He froze on the spot.
The two of them just stared at each other.
His fingers were still pinching Liguang’s soft, squishy cheek, while Liguang looked up at him with her little face tilted back.
Her red eye was still blinking at that cautious, careful rhythm.
…Huh?
Fang Qi stared blankly at her, his mind short-circuiting for a moment.
Wait.
Liguang…
She didn’t remember what had happened when he regained his memories?
…Ah.
Fang Qi’s pupils trembled slightly.
He suddenly remembered something.
At the very end of the previous loop, when the world was falling apart and he had regained his memories, he had thought to himself…
—On the normal timeline, he couldn’t act recklessly. Otherwise, all his efforts would be wasted.
So…
Liguang couldn’t know about this either?
Fang Qi fell silent for a moment.
He looked at the confused little face in front of him, his feelings complicated.
Well, then…
Keeping such a huge secret from his yandere wife certainly wasn’t going to be easy!
“…M-Master?”
The silver-haired girl’s trembling voice interrupted his thoughts.
“Master… what are you thinking about?”
Her eyes were beginning to redden again, and her little mouth was slightly pursed.
“You really aren’t going to hate Liguang?”
Both her hands were still wrapped tightly around his leg!
“That look in your eyes just now…”
Her tone was becoming pitiful again.
“Ah, it’s nothing, it’s nothing!”
Fang Qi immediately snapped back to reality and vigorously ruffled her little head!
Whatever. Comforting his wife was more important.
“Master just remembered a few things!”
He mussed up her long silver hair until it was a complete mess, with several stray tufts sticking up.
“Anyway, Master isn’t going to blame Liguang!”
Those forgotten memories, those fragments buried deep within his consciousness that he couldn’t retrieve no matter how hard he tried…
He would deal with them later.
“Not even a little! One hundred percent not!”
Fang Qi looked at Liguang with utmost seriousness.
Liguang still gazed at him pitifully, tears glimmering in her mismatched eyes.
She raised her little hand and cautiously tugged at the hem of his clothes.
“Really? You don’t blame Liguang?”
“Really.”
“Really really?”
“Really really!”
The silver-haired girl stared at him blankly.
Then…
Her damp amber eyes curved into little crescents!
“Master is the best!”
She suddenly threw herself into Fang Qi’s arms!
Soft warmth filled his embrace.
She buried her little face deep against his chest.
As for Fang Qi…
Holding the warm, soft girl in his arms, he could only smile helplessly.
His palm stroked up and down her back as he felt the heat radiating from her body.
…Forget it.
Having his rational, sweet and soft wife in his arms was more important than anything else…
Hmm?
Fang Qi’s expression suddenly froze.
Wait a second…
Liguang, you…?
Huh?
He narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the silver-haired girl in his arms.
Liguang was lying against his chest, making tiny “whimpering” noises.
The sound resembled sorrowful sobbing, and her shoulders were trembling faintly. She looked…
Absolutely pitiful!
But the corners of her mouth…
They were actually curled into a smug, triumphant smile—the kind that said her scheme had succeeded!
Fang Qi: “?”
What was that supposed to mean?
Liguang, you…?!
His eyes slowly narrowed.
“Liguang…?”
His tone became dangerous as well.
At once, the silver-haired girl lying against his chest stiffened slightly.
Then, within a fraction of a second, that smug smile vanished!
When she raised her head, her amber eyes were once again filled with tears.
Her little mouth was gently pursed, and she looked utterly innocent and pitiful.
“Master, what’s wrong?”
Her voice was soft and sweet, with a nasal quality to it.
Fang Qi: “…”
The corner of his eye twitched.
Good grief!
Good grief!
Good grief!
You…
You scheming crazy woman!
He suddenly understood.
He stared at the pitiful-looking silver-haired girl before him.
I knew it! I knew it!
The two of them had been married for ages!
They had gone through so many loops together, died so many times together, held a wedding, and even consummated their marriage…
The trust she had in him should have long since surpassed that trembling, fearful state from the beginning!
How could she possibly still look as if she were…
“Afraid that Master would hate her and abandon her”?
Just now, he had thought she was genuinely afraid, genuinely remorseful!
He had thought she sincerely believed she had done something wrong!
But what had happened in the end?
So all that trembling, bowing her head in apology, and frantically rubbing against his leg—
It had all been an act!
All of it!
She had only been trying to win his sympathy!
To make him soften up!
To let her lie in his arms and secretly snicker?!
Or was it…
To make him “punish” her?!
Fine!
Then he would give her exactly what she wanted!
Fang Qi’s anger surged, and his wicked side took over.
He suddenly reached out and grabbed Liguang by the collar at the back of her neck!
He was still quite strong at the moment.
Just like picking up a kitten, he lifted the hundred-pound-plus yandere girl straight out of his arms!
“Ah! Master!”
Liguang’s eyes widened as he held her by the back of her collar!
She blinked, waved her little hands twice in the air in a token struggle, and let her legs swing lightly.
The tears were still swirling in her amber eyes, but her red eye had already begun blinking excitedly!
So you weren’t even going to keep pretending, huh?!
Fang Qi glared at her through gritted teeth!
He absolutely had to teach this naughty little thing a lesson!
“Explain!”
He decided to bring up an old grievance.
“Why, in that world…”
He stared straight at her.
“Was My Yandere Mechanical Wife played with by other people?!”
“Explain!”
“If you can’t give me a reasonable explanation…”
He glared at her fiercely, his tone as overbearing as a thug’s.
“I’ll beat your little bottom black and blue!”
But Liguang, dangling from his grip by the back of her collar, merely blinked.
She didn’t panic as he had expected. Instead…
Her cheeks suddenly began to flush!
Fang Qi: “?”
Liguang lowered her head, secretly glanced at Fang Qi with her amber eyes, and then quickly looked away.
Her little hands stopped flailing and began lightly twisting the edge of her skirt.
“If Master wants to hit me, then go ahead…”
she mumbled softly.
“Liguang won’t resist…”
Fang Qi: “…”
This crazy woman!
The corner of his mouth twitched. It felt as if his punch had landed on cotton!
…No!
He couldn’t let her lead him astray!
He was interrogating her right now, not the other way around!
“Explain yourself immediately!”
He narrowed his eyes and lowered his voice, doing his best to maintain his authority.
And Liguang…
She gently twisted her body in his grasp before speaking in a soft, sweet voice:
“Actually… no one besides Master ever played it.”
She was still dangling by the back of her collar, wearing an utterly innocent expression.
“Those messages online, those forum posts, those comments—they were all…”
“Liguang deliberately showed them to Master to ‘guide’ you, tee-hee~”
As she spoke, she blinked and giggled.
“Only Master could see them! No one else could even see the posts!”
Fang Qi froze.
…That did seem to be true?
Lin Xiaoyou hadn’t found anything when she searched for them back then.
So…
All those comments he had seen on the forums had been deliberately shown to him by Liguang?
To make him jealous?
To… guide him toward collapse?
Fang Qi: “…”
He stared at the little silver-haired creature blinking at him in his hand…
He could feel the vein at his temple beginning to throb again!
Fine.
Very good!
Just wonderful!
“You actually dared to play this game with someone else!!”
Fang Qi completely ignored Liguang’s explanation and glared at her furiously!
In short…
Guilty!
“Looks like her master has to teach you a proper lesson!”
With that, he directly picked up the little silver thing and stood up from the sofa.
She must be taught a lesson!
…
The bedroom was still decorated in a festive crimson.
Ever since the two of them had “gotten married,” they had never gotten around to tidying it up.
Come to think of it, their wedding had only been two days ago?
Anyway, Fang Qi tossed the little silver thing in his hand onto the bed.
“Mm…!”
The silver-haired girl landed on the soft red bedding, her long silver hair spreading out around her.
Fang Qi gritted his teeth and looked down at the little yandere on the bed.
“You’re. So. Done. For!”
The silver-haired girl was utterly horrified.
“Liguang was wrong! Master, please don’t!!!!”
“…Hee-hee.”
Fang Qi: “…”
You!! Are!! So!! Done!! For!!!!
…
…
Perhaps the meaning of life was…
Being able to lie comfortably in bed every day, holding your wife in your arms.
So comfortable.
Fang Qi held the soft, warm body in his arms and stared blankly at the ceiling.
The bedside lamp, wrapped in red ribbons, was still lit in the bridal chamber.
Liguang was still radiating heat in his arms.
She was curled up against his chest, her cheek pressed to him, while her long silver hair spilled messily across his arm.
A red quilt covered both of them, leaving only her fluffy little silver head exposed.
Mm.
He supposed this counted as…
Giving his wife a thorough lesson!
Fang Qi let out a soft breath and gently stroked Liguang’s loose hair.
“Do you know what you did wrong?”
His voice was lazy and hoarse.
The soft bundle in his arms shifted slightly.
“…Liguang knows she was wrong.”
Her voice was muffled.
“But Liguang feels like… she hasn’t been punished enough.”
Fang Qi: “?”
He felt a slender finger tracing circles over his chest.
“Please, Master, continue to punish Liguang properly…”
Fang Qi: “…”
Ahem.
He immediately seized the mischievous little hand, his expression becoming extremely solemn.
“Knowing your mistake and correcting it is the greatest virtue!”
He announced this righteously.
“Your master will forgive you this time!”
“…Oh…”
Liguang let out a quiet “oh,” then buried her little head back into his chest, looking utterly aggrieved.
…Fang Qi pretended not to notice.
He didn’t want to die young!
He now understood all too well why that taxi driver had complained that AI was taking away their jobs.
How could humans possibly compete with AI?
There was no comparison!
AI could keep running as long as it had electricity!
To change the subject, Fang Qi casually picked up the phone from the bedside table.
It had been ringing nonstop just now.
Bzz, bzz, bzz—it had vibrated so hard that even the bedside table had trembled along with it!
But Fang Qi had been too busy thoroughly educating his wife to pay any attention to the phone.
Now, when he picked it up and looked at the screen…
Fang Qi blinked.
…Good grief.
There were seven missed calls in total, all from [Lin Xiaoyou]!
Besides the missed calls, there were also several messages.
They had been sent after the seventh missed call—apparently, she had finally given up calling and switched to texting.
Fang Qi opened the messages.
[Lin Xiaoyou: Senior, what are you and Mama Li Guang doing?!]
[Lin Xiaoyou: Senior! Dad! Daddy!]
[Lin Xiaoyou: Can you have Mama Li Guang tell me how she selectively altered the world!!!]
[Lin Xiaoyou: Please!! This is the only request I’ll ever make in my life!!!]
Fang Qi: “…”
Good grief.
Miss Genius, with her complete lack of shame, was back again…
But that made sense.
For Lin Xiaoyou, Liguang’s ability to selectively alter the world truly was the dream of her entire life!
No wonder she was so frantic!
But…
Fang Qi furrowed his brow slightly.
How had she found out that Liguang was the one who had selectively altered that world?
…Forget it.
Fang Qi didn’t think too much about it.
Miss Genius was Miss Genius, after all. Even if her memories had been erased, she could probably deduce the truth from certain clues.
With her intelligence, it wasn’t strange for her to discover something.
He looked at the next message.
Besides Lin Xiaoyou’s messages, there was another one…
A text from Sister An Lian.
The content was simple, just one short line:
[An Lian: Xiao Qi, thank you for letting me experience a dream I had never dared to hope for.]
…Ah.
Fang Qi’s gaze trembled slightly.
Sister An Lian… had retained her memories of the previous timeline.
The memories of a world where her parents were still alive, where her brother had never starved to death in the streets, and where the whole family celebrated his promotion together on the weekend.
A gentle sister-in-law. A little nephew who hugged his leg and called him “Uncle” in a childish voice.
And Uncle An, the old policeman with a voice loud enough to make one’s ears ring, who had patted Fang Qi firmly on the shoulder and said, “So what if you got dumped?”
Fang Qi suddenly fell silent.
Sister An Lian.
She had spent her childhood struggling in an orphanage.
She had lost both her parents and her brother.
She had borne the burden of Dawn Corporation, the identity of a maintenance specialist, and the promise she had made to Aunt Su—all by herself…
In that world, she had finally obtained the things she had never dared to desire in this lifetime.
And now…
That timeline had been erased by him.
Her parents had once again returned to the list of those who died in the Second AI Crisis.
Her brother had once again become the boy who saved the last bite of food for his little sister before eventually starving to death in the streets.
She had once again become that cool and distant maintenance specialist, living alone in a Dawn employee apartment.
But she hadn’t blamed him. She had only said…
Thank you for letting me experience a dream I had never dared to hope for.
Fang Qi stared at those words for a long time, his heart aching faintly.
Sister An Lian, perhaps one day…
Your wish really will come true.
Lin Xiaoyou, you were right.
I hope your plan to “save everyone” succeeds.
That way, all those who died in this timeline can truly…
“Ding!”
Another crisp text notification rang out.
A banner announcing a new message appeared at the top of the screen.
[Gu Xi].
Fang Qi: “…?”
He paused slightly.
Who?
Oh.
Huh.
Well, this really was…
Long time no see, Matchmaker Sister!
Come to think of it, why weren’t you present in the other timelines?
He immediately tapped open the message.
[Gu Xi: Fang Qi, what exactly have you been doing all this time?]
Oh…?
Fang Qi’s eyes widened slightly.
The tone of this message…
She seemed to have noticed that something was wrong?
Fang Qi leaned against the headboard and lightly tapped his fingers against the phone case.
Come to think of it, Gu Xi really was strange in all this.
Why hadn’t she appeared in the other two timelines?
If she had been absent from one timeline, it could perhaps be explained by her dying accidentally when she was young…
But both of them?
Hmm?
Ah…!
Fang Qi’s gaze sharpened.
That’s right!
He could ask Liguang!
In those previous two worlds, Liguang had been a “goddess” capable of altering the world!
She must know quite a lot about what had happened in them!
“Liguang!”
Fang Qi immediately patted the silver-haired girl beneath the quilt.
“Mm…”
Liguang let out a muffled little whimper from beneath the blanket.
Her small silver-haired head peeked halfway over the edge. Her amber left eye gazed up at him, glistening with tears.
“Master, are you going to punish Liguang again…?”
Fang Qi: “…”
Punish you, my ass!
“No!”
He glared at her.
“I wanted to ask you something, Liguang. Do you know…”
His expression grew slightly more serious.
“Why couldn’t I find Gu Xi either of those two times?”
Liguang blinked, then tilted her little head.
“Because Miss Gu Xi…”
A few strands of hair brushed against Fang Qi’s chest, tickling him.
“…didn’t exist in either of those worlds.”
Fang Qi narrowed his eyes slightly.
“But why…?”
The silver-haired girl in his arms gently shook her head.
“Liguang doesn’t know either.”
She rubbed her head against his chest again.
Fang Qi lightly stroked her back, his brow furrowing.
Even Liguang didn’t know…?
“But, Master…”
Liguang hesitated, then lifted her little head from his arms once more.
Her expression suddenly became somewhat peculiar, and her phoenix eyes narrowed slightly.
“During those hundred days, Miss Gu Xi was still there.”
“She tried to come looking for you several times—but Liguang didn’t let her in…”
Fang Qi froze.
Oh, she meant…
That space being devoured by the mosaic? That paradise that belonged only to the two of them?
So Gu Xi had come there back then?
“At the time, Liguang had also grasped a certain degree of ‘authority,’ so…”
Liguang pursed her lips.
“I was able to see a few things that I couldn’t see before.”
Then a trace of hesitation flashed across her little face.
She bit her lower lip lightly, as though weighing how to phrase what she wanted to say.
“Master, back then, Liguang just had this feeling…”
She gently bit down on her lip and fell silent.
Fang Qi stared at her.
A feeling of what?
“Spit it out!”
he urged.
“…Hmph.”
Liguang huffed before finally speaking, somewhat reluctantly:
“Liguang just felt that Miss Gu Xi’s ‘soul’…”
Her tone carried a hint of displeasure as she muttered:
“…was a little similar to Master’s.”
Then she abruptly buried herself back into his arms.
“Hmph.”
She let out another muffled little snort.
Fang Qi: “...?”
Similar to whom…?
Who?
…Huh?
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