A Person Who Is So Full of Positive Energy!

Unmoving: ?

Wang Chuan: It's all your fault! After watching your video, I can't sleep!

Unmoving: Thanks for the compliment.

Wang Chuan: ???

Wang Chuan: Was I complimenting you?

Unmoving: If you can't sleep, you can try exercising. Exercise helps with sleep.

Wang Chuan: Get lost!

Wang Chuan: Hurry up and tell me where you live, I need a place to crash tonight!

Unmoving: ? Are you sure?

Qin Tiantian looked at Lu Ban's reply and suddenly sobered up a little.

That's right, I'm a young girl. Showing up at a man's house I've only met once in the middle of the night to crash? That's not really appropriate, is it?

But staying home alone is so scary!

It's so late, and taking a taxi alone is also scary!

Besides, Lu Ban is so handsome, he probably won't do anything weird, right?

While she was thinking and hesitating, Qin Tiantian's phone vibrated again.

Unmoving: There's something under my bed.

"???"

As Qin Tiantian's question marks appeared, she remembered Lu Ban's first video.

Right, didn't his previous video show that there were unclean things in his house? Isn't it even more dangerous to go over there now?

No, that was all special effects, just like this time!

Qin Tiantian shook her head.

Wang Chuan: Stop babbling, just tell me your address!

Seeing Qin Tiantian's determined stance, Lu Ban didn't insist further.

Although there were two things in his house, as long as he played those cheerful songs that represented the advanced material and cultural needs of the people, those demons and monsters would have difficulty bothering him.

So, with one more person, those guys should be even more well-behaved.

After all, according to the tropes in horror movies, ghosts always attack those who are alone.

He gave her his address, then went back to researching horror movie editing methods and camera techniques.

A few minutes later, Lu Ban's doorbell rang.

He looked outside through the peephole.

A person dressed in white was standing there.

Normally, this scene would be quite creepy.

But Lu Ban immediately opened the door.

"Took you long enough!"

Qin Tiantian was wearing a slightly loose pink T-shirt with a cat print, denim shorts, slippers for going out, holding her phone in her right hand, a transparent shoulder bag on her shoulder, and hugging a shark plushie in her left hand.

She was only about 1.5 meters tall. Standing in front of the 1.85-meter-tall Lu Ban, she was like a rabbit encountering a brown bear.

Although she was a virtual streamer who didn't show her face, it didn't mean Qin Tiantian wasn't good-looking. Her appearance, combined with her height, made her cute. She could wear a school uniform and pass for a middle school student.

She walked into the house on her own and first looked around.

"It's quite clean?"

"Why the question mark?"

Lu Ban closed the door and turned around. He happened to see Qin Tiantian by the window looking at the street below, and the curtain next to her.

The curtain moved by itself, revealing a resentful human face!

"Nothing to see."

Lu Ban walked behind Qin Tiantian and, pretending to draw the curtain, pushed the resentful face down.

I am a gentle and helpful gentleman. Although I've been scaring Qin Tiantian before, if I were to introduce my housemates to her, it shouldn't be done so abruptly.

I should properly inform her, then set out a feast with four sets of chopsticks and bowls, and introduce them formally.

Being good to her is also being good to myself.

I'm just that kind of positive person.

"I can't see anything from my place."

Qin Tiantian moved away from the window and glanced at Lu Ban's bedroom again.

"You don't even have a sofa?"

"I live alone, why would I have a sofa?"

"Because you can lounge on it and play on your phone, it's super comfy! Can I come in?"

After getting permission, Qin Tiantian's smooth feet, clad in slippers, padded towards Lu Ban's room. Upon entering, her nostrils twitched slightly, as if sniffing for something.

"What are you sniffing for?"

Lu Ban genuinely didn't know how to talk to women.

"No strange smells, could it be a lie?" Qin Tiantian thought to herself. She then noticed the shadow under Lu Ban's bed.

"Under your bed... there's nothing else there now, right?"

She still felt a lingering fear.

"No."

"Really?"

"Really. Ever since then, I sweep under the bed every day. You can't even find dust."

"So there was something before?"

"...Don't believe me? Take a look now?"

Lu Ban looked under the bed with a helpless expression. It was empty. He then spoke.

Qin Tiantian placed the shark plushie on Lu Ban's bed and walked to the edge, leaning down while holding onto the bed frame.

Then, she saw it. Beneath the spotlessly clean bed, devoid even of dust, a pair of resentful eyes were staring directly at her!

"Waaah!"

Qin Tiantian recoiled, collapsing onto the floor. Her slender legs flailed wildly until her back hit the cabinet, forcing her to stop.

"There, there are eyes!!"

She stammered incoherently.

Seeing this, Lu Ban frowned and leaned over to look.

There was nothing there.

"Take another look now?"

He remained in his squatting position, turning to look at Qin Tiantian.

Qin Tiantian, covering her eyes, peeked through her fingers at the space under the bed. It was empty; the eyes had vanished.

Just then, Qin Tiantian felt something behind her, inside the cabinet. Some creature was scratching at the cabinet door with sharp claws. The hoarse scraping sound penetrated the wood and reached Qin Tiantian's back, making her shiver uncontrollably and her skin break out in goosebumps.

"There, there's something!"

Like a startled cat that had knocked over a plate of food, Qin Tiantian leaped up. Her small feet moved rapidly and crossed, tiptoeing in tiny steps as she curled up in the corner of the room.

Lu Ban also heard the scratching sound. He stood up and opened the cabinet.

Inside were only his clothes; no creature.

"It was probably just a cockroach," Lu Ban said dismissively.

"C-cockroach?"

Qin Tiantian's brows furrowed. She bravely peeked into the cabinet herself, then realized.

"Your cockroaches are that big?!"

"You grew up in the north, didn't you? Southern cockroaches are this big," Lu Ban added. He couldn't exactly introduce Qin Tiantian to his friends in the cabinet, not late at night, he'd scare the child.

He rummaged through the wardrobe and pulled out a change of bedding and a mattress.

"Wait a moment, I'll make the bed for you."

"?"

Qin Tiantian looked confused.

"You're going to make the first pretty girl who visits your place sleep on the floor?"

"You consider yourself a pretty girl?"

Lu Ban raised an eyebrow.

"You're not going to explain the floor-sleeping thing!?"

Qin Tiantian seemed deeply wounded.

"As an unexpected guest, sleeping on the floor is perfectly reasonable, right?"

Lu Ban suddenly felt that letting Qin Tiantian into his house was a mistake. As expected, women only slowed down his pursuit of knowledge.

"You definitely don't have a girlfriend, do you? Yielding to ladies is gentlemanly conduct, gentlemanly conduct!"

Qin Tiantian, her emotions shifting rapidly, sat herself down on the bed and grabbed the shark plushie, hugging it to her chest.

"And don't worry, I'm a total night owl. You might wake up from a full night's sleep, and I still won't be asleep!"

She pulled the new blanket Lu Ban had placed on the bed over herself, covering her lower body. Taking out her phone and charger, along with her tablet, she looked ready for a vacation.

"Oh."

Lu Ban didn't dwell on it; he wasn't that petty.

He had lived alone for so many years. Suddenly having someone in his home was indeed uncomfortable, but it was just that—uncomfortable.

Compared to a person, he felt Qin Tiantian was more like a cat. The kind that would follow him home for food and shelter if you dangled a toy for a bit, only to disappear the moment you opened the door.

"Oh right, if you try to sneak attack me in the middle of the night, I'm calling the police! Don't be a jerk just because you're handsome!"

Qin Tiantian said as she opened a mobile game on her tablet.

"I'm not interested in middle schoolers."

Lu Ban glanced at Qin Tiantian's chest, which resembled the main deck of the Saratoga aircraft carrier in a battle-damaged state.

"Get lost!"

Qin Tiantian raged impotently.

A little over an hour later, Lu Ban finished his studies and prepared to sleep.

He turned his head and saw that Qin Tiantian was already fast asleep, looking completely disheveled. Her clothes had slipped, revealing her smooth shoulder. Perhaps it was due to the nervous tension from the recent events, but once she relaxed, fatigue had quickly set in.

She occupied most of Lu Ban's bed, much like a spoiled, uninhibited cat.

"Never mind."

Lu Ban didn't bother with the annoyance. Being kind and providing shelter for a frightened girl was perfectly reasonable.

He lowered the angle of his chair, grabbed a blanket, and prepared to spend the night on the chair.

Just as he closed his eyes, Lu Ban remembered one last thing he needed to do.

He opened the music player on his computer, selected the Spring Festival Gala playlist, and hit play.

"Unforgettable Tonight, Unforgettable Tonight, no matter where we are..."

As the melodious voice of the people's artist filled the air, Qin Tiantian, who had been lying on the bed, suddenly jolted awake.

She looked at Lu Ban blankly, then at the computer player.

"You're listening to this to help you sleep at night?"

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