The sound of jingling bells signified the end of the class, and Pei Lu carried the book and walked out of the class.

It was summertime and the weather was hot. Pei Lu had soaked his back as soon as he exited the classroom, his forehead was also sweaty, and his face became paler and transparent under the sunlight.
  
The AI in his mind continued to nag, “Dear~ your hunger index has exceeded the critical value. If you don’t add energy, you will be hungry and dizzy~”
  
“Who is to blame?!” Pei Lu’s forehead has blue veins. Jumping straight, he took a deep breath, struggling to move his two hungry, trembling legs forward.
  
This was simply the most nonsense task he had ever done, and he was faced with the situation of fainting from hunger before he even found the goal of the task.
  
The AI still muttered, “Dear~ Are you okay? Do you need me to sing a song with you?”
  
Then he actually sang a song!
  
“Xiao Long Bao, Barbecued Pork Bun with Creamy Yellow Sesame Bean Paste, Big Meat Cabbage Buns, and Soup Buns…”
  
The AI’s electronic voice sang the song with a sharp glance. It wasn’t good but the content of the song made Pei Lu quickly secrete saliva! The belly that had not eaten for three days couldn’t even howl. After a few hard twitches, there was a surge of stomach acid.
  
Pei Lu walked to the side of the road and retched a few times, covering his surging stomach. And sweating on his back, he half leaned against the tree, only feeling that the AI’s voice was getting farther and farther away…

This is too embarrassing, Pei Lu thought before passing out.

  
Pei Lu was already in the infirmary when he woke up.
  
He was lying on a white hospital bed with a needle in his wrist. The liquid in the bottle should be glucose. Although it could not relieve his hunger, it made his body feel much better.
  
“My God, you finally wake up,” the AI’s electronic voice exclaimed, “I thought you wouldn’t wake up.”
  
“…” Pei Lu sharpened his teeth and warned viciously: “666, you keep doing it and if you do it again, I will cut off your internet and have you watch some more brain-dead1 dramas!”
  
“…” 666 closed his mouth aggrievedly and cried as he hung up.
  
Pei Lu’s mind finally calmed down.
  
666 is the intelligent AI he applied for in the real world. When he crosses into a patient’s spiritual world, it can help him collect information about the world in which he is in and finds treatment goals. At the same time, the AI is also an external monitor of the therapist to prevent the therapist from causing malicious harm to the patient’s spiritual world.
  
Pei Lu went through the world information passed by 666 in his head, and finally understood why he was hungry and fainted as soon as he passed it in.
  
The original owner of this body is Meng Xiaoyue, 22 years old, a student of the first degree of the Oil Painting Department of Y University.
  
Meng Xiaoyue’s parents divorced and he lived with his mother when he was very young. When he was eighteen years old, his mother died of a heart attack. Fortunately, his mother took precautions and left a large amount of inheritance to Meng Xiaoyue which was the reason why Meng Xiaoyue can still afford an expensive art department.
  
It’s a pity that the good times didn’t last long. One month after Meng Xiaoyue was admitted to the Y college, his own father found him.
  
Meng Xiaoyue grew up in a single-parent family. He had hardly seen his father since he was a child. He was born with a desire and longing for his father’s love. So when his father came to find him, Meng Xiaoyue did not refuse his father’s proposal to live “home”.
  
When he returned home with his father, the innocent Meng Xiaoyue was dumbfounded. His father had already remarried, and he had a son and a daughter. Their family was happy, and Meng Xiaoyue became even more out of place.
  
Fortunately, his stepmother had a good attitude towards him. Although Meng Xiaoyue was a little embarrassed, he stayed because of his desire for family.
  
This is also the beginning of his tragedy.
  
Pei Lu sighed, and he knew the ending of the following story without looking at it.
  
Meng Xiaoyue was introverted and not good at speech. Not long after he lived in his new home, he was coaxed by his father and stepmother to empty out the money. When his father and stepmother saw that they could no longer squeeze oil and water from him2, their attitude towards him also changed 180 degrees, so they almost immediately swept Meng Xiaoyue out of the house.
  
Meng Xiaoyue was thin-skinned and soft-skinned, and finally packed up his things and sneaked back to the school dormitory.
  
But he forgot that when he came out, he didn’t have a penny on his body. As a result, he was hungry for three days, and then he was replaced by Pei Lu.
  
Pei Lu smacked his lips with emotion. This unlucky child is too naive.
  
“I agree, he really is naive.” 666 suddenly came out and replied a sentence.
  
Pei Lu resisted the urge to slap him, and asked calmly, “Where is the target?”
  
“The target is also in Y University, it’s your xuedi3~” 666 stretched his voice and said, “Maybe you can have a pure GAYGAY4 relationship~”
  
Pei Lu snorted coldly, and negatively replied, “Can’t you change to another answer?”
  
“…” 666 grunted reluctantly and said aggrievedly, “Well, the goal is called Li Jun, a freshman in the Department of Mathematics. You can go to their college and stroll around, maybe you can meet each other~”

In the end, 666 still added, “The junior is only sixteen years old, but he is a cold-hearted youth~

When Pei Lu got the information he wanted, he ruthlessly told 666 to retreat. He really didn’t want to hear 666’s voice for a second unless it was necessary. Communicating with him was simply mentally exhausting.
  
Pei Lu half leaned on the hospital bed, and read the small piece of information that introduced Li Jun over and over again, making sure to write it down.
  
Li Jun is the only son of Li Qingyi, the richest man in X City, and a genius with an IQ of 200. It is a pity that he was kidnapped once when he was a child. After he was rescued, he became extremely detached and refused to communicate with anyone.
  
The details of this kidnapping case have not been released to the public. The outside world only knows that three kidnappers resisted arrest and were shot and killed on the spot, while Li Jun was successfully rescued by the police.
  
Pei Lu had 666 for help. He naturally knew the details that the police did not release.
  
In the past few years, Li Qingyi has visited Huaguo’s number-one psychiatrist, but no one could make Li Jun speak. He’s like a silent doll, hiding in his own world, refusing anyone to approach him.
  
Closing the information, Pei Lu closed his eyes and thought quietly, how should he approach a target with a disorder?
  
Before he could think of the result, a large bottle of glucose had emptied out. The school doctor removed the needle for him and handed him a cotton swab intimately to press the needle’s eye to stop the bleeding.
  
Pei Lu smiled at him gratefully. This body isn’t ugly, but it is very delicate. When he smiles, his eyes are slightly narrowed, and he looks very shy.
  
The school doctor is a warm-hearted uncle. Seeing him as skinny as noodles, he thought he was losing weight, so he couldn’t help but persuade him, “It’s better for the young man to be strong, thinner, and run away as soon as the wind blows!”

Pei Lu touched his nose awkwardly, and nodded in cooperation, “That…how much is the total?”

The school doctor laughed, with pleats on his smiling face, “Ten yuan together, a young man like you should go back to eat more food. You are too malnourished and very fragile.”

Pei Lu smiled slightly stiff, hands stuffed in his flexible pockets, “Uncle, I, I didn’t bring any money. Can I pay the money to you next time?”

This was the first time he faced such an embarrassing situation, and his face was blushing.

The school doctor emptied his eyes and saw his flushed face, and he immediately waved his hand, “Then you can pay it next time, and I will lend you money. Do you have any money on you? I will lend you a little bit first.”
 
Pei Lu wanted to shake his head stubbornly, but Meng Xiaoyue was really poor and didn’t have a dime, so he nodded weakly against his red and hot face.
  
The school doctor didn’t laugh at him this time, and took a hundred from his wallet and stuffed it into his hand.
  
Pei Lu thanked him earnestly and ran away flying with money.
  
As he ran, 666 was still chattering in his mind, “Tsk, didn’t you say you are miserable, you didn’t even have a hundred dollars. It’s easy to say that you are very poor…”
  
“Shut up!” Pei Lu said angrily.
  
666 was silent for two seconds, and then came out bashfully.
  
“Dear~ I have good news to tell you~”
  
“Speak.” Pei Lu had a cold expression, as he hurriedly got out of the picture.
  
“I just found out that the Li family is hiring art tutors~”
  
“You can get close to your goals and earn living expenses. This is such a good opportunity. Don’t miss it when you pass by~”

Pei Lu was troubled by his weird tone. Fortunately, this is indeed good news, otherwise Pei Lu would want to shit on him.
  
After looking for a noodle shop, ate two large bowls of ramen noodles and satisfying his hungry stomach, Pei Lu went back to the dormitory and cleaned up briefly, changed into clean clothes, and went for an interview at Li’s house.
  
The interview was personally interviewed by Li Qingyi.
  
Pei Lu chatted with him for a while, and they were very satisfied with each other.
  
Meng Xiaoyue has a degree. There is no doubt about his professional level. Coupled with his delicate appearance, it really adds a lot of impressive points to him so Li Qingyi had him passed the test smoothly.
  
Then Li Qingyi took him to see Li Jun in the studio.
  
The door of the studio opened, and a tall and thin boy was sitting in front of the easel with a mess of color on the canvas in front of him.
  
Li Qingyi did not speak.
  
Pei Lu squinted his eyes, showing a shy smile, walked to the easel closest to him, sat down, took up the paintbrush and painted like there was no one beside him.

Notes:

MindlessSqueeze out oil and water. It is a metaphor for illegally searching and obtaining money through bullying and blackmail.学弟 “Xuedi” refers to a male student in the lower grades of the same school aka your “junior brother”.GAYGAY的恋爱. Yeah, that’s what it says on the raw.

The sound of jingling bells signified the end of the class, and Pei Lu carried the book and walked out of the class.

It was summertime and the weather was hot. Pei Lu had soaked his back as soon as he exited the classroom, his forehead was also sweaty, and his face became paler and transparent under the sunlight.

  

The AI in his mind continued to nag, “Dear~ your hunger index has exceeded the critical value. If you don’t add energy, you will be hungry and dizzy~”

  

“Who is to blame?!” Pei Lu’s forehead has blue veins. Jumping straight, he took a deep breath, struggling to move his two hungry, trembling legs forward.

  

This was simply the most nonsense task he had ever done, and he was faced with the situation of fainting from hunger before he even found the goal of the task.

  

The AI still muttered, “Dear~ Are you okay? Do you need me to sing a song with you?”

  

Then he actually sang a song!

  

“Xiao Long Bao, Barbecued Pork Bun with Creamy Yellow Sesame Bean Paste, Big Meat Cabbage Buns, and Soup Buns…”

  

The AI’s electronic voice sang the song with a sharp glance. It wasn’t good but the content of the song made Pei Lu quickly secrete saliva! The belly that had not eaten for three days couldn’t even howl. After a few hard twitches, there was a surge of stomach acid.

  

Pei Lu walked to the side of the road and retched a few times, covering his surging stomach. And sweating on his back, he half leaned against the tree, only feeling that the AI’s voice was getting farther and farther away…

This is too embarrassing, Pei Lu thought before passing out.

  

Pei Lu was already in the infirmary when he woke up.

  

He was lying on a white hospital bed with a needle in his wrist. The liquid in the bottle should be glucose. Although it could not relieve his hunger, it made his body feel much better.

  

“My God, you finally wake up,” the AI’s electronic voice exclaimed, “I thought you wouldn’t wake up.”

  

“…” Pei Lu sharpened his teeth and warned viciously: “666, you keep doing it and if you do it again, I will cut off your internet and have you watch some more brain-dead1 dramas!”

  

“…” 666 closed his mouth aggrievedly and cried as he hung up.

  

Pei Lu’s mind finally calmed down.

  

666 is the intelligent AI he applied for in the real world. When he crosses into a patient’s spiritual world, it can help him collect information about the world in which he is in and finds treatment goals. At the same time, the AI is also an external monitor of the therapist to prevent the therapist from causing malicious harm to the patient’s spiritual world.

  

Pei Lu went through the world information passed by 666 in his head, and finally understood why he was hungry and fainted as soon as he passed it in.

  

The original owner of this body is Meng Xiaoyue, 22 years old, a student of the first degree of the Oil Painting Department of Y University.

  

Meng Xiaoyue’s parents divorced and he lived with his mother when he was very young. When he was eighteen years old, his mother died of a heart attack. Fortunately, his mother took precautions and left a large amount of inheritance to Meng Xiaoyue which was the reason why Meng Xiaoyue can still afford an expensive art department.

  

It’s a pity that the good times didn’t last long. One month after Meng Xiaoyue was admitted to the Y college, his own father found him.

  

Meng Xiaoyue grew up in a single-parent family. He had hardly seen his father since he was a child. He was born with a desire and longing for his father’s love. So when his father came to find him, Meng Xiaoyue did not refuse his father’s proposal to live “home”.

  

When he returned home with his father, the innocent Meng Xiaoyue was dumbfounded. His father had already remarried, and he had a son and a daughter. Their family was happy, and Meng Xiaoyue became even more out of place.

  

Fortunately, his stepmother had a good attitude towards him. Although Meng Xiaoyue was a little embarrassed, he stayed because of his desire for family.

  

This is also the beginning of his tragedy.

  

Pei Lu sighed, and he knew the ending of the following story without looking at it.

  

Meng Xiaoyue was introverted and not good at speech. Not long after he lived in his new home, he was coaxed by his father and stepmother to empty out the money. When his father and stepmother saw that they could no longer squeeze oil and water from him2, their attitude towards him also changed 180 degrees, so they almost immediately swept Meng Xiaoyue out of the house.

  

Meng Xiaoyue was thin-skinned and soft-skinned, and finally packed up his things and sneaked back to the school dormitory.

  

But he forgot that when he came out, he didn’t have a penny on his body. As a result, he was hungry for three days, and then he was replaced by Pei Lu.

  

Pei Lu smacked his lips with emotion. This unlucky child is too naive.

  

“I agree, he really is naive.” 666 suddenly came out and replied a sentence.

  

Pei Lu resisted the urge to slap him, and asked calmly, “Where is the target?”

  

“The target is also in Y University, it’s your xuedi3~” 666 stretched his voice and said, “Maybe you can have a pure GAYGAY4 relationship~”

  

Pei Lu snorted coldly, and negatively replied, “Can’t you change to another answer?”

  

“…” 666 grunted reluctantly and said aggrievedly, “Well, the goal is called Li Jun, a freshman in the Department of Mathematics. You can go to their college and stroll around, maybe you can meet each other~”

In the end, 666 still added, “The junior is only sixteen years old, but he is a cold-hearted youth~

When Pei Lu got the information he wanted, he ruthlessly told 666 to retreat. He really didn’t want to hear 666’s voice for a second unless it was necessary. Communicating with him was simply mentally exhausting.

  

Pei Lu half leaned on the hospital bed, and read the small piece of information that introduced Li Jun over and over again, making sure to write it down.

  

Li Jun is the only son of Li Qingyi, the richest man in X City, and a genius with an IQ of 200. It is a pity that he was kidnapped once when he was a child. After he was rescued, he became extremely detached and refused to communicate with anyone.

  

The details of this kidnapping case have not been released to the public. The outside world only knows that three kidnappers resisted arrest and were shot and killed on the spot, while Li Jun was successfully rescued by the police.

  

Pei Lu had 666 for help. He naturally knew the details that the police did not release.

  

In the past few years, Li Qingyi has visited Huaguo’s number-one psychiatrist, but no one could make Li Jun speak. He’s like a silent doll, hiding in his own world, refusing anyone to approach him.

  

Closing the information, Pei Lu closed his eyes and thought quietly, how should he approach a target with a disorder?

  

Before he could think of the result, a large bottle of glucose had emptied out. The school doctor removed the needle for him and handed him a cotton swab intimately to press the needle’s eye to stop the bleeding.

  

Pei Lu smiled at him gratefully. This body isn’t ugly, but it is very delicate. When he smiles, his eyes are slightly narrowed, and he looks very shy.

  

The school doctor is a warm-hearted uncle. Seeing him as skinny as noodles, he thought he was losing weight, so he couldn’t help but persuade him, “It’s better for the young man to be strong, thinner, and run away as soon as the wind blows!”

Pei Lu touched his nose awkwardly, and nodded in cooperation, “That…how much is the total?”

The school doctor laughed, with pleats on his smiling face, “Ten yuan together, a young man like you should go back to eat more food. You are too malnourished and very fragile.”

Pei Lu smiled slightly stiff, hands stuffed in his flexible pockets, “Uncle, I, I didn’t bring any money. Can I pay the money to you next time?”

This was the first time he faced such an embarrassing situation, and his face was blushing.

The school doctor emptied his eyes and saw his flushed face, and he immediately waved his hand, “Then you can pay it next time, and I will lend you money. Do you have any money on you? I will lend you a little bit first.”

 

Pei Lu wanted to shake his head stubbornly, but Meng Xiaoyue was really poor and didn’t have a dime, so he nodded weakly against his red and hot face.

  

The school doctor didn’t laugh at him this time, and took a hundred from his wallet and stuffed it into his hand.

  

Pei Lu thanked him earnestly and ran away flying with money.

  

As he ran, 666 was still chattering in his mind, “Tsk, didn’t you say you are miserable, you didn’t even have a hundred dollars. It’s easy to say that you are very poor…”

  

“Shut up!” Pei Lu said angrily.

  

666 was silent for two seconds, and then came out bashfully.

  

“Dear~ I have good news to tell you~”

  

“Speak.” Pei Lu had a cold expression, as he hurriedly got out of the picture.

  

“I just found out that the Li family is hiring art tutors~”

  

“You can get close to your goals and earn living expenses. This is such a good opportunity. Don’t miss it when you pass by~”

Pei Lu was troubled by his weird tone. Fortunately, this is indeed good news, otherwise Pei Lu would want to shit on him.

  

After looking for a noodle shop, ate two large bowls of ramen noodles and satisfying his hungry stomach, Pei Lu went back to the dormitory and cleaned up briefly, changed into clean clothes, and went for an interview at Li’s house.

  

The interview was personally interviewed by Li Qingyi.

  

Pei Lu chatted with him for a while, and they were very satisfied with each other.

  

Meng Xiaoyue has a degree. There is no doubt about his professional level. Coupled with his delicate appearance, it really adds a lot of impressive points to him so Li Qingyi had him passed the test smoothly.

  

Then Li Qingyi took him to see Li Jun in the studio.

  

The door of the studio opened, and a tall and thin boy was sitting in front of the easel with a mess of color on the canvas in front of him.

  

Li Qingyi did not speak.

  

Pei Lu squinted his eyes, showing a shy smile, walked to the easel closest to him, sat down, took up the paintbrush and painted like there was no one beside him.

Notes:

MindlessSqueeze out oil and water. It is a metaphor for illegally searching and obtaining money through bullying and blackmail.学弟 “Xuedi” refers to a male student in the lower grades of the same school aka your “junior brother”.GAYGAY的恋爱. Yeah, that’s what it says on the raw.

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