Please Talk to Me

My next book will be Dementia Brings My Archenemy to My Door.

Shi Yue was the bane of countless teachers at No. 1 High School. Just hearing his name made them turn pale. The reason was simple: he could talk anyone's ear off.

No matter who he was seated beside, he could chat with them about anything under the sun.

In the end, his homeroom teacher had no choice but to seat Shi Yue next to Luo Yu, who couldn't speak, hoping that would finally keep him quiet.

Shi Yue's response: "Teacher, you're too naive. I can talk anywhere! Look, I even got a mute to start talking!"

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Luo Yu had been gloomy and solitary since childhood because of a congenital disability in his legs. No one ever played with him, and gradually, he lost the ability to speak.

He thought he would live this way, alone in the dark, until he died.

One day, after coming to terms with life and deciding that nothing would ever change for him, he decided to die.

Just before he jumped, someone sent him a game. On a whim, he opened it.

He noticed that the game's character illustration looked a lot like the chattering person who had recently appeared in his life. For some reason, he wanted to try the game.

The game was crude, but Luo Yu found himself engrossed in it. The game character ran with him, chattered away, and took him to eat candied hawthorn.

As he played, he couldn't help thinking of his deskmate.

His deskmate also pushed his wheelchair and ran with him, chattered away with him, and brought him candied hawthorn.

Only later did he learn that the glitch-ridden game had been made for him by his classmate.

The one who ran with him, chattered in his ear, and took him to eat candied hawthorn had always been the same person.

It was a game made just for him.

P.S. The mute is the gong.

Sweet with a touch of angst.

Also recommending my friend's ongoing novel, I've Been Waiting for You to Run Out of Money for Ages.

---The following is a blurb for a book I'm collecting interest for---

Dementia Brings My Archenemy to My Door

Bottom's point of view:

When Qian Qiyuan was seventeen, a boy half a year younger moved into his home. The old man said he was the child of a friend.

A bastard child is a bastard child. Calling him a friend's kid, how disgusting. And he was only half a year younger than Qian Qiyuan? Even more disgusting.

But the kid probably hadn't wanted to be born a bastard either. Qian Qiyuan couldn't be bothered to pick on him, but there was no way he would be nice to him. He decided to ignore him.

But Qian Qiyuan never expected the bastard to scheme against him on his very first night in the house. Furious, he got into a fight with him. After that, the two of them were at each other's throats for three years.

Three years later, Qian Qiyuan learned that the boy was the child his mother had conceived by cheating. He had no blood relation to the old man at all. Qian Qiyuan was stunned.

Then he realized he might have fallen for the old man's "friend's kid." He was even more stunned.

After thinking it over, Qian Qiyuan decided he had to run.

So he ran.

Top's point of view:

My name is Pei Zhengqing. My original name was Pei Guang.

I have a dream: to build my own business empire. The name Pei Guang sounds unlucky, so I changed it later.

I have an archenemy. We were at each other's throats for three years, then he left for various reasons. A few years later, I ran into him again. And he'd gotten dementia?

We're the same age, aren't we? I'm still in my prime, so how did he end up with dementia?

I took him to see a doctor. The doctor said he was mentally unstable and I should indulge him, so I followed the doctor's orders and decided to be a good person.

I wanted to be a good person, but he wouldn't act like one.

Not only did he have dementia, his memories also randomly reset to some day in the past.

On the first day, his memories reset to the day we met. He laughed at me for wanting a business empire when my name was Pei Guang.

I was furious and wanted to beat him up, but after thinking it over, I held back. I had to be patient with an old man with dementia.

On the second day, his memories reset to the time when he and I had agreed to hike to the top of Mount Tai and fight there.

So I went hiking on Mount Tai with him.

On the eighteenth day, he said he wanted to climb Mount Tai again.

I... Forget it. I'd go with him. He had dementia, so I should humor him.

On the Nth day, he wanted to climb Mount Tai again.

I tried to hold it in... but I couldn't. We were climbing Mount Tai every day. Who was he meeting up there?

Was he messing with me?

I never expected that after Qian Qiyuan developed dementia, I would be the one to suffer most. Even less did I expect to fall for him when he was being such a pain.

How could that be right? Did he put a spell on me?

Before long, his memories returned to normal, and he remembered everything. I thought he'd recovered, and we started dating. But it didn't last. His dementia returned, worse than before.

His memories started randomly resetting again, and even started getting mixed together at random.

One morning, I went to kiss him. He thought I was trying to win a battle at the cost of eight hundred of my own, and that I was trying to disgust him. His memories had gone back to the years when we were at each other's throats.

I had no idea what to do, so I told him, "So what if I kiss you?"

He got into a fight with me.

That was how I ended up having all kinds of relationships with him, all on my own.

Sometimes he thought we were archenemies, and I'd sacrificed myself just to disgust him.

Sometimes he thought we were archenemies who'd fallen in love, then reunited after years apart.

Sometimes he thought we were biological brothers, having an immoral romance that society would never accept.

Seriously, how many different storylines was he carrying around?

Theme: Care for every classmate