My wife is a magical girl, how can I be the villain?

Chapter 175 Playing along

"Aren't you happy to go back to your wife?" Hua Lingyou raised an eyebrow. "You look so dazed—she might ask why you haven't come back for so long, and then get angry."

Hua Lingyou deliberately imitated a spoiled and arrogant expression.

Tang Ming pretended not to hear and looked down at his feet.

Hua Lingyou nudged him, "Now that you're familiar with each other, you can pretend you don't hear what the boss is saying, right?"

"Sister Hua, I'm sleepy, I want to go to sleep————"

"If you keep yelling at me like that, I'll deduct your entire month's salary. It's almost the beginning of the month anyway."

Tang Ming clasped his hands in apology, "She's already asleep, why are you still asking? I just want to sleep peacefully until daytime, I'm so tired."

Seeing this, Hua Lingyou patted his back and said nothing more.

After exiting the elevator lobby, the two waved goodbye and left down the corridors on either side.

"Click."

Tang Ming quietly pushed open the door, turned around and slowly closed it, then tiptoed into the room. His wife on the bed was already fast asleep, the blankets billowing up and down with her breathing.

Tang Ming breathed a sigh of relief, went into the dark bathroom to wash his face, checked that his clothes didn't smell at all, and then slowly climbed into his own spot.

It was quite surprising that Lin Ruoyu hadn't taken over his territory. He noticed that Lin Ruoyu was in a "defensive" posture, with her hands tightly placed on her chest and her whole body curled up.

"I probably won't sleep well in an unfamiliar place —"

Tang Ming shrank under the covers and carefully picked up the clumps of hair from beside the pillow and "arranged" them. He didn't want to lie on the other person's hair again and wake them up.

Lin Ruoyu squinted her eyes, watching her husband's every move.

She recalled that when he came home late last year after socializing, he would always press on her hair, causing her to scream in pain.

Although she was very angry, the other person looked apologetic, so she didn't dare to lose her temper. She just mumbled and shook her head, "It's okay—my hair is just too long. Maybe I'll get it cut tomorrow."

At the time, Tang Ming shook his head vigorously, seriously "warning" her not to do that—unexpectedly, she paid attention to this matter afterward.

She knew her sleeping posture wasn't very elegant; once she fell asleep, she tended to rummage through the things next to her. Tang Ming never complained about this.

Lin Ruoyu's emotions fluctuated, and her breathing became disordered.

"You're still awake?"

Tang Ming immediately noticed the state of his bedmate and asked softly.

"—You woke me up."

"Sorry, that was a bit too much," Tang Ming apologized.

"Hmm————" Lin Ruoyu turned her body to the other side, seemingly falling back asleep.

Tang Ming didn't say anything more. He was really tired, and getting more sleep was the most important thing.

Lin Ruoyu slightly opened her eyes, feeling the man behind her gradually stabilizing and slowing his breathing. She finally breathed a sigh of relief, her stiff cheeks relaxing. She wondered if it was just her imagination, but the heavy "pressure" in her chest seemed to be decreasing.

After dealing with that training team, she rushed towards the city center, only to be stopped by Ye Jingjing, leaving her completely flustered. Tang Ming was almost out of the elevator; she had no time to continue chatting with Ye Jingjing and quickly made up an excuse to send her away.

That training team, especially the captain, was indeed quite skilled. His enormous body allowed him to leap more than ten meters high, and the bone spurs on his back made it difficult for Xingyu to dodge in mid-air, forcing him to land on the ground and fight back.

She tried seven or eight spells but failed to break through the armor. The opponent's crystalline armor expanded along with their flesh, and the overwhelming magic felt like a tickle to them. The other cult members, well-trained, approached to harass her, and whenever she prepared to defeat them one by one, they would immediately retreat, leaving the captain to face her attacks directly.

Having no other choice, Xingyu had to use her feather blades and staff to fight these guys in close combat.

Facing a highly skilled combat training team, she realized just how inexperienced she was in combat.

While magical girls should primarily focus on learning spells and increasing their overall magical output, actual combat micro-management is equally important. Magical girls aren't glass cannons, but because of their abundant "gunpowder," they often use them like cannons.

The battle videos of magical girls have been circulating for many years, and even ordinary people who are keen to study them know them by heart, let alone the enemies who have fought them personally.

GunRed does this very well, constantly improving his fighting skills to ensure he can react quickly even when attacked by the opponent.

To this end, she also studied a full ten enchantment formulas and ten nature formulas. Enchanting was to enhance her combat abilities, while nature formulas were to protect her body. With seven or eight layers of buffs stacked up, she didn't need to worry about most open or hidden attacks and could directly engage in close combat.

Xingyu looked at the several wounds on her body; bone spurs had pierced her clothes and left a bloody mark on her arm.

Xingyu calmly used magic to stop the bleeding. Although these wounds did not affect her main body, the damage to her body would directly affect her [crown chakra] – the strength of her soul. If it was serious, it was not impossible for her strength to drop a level.

"I need to practice my reaction time with Xiao Ba again later—" Xingyu felt a little down.

In several battles with the cult's elite troops, she clearly felt her own inadequacy. The threat posed by the Void Beast calamity and criminals in Fangzhou City was too low, and those few humanoid Void Beasts never even considered fighting them to the death, running away after a few blows.

Now, facing a ruthless and trap-setting New Human Cult, her so-called four-page strength has not received enough "recognition".

Although more than a dozen followers were already lying on the ground, the remaining people were much stronger, and their combined efforts disrupted her spellcasting rhythm.

Hoshino couldn't help but exclaim, "Just how powerful is this magical girl who could make such a massive cult flee in disarray?"

"Ding! Ding! Ding!"

Three black crystal swords, each several meters long, were held by three cult members. They were about to strike Xingyu when she leaped up and the swords reversed direction, slashing through the air towards her neck.

"Hey! Still slacking off?" The captain grinned menacingly, a gust of wind emanating from above as his fist struck.

With everything sealed off from the front, back, left, right, and above, Xingyu had no choice but to immediately conjure two talismans and stick them directly onto his body.

[Divine Protection Spell] casts a layer of golden condensed material barrier that wraps tightly around the body, while [Thousand Pound Spell] slams Xingyu herself into the ground.

When the group realized they had missed, they immediately threw their weapons away. Some of the cult members lost their balance and fell to the ground. The captain's heavy punch also accidentally injured one of his men, who immediately lost consciousness.

Under immense pressure, Xingyu chanted a spell to release the [Thousand-Pound Curse], then summoned the Falling Feather Blade to cut through the soil, carrying her as she jumped out from the other side.

"Cough cough————" Xingyu was in a very sorry state, kneeling on the ground. These people were clearly not as strong as him, but they had him completely outmaneuvered.

The captain hadn't expected that the opportunity he had been waiting for would be so easily thwarted.

"I really hate those disgusting magicians—each one has more and more outlandish and chaotic tricks!"

The captain roared in fury, his entire body seemingly stirred into a frenzy by some strange force, and charged directly at Xingyu. The remaining team members immediately followed, keeping pace with their captain.