Chapter 645

His wrist was in excruciating pain, and his face twitched from it!

He secretly turned his head to glance at the person beside him, only to see…

The silver-haired girl quietly looking at him.

There was still a trace of confusion lingering on her pretty face, but the look in her eyes as she stared at him…

Ah, how familiar…

So very “kind”!

She didn’t say a word. She simply smiled at him, her eyes curving into gentle little crescents.

“Crack!”

“Ow!”

Fang Qi’s tears nearly burst out!

Holy crap! It was really going to break!

Liguang had no memory now, and her grip was countless times more brutal than before she lost it!

Because the Crazy Girl didn’t know that his wrist would reset if it actually broke!

“Wife, I was wrong! Don’t—!!”

He immediately decided that the wise man knew when to submit!

And then…

“…Huh?”

The silver-haired girl beside him suddenly froze.

Her expression turned blank as she stared at Fang Qi, her little mouth opening and closing.

“Wi… wife…?”

She repeated the word softly, her phoenix eyes blinking lightly. Then…

“Waaah…!”

She immediately lowered her head!

Her silver hair fell with a swish, completely covering her pretty face!

And then…

“Pfft…”

A cloud of white steam began billowing from the top of her head!

Fang Qi: “…”

His face was still twisted in pain, but the moment he saw his wife like this…

…She was adorable. Far too adorable!

One side of his mouth was pulled open by the pain, yet the corners still couldn’t help curling upward!

The Little Yandere after losing her memory was so easily embarrassed that smoke practically came out of her head…!

She was nothing like Liguang before she lost her memory. Once night came, that version of her was practically a demon…

“Ahem.”

Gu Xi sat across from them. She had watched the entire scene with great interest while eating, and only then gave a light cough.

Fang Qi’s old face immediately flushed slightly.

Oh no. His dignity as the master had been scattered all over the floor…

Gu Xi, however, suddenly smiled helplessly.

“I’m saying, Fang Qi, don’t celebrate too soon.”

“Helping Liguang recover her memories won’t be easy.”

…Hm?

Fang Qi’s eyelashes trembled at those words.

…Was it really that difficult?

His eyes immediately sharpened. He composed himself and looked at Gu Xi, ready to listen.

At the same time, he grabbed both of Liguang’s little hands and gently rubbed them.

Beside him, the silver-haired girl kept her head lowered without saying a word.

The ear hidden beneath her silver hair was still red at the base, but her mismatched eyes were staring at Gu Xi without blinking through the strands.

Gu Xi looked at the two of them, her expression turning serious once more.

“The most precious part of Liguang’s ‘dream’ memories… hasn’t actually disappeared.”

She spoke slowly.

“That little world was never ‘deleted’ in the first place.”

It hadn’t been deleted…

Fang Qi stared intently at Gu Xi.

“It merely… became part of the ‘greater world’ again.”

“So that means those memories most likely…”

Gu Xi pressed her lips together, and a trace of imperceptible sadness dimmed her eyes.

“Just like the companions who once offered up their ‘souls’ for you, they became lost within the ‘rifts in the world.’”

…Hm?

Fang Qi looked at her, his gaze gradually losing focus.

“Lost… within the rifts in the world…!”

He murmured Gu Xi’s words back to himself, while his mind raced furiously.

Rifts… Did that mean those chaotic places?

The underground research facility he and Liguang had entered before…

That place had been a complete mess, with mosaics, a floor made of non-Newtonian fluid, and all sorts of other bizarre things…

And the “companions who offered up their souls” were the people she had mentioned before…

The people who followed him?

“Viruses.”

In other words, the “informants” Lin Xiaoyou had spoken of.

Those people…

The ones who had once looked like emotionless dolls, whom even Liguang’s red eye couldn’t detect.

They had no expressions or physiological reactions, like empty shells with their souls ripped away.

Gu Xi had also said that only she was left among those “companions.”

The others had all offered up their “souls” for him, and then become human dolls.

Because their “souls” had all become lost within the rifts in the world?

…That was it.

Gu Xi herself had once offered up her soul for him, too.

At the time, it had been so she could tell him, without being detected by this world—

“Don’t open that door.”

But afterward, he had shouted at her, forcibly calling her soul back!

Otherwise, the “soul code” that had scattered across the sky back then might have become completely lost in that chaos, never to return.

If that had really happened, then there wouldn’t have been a single “virus” left in this world.

After figuring all that out, Fang Qi more or less understood.

Oh, so that meant…

He slowly focused his gaze on Gu Xi, who was also staring blankly and dejectedly into the distance. She was probably recalling her former companions.

In any case…

Liguang’s memories had also become lost in that chaos?!

Then what exactly did they need to do to recover them…?

Ah!

A flash of inspiration suddenly struck Fang Qi. His eyes widened as he stared at Gu Xi and murmured:

“Right… You once… found those people who had lost their ‘souls’…!”

Gu Xi smiled, and there was even a hint of gentleness in it.

“Fang Qi, you’re still just as clever even after losing your memory.”

She spoke softly.

“That’s right. We really did… find those people. And moreover…”

She looked at Liguang beside him and curled the corner of her mouth upward.

“We have our Goddess to thank for it.”

Liguang’s little hand twitched faintly in his grasp. The silver-haired girl beside him raised her head slightly and stared at Gu Xi in a daze.

Fang Qi tightened his hold on her hand and stared intently at Gu Xi.

That was right…!

They had found someone before!

Lin Zhouyuan!

The man who had once lost his “soul”!

Lin Xiaoyou’s father, a core researcher at Chenxi! Back then, he had died on the same day as Fang Qi’s parents in that car…

Yet later, he had reappeared before Fang Qi in the form of a “younger version” of himself!

He was a ghostly doll whom even the red eye couldn’t detect, a being devoid of human emotions!

He had even attacked Fang Qi with a gun! Fang Qi had blown out his right eye with a single shot!

But afterward…

In the other world lines, that man had actually come back to life!

Fang Qi remembered it all too clearly!

At the time, Lin Xiaoyou had been so excited that she had kept shouting something over and over…

Something about how, because “the world is unique,” that person really was her father, and she had found her father’s soul…

Something like that!

So…!

Hm?

Wait…

Fang Qi suddenly froze.

Huh?

He blinked, and suddenly realized something.

Lin Zhouyuan had lost his “soul,” yet he had still acted alongside Gu Xi.

Wouldn’t that mean…

He slowly widened his eyes and blurted out at Gu Xi:

“Wait… Lin Xiaoyou’s father used to be one of you?!”

He had once been a member of the “viruses”?!

At those words, Gu Xi’s eyelid visibly twitched.

“…He was one of us.”

She corrected him, then lightly gritted her teeth.

“But who could have imagined? Senior Lin was such a refined and gentle man…”

She forced the words out through clenched teeth.

“And yet he somehow raised a lunatic like that!”

“She even… wants to overturn the goal her father once intended to give everything to achieve!”

“What kind of daughter is that…”

Gu Xi ground her teeth slightly, her expression clearly displeased.

“Too—filial—and—obedient!”

Fang Qi: “…”

Could it… really be like that?

Beside him, Liguang quietly tightened her grip on his hand again.

Fang Qi didn’t need to guess. This Little Yandere had probably failed to understand it again.

Fortunately, unlike the her from the previous cycle, she no longer suddenly went dark just because “too much had changed.”

Fang Qi narrowed his eyes at Gu Xi, then gently squeezed Liguang’s hand in return.

Wife, hold steady.

Let’s hear what she has to say first!

Gu Xi took a deep breath and then…

Glared fiercely at Fang Qi before giving his boxed meal a sharp tap with her chopsticks.

“Enough. Stop going on about useless things! In short, you should understand by now. As long as…”

Her eyes grew serious again as she looked at Fang Qi.

“As long as the worldline changes…”

“Those beings that once became lost in the chaotic rifts between worlds… may be able to return to their proper places!”

“Liguang’s memories work the same way!”

“As long as the worldline changes, and she can seize that ‘memory data’ again…”

“I can help you stabilize it!”

But then she pursed her lips lightly and muttered under her breath:

“Although, if the worldline changes, I might…”

She clicked her tongue.

Fang Qi stared blankly at her.

His mind spun rapidly as he went over Gu Xi’s words from beginning to end.

In short…

Authority was the key! The worldline was the road! Memories were the people who had gotten lost!

As long as the road changed, the lost people…

could find their way back on their own!

When he thought about it that way, it didn’t seem quite so hopeless anymore.

Oh my God, Matchmaker Sister!

Fang Qi snapped back to reality and looked at Gu Xi with immense gratitude. She had lowered her head slightly and seemed to be muttering about something.

He nearly lunged forward and grabbed her hand again!

What kind of savior am I? You’re the true savior, my Goddess!

You’re my goddess!

Oh, wait. You’re the Second Goddess.

The First Goddess will always be my Liguang!

“But…”

Gu Xi suddenly looked back at him, pursing her lips as her tone grew heavy again.

“This won’t be easy.”

Huh…?

Fang Qi’s heart immediately sank. He held his breath as he looked at her.

Gu Xi nudged the potato cubes in her boxed meal with her chopsticks.

“First of all…”

she explained softly,

“you need to return Liguang’s ‘authority’ to her.”

“Otherwise… once the timeline changes, she won’t even be able to retain her memories normally.”

“Let alone grasp the memories of that lost ‘dream.’”

Ah…

Right. Of course!

He instinctively glanced at the silver-haired girl beside him. Her crimson eyes flickered faintly, yet she still looked utterly confused. His heart tightened.

He turned back to Gu Xi and blurted out:

“Then how do I return the authority to Liguang?”

He still hadn’t figured out what this authority even was! And now he was supposed to return it exactly as it had been? He was completely at a loss!

Who knew how to return it? Gu Xi definitely…

“…You don’t have to play dumb with me.”

But Gu Xi suddenly raised her head and looked at him as if to say, “What are you pretending for?”

“How would I know about something like that? The authority is with you, not me.”

Fang Qi: “…”

Huh?

No, wait…

He stared wide-eyed at the police beauty before him, who wore an expression of utter exasperation.

…I’m not pretending to be dumb! I really don’t know!

He opened his mouth, wanting to explain.

“I—!”

“And then—”

Gu Xi had already begun speaking again, shifting her gaze toward Liguang.

“Liguang has lost those memories.”

“She probably… no longer knows how to change the ‘worldline,’ does she?”

Uh…

Fang Qi instinctively looked at Liguang as well.

The silver-haired girl was holding his hand.

Her little hand was still unconsciously rubbing the spot she had just squeezed hard enough to hurt.

But her crimson eyes kept flickering back and forth in confusion.

It was obvious that she hadn’t understood a single thing.

Silly wife.

“So…”

Gu Xi raised one finger.

“Even if Liguang gets her authority back, making the worldline change will probably still be an incredibly difficult problem.”

“However…”

When she reached this point, she suddenly stopped. She pursed her lips hesitantly, and her expression once again became…

somewhat displeased.

Hmm?

Ah…!

Fang Qi’s eyes widened slightly as he looked at her.

Then his gaze gradually went blank.

He seemed to have already guessed why Gu Xi was hesitating.

Changing the worldline… was that it?

There really was someone who…

“…Some crazy woman.”

Gu Xi gave a quiet snort, her expression clearly unhappy.

“She seems to have done a bit of research in that area.”

“Back when she was working with Crazy Lin…”

Even so, she gritted her teeth and forced herself to say it.

“She seemed to have made a tiny, tiny bit of progress in that field.”

Fang Qi: “…”

It really was her!

He suddenly saw the light.

Lin Xiaoyou! Lin You!

That genius who had managed to deduce the “rollback mechanism” all by herself—and had even gambled her life on it…

She really had researched “worldline changes” back then!

Fang Qi still remembered how she had acted all mysterious and shouted things like:

“Only you can change the worldline after the save point, but I can change the worldline before the save point!”

Huh…

She really might know how to change the worldline…

But then…

Fang Qi slowly raised a hand and covered his forehead.

Huh?

He stared blankly at the boxed meal on the table.

But the current her seemed to have become…

the carefree, airheaded, sweet version of “Lin Xiaoyou,” hadn’t she?

If he wanted her to turn back into Miss Genius, then he would have to…

He turned his head slightly and looked at the silver-haired girl beside him, who was still completely confused.

He would need Liguang to return that part of her…

“Soul”? To her…

But Liguang had lost her memories.

She didn’t even remember what a “soul” was, let alone…

how to return it to Lin Xiaoyou.

Yet in order to recover Liguang’s memories, they happened to…

need Miss Genius’s help?

Without Lin Xiaoyou, they couldn’t change the worldline.

Without changing the worldline, they couldn’t recover the memories.

Without recovering the memories, they couldn’t…

turn her back into Miss Genius?

Without turning her back into Miss Genius, they couldn’t change the worldline.

Then they couldn’t recover the memories.

They couldn’t turn her back into Miss Genius.

They couldn’t change the worldline.

They couldn’t…

Huh?

He tilted his head and blinked. Then his entire body froze.

He had a feeling that the expression on his face had to be spectacular.

…Wasn’t this a dead loop?