He lowered his head, looking at the silver-haired girl who was gripping him tightly.
But Liguang didn’t look up.
She stood before him, her head bowed, her hand still not letting go.
Her loose silver hair cascaded down, veiling her face from the side.
Yet Fang Qi’s eyelids twitched sharply!
Because her shoulders were trembling slightly!
...Something was wrong!
Wife, something is definitely off with you!
He immediately raised both hands, cupping her soft cheeks!
He lifted her face with force!
And then...
He saw her eyes.
Those beautiful, heterochromatic eyes.
In her amber left eye, a faint blue data stream was calm, gentle.
Reassuring.
But in the other eye, the crimson one that had previously been suppressed until it was almost dim...
...Huh?!
Fang Qi’s gaze froze!
In the crimson eye, line after line of blood-red code was racing by at an incredible speed!
Yet there was something...
eerily calm about it?
Because the scarlet data stream wasn’t exploding or flickering wildly as before.
Right now, it was streaking across her pupil at an extremely high frequency!
Line after line, refreshing madly!
Dense, scarlet data streams connected into solid lines in the depths of her eyes!
Each line had barely emerged from the depths of her pupils...
before it was immediately crushed by the next one!
Layer upon layer, piling up into a scarlet that almost spilled out of her eye socket!
But because the speed was so fast, it instead...
gave off an uncanny sense of stillness, of emptiness!
It made Fang Qi’s scalp tingle slightly!
Wife, you...!
Meanwhile, Liguang’s left hand was still clinging tightly to Fang Qi’s wrist!
Creak...!
A faint creaking sound came from the bones!
Fang Qi’s face twitched sharply.
...That hurts!
Wife, you’re being abusive...!
But the look in her amber eye made him briefly lose his focus.
At that moment, she was gazing at him in a daze, enchanted.
She raised her right hand as well, her slender fingers gently stroking his cheek.
It tickled...
“Aqi...”
She murmured tenderly.
Then, her amber eye suddenly flickered briefly in confusion!
The crimson eye seemed to glow a bit brighter!
“Don’t leave—!!”
A trembling whisper!
Then...
“Don’t leave... Liguang’s sight.”
She softened again.
“That way...”
“Liguang can—!!”
Once more, confusion and trembling took over, and she gripped his wrist tightly!
But that amber eye... remained so gentle.
“...can protect Aqi.”
Finally, she gently stroked his cheek again.
Gazing at him in a daze, enchanted.
Fang Qi stared back at her, stunned.
Wife, you...
Before him, tears shimmered faintly in her amber left eye.
A gentle, azure-blue light drifted through it.
And in that crimson eye...
Scarlet data streams continued racing past, line after line at lightning speed!
There was no sign of them stopping!
So fast that the red glow nearly seemed stagnant!
Her gaze was also nearly hollow.
Yet the corners of her mouth lifted gently.
“Aqi, don’t wander off, okay?”
The silver-haired girl murmured softly, her amber eye wet with tenderness.
“Otherwise, Liguang doesn’t know what she herself...”
She tilted her head, her lips trembling as they rose higher!
Her crimson eye stared straight at him!
“...mi-ght-do-to-her-Mas-ter!!”
...
...
Fang Qi stood in front of the charging pod.
He looked at Liguang, who had obediently stepped back into the pod to recharge.
On the screen, her battery level showed she was already at 13.7%.
The silver-haired girl stood behind the transparent door, her head drooping, her chin almost buried in her chest.
Her little hands were tightly gripping the hem of her skirt!
“...Master, I’m sorry...!”
Her voice was muffled.
It was clearly panicked!
She was apologizing with her head deeply lowered, afraid to meet his eyes.
Fang Qi rubbed his still-aching wrist and pursed his lips as he stared at the lowered silver head behind the glass door.
He took a deep breath.
“Liguang, your situation just now...”
He crossed his arms, looking down at his wife!
“Isn’t something that can be explained away with just a ‘sorry,’ right?”
You almost crushed your husband’s wrist!
And what was that scene just now?!
Even though, honestly, it kind of got me excited...
But...
Fang Qi pursed his lips, his concern deepening!
Wife’s condition is definitely not good!
The silver-haired girl flinched slightly at his words, lowering her head even more.
Right now, her original core was dominant, so she was holding back her emotions to apologize. But compared to her usual calm and composed demeanor...
she was clearly much more flustered now!
“Liguang just... was worried about Master’s condition, so I went looking for Master...”
Her voice grew quieter and quieter.
“But because my remaining battery was too low, my original core couldn’t run at full capacity...”
“It couldn’t suppress the crimson eye, so...”
“so I ended up like I did just now...”
She murmured softly.
Fang Qi’s mouth twitched.
He felt that if his hearing hadn’t mysteriously sharpened, he wouldn’t have caught what Liguang just whispered!
...Battery too low? Couldn’t suppress the crimson eye?
That’s it?
Are you kidding me!
He glared at the silver-haired girl with her head down!
Did she really think her Master was that easy to fool?
What happened just now wasn’t just a simple “couldn’t suppress”!
That stark sense of “split” between the two cores running in opposite directions...
That absolutely couldn’t be explained away with just “couldn’t suppress”!
He finally couldn’t hold back anymore. He raised his hand...
Bang!
He slammed both hands against the transparent door.
Liguang flinched slightly but still didn’t look up!
“Liguang, what’s your real state right now?”
Fang Qi’s tone became serious!
“Tell me the truth. Now!”
Behind the door, the silver-haired girl stood frozen.
“Otherwise, I’m going to get angry.”
Fang Qi was very serious!
If you don’t speak, I really will get angry!
I’ll show you what...!
But Liguang only bit her lip, her head still down.
She didn’t say anything, just buried her head lower...
Almost retreating into the corner of the charging pod!
Fang Qi frowned.
Oh?
This crazy woman is actually disobeying?
Threatening her with anger isn’t working anymore?
He pursed his lips.
It wasn’t really that he was furious.
But if his wife was hiding something from him at a critical moment like this...
that really did annoy him a bit!
They had come this far!
They had a wedding, spent their wedding night together, and had staked their lives for each other countless times...
What was there left that couldn’t be said?
He squinted, staring at the bowed silver head...
A brainstorm hit him!
Alright! He knew what to do!
“Fine! Don’t tell me, then!”
He pulled his hands back from the door and turned to leave!
“You keep charging. I’ll go check on Lin Xiaoyou and Sister An Lian!”
He took a step forward!
“They’re still lying on the ground. Maybe they’ve woken up and can help me...!”
“Master!!”
A voice that sounded almost like a scream came from behind him!
Click!
The sound of the charging pod door popping open!
Then a warm, soft body crashed into him from behind!
Two slender arms wrapped tightly around his waist!
The strength was astonishing!
Her soft cheek pressed firmly against his back!
“Don’t go...!”
Liguang’s voice trembled.
“Don’t leave... Liguang’s sight...!”
“Otherwise... Liguang might really... not be able to hold on...!”
Fang Qi’s breath caught in his throat.
Her voice was trembling; she was genuinely afraid...
Had he maybe gone a bit too far...?
He took a deep breath...
Then spun around suddenly!
The silver-haired girl was looking up at him, her eyes glazed with tears!
In her heterochromatic pupils, the deep blue within the amber iris flickered wildly, while the crimson in her other eye was stagnant, nearly hollow.
The corners of her mouth were quivering.
Without a word, Fang Qi scooped her up in his arms!
Still so light!
Carrying her back to the charging pod, he moved swiftly...
And shoved her inside without ceremony!
"Hmph...!"
Liguang was pressed against the inner wall of the pod by his force!
Her silver hair spread across the surface as she stared at him wide-eyed.
"Click."
The charging port latched automatically into the back of her neck.
On the screen, the battery percentage began ticking upward again.
"Master is so strong..."
She murmured, her expression still dazed.
Fang Qi stood in front of the charging pod, arms crossed, looking down at the silver-haired girl with a lordly glare!
Yeah.
Being strong sure felt good!
"Explain. Right. Now!"
He squinted at Liguang, his tone heavy!
The silver-haired girl pouted slightly.
Her mismatched eyes met his for a few seconds...
And finally, she yielded.
"Yes, Master."
She lowered her gaze.
"The reason Liguang is like this now is because, inside Liguang's core..."
She bit her lip gently.
"There are so many... fragments of memories."
Fang Qi froze for a moment...
Then his pupils contracted!
Memory fragments?
Could it be...?
"They keep flashing..."
Liguang continued murmuring, her gaze drifting.
"Like..."
"The scene where I once broke Master's legs..."
Fang Qi: "...?"
"Like..."
She whispered softly.
"Turning Master into a doll that couldn't move, holding Master and spinning around..."
"And... and..."
Her voice grew fainter.
But Fang Qi stared at the silver-haired girl before him, his eyes widening slowly.
...Breaking legs?
Turning into a doll that couldn't move?
And holding him and spinning around?
Wait, wasn't that...!
Those were memories from his first few cycles after transmigrating into this world!
Back when he hadn't learned to use death resets to preserve Liguang's "dreams"!
Those memories shouldn't have been something Liguang could remember!
They didn't belong to any of her "dreams"!
They shouldn't exist in any form inside her core...
And yet now she remembered them?
Like...
Fang Qi's gaze wavered.
Like the her from before she lost her memory?
...No.
Not remembered.
She said scenes...
So...
They were fragments.
That sense of flashback images!
Not truly restored memories...
He looked at her, his eyes trembling.
"Master..."
Liguang slowly lifted her head.
Fang Qi's eyelids twitched.
Because her crimson eye—
That suppressed crimson eye—
Was now glowing terrifyingly bright!
That almost stagnant, hollow brightness! Strings of code flashing so fast they seemed frozen solid!
Like a spotlight of blood, aimed straight at his face!
And the corners of her mouth...
Were trembling as they curled upward again!
"Liguang knows that doing those things was wrong..."
"B-but those memory fragments..."
Her voice shuddered!
It was actually...
A trembling of excitement!
"They make Liguang so... so excited... so excited...!"
Her mouth twitched and rose higher and higher!
Her phoenix-shaped eyes were wide, staring straight at him!
Fang Qi looked into her gaze—a gaze he hadn't seen in a long time, yet felt familiar with.
To be honest, he wasn't scared at all.
He even felt a little excited...
And worried!
Deeply worried!
Wife, who exactly are you right now...!
Then, the deep blue within her amber iris flashed violently again!
She forced her smile down!
"Master!"
Her amber eye suddenly panicked, and she lowered her head sharply again!
"Liguang didn't mean it that way!"
"Liguang doesn't want to do those things to Master!"
"Liguang just...! Just..."
She murmured again, her voice growing softer and more fragmented.
"Just thinks those things..."
But the corners of her mouth trembled upward again.
"Really... feel so good...!"
"Master won't die... Master wants to be with Liguang forever..."
She whispered.
"So... why can't we do that...?"
"Why...?"
Then the deep blue in her amber eye flared again!
"No...! No no!"
She shook her head wildly, her silver hair lashing against the pod wall!
"It's not possible here! Not here!"
"Here, Master can't...!"
"At least..."
"At least we have to wait until we get out...!"
"After we get out, then I can do it to Master...!!"
Fang Qi: "..."
Wife, you...!
...You're strangely rational about it.
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
for mindless slaughter, this isn't for you.] My name is Ye Shu, and I'm a transmigrator. It seems I'm supposed to be the protagonist, but that feels pretty unlikely. This world has been invaded by a system. The antagonists on the other side have suddenly become pure, flawless saints. The female leads have been force-fed the so-called "original plot," making them think they've been reborn. Now, everyone thinks I'm scum. Including the old lady in my ring. And here I am, in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, braising pork. To put my situation in perspective— It's as if, the moment Xiao Yan stepped into the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the Soul Emperor already knew he would become the Flame Emperor, and Yao Lao had been turned to the enemy's side. I have nothing right now. Oh wait, that's not true. I do have a white-haired loli child-bride who's the Heavenly Dao, and her only skill is acting cute. So, tell me guys... what are my chances of making it to the end?
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!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
