I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 897 - 897 896. Your settings

Chapter 897: 896. Your settings Chapter 897: 896. Your settings Qin Tiantian was dressed in a short-sleeved T-shirt and overalls, looking like an overage preschooler, still sporting that middle schooler figure, obviously out of place among the university students around her.

After the summer break, most of those who stayed at school were interns in their third year, and Qin Tiantian’s appearance seemed to fit right in.

She was fiddling with her phone, chattering away as if voice-chatting with friends, while sloppily poking at the food on her tray without a trace of decorum in her eating.

Lu Ban couldn’t help but laugh.

“…What are you looking at, never seen a beautiful girl before?”

Qin Tiantian noticed Lu Ban’s gaze, lifted her eyes, and spoke without a second thought.

But quickly, Qin Tiantian’s expression shifted, and she looked at Lu Ban suspiciously, a bit uncertain as she spoke.

“You’re Lu, um, Lu what’s-it?”

She stumbled over her words.

“Lu Ban.”

Lu Ban replied.

He noticed that the girls around him had also quietly put down their chopsticks and were all ears to the conversation starting between him and Qin Tiantian.

“Is your illness better now?”

Qin Tiantian blurted out and then hurriedly hung up the voice chat on her phone.

“Somewhat better.”

Lu Ban pondered for a moment; it seemed that this world’s Qin Tiantian knew him, which, according to the doctor, was exactly why Qin Tiantian existed within Lu Ban’s hallucinations.

“How about you?”

He shot back the question.

The tone suggested Qin Tiantian might be ill too.

She didn’t notice but looked at Lu Ban with a peculiar gaze, speaking with a hint of hesitation.

“I’ve just been attending classes as usual, to be honest, you were kind of scary back then.”

“Back then?”

Lu Ban was puzzled.

“When you first fell ill, I heard from your roommate that you’d lie in bed at night counting your own heartbeats, or stand unmoving in front of a mirror in the pitch dark, um, should I not be saying this?”

Qin Tiantian noticed the expression of the girl beside Lu Ban, her eyes sharp as if wanting to silence her, the atmosphere screamed for Qin Tiantian to stop talking.

“Uh, anyway, it’s good that you’re better, though you might have to repeat the year, at least you can still continue with school, everyone was really worried about you.”

Qin Tiantian hastily interjected, derailing the topic of Lu Ban’s symptoms.

“Are we classmates?”

Lu Ban had roughly deduced Qin Tiantian’s role here.

“Of course, we’re in the same class, though, uh, we haven’t really spoken much before, haha, but now we have.”

Qin Tiantian revealed a carefree and hearty smile.

“Do you stream regularly?”

Lu Ban inquired further.

“Ah? No, no, I don’t have time for that!”

Qin Tiantian denied promptly, without pausing to think.

“Oh…”

Lu Ban responded, deducing from her reaction that she probably did stream.

Lu Ban mused, perhaps he had caught a livestream where Qin Tiantian used a virtual avatar and connected it with her voice, which explained the alternate setting.

If the theory of subconscious projection held true, Qin Tiantian’s appearance on the other side signified Lu Ban’s attachment to the real world, which meant that she, in that realm, would never be affected by extraordinary powers—a foundation.

Thinking this far, Lu Ban suddenly found it amusing; he was unwittingly using psychoanalytical methods to rationalize the Illusion Realm.

When in fact, that other side was the reality.

“Let’s not talk about this, how about we add each other on WeChat? Maybe we can grab a meal together sometime.”

Qin Tiantian pulled up her WeChat QR code.

After Lu Ban scanned it, he took a look.

[River Oblivion].

Where did he know this name from?

He found it a bit strange.

“Let’s eat, the dishes are getting cold.”

At that moment, the girl sitting next to him tugged at Lu Ban’s sleeve, signaling him to stop chatting with Qin Tiantian.

The girl’s puffed cheeks looked rather cute.

“Mm.”

Lu Ban responded, while on the other side, Qin Tiantian picked up her tray and hurried over to Lu Ban’s table.

“Hey, did you start school in September, with the next year’s intake?”

Qin Tiantian inquired nosily as if it was her own business.

“I’m not sure yet.”

Lu Ban noticed the gaze of the girl beside him, picked up his chopsticks, grabbed a piece of meat, and placed it on the girl’s rice.

Her cheeks deflated immediately, and she picked up the piece of meat and devoured it angrily.

“Lu Ban needs to rest for now. He probably won’t be going back to school immediately.”

The girl swallowed the piece of meat and immediately answered for Lu Ban.

“Oh, that’s true, it’s too late to start school now, but if you need any study materials later, you can ask me. Although my grades are just average, I know a top student in the class next door!”

Qin Tiantian went on talking, seemingly oblivious to the girl’s mood.

“Well, thank you for that.”

Lu Ban replied.

“Let’s eat now, there’s still plenty of time before heading back to school.”

The girl reminded Lu Ban again.

Lu Ban nodded and chatted with Qin Tiantian intermittently, beginning to understand some of his past experiences in this world.

After he started studying Broadcasting and Directing at Jiangcheng University, just over half a year in, he began to show mental health issues. At first, it only affected his rest, but later, he moved back home to live and eventually became completely unaware of other people, which led to him being hospitalized and resting.

Qin Tiantian was a classmate of his at the time. They hadn’t spoken much, but she was likely quite cheerful and carefree. She still visited him once with other classmates after he was hospitalized, so Lu Ban remembered her.

“…Speaking of which, I heard you fell into a pretty severe, uh, delusion? You gave everyone around you a new setting, sounded quite interesting. I wonder if I ever appeared in it, haha.”

Qin Tiantian asked, curious.

Hearing this, the girl beside him glared, gripping her chopsticks tightly enough to make them clack against the plate.

“Don’t talk about these things; it’s not helpful for his recovery.”

The girl complained.

“It’s okay, I can tell the difference between reality and fantasy.”

Lu Ban gently held the girl’s hand that was holding the chopsticks and then looked at Qin Tiantian.

“You appeared too.”

“Wow, really? Was I like a super powerful hero or a genius girl?”

Qin Tiantian asked eagerly.

“…You were a game-playing streaming slacker.”

Lu Ban told the truth, as he was honest in both reality and the Illusion Realm.

“Eh…”

Qin Tiantian didn’t know how to react to the setting Lu Ban had given her.

To say it was completely accurate felt somehow not right.

But to say it was incorrect also seemed to miss the mark.

“Didn’t I have any Extraordinary Powers to control metal, or to read other people’s minds?”

Qin Tiantian tried to probe further.

“Hmm…”

Lu Ban thought for a bit and then replied.

“Perhaps always maintaining an optimistic spirit is your superpower.”

Pfft—

The girl next to them suddenly couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

Qin Tiantian’s mouth twitched, suddenly feeling that Lu Ban might be faking his illness.