Chapter 45: Bonds and Proof

(PS: Posted another update, that's it for today.)

Lu Yuanming's face darkened slightly, but as he faced his parents, he couldn't possibly maintain a stern expression. So, he could only manage a bitter smile and say, "Dad, Mom, you don't have to come every week... it's too expensive."

In this world, psychiatric treatment was free of charge. Once patients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals, all expenses were covered by the government. As the saying went, power should be respected—even if that power was not controlled by the mentally ill themselves, they were considered more dangerous than nuclear weapons. They could neither be killed nor restrained easily, so the government's significant expenditure on mental illness was beyond question.

The real expense lay in the travel costs and the cost of food and accommodation during visits.