Su Ling was awakened by a noisy argument.
“Miss, you’re making this very difficult for me. We have regulations.”
“What regulations? I need regulations just to visit my boyfriend?”
“Doctor, I want to see my son. Can you please make an exception?”
There was a familiar, mature woman’s voice, accompanied by the pleading voice of an older woman.
Su Ling shuddered and snapped his eyes open, only to find to his horror that he was currently tied to a bed.
Panic-stricken, he quickly scanned his surroundings.
It was a completely unfamiliar environment that looked like a hospital ward.
The lingering scent of disinfectant hung in the air.
“Ling Ling!”
The person outside seemed to hear the movement inside and rushed in.
A doctor at the door opened her mouth to speak, a look of helplessness on her face.
She then pulled out her phone, seemingly to call someone over.
“Mom!”
Su Ling was overjoyed to see the person who entered.
It was his mother from Earth.
At this moment, her face was covered in tears, and seeing her like this made Su Ling’s heart ache.
He wanted to reach out and wipe away her tears, but he found himself firmly bound to the bed, unable to move at all.
“What on earth is going on?”
Su Ling grew frantic and struggled desperately.
“Don’t move. This is for your own good.”
A sigh sounded in his ear.
An exquisite face appeared before his eyes.
It was Jiang Hua.
Su Ling’s expression became incredibly complicated.
‘Wait, why are you here?’
“What exactly happened? Where is this? Why am I tied up?”
Su Ling spat out all his questions at once.
His memory was still stuck at the banquet from the night before.
Did he cross back in the blink of an eye?
‘It was that red wine!’
Su Ling gradually realized what had happened, and his face instantly turned pale.
If he had returned just like before, did that mean the Original Owner had gone back as well?
Then Miao Miao…
Su Ling’s mind was filled with thoughts of Miao Miao, and he failed to notice the heartbroken look in his mother’s eyes.
When Su Ling snapped out of it and saw his mother’s pained expression, he immediately panicked.
“Mom, what’s wrong?”
“Ling Ling, do you… do you really not remember anything?”
“Madam, I already told you that Mr. Su Ling’s condition is not optimistic.”
A sigh came from the doorway; it was the doctor from earlier.
Behind her stood two burly nurses who looked quite intimidating.
“If you truly want what’s best for your son, then please leave for now. It isn’t visiting hours yet.”
The doctor spoke very sternly.
His mother nodded through her tears and, supported by Jiang Hua, reluctantly left the room.
“Mom!”
Seeing his mother leave, Su Ling shouted out in a hurry.
He had absolutely no idea what was happening.
However, the room seemed to be soundproofed.
When the door closed, his mother didn’t seem to hear his shout.
She covered her face and wept, walking away quickly.
“Mr. Su Ling, please excuse us. From the looks of it, your condition seems to have worsened.”
The doctor was a woman in her thirties.
She skillfully put on a face mask, ignored Su Ling’s angry gaze, pulled out a notebook, and looked at him.
“Now, for the first question. How much do you remember? Just about recent events?”
“No, what exactly happened?”
Su Ling’s gaze was pained.
The joy of seeing his mother earlier had long since vanished.
The doctor gave him a deep look and then scribbled something in her notebook.
“I’ll tell you. Three days ago, you ran out into the middle of the road alone. Just as you were about to be hit by an oncoming truck, a passerby managed to save you, preventing a tragedy.”
“Your boyfriend—wait, your girlfriend found you afterward and discovered your mental state was extremely chaotic. You also showed severe violent tendencies. She was terrified and immediately called the police. Later, the police arrived and subdued you.”
“The police brought you to the hospital. After a preliminary diagnosis, it was determined that you have a serious mental illness, which is why you were transferred to our facility.”
The doctor spoke while observing Su Ling’s expression.
However, Su Ling’s reaction was somewhat outside her expectations.
First, he was shocked, then dazed, and finally, his face was full of helplessness.
After hearing the doctor’s description, Su Ling understood exactly what had happened.
“Mr. Su Ling, you don’t seem surprised? Have you remembered?”
“Uh, how should I put this… Well, what I’m about to say might sound absurd, but I absolutely guarantee that everything I’m saying is true. You have to believe me.”
“Of course. As a doctor, that is my professional responsibility. Please do not have any reservations.”
The doctor closed her notebook, appearing ready to listen.
“It’s just that the ‘me’ of the past few days wasn’t actually me. It was a Witch with the same name as mine.”
Su Ling observed the doctor and found that she didn’t show any sign of astonishment.
He quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
“You might not know about Witches. Their appearance is no different from our human beauties—they’re even more beautiful than those so-called top international stars.”
“The Witch Civilization is a god-level civilization that spans three universes. A Witch also named Su Ling used an ancient Forbidden Curse to swap our souls.”
“In other words, for the past few days, that Witch was in my body while I was living her life in the Witch World.”
Su Ling tried to explain it in terms as simple as possible.
“Interesting.”
The doctor’s expression didn’t change in the slightest.
This instead left Su Ling feeling confused.
“Mr. Su Ling, I understand today’s situation. Someone will come to treat you shortly. Please cooperate with us.”
“Wait, you still don’t believe me, do you? Everything I said is true! Wait, don’t go!”
Su Ling panicked as he watched the doctor walk away.
At the same time, he suddenly realized he had just made a fatal mistake.
Question: How do you prove you aren’t crazy in a mental hospital?
The simplest way was not to try to prove anything.
Just follow the doctor’s instructions and behave like a normal person.
What he had just said sounded exactly like the nonsensical ravings of a mental patient.
The door closed, and with it, Su Ling’s hope seemed to vanish.
This plunged him into a state of immense dread.
The room soon fell into a silence.
But a moment later, the door opened again, and two burly nurses walked in.
Su Ling took deep breaths, forcing himself to calm down.
‘Calm down, calm down.’
‘I need to follow their instructions completely.’
‘Whatever they say goes. I’m a normal person, not a mental patient. I’m a normal person, not a mental patient…’
However, when Su Ling saw that the syringe in one of the nurses’ hands was as thick as an arm, he sucked in a sharp breath.
‘Wait, are you sure that’s for me?’
“Mr. Su Ling, your girlfriend really loves you. She spent so much money on such expensive medicine. You should really cherish her.”
One of the nurses looked at him with a face full of envy.
Su Ling, meanwhile, looked like he was at death’s door.
‘Are you sure this isn’t a murder?’
“Haha… listen, can we skip the shot?”
Su Ling gave a dry laugh.
“No can do.”
The nurse smiled gently, but the muscles on her tree-trunk-sized arms bulged, making Su Ling break out in a cold sweat.
‘Calm down!’
‘You’re a normal person!’
‘Just endure it and it’ll be over!’
Su Ling desperately told himself.
As long as he cooperated, he could soon prove he was normal.
He squeezed his eyes shut and waited quietly.
But at that moment, time seemed to have been paused; it felt incredibly long.
Su Ling felt like he couldn’t even breathe.
He quietly opened one eye a crack, but in the next heartbeat, his pupils shrank violently.
The setting was still the same, but the two nurses before him had transformed into two person-sized, hideous-looking insects holding syringes!
“Aaaaahhhhh!!!!”