Chapter 651

“Liguang, you—you—you…!”

He was stunned!

Crazy Girl! What did you do to me?!

I—I… Why won’t my mouth listen to me?!

Liguang tilted her little head to the side, her smile growing even brighter. Her mismatched eyes curved into lovely crescent moons.

“So, does Master still think that way now?”

Her voice was so sweet, almost sickeningly so.

“If Master finds a mistress, then Liguang could serve both of you together~”

“A life like that wouldn’t be ‘too bad’ either~”

Uh…

Fang Qi’s eyelid twitched. Before he knew it, he had followed her words and imagined it for a moment. The scene that appeared in his mind was…

—His own limbs being cheerfully hacked apart by Liguang, then tied to the bed.

—Liguang smiling happily as she fed him medicine by the spoonful, gently coaxing him all the while…

“Good boy, Master. Take your medicine, and then you won’t think about anyone else anymore, okay~”

Hiss—!

He shuddered slightly.

Terrifying!

This was way too terrifying!

“Liguang, what nonsense are you talking about?!”

He immediately put on an air of righteousness, his expression deadly serious as he “angrily” reprimanded her in a low voice:

“I absolutely have no such intention! I only want to be with Liguang!”

“What ‘happiness with two wives’? I don’t have even the slightest thought of that!”

…I don’t want to live a fate worse than death!

Liguang blinked at him. The light in her crimson right eye slowed considerably.

The smiling little face that had seemed so dangerous just moments ago softened as well.

“…Hmph.”

She gave a light little snort, almost as if she were pouting.

Fang Qi raised a hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Luckily, he had managed to calm his wife down…

…Wait!

His gaze sharpened!

Was this really the time to be talking about that?!

He glared at Liguang again and gritted his teeth.

“Liguang, what exactly is going on?! You—!”

“It’s truth serum, Master.”

Liguang suddenly cut him off. Pressing her little lips together, she looked at him and said softly:

“Master just drank Liguang’s truth serum.”

Fang Qi: “…?”

He stared blankly at the silver-haired girl before him, whose cheeks were still faintly flushed.

Truth serum?

Just now? What did she mean by just now?

Ah… That cup of tea?

Wasn’t that just an ordinary sleeping potion?

But…

“What is truth serum…?”

The term sounded strangely familiar. It seemed like he had encountered it before…

Then, looking at Liguang’s slightly evasive gaze, his own eyes narrowed again.

…I remember now!

Liguang had used this stuff before too!

Back then…

He tried hard to recall.

It had been used on Lin Xiaoyou, who was still an innocent fool at the time!

In that loop, they had realized that something was wrong with Lin Xiaoyou, so Liguang had used truth serum to interrogate her…

After being forced to drink it, Lin Xiaoyou had answered his questions in a dazed, muddled state.

Fang Qi struggled to remember, his gaze growing unfocused.

That had been…

A long time ago, in one of the previous loops.

Still, he remembered it fairly clearly. After all, that had been the first time Liguang had truly worked together with him.

Wasn’t that also the first time he had willingly let Liguang kill him? And then the clueless Lin Xiaoyou had completely broken down on the spot…

After that, Liguang had slit Lin Xiaoyou’s throat in front of Xiaoqing across the building.

Xiaoqing had gone completely insane on the spot, grabbed a sniper rifle, and fired wildly at the balcony glass.

In the end, Gu Xi had broken down the door and barged in…

…No, no, no!

Fang Qi violently shook his head.

None of that was important! What mattered was…

He glared fiercely at the silver-haired girl before him, who had once again put on an innocent expression.

What mattered was this: Crazy Girl… how had you managed to make truth serum again?!

She had obviously lost her memories now. She didn’t remember what had happened in that loop…

Yet the truth serum was still here!

And she had even used it on him?!

Besides…!

“Didn’t you just give me the antidote?!”

Fang Qi glared at her and abruptly lowered his voice.

“I’m not confused anymore either! Why is the effect still there…?”

Liguang shrank her neck again. Her eyes suddenly turned pitiful as she explained in a tiny voice:

“Master’s mental state has recovered. Liguang couldn’t bear to leave Master all dazed and muddled. But the truth serum’s effect is still there…”

Fang Qi stared blankly at her.

What did that mean?

Liguang lowered her little head slightly and continued explaining in a soft voice:

“To put it simply, Master’s words… might not pass through his brain first anymore…”

Fang Qi: “?”

“And most importantly…”

Her voice grew even quieter.

“Master is now completely unable to lie normally…”

Then she looked up at him with an innocent expression.

“It’s not that Master absolutely can’t lie, but… the moment he does, anyone will be able to tell right away…”

Fang Qi: “…”

Liguang: “…”

The two of them stared at each other, eyes wide.

The entire room fell silent.

As for Fang Qi, after being dumbfounded for a while, he felt…

His brain was trembling!

Crazy!

Girl!

And it had to happen now of all times!

He glared at her through clenched teeth.

…At least the other person had been relatively easy to deal with and had agreed to come half an hour later…

“So…!”

He gritted his teeth and asked in a low voice:

“You told her to come back in half an hour because I’ll have recovered by then?”

“…No, Master.”

Liguang blinked her innocent eyes and honestly shook her head.

“The candy Liguang just gave Master only restored his mental state.”

“But it affects Master’s brain, which will actually strengthen the truth serum’s effects and make them last even longer than before.”

“At the very least, it’ll take… um…”

She tapped a finger against her lips.

“A whole day…?”

Fang Qi: “…”

How should he put it?

He felt like his palms were beginning to itch again.

He wanted to give Liguang’s little backside another few hundred rounds of “intimate contact”!

His teeth were itching too!

If you keep making that pitiful, innocent face, I really am going to spank you!

But there was no point saying any of that now…

He slowly turned his head toward the security door, his eyes staring blankly ahead.

So, in other words…

In half an hour, he would have to face a Maintenance Specialist S-02 who was coming over to check whether Liguang had “awakened”…

But he himself couldn’t lie anymore?

Or rather, the moment he lied, it would be immediately obvious?

“Ha…”

The corners of Fang Qi’s mouth twitched into a smile.

“Hahahaha…!”

No wonder… No wonder Liguang had said the problem lay with him!

This problem was way too huge!

He was someone who made a living entirely through his silver tongue. How was he supposed to parry whatever came his way and bluff his way through this now?!

He…!

“Master, don’t worry.”

Two little hands suddenly grabbed his sleeve and shook it coquettishly.

Fang Qi lowered his head and saw the silver-haired girl holding her little silver head down as she spoke in a tiny voice:

“Liguang still has a way…”

Then Fang Qi, whose head had been made dizzy by his own wife, was led all the way to the kitchen by Liguang.

She bent down and opened a small drawer. From inside, she took out a…

Little red pill?

Fang Qi stared blankly at the pill. “...?”

What was this...?

Liguang cupped the pill in both hands and held it out to him, eager to please.

Its sharp, slightly pungent smell went straight up his nose.

Oh...

The antidote for the truth serum?

...At least you’ve got a little conscience! You made two kinds of antidote!

He couldn’t help asking, “Another antidote? I’ll be fine once I take it, right?”

He reached for the pill. It felt surprisingly solid and heavier than he expected.

But Liguang blinked and gave a tiny, hesitant shrug.

“Well, more or less. This is...”

“...A silencing pill.”

She muttered the last two words so softly that Fang Qi could barely hear her.

Fang Qi: “?”

What?

Once again, he and Liguang stared at each other.

The silver-haired girl looked so innocent and pitiful!

Fang Qi stared back, the corner of his mouth twitching.

A s-silencing pill?

Oh. A silencing pill.

Right. A silencing pill.

He had a feeling there were some questions he didn’t even need to ask.

Like...

—Why was there a silencing pill ready-made in the kitchen?

—And who had you been planning to use it on?

...Did he really need to ask?

Meanwhile, the “silver-haired deadly poison master” before him looked meek and apologetic!

Her amber eyes gazed up at him, all dewy, while her red eyes darted nervously. Then she lowered her head, guilty as could be.

“If Master can’t speak, then he won’t have to worry about saying things before thinking them through...” she murmured.

“The effects won’t last long. Master will be back to normal soon. Liguang doesn’t want to be without Master’s voice forever, either...”

Fang Qi: “...”

He was so angry he almost laughed.

Fine, fine! My Crazy Girl has really maxed out her DIY skills!

...Though, I suppose she had a point.

She was a super AI with an absurdly powerful ability to learn. She could probably download some data and figure out how to make medicine, right...?

He raised a hand and rubbed his brow hard, the little red pill still clenched in his other hand... Then he shot Liguang a fierce glare!

She shrank back under his stare.

Fang Qi lowered his voice and growled, “When this is over, you’re explaining everything to me!”

Then he tipped his head back and swallowed the red pill in one gulp!

What else could he do? This was the only way!

The silver-haired girl beside him visibly shuddered at how readily he’d taken it.

Then she blinked, her eyes curving into a smile as a blush spread across her fair cheeks.

She was clearly thrilled that...

“Master actually took Liguang’s silencing pill without putting up a fight!”

She even edged half an inch closer to Fang Qi when she thought he wasn’t looking.

The pill dissolved as soon as it touched his tongue.

...It was bitter, too. Not even a hint of strawberry.

Then, all at once, his throat felt as though it were on fire!

It burned like hell!

...

Click.

The door opened.

Standing outside was the Maintenance Specialist S-02.

She was still wearing her dark gray uniform, a silver toolbox in hand.

A polished, professional smile adorned her delicate face.

She stepped inside and saw Liguang, dressed in blue loungewear, standing there to greet her. Liguang gave her a small nod.

The specialist looked past her and glanced into the room. There, she spotted...

Mr. Fang, sitting on the sofa in his pajamas, his hair still damp as though he’d just finished showering.

He was looking right back at her, his face an unmistakable display of displeasure!

Completely unmasked displeasure! Extreme displeasure!

S-02 stepped inside and bent slightly, offering a standard, apologetic smile.

“Good evening, Mr. Fang. I’m sorry to disturb you so late.”

“I’ll be as quick as I can.”

Fang Qi said nothing. He only nodded.

The maintenance specialist glanced at the silver-haired girl standing obediently beside him, then looked back at Fang Qi.

“Mr. Fang, before we begin the maintenance, we need to ask a few preliminary questions.”

“May I ask...”

Her voice was steady as she continued, “Have you noticed your AI companion doing anything unusual lately?”

She watched Fang Qi quietly.

Fang Qi gave her a helpless look. He pointed at his throat, then spread his hands in a shrug.

He opened his mouth...

“Uh... ah...”

But only two hoarse, breathy sounds came out.

Specialist S-02’s expression froze. A flicker of surprise crossed her face.

“Are you...?”

That reaction made her seem a little less cold.

The silver-haired girl was standing behind the maintenance specialist now.

She smiled, wearing an even more perfectly professional smile than the specialist herself.

Fang Qi shook his head helplessly.

Sorry about this, Miss... S-02?

You’re too late!

I’ve already been poisoned mute by my wicked wife!