Chapter 287: The Gentle Psychiatrist (57)
Why does the female protagonist have to visit her all the time?
Nevertheless, this time, it appeared that the female protagonist had come to her with malicious intent, which could clearly be seen based on the look on her (Tang Meng's) face that she was giving her (Yue Ran).
"Miss Yue Ran, it has come to our attention that you have provided psychological counseling to Liu Zi You, one of the deceased suicide victims, for a certain amount of time in the past," Tang Meng started. "Is that right?"
"Yes, that is right," Yue Ran answered calmly. There was certainly not the slightest hint of panic on her face. "I do remember it."
"Then why have you never mentioned or brought it up when I came to you before?" Tang Meng questioned Yue Ran angrily. The young woman's eyes seemed to have been tempered with poison, as though she had already come to the conclusion that Yue Ran was most definitely the mastermind and murderer of the recent suicide cases, who was hiding behind her crimes.
"Ah, so it was about this," Yue Ran remarked before blinking with a slight puzzlement. "I have assumed that you, Miss Tang, would have already looked up this basic information before finding me."
Yue Ran spread her hands in a helpless and innocent manner.
Yue Ran: I am clearly not at fault for this, so no one can blame me for anything.
At present, Tang Meng is accompanied by two of her colleagues from the police station. It was really not easy for her to be on the offensive side right now in front of Yue Ran after being countered back with no trouble. As a result, the young woman could only glare at Yue Ran as she sat across from her.
"Then, do you know anything about the suicide chat room?" Tang Meng posed the question in a rather aggressive tone of voice. The look on her face was also extremely hostile.
"Suicide chat room? Is there a thing like that?" Yue Ran asked with a pause. "I am sorry, but I really had no idea that a thing like this even existed."
The frown on the face of Tang Meng became much more pronounced. "Then when did you start to provide psychological counseling to Liu Zi You?"
"Let me think about it first," Yue Ran said before she suddenly had an epiphany. "Ah, I have made a record of it."
Yue Ran pulled out a record file, which contained a lot of patient data. After skimming through them with care and slowly flipping through the pages, she finally found the column for Liu Zi You.
Yue Ran read and reviewed the information written down before she relayed the details to Tang Meng: "It was in 20XX. In other words, it was six years ago."
Six years ago. Half a decade prior.
Let alone Liu Zi You's cause for taking his own life; the suicide chat room must not have even been created or even existed yet back then!
Although Tang Meng knew this and was thinking so in her heart, she was still hesitant to acknowledge and a little unwilling to admit that Yue Ran was not at fault in this case. She was not going to back down. She was unwilling to give in. She was really unwilling!
The successful young woman in front of her must not be innocent! Yue Ran must be guilty of the crime! Yue Ran must have done something wrong! So, how could she, Tang Meng, allow such a heinous criminal to go out and roam freely in a world like this?
Tang Meng: I must uphold the law and enact justice as a respectable policewoman!
"Then how long has he been under your care?" Tang Meng asked.
"The police have asked me these questions and information before," Yue Ran said. "And I do not doubt that they have also made backup copies of it."
Tang Meng: …
Tang Meng was made speechless by Yue Ran. She was left completely dumbfounded. However, more frustrations gushed out of her heart. She was angry, upset, and unwilling to accept this outcome!
"I am asking you these questions right now, so you have to answer them," Tang Meng said bitingly.
"All right," Yue Ran shrugged, realizing that she was powerless against the unreasonable, irrational, and unyielding individual in front of her and thus could only give in and concede in this manner. "Liu Zi You had visited me five times in total. I had initially judged that he was suffering from a mild depression. This may be due to his academic life or family factors. Most likely both."
"Oh, how are you able to recall this information about him so well?" Tang Meng asked insistently and demandingly with narrowed eyes. It was as if she had gotten a grasp of something and thus had to push on until the perpetrator of the crime would admit to doing his or her crimes.
Yue Ran let out a helpless sigh before saying, "It was because he was one of the few people who left before he recovered, so he left a bit more of an impression on me."
These types of exchanges went on for some time. The responses Yue Ran provided to Tang Meng were consistent without flaws.
Very soon, the faces of the two colleagues of Tang Meng, who came with her from the police station, changed, turning a little ugly.
It does not appear as if Tang Meng was asking questions to Yue Ran in a civil manner at all! The young woman gave off the impression that she was merely in search of trouble and was putting in her best effort to make enemies with Yue Ran! Moreover, in the end, no valuable information was extracted from Yue Ran!
It was pretty much clear that Tang Meng was only finding trouble, making things worse, and wasting precious time searching for the real culprit behind the scenes!
Can she not see straight?