Lu Fengmian reached out and blocked those sad, resentful eyes. “Don’t look at me like that.”
“Fifteen days. Mianmian owes me another fifteen days,” Qing Shi said, feeling somewhat wronged, though she did not move Lu Fengmian’s hand away.
Lu Fengmian froze. She had only stayed in reality for three days, so how could it have been fifteen days?
She pulled her hand back and tried to calculate it seriously, but she still could not quite figure it out.
“Mianmian doesn’t need to calculate it. For every day that passes on your side, five days pass in the time where I am.” Qing Shi pinched her cheek in a aggrieved manner.
“But,” That wasn’t right. The game time she checked was the same as real-world time.
Qing Shi sighed softly. “The game itself has no time. If the game overlaps with the world I am in, then time flows according to the time here. If it overlaps with the world you are in, then it follows the flow of time on your side.”
Lu Fengmian still felt something was off.
“This is why, previously, even though you didn’t spend much time doing tasks, three days had already passed for your physical body,” Qing Shi explained to Lu Fengmian.
Lu Fengmian thought about it and felt that it seemed to make sense.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t know,” Lu Fengmian said, scratching her head.
“Then next time, Mianmian must remember it well, and don’t make me wait this long again.” Qing Shi leaned forward slightly, resting most of her body weight against Lu Fengmian.
In a place Lu Fengmian could not see, the possessiveness in her eyes grew stronger.
Lu Fengmian pushed her gently. “Heavy.”
“Am I very fat?” Qing Shi asked in disbelief.
Lu Fengmian didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. She would never dislike a girl for being heavy.
“No, beauty exists in all heights, weights, and shapes. It’s not that you’re fat, nor that you’re heavy, it’s that I’m too weak.” Lu Fengmian couldn’t help pushing her once more.
Qing Shi changed her posture from leaning against her to holding her in her arms. “I’m sorry, I forgot that Mianmian’s health isn’t good.”
Lu Fengmian was held a bit tightly, but not so tightly that she felt suffocated.
“I was just a bit bored, and those people were all there, only Mianmian was missing. With them around, it was indeed lively.”
“But the livelier they were, the more I missed Mianmian.” Qing Shi rested her chin on Lu Fengmian’s shoulder.
Lu Fengmian sighed. “But I also have my own affairs to attend to.”
“Besides, between you and me.”
Before she could finish her sentence, Qing Shi suddenly lowered her head.
She looked as though she was about to kiss her, but then abruptly stopped.
Lu Fengmian looked at her with curiosity.
Qing Shi reached out and held her hand, making no further excessive moves. “Mianmian doesn’t like this, I remember. Earlier, it was because I missed you too much that I offended Mianmian.”
“What happened afterward was something even I had not expected.” Qing Shi sighed. “I know Mianmian doesn’t love me right now, simply because I am your creation, and because Mianmian is curious about my past, and even feels guilty.”
“So you only feel a bit of curiosity and pity for me.” Qing Shi spoke in a pitiful tone.
Hearing her words, Lu Fengmian turned around to face Qing Shi directly.
Looking at Qing Shi’s aggrieved expression, Lu Fengmian really couldn’t help laughing. “When did I ever say I pitied you?”
“I’m not even as good as you, so how can we talk about me pitying you?”
She reached out, pinched Qing Shi’s chin, and looked at her earnestly. “I don’t pity you, nor do I dislike you.”
“Appreciating beauty is natural.”
“I still like your looks.” After all, it was a appearance she had created herself.
After hearing this, Qing Shi couldn’t help laughing. “You like my looks, but you don’t love me, right?”
Lu Fengmian originally wanted to say yes, but looking at Qing Shi’s face and the faint look of expectation in her eyes, she hesitated for a long time and could not bring herself to say it.
Yet Qing Shi spoke it out herself.
Qing Shi covered her eyes.
“Mianmian, I know very well what your eyes look like when you love someone, and what they look like when you merely like someone.” Qing Shi kissed her lightly.
“But it doesn’t matter, I am willing to accompany Mianmian, and accompany you to do everything you want to do.” Qing Shi kissed her on the forehead.
Looking at her like this, Lu Fengmian felt a bit suffocated in her heart. She could not deceive herself or Qing Shi by saying she loved her right now.
Yet she also didn’t want to see Qing Shi acting so humble and aggrieved.
“I won’t make Mianmian feel wronged. In the past, it was always Mianmian who stayed by my side, yet I failed to accompany you properly, and I didn’t even understand you. This time-”
Qing Shi smiled. “This time, let’s treat it as making up for those regrets.”
Hearing her say this, Lu Fengmian suddenly felt that taking the quest wasn’t a bad thing after all.
“Then I’ll give you a chance,” Lu Fengmian said with a smile.
After saying this, Lu Fengmian felt much lighter in her heart, and she no longer felt so awkward facing Qing Shi.
Hearing her words, Qing Shi’s eyes lit up instantly.
Then, unexpectedly, she kissed Lu Fengmian on the lips.
Lu Fengmian was held tightly in her arms as the tip of Qing Shi’s tongue pressed against her lips.
She sucked gently and greedily, causing Lu Fengmian to unconsciously open her mouth.
Lu Fengmian was kissed until she felt dizzy. Even after Qing Shi released her, she felt as if her brain was lacking oxygen.
Why on earth was she so good at this?
Once Lu Fengmian regained some clarity, she pushed Qing Shi away. “I only said I’d give you a chance.”
“I didn’t say you could kiss me directly.” Lu Fengmian glared at her angrily.
It was hard to tell whether she was angry at Qing Shi for crossing the line, or angry at herself for lacking self-control.
Having gained an advantage, Qing Shi was being very well-behaved now.
She nodded repeatedly. “Mhm, okay, Mianmian only gave me a chance, and I was just seizing the opportunity.”
Lu Fengmian: …
“Shut your mouth.” She turned around, too lazy to pay attention to this pushy person.
Looking at her bright red earlobes, Qing Shi could not hold down the corners of her mouth at all.
Lu Fengmian turned on the live stream, and the viewers in the stream immediately rushed in as soon as they received the notification that she was online.
[Where is this?]
[The streamer wasn’t here when she logged off last time, right?]
[The scenery here is nice, why do I feel like the streamer and the Divine Maiden are secretly on a date behind our backs?]
Looking at those bullet comments, Lu Fengmian felt her earlobes grow even redder.
The corners of Qing Shi’s mouth could not be suppressed even more.
[Why are the streamer’s ears so red? Is it hot in this place?]
[Does hot weather make your ears turn red?]
[Wait, streamer, are you and the Divine Maiden really on a date?]
[Is this game really that realistic?]
[I think it’s really quite realistic. Little Qing Shi gets a red face when she’s angry, and the reactions of NPCs when players flirt with them are super real, so real that some NPCs seem like living people.]
[But I can tell at a glance that some NPCs are just game code.]
[It probably shouldn’t be all of them, after all, with such a large map, if every NPC were that vivid, how huge would the game size be?]
[This can be considered an easter egg, which makes it quite interesting, and exploring it yourself is really fun.]
[Off topic! Weren’t we asking the streamer?]
The bullet comments reacted again. Players flirting with NPCs and NPCs flirting with players were two completely different things.
“You’ll only know how good these NPCs are if you play the game yourself,” Lu Fengmian replied casually.
After all, she had indeed added that kind of feature.
It was added during this recent update.
However, those added features were for the players’ companions, who could be summoned to fight together.
So Lu Fengmian was not too worried about this point.
“I heard that the rewards for the hidden quest this time are quite generous. Will I still make it in time if I go now?” Lu Fengmian shifted the topic.
Qing Shi followed behind her without disturbing her, simply watching her walk slowly out of the forest, listening to her chat with the people in the bullet comments.
Seeing a living, vibrant Lu Fengmian made Qing Shi feel happy.
Nothing was more important than her being alive.