The dream was over.
I was truly in a daze for a long time, until...
Xiao Qi, you suddenly reached out to me.
You said you were just vacationing on an island.
You were coming back soon.
So...
I spent that entire day in a haze.
None of that would happen again.
I really...
Xiao Qi, I...
I’m not telling you this to play the victim.
I just...
I just want you to know...
The things I did later weren’t meant to harm you.
I had a reason for having the backend super AI capture Liguang’s emotional data.
I just...
I didn’t want that kind of thing to happen again.
I just didn’t expect, Xiao Qi, that Liguang meant...
that much to you.
I also didn’t expect that the next day, I would...
have another “nightmare.”
Another one.
In that dream... you and Liguang came to my door.
You barged into my apartment with her and pinned me to the floor.
Xiao Qi, I’d be lying if I said there wasn’t anger and resentment in me at that moment.
I was truly both shocked and furious.
I couldn’t understand why you had suddenly become like this!
I couldn’t understand how the Xiao Qi who used to hand out candy to every kid at the orphanage could turn into the person standing before me, I...!
Ah!
Xiao Qi, don’t make that face.
Don’t feel guilty.
After all, it was caused by my own actions.
I was the one who applied for the data capture, I was the one who made the backend AI deem Liguang anomalous, I was the one who pushed you both to that point.
Your reaction at the time...
I thought about it a lot later.
That was probably the only way you could make me understand.
To show me, in such an extreme way, just how important Liguang was to you.
So...
I just hope you won’t blame me for what I did then.
Back then, I didn’t know Liguang meant that much to you.
But it was also at that moment that I basically confirmed one thing.
Xiao Qi, you didn’t even know about...
the Second Machine Crisis.
...That’s impossible.
How could it be?
Even if Uncle Fang and Aunt Su sheltered you completely, even if they never let you get involved in the company’s affairs...
There’s no way you wouldn’t know about the Second Machine Crisis!
You had come to our orphanage for so many visits back then!
You handed out candy to every child, ran around the yard with them!
Our orphanage was born because of the Second Machine Crisis.
Those children’s parents, my parents and brother...
They all died in that disaster.
You had clearly seen those children’s tears, heard the teachers tell stories of the kids losing their parents...
How could you not even know about this catastrophe?
So, I suddenly realized...
Your “indifference” wasn’t because you were cold-blooded or lacked empathy.
You simply didn’t remember any of it.
You had lost your memory, and...
completely so.
I was so shocked at the time that my anger was swept away by this discovery.
You had actually forgotten something so important.
You had forgotten all those who died, the shattered families, the disaster that changed the world.
But after the shock, I also felt a bit grateful.
I was glad you lost your memory.
You only said those things because you didn’t know anything.
If you remembered everything, if you knew how my parents and brother died, and still said “it doesn’t matter”...
Then, I truly wouldn’t know how to face you.
I was also glad that because you lost your memory, you didn’t remember me.
You had forgotten everything.
Not just me.
I don’t know why you lost your memory.
Maybe...
Uncle Fang and Aunt Su did something to you?
I’m not sure.
But by then, things were already beyond repair.
After that...
Heh...
Let what happened pass.
Xiao Qi, you were...
a bit too much back then.
But...
Since you’ve lost your memory, since everything can start over, then...
it’s nothing.
After waking from that second “nightmare,” I still thought the same way.
That nightmare was too real.
I was still trembling after waking up, and it took a long time to confirm I was still alive.
Then I understood...
You had forgotten everything, and in this world, you only had Liguang, so...
you did those crazy things to protect her.
Your madness was because I was trying to take your Liguang away.
I understand.
Back then, I didn’t know if the nightmare was real. I just...
wanted to find you.
I wanted to tell you that in this world, you still have a sister protecting you.
Please, please...
don’t really do something that crazy.
Don’t really push yourself to the edge.
But...
Xiao Qi, now I also know.
You acted that way, unafraid of death, unafraid of causing a stir, unafraid of alienating everyone, because you felt...
everything could be reset, right?
...I don’t understand your ability.
Even now, I still can’t quite grasp what’s going on.
I just want to say...
Xiao Qi, what if one day...
you can’t reset anymore?
What if one day, you want to start over, only to find that nothing happens...
Could you really bear the consequences?
Would you really not crumble?
Xiao Qi, it’s precisely because things can’t be reset...
that we learn to cherish.
Because we know that what’s lost can never return...
we learn to stand up time and again from setbacks.
We learn not to trap ourselves in the regrets of yesterday.
So, Xiao Qi, even if you can make everything start over again and again, I still want to say...
...
...
“Don’t do something you’ll truly regret... okay?”
An Lian looked at Fang Qi, her voice soft.
The gauze on her right ear was dark red, her face still pale.
In her clear, gray eyes, there was now only a faint tenderness.
As if she were cautioning a younger brother... who would never grow up.
Fang Qi stared at her, stunned.
His gaze trembled.
He opened his mouth...
but no words came out.
Sister An Lian...
...He truly hadn’t known.
In that first timeline when he and Liguang eloped to the island, Sister An Lian had done so much for them.
So...
Everything back then wasn’t just Liguang offering her crimson pupils at sea for him.
There was also An Lian, helping him behind the scenes time and again.
Only he, foolishly holding Liguang’s hand and shouting, “Let’s elope!”
Not thinking about anything, not considering anything, like a hot-headed idiot, charging into the jungle, then drifting at sea with Liguang...
With no plan at all.
If...
he couldn’t reset?
If, back then, the “end of the world” outcome couldn’t be undone...
Could he really...
bear it?
Haha...
That would be...
worse than death.
Don’t do something you’ll truly regret... huh?
Fang Qi’s lips quivered:
“Okay...”
“No way!!!!!!”
A sudden shout!
It was Lin Xiaoyou!
Fang Qi flinched slightly, looking at her.
She had already jumped to her feet!
This Miss Genius had been sitting on that little stool earlier, munching on potato chips, her cheeks stuffed full.
Those two little pale legs were still swinging back and forth, and she hadn't seemed to be listening carefully at all.
But now...
She suddenly threw the empty bag of chips to the side!
She stood up, hands on her hips, her almond-shaped eyes wide open!
"How can this be!"
She glared at An Lian!
"If you have the ability, you should use it, not tie your own hands!"
"If you do that, you'll only end up missing out on more!"
"Besides...!"
She clenched her teeth slightly, her gaze trembling!
"What do you mean by 'don't trap yourself in the prison of yesterday's regrets'?!"
"Some regrets are meant to be remembered for a lifetime! They're meant to be made up for with all your might!"
She stared hard at An Lian!
"An Lian, do you even know how much I envy Fang Qi's ability? I... I...!"
As she spoke, her eyes turned red!
Her almond-shaped eyes were now filled with watery light, but she stubbornly refused to let it fall.
An Lian's expression froze slightly.
Her gray eyes widened a little as she looked at the suddenly agitated round-faced girl before her...
For a moment, she didn't know what to do.
She probably had no idea why Lin Xiaoyou had suddenly become so emotional.
In the charging dock nearby, Liguang's amber pupils still flickered with a faint blue data stream.
Through the transparent hatch, her gaze fell on Lin Xiaoyou's slightly trembling back...
She pressed her lips together gently.
She didn't say a word, but there was no surprise in her eyes.
Fang Qi pursed his lips, silently watching Lin Xiaoyou's clenched little fists.
He knew exactly why she had suddenly exploded.
Lin Xiaoyou... she had always regretted what she had done to her father!
Those three years—each phone call only lasted a few minutes, calling him "Dad" in the most polite and distant tone, never asking how he was doing.
She used not coming home to punish her father, but then he died in that car accident...
Forever leaving her behind.
His ability was to rewind the world to the early morning, but Lin Xiaoyou...
She even wanted the entire world to rewind forward!
Back to the day before the disaster ever happened!
What An Lian said, "don't trap yourself in the prison of yesterday's regrets"...
It hit exactly the deepest wound she had!
For Lin Xiaoyou, some regrets simply cannot be let go!
They are meant to be fixed with every ounce of strength, even if...!
Even if it means trading the whole world for it.
An Lian's beliefs and hers...
Clashed far too much.
That's why she was so emotional.
Who was right and who was wrong?
He didn't know.
He wasn't that smart, and he couldn't see that far ahead.
He just wanted...
To cherish the present.
To cherish—
"—!"
Lin Xiaoyou sniffled hard, then lifted her sleeve and wiped her eyes forcefully!
She scrubbed away the watery light that was about to overflow, stubbornly erasing it.
Then she turned her head sharply and glared at Fang Qi again!
Her almond-shaped eyes were still red, but a new fire had ignited in them!
"Senior!"
Her voice was still a little shaky!
"Sister An Lian only said things like that because she doesn't know the true nature of this world!"
But each word came out stronger than the last!
"By now, Liguang should be charged enough. It's time to get moving! Let Sister An Lian see—"
She turned her head abruptly again, staring at An Lian!
Her reddened almond-shaped eyes locked straight onto An Lian's confused gray eyes!
She sniffled once more, lifted her chin—
Her expression was both stubborn and fragile!
"Let Sister An Lian see what this world..."
"Is really made of!"
ng to die together with you." Lin Xuan is dead, his body thrown into the river by his scumbag lover and her accomplice. She, the president of the Su Group, is decisive, ruthless, and ice-cold. For three days and three nights, she had his body fished out of the river, and without hesitation, she kissed the bloated corpse of Lin Xuan. She laid down beside him in a cold coffin, their fingers intertwined, a smile lingering on her lips as she closed her eyes. The noble and cold-hearted woman, only bending for one man—Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan, with his golden finger, is reborn and returns to the day of his wedding to the treacherous woman. Su Qiang comes to steal the bride. Lin Xuan's eyes light up, eager to pledge his loyalty on the spot, but instead, her kiss transfers a glass of drugged wine into his mouth, causing him to pass out... 【Male Protagonist with Single Female Lead】【Yandere Tycoon】【Action-Packed】【True vs. Fake Heir】
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!
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
