Don't Lie to Your Therapist—She Already Knows Your Fate

But this woman... he was certain he had never seen her before!

He would definitely remember if he’d ever met a beauty like her.

He was also sure she wasn’t from Ping City. Otherwise, she should have recognized him and his brother.

Nor should she have had such a bland reaction upon hearing about the Pingcheng Hou Family.

Unlike his idiot brother, he could tell Wen Ying was mostly feigning her reaction when she mentioned the Hou family.

But how could a complete stranger know about this matter?

What worried Hou Yaojun even more was: did Wen Ying only know this much, or did she know more?

"You say I’m crazy? I think you’re the crazy one. It’s a real shame about that face of yours, but the thought of it is pretty exciting. What do you say? Twenty thousand for one time, if you agree?"

Hou Yaowen was truly unwilling to let this beauty, who was already within his grasp, get away.

This time, however, he heard his younger brother say, "Doctor Wen, I’ll pay my brother’s fee. I just want to ask you to continue my consultation."

"Bro, are you stupid? You’re playing along with this woman?"

Wen Ying sighed and repeated, "Your brother has a mental illness, he isn’t just ’crazy.’ Please remind him often, so he can remember exactly what his illness is."

The beautiful woman couldn’t help but laugh again.

"Brother, why don’t you take the inner seat? Let me talk to the two ladies for you."

Although the man grumbled and cursed, he still listened to his younger brother and switched seats.

’Seeing this, the beautiful woman had a feeling. This Doctor Wen was either a lunatic or someone with real abilities.’ She looked at Wen Ying expectantly, and Wen Ying switched seats with her as well.

The man still couldn’t resist. "I’ll give you one hundred thousand. Will you switch seats with me?"

Hearing Hou Yaojun say that, the beautiful woman’s face paled. She bit her lip without speaking, seemingly weighing her options.

But Wen Ying just laughed when she heard this. "Sure! Hand over the hundred thousand."

When Hou Yaojun took out the hundred thousand, Wen Ying immediately stuffed eighty thousand of it into the beautiful woman’s hands. Then she took another ten thousand, found a normal person in another seat, and had him switch places with the beautiful woman. After that, this same man who had just switched seats switched places again with Hou Yaowen.

Seeing this outcome, Hou Yaojun felt as disgusted as if he’d swallowed a fly.

’The beautiful woman grinned as she looked at the eighty thousand in her bag, thinking that she absolutely had to give half to Doctor Wen after they landed. If it weren’t for Doctor Wen, how would she have had the chance to earn so much money and avoid that disgusting harassment!’

After Hou Yaojun and Wen Ying were seated together, he lowered his voice.

"Doctor Wen, although I don’t know where you come from, I can introduce you to our Hou family. I take it you haven’t heard of the Hou family before?"

Wen Ying nodded frankly. She really hadn’t.

’There were billions of people in the world; there were far too many she hadn’t heard of. The Hou family was nothing special.’

"I haven’t heard of you, but just by looking at you, Mr. Hou, I’ve already deduced what kind of family the Hou family is."

"Oh? Then why don’t you tell me, Doctor Wen?" Hou Yaojun seemed to be testing her.

Wen Ying was still smiling. "Your Hou family is a major clan in Ping City. Your ancestors made their fortune as river pirates, then later abandoned that life to go legitimate with land-based businesses. However, one line of business has always remained in the shadows, doing illicit deals. That brother of yours doesn’t know a thing, but you know everything. Am I wrong?"

Hou Yaojun just smiled and said nothing.

"If I had to evaluate your Hou family, I have only three words for you."

"What words?" Hou Yaojun seemed a little curious as to how this Doctor Wen would evaluate the great Hou family.

"Not good people."

Hearing Doctor Wen’s words, Hou Yaojun’s expression turned unnatural for a moment. "You must be joking, Doctor Wen. These days, if you want to do good business, you have to abide by the law. The Hou family is naturally no exception."

Wen Ying didn’t argue with him. "Whether you’re an exception or not, you know best, Mr. Hou. This marriage... are your procedures for it legal? What you’ve done to that Mr. Hou... is it legal?"

Hou Yaojun paused, seemingly contemplating what Doctor Wen truly meant.

"Doctor Wen, you should be responsible for your words."

"Aren’t we just having a casual chat for a consultation?" Wen Ying replied with a smile.

"What exactly do you mean, Doctor Wen?"

"Why does your brother look so young? He’s already thirty, isn’t he? And you’re twenty-eight. Your brother was suddenly welcomed back into the family two years ago, right? The Hou family threw a welcome banquet for him in Ping City back then. From then on, the Hou family gave him every luxury, indulging his every whim. They made him feel as if all the family’s affection was showered upon him, that he could have anything he wanted, and that the family would clean up any mess he made. Becoming arrogant and spoiled was just the beginning. Later, he even started forcing himself on innocent young women, and your Hou family acted as his accomplice. All of this... was it really because you dote on him? Was it to make up for more than twenty years of lost affection?"

"I didn’t realize you knew so much about our Hou family, Doctor Wen."

Hou Yaojun was a bit surprised, but also puzzled as to what this person was after.

"But you’re overthinking it. We’re good to my brother not just because we missed out on twenty-plus years of his companionship and love, but also because he’s ill."

"Ill?" Wen Ying gave a scornful laugh. "He has indeed developed a psychological illness from being coddled, but this illness you speak of... where did it come from?"

Hou Yaojun shook his head. "We’ve had doctors look at him, but they were all helpless. We just want him to be happy for the rest of his life. As his family, is there anything wrong with that?"

"You have a point, Mr. Hou. As family, you’re not wrong. But the true cause of his illness... do you really not know? Isn’t the beneficiary you? Or did I deduce incorrectly?"

"Doctor Wen, I understand your profession as a psychologist, but with matters like this, it’s already impressive that you can see even a little. It’s normal to make incorrect deductions. I won’t hold it against you."

Wen Ying frowned. "But I do hold it against myself. I’ve been in practice, all told, for almost half a year now. How could I possibly make an incorrect deduction?"

Hou Yaojun: "..."

He had originally thought this woman was about to say she’d been practicing for many years to prove her professionalism, to prove she was beyond question.

But in the end, it was... less than half a year?

’Is she serious? This has to be a joke.’

’Don’t tell me I’ve really run into a lunatic, and all those things she said were just lucky guesses, like a blind cat stumbling on a dead mouse?’

"Impossible! I can’t be wrong!" Wen Ying said firmly. "I can see the karmic stain on you as clear as day. On the third of last month, under the pretext of doing something good for your brother, you had him go after that girl you had your eye on. But just as things were about to happen, your brother was knocked unconscious and swapped out. You took his place, didn’t you? Things like that... could I have possibly deduced all of that incorrectly?"

Hou Yaojun’s expression grew uglier. He opened and closed his mouth several times. "Who sent you? What do you want?! Since you know who I am, what good do you think will come from offending me? Whatever the person who hired you paid, I can double it! I can even give you a bright future! For example—"