You're my wife, don't doubt it!

All the "people" in the entire KTV room—the Big Sister, Afei, Zhou Xiaoying, Fatty, and everyone else—were all grinning maliciously and turning into shadows.

Xiao Yao finally remembered everything, how he got here, and realized where he was.

“This beautiful dream…” Xiao Yao said with difficulty, “I’ve been living it for far too long.”

“That taciturn Earl will be made to pay by the organization,” the shadowy figure Zhang Zhengkai had transformed into said in a hoarse voice, “but he also harmed you.”

“You could have lived a peaceful and happy life here, couldn’t you?” the shadowy figure that Shen Jie had transformed into continued, “Now you can only die.”

"Where is Shen Jie?" A trickle of blood seeped from the corner of Xiao Yao's mouth. "What have you done to her?"

“Our agreement included a clause not to harm him,” a female voice that Xiao Yao recognized all too well came from outside the KTV room: “You’ve breached the agreement.”

Xiao Yao turned his head and saw Yu Luying walk into the private room of Qian Gui without any expression.

"You, are you really...?"

Yu Luying raised her hand, and a ray of light resembling moonlight shot out, causing "Shen Jie" to vanish into thin air—along with the hand "she" had left inside Xiao Yao's stomach.

Immediately afterwards, the girl softly chanted two more lines, and Xiao Yao felt the pain in his abdomen ease considerably.

"You should go now," Yu Luying said gently to Xiao Yao as she turned to him.

"I'm going to deal with him first." Xiao Yao leaped in front of the television and drew the sword that appeared out of thin air at his waist: "I've had enough of you—Zhang Zhengkai, and you, Zhang Zhengkai's Shadow."

Zhang Zhengkai's shadow let out a sinister laugh, and with a wave of his hand, the shadows in the room formed a semi-circle and slowly gathered together.

Yu Luying turned around and stood in front of Zhang Zhengkai.

"Are you going to team up with them?" Xiao Yao asked doubtfully. "Are you going to be my enemy too?"

"You can leave now." Yu Luying uttered these three words, it was unclear whether she was speaking to Xiao Yao or Zhang Zhengkai.

The girl transformed into a female knight clad in armor. Her gray-blue iron armor was entangled in thorns and covered with a layer of icy, chilling material. Her helmet was a pointed hood, also wrapped in thorns.

"Are you going to pull this on me again?" Xiao Yao growled.

He certainly remembered the image; her face was particularly striking—the female knight wore a mask that appeared to be covered by two hands that had emerged from the collar of her armor, revealing only her nose and mouth.

But today, those hands are gone.

This was the first time Xiao Yao had seen Yu Luying's eyes after her transformation.

Chapter 385 Help! My boyfriend hit me!

2023-11-20

The lights in the KTV room went out.

The entire private room was immediately plunged into a deep, dark abyss.

In this dark and gloomy place, a pair of bright eyes stood out in the distance.

It was because of these eyes that Xiao Yao was not caught in a spatial illusion during this sudden darkness.

Yu Luying's eyes are large and long, with slightly small pupils. When she opens them wide, the whites of her eyes are fully visible. In addition, the corners of her eyes are upturned. Now, without the embellishment of her face shape and eyebrows, she has an unusually fierce aura.

Xiao Yao thought he was familiar enough with those eyes, but today they felt incredibly unfamiliar—he regretted that he seemed to have focused too much attention on unimportant things, while not paying enough attention to the windows to her soul.

Relatively speaking.

"You should leave quickly." Yu Luying didn't answer Xiao Yao's question, but simply repeated it again.

"Attack!" Zhang Zhengkai's shadow roared.

Upon hearing this command, all the Shadows in the room immediately swarmed forward.

A small badge appeared on Xiao Yao's left hand.

The front of the badge features a portrait of a knight wearing a helmet and sporting a goatee, with the inscription "Don Quijote de la Mancha" below.

The small badge flipped slightly in mid-air—or rather, above Xiao Yao's left palm—and the black horse head on the back transformed into a black crown in a dazzling display of light.

"Kneel down!" Xiao Yao's voice boomed.

The tip of the sword drew an elegant arc in front of him.

Several beams of light flashed, and before Zhang Zhengkai and Yu Luying could see clearly, the private room suddenly became much more spacious.

For the shadows had begun to melt amidst a chorus of mournful howls, merging with the darkness that filled the room.

In just a few seconds, Zhang Zhengkai's shadow had already carved a tiny hole in the wall opposite the door of the KTV room, just big enough for one person to pass through...

The armored female knight stood between Xiao Yao and Zhang Zhengkai's shadows, and a small badge appeared out of thin air in the palm of her left hand.

The front of the badge features a portrait of Cinderella, with the word "Cendrillon" written in French below.

After the coin was flipped over, Xiao Yao noticed that the design of the short, inverted triangular cone topped with a simple, oval head had turned into a black crown in the same dazzling light.

Xiao Yao was astonished: "Are you serious?"

"Otherwise what?" Yu Luying raised her eyebrows.

"You want to go head-to-head, huh?" Xiao Yao chuckled. "Cheating, huh? What makes you think you're so great—did you even reach the finish line before you got promoted?"

(Note: In chess, a pawn can be transformed into any piece except the king once it moves to the innermost row of the opponent's pieces.)

“I’ll get promoted, I’ll change, what’s it to you?” Yu Luying retorted.

Xiao Yao immediately felt that the atmosphere had suddenly become unserious.

"Step aside, wives must obey their husbands," Xiao Yao brandished his sword, "even the empress must listen to the king."

"Who's your empress? Who's your wife?" Yu Luying spat, "'Nobody can touch Shen Jie!'—Your wife is right there!"

"Where is Shen Jie?" Xiao Yao asked hurriedly, "Do you know where Shen Jie is?"

“I don’t know,” Yu Luying said quietly. “Even now, do you still only care about Shen Jie? Even if I knew, I wouldn’t tell you.”

These words made Xiao Yao feel that she wasn't quite herself anymore.

"Friend, make way." Xiao Yao waved his sword—he saw that Zhang Zhengkai had already crawled halfway out of the dog hole, and suspected that this "Yu Luying" was just stalling for time, so he couldn't help but feel anxious.

"What if I don't allow it?" "Yu Luying" continued her unreasonable argument: "Are you going to hit me?"

Xiao Yao ran forward, trying to bypass Yu Luying and hold back Zhang Zhengkai's shadow, but he crashed into an invisible barrier.

It's the same old routine, as expected.

"Don't think I won't hit you just because you look like Yu Luying," Xiao Yao warned one last time. "I've had enough of this illusion, where reality and illusion are so intertwined!"

"You're going to beat your wife again?" "Yu Luying" raised her eyebrows and said, "You abusive man, don't you know that domestic violence is either zero times or countless times?"

"?" Xiao Yao laughed in exasperation: "You're not my wife, you just said that yourself."

"I'm not your wife," Yu Luying sneered, "You dragged me into the grassy area next to the school and did that kind of thing to me?"

"?" Xiao Yao was a little embarrassed, but he knew he couldn't let the other party keep making trouble and wasting time.

Xiao Yao turned his sword around and attacked with the hilt and shield.

"Yu Luying" gave a light snort, effortlessly dodged the attack, and casually retaliated with a strike.

Xiao Yao tilted his head and easily dodged the crooked, extremely slow-moving ice arrow.

"Help! My boyfriend is hitting me!" Yu Luying shouted. "Domestic violence!"

Xiao Yao was both annoyed and amused, and worried that this was some kind of skill that could attract monsters. Fortunately, after fighting for a long time, no one actually came over.

Although they said they fought for a long time, it was more like a dance than a real fight, because neither side dared to actually strike.

Xiao Yao could only guess why "Yu Luying" held back, but he still felt that this Yu Luying might not be a complete imposter.

Not to mention that she went easy on him, helped him out of a predicament, and healed his injuries.

just……

Xiao Yao himself couldn't explain it clearly.

Moreover, even if they didn't hold back, this "Yu Luying" was strong enough that they wouldn't gain any advantage in the short term.

But Xiao Yao certainly didn't believe that she was actually Yu Luying herself—not to mention her eccentric personality, way of speaking, tone of voice, and behavior patterns, which were different from usual, the fact that he couldn't feel any symbiosis with her at all was enough to explain the problem.

Even in the Shadow World and Shadow Time, the symbiotic connection still existed, didn't it?

Wait, when I first entered Professor Yao's hall of fame...

Just as Xiao Yao was struggling with whether or not to launch a more intense offensive, Yu Luying suddenly put away her armor and transformed back into the high school girl in Fangzhong school uniform. Following Xiao Yao's attack, she fell onto the sofa with a muffled groan, looking at Xiao Yao with a resentful, reproachful, and pitiful expression.

"Trying to stage an accident, huh?" Xiao Yao was both angry and amused.

“I’ll settle the score with you when we get out of here,” said “Yu Luying.”

Xiao Yao knew she had stalled for time enough. After hesitating for a moment, he figured she wouldn't intentionally harm him, so he glared at her and crawled out through the "dog hole" that Zhang Zhengkai had crawled out through.

The hole didn't look very big, and given Xiao Yao's size (he was noticeably a little bigger than Zhang Zhengkai), it wasn't too difficult for him to squeeze through.

After climbing over, I found a room of moderate size opposite me, but it wasn't a KTV room like Qian Gui; it looked more like a... bedroom?

Although the bedroom was also dimly lit, it was still bright compared to the absolute darkness of the KTV room we had just been in.

Xiao Yao's first thought was that this was the rest room where the staff of Qian Gui took their lunch break, a projection in this "world".

But upon closer inspection, it doesn't seem quite right.

He took out his phone, using the dim light from the screen to illuminate the room once again.