Editor: Sahloknir
[(All) Dying Star: 1v1.]
[(All) Seven Fish Seconds: No way, we did that last time.]
Fine, no solo fight.
Yue Ran stopped talking and called out Jiang Xiao, summoned his aid and charged forward, ready to end the PK as soon as possible. Out of sight, out of mind.
Jiang Xiao followed closely behind and sprinted towards Seven Fish Seconds.
Seven Fish Seconds being a glass cannon, didn’t want to fight a close range swordsman as he hurriedly kited away and increased their distance. Sunken Moon wanted to help, but saw the Ice Spirit suddenly sprang out from the side. Not caring if it was a fake or not, he immediately cast ‘cleanse’.
Faced with such an obstacle, the other two fighting got a little closer.
At the same time, Yue Ran summoned his Emerald Plume Bird—since the refining of his little lion, he basically used it in all of his matches. He made this last minute switch when he learned who his opponents were. Although this was a normal map, Emerald Plume Bird at least has a knock-off ability, with accurate timing and control, it could bring them an advantage.
So when Sunken Moon was just about to heal Seven Fish Seconds, he was hit head-on with a powerful gale and was instantly blown away, wasting his ability and putting it on cooldown. Yue Ran followed by using one of Emerald Plume Bird’s offensive abilities and started to chip away Sunken Moon’s HP.
Not to be outdone, Seven Fish Seconds found an opening to start casting an array, buffing both him and Sunken Moon’s attack.
They were almost evenly matched in this back and forth.
But the couple event’s reward was not obtained in vain. After a fierce battle, only Sunken Moon survived in the end. Yue Ran was not interested in chatting with them, so he exited the arena.
Jiang Xiao asked, “Let’s start on the quest?”
Yue Ran’s face was expressionless as he said, “Okay.”
Jiang Xiao smiled and went back to the quest section with the youth again, only to be unluckily drawn again as the one in the cage.
He heard a very soft teeth grinding sound and asked thoughtfully, “Let me do it in your place?”
Yue Ran huffed, “No.”
“Continue with ranked?”
“No!”
As soon as Jiang Xiao heard this, he knew that the youth was going into a brawl with the maze and cheered, “Okay, I’ll wait for you to rescue me.”
Without answering, Yue Ran controlled his character and marched into the maze without looking back, he rushed forward, huffing and puffing.
Fearing that the other’s anger might grow, Jiang Xiao made small talk to divert the youth’s attention and asked, “What are your plans for the next few days?”
Yue Ran answered, “No plans.”
Jiang Xiao said, “No visiting relatives?”
“They all left,” Yue Ran said with a pause. “On the fifteenth, I have a get together with my friends.”
Jiang Xiao questioned, “Are they bringing their boyfriends?”
Yue Ran replied, “Yes.”
Jiang Xiao pointed out, “That means you will be by yourself.”
Yue Ran realised that was right after two seconds.
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After ten minutes of this, Yue Ran turned a corner and suddenly saw Jiang Xiao.
The duo: “…”
After a brief dead silence, Jiang Xiao complimented, “That’s great, you made progress.”
Yue Ran walked over to release him as if nothing had happened and said, “Just got lucky.”
“Luck is also a kind of strength,” Jiang Xiao pretended not to know that his darling was playing it cool, and continued seriously, “Besides, it’s not just luck, you must have gained some experience from the previous runs.”
Yue Ran was instantly coaxed into giving a calm, “Yes” and followed Jiang Xiao out the other side of the maze, completing the first quest at last.
Entering the second quest’s map, the two were separated again, separated by a suspension bridge.
The suspension bridge was made of wooden planks, with a total length of about two hundred metres, and in the middle was the teleportation array—it was obvious that they had to meet in the middle to meet up and teleport to the next floor.
In this case, they didn’t need their brains to guess that there were mechanics contained in the planks.
After reading the information, they both walked forward to the centre at the same time. Taking just three steps, the wooden board beneath Yue Ran’s feet disappeared into thin air as the youth fell down with a whoosh.
Jiang Xiao asked, “What’s the situation down there?”
Yue Ran explained, “There’s an NPC, I need to complete his quest to get back.”
Jiang Xiao questioned, “Is it difficult?”
Yue Ran answered, “No.”
It was indeed not very difficult.
The NPC was the small village’s mayor, whose daughter was taken by the mountain bandit stronghold’s boss for marriage by force. The mission was to pretend to be the bride to silence the leader.
So his male account automatically turned into a female character in a wedding dress and was carried away.
On the other side, Jiang Xiao also fell down when he stepped on empty air. The NPC he met entrusted him to save his beloved. He climbed the mountain, scaled the wall to the bridal chamber, kicked open the door and met his wife who was making an escape after murdering someone.
Yue Ran: “…”
Jiang Xiao: “…”
Jiang Xiao looked at his appearance and as he was about to comment, he heard footsteps coming from outside the courtyard.
When the duo saw the mission was updated, they followed the prompt and hurriedly closed the door, hid the boss’s corpse, and got onto the bed together.
The next moment, the bandits arrived outside the bridal chamber as they caused a racket.
Jiang Xiao’s character automatically said “Scram”, while Yue Ran’s character followed it with “Ah, no, stop” in a delicate manner.
Jiang Xiao couldn’t hold back his chuckle in time.
Yue Ran: “…”
Such a vulgar role-play mission. How did it pass inspection!
Jiang Xiao said, “Ran Ran.”
Yue Ran answered, “Yes?”
Jiang Xiao whispered, “Miss you.”
The bottom of Yue Ran’s trembled slightly but he made no reply.
The mission’s story was still advancing. When the underling bandits heard that their boss was doing the deed. They laughed outside the door and left with arms around each other’s shoulders. When the two heroes got out of bed and saw that the mission had been renewed, they sneakily drugged the wine together and killed the bandits. Once they returned to the village, they collected the rewards before returning to the suspension bridge.
Yue Ran glared at the dozens more planks ahead and felt that the mission he was about to face would equally make him question the event designers’ integrity.
Jiang Xiao said, “Let’s continue.”
He suppressed the annoying feeling down into his belly and tried to jump through several planks again. Unfortunately, he hopped into a booby trap and fell down again.
Seeing this, Jiang Xiao went one board at a time and soon joined the other man in no time.
The mission that followed was ridiculously dramatic.
Yue Ran bore with it for the matching title. After the second quest, they found the next quest was back to normal—they were tasked to catch fireflies together.
This was quite romantic and the map was pleasing as well.
The two of them deliberately slowed down their progress a bit and wandered through the map before heading to the fourth quest.
The next few quests were not too difficult, but the last one had increased difficulty. Players must defeat a small boss. However, both of them were great gods and they cleared it easily.
Yue Ran finally felt relieved when he looked at the small golden letters by his name: [Tempest’s Partner.]
The Valentine Event started at 5:21pm and they finally got the title at nine.
The two then entered the PK zone again, sweeping all the way with their newly acquired title bonuses, and hitting the fifth ranked before stopping.
In the next few days, Yue Ran began to focus on climbing ranked, ready to collect enough points to exchange for the new equipment. In the blink of the eye, it was the fifteenth.
Today, Jiang Xiao had to visit his relatives, and Yue Ran didn’t want to get on the game that day, so he slept until a little after ten o’clock. Then he fixed his appearance in a simple style and went out to the subway station.
Valentine’s Day was over, but the afterglow remained.
When Yue Ran looked up, he happened to see a young couple snuggling together across the street.
He averted his gaze and ended up casting a glance on another pair not far away.
He shifted his attention again and saw the third pair, and he immediately turned quiet.
Not sour, not sour one single bit.
He had a boyfriend too, it was just his boyfriend wasn’t present because of New Year’s.
He couldn’t resist the urge to pull out his phone and send a message to Jiang Xiao: [What are you doing?]
[Jiang Xiao: Eating with relatives.]
[Yue Ran: Oh, enjoy your food.]
[Jiang Xiao: I hear that when your partner sends ‘What are you doing’, it usually means they miss their partner. Do you miss me?]
Yue Ran’s finger paused on the screen for a few seconds and gave one word: [Yes.]
[Jiang Xiao: Darling, I miss you as well.]
Yue Ran chatted with him, and was comforted slowly. Once he felt better, he put away his phone, got up and left the station. He quickly found Xiao Yu and others, only to see the four people, two couples, were being very lovey-dovey. And the negative mood he had relieved earlier was back again.
No, I’m not feeling sour.
He maintained a straight face, pretending to not see the dog food feeders before him as they headed to the restaurant with their reservation. He went to the restroom first to wash his hands. Unbeknownst to him, as soon as he turned into the corridor of the restroom, he was suddenly grabbed from behind. First he was shocked, then when he smelled the familiar pheromones, he forgot to struggle in an instant.
The next moment, he heard a low voice close to his ear, it contained a hint of a satisfied murmur, “Darling, I missed you so much.”
Yue Ran returned to his senses and turned around in a hurry to meet a smiling Jiang Xiao. His expression was a bit blank. “Weren’t you eating with your relatives?”
“It was a little white lie,” Jiang Xiao pulled Yue Ran towards the sink. “I was originally going to come yesterday for Valentine’s Day, but it was too obvious, so I had to resist.”
Yue Ran mumbled, “Then how do you know…”
He paused mid-sentence as he remembered Jiang Xiao had Xiao Yu’s WeChat and must have asked for the restaurant’s address from his friend.
He felt very surprised.
They were able to video chat daily since the holiday, but they were still separated by two phones, which couldn’t fill the yearning feeling completely. Now that they could touch each other, they had to snuggle a bit.
Jiang Xiao watched the slightly glowing eyes, and saw that there was no one around in sight, hugged him against the wall and lowered his head for a kiss.
The kiss was somewhat dominant and deep, but since they were outside, it only lasted for a short time.
It was only the lingering gentle and reassuring pheromones that entered his lips and travelled to the bottom of his heart, making Yue Ran’s breath hotter as he subconsciously grabbed Jiang Xiao’s sleeve, not wanting to let go.
Jiang Xiao resisted the urge to swallow the younger man whole, hugged and cuddled a bit. “Let’s go, they’re still waiting for us to return.”
Yue Ran uttered “Okay”, and returned to the table after washing his hands.
They ate until one in the afternoon. After the meal, Yue Ran and Jiang Xiao thanked and rejected the others’ karaoke offer. They took a taxi to the hotel that Jiang Xiao had booked and quickly got entangled on the bed together.
Absence made the heart grow fonder.
Yue Ran felt his brain melted into a paste. When he was released from the beast’s grasp, he found that it was already late afternoon and they had been rolling around the bed all afternoon without any sense of integrity.
Jiang Xiao hugged him and kissed him on the corner of his mouth, “Let’s not go back today.”
Yue Ran adjusted his breathing to normal. “No.”
Jiang Xiao asked, “Don’t you want to spend more time with me?”
Yue Ran struggled for a few seconds before agreeing. Then he asked, “What should I tell them?”
Jiang Xiao said, “Just said you want to stay at Xiao Yu’s house.”
It was not like him to stay at someone’s place during the New Year holiday.
Before Yue Ran wanted to veto the idea, he suddenly thought of something. He recalled his cousin complaining yesterday about how his parents needed to travel for work after New Year, leaving him home alone. Which gave Yue Ran an idea. He pulled out his phone to send a message to his father, on how he met his cousin on the way home and decided to stay with him.
As he pressed ‘Send’, he sent a message to his cousin immediately afterwards, lest a certain someone slip.
When Yue Shizhong received the message, he had just opened the door for Qin Xiujie, because his nephew didn’t want to stay at home alone, so he came for a free meal.
He read his son’s message three times as his expression changed a bit each time.
Ran Ran had always been a well-behaved child, even if he stayed at his classmates’ house, he would always inform them of the truth and not lie…his heart sank and vision darkened from the possibility. He passed his phone to his nephew and asked in a trembling voice, “Do you think Ran Ran is kid-kidnapped? And the kidnappers forced him to send the message in order to let our guards down?”
Qin Xiujie: “…”
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Okay, the last bit killed me, did not expect an immediate “gotcha” moment xDD
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Lmaoooo got kidnapped by his baobao
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Maybe message your cousin first before lying to your parents? 😂
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Padre: mi hijo fue secuestrado
Hijo: …