Qi Si had begun undergoing psychological treatment once a week when he was very young.
The treatments were formal and informal, scientific and mystical—sandplay therapy, talk therapy, microcurrent stimulation...
Back then, Qi Si clearly knew that he could not find pleasure in the things children were supposed to like. Instead, he was interested in harming weak living creatures, and he felt excited when he saw bloody, horrifying scenes. These were all abnormal signs.
Antisocial personality disorder was an illness born from genetic factors and neurological damage. It lacked normal mechanisms for emotional understanding and emotional generation, and thus manifested as a strangeness and cruelty intolerable to society.
Reason, madness, and humanity—the Creator took a spoonful from each of these three jars, adding more or less according to His preference, and thus unique humans were born one after another.
Unfortunately, this Creator sometimes dozed off, forgetting to add a spoonful of an element or adding far too much of one, and so—
Antisocial personalities appeared.
"Humanity" was diluted to the extreme, while "reason" and "madness" stood out sharply. They were incompatible with the group, brimming with danger and destructiveness.
It was not always linked to high intelligence as some third-rate literary works portrayed. On the contrary, like mania, autism, ADHD, and other disorders, it was a form of incompleteness. More often than not, the outcome was being locked in a psychiatric hospital by relatives who could no longer bear the trouble.
But Qi Si was fortunate.
On the one hand, his parents had never given up on him and patiently sought out all kinds of treatments for him. On the other hand, he had been a clever child since he was young and knew how to disguise himself.
As long as he wished, he could act exactly like a normal person