This is one of my favorite chapter, prepare some tissues ahead ~

018. Call Me Husband

From the beginning of this meeting, Fire still had yet to ask He Jin about the reason why he suddenly went offline before, as if he was deliberately avoiding this problem. And now, he was also so carefully considering about possible problems that He Jin might encounter later, seriously thinking of their future, giving him both gifts, and promises ...

In the face of such warmth, He Jin felt touched, and he finally couldn't help but ask: "Fire, if I still didn't come online, would you continue to wait?"

Fire was silent for a moment, before answering softly "Yes".

Sure enough ...

"Why?" He Jin asked," Are you really so sure that I still want to continue to play? "

"You don't want to play? Then what are you doing here? "

He Jin who was asked, suddenly felt choked, indeed, he wanted to play ... But he was curious about what is on Fire's mind ah, why did he do this to such an ordinary netizen!

Xiao Xian-Jin: "So many years ago, you have not once thought that I may not come online again?"

At the other end of the network connection, Qin Yu looked at the dialog box thoughtfully ... In fact, he also felt strange, because he did never thought of that.

Everyone in the game could see his "married" status, but few people know that his wife had not been online for years, Dead Water is one of them, he had inadvertently asked Fire whether he was still waiting for his wife, and after hearing Fire's affirmative answer, he would occasionally use this matter to ridicule him, even advised him to forget his so called wife once, to find another new one. But Qin Yu never took him seriously, he was used to it.

Qin Yu said lightly: "If I think about it, then I will not wait."

Yes, thinking about that kind of problem, in a way, had already represented hesitation and whitdrawal.

So, he simply never thought about it.

Fire's answer caused a heat to bloom in He Jin's heart. He Jin was originally a calm person, but meeting this kind of people, to hear such words said to him, he would also feel a bit overwhelmed.

Pressing down the uneasiness that had risen in him, He Jin carefully chose his words, hinting tactfully: "But after all these years, what if that person has changed, and become different from your original impression of them?"

Ah Jin no longer online, Qin Yu indeed became depressed for a period of time, he felt so lonely, so frustrated, but without Ah Jin, he could not simply stop playing the game. He imagined Ah Jin was still there accompanying him, staying at his side ... After that, every time he met interesting things, or saw new scenery, he would try his best to remember it all, always thinking about waiting for He Jin to come back so that he could show them to her, to accompany her to see new things.

Some things he remembered and some he forgot, the world would continue to change and the game was evolving, but he had never once forgotten the feeling of playing the game with Ah Jin ... to be protected, but also wanting to protect the other, as long as they were together, he was very happy, especially after their in-game wedding, whenever he thought of Ah Jin, he could not restrain the sudden skipping of his heartbeat.

This heartbeat, except for Ah Jin, no one else ever made him feel so.

In this way, unconsciously, eight years had pa.s.sed, and then Ah Jin was online once again, the moment he saw that name, Qin Yu's heart almost jumped out of his chest ...

It was like magic, letting him confirmed, that this person is the only one.

Qin Yu: "Why should it be a problem? You are you, even if at the other end of the computer the real you are actually a dog, I wouldn't care, you are still my wife. "

The tone used by Fire, vulgar with a hint of intimate tenderness, numbed He Jin's ears, his whole face flushed hot, and the other guy's "perfect" answer, somehow made He Jin feel flattered, as if the tangled mess of his gender issues had become meaningless.

In this moment, He Jin had a sudden urge of wanting to continue being like this with Fire, to not say anything else, to make up for this eight years of debt, and to meet his expectations ...

However, Fire suddenly changed the topic: "However, I indeed feel you have changed a little."

He Jin: "....!!" Did Fire realize it?

The fire: "I think you have become even more lovely."

He Jin: "..."

Fire continued mischievously:" Don't tell me you were frightened by my last sentence before... So scared you immediately went offline, huh? "

Xiao Xian Ajin: "I ... There was a power outage in the dorm."

This time, Fire burst out laughting, apparently did not believe in He Jin's "excuse", but he still said: "I guess so."

He Jin: "..."  Why do I have a feeling that I'm being teased? (=_=)

Having had enough fun, Fire calmed himself and explained: "I did not deliberately wait for you, you don't have to feel sorry for me. I have played a good game these years, have friends, playing very happily,"

He Jin was stunned, is this right? However, Fire's as cool as the wind att.i.tude did help a lot in easing He Jin's mind.

Fire: "Of course, you can come, I am also more happy ... However, if you don't want to play, just tell me, don't go without any notice, we can say goodbye properly, I won't prevent you to leave, what do you think?"

He Jin: "..."

That might be as well, but He Jin's feeling about playing this game was a bit complicated. He did want to continue to play, not to mention he also just received a gift from this person, now he even got to hear the other guy saying "You can come, I'm also more happy," so, how could he refuse? It's just...

Xiao Xian-Jin: "The last time when we did the husband and wife task, there is a question asking whether you will want to develop a realistic relations.h.i.+p with me, and you answered ' will ' ... Are you serious about this? "

Qin Yu frowned and asked, "What, you someone special in reality?"

Xiao Xian-Jin: "No ..."

The corner of Qin Yu's mouth lifted up: "I see, you don't want to involve real life in playing this game?"

Xiao Xian-Jin: "Yes."

Qin Yu promised: "Fine, I promise you, what happens in the game stays in the game, I will not be noisy about how you looked like in real life, whether you are tall or thin, man or woman, beautiful or ugly, healthy or have disability ... As long as you stay as my wife in the game, I don't care about other things, if you don't want to say it, then I won't ask. How about it? Do you still have anymore questions? "

He Jin sighed and said," No."

What else did he have to say? It felt like Fire was reading his mind, because every word he said, almost all of them were what he had been thinking in his heart, exactly as what he wanted.

Fire Ruthless: "Since you no longer have problem, then I also have a request."

Xiao Xian-Jin: "What is it?"

Fire Ruthless: "Later in the game, call me husband."

He Jin: "..."

Fire Ruthlwss: "Can you do it? "

Qin Yu's request was actually not that weird, after all they were "husband and wife" in the game, but for He Jin, a normal boy, to suddenly have to call someone of the same gender as "husband" ... Always made him feel very embarra.s.sed ah!

He Jin tried to negotiate: "Can you give me some time to adapt?"

Fire teased him: "To adapt to what, the more you call the more you will become used to it, not to mention you are now typing, not even speaking with your mouth."

He Jin: "..." (=_=)

Xiao Xian-Jin: "We haven't seen each other for so many years, I'm not used to it."

Fire Ruthless: "Ah, so shy ..."

He Jin: "......." Orz .....

The fire: "Fine, then I'll give you three days."

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※ The Past in the Spirit Fairy ※ (vii)

Ah Jin no longer on the game, Qin Yu who was initially feeling lost and sad, slowly began accept this reality. It took a full three years for him to do this.

For the past three years, he had refused to send friend request to anyone, and deleted other pa.s.sers-by who inadvertently added him. Only leaving one name, "Xiao Xian-JIn", in his friends list, because he did not want to see the system to prompt "your friend xx-and xx is online", or see his friend's column lit up. If it did not come from this one name, then he felt more happy to leave it empty.

Every time he felt lonely, Qin Yu would point his cursor to open Ah Jin's name, and sent an offline message to the other player.

"Ah Jin, while you are not online, I'm almost at level 40!"

"Yesterday I did a dungeon task in Fairy Island, luckily got a crane, I now can fly ah, when you come back, don't be too envious of me hehe."

"I'm only teasing you!... When you come, I will take you to upgrade, wait until you reached the same level as me, then we'll continue to play! ^_^ "

"Ah Jin, Celestial is so beautiful!"

"There are many high level players in Celestial, I died several times ..."

"Apparently if you jump down from Celestial, you will fall directly to the boundary and die, I fell for a full 20 seconds ... But the scenery is so beautiful ..."

"Ah Jin, I have began to study seriously, learning seems to be very interesting."

"Ah Jin, I'm almost at full level!"

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Of course, it were not always messages like these, Qin Yu would also fantasize sometimes, about something like what should he say to He Jin when he came back.

"Ah Jin, you finally come, I've waited for you for so long, I feel bitter!"

Okay, as a husband, that's not cool enough! (=_=)

"Ah Jin, I miss you ..."

-It's disgusting! Can't say that! (=_=#)

"Ah Jin, long time no see ..."

--So proper and polite! Just be an actor instead! (/= _ =)/~┴┴

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Once, Qin Yu accidentally found his name appeared on "Spirit Fairy" ranking list, the first person he wanted to share his excitement with was Ah Jin-

"Ah Jin! I'm on the charts! Ha ha! [Cool] When you come online, you can call me big G.o.d! [Cool]"

"Ah Jin, I'm ranked 37 today, this game is getting more and more fun!"

Of course, there are times when things were not going well.

"Today met a very powerful guy, every time was killed by him ... [Anger]"

"He was ranked 30 ... [Anger]"

While there were optimist times, there were also times of depression -

"Ah Jin, because I'm not strong enough, that's why you don't come back ..."

"Maybe you are waiting for me to become first rank, become the real great G.o.d, if I do, will you come back?"

"I will take the exam too, just like you ..."

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The leaderboards in the game became another big motivation for Qin Yu to keep playing. He tried his best to practice his technique and PK skill.

In this way, two years later, Qin Yu with excellent results was also admitted to a popular high school, however the "Xiao Xian-Jin" name in the game remained gray. Qin Yu kept on sending news about himself to Ah Jin, but as if he was talking with a tree, he never got a reply.

Slowly, the number of messages Qin Yu sent to Ah Jin became less and less, it's not like he forgot about Ah Jin, but he felt that his messages were too stupid, sometimes when he looked over the previous record, he would scold himself ... How can you be so childis.h.!.+

For example, when he climbed to the top ten in ranking list, and then looked back to see his excited message to Ah Jin when he first entered the list, it was so unbearable to look at, Qin Yu felt shy, he did not want Ah Jin to see so many of his nonsense once he came back.

Another year, "Fire Ruthless" name got more and more high in the ranking list, more and more players also began to know about him, and even female players began to openly confess to him, but Qin Yu had been accustomed to playing the game alone, for him, he only needed opponents on the game, not wives.

In the third year, the game officially announced that "Spirit Fairy" was about to be revised into "Demon G.o.d", in the revision, the game company would clean up all the players chat records, including the offline player's cached offline messages.

Seeing this news, Qin Yu felt both relieved and sad.

On the night of the game revision, the 17-Year-old Qin Yu stole his father's secret stack of whiskey, sitting drunkenly in front of his computer, staring at all the past messages he had shared with Ah Jin. Going back to 1175 days ago when they first met... Even if 1100 days of those were filled with only his one-man monologues.

He looked at each of them one by one, grinning for one moment, then crying for another, while also pessimistically wondered if Ah Jin had forgotten about him.

Just before the clock turned to 12 o'clock, Qin Yu silently entered one last sentence in the dialog box-

"Ah Jin, I like you."

The countdown became zero , and the server connection was cut off, all chats data from the previous version would be cleared, and along with it, Qin Yu's silly "First Love Diary" would also disappear...

Since then, "Xiao Xian-Jin" in Fire's friends list stayed gray, remained only a hollow name.

But Qin Yu would continue to wait, even if his connection with that name was only a short-lived dream, he was willing to indulge himself in it, never wanting to wake up.

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The author has something to say: (This is written by the original author, not me, but I feel this is somehow important.)

I see a lot of readers discussing about why He Jin did not just confess about his gender, and so I want to explain.

Because He Jin knew Fire had waited for, he felt guilty, and also would like to compensate him, but he felt that the way to compensate is not to immediately told Fire about his gender frankly, because Fire might become "devastated" (it might also make him angry), but to do as he had always been doing, to meet Fire's fantasies and expectations. This way of thinking was caused by his childhood education and upbringing character, so his sub-consciousness would persuade himself to play the "wife" role, even if he wasn't used to it at first, he would do it (He Jin never really fell in love, so he didn't know that the emotional problems weren't something that could be solved rationally), but in his mind it would never going to be real, because in his opinion, a wife can only be "females", so when he got Qin Yu's "what happens in the game stays in the game" commitment, needless to say, He Jin felt relieved.

Before I made this story, when writing He Jin's character set up, I wanted to create a self-contradictory role, a depressed and boring one. The "rebellion" mentioned in the previous chapters is a beginning of his attempt to break through. But it does not mean that he would suddenly undergo a "big change of temperament". I see many readers are anxious, using normal "moral" to standardize and judge Ah Jin, as if the fact that he did not confess about his gender was a sin that could not be forgiven ... But Ah Jin is not a moral role model, he has his human weakness, he may be selfish, may be despicable, may be hypocritical... but I hope you will patiently wait for his growth and transformation.

I may or may not have expressed this well, so there might be some misunderstanding, so today I'll repeatedly looked over and over again, changed some psychological description details. But I have limited capacity, if at my current state I can't meet all of your expectations, I can only apologize here. (／＿＼)

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Please note that english is not my first language, and this is not beta-ed, therefore there might be some grammatical errors here and there. Also, I don't know chinese, like at all, so this translation might not be completely accurate.