Tang Muzhou and Xie Mingzhe chatted while eating. There were so many topics for them to talk about that they had been chatting for several hours without realizing it. Xie Mingzhe was surprised to find that it was already 11:30, so he immediately stopped the conversation and said, "Brother, I have to go back now. The dormitory building will be closed at 12 o'clock!"

As a graduate of Imperial Capital University, Tang Muzhou knew the school rules and regulations. He stood up and said, "I'll take you there." Seeing that Xie Mingzhe was about to refuse, Tang Muzhou added, "It's so late. I'm worried about you going back alone. I'll take you back to school."

Since the senior brother insisted on sending him off, Xie Mingzhe did not refuse and simply nodded and followed the senior brother into the car.

Perhaps because it was too late, the two did not encounter any paparazzi along the way, and Tang Muzhou smoothly sent his junior back to the back door of the school. Xie Mingzhe got out of the car, turned around and waved at him: "Thank you, senior brother!"

Tang Muzhou's eyes were full of smiles: "You're welcome. Go back quickly, or you'll be stopped by the dormitory manager."

Xie Mingzhe nodded, quickly slipped in through the back door, and ran all the way to the dormitory.

Watching him running quickly into the school, Tang Muzhou's smile deepened - this guy is really full of energy, and I don't know why, every time I am with him, I will be infected by his emotions and my mood will become happy.

Tang Muzhou kept watching his junior fellow apprentice's back until his running figure completely disappeared under the street lights. Only then did he put away his smile, started the car and returned to Fenghua Club.

Teito University's dormitory management system is very strict. Doors are closed at 24:00 every night. If a student comes back later than the door lock time, he must go to the dormitory management center to register the detailed reasons for returning late after going out. This kind of regulation is to prevent young and impulsive students from playing too crazy outside, and it is difficult to explain to their parents if something happens. If you come home late more than three times, you have to report it to the school, which is particularly troublesome.

Xie Mingzhe hates trouble the most, so it would be better if he could get back before the curfew.

He ran all the way back to the dormitory at the speed of a 100-meter race, and finally ran back to the dormitory building panting. When he saw the time was 23:58, Xie Mingzhe finally breathed a sigh of relief, smiled politely at the dormitory manager, and walked into the freshman dormitory building pretending to be calm.

23:58, only 2 minutes left before curfew.

Fortunately, Tang Muzhou personally sent him back to school, and he was in good physical condition. He ran as fast as he could from the back door of the school to the dormitory area without stopping. He ran such a long distance in just a few minutes and got back before the curfew. It was really a false alarm.

Xie Mingzhe wiped the sweat from his forehead and leaned against the wall to adjust his breathing.

At this moment, another classmate walked into the dormitory building quickly on time.

The man was wearing a pair of slim-fitting trousers, and his legs cast long, straight shadows on the ground. He had a neat braid on his head, but his body shape was obviously that of a boy... Xie Mingzhe was slightly startled, and he always felt that the shadow of this man was particularly familiar.

The two looked at each other until the other walked into the building.

——It turned out to be Qin Xuan, the mysterious roommate who had disappeared for several days.

Unexpectedly, both of them came back on time. Almost at the moment when Qin Xuan walked into the dormitory building, the door behind him was closed.

The sound of the door closing echoed clearly in the dark night. The two people looked at each other in the hall. Xie Mingzhe touched his nose and tried to find a topic to break the awkward silence: "Hey, Qin Xuan, you came back so late?"

Qin Xuan said calmly: "Well, did you just get back too?"

Xie Mingzhe smiled dryly and said, "I went out to eat. Fortunately, I came back before twelve o'clock."

They both breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the dormitory one after the other. In the empty corridor late at night, only the sound of their footsteps remained.

Xie Mingzhe arrived at the dormitory door and opened it on his own initiative, turning on the lights in the dormitory. Under the bright light, he could see Qin Xuan's face clearly - his roommate looked very tired, with slightly wrinkled brows and obvious dark circles under his eyes.

I remember that Qin Xuan said he would take three days off, but he didn't come back until a week later. Xie Mingzhe asked him with concern: "Have you dealt with all the things at home?"

Qin Xuan rubbed his forehead lightly and said calmly: "Grandpa passed away, I just came back after attending the funeral."

Xie Mingzhe was stunned: "I'm not very good at comforting people, you... don't be too sad."

This consolation was indeed a bit bad. Qin Xuan saw his anxious look, twitched his lips slightly, and said: "No need to comfort him, my grandfather is already over a hundred years old, and has been living in the hospital for the past two years, relying on drugs to sustain his life. This time he passed away peacefully, which may be a kind of relief for him."

Xie Mingzhe nodded and said, "Well, the old man will surely rest in peace." He had no relatives and could not understand the pain of losing a loved one. He didn't know how to comfort his roommate, and it seemed that his roommate really didn't need comfort.

So Hsieh Ming-che cleverly changed the subject: "By the way, Professor Chen called on your name during class a few days ago. I told him that you had to take a leave of absence because of family matters, and he asked you to explain it to him in person when you come back."

Qin Xuan: “…”

Professor Chen has gray hair and a long white beard. He is a well-known weirdo. He is knowledgeable and talented, and is also well-known in the art world. However, he is very serious in class and often calls on students to answer questions. If the student called happens to skip class, he will directly ask the student to retake his course next semester. Students in the art department are very afraid of him, and many people privately call him a weird old man.

Qin Xuan was called out by Professor Chen on those days when he was absent. Fortunately, Xie Mingzhe immediately explained that his roommate had family matters. However, Professor Chen obviously did not believe him. After all, students who skipped classes often used various excuses such as "sick leave" and "family matters" to evade the issue, so he asked Qin Xuan to come to him with the note.

Xie Mingzhe said, "Don't worry, you have a note from the school, he won't make it difficult for you. In addition, he also assigned an extracurricular assignment, asking all students to draw a picture. The color can only be green, and different greens are required to be used to create a sense of hierarchy and novelty. This assignment will be included in the final assessment based on a full score of 10. It is due next Wednesday, and I haven't finished it yet."

Xie Mingzhe was a little worried at this point. It was not easy to draw an original painting with only green. This painting was worth 10 points in the final exam, and he had to get at least 7 points, otherwise the final exam would be stressful.

According to seniors, a lot of students failed Professor Chen's course and had to retake it. The strange old man graded students almost at will, and no one knew what style he liked. Xie Mingzhe was also unsure.

Qin Xuan asked: "There are no requirements for the content, but the color is restricted to green, right?"

Xie Mingzhe said: "Well, any light green, dark green, or dark green can be combined at will, as long as the green color is used. No other colors can appear."

"I see. Are there any other homework assignments for other classes?"

"There are no homework assignments for other classes, only this one is due next week."

Qin Xuan nodded: "Thank you. Go to sleep first, good night."

The roommate turned around and went back to his bedroom, and Xie Mingzhe also went back to the dormitory to take a shower and sleep.

He's been busy recently. Not to mention the increasing number of courses at school, he also has to draw character cards for himself, joker cards for Xiao Ke, and then think about drawing scenes for the Nirvana Club, as well as the character drawing he promised his senior brother... eight hands are not enough.

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After his rebirth, Xie Mingzhe developed a good schedule, getting up on time at seven o'clock every morning and not sleeping in even on weekends.

It was Sunday. After he got up, washed his face and went to the living room, he unexpectedly saw Qin Xuan setting up an easel on the balcony of the living room and painting the homework assigned by Professor Chen. Xie Mingzhe looked at him curiously when he passed by.

Qin Xuan's painting technique is very different from Xie Mingzhe's. For example, when drawing an apple, Xie Mingzhe would first draw the outline, trying to make it as detailed and complete as possible, and then paint the inside of the outline. Even if he doesn't paint, you can tell at a glance that he is drawing an apple. But Qin Xuan's draft is simply a "stream of consciousness". You can't tell whether he is drawing an apple, an orange, a pear, or just a simple circle?

The sketch he drew was like a calligrapher's cursive writing, with the paper full of messy lines. Xie Mingzhe stood behind him and watched for a long time, but couldn't figure out what he was trying to draw.

However, Qin Xuan, who was drawing randomly, looked very serious. The usually cold and serious boy showed a rare gentle look when looking at his own painting.

The warm sunlight in the early morning shone through the window screen on his body. From the side, Qin Xuan's facial features were actually very handsome. Generally, men with braids would look very feminine, but Qin Xuan's aura completely held up this hairstyle. He was not feminine at all, but instead had the unique temperament of an artist.

In the early morning, under the sunshine, a young boy is painting seriously. This scene really looks like a scene from an art film...

However, the beautiful scene was soon broken when there was a knock on the door: "Azhe, are you up? Go have breakfast!"

The door was open, so Yu Ke pushed it open and walked in. A few days ago, when they had breakfast together, Yu Ke went downstairs to the dormitory to call Xie Mingzhe. But he didn't expect that there was another person in the dormitory today. Because his voice was too loud, he disturbed Qin Xuan, who frowned unhappily. When he turned around, his eyes were so sharp that they seemed to stare a hole in Yu Ke's face.

Yu Ke was glared at by him and immediately froze in place, as if a button had been pressed to freeze him.

Xie Mingzhe didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He quickly walked over to stop Yu Ke and said, "Qin Xuan is painting. Don't disturb him."

Yu Ke came to his senses, turned around and ran away: "I'll wait for you at the door!"

After Yu Ke left, Xie Mingzhe smiled awkwardly and said, "Xiao Ke, I wonder if your return has interrupted your inspiration?"

Qin Xuan said calmly: "It doesn't matter."

Xie Mingzhe said, "Then I'll go downstairs to eat first. You can paint slowly."

He changed his clothes and went out. Yu Ke was waiting at the door. When he saw Xie Mingzhe coming out, he quickly pulled him aside and whispered to him, "Your roommate is really scary. Can you get used to living with him? Why don't you apply for a dormitory change and move in with me! There are odd numbers for male students in our major, and my student number is the last one. It's just right for me to live alone, and the other bedroom is empty."

"Isn't this a bad idea?" Although Xie Mingzhe was not used to being with someone like Qin Xuan, the school would not approve his sudden request to change dormitories without a reasonable reason. He couldn't just say, "My roommate doesn't want to play games with me, so I want to play games with Yu Ke instead?"

"Anyway... I think he's weird." Yu Ke felt a lingering fear when he recalled the fierce look just now.

"He is a bit cold, but he is not a bad person. He glared at you just now because you disturbed him while he was painting. If you don't like him, just send me a message directly in the future and don't come to my dormitory again." Xie Mingzhe didn't continue the topic and said, "Let's go eat first."

"Yeah." Yu Ke did not continue to talk about Qin Xuan, and said excitedly, "By the way, the custom helmet awarded as a freshman tournament champion is really useful. I used it to log into the game last night, and the picture was much clearer. I went to the arena to play ranked games, and won ten games in a row."

"Really?" Xie Mingzhe smiled and patted his shoulder. "Now that you have a new helmet, you should practice all the jokers. You have never used Du Liniang and Wei Zheng, right?"

"I know. Next I will focus on practicing the late-game strategy with healing cards!"

The two chatted while going to the school cafeteria to have breakfast.

On weekend mornings, many students were sleeping in, so there weren't many people in the cafeteria. Occasionally, a student would pass by and look at Yu Ke curiously - Yu Ke won the championship in the freshman competition and stole the show. He is now a little celebrity.

Yu Ke felt uncomfortable being watched, so he pulled Xie Mingzhe to a corner and sat down, whispering, "Last night, the management of the Ghost Hell Club approached me and asked me to join Ghost Hell as a trainee, but I refused."

Xie Mingzhe had expected this: "Your use of the joker card will definitely attract the attention of the ghost hell. You didn't say who made the joker card, did you?"

Yu Ke immediately assured, "I didn't even mention it! But I think they will guess it soon. After all, my account is in Nirvana Guild, and Uncle Fatty is so popular recently. If they think about it, it's easy for them to think that I joined Nirvana."

Xie Mingzhe smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if you are guessed. Wei Zheng and Du Liniang in your deck are new cards that have not been exposed yet. The tactics around these two cards are completely different from the way to play the Black Impermanence Explosion Mark. You can practice more. In the future, I will continue to make new cards for you. I also had some new ideas last night. I plan to make a scene card suitable for assassination for your joker card."

Yu Ke's eyes widened: "You still want to make scene cards?"

Xie Mingzhe nodded. "Well, every club has its own home maps that they are good at. We can't be too shabby and always use other people's maps. I have already thought of the settings for the first scene map I made for you. It's called - Blood Pond Hell."

Blood Pool Hell, a dark scene card, can turn the game scene into a horrific hell paved with blood. All cards that step into the Blood Pool Hell will be tortured and lose a large amount of blood every second. Moreover, all cards in the hell scene are prohibited from being resurrected, so as to prevent the opponent from resurrecting control cards at critical moments to launch a counter-control.

Xie Mingzhe's idea is that in a scene where a large amount of blood is lost, the health of the card can be quickly reduced, allowing Xiao Ke's Nie Xiaoqian and Hei Wuchang to complete the harvest, make up for the lack of damage of the deck, and fight fast.

This is just one of the scene cards he imagined, and he hasn't decided how to draw it yet.

I have a lot of ideas for other scenes, but I've been too busy lately and don't have the time to draw complex, large-scale scenes. It would be great if I could find a great assistant, especially one who is really good at drawing scenes.

Xie Mingzhe is an orphan in this world. Although he has been learning art since he was young, he is mostly self-taught. He did not have the money to hire a professional teacher when he was young, and his basic skills are not particularly solid. He is good at drawing figures, but he is weak at drawing large scenes.

There are too many details to consider in scene drawings, and scene design also requires a high sense of space. The scene drawn on a flat map may not look good after being enlarged in 3D. At his current level, Xie Mingzhe is not able to independently complete the drawing of large scenes.

This is a very professional field, and even in the Earth era, game scene designers are rare talents.

There is no rush for this matter. Xie Mingzhe thought that it would be better to look for students in the Academy of Fine Arts. If there are students with solid foundation and who can draw large scenes, they can be invited to the Nirvana Club as scene designers.

There is a very easy way to find talents in this field - art exhibitions at art academies.

The Academy of Fine Arts holds an art exhibition for the entire academy one month after the start of each school year. Both freshmen and seniors can participate and display their best works in the exhibition hall, satisfying their desire to hold an art exhibition.

There are many art masters in the academy, and perhaps we can find someone who can paint scenes among them.

Anyway, school has already started for three weeks, and the exhibition hall in the college will be officially open next Saturday. Xie Mingzhe decided to ask Brother Chen to go over and take a look. Maybe he can really find a powerful assistant!