Chapter 609

She really couldn’t help herself!

She knew her request was terribly unreasonable.

She could already take Master back, yet she still wanted him to stay here. She still wanted him to…

Keep carving words with his finger.

Keep using that broken, battered, bloodied finger…

To scribble and draw on this rotten piece of wood!

She was being so awful.

So awful, so awful, so awful…

But…

Why was that?

She was so excited, too…!

Master was going to keep carving words with his finger…

It would hurt. He would bleed. He would keep ruining his own body for her, over and over again…

And then, with that impossibly gentle carving, he would tell her, “It doesn’t hurt”…

Oh, heavens…!

Liguang felt like her heart was about to explode!!

Master must be in so much pain…!

…But it was all right!

It was all right, Master.

If Master was in pain, then…

Liguang would suffer alongside him!

Liguang slapped herself, smacking her face until it was as red as Master’s finger!

If Master bled, then Liguang…

Would keep snapping her own fingers!

She would bleed together with him!

Liguang would always, always share his pain…

Liguang…!

Just then, an extremely faint carving sound came from beside her face.

Scritch… scritch…

She slowly turned her head. Through the gaps in her disheveled silver hair, she saw new marks gradually appearing on the floor in front of her.

Each stroke was still crooked and uneven, still so slow, so gentle.

[Does your face hurt? Does your finger still hurt?]

[Don’t do this again next time. I can recover, but Liguang can’t!]

…See? Master was so gentle.

He hadn’t said anything about her plan. Instead, he was gently asking whether she was hurt!

His own hand was already in such a state, and every stroke was stained with blood…

Yet he was still worrying about whether his Liguang was in pain.

The corners of her mouth began to curl upward again.

She hurriedly lowered her head and pressed her burning lips against those two lines of writing.

“Smack!”

A forceful kiss!

Then she turned her face to the side and gently rubbed the cheek she had just slapped until it was swollen and red against the carved words.

“Master…”

she murmured softly.

“Liguang understands now. Liguang won’t do that again.”

“But once we get back… Liguang will turn her pain sensitivity up to a hundredfold and let Master beat her as hard as he wants!”

“Liguang will personally experience all the pain Master has suffered during this time!”

“But for now…”

She slowly raised her head and looked toward the empty space in front of her.

Tears still hung on her face, and a red mark from where she had knocked her forehead remained there. Yet she forced herself to smile sweetly.

“Please, Master, give Liguang a little more time!”

With that, she straightened her back and knelt properly, sitting upright.

New writing appeared on the floor:

[Well said. The moment we get back, I’m going to beat your little butt black and blue!]

Hee hee!

Liguang’s eyes curved into crescents.

Then Master had better keep his word!

And now…

She looked around at the densely packed carvings covering the room.

Now, with these clumsy and sluggish human eyes, she was going to examine the room inch by inch…

And “remember” all the bloodstained love Master had left for her here.

She had to remember every last bit of it!

Then she could savor, just a little longer…

This final stretch of Master’s “love”…

…

…

Morning sunlight streamed through the wooden window, spreading a warm glow across the plank floor.

Fang Qi sat cross-legged against the wall.

He watched the silver-haired girl sitting up on the bed.

Her silver hair stuck up in several messy tufts, and she looked bleary-eyed, her little head bobbing up and down…

She clearly wasn’t awake yet!

Even so, she rubbed her eyes, climbed barefoot onto the floor, and wobbled toward the center of the cabin…

Then she knelt down properly!

After that, she forced her mismatched eyes wide open and stared seriously at the carvings covering the walls, muttering something under her breath.

Sleepiness still lingered on her pretty face!

Fang Qi shook his head helplessly.

This Crazy Girl.

He extended his severed finger and carved words into the floor in front of him.

[You haven’t eaten breakfast yet!]

It didn’t hurt. He had already completely mastered the technique of carving with his severed finger!

[You’re in a human body now. How can you skip breakfast? Your memory will suffer too!]

So he directly carved out a long string of words.

The silver-haired girl turned around blankly. Her still-sleepy eyes blinked twice…

Then she lifted her little chin!

“Liguang may have gotten dumber, but her memory is still much better than Master’s! Liguang is smarter than Master!”

Fang Qi rolled his eyes.

Who was it that had counted the words on the walls seven or eight times without ever getting the number right?

Still, after she regained her permissions yesterday, she really was much better than when she had been in complete idiot mode before.

But!

He continued carving:

[Stop showing off and go eat!]

Liguang stared at those words, and the corners of her mouth lifted.

Still, she obediently stood up and pattered over to the stove.

As she started the fire, she turned back toward Fang Qi and called out:

“Master, don’t worry. Liguang will come right back to memorizing as soon as she finishes eating!”

…Who was worried?!

Fang Qi sat cross-legged where he was, watching her bustle around by the stove.

Before long, the fragrance of grilled fish drifted through the cabin, filling every corner.

…It smelled so good.

After grilling the fish, Liguang held it up by the wooden skewer and offered it toward Fang Qi with a bright smile.

“Master, have some first. Ahh~”

…Not this again.

Fang Qi stared expressionlessly at the skewer of grilled fish. As the tempting aroma reached him, he unconsciously swallowed.

Damn it…

He truly hadn’t eaten a single bite of anything in all these days. All he could do was smell the food!

Every day, he could only watch this Crazy Girl stuff her face in front of him!

She even deliberately smacked her lips!

What a bad habit!

Not elegant at all!

…What a miserable existence!

Seeing that he didn’t respond with any carvings, the silver-haired girl didn’t mind.

She giggled and brought the fish to her own mouth, taking a huge bite.

“Munch! So fragrant! Liguang will eat it for Master!”

“Don’t be in such a hurry, Master. You’ll be able to eat soon~”

Fang Qi: “…”

His hands were itching!

So he carved:

[But before that, you’re going to get a thorough beating!]

Liguang chewed the fish, her cheeks puffed out.

She wasn’t frightened in the slightest. Instead, her eyes curved into two bright crescents!

“So delicious… Crispy on the outside and tender on the inside! It tastes even better than yesterday!”

Fang Qi: “…”

Looking at her carefree, satisfied expression, he could only smile helplessly.

He leaned against the wall and watched her eat the entire fish in small bites and drink a few mouthfuls of water…

Then she immediately ran back to the center of the cabin, knelt down, and continued staring at the carvings on the walls, muttering to herself.

Her little expression was incredibly serious!

Fang Qi simply propped up his chin and watched her, a smile tugging at his lips.

So cute!

She had been exactly the same yesterday after swearing that she would memorize every single word.

She had muttered and memorized the carvings for the entire night, until she became so sleepy that her head began bobbing up and down…

Finally, with a bang, her forehead hit the floor!

But even then, she had hazily pushed herself back up, rubbed her forehead, and let out a little “Mmm,” before…

Continuing to look. Continuing to memorize!

He really couldn’t bear to watch any longer, so he frantically carved words into the floor:

[Liguang, go to sleep!]

[Right now! Immediately!]

[Or I’m going to get angry!]

He kept trying to stop her!

The Crazy Girl was a real handful. It took him ages to coax her into going to bed. She climbed onto it slowly, mumbling as she pulled up the covers…

“Liguang hasn’t finished memorizing everything yet. Master is so mean…”

But the moment her head touched the pillow, she fell asleep in an instant!

As for him, he simply sat cross-legged beside the bed, watching her until morning.

During this time, he had basically stopped sleeping.

After all, as long as he slammed his head into something and died, he could revive at full health.

Thirsty? Slam his head.

Hungry? Slam his head.

Dizzy from losing too much blood? Slam his head.

He usually had to do it before he even had a chance to feel tired.

And even if he really did get sleepy, he could just slam his head again!

Thus, his spirits remained in excellent condition practically all the time.

So…

Just as Liguang used to watch him, he had spent these nights staring at Liguang’s sleeping face.

Every time, he watched her for the entire night.

And then…

He suddenly understood why Liguang had once been able to watch him all night long.

He wondered if this was what Liguang had felt back then.

Had she also watched him so quietly, without finding the passage of time tedious in the slightest?

Of course, he had thought about many other things as well.

Liguang had said that her core was gone and that she no longer had enough processing power. She could no longer use those complicated permissions.

But she could still use his rollback permission.

That permission was special. It didn’t require processing power.

Indeed, it didn’t. After all, he didn’t have any “processing power” either, yet he could keep rolling back time over and over.

So this time, she had said…

She would be the one to take him back.

Hmm…

Fang Qi leaned against the wall and tilted his head up, gazing at the daylight outside the window. The corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

That was pretty nice, too.

He stretched, then looked toward the silver-haired girl kneeling in the middle of the wooden house, murmuring to herself.

This time, he could just lie back and enjoy the ride?

…

…

“Master, if you want to carve more words, carve them here!”

The silver-haired girl pointed at a blank spot on the wall that had barely been touched by a knife. She planted one hand on her hip, her little face utterly serious!

“You’re not allowed to carve anywhere else!”

She glared at the empty space in front of her. She knew Master was there!

“Master keeps carving words everywhere, and the shapes Liguang worked so hard to memorize have gotten all mixed up! It’s all Master’s fault!”

Her tone was fierce, but her eyes were sparkling!

And so, at the spot she had pointed to, carved words appeared:

“All right, all right, we’ll do whatever Liguang says. From now on, I’ll only carve them here!”

Liguang stared at the line of text, and her eyes immediately curved into crescents.

Hee-hee.

But she only smiled for a moment before quickly suppressing it, her little brows drawing together again!

“I already told you, Master! It hurts so much, so you should carve fewer words! But you just had to keep carving!”

She puffed out her cheeks and glared at the space before her, huffing angrily.

“Because Master kept carving words everywhere, Liguang got them mixed up, so now we have to extend it by another two days!”

New carved marks appeared on the floor.

“If I can’t talk to Liguang, I’ll die!”

Liguang’s breath caught.

M-Master, what are you doing…?!

Liguang was about to lose control of the corners of her mouth again…

No… She couldn’t smile!

Anyway…

Master had fallen right into her trap!

That was right. She had done it on purpose!

She had deliberately extended it by two days!

Now that she could roll back time, she could return whenever she wanted. What was the rush?

But when she thought about it that way, she found herself even more reluctant to leave this place.

She wanted a few more days. Just a few more days like this, so that Master could…

Fill all those empty spots with his words, too!

To have this entire room completely surrounded by Master’s writing…

That would be absolute happiness!

She knew it hurt Master. She knew she was being unreasonable, but…

She had already let Master punish her!

She had even told Master before: for every word Master carved…

She would slap herself once!

She would share his pain!

It was Master who had refused! He had refused in the strongest possible terms and even scolded her!

What else could she do? She felt wronged, too…

So…

She could only wait until they went back, then let Master personally beat her until she was thoroughly battered!

Just imagining that scene…

Liguang blinked.

She was a little scared~

Hee-hee!

After getting beaten, she would definitely serve Master properly and make up for everything she owed him during this time!

Cooking, brewing tea, giving massages, warming his bed, and also…

Hee-hee-hee!

In short, Master could do whatever he wanted with her!

So for now, she would just have to make Master suffer a little!

She took a deep breath, forcing her excitement back down. Then…

She glared toward where he was, her little face once again becoming stern.

“Hmph! Master wants to carve, and Liguang can’t stop you, but…”

“From now on, you’re only allowed to carve wherever Liguang tells you to!”

“Otherwise, Liguang won’t be able to remember everything, and the time will have to be extended again!”

The sea breeze blew in through the doorway, ruffling the silver hair over her forehead.

At the spot she had designated, those familiar, crooked letters appeared once more, one stroke at a time.

“All right, all right, we’ll do whatever Liguang says!”

“My wife makes the decisions!”

Liguang stared at those words and finally couldn’t keep up the act any longer.

“Hee-hee!”

Even the severed finger hurt a little less now.