I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords

Chapter 31: 031. That’s the kind of positive energy person!_1 Chapter 31: 031. That’s the kind of positive energy person!_1 Motionless: ?

River Oblivion: It’s all TM your fault, I can’t sleep after watching your video!

Motionless: Thanks for the compliment.

River Oblivion: ???

River Oblivion: Am I complimenting you…

Motionless: If you can’t sleep, you could do some exercise, exercise helps with sleep.

River Oblivion: Get lost!

River Oblivion: Just tell me where your house is, I need to crash at your place tonight!

Motionless: ? Are you sure?

Qin Tiantian looked at Lu Ban’s reply and suddenly felt a bit more awake.

Right, as a young girl, going to spend the night at a man’s house whom she had only met once, late at night, wasn’t really appropriate, was it?

But staying alone at home is so scary!

And taking a taxi by herself at this time of night was really scary too!

Also, Lu Ban was so handsome, he probably didn’t need to do anything weird, right?

As she hesitated, Qin Tiantian’s phone vibrated again.

Motionless: There is something under my bed, though.

“???”

As Qin Tiantian popped up with question marks, she remembered Lu Ban’s first video.

Right, his previous video implied that there were unclean things in his house. Wouldn’t going there now be even more dangerous?

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

Qin Tiantian shook her head.

River Oblivion: Cut the crap, just give me your address!

Seeing Qin Tiantian’s determined stance, Lu Ban stopped insisting.

Although his home had two such entities, as long as he played those joyful songs that represent the people’s advanced material cultural needs, those devils were unable to bother him.

So with another person around, those creatures should be even more well-behaved.

After all, according to the horror movie cliché, ghosts always attack the person who is alone.

He gave her the address, then went back to studying editing techniques and camera movement for horror films.

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

He peeked through the peephole.

A person in white clothes was standing there.

Under normal circumstances, this scene would be quite horrifying.

But Lu Ban immediately opened the door.

“You’re so slow!”

Qin Tiantian was wearing a slightly oversized pink T-shirt with a cat print, short denim shorts, slippers for going out, holding a phone in her right hand, carrying a transparent shoulder bag, and clutching a shark plush in her left hand.

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

Though a virtual streamer who never showed her face, it didn’t mean Qin Tiantian was unattractive. In fact, with her features and height, she was the cute type; she could wear a school uniform, pretend to be a middle schooler and fit right in.

Without waiting for an invitation, Qin Tiantian walked in and took a look around.

“It’s… pretty clean?”

“Why the question mark?”

Lu Ban closed the door and as he turned, he saw Qin Tiantian standing by the window looking downstairs and the curtain next to her.

The curtain moved without wind, revealing the clear outline of a resentful human face!

“There’s nothing interesting to see.”

Lu Ban walked up behind Qin Tiantian and, under the guise of adjusting the curtain, pressed down the resentful human face.

He was a genteel, helpful gentleman; although he had been scaring Qin Tiantian before, he wouldn’t introduce the other residents of his house to her in such an abrupt manner.

He should properly inform her, lay out a table full of dishes, set four sets of tableware, and formally make the introductions.

It was better for her, and for him too.

He was that much of a positive energy person.

“I can’t see my building from here at all.”

Qin Tiantian stepped away from the window and glanced at Lu Ban’s bedroom.

“You don’t even have a sofa?”

“I live alone, why would I need a sofa?”

“Because you can sprawl on a couch and play with your phone, it’s so comfy! Can I go in?”

After getting permission, Qin Tiantian walked towards Lu Ban’s room in her smooth-soled slippers. Entering the room, she sniffed slightly as if detecting something.

“What are you smelling?”

Lu Ban really didn’t understand how to talk to women.

“There’s no strange smell, could it be a lie?”

Qin Tiantian muttered, then her eyes landed on the shadow under Lu Ban’s bed.

“There’s nothing… else under your bed now, right?”

She was apprehensive.

“Nothing.”

“Really?”

“Really, I’ve swept under there every day since then, you won’t even find a speck of dust.”

“So you mean there was something before?”

“…Don’t believe me, want to check now?”

Lu Ban looked at the space under the bed in resignation, finding nothing, and then said.

After placing the shark plushie on Lu Ban’s bed, Qin Tiantian came to the side of the bed and bent down over the bed frame.

What she saw then was a pair of resentful eyes under the clean bed, devoid of even dust, staring straight at her!

“Whoa!”

Qin Tiantian leaned back, fell to the floor, her slender legs shaking until her back hit the cabinet and she could finally stop.

“There, there are eyes…!!”

Her words made no sense.

Upon seeing this, Lu Ban furrowed his brows and looked under the bed.

There was nothing there.

“Do you want to check again now?”

He stayed crouched, turning back to look at Qin Tiantian.

Qin Tiantian peeked at the space under the bed through her fingers, saw nothing; the eyes she saw before had vanished.

At that moment, Qin Tiantian felt something inside the cabinet behind her, scratching the door with sharp claws. The harsh scraping sound penetrated the cabinet and reached her back, making her shiver and breaking out in goosebumps.

“There, there’s something!”

Qin Tiantian, like a startled cat who knocked over a dish of food, sprang up, her little feet scurrying about, tip-toeing and huddling in a corner of the room.

Lu Ban also heard the scratching and stood up to open the cabinet.

There were only his clothes inside, no creature at all.

“It’s probably just a cockroach.”

Lu Ban offered a vague explanation.

“A cockroach, a cockroach?”

Qin Tiantian’s eyebrows knotted as she gathered the courage to look inside the cabinet herself and then realized something.

“Your cockroaches are this big?!”

“You grew up in the north, right? In the south, cockroaches are all this big.”

Lu Ban added, obviously not going to introduce Qin Tiantian to his cabinet friend, not in the middle of the night, as it would scare the child.

He took out a spare blanket and mattress from the wardrobe.

“Hold on, I’ll make the bed for you.”

“?”

Qin Tiantian was puzzled.

“You’re letting a pretty girl who’s visiting your home for the first time sleep on the floor?”

“You consider yourself a pretty girl?”

Lu Ban raised an eyebrow.

“So it’s not about sleeping on the floor?!”

Qin Tiantian seemed deeply offended.

“As an unexpected guest, it’s only proper to sleep on the floor, right?”

Suddenly, Lu Ban felt that letting Qin Tiantian into his home was a mistake. Indeed, women only slow down his rate of learning.

“You definitely don’t have a girlfriend, do you? Giving way to a lady is gentlemanly, a gentlemanly spirit!”

Qin Tiantian, whose mood changed quickly, made herself comfortable on the bed, grabbing the shark plushie to hug.

“And besides, don’t worry, I’m a night owl. You’ll probably have woken up after a full night’s sleep and I still won’t have gone to bed!”

She pulled over the new blanket Lu Ban had placed on the bed, covering her lower half, and took out her phone, charger, and tablet, settling in as if on vacation.

“Oh.”

Lu Ban didn’t fuss; he wasn’t one to hold grudges.

Having been on his own for so many years, it was quite an adjustment to suddenly have someone else at home, but it was just an adjustment.

To him, Qin Tiantian was more like a cat, the kind that would follow you home after a couple of teases, eat and sleep, and then vanish when you opened a door.

“By the way, if you try to sneak attack me in the middle of the night, I will call the police, okay? Don’t do whatever you want just because you’re handsome, remember the gentlemanly spirit!”

Qin Tiantian opened a mobile game on her tablet, saying this at the same time.

“I’m not interested in middle schoolers.”

Lu Ban glanced at Qin Tiantian’s chest, which was as ravaged as the deck of the Saratoga aircraft carrier.

“Scram!”

Qin Tiantian was furiously powerless.

An hour later, Lu Ban finished studying and prepared to go to bed.

He turned to look, only to see Qin Tiantian sprawled out unceremoniously in sleep, her clothes slipping to reveal a smooth shoulder, probably exhausted from the night’s events and quickly falling asleep once she relaxed.

She occupied most of Lu Ban’s bed like an unfettered feline master.

“Forget it…”

Lu Ban didn’t dwell on the annoyances; it was only right to be kind to others and provide shelter to a scared girl.

He adjusted the angle of the chair back, grabbed a blanket, and settled in to spend the night on the chair.

Just as he closed his eyes, Lu Ban remembered something he hadn’t done.

He opened his computer’s music player, selected the Spring Festival Gala playlist and played it.

“Unforgettable Night, Unforgettable Night, no matter the ends of the earth and sea corners…”

The moment the melodious voice of the people’s artist began to flow, Qin Tiantian, who had been lying on the bed, jumped up in shock.

She looked baffledly at Lu Ban and then at the computer’s music player.

“… You listen to this to help you sleep late at night?”

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