QT: Against My Will (Volume 2)

4.51 - Icy Kiss Of Winter - Dangerous Angels

Keeping a reasonable distance, Bing Shi targeted Cheng Young's knee from the side. The instant he avoided it, she reached at his ankles for a foot sweep.

Retreating, she stalled for time. He was one of the male leads, for God's sake! She was merely capitalizing on his willingness to toy with her!

Cheng Young's face was suddenly shown against the bloody ground as four guards pinned him down. The disgusting stench hit his nostrils, anger seeping out of his gritted teeth as he looked up at his people whose hands and legs were tied up. Above him, a subtle voice accompanied the swirling wind.

"Would Sir like to pray for their afterlife?" Bing Shi nudged Cheng Young's dirty face towards the corpses of her deceased pets, "Or would Sir prefer to dig their graves with your bare hands?"

Bing Shi's voice was soft, almost a whisper, yet it carried the weight of a guillotine's blade. Hearing no response and feeling his killing intent, she tilted her gaze towards her guards, "Shall we make him do both?"

Her gentle tone; like an icy kiss of winter, was it to adore or to fear?

Her words were received with robotic nods as if her voice carried a magic that compelled obedience. Her guards weren't sure why Hasan chose a slave woman to be his right hand, but it had to do something with her persuasive charm for sure.

At first, her darker skin drew their eyes, causing many to sneer. Wealthy men would typically not covet such a courtesan. Simply because her skin stood out like a sore thumb, their gaze would automatically lock on her!

Bing Shi knew this and took full advantage of it.

aste in beauty was subjective.

What might captivate one man might enrapture another even more.

Though one Tianshi was prettier than the other, they all had one thing in common.

They matched all beauty standards.

If she went against one norm, she wouldn't be the most beautiful.

She would certainly be the most eye-catching.

"Does sir know to whom this territory belongs to?" probed Bing Shi. She took out the gun, showing it before Cheng Young's eyes, keeping her distance in case he had other tricks up his sleeve, "His Highness would be very pleased to see this, wouldn't he?"

"My absence will notify others." Cheng Young turned a deaf ear to her little threat, showing no fear, he smirked. Even if he needed to travel to the end of the world, he'd make this foreign woman his, "You won't get out unscathed," he hissed in pain, "Mpf!"

Bing Shi placed her pointer before her lips in a 'silence' gesture to pacify her furious guards.

[Side quest success: Break the link between Cheng Young and Mao An, +1000p]

["So fast? Kuro, is this red flag linked to me now?"]

[Yes. Host, what if he falls in love with you?]

["I'd lost two thousand points...?"]

"Sir... Are you sure?" Bing Shi looked down at her spottles harem pants and top, then back at his dirty appearance. Doubting his words, she poked his cheeks left and right, making his mouth twitch. Like him, she showed no fear, "Would Sir want to wager on who can summon more reinforcements?"

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That day, Cheng Young and his men went through great humiliation. His men were compelled to watch how their master was forced by Tian Shi's guards to dig a grave with his bare hands and pray for something he killed himself.

Unable to watch anymore, they requested to change their position with Cheng Young, resulting in all the men digging dirt in the back garden, for the whole day, with no chance of escape. That malicious woman! She didn't even allow them to go to the toilet!

"What is miss doing?" Her guard asked the moment when Tian Shi returned with another new audience. Weren't five guards for each Cheng Young's man enough?

"Digging his grave," said Bing Shi, pointing at Cheng Young's direction. The dogs were buried together with the evidence. Speaking to the official next to her, she introduced to him a few merchants that recognized Cheng Young's identity as a businessman, mostly known as an owner of auction houses.

Using her connections, she contacted the authorities to note down this criminal that tried to trespass into 'her' property.

At first, Bing Shi wanted to uproot Cheng Young's business in the Rania kingdom, weakening his power from behind the scene, without revealing herself. She wouldn't unnecessarily provoke someone for the sake of her pride.

But this one, she stepped in, knowing how she would regret it later. Cheng Young was notorious for always appearing in the female lead's bedroom, in the middle of the night, and no, it was not for a simple chat.

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Riding on the horse miles away, Ru Quan kept blinking his eyes in astonishment as if seeing his woman for the first time. Bing Shi wouldn't attack somebody she knew nothing about, which meant she knew Cheng Young's identity well.

The staff was easy to learn but hard to master. Though she was able to hit Cheng Young only once, it was enough to show how enraged she was.

Ru Quan recalled his previous unannounced visits. Well, one of them wasn't really unannounced; he let her dogs accompany him in front of her balcony, didn't he? He cleared his throat awkwardly. Being her man's soul had its plus, at least she didn't call the police on him, and only threw him over the walls.

After the authorities left with the dirty and smelly men, Bing Shi walked around the garden, picking up a few stones.

The men who stayed back watched her every action, asking what she was doing. They unknowingly irritated the man who could only look from afar at how some random bugs courted his woman.

(Mr. Jelly): This is bad for my health. Stop being so beautiful.

"Honoring the deceased," Bing Shi placed a little stone on a grave, "Physically, stones last longer than flowers, much like the everlasting and permanent memory we have of those who passed away."