Fang Qi looked at her.
He watched her fingers gently touch her hair bun, her slightly flushed cheeks, and her evasive eyes...
He froze for a full two seconds.
Damn, he was starting to think about that again...
Ahem!
So early in the morning—what was he thinking!
"Slap!"
He suddenly slapped his thigh!
"Alright!"
His expression turned extremely serious!
"So today, my mission is..."
He gave Liguang’s cheek another firm pinch!
"Is to take my newlywed 'Lady' and go door-to-door visiting!"
He deliberately stressed the word "Lady"!
"Master—!!"
The silver-haired girl twisted in his arms again.
A corner of Fang Qi’s mouth twitched.
Stop…!
Stop squirming!
Then her little fist thumped against his chest.
It was soft, not painful at all.
Not satisfied, she grabbed his arm and bit down.
Her small fangs sank into his wrist—ticklish, stinging just a little.
But the corner of Fang Qi’s mouth curled upward instead...
Then he reached out and started tickling her!
"Ah... Master, stop...!"
Liguang giggled and twisted in his arms.
The two of them tumbled into a playful struggle on the sofa.
Fang Qi laughed wickedly:
"Go ahead, scream—no one’s coming to save you...!"
"Ding!"
A phone on the coffee table rang again.
Fang Qi: "..."
His smile faded.
Seriously, Lin Xiaoyou? Don’t you have anything better to do?!
He pressed down one hand on the silver-haired girl still squirming in his arms and biting at him...
With the other hand, he grabbed his phone.
Stop rushing me—I’ll go find you right now...
...Huh?
Staring at the screen, his gaze froze.
...It wasn’t Lin Xiaoyou?
It was an unknown number.
No name, no label—just a string of unfamiliar digits.
...Spam?
He instinctively opened the text message.
[Xiao Qi, remember: don’t go out for the next few days. It’s dangerous outside. If possible, contact me as soon as you can.]
Fang Qi: "...?!"
Both he and Liguang stiffened at the same time.
He stared at the message, pupils contracting.
...Xiao Qi.
That form of address... now, only one person would still use it.
...An Lian.
His "sister."
This text was from An Lian.
But...
Fang Qi squinted at the words.
An Lian—why didn’t she use her own number?
She used a strange number?
Why...?
Most importantly...
The content of the message was warning him not to leave?
Right now, just when he was about to go out with Liguang!
...Warning him this timely?
He had just said he would go out, and the warning arrived?
...Huh?
Staring at the words on the screen, Fang Qi’s eyes went blank.
The mood for playfulness and sweet talk vanished instantly.
...Coincidence?
Or...
Was she, like Lin Xiaoyou, watching him?
Did she know what he was saying, that he was about to leave, and so she sent the warning at this exact moment?
...But that didn’t make sense.
If she were watching them from somewhere opposite, how would she know what he and Liguang were talking about?
They had only spoken—they hadn’t even moved yet!
How did she know they were about to go out?
He stared blankly at the message...
A sudden chill ran down his spine.
...What did this mean?
Was he and Liguang being bugged?
...Bugged?
His eyes widened slowly.
Wait...?!
If they were being bugged, then everything last night had been...?!
He shuddered.
The silver-haired girl in his arms quickly sat up.
Liguang’s expression shifted instantly.
The coy look from their tussle moments ago vanished without a trace.
Her phoenix-like eyes narrowed, and the crimson in her irises began to flicker rapidly.
She scanned the entire room swiftly.
The corners of the ceiling, the edges of the chandelier, the gaps in the shelves...
Then she looked out past the balcony’s glass door toward the reflective windows.
Finally, her gaze snapped to the tightly shut security door.
Fang Qi’s heartbeat quickened as he watched her move.
Is there a problem?
Is there a problem, Wife?!
After a few seconds, the silver-haired girl frowned slightly.
"Master..."
She shook her head gently.
"Liguang doesn’t detect any anomalies."
She looked up; her amber left eye still moist from their earlier play, without that familiar flash of blue light.
"Master, Liguang’s core is dormant right now, but..."
She glanced briefly toward the window.
"When Liguang got emotional just now, the core awoke for an instant."
Her tone was cautious.
"Even though Liguang didn’t deliberately scan the surroundings at that moment, my perception became extremely sharp."
"If there really was something abnormal..."
She looked back at Fang Qi, her expression serious.
"Liguang would not have missed it completely at that time."
Fang Qi’s eyelid twitched.
Yeah.
That was true.
Just a moment ago, when Liguang explained those ten years to him—when she got emotional...
A glimmer of blue had indeed flashed in her amber eyes!
At that time, the core really had briefly woken up.
So...
Well...
He trusted his Crazy Girl. He trusted his Wife.
Fang Qi took a deep breath, and then...
"...What about last night?"
He asked, his voice strained—dreading the answer.
"Last night, was there...?!"
His eyelid twitched.
Last night—nobody was peeking, right?
If someone really dared to watch or listen...
I’ll turn them into minced meat!
"Master...!"
Liguang’s face instantly turned crimson!
She grabbed Fang Qi’s arm and bit down hard again.
...Ow!
That hurt!
When she let go, there was actually a deep toothmark left behind.
Then she quickly buried her face in his chest.
Even her ears were bright red!
"Last night, it was even more impossible!"
Her voice was muffled, both shy and annoyed.
"You know exactly what state Liguang was in last night, Master!"
"If there had been a problem last night, I wouldn’t have let you have your way so easily...!"
She couldn’t finish the sentence.
She started squirming desperately in his arms again.
Muffled sounds of "mmph mmph" escaped her.
...Huh?
Fang Qi was taken aback for a moment before he understood.
Oh.
...She had a point!
Last night, when he was... doing that with her...
That blue light in her amber eyes had been there, flickering and surging without stopping!
The first time, the second time, the third time...
In short...
Every time he looked into her eyes, the blue was right there.
Liguang’s core normally awakened through "emotional excitement"...
And when she was doing that with him, how could her emotions not be excited?
Of course they were!
So the core had remained awake the whole time.
Liguang back then...
She was beyond strong!
Thinking it through like this...
Fang Qi let out a long sigh of relief.
Well, that was a relief...
Thank goodness.
He pursed his lips.
Ah...
Last night, he was either busy or lost in deep thought about the meaning of life...
He simply hadn’t had the mind to check if anyone was spying on them!
Good thing Liguang had been paying attention.
So...
He was probably overthinking it.
An Lian’s anonymous text—the timing was just a coincidence.
...Alright, alright.
He smiled.
“Liguang…”
He reached up, pinching Liguang’s flushed little face, gently lifting her head from where it was buried in his chest.
Looking at Liguang, who was glaring at him with a rosy face, his tone turned teasing:
“Are you really sure? Last night, you were so excited, you even called out—”
“Master!!!”
“Don’t — ow!!!”
…
Fang Qi grimaced, clutching his arm, which now bore a deep bite mark.
Before him, the silver-haired girl glared at him with a mix of shyness and irritation.
Mist gathered in her amber pupils, threatening to spill over!
Fang Qi glared back!
“You always bite! I was going to say—”
He raised his hand and pinched Liguang’s cheek firmly:
“What if, since you were too worked up last night to notice, someone really was spying on us? What would we do then?”
The mist in Liguang’s mismatched eyes froze. She blinked…
And then, suddenly, she broke into a radiant, brilliant smile!
“Then we kill them all,” she said, her tone light.
“Isn’t it simple? Just kill every last one.”
Fang Qi blinked.
Oh!
No wonder she was his wife!
She thought exactly like him.
But his wife…
Could she not smile so sweetly when saying stuff like that?
It was terrifying!
But Liguang suddenly glanced at the phone in his hand, tilting her head slightly.
“…Master.”
She smiled demurely, her voice soft and sweet.
“Since Miss An Lian says it’s dangerous outside right now, wouldn’t it be better for Master to stay home?”
Fang Qi blinked.
Staying home wasn’t bad…
Then Liguang spoke again, her voice still syrupy:
“Even though Master just said he wanted to take Liguang, his ‘newly-wed Lady,’ door to door to visit everyone.”
She smiled.
“Even though Master ‘can’t do it anymore,’ Liguang still thinks…”
Her smile was unbearably sweet.
“Master’s safety is what matters most.”
Fang Qi: “…”
Alright.
Wife, your tone…
Is seriously passive-aggressive!
Who taught you that!
She was sulking again!
True, not long ago, she’d been thrilled to go out with him as his ‘Lady’ to ‘visit’…
Then An Lian’s text had ruined that plan.
Still…
No big deal!
Watch me work!
Fang Qi reached out and pinched Liguang’s nose, giving it a gentle twist.
“Mm…”
Liguang blinked, staring at him.
Fang Qi grinned:
“Liguang, think about it—as a newlywed couple…”
“Shouldn’t people be coming to us to celebrate instead?”
He said it with utter conviction!
“Since none of them came to our wedding…”
He looked at Liguang’s slightly widening eyes, laughing.
“Shouldn’t we make them come make up for it right now? Like…”
He glanced down at the anonymous text on his phone screen.
Pursing his lips slightly.
Like An Lian.
This Sister An Lian, who’d suddenly warned him.
He hadn’t seen her since she’d visited their home to tell them her story.
She must have had quite a few ‘dreams’ since then.
Especially… eighty-two cycles.
Like Lin Xiaoyou, she’d probably endured that endless, repeating nightmare of commuting to work.
Just thinking about it gave him chills.
And yesterday—Day Nine—she’d likely cycled several times too.
…He did owe her a proper, face-to-face meeting.
Fang Qi looked back at the silver-haired girl in his arms, who was tilting her head and staring at him with wide eyes.
“Liguang…”
He spoke softly.
“This time, Liguang gets to be the real ‘Lady of the house,’ my wife, and host the guests. How does that sound?”
He ruffled Liguang’s little head.
Then—
“Mm…!”
That little head promptly burrowed into his chest!
She started wriggling in his embrace again!
“Liguang, Liguang will do whatever Master says…!”
She was acting spoiled!
“Whatever Master tells me, Liguang will do…!”
“And…”
Her voice suddenly dropped to a whisper.
Then she lifted her head slightly, and her red right pupil peered at him through the gaps in her silver bangs, emitting a steady, crimson glow.
“Liguang also wants to ask Miss An Lian something.”
“Liguang wants to know…”
That crimson eye narrowed.
“Why her warning was so perfectly timed.”
…Huh?
Fang Qi blinked.
Then he smacked Liguang’s little head!
“Don’t you dare lay a hand on An Lian!”
He warned the clearly scheming Crazy Girl in his arms!
“Hmph…!”
Liguang let out a soft snort.
Then she lowered her head and gave his arm another gentle bite!
“Master really does protect her, doesn’t he?”
Fang Qi’s eye twitched.
…Of course he did!
He’d already struck one of his own allies before!
Back in An Lian’s apartment, grabbing her by the hair, forcing her to look at the remains in the hallway, telling her, “This is all because of you”…
What a beast he’d been!
He was still riddled with guilt!
He didn’t want to do that again.
“Hehe…”
But Liguang suddenly giggled, pressing her cheek against his chest.
Her voice carried a lazy contentment.
“Don’t worry, Master. Liguang is very confident now.”
“Liguang and Master are already so close. We are…”
She nuzzled against him.
“They can’t compare anymore.”
Fang Qi pursed his lips.
Wife, you were never comparable to them. You…
“Still—”
She lifted her head again, her pretty face putting on an innocent, guileless expression!
“But, Master, please don’t betray Liguang’s trust. Otherwise…”
Her gaze flicked to the scattered fragments of the scent diffuser still on the carpet, then lowered.
“Liguang will really do what she said, you know?”
“After all…”
She gave Fang Qi a meaningful look, her phoenix eyes curving into crescents.
“Master won’t even die…”
She blinked again.
Fang Qi: “…”
He knew what she meant.
—Master won’t die anyway.
—Master can just reload.
—Master can bounce back!
…But your Master is afraid of pain, okay?!
Fang Qi clenched his teeth in frustration!
This Crazy Girl really had figured out how to manipulate him!
“That’s it!”
He glared at the silver-haired girl before him.
“Tonight, I’m going to teach you a proper lesson!!”
He growled, putting some menace into his threat.
But Liguang’s cheeks flushed, and she blinked shyly:
“Master…”
She bit her lip, bashful.
“Master can teach Liguang right now, if you want~”
“Liguang dared to say such disrespectful things to Master…”
She squirmed a little, then buried her face in Fang Qi’s chest again, her voice muffled:
“Come on, Master, teach Liguang now~”
Fang Qi kept a straight face.
Lust is emptiness, emptiness is lust…
He took a deep breath…
Then he firmly tousled Liguang’s small bun!
He couldn’t handle this!
First thing in the morning!
No time for this nonsense!
Besides…
“…Time to get down to business!”
He picked up his phone, staring at the anonymous text.
His eyes narrowed.
An Lian, huh.
He thought for a moment, then decided not to reply to the unknown number.
Instead, he scrolled to the contact labeled [An Lian], opened it, and sent a message.
[Fang Qi: Specialist An Lian, I’m free all day today. You can come over for that check-up you mentioned.]
He hit send.
Before he could even put the phone down…
“Ding!”
A reply came instantly.
An Lian: Okay, Mr. Fang. I'll be there in half an hour.
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