QT: Against My Will (Volume 2)

5.6 - Her Ring - The Sleepless Elite's Wife

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[System speaking]

["Bing Shi's conversation with the system"]

|Xuan Mu's conversing with Bing Shi telepathically|

|"Bing Shi conversing with Xuan Mu telepathically"|

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"Don't necessarily endanger the HQ, if it's unnecessary," warned the icosahedron.

"I could have done things better... If you treated my wife properly."

The icosahedron didn't retaliate. "Only your wife?"

"Only my wife." Xuan Mu answered. This shouldn't be a part of his job, but to understand HQ's modus operandi, he had to learn everything from the very beginning. To prevent intruders, the HQ was protected by various barriers and decoys. Maybe even the current HQ he was working for was a trap to confuse whoever planned to target them. They had one goal, to keep a balance. To reach it, they were morally gray.

One simply couldn't win against the real them. Xuan Mu glanced at his hand covered in tattoos. He just shattered a God's soul with a snap of his fingers. Did it make him feel powerful? No. He felt insignificant and inferior more than ever before.

Sending the system to pick up its new host, Xuan Mu transported to the new world. A ring appeared on his left hand the moment his astral body got bound to its new body. Traveling through space and time, the world law shouldn't be able to disorder his memories anymore. So why did he lose his memories again?

It was due to the lifetime during which Xuan Mu's soul broke.

Lu Kai.

The young man, who wanted to forget his life, his existence, his everything...

...Woke up.

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On a street bench, there sat a young man in shabby clothes. Greasy dirt draped over his haggard face, hiding his prominent features. The rusted can in front of his legs contained a few copper cents at most.

"Xue Bi..." Holding his head, Lu Kai called out weakly as someone else's memories shoved themselves into his mind, "Ugh..."

Lukas, an orphan a month ago, a homeless man now. He got the looks, and... yes, that was it. Not the cleverest child, he was bullied and shunned by his peers and colleagues.

As sad as it sounded, 75-80% of adoptive parents preferred to adopt girls. Such an irony compared to biological parents who expected their first child to be a boy.

'I'm alive...?' Twitching his nose, Lu Kai felt the bad odor seeping out of his clothes, and the constant itchiness that made his skin crawl in discomfort.

Yes, he was alive.

Did they put him inside a time capsule or something? He looked at the skyscrapers further away. This wasn't Taiwan, far from it, this wasn't even Earth.

Picking up the can, he flipped the content on his palm. 55 cents. Going through his items, he searched for any vulnerables. Besides his ID? Nothing.

His eyes halted on the exquisite ring, leaving it for last as it was something that appeared with him. Trying to take it off, the space inside activated, '...'

His family's fortune was mostly in non-liquid assets, so when he went through the mountains of treasures that were ready to be cashed out, he crossed the possibility that it was their doing. The amount inside this space could be compared to a whole country's wealth.

Out of all the choices, Lu Kai changed the space's language to English. This world's most frequent language. It was interesting how the country he currently resided in was similar to China.

While reading Baby Shiro's modified instructions on how to use the space, Lu Kai stood up and walked away to a less crowded space, a public bathroom.

The 55 cents he earned from these past few days were given to the toilet Lady. There was no way for a restaurant or a hotel to allow his dirty appearance to step inside their clean abode, they followed a certain dress etiquette. With respect to their other guests, they would probably kick him out.

Locking the cubicle, he tried to pull a few things out. He couldn't even have time to be shocked about all these magical things as he lifted the pair of female underwear. He was curious. Okay?

What's with all these female stuff? Bing Shi's beloved skirt? Bing Shi's favorite dress?

Reading the descriptions of the items, Lu Kai undressed and cleaned himself with a towel.

Shoving his whole head into a wooden basin, he washed his hair with Bing Shi's almond-scented soap. From the design, these items had a touch of ancient feeling to it.

Putting on the most simplistic pair of Hubby's favorite cotton pants, shirt, and flops, Lu Kai felt as if he was invading someone's precious privacy.

When he saw the portrait of the supposed Bing Shi and her Hubby, he almost drowned himself, 'Xue Bi...and Me?'

'No... way...' When he turned the portrait over (inside the space) to see the name of the artist, a few question marks appeared in his mind, 'Kuro?'

Lu Kai glanced at the wedding ring on his left hand. The first thing that crossed his mind was shook off immediately, 'Impossible.'

Looking at his reflection in the mirror, Lu Kai first squeezed his cheeks together. Then, he pulled at his high nose bridge, inspecting whenever someone did some plastic surgery on him.

Trying to poke his blue eye, his head flinched. No contact lenses. He really ended in another man's body.

Getting out of a cubicle, he threw the rags into a trash bin. Besides that portrait, there were other couples too. For example, that green head and red flocks. Every time it was Bing Shi and her Hubby, 'Am I one of her new target?'

Without his soul's authorization, nobody besides him and Bing Shi should be able to gain access inside.

So logically, the men in the portraits should be him.

Then the girl must be...

The heart beating against Lu Kai's chest wanted to leap out violently at that thought.

'It has to be her ring,' Frowning, he suddenly tried to pull the ring off immediately. It sounded too good to be true, 'Damn her.'