Chapter 1 Doctor Feng, Why Are You Still Here So Late?

"Doctor Feng, why are you still here so late?"

Mu Chen stood at the entrance of the psychology consultation room, his eyes dark as they fell on the new psychology teacher, Feng Qie.

"I left something here."

The doctor with golden-brown short hair calmly picked up the documents in his hand and showed them, a gentle and approachable smile on his face. He looked at Mu Chen with a puzzled expression and asked, "I was just about to ask, Mu Chen, what are you doing here so late?"

"My game just ended, and I came to the AI consultation room to record my game state and adjust my psychological state."

Mu Chen spoke frankly. After he finished speaking, they walked towards each other at a leisurely pace. Neither of them spoke along the way, and their eyes never met again.

It wasn't until Feng Qie left that Mu Chen stopped and glanced back in the direction behind him.

Then, he retracted his gaze, took out another access card from his pocket, and turned into the psychology consultant's office next door.

Logically, he shouldn't have the right to enter this place.

However, Ruan Xun had given him his access card two days ago.

"Someone is watching me, and they've already infiltrated the research institute. I don't know if anyone is paying attention to the information in my office at the academy... But there aren't any important documents there, and I've basically taken them all away.

The remaining information can be used as bait. Mu Chen, remember to keep an eye on it for me."

…

Just as Mu Chen was investigating, Mingmei had just exited the game and unexpectedly received a psychology consultation invitation from the psychology consultation room.

Tomorrow at five in the afternoon.

"Seriously? Was my performance in this game that deranged?"

Mingmei subconsciously compared her performance in this round with her psychological state when she played the villainous NPC earlier.

It was incredibly peaceful!

"I can just chat with the AI, so why would I need to meet with a doctor?"

Mingmei stared at the notice, unable to understand.

"How could the system assign me a psychology doctor I don't know, given my information and the special nature of my character?"

Some time ago, she was arranged to go there twice because Ruan Xun was at the school.

Now that Ruan Xun was gone, and Ruan Xun had said before that if her psychological state wasn't right later on, the school's psychological health monitoring system would directly notify her second sister-in-law, her class teacher.

So, what was this notice all about?

With this question in mind, Mingmei went directly to Mu Chen after her offline class ended the next morning.

He was working as an assistant there and should know something.

"Who is the person giving you psychological counseling?"

Mu Chen's eyes narrowed when he heard Mingmei's words.

"Someone called 'Feng Qie,' the new guy?"

"Yes, the new guy." Mu Chen nodded, but said, "But there's something wrong with him. With his permissions, the system wouldn't actively assign you to him for psychological counseling."

"Oh? Is that so?"

Just as Mingmei was wondering, Lu Gui suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

"Do you need something?"

Seeing Lu Gui's appearance, Mu Chen immediately pulled Mingmei behind him. Amused by Mu Chen's thief-like actions, Lu Gui twitched the corner of his mouth and said directly, "I'm here to find you, Mu Chen."

"Me?"

Mu Chen raised his eyebrows. He didn't think he had anything to talk about with Lu Gui.

"Yes, I heard from Xiao Yao that you're working as an assistant at the school's psychology consultation room. I wanted to ask about the psychology consultant named 'Feng Qie'."

"Huh? You're asking about him too?"

As soon as Mingmei spoke, Lu Gui keenly noticed something was wrong. He looked at Mingmei and asked, "You know him?"

"I don't know him."

Mingmei shook her head. Wasn't she here to ask about him too?

"I heard that you worked as an assistant for Mr. Ruan Xun for a while, so I wanted to ask if this person has any relationship with Mr. Ruan Xun?"

"No relation."

Mu Chen could confirm this, but Lu Gui's words reminded Mu Chen.

"Wait a minute, you know Mr. Ruan?"

Mu Chen remembered that Ruan Xun had already left the school when Lu Gui transferred here.

"Yes, my family knows him."

Lu Gui brushed it off in a sentence, then stopped talking about Ruan Xun. He looked at Mingmei and asked, "Mingmei, are you eating lunch with Xiao Yao later?"

Lu Gui and Lu Xiaoyao should be eating together.

After speaking, he turned his gaze to Mu Chen and added, "I don't think your boyfriend will interfere with your freedom to socialize, will he?"

"Of course not. We're all classmates. It just so happens that I haven't eaten with you and Lu Gui in a long time. Count me in."

They had clearly eaten together just yesterday before entering the game.

Mingmei looked at the two men, sensing that the atmosphere was off. She couldn't help but think of the lines from the romance dramas from other dimensions that her Sixth Uncle had shared with her two years ago when she had just woken up – "Please stop fighting~!"

Then, unable to hold back, Mingmei laughed out loud.

Mu Chen: "..."

Lu Gui: "..."

It wasn't until lunchtime that the atmosphere between the two men gradually eased, but Mingmei's attention had long since shifted to Lu Xiaoyao.

"What's wrong with you? You've been like this all morning."

Mingmei had noticed Lu Xiaoyao acting like this since class this morning, but she hadn't had a chance to ask.

There were so many knowledge points in the offline class, and the teacher was rambling on and on the whole time. Mingmei didn't even have time to slack off and chat with Lu Xiaoyao.

"I'm sleepy. I was too tired from playing games yesterday. I felt like I was about to die when I got out of the game pod."

Lu Xiaoyao said, then mechanically chewed a piece of meat she had forked into her mouth without any emotion. Hearing her say this, Mingmei thought of Lu Xiaoyao's state in the second half of the game last night.

Mingmei still vividly remembered the scene of Lu Xiaoyao staring straight at the Chef God with a fierce and cold look in her eyes when the Chef God announced that she had passed.

At that time, she was the only one left taking the test, and she was holding a cooking knife in her hand, looking like she was ready to rush up and die together with the Chef God if he didn't say she had passed.

"What game did you... play yesterday that made you so tired? I didn't watch your stream yesterday, but I heard them say that your stream was turned off again in the second half."

Mingmei asked tentatively, pretending that she didn't know anything.

"It was actually that new cooking game, it wasn't fun." Lu Xiaoyao's eyes flickered slightly when she said this. "The stream was turned off in the second half... It was probably a mistake by the stream manager, right?"

This was the first time Mingmei had heard Lu Xiaoyao give a reason for the stream being closed.

Moreover, her evasive demeanor showed that she had really improved a lot compared to her previous clueless self.

Mingmei thought, took a sip of juice, and then focused her attention on Mu Chen and Lu Gui, who had been talking back and forth since just now.

Mingmei was really puzzled.

Weren't these two not on good terms?

Where did all these words come from?