QT: Against My Will

295 5.39 – Kidnapped – The Sleepless Elite’s Wife

+—- Author’s note —–+

Edited by Psycho S.

Thank you so much for all the powerstones and many golden tickets! ??

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Just as Aoi Hong was about to express her gratitude, she was taken away by Quin Yu, much to Li Jie’s surprise. Coincidentally, this timing meant that the police didn’t see the triad BOSS. nor the girl who was involved in that situation.

After everything had settled, Li Jie had the time to wonder, ‘What kind of relationship does Aoi Hong have with the triad BOSS?’

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Bing Shi peeked her head from behind a bush, looking out for the angry man who chased her from the hospital. As she was on the lookout, she was talking to her husband through XiaoPu. Neither of them was bored enough to watch what the other did all day. It was when something happened would one contact the other. Lu Kai was the one to inform Bing Shi of Aoi Hong’s kidnapping incident.

|”Hubby, I just got kidnapped like Aoi Hong. I think I’ll take a rest from the training.”|

.....

|... Getting kidnapped should have been another reason why you should train harder. |

|”Noooo!”|

‘Ru Quan, you badie!’ Bing Shi whined as she grudgingly slugged away from her hiding spot behind the bush.

|Yes, this is your punishment for allowing yourself to get kidnapped; you can’t avoid your training. Go to the forest alone, without XiaoPu’s help, on foot. There’s a river nearby. When you reach the river, go and catch a fish and collect these herbs for me.|

After giving Bing Shi a set of instructions, he sent her a whole list of ingredients.

|”Nooooooo waaay!”|

Knowing that Bing Shi didn’t like it, like the good husband he was, he coaxed her with a promise.

|I’ll cook a delicious dinner tonight.|

|”Weeeelll... Okay!”|

Most people who dearly wanted to get stronger or lose weight would still push the work and procrastinate when their life wasn’t threatened. Bing Shi liked to procrastinate a lot. This procrastination was enabled by her dear husband since he was meek in the face of her acting cute; that was how she successfully avoided her special training for two weeks. But now, she could no longer avoid that training.

At this point, Bing Shi was an expert in knowing when to push and when to roll over to not make her punishment any worse. She made the wise decision to not prod at her husband anymore by tying her hair up into two pigtails. She wasn’t procrastinating at all, okay? She just couldn’t find time in her busy schedule for her special training.

... Why did that sound like something a procrastinator would say?

Putting on a scout uniform, she fixed the red scarf around her neck.

|”Can I put on bug repellent?”|

| You can. Let me see you.|

Bing Shi performed a theatrical spin around after spraying on some bug repellent, showing off her new scout costume.

|”I couldn’t pick between the Tarzan outfit or this. Don’t I look cute?”|

|You’re far too cute. |Lu Kai agreed as he complimented her. As he praised her, however, he watched with worry as Bing Shi carried on with her day.

Bing Shi was not that far from meeting her enemies; why would she need to change her clothes and put on bug repellent? Was she putting off that confrontation, or was this just helping her get into her role faster?

She had been bringing her mission into everything up till now. She wasn’t able to calm down if she didn’t.

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“I hate this,” Bing Shi hissed as she chopped at the tall grass with a machete. She didn’t know how long she’d been chopping away and making a path for herself in the forest. It could have been hours and she wouldn’t know.

“And this, and this and this. I hate it,” Bing Shi swatted at a wayward fly with the hand that wasn’t holding the machete. It was buzzing so loudly in her ears.

“Wait, no no no. I love bugs...” Saying so, Bing Shi flicked the remains of the fly into the tall grass she hadn’t chopped yet.

“And I love nature,” She carried on chanting to herself, attempting to sear the positive words into her brain.

“I love challenges, and danger. I love everything,” Bing Shi abruptly stopped chopping down the grass with a heavy sigh. Putting away the machete, she instead got her staff and parted the grass.

She tilted her head to the side as she peered upwards towards the glowing sun. She wanted to see if she was going in the river’s direction. With a hum, she asked no one in particular, “Dear sun, can you tell me where east is?”

About her soul’s evolution; it wouldn’t grow as fast if she was on her own. Xuan Mu held a big part in it, helping her grow stronger since the time they were just kids. A short while after Ziek recovered some of his memories, he began to push her to the limits, challenging her physical condition.

If she didn’t practice regularly and form her muscle memory, she would forget the things she learned the next day.

Aiyah, this girl... she couldn’t remember a single Buddhist chant from her life as a nun, but she could clearly remember complex experiments like the veins on the back of her hand.

Her love couldn’t be more apparent to everyone.

Shouldn’t he feel honoured; for her to never forget him at all?

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It took a long, hard day for Bing Shi to finally get out of the woods. She changed her clothes back into her regular get-up and waited on the roadside for a cab to pick her up.She called for a cab earlier, but wasn’t surprised when instead of a cab that came along to pick her up, it was a red sports car. Sighing, Bing Shi cancelled on the cab driver after giving them a tip; she wouldn’t want them to think they drove for nothing.

Watching the windows roll down, Bing Shi raised an eyebrow at Li Jie’s tattered clothes, and she looked him up and down with silent judgement.

Li Jie avoided her look with embarrassment as he gestured for her to get inside the car. Bing Shi did so and waited for Li Jie to continue the silent drive before she asked him, “Were you shooting an action scene?:

Li Jie coughed as he replied, “No, I wasn’t shooting a scene. Something happened...”

After Bing Shi called for a cab, Li Jie had called her for a meet up but he had found out that she wasn’t in Pujing city after she told him her destination. Strangely enough, she was in the jungle forest that was close by. Inwardly, he wondered what Silika was doing inside the jungle before he offered to pick her up. Now, here he was.

He turned his head to look at her through the rear-view mirror and then he asked, “What were you doing in the middle of nowhere?”

“I went fishing,” Bing Shi opened her bag with her war-spoils from fishing. As she did that, she was rubbing her stomach that growled out hungrily, “...and I was burning calories.”

“Are you hungry?” Li Jie scrunched his nose from the fishy smell that hung in the air around her. Even though Bing Shi changed her clothes, she hadn’t washed away the lasting smell of fish.

Li Jie was curious. Did his crazy fan become so poor she didn’t have enough money to buy food?

Bing Shi shook her head to Li Jie’s question, “I’m fine. Just drop me off near a musical instrument store.”

Bing Shi looked at Li Jie’s tattered clothes again, and then she asked with a pointed look, “What happened to get you like this?”

“Do you remember Aoi Hong?” Li Jie summarised what happened today to Bing Shi. “Aoi Hong got a rare and profitable opportunity. It’s the kind of opportunity that only happens once in a lifetime! She was picked by a famous director to get a role as a second female lead. As a result, she became Su Luqin’s rival.”

“Ah, I see. Today was such a tiring day,” Bing Shi murmured as she took out two energy drinks from her backpack. Once Li Jie pulled over, she gave him one to drink, then she sipped on her own energy drink.

After such a tiring day, Bing Shi was already close to falling asleep. Li Jie accepted the offered energy drink and agreed with her comment with a quiet, “En.”

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Despite her tiredness, Bing Shi was able to stay awake for the ride. Eventually, they reached the store. Bing Shi brought the most expensive portable keyboard without batting an eye.

Li Jie noticed that Silika was very bad at money management. Her various donations to animal organizations were also proof of this. “I have a keyboard at home that I don’t use anymore. I’ll lend it to you.”

“Oh! It’s alright. My hubby wouldn’t like it. Especially if it was something from a musician,” Bing Shi waved off Li Jie’s good intentions. She used her phone to pay for her purchase; this gave off the impression that she was a nouveau riche. Li Jie didn’t know if this -wrong- impression was deliberate or involuntary. Bing Shi finished off her sentence to placate Li Jie, “Don’t worry. He gave me some pocket money since I filled up his lunch boxes.”