Who would study psychology unless they had some issues?!-Chapter 106 - 105: You Don’t Need to Speak—Just Kidding

Watching Nan Zhubin sit expressionlessly on the best sofa provided for test subjects in the laboratory.

Huang Xin took a deep breath, forcibly activating his emotional management.

"Zhuren, is it because of what happened before that you’re overthinking? I think..."

"You just tried to kick me out, which is [defense]; now you are [denying]."

Nan Zhubin unhesitatingly used the jargon of the psychoanalytic school to directly block Huang Xin’s words.

This conveniently stirred up Huang Xin’s emotions once more.

...

Theoretically, with Nan Zhubin’s current [Micro-expression Analysis·Basic] ability, he could obtain all the information he wants through talk therapy.

Using the exhaustive method will do.

He could extend from 1 known piece of information to 99 guesses and then eliminate the excessive 98 possibilities through "yes or no" options, obtaining the one answer.

As long as Nan Zhubin has enough time and imagination, his questions can be answered.

But, this is just "theoretically."

In objective reality, no one would obediently let Nan Zhubin keep asking, especially not dozens or hundreds of questions.

Even if Nan Zhubin reduced the possibilities to be verified down to a "few" through continuous information gathering, it still wouldn’t work.

More than asking questions, getting others to honestly answer is more important and also more difficult.

In dealing with Wang An before, Nan Zhubin spent much more time setting psychological traps than the time it took for micro-expression lie detection to reveal the truth.

And now, Nan Zhubin is facing the psychology professor Lin Lulin, who is far more sophisticated than Wang An.

For him, Nan Zhubin has even fewer opportunities to ask questions.

The home-field mentor could interrupt Nan Zhubin at any time and then sweep the impulsive young consultant out the door.

Nan Zhubin also does not want to reveal his micro-expression lie detection interrogation skills too soon in front of such a level of psychology master; if he cannot hit the mark, there might not be a second chance later.

So, when collecting information from Lin Lulin, Nan Zhubin stopped when he got something good.

He had already obtained a few directions that could be extended.

Through these directions, he would extend to over a dozen possibilities that require "yes or no" questions to trim down.

At this moment, he needed to find someone who could honestly be interrogated.

Like Huang Xin.

...

"Senior brother, you saw it, I just came out of the teacher’s office."

"The teacher gave me a simple psychological consultation; we had a delightful conversation."

"In other words, everything was normal when I left the teacher’s office; if you kick me out of the laboratory now, and I go back to the teacher, I will become—strange."

"No matter what the teacher wants to hide from me or what he wants me to do, it will all become a bubble because of what you did and said to me in the laboratory."

Nan Zhubin earnestly said: "Senior brother, you wouldn’t want the teacher to have such a misunderstanding, right?"

Huang Xin incredulously widened his small eyes.

The Big Nose junior brother who just sent the junior sister out was also scared stiff by the atmosphere, not daring to move.

Nan Zhubin glanced at the Big Nose junior brother, his gaze circling around the other’s face a few times before waving his hand.

"Junior brother, this has nothing to do with you; go read the literature over there, the teacher has high hopes for you."

"As for you, senior brother," Nan Zhubin turned to Huang Xin, "actually, you don’t need to talk later—if this can reduce your sense of betrayal."

You’re quite considerate, eh.

Huang Xin took a deep breath: "What do you want to know?"

Nan Zhubin’s gaze sharpened, and his eyes began to cover every detail on Huang Xin’s face like infrared surveillance.

"When I was back for a school lecture, you all were following me. You were actually monitoring and guarding against me, right?"

Huang Xin steadied himself and re-composed his emotional management. Although he didn’t have much social experience, his profession exposed him to all kinds of people, giving him enough experience dealing with people; he wasn’t one to be easily threatened.

[Since Nan Zhubin urgently wants to know, I will answer him. The insignificant questions can be answered truthfully; as for the crucial ones, I’ll omit and perhaps even mix truth with falsehood.]

[No need to hide this question, just answer it honestly for now, until I—]

"Alright? Very good—let’s continue." Nan Zhubin nodded.

The action Huang Xin was preparing to take was abruptly halted.

And what followed gave him even less chance to speak.

"Did your monitoring and guarding against me originate from the teacher’s instruction?"

"Wait a minute, it’s complicated—at first, it stemmed from your own intention, and then you received the teacher’s instruction, correct?"

"Good, now that’s correct."

Huang Xin’s eyes widened even more, now larger than the average person’s eyes.

"So, you were targeting me because of my expulsion?"

"Right—so that means there’s some hidden story behind my expulsion?"

"Correct—so I was expelled as a scapegoat; the responsibility actually lies with you, right?"

"Wrong? Wait—’you’ actually bear no responsibility; it’s the teacher, or ’mainly’ the teacher, is that correct?"

"That’s correct this time."

"So now the teacher is worried that I might discover something wrong and stir up a resolved matter from the past, hence wanting to urgently drive me out of Jiang University and even out of the psychological consultation field, right?"

When Nan Zhubin asked this question, he no longer answered his own question.

He had already said enough.

Every word he uttered was like a blade, a hammer, shattering Huang Xin’s already scarce psychological defenses.

But Nan Zhubin did deceive Huang Xin.

Telling Huang Xin "you actually don’t need to talk later" was false.

In the previous dialogue, Nan Zhubin indeed didn’t need Huang Xin to speak because they were questions that could be judged by "yes or no" options.

At the same time, Nan Zhubin used this method to create an atmosphere of "I know everything, and it’s useless for you to hide anything."

The aim was to utterly crush Huang Xin.

To make him voluntarily explain when faced with some subsequent questions that can’t easily be answered with "yes or no."

To achieve this, Nan Zhubin needed Huang Xin to say a "yes."

Even if the answer was already known to everyone, an answer from Nan Zhubin’s mouth was fundamentally different in its psychological impact on Huang Xin than one from Huang Xin’s own lips.

Huang Xin’s forehead was now drenched in cold sweat.

His lips twitched for a long time before he slowly spat out one word.

"...Yes."

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