Qin Tiantian was wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt and overalls. He looked like an older preschooler. He still had the body shape of a junior high school student and did not fit in with the college students around him.
After the summer vacation, most of the people who stayed in school were third-year interns, and judging from Qin Tiantian's appearance, they seemed to be the same.
She was chattering on her cell phone, as if she was talking to a friend, while she was eating from the plate without any proper manners.
Lu Ban saw it and laughed.
"…What are you looking at? Haven't you seen a beautiful girl before?"
Qin Tiantian noticed Lu Ban's gaze, she raised her eyes and spoke without thinking.
But soon, Qin Tiantian's expression changed. She looked at Lu Ban suspiciously and spoke uncertainly.
"You are Lu, uh, Lu what?"
She was stuck.
"Lu Ban."
Lu Ban replied.
He noticed that the girl next to him quietly put down her chopsticks and pricked up her ears to listen to what was happening here after seeing him and Qin Tiantian start a conversation.
"Are you well?"
Qin Tiantian spoke without restraint and quickly hung up the phone after he finished speaking.
"Better."
Lu Ban thought about it and felt that the Qin Tiantian in this world seemed to know him. In the doctor's words, this was why Qin Tiantian existed in Lu Ban's hallucination.
"And you?"
He asked again.
The tone of voice gave a feeling that Qin Tiantian was also sick.
Qin Tiantian didn't notice it. He just looked at Lu Ban with a strange look and said hesitantly.
"Just go to class normally. To be honest, you were a little scary back then."
"At that time?"
Lu Ban was puzzled.
"When you first started having the disease, I heard your roommate said that you would lie in bed in the middle of the night counting your own heartbeats, and stand in front of the mirror in the dark without moving. Uh, should I not say this?"
Qin Tiantian noticed the expression of the girl next to Lu Ban. The other person's eyes were sharp as if she wanted to kill him, and there was an atmosphere everywhere that told Qin Tiantian to stop talking.
"Well, anyway, as long as you get better, even if you may have to repeat a grade, you can still go to school. Everyone is still worried about you."
Qin Tiantian said hurriedly, interrupting the topic about Lu Ban's symptoms.
"We are classmates?"
Lu Ban roughly deduced Qin Tiantian's role here.
"Of course, we are in the same class. Uh, although we haven't said much to each other before, hahaha, I am saying it now."
Qin Tiantian showed a hearty and cheerful smile.
“Do you usually broadcast live?”
Lu Ban asked again.
"Ah? No, no, I don't have time for that!"
Qin Tiantian denied it without hesitation.
"oh……"
Lu Ban responded with a sound. This reaction was most likely true.
Lu Ban thought that maybe he had just watched Qin Tiantian's live broadcast and associated it with her voice, which led to the setting on the other side.
According to the theory of subconscious projection, Qin Tiantian's appearance on the other side can be regarded as Lu Ban's attachment to the real world. In this way, she will not be affected by the supernatural power there in any way, which is a foundation.
Thinking about this, Lu Ban suddenly found it a little funny. He was unknowingly using psychoanalysis to find an explanation for this illusion.
Obviously that side is the reality.
"Let's not talk about this anymore. Let's add each other on WeChat. I'll have dinner with you when I have the chance."
Qin Tiantian took out the WeChat QR code.
Lu Ban finished scanning and took a look.
【Forget River】.
Where did you know this name?
He felt something strange.
"Eat quickly, the food is getting cold."
At this time, the girl next to him pulled Lu Ban's clothes and told him to stop chatting with Qin Tiantian.
Girls look cute when their cheeks puff out.
"Um."
Lu Ban responded, and Qin Tiantian on the other side directly picked up the plate and ran to Lu Ban's table.
"Hey, you're going to be enrolled in September, along with the next class?"
Qin Tiantian found out again in a familiar manner.
“I don’t know yet.”
Lu Ban noticed the gaze of the girl next to him, picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of meat and put it on the girl's rice.
The puffed up cheeks immediately deflated, and the girl picked up the piece of meat and swallowed it with great momentum.
"Lu Ban still needs to rest for a while, so he probably won't go to school directly."
The girl swallowed the piece of meat and immediately answered for Lu Ban.
"Oh, that's true. It's not too late to enroll now. If you need any study materials, you can ask me. Although my grades are just average, I know the top student in the class next door!"
Qin Tiantian seemed to be completely unaware of the girl's emotions and kept talking incoherently.
"Thank you very much."
Lu Ban responded.
"Let's eat first. It's still early to go back to school."
The girl reminded Lu Ban again.
Lu Ban nodded and chatted with Qin Tiantian from time to time, gradually understanding some of his previous experiences in this world.
After he entered Jiangcheng University's directing and screenwriting program, he developed mental problems after only studying for half a year. At first, it only affected his rest, so he moved back home. Eventually, he became unable to recognize other people and was hospitalized to rest.
Qin Tiantian was his classmate at the time. Although they had never spoken much to each other, he was probably quite cheerful and carefree. After Lu Ban was hospitalized, he came to visit him once with his classmates, so Lu Ban remembered him.
“… Come to think of it, I heard from them that you had a serious case of, uh, paranoia? You created new settings for everyone around you. It seems quite interesting. I wonder if I have appeared in them, hahaha.”
As he spoke, Qin Tiantian became curious again.
Hearing Qin Tiantian's words, the girl next to him glared at him and clenched her chopsticks into her fists. The bamboo chopsticks collided with the plate and made a sound.
"Don't talk about these things. It won't help his recovery."
The girl said with some complaints.
"It's okay. I can tell the difference between reality and fantasy."
Lu Ban gently held the girl's hand holding the chopsticks, and then looked at Qin Tiantian.
“You showed up, too.”
"Wow, really? Am I really amazing? Some kind of superhero, or a genius girl?"
Qin Tiantian asked curiously.
"...You are a lazy anchor who likes to play games."
Lu Ban speaks the truth, he is always so honest whether in reality or in fantasy.
"Well……"
Qin Tiantian didn't know how to evaluate the setting that Lu Ban had given him.
Although they are completely consistent, it seems like something is wrong.
It’s not right, but it seems like it has grasped the core.
"I don't have any extraordinary powers that can control metal or see through other people's minds?"
Qin Tiantian tried to ask again.
"Um……"
Lu Ban thought about it and answered.
“Maybe your superpower is to always be optimistic.”
Puff——
The girl next to her suddenly couldn't help laughing out loud.
Qin Tiantian's mouth twitched, and he suddenly felt that Lu Ban might be pretending to be sick.