Stockholm syndrome was a complex disability. The victims have a deep emotional relations.h.i.+p with the offender and in turn helps the offender. Also known as hostage complex or hostage syndrome.

Hostage sympathy for gangsters was a distinctive feature of Stockholm syndrome.

In the hostage-taking incident, this was a factor that was good for the gangsters and bad for the hostages.

Su Yutan felt that she had an obligation to prevent this from happening.

What a sly and sick man, she thought bitterly.

How to weaken the hostage's sympathy for Zhou Feng?

    She knew that he had to pose and make known Zhou Feng's ‘evil intention' to others as much as possible.

She took her plan into action. She asked, “Since you have suffered from a bad father and mother, a beast adoptive parent, and you now know that you are not suitable to be a father now, why would you want to get a “Parent's Certificate” by cheating?”

    “Because I'm so lonely!” Zhou Feng exclaimed and sighed for a long time. “Subconscious trauma syndrome, grade 6, and antisocial tendency. This kind of disease makes me suffer discrimination in society. Do you know that feels?!” He asked frantically.

Su Yutan understood. Afterall, she works in a government department. This was the best place to work for anti-discrimination.

She too was self-destructive, but she was not as much as a threat to others. Hence, the feeling of being discriminated against and being excluded was not as strong.

But among the entire staff of the testing center, only one willing to be friends with her was Sister Shui.

Zhou Feng sarcastically said, “I'm in IT. Obviously, my technology is the best, but when I look for a job, I always lose to those who are far more inferior to me. And do you know why?”

He didn't have to ask, Su Yutan already knew.

The workplace was a battlefield.

An anti-socially inclined Grade 6 latent trauma patient was a ticking bomb. The disease would break out anytime due to workplace compet.i.tion, pressure, crowding out, dumping, and other factors, creating ma.s.s killings around him. Which company would be willing to keep such a bomb? How many people were willing to be colleagues with such a person? Obviously, none. Therefore, it was inevitable that Zhou Feng's job search will lead to despair.

Yet this frustrating situation would aggravate his condition and create a vicious circle. There is no happy ending to all this.

“Due to your circ.u.mstances, the government can provide a rescue position. Why don't you apply for that?” Su Yutan curiously asked Zhou Feng.

Zhou Feng replied dismissively, “Those positions? Those who manage the road cleaning robots, the pipeline lights, the forest guards, and the bird feeders. These jobs are not only stressful, but they are boring and crazy! Why not do the job you love?”

Su Yutan thought that if only Zhou Feng was not so smart, those jobs would have been no problem for him.

If he was not so smart, he would be more comfortable accepting government salvation posts. It would have been much better for himself and society.

Win-win, Su Yutan thought to herself.

“I simply stopped looking for a job. I used some illegal methods to make money, and I made a lot.” Zhou Feng said smugly with a proud smile.

“I'm now rich. There were many vain women who surrounded me like a fly. I played with them, but I couldn't look at them at all.” He laughed a little ironically.

“Only one girl was an exception. When I fell, she didn't despise me; after I got rich, she didn't try to please me. I thought she was a G.o.ddess in my heart.”

“Did that girl like you?”

Zhou Feng laughed. A real laugh as if Su Yutan asked the stupidest question he has ever heard.

“Of course she liked me! She said it herself. And when she told me, I was truly happy. I vowed to be with her forever and never let her suffer any grief or depression.”

“Did you do it, though? Stay with her forever, happily?” She asked knowingly.

Zhou Feng then grew silent. Unsure of how to answer. He did not answer her directly but said, “Unfortunately, her family and friends did not have faith me that much. They didn't agree for her being with me every day, and told her bad things about me, persuading her to break up with me. “

“Why did they say bad things about you?” Su Yutan continued to press his b.u.t.tons.

Zhou Feng instantly became furious, “Because of my illness! They said, I have this kind of disease which sooner or later will make me kill and set fire to the society. Sooner or later, I will hurt her and that it was better to leave early.”

“Was the girl convinced?”

Zhou Feng said in a mix of anger and pain, “She wanted to break up with me. Obviously, I didn't agree. Her parents were really mean. They did everything to split me and her up. I was furious and went to find them. But I accidentally hurt her father…”

“You did a stupid thing!” Su Yutan couldn't burst her thoughts. “You'd definitely drive her away at that rate!”

She did sympathize with Zhou Feng a little bit, but at the same time, she felt mad.

This was usually the case of severe latent patients. They always made incredible and bold choices at critical moments, pus.h.i.+ng and placing themselves in worse situations.

Zhou Feng said, continuing, “After her father was injured, their family started to hide from me. They hid in a small mountain village. I hacked into the global transportation network and found them based on their flying saucer flying data. I went all that way to sincerely apologize to her dad. But the family was very reluctant. She also stood and agreed with her family. They went to the court to apply for an injunction…”

Oddly, Su Yutan felt that this paragraph of Zhou Feng's narrative might be somewhat untrue.

Su Yutan examined the pieces of the story:

His ex-girlfriend's family hid in a small mountain village from him.

They were so afraid that they went to a village at that time. That means that it was not as simple as “accidentally hurting her father”.

Another odd part of his story was that he found out that the ex-girlfriend's family was in a small village, which was even more frightening.

She pried and asked Zhou Feng, “Did you ever threaten her parents? Did you threaten them to what you would do if they didn't let her be with you? “

    Zhou Feng looked at her gloomily for a while, then suddenly said, “I said. But I was just scaring them.” She continued to justify her question by adding, “They were just so frightened.”

Zhou Feng sighed, and raised his hands up in mock surrender, “Well, yeah! There was no chance between her and me… There was no other way.”

He held his gun tightly in his grip yet still buried his head in his hands. It took a while before he continued to explain, “This thing made me depressed for a really long time. Then one day, I came up with a great idea.”

Miao: This novel is psychological. If you didn't know the author is the same one who wrote “Queen of flowers” another novel I am translating, which had a psychological undertone too.