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

“Like this…” Xiao Yao murmured.

“Moreover,” Yu Bo added, “not everyone has dissociative identity disorder; the vast majority of people only have one personality—that’s different. God has three separate persons, while a normal person only has one.”

"Mmm...mmm," Xiao Yao said.

“However,” Yu Bo changed the subject, “your concerns are valid; we should indeed cultivate a good relationship with our own spiritual fortress.”

"Hmm?" Yu Luying said.

“People who are devoured by their own mental fortresses,” Yu Bo said cautiously, “are rare, but they do exist. I’ve heard of such cases in Japan.”

“This…” Xiao Yao said.

“I think the key lies in how you use the fortress,” Yu Bo said. “Is it about befriending it, seeking spiritual resonance, and asking for its assistance? Or is it about using some crooked means to enslave and control it?”

"It sounds a bit like the relationship between devout faith and evil witchcraft," Xiao Yao commented.

“That’s very true.” Yu Bo nodded and said, then opened a drawer and pushed a piece of paper in front of Xiao Yao: “This is the place where you need to arrange a meeting with Zhang Zhengkai.”

Xiao Yao reached for the paper, but Yu Bo held it down and pulled it back a little.

"Huh?" Xiao Yao asked, puzzled.

"Just read it once and memorize it," Yu Bo said.

Xiao Yao read it three times and memorized the address.

Then Yu Bo lit the note with a lighter.

The three of them talked until five or six o'clock. Seeing that it was time for the street dance club activity to end, Xiao Yao said goodbye to Yu Luying and her uncle and set off back to St. Francis Middle School to pick up Shen Jie.

The sunset was beautiful. Before even reaching the door of the street dance club's activity room, he saw Tao Tianyi and two other boys walking out from inside, heading towards Xiao Yao, and then passing by him and Yu Luying.

"The teacher taught us to do morning exercises, but we neither stretched out our hands nor bent over, which made the teacher so angry that she got a high fever and had to have surgery on September 1st. Can you believe how terrible that is..." Tao Tianyi recited this nursery rhyme.

"How childish!" his companion retorted on Xiao Yao's behalf. "What grade are you in?"

“Hey, don’t tell me,” Tao Tianyi said, “our English teacher, Ms. Liu, really has a high fever today, so English class has been changed to self-study…”

"Are you saying that Teacher Liu is sick because you cursed him?" his other companion said.

"By the way, why are you suddenly interested in joining the street dance club? I remember you weren't interested in it before?"

"Oh, it was just a whim," Tao Tianyi said casually. "I was bored, so I thought I'd give it a try."

The three chatted idly as their voices gradually faded into the distance.

What a tasteless guy, Xiao Yao thought.

"You have such good taste," Yu Luying thought.

"Aren't you annoying?" Xiao Yao thought.

Xiao Yao led Yu Luying to the door of the street dance club's activity room and peeked inside—it was just an ordinary classroom with desks and chairs removed and patchwork carpet temporarily laid out.

There was no dance mirror either. In front of the blackboard at the back of the classroom, there was a large mirror that looked like it had been picked up from somewhere. Xiao Yao thought it looked familiar and felt like it had been picked up from the garbage dump under that desolate bridge.

It was that mirror they had passed through countless times during the summer vacation, leveling up in the halls of the crowd.

"They look very similar, don't they?" Xiao Yao asked Yu Luying in a low voice.

"They do look a little bit alike," Yu Luying replied cautiously.

“It’s not just a little bit similar, it’s very similar,” Xiao Yao insisted. “I suspect it is that mirror.”

“It’s only a little bit similar,” Yu Luying insisted.

In front of that mirror, the ribbonfish is playing "head spinning".

He was wearing a yellow safety helmet, or rather, his head was "pressing down" on the helmet.

Because the ribbonfish is completely upside down, and what is supporting him on the ground is not his palms or elbows, but the top of his head.

At this moment, the ribbonfish is spinning rapidly in place, garnering applause and cheers from many male and female members of the club who are watching.

Xiao Yao had to admit that there was something there.

But he really does look like a spinning top.

This made Xiao Yao want to whip him a few times.

Shen Jie followed the instructions of a senior student wearing a senior high school uniform, moving her left and right hands in slow motion.

Xiao Yao knew that Shen Jie was a beginner in street dance, but her background in dance and martial arts made her learn very quickly.

It looks pretty decent, Xiao Yao thought.

But the guy who mentored her is already a senior in high school, and he still has time to play in clubs.

"Oh, he's a student who repeated a grade," Yu Luying told him quietly.

I knew it, Xiao Yao thought. She's obviously a hot girl.

However, there are quite a few girls in this club. I originally thought it would be a class of monks—it's not quite what I imagined, Xiao Yao thought.

"All you know is girls, you can't do anything else," Yu Luying thought.

Shen Jie finally saw Xiao Yao and Yu Luying. She said goodbye to the girl who had repeated a grade and walked towards the two of them with her schoolbag.

Then he walked straight past them, slowly went downstairs, and headed towards the school gate.

Xiao Yao and Yu Luying followed behind Shen Jie at a leisurely pace, always trying to keep Shen Jie in their sight.

The three little ones had just returned safely to their grandmother's house when Xiao Yao started acting up.

He knew perfectly well that Tao Tianyi had just joined the street dance club this semester, but he deliberately said to Shen Jie, "I just saw Tao Tianyi come out of your street dance classroom."

"Oh, here we go again." Shen Jie held her cat in her arms and stroked its chin.

"You didn't sign up for the street dance club just because of him, did you?" Xiao Yao said deliberately.

He knew perfectly well that this wasn't true, but he was happy just to tease her.

“I’m begging you,” Shen Jie rolled her eyes, looking quite adorable, “he signed up with me.”

"This guy is a bit annoying," Xiao Yao said, stroking his chin.

“You’re really annoying,” Yu Luying complained. “Sister, you might as well just announce that you have a boyfriend at school, and say that he’s from another school.”

“Yes, it’s okay,” Shen Jie took her notebook out of her bag. “But I don’t know if it will work. I’ve already told them that I have a boy I like, and he’s in our school.”

"It's right here at our school?" Xiao Yao asked in a deliberately innocent tone, "Then who exactly is that lucky boy?"

“It’s far away,” Shen Jie reached out and ruffled Xiao Yao’s hair, “but it’s right in front of you.”

Xiao Yao made the call with satisfaction.

"Holy crap," Yu Luying suddenly exclaimed.

"What's wrong now?" Shen Jie asked Yu Luying.

“I forgot to take a shower at the church first,” Yu Luying said.

"puff."

Xiao Yao picked up the landline phone on the sofa arm. Without checking the call log or the contacts, he dialed the number from memory.

"Beep-beep-beep-"

"Hello." A male voice with a slightly childlike accent came from the other end of the phone.

"Zhang Zhengkai, is that right?" Xiao Yao said, "I am Xiao Yao."

Shen Jie stopped chatting with Yu Luying and looked at Xiao Yao with a puzzled expression.

Zhang Zhengkai remained silent for several seconds, and for a moment Xiao Yao worried that he would hang up the phone.

“I know it’s you,” Zhang Zhengkai finally spoke, “What do you want?”

Meanwhile, Yu Luying was whispering with Shen Jie about "the organization's mission".

“I…I think,” Xiao Yao quickly organized his thoughts, “let’s meet up, I’ll treat you to dinner.”

Zhang Zhengkai: "...There's no need for that, it's unnecessary."

Xiao Yao: "...Then you treat me to dinner."

Zhang Zhengkai: "On what grounds?"

Xiao Yao: "Shouldn't you be grateful that I saved your life?"

Zhang Zhengkai: "..."

"If you don't say anything, I'll take that as a yes. How about tomorrow?" Xiao Yao said.

"Tomorrow won't work," Zhang Zhengkai said.

"Then the day after tomorrow? See how considerate I am of you," Xiao Yao said.

"Just send me the time and location via text message," Zhang Zhengkai said before hanging up the phone.

"Beep, beep, beep, beep..."

"Let me make this clear first, I'm not going," Shen Jie said to Xiao Yao, stroking the cat's head.

“Nobody said they were going to take you.” Xiao Yao pinched the sides of his nose. “Oh, right, Brother Bo asked me to give you your assistant card, and the organization’s assistant code…”

The next day, Saturday.