Chapter 54 Safe House

"Bang!"

Qi Mengsi dragged Li Guanqi into an apartment and slammed the door shut.

The massive three-story apartment was occupied by just the two of them, and the suffocating air hung thick with awkwardness.

The words of the smart butler echoed in both of their minds.

[Spousal relationship application successfully verified.]

[Temporary supercomputing loop imprint completed.]

[Cancellation impossible.]

[Upon expiration of the guarantee period, the relationship will be automatically unbound.]

"How long is the guarantee period?"

[Six months.]

"Are we... married?"

[To be precise, the two of you are engaged. For complete marriage procedures, please visit the Civil Marriage Registry.]

After stating this, the smart butler added with supreme artificial intelligence:

[Congratulations to the couple.]

[Wishing you a harmonious union for a hundred years and the early birth of a brilliant offspring.]

The fastest way to obtain a household registration truly was getting married after all!

"Don't panic just yet!" Qi Mengsi turned her face away and raised a hand before Li Guanqi could speak. "There's still a chance to fix this!"

"It can still be changed!"

She lacked the administrative authority, but within the Purifiers chat group, there were two people who could alter it.

Rabbit and King's Hand.

However—

She had no face left to enter the group chat!

She didn't even need to imagine what the chat was like; it was undoubtedly flooded with question marks, and Rabbit had certainly told everyone about this.

Rabbit: "Everyone come out and congratulate our Lady Rose."

[Image]

"Congratulations on the engagement."

Mermaid: "Congratulations, wishing you a harmonious union for a hundred years."

Mahjong: "You were sent to confront him, and this is how you handle it?"

Swordsman: "Exquisite sword technique, totally unexpected."

Mist Shadow Lady: "So fast, truly worthy of Rose!"

Machine: "Humans are so hard to understand."

Qi Mengsi braced herself and timidly typed: "Rabbit, Rabbit, help me change it back~"

Rabbit paused for a moment, preparing to help her modify the protocol.

Joking was joking, and messing around was messing around, but serious matters still required a serious approach.

Right at that moment, the user with the blank avatar spoke up: "Don't change it for her."

"Having an engagement is not a bad thing, it will keep her from flirting around."

Mermaid: "Supported."

Mahjong: "Seconded."

Swordsman: "Seconded."

Rabbit: "Plus one."

Mist Shadow Lady: "They seem like a great match."

Rose: "No, please don't!"

"Aaaah!" Failing to modify her information, Qi Mengsi stomped her feet in a frenzy.

Li Guanqi's mouth twitched: "So what exactly are we now...?"

"It will automatically dissolve in half a year!" Qi Mengsi raised a hand and said, "From now on, we have three ground rules."

"Do not call me Twin Flowers; I am Qi Mengsi."

"Do not spread word of our relationship outside. We are merely engaged, not married."

"Do not go up to the second and third floors."

"That's all three. Is that acceptable?"

Li Guanqi replied indifferently, "Acceptable."

They were perfectly reasonable requests, standard polite boundaries for coexistence.

"Good." Qi Mengsi let out a soft breath and called out toward the main hall, "Xier!"

An exquisitely dressed maid stepped out from the hall.

[How may I be of service?]

The maid put on a healing smile, her voice both mechanical and chillingly cold yet oddly pleasant to the ear.

"Scan him."

"Help clean up a guest room."

[Understood.]

Xier's eyes swept up and down over Li Guanqi, and columns of information projected into the empty air.

[No heavy weapons — Safe]

[No high-spirituality magic cards — Safe]

[Negative magic crystals 200 milligrams — Safe]

[Aether 548 points — Safe]

[Symbiotic card — ?]

[Sanity rate 82% — Safe]

[Comprehensive evaluation: Harmless to humans and animals]

"Talk to Xier if you need anything." Qi Mengsi looked at Li Guanqi, then quickly averted her gaze. "I... I'm logging in."

"You are not allowed to enter my room!"

With that, she scurried back to her room, 106.

"An engagement..." Li Guanqi gazed at room 106, his thoughts a tangled mess.

Suddenly finding himself engaged to a wealthy heiress wasn't something he particularly resisted—he wasn't noble enough to reject that, and his sexual orientation was normal.

It was just that in those memories...

She had leaped down, and he had failed to save her, failing the standards of a medical student.

[Sir, this way please.]

[The guest room has been cleaned.]

Xier gestured toward room 104.

"Thank you." Li Guanqi instinctively glanced around. "Are there any other residents in this apartment?"

The apartment was massive and exquisitely decorated; just the first floor alone featured six rooms and a spacious main hall.

[I am sorry, but I am not authorized to disclose that.]

Xier smiled faintly and nodded.

Li Guanqi nodded nonchalantly, pushed open the door to room 104, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

This room was practically his dream bedroom!

It was spacious, with exceptional lighting, and outside the window lay a meticulously tended garden bursting with lush greenery.

The walls were a soft beige, complemented by dark brown solid wood flooring that created a warm and cozy tone. A large double bed sat in the center of the room, its mattress looking so luxuriously soft that it made one want to immediately dive onto it and roll around.

On the bedside table, a few books were thoughtfully placed.

There was even a fiercely futuristic computer desk!

A student's holy land!

Li Guanqi collapsed onto the bed, rolling back and forth like a maggot, and let out a long, drawn-out sigh.

"I'm free."

"Finally free."

Ever since crossing over, he had harbored an eerie sense of being manipulated—forced onto a transport vehicle, forced into the arena, forced to sweep three opponents in a row, forced to go mad, forced to wear shackles, forced to take intravenous injections, and forced into interrogations.

Until Qi Mengsi appeared.

Though he had been coerced into an engagement, she hadn't demanded anything of him.

Her three rules were simple: don't call her Twin Flowers, don't spread word of their relationship, and don't go upstairs to the second and third floors. They were very simple matters.

"Twin Flowers..." Li Guanqi rolled over, took out his smart device, and searched for Twin Flowers.

All the changes had begun the moment he called out that name.

The smart device generated tens of thousands of search results.

The highest-trending article was titled [Identity Analysis of the Under-King Purifier - Twin Flowers].

"Under-King Purifier."

He murmured the title softly, then searched for [Purifiers], and the information that popped up left him dumbfounded.

"That formidable?!"

Simply put, a Purifier was a presence in the Spirit Custodians department that stood below one person and above ten thousand.

They were the Bell Organization's number one enemies, carrying bounties exceeding one hundred million—walking little fortunes, where capturing just one meant making a lifelong reputation.

He had guessed she was wealthy.

He just hadn't expected her to be *that* kind of wealthy!

No wonder she forbade anyone from calling her Twin Flowers in public; under heavy rewards brave men would risk all, and bounty hunters might be lurking in the shadows.

By comparison, his personal net worth of three hundred thousand felt utterly pathetic.

Li Guanqi opened the Magic Card Exchange, his heart sinking.

Ordinary cards were priced from a few hundred to one or two thousand; precious cards ranged from thousands to tens of thousands; rare cards cost tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.

Transcendent cards defied standard pricing and carried exorbitant premiums.

Auction prices had even reached eighty-seven million for a single [Purging Maiden - Malfa]. It wasn't that [Malfa] was inherently worth that much; rather, the buyer simply had that kind of money.

With his total of three hundred thousand, he could only afford to build a deck of entirely Normal and Rare cards, and at most purchase a single rare card.

That might have been passable in the Duel Monsters world, but in Bianatana, it was far from enough. According to the dungeon bounty boards, this world harbored decks like [Tearlaments] and [Tenpai Dragon].

Li Guanqi frowned, a sense of foreboding washing over him as he searched the exchange for [Labrynth].

Search results: 0

"No—"

"Big white robot, where are my waifus?!"

Ever since he discovered that card spirits possessed spiritual projections, he had been daydreaming, fantasizing about having a high-spirituality Silver Castle Lady to cuddle with.

His dream—

Was practically shattered.

He could accept being temporarily unable to afford cards due to poverty; at the very least, he could figure out a way to earn money, and with some hard work, there would be a glimmer of hope.

But if the exchange didn't sell cards at all, what was he supposed to do? Print them himself?