Fang Qi took a deep breath...
Then leaned back.
He sank into the sofa.
He raised a hand and pressed it firmly against his forehead!
He ignored Lin Xiaoyou, who was still howling beside him.
His mind was a complete mess!
...His wife had suddenly appeared.
...His wife had beaten Lin Xiaoyou up.
...His wife had told him about her current situation.
And then...
His wife had disappeared?
...This was way too sudden!
She had come suddenly, and left just as suddenly!
But...
Fang Qi rubbed his brow hard, forcing himself to calm down a little.
Liguang’s words had been somewhat fragmented, but now that he thought about them carefully...
He could more or less understand what she meant.
Something about instantiation, something about being unable to contain it, something about permissions...
Well, the technical details were way beyond him, but he could still understand the gist of what Liguang was saying.
She was probably talking about...
The ordinary body she had just used being unable to contain the “permissions” she possessed now?
That was what she meant, right?
In simpler terms...
Her mortal body in the “human world” couldn’t bear the soul of a goddess.
So...
Her body had fallen apart?
Yeah.
That had to be it!
With that thought, Fang Qi finally began to relax.
His goddess wife had merely returned to the “heavens.”
Was she silently watching him right now?
Hmm?
He instinctively looked up at the ceiling.
Liguang?
Are you there?
Are you watching me right now?
He looked out the window as well.
The sky was still clear, and the sunlight was still bright. There was nothing unusual.
And also...
Liguang, did you do something to me?
Fang Qi rubbed his temples again.
He had a strange feeling.
It seemed that something really had...
Been added to his mind.
It was as if something were drifting around deep within his consciousness.
...But he couldn’t describe what it was, nor did he know how to bring it out and take a look.
He could only vaguely sense that something had appeared in his mind.
He stared blankly for a moment.
So...
What was he supposed to do now?
Liguang, what do I have to do to truly find you again?
Having a goddess for a wife was certainly amazing, but...
I still want to stay with you forever!
What state are you in right now?
Does this count as a long-distance relationship?
What exactly do I have to do to return to my original world?
You should have told me all this first before going back!
As it turned out, his wife’s descent to the mortal world hadn’t lasted very long in the first place, and most of that time...
Had been wasted teaching Lin Xiaoyou a lesson!
Tsk.
It was all Lin Xiaoyou’s fault!
Sigh...
“Senior? What are you spacing out for?”
He turned his head slightly and saw Lin Xiaoyou reach out and catch the last traces of blue fragments drifting through the air.
The remaining specks of light shattered at the touch of her fingers, dissolving into even finer motes of light...
Then they vanished completely.
She stared at her empty palm before lifting her head and looking at Fang Qi innocently.
“Senior, this means...”
She blinked.
“Your wife has been completely blown to bits!”
Fang Qi: “...”
The corner of his mouth twitched!
His thoughts were instantly interrupted by Lin Xiaoyou!
Lin.
Xiao.
You!
Are you seriously not done yet?!
He couldn’t take it anymore!
He had to teach her a lesson!
And so...
He expressionlessly swept his gaze around the room!
Then, in the corner, he spotted a...
Rolling pin?
Fang Qi blinked.
It was wooden, about as long as his forearm.
It was a steamed-bun shop, so having a rolling pin was perfectly normal.
...And it was incredibly convenient!
He immediately stood up, walked over, and picked it up!
Lin!
Xiao!
You!
“...Wait!!”
Lin Xiaoyou’s scream immediately came from behind him.
“S-S-Senior! What are you doing with that rolling pin?! You—you...!”
What was he doing?
Heh...
What do you think he was doing?
Fang Qi turned around expressionlessly, weighing the rolling pin in his hand.
The wooden weight felt solid. Held in his hand...
It was really quite comfortable!
The genius girl was currently clinging to the back of a chair, staring at the rolling pin in his hand...
Her almond-shaped eyes had gone completely rigid!
“D-Don’t! Senior, I was only joking!”
She panicked at once, her little face turning pale!
She hurriedly waved her hands and tried to explain.
“I was just trying to lighten the mood! Liguang is definitely fine!”
Right.
It was obvious that although the genius girl loved courting death, she was also genuinely afraid of pain!
Lin Xiaoyou widened her eyes and flailed her hands as she defended herself.
“Senior, it was bad enough that your Liguang hit me! You can’t hit me too! Otherwise... otherwise Liguang will get jealous, really!”
That was true.
But...
The rolling pin would be hitting her, not him!
Fang Qi expressionlessly took another step toward her.
“Senior, wait a second...!”
Lin Xiaoyou immediately twisted in terror.
As a result, she lost her balance, taking the chair down with her...
The girl and the chair toppled over together!
Bang!
The chair crashed to the floor!
And the genius girl fell off it...
Landing hard on her butt!
Her eyes widened, her mouth fell open...
Her expression froze.
She and Fang Qi stared at each other.
Then—
“Aaaaagh!!!!”
A scream that shook the heavens and earth erupted!
It was so miserable that Fang Qi instinctively took half a step back!
“Aaaagh!!!!”
Lin Xiaoyou burst into tears on the spot as well!
She sprawled on the floor, clutching her butt and sobbing!
Her two pale legs kicked wildly against the floor as she curled into a ball, her shoulders trembling...
Tears pattered down one after another.
“Senior, you’re not human!!!!”
She wailed!
Judging by her appearance, she really was in excruciating pain!
Fang Qi looked at her as though she were about to pass out from her convulsions, and the corners of his mouth began twitching too.
...Good grief.
He had only intended to scare her a little, but he hadn’t expected...
It would be so effective?
Well...
Serves her right!
“I was joking too.”
He tapped the rolling pin against his palm and looked down arrogantly at Lin Xiaoyou, who was still writhing on the floor.
“I was just trying to lighten the mood too. You’re the one who overreacted.”
Lin Xiaoyou’s almond-shaped eyes immediately went wide. She stared at him in righteous indignation!
“Senior, you—you—you...!”
Bang!!
The door to the break room was suddenly thrown open!
A black-haired girl in the steamed-bun shop’s work uniform rushed in with several people behind her.
“What are you doing—!”
Then she stopped short.
Fang Qi: “...?”
He stood where he was, the rolling pin having just slapped against his palm.
He turned around blankly at the sound and stared at the girl who had burst in.
Huh?
Could they hear the noise from outside?
He looked at the stunned girl in front of him.
Ah...
This girl must be the shop’s actual employee...
At that moment, Lin Xiaoyou was sprawled on the floor, covering her butt, with tears still wet on her face.
She lifted her head and blinked at the newcomers.
The black-haired girl wore an expression of utter shock.
Behind her stood two more people.
A middle-aged man whose apron was covered in flour, and a middle-aged woman still holding a spatula.
They were probably...
All here because Lin Xiaoyou’s scream had alarmed them.
Three pairs of eyes stared straight into the room!
The scene fell silent.
Fang Qi: “...”
He slowly lowered his head and glanced at the rolling pin in his hand.
Then he tilted his head slightly and looked at the round-faced girl lying on the floor...
Covering her butt, tears still lingering on her face.
Hmm?
He blinked.
A strange man stood in a locked back room, rolling pin in hand.
A young woman with disheveled clothes lay sprawled on the floor, clutching her backside and sobbing hysterically, her face streaked with tears.
…Huh?
Huh?!
His eyes instantly went wide!
Wait!
That wasn’t right!
“Hold on! I didn’t—!”
“Call the police!!!!”
…
By the time they left the police station…
It was already afternoon.
Fang Qi stared at the sky, where lightning flashed through thick, dark clouds…
His face was utterly lifeless.
Thunder rumbled overhead!
Purple-white bolts of lightning erupted deep within the clouds!
It hadn’t started raining yet, but…
The air was already so damp it was hard to breathe!
The warning signs of a storm!
A violent downpour was about to arrive!
And Fang Qi stood on the steps outside the police station…
Slowly raising a hand, he covered his face.
…He felt dirty.
“Ah…!”
Just then, a soft gasp came from behind him.
Lin Xiaoyou hobbled out of the police station.
She walked like a duck with a lame leg, every step accompanied by a faint hiss of pain.
But…
Her round little face wore a smug smile!
“Senior!”
She limped over to Fang Qi.
“Wasn’t I great?”
Then she planted her hands on her hips, tilted her face up, and kept winking at him!
“You treated me like that, and I still kept defending you!”
Fang Qi’s eye twitched.
Defending me…?
I…!
“BOOM—!”
A thunderclap exploded!
A sheet of pale lightning struck the roadside tree across the street!
The branches snapped with a crack!
Splintered wood went flying everywhere!
Fang Qi trembled and didn’t dare say a word.
Well…
It was true.
Lin Xiaoyou really hadn’t falsely accused him of anything.
She had been “explaining” things for him the entire time.
But…
Fang Qi grabbed his hair!
What the hell kind of explanation was that?!
She had said…
That she had special tastes!
That the two of them were seeking thrills!
That she had been the one to ask for it!
“Officer, I really did ask him to do it!”
“Senior was only cooperating with me!”
“We have a special little hobby. You know, the kind that’s a little painful…”
“Yes, yes, I asked him to use the rolling pin! I just like that sort of thing!”
“Look at how handsome he is! Doesn’t he look so imposing with that rolling pin?”
“Why was I crying? Because I was too happy! Excited! Blissful! How could you not understand?”
“No, no, he wasn’t abusing me!”
“This is just… well, how should I put it? A little intimacy between lovers? Yes, exactly—an intimate game!”
At the time, Fang Qi had sat in the interrogation room, listening to Lin Xiaoyou ramble on to the police in that aggrieved yet completely self-righteous tone…
With every sentence, his face turned a shade greener.
The serious young male officer had been rendered speechless on the spot!
The female officer taking notes had even dropped her pen!
Lin Xiaoyou had gone so far as to keep adding details, talking about things like “how hard he hit” and “how often”…
The more she explained, the worse it got. The more she tried to clarify, the more outrageous it became!
Fang Qi had nearly leaped out of his chair!
He wanted to object!
But…
There was no way to start.
Because, damn it…
That seemed to be the only explanation that made any sense under the circumstances.
The real culprit had already ascended to the heavens!
She had turned into countless ghostly blue fragments and scattered across the sky!
If he didn’t say this, what else could he say?!
“Officer, she wasn’t beaten by me. It was my wife!”
“My wife was a goddess who turned into specks of light and disappeared! She’s watching us from the heavens right now!”
He’d be sent straight to a psychiatric hospital!
And so…
He and Lin Xiaoyou were lectured by the police for the entire morning!
Everything from “young people need to respect one another” to “even special preferences need to be kept safe”!
From “a rolling pin isn’t meant to be used that way” to “we suggest taking this sort of thing somewhere private.”
Fang Qi remained expressionless the entire time.
Lin Xiaoyou nodded along like a pecking chicken the entire time!
Her attitude was unbelievably sincere!
In the end…
The police let them go with complicated expressions.
As they were leaving, the young officer who had taken their statements even patted Fang Qi on the shoulder and said earnestly:
“Young man, have your fun, but don’t take it too far.”
Fang Qi felt as though the sky had collapsed.
He stared at the tree that had been struck to pieces and drawn countless onlookers, and suddenly felt that…
His wife might really be about to blow up…!
“Hiss—”
Lin Xiaoyou let out another soft gasp.
Then she lifted her round little face and looked at him with bright, sparkling almond-shaped eyes.
“Senior, Senior, I did pretty well, didn’t I?”
Fang Qi stared at her with empty eyes.
His soul had already left his body.
Lin Xiaoyou chattered on:
“I kept defending you the whole time! If I’d had even a little malicious intent, you’d still be sitting in there!”
As she spoke, she aggrievedly rubbed her backside.
“But it really hurts, Senior…”
“It’s hard for me to walk right now…”
She looked up at Fang Qi pitifully.
“I still have to help you, but if I can barely move, I’ll only drag you down…!”
Fang Qi: “?”
What did she mean?
He had a vague idea of what Lin Xiaoyou was getting at.
Lin Xiaoyou, you’re not about to say…!
Sure enough.
Lin Xiaoyou’s eyes immediately curved into crescents. In a coquettish voice, she giggled:
“Senior~ Let’s just pretend this embarrassing thing…”
She winked furiously at him!
“Never happened, okay?”
She clasped her hands together and raised them above her head, her round little face full of innocence and ingratiation.
“Heaven knows, earth knows, you know, I know, Liguang knows! Nobody else knows a thing!”
Her eyes began blinking even faster!
“Okay~?”
Fang Qi: “…”
He glared at Lin Xiaoyou.
He knew it!
He knew this girl…
Wanted him to turn back time!
And she wanted to keep her memories of it!
She might as well have been saying outright:
“Senior, please, go die!”
Fang Qi glared at that falsely pitiful little face!
…Damn it!
No wonder!
No wonder she had been so eager to defend him just now!
And used that kind of explanation!
She had been plotting this from the very beginning!
Fang Qi glared at the smiling little face before him, and finally couldn’t take it anymore.
“Lin Xiaoyou, you—!”
“Ding!”
The sound of a message notification rang out.
Fang Qi stiffly lowered his head.
On his phone screen, the message read—
[Sister An Lian: Xiao Qi, I know you’re devastated after your breakup, but promise your big sister you won’t go down the wrong path, okay?]
Fang Qi: “…”
His eyes were dead.
No…
Why would Sister An Lian…?
Ah, right.
Of course.
Uncle An was…!
“BOOM—!!!”
Lightning tore through the dark clouds!
Then enormous raindrops finally came crashing down from the sky!
Fang Qi was instantly drenched from head to toe!
“Whoa, Senior!”
Lin Xiaoyou covered her head and ducked beneath the eaves!
“Ow, your Liguang is at it again… Hiss, ouch, that hurts…”
But Fang Qi…
He didn’t look at Lin Xiaoyou.
His eyes had gone completely hollow.
Well…
The world might as well hurry up and end.
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