She Did Not Compromise

Fang Qi stared at Liguang, who was kneeling on the ground with her shoulders still trembling slightly, his eyes somewhat glazed over!

"Find me sooner, don't make me wait too long..."

This sentence... was frantically spamming his mind!

His heartbeat began to accelerate!

This sentence...

It was what Liguang from the previous loop had said to him on her deathbed when she was critically ill in the dream.

The reason Liguang had become so severely ill back then was likely due to... external manipulation.

At that time, his connection with her in the outside world was probably about to be severed, and she...

She truly suffered heavy damage because of it!

She could feel it, so... she was genuinely delivering her dying last words!

Extremely important... last words!

That tone, that look in her eyes, and the strength with which she gripped his hand...

Thinking back on it now, it seemed to carry an entirely different meaning!

"Find me sooner"...

Find who?

Who else could it be?

Wasn't it this very Liguang kneeling on the ground, scared to the point of tears right now?!

"Don't make me wait too long"...

...Wait for what?

Obviously, as soon as he loaded a save, this crazy woman would be kneeling right in front of him!

She, who knew everything, couldn't be clearer about this!

So... what was there to find, what was there to wait for?

Fang Qi suddenly felt his breath growing hot!

He looked at Liguang's silver hair scattered on the carpet, looked at her slender back tensed in fear, and looked at that small patch of fair skin on the back of her neck.

There lay the most vulnerable core interface she had willingly exposed to him!

In the loop before the last, she had pulled out her own core from there with her own hands, dying for him.

In the last loop, she had used the core mental link there... to pull him into a beautiful dream that lasted eighty-two years!

...Core?

An absurd thought... suddenly grew wildly like weeds!

The crazy woman from the previous loop, who had accompanied him for eighty-two years and personally woven a perfect life for him...

Perhaps she hadn't truly disappeared entirely!

She might have taken her most core essence...

Like the template of that eighty-two-year-long love, like the address of Aqi, that obsession of spending a lifetime with her...

And embedded it like a virus into an unknown corner that not even a reset and reload could erase!

And now, this silver-haired girl on the morning of the fourth day...

She was being quietly influenced by this legacy!

No...

Perhaps he shouldn't treat them as two different Liguangs.

The Liguang before his eyes... she was the Liguang from the last loop!

She had just forgotten everything, but she was still her!

He suddenly remembered the words of Liguang from the previous loop...

—"Is Master talking about achieving [Eternal True Love] with 'another Liguang'?"

Back then...

She didn't consider the Liguangs of other loops to be herself at all!

But in the very end, she still compromised, pushing him toward the future...

...No.

Incorrect.

It was he who thought she had compromised!

He thought that after experiencing eighty-two years of true love and settling down, she had finally let go and chosen to release him!

Chosen... to push him toward a future without her!

But looking at it now...

Bullshit!

It was all bullshit!

She hadn't compromised at all!

This crazy woman's possessiveness and obsession with him...

It had never changed by a single micrometer, a single nanometer!

She had always been that fiery and morbid!

The one she pushed him toward was probably still herself!!

The "me" in her "find me sooner"... was herself!!

Thinking of this, looking at the pitiful girl kneeling before him...

His breathing began to quicken!

So... did the crazy woman from the previous loop discover something?

Perhaps...

After living a long life, she finally found a way to influence the underlying logic of the reload, allowing her memories to be truly preserved, thereby...

Possessing the Liguang of the next loop?

Or perhaps...

She realized that the Liguangs of all the loops were actually all her?

The Liguang before his eyes...

She wasn't just the Liguang of the last loop, but also the loop before that, and the loop before that...

She was the Liguang of all previous loops!

All Liguangs were that same her!

She just needed to recover... her memories?

Just... which one was the truth?

...But no matter what...

His gaze slowly fell.

The silver-haired girl before him... still maintained a standard kneeling posture.

She merely lifted her head slightly, her wet amber eyes stealing a glance at him through the gaps in her silver hair...

Seeing his unpredictable expression, she was frightened and hurriedly buried her head back down!

Her seemingly fragile shoulders shrank even tighter, still trembling slightly, like a... pitiful little animal awaiting its final verdict.

But it was this very her... who spoke the word Aqi!

The Liguang of the last loop had truly and genuinely brought the influence of those eighty-two years to her in this loop!

Holy... crap...!

He silently grinned.

The eyes that were lifeless just a moment ago instantly burst with excited radiance!

Give up?

Give up my ass!

Facing a yandere wife who might carry the legacy of a past life and was waiting for him to find her...

Could he give up?!

How could a real man give up!!

...Capture her heart!

He had to capture her heart!

Romance her to death!

Romance her even if it kills him!!

As for whether he would leave this game world after achieving [Eternal True Love]...

...Who cares!

Things will work themselves out when the time comes!

He'd completely capture his wife's heart first and worry about the rest later!

From today onward, I, Fang Qi...

Am the God of Pure Love!!

If anyone mentions a bad ending to me again, I'll tear them a new one!!

A long-lost surge of excitement and drive instantly filled his entire body!

Fang Qi, resurrected with full health!

Looking at the crazy woman kneeling and shivering before him...

Crazy woman...

So it is you!

You're the one who deceived me from beginning to end in the last loop and completely trapped me, right!

Good!

Very good!

Excellent!

He couldn't help but reach out and, with gleeful force, vigorously rubbed Liguang's fluffy silver head!

It felt so good!

"Alright, stop kneeling,"

He spoke briskly. "Get up."

The silver-haired girl's delicate body stiffened.

Then, as if receiving a pardon, she scrambled to prop herself up!

She sat back on her heels, tilting her small face up to look at him pitifully, her eye rims still red, tiny teardrops clinging to her long eyelashes.

Her amber left eye was full of caution, while the data stream in her crimson right eye was chaotic.

It even... carried a faint trace of suspicion that hadn't completely faded!

"M-Master... are you no longer angry?"

Her voice was thin, carrying the tremor of someone who had just survived a disaster.

"Angry? What am I angry about?"

Fang Qi deliberately raised an eyebrow, his fingers sliding from the top of her head to her cold, soft cheek, giving it a pinch:

"Did you... just call me Aqi a moment ago?"

Liguang's body trembled.

She gently bit her lower lip, her eyes quickly reddening again. The suspicion in her crimson eye was instantly wiped away, and her voice carried a crying tone:

"Yes... Liguang knows she was wrong..."

"Say it again."

Fang Qi interrupted her.

His voice was soft, but his hand squeezed Liguang's cheek with a slight bit of force.

Liguang froze.

She looked up with her misty heterochromatic eyes, staring at him blankly as if she hadn't understood his words.

"I'm telling you to—"

Fang Qi leaned in close, staring into her bewildered eyes:

"Say it again. Call me... 'Aqi'."

Liguang opened her mouth.

Her lips trembled.

The data streams in her crimson eye flashed wildly, as if processing some incredibly complex calculation.

A few seconds later, she spoke tentatively in a very, very small voice:

"A... Aqi...?"

The moment the sound left her lips, she blushed!

A rosy pink quickly spread across the tips of her ears, and even her neck was tinted with a faint crimson.

...Right!

That's exactly it!

Having heard it for eighty-two years in his dreams, this "Aqi"...

It had long been carved into his DNA!

Hearing it now from the mouth of this clueless crazy woman, even though it was clumsy, even though it was laced with trepidation...

The deep-seated attachment and intimacy were exactly the same!

"Yeah," he responded. "Say it again!"

Liguang was even more bewildered now, her heterochromatic eyes blinking rapidly.

But since her master looked genuinely happy, the data streams in her crimson eye stabilized a bit.

She took a breath, her cheeks still burning red:

"Aqi!"

"Yeah!"

Fang Qi responded again, casually ruffling her hair. "Sounds good! From now on, when there are no outsiders around, you can occasionally call me that! Got it?"

Liguang's heterochromatic eyes lit up little by little, gleaming with shyness and joy!

She immediately nodded vigorously, her silver hair swaying with the motion:

"Mhm! Liguang remembers! Master! Aqi!"

She even repeated it unconsciously, as if to consolidate this novel title that made her heart race.

Fang Qi felt completely at ease being called that. He waved his hand magnanimously:

"Alright! Go get ready and change into some nice clothes! I'm taking you out to play today!"

"We're going to my company! Let those colleagues of mine get a good look at how amazing my Liguang is!"

Sure enough, Liguang's eyes widened instantly, her heterochromatic eyes bursting with an unbelievable, dazzling brilliance: "To see your colleagues?!"

That slight hint of darkening from earlier had long vanished without a trace!

Looking at Liguang's brightened heterochromatic eyes, suddenly...

An even bolder idea popped into his head!

He leaned in closer, lowering his voice with a mischievous smirk:

"By the way, Liguang, later when we go to the company... when you see my colleagues, call me that too."

Liguang blinked: "...Call you that too? Call you 'Aqi'?"

"Right!"

Fang Qi said decisively. "Not only should you call me that, but you have to say it sweetly and intimately! I want everyone to know that you are my person, and that we have a great relationship!"

He paused and deliberately put on a stern face:

"But remember—you're only allowed to call me that in front of my colleagues! Normally at home, you still have to call me Master when you're supposed to!"

He couldn't let this crazy woman push her luck!

...Unless she really could recover her memories!

Liguang was stunned.

Her heterochromatic eyes widened bit by bit!

Her cheeks flushed red at a visible rate, spreading all the way from the tips of her ears down to her collarbones!

"M-Master means..."

Her voice trembled. "Liguang can... in front of others... call Master's name? Call you 'Aqi'? A-And I have to say it... sweetly?"

"Exactly!"

Fang Qi clapped his hands together. "We're going to show off our affection! Let them see how obedient my Liguang is, and how close you are to me!"

The silver-haired girl's breathing grew ragged!

She sprang up from the floor with startling speed!

"Liguang understands!"

Her voice pitched up with excitement, carrying a hint of electronic static:

"Liguang will definitely let everyone know... know that Liguang is Master's partner!"

She spun around in place out of sheer thrill!

The hem of her light blue skirt flared up in a cheerful arc!

Her long silver hair fanned out in the air, and the little star earring on her left earlobe swayed back and forth.

"Liguang will go change clothes right now! I'll change into the prettiest clothes!"

Her eyes were terrifyingly bright, the red light in her crimson eye practically overflowing!

"Wait for Liguang, Master! I'll be quick! I'll be ready in a second!"

With that, she fluttered toward the bedroom like a light butterfly!

When she reached the doorway, she glanced back at Fang Qi. That look...

Fervent, obsessed...

And carrying undisguised possessiveness and ecstasy!

With a bang, the door shut.

Immediately after, the frantic sounds of rummaging through boxes and cabinets echoed from the bedroom!

It was more intense than ever before!

Fang Qi could even hear the crisp clatter of hangers colliding, along with Liguang's soft, excited, trembling humming.

He slowly picked up the cup of tea that had almost gone cold and took a sip.

Once again.

This was already the third time in the fourth day's loop.

He was already intimately familiar with what was going to happen next.

This round... he should change his playstyle!

You crazy woman, although I don't know how much you remember...

But this round, it's my turn to attack!

Before, it was always her attacking and him defending.

Every time, he was beaten into a frantic mess!

But this time... the roles of offense and defense are reversed!

Crazy woman...

Having been conquered by you twice...

This time, I'm taking back my dignity as a player!

It's my turn to conquer you!