Big Manly Tofu wept bitterly and told them that he was too naive, having been deceived by the green-tea female player with her touching stories.
He Lang revived Yang Juan, pulled the dancer and asked, “What do you want to do about it?”
Yang Juan did not care about that. “I think he misunderstood our relationship.”
He Lang explained with a straight tone, “With the malicious post on the forum, there will be a lot of people misunderstanding our relationship for a long time. You need to get used to it.”
“We are not going to clarify?” Yang Juan murmured softly.
When hearing this, He Lang clicked his tongue discontentedly. “Is being mistaken as my wife by others so embarrassing?”
Yang Juan hurriedly replied in a small voice, “No.”
“You have another husband in the game?” The other asked.
Yang Juan answered, “No.”
“Then there is no need to explain.” He Lang watched with satisfaction as the other person was led in circles by his words.
Yang Juan gave a low oh, but soon, he put his thinking cap on and asked in confusion, “Although there is no harm, what good will it do for me if we let the misunderstanding continue?”
He Lang: “…”
He took the initiative and asked in a slightly aggressive tone, “Then why did you call me ‘husband’ and sent me kissing emoji when we first met in the beginner town?”
Yang Juan was stunned and explained, “I mistaken you for someone else—”
“I do not care what your reason was,” He Lang interrupted him with a tense voice, “Your actions have caused a misunderstanding in the guild, shouldn’t you take responsibility for that?”
After pondering, Yang Juan found no flaw in the other’s claim. Finally, he replied, “I should.”
“So from now on, when someone misunderstands our relationship, you know what you need to do now, right?” He Lang tirelessly taught.
Yang Juan did not immediately answer, as he questioned, “But it does not benefit you as well if we do not clarify our relationship.”
“Are there really not?” The other party began to pull out bullcrap, “There are too many people pursuing me in the game, and I do not like a single one of them. Not only that, I also found them annoying.”
Yang Juan got it, the other was using him as a shield.
“How long do I have to hold responsibility?” Yang Juan asked honestly.
“Until I find myself a wife.” He Lang said casually.
Thinking the term would not be long, Yang Juan agreed, “Okay.”
He Lang relaxed his face, and recalled their conversation again.
There was nothing wrong with his own words, but his eyes suddenly widened as he blurted, “Did you say you mistaken me for someone else?” The happy meter suddenly dropped in his voice, “Who did you mistake me for? Who were you trying to call husband then?”
Yang Juan stayed silent for two seconds. Since Zhuo Lan was away right now, he was not sure whether he should tell the other party their original goal.
At the thought that the dancer has someone else in mind, He Lang’s heart sank slightly.
He suppressed his emotions for the time being and decided to get the whole story from Willow.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
At the same time, Big Manly Tofu, who was still on the ground, could not hold back as his anxiety got him to type.
[(Local) Big Manly Tofu: Boss, sister-in-law, are you guys done discussing?]
Ycis atfc vlv Lf Ojcu gfwfwyfg atja atfgf kjr rbwfbcf firf islcu bc atf ugbecv.
[(Local) Errant Wolf: Apologize to my wife, remove your equipment and let her kill you once. Then I will call it even.]
Tjcu Aejc kjr raeccfv.
Cr j rtlfiv, kjr la gfjiis cffvfv obg atfw ab yf mjiilcu fjmt batfg jr teryjcv jcv klof?
Cr lo jcalmlqjalcu ktja tf kjr atlcxlcu, Lf Ojcu mjiwis fzqijlcfv, “Tbe vb cba cffv ab mjii wf atja lc qglnjaf, sbe bcis cffv ab qijs atf qjga lc ogbca bo batfgr.”
Yang Juan did not speak right away, but he remembered the act the other man played with Apricot in the past.
In contrast, if he could not do it himself, it seemed that he was not taking his responsibility seriously as well as not keeping his promise.
After thinking it over, Yang Juan said very cooperatively, “Okay.”
He Lang was over the moon.
While they were talking, Big Manly Tofu had already revived on the spot and took off all his equipment.
Yang Juan controlled his game character to kill the swordsman, and received a system prompt that stated the bounty reward will be distributed to him via in-game mail within three days.
Big Manly Tofu bit the dust again.
[(Local) Big Manly Tofu: Boss, can I go now?]
[(Local) Errant Wolf: You can.]
Big Manly Tofu breathed a long sigh of relief and immediately revived at the nearest town.
In a matter of minutes, the world chat’s focus had changed dramatically. Players started to roast Apricot, while the player in question quickly ducked out of the fire in time by getting off of her main account, but her side account that was afking on another device was not as lucky, and soon was instantly killed by players in the wilderness.
He Lang brought Yang Juan back to the guild base, before bidding each other good night. Yang Juan went offline to sleep.
Since he promised to be He Lang’s temporary shield in the game, he would need to postpone his plan to quit the game.
The next day, Zhuo Lan dragged his suitcase into the room and was surprised to see him sitting in front of the computer, playing Epic.
“I thought you would stop playing by now.” Zhuo Lan put down his suitcase, turned and walked to his side.
“I have some free time lately.” Yang Juan gave a vague answer.
Zhuo Lan, who had been away from the game for several days, did not question him as he went back to unpack his suitcase.
Yang Juan turned to look at him. “Are you getting on today?”
“Nope.” Zhuo Lan raised his hands and patted his own face, complaining, “The temperature in the north was too dry. I was out there for a few days, but I felt as if my face was dry to the point of cracking. Tonight before bed, I need to do a full skin care.”
Yang Juan murmured an oh and informed his friend of the forum post about him yesterday.
Without another word, Zhuo Lan wanted to get back at Apricot in the game right there and then.
“Errant Wolf already placed a bounty on her.” Yang Juan quickly finished.
First, Zhuo Lan nodded, then he found it odd. “Wait, you said that Errant Wolf placed a bounty on her head? How much?”
“One hundred thousand gold on her main account, and another one hundred thousand gold on her side account.” Yang Juan answered truthfully.
“Two bounties?” Zhuo Lan raised his tone unconsciously.
Yang Juan confirmed, “Yes.”
“Is he trying to court you?” Zhuo Lan asked from his keen intuition.
Yang Juan hurriedly dismissed the claim by waving his hands. “No such thing.”
Zhuo Lan fixed his eyes on his roommate’s face. “Really?”
Yang Juan met the other’s eyes and echoed calmly, “Really.”
This put Zhuo Lan at ease.
He knew very well what kind of person Yang Juan was, how horrible of a liar his roommate is. Online romance is actually a pretty complicated affair, not to mention the fact that Yang Juan was concealing his real gender.
Zhuo Lan is someone of experience, unlike Yang Juan.
Once someone emerged into this river called online romance, they would never be able to get out of it.
After taking a shower, Zhuo Lan came out and sat down at his desk, putting on a face mask while catching up on the latest idol drama.
Behind him sat Yang Juan, who was in front of his computer. After finishing his dailies, he was called by He Lang to run a small instance dungeon.
The player size for this instance dungeon was small, so there was no need to get on voice chat and be the party’s shot caller. He Lang skipped calling for manpower from the guild, directly took Yang Juan and created a party with random players.
Coincidentally, they ran into Farewell and Little Fish at the instance dungeon entrance.
In addition to the young couple, the remaining four players were all unknown female players.
One of them went back to the city to switch her equipment, while the other three stood at the entrance of the instance dungeon, waiting for her to get back.
[(Party) Cat Eating Fish: Curly, good evening! Guild leader, good evening!]
[(Party) Faraway Farewell: Lang-ge, Curly, good evening.]
[(Party) Errant Wolf: Good evening.]
[(Party) Sheep Curls: Good evening.]
[(Party) Helian Bing Bing: Did you say guild leader? Smoke Beacon’s guild leader? (curious)]
[(Party) Helian Min Min: I think he is the guild leader-gege who placed three bounties back to back in the world chat yesterday 0.0 gege, you are so rich 0.0]
[(Party) Helian Yao Yao: Wooh, I cannot believe that I am in the same party as the big shot (nervous)]
[(Party) Helian Jia Jia: I will be right back! Sorry!]
[(Party) Cat Eating Fish: Wooh! You guys have matching IDs?]
[(Party) Helian Min Min: We do 0.0]
[(Party) Cat Eating Fish: Hello~ you can call me Little Fish, and Faraway Farewell is my boyfriend.]
[(Party) Helian Min Min: Hello Little Fish. Why isn’t guild leader-gege speaking? 0.0]
He Lang, who had been chatting with Yang Juan in friend chat, turned his gaze to Helian Min Min.
[(Party) Errant Wolf: ?]
[(Party) Errant Wolf: Watch what you are saying, I don’t have a meimei as old as you.]
[(Party) Helian Min Min: How old is guild leader-gege this year? 0.0]
He Lang was slightly annoyed by how the other player was typing.
If he was playing against such a female player in the arena, he would beat the other player on the spot until they spoke normally.
Even if this was not the arena, in any other time, he would directly splash a basin of cold water on the other person to wake them up from their fantasies. What he told Yang Juan yesterday was true, he was always vexed by how often people pursue him in the game.
But the situation was different now.
The corner of He Lang’s lip rose uncontrollably, as he grinned and typed back.
[(Party) Errant Wolf: Harassing me in front of my wife, are you missing your eyes or brain?]
[(Party) Errant Wolf: Isn’t that right, dear wife?]
Yang Juan paused. He felt so nervous that his palms were sweaty slightly. Even the beating of his heart began to jump irregularly.
[(Party) Sheep Curls: That is right, dear husband 0.0]
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Teo: One reader had a question on discord about something from the last chapter which I will add it as notes here.
Chapter 22:
[(World) Remote Mountain Hike: Fuck me, big shot! Group photo!]
[(World) I Am Your Father: Group photo!]
[(World) Beautiful Moon Tonight: Group photo!]
Teo: They are just taking a screenshot of themselves being in the same frame as He Lang, in chat, hint the group photo. Yes they are that boring.
0.0 pfft! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️👀
Got successfully coaxed into officially being the wife. 🥰 Awww and sheep right away picks up the bad speaking pattern of that girl. 0.0 I wonder if he will get a scolding or if He Lang will just end up finding it cute since it’s his wife who said it. 🤭
Making group photo online it’s cool! Quarantine gave me a chance to know about it
Thank you for your translation 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
Little Sheep is so cute copying everyone’s speech patterns 0.0 ! He Lang is pulling all the tricks to get his wife~~ Thanks for the translation mwah~~ ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶
Thanks for the translation!🤣 0.0