QT: Against My Will

Getting out of bed, he wiggled his eyebrows at the sight of his body covered in bruises, scratches and kiss marks, “It’s so adorable, you could probably get away with domestic abuse... free of charge.”

“...” She wondered how such a simple act of him, putting on a black T-shirt over his head, could always bring out such a strong feeling in her, “I find the way you try to cover the evidence strangely attractive, and I don’t really know what to do about it.”

“...” He sent her out of his space, sharing her with the world before he could change his mind. She was obsessed with him, yes, he knew it. But... He covered his face with his palm. A smile formed on his face, matching the cheeky gleam in his eyes. But why did his obsession look so pathetic compared to hers?

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Silvia looked over Liam’s shoulder and noticed some movements in the classroom, “Who...who is there?!”

“Who? Me?” Elera got out from under the teacher’s table to show her presence, “There is nothing to worry about. I was taking a nap and didn’t see nor hear what you have been doing anyway,” she yawned into her palm as she gave them a short glance, “Oh, isn’t it miss popular...and? Eh? What happened to Earl Fester? Has miss LeClére found a new money boss?”

With Liam by her side, Silvia could only hide behind a facade, “I have nothing to do with him,” she explained with an aggrieved expression, “Big Brother Liam, you have to believe me.”

Liam hugged Silvia in protection, snarling at Elera in anger, “Can’t you see that she is the victim of Earl Fester?! You! Apologize for sullying her reputation!”

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Though Elera was smaller in size, her confidence and poise didn’t lose their impact compared to the alpha before her. Instead of running away in fear, her fearless eyes showed the opposite of Silvia’s act – the opposite of a girl one couldn’t help but take pity on, “The only thing being sullied are my eyes!” She rolled her eyes, about to leave the two lovebirds behind.

“You!” Liam couldn’t believe his ears. Such audacity, he almost coughed up blood! Before he could retaliate, the doors to the classroom slid open.

Victor agreed to play hide and seek with Elera Mai. A winner would get to invite the other for a meal, and he wanted to see her tears as she would spend all her savings to feed him.

Victor didn’t know why he decided to ‘find’ Elera right now. Maybe it was to protect Elera from Silvia? Blame it on the instincts that refused to give him a rest. They were telling him that something was about to happen again.

“Big brother Liam, calm down,” Silvia got out of his embrace as soon as she spotted a bigger fish (Victor). She would find any person below her status disgusting, but when it came to rich students, she would lick their boots with great enthusiasm. She quickly ran up to Elera to apologize, “Miss Mai was right, I...” she clutched her head in pain, “Ah!”

Taking a deep breath, Bing Shi listened to Dai An’s patient instructions on how to prevent Silvia from fainting. She moved her fingers and toes, and then slowly tried to stand on her own. While balancing herself, she began to take on a pale look, as if she’d been painted with whitewash. With just one step forward, she crumpled like a puppet that was suddenly released from its strings. Silvia fainted because of her again.

Bing Shi’s eyes were hard open as she braced herself for a fall, ready to find an excuse to end up in a wheelchair again. Suddenly, a nano exoskeleton wrapped itself around her legs like a robotic extension, containing millions of little sensors that could predict her intentions to move.

Props for having a husband from an advanced world. He tried to help her, but there was always the other side of the coin. Maybe her soul realized that she didn’t need a body to strive – it would have to go through what Dai An went through all over again, and it found the sacrifice too great to even give it a try. So... it decided to become lazy instead. Lazy, her? How could she allow that? She was a professional procrastrinator, not a ‘lazynator’.

Instead of dropping hard to the ground, Bing Shi used the table as a support. Her movements were exaggerated and pretentious. On the outside, it might have looked like a cheap attempt to turn herself into a victim, “...”

Elera smiled at Silvia, avoiding the clash successfully, “Miss LeClére, you won’t be able to frame someone like this. If you want to gain everyone’s pity, you would have to really injure yourself and fall face down first.”

Why did Bing Shi expect to be compatible with her husband’s prototypes on the first go? Someone must be having a great time at her expense. Good for him! She turned around to see if he took over Liam’s body yet. It didn’t seem so. That male student was currently keeping himself busy bootlicking Victor’s shoes, “Injure myself?” She limped towards the windows to open one, “You mean like this?”

Bing Shi would never watch the sky during a fall. People like her would usually glance at the ground, and look for the safest place to land. This was going to be a long day, so she decided to give the white clouds above a chance.

She sat at the window frame like a cut plant with no roots. Her hair swaying with the gentle wind, it was as if there was nothing to anchor her to this world – a plucked flower that was still expected to give its beauty, to flourish and warm the hearts of others.

Suicide was tragic, traumatic, and painful. Nobody believed that the narcissistic Silvia would ever commit it until they saw her leaning over the third-floor window without holding onto anything, disappearing from their sight.

Everyone shot their eyes wide open, not knowing what to do, they ran to look out of the window.

Everyone seemed to want Silvia dead, even her husband. They waited until the last moment to see if she had any tricks up her sleeves until she ended up in her pool of blood and broken bones. Ah, perfect. This murky atmosphere suited the gloom that she kept inside. In the darkness, she could be anything.

If anyone wondered what the heck was Bing Shi doing, she was feeding her godhood. Victor’s and Elera’s opinion of Silvia wasn’t as one-sided as before, becoming more tolerating. It was like a little tease sent in Riley’s direction: Look at her, Silvia behaved like a bitch, yet people were still blindly siding with her.

Bing Shi was further sealing their beliefs about male and female leads being able to break every law of logic.