QT: Against My Will

105 3.02.10 – He or She? – Downfall of Humanity

[“Nobody with the name of Xuan Mu?”] asked Bing Shi, browsing her phone, she looked at the men eating raw lemon slices.

[No.]

Bing Shi stopped at a particular video.

Yi Zen’s sharp phoenix eyes were looking at the camera. His thin lips were chewing on a slice of lemon with an emotionless expression. Not a ripple could be seen on that god-like face.

Bing Shi became speeches. Who wouldn’t?

The male lead just became a part of a prank voluntarily.

Grabbing the chance, she responded with laughter.

Bing Shi: This is unacceptable. My boyfriend can’t be more beautiful than me.

“!!!!” A response?! Everyone looked at Yi Zen with hope.

.....

Yi Zen, who had no idea how to respond back, without remorse, typed her his objection.

Yi Zen: I’m not your boyfriend. You need protection during the apocalypse, don’t you? We will provide you with safety while you lend your abilities to us.

Bing Shi: Sure.

“!!!!!!!” Everyone looked at Yi Zen with worshipping eyes. Their chief’s charm was too much.

Yi Zen scowled.

Yi Zen: So easily?

They tried everything through private messages, but she never responded. Now, he sent her a stupid video, and she agreed readily...

Bing Shi: I was waiting for someone with a high position. I want you to continue sending me men eating lemons, not until I find my boyfriend.

“!!!!!!!” Everyone looked at Yi Zen accusingly. So it wasn’t his handsomeness but his high position!

Yi Zen: I’ll make the arrangements, but you will have to meet up with me.

Bing Shi: Sure, before that, you have to gain my trust.

Yi Zen asked with a calm demeanor.

Yi Zen: How?

Bing Shi: Easily. By trusting me first.

‘Won’t a pop-up message appear when I gain his trust?’

Yi Zen: How can I trust someone who doesn’t even show her face?

Yi Zen couldn’t tell if she was easy or not.

Bing Shi: It’s for my safety. Also everyone hides behind a mask. Are you saying you don’t have one? You ??. I don’t trust ????.

Yi Zen dismissed the meeting and walked to his office. Did Bing Shi mean they have to get to know each other?

Yi Zen: What do you want to know?

Bing Shi: Are you an alien? ??

Yi Zen frowned, who did she think she was, to make fun of him?

Yi Zen: I’m not.

‘I’m from another world, does it mean I’m considered an alien here? ?’

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APOCALYPSE COUNTDOWN:

150 days left

If you want to live, go to this website:

www. bingshi.com

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Yi Zen chatted daily with a foolish creature. If it didn’t showcase its abilities, he would have sent it into an asylum for mentally disabled people. As someone who had to gain her trust, he went along with her nonsense.

Yi Zen: How can someone like you have a boyfriend?

Bing Shi: How can someone like you doesn’t have a girlfriend? ??

Yi Zen: I asked first.

Bing Shi: I was lucky to find one. You? ??

Yi Zen: Not interested in women.

Bing Shi: What about men? ??

Yi Zen: Neither.

Bing Shi: I knew it, you are an ??.

Yi Zen’s face cracked.

Yi Zen: I’m not. Stop with those emoticons.

Bing Shi: I’m reminding you that there is going to be an apocalypse. ??

Yi Zen: Don’t make me laugh. If humanity was in a brim of extinction, how could you appear?

Bing Shi: I’m not from the future, I’m an ??. A peaceful one.

Did she mean there were others like her among people? Yi Zen’s brain was about to explode from Bing Shi. Was she from this planet or not?

Everything she said made so much sense. But at the same time, it was so absurd that he didn’t know if she was joking or not. One time she spoke how pink the sky was, and he was about to shrug her off when she sent him a picture of a sunset.

Yi Zen: Are you kidding me?

Bing Shi: Yes. I can’t say no. I don’t want to die under your hands. ??

Yi Zen tried to maintain his composure. Didn’t she show her hands in videos? But what if...

Yi Zen: How many? Are you like the ones from your apocalypse?

Bing Shi: About four hundred million. A bit?

‘I’m more pretty.’

Yi Zen face darkened. Did she mean that right now, there were millions of them among the people? No matter how ridiculous it sounded, if something like that happened, it could cause an apocalypse.

Yi Zen: Are they going to appear at the same time?

Bing Shi: Yeah.

It really sounded like Bing Shi wanted to save the planet, he thought.

Yi Zen: Is that why you didn’t want to tell others?

Bing Shi: Correct. If we meet, can I kill you in self-defense???

What’s with all these random questions, he thought.

Yi Zen: You can and stop with those emoticons.

Bing Shi listened to him. She didn’t send green faces anymore because.... she didn’t even respond to his messages.

When Bing Shi didn’t respond for days but continued to upload her videos, he wrote a message.

Yi Zen: Continue using them.

Bing Shi: Did you miss my ?? ?

Yi Zen ignored her antics.

Yi Zen: Can you recognize them?

Bing Shi: You didn’t answer me. ??

Yi Zen: I did.

Bing Shi: You didn’t. ??

Was she making fun of him again?! Of course, he didn’t miss them, but he had to gain her trust, so he wrote the whole sentence.

Yi Zen: I did miss them.

Bing Shi: I can’t recognize them, if I could, you’d have all their names already. Pretend you know nothing. It would be unfortunate if it got leaked. If you want to protect somebody, isolate them for a day. Do you have someone? Except me, of course. ??

.....

Yi Zen: My family.

Bing Shi: Oh, let’s discuss it tomorrow. Bye-Bye ??

Yi Zen clutched his phone with a blank expression, but inside, he was annoyed to no ends. Their conversation would last 15 minutes at most. When he asked the reason, she would say she didn’t want to put a green hat on her boyfriend. (Putting a grean heat on somebody = cheating on them.)

What was wrong with her priorities?! Was her boyfriend more important than anything else? She was able to make Yi Zen believe that an apocalypse was going to happen. The idea that Bing Shi had everything under her control was upsetting him.

To avoid making Yi Zen fall in love with her, Bing Shi wanted to make him believe that she was an another species, spamming him with creepy alien faces until he thought that she looked like that under the mask.

When another handsome man eating a lemon appeared on her phone, she switched to another video.

‘Don’t everyone in novels have their male lead?’

‘So where is mine?’

‘Oh, yeah, I have one.’

‘Had.’

‘Why did he have to die?’

‘How do I find him?’

‘I can’t recognize his soul.’

‘I don’t even know if he is here.’

‘How do I survive another four years?’

Closing the messenger app, she put on her headphones and listened to Xuan Mu’s voice.

° “Bing Shi, why are you recording me?”

° “What if you become mute someday?”

° “Bing Shi, I love our monkeys,” he said.

° “They are yours. I don’t want them.”

° “Yes, they are mine. Bing Shi, come sit at my lap. Good girl. Do you like it when I speak like this?”

Bing Shi nodded as she imagined his hands caressing her hair.

° “Bing Shi, I love you with all your faults, understood?”

Bing Shi nodded.

° “Bing Shi, were you a good girl today?”

Bing Shi nodded.

° “As long as we are Bing Shi and Xuan Mu, even if both of us become mute, cripples, or whatever, we will continue to love each other.”

Bing Shi nodded with teary eyes. His voice calling out her name made her heart tingle in joyous pain, “Xuan Mu, what if I fail my mission?”

° “Bing Shi, no matter what happens, I’ll continue to love you.”

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APOCALYPSE COUNTDOWN:

60 days left

If you want to live, go to this website:

www.bingshi.com

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A new video was updated.

This time, Bing Shi wasn’t with Kuro. All alone, she was sitting on the floor, her legs spread, her back leaning against the black screen, tilting her head to look at the ceiling she asked in a monotonous voice, “Do you ever feel so out of place, like you don’t belong anywhere and no one understands you? Because that’s how I’m feeling right now. Welcome to my world. This is my last video.”

Without speaking, she just sat in silence, while a song played in the background.

Her fans, which watched every one of her videos, protested heavily while listening to the song. Without seeing her expression nor hearing her cry, they understood her feelings.

Her home... she was still looking for her lost boyfriend, wasn’t she?

“To all the loners out there. We might be homeless, but not hopeless. Bye Bye,” Were Bing Shi’s last words before the video ended.