Chapter 591

“You two, calm down first…!”

Fang Qi’s eyelids twitched wildly!

The two women standing before him…

One had flames of impatience blazing in her eyes, silently screaming, “I’m obviously doing this for everyone’s sake! Why aren’t you grateful?!”

The other had flames in her eyes, too!

Actual flames! The scarlet in her red pupils was more piercing than fire itself as she glared fixedly at Lin Xiaoyou!

She looked as though she was saying, “There’s no way Liguang would ever agree to this,” while her hand remained clamped around his wrist!

She was gripping so hard that his bones creaked!

And Fang Qi…

He was getting a little fired up, too!

No, wait…

What had Miss Genius just said?

She wanted him to rewind without preserving anyone’s memories?

Fang Qi looked at Lin Xiaoyou, who was grinding her teeth, and the corner of his mouth twitched.

It had only been a suggestion, but…

There was far too much information packed into it!

His brain was about to short-circuit again!

But what concerned him most right now wasn’t the plan itself.

What he wanted to confirm was…

“Wait…?”

He stared at Lin Xiaoyou!

“How did you know I had a rewind—no, a ‘Dream Awakening’ method that preserves only my own memories?!”

Was that even possible?

It was perfectly normal for Liguang to know that he had a rewind method that preserved only his own memories.

After all, how many times had that crazy woman looked through his memories?

And she knew that she herself had lost quite a lot of memories—especially everything from those eighty-two years!

But…

Lin Xiaoyou was different!

She shouldn’t have known the details of his rewind ability so thoroughly, should she?!

Earlier, she had even risked her life to test him, dragging him and Liguang into that underground chamber to be poisoned to death, all to verify her theory!

At that time…

She had clearly only known that his rewind was connected to death!

She knew that she herself was special and could retain her memories in the form of a “dream”!

But…

Fang Qi stared at the genius girl in front of him, his mind in a daze.

How had she suddenly learned that he possessed a rewind method that preserved only his own memories?

How had Miss Genius figured that out?

Suddenly, his arms felt empty!

Liguang reacted even more directly than he did!

The silver-haired girl rose straight from his embrace and took one step forward, placing herself between him and Lin Xiaoyou!

Her heterochromatic eyes narrowed coldly as she stared at Lin Xiaoyou without blinking.

Her pretty face seemed to have been covered in a layer of frost in an instant!

“Good grief…!”

Lin Xiaoyou took half a step back, then glanced at Fang Qi, who was glaring at her.

“Senior…”

She rolled her eyes helplessly and shook her head with an expression that was half amused, half exasperated.

“You’re really adorably stupid in your current state. So cute…”

The scarlet light in Liguang’s eyes suddenly flared!

The silver-haired girl abruptly took another step forward!

She had her back to Fang Qi, so he couldn’t see her expression, but…

He could still see her head tilted to the side and the scarlet flickering in her eyes.

He could also see the sudden seriousness on Miss Genius’s face!

“…What I mean is, Senior, you’re about as stupid as a pig!”

She “seriously” corrected herself, then glared at Fang Qi again!

“Some people are simply beyond teaching!”

Fang Qi: “…”

I…

“Senior, I literally just explained this to you!”

She planted her hands on her hips and shouted at Fang Qi with great indignation:

“In the previous ‘dream,’ I worked with your Miss Eyeliner for two whole months!”

“How else would I know?!”

Fang Qi blinked at her.

Huh?

Miss Eyeliner?

Gu Xi?

…Ah!

He immediately understood.

That was right!

Lin Xiaoyou had indeed mentioned this before!

She had worked with Gu Xi in the previous “dream.”

Hiss…

He narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at the round-faced girl standing before him.

Come to think of it, he still hadn’t figured out exactly what Gu Xi’s identity was.

But it was obvious that the woman…

knew everything.

She had even been “helping” him for a long time!

The eighty-two-year illusion he and Liguang had once experienced had been made possible with Gu Xi’s “assistance”—

Back then, at the Containment Center, it was Gu Xi who had given them that extra “final half-minute”!

Before this, he had always called Gu Xi Matchmaker Sister!

She knew a great deal about his rewind ability.

Perhaps she knew even more than he did himself!

But…

“Why?”

Fang Qi murmured unconsciously.

“Why would Gu Xi tell you all this…?”

Lin Xiaoyou raised an eyebrow at that.

“Of course, it was because one day in the previous ‘dream’…”

She straightened her back again.

“Ahem!”

After clearing her throat, she instantly put on a solemn expression and looked toward the right.

“Lin You, once you go in, try to resolve things peacefully!”

It was clearly Gu Xi’s tone of voice!

“If you can avoid fighting, then don’t fight Fang Qi. Try your best not to hurt him!”

“But if you absolutely have to fight, then go for the kill and kill him outright!”

…Hmm?

Fang Qi blinked.

Wait, why had she suddenly started acting it out?

The silver-haired girl in front of him was obviously stunned as well, her tense shoulders relaxing slightly.

But Lin Xiaoyou…

She was still performing!

She turned her head to the left and put on an expression of surprise.

“Wow! You actually want to kill him? How ruthless! Why would you do that?”

She was clearly imitating her past self.

Then she turned back and once again adopted an impatient expression.

“You only need to remember that!”

Next, she turned her head again, folded her arms over her chest, and wore a displeased yet teasing smile on her round little face.

“I’m saying, aren’t you just making me even more curious by putting it that way?”

“Could this be a reverse-psychology trick? Are you deliberately provoking me because you want me to attack Senior without actually killing him?”

Then she turned her head again and continued imitating Gu Xi, this time putting on an angry expression.

“Lin You, you—you—you—you…!!”

She grabbed at her hair frantically and stamped her feet in fury, yowling like someone at the end of her rope!

Fang Qi: “…”

She had definitely embellished that part!

If you’re going to recreate the scene, then recreate it properly!

At that moment, the scarlet glow flickering in front of him finally subsided.

Liguang’s red pupils had stopped flashing. She pressed her lips together as she watched Lin Xiaoyou, the force with which she held Fang Qi gradually easing.

Her expression as she watched Lin Xiaoyou was surprisingly serious.

“So…”

Lin Xiaoyou looked at Fang Qi and Liguang, spreading her hands. She stopped acting.

“Miss Eyeliner told me, of course.”

“She said that Senior must not suffer any irreversible injuries! Minor injuries are fine, but serious injuries that could leave him disabled are absolutely forbidden!”

“Otherwise…”

She blinked.

“Senior would be forced to wake up from the ‘dream,’ and…”

“Senior would be the only one who could remember what happened in the ‘dream’! No one else…”

As she spoke, she folded her arms across her chest and shot a sidelong glance at Liguang.

“Not even Liguang would remember!”

Fang Qi’s pupils contracted slightly.

That was remarkably detailed.

Police beauty, Matchmaker Sister—you certainly know a lot, don’t you?

“She also said…”

Miss Genius coughed once more, her expression turning solemn as she looked to the right and switched back into Gu Xi mode.

“So, Lin You, if you don’t want to forget anything important, remember this—”

“If you can avoid fighting, don’t fight. But if you do fight, then go for the kill!”

Then she turned her head again, adopting a surprised expression as she played her former self:

“Wow, could it be…” She blinked. “You don’t remember either?”

She turned her head away again and fell silent for a moment before saying solemnly:

“Whether I remember or not isn’t important. What matters is Liguang.”

“Liguang’s memories are very important. They absolutely, positively, cannot be forgotten!”

Her expression was unusually serious, though the corners of her mouth were having a hard time staying in place.

“Right now, they’re cut off from this world, so my authority can’t penetrate it!”

“Even if I wanted to help Liguang preserve her memories, I wouldn’t be able to. So it’s absolutely impossible!”

Fang Qi: “?”

Huh?

What?

Help Liguang… what?

“Cut!”

Lin Xiaoyou dropped the act, then winked at Fang Qi and Liguang.

“That’s how it is~”

Then she touched a finger to her lips and giggled.

“But…”

She planted both hands on her hips and looked at Fang Qi smugly.

“It can’t all be credited to Miss Eyeliner, you know!”

“I’d basically figured it out myself before!”

“I knew a long time ago that I’d lost my memories. After all… hehe.”

She gave a smug little laugh.

“This time, Miss Eyeliner only made it completely certain!”

“It was more like a verification!”

Fang Qi stared blankly at her.

Verification or whatever—she’d clearly just learned it all from Gu Xi.

But…

He held his breath slightly.

She had just said so many things. The amount of information was overwhelming…

But wait.

Hold on!

There was something in that little “play” just now…

Something that really bothered him!

He took a deep breath and tightened his grip on Liguang’s hand.

The fact that Gu Xi knew so much about his rollback ability didn’t surprise him.

But…

What had she said?

“Help Liguang preserve her memories”?

Huh?!

Fang Qi’s mind went blank for a moment.

Lin Xiaoyou hadn’t just been making things up, had she…?

Gu Xi had said that because he and Liguang were in this world, her authority couldn’t penetrate it, so…

She couldn’t “now” help Liguang preserve her memories anymore?

Wouldn’t that mean…

In the past, she had helped Liguang preserve them?!

What?

He slowly raised a hand and rubbed his brow hard.

Wait, wait, wait. Preserving memories meant…!

His eyes gradually widened.

Could it be that the eighty-two years of memories that had crossed over from one cycle to another…

And the fragments of memory Liguang occasionally recalled afterward…

Had all been caused by something Gu Xi did behind the scenes?

“Ah…”

Liguang’s murmur suddenly came from beside him.

“So that’s how it was…”

…?

Fang Qi immediately turned to look at her.

The icy coldness and anger that had filled Liguang’s pretty face were already gone.

She gazed at Lin Xiaoyou in a daze, moisture gently rippling in her amber eyes.

“So that’s why… I see…”

Her lips parted slightly as she murmured softly.

“No wonder Liguang now… doesn’t dislike Miss Gu Xi. In fact…”

She tilted her head slightly.

“I even have a bit of a favorable impression of her…?”

Fang Qi: “?”

A favorable impression?

“Ah!”

The silver-haired girl realized what she had said as well. She instantly shot Fang Qi a furtive glance…

And her expression immediately turned flustered!

“No, Master, it’s not that kind of favorable impression!”

She hurriedly waved her hands, then grabbed Fang Qi’s hand.

“I already confessed this to Master before!”

“Master already knew!”

She looked at Fang Qi and hastily explained:

“It’s because Miss Gu Xi’s ‘soul’ is somewhat similar to Master’s, so that’s why…!”

“Hm?!”

Lin Xiaoyou immediately let out an astonished “Hm?” Her almond-shaped eyes widened, and she froze for a moment…

Then her gaze lit up at once!

“What kind of similarity?!”

Her voice rose several notches!

Ignoring the pain in her rear, she moved two steps forward.

“Miss Eyeliner and Senior?”

“Your souls are similar? Really?”

She stared at Fang Qi, her round little face filled with an intense thirst for knowledge!

Fang Qi: “…”

…This was bad.

It seemed he had once again let this slightly unhinged Miss Genius learn something she really shouldn’t have known.