QT: Against My Will (Volume 1)

2.06 - Many Questions - Mr. and Mrs. Jelly

Somehow, both of them started to hate the world a little less. Thinking about it from a certain perspective, it was thanks to those bad things that happened, that they got a chance to meet each other.... in a strange way.

One time, Xuan Mu found an opportunity to hear her voice. They were doing a complicated and time-consuming dungeon, which could be shortened with lots of tricks. Knowing Bing Shi, she wouldn't understand from his typing.

She agreed to his request of joining the team voice chat that had only the two of them.

He nervously waited for his voice call to connect. When she picked up, his nervousness increased.

"Bing Shi?" he asked quietly.

The girl on the other side was silent. Her face had turned red.

Silence...

"Bing Shi... Are you here?" Xuan Mu grew worried, raising his voice a bit in response to her silence.

"Y-yeah..." Bing Shi started to fan her hot face.

"That's good," he chuckled, ignoring his violent heartbeat.

Silence...

The girl on the other side almost fainted from his chuckle.

"You are usually very talkative, aren't you? Now, you are so silent," Xuan Mu was thinking up how to make her talk.

"Oh god, what's wrong with your voice? It sounds so nice! Like aaah... I can't describe it," the girl increased the speed of her flapping hands in an attempt to cool her face.

"You like it?" he laughed.

"Oh my god! Don't laugh!" she demanded. If his voice didnt finish her, his laughter definitely did: K.O.

"... Now, let's go to the dungeon. I'll explain what you have to do," he chuckled at her reaction. 'So cute.'

Then, Xuan Mu noticed something was wrong with her voice. It was low and monotonous. There wasn't a hint of joy or sadness. Often, he would get mad at how unresponsive she could be due to her laughter, which, to him, sounded emotionless.

"Bing Shi, am I boring you? Your voice sounds pretty bored," he asked for the tenth time. Inwardly, he was worried. Would she leave him if she didn't find him funny?

"That's strange," she giggled at his needless worry, "I'm having fun. You don't have to make me laugh all the time."

'Why is he so afraid of me getting bored of him? I wish I knew what boredom was.'

"Oh, that's good to know," Xuan Mu noted it down. Only when he got a chance to hear Bing Shi speaking to others, did he notice a difference.

Whenever Bing Shi talked with Xuan Mu, there was always a tint of sweetness in her voice. It was like she was being coquettish without quite realizing that yet.

Inside the dungeon, Bing Shi followed Xuan Mu's commands obediently. After they finished the dungeon, they went back to the city.

"Why are you playing as a girl character?" she asked when she noticed Xuan Mu playing as females. It didn't bother her that he did so anyways, he didn't hide the fact that he was male. She liked his demure honesty.

"Girls are better to look at," he said truthfully.

"Well, that makes sense," Bing Shi switched her gender into a man and started to chase girls around, "No wonder men like to chase after girls online, it's so fun!"

Xuan Mu shook his head helplessly, chuckling to himself. She always complained about how she couldn't keep up with his pace but at the same time, she also laughed at people who gave up playing with them because as a pair, they were far too fast for others to keep up.

"So I wasn't slow, it's you who is too fast!" she laughed delightfully.

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They tried all kinds of games that were always picked by Xuan Mu. Along the way, somehow, Bing Shi had started to like survival games.

Currently, they were on a wooden raft that drifted along in the middle of the ocean. They had to keep themselves alive by catching all sorts of things from the ocean. She was having so much fun catching everything with a hook. It was kind of relaxing, actually, considering how easy that stuff was.

While she was hooking in a lot of materials, he was always happy to build — expanding their raft, crafting, and killing of the sharks — everything to survive.

But they had to stop playing because Bing Shi got seasick from a game! Xuan Mu laughed so hard when he found out. On the other hand, she had started crying.

"Noooo, I just started to like it. My happineeeesss! I see it waving! Nooooo, don't go byeeeee - byeeeee!" Bing Shi waved her imaginary white napkin with fake tears in her mind, "Ugh, I think I'm going to puke."

He didn't see her green face, but he could hear how dizzy she was with the way she was speaking. For having such a bland voice, he was well versed in picking up her emotions. He considered it a skill. Finally, he could read her voice, "Usually, you are so smart. So why is it that when you're with me, you become so silly?"

"I love being brain dead. Didn't you say you like to use your mind in games? Now it's your turn to be my sugar daddy."

A joyous sparkle flickered in his eyes, the corner of his mouth raised up, "Aren't those things boring? Oh, let me be your sugar daddy then. I'll take care of you well."

Bing Shi grinned sheepishly, "This sugar mommy likes boring stuff too."

"Oh, Ok," Xuan Mu chuckled dotingly. He just found out that Bing Shi liked role-playing. Not that he minded. On the contrary, he found her combos hilarious, "I never saw a sugar daddy that takes care of a sugar mommy."

"Me too, that's why I wanted to try that out, hehe," Bing Shi took in a few deep breaths, "I think, I'm better. Let's sail, I'm not giving up until I catch all the animals for our garden!"

Resuming playing the game, Xuan Mu turned off the ocean's waves function. Much to his amusement, it didn't take long for Bing Shi to get motion sickness again.

"The waves aren't even moving," Xuan Mu cracked a laugh at her despaired groans.

Faintly, in his ears, he heard her cry out a loud, "I knoooow!"