Qin Sili gently patted Lu Chiyan's head, comforting him, and held him in his arms like a lost treasure that had been found again.
"It's good that you're back," Qin Sili said softly.
Lu Chiyan remembered something and quickly asked Qin Sili, "How did you get me back? I think I saw a lot of lightning-like things, did you do something?"
Qin Sili recounted to Lu Chiyan his diagnosis of Wen Shubai as having a split personality and how he had Wen Shubai undergo electrotherapy.
"Dual personality disorder?" Lu Chiyan exclaimed excitedly, "It's not dual personality disorder at all!"
"No?" Qin Sili looked at Lu Chiyan with doubt in his eyes.
"Of course not!" Lu Chiyan grabbed Qin Sili's arm, his expression very serious and earnest. "I know what I'm about to say might seem a bit far-fetched, but believe me, it's all true."
Qin Sili nodded without speaking, but the expression on his face told Lu Chiyan that he trusted him.
He believed everything he said.
Therefore, Lu Chiyan, "The world we live in is actually a novel."
Qin Sili frowned. "???"
He was still wondering what Lu Chiyan would say to him, but the first sentence he uttered completely overwhelmed Qin Sili.
"I'm one of the male protagonists in this novel, and you're the antagonist..." Lu Chiyan vividly described the novel's plot to Qin Sili, even adding gestures to aid his explanation when he got excited. "Then, I awakened. The system felt I was affecting the plot's development, so it locked me in a dark room and conjured up a puppet that it could control to follow the storyline. So it's not a split personality at all; that Lu Chiyan is just a tool created by the system to forcefully drive the plot."
After speaking, Lu Chiyan looked at Qin Sili's puzzled expression and felt somewhat discouraged, but also asked with a hint of expectation, "Can you understand what I'm saying?"
For a moment, Qin Sili's expression froze, as if he didn't know how to react.
What Lu Chiyan said was completely beyond his comprehension; it could even be described as outrageous and absurd.
Looking at Lu Chiyan's expectant gaze, Qin Sili was momentarily at a loss for words. After a few seconds of silence, he could only say, " A-Yan, you just woke up, don't overexert yourself. Get some rest first, we can talk about other things later."
"What do you mean 'later'? We can't say 'later'!" Lu Chiyan became agitated when Qin Sili seemed not to believe him. "What I just said is true. We really are in a novel world. We are all characters in a novel. There's a system called Little I, who can control everything in this world. He's the one who locked me in the dark room!"
He didn't know when this system Little I would reappear, nor did he know if he would be locked in the dark room again, or even if he would be directly eliminated.
He wanted Qin Sili to know that he didn't want Qin Sili to become someone who was manipulated.
"Okay, I believe you." Qin Sili said gently, then patted Lu Chiyan's head softly, saying in a very tender tone, "Don't think about it so much, you should get some rest."
Lu Chiyan: "!!!"
"Stop trying to fool me! You don't believe me at all! You clearly don't believe me!" Lu Chiyan was a little angry, glaring at Qin Sili with his cheeks puffed out like a pufferfish.