Zayne was speechless. "I'm fine."
Josephine continued, "Most mentally ill patients also say that they're fine. You’ve already gotten to the point of auditory hallucinations. Any more and you’d be suicidal."
Zayne,
To stop Josephine from seeing Zayne as a mentally ill patient, Zayne needed to feed her something solid.
"Josephine, have you heard of the Bright Moon Village tragedy?"
Josephine shook her head.
Shock flashed through her enchanting features. "Did you go through some sort of psychological blow or something? You've gotten sick beyond the point of treatment."
Josephine was close to crying.
At the end of his rope, Zayne began to mutter to himself, "Ah, right. I forgot you've been busy acting as a side character these days. You've probably been too busy to care about the outside world."
Stunned, Josephine immediately fired back in indignance. "So what if I’m just a side character? I'm proud of my job."
Josephine was used to others' contempt and them rolling their eyes at her, for she had been looked down on by many ever since she started acting.
However, it hurt when Zayne was the one doing it.
Zayne apologized. "I should have phrased it better. I'm not looking down on you."
Josephine’s expression was dark as she muttered," Who gave a mentally ill patient like you the right to look down on me?”
Zayne was exasperated. "Would you please shut your mouth before I hit you, Josephine? Let me finish, okay?”
Josephine shot back. "Not okay.”
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