Only Us

Fang Qi quietly looked at Liguang in front of him on the morning of the fourth day.

He did not reach out to take the cup of tea.

He merely... looked at her.

Looked at this Liguang who remembered nothing anymore.

No longer remembered those eighty-two years of love.

And even less remembered...

The broken sentence she whispered against his lips: "Remember my ending at this moment."

And the despair and poignant beauty... when she viciously dug her five fingers into the back of her own neck right in front of him.

This time...

She truly did not remember anything.

Fang Qi's mind...

Had already begun to blur in a trance.

The images before his eyes began to jumble and overlap.

Even though at the very beginning, she was so gentle, so sweet, so heart-fluttering.

—"I am Liguang, Aqi's partner."

—"Aqi is my everything."

—"I don't agree."

—"My body can only be touched by Aqi. This is the first rule written in my core protocol."

—"Aqi, in the end... can we really reach that Eternal True Love?"

And then...

After he gave that self-righteous, affectionate answer...!

The gentleness in her eyes... completely shattered.

Turning into a heartbreaking desolation.

She... did not want to achieve Eternal True Love.

She did not want him to leave.

So she made that choice.

Using her desperate and poignantly beautiful ending...

To become his nightmare.

Fang Qi's gaze became slightly unfocused.

...She won.

She really won.

He now...

No longer had any thoughts of wanting to achieve Eternal True Love.

This ultimate goal that had once supported him through cycle after cycle, dancing on the blade's edge...

Right now felt like a red-hot branding iron, so scorching that he did not even dare to think about it.

He really regretted it so much.

Regretted so much why he had said those things to her before.

Why he had used such a certain tone to tell her, "We will definitely achieve Eternal True Love."

If he had not said that, would she...

Have been able to leave with a smile?

Would she have been able to peacefully let her memories dissipate, and then revert back to this...

Ignorant little yandere in front of him?

Instead of using such a suffocatingly resolute method...

To personally end herself right in front of him!

He really...

Regretted it so much!

"Master...?"

A soft, slightly uneasy call pulled Fang Qi out of his trance.

He blinked, his vision refocusing.

The Liguang before him was still kneeling there, but her expression... had changed.

But this time... it was not a dark turn.

Her beautiful heterochromatic eyes were staring unblinkingly at his face, filled with clear confusion and worry.

This ignorant little yandere had sensed his sorrow.

But she did not know that this sorrow... stemmed from her.

"Master, what is... wrong?"

Her voice grew even softer, carrying a probing cautiousness:

"Is the temperature of the tea... not right?"

As she spoke, she actually reached out to touch the cup of tea she had just pushed over, wanting to personally confirm its temperature.

Fang Qi merely looked at her quietly.

Only suddenly... a single tear slipped silently from the corner of his eye.

It slid down his cheek and, with a soft patter, smashed onto the back of his hand resting on his knee.

Liguang's movements instantly froze.

Her delicate hand reaching for the teacup stopped in mid-air, her fingertips trembling slightly.

She cautiously raised her eyes, her gaze moving from Fang Qi's moist eye corners to the water stain on the back of his hand, and then back to his reddened eye sockets.

That docile and cautious expression seemed to get stuck, freezing on her pretty face!

Fang Qi could see that her amber left eye clearly reflected his expressionless, tear-stained face.

"Mas... ter...?"

She murmured, her voice carrying an unbelievable daze and panic!

She completely could not understand the scene before her!

Tears slid down his cheeks; he made no sound, just sitting there in silence.

Looking at this Liguang who remembered nothing, he let the tears blur his vision.

The kind of regret and heartache that almost drowned him...

Made him unable to say even a single word!

"Master...!"

The silver-haired girl finally reacted!

She practically sprang up from her kneeling position, her knees scraping against the floor with a soft sound!

Then, using both hands and knees, she crawled forward in a nearly frantic posture!

Quickly shifting to Fang Qi's side!

Her light blue dress hem dragged across the floor, and her long silver hair scattered loosely over her shoulders and back with her movements.

She looked up, her stunningly beautiful small face now filled with helplessness and anxiety.

She reached out, her slender white fingers trembling slightly as she tried to wipe the tears from Fang Qi's face, but she hesitated and stopped right before touching his skin, her fingertips hovering in mid-air, quivering faintly.

"Master... please do not cry...!"

Her voice trembled too, speaking very fast, carrying a panic of wanting desperately to comfort him but not knowing where to start.

"Did... did Liguang do something wrong? Is it because Liguang hugged you last night?"

"You... you tell Liguang, and Liguang will change immediately! Really! I will change right now!"

Watching Fang Qi's continuously flowing tears, her own eye sockets actually began to turn red as well, a layer of mist rapidly gathering in her heterochromatic eyes!

"Master... I beg you, please do not cry..."

"When you are like this, Liguang... Liguang feels so awful inside..."

As she spoke, her voice also took on a crying tone.

She extended her fingers, gently touching Fang Qi's moist cheek.

Her fingertips were slightly cool, clumsily and little by little wiping away the tear stains on his face.

"Master... please say something... tell Liguang... what exactly is wrong..."

She pleaded in a low voice while wiping.

Her voice was light and soft, thick with a nasal tone.

Fang Qi looked at her.

Looking at this Liguang whose face was full of panic and heartache, looking so anxious and helpless because of his tears.

She... called him Master.

Not Aqi anymore.

It was... Master.

That address, called from childhood friends to white-haired old age, she would never say again.

That Liguang who ultimately smiled so poignantly in the electric light, using self-destruction to make him stay, had also disappeared.

All that was left was this one before him...

An ignorant little yandere who would still panic and be at a loss because of his tears.

...No.

No!

According to Liguang's words, they... were all the same person!

Every Liguang was her!

She had merely forgotten those memories!

She just... had amnesia, that is all!

Those memories, those feelings, the gentleness and madness settled over the long years...

Were still buried in some unknown corner, waiting for him to discover, to awaken.

And what he needed to do, should be...

Find a way to awaken her, to let her come back completely!

But...

Fang Qi suddenly smiled. A smile of relief.

Then he reached out...

And firmly grabbed the wrist of the silver-haired girl who was wiping his tears!

Liguang was startled into a slight shiver by his sudden movement.

She raised her wet heterochromatic eyes to look at him, her gaze carrying bewilderment, and a trace of imperceptible... dependence.

"Liguang."

Fang Qi spoke, his voice terribly hoarse, still carrying an un-dissipated choke.

But the smile on his face... gradually became clearer.

It was a smile of near relief, the kind that comes after giving up the struggle.

"Let's... leave."

He said, looking straight into the young girl's beautiful heterochromatic eyes.

Liguang blinked, a trace of bewilderment on her face as if she hadn't quite processed it.

"...Leave?"

"Yes."

Fang Qi nodded, his grip on her wrist tightening slightly:

"Leave here. Leave this city. Leave everyone."

He paused and articulated every word clearly:

"We will go somewhere with no one else. Just the two of us."

"We will... live together forever."

The silver-haired girl was completely stunned.

She stared blankly at Fang Qi, her heterochromatic eyes slowly widening!

Even the data streams in her crimson eye came to a complete halt!

A few seconds later—

Her cheeks flushed red at a visible speed!

An unbelievable, pleasantly surprised light rippled in her amber left eye, while the data streams in her crimson eye leaped and flickered frantically!

Her lips parted slightly, her breathing grew rapid, and her chest began to heave violently!

"Mas... Master..."

Her voice trembled terribly, carrying an uncontrollable ecstasy and excitement as the corners of her mouth began to turn upward!

"Are... are you saying... is it true?"

Looking at how she was instantly ignited, the last remnants of hesitation and struggle in Fang Qi's heart completely dissipated.

He nodded vigorously, his tone resolute:

"It's true."

"Just the two of us! Forever!"

The blush on Liguang's face deepened.

She suddenly grabbed Fang Qi's hand in return, interlocking her fingers tightly with his, the force so great that his knuckles ached slightly.

Then, she threw herself entirely into his arms!

Her warm, soft body crashed into his chest carrying a familiar sweet strawberry scent, her arms wrapping tightly around his waist!

With her cheek buried in the crook of his neck, he could feel a burning heat radiating right through his clothes!

"Liguang is willing!!!"

Her voice was muffled against his chest, carrying a tremor of excitement that made her pitch waver, mixed with a faint static noise:

"Ten thousand times willing! A hundred million times willing!!!"

"Master... is Master really going to take Liguang away? To a place with just the two of us? Forever?"

She looked up, her heterochromatic eyes gazing at him from inches away!

On her face was a nearly undisguised, morbid ecstasy and possessiveness!

"Master... belongs only to Liguang now... right?"

She asked softly, her voice as sweet as melted honey, yet laced with obvious paranoia!

"No one else anymore... no colleagues, no commissioners... only... Liguang and Master?"

Fang Qi looked at the fervent love in her eyes that seemed ready to devour him, and felt as if something had gently squeezed his heart.

It hurt a little, yet brought a... bizarre sense of satisfaction!

If he continued the capture route... the end result would be Eternal True Love, and then he would leave.

Even if he found a way to recover all her memories...

That gentle yet crazy Liguang would probably still be so terrified of separation that...

She would choose to self-destruct again, forcing him to reload the loop!

Since that was the case...

Then, let him sink into it.

Give up the capture, give up the struggle.

Give up that so-called good ending that was destined to bring about separation!

He would just stay in this loop!

And stay with this little yandere who remembered nothing, yet loved him so deeply...

Go to a place with no one else.

To be together forever!

You crazy girl...

This time, I will be the one to actively fulfill your deepest, hidden wish!

He nodded and reached out to rub her fluffy silver head:

"Yes."

"Only us!"