To some extent, it is human nature to bully the weak and fear the strong.

Yan Qing and Gu Qingyan are little girls after all.

Even though Gu Qingyan looked like someone who was not easy to mess with, the mother and son did not take them seriously.

As soon as Deng Huai showed up, he gave the man a flying kick. The mother and son immediately fell silent and no longer dared to act recklessly.

After all, he really knows how to do it.

"Miss Yan, leave the matters here to me."

Turning around, Deng Huai regained his respectful and kind expression.

"Would you like to sit in the cafe for a while? I'll call you when I'm done."

Gu Qingyan nodded and was about to take Yan Qing away, but the latter rushed into the house without caring, past the old lady and her son.

"Hey--"

Her movement was so sudden that Gu Qingyan couldn't hold her back.

Yan Qing stood in his former home and looked around.

When Yan Qing took in the surrounding environment, she couldn't help but feel a surge of anger in her heart. The blood rushed to her head and her temples throbbed.

Perhaps it was because his blood pressure was too high, Yan Qing even felt his vision going dark from time to time.

I almost fainted from anger.

Is this still her home?

The originally clean and tidy doorway was now piled with cardboard boxes half a meter high, which must have been picked up and intended to be sold.

The warm and elegant living room is also messy.

The fabric sofa was piled with smelly socks and dirty clothes. The coffee table was no longer clean and bright. The glass tabletop was splashed with oil, which together with the dust formed patches of gray-brown stains.

The beautiful carpet also became dirty and its original color could no longer be seen.

The green plant forgotten in the corner, its originally lush leaves have now turned yellow, its vibrant appearance is long gone, leaving only a withered and decayed appearance.

The air smelled of decay and grease.

Even my brother’s piano…

The piano lid was uncovered, with several empty wine bottles lying on top.

The white piano keys were stained with some unknown liquid, which seeped through the gaps.

Even though it's dry, it still feels sticky to the touch.

There is no way to clean it.

A good piano is basically ruined.

There were messy graffiti on the wall drawn by children with crayons.

Yan Qing's nails had unknowingly dug into the palms of his hands, and the joints had turned white from the excessive force.

After taking a few deep breaths, my eyes suddenly felt sore and tears fell.

She couldn't bear to see what a mess the bedroom and kitchen had become.

Once upon a time, when mom and dad were still around...

Happy memories flooded her mind, but the scene before her reminded her all the time that they no longer existed.

Neither my family nor my home can come back.

Yan Qing was heartbroken and she covered her face and started crying.

As soon as Gu Qingyan entered the room, he quickly understood why she was crying.

"Miss, let's go first."

She hugged Yan Qing and consoled him,

"After Deng Huai has dealt with these, the two of us will clean up the house, just like before, okay?"

Yan Qing wiped away her tears, nodded, and followed Gu Qingyan out of the room.

As if hearing some noise, the neighbor's door suddenly opened.

"Yan Qing?"

An elegant middle-aged man wearing glasses leaned out half of his body, with a slightly surprised expression.

"You're back?"

Yan Qing was stunned. Seeing her old friend again, she felt extremely complicated.

"Uncle Liang?"

Liang Yunian nodded and said, "Come to my house and have a seat."

Yan Qing and Gu Qingyan looked at each other, and then they walked into Liang Yunian's house.

The door was closed. Liang Yunian bent down to look for his slippers while speaking to Yan Qing.

"After your family got into trouble, this old lady, her son, daughter-in-law, and little grandson moved in."

"The furniture is fine, after all, it will still be used. But a lot of your parents' things were sold as waste paper."

"Oh, and there's a safe. They can't open it, so they're going to sell it for scrap metal."

Liang Yunian paused, stood up and adjusted his glasses.

"I couldn't bear to see them all, so I bought them all back. Your violin was among them."

He led Yan Qing and the other person to an unused bedroom.

“Everything is here.”

Yan Qing looked at the neatly stacked paper materials and a small safe in surprise.

Liang Yunian just smiled when he saw this.

"Qingqing, you know that my wife passed away early, and I raised my son alone. He has gone abroad now."

"I have four bedrooms in my house, so it wouldn't hurt to free up one to store my friend's belongings."

After that, he raised his wrist to check the time and said apologetically.

"I have to go to a meeting. Qingqing, you can stay here. You can take care of your things."

After giving the instructions, Liang Yunian changed into his leather shoes and went out.

Gu Qingyan was stunned.

"My dear Miss, he is too careless. Isn't he afraid of losing our things if he leaves us at his house?"

"Uncle Liang has a good relationship with my dad."

Yan Qing squatted down and began to look through the information.

"They studied abroad together, but he taught psychology and was also a master of hypnosis."

"Hypnosis?"

Gu Qingyan suddenly became curious.

"Who has he hypnotized? Is he really that powerful?"

"My dad once told me that according to his estimation, Uncle Liang's IQ might be over 160."

Yan Qing recalled,

"Therefore, he can easily hypnotize a person whose IQ is not as high as his. In other words, as long as Uncle Liang is willing, he can obtain the secrets hidden in the heart of anyone who is not as smart as him."

"Of course, the premise is that he has an environment for hypnosis."

Gu Qingyan exclaimed in amazement, "What a terrifying ability. If your father's guess is correct, then at least 95% of the people in the world are not as smart as him, so doesn't that mean they can all be hypnotized by him?"

“This is simply the superpower of reading minds.”

"But he doesn't like hypnotizing people."

Yan Qing shrugged.

"Even if we use him, it's all official business. For example, we ask him to hypnotize a suspect, or work part-time as a profiler."

"Too awesome." Gu Qingyan was still shocked. "I would feel terrified to be with someone like this."

"Because as long as he wants, I don't have any secrets or privacy at all."

Yan Qing nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, you're not the only one who thinks so. Many people think so."

"So, although Uncle Liang is a very gentle person, he has very few friends. Most people are wary of him and avoid him, fearing that he will hypnotize them."

"He himself didn't seem to care much. He just complained to my dad that he wasn't interested in other people's privacy, nor did he want to know the malice hidden in their hearts...

"There are too many ugly things in the world to count, and he doesn't want to make himself unhappy."

Gu Qingyan couldn't help laughing.

After laughing, he said half seriously and half jokingly,

"Miss, is your father's IQ higher than that of Mr. Liang? Is that why you dare to be friends with him?"

Yan Qing hesitated for a moment, "It's hard to say."

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