Gu Huaian Seeks a Master to Remove His Mind-Reading Ability

Gu Huaian Seeks a Master to Remove His Mind-Reading Ability is the decisive quest through which Gu Huaian tries to repair the condition that has made ordinary intimacy impossible. Rather than merely waiting for Shen Tang to return, he recognizes that his persistent mind-reading ability stands between them and turns its removal into an urgent, practical objective. His search leads from an empty chat window and a painful separation toward temples, Taoist abbeys, wandering masters, and a possible journey to Tibet.

Causes and Background

Gu Huaian’s decision begins with the silence of Shen Tang. He looks at an empty chat window, and the absence of a deletion or block gives him only a narrow piece of consolation: communication has not been completely severed, but neither has it been restored. The emotional uncertainty becomes a concrete problem when he concludes that Shen Tang is unlikely to come back while the mind-reading ability remains active.

That realization changes the nature of the conflict. The ability is not treated as a useful gift that Gu Huaian can simply learn to control; it has become an obstacle to the relationship itself. He therefore decides that he must investigate how to get rid of it thoroughly. The search is motivated both by the supernatural condition and by the possibility of reconciliation, since solving one appears necessary before the other can occur.

The Search Begins

Gu Huaian ends the immediate conversation by turning off his phone and returning to his room, telling the others to take it easy. The gesture is outwardly ordinary, but the decision formed behind it is not: he privately commits himself to finding a solution. The narrative shifts from visible social interaction to a solitary undertaking, emphasizing that he does not want the problem handled as public gossip or group business.

His first practical step is to instruct Assistant Cen to search nationwide for the most famous temples, Taoist abbeys, and masters. The breadth of the request shows how little confidence Gu Huaian has in any single conventional explanation or remedy. He is willing to cast the net across the country, pursuing religious and quasi-religious authorities rather than limiting himself to ordinary medical or technical means.

Assistant Cen receives this assignment after working overtime at the company and initially feels an understandable impulse to curse. His reaction highlights the burden Gu Huaian’s private crisis places on the people around him. Yet the balance in his account, large enough to last him half a lifetime, immediately restores his calm. The search is therefore also shaped by Gu Huaian’s wealth: an exhausting and eccentric request becomes an assignment Assistant Cen is prepared to undertake because it is generously funded.

The Tibet Lead

The investigation produces a specific but uncertain lead. Assistant Cen discovers reports that a particularly powerful grandmaster is wandering from place to place, with no stable whereabouts, and that some people claim to have seen him in Tibet. Gu Huaian repeats this information to Shen Tang while keeping his distance and hiding in the darkness, trying desperately not to think even though he can still hear her from where he stands.

He tells her that he is going away for a while and that it may be a long time before he returns. When she asks where he is going, he explains that Assistant Cen has located the wandering master and that he intends to go to Tibet to look for him. The announcement is both an explanation and a farewell: Gu Huaian does not promise success, but he makes clear that he will personally test the only promising lead available.

The journey is deliberately solitary. Gu Huaian has little hope that the grandmaster will actually solve the problem, yet uncertainty does not release him from the obligation to try. He also insists that no one else can know about the matter and that he must go himself, making secrecy part of the quest’s structure rather than an incidental detail.

Shen Tang’s Response and Narrative Significance

Shen Tang senses that Gu Huaian is genuinely acting to change the situation, and the possibility awakens a guarded, almost secret happiness in her. That response does not erase the damage between them. She cannot simply pretend that nothing happened and resume their former life, so the proposed journey becomes a conditional opening rather than an immediate reconciliation.

Her hope is correspondingly precise: she wishes that Gu Huaian will truly find the so-called grandmaster and resolve the mind-reading problem. After sitting beside the bed for a long time, she goes to the window and gently draws aside the curtains to look toward the door. The distance is too great for her to see clearly, and the absence of light leads her to infer that he has already left. The scene leaves the departure partly unseen, allowing the empty doorway to carry the weight of separation.

As a plot action, the search combines a quest with a relationship crisis. Gu Huaian’s movement toward distant religious sites is not undertaken for adventure or prestige but to remove the condition that prevents trust and ordinary closeness. Its significance lies in the reversal of passivity: faced with the prospect that Shen Tang will not return, he does not demand that she accept him as he is. Instead, he accepts that he must change the circumstances first, even when the evidence for success is no more than scattered reports of a master somewhere in Tibet.