The Kind Person Is You

Afterward, the two of them rode the buzz from the alcohol and chatted sporadically about this and that.

They complained about schoolteachers and classes. Since Gan Yan Yu had taken a year off from school, Lin Tian also told her about the changes at school over the past year.

After several bottles of beer, Lin Tian was already a little tipsy.

Very good beer made his head spin.

Lin Tian was not a particularly good drinker. Usually, two bottles of Strong Zero were his limit. Even with this ordinary cheap beer, he could only manage five or six cans.

Then he looked at Gan Yan Yu.

Surprisingly, she was very energetic!

She clearly looked like someone who had barely ever drunk alcohol, yet she kept opening bottle after bottle without any sign of stopping.

Like a girl who had discovered a fun new continent, she took two sips, checked the ingredients list, then took another two sips and examined the nutrition facts.

She looked like a curious child studying how something so delicious could possibly have been made!

The person who invented beer was truly a genius!

But Lin Tian, watching from the side, suddenly felt unable to keep up.

Was this the legendary natural talent?

A man losing a drinking contest to a woman would be incredibly embarrassing!

Still, it was her first time drinking.

Although Gan Yan Yu showed no sign of stopping as she drank bottle after bottle, she soon became a little muddled.

How could he tell?

Gan Yan Yu took off her shoes and propped her feet up on the sofa. Fortunately, her skirt was long enough that she would not expose herself.

She had not even asked Lin Tian first!

Lin Tian began missing the reserve she had shown when they first met. She had asked before entering, asked before sitting on the sofa. Back then, Lin Tian had still been very thin.

Though only a little over half an hour had passed.

For Lin Tian, he did not need to do anything now. He only needed to stall until it was late enough that she would not have time to kill herself tonight.

As long as she made it through tonight, he would have plenty of time to learn about what had happened to her.

"Lin Tian, what year were you born?"

Gan Yan Yu suddenly asked out of nowhere.

The moment she spoke, her voice was already thick and slurred.

"What do you mean, what year? The year I enrolled, or my age?"

"When were you born?"

"2005."

"What month?"

"June."

"Damn it, I was born in December. I'm younger than you."

What was so damn it about being born in December??

Wasn't it perfectly normal for him to be older than her!

Lin Tian could not help complaining inwardly. This girl really was quite drunk.

"You have to go to school tomorrow, right?"

"Yeah. Don't you?"

"I took a week off."

Taking leave before committing suicide—how meticulous.

Likewise, this was probably another way of "not causing trouble for the teachers."

After all, in Chinese schools, once you took leave, whether you lived or died had nothing to do with the school anymore.

"Then you have to get up early tomorrow. I probably shouldn't stay here and disturb you."

Gan Yan Yu tried to clear her head a little and stood up from the sofa.

"It's fine. You're drunk like this—where are you going?" Lin Tian stood up as well.

"Yeah. Where could I go?"

Gan Yan Yu suddenly stopped and looked out the window.

Under the vast night sky, the city's neon lights flickered.

Hearing those words, Lin Tian finally realized something was wrong.

In truth, he had felt that something was off ever since he returned to the café today and found its doors tightly shut.

Then her phone could not be reached, and Grandpa Gan's home was clearly in the neighboring building, yet Gan Yan Yu had not chosen to go back.

Could it be that Grandpa Gan...

Lin Tian did not dare think any further, but he had already prepared himself for the worst.

Yet from beginning to end, he had not dared ask Gan Yan Yu directly.

He was afraid of provoking her.

"Lin Tian, thank you."

"What is it?"

"Although today was the first time we met, I sincerely think you're a very good person. You kept trying to make me stay because you were worried about me, right?"

Gan Yan Yu held a beer can in her hand and stared into Lin Tian's eyes as she spoke with great seriousness.

"Anyone my grandpa liked can't be a bad person. You're kind. You've been so nice even to a stranger like me, and you have your own understanding of classical music. If we can meet again in the future, we should become very good friends. But right now, I really can't stay here any longer."

"..."

The moment those words fell.

The living room sank into dead silence.

A bitter smile appeared on Lin Tian's lips.

The truly kind person...

Was you.

For some reason.

Clearly, he had only been trying to complete a system mission, or repay the favor Grandpa Gan had done him.

Yet he seemed to have become a little too invested.

He had already done more than enough. Put another way, his conscience was clear.

Even if Gan Yan Yu really left just like this, he could bind another partner. It would not affect anything.

But.

Looking at the girl before him, so solemn, with a helpless smile in her eyes.

Lin Tian simply could not bear to watch her die.

He had drifted through the first half of his life in a daze. Doing a good deed now could count as accumulating some virtue.

Today, no one was taking this person away.

Lin Tian had said so!

"Fine. You can leave if you want, but you have to finish the drinks with me first."

Lin Tian's attitude turned firm.

"I haven't had enough yet. How can you leave halfway through a drinking session and leave someone else to drink alone?"

"Haven't we already finished them?"

Gan Yan Yu looked at the table. During the past hour, the two of them had gone through seven or eight bottles of beer, leaving only a table full of empty cans.

"Nope."

Lin Tian walked over to the refrigerator and gave a wicked smile.

He pulled open the bottom compartment—

It was packed full. There was still a whole large bag left.

Never underestimate a man who drank beer like it was a soft drink.

"Th-This..."

A conflicted expression appeared on Gan Yan Yu's face as she bit her lip.

Her little mouth began murmuring softly.

"N-No, if I drink any more, I'll pass out here."

"This is craft beer. It's completely incomparable to what we had just now. The flavor is on an entirely different level."

Lin Tian took out one of the bottles and placed it on the table in front of Gan Yan Yu.

The ingredients list and nutrition facts were densely packed.

Like some sort of heavenly scripture.

The girl stared blankly at it, but her eyes were filled with burning interest.

"Then... I'll have a little."

Binding mission:

One: Have the other party stay overnight at your home.

Two: Extract the other party's bodily fluids and conduct an intelligent physical examination.

—Completed

Partner successfully bound—Gan Yan Yu

Loading interface.

Looking at the system interface that appeared before him, Lin Tian turned and looked at Gan Yan Yu, who was already fast asleep on the sofa, then let out a sigh of relief.

A man's pride had ultimately been preserved!

By secretly slowing down his drinking pace to drink less, Lin Tian had barely managed to defeat Gan Yan Yu.

This girl's talent for drinking was truly terrifying.

Next time, Lin Tian might not be able to outdrink her.

Looking at the girl's beautiful, peaceful sleeping face.

Lin Tian felt a sense of release in his heart.

As though everything he had done tonight had been worth it.

He gently lifted Gan Yan Yu's little feet and placed them onto the sofa.

Her two little feet in his hands were like tiny figurines.

Then Lin Tian gently put an arm around the girl's waist, adjusted her position on the sofa, fetched a blanket, and lightly covered her with it.

"Grandpa..."

At that moment, the girl murmured.

Lin Tian froze and looked at Gan Yan Yu.

Was she talking in her sleep?

He suddenly remembered that Gan Yan Yu had severe Mental Illness. Talking in her sleep did not seem strange after all.

"No..."

After a while, the girl's brows knitted tightly. A pained expression appeared on her face, and she spoke again.

"I still want to play the violin, please..."

"As long as you let me keep performing, I'm willing to do anything..."

"Why? I clearly didn't do anything wrong..."