Ji Yan swore that his sharp tongue had never been as vicious and venomous as it was today, especially not in the Eerie Game.
To outsiders, Ji Yan already had one foot in the grave.
But on the contrary, he was doing this to survive!
The hidden information obtained through Omniscient Understanding had another half.
The real reason Liu Yan had been sent to Undead Hospital was not her decayed, ruined body, which had been damaged by excessive plastic surgery drugs.
It was because she suffered from severe Stockholm Syndrome, and an especially rare, serious kind at that.
In other words,
it was a serious psychological illness.
It caused people to gradually develop a twisted dependence on those who had inflicted severe malicious trauma upon them, becoming obedient and submissive to them, and eventually even falling in love with them...
Back on Blue Star, Ji Yan had seen quite a few similar cases.
Girls who had been kidnapped and imprisoned fell in love with their captors after prolonged abuse and humiliation. Some even pleaded for the criminals after the police arrested them.
In fact, quite a few people in real life suffered from milder forms of this psychological illness.
For example, many wives who endured domestic violence wept as they complained, yet remained utterly devoted and dependent on their husbands. The more violent the man, the deeper their love.
Liu Yan suffered from severe Stockholm Syndrome. What made her case special was that her affection and dependence stemmed from being denied on her most sensitive subject.
Put simply, it was PUA.
Once someone had been traumatized by PUA to a certain extent, begun doubting themselves, and finally accepted it, this condition would seize the opportunity and magnify itself without limit.
The reason Liu Yan loved her boyfriend so desperately, so