Subjects of Madness

ALL EXAMPLES OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS MENTIONED HERE BEGIN WITH REAL LIFE.

It may seem impossible. But I insist that anything is possible, because the cause of it all is the human mind and its madness…

Working at the hospital in Nanning, psychiatrists Chen Putian and Yang Ke encountered the widest variety of mental disorders. Over time, they started solving cases of madness faster and more effectively than the police—criminal cases. However, they had never come across such an unusual and troubling case…

For two months, a woman kept coming to the police, claiming that every day someone wearing a mask was killing her—yet each time she resurrected, and everything started over again. The police decided she was not in her right mind and didn’t take her words seriously.

Fed up with the police’s indifference, the woman declared that she would catch the killer herself. On her next visit, she brought a portrait of the criminal—depicting herself. The police checked her name in the database and discovered that she had been listed as missing for more than six months. Then they contacted a psychiatric clinic and asked Chen Putian to help investigate…

Some time later, a note appeared on the doctor’s office door, written in blood: “Chen Putian, I won’t leave you even in the next life!”