As soon as A Wan said this, Henry froze instantly.
He thought, perhaps this was the greatest punishment for him.
He lowered his gaze, like a criminal hanging his head.
“I lost my memory. You should know why too. Tell me the reason,” A Wan demanded.
Henry pressed his lips together, unsure how to answer for a moment.
It was Gu Jianing who spoke up. “It’s hypnosis.”
“I think this Doctor Henry probably knows hypnosis.”
Gu Jianing had just used the scanner in her eye to scan her mother-in-law, and it showed that her mother-in-law had been hypnotized.
Since her mother-in-law hadn’t suffered any physical trauma, her memory loss could only be due to hypnosis.
Besides, wasn’t this doctor named Henry a psychologist? So it wasn’t surprising that he knew hypnosis.
Hypnosis?!
No one expected that to be the case.
Even A Wan was astonished.
And seeing Henry tremble slightly before falling silent confirmed that Gu Jianing was right.
“Is it hypnosis? We’ve lived together for over a decade, and I never knew you knew hypnosis.”
Before, A Wan had always thought this husband was honest with her.
But now she realized just how deeply he had hidden things from her.
Henry slowly looked up and admitted with his eyes closed, “Yes, it’s hypnosis.”
He had no choice. If he hadn’t used hypnosis, even if he had taken A Wan away back then, her heart would still have been with her husband and child.
She still would have wanted nothing more than to leave him and return to China.
So the only thing he could do was use his hypnotic ability to make A Wan forget all her previous memories.
“How could you be so selfish, to just rob me of my memories like that?”
A Wan was utterly disappointed in Henry. Whether it was scheming her fake death, taking her away, or hypnotizing her to steal her memories—
none of it was done with her consent.
He simply thought it, and did it.
Was that kind of love really love?
It was too selfish.
Sang Yuwan would rather not have such selfish love.
“A Wan, I was wrong. I really was wrong.” Henry actually knew that what he did was wrong.
But at the time, it was his only choice.
He also knew that given A Wan’s personality, if she learned the truth, she would surely hate him.
But he had no other option.
“Let me ask you this: can you restore my memory?” A Wan didn’t know if her past memories were good or bad.
But whether good or bad, they belonged to her.
Only she had the right to choose to forget or not forget; no one else had that right.
Moreover, only with her complete past memories could she make better judgments.
Unexpectedly, Henry shook his head. “I can’t.”
“How can you not?” Sheng Xinhao was furious. He grabbed Henry by the collar again, wanting nothing more than to kill this foreigner.
But Henry maintained the same answer. He looked at A Wan and said, “I only know how to hypnotize someone to forget memories. I have no way to restore them.”
Gu Jianing spoke up, her sharp gaze fixed on him. “So you’re saying your hypnosis ability is only half-baked?”
“If that’s the case, how dare you hypnotize my mother-in-law back then?”
“Didn’t you know that if things went wrong, it could easily cause nerve damage, memory confusion, and turn someone into a lunatic?”
Henry’s breath caught. Clearly, Gu Jianing had hit the mark.
Yes, Gu Jianing was indeed correct.
Actually, Henry had rarely practiced hypnosis on people.
He wasn’t particularly proficient in it either.
Back then, when he decided to hypnotize A Wan into forgetting her memories, it was just an attempt.
He hadn’t considered the consequences.
Later, when it succeeded, he felt incredibly fortunate.
The revelation of this truth only highlighted Henry’s selfishness and how frightening he was.
Even knowing that his hypnosis could potentially turn Sang Yuwan into a lunatic, he still went through with it.
It was at this moment that Sang Yuwan completely gave up on Henry.
The look she gave him was filled with coldness.
“So, can A Wan’s memories never be recovered?” Sheng Xinhao had been hoping A Wan could regain their beautiful past memories.
That way, wouldn’t there be a glimmer of hope that A Wan might return to him?
Just then, Sheng Zexi looked at Gu Jianing. “Ningning, do you have a way?”
Gu Jianing nodded. “Yes, I can help Mother recover her memories.”
Although she hadn’t yet studied the medical knowledge related to hypnosis,
Gu Jianing was confident.
“System, bind Sang Yuwan as a patient,” Gu Jianing said to the system in her mind.
[Ding, Sang Yuwan has been bound as patient No. n. Scan completed. Scan results can be viewed in the patient section of the system space.]
Gu Jianing took a look at the description of Sang Yuwan’s symptoms in the patient section.
She felt fairly confident.
She would enter the Divine Healer space to study.
After finishing her studies, she could hypnotize her mother-in-law and restore her memories.
By now, Gu Jianing’s medical skills were vastly different from when she first bound with the childbearing system.
In the past, entering the Divine Healer system meant a lot to learn, and it was challenging for her.
Now, with her extensive medical knowledge covering a wide range of fields,
she spent less time learning and handled it with much more ease.
“That’s great! Then we’ll leave A Wan’s memory recovery to Ningning,” Grandpa Sang and Grandma Sang said joyfully.
—
“A Wan, come back with us. We’ll all return to Jing City together,” Grandma Sang asked as they were about to leave the room. Her eyes were filled with affection and reluctance for her daughter, Sang Yuwan.
Sang Yuwan thought for a moment and said, “I will go back with you, but there are some matters I need to handle first.”
She glanced in Henry’s direction.
Sheng Xinhao wanted to say something, wondering if A Wan still had lingering feelings for Henry, but he knew that given his current position, it wasn’t appropriate for him to interfere with A Wan’s decisions.
Besides, the A Wan of today was different from the A Wan of the past.
And he, after more than a decade, was no longer the same man he had been back then.
Over ten years of time had ultimately changed many things.
“Alright. We’ll be in Yangcheng for a few more days. Take these days to deal with your matters. Then we’ll go back to Jing City together?”
“Okay.” This time, Sang Yuwan didn’t refuse.
In the end, Sheng Zexi drove Sang Yuwan and Henry back to the guesthouse where they were staying.
“Mom, if you need anything, just contact me. I’ll come over,” Sheng Zexi said.
“Alright.”
Towards her son Sheng Zexi, Sang Yuwan’s feelings were complicated.
Deep down, she felt familiarity and affection, yet she had no memories of him in her mind.
It was undoubtedly contradictory.
This was precisely why Sang Yuwan wanted to recover her memories.
Only by regaining her memories could she fully reclaim her treasure.
“Wait for Mom,” Sang Yuwan said, reaching out to pat his head.
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