Who would study psychology unless they had some issues?!-Chapter 173 - 171: An Opponent Like You Is Very Disappointing

Chapter 173: Chapter 171: An Opponent Like You Is Very Disappointing

Nan Zhubin couldn’t help but tighten his grip on Liu Pan’s hand.

Originally thinking Nan Zhubin was about to leave, Huang Xin was just about to stand up from his chair but found himself sitting back down again.

At the same time, he held his breath slightly.

Liu Pan, on the other hand, seeing that Nan Zhubin had stopped leaving, couldn’t help but pull out a relieved smile.

He wanted to say something, but he didn’t know it would be followed by Nan Zhubin’s storm-like offensive.

...

Nan Zhubin’s gaze was indifferent, emotionless, yet it seemed to latch onto Liu Pan’s face like a hook.

"Your father is a psychiatrist, while you’re a psychology master’s student. I don’t know how you see it, but in some way, this seems like a kind of professional downgrade."

In natural science, psychology is at the lower end, or even the bottom, of the disdain hierarchy; this is common knowledge.

Especially when faced with medicine.

"There are generally three situations when a son works in a different industry than his father: One, the father knows his industry has a lower level, so he hopes the son will pursue a higher path—this doesn’t apply to moving from psychiatry to psychology."

"Two, the father knows his industry is tough, so he hopes his son won’t walk the same path—this is quite common among doctors."

"Three, which is the most embarrassing, the son wants to follow in his father’s footsteps but lacks the ability, so he has to step down a notch—this fits the current situation very well."

The smile on Liu Pan’s face suddenly froze, and his breath caught.

Observing Liu Pan’s reaction to the three assumptions, Nan Zhubin nodded.

"It’s not the first situation or the second, so it seems to be the third—which is what I originally thought."

"Let me guess, you originally wanted to study medicine, right?"

"Very well—right. But you couldn’t get into medical school because your college entrance exam score wasn’t high enough, right?"

"Right—so you settled for Psychology College at Jiang University for your undergraduate studies, correct?"

"—No, there is one incorrect part in that statement; your undergraduate was in Psychology College—that’s correct; you attended Jiang University for your undergraduate—incorrect."

Nan Zhubin showed a knowing expression: "So your first degree was in psychology from a lower-tier school, and you only got into Jiang University for your graduate studies."

"And Jiang University has its own admissions, let me guess—you had a ’direct senior’ tutoring you for the professional courses in the preliminary test, and you didn’t even have to worry about scoring almost full marks in the interview portion of the retest, right?"

"Very well—right."

...

Unlike the college entrance exam, graduate school admissions are divided into two parts—the preliminary test and the retest.

The preliminary test is a written exam that’s divided into:

One, "national unified exam"—where all candidates across the country take the same test;

Two, "independently created exams"—where certain universities make their own tests, usually at top institutions.

Independently created exams. Either these schools’ teachers find the national unified exams too easy, hence they use more difficult exams to filter for better candidates; or they feel the unified exams lack differentiation, so they use specialized questions to pre-filter candidates with strengths in specific research directions.

For candidates looking to "slack," comparing the two, the national unified exam is harder to manipulate, while independently created exams are somewhat easier.

One doesn’t necessarily need leaked questions but can find alumni from the school who know the key areas to study.

Because the official reference materials are entire books, but the alumni know the research directions of the test-making faculty at the school and past question styles, thereby cutting non-essential content from the books that don’t need to be memorized.

Where others have to memorize a whole book, you might only need to memorize two-thirds, or even less than half, greatly increasing review efficiency.

Jiang University’s preliminary test is independently created.

And even then, the preliminary test is relatively fair.

The more manipulable part is the retest. freёnovelkiss-com

Because the retest includes—an interview.

The flexibility in the score for this interview is too large.

If there’s a teacher among the retest examiners who’s acquainted with you, you could almost certainly pass, as long as you don’t curse the school, the college, or have an episode during the interview.

Obviously, Liu Pan in front of him got into Jiang University this way.

Nan Zhubin looked into Liu Pan’s eyes: "—I was right again."

His face turned red so quickly that it was visible to the naked eye, evidently indicating that Nan Zhubin’s words had touched his nerve.

"You’re talking nonse..."

Nan Zhubin didn’t let him complete a sentence: "Then I can understand."

"There was one point I was quite puzzled about before, and that was—why as the child of the founder of a psychology clinic, who in theory should be frequently involved in family work; even Huang Xin didn’t know that you were involved in Li Minglu’s case intervention."

"This indicates that your usual involvement in clinic affairs is minimal, if not non-existent, and Li Minglu should be your first clinic case, right?"

"—Yes."

"And previously, you didn’t have the chance to be involved because your father didn’t agree, right—yes."

By this point, Liu Pan’s expression had become somewhat panicked.

People always build high walls to defend the most sensitive and private parts, but at this moment those defenses were being mercilessly peeled away piece by piece.

More terrifyingly, Liu Pan himself was utterly powerless to fight back.

"Based on the cognitive traits you just expressed, your thinking is heavily influenced by a medical background, and you actively embrace it."

"Yet you’re studying psychology, and your father doesn’t allow you to participate in related clinic work."

"Could it be—"

Nan Zhubin suddenly tilted his head upward, his adjusted line of sight shifting his pupils to the bottom of his eye sockets, his gaze showing a slightly upward lifeless stare.

"You actually long for medicine, or long for your father."

"But your father—disdains you, this useless son?"

Nan Zhubin watched Liu Pan’s expression and nodded.

His tone, like his gaze, showed no fluctuation, nor any hint of emotion, but this calm tone at this moment surpassed everything, carrying a practically disdainful destructive power.

"Oh, I was right."

"Now I can also understand why you are so desperately trying to find me and persuade me to reconcile."

"You want to solve the clinic’s troubles by persuading me, and thereby gain your father’s approval."

"’Look, Dad, I can be of help to you too,’" Nan Zhubin mimicked with a deadpan voice of sarcasm, "—is that it?"

"Let me guess, those work opportunities you mentioned before, those further study slots, are actually incomplete propositions, completely made up by you. You only need an ’I’ve convinced Nan Zhubin’ to go back and boast to your dad, right?"

"Hmm, I got it right again."

Nan Zhubin looked at Liu Pan’s expression, his words still devoid of fluctuation.

"To be honest, your motives are quite off-putting to me."

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