Under the dim light.
The doctor patiently guided the patient, hoping to get him to speak of his most agonizing memories and achieve a form of self-redemption.
Jiang Chen clutched his head and struggled for a long time before finally speaking with a pained expression.
"That night, I couldn't sleep and was playing on my phone. Just as I was reading news about several murders, I suddenly heard someone knock on my next-door neighbor's door. Soon, the door opened, and a heated argument came from inside."
"It seemed a tenant had come to confront the landlady over a rent increase."
"I..."
At this point, Jiang Chen suddenly began gasping for breath, clawing fiercely at his hair. "No! That's wrong! That wasn't what happened!"
"She was a female ghost! She wanted to kill the landlady, Sister Hong, and I ran over to stop her!"
"That's not right either..."
"She was a person, a living person. When I picked her up, I could clearly still hear her heartbeat. She screamed so terribly, but I still threw her off the twelfth floor."
"I even threatened Sister Hong, telling her not to give me up when the police came..."
"No, that's still wrong!"
"What I killed was a ghost. I just wanted the landlady not to expose my identity as a Ghost Exorcist..."
Conflict kept crossing Jiang Chen's face as he switched back and forth between the two accounts.
Beside him, Doctor Luo's smile grew broader. He wrote in a patient file, "No. 18 suffers from severe psychological problems: delusional disorder, split personality, bipolar disorder..."
"Whether she was human or a ghost, she brought it on herself! Who told her to come knocking in the middle of the night? She deserved to die! It was all her fault!"
By the end, Jiang Chen had