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

"Let me see. It's a bit far, in the old neighborhood," Yui said confidently, turning her head left and right.

"Since we're already here... let's take another look," Lin Ruoyu said with a helpless smile.

"Let's go eat after we're done meeting up. I won't be able to try the tofu pudding my roommate brought me..." Xiao Ba said resentfully, pulling Yui off her head and looking at Lin Ruoyu with pleading eyes.

"Let's meet first, it won't take long." Li Shuang looked at Yui expressionlessly.

"Li Shuang! Are you questioning my judgment of character? You might just find the next girl you like right away!"

Yui stood with her hands on her hips, looking indignant.

"By the way, if the next one doesn't work out either, does that mean there won't be any new magical girls for the time being?" Hachi asked, puzzled.

"..." Yui shrank back.

Xun rolled her eyes at her and made her final judgment:

"That means Yui has gone from being a Pokémon in Fangzhou City to being a complete freeloader."

Seeing that the distance wasn't particularly far and the area was crowded, the group decided to walk there to avoid attracting attention.

Xiao Ba and Li Shuang bickered along the way. Xiao Ba was still very much looking forward to the possible "junior" and expressed dissatisfaction with Li Shuang's pessimistic and lazy attitude.

"We should keep our hopes up. If the second candidate doesn't work out, we'll have to go back and try contacting Liao Jiayun," Xiao Ba concluded confidently.

Li Shuang remained noncommittal: "Why?"

"Fangzhou City can't just have four magical girls forever, can it? They're unreliable to the Demon Department, there's also the cult, and they can't even wipe out those humanoid beasts..."

"...If magical girls have any achievements, then we are completely unqualified!" Xiaoba spread her hands, indicating that they had run out of ideas.

What else can we say?

"I'm speechless..."

The group gradually fell silent. They realized that problems had been arising one after another, but none of them had been resolved, and they felt frustrated.

Although the magical girls basically ignore them and the spirits that descend are like Yui, who just gives up, none of them choose to become magical girls just to make a living or to get some credit.

They hadn't made any breakthroughs in their operations and had even been set up in a trap, which gave them a serious warning: Fangzhou City was really short-handed!

……

Tang Ming paid, lifted a bag of apples from the scale, placed it in the shopping basket, and neatly arranged four boxes of blueberries next to it.

"Eat more fruit. You need to supplement your nutrition at your age. Blueberries are said to be good for your eyes."

Ye Jingjing stood on tiptoe and grabbed a bottle of beer from the shelf next door, waving it in front of Tang Ming. "Want to...have a little something tonight?"

"...I'm driving now, you can drink it yourself. No, you're not allowed to drink it either." Tang Ming took the beer from Ye Jingjing's hand and prepared to put it back on the shelf.

"I've already had some... I won't get drunk at all," Ye Jingjing said weakly, looking at his hand.

Tang Ming gave her a strange look and frowned.

"Buy a bottle, I won't drink it, you can drink it next time you come..." Ye Jingjing touched the beer in his hand again, tentatively applying a little pressure.

Tang Ming didn't try to stop them, letting them take it back and put it in the shopping basket.

He thought about it and decided not to interfere. Firstly, he had no right to interfere and didn't want to prematurely assume the role of a rigid and nagging adult. Secondly, he didn't really care about such things; he had done plenty of excessive things before.

When Tang Ming was in junior high school, he and his deskmate secretly opened a bottle of sake to taste during class...

Tang Ming suddenly froze, his grip on the basket tightening. Desk mate…who was it again? Boy or girl?

He was involuntarily reminiscing about his childhood when he inexplicably got stuck at a crucial point. The smooth recollection was abruptly interrupted, leaving him scratching his head in frustration.

"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?" Ye Jingjing asked with concern.

"It's nothing... I suddenly remembered something and got stuck."

"I understand... When you should remember something, but suddenly you can't, it feels like a piece of your brain is missing, and it's very uncomfortable..." Ye Jingjing nodded in empathy.

Tang Ming looked at her in surprise, smiled silently, and stopped dwelling on the matter.

"Alright, take these home and eat them. Even if you don't have classes, remember to get some rest."

The two reached the street corner, and Tang Ming rolled up the bag in his hand a few times before handing it to Ye Jingjing, giving her a few words of advice.

"When will you come next time?" Ye Jingjing asked softly.

"Come back next time you get a new magic stone..." Tang Ming said subconsciously, but after glancing into the girl's eyes, he hesitated and said, "If you want to go eat something delicious, I'll go with you."

"good!"

Tang Ming smiled gently and reached out to pat Ye Jingjing's head. Her already messy hair became even frizzier after being ruffled, but Ye Jingjing didn't seem to care, keeping her head down and muttering to herself:

"Uncle...would you pat your wife's head like that?"

"Uh... what's it to you?" Tang Ming silently withdrew his hand, his face twitching.

Four women stood behind a utility pole not far away, watching the two people at the entrance of the residential area.

"That's Ye Jingjing... How about it, isn't she great?" Yui nodded proudly, clearly very pleased with her efficiency in finding such a promising talent.

"So small... even smaller than that girl from before."

"Why does the name Ye Jingjing sound so familiar? Hmm, isn't that the name Liao Jiayun was cursing?" Several people chimed in.

"Ruoyu, did you hear me?"

"It seems so. Could they be classmates? Yui, did you just randomly pick two people from a class?" Lin Ruoyu nodded slowly, her expression towards Yui clearly full of doubt.

Yui sensed the growing distrust in their gazes towards her abilities and attitude. As an elf, regardless of her abilities, she had to prove herself through her actions!

"This is really unfair to me! When I observed Ye Jingjing, she wasn't in school at all. She just stayed at home every day or walked around downstairs... How was I supposed to know it was such a coincidence that she was in the same class as Liao Jiayun before!"

Yui immediately knelt down, covering her face and "crying" on Hachi's head. Hoshino Kaoru was already rubbing her forehead in pain, not wanting to pay attention to this silly child.

"Wait... Ruoyu, doesn't that man over there look like your husband?" The group was drawn to Li Shuang's words.

Xiao Ba and Xun looked over carefully. They had never seen Sister Ruoyu's husband before, and they waited for Lin Ruoyu's reaction with the attitude of watching the drama unfold.

Lin Ruoyu squinted, looked closely, and hesitated before saying, "It really does look like him... no, it seems to be him."

"Huh?" they all exclaimed in unison.

Xiao Ba said awkwardly, "I thought that was Ye Jingjing's father... he was even carrying fruit."

Lin Ruoyu scratched her nose, "I'm not that old..."

"No!" Li Shuang whispered excitedly and mysteriously, "Could this child be his illegitimate daughter?!"

The group of people stared at Lin Ruoyu simultaneously, each with a different expression.

"Senior...do you have a child with him...?" Xiao Ba asked hesitantly.