Fang Qi was also taken aback.
Hmm?
She did not know the term "informant"?
Was she not...
But immediately, Gu Xi's expression changed again.
As if she had suddenly figured something out, the confusion on her face was replaced by a trace of realization.
"Oh..."
"Informants."
The corners of her mouth twitched upwards again, and this time, it was a genuine sneer.
"Could it be that lunatic, Lin You..."
Her voice was still hoarse, but it carried a hint of mockery.
"Who called us 'informants'?"
Fang Qi blinked.
Uh.
So, the term "informant" was actually just a word Lin Xiaoyou made up herself?
In the last loop, Lin Xiaoyou kept saying "informants" left and right, making him think it was some internal jargon for Twilight or Dawn...
But after all that, it turned out it was just Lin Xiaoyou's own nickname for...
The people stalking her?
...Ah, whatever.
Fang Qi gathered his thoughts and continued:
"Alright, let's drop that. Let me guess..."
He extended a finger, pointing at the wooden floor beneath his feet.
"In that dream, you guys, whether you're called 'informants' or something else..."
"You followed us up this mountain, found this little wooden cabin, and discovered its secret."
"And then..."
He withdrew his finger, looking at Gu Xi's profile.
"Your 'dream' ended. You woke up."
"Upon waking, you realized that only you remembered that dream. Your companions had all forgotten."
"They didn't remember ever coming here, they didn't remember this wooden cabin, nor did they remember the entrance leading underground."
"So—"
Fang Qi tilted his head, watching Gu Xi.
"You had to come by yourself."
"Alone, in plainclothes, carrying a gun..."
"To verify the scenes from your dream."
"Right?"
Gu Xi did not answer.
She continued staring at the ceiling, watching the sunlight and the floating dust, saying absolutely nothing.
She remained silent.
But to Fang Qi, her silence was an implicit admission.
Fang Qi smiled faintly.
Good, this part was basically confirmed.
However, there was still one more question.
A question he always found very strange, one he just could not figure out.
"Officer Gu."
Fang Qi looked at her, voicing his confusion.
"There is something I am a bit curious about."
He reached out and pointed at himself.
"When you opened the door just now, why..."
"Did you point your gun at my head?"
He threw his hands up.
"Is there some deep-seated hatred between us? Have I ever offended you?"
"Why did you want to blow my head off?"
Gu Xi's breathing grew heavy.
She gritted her teeth again!
"I...!"
Her voice was hoarse, her tone laced with struggle!
"I did not... want to shoot at all just now!"
She finally squeezed out these words through gritted teeth.
Fang Qi looked at her, speechless.
This again?
You literally just pressed the muzzle against my forehead! And you say you did not want to shoot?
Gu Xi probably realized how feeble her explanation sounded.
Her chest heaved, her breathing becoming increasingly rapid.
Her lips moved, then closed again. She clenched her jaw as if swallowing her words back down...!
She glared at Fang Qi, her pupils trembling...!
Trembling violently!
She was... struggling?!
And then...
"Heh..."
She suddenly laughed again.
Self-deprecating and helpless.
But this time, there was a hint of relief.
Fang Qi's eyelid twitched.
What was this?
Was she persuaded? Was she going to answer?
Following her laugh, she lay limply on the wooden floor.
Her black hair spread out, scattering across the ground.
She lay flat on her back, staring blankly at the bullet holes in the ceiling.
Fang Qi stared at her.
"Why..."
She murmured hoarsely.
"Because..."
She cast a slight glance at Fang Qi.
"Fang Qi, I find you..."
"Very much an eyesore."
Fang Qi: "???"
Wait...
...Huh?!
Fang Qi glared back at her.
What is that supposed to mean?! You do not like the look of me?
What kind of reason is that?!
You are just picking a fight, aren't you?!
Seriously...?
Had he ever done anything to Gu Xi before?
In this time loop...
No, in all the loops, had he ever done anything to wrong her?
...He hadn't, right?
In the few loops where he died, reset, and could create "dream memories"...
He had barely even interacted with Gu Xi, right?
They had only crossed paths in the last two loops!
But in the last loop, he did not even see Gu Xi! She just trailed behind them and found her way here!
Only in the loop before last did he sort of see her... but he could not even call it seeing her!
Because by the time Gu Xi broke down the door with the police, he was already a corpse.
At that time, he saw Gu Xi through Liguang's perspective!
In the loop before last, Gu Xi had only seen his corpse too!
I mean...
You do not like the look of a corpse?!
But Gu Xi did not answer his confusion.
She just lay there, continuing to stare hazily at the ceiling.
"Lin You, she is a lunatic."
She spoke up.
Her voice was hoarse, low, and hazy.
Those unfocused eyes shifted slightly... and looked at him once more.
In her eyes, the emotions were very complex.
Fang Qi could not read them.
"But you, Fang Qi."
She called his name.
Those light brown eyes stared straight at Fang Qi.
"You are more terrifying..."
"Than a lunatic."
Fang Qi: "?"
...Me?
He widened his eyes and pointed at himself.
Me?
I am more terrifying?
Ah... Is she talking about Liguang?
But Gu Xi did not give him time to process this.
"You are like..."
"An impurity in this world."
Her voice was very soft.
"Your existence..."
Her lips trembled slightly, and her nails scratched a harsh sound against the floorboards.
"Makes this world..."
Her voice was shaking.
"No longer stable...!"
...?
Fang Qi's mind went blank for a split second.
What... did she say?
"Fang Qi, you are..."
Gu Xi was still staring at him.
Staring at him intensely!
"An 'intruder'...!"
...?
Inside the cabin, it once again fell completely silent.
Fang Qi's gaze turned dull as he quietly locked eyes with Gu Xi.
In Gu Xi's eyes, there was exhaustion, relief, disgust, bewilderment...
It was very complex.
Fang Qi's momentarily blank mind truly could not decipher it.
He only felt...
The sounds of the entire world...
The babbling of the stream outside the cabin, the rustling of leaves in the wind, the subtle sound of wood chips falling softly from the roof...
Had all vanished.
Even his heartbeat had stopped.
What... had he just heard?
She just said...
Said...!!
Fang Qi's body jolted violently!
As if struck by lightning, he sprang straight up from his chair!
"Screech—!"
With a harsh grating sound, he pushed the chair far back!
In two strides, he was in front of Gu Xi, staring intently at her face!
His entire body was shaking!
Shock!
His brain felt like it had been struck by lightning!
An unprecedented shock!
"What... did you... just say?!"
Gu Xi was not frightened by his sudden movement.
She turned her face, looking at him without fear, without shrinking back...
She was still smiling.
A self-deprecating and poignantly beautiful smile.
Like someone who had nothing left to lose.
It was as if... she had finally dropped a burden she had carried for far, far too long.
"Do you still not understand, Fang Qi?"
Her voice was hoarse and trembling.
"Why couldn't you just..."
"Stay well with your Liguang?"
Fang Qi stared at her blankly.
...?
What was she...?
"I have always..."
Gu Xi was still murmuring.
Every word she spoke seemed to be squeezed from her throat with the last ounce of her strength.
"Been helping you..."
"Always... I've been helping you..."
She repeated it twice.
Her tone sounded like a murmur, yet also like a plea for something.
"Helping you... achieve your ultimate goal..."
"Helping you..."
Her gaze, however, was fixed straight on Fang Qi!
Her eyes were trembling violently!
"Leave this place...!"
Fang Qi stood frozen in place.
In this split second...
He felt as if his blood was about to freeze.
...Huh?
She was...
Helping him...
Achieve his ultimate goal?
...Leave this place?
His mind was in utter chaos.
Wait a minute...
His ultimate goal... what was it again?
Oh, it seemed to be...
"Eternal True Love"?
To completely win over Liguang, achieve the good ending, and then...
Leave this world?
...Huh?
Gu Xi had been helping him achieve this all along...
"But you...!"
Gu Xi's voice interrupted his thoughts.
Her voice grew increasingly hoarse, tears shimmering in her eyes.
"But you..."
"Why did you have to get involved in so many things?"
Her lips quivered, and her slightly dust-stained fingers curled weakly once more.
"Why—"
Her fingers scratched lightly against the floor.
"Did you have to do whatever you pleased?"
The rise and fall of her chest became slower and slower.
She paused, as if the breath was caught in her throat, taking a long time to gasp it out.
"You only needed to..."
"Love your Liguang, and that would be enough."
"And then..."
"You could just leave."
"Leave this place. Go back to where you originally came from."
"Treat these... all of this, absolutely everything..."
"...as nothing more than a game."
Her voice was trembling beyond control.
"But you... why didn't you?"
She looked at Fang Qi, her gaze also trembling uncontrollably.
"Why couldn't you just..."
"Achieve your goal, and then..."
In those light brown eyes that had already begun to lose focus, the last trace of clarity suddenly gathered!
"Get the hell out of our world?!"
She stared straight at Fang Qi!
Watching him without blinking!
In her eyes, emotions he completely failed to understand were surging!
Fang Qi looked at those eyes in shock...
It was as if a nuclear bomb had detonated in his brain!
"You...!"
He wanted to say something...
But his brain seemed to jam, and he couldn't utter a single word!
Just now, she...
What did she just say?!
..."Invader"?
She knew he came from another world?!
Knew his "ultimate goal"?!
Knew that... as long as he achieved "Eternal True Love", he would leave this place?!
...How could she know?!
How could she possibly know all of this?!
Wait...?!
Fang Qi stared at her, suddenly stumbling and taking a half-step back!
His back slammed against the wall of the wooden cabin!
He raised his hands to cover his head, digging his fingers into his hair and gripping it tightly!
Wait a minute.
Wait wait wait wait...!!
Wasn't she...
Wasn't she an NPC?!
In the game "My Yandere Mechanical Wife", Gu Xi was...!
Huh?
What kind of character was she again?
Oh right...
She was... an important figure who kept An Lian in check during the late game!
She was an indispensable part of the game's mechanics!
Without her help, it was impossible for the player to achieve "Eternal True Love"!
That was why he had tried every possible means to "encounter" Gu Xi earlier...
Because this beautiful police officer herself... was the key to reaching the good ending!
And now...!
Fang Qi felt as if the world before his eyes was trembling!
Now, she still was.
In this world, she was still... his "matchmaker sister"!
Without her...
He wouldn't have developed true feelings for Liguang, whose red eyes were shattered, outside this little wooden cabin in the middle of nowhere!
Without her...
He wouldn't have been dragged into the mental illusion by Liguang, and those eighty-two years wouldn't have happened!
Without those eighty-two years, the current him and Liguang would be even more impossible!
She was the "matchmaker" for him and Liguang...
She always had been!
Whether in the game, or now!
Fang Qi's breathing started to grow ragged!
He stared fixedly ahead, staring at Gu Xi who was still looking at him with half-open eyes.
So...
She had been doing it on purpose all along?
It wasn't a coincidence?!
It wasn't out of a sense of justice?!
It wasn't because... she longed for a romantic relationship?!
Everything she did, even shattering Liguang's red eyes...
Was also to make him "achieve the ending"?!
To make him leave?!
But...
Who was she?
Who on earth was she?!
Fang Qi abruptly let go of his head and rushed to Gu Xi in two strides!
"Thud!"
His knees slammed onto the floor!
He no longer cared about his promise to Liguang, and cupped Gu Xi's face with both hands!
"Gu Xi! You—!"
He froze.
Staring blankly at this heroic face.
On this face, there was still the faint red mark he had pressed into it with the muzzle of his gun just now.
Her cheeks still held warmth.
But those eyes, those eyes that seemed to be begging for something just moments ago...
Now held absolutely nothing.
The light brown pupils had completely lost focus, leaving behind only two pools of...
Hollow, dried-up wells.
It was as if the soul named "Gu Xi" had been forcefully ripped from her eye sockets.
"Gu... Xi...?"
Fang Qi's voice was trembling.
His trembling fingers pressed against the side of her neck.
It was entirely cold.
There was no pulse.
He stared blankly at the face before him.
Her lips still maintained a slightly parted posture, and the corner of her mouth still bore that helpless curve from just now...
Her gaze was unfocused, staring hollowly at the ceiling.
She was dead.
Huh?
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
ver to a world of cultivation and returned invincible. Modern medicine is child's play compared to elixirs; technological might crumbles before true cultivation. My name is Qin Ning, Earth's sole cultivator!
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] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
