Proofread by Peter Gong

“Tell me. What’s your name?”

Ding Yi speaks suddenly. His voice echoes in the room, making it more mysterious.

Yu Yu opens her mouth unconsciously. Her tongue is flat like a robot. She answers: “My name is Yu Yu.”

Ko Chen stares at the screen in surprise. Although he is not in that room, he lowers his voice and asks Duan Tsing Fong in a low voice: “Did he start to hypnotize her?”

Duan Tsing Fong nods and gives him a hint that he should not speak and just look at what is going to happen.

Ko Chen holds his breath and fixes his eyes on the screen again.

Ding Yi stares at Yu Yu all the time. He notices that her eyes lose focus. Her face has no expression. Her eyes are open, otherwise she looks as if she has passes out.

“Tell me, what do you see?” Ding Yi takes back his pocket watch and helps Yu Yu sit down on her bed. His move is very gentle and he doesn’t alert her.

Yu Yu doesn’t answer immediately. She remains silent for a few seconds and seems to take a good look at the scene in front of her. Then she describes slowly: “Crowd. I see a lot of people.”

“Who are these people? What are they doing?”

Yu Yu answers more quickly than last time: “They are in suits and gowns. They are communicating. It seems that they are at some kind of wine party.”

She frowns when saying the last sentence. She is not so sure about it.

Ding Yi praises her and tries to let her talk about Ko Chen: “Now who do you see first in the crowd?”

This is a difficult question for Yu Yu. There are two many people in front of her and she can’t see their faces clearly. Their faces are familiar but so vague that she can’t come up with their names.

There is a man in smokey grey suit especially. Though he has his back towards her, Yu Yu can’t help but look at him and it’s hard for her to look away.

“A man in smokey grey suit.”

Hearing that it is a man, Ding Yi knows that the man is most likely to be Ko Chen. So, he asks again: “What does he look like?”

Yu Yu shakes her head, looking embarrassed: “I can’t see his face.”

“No problem. Just walk closer to him and you can see his face.”

Yu Yu obeys Ding Yi like a good girl. The man becomes clearer to her but he is still in shadow. She stops walking when she is ten meters away from him. She doesn’t know why she stops. Her intuition tells her not to draw nearer.

Ding Yi is not anxious when she doesn’t answer him. In fact, he keeps guessing what she sees according to her facial expressions. When she frowns and looks hesitant, Ding Yi knows that she “stops”.

One more step. Just take one more step and then she can see Ko Chen.

Ding Yi keeps pushing her: “Don’t stop. Step forward. See, he is not moving. He is waiting for you.”

“Really?” Yu Yu doubts it. But she still steps forward as he told her. The man’s face becomes even clearer just as his voice told her. When she sees the man’s face, she is so surprised that she freezes and opens her eyes wide.

“Ko Chen?”

Yu Yu cries out.

The reaction is what Ding Yi expected. The first step is now finished. Next step, also the most important step begins.

“Do you know this man?”

This time she doesn’t nod. She answers like a robot: “Yes.”

Though her tone sounds rigid, Ding Yi can tell from her unnatural look that Ko Chen influences her deeply. It even affects her nerves.

“Now that you know him. Say hi to him.”

Yu Yu doesn’t even think for a second, she just refuses: “No, I can’t”

“Why not?” Ding Yi narrows his eyes and waits for her answer attentively. Her answer to this question is the key to this hypnosis.

She doesn’t want to. But she doesn’t speak it out.

Ding Yi feels that things are not right, so he asks the same question again. But Yu Yu still doesn’t answer. She is unlike any patient of his. This never happens to him that a patient refuses to answer his question. She is the first one.

Ding Yi leans over and waves his hand in front of her eyes. Nothing changes in her eyes. It looks like she is not awake and still in hypnotic state.

The hypnosis has lasted for ten minutes. How long a hypnosis lasts varies from person to person. But, the first time usually will not last over fifteen minutes. Ding Yi thinks over and decides to end this hypnosis earlier. He snaps his fingers near her ears.

Yu Yu’s eyeballs tremble all of a sudden. And then she rolls her eyes twice. Now her eyes begin to focus.

She changes her face immediately and looks at Ding Yi hostilely. She looks around and notices that she is now sitting on the bed and leaning back to the wall. She has doubts but she doesn’t ask any questions. Instead, she tells Ding Yi: “Get out.”

Ding Yi shrugs his shoulders. He doesn’t mind her attitude at all. He stands still and tells her to take care. And then walks out of the room slowly.

As soon as the door closes, Yu Yu grabs the pillow at hand and throws it to the door hard.

Through the screen, Ko Chen and Duan Tsing Fong can see clearly the cruelty and viciousness on her face. This is not the kind of facial expression that women of her age will show.

“It isn’t going well, is it?” Ko Chen turns his head to Duan and asks.

Duan has no idea, either. He spreads his hands in despair: “This is also my first time to see Arron perform hypnosis. You had better ask him how thing is going when he comes to us.”

Just as he finishes speaking, Ding Yi opens the door of the study and comes in.

He doesn’t wait for Ko Chen to ask. He speaks first: “Mr. Ko, things are a bit complicated with Miss Yu. I can’t get the truth in just one hypnosis.”

“It doesn’t matter. If one hypnosis is enough, just do it twice, three times or even more to get things clear.”

Ko Chen’s face darkens when he speaks.

Ding Yi thinks he is unsatisfied with him and looks at Duan Tsingfeng for clues. Duan says immediately: “What Mr. Ko means is that it doesn’t matter how many times you hypnotize Miss. Yu as long as you get the truth.”

Duan Tsing Fong pulls the corner of Ko Chen’s clothes gently to remind him. Ko Chen then realizes that he didn’t control his look just now. He makes his face gentler at once.

Ding Yi then leaves. Duan Tsing Fong stays. He sighs when seeing that Ko Chen doesn’t speak a word and says: “It will probably take a long time to find out what Yu Yu hides. But your condition is ……”

Ko Chen interrupts him before he finishes his sentence. He says surely: “My condition has no problem. I won’t die so easily before clearing all the obstacles around Fei.”