are popular or very capable. I am also familiar with recent psychology students. However, I’ve never seen you before. I would definitely remember meeting someone as gorgeous as you.”
Stella lowered her gaze.
She attended psychology classes for a year in university. She thought what she learnt was quite sufficient. However, she realized her merely theoretical knowledge of the field was insufficient.
After she lost her child, she read books about psychology, meanwhile she also tried self-hypnosis.
She thought she was sensible, that she could understand a lot of things.
Reality proved her over-confidence had led to ignorance. It is easy to think oneself knowledgeable when unaware of one’s ignorance.
A doctor could never treat himself.
It made a lot of sense.
“What’s wrong? If you need my help, feel free to come to me. In addition, you are very welcome to work at my practice. I will pay you a high salary.” The man handed over his business card.
Stella took it and read it.
He was Greg Miles, an international expert in psychology, the assistant dean of the School of Psychology, experienced negotiator, and also a psychology professor working in the military region.
The word “military region” hit her heart like a hammer.
She put his business card into her bag.
“I gave you a business card. Don’t you want to give me a card?” Greg asked gently.
“I’m sorry, I don’t have a business card. If I need to, I will contact you. However, I hope that I will never need to contact you,” Stella smiled, sadness fleeting in her eyes.
Greg could see that Stella was on edge. He stood up and said, “Now that we know each other, please sit down. I’ll tell you a quick way to forget the past.”
Stella was curious so she sat. “What is it?”
“There is hypnosis, which is divided into self-hypnosis, forced hypnosis, and medical hypnosis. You can forget some unhappy things through forced hypnosis and self-hypnosis. Now the experts in this field are developing another more advanced method. At present, it’s in the experimental stage. They need patients to engage in this experimental hypnotherapy.”
“What is that?” Stella asked.
Only experts could understand the academic jargon.
“There was news about it online, it was mainly used to treat mental illness.
Most of the patients who have mental illness have been traumatized from their personal relationships, so their minds would be disordered.
In fact, this was a kind of self-protection for them to avoid pain.
Experts think that people will be cured after the traumatizing memories are removed,” Greg explained.
Stella was puzzled. “How do you remove the memories?”
“The principle is that a person’s brain is equivalent to a machine. We have to find the mainframe that stores these memories and delete them,” Greg further explained.
“How can you find those memories?” Stella asked.
Greg didn’t expect her to be so interested in the topic. He laughed subconsciously and said, “You indeed are a stressful person. Sometimes it’s good to be less sensible.”
She looked out of the window and ignored him.
Greg stared at her beautiful side and said, “Some things are not appropriate to discuss here. This method is not fully developed yet, it’s still in the experimental stage. I’m part of the project so if you’re interested, I’ll take you there to see.”
Stella leaned against the chair and closed her eyes.
Greg waited.
He stood for three hours, cleared his throat, and continued standing.
Stella looked at him, stood up, and walked to the bathroom.
Greg sat down, shamefaced.
Stella didn’t come back from the bathroom. She stood at the entrance and watched the scenery through the window.
She read news from a few days ago.
A sixty-year-old married woman had been scammed for more than 600, 000 dollars.
The scammer said he wanted to divorce his wife for her, but that his company’s funds were frozen and he needed money to settle the lawsuit with his wife.
The middle-aged woman borrowed money for the man she never met before.
In the end, she lost both the guy and the money.
It was a mistake, and there would be no excuses made.
The woman had stepped over the moral lines, she ignored the pain of the wife. She was selfish. If she hadn’t done so, she would not have suffered all these consequences.
Don’t overestimate yourself, know your limits.
Why do you deserve to be loved?
If you are not worthy of love, then it must be a sweet lie.
For Stella, Jasper Milton was a great temptation.
She thought only of him, ignoring identity, status and reason.
At the same time, she betrayed her marriage and stepped over her bottom line.
This was why she deserved what she was facing today.
No one would take the responsibility for her. She could only face the consequences on her own.
“Why are you here?” Jasper’s voice sounded from behind her.
Stella straightened. She turned around and met his sharp gazes with haughtiness and a trace of suspicion.
Stella smiled slightly and said, “I’m heading home.”
“Do you have a seat?” Jasper asked.
“Yes,” Stella nodded and walked past him to the other coach.
Jasper could see she was trembling subtly.
He stepped forward and held her hand.