My Yandere Mechanical Wife

Fang Qi's consciousness was fading.

This time it's actually... a throat-slitting...!

Crazy woman...you really hit hard!

Oh well... that's fine too.

Just you wait, you crazy woman...

Once it's rolled back... I'm going to really give it a piece of my mind...!

Darkness completely swallowed consciousness.

……

However, there was no white light as he had expected.

My sense of smell returned first—it's...the smell of disinfectant?

It has a slightly pungent smell.

Then there's the auditory sense: the rhythmic "beeping" of the instruments, and...

A very soft sobbing sound?

Fang Qi struggled to open his heavy eyelids.

My vision was blurred for a few seconds before it gradually cleared.

But before me... there was no familiar living room or 52-degree tea.

An unfamiliar ceiling, stark white fluorescent lights. The air is slightly cool.

He slightly turned his stiff neck—

hiss! ! !

A sharp, stabbing pain came from the side of my neck, accompanied by a heavy, tightly wrapped feeling of constriction!

He lowered his gaze with difficulty...

I saw a thick white bandage wrapped around my neck. Dark, dried marks were visible along the edges of the bandage.

My throat was burning with thirst, and every swallow was accompanied by a dull pain!

My whole body felt weak and powerless, and my head was dizzy. I felt a sense of emptiness and dizziness, as if I had lost too much blood.

He... didn't die?

Is this... a hospital?

His gaze shifted slightly, and he saw a furry head resting on the edge of the bed, bobbing gently with suppressed sobs.

Her light brown ponytail was a little loose, with a few stray hairs sticking to her sweaty forehead.

Is it... Lin Xiaoyou?

She fell asleep next to his bed.

Her eyes were swollen like peaches, her face still had wet tear stains, and one hand was still tightly clutching the corner of his blanket.

She was still wearing the company uniform skirt, which was all wrinkled.

Fang Qi stared at her blankly, his mind completely empty.

...What happened?

Did he not revert to a previous save file?

Is this... a hospital?

What's Lin Xiaoyou doing here? And why is she in this state?

And... what about that crazy woman?!

"You're awake?"

A slightly hoarse and tired female voice came from the doorway, interrupting Fang Qi's chaotic thoughts.

He turned his aching neck and looked towards the doorway.

Gu Xi was leaning against the door frame with her arms crossed over her chest.

She was still wearing her police uniform, her ponytail still tied up, but the stray hairs on her forehead were a little messy, there were obvious dark circles under her eyes, and her lips were a little dry.

She held a disposable paper cup in her hand, steam rising from it, and her gaze fell on Fang Qi's face with a complex expression.

With a scrutinizing gaze, and also a hint of... relief?

"I……"

As soon as Fang Qi opened his mouth, his throat felt like it had been rubbed with sandpaper, burning with pain!

His voice was so hoarse it was almost incoherent, and he spoke in a breathy, strained tone: "How could I...?"

He struggled to sit up, but the sharp pain in his neck and the weakness throughout his body made his vision go black!

He groaned and fell heavily back into his pillow!

"Don't move!"

Upon seeing this, Gu Xi immediately strode to the bedside and placed a hand on his uninjured shoulder to prevent him from getting up again.

His brows furrowed deeply: "Your carotid artery was severed, and you lost a lot of blood! It's a miracle you survived! The doctor said you absolutely must rest; if the wound reopens, you'll really die!"

Her expression revealed genuine anxiety and lingering fear.

Fang Qi's mind was in complete chaos!

He...he's not dead?

But looking at these injuries...

Li Guang absolutely went for the kill! Her carotid artery!

What happened next? Could it be that... the police outside heard the commotion?

"Where's Li Guang? How is Li Guang?!" He looked at Gu Xi with difficulty and asked anxiously.

Lin Xiaoyou let out a soft whimper by the bedside, but remained lying down. She seemed too tired to be woken up by the noise.

Gu Xi straightened up, raised her hand to smooth the stray hairs on her forehead, and remained silent for a few seconds.

Then, with a heavy tone and a lingering shock, he began to speak:

"After I finished dealing with that emergency, I rushed back as fast as I could."

"I pushed open the door... and saw you lying next to the chair, blood gushing out of your neck like a fountain."

"The floor...the walls...the ceiling...are covered in blood."

Gu Xi closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and continued, her voice slightly strained:

"And your AI... Riko..."

"She was kneeling beside you, lying on top of you, her hands... pressing hard and desperately on your bleeding neck."

"Her hands, arms, face, hair... were covered in your spurting blood."

"She was trembling all over, and kept shouting... Stop, please stop, Master, don't bleed anymore... Please don't die..."

Gu Xi's voice trembled slightly.

Her gaze returned to Fang Qi, her eyes filled with complex emotions:

"She pressed so hard, but blood still kept seeping out from between her fingers... Then she saw me come in and suddenly looked up..."

Gu Xi paused, her voice trembling slightly, as if the scene was still vivid in her mind:

"His face was covered in blood and tears, his makeup was ruined, and those eyes..."

"I...I've never seen eyes like that before. Despair, madness, regret, fear..."

Gu Xi's voice was filled with lingering shock, and her eyes were somewhat unfocused as she recalled the scene:

"She shouted at me, her voice hoarse and broken, crying and begging me to save her, begging me to call a doctor..."

Then she lowered her head again, pressed harder against your wound, pressed her face against your blood-stained chest, and muttered incoherently, "Master won't die... Liguang was wrong... Liguang didn't mean it... Master, don't die..."

Gu Xi closed her eyes and exhaled a trembling breath.

Fang Qi lay on the hospital bed, staring blankly at the ceiling, the pain in his neck so real.

He could picture that scene.

The cold interrogation room floor, splattered with blood, the dying self, and that... silver-haired girl in despair and regret.

Even if you feel utterly betrayed, even if you feel you are about to be destroyed...

Even after she made the move, she regretted it and desperately wanted to make amends.

Crazy woman, in the end... you still couldn't bring yourself to do it...?

"At that moment, I was absolutely certain..."

Gu Xi's voice pulled him back to reality:

"Her reaction, that heart-wrenching regret and fear... couldn't be simulated by a program. I immediately called for emergency medical services and the AI ​​special response team, and rushed over to help her press the tourniquet from the first aid kit to stop the bleeding."

"...And then?" Fang Qi's voice was hoarse and dry.

"The ambulance and the emergency response team arrived almost simultaneously."

Gu Xi pulled over a chair from the bedside and sat down, her fingers unconsciously tracing the rim of the paper cup:

"When the medical staff took over, she refused to let go... the emergency response team had to forcibly pull her away."

"She struggled violently, her eyes fixed on you as you were lifted onto the stretcher until the emergency room doors closed."

"Then, as if all her strength had been drained, she collapsed to the ground. She made her demands to the disposal team."

Gu Xi looked at Fang Qi:

She said that as long as she could get the best treatment and the best medication, she was willing to cooperate with everything, voluntarily be recycled, and voluntarily be reset.

"She used this as a trade...and then put on the limiter herself."

Fang Qi didn't know what to say.

It was clearly this crazy woman who cut his carotid artery, but...

"Then...where is she now?" His voice was somewhat unsteady.

"In the highest-level isolation and containment center of the 'Dawn' series."

Gu Xi answered clearly, her eyes carrying a hint of pity:

"A final assessment and a complete reset of core data will be conducted. The process has already begun; just consider the timeline..."

She glanced at the clock on the wall, her voice lowering:

"She should have been completely formatted. Your 'Liguang'... in terms of data and personality, should have been completely erased."

...Erased?

It no longer exists?

Fang Qi stared blankly at the ceiling.

The pain on the side of my neck and the dizziness from blood loss came in waves.

He thought... that the blood spurting into the sky was the end, a brutal ticket to the next cycle of reincarnation.

He was still thinking that when he woke up, he would give her little bottom a good spanking...

But she...

...This doesn't make sense, does it?

Isn't he the player?

Why does it feel like he's the one being won over?!

"Oh, and her too..."

Gu Xi hesitated for a moment, glanced at Lin Xiaoyou who was still fast asleep beside her, but whose eyelashes were trembling as if she was about to wake up, and lowered her voice:

"Your female colleague was contacted by the police through your company's emergency contact information."

"She rushed over as soon as she got the call and stayed here the whole time. No one could persuade her to leave. She cried several times and just fell asleep from exhaustion."

Gu Xi's tone carried a hint of helplessness, but also a touch of understanding:

"I do... care about you quite a bit."

Upon hearing this, Fang Qi's gaze fell once again on Lin Xiaoyou's tired, sleeping face. Her round face had severely swollen, red eyes.

My feelings are a bit complicated.

This girl...sigh.

"Buzz—"

His phone on the bedside table suddenly vibrated.

The vibrations were particularly clear in the quiet ward.

Fang Qi glanced at Gu Xi, who nodded slightly.

He laboriously reached out the hand that wasn't being held down by Lin Xiaoyou, picked up his phone, and swiped to answer.

"Feed?" His voice was still hoarse and weak.

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, then a clear, familiar female voice, tinged with a barely perceptible weariness, came through:

"Mr. Fang Qi, I am An Lian."

Fang Qi's breath hitched, the wound on the side of his neck was aggravated, and he frowned in pain.

An Lian's voice came through the receiver, clear and calm, yet it seemed to carry shards of ice:

"Your AI companion, 'Riko,' is currently being held in a special containment unit."

"She refused to cooperate with any in-depth detection and data extraction procedures and resisted fiercely, but... no aggressive behavior has been observed so far."

She paused, seemingly choosing her words carefully:

She made a condition.

"She said... she just wanted to see you one more time before the reset, to see with her own eyes that you were safe and sound..."

"She will then give up resisting and fully cooperate with all subsequent procedures."

An Lian's voice was flat, yet every word was clear:

"That's her only condition. The higher-ups... considering her risk and your physical condition, they generally disagree. But I need your opinion."

"Mr. Fang, would you... be willing to see her one last time?"