Excuse Me, Are You My Long-Lost Wife?

In Sword Spirit Online's most populated server, two guilds are famous: the Savage Tribe and the Drunken Immortals Pavilion.

The Savage Tribe's guild leader is the server's biggest spender, the sort of person even customer service calls a whale. The Drunken Immortals Pavilion's deputy leader is the server's number-one expert. No matter how much the Savage Tribe's leader spends, he still can't beat him.

Chi Ye once publicly responded that if the Drunken Immortals Pavilion's deputy leader was that good, he was either cheating or a man pretending to be a woman. The only real female gaming pro in the world was his wife!

That sparked a feud between the two, and their guilds often clashed.

One day, the two guilds were about to go to war. As the leader of one side, Chi Ye made a low-level alt and infiltrated the enemy camp to eavesdrop on their strategy.

The other guild's leader wasn't online, but the deputy leader hurried over. Chi Ye was delighted, convinced victory was in the bag.

Then the other guild's deputy leader switched on his mic...

A glamorous, mature woman's voice rang in Chi Ye's ears. He jolted, his smile frozen on his face. Could this be...

The two guilds faced off, ready to fight.

Chi Ye hurriedly turned on his mic for everyone. "Wait."

With everyone watching, Chi Ye rode the server's one and only qilin mount over to Jiang Fang, clip-clopping along. Then he asked cautiously, "Excuse me, are you my wife, lost to me all these years?"

Before Jiang Fang hit puberty, his voice was soft and feminine. When he played games, plenty of people mistook him for a girl. One elementary school kid even followed him around every day, calling him "wife."

The kid was silly and loaded, and Jiang Fang was worried someone might scam him, so he kept playing with him. When his voice started changing, Jiang Fang was afraid of hurting the kid's young heart, so he quietly quit the game.

More than ten years later, they met again in the game. Jiang Fang recognized Chi Ye at once, because Chi Ye was just as foolish as he had been as a kid. Every so often, he'd bounce over and make sarcastic comments about how Jiang Fang couldn't compare to his wife.

Jiang Fang was at a loss for words.

Then one day, Chi Ye recognized him.

Wherever Jiang Fang went, Chi Ye followed. "Wife, wife, can you forgive me? I didn't mean to call you a man pretending to be a woman. You're the prettiest little fairy in the world!"

Jiang Fang: "I am a man pretending to be a woman."

Chi Ye: "??? Then you're the handsomest, manliest guy in the world!"

Rich but hopelessly bad at games, love-struck younger top x brilliant, aloof academic bottom with incredible skills

Content warning: Voice change

Theme: Wherever you are, love is waiting for you.