QT: Against My Will

195 4.19 – Preparation – Dangerous Angels

“...” The second time Ru Quan appeared in Hasan’s mansion, he was suddenly tied up. Dragged before a group of Dobermans, Bing Shi threatened him to never touch her people and dogs, or she’ll reduce Fei Lan’s food portion. After she let the dogs remember his scent, she held up his shirt as if it was a disgusting piece of rag, throwing that ‘piece of rag’ at the dogs; it was shredded to pieces in a matter of seconds. The initiative interest she had in him disappeared. She didn’t even give him time to explain himself before he was thrown over the wall like a sack of potatoes. She didn’t forget to remind him only to come back when he’s ready to pick up Fei Lan.

Ru Quan, ‘So the reason she was so careful with me the first time was to check out my background? Because damn, she wasted no time on me.’

After a week, he appeared again. Speeding up, he swung at the wall and hooked his hand around the edge of the balcony. With fluidity, he pulled his body-weight up and quickly slipped through the doors. Shutting the doors before Bing Shi’s face, he locked them up, saying, “Little monster, you’re sleeping outside today.” Looking around the dimly lit room, he noticed a pole at the center, from which an arm-long snake slithered towards the balcony doors, “Kuro, no.”

Ignoring his words, the snake unlocked the doors with its mouth anyway.

Bing Shi stepped inside her room, “I don’t feel like sleeping yet.”

Ru Quan patted Kuro’s head, and pointed at the dancing pole, “Don’t tell me you’re going to use that before your clients.”

Bing Shi switched her gaze between Kuro and Ru Quan, “I don’t feel like answering.”

Ru Quan turned towards her, “What do you feel like doing then?”

“Who allowed you to touch Kuro?” Bing Shi snatched Kuro away from him and started to rub its head with her sleeve, cleaning it.

.....

A guard rushed towards the barking dogs and noticed the light, “Miss Tian Shi, are you alright?”

Ru Quan mouthed out. ‘You won’t dare.’

Bing Shi let go of Kuro, walking out, she peeked out of the balcony, “They wouldn’t bark out of nowhere, perhaps a rat slipped into my room. Come up and check it out.” Strodding inside, she continued to rub Kuro’s head, “I dare. What are you going to do now, hm?”

“...” Ru Quan stepped into the middle of the room, lifting his knee, he turned his hips ower and delivered a sharp kick towards the pole, bending the pole into a tilted U, “I’m curious how you’ll explain this to them.”

*Knock-knock*

“...” Bing Shi quickly ran towards the doors to open them up, only for Ru Quan to block her path.

“Besides you, there’s another host,” he quickly muttered. Kicking off his shoes, he jumped on her bed, leisurely.

‘I’m so stupid. So he thought I send Kuro to monitor him? And after making sure it’s not me, he came back to make fun of me?’

“...” Bing Shi opened the door slightly, “I chased the rat out of the balcony.”

Ru Quan felt his leg being dragged out the bed, “Kuro, stop it...I’ll yell.”

Bing Shi locked the door, she rolled up her sleeves and walked to her wardrobe to take out new bedsheets, “What if it was me?”

“Would you waste your time on me?” Ru Quan turned his body around, burying his head into her pillow, he closed his eyes. His heart drummed against his chest. “After what I did?” he asked, referring to the time when he said that he loved someone else.

“I wouldn’t,” Bing Shi collapsed on the sofa. Did he try to protect her? She fell for his trap completely.

It was a bluff, Ru Quan maybe loved Bai Meli before, but not anymore. Just a few mistakes and how easy was it to unlove a person. He gave himself an obligation to repay Bai Meili the things he caused her in his first lifetime. This would soon change into detest the moment Ru Quan got to know what Bai Meili’s soul did to Bing Shi in another lifetime. What remained from his first lifetime with Bai Meili was this constant pressure, an unpleasant feeling, as if he owed Bai Meili something, it made him unable to move on from the past.

“Why are you calling me a monster?”

“After killing half of my harem, you ran out of the palace for another killing spree,” after the truth was revealed, Ru Quan dug out every data he could find about little monster.

“Was I one of your concubines?”

“You were my concubine’s slave. To get rid of another concubine, you went as far as making out with me before her eyes. And no, you didn’t throw up on me.” That’s why he thought that she’s little monster-connecting his timelines, it seemed like her repulsive reaction was a result of the trauma from her past life.

“How much do you remember?” Bing Shi looked at the person on the bed with a deadpan expression. Seeing him coming near her, she pointed at the door, “Fei Lan is that way.”

Sitting next to her, his lips raised into an arc, “Jelly?”

“I wish,” Bing Shi rubbed her chest, “I’ve been feeling empty lately.”

Ru Quan blinked his eyes, “Are you joking?”

“I’ve been taking painkillers. Maybe they’re killing my feelings too?” Bing Shi giggled, “They’re very addicting, I tell you...”

Ru Quan flared up, he started to shake her shoulders like a madman, “Are you crazy? Stop taking them!”

Bing Shi covered her mouth in exaggeration, “It’s coming out! It’s coming out!”

The irritated Ru Quan grabbed the bedsheet, throwing it over her head, he wrapped her into a cocoon, “Satisfied?!”

“No.” A quiet mumbling came from under the covers, “I can’t breathe. I can’t move. It’s too hot. My throat is dry. I’m going to faint...”

“You win,” Ru Quan slumped on the sofa in defeat.

“Yay??,” Bing Shi exposed her head from under the sheets, “What kind of hobby is that? Provoking others until they cough up blood?”

“What kind of hobby is that? Playing along until they cough up blood?” Ru Quan looked down at the greenhead sticking out of the white cocoon. Lifting his hand, he fixed a few strands of her soft hair.