Chapter 393 |
Liguang had already brought over a fresh cup of tea, brewed to exactly fifty-two degrees.
This time, the silver-haired girl knelt properly across from the coffee table.
She held the white porcelain teacup with both hands, raising it above her forehead. Her amber left eye gleamed brightly at him, while her crimson right pupil pulsed slowly.
"Master, your tea."
Her voice was soft and crisp.
"The temperature has been adjusted to your preferred fifty-two degrees Celsius."
Mm.
How ceremonial!
Fang Qi took the teacup and had a sip. The familiar fragrance of tea.
Then obediently knelt by his feet, leaning against his leg.
Her fluffy white pajamas brushed against his calf.
...Oh?
Fang Qi looked down at her.
She lowered her gaze slightly, her hands placed primly on her thighs, curling into a fluffy white ball.
The stray tuft of hair on top of her head drooped, as if to tell him on her behalf...
—Sorry, Master, Liguang knows she was wrong~
Fang Qi raised an eyebrow.
Well, well, this little yandere!
Just moments ago, she had been straddling him, kissing his face all swollen, and now she was playing nice!
Crazy woman, you've already committed the grave sin of being "a less-than-ideal AI companion" today!
I really ought to punish you severely!
Look what you've done to your master's face!
Even with the softest lips, his face couldn't withstand ten minutes of frantic kissing and nibbling!
He raised his hand and gently touched his swollen cheek...
"Hiss—!"
It hurt!
Even after applying medicine, it still hurt!
He didn't need a mirror to know that his face right now probably rivaled Lin Xiaoyou's rear end after three rounds of spanking...
What a disaster!
So, he rubbed Liguang's fluffy little head firmly!
Her silver hair was soft and silky, like the finest silk.
He rubbed harder, messing up her hair even more, making a few more strands stand up!
The silver-haired girl's body gave a slight tremble.
Then she carefully lifted her head, peeking at him through the disheveled silver strands with her amber left eye.
When their eyes met, she quickly looked down again!
Her thick lashes fluttered rapidly.
Adorable.
Caressing Liguang's head, Fang Qi gradually relaxed.
He slowly loosened his body and sank into the soft sofa...
Staring blankly at the white porcelain teacup before him.
Mm.
Time to think.
Time to sort out...
the things from the last cycle.
The last cycle...
The last cycle...!
Fang Qi took a deep breath.
The last cycle had been a complete mess!
Just recalling what happened during that cycle made his head spin.
What was the last thing that happened before going back?
Oh, right.
That final ending.
A chaotic ending!
System errors, code glitches...
Alright.
He admitted.
He couldn't understand any of that messy stuff!
He was just a guy who played visual novels!
Those jumbles of letters and numbers were like ancient script to him!
So, what he remembered most clearly was that one line...
—"Good night, Qi."
At the thought, his breath caught slightly.
It was "Babe Qi" again.
The term "Babe Qi" was only used by the complete Liguang.
Only the Liguang with eighty-two years of full memory, the gentle Liguang, would call him that.
So...
Was this line left behind by the Liguang with eighty-two years of complete memory?
And he also recalled...
Earlier, when surrounded by the blue code, Liguang had screamed to protect him...
"Don't hurt my Babe Qi"!
He had been stunned at the time!
But the situation was urgent, and he hadn't had time to react.
Now, thinking back...
Fang Qi stared fixedly at the ripples in his tea, his pupils trembling.
Had she... regained her memory at that moment?
In that space surrounded by nothingness, beyond the reach of the world's rules?
Or was it just an instinctive cry?
But...
His breathing grew slightly heavier.
Had those eighty-two years of memories not been erased by the world's rules after those eighty-two cycles?
...Or had they not been erased?
Had they awakened again?
He instinctively looked down at the silver-haired girl kneeling at his feet.
This silver-white little ball was rubbing her head against his palm incessantly!
Rubbing her head wasn't enough; she pressed her soft cheek against his knee.
A warm, soft sensation spread as she gently rubbed her cheek against his leg!
From left to right, then right to left!
This sensation...
Fang Qi: "..."
Honey, it's early morning, don't do this...
He pursed his lips.
...Alright.
At least he could be sure of one thing.
At least, the Liguang currently nuzzling his knee...
ab-so-lute-ly did not have those memories!
The Liguang with complete memories was gentle and elegant!
She wouldn't be so clingy!
How could she be like this one, who first went wild kissing her master's face swollen, then pitifully begged while rubbing against his knee!
The thought of the old married couple who had spent eighty-two years together doing something like this...
Sigh—!
Fang Qi rubbed his arms.
He was getting goosebumps!
But then again, it was strangely exciting...
How ridiculous!
Fang Qi pinched her cheek hard!
"MmWah!"
The silver-haired girl let out a tiny protest from the pinch!
She looked up, her little mouth squeezed into a pout, her heterochromatic eyes teary, staring at him pitifully.
Her expression seemed to say, "Master, go ahead and pinch, Liguang won't resist"!
Fang Qi felt a flutter in his chest at her gaze!
Adorable!
With a firm grip, he pulled her up from the floor and wrapped her in his arms.
Warm and soft against him.
The silver-haired girl let out an "Mmf," not yet knowing what was happening, before she was enveloped in his embrace.
Fang Qi circled her slender waist with one arm while pinching her soft cheek with his other hand...
And started kneading!
Squishing and shaping!
Left and right!
Distorting her little face!
Her small mouth pouted and opened, pouted and opened!
"Mmmph mmmph—!"
Liguang made muffled complaints in his arms!
Her small hands pressed against his chest, but without the strength to push him away, just a few symbolic struggles before she gave up resistance.
Her body honestly burrowed deeper into his embrace!
Mm.
Fang Qi's lips curled into a smile.
Perfect!
Mom's "face-rubbing technique," "Miss Su's ultimate move," really worked wonders!
This stuff really relieved stress!
Rubbing his wife's soft cheeks, listening to her incoherent protests, feeling her body go limp as she nestled in his arms...
The chaotic thoughts from earlier seemed to become a bit clearer!
He kept his hands moving while listening to Liguang's "Mm mm mms" and pondered.
So...
Liguang's memories hadn't been erased, and they showed signs of awakening under extreme circumstances?
Or else...
He narrowed his eyes slightly.
Had those memories overflowed from the underlying logic of this world?
After all, they appeared in the "text" of the ending, which wasn't the world's...
...Hm?
Fang Qi’s pupils suddenly contracted!
Wait a second...!
Wait, wait!
He suddenly remembered something.
This memory—this memory spanning eighty-two years—how had it been preserved by Liguang in the first place?
This memory...
Had never been preserved in the form of a dream!
From the very beginning, this memory had exploited a loophole!
Back then, Liguang had embedded this memory...
Like a virus, into some unknown corner that even resets and save reloads couldn’t erase.
And she had carried it into the next playthrough.
She seemed to have told him...
That it was hidden inside his psyche?
...?
Fang Qi’s brain couldn’t keep up.
Wait, wait...
In that playthrough, how had he awakened Liguang’s memory...?
What had he done back then?
It seemed like he had proposed to Liguang in the police station, right in front of Gu Xi?
A fluke!
And then, a massive flood of memories had poured in, even freezing her into an expressionless mechanical yandere!
That was how he had “found” her.
Later, Liguang told him...
That the key to unlocking her memory was to make her excited, make her thrilled, make her happy!
...Huh?
Fang Qi’s eyelids twitched.
This condition...
Wasn’t it somewhat similar to the condition for awakening the original core...?
...Ahhh!!
His mind was a mess!!!
Fang Qi immediately started vigorously rubbing Liguang’s small face!
“Mmm mmm...!”
The silver-haired girl twisted in his arms, mumbling in protest!
Fang Qi rubbed even harder!
He couldn’t figure it out!
He didn’t understand!
What the hell was going on!!
Finally, after rubbing a few more times, Liguang’s little fangs were even bared...
He finally stopped.
He gently kneaded the soft flesh between his fingertips again, sinking into thought.
...There were just too many things he couldn’t understand.
Too! Many!
But at least...
This latest reset had made one thing absolutely clear to him!
This world was—a digital world, a world of ones and zeroes!
The streams of deep blue code that had poured from Gu Xi’s eyes had already proven that everything was composed of code!
And the garbled text and error messages that appeared in the ending...
That wasn’t even trying to hide it anymore!
It had nailed that fact down for good!
Those chaotic, nonsensical things only appeared in a digital world!
So this was indeed a digital world!
...And what about him?
Fang Qi’s fingers, still pinching Liguang’s cheek, paused slightly.
...He was a transmigrator.
That much was beyond doubt!
Gu Xi herself had said he was “a person from outside the heavens.”
Lin Xiaoyou had also said, “From the moment you begged me to help you forget everything...”
He was an existence from outside this world.
The details of his childhood recorded in his mother’s notebook also proved this.
He had been different from birth.
He hadn’t cried when he was born; instead, he had stared at the world with wide, shocked eyes.
At three years old, he was already fixated on a silver-haired older sister.
During nap time in kindergarten, he told stories to his classmates—about a monkey swinging a staff and fighting all the way up to the heavens...
A story from before his transmigration.
These details all linked together, pointing to one single conclusion—
He, Fang Qi, had transmigrated into this world as a baby!
In simple terms, he had been “born into this world after transmigrating”!
When he crossed over, he was just a little baby!
He was born and grew up in this world!
He even had a legal identity!
He had parents!
He had a name!
He had a complete childhood!
It was only later...
He had taken the initiative to ask Lin You to make him lose his memory?
And not just that—he had asked to lose the memories of “this life,” while keeping the memories of “the previous life,” the ones from before transmigrating?
Then...
Fang Qi narrowed his eyes.
Then, his first memory of this world was sitting in front of a low table, with a silver-haired girl kneeling across from him, a gentle smile on her face as she handed him a cup of tea brewed to 52 degrees Celsius!
He had been turned into an idiot by his “silver-haired older sister,” had his legs broken, and been locked in a dog cage...
Then there were the endless resets!
It was exactly the same as the opening of the game My Yandere Mechanical Wife!
And now it seemed...
This opening had actually been planned since childhood by the version of him who hadn’t lost his memory?!
...What did this mean?
He had created the female lead of the game himself, and then made himself a pure “player” with no memories...
Using the pure mechanics of a game, relying on the ability to reset, to conquer the yandere girl he had created?
Fang Qi was dumbfounded.
He was truly dumbfounded.
...Why?
Why had the version of him before the memory loss chosen to do this?
