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

Chapter 386: Chapter 334: A Love Unwilling to Awaken (Part 2)

’None of these people have ever seen anything like this. My gift is truly one-of-a-kind!’

"It’s a gift from my boyfriend, and I love it. See it now? This is high-tech. Your Flower Country is so backward, I bet none of you have ever seen anything like it!"

Seeing the smug look on Yurinoko’s chubby, plain face, Wen Ying smiled. "I’m glad you like it. Why don’t you try it on? I think this high-tech... piece of skin is a perfect fit for you. You should take a look in the mirror."

[A piece of skin???!]

[A human skin mask????]

[HOLY CRAP! What kind of plot twist is this? Doctor Wen, that skin can’t be real, can it?]

Yurinoko stared at the object, and the longer she looked, the more she liked it. It was beautiful and looked comfortable. She wondered what it would feel like on her face.

’I should try it on,’ she thought. ’Show these ignorant Huaguo people a thing or two.’

Holding the mask of human skin, Yurinoko walked toward the mirror.

She lined the skin up with her own face, her eyes practically overflowing with delight.

[Is it just me, or does that mask look like it’s the exact same size as Yurinoko’s face?]

[It’s the same size, but way more beautiful than her. Could it be...]

[It couldn’t be his, you know, childhood sweetheart, could it?]

[The implications are terrifying!]

In front of the mirror, Yurinoko had already brought the skin mask to her face. She began applying it, bit by bit, as if putting on a sheet mask.

[That skin is the exact same size as her face, without a single millimeter of difference. Even a sheet mask wouldn’t fit that perfectly, right? So why does this one?]

"Because it’s the gift her boyfriend prepared for her," Wen Ying’s voice cut through on the live stream.

Yurinoko saw the face in the mirror. It was completely different from her own, yet dozens of times more beautiful.

It was so beautiful!

’If I had a face like this, would I have spent so many years feeling so insecure?’

’Would I have gone my whole life without a single boy liking me?’

’If I had this face, would I have suffered so much all these years?’

’I could’ve gotten anything I ever wanted so easily.’

She was absolutely in love with this face!

"Your guesses are correct. That face does, in fact, belong to the boyfriend’s childhood sweetheart. There is a Secret Technique from their hometown, a type of Magic, that requires this mask. The ritual demands a host with a face of the exact same size, who must also be a girl born at a very specific time. Only then can the original owner of the face be resurrected in the new host’s body. Therefore, this is a ritual, similar to what we would understand as a sacrifice.

Once she puts on that skin mask at the appointed time and certain ritualistic steps are performed, she will never be able to take it off. After the ritual takes effect, the spirit of the other woman will enter her body through the mask. They will need to merge for a hundred days. After that, the woman’s spirit will be able to devour Yurinoko’s soul and take complete control of her body. This is likely what they consider ’rising from the dead,’ and what we would call ’the cuckoo stealing the magpie’s nest,’ wouldn’t you say?"

[Look! Something’s wrong with that woman!]

Everyone was stunned by Doctor Wen’s explanation, but their attention quickly snapped back to Yurinoko.

The mask on Yurinoko’s face seemed to meld with her, as if it were a natural part of her. With her new face, Yurinoko stared dazedly at her reflection.

The infatuated obsession in her eyes was plain to see.

Yurinoko reached out, slowly tracing the features of her new face, oblivious to whether she had even heard Wen Ying’s words.

She caressed her jawline, her fingers slowly tracing their way up her cheek.

[Doctor Wen, what’s happening to Yurinoko right now?]

"She’s being influenced by the lingering consciousness of her boyfriend’s childhood sweetheart. The longer she wears the mask, the stronger the influence will become."

[So can she still take it off? I feel like she’s already being possessed!]

"Even though she feels happy right now, her deep-seated inferiority complex is unshakable. She may have a ’perfect’ boyfriend, but in everyone else’s eyes, she just got incredibly lucky. The people who looked down on her before still look down on her now. So, given the chance to become beautiful, why wouldn’t she want it? Why would she refuse?"

[Doctor Wen, I get it! Is her current state something like... she thinks she can control it? That even if she’s worried about the negative consequences, she’s willing to take the risk just to be envied and admired? To just go for it?]

[Will Doctor Wen save her?]

That was a difficult question to answer. After all, Yurinoko had been indiscriminately attacking everyone just moments before.

But for something like that, at most she’d just need to be taught a harsh lesson.

That wasn’t a matter of life and death, was it?

But now... if she kept wearing that mask of human skin, she was going to die.