Honkai Impact, please stop imagining it.

Come to think of it, my phone seems to be connected to Lin Yu's home security camera.

Well, let's take a look. After all, Lin Yu gave us permission.

Mei opened the surveillance video, staring wide-eyed as she sipped her milk tea, watching Lin Yu wake up this morning, call her, and then order a cake for tonight.

Then, somewhat happily, I started cleaning.

Mei clicked "speed up" and nodded. Was he only starting to clean because he was going to receive her? Come to think of it, Lin Yu's house wasn't dirty to begin with; it was quite tidy. What was he cleaning?

After cleaning all morning, Lin Yu ate instant noodles for lunch. In the afternoon, he started taking out the trash and tidying up the room. Occasionally, when he was tired or feeling unwell, he would sit on the sofa and rest for a while.

Mei skipped over these messy events and wanted to find out what had made Lin Yu suddenly become so talkative.

Before I knew it, I had finished my milk tea.

Mei's timeline has jumped to 4:30 PM.

Mei watched the video speeding up. Lin Yu had been lying on the cake for ten minutes and hadn't gotten up for a long time.

Mei rewound a bit and slowed down the playback speed.

........

"Has the cake arrived? I don't know if Mei will like the strawberry cake I ordered."

"How wonderful it would be if I had many friends."

Lin Yu opened the door, took the cake, thanked the deliveryman, and wiped the sweat from his brow as he pushed the sofa into place.

The moment the door closed, the cake fell to the ground. Lin Yu clutched his head as if he were enduring immense pain, and his body went limp as he collapsed onto the cake.

Cream splattered on the floor, staining the freshly mopped floor. Time continued to flow like a river, but the actions in the scene seemed to stand still.

Mei subconsciously stood up, intending to go to Lin Yu's house to take him to the hospital, but then she realized that this was the surveillance video from 4:15 pm...

Mei fell silent. She had just finished school and was chatting with her new friends about Eden's concert.

Mei tapped her phone screen. An hour had passed. It was 5:15, and Lin Yu still hadn't gotten up. At that time, she was shopping with her new friends.

At 6:15, I ate the new hamburger. It tasted delicious, and I forgot about the date and time.

At 7:15, Mei and her friend went into the karaoke bar to sing.

At 8:15, they were excitedly discussing how Kevin and Su would perform on the basketball court the next day.

At 9:15, Mei touched the birthday gift she was originally going to give to Lin Yu when she picked up her bag. It was a very ordinary Bluetooth headset that she hadn't carefully selected but had just randomly picked from the counter. It wasn't expensive, nor was it cheap.

Mei left the karaoke bar, took a taxi here, and walked through the alleys to get to Lin Yu's building as quickly as possible...

Mei reset the time to 9:15 PM and returned the acceleration to normal speed. She heard Lin Yu's words.

Is this paradise?

Having just regained all his memories and his headache had subsided, Lin Yu flipped over on the cake, getting the back of his clothes dirty in the process. He stretched out his hand towards the sky and smiled.

This is not paradise, it's a broken world.

"So this is hell."

My phone battery was low, so I turned off the surveillance video.

She was about to leave to apologize to Lin Yu. She had made an appointment with him but hadn't gone to his house. She had promised her mother and him that she would take care of him, but she was out having fun while he was unconscious on his birthday.

Mei stood up, holding onto the chair, and was stopped by the shop assistant just as she was about to reach the door. "Miss, you didn't take your things."

Mei turned around and fell silent. In the shop assistant's hand was the birthday gift she had given to Lin Yu—an ordinary Bluetooth headset that wasn't cheap, but it wasn't expensive either.

Mei's mind is in a mess right now, she doesn't know what she's thinking, but she wants to see Lin Yu right now.

Mei accepted the gift and left.

The shop assistant scratched his head and asked his colleague next to him, "She's already paid the bill, hasn't she?"

"Yes, my male companion paid."

Chapter 3 Miss Mei is so perverted!

"Damn it, how could I be so forgetful?"

Back at his doorstep, Lin Yu slapped his forehead and leaned back in a tactical pose.

I forgot my keys and umbrella when I went out, and when I got home after dinner, I forgot to bring the birthday present Mei gave me.

Damn it, there are too many memories mixed in with his mind, making Lin Yu's memory confused and strange after he woke up.

Lin Yu stood at the door for a while to rest before heading to the elevator to go downstairs to get his spare key from Mei.

Well, because he was covered in cream when he woke up, Lin Yu changed his clothes, but his phone was still in his original clothes.

I should be glad that I thought about having money for food before I went out, so I took 100 Shenzhou coins with me, otherwise I really would have been helpless.

Elevator entrance.

The elevator doors opened, and Mei stood inside, looking somewhat dejected, facing Lin Yu.

Lin Yu: "What a coincidence, I was just about to come find you."

Mei slowly raised her head, and Lin Yu saw the anxiety and disappointment in her eyes.

"Why are you suddenly in a bad mood? Come to think of it, you should have brought my spare key to the house, right?"

Mei took out Lin Yu's birthday present and handed it to him in silence.

Lin Yu took it. "As expected of you, I only realized I forgot my birthday present when I got to my doorstep."

Mei opened the elevator door for Lin Yu, saying, "If you encounter any problems, you can tell me, and I will help you solve them. I promised Mom I would take good care of you. Although I didn't do a very good job before, that kind of situation will not happen again starting today."

ha?

What? I just forgot about the birthday present you gave me, why am I suddenly getting sentimental?

Mei strode into Lin Yu's house, went into the bathroom, picked up a mop, and began cleaning up the cake that had been smashed to pieces on the floor.

Lin Yu opened the gift box; it contained Bluetooth earphones.

Lin Yu glanced at the time as Mei cleaned the floor; it was past 10 p.m. "Actually, we could just leave it as is. It's already past 10 p.m., and... I can clean it myself."

Um, are you sure you're not going home now? Although it wouldn't be a problem if you stayed overnight, to be honest, our relationship doesn't seem to be that close as staying overnight.

You only promised your mother you would take care of me, which could have been just a polite promise. After all, who would take care of another person of the opposite sex whom they haven't seen for six years and who is also a dark and brooding individual?

Mei: "You go back to sleep first. I'll clean up and do your laundry, then I'll sleep in the guest room."

Lin Yu: "...Actually, I think things shouldn't be like this between us, right? You just made a promise with your mother to take care of me. Just treat it as a polite promise. Only children take promises seriously. We are both independent people. We don't need to do this for a stranger we haven't seen for six years and haven't even talked to more than a few times."

Lin Yu repeatedly thought about how he and Mei had only talked 28 times since they reunited after entering Qianyu Academy. At first, Mei talked a lot to him, but later she would only greet him.

Putting today aside, my relationship with Mei has simply become that of classmates who were once acquaintances but are now a little closer than ordinary classmates.

Only children take promises seriously... right?

It's ironic, isn't it? Only children don't take promises seriously! They're easily distracted by other things and forget about their promises—isn't that exactly what children do?

Mei didn't say anything, she just swept up the dried cream on the floor.

Looking at the cream stuck to the floor that couldn't be wiped off with a mop, and the strawberry cake in the corner, Mei felt a pang of pain in her heart.

Is this heaven? Or is it hell?

For Lin Yu, this world was like hell.

It's something that the other person could understand with just a little empathy, but I only figured it out now.

Mei has few friends, and Lin Yu has few friends either. To Mei, Lin Yu is just a classmate she has known for a while and who is dispensable. But to Lin Yu, Mei is his only friend and his salvation.

If you're not prepared to take responsibility, then don't make the agreement in the first place. Since you've made the agreement, then you should be prepared to bear the psychological burden of Lin Yu's actions.

Mei wanted to throw the cake box into the trash can, but the trash can was already full, filled with all sorts of Lin Yu's daily medications.

Lin Yu was speechless.

After he obtained the system, these medicines became useless. He was more than happy to get sick, since those illnesses wouldn't affect him too much or be fatal. Instead, they would bring him great strength. So, after changing his clothes, Lin Yu immediately threw the medicines into the trash can.

"Actually, these medicines were expired."

Mei: "It's not expired."

Lin Yu looked up at the sky and said, "Actually, I don't need to take medicine anymore. These medicines can't cure my illness anyway. If they could, I wouldn't have had to take them for six years."

Mei continued wiping the floor, then lowered her head and bit her lip. "When did you throw the medicine in the trash can?"

Before leaving the house.

He should have taken the trash out of the bin and thrown it away, but unfortunately, the memory conflict made him forget.

I woke up from my coma before I went out.

Mei stared at the medicine in the trash can for a long time without saying a word. So, after you woke up, you found yourself still lying on the floor, saw that it was already 9:15 on the clock, and that you had been unconscious for more than five hours. It was already evening and I still hadn't come, so you threw away all these medicines and left home to eat?

Whether or not I take medicine is no longer important.

Anyway, there's no point in living anymore.

Living in this hellish world is a constant torment. No one can save me, and I should let go of that last straw.

Mei had already guessed what Lin Yu was thinking after he woke up.

Despite his frail health, he still led the three strong thugs out as if they were nothing. It wasn't that he was bold; he was simply prepared to die.

Even though he hadn't kept his promise to celebrate his birthday with him, he was still willing to rescue him. Lin Yu is so kind.

Lin Yu must have been completely distraught at that moment, his eyes devoid of any hope, having forgotten his keys, his birthday present, his phone, and even the cake he'd left on the floor before leaving the house.

Lin Yu: "Speaking of which, how did you know where I put my mop? I should have moved it."

After tidying up the living room and bedroom, Lin Yu casually tossed the mop behind the bathroom door. Mei shouldn't have known that.

Mei pointed to the camera.

Lin Yu gasped, caught his breath, and coughed heavily a few times before he could catch his breath. "You were spying on me."

How perverted, Miss Mei.

Chapter 4 explains that it is a cover-up.