Silly Bride

Chapter 184

it came straight from a romance novel.Instead, a gentle look crept into his eyes as he gazed at Winnie. “Dumbo, don’t feel pressured.”“Aren’t you scared? What if I insert the needles in the wrong spots and fry your brain?”“I’m not scared.” Xavier’s tone was as determined as the look in his eyes. “My life is yours.”Winnie parted her lips. There were so many things she wanted to say, but there were too many people around her, and those words refused to leave her mouth. The truth was, he had long placed his life in her hands—when he had shielded her during the accident, and when he had shielded her from Yulissa’s toxin shots.She knew that he was not only just all talk; he was genuinely entrusting his life to her.That was why Winnie cherished his life even more.Hence, she would never let herself fail him later.With those thoughts in mind, a smile appeared on her face.“Close your eyes and take a nap. Everything will be fine once you wake.”The acupuncture session went on, and Sebastian left the last three insertions to Winnie as he said he would.Winnie held her breath and trained her focus on what she was about to do. Recalling the doll head she had been practicing on countless times, she soon found the acupoints.Although Winnie was nervous during the insertions, she showed none of her anxiety. Her hands remained stable.Even Sebastian could not help but praise, “Very good. You’re performing much better than Yolanda and her brother. Back then, their hands were either trembling, or they were inserting the needles in the wrong spot.”Yolanda scoffed. “Keep praising her, then, Grandpa. I’m going out first.”“My dear, is it that tough to admit that someone else is better than you?”“Yes, it is!” Yolanda then stormed out of the room.Nevertheless, Sebastian tried to salvage his granddaughter’s reputation. “Nini, don’t take her words to heart. Yolanda’s just a little aloof and straightforward. She isn’t bad on the inside. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have forced herself to learn and research traditional medicine with me. She has had some achievements while studying herbs with me. Although she says she doesn’t like this, she’s been working hard all this time.”“I understand, Master.” Winnie nodded. “I don’t mean to challenge her either. I hope we’ll be able to communicate with each other peacefully from now on.”Sebastian knew that Winnie was quite the aggressive character in life, so he was glad to hear that she was willing to take a more passive approach in dealing with Yolanda.Thus, he became even more motivated to teach her. “Let’s go back to the study. I wasn’t done telling you about that part earlier.”When Winnie and Sebastian went back to the study, Yolanda was typing out her thesis on the laptop.The moment Sebastian entered the room, she called Sebastian over.The two of them chatted for a long time before Yolanda was done editing a section of her thesis. Then, the woman’s stomach began growling.When Sebastian heard it, he nagged, “I told you to eat more in the noon, but you didn’t want to. Now, you’re hungry, right?”“That restaurant’s food wasn’t that good; the taste was too strong, and I couldn’t eat more of it. You guys please carry on. I’ll be back to write my thesis after making some mac and cheese.”With that said, Yolanda left the study.Everything seemed normal, so Yolanda raised no suspicion at all.While it was true that Yolanda had gone out to make mac and cheese, she did not stay by the microwave. Instead, she went to the doctor’s office.The calming incense was still burning in the incense burner. The incense was meant to calm the nerves, and coupled with the fact that she had secretly added some hypnotic incense as well, it would be nothing short of a miracle if Xavier was still awake.After tiptoeing into the doctor’s office, Yolanda took out a needle to insert it at Xavier’s philtrum.As she had coated the needle with anesthesia, Xavier did not completely regain consciousness.His eyes were half-lidded, and his conscience was blurry.It was the perfect state for him to be hypnotized.Nate had said that everyone in the world could forget about the woman named Yulissa, but Xavier must not.Therefore, Yolanda was going to try to wake Xavier’s memories of Yulissa.She did not have confidence that everything would turn out the way she wanted it to. After all, she had also coated the needles in the acupuncture kit with the drug that Nate had given to her. Now that those drugs were in Xavier’s mind, no one could say for sure what would happen to Xavier once he woke.It took Yolanda much effort to hold Xavier upright. Then, she took out a pocket watch and began hypnotizing him.Yolanda’s hypnotic tactics worked. Xavier uttered Yulissa’s name and the things that happened not long ago.At that, Yolanda could not help but gasp at the incredible effects of hypnosis and acupuncture combined.Merely hypnosis by itself would not have such wondrous effects, and that applied to acupuncture by itself as well.It was merely a coincidence that she had found out how both techniques provided magnificent results.Right as Yolanda was bubbling with joy over her discovery, a thumping sound echoed in the room as if something had collided with another thing.Although it was a soft noise, it seemed particularly loud in the quiet, enclosed room.Even Yolanda jumped from the noise, let alone Xavier, who was currently in a hypnotized state.Nevertheless, Yolanda did not have the time to find out where the noise came from.Her only concern was Xavier waking up. As her hypnosis had yet to end, if Xavier were to be woken up by other noises, all her efforts would be for naught.Alas, when she turned to look at him, she realized Xavier’s eyes were already half-opened.“D*mn it,” Yolanda cursed under her breath before starting the hypnosis all over again.However, just as she was about to succeed again, another noise echoed in the room.In fact, this time, someone even appeared from behind the couch.It was Rachel.She was rubbing her eyes, looking as if she had just woken up.“Xavier, Yolanda, where’s Daddy? Where’s my daddy?”“Shut up!” Yolanda snapped. Furious that her attempt at hypnosis had been interrupted again, she spun