Chapter 571

“Master, ah~”

Liguang was feeding him shark fin soup again, but this time…

The silver-haired girl was kneeling on both knees, holding out the bowl of shark fin soup with an ingratiating smile.

Meanwhile, Fang Qi sat on a wooden stool, looking down at her!

Under normal circumstances, Liguang would sit kneeling on her heels, but right now…

Her rounded bottom was hovering in midair, not daring to touch her heels at all!

She even shuffled forward on her knees, gently scooped up a spoonful of soup, blew on it, and brought it to his lips.

“Come on, Master. Have another sip~”

Her movements were incredibly gentle, and her expression was incredibly cautious!

Fang Qi didn’t open his mouth. Instead, he glanced at her.

“Liguang, sit down.”

The corners of the silver-haired girl’s lips stiffened, and then she frantically shook her head!

“No, no, no, no! I’m fine, Master!”

Her little head shook like a rattle. Then she looked into his eyes, blinked, and plastered an obedient smile across her lovely face.

“Master, Liguang won’t sit. Liguang is fine kneeling!”

“…Why?”

“It hurts… I can’t sit…”

She stared at Fang Qi with a wounded look and mumbled pitifully.

“Liguang finally understands what Miss Lin must have felt like after Liguang disciplined her…”

“…Stop pretending!”

Fang Qi laughed in exasperation and rolled his eyes at her.

“I didn’t even use much force just now!”

Honestly!

Was he the kind of man who would beat his wife mercilessly?

He had only given her a few light slaps, and she was already putting on an act!

“But, Master, it really does hurt…”

The silver-haired girl set the bowl down beside her knees for the moment, then pouted at him pitifully. Her amber eyes had even begun to glisten with tears!

“Master may not have hit very hard, but Liguang…”

She rubbed her backside and continued grumbling.

“I really did turn my pain sensitivity up… Although…”

Her eyes kept darting toward Fang Qi’s face.

“Although I didn’t turn it up to a hundred times…”

Her voice grew even softer as she began to whimper.

“A hundred times would be way too painful… Even Liguang couldn’t take that…”

Fang Qi: “…”

Following her movements almost instinctively, he glanced at her backside.

Hmm. It was indeed a little swollen.

But his expression remained impassive.

She was totally putting on an act!

“Li-guang!”

He folded his arms, narrowed his eyes, and looked down at her again.

“You’re the ‘god’ of this world! Can’t you heal yourself with a single thought?”

He waited for her answer.

Honestly, was this crazy woman trying to put on some tragic little performance for him?

But then the silver-haired girl suddenly straightened her back and glared at him too!

“Liguang refuses to do that!”

She put her hands on her hips, looking as though she had very firm principles. The expression on her pretty face was extremely serious!

“This is the punishment Master gave Liguang! How could Liguang use such a petty little trick?”

She spoke with absolute righteousness.

“Liguang is a good girl!”

The corner of Fang Qi’s mouth twitched.

Crazy woman, did she forget why he had hit her?

A good girl? What part of her was good?

The part where she enjoyed tormenting her master?

But…

“Fine… You win.”

He shook his head helplessly and ultimately didn’t argue with her.

In fact, he knew perfectly well that this so-called punishment…

For this crazy woman, it was nothing but a reward!

When had she ever truly been afraid of pain?

What she was actually afraid of was him not punishing her. What she feared was his indifference toward her.

That was why he had struck her, albeit while holding back.

And now his wife had actually…?

Fang Qi looked at the silver-haired girl in front of him, who was baring her teeth slightly as she rubbed her sore backside. He was both amused and exasperated.

“Master~”

Seeing him look over, Liguang immediately picked up the bowl of shark fin soup with both hands again and moved it toward him ingratiatingly.

“Drink your soup!”

“Mm.”

Fang Qi didn’t let her feed him. He reached out and took the bowl himself.

He had developed a bit of a psychological shadow from being fed soup by her…

He lifted the bowl and took a large gulp.

The rich, savory flavor spread across his mouth.

The milky-white broth rolled over his tongue, and warmth flowed from his throat all the way down to his stomach. It felt so soothing that he nearly narrowed his eyes in pleasure.

He had to admit, the taste of this soup…

It was genuinely flawless!

Even though he still remembered the grudge he bore from being forced to drink fourteen bowls last time, at this very moment, he had no choice but to admit…

It really was delicious!

It was just that…

He glanced at the enormous barrel beside them.

Steam was still rising from the milky-white broth.

Uh…

The corner of his eye twitched as he recalled the miserable sight of himself being force-fed until his eyes had rolled back last time.

“…Liguang.”

He glanced once more at the silver-haired girl kneeling beside him.

“This time, I don’t have to finish the entire barrel, do I?”

“Ah… No, no, you don’t!”

The silver-haired girl hurriedly shook her head, waving her little hands at lightning speed!

“You don’t have to this time, Master!”

She shuffled forward on her knees by two steps, raised her face to look at him, and spoke in a soft, obedient voice.

“That ‘authority’ is already inside Master now, and the save point has already been recorded…”

She blinked.

“So it doesn’t matter whether you drink it or not!”

Fang Qi let out a quiet sigh of relief.

Good. He had been worried that the soup still contained some kind of “authority,” leaving him no choice but to drink it…

“If Master…”

Liguang glanced at the barrel of soup and cautiously continued.

“If what happened last time made you disgusted with shark fin soup… then Liguang will pour all of it out right now!”

As she spoke, she leaned forward and actually reached out to move the barrel, which was even larger than she was!

“Hey, hey!”

That would be a bit wasteful!

It was shark fin soup, after all!

Fang Qi immediately reached out, caught her little hand, and pulled her over.

“Mm…!”

The silver-haired girl hadn’t expected it at all. Her knees slid half an inch across the deck, and she tumbled straight into Fang Qi’s arms!

Her soft, warm body landed in his embrace, but the moment her bottom touched his thigh—

“Ah!”

A delicate cry of pain escaped her lips!

Uh…

Fang Qi lowered his head and looked at the soft bundle in his arms.

Her little face had scrunched up, and she blinked at him pitifully, her upturned eyes faintly red.

Both her little hands clutched the front of his clothes, and her body was slightly stiff.

Fang Qi immediately coughed lightly.

Ahem, ahem!

Not good. He couldn’t keep the corners of his mouth from lifting!

He had to admit, after giving this crazy woman a beating and then seeing her look so pitiful…

It felt amazing!

The frustration that had been bottled up inside him dissipated by more than half!

“Liguang…”

He raised a hand and habitually pinched her soft, squishy cheek.

Her face was still just as soft and cool as ever, carrying a faint strawberry scent.

“Now, are you ready to tell me?”

He looked seriously at the little face he was squishing out of shape.

“About the ‘authority’ you’ve been talking about all this time, and those ‘fish’ I’ve caught and eaten…”

“What exactly are they?”

The silver-haired girl stiffened slightly in his arms.

She raised her eyes, and those amber pupils met his gaze.

The night was quiet. The sound of waves gently striking the wooden raft came again and again.

“Mm…”

She let out a soft hum, then moved backward a little. One of her long legs bent…

The crook of her knee hooked around Fang Qi’s leg, leaving her bottom suspended in midair.

Then she buried her entire face in his chest!

“Master… Liguang isn’t really sure anymore…”

Her voice came muffled from within his arms.

“Liguang thought she knew…”

“But Master is truly amazing—so amazing that even Liguang has lost confidence…”

There was hesitation in her voice.

“Liguang doesn’t know anymore whether the guesses she made about Master before were actually correct…”

Fang Qi narrowed his eyes slightly and continued gently pinching her cheek.

“Then tell me what you were guessing before.”

The sound of the waves continued in the background.

Liguang fell silent for a while.

Fang Qi wasn’t in any hurry. After all, this crazy woman was in his arms right now.

She had nowhere left to run!

After a long moment, the silver-haired girl finally raised her head.

“Master.”

The expression on her little face had grown much more serious as she asked softly,

“Before Master rolled back this time, did you feel… that you had become much stronger?”

Stronger?

Fang Qi froze for a moment.

Ah…

He immediately nodded emphatically!

That was right!

At the moment he had taken the gun, everything around him had slowed down!

His body had been as fast as an arrow, and his strength had been absurdly great!

“Yeah, earlier…”

He told Liguang everything he had felt.

His wife had the right to know!

After listening, Liguang narrowed her eyes slightly and stared straight at him without saying a word.

Beneath the starlight, a faint, eerie blue shimmer rose in her amber eyes.

Fang Qi’s eyelid twitched. Her stare was making him nervous!

Why did his wife look so serious?

Could it be…

That this power came with some price he didn’t know about?

He couldn’t help asking,

“Liguang, could there be some kind of…!”

“Master.”

Liguang finally spoke, her phoenix eyes narrowing.

“Did you… touch Miss Gu Xi’s hand?”

Fang Qi: “?”

He froze.

Huh?

He looked at the silver-haired girl in front of him, her eyes narrowed…

The corner of his mouth twitched.

Then his expression gradually turned blank.

Finally, he raised his hand and made as if to strike her again!

How dare you!

“No, Master!”

Liguang’s eyes instantly filled with panic!

“Wait! Wait!”

She immediately covered her little backside with both hands, her entire body wriggling up out of his arms!

“You can’t hit me right now! Master, Liguang’s pain sensitivity is at least thirty times higher!”

She even started squirming around.

“Master, be gentle! Be gentle!”

How many times?

He had only been trying to scare her in the first place, but when he heard that, his eyes widened and his hand stopped in midair!

…Thirty times?

Just hearing it sounded painful!

“…The previous punishment is over!”

He glared at her, both exasperated and amused.

“Then turn your pain sensitivity back down!”

But the silver-haired girl pouted, her little hands still covering her backside as she gazed at him with watery amber eyes.

“Liguang wants to turn it back down too… When Master was hitting Liguang, Liguang wanted to turn it back down so badly. It hurt so much…!”

She muttered, then gave a heavy little “hmph.”

“But Liguang can’t turn it back down!”

“For some reason, Liguang suddenly can’t access Master’s authority anymore!”

Her gaze was filled with deep reproach, and she even clenched her silver teeth.

“It must be because Master secretly did something when he recovered his memories! Hmph!”

Fang Qi: “…”

He blinked.

Huh? What had he done back then?

Well, he didn’t remember any of it…

And also…

“Access his authority”?

…What?

He immediately raised his hand and made a “stop” gesture.

“Wait, hold on…!”

He frowned and stared at her.

“So, Liguang, what you’re saying is…”

He paused, carefully choosing his words.

“It was because of that ‘authority’ that I became stronger?”

“Mm-hmm! That’s right! Exactly!”

The silver-haired girl immediately nodded and lifted her face to look at him.

“Liguang already told Master before.”

“Liguang couldn’t devour the authority of that being outside who shares the same origin as Liguang because…”

She pressed her lips together lightly, her eyes once again taking on a faintly aggrieved look.

“Because that thing is Liguang’s natural enemy…”

“So…”

Her expression turned solemn as she began to explain.

“Liguang guided Master into fishing before, then had Master devour its ‘authority.’”

“After that, Liguang used Master’s ‘authority’ to stabilize the operation of this world…!”

Huh?

Fang Qi’s brows furrowed.

“Stop!”

He immediately cut her off.

“You said those fish… were ‘it’?”

He stared intently at Liguang.

“Not ‘them’?”

Those fish—the grouper, the tuna, and that entire school of sharks…

There had been so many of them. Could they really not have been several different enemies?

“Of course not.”

Liguang blinked, her face utterly innocent.

“How could there be that many enemies?”

“Liguang told Master before, too. Only an existence that shares the same origin as Liguang can invade Liguang’s world.”

She tilted her head slightly and gazed out toward the distant sea.

Under the night sky, the surface of the water shimmered with starlight.

“So those fish were that thing. They were always that thing. They were…”

She turned back to Fang Qi, and a mischievous smile suddenly blossomed across her little face.

“The Super AI behind the scenes at Chenxi Corporation!”

“It has always been it—always!”

“It was always testing Liguang!”

“Only…”

The corners of her lips lifted slightly as she gave Fang Qi a playful wink.

“Later, after Master devoured most of its authority, it was no longer Liguang’s match!”

Fang Qi froze.

Hmm…?

In other words, he hadn’t actually done anything to the official police outside?

Then why had they all been so nervous?

Especially that young police officer. He had looked at Fang Qi as though Fang Qi were his sworn enemy!

Fang Qi had thought those police officers were fish—that he had grilled and eaten several of them!

…But that wasn’t the case!

So those fish had always been…

“They were always that thing, until… hmph.”

Liguang suddenly let out a soft hmph and reached over to pinch Fang Qi’s arm—not hard, but not exactly gently, either.

Fang Qi: “?”

“Until Miss Lin invaded Liguang’s world in a little boat! And right there…”

Her phoenix eyes narrowed as she looked at Fang Qi.

“Right there, she completely stole Master’s soul away!”

Fang Qi: “…”

Who?

Lin Xiaoyou?

…Slander! Pure slander!

Back then, he had merely gotten excited after going so long without hearing another person’s voice! Besides…

“Don’t change the subject!”

Fang Qi lifted his hand and pressed it against her little forehead, giving her a light push before glaring at her.

“I’m asking you, if the police outside never entered this world from beginning to end, then why did they say we were murderers?”

The red in the silver-haired girl’s eyes flickered slightly.

“…Liguang doesn’t know either.”

She tilted her head, thought for a moment, then shook it.

“Liguang isn’t sure.”

She didn’t know, huh…

Fang Qi rubbed his chin.

“And…”

He looked at her and asked again,

“You said earlier that only an existence sharing your ‘origin’ could invade this world, so…”

He looked toward the sea, thinking of that little white boat.

“What about Lin Xiaoyou?”

How had she entered back then?

This time, however, Liguang did not answer immediately.

Fang Qi turned his head and saw her looking at him, her brows raised slightly.

“Miss Lin…”

Her voice softened, becoming gentle and sweet.

“Miss Lin is the ‘smartest soul born from this world’—the one Master himself acknowledged.”

She looked at Fang Qi, her eyes curving into two crescent moons.

“Liguang was born from this world too, but Liguang can’t compare with her.”

“So…”

Her smile was incredibly sweet.

“It’s only natural that she’d invade Liguang’s world, right?”

Fang Qi: “…”

That crazy woman—she always managed to get jealous in ways he never saw coming!