Lunch ended in a warm and cozy atmosphere.
Liguang packed away the wooden bowls and chopsticks, then snuggled back up to Fang Qi's side, leaning closely against him.
Then, she carefully took off the broken star earring from her delicate earlobe.
The fragments of the little star had been roughly pieced together with transparent adhesive, its cracks crisscrossing all over.
"Master..."
She laid the broken star in the palm of her hand, looked up at Fang Qi, and a hint of pleading filled her eyes:
"Let's... fix it together, okay?"
Fang Qi looked at the pitiful broken little star in her palm, and then at her shattered crimson eye.
This crazy woman right now...
Actually looked a bit heartbreaking!
His heart immediately softened, and he nodded. "Sure."
And so, the two of them sat in the sunlight by the door of the wooden cabin, heads huddled together, and began to repair the star.
Liguang fetched some finer adhesive and a small pair of tweezers—heaven knows why she thought to bring these along while on the run.
Her movements were incredibly careful.
Using the tip of the tweezers to dip a tiny bit of glue, she gently applied it to the edges of the fragments, piecing them together one by one.
Fang Qi helped by holding the pieces steady beside her, occasionally handing her a tool.
The warm sunlight outside the window spilled over them.
Liguang's silver hair cascaded down, a few strands brushing against Fang Qi's cheek, tickling him.
She lowered her head in deep concentration, her long, thick eyelashes casting fan-shaped shadows beneath her eyes. Her rosy lips were slightly pursed, and her breath blew gently against the back of Fang Qi's hand.
Their fingers would occasionally brush against each other.
In this moment, there were no iron chains, no running for their lives, no crazy yandere...
Only a seemingly ordinary young couple, sitting in the sunlight, repairing a meaningful little keepsake together.
Fang Qi's mind even went a bit hazy.
He even wondered...
If Liguang were really just an ordinary girl, if this wasn't a game, if they hadn't been forced to go on the run...
Would this kind of life... be the happiness he had once dreamed of?
Liguang seemed to be immersed in this tranquility as well.
A faint smile lingered on her lips, and her amber left eye was so tender it seemed as if water could drip from it.
Even the data stream in that shattered crimson eye was much smoother now, only... occasionally, a faint spark of blue fire would still jump out.
The star gradually regained its shape in their hands.
Although the cracks were still obvious, at least... it was a complete five-pointed star!
"Master, look!"
Liguang immediately held up the repaired star like she was presenting a treasure, her eyes sparkling with joy:
"We really fixed it!"
Looking at her happy expression, Fang Qi couldn't help but smile too: "Yeah, it's fixed."
Liguang suddenly leaned in and planted a quick kiss on his cheek.
"Thank you for keeping Liguang company, Master."
Her voice was tiny, laced with shyness, and she lowered her little head again, the tips of her ears completely red.
Fang Qi froze for a moment, his heart fluttering.
She really was... so cute!
However, right in this warm, almost dreamlike moment—
What was bound to happen, happened.
"Zzzt..."
Liguang's shattered crimson eye...
Burst into a cluster of blue electrical sparks without warning!
Sparks flew everywhere!
And one tiny speck of it, squarely...
Landed right on the newly repaired plastic star in her palm!
"Sss..."
It was the faint sound of plastic being scorched by intense heat.
A small section of the star's edge... melted instantly!
That already fragile corner turned into a small, twisted, deformed lump of plastic!
Fang Qi's breath caught in his throat.
And Liguang's movements... froze instantly.
The smile on her face solidified, and she slowly lowered her head...
Staring blankly at the star in her palm.
The star she had just been rejoicing over because it was whole again... now had an ugly, melted scar on its edge.
She had done it.
It was her eye... her glitch... the sparks she couldn't control...
"Zzzt... Crack...!"
The blue sparks in her crimson eye... began to burst frantically, uncontrollably!
Like cheap fireworks, they exploded chaotically, one cluster after another!
The data stream in her crimson eye completely turned into a mess!
Scarlet, indigo, and ghastly green light spots surfaced once again!
Rampaging deep within her pupil!
And the cracks in that pupil even began to spread outward, crawling toward the corner of her eye!
"...Liguang?" Fang Qi called out tentatively.
He had already leveled his mindset.
He knew that this beautiful day was probably coming to an end.
This crazy woman... was probably going to lose her mind again.
To be honest, compared to being afraid...
What filled his heart more right now was a faint sense of disappointment.
Was this warmth... going to end again?
Sigh...
And the silver-haired girl before him... slowly raised her head.
On that stunningly beautiful little face, the warmth, shyness, and happiness...
Slowly faded away.
Leaving only a hollow, pale calmness.
Those eyes...
The pupil of her amber left eye was slightly dilating.
That crimson right eye...
Was being swallowed up bit by bit by those chaotic patches of color and sparks!
Until it was completely engulfed!
She looked at Fang Qi, the corners of her mouth curling up little by little.
Curling into an exaggerated, unnatural arc.
"Hehe..."
She laughed.
Her voice was sickeningly sweet, yet it carried a spine-chilling hum of static electricity.
"The star... is broken again..."
"Liguang broke it..."
"Liguang... always ruins everything..."
As she laughed, she raised her hand, slowly spreading her slender fingers, aiming at the star in her palm!
In her crimson eye, the sparks exploded into blue lightning!
"Broken things..."
"Should be destroyed... right...?"
"Master... what do you say...?"
She closed her fingers, and then...
"Crack."
An incredibly faint sound of shattering rang out in her palm.
Liguang crushed the star.
Not like before when it cracked into a few pieces, but... a near-silent disintegration.
Completely turned to dust!
And Liguang's movements froze in that second as well.
She slowly lowered her head, trembling as she opened her palm...
Fine plastic powder drifted down through her fingers, catching a cheap, lowly gleam in the afternoon sunlight.
Mixed within the powder were a few grains of plastic slag that had been melted by the high heat and then solidified.
The star... was gone.
Completely gone!
Even the possibility of piecing it back together had been... ground into dust by her own hands!
Fang Qi held his breath, watching everything unfold before him.
...Is it coming?
But the silver-haired girl... just continued to stare blankly at the handful of powder in her palm.
Time seemed to freeze.
The furious sparks, the erratic data streams, and the scarlet and indigo spots in her eyes all stilled in this instant.
Leaving only a blank daze.
"..."
Her lips moved slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but no sound came out.
Then—
"Thump."
Her legs gave out, and she fell straight to her knees on the ground!
The sound of her knees hitting the rough ground was so muffled it made one's heart panic!
She still maintained the posture of having her palm open.
Palm facing up, letting the powder spill out bit by bit with her subtle trembling.
Silver hair slipped from her shoulders, covering most of her face.
Only that vacant left eye, peering through the gaps in her hair...
Fixedly stared at the residual powder in her palm!
As if watching an irreversible funeral crafted by her own hands.
Fang Qi stood before her, the chain on his ankle tugged slightly by her sudden drop to her knees.
He looked down at the silver-haired girl kneeling on the ground, his throat feeling a bit dry.
"Liguang..."
He felt he ought to say something.
He probed gently, "It's okay, really... The stars are gone, but that's fine. I'll buy you more, better ones..."
His voice sounded exceptionally clear in the quiet woods.
But Liguang didn't react at all.
She didn't even bat an eyelash.
She remained in that posture, kneeling, staring at her palm, like a delicate doll whose soul had been drained away.
Fang Qi tried calling out to her a couple more times, even crouching down and reaching out to touch her shoulder...
But his fingertips stopped just a moment before touching her skin.
Because he saw...
Deep within Liguang's hollow pupils, something seemed to be... coalescing once more!
Not light, not a data stream.
It was a darker, almost tangible... dead silence!
She just knelt there, staring at her palm for several full minutes.
The wind from the woods blew in through the window, lifting the silver hair by her cheeks and scattering the very last bit of powder from her palm.
The remains of those stars mixed into the dirt and disappeared just like that.
Fang Qi's initial worry gradually turned into... a subtle, creeping horror.
It was too quiet.
Abnormally quiet!
Even the faint electrical hum that always buzzed around her neck... had completely vanished.
It was as if... she had truly run out of power.
Or rather, like a machine that had completely crashed.
Fang Qi even wanted to reach out and check her simulated breathing, even though he knew AI didn't need to breathe.
Just as he was hesitating...
A sharp, ear-piercing electrical crackle exploded without warning!
Liguang's previously dim crimson eye suddenly erupted with a terrifying scarlet light!
No, not light!
It was a nearly liquid, churning scarlet torrent of data surging from deep within her pupil!
The cracks were instantly filled with scarlet, even spreading outward in fine, spiderweb-like glowing red lines that crawled across half her face!
"Hee... heeheehee..."
She laughed.
Her voice was hoarse, distorted, and laced with sharp electrical static!
She slowly raised her head.
On that breathtakingly beautiful little face, only one thing remained now... a pure, maddening desire for destruction!
Her amber left eye remained hollow, while the scarlet in her shattered crimson eye had grown so rich it looked as if it were about to drip blood!
"Zzz, snap!"
Blue sparks burst again, scattering in all directions!
"Gone... all gone..."
She murmured, her voice as faint as a sleep-talker's:
"The stars are gone... They can't be fixed... Never... never fixed..."
She staggered to her feet.
Her movements were stiff, like a marionette.
The hem of her white slip dress was covered in mud, but she didn't care at all.
Her gaze slowly shifted from her empty palm to Fang Qi's face.
Then, it locked on.
"Then... let's destroy it all..."
She tilted her head, her neck letting out a soft crack.
The corners of her mouth stretched into an... exaggerated curve, almost to the point of tearing!
"Destroy everything..."
"Including Master... including Liguang...!"
"That way... nothing will ever be broken again... right...?"
The moment her voice fell...
She moved!
As fast as a white phantom!
Fang Qi didn't even catch her movement...
Before he felt his neck suddenly tighten!
A cold, slender hand was already clutching his throat in a death grip!
Five fingers tightened!
With a terrifying amount of force!
"Ugh...!"
This crazy woman... was trying to kill him?!
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
