Nicholas looked at John Nash sitting blankly on the chair, holding his son in his arms. The child was crying bitterly, but John was indifferent and just looked at a certain angle, stiff and stiff. Inexplicably, Nicholas felt choked, and all his emotions were stuck in his throat and could not be vented.

On the surface, John's life has returned to normal, but in fact everything is no longer normal.

Alicia became extremely sensitive. As long as she heard John talking to herself, she would suspect that his hallucination had appeared again. Later, it was confirmed that it was just her own random thoughts. Even she couldn't stand such an self, and could only laugh; in the long night, Alicia longed to get John's hug and even respond to her physiological needs, but John had no choice but to give her a back indifferently...

The huge pressure made Alicia completely collapse. She could only get angry in the bathroom in front of the mirror and in herself. She roared angryly and could not give her a solution. The confusion and oppression of life made her at a loss and exhaustion. But what could that happen? When she woke up the next day, Alicia still had to continue working, and even had to work overtime in order to support this home. At the same time, John had no way to take care of the child. She had to send the child to her mother to ensure that she would not be distracted during the whole day of work.

John stood at the door, his lonely figure became smaller and smaller. He looked like an unnecessary burden. He could not provide any help, but was still dragging down the family. He was like a walking corpse, and the whole world stopped rotating. He could not do anything except throwing out the garbage. The mathematical ability he once proud of became a stagnant pool.

John paused his medication. Although every time Alicia reminded him that he should take the medication, he would secretly place the medication, which slowly made his brain start to function again. He could see the passwords hidden behind the text, and he saw again... William Pacher.

William established a secret base in the woods behind his house, allowing John to rejoin the ranks of cracking the code. John began to tell himself that Dr. Rosen was the right one, and William was just his hallucination... But William still successfully convinced John or deep in John's heart that he always hoped that William would exist, "I'm really afraid that you are not real." John's eyes with watery light revealed relief and breathed a long sigh.

In the following year, Alicia noticed no abnormality until one storm day, she went outside to collect her clothes, and John took her son upstairs to help him take a bath. Although Alicia was a little worried, John's outstanding performance over the past year still convinced her.

After putting away her clothes, Alicia heard the unsure of the radio in the storm, and followed the sound all the way. Then she saw John's secret hut. There were countless newspapers, magazines and numbers hanging on the walls, which filled the entire house with dense crowds, which made Alicia fall into endless fear and ran back to the house.

John was closing the window, but he couldn't see the child everywhere. Alicia ran to the bathroom and found that the child left alone in the bathtub was almost flooded with hot water, causing him to drown. Alicia picked up the child like crazy. John realized something was wrong and said blankly, "Charles is here, he's fine."

"There is no one here!" Alicia roared madly and angrily, "There is no one here at all!"

Alicia ignored John's remarks that "he injected invisible serum" and ran downstairs quickly and called Rosen. John followed quickly. He was at a loss when he watched Alicia's movements. Then William appeared. William tried to warn John that Alicia's actions would endanger countless lives, and she knew too much, so she had to end her life.

Seeing William lifting his gun toward Alicia, John rushed up in despair, but he didn't expect to knock Alicia into the corner, and the child in his arms burst into tears. John looked at Alicia at a loss and tried to explain his behavior, but Alicia was completely shocked. She pushed John away, left the house as if she was running for life, and rushed towards her car in the storm.

John stood there in a daze. William appeared, Charles appeared, and Marcy also appeared. They were constantly urging John to solve Alicia. William even began to force John to act with a pistol. Countless memory clips poured into his mind, causing John's brain to explode. He just felt that he was about to suffocate. The words and memories of the three people kept echoing in his ears, as if they were everywhere and the whole world was completely in chaos.

John rushed out of the heavy rain, stopped Alicia's car, looked at his wife's eyes tightly through the rain screen, and said in despair, "She has never grown up. Marcy cannot be true, she has never grown up." The shock and fragility were mixed together, rippling in the depths of those amber eyes, which made people feel unbearable.

"John, why did you stop taking medicine?" Rosen came to the house and sat down face to face with Alicia, John.

John looked at Rosen, then looked up at Alicia, and could see Charles and Marcy staring at each other in the eyes, "Because I can't work, I can't help take care of the children... I can't respond to my wife's needs." The shock slowly spread in Alicia's eyes, "Do you think that's better than being a madman?"

Rosen said that John needed to accept higher-intensity information, but this time John shook his head and refused, firm and persistent, "No, there must be another way. It's just a 'problem', that's all, a problem that can't find a solution yet, and what I'm best at is solving the problem."

"It's not mathematics, you can't invent a formula and change the world's ideas."

"I just need to use my brain!" John was stubborn, but Rosen was still trying to refute him, which made John shout in anger, "Why? Why not?"

"Because your brain is the root of the problem." Rosen did not give in.

But John still did not waver at all, "I can solve it, just give me time, I can solve it." But even at this moment, Marcy's laughter still echoed in John's ears, and the hallucination seemed to never disappear.

Alicia decided to send John back to the mental hospital, but John sat in the room and refused to pack his luggage. She held the handkerchief that he and Alicia had stuffed into his suit pocket on the first date, her face full of stubbornness and confusion. "Are you ready? Rosen is waiting for you outside." Alicia's voice made John look up, and he looked at his wife sadly, "I can't go back to the hospital." Both of them fell into silence, "I can't come back after going."

Every word Alicia said became extremely difficult, "He said that if what you said happened, he had a power of attorney to sign it."

"Can you not sign?" John's pleading voice stunned Alicia, "As long as I give me more time, I will definitely find a solution. No matter how you decide, Rosen is right, you can't stay here. I'm no longer safe."

Alicia looked at John with a lonely face, "Will you really hurt me?"

Faced with this problem, John's eyes were red and full of anxiety. He could still see Marcy running from behind Alicia. He shook his head in pain and struggle, "I don't know either. Maybe you'd better ask Rosen to send you to your mother's house." This answer made Alicia's shoulders extremely fragile. She slowly turned around and left and walked downstairs.

John tried to pack his luggage again, but there was no way. He just sat on the edge of the bed nervously, at a loss. But then, he heard the sound of the engine starting Rosen left. When he saw Alicia going upstairs again, John's eyes were covered with a layer of translucent mist, looking at his wife blankly, "Rosen said, if you want to kill me, call him immediately." This sentence made the smile on the corner of John's mouth gently pull up, so difficult, but so happy.

Alicia walked up to John, knelt down on her knees, keeping her eyes parallel to John, "Do you know what is real?" Then she gently stroked John's cheek with her right hand, "This." This made John slowly close his eyes and show a peaceful expression. Then she held John's right hand and placed it on her cheek, "This", and finally docked on her chest, "This."

John felt Alicia's steady and powerful heartbeat, "This is true." Amber eyes flashed gently, and he looked at the woman in front of him intently, "Maybe what can make you awake from your dreams may not be in your head, but here." Alicia's right hand placed on John's chest, feeling the heartbeat that calmed him down.

The tears in John's eyes slowly overflowed, and the mixed emotions rippling in the water made his heart tremble slightly.

"Hu", Nicholas suddenly breathed in big mouthfuls, because he stopped breathing for too long, so that his brain began to lack oxygen, tears fell down, and his cheeks became hot. He finally understood what that strange thing was, and he finally understood how to solve the cold and isolated cruelty of the mental hospital.

It is love, trust, care, and companionship.

When watching Alicia risk her life and choose to stand beside John, the two decided to work together to overcome the difficulties; when watching Alicia and John's right hands put on each other's hearts, John's eyes flashed with a moving and fragile light; when watching John's haggard and crazy, lonely and sad, helpless and confused expression... Nicholas knew that he was not a lunatic, he was just sick, no different from a normal person, he was just sick. No one needed to avoid him, no one needed to treat him in a cold and cruel way, and no one needed to make his life more difficult with strange eyes.

All he needs is just no longer "different".
Chapter completed!