Li Huowang gripped the Iron Window Bars tightly with both hands, his one eye vacant as he watched the patients outside during their recreation time. He watched their bizarre movements.
He thought for a very, very long time. At last, he parted his trembling lips and muttered to himself, "Are they really all hallucinations? Have I really had a mental illness all along?"
"You only just realized?!" Yi Donglai's suppressed, angry voice came from behind him.
"When you killed people, climbed the electric fence, and dug out your own eyeball while fully conscious, did you think you were normal?"
Li Huowang's expression gradually twisted into something savage. Veins bulged on his hands as he gripped the iron bars with all his strength. "I had definite reasons for doing those things!"
"Which mentally ill person who kills or hurts people doesn't have reasons? But those reasons only make sense inside your head! They don't fit the outside world!"
Li Huowang could no longer endure it. He turned and glared furiously at his attending physician, Yi Donglai. "What are you getting so worked up for?! I'm the one who's sick! Why are you getting worked up?!"
"Me, worked up? How could I not be? Do you know what it means to me if something happens to you?" Yi Donglai rose to his feet in anger.
"It means my paper gets withdrawn, it means my path to promotion is cut off! It means I make a complete fool of myself and get laughed at by my peers! I even gave interviews before this! I sat in front of television cameras and talked at length about your treatment process!"
"If you don't get better now, then my life is finished too!! I can't accept an outcome like this!"
After saying that, Yi Donglai sat