Chapter 33: The Reason for the Joker

The brief black screen also represented the end of the previous scene, and all the viewers in the livestream took this time to discuss frantically.

Although it was just a short conversation with the social worker, the information revealed was a lot!

[Taking seven medications at the same time?! This... this is too exaggerated??]

[Arthur’s condition... is it really that serious??]

[His request is really simple... just doesn't want to be this sad anymore...]

[The internet says that medications for mental illness can also lead to depression.]

[What kind of mental illness does he have?? Is it absolutely necessary to treat it..]

[Being locked in a hospital before means the condition is really serious, very likely to harm oneself or others!]

[But if you keep taking medication, this depression comes out! Both sides are dead ends.]

[Then why not just take antidepressants?]

[Do you think you’re refining pills in your stomach? Antidepressants cause insomnia, what do you do?]

[Then take sleeping pills.]

As the sorrowful music started again.

Su Chen sat on the bus, leaning against the window, quietly looking at the Gotham City scenery receding rapidly, with unwashed white paint on his chin and neck.

And the little boy sitting in front of Su Chen clearly noticed, looking at Su Chen curiously.

Noticing the little boy, Su Chen’s gaze became soft.

He raised his hand and began to make faces constantly.

And the little boy was immediately giggled.

Watching Su Chen treat the little boy so gently.

All the viewers’ hearts were even more heartbroken.

Someone like this, who holds goodwill toward others and is willing to bring joy to everyone.

Yet lives so oppressed and miserably. Even unable to bring a smile to himself.

And the black mother next to the little boy seemed to have noticed something unusual.

She turned her head and saw Su Chen making faces.

She spoke directly and scolded.

"Can you stop harassing my child?"

Su Chen, who was wronged and misunderstood, froze on his face, wanting to explain innocently.

"I wasn't harassing him... I was..."

"Shut up, don't say anything!"

But he was rudely interrupted by the black mother.

Immediately.

The other party’s rude, groundless accusation and indifference to Su Chen’s explanation left Su Chen at a loss for a moment.

Without warning, Su Chen began to laugh.

The laughter immediately spread throughout the quiet carriage.

"Hahahaha!"

"Hahahaha!"

"What, do you think it’s funny?!"

The black mother felt insulted and turned back to question him.

But responding to her was still Su Chen’s rude laughter!

"Hahahaha!"

"Hahahaha!"

"I'm sorry... I have..."

Su Chen’s laughing face was full of sadness, and there was a sobbing tone in the laughter, shaking his head while laughing, as if denying it.

He struggled to cover his mouth, wanting to stop himself from laughing out loud.

While handing a card to the black mother.

[Forgive my laughter]

[I have a condition]

[Please see the back]

[This condition causes sudden, continuous, uncontrollable laughter]

[This laughter does not match the person’s emotions]

[Patients usually have brain damage or suffer from neurological diseases]

[Please return the card]

[Thank you!]

Immediately.

Looking at the explanation on the card, the black mother and all the viewers in the livestream were slightly silent.

And only then.

Did everyone truly know the reason for Su Chen’s constant, groundless laughter!

The laughter in the Health Department social worker’s hospital.

The rude laughter when being accused on the bus.

It turned out it was completely out of Su Chen’s own control!

No wonder when Su Chen laughed, he looked so sad and miserable.

The expression when laughing looked more like crying!

Even though he was full of grievances when being accused, he wanted to cry.

But the next second, he laughed out loud uncontrollably.

This feeling... how painful and heartbreaking it must be!

All the viewers couldn't imagine Su Chen’s usual work and life... including his growth over the past few decades...

With this condition, how many cold looks would he receive from people?!

[No wonder.... when Su Chen laughs, his face is full of sadness!]

[So heartbreaking! He clearly wanted to cry...]

[How many cold looks he must have received since childhood...]

[And it’s in this terrible Gotham City, people here seem so cold.]

[Clearly he has tried his best to live... but he is still so unfortunate.]

[When he laughs, my heart aches.]

[Even his smile is not under his own control, such a life is too sad..]

Countless viewers were incredibly heartbroken by Su Chen’s plight.

This is an oppressed life that normal people cannot imagine.

Under the sorrowful, heavy music.

Su Chen, carrying his prepared medicine, walked through the dirty, wet streets, climbed a staircase with a heart-stopping number of steps, and walked into a dilapidated, dim apartment building.

In front of the building, only one warm light illuminated the road.

Inside the apartment, Su Chen’s home was equally old and simple.

He prepared dinner for his mother in bed.

Responding to his mother’s inquiries as usual.

At home, Su Chen rarely showed a genuine smile.

From the conversation between the two, the audience also learned.

Su Chen’s mother used to work in Thomas Wayne’s home, and now she was in difficulty and distress, so she wrote to Thomas Wayne hoping to get help, and had been waiting for a reply.

And this Thomas Wayne was the entrepreneur on the TV next to them who was about to run for mayor!

While talking.

Su Chen and his mother’s favorite program, *The Murray Show*, started on TV.

Su Chen stared at the TV screen, and the picture slowly pushed in.

The camera shifted.

The picture in front was the TV show, the scene of *The Murray Show*!

A bright stage full of gorgeous colors! Music full of enthusiasm and wit!

And Su Chen’s figure appeared in the audience! Clapping hard!

Immediately.

Countless viewers also reacted, this was the scene Su Chen imagined.

On stage, Murray started the show with a joke teasing the mayor.

The scene immediately burst into laughter.

Among the laughing crowd, Su Chen laughed unscrupulously, without any sense of disharmony!

Under the spotlight.

Under the gaze of the whole audience.

Su Chen was lucky enough to become the only focus!

And in the conversation with Murray, one question and one answer.

Su Chen was incredibly confident, incredibly calm, introducing himself with an elegant smile.

In this world Su Chen imagined, all the audience members smiled friendly, clapping for him! And his idol Murray also appreciated him.

Here, Su Chen received Murray’s affirmation, received the friendliness and encouragement of the whole audience, and also showed the most confident self.

But, all the viewers knew.

This was just Su Chen’s fantasy.

In reality, people would still be cold.

Su Chen’s life would still be miserable and oppressed.

Watching Su Chen, who was lost in fantasy, with a smile on his face, all the viewers felt heartbroken for him.

The next second, the camera shifted.

The next day.

In the dressing room of Su Chen’s company.

Su Chen sat in a chair with his back to the camera, dealing with something.

The bony back appeared directly in front of all the viewers!

It immediately shocked everyone in front of the screen!

The protruding shoulder blades were shocking!

Just as Su Chen’s mother said, he should eat more, he was really... too thin!

His colleague Randall walked over, knowing about Su Chen’s encounter yesterday.

While comforting Su Chen, he handed over a paper bag.

Inside was a revolver...

"You should protect yourself."

"You know, I’ll cover you."

— Author's Notes —

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