Such an expression was all too familiar to Fang Wei.
The last time he mentioned how short their relationship had been, and whenever she saw him interacting with other guys, she had shown that same extremely twisted look.
This kind of reaction—Fang Wei had only ever seen it on one type of person besides Qi Qiancao.
That is, kindergarten brats who throw tantrums in a fit of rage after their lies get exposed—smashing and throwing things everywhere in furious embarrassment.
Fang Wei remembered Qi Qiancao once saying her magic was [Dream], and the wish she made was to obtain happiness.
And the manifestation of that wish was—this girl deeply trapped in delusion, indulging herself in the dream she had personally woven.
Just as the description of the Dream Nail said:
“Repeat a lie a thousand times and it becomes truth.”
But earlier, without knowing the full picture, Fang Wei had twice punctured Qi Qiancao’s beautiful dream.
So the woman had suddenly gone berserk and started attacking herself.
Fortunately, both times she had been sunk very deeply in it; she made up excuses on her own and patched up the holes in her dream.
This time, however, Qi Qiancao was trying her best to restrain her expression, yet her fingernails dug viciously into her palm, veins bulging one after another.
If Fang Wei hadn’t stood in front of her, she might have already slapped those four girls’ heads into mush.
Fang Wei could only hold her hand.
He could feel Qi Qiancao trembling, suppressing the fury that was about to erupt.
Still, in front of him, she managed to hold it back as much as possible.
The four girls escaped the campus with their lives and, shortly after leaving, were stopped by organization staff that Fang Wei had notified in advance.
Their memories related to magic were erased.
After receiving the report from that side, Fang Wei put away his phone.
He turned to look at Qi Qiancao behind him.
From beginning to end, she had been clutching just one of his fingers, now fallen into some kind of dazed mental state.
The earlier anger had been directed only at those girls.
In front of Fang Wei, Qi Qiancao appeared much more docile, yet she remained deeply immersed in negative emotions.
After this period of interaction, Fang Wei had roughly figured out what kind of person Qi Qiancao really was.
He bent down and gently brushed aside her messy pink bangs.
“Thank you today, our little magical girl.”
Qi Qiancao didn’t respond.
She kept staring at the ground, muttering something under her breath.
The corruption value above her head displayed in white.
It shot up rapidly to seventy percent, then—after she lifted those eyes filled with terror to look at Fang Wei—it slowly dropped back to sixty-three percent.
She kept mumbling to herself, shaking her head, then nodding, finally looking as aggrieved as an abandoned puppy: “Boyfriend hasn’t cheated, right?”
Fang Wei, who thought he had already figured out how to handle Qi Qiancao, suddenly broke out in a cold sweat down his back.
The bluff had failed.
Right—of course.
This was Qi Qiancao.
The girl who would fall into panic and self-harm just from him mentioning another guy.
She placed extreme importance on fidelity in love.
Even if Fang Wei merely glanced at another woman, Qi Qiancao would lose it.
After all, in the perfect romance she fantasized about, Boyfriend’s eyes should only ever hold her.
Fang Wei’s scalp tingled, the sensation spreading all the way to his toes.
Before he could even gather his thoughts to refute, Qi Qiancao stood on tiptoe and locked her dim, lusterless pink eyes with his.
Because of the huge height difference, she forcefully grabbed Fang Wei’s collar, yanking him down until their noses were practically touching.
No way to escape her gaze.
This aggressive move reminded Fang Wei of how, every time they went on a date, Qi Qiancao would badmouth other couples.
Could it be that—strip away the sweet candy coating—and that side of her was her true nature?
But right now he had no time to think about that.
He could only force himself to meet Qi Qiancao’s eyes with a gaze full of deep affection.
Then he froze.
A misty layer of water gathered in those pink eyes; she looked as though she would burst into tears at any moment.
So wronged.
So very wronged.
“Speaking of which, I didn’t even notice any other women were there. They must have been captured earlier. Just as our little Cao came to save me, the barrier collapsed and we all got teleported out together.”
He started bullshitting on the spot, distancing himself from those few high-school girls.
Qi Qiancao’s eyes instantly cleared.
“R-really?”
Like an elementary-school girl who could be tricked with a single lollipop from the roadside, the terrifying aura from before vanished completely.
She smiled and murmured softly.
“That’s great… so that’s how it was… so that’s how it was…”
Good thing that was the case.
Otherwise, after the princess defeats the evil dragon, only to see the hero together with another woman… how could she possibly accept that kind of plot?
In that case, it would be better for the princess to stab all those bitches to death first, then stab the hero, then stab herself…
“Mhm, don’t let some outsider ruin our little Cao’s good mood. Come on, let’s go finish off the remaining familiars. After that, Boyfriend will stay with little Cao the whole day today.”
Fang Wei secretly wiped cold sweat for himself in his mind.
Seizing the moment, he slid one arm under the bend of Qi Qiancao’s knees and wrapped the other around her back, scooping her up entirely in a princess carry.
Qi Qiancao, lost in her own world, let out a startled yelp and instinctively wrapped her arms around Fang Wei’s neck.
Once she realized Boyfriend was performing a princess carry on her, the distress on her face disappeared instantly.
With shy delight, she fluttered her beautiful legs.
“Boyfriend scared me…”
“Be good and stay still. This is the reward for our magical girl saving her boyfriend.”
“Wuu… it wasn’t even that amazing…”
Qi Qiancao’s cheeks flushed.
She completely forgot how terrifying she had been moments ago.
Her gaze clung to Fang Wei, full of tender affection.
She nestled closer into his embrace.
Yes—this was exactly how her love should unfold.
Forget all those previous nightmares.
Boyfriend would absolutely, positively never cheat~
[(Normal) Dream Nail]
[Magic Level: LV2, nine hundred eighty-five / one thousand]
[Uses: zero, refreshes at midnight]
After capturing Qi Qiancao’s thoughts, Fang Wei almost wanted to plant a big kiss on her and shout “Yes yes, exactly, keep thinking like that!”
Fortunately Qi Qiancao still felt attached to him and would automatically patch up any unpleasant parts herself.
If she were the suspicious type who murdered people in her dreams, Fang Wei probably wouldn’t have walked out alive today.
For the first time, he felt that a landmine girl’s emotions flaring up fast and fading fast was actually a good thing.
And he silently resolved to be twice as careful in the future—when healing Xia Yuanhua and Zhuge Yu, he absolutely had to do it behind her back!
…
Dusk drew near.
After a whole day of exhaustion, this date that had left Fang Wei mentally and physically drained finally came to an end.
But a certain little beast didn’t seem willing to let him off so easily.
Hanging around his neck, the two of them sat together on a ping-pong table in the elementary school playground.
Fang Wei let Qi Qiancao feel him up as she pleased.
His standards had already dropped so low that as long as she didn’t reach into his pants and flick his little brother around for fun, he was fine with anything.
[Three-in-One Mirror]
[Magical Beast Level: Lv four]
[Corruption Value: one hundred percent]
After Qi Qiancao brutally killed that Three-in-One Mirror beast, it dropped a small mirror.
A living, ultra-miniature magical beast.
Fang Wei held it in his hand to examine.
He definitely wasn’t planning to go the beast-taming route or raise a little pet.
This was a magical girl theater, not a cultivation novel.
How many big-daddy bosses had the villain ever successfully raised for themselves?
Better to just crush it and feed it to the Dream Nail as breakthrough experience.
“Boyfriend, don’t look at the mirror. Look at me~”
Little Qi Qiancao snuggled over again.
She was still in her transformed magical girl form, the pleated skirt pressed beneath her as she twirled a strand of pink hair and poked it against Fang Wei’s chest.
Fang Wei reached out to rub her head.
He really needed a moment to recover.
That idiot Mianzi hadn’t warned him that eating the holy communion cookie would cause mental exhaustion as a side effect.
His head still wasn’t fully clear.
“Okay, okay, you’re sitting on me and still wiggling around.”
He wrapped his arms around Qi Qiancao’s slender waist.
The fabric of the magical girl combat outfit didn’t feel like cosplay material at all—it was incredibly smooth to the touch, like the finest silk.
The transformed little rascal refused to give up.
Seeing Fang Wei still staring at that broken mirror, she simply shifted sideways, then draped her flawless, beautiful legs across him.
Her pink mary janes dangled and swayed.
White lace-trimmed thigh-high socks hugged her small feet, with satin ribbons wrapped around her ankles tied into cute little bows.
Each swing of her feet sent a fragrant breeze wafting past his nose.
Combined with that alluring sheen, it was practically a close-up visual feast.
It made Fang Wei’s heart itch.
He tried to pretend he didn’t care, but Qi Qiancao rubbed his earlobe and giggled:
“Boyfriend, how could a mirror possibly be as fun as little Cao’s here~”
Come on, sis, do you really have to make me shove the whole thing in my mouth before you’re satisfied?