My girlfriend is from the future!

"Hey, He Tianran... wake up, stop pretending to be dead."

When the boy, lying on the ground, vaguely heard someone calling him and felt his body being gently kicked twice, he opened his eyes and saw three faces with different styles—some sexy, some beautiful, and some cute—but the only thing they had in common was the slightly worried look in their eyes.

"What...what's wrong with me?"

He Tianran propped himself up and sat up, scratching his head.

"I don't know... You fainted as soon as I opened the door, it scared me."

Jiang Xixi carefully added, while Wen Liang and Cao Aiqing, who had already entered the room, looked at He Tianran, who was standing on the ground with a bewildered expression, with strange expressions. They both remained silent for the time being.

"I see... So how long have I been unconscious?"

The boy only remembered that Wen Liang and Cao Aiqing had arrived at the door at the same time. The boy's mindset after getting into trouble made him think of running away immediately. In the past, when he encountered such things, he would just close his eyes and open them again and it would be a new day. The "writer" would take the blame for him.

But this time...

like……

There's been a problem.

Cao Aiqing, who was looking down at him, raised her wrist to check her watch, then held it out to Wen Liang's eyes. The latter lowered her eyes slightly and chuckled softly for no apparent reason.

"Heh~ It wasn't long, probably only a minute of dizziness."

"What?!"

He Tianran uttered a childish, cheesy phrase and stood up abruptly. Jiang Xixi was about to help him up when he grabbed her hand and pulled her back a few steps, looking warily at Wen and Cao.

"Wait a minute, I shouldn't be the one facing you right now. What's going on?"

As He Tianran spoke, he suddenly recalled the roar that had echoed in his heart just moments before he lost consciousness—

He told me to get lost and told me to handle it?
Could it be...masaka?
Looking at Wen Liang and Cao Aiqing standing before him like two supreme beings, the "young man" He Tianran was already drenched in sweat...

Wen Liang was quite interested in the question He Tianran was currently asking, and she joked:

"If we're not facing you, then who are we facing now? Aren't you He Tianran?"

When the "young" He Tianran met Wen Liang, it was like a mouse encountering a cat; he swallowed hard and resisted:

“I… I am He Tianran, but I may not be… the He Tianran you know… Why don’t you come back later? You can come find me tomorrow.”

Jiang Xixi, who had been being held by him, was confused by his words and couldn't help but ask:
"Brother He, what are you talking about? What do you mean by 'this you' and 'that you'?"

Before He Tianran could answer, Wen Liang, finding it amusing, couldn't resist a mischievous thought. He stepped forward and teased:
"We don't care about this or that, we're looking for He Tianran, so we've brought you here~ and tomorrow is fine!"

Wen Liang made a move to grab him, and He Tianran nervously took a step back. Jiang Xixi, on the other hand, straightened her petite body and spread her arms, standing between the two of them.
"Brother He is sick right now, don't scare him!"

Watching her small figure from behind, He Tianran was almost moved to tears. Wen Liang, on the other side, was also taken aback by this scene and turned to ask Cao Aiqing, who had been silent since the beginning and had been rubbing her forehead in distress:
"Who is this little one...?"

"I'm not a little one..."

"Wen Liang, I really admire you. Even in this situation, you can still hang out with them..."

"Isn't this quite interesting?"

"I'm not a little one..."

"Let's get down to business. I didn't expect this to happen either. This is the first time I've ever met 'him'."

"Right? This is my first time too, but it looks like you should thank me this time. If you had come alone, you probably wouldn't have been able to handle it."

"I'm not a little one!"

The two women in front of her seemed to ignore Jiang Xixi's presence. The girl repeated herself angrily, her face turning red. But suddenly she felt a weight on her shoulder. She turned her head and saw He Tianran, who looked like he was in a daze, patting her shoulder.

"What a pity..."

"Ok?"

What was the most glorious moment of your life?

"No... Brother He, now is not the time for you to cosplay Sakuragi Hanamichi, are you saying that your most glorious moment is right now? What's so glorious about that?! This situation isn't some kind of shonen manga where someone makes a comeback against all odds, it's more like a harem anime with questionable quality and a chaotic scene! Why are you making it so dramatic?!"

Sometimes, when two chuunibyou (delusional) people get together, it's not good if they know each other's jokes too well. It's too easy for others to find fault with them. Just like now, Jiang Xixi's mouth is like a machine gun, venting her complaints about He Tianran's inappropriate remarks. But the latter is probably in this situation, and his inner excitement is too much, so he subconsciously overclocked his already chaotic brain...

After all, he's mentally ill now, so it's not surprising that he'll do anything.

He Tianran looked like a sage at that moment, or like a protagonist in an anime who saw the light in adversity. He was inexplicably energized, not caring whether Jiang Xixi had beaten him to his next line.

"And I am here now!"

"Listen to what people are saying! Just reciting famous lines doesn't guarantee a win!"

To be honest, this scene was, in a sense, a glorious moment for the "young" He Tianran. In his memory, Cao Aiqing was the goddess he never dared to approach at school, and he would get nervous to death after just a few words; Wen Liang was the little devil who played with him at will, and He Tianran both loved and hated her. Now, the two women had actually come to him at the same time, which gave the immature and chuunibyou "young man" a sense of crisis, but also a feeling of being quite cool.

Oh, right, I almost forgot about Jiang Xixi, who stood up for me.

In short, He Tianran's current mindset as a "young man" is—

Whether the crisis can be resolved or the situation can be eased, it's already like this, so let's just enjoy ourselves first...

"..."

"..."

"..."

The three girls present looked at each other, all of them exasperated by He Tianran's closed eyes and enjoy his speech.

Of the three, Cao Aiqing was the least accepting and the most ashamed. Mainly because she didn't watch anime or have much exposure to ACG culture, she genuinely believed He Tianran's outburst was serious. So she took small steps forward and whispered worriedly to Wen Liang:
"Are the natural symptoms getting worse...?"

"Um--"

Wen Liang stared at He Tianran's self-absorbed expression, a long, symbolic, noncommittal sound escaping her nose, before finally drawing a succinct conclusion:

"Don't panic, I don't think so. I think he might still think he's a Casanova."

Cao: "Huh?"

Jiang: "Huh?"

He Tianran: "Who? Me?"

The boy snapped out of his reverie, pointed to his nose, and then, looking embarrassed, scratched his head while making "hehehe" sounds.

Wen Liang explained to Cao Aiqing, who looked completely bewildered:

"Look, he's even being modest now." "Eek—"

At this moment, Jiang Xixi finally showed a look of disgust and moved a few feet away.

Cao Aiqing let out a breath. Although He Tianran's current state left her somewhat at a loss, it was the first time she had encountered a personality other than "writer," and she still wanted to get to know him better. After all, she needed to address the root of the problem, and it couldn't be good for a man to always be like this...

“Tianran, we’re not here to… arrest you. We just feel there are some things we need to talk to you about in person.”

"Chat?"

He Tianran repeated suspiciously, his eyes scanning back and forth between Cao Aiqing and Wen Liang, who was still grinning mischievously, "It's okay to talk to Aiqing... but forget about her!"

He suddenly pointed at Wen Liang.

The female celebrity, suddenly singled out and excluded, immediately bristled and retorted:

"He Tianran, what are you doing! Why can you talk to her but not me? What did I do to you!"

Cao Aiqing had already experienced the thought process of this "He Tianran" once, so she was not sure if she could communicate well with He Tianran later. Moreover, it seemed that this "young man" He Tianran had some grudge against Wen Liang.

This made her, who was sensitive, wonder. Cao Aiqing tried to keep her tone calm and comforted her:
“Tianran, we all came to find you because we saw you running around and were afraid you might get into danger. We were worried about you, not here to harm you.”

"Then how did you know I was here?"

He Tianran immediately countered with a question.

“I saw you running around in the Zhuguang Lane industrial park and you wouldn’t listen when I called you, so I called Ai Qing and followed you. Later, when we arrived at the residential area, she was nearby.”

Hearing Wen Liang's explanation, He Tianran's eyes darted around...

"You came to find me... because you were worried about me?"

"Of course!"

The two women spoke in unison, while Jiang Xixi blinked.

Call ~
He Tianran breathed a sigh of relief; it seemed this wasn't a chaotic scene after all.

Although he felt a distance from Wen Liang, he had come to accept many realities since waking up in this world, including the fact that "the pranks of the past no longer exist."

However, this did not mean that he would swallow his anger. He Tianran's innate cunning nature was always at play. Looking at Wen Liang, who was now looking blank, and then at Jiang Xixi's living room full of cosplay outfits, he suddenly had a plan in mind...

"So... you came along because you're worried about me and want to talk to me in person, right?"

"That's right!"

Seeing that the other person was looking her over, Wen Liang answered first this time.

"I'm not talking to you..."

"why……"

"unless……"

He Tianran drawled, a sly glint in his eyes, and pointed to Jiang Xixi's living room, which was almost entirely filled with anime merchandise and cosplay outfits:

"Unless... Wenliang, you change into a cosplay outfit and mingle with us! Only then can you prove that you're not here to 'capture' me, but genuinely here to 'chat'!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the room was shocked!

Jiang Xixi's eyes widened at first, then a "As expected of you" expression appeared on her face; Cao Aiqing frowned slightly, feeling that the request was rather absurd; as for Wen Liang...

"Um--"

She crossed her arms, drew out her nasal tone, and looked He Tianran up and down, a smile playing on her lips that sent a chill down the spine of the "young man."

"Natural, this isn't quite right..."

"sure."

Cao Aiqing originally wanted to refute Wen Liang's somewhat excessive request, but before she could finish speaking, Wen Liang readily agreed, leaving the usually reserved Cao Aiqing astonished.

Wen Liang's quick agreement caught He Tianran, who had made the request, off guard...

"You, you agreed?"

Wen Liang strode over to a pile of clothes racks in a few steps, casually fiddling with the various outfits hanging there, from glamorous Gothic Lolita to sexy second-hand clothes, there was something for everyone.

"if not?"

Wen Liang glanced back at him, her eyes mocking:

"Didn't someone say that we should fight them all together...?"

She deliberately imitated He Tianran's tone from earlier, her fingers lightly tracing the rows of clothes racks in front of her, and even had the energy to tease the boy a little:
"Do you need me to specify the character you'd like to cosplay, boss?"

Jiang Xixi watched with shining eyes, while Cao Aiqing helplessly rubbed her forehead, feeling that things had completely deviated from the original intention of "worrying about He Tianran" and were heading wildly in an uncontrollable and extremely embarrassing direction.

The way He Tianran called out "boss" was like a train whistle blowing out a burst of air from his nostrils. He was torn between extreme shame and stubbornness, unwilling to back down in front of this woman.

Seeing the other person's embarrassed expression upon seeing him, and laughing like a little fox who had stolen a chicken, He Tianran finally raised his finger, pretending to be calm as he pointed to a certain spot:
"It's...it's...that one, the pink and white one."

Wen Liang was familiar with ACG (Anime, Comics, and Games) and immediately knew what he was talking about:
"Oh, you mean Yae no Miko, right..."

Wen Liang held up the outfit in front of her, then looked at He Tianran and said in a seductive voice:
"The boss has excellent taste!"

He Tianran dared not meet the other's alluring gaze. He felt a mixture of anticipation and something he couldn't show on his face. He turned his head away and met Cao Aiqing's somewhat ambiguous gaze...

The other person's expression was as if they'd just discovered something new, as if saying to themselves, "So you like this kind of thing..."

At this moment, He Tianran, who was already feeling quite flattered, felt as if a switch had been flipped in his mind. Knowing that he was now in a state where he could get whatever he wanted, he began to lose himself in the moment.

"What are you looking at? Look again and I'll make you change into it too!"

He Tianran raised his chin, with a hint of smug arrogance, and even started pointing fingers at Cao Aiqing.

Cao Aiqing's gentle eyes widened instantly, as if she had heard something unbelievable:
"You...what did you say?"

"Stop looking! Go! Change into that purple Thunder General outfit too! Otherwise, I'm not chatting anymore!"

He Tianran, as if he had found a new toy, turned to Jiang Xixi, who was watching the show from the side, with great interest.

Jiang Xixi was bewildered by his sudden instruction. She blinked her big eyes, looked around blankly, and finally hesitantly pointed to herself:
"I...I want some too?"

"hiss……"

He Tianran, who had initially been harboring rather wicked ideas, suddenly paused when he reached her, and his tone became surprisingly normal:
"Ah, Paimon, you don't need to change. It's fine as it is." (End of Chapter)