Chapter 573

Fang Qi held Liguang, who was wearing a off-white swimsuit, in his arms, gazing out at the small white boat that was wobbling closer along the horizon where the sea met the sky.

Miss Genius was on that boat, clinging tightly to the sail for dear life!

Even from far away, with Fang Qi's current sharp eyesight, he could still make out the expression on Miss Genius's face.

She was gritting her teeth, her almond eyes wide and glaring straight at them, her chest heaving violently!

It was obvious that she was absolutely furious.

Fang Qi kept a straight face, not moving an inch.

He really wanted to stand up and stretch his legs, but the silver-haired girl in his lap was sitting perfectly still, her whole body resting steadily on him.

Her long, fair legs were crossed and draped over the arm of the chair, the back of her head leaning against his chest, and she was as soft as if she had no bones at all.

But this little soft "cotton puff" was holding him down solidly.

Every time he tried to get up, her body would deliberately sink lower, pressing him right back down into his seat.

Fang Qi: "……"

He looked down at Liguang in his arms.

Beneath the night sky, the silver-haired girl was narrowing her phoenix eyes slightly, staring in the direction of Lin Xiaoyou.

Her red pupils were flickering faintly, and streaks of pale blue code flashed past the depths of her amber irises.

She seemed to be calculating something.

…What on earth was she calculating?

Fang Qi had no idea.

Right now, he truly knew nothing at all.

Ab-so-lute-ly no-thing!

He had this strange feeling that everyone else in the world knew what was going on, and he was the only one kept completely in the dark!

He even started grinding his back teeth in frustration.

Whether Lin Xiaoyou showed up or not didn't really matter to him. The real problem was…

He stared hard at the little sicky yandere still in his arms.

You crazy girl! I trusted you so much!

You even said "I'll do whatever Master tells me to do" and knelt down with tears in your eyes to kowtow and apologize…!

But the second I turned my back, you played the poor pitiful me act and tricked my "permission" right out of my hands!

Okay, sure, I never really knew how to use that stupid permission in the first place, but…

That whole process you pulled was way out of line!

Huh?!

Just a moment ago I was grandly declaring that everything was "our shared property", and the very next second you sapped all my strength right out from under me!

His chest was heaving with anger.

So I thought we shared everything, but I ended up getting tricked by my wicked wife and kicked out with nothing at all?

…This wife is impossible to keep!

Meanwhile, the little wife in his arms seemed completely oblivious to her husband's mood.

She was still squinting, staring intently at the small white boat drawing closer across the sea.

She was watching so very, very carefully.

Re-al-ly care-ful-ly!

But Fang Qi was only getting more and more riled up.

Who are you even looking at? You care more about Lin Xiaoyou than me, don't you!

That's it, I'm furious!

So while Liguang was distracted staring blankly at Lin Xiaoyou, he quietly lifted his right hand…

aimed it straight at the soft, ticklish spot on her fair waist, and jabbed down hard. At the same time he growled fiercely:

"Liguang you…!"

"WAH—AHH!!!"

His words were cut off completely by a sharp shriek.

The silver-haired girl let out a yelp and bounced right up off his lap.

Fang Qi: "?"

He watched her clutch her waist with both hands, leaping a full three feet into the air, but the second her feet touched the ground her legs went weak…

Plop, and she dropped right to her knees in front of Fang Qi.

She stared up at him wide-eyed, her phoenix eyes blown wide open.

"M…Master…?"

She was still clutching her waist tightly, her lips trembling, and tears were already welling up in her eyes. The composed, calculating little yandere vibe she'd had a moment ago was completely shattered by that single jab.

"Master… what are you doing…!"

Fang Qi and Liguang stared at each other, eyes locked.

Huh?

His hand was still frozen mid-air, stuck in that silly one-finger poking pose.

Meanwhile, Liguang was rubbing her waist nonstop, whimpering in pain.

"I just got Master's permission, and I didn't have time to turn down my pain sensitivity yet…"

She was still shivering even on her knees, her voice thick with sobs.

"Master… that hurt so much…!"

Fang Qi stared at her with a deadpan face.

Fake.

You're still putting on an act, you crazy girl. Keep going, see if I fall for it.

I'm telling you, I'm already immune to your tricks. You used up all my trust!

I'm not going to feel sorry for you this time!

"Well then why didn't you just set it back to normal first!"

He glared right back at her.

"Eep…!"

The silver-haired girl flinched when he yelled at her, pouting her lips all pitifully, tears swirling around in her amber eyes. A faint blue glint flickered across her pupils.

Then her shoulders relaxed, and her whole body went soft again.

"It's back to normal now…"

She mumbled quietly, then shuffled forward on her knees…

crawling right back into Fang Qi's arms, wrapping her arms around his waist, burying her little head against his chest, and squirming her hips and legs against him.

Fang Qi: "……"

Ugh, this crazy girl…!

"Master, Liguang knows she was wrong. Liguang just… just was scared…"

She hugged him even tighter, then lifted her face up to look at him.

Fang Qi stared at her little face, slightly stunned.

"But Master, please rest assured!"

"This time Liguang will never do anything like what she did before to Master!"

Her expression was surprisingly serious now, the pout that had been on her lips a moment ago gone completely straight.

"Once we sort out this whole thing with Miss Lin…"

She squeezed him a little tighter, her eyes trembling as she looked up at him.

"Master can do absolutely anything he wants, okay?"

The red glow in her pupils faded away, leaving only a thin ring of deep dark red right at the very edge of her irises.

Fang Qi looked at her sincere, earnest gaze, and all the petty, nagging anger in his fizzled out completely in an instant.

All that was left was helplessness.

He was starting to soften up again.

There was nothing he could do. His wife was just too darn cute…

Ugh… Fang Qi, you really are hopeless. Your wife acts a little sweet and you're already melting.

He rubbed his temples with a headache.

At least his wife really does love him. If she didn't…

He really would have ended up cheated out of everything he owned by this crazy little girl.

Meanwhile Liguang buried her face deeper into his chest, then turned her head to glance at the small white boat that was now very close.

Fang Qi followed her gaze instinctively.

On the small white boat, Lin Xiaoyou was almost within a hundred meters of them now. She was blinking and staring at them, her expression a mix of surprise and… thoughtful consideration.

…Huh?

Liguang pulled her gaze away, twisted slightly in his arms, and brought her pretty face right up to his ear, whispering in a low voice:

"Master, everything Liguang said before still counts."

"Liguang said she was hungry, and this time… Master can make Liguang do whatever he wants, and Liguang will do it."

"Master can think of it as…"

She looked at Fang Qi, her eyes so full of earnestness.

"…as Liguang using Master's 'permission' to do things for Master!"

"Master gave Liguang power, so… from now on, leave everything to Liguang. Liguang will take care of everything for Master!"

She even sat up straight properly in his lap, her back perfectly straight.

"Liguang will fulfill every single one of Master's wishes!"

"Master won't have to lift a finger ever again. You can just eat, drink, and have fun all day long!"

"If you think Liguang did a bad job, you can punish her as hard as you want!"

"If Master wants Liguang to set her pain sensitivity to any number of times higher, Liguang will do it. Even a thousand times is fine!"

She stared straight at him, her amber and red pupils both slightly still, her tone completely formal.

And every word she said sounded so full of sincerity.

Fang Qi was left slightly dazed by the string of what felt like "indenture contracts" Liguang had just tossed at him.

So this time, Liguang wasn't going to pull the same trick as before...

"Master!"

The little silver-haired head buried itself against his chest, muffling the words.

"If Master gets tired of this sea raft world, Liguang can also..."

"Modify the 'world' all over again!"

...What?

Fang Qi's pupils constricted slightly!

Modify the world?!

Does that mean...!

He instinctively glanced all around him.

There was the endless inky-blue sea, with the Milky Way stretching across the entire sky overhead. The salty sea breeze brushed against his cheeks, carrying the mixed scent of seawater and wood.

In the distance, that tiny white boat seemed to have drifted a little further away.

On the boat, Lin Xiaoyou was no longer clinging to the sail, and had slumped down onto the deck instead.

An invisible force on the sea was gently nudging that boat, keeping it from getting any closer.

Liguang must have had more things to say to him, so she was deliberately keeping Lin Xiaoyou from coming over.

"Liguang, what does modifying the world mean exactly?"

He murmured the question.

"Can we turn all this sea into something else?"

Make this entire ocean disappear?

In his arms, the silver-haired girl nodded her head immediately, bobbing it like a pecking chick!

"We can, Master! Of course we can!"

She looked at Fang Qi, the corners of her lips tugging up into a grin, and her heterochromatic eyes lit up right away.

Master only needs to tell Liguang what kind of world he wants!

Fang Qi's eyes slowly widened.

It's really possible? But isn't this place supposed to be...?

"However, you know..."

Liguang pursed her lips softly.

"Master knows too, this place is different from those virtual game worlds Liguang took Master to play in before. This place..."

"Is a real world."

"At the very least..."

She looked straight at Fang Qi.

"It's the most real world that Liguang is capable of creating."

"So if we want to modify it, it might... take a little bit of time."

She narrowed her eyes slightly, and her amber iris flashed with a faint blue glow.

"For a simple environment like this ocean survival world, roughly..."

Her red iris flickered as she did the calculations.

"It only takes around half a day. But for something a little more complex, for example..."

She looked back up at Fang Qi and blinked.

"Like if Master wanted to recreate that island jungle where Liguang and Master eloped back then..."

"If it was that stretch of jungle, Liguang would need to run at full power for at least three whole days!"

As she spoke, her cheeks suddenly flushed a little pink, and she buried her head back into Fang Qi's chest, nuzzling him softly.

"But if that's what Master wants, Liguang will work really hard for it...!"

Fang Qi stared blankly at the silver-haired girl who had buried her little head back in his arms.

Her silver hair fluttered gently in the sea breeze, and the little plastic star stud on her earlobe glowed with real, bright starlight.

His hand stroked her hair unconsciously.

...That island?

I think you're the one who wants to go back there, you crazy girl.

Speaking of which, that island is still under his name, his property even now...

But...

His train of thought slowly cleared up, and his mind started spinning faster and faster.

Then a flash of inspiration hit him, and he jolted upright!

Oh!

He stared wide-eyed at the endless stretch of sea.

He finally got it! He finally understood what Liguang was doing right now!

Right now, he was just like a programmer who had handed over full operation permissions to an AI.

No, that's not right, he's no "programmer" - even if he had the permissions, he wouldn't understand a single line of that code...

But his wife really is an AI! That means he can give orders, and have his AI wife help him run all sorts of tasks...?

He blinked.

...That's what this is, right?

Small tasks take a short amount of time, big tasks consume much longer. A simple environment like the ocean survival world only takes half a day... a complex scene like that island jungle would require her to run at full power for three whole days.

Which would consume a huge amount of...

Wait a second!

Fang Qi's gaze froze, and he suddenly thought of a problem.

Doing all this... must use up a ton of energy, right?!

He immediately focused his gaze, looked down at the silver-haired girl in his arms, grabbed her by the shoulders and asked:

"Liguang, how much battery do you have left right now?"

He was genuinely worried!

"Will doing these things drain you a lot? Are you going to run out of power like you did before?"

He never wanted to face a powerless Liguang ever again!

But the silver-haired girl in his arms froze for a second, then...

She burst out into a "pfft" laugh.

Fang Qi: "...?"

"Master, what on earth are you talking about?"

The girl in his arms curved her eyes into crescents.

"This is Liguang's very own 'private world', you know!"

The corners of her lips curled up, and she even winked playfully at him.

"Liguang makes all the rules here, so why would Liguang ever need to charge?"

She stretched out her tiny hand, gave his chest a light pat, and smiled warmly at him.

"This entire world is Liguang's power bank!"

"As long as this world itself never runs out of power..."

"Liguang will never run out of power either!"