"Most of the time, it was Xiaoxun who got the brunt of it. Xiaoxun has a fear of enclosed spaces because her mother often locked her in a cramped cabinet. Once, her father was not home, and when he returned, he found that Xiaoxun had been trapped inside for three days and nights and nearly starved to death.
I have seen her mother's episodes once or twice. On one occasion, she wanted to strangle Xiaoxun, and on another, she was tightly holding Xiaoxun while sitting on the rooftop, shouting, 'Don't come over, don't hurt Xiaoxun, don't harm her.'
She seemed to always feel that someone was out to hurt her and Xiaoxun, and she was always in a state of panic."
"Delusional disorder...?" Qin Mengying mused, twirling her pen.
"Perhaps. I'm not too clear on the details, after all, it's her family affair, and I don't know much about it."
Qin Mengying expressed her doubt, "I heard that you two were childhood friends, haven't you talked to her about these things?"
