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Jiang Jingshu hadn't received any messages from the system for many days, and she felt vaguely uneasy.
The system was not working, and Jiang Jingshu had a low-grade fever for a long time. Xie Zhijin took her to the hospital for many tests, but they could not find the cause of the low-grade fever.
Jiang Jingshu could only temporarily categorize it as a side effect of time travel.
She was dizzy almost every day, and Xie Zhijin was worried about her, so he would wait for her at the classroom door every day.
The two had different schedules, so when they both had classes, Xie Zhijin would arrive at Jiang Jingshu's classroom door ten minutes early to eat with her and warm her hands on the way.
When Xie Zhijin didn't have classes, he would audit Jiang Jingshu's classes.
Some teachers of general courses are already familiar with Xie Zhijin.
When Xie Zhijin wasn't around, Jiang Jingshu always carried her hand warmer with her.
But her hands remained as cold as ever.
Jiang Jingshu felt like a sickly, delicate child, and she disliked herself.
However, her current self makes her feel loved even more.
Perhaps this is the life she once envied—being cherished and pampered.
Back in the dorm, as soon as Jiang Jingshu entered the room, Wang Xuan jokingly said, "Oh, you were escorted back by your boyfriend?"
Jiang Jingshu smiled, but her gaze inadvertently drifted to Yan Tong's phone screen.
She was somewhat surprised. Yan Tong was playing a game at the moment, the same game that Xie Zhijin was streaming.
She quickly asked, "Tongtong, are you playing this game too?"
Yan Tong had just finished a game and angrily turned off her phone. "Are my teammates idiots? Why didn't they save me? I've been kiting the ghost for almost two minutes."
It seemed like the first time Jiang Jingshu had seen this side of Yan Tong, and she was a little curious. Yan Tong seemed to realize that someone in the dormitory was watching her, and she lowered her voice, "What's wrong? I was wearing headphones and didn't hear you."
Jiang Jingshu found Yan Tong very cute at this moment. Usually, Yan Tong is gentle and speaks softly, but when playing games, Yan Tong is full of vitality. She asked, "I didn't expect you to play this game too."
"You play too? Want to duo queue?" Yan Tong's eyes lit up immediately. "God knows how bad my teammates are. Every game we win ends in a draw. I'm really upset!"
Yan Tong took Jiang Jingshu's hand and showed her her battle record, which was almost entirely blue.
All were draws.
Jiang Jingshu was puzzled, "How come it's all flat?"
Yan Tong smiled bitterly, "Heh, do you understand this feeling of powerlessness?"
"Either my teammates die instantly, and all my hard work turns into a draw, or I kite for a long time and my teammates can't save me, resulting in a draw."
Yan Tong looked unusually excited, as if she had just been tricked, her face flushed. Jiang Jingshu couldn't help but say, "You seem very excited."
"Really?" Yan Tong touched her face. "Maybe I'm about to fall in love."
Jiang Jingshu couldn't help but wonder why it was so exaggerated. She usually thought Xie Zhijin was quite peaceful when he played.
After finishing her sentence, Yan Tong exited the game, opened a short video app, and said painfully, "Being scammed is bad enough, but Aibo isn't even going to stream anymore. The sky has fallen."
"Aibo?" Jiang Jingshu looked up at Yan Tong and found that Yan Tong was staring blankly at Xie Zhijin's homepage. She couldn't help but laugh. "Do you like him?"
Yan Tong nodded. "Yes, I love broadcasting. I'm very emotionally stable, even when I'm being scammed, I stay calm." Yan Tong thought for a moment, "Except for the time when he was heartbroken."
"Heartbreak?" As if she had caught the key word, Jiang Jingshu asked, "When?"
"It must have been last year, when we were in our second year of high school. There was a period when he played really aggressively, and fans were guessing that he had broken up with his girlfriend."
Jiang Jingshu fell silent. She thought for a moment, and it seemed to be around the time she transferred schools.
“He wouldn’t tell me when I asked, but thankfully he still managed to start a relationship.” Yan Tong said excitedly, “You know what, I remember someone posted photos of him before, but I haven’t looked at them closely while I was preparing for my exams these past few days.”
Jiang Jingshu watched Yan Tong fiddling with her phone and was about to speak when Yan Tong interrupted her, "I found it!"
Yan Tong opened the video that Jiang Jingshu had posted. It was a picture that Jiang Jingshu had drawn. Yan Tong stared at the picture for a while and muttered to herself, "Strange, why does Aibo look a little familiar?"
She looked up at Jiang Jingshu in front of her again.
“Actually…” Jiang Jingshu wanted to say something, but Yan Tong quickly closed the interface. “I heard that Aibo’s girlfriend is an art student, and her paintings are indeed beautiful.”
"Do you like him a lot?" Jiang Jingshu asked tentatively.
Yan Tong answered with apparent pride, "Of course! When I first started playing this game, I was constantly being criticized, and I learned it all from watching his live streams."
Jiang Jingshu smiled and secretly sent Xie Zhijin a message.
"My roommate is your little fan."
The other side replied very quickly.
Xie: What?
Jiang Jingshu smiled and said, "Tongtong, have you seen the photos you love to show?"
Yan Tong: ?
Yan Tong simply enjoys watching Xie Zhijin's live streams. Xie Zhijin is very particular about his personal information, and few people on the internet know what he looks like.
Fans didn't really care and just assumed he looked like his profile picture.
Therefore, people don't really care about appearance, "We won't see any photos, right?"
Although Yan Tong was curious about what Ai Bo looked like, she listened to Jiang Jingshu's suggestion to open the comments section, and sure enough, there was a photo in the comments.
Yan Tong stared in disbelief at the photos in the comments section, then at Jiang Jingshu. She was utterly astonished. "You mean, I love broadcasting, is it Xie Zhijin?"
Seeing Yan Tong's reaction, Jiang Jingshu couldn't help but smile. "Tongtong, you're so cute."
"You mean, Aibo helped me move my luggage on the first day of school, and I even shared a dorm room with her girlfriend!"
Jiang Jingshu watched Yan Tong's reaction with a smile and asked Yan Tong, "Do you want to play a game with him?"
"Really?!" Yan Tong's eyes lit up as she grasped Jiang Jingshu's hand. "I think I've succeeded in meeting my idol."
Jiang Jingshu briefly explained what had happened to Xie Zhijin, who was also shocked, never expecting that his fan would share a dorm room with Jiang Jingshu.
During the live stream, he readily invited Yan Tong to team up. Jiang Jingshu was sitting next to Yan Tong and was about to watch Yan Tong's gameplay when she also received a team-up invitation. Jiang Jingshu was stunned for a moment, not expecting Xie Zhijin to invite her as well.
"Xie Zhijin, I don't know how to play!" Jiang Jingshu sent Xie Zhijin a voice message. After all, Xie Zhijin's live stream was full of skilled fans, and if she played poorly, it would inevitably be a bad viewing experience.
However, Xie Zhijin said, "It's nothing."
Jiang Jingshu was still a little uneasy, so she chose a character with strong self-preservation abilities and played defensively. As expected, she was a strong character, and no one was willing to pursue her, so Jiang Jingshu did not become the team's breakthrough point.
However, she is a bit playful. After Xie Zhijin's guidance, she is no longer afraid of being chased, and she has also learned a lot about basic awareness through observation and experience.
In addition, Xie Zhijin is the most reliable player in the team. As long as the actor playing the ghost doesn't chase her, they basically won't lose this round.
The comments section was filled with gossip about Jiang Jingshu and Xie Zhijin; they seemed to have already started chatting about it.
The general consensus is that Xie Zhijin is protecting Jiang Jingshu from all sides.
No matter how far apart they were, Xie Zhijin was always able to release Jiang Jingshu in time to rush to her side and provide assistance when she was caught and knocked to the ground.
In almost every game, he was the first to die, not Jiang Jingshu.
The comments section seems to be completely obsessed with the topic.
Jiang Jingshu was still trying to learn how to "catch the ghost," and just as she was getting to the end, a wave of dizziness hit her again. Jiang Jingshu quickly hung up the game. Yan Tong looked at Jiang Jingshu's pale face and couldn't help but feel a little worried.
"Are you alright, Jing Shu?"
As soon as Jiang Jingshu put down her phone, that familiar feeling returned, like a near-death experience, making it hard for her to breathe.
After the game ended, Xie Zhijin hurriedly ended the broadcast and called Jiang Jingshu.
Are you alright?
The boy spoke urgently, and seemed to be panting.
Jiang Jingshu simply told Xie Zhijin in a soft voice that she was fine. After hanging up the phone, she leaned back on the stool for a while to recover, and the feeling of being on the verge of death gradually disappeared.
The system is still missing.
Jiang Jingshu herself understood that the time for leaving was drawing ever closer, and perhaps soon she would be leaving this world.
She began to feel nostalgic again, but she didn't dwell on the outcome.
She has been very happy these past few days, and that's enough.
Jiang Jingshu lay on the bed, slowly browsing her social media platform. The official announcement post had even received over 300,000 likes.
Jiang Jingshu smiled, then picked up her paintbrush again, intending to paint something.
She thought that if she were to leave this world one day, perhaps she should pick up a pen and record something.
The trees outside the window, the falling rain, and I saw her bright, boyish eyes.
It was the boy's furrowed brow when he faced her illness.
At least there are still these things to remember.
This account will prove everything.
This proves that she loved, grew up, and lived in this world.
Jiang Jingshu drew a picture of the medicine Xie Zhijin bought for her, and wrote, "My boyfriend secretly skipped class to go to the infirmary to buy medicine."
That day, Jiang Jingshu drew many works in her notebook.
People say that an object can often reflect the mindset of its creator.
The artwork reveals the creator's inner thoughts to the greatest extent, so many people can see through the artist's ideas and discover the artist's deeper expression through the painting.
Jiang Jingshu is not like that; in fact, no one can see into her heart.
Because she herself doesn't know what her thoughts are.
The next day, Yan Tong got up very early and bought breakfast for all the girls in her dormitory. When Jiang Jingshu woke up, there was already a hamburger on the table.
She glanced at Yan Tong's location subconsciously, only to see Yan Tong smiling silently at her.
Z University's burgers were delicious. After finishing her meal, Jiang Jingshu was a little bored and started scrolling through her phone.
The number of likes on my work is still increasing.
This gave Jiang Jingshu a glimpse of a business opportunity, and she said to Xie Zhijin, "I want to open up a new track."
What track?
Xie Zhijin always seemed to maintain a calm and patient demeanor when facing Jiang Jingshu. He heard Jiang Jingshu say, "I want to be a self-media creator."
Xie Zhijin, however, was very supportive and said to her, "Then we need to meet more often to find inspiration."
Jiang Jingshu wanted to use her paintbrush to record her life as a couple. She edited and released a lot of works, and fortunately, the data for her works was very optimistic.
She wanted to leave something behind in this world.
There are many things she could keep, but after thinking about it, she decided to keep her true self.
Although her paintings cannot reveal her true thoughts.
But this is the most authentic version of herself.
Jiang Jingshu's fan base is mostly students aged sixteen to twenty-three, who have a deep longing for love.
Part of the reason was curiosity about her and Xie Zhijin's love story. They believed that recording the little moments of the two of them together through painting was a way to express their eternal love.
The vast majority of them are students preparing for the art college entrance exams. Whenever the art college entrance exams approach, Jiang Jingshu always receives a lot of messages from art students.
Most of them are art students who are under a lot of pressure and need a safe haven to confide in.
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