OVTTGTBE Chapter 20

Words

Words

Bed Exclusive Shifu: Then do you still like your ex?

Bai Yao almost couldn’t hold back, hesitated for a few seconds, and still deleted the sentence he had typed halfway: [Liu Yucheng, how long are you planning to pretend with me?]

Bai Yao: Childish. Just because I don’t like him, I have to like you?

Bed Exclusive Shifu: Have you called more than just me “husband” recently?

Bai Yao: …Bullshit, do you think I’m such a casual person?

Bed Exclusive Shifu: Then take a look at the game.

Bai Yao pressed alt+tab to switch back to the game screen and saw Peach Milk, wearing white-gold armor, standing in front of his game character.

Peach Milk put away the golden long sword and dark blue shield in his hands, knelt on one knee, and held up a small prop of unknown purpose.

A system notification popped up:

[Peach Milk is proposing to you, do you want to accept the ring and the proposal?]

Bai Yao’s brain went blank for a brief moment. When he came back to his senses, the mouse had already clicked [Accept].

…

The voice chat was deadly silent, and there was no movement from Bai Yao’s side for a long time.

Zhang Yifang waited for about ten minutes and started calling Bai Yao: “Brother Yao, did you go to the toilet? Why aren’t you talking?”

“Are you muted, or are you chatting with him privately?”

“Brother Yao, after you left the team, Peach Milk also left the team. He rode away on his mount. Is he looking for you?”

Bai Yao watched his character get on Peach Milk’s two-person mount extremely smoothly, then switched out of the game screen, opened his WeChat microphone, and said irritably, “What’s with all the yelling? It’s all your fault, I’m about to lose my first time in this game.”

“Huh??”

Zhang Yifang was taken aback for a few seconds, then burst into a mischievous laugh: “I don’t remember this game having this feature! But if you guys want to, hehe… you could get married and have a baby. Look for a guide, raise the child well, and make sure the stats are good. Having a child is a big advantage in PK…”

“Get lost! I wish you have ten sons after graduation!!”

After cursing, Bai Yao switched back to the game screen and found that Peach Milk had already flown to the NPC who presides over weddings and disbanded the mount.

He typed in the team channel and asked: Why are you in such a hurry? Are you afraid I’ll change my mind??

[Peach Milk]: Yes.

[System Friendly Reminder: You and Peach Milk cannot be married yet, don’t hit on your Shifu~]

[System Friendly Reminder: You and Don’t Blame My Lag cannot be married yet, don’t hit on your disciple~]

[Peach Milk]: …

Bai Yao: …

Bai Yao: By the way, I’m already at max level, when can I graduate?

[Peach Milk]: There’s a very long two-person instance, you need me to take you through it.

Bai Yao: How long will it take?

[Peach Milk]: I should have taken you through part of it before you reached max level… If we start now, it’ll probably take until dawn.

“Hey? Brother Yao who values love over friendship? Why don’t you hang up my voice chat? You two can communicate your feelings through voice chat?” Zhang Yifang said dejectedly.

“This damn game, why are the graduation requirements so troublesome? It’s like having to write a thesis,” Bai Yao responded irrelevantly.

“You’re talking about the Shifu-disciple graduation instance? Of course it’s slow if you do it from beginning to end! After all, you can start doing that at level 45. Usually, Shifus take their disciples through it every ten levels, so you can finish it right when you reach max level.”

Zhang Yifang sighed and said, “Alright, you two go do it, I’m hanging up.”

“Okay.”

After a few seconds of pause, Bai Yao said, “I’ll treat you to a meal after school starts. You can pick whatever you want near the school.”

“Hehe, alright, thanks Brother Yao!”

After the voice chat was hung up, Bai Yao didn’t suggest using voice chat with Peach Milk. He just followed him to the instance map and entered the instance.

This Shifu-disciple instance was more tedious than he had imagined. Bai Yao felt extremely bored halfway through, and his fingers were mechanically pressing the keyboard. He no longer cared about the output rotation and damage values, and just followed behind Peach Milk, slacking off.

Around two o’clock in the morning, Bai Yao felt increasingly irritable and even restless. He drank a lot of water and went to the bathroom from time to time.

Peach Milk, on the other hand, was like an iron man, focusing intently on the instance. He didn’t stop for a few hours, leading the way, fighting monsters, opening mechanisms, and picking up items as smoothly as when he first logged on.

Bai Yao felt like he had lost to him again in terms of energy. Since he was having so much fun, why not tease him a little to relieve the boredom?

Bai Yao: I don’t want to play anymore.

Peach Milk: Are you sleepy? Why don’t you go to bed first?

Bai Yao: No, I don’t want to come to this crappy instance a second time.

Peach Milk: Then send me your account and password, and I’ll dual-wield and help you do it. That way you can rest earlier.

Bai Yao: No, why don’t we just not graduate? Also, I accepted your proposal just now… I accepted it a little too hastily. Marriage is a big deal, we need to consider it carefully.

Peach Milk’s game character stood still.

The voice invitation from Bed Exclusive Shifu also popped up.

“What?”

Bai Yao answered the voice chat and asked calmly.

Peach Milk’s voice didn’t sound sleepy, but it was full of caution: “Did I… do something wrong again?”

“No, I just think we need to consider this carefully.”

Bai Yao deliberately said, “This is marriage, after all. Even though it’s a game, we can’t just get married casually.”

Peach Milk paused for a few seconds, his tone suddenly becoming extremely aggrieved: “Although I don’t know where I went wrong, I must have done something wrong… See, you’ve already regretted it, you don’t want to be with me anymore.”

“Huh? Don’t try to trick me, I wasn’t born yesterday – when did getting married in a game become equivalent to being together?” Bai Yao asked him.

Peach Milk didn’t speak. Bai Yao could hear his breathing, rising and falling, as if he had been greatly hit.

“Besides, we’ve been doing this for so long, and you haven’t even gone to the bathroom once. Aren’t you tired?”

Bai Yao continued, “Or are you just afraid that I’ll regret it, so you’re planning to grind through the instance tonight, and then, when I’m too sleepy to think, drag me to find an NPC in the game to get married?”

After a long silence, Peach Milk said “Yes.”

“I used to be a game booster, this level doesn’t even count as grinding.”

“But… I’m really afraid that you’ll regret it, so I didn’t dare to stop while fighting monsters.”

Even though there was such a great distance between them, and even though Peach Milk couldn’t see him, Bai Yao still awkwardly rubbed his nose and said, “I see, then let’s keep going.”

After saying that, he saw Peach Milk’s game character hesitantly take two steps forward, then stop again.

“What’s wrong? Keep moving forward.”

Bai Yao urged, “Let’s finish it tonight, so we don’t have to come back tomorrow.”

After half a minute, Peach Milk finally squeezed out a sentence: “Are you sure?”

“Sure,” Bai Yao replied.

The moment the voice chat connected, that inexplicable sense of irritability suddenly disappeared. He belatedly realized that the irritability he felt earlier wasn’t caused by this tedious instance.

It was because the house was too quiet.

Plus… after he hung up with Zhang Yifang an hour or so ago, Peach Milk hadn’t proactively asked if they should use voice chat tonight.

Before Bai Yao took the initiative to type in the team channel, Peach Milk’s attention was focused on the instance’s mechanisms and monsters. He didn’t type much to direct, and the two of them relied entirely on their game characters’ eye contact to communicate.

Peach Milk rushed up to aggro the monsters and pulled all the nearby monsters over.

Bai Yao readjusted his posture and quickly tapped the keyboard, coordinating with Peach Milk to cycle through the AOE skills again and again.

“I have a question, can I ask…?” Peach Milk said softly.

“No,” Bai Yao said directly, “Don’t hang up the voice chat.”

Peach Milk: “Oh… okay.”

The two continued to do the instance in peace, moving forward. After a while, Peach Milk asked again, “I have another question…”

“Getting married in the game doesn’t mean we’re together.”

After being stubborn, Bai Yao explained, “I see a lot of players in this game getting married just for the wedding outfits and mounts. It just so happens that I really want the outfits and mounts, but I wouldn’t get a marriage of convenience with someone I don’t know. I saw that your yard and house are very big…”

It’s very suitable as a honeymoon house.

“I see.”

Peach Milk said thoughtfully, “If you like it, I can transfer the yard and house of this game account to you. I don’t want to force you, and I don’t want you to feel embarrassed.”

Bai Yao thought, do I look embarrassed?

Was Liu Yucheng pretending not to understand, or was he deliberately trying to embarrass me?

“It’s not really embarrassing.”

Bai Yao thought for a while and said, “It’s a win-win situation, and I think you seem to really want a Shifu-disciple relationship.”

“The outfits and mounts that come with getting married are also sold in the store, but they’re more expensive, costing more than 500 yuan in total.”

Peach Milk said, “And you don’t want to have a Shifu-disciple relationship with me, right?”

If they don’t want to spend money, players usually choose the most economical way to obtain outfits or mounts by getting married in game; but Bai Yao is obviously not this kind of person – he spent money to buy the most expensive hairstyles and mounts sold in the store.

Bai Yao opened the in-game store, flipped to the last page, and found the dresses and couple mounts that Peach Milk was talking about.

“No, what are you trying to say with all this?!”

Bai Yao angrily asked, “I think you’re regretting it, you don’t want to marry me in the game, do you?”

“No, that’s not what I meant.” Peach Milk’s explanation sounded incredibly weak at this moment.

“Even if I die in front of the computer today, I’m going to finish this damn instance! I want to graduate immediately, and then we’ll get married tomorrow!!”

Bai Yao’s raging voice came from the headphones: “This is the first time I’m getting married in the great game of my life, and forget about a Shifu-disciple relationship, it’s actually with a man! If you dare to regret it, I’ll buy ten thousand megaphones and shout about you cheating on my feelings on the whole server! Breach of promise! Scumbag!!”

Finally, he heard what he wanted to hear.

Peach Milk chuckled softly and said, “How could I possibly regret it? Even though it’s just a game, I’d be overjoyed as long as you’re willing to marry me.”