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After waiting in the hall for a while, a beautiful woman wearing a silver-white palace dress, who looked to be about 27 or 28 years old, came down from upstairs.
"Aunt Yuehua." Xue Qinghe stepped forward and saluted.
"Your Highness." Tang Yuehua bowed slightly.
"Aunt Yuehua, he is the child I told you about. Now I'll trouble you." Xue Qinghe looked at Xuan Ming.
Tang Yuehua also looked over. Like everyone else, she was attracted by Xuan Ming's peculiar martial spirit at first sight. However, there was not much curiosity in her eyes. After just one look, she felt a bit solemn.
After thinking about it, a layer of soft waves was released from her body, elegant and natural, so gentle that it seemed to be able to soothe all the sorrows in the world.
However, after that layer of vibration touched Xuan Ming, there was no reaction at all.
Tang Yuehua frowned slightly, hesitated for a moment, and took back her territory.
"What's wrong?" Xue Qinghe asked puzzledly.
Tang Yuehua paused, turned around and motioned Xue Qinghe to follow her to the side hall, "This child's condition is much more serious than what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said."
"Your Highness, no matter how you treat him or how his friends treat him, does he always keep a distance from you?"
Xue Qinghe was stunned, "That's true."
Even Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling were not that close to Xuan Ming.
"If that's the case, I... am not sure." Tang Yuehua said.
This is a person who has completely sealed his heart in a cage. He refuses any approach, whether good or evil.
This apparent coldness is just an illusion. Beneath the coldness lies deep suspicion and disgust!
Because of suspicion and disgust, they resist and are unwilling to accept.
"If we use symptoms to describe it, he is already terminally ill," said Tang Yuehua.
"What has he been through?"
"Experience..." Xue Qinghe hesitated for a moment and gave Tang Yuehua a brief explanation of Xuan Ming's situation.
"No, more than that." Tang Yuehua said.
"It's definitely more than that."
"I don't know anything else." Xue Qinghe said.
Tang Yuehua sighed, "All I can say is, try your best."
She can only channel those closures that still have hope of recovery, but this kind of complete lockdown and refusal of all approaches is like those patients who are terminally ill but even doctors are unwilling to believe in them.
No matter how capable a doctor is, it is meaningless if the patient is unwilling to believe and cooperate.
"But I feel like he's just a little cold." Xue Qinghe said.
"If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can also see his problem, then he is not far from collapse." Tang Yuehua said.
It was because she had met Ye Lan, who had lost her husband and son, and almost everything, and no longer had any expectations for the world.
The child's coldness was very similar to Ye Lan's, so she thought of giving it a try, but after trying, the child's condition was even more serious than Ye Lan's.
Although Ye Lan didn't have any expectations, she could distinguish between goodwill and malice, and her refusal was more because she didn't want to have any more contact.
But the child's resistance was because he couldn't tell the intention, and he didn't want to gamble, so he simply refused everything!
"He must have encountered too much malice wrapped in goodwill in the past, and he can no longer trust others." Tang Yuehua said.
"Keeping a distance is his way of protecting himself. If someone wants to get too close to him, it will stimulate his self-defense instinct and he will resist others getting close to him."
"Moreover, I think he is very sensitive and must be often stimulated. Your Highness, does he usually... come into contact with any dangerous people?" According to what Xue Qinghe said, this child should have reached the point where he is paranoid about everything.
But in her test just now, Xuan Ming was indeed very sensitive and did not accept the goodwill she released, but he did not have any subsequent stress response. He was just alert and had no hostility towards the outside world. Obviously, this child's self-control ability is very strong.
If his self-preservation instinct was aroused, it must be because he sensed danger.
The person he was facing made him feel threatened! Xue Qinghe was silent for a moment, "There are indeed some misunderstandings."
Seeing that Xue Qinghe was trying to cover up, Tang Yuehua did not ask any more questions,
"Your Highness, whether it is a misunderstanding or not, I think it is better to avoid such things that will irritate him as little as possible. He is already very sensitive. I can feel that he is under great psychological pressure. If the irritation continues, he may really have problems."
An eight-year-old child should still be innocent and naive, but this child has no such innocence at all, and his whole body is tense and defensive.
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After giving some instructions, Xue Qinghe left and said he would come to pick people up in three days.
Since the students in the hall were attracted by Xuan Ming's peculiar appearance and were talking about it, Tang Yuehua simply took him to the private room on the second floor.
"Next, I will teach you about etiquette and music theory. Of course, you are not a formal student of Yuexuan. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should have told you that you only need to come for three days a month. This is not in line with Yuexuan's rules. I did not agree at first, but now seeing your condition, I think this method may be more appropriate." Tang Yuehua said.
"Now, my first request is that you stop your practice."
"No impact." Xuan Ming said.
"Influence." Tang Yuehua said.
"Your mind has been in a highly tense state, which is a good thing for cultivation because you are more devoted and focused than others. However, your tension is contradictory to what I am going to teach you next."
"What I want to teach you is not those complicated etiquettes, but calmness and relaxation."
"Calmness and relaxation are not in conflict with concentration."
Xuan Ming hesitated for a moment, and the soul power fluctuations around him slowly dissipated.
Tang Yuehua lit up the incense and said, "For the next hour, you don't need to do anything or think about anything. Just relax."
"Is it useful?" Xuan Ming asked.
"If you listen and do as I say, it will work," said Tang Yuehua.
"You can sit or lie down, whatever you want, as long as you can relax."
"This incense will last for an hour, and I will come over then."
Having said that, Tang Yuehua stood up and walked out of the room.
"By the way, don't quietly start practicing again. Take my class and do as I say."
"If you don't obey, I will tell His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and you won't have to come here anymore."
"It doesn't matter how skilled a doctor is if the patient doesn't cooperate with him."
"…"
Xuan Ming sighed and laid down on the table.
"Go to sleep. Nothing will happen as long as I'm here." said the Ice Dragon King.
"You really should take a break."
Xuan Ming used his two brains alternately to keep himself in a highly tense state at all times and maintain the highest efficiency in meditation. This was good for cultivation, but the problem was that he would not relax on his own initiative and he put too much pressure on himself.
He was alone before, but now, he can relax and rest.