Many players on Watery South intended to reselect their professions when recreating their characters on Chinese Saint Valentine's Day. As they were busy collecting equipment for their new professions, the prices for level-80 equipment surged. Fortunately, Li Lei, who had been away for a week, had contacted Never Deeply Attached beforehand, and Never Deeply Attached had promised to lend him a set of level-85 purple equipment for an a.s.sa.s.sin.

Never Deeply Attached had not played s.h.i.+ny Sky Online for quite a long time. It was said that he was a highly skillful player and had been considered the best a.s.sa.s.sin in the League of Strong Families in the past. If he had not quit the game long ago, he would have become a G.o.d-like player now.

Before reaching a high level, Bluegreen-Clad had usually played together with Never Deeply Attached, Li Lei, Han Meimei and Son of Heaven. They had always played without a doctor and improved their health by taking pills. They had even slayed some Bosses together in the past since an a.s.sa.s.sin was able to bring a lot of Negative Effects to his or her opponent.

As an a.s.sa.s.sin, Never Deeply Attached was endowed with powers to fight a duel against a Boss on his own. As such, when members of the League of Strong Families wanted some strong players to help them complete some missions they would usually come to find Bluegreen-Clad or Never Deeply Attached.

Compared to Bluegreen-Clad who was always cool and detached, Never Deeply Attached was nice and friendly. Every time he helped a team and saw an a.s.sa.s.sin in the team, he would not only help them complete their missions but also teach the a.s.sa.s.sin how to play his or her character well.

One-inch Monk, the strongest a.s.sa.s.sin in the League of Strong Families now, could be considered as an apprentice of Never Deeply Attached. Although they had never asked the NPC to formally acknowledge their master-apprentice relations.h.i.+p, but all the a.s.sa.s.sin skills that One-inch Monk knew were taught by Never Deeply Attached.

Apart from One-inch Monk, Never Deeply Attached had taught many other a.s.sa.s.sins in the gang. Although they did not learn the skills so well as One-inch Monk did, they all felt grateful to Never Deeply Attached.

Nevertheless, most of the a.s.sa.s.sins who felt grateful to Never Deeply Attached were guys. Female a.s.sa.s.sins in the gang had a different feeling for this extraordinay player. In the past, many female a.s.sa.s.sins had liked him and followed him every day on the excuse of learning PK skills from him. Never Deeply Attached taught them patiently, but none of the girls learned the skills well.

The reason was very simple. They girls never really planned to learn skills from him. Besides, if they mastered the skills quickly, they would have no excuse to continue following him everyday.

Soon enough, Never Deeply Attached realized what the girls were up to and deliberately avoided them. He helped One-inch Monk to improve his skills and asked him to teach the others.

By doing so, he finally enjoyed some peace. Nevertheless, some girls just refused to give up and continued pestering him. In the end, he had no choice but to announce in the gang that he was not going to marry anyone in the game.

After seeing the announcement, the girls in the gang kept whining for quite a long time. Some of them were stubborn and continued hitting on Never Deeply Attached, but none of them succeeded in changing his mind.

A female archer named Strawberry Ice Cream, who was Han Meimei's apprentice, liked Never Deeply Attached too. One day, as Han Meimei did not have time to help her apprentice complete her professional tasks, she asked Never Deeply Attached for help.

After playing together with Never Deeply Attached for only one time, Strawberry Ice Cream totally fell for him and kept chasing after him. No matter how he refused her, she still remained unwavering and treated him exceptionally well without asking for anything in return.

Despite that, he still refused to accept her.

Upon knowing this, Han Meimei felt somewhat indignant and decided to help her apprentice getting Never Deeply Attached.

A loving person like Han Meimei took all kinds of relations.h.i.+p seriously including a virtual one. She believed that Strawberry Ice Cream was sincerely in love with Never Deeply Attached. She thought that it was a waste for Never Deeply Attached to miss this chance. She just did not want her friend to miss any chance to his or her life better.

As such, she managed to create all kinds of chances for them to get together. Once she found out that Never Deeply Attached was free, she would force him to help her apprentice Strawberry Ice Cream to gain levels.

Strawberry Ice Cream felt grateful to her master, but much to her disappointment, Never Deeply Attached still treated her coldly. A nice guy like him seldom refused Han Meimei's team invitation, but once he joined the team, he would only focus on gaining levels and would not say a word to Strawberry Ice Cream.

Strawberry Ice Cream was also a part-time pharmacist in the game. (Players did part-time jobs to make a living in the game.) She often traveled around the map to collect herbs to make best-quality poison for Never Deeply Attached. Every time she gave the poison to Never Deeply Attached, he would either refuse it or give her a more expensive thing in return. His cold att.i.tude discouraged her a lot.

Upon seeing her lovely apprentice get refused by Never Deeply Attached again and again, Han Meimei went to have a heart-to-heart talk with Never Deeply Attached. She asked, "Why are you so headstrong? It's alright to have a virtual relations.h.i.+p nowadays. Why do you refuse to get married in the game?

"Are you worried that you can't find any good girl in a game? Look at Li Lei and me. Believe me, you can find true love online too."

To her surprise, Never Deeply Attached still remained unmoved. Han Meimei guessed that he probably had a heart as hard as a stone.

Now, when she mentioned Never Deeply Attached to Floing Light, she still could not help but complain. "What a strange person he is! Why did he refuse to marry anyone in the game? After all, it's not a real relations.h.i.+p. And sometimes, it'll be great to make a virtual relations.h.i.+p become real. Don't you think so?"

At this moment, Flowing Light was sitting face to face together with Han Meimei in a secret pa.s.sage of a level-105 region. She had her chin in her hands while listening to Han Meimei. Suddenly, two game messages interrupted their chat.

Li Lei brought Never Deeply Attached to the team.

Han Meimei: It's been a while, Never Deeply Attached. You finally come back.

Never Deeply Attached: Yes. I was just busy with my work and thus quit the game.

Han Meimei: By the way, as you've been away for such a long time, you probably don't know that we have a new member in the team. Let me introduce you Flowing Light, the wife of our gang boss. Flowing Light, this is Never Deeply Attached. He's a regular member of our team.

Never Deeply Attached: Oh, she's the wife of Bluegreen-Clad. Nice to meet you, Flowing Light.

Flowing Light: Nice to meet you too.

Never Deeply Attached: Where are Bluegreen-Clad and Son of Heaven? I thought that we would play together tonight.

Han Meimei: Bluegreen-Clad should be arriving soon. As for Son of Heaven, he stopped playing together with us a long time ago. Well, forget about him. Our team lacks a regular member now. Do you want to come back to play this game?

Li Lei: Yeah, that's a good idea. Your level is not a problem. We can help you gain levels fast. If you come back, I won't need to recreate myself as an a.s.sa.s.sin. If I want to play an a.s.sa.s.sin someday, I can borrow your account to play.

Never Deeply Attached: Okay, I'm not so busy recently. I can come back to play. But what happened between you and Son of Heaven?