“Is there anything I can help you with, Miss?” The maid asked, surprised yet puzzled.
“Come, lie down.” Xia Yu pointed at the bed.
Looking at her mistress’s large bed, the maid hesitated, “Isn’t this inappropriate?”
Xia Yu thought for a moment. Indeed, constantly bringing maids into his room and having them lie on his bed wasn’t quite appropriate.
However, preparing a new room would take time.
Let’s give it a try first; if it doesn’t work, there’s no need to prepare a new room.
“Listen to me and lie down.”
Under his insistence, the maid could only begin to take off her clothes.
“You don’t need to take off your clothes; just lie on the bed.” Xia Yu stopped the maid.
“No, my clothes are too dirty!” The maid stood her ground.
Xia Yu had no choice but to agree.
Fortunately, it was winter, so even after removing her maid uniform, she still had layers of clothing covering her body thoroughly.
Lying down on the bed, the maid felt uneasy, her mind flashing with thoughts like “New Year’s gift” and similar phrases.
Soon, Xia Yu picked up a recorder.
He began to play the recorder while activating his calming skill.
The maid felt a sense of comfort envelop her. Her physical fatigue and weariness faded away, and her restless heart calmed down.
After a while, the recorder’s sound stopped, but An Siyao’s voice began to speak.
Her words brought the same sense of comfort as the recorder.
Relax your mind and picture the beautiful grasslands you’ve seen before. The lush green grass sways beside your ears, gently brushing against your skin. The wind carries the earthy fragrance as it whispers past your ears. When you open your eyes, an endless prairie stretches before you. You feel golden sunlight bathing your body—warm and comforting…
“Lift your head to look at the clouds in the sky, take a deep breath, and your body will feel as light and airy as the clouds above…”
Following Xia Yu’s instructions, the maid not only felt physical comfort but also found all her worries—her anxiety about reaching marriageable age, the pressure of being fully responsible for An Siyao’s affairs, and her discomfort in communicating with Yu Ningmeng—fading away.
She became enamored with this feeling, savoring it until she fell asleep.
Seeing the maid’s sleeping face with a smile, Xia Yu nodded in satisfaction.
What he had just said was the use of a mental healing skill, a form of psychological hypnotherapy.
Combined with calming and mental healing, the effectiveness would depend on how the maid felt upon waking up.
Stepping onto the balcony, Xia Yu snacked while waiting for the maid to awaken.
He could stay in An Siyao’s body as long as he wanted, so he wasn’t worried about the maid sleeping for eight hours.
Two hours later, the maid woke up.
She sat up, feeling somewhat dazed, the dreamlike sensation of floating like a cloud replaying in her mind, captivating her.
“How do you feel?” Xia Yu appeared before her.
“I feel really comfortable.” The maid struggled to describe it.
Sleep induced by calming techniques is inherently pleasant, but this alone couldn’t demonstrate the effects of mental healing.
“Besides feeling comfortable, have you been troubled by anything lately? How do those troubles feel to you now?” Xia Yu continued questioning.
“I’m not as anxious as before.” The maid replied.
Only less anxious than before? Xia Yu wasn’t satisfied with this result.
With half a month until school resumed, perhaps he could use this time to improve the levels of calming and mental healing skills.
Fortunately, he had marked the doctor who provided a mental healing bonus.
With these two skills, he could establish a psychological clinic in Dongzhi Township, bringing relaxation and happiness to all the students.
In a capitalist society, the distortion causes everyone to carry immense pressure. People tend to deceive themselves, hide their feelings, and bury their stress deep inside without revealing it.
Moreover, many unscrupulous individuals sell anxiety, making the entire city a massive factory producing negative emotions, where everyone needs psychological healing.
Although the students in Dongzhi Township are somewhat better off than those with nothing, they still have their own pressures and anxieties.
Combined with calming and mental healing skills beyond human techniques, surely all the students would come to adore An Siyao.
After sending out the first test subject, Xia Yu summoned another and asked Yu Ningmeng to prepare a dedicated room for him.
The experiment hadn’t ended yet; just one maid couldn’t prove much.
Yu Ningmeng worked quickly and soon prepared a room for Xia Yu.
Watching Xia Yu lead one maid after another into the room and then seeing them leave with smiles on their faces after two hours, she finally couldn’t help herself and stopped one of the exiting maids to ask.
“What is Miss doing inside?”
“You should try it yourself, Yu Assistant. It’s really comfortable.” The maid couldn’t explain it clearly.
Filled with nervousness and excitement, Yu Ningmeng entered the room.
Two hours later, she woke up from the bed, feeling an unprecedented sense of relaxation. Although the annoyance of being assigned to work as a maid didn’t completely disappear, it no longer seemed important. Even more pleasant was the deep sleep during these two hours, which swept away her fatigue, leaving every muscle relaxed and content.
Like the other maids, she returned to her bedroom with half-closed eyes and fell asleep again.
After spending twelve hours with An Siyao and completing experiments with all the maids, Xia Yu returned to his own body.
Still slightly eager, he wanted to try using the skills on You Xue and Kong Hanyue again, but he quickly dismissed this idea.
Zhong Yunxin was still in the house. If she found out and saw An Siyao using the skills, she would surely become suspicious.
He needed to improve the levels of calming and mental healing skills further.
He checked his game points, which could be exchanged for thirty-one experience cards, enough to raise one skill to level 3 and another to level 2.
Mental healing only played a supporting role; the main focus was on calming, a skill absolutely absent in ordinary humans.
Therefore, he decided to allocate twenty-one cards to calming and ten to mental healing.
He would visit the white cat tomorrow and then go to that psychologist the day after.
As he was thinking, his phone rang.
It was a call from his grandmother, regarding Xia Dongyang.
“That bastard called me earlier asking for money, but I gave him a good scolding.” Xia Nianhong told Xia Yu.
She only learned about Xia Dongyang’s disappearance after failing to contact him and reaching out to Kong Hanyue.
“He wouldn’t dare ask Xiaoyue for money, but he might really try asking you for it. Don’t fall for his tricks.” Xia Nianhong worried that Xia Yu might be too soft-hearted.
“I understand. I won’t give him any money.” Xia Yu assured her.
After hanging up the phone, Xia Yu didn’t dwell on the matter. He felt a sense of satisfaction. Previously, due to himself and You Xue, Xia Dongyang could get thirty or forty thousand from his grandmother every year, but this time, he wouldn’t get anything.
Xia Yu hadn’t told Xia Nianhong about Xia Dongyang’s mistress yet. Otherwise, Xia Dongyang wouldn’t have a peaceful New Year either.
Well, forget about him.
At midnight, he entered the white cat’s body.
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