Hospital 444

Li Zhixiao almost thought there was something wrong with his ears.

"Officer, you must be joking, right?"

He looked at the pale-faced woman beside him and said to the police, "Officer, there must be an issue with your household registration system, right? Her identity card is forged..."

The policeman looked coldly at Li Zhixiao and said, "An issue? Alright, you need to clear this up, then both of you come with me to the station. Let this lady register her fingerprints, and we can immediately confirm if she is your wife or not."

"My wife has long passed away, I personally obtained the death certificate..."

"Sorry," the officer’s expression turned even colder, "your wife’s household registration still exists in our system, it hasn’t been cancelled at all!"

At that, Li Zhixiao was completely stunned.

"Both of you, please come to our station."

Clearly, in the eyes of the police, they already treated Li Zhixiao as a man with manic depression making false alarms.

For Li Zhixiao, however, the current situation had his brain completely frozen.

His wife’s registration hadn’t been cancelled???

The completely strange woman beside him, how... how did she do it?

A super hacker? Hacked into the police department’s network system and altered the household records?

Impossible!

Besides, if there really was such a hacker, would they need to come to his house to burgle it?

Immediately after, he took out his phone and said, "Officer, listen to me, she is not my wife, my wife looks like... like this..."

After that, Li Zhixiao’s face turned incredibly dark.

After his wife Lu Mange passed away, Li Zhixiao always kept her pictures.

He never deleted a single one.

But now, these pictures had all turned into... the pictures of this woman in front of him!

How is that possible... how can this be possible!

Photoshopped?

But Li Zhixiao was quite skilled at photo editing himself, and as he scrutinized each of the photos, he really couldn’t see any signs of editing. If these were all shopped, it had to be the work of a grandmaster!

The policemen exchanged glances.

"Ma’am," one of the female officers raised her finger to her head and said, "Your husband, him, I hope I’m not being impolite by asking, does he have a family history of mental illness?"

"He wasn’t like this before..." the woman even started crying, "I don’t understand how he could have become like this..."

"Sorry," the male officer sighed, "Whether your husband has a mental problem or is deliberately making a false alarm, we can only find out back at the station. Making false reports is illegal and is punishable by detention."

"No, no, no, I, I didn’t make a false report..."

Li Zhixiao was nearly going insane.

In his home, a woman had suddenly appeared, claiming to be his wife, and then all the pictures of his wife on his phone had been replaced with her likeness!

Li Zhixiao began searching through his Moments and various social media accounts, including his wife’s own WeChat account and her best friend Lin Lu’s WeChat account, while his parents-in-law had blacklisted him long ago.

Afterward, he discovered that Lin Lu had already blocked him from her Moments. But in the history of his wife’s Moments, all the pictures he found were still identical to the woman before him!

"This person, Fenglin Suiying..." he raised his phone and said to the woman, "Do you know her?"

Fenglin Suiying was Lin Lu’s WeChat nickname.

And the woman had already begun to choke up, "What’s wrong with you, husband? This is Lin Lu, of course, I know her?"

"Then why did she block me from her Moments?"

"She, she never really liked you, so she’s always blocked you from her Moments, right?"

Li Zhixiao didn’t actually know when Lin Lu had blocked him on Moments; after all, he seldom checked Moments after his wife’s death, let alone posted any.

"You say you are Lu Mange, then you make a video call to your parents!" Li Zhixiao shouted, "Don’t tell me you don’t have their WeChat and can’t make a video call, okay?"

"What is going on with you, husband!"

"Do you dare to make a video call with them or not?"

Li Zhixiao refused to believe that if there were a powerful criminal organization behind this, could they really have bribed Mange’s parents as well?

The woman wiped her tears and then picked up her phone’s screen to show Li Zhixiao.

Li Zhixiao was shocked to see that there really were his in-laws’ WeChat accounts in there!

At least the nickname and profile picture were exactly the same!

Immediately after, she sent a video call request to her mother-in-law on WeChat.

It wasn’t long before he saw his mother-in-law appear on the phone screen!

"Mom..." Li Zhixiao unconsciously uttered this word.

At this moment, he began to have a bad premonition in his heart.

"Zhixiao, what’s wrong?"

No sooner had the mother-in-law spoken than the woman brought the phone screen in front of her and said, "Mom!"

"Mang Ge, what’s wrong with you? Why are you crying? Isn’t today your wedding anniversary?"

When he heard his mother-in-law say this, Li Zhixiao felt as if several thunderbolts were rumbling in his head.

What on earth was going on???

One hour later.

In the police station.

His in-laws had actually come.

Sitting in the police station, the moment Li Zhixiao saw his in-laws enter, the woman rushed up to hug them and started crying.

"Mr. Li," the police officer said to him coldly, "can we discuss the motive behind your false police report? If you really have a mental issue, please present a diagnostic report from a third-grade A-level hospital. If you are fully criminally responsible, then I must tell you that filing a false police report is a criminal offense. You do know that, don’t you?"

Then, the in-laws followed Lu Mange over, and the mother-in-law asked first, "What on earth is going on? Isn’t today your wedding anniversary?"

The father-in-law just glared coldly at him and said, "What exactly are you trying to do, young man? You deny my daughter as your wife, and you wish death upon her. Are you planning to divorce? Do you have another woman on the side, huh?"

The police quickly interjected to persuade, "Both of you, I understand how you feel, but this is a police station..."

Li Zhixiao just felt a chill all over.

Initially, the father-in-law’s curse for his daughter’s death and the mother-in-law’s heart-wrenching crying were etched into his memory.

How is it that now they suddenly had another daughter? Mang Ge was their only child!

The woman in front of him had not a single feature that resembled his deceased wife Lin Lu!

"Comrade police officer," the woman said wearily, "could we possibly... not pursue this? I just looked it up online, and his case is a minor one, punishable by a fine rather than administrative detention. We can just pay the fine, can we?"

The police officer looked at the woman and then at Li Zhixiao and asked, "Mr. Li, what do you have to say now?"

Li Zhixiao just felt a chill all over.

He was completely unable to understand the cause and consequence of all this.

Could it be that he really was mentally ill?

"I, I might, really need to see a neurologist?"

The woman hastily said, "Let’s do this, I’ll take my husband to the city hospital’s neurology department to register, and get a brain MRI to take a look. He’s usually really nice to me, not like this..."

...

After being criticized and fined by the police and severely scolded by his father-in-law, Li Zhixiao stumbled out of the police station.

The woman somehow convinced the in-laws to leave first; all he heard was his father-in-law insistently saying, "I’ll get you a lawyer right away; you can’t stay with this man, a so-called phoenix man acting all high and mighty!"

Li Zhixiao just felt a chill all over.

After a while, the woman approached Li Zhixiao.

"Who are you exactly?"

Li Zhixiao looked at the woman and asked, "There’s no one around us now; you don’t need to act anymore, do you?"

The woman said, "Husband, I know you’re having some mental issues right now. Come on, let’s go to the city hospital and see a neurologist first."

At that moment, Li Zhixiao suddenly saw a taxi coming and dashed towards it, flagging it down.

"Driver, go!"

As soon as Li Zhixiao got into the taxi, he told the driver to drive immediately.

He needed to get away from this woman right away.

He wanted to prove that he wasn’t insane!