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

"No...no."

Lin Ruoyu blushed slightly; she hadn't even touched him...

"That's it, you're doomed, your family has someone else outside." Li Shuang said confidently, her face full of a wicked smile.

Xun frowned and said seriously, "Li Shuang, don't be like this. Maybe they're just relatives or acquaintances."

"Why don't you go over and say hello now? You can also find out more about Ye Jingjing. She's quite talented, but I don't know if she'll be easy to get along with," Li Shuang said, stroking her chin thoughtfully.

Lin Ruoyu was also somewhat tempted, but she realized the problem before she could even take a step.

"It's not appropriate for us to reveal our true identities to this child... What if it gets leaked?"

"Lin Ruoyu, why are you suddenly confused? You chatting with Lin Ruoyu doesn't affect your magical girl role. If Ye Jingjing really becomes a magical girl, our true identities will have to be revealed sooner or later."

Li Shuang looked at Lin Ruoyu with a strange expression. She felt that her sister was acting strangely today; her usually sharp mind seemed to have become dull...

"..." Lin Ruoyu blinked, secretly cursing herself for being stupid.

Tang Ming let go of her hand and urged Ye Jingjing to go home quickly, "Remember to lock the door. It's not safe for you to be home alone with so many good things."

"It's alright, I master the spells quickly. I've tested the concealment magic, and it's really reliable."

"By the way... could I add you on my personal account? It's not very convenient to just call you all the time." Ye Jingjing took out her cracked phone and tapped her finger on the yellowed screen.

Tang Ming thought for a moment. He realized they would have had a lot of conversation afterward, and it might be inconvenient to answer the phone, so he nodded.

"I'll write this down... uh, your phone is pretty badly damaged."

He bent down, struggling to discern whether the username was a letter or a line from a crack in the screen.

"Hmm... I got run over by a bicycle last year. The government subsidy was only enough for living expenses. Anyway, I don't use my phone much." Ye Jingjing blew away the fragments that had fallen from the screen, and after seeing Tang Ming write them down, she put them back in her pocket.

While searching for the account on his phone, Tang Ming said, "I'll help you buy one in a couple of days."

"Are you paying...?" Ye Jingjing asked.

"What else? I'm an adult, I can afford this amount of money." Tang Ming looked at Ye Jingjing speechlessly.

"I...I've been waiting for you to say that..." Ye Jingjing stammered, then realized she had been a bit too direct and nervously pinched the hem of her skirt.

"..."

Tang Ming didn't know what expression to make, so he couldn't help but put one hand to his forehead and cover his face.

Ye Jingjing looked at Tang Ming, somewhat at a loss, perhaps realizing she had said something wrong, and blushed.

"Tang Ming?"

A clear female voice broke the slightly awkward atmosphere. The two, who were ten years apart in age, turned their heads at the same time, looking blank and their movements were exactly the same.

A slender figure walked over. Backlit by the streetlight, the person's face was not clearly visible, but Tang Ming recognized the familiar voice and figure instantly.

"Tang Ming... what are you doing here?" Lin Ruoyu lowered her eyes and casually glanced at Ye Jingjing beside her. "I felt like you looked familiar at the intersection, and I didn't expect it to be you when I got closer."

"Oh, I... I'm right here." Upon bumping into Lin Ruoyu, Tang Ming was momentarily stunned. Regaining his composure, he glanced at Ye Jingjing and mentally prepared his response:

"This is someone we know's child. Buy some fruit and take care of them. By the way, what brings you here?"

Ye Jingjing glanced at Tang Ming, then secretly looked at Lin Ruoyu. She felt that the relationship between her older brother and this beautiful woman was a little strange.

"A child from an acquaintance's family? From a distance, I thought they were father and daughter."

Lin Ruoyu smiled enigmatically and replied, "I was having dinner with my colleagues around here, at that street corner, and you looked quite familiar."

Tang Ming followed Lin Ruoyu's hand and looked into the distance. The intersection looked to be nearly a hundred meters away. Tang Ming couldn't help but mutter to himself, "It's a bit outrageous that they can recognize me from this far away."

"Big brother... who is this person?"

With strangers present, Ye Jingjing's voice was even weaker than usual.

"This is my wife, Lin Ruoyu. Her name is composed of grass on top and raindrop on the bottom, um... you can call her 'sister'." Since they had bumped into each other, Tang Ming had no choice but to introduce them seriously.

"Then... can I call you Sister Ruoyu?"

"all right!"

Hearing Ye Jingjing's soft, sweet voice, Lin Ruoyu couldn't help but smile. She had made a good impression on the child from their first meeting, and if she were to sign her as a magical girl, Ye Jingjing might be a good choice. Besides, Tang Ming knew her, so Lin Ruoyu felt inexplicably more at ease…

But Tang Ming lied!

Despite the calm smile on Lin Ruoyu's face, her eyes were still full of doubt as she looked at Tang Ming.

A friend's child? It sounded like a clumsy lie made up on the spot. She completely disbelieved Li Shuang's claim of an illegitimate daughter after seeing Ye Jingjing's face clearly. But why did Tang Ming hesitate and try to evade his wife when introducing Ye Jingjing?

While probing Tang Ming for information, she racked her brains trying to figure out why he was lying, but in the end, she still couldn't figure out what was wrong with Ye Jingjing.

Never mind, after Tang Ming leaves, Xingyu will have a good talk with Ye Jingjing, and it will be easy to find out the reason from this little girl.

Ye Jingjing tilted her head in confusion as she watched the conversation between the two.

The older brother and sister... they seem like colleagues talking. Are they really a couple?

When Ye Jingjing first heard her older brother say that he had a wife, she was actually skeptical, mainly because her older brother didn't seem like the type to have a partner... But when the beautiful older sister was actually standing in front of her, she had no choice but to believe it.

Ye Jingjing looked the two of them over with a strange expression. Although she was young, she had seen how her own parents and her classmates' parents interacted.

But... she had never seen anything so strange before, and she didn't know how to describe it.

What drove her to the brink of despair was that every time the two men spoke, they would steal a glance at her, as if she had something growing on her face.

Tang Ming and Lin Ruoyu thought they were being discreet, but Ye Jingjing saw right through them. Tang Ming was worried that Ye Jingjing might suddenly say something she shouldn't in front of Lin Ruoyu; Lin Ruoyu was wondering what the relationship between Tang Ming and Ye Jingjing really was.

The two were ten years apart in age, not a lot, not a little... A bad feeling crept into Lin Ruoyu's mind: Could Tang Ming have done something heinous to this young girl...?

Hiss... Lin Ruoyu quickly pulled back her chaotic thoughts, but when she noticed Ye Jingjing's gaze towards Tang Ming, Lin Ruoyu couldn't help but mutter to herself that although she had "knew" Tang Ming for about a year, she still couldn't guarantee what kind of person he was.

It's okay, it's okay. It seems like Ye Jingjing's house is right behind here. With her parents there, nothing serious should happen.

"That's about it for now, it's getting late... Ye Jingjing, you should go upstairs quickly." Tang Ming checked the time and prepared to end the conversation.

He should have left long ago, but he ran into Lin Ruoyu, who inexplicably started making conversation, which made him very uncomfortable. He had no choice but to subtly suggest that he should explain.

Lin Ruoyu realized she was being a bit long-winded and that asking questions here wouldn't do any good, so she nodded gently and said, "Oh right, it is getting late. It's not safe for children to be out here. You should go back."

"Aren't you coming home with me?" Tang Ming was about to leave when he suddenly paused and turned back to look at Lin Ruoyu.

"Oh, why... Oh, I have to go find my colleagues. They went to karaoke, and I have to go along with them..."

Lin Ruoyu was taken aback, but immediately changed her words to make amends, shifting all the blame to her "colleague".

"It's getting late...Aren't you going back together?" Tang Ming glanced at his phone, his tone flat, but his gaze towards her held a hint of something unreadable.

He must have thought his wife was quite promiscuous, that she wouldn't come home even when called late at night... Lin Ruoyu understood Tang Ming's expression and smiled bitterly to herself.

But Lin Ruoyu had no other reason, so she could only adopt a rather obedient posture and wait for Tang Ming to leave.