Lu Mingfei, who had read Dragon Clan before slaying the dragon

At this moment, he didn't care about avoiding suspicion. After all, she was his senior brother's mother, and Aunt Su Xiaoyan was usually very caring towards him.

But unexpectedly, Lu Mingfei only used a little force and the door was pushed open from the outside.

This door is not locked?

It was quiet during the holidays. Looking inside through the crack in the door, the warm yellow table lamp at the head of the bed was glowing. The whole room was filled with the scent of lavender, but Lu Mingfei could smell a faint smell of disinfectant hidden underneath the scent. The lavender scent was probably there to help with sleep and cover up the pungent smell of disinfectant.

The room was of quite high standard, with bedside tables, high-end paintings, a rubber wood desk and a large floor-to-ceiling window. The curtains were tightly closed, but one could imagine the garden landscape in the yard behind. On the table were building blocks and puzzles for entertaining, as well as some books - standard equipment for patients with mental illnesses, which could help them relieve boredom, distract their attention and activate their brains.

There were no electronic entertainment products such as televisions, nor any communication tools in the room. In the middle was a large double bed that looked very soft, with clean pure white quilt covers and sheets. There was an emergency call button at the head of the bed, probably so that the people inside could quickly call for caregivers if anything happened.

A woman was lying on the bed, covered with a not-too-thick blanket. Her arms and legs were stretched out of the blanket, revealing pure white skin. There was a syringe and a bandage on the back of her left hand. Lu Mingfei couldn't see the expression on her face from this angle, but the woman seemed to be asleep.

If there wasn't an IV drip hanging next to the bed, Lu Mingfei would have found it hard to tell that this was a hospital ward.

He looked at the empty corridor. Chu Zihang had not arrived yet, so he was about to close the door and leave. At this moment, the woman on the bed suddenly made a sound.

"Who are you? Who are you? Why are you standing there!" There was fear in the woman's voice.

Lu Mingfei quickly took a step forward and closed the door behind him. He explained in a panic, "Aunt Su, it's me, Lu Mingfei. I came here with my senior brother. I heard that you were sick, so we came to see you..."

Lu Mingfei said this, but the woman on the bed stopped moving. Lu Mingfei went over to take a look and saw that the woman was lying on the bed with her arms and legs spread out, eyes closed, and soft breathing sounds could be heard.

It turned out to be a dream...and it was a nightmare.

For some reason, it was Aunt Su who had the nightmare, but it was Lu Mingfei who was scared... Lu Mingfei was really afraid that Su Xiaoyan would suddenly press the call button on the bedside and call the nurses and doctors. After all, according to the rules, Su Xiaoyan was not allowed to be visited. If this matter was reported to his senior brother's stepfather, he didn't know if there would be any trouble, but at this critical juncture, it was better to have less trouble than more.

There was a chair next to the bed, so Lu Mingfei simply did not go out and sat down beside the bed. He looked at Su Xiaoyan on the bed. His senior brother's mother looked quite dead when she slept.

The sleeping posture was indeed not very elegant. Lu Mingfei was afraid of seeing something he shouldn't see, so he pulled the blanket and covered Su Xiaoyan's hands and feet. Lu Mingfei noticed that there were many old calluses on Su Xiaoyan's feet, which should have been left from learning to dance when she was young.

Her ankles and legs are white and slender. She is obviously about the same age as my aunt, but when you put the two of them together, you can't tell they are the same age. Even though she is sleeping and has no makeup on, you can tell that her skin is very delicate and well maintained. She looks no more than 30 years old. You can imagine that when she puts on makeup and stands on the stage, she is an unmatched beauty. I wonder how many men were fascinated by this woman when they were young.

According to what those aunts said when I visited Chu Zihang's home before, when Su Xiaoyan was young, her suitors could be lined up all the way to France... In fact, this is not an exaggeration at all. Su Xiaoyan has participated in several foreign performances, and she has gained a large number of foreign fans with just a few appearances... According to Chu Zihang, when he was in high school, he and his mother went out together, and some people often mistook them for siblings, and some even mistook them for a couple. Su Xiaoyan didn't mind. She always took Chu Zihang's arm and smiled happily. Passersby looked at this pair of "couple" with extremely high looks, and for a moment they didn't know who to envy.

It seems that Chu Zihang's looks should be more inherited from his mother. Chu Zihang never mentioned his father, but Lu Mingfei had seen him. He was a very talkative man, not easy to find in a crowd. It's not that he was not handsome, but he was a little unkempt. In short, it didn't look like a good match when standing with Chu's mother. However, when Lu Mingfei met Chu Zihang, Su Xiaoyan was already with Chu Zihang's stepfather, and Lu Mingfei had never seen Chu Zihang's biological parents together, but it was hard to imagine that a man like that could chase such a stunningly beautiful woman.

It shouldn't be just his words, Chu Zihang's father must have a hidden identity. Facing a man who dares to wield a knife even against a "God", Lu Mingfei thinks such a man is so handsome and definitely has great charisma... The image of a driver who usually nods and bows should just be his disguise.

A man like this, lurking in this city, is just for Odin, right?

Lu Mingfei didn’t know the true identity of Chu Zihang’s father, but it seemed that they were not the first group of people to discover Odin. Someone had already set their sights on the “God”... It was just that it was impossible to verify whether the conflict seven years ago was an accident or intentional.

It must have been an accident. Chu Zihang was still in the car at that time. However, Lu Mingfei could not see through the missing man. He was too mysterious. There was too little information about him so far. Even his wife... ex-wife and biological son did not know him.

"Chu Tianjiao..." Lu Mingfei murmured subconsciously. He remembered that his senior brother's father was called this name.

The woman who had been sleeping soundly on the bed suddenly opened her eyes and looked towards Lu Mingfei with her big eyes. There was a slight confusion in her eyes, as if she had just woken up and had not yet realized why there was an extra person beside her bed.

Lu Mingfei was still immersed in his own thoughts and did not notice for a moment that the woman in front of him had woken up.

“But how serious does the delusional disorder have to be to be labeled as level ten? Doesn’t even basic knowledge is lacking... No, I don’t even know what the evaluation criteria of this hospital are..." Lu Mingfei murmured.

"Level 10...what does that mean?"

The sudden sound startled Lu Mingfei and he almost jumped up from his chair. He was surprised to see the woman approaching him with a pair of curious eyes.

"Ah...Auntie!" Lu Mingfei quickly stood up and greeted Su Xiaoyan.

“Shhhhh, keep your voice down.” Instead, Su Xiaoyan put her finger to her mouth, asking Lu Mingfei not to make too much noise. “You haven’t told me yet. I heard you say something about level ten. What does level ten mean?”

"No, I was thinking about the homework assigned by the school this time." Lu Mingfei looked at Su Xiaoyan in shock, "Auntie, do you... know me?"

"I don't know you... Do you think I have Alzheimer's disease at such a young age?" Su Xiaoyan rolled her eyes, "Ming Fei, how many times have you come to my house? I even said I accept you as my godson, are you teasing your aunt?"

Lu Mingfei breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Su Xiaoyan's basic cognitive ability was still there. There was no logical problem in her speech. As for her tone... She has always been like this. She is in her forties, but she is still alone with a girl in her twenties. If she were to play with Su Xiaoqiang, Liu Miaomiao and the others, they would probably become good sisters.

"Auntie, are you feeling okay?" Lu Mingfei sat back in his chair and asked tentatively, "Do you feel weak? Do you have a headache?"

"There's nothing wrong with me." Su Xiaoyan shook her head. "I eat and sleep well. Except for the occasional nightmares that wake me up, everything else is fine. Let me tell you, Mingfei, my life has become more regular recently. I can go to bed before midnight, and sometimes I can sleep until noon the next day. I feel full of energy."

Lu Mingfei looked at Su Xiaoyan and his brows slowly frowned... Through this brief conversation, Lu Mingfei discovered that there was nothing wrong with Su Xiaoyan.

She is as carefree as usual, as heartless as usual, with a personality like that of a little girl. She doesn't worry about anything at all because someone has already worried about it for her...but the strange thing is that she is too normal.

How could such a normal person be sent to the hospital? There was a sign saying "Level 10" on the door? And there was a smell of disinfectant in the room. It was inferred that the scene at that time should be the traces of disinfection after the injection of sedatives or some drugs. If it was just a nightmare, why was there still an IV drip on his hand?

Lu Mingfei raised his head and glanced at the turbid liquid in the IV bottle. There was no label on it, so he couldn't tell what kind of medicine it was, but it was definitely not a nutritional supplement like glucose.

"Auntie, do you know where this place is?" Lu Mingfei asked cautiously.

"Huh? Isn't it a high-end sanatorium?" Su Xiaoyan pressed her temple. "I've been having nightmares occasionally lately and waking up in the middle of the night, so the new therapist at home suggested that I come to live in her workplace for a while. Their service here is pretty good, and the environment is not bad either. I slept well just now."

Lu Mingfei thought to himself, “Actually you also had a nightmare just now, and it scared me.”

Lu Mingfei was even more confused, because Su Xiaoyan's words didn't match Aunt Tong's at all. Did she think she was staying in a sanatorium? But the words "Sacred Heart Charity Hospital" were clearly written on the door, and the security guard also said that people who have been sick for a while would be sent to this place... How could she be sent here for recuperation just because of a nightmare?

Lu Mingfei looked at Su Xiaoyan in front of him. He always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

"By the way, Mingfei, you've returned to China?" Su Xiaoyan suddenly asked, "How did you know I was here?"

"Yes, I came back two days ago. Didn't my senior brother tell you?" Lu Mingfei nodded and replied, "My senior brother and I came here together. I went home with him and Aunt Tong said you were sent here, so we came here to look for you."

"Ah, my son is back too? Why didn't he say hello to me?" Su Xiaoyan was obviously stunned. She looked towards the door. "Where is he? Has he come yet? Why hasn't he come to see his mother yet?"

Lu Mingfei was stunned. A cold feeling crept up his back little by little. He looked at Su Xiaoyan in front of him and felt a sense of strangeness.

How is this going?

Didn't Senior Brother go home and meet his mother? But why did Su Xiaoyan act as if she hadn't seen Chu Zihang? How could she not know that Chu Zihang had returned? Lu Mingfei had clearly seen Senior Brother send her an email before boarding the plane.

Lu Mingfei finally understood where this sense of strangeness and disharmony came from. Su Xiaoyan's consciousness was really abnormal. It was not that her basic logical ability was problematic. She was a sober person, but her memory seemed to be in chaos.

Is this a kind of paranoia? Lu Mingfei didn't know, but he knew that if his senior brother saw his mother like this, he would definitely not be able to remain calm.

"Senior brother, he saw you fell asleep just now, so he should go out for a while." Lu Mingfei also glanced at the door and thought that his senior brother was too slow. Why didn't he come for so long?

"Auntie, you said you've been having nightmares lately. Do you remember what you dreamed about?" Since he was sitting here anyway, Lu Mingfei took the opportunity to ask.

"I dreamed... I think I lost something, I don't remember it very well." Su Xiaoyan thought for a while and shook her head, "Oh, nightmares are something you forget once you wake up, and they're not good things, so why remember them?"

“That’s true.” Lu Mingfei laughed and thought quickly about the entry point in his mind.

"By the way, Mingfei, you're going to be a sophomore soon, right?" Su Xiaoyan asked this suddenly, and Lu Mingfei was stunned.

“Sophomore?” Lu Mingfei said in surprise, “I’ve been a sophomore for a long time. I’ll be a junior in a while.”

"Ah? Are you kidding?" Su Xiaoyan was also stunned. "Our Chu Zihang will only be a junior in the second half of the year. Aren't you a year younger than him? I've always heard your senior brothers calling you, did you skip a grade? Did you skip a grade in college?"

Chapter 962 The man is called Chu Tianjiao

"I didn't skip a grade, and my senior didn't repeat a grade either." Lu Mingfei forced a not-so-good smile, "Auntie, did you remember it wrongly?"

"How could I remember my son's grade wrong? How bad am I as a mother?" Su Xiaoyan rolled her eyes. "Zihang sent me an email a while ago, saying that he had a tight schedule at the end of his sophomore year and couldn't come back during this period, so I was surprised that you guys came back. Mingfei, do you really think your aunt has Alzheimer's disease?"

"No, Auntie, you are quite young, like a little girl." Lu Mingfei coaxed Su Xiaoyan, but his heart was in turmoil.

"Hahaha, people often say that, but I'm a 40-year-old woman after all. When you and Zihang were your age, I would have gotten a marriage certificate." Su Xiaoyan smiled, then her face became worried again, "Oh, when do you think my son will grow up? He is quite sensible, but he only cares about studying. Fortunately, you are his good friend, otherwise I would have thought he couldn't socialize. You see, he's such a grown-up, but he doesn't have a girlfriend. He didn't fall in love early in high school. I don't want to take care of his grandchildren when I'm old."

Lu Mingfei was completely stunned. Chu Zihang didn't have a girlfriend? Then what about Xia Mi? How many times had Xia Mi gone to Chu Zihang's house and met Su Xiaoyan? Did she even forget this?

So Su Xiaoyan's memory still stayed at Chu Zihang's sophomore year? At that time, Xia Mi had not yet entered Kassel College.

"You won't have to take care of the baby after it's born, right?" Lu Mingfei followed up Su Xiaoyan's question and said, "Don't we still have Aunt Tong at home?"

"Alas, according to my silly son's personality, how long will it take for him to become wise? How old will Aunt Tong be by then?" Su Xiaoyan sighed, "My son is good at everything, handsome and smart, he looks dull but is actually caring. He reminds me to drink hot milk every night. He will definitely be an elite at the top of the pyramid when he enters the society, and he will definitely have no shortage of good jobs. I don't worry about anything about him, I just worry about when he can find a girlfriend and have a big fat boy."

"You still like children very much?" Lu Mingfei asked casually, picking up an apple on the table and peeling it for Su Xiaoyan with a plastic fruit knife prepared by the hospital, probably because he was afraid that the patient might hurt others with a real knife.

"I can't say I like them, but I think kids are fun lately. They can help kill time." Su Xiaoyan pouted. "When I was young, I hated kids because I had no time to play with them. I also had to take care of Chu Zihang, that brat. Kids weren't as sensible as they are now. You don't know how annoying it is to raise a little boy."

"Look at what you said, as if your senior brother made you suffer a lot when you were a child." Lu Mingfei's knife skills are quite good. He uses the back of the knife to peel the apple skin into long thin strands.

"Isn't it? I must have suffered a lot to raise him by myself!" Su Xiaoyan pouted and said, "You don't know how tiring and hard it is to be a single mother. In order to take care of him, I even quit my job as a dancer because I was afraid that I would not have time to accompany my son!"

With a "click", the fruit knife fell to the ground. Lu Mingfei held the apple tightly in his hand, leaving fingerprints. A strand of apple peel was cut off, and red blood dripped onto the wooden floor.

"Oh, Mingfei, why are you so careless?" Su Xiaoyan quickly took out toilet paper from the bedside table and wiped Lu Mingfei's cut finger. "Put it down, put it down. Auntie is not very hungry, you don't need to eat the apple."

"Single mother..." Lu Mingfei stared at Su Xiaoyan's beautiful eyes, "You said you were a single mother before?"

"Yeah, didn't Zihang tell you?" Su Xiaoyan threw the bloodstained paper into the trash can. "Zihang and I have been dependent on each other since we were young. I married my current husband when he was in junior high school. If I had married earlier, maybe things would have been much easier. It's not that single mothers with children can't get married. Maybe I had too high standards when I was young. I looked down on this and that. I thought it was enough to raise a son alone, so I never thought about finding a partner or anything like that."

"I know that you and Uncle Lu got married when my senior was in junior high school. You told me before. I mean...what about the previous one?" Lu Mingfei corrected his wording and handed the apple to Su Xiaoyan. "I mean, your ex-husband, Chu Zihang's biological father, didn't he help you take care of my senior?"

"He's long gone." Su Xiaoyan took the apple from Lu Mingfei, took a bite, and said nonchalantly, "How can someone who's gone help me take care of the child? In the end, I still have to rely on myself."

"Absent means...he ran away from home?" Lu Mingfei asked further.

"It's dead." Su Xiaoyan held the apple in both hands and chewed it like a hamster.

"Dead..." Lu Mingfei frowned tightly. He looked into Su Xiaoyan's eyes, but could not see any abnormal reaction.

This means that Su Xiaoyan believed in her heart that Chu Zihang's biological father had died long ago.

But the fact is that Chu Zihang's parents did not divorce until he was in elementary school. Lu Mingfei was very sure of this. Moreover, he had met that man in junior high school and he still had memories of it... But Su Xiaoyan's memory was completely different. She did not remember the days when that man took care of Chu Zihang. In her mind, Chu Zihang was raised by her alone since he was a child.

"Are you very concerned about my ex-husband?" Su Xiaoyan glanced at Lu Mingfei.

"No... I just heard my senior brother mention it recently, so I asked." Lu Mingfei turned his head and glanced at the door. The door was still closed. There was no sound of people walking in the corridor. Chu Zihang had not arrived yet.

Why haven't you come yet?

It would take a long time to find the fourth floor from the first floor, even if it meant looking at each ward one by one. Besides, the light was on in this room, and Su Xiaoyan's name was written on the door, so it was impossible for her to miss it.

Could it be that he was stuck because of something?

"Zihang? Why does he care so much about this?" Su Xiaoyan said expressionlessly, "He has never met the man who gave birth to him."

"He died before senior brother was born?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"Yes, he passed away when I just got pregnant with Chu Zihang. You know, we got married in a flash, and we didn't spend much time together. To be honest, if you didn't ask me, I wouldn't have any impression of that man." Su Xiaoyan's tone was as calm as a pool of stagnant water. "I was also deceived when I was young. I didn't have a wedding, I didn't meet my parents-in-law, and I didn't get any inheritance. I met a man in a daze, and then gave birth to a child in a daze. Tell me, what kind of sin did I commit?"

"What about his name? Auntie, you must remember his name, right?" Lu Mingfei asked unwillingly.

"A name? After so many years, to be honest, I'm a little... Wait for me to think about it..." Su Xiaoyan couldn't help but frowning, as if Lu Mingfei had raised a difficult question that would be a waste of a lot of her brain cells.

"It's okay, Auntie, you think about it first. Think about it carefully. I'll go out and see why my senior brother hasn't come yet..." Lu Mingfei just stood up when Su Xiaoyan suddenly grabbed his arm.

"Mingfei, why do I feel a little breathless suddenly?" Su Xiaoyan's face looked unhappy.

"What's wrong, Auntie?" Lu Mingfei quickly helped Su Xiaoyan to lean on the bed, "What's wrong? Is it a headache?"

"It's a headache. I really can't remember. Logically, I was married to that man not long ago, but at least we were together and had a son. How come I can't even remember his name?" Su Xiaoyan's face was a little pale. "I can't even remember what he looks like. You said it's not his fault that he's gone, so how could I forget so completely? Am I such a heartless person?"

"No, Auntie, if you really can't remember, don't think about it." Lu Mingfei comforted her.

"No, I always feel something is wrong. I remember there was such a person, and there was a blurry figure in my mind, but when I tried to see that figure clearly, my head hurt. The more I thought about it, the more it hurt." Su Xiaoyan covered her head, "What's going on? Is there something wrong with me?"

"Auntie, you're fine, don't worry, you're just tired." Lu Mingfei patted Su Xiaoyan's shoulder and said softly, "Have a good rest, have a good sleep, don't think about anything, my senior brother will come to see you later."

"No, Mingfei, no." Su Xiaoyan pulled the quilt away, her tone revealing stubbornness, "I have to remember. I had a child with that man, how could I forget about him? I'm not that kind of person. Zihang doesn't even know his biological father's name. I can't forget everything..."

Lu Mingfei was silent. He looked at Su Xiaoyan's disheveled appearance and understood that this was probably the fundamental reason why she was sent here.

With the appearance of Odin, Chu Zihang and Nuonuo forgot about Ye Sheng. To be precise, Odin modified the reality. Ye Sheng no longer existed. Everyone in this world who knew Ye Sheng would slowly forget him. The more profound the impression, the longer they would remember him... Similarly, people in this world who knew Chu Tianjiao would gradually forget that man.

Chu Zihang didn't forget because he had the experience with that man engraved in his bones. Lu Mingfei didn't forget probably because of Lu Mingze, who blocked Odin's human ability.

And Su Xiaoyan, this woman is also someone who has a deep impression on Chu Tianjiao. They have common memories and a child. When he forgets Chu Tianjiao, some conflicts may arise.

She still remembered that she gave birth to Chu Zihang with a man, but she had forgotten everything about that man, even his name and appearance, as if that man had never existed from the beginning.

There are many things in this world that can be erased, such as the handwriting in a notebook and the memories in the brain. It is easy for Odin, as a "God", to do these things, but there are some things in this world that cannot be erased. They exist objectively and use their own existence to resist Odin's divine power.

This person is Chu Zihang. Chu Zihang’s existence has caused a fundamental paradox in Su Xiaoyan’s memory and cognition.

Just like what the man once said to Chu Zihang, he must keep Chu Zihang alive, because Chu Zihang is his son and his blood flows in his body... Only if Chu Zihang survives will he have proof of living in this world.

"I remember!" Su Xiaoyan suddenly screamed.

"What did you remember?" Lu Mingfei asked in a low voice.

"I remember now. I lost my marriage certificate with that man. I can't find it." Su Xiaoyan's expression was a little confused and sad, mixed with a little fear. "There is a photo in my drawer. It was of my old home. Chu Zihang and I had another person, but that person... he had no face!"

Lu Mingfei sighed. No matter how reality was modified, there would always be discrepancies between the new reality and the old reality. In Su Xiaoyan’s memory, the man had disappeared before Chu Zihang was born, but Su Xiaoyan kept a photo of the family of three. In the photo appeared a man who should not have appeared in Su Xiaoyan’s memory, so he had no face.

Is that why Su Xiaoyan was diagnosed with delusional disorder? Because she was one of the people who had the deepest impression of that man, and she still had some fragments of memory, so in the eyes of others, she suddenly went crazy.

"I remembered the dream I had. He didn't seem to be dead, he didn't seem to be dead..." Su Xiaoyan murmured. She seemed to be on the verge of a mental breakdown. Two lines of tears rolled down her beautiful face. "Am I sick? Am I sick... My mind is so confused, I seem to have forgotten a lot of things..."

"Don't think about it. Sometimes having a good memory is not necessarily a good thing." Lu Mingfei didn't want to involve Su Xiaoyan in this matter.

"Tell me, Mingfei, please tell me..." Su Xiaoyan's eyes were blurred with tears, and she said to Lu Mingfei in an almost begging tone, "What's his name? Do you know it? Please tell me the name..."

After a moment's silence, Lu Mingfei helped Su Xiaoyan back to bed and gently covered her with a blanket.