Fang Qi’s breath caught slightly.
The almond-shaped eyes in front of him were still looking at him, but it seemed like they weren’t really seeing him.
She was looking at something further away, something…
That existed in the past, something forever out of reach.
“Inside that…”
she murmured.
“Records all my changes from when I was little.”
“From eight years old to seventeen…”
“From a quiet little thing to a ray of sunshine.”
Her lips trembled.
“Dad’s handwriting was so ugly, completely different from Aunt Su’s.”
“Crooked, like crawling bugs.”
“Heh…”
She even let out a small laugh.
The corners of her mouth lifted slightly, then quickly fell again.
“But those words… every stroke was so forceful.”
“As serious as writing an experiment report, recording…”
She continued murmuring.
“When I first called him ‘Dad’…”
“When I first learned to walk…”
“When I first got full marks on an exam…”
“There were no complaints inside.”
Her eyes grew redder.
“He couldn’t write those complaints.”
“But I could tell.”
“I knew.”
“Every single word was the hardship of him raising me since I was little.”
Her hands clenched into fists, gripping tightly.
“Later, those three years…”
Her voice suddenly trembled even more.
“The three years I went to school…”
“He only slept four or five hours a day, and half his hair turned white.”
“He kept tirelessly debugging Sister Xiaoqing, just so that when I came back…”
Her eyes quivered.
“I could become Sister Xiaoqing’s master again…”
She murmured softly.
“The reason that notebook ended up in the lab was also because…”
“After I went to college, Dad…”
“Rarely came home anymore.”
“Because I wasn’t home.”
She bit her lip.
“He just stayed in the lab, busy when awake, sleeping when tired…”
“But he…”
She slowly closed her eyes.
“Never told me any of this.”
“Not once.”
Fang Qi opened his mouth, but nothing came out.
A slight pressure reached the back of his hand.
Liguang still stood there.
She looked at Lin Xiaoyou, her lips parting slightly…
Those usually certain, mismatched eyes now held a hint of panic!
Fang Qi squeezed her hand back firmly.
Don’t panic.
This isn’t your fault.
It’s just…
“But I… I…”
When Lin Xiaoyou opened her eyes again, the light in them had faded.
“What have I done…”
Her voice crumbled.
“For three years, I kept sulking…”
“I kept giving him the cold shoulder…”
“Every time he called, I only said a couple of words before hanging up, never asking how he was doing…”
“That day I came home, the day of the car accident…”
She gritted her teeth.
“I hadn’t contacted him for over a month!”
Her voice choked, but she forced it down her throat!
She lifted her head.
Her almond-shaped eyes were watery, about to overflow.
“Senior, Liguang…!”
But she still forced her eyes wide, staring hard at Fang Qi and Liguang.
“This isn’t regret.”
She murmured.
“It’s not…!”
Her lips trembled violently!
“If… if it’s fated that I can’t save him…”
She was looking at something far away, her voice coming from somewhere distant.
“Then I… I can only…”
Her lips continued shaking.
Fang Qi was silent.
It was the first time he’d seen her like this.
This genius young lady, who always used her playful grin as a shield…
Who stayed calm even when dragging them into a poison suicide in the secret room, and with a hoarse voice and a smile said:
“Dying together with Senior isn’t so bad, is it!”
But now, standing in front of him, hands clenched, eyes red…
She looked like a child about to break.
“You want to ‘save everyone,’ don’t you?”
Liguang’s voice suddenly rang out.
Soft.
Lin Xiaoyou shuddered!
…Huh?
Fang Qi’s eyes also trembled.
Save… everyone?
Ah…!
His eyes slowly widened.
He remembered!
Lin Xiaoyou, Lin You…
She really did want to save everyone.
In the timeline where Liguang broke Lin Xiaoyou’s neck, Sister Xiaoqing had broken down, saying, “She just wanted to save everyone.”
In the underground research lab, he had also asked Lin Xiaoyou, “Who is ‘everyone’ you’re talking about?”
Lin Xiaoyou had grinned at the time and said, “I can only tell you this after you choose to fully cooperate with me.”
He stared blankly at Lin Xiaoyou.
Now…
They should be in full cooperation, shouldn’t they?
Lin Xiaoyou also stared blankly back at him.
In her reddened almond-shaped eyes, there was a brief haze.
“Senior.”
She spoke softly, her voice slightly nasal.
“Do you think this world…”
“Is it real, or is it fake?”
Fang Qi’s pupils contracted slightly.
“Senior, you can make everything in this world go back.”
She continued murmuring.
“‘Rewind,’ hehe…”
“Senior is truly amazing…”
The corners of her mouth lifted slightly, as if in self-mockery.
“Just like in a game.”
“So…”
Her eyes quivered as she looked at Fang Qi.
“Are we just in a game?”
“Are we…”
“Just data?”
Fang Qi: “…”
Maybe so.
Maybe not.
He didn’t know.
He didn’t even want to know.
He just wanted to be with his crazy girl, just like this…!
Lin Xiaoyou’s eyelashes drooped slightly again.
“In that case… if…”
Her almond-shaped eyes widened slightly, pupils unfocused, staring straight at the patch of water stain on the sofa that hadn’t dried yet.
“If I were to ‘reset’ this world…”
She said softly.
“What then?”
…What?
Fang Qi’s mind went blank.
…What did she just say?
“Back to…”
Lin Xiaoyou continued murmuring.
“The very beginning.”
Talking to herself.
“Let this world start all over again.”
The corners of her mouth lifted slightly again.
“Then Dad…”
“Wouldn’t he be reborn?”
…?
Fang Qi stared at her in a daze.
She…?
“No…”
Lin Xiaoyou was dazed for a moment.
“Not just Dad.”
“Mom…”
“Mom would come back to life too.”
She still stared unfocused at the water stain, the corners of her mouth faintly lifted.
As if…
She was seeing a scenery she’d never laid eyes on before.
“I will have a complete family.”
She murmured softly.
“A happy family since childhood.”
Her voice was light, as if making a wish.
“Dad won’t be so tired. Mom won’t leave so early. As for me…”
She lifted her head, looking at Fang Qi with absent eyes.
“I don’t want to be this smart anymore.”
“I…”
“I don’t want to be Lin You anymore.”
“I just want to…”
“Become an ordinary girl.”
“A little silly, happy day by day…”
She let out a soft laugh.
“A girl who can take the initiative, shamelessly pursue the senior from work.”
Fang Qi looked at her, his eyes trembling.
“I want Sister Xiaoqing…”
She continued murmuring.
"Won't be abused by the previous owner."
"An AI uprising won't happen either..."
"Everyone who perished in the disaster..."
"Can be saved."
"Everyone gets to have their own happy life."
Her eyelashes trembled slightly.
"Like this..."
Her apricot eyes refocused.
"Does that mean I've... saved everyone?"
"Senior, tell me..."
She stared straight at Fang Qi.
"A world like this..."
Her voice quivered slightly.
"...Does it really exist?"
The living room fell quiet.
Only the ticking of the clock could be heard.
Fang Qi stared blankly at her.
Ah...
So...
That's how it was.
So...
That's how it was!
Lin Xiaoyou's "saving everyone"...
Had meant this all along?
She wasn't trying to save some awakening AI from Duskmist like he had first thought.
She wanted to...
"Reset" this world...?
Make everything go back to the very beginning...?
Back to...
Before the disaster ever struck?
Fang Qi's gaze wavered.
Genius girl, your goal is a little... over the top.
He, as an outsider, could only do...
Was roll back.
Back to the dawn of the previous day.
Back to that cup of fifty-two-degree memory tea.
But she...
Lin You, Lin Xiaoyou.
She was a native of this world, and after discovering its true nature...
She actually wanted to start everything over!
Wanted to reconstruct this "game"!
So...?
He stared at Lin Xiaoyou's still somewhat dazed round face...
And suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.
Wait a minute...
Had she already been walking down this path...
For a very long time?
Ah...
He suddenly felt a dawning realization and confusion.
...No wonder.
No wonder, when she had verified that his rollback ability worked back then...
She had been so excited!
No wonder, in the secret lab at the research institute, after that sapphire code devoured everything around them...
She wasn't the least bit surprised by that "darkness"!
She even...
Knew what that darkness was for!
Knew that whatever the darkness devoured would cease to exist forever!
Knew that this was the result of "deletion from the fundamental level"!
Because...
She had been researching this all along.
She wasn't playing some game of cat and mouse with that damned "Dawnlight" or "Duskmist"...
She was researching...
How to "overturn," how to "delete" this world!
How...
To format and reset this world?
Fang Qi felt the veins at his temples throbbing.
Pounding intensely!
Beating without end!
...Haha.
No wonder she was so broke that paying for a meal made her heart ache.
Of course she'd spend all that money!
This...
Genius.
Madwoman!
He looked at the round-faced girl before him, opened his mouth: "You..."
"It will."
Liguang's gentle voice suddenly rang out from beside him.
"It will."
Fang Qi's eyes twitched!
Lin Xiaoyou shuddered violently!
She spun around sharply!
Stared blankly at the silver-haired girl who had just spoken!
At that moment, Liguang was standing right next to Fang Qi.
Her expression was incredibly solemn!
The scarlet in her right eye glowed very brightly!
And from the amber left eye...
A faint sapphire light was slowly seeping out from the depths of her pupil!
...?
Fang Qi's pupils trembled.
"It will."
The silver-haired girl repeated once more.
Her tone was resolute.
"It's definitely possible."
A slight smile curled at the corner of her mouth.
"Liguang isn't sure why, Liguang just feels like..."
The sapphire light in her eyes surged gently.
"This goal is achievable."
"And moreover..."
Her words suddenly caught in her throat.
Within those heterochromatic eyes, something was rapidly flashing!
Sapphire and scarlet, two different colors of data streams, churning wildly deep within her pupils!
Finally...
The sapphire was swallowed by the scarlet.
She tilted her head slightly, her brow lightly furrowed, her lips slightly parted as if to say something...
But in the end, she gave up.
"Anyway, it's possible."
She concluded in the simplest possible way.
...?
Fang Qi looked at her in a daze.
He felt completely confused.
What... was happening now?
And what had Liguang just guaranteed?
Lin Xiaoyou, on the other hand, stared blankly at Liguang.
In those red-rimmed apricot eyes, something was trembling violently!
Shock, disbelief, and...
Hope!
"WAH——!!!"
She suddenly let out a howl!
Fang Qi: "?!"
It startled him so much he jumped!
He saw her rush straight for Liguang!
Turning into a pink human cannonball!
"Liguang!!! You're my birth mother!!!"
Fang Qi: "?????"
Birth what?! Are you freaking...!!
The instant he saw that tear-streaked round face hurtling toward his wife...
His body moved before his brain!
He directly raised a foot!
A clean kick landed squarely on Lin Xiaoyou's side!
Not hard, just the right amount of force!
"Ahah——!"
The genius girl was kicked sprawling sideways!
She toppled straight into the nearby sofa, face down on the cushion, her legs kicking futilely in the air!
Fang Qi glared at her!
Don't think just because you're a genius, you can get fresh with my wife!
And...!
"Liguang is your birth mother?!"
He growled through gritted teeth!
"Then who the hell is your birth father!"
Lin Xiaoyou immediately propped herself up from the sofa cushion on her elbows!
Her eyes were still red, the tip of her nose pink, her lashes still wet.
But on that little round face, that infuriating, cheeky grin was back!
"It's Senior!"
She spoke without an ounce of hesitation!
"You are my birth father!"
Every syllable clear as day!
Ha——?!
Fang Qi nearly choked on his own spit!
"Wheeze cough cough—!!"
He coughed violently several times, then glared again at that grinning round face!
"You-you-you...!"
Lin Xiaoyou, do you have no shame at all?
I'm your father?
Then who exactly are you trying to save?!
Lin Xiaoyou probably read the twisted expression on Fang Qi's face, scrambled back up from the sofa, and rubbed the spot where she had just been kicked...
That little round face still wore that same jokey, mischievous look.
"Oh come on, Senior, don't look at me like that!"
She waved her hand, her tone light and breezy again!
" I call it being flexible!"
"A real man adapts to circumstances!"
Fang Qi: "..."
Unbelievable!
So this is a genius's emotional control ability?
A god of emotional whiplash!
He couldn't compete!
Then...
He glanced sideways.
Beside him...
The silver-haired girl was watching him with a smile.
But her gaze was lowered slightly.
...Was she looking at his foot?
Liguang's gaze darted back and forth between his shoe and Lin Xiaoyou.
Then...
The corners of her mouth curled again into that gentle, obedient smile.
—Mm, good thing the master is wearing shoes, that kick didn't directly touch Miss Lin.
Her expression clearly said just that!
Fang Qi: "..."
You're unbelievable too!
"Oh, Senior!"
Lin Xiaoyou had fully gotten up by now!
Hands clasped behind her back, head tilted, giggling:
"That just now was my brain short-circuiting!"
"Why would I suddenly start talking about such heavy stuff!"
She said, blinking at Fang Qi.
"We'd better hurry up and save your Sister An Lian!"
"Rescuing people is what matters most!"
But her tone was definitely not one of someone performing a rescue—it was far too cheerful!
"Besides, we’ll surely get plenty of information about what happened back then!"
"And even if we don’t..."
She tapped her lips with a finger, blinked her eyes, and deliberately played cute!
"It doesn’t matter anyway!"
She giggled.
"What was it Liguang said just now?"
She turned her head toward the silver-haired girl, her almond-shaped eyes curving!
"Making up for regrets!"
"That’s right! Making up for regrets! Liguang is right! Whatever Mama Li Guang says is always right!"
Fang Qi: "..."
Ridiculous.
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!
e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
