Chapter 2225: Sister-in-law (7)
During the week Lu Xian was away, Lu Zishu was growing rapidly. He had to handle things he never needed to before, but fortunately, with the support of the Ruan Family and Ruan Hao, he didn’t find it too overwhelming.
He had just left the company and returned home to grab a document when he heard a stranger’s voice inside, accompanied by Lu Zhiwei’s anxious attempts to dissuade someone.
He thought something had happened again, and hurried inside. As soon as he entered, he saw a tombstone placed in the middle of the living room, with his parents around it. His father was smiling and giving instructions, while his mother looked worried and was trying to organize things: "Xiaoli, Xiaoli, you can’t do this..."
Zhao Li raised her head in displeasure: "Why can’t we do this? Zhiwei, you are wrong here. We never do this in our hometown. Jiaojiao is our daughter-in-law and should be carved on it. Don’t show male chauvinism."
In Yuansu’s culture, if a husband passes away and the couple is married with children, the wife and children need to be engraved on the tombstone. However, the wife’s name should be painted in red, and after she passes away, it gets repainted in white.
Zhao Li thought Lu Zhiwei was being chauvinistic and didn’t want a woman’s name on the tombstone, so she reprimanded him sternly.
After reprimanding Lu Zhiwei, Zhao Li turned and saw Lu Zishu. Her expression softened as she pointed to Lu Zhiwei and Lu Zishu, complaining: "Zishu, come and tell your dad. He’s getting more and more unreasonable."
Lu Zishu did not expect his mother to be so relentless. He sighed and approached, comforting Zhao Li: "Mom, wasn’t this supposed to be handled by me? Why did you..."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Li became angry: "How many times have I told you about this? Did you take it to heart? If you’re not going to do it, I’ll do it myself. I won’t depend on you for anything from now on."
Then Zhao Li went to push Lu Zhiwei: "Let’s go, go to the cemetery now. Neither of you father and son can get anything done..."
Saying this, she started walking out, while holding Lu Meng by the hand.
Lu Zishu just felt a severe headache.
Zhao Li refused to see a proper doctor, claiming she wasn’t sick. Lu Zishu and Lu Zhiwei had no choice but to secretly bring a doctor to observe her.
After the examination, the doctor said her condition was due to mental factors, such as life events, inner conflicts, suggestion or self-suggestion, affecting an individual susceptible to illness, commonly known as hysteria.
Hysteria is divided into two types.
There are dissociative symptoms and conversion symptoms.
Dissociation refers to a complete or partial inconsistency between the recognition of past experiences and the current environment and self-identity.
Conversion is the emotional response caused by mental stimulation, which is then followed by physical symptoms. Once physical symptoms appear, the emotional response fades or disappears. These physical symptoms are called conversion symptoms, and a diagnosis of conversion symptoms requires ruling out organic disease.
And Zhao Li is undoubtedly the first type.
Lu Xian’s death had already caused her mental problems. When Lu Meng called her "mom," it triggered a breakdown of some emotion buried deep inside her for years. Under strong psychological suggestion, she developed a perception that did not align with reality.
She believed Ruan Jiaojiao was married to Lu Xian, and Lu Meng was their son. Even the godparent relationships she acknowledged back then became actual engagements.
Although the ages of Lu Meng and Ruan Jiaojiao clearly didn’t match, she chose to ignore this, firmly convinced that Ruan Jiaojiao was her daughter-in-law.