After a while of sleeping,

Tang Jing turned over in her daze.

Suddenly, sensing two cold glints, she abruptly opened her eyes—Ye Yuqiao was staring at her with wide eyes at that moment.

"Yuqiao," Tang Jing gave Ye Yuqiao a slight smile, "haven't you fallen asleep yet?"

Ye Yuqiao gently shook her head, her face bearing a peculiar smile. Then, she leaned close to Tang Jing and whispered, "I can't sleep. Shall we chat and have a heart-to-heart talk?"

Tang Jing showed surprise, sighing to herself that she had not expected the usually aloof Ye Yuqiao to seek a heart-to-heart talk with her. She raised her hand to rub her sleepy cheeks in an attempt to wake herself up, then smiled and nodded.

Ye Yuqiao responded with a smile to Tang Jing, but her smile was still a bit odd.

"Tell me the truth, do you like Chen Hao?" Ye Yuqiao asked while gazing into Tang Jing's eyes.

Tang Jing's face suddenly flushed, her heartbeat quickened, and she avoided Ye Yuqiao's gaze shyly, "Why on earth are you suddenly asking me this?"

Ye Yuqiao stretched out her hand and stroked Tang Jing's hair like a sister, chuckling, "Lately, the way you look at Chen Hao is quite different from others, so I've been very curious. Although I'm Chen Hao's girlfriend, I'm also your good sister, and besides Chen Hao, I really have no other friends to talk to about heart matters."

Hearing Ye Yuqiao say this, warmth grew in Tang Jing's heart. After a pause, she spoke shyly with a red face, "If I said yes, would you mind?"

Ye Yuqiao smiled and shook her head, her hand stroking Tang Jing's hair even more gently.

After hesitating for a long time, Tang Jing finally nodded to admit she had developed feelings for Chen Hao, then holding Ye Yuqiao's hand, she said, "Most of my liking for him comes from admiration and gratitude. I won't harbor any improper thoughts, you can rest assured."

Ye Yuqiao smiled faintly and nodded.

"Also," Tang Jing became coy, "you must keep this a secret for me! It would be so awkward if he found out!"

"Hmm!"

..

After an unknown amount of time had passed,

Tang Jing woke from her sleep to the sound of an argument. She slowly opened her eyes to find that Ye Yuqiao was gone. She quickly got up and stepped out of the tent.

Once outside the tent, she heard the mournful sobs of Ye Yuqiao. Following the direction of the sound, and aided by the firelight scattering through the woods from a nearby bonfire, she faintly saw two familiar figures beneath a large banyan tree.

Then, Chen Hao's voice came through, "Yuqiao, stop crying! You know I don't feel that way about Tang Jing."

"Don't touch me!" Ye Yuqiao's voice was shrieking. "Tell me, if one of us had to go now, who would you choose to keep?"

Hearing Ye Yuqiao say this, Tang Jing felt both anger and injustice in her heart, utterly resenting Ye Yuqiao. She thought to herself how Ye Yuqiao had just claimed she wouldn't mind and wouldn't tell Chen Hao about her affections, so why turned her back on her word so quickly!

"I.." Chen Hao's tone was full of hesitation, "Of course, I would choose to keep you!"

Hearing this from Chen Hao, Tang Jing couldn't help but shed tears, and then she screamed towards the front to express her dissatisfaction and grievance.

"Ah! Tang Jing!" Ye Yuqiao's cry of surprise came from beneath the banyan tree.

Tang Jing immediately turned around, intending to call Tang Chao to leave with her. After taking a few steps and thinking that Tang Chao could still be useful if he stayed, she abandoned the idea and walked alone into the dim night.

At that moment, Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao rushed over from beneath the tree and stopped Tang Jing, not letting her leave.

"Let me go!" Tang Jing yelled at them.

"Tang Jing, listen to me explain!" Ye Yuqiao said urgently, grasping Tang Jing's hand.

"Stop pretending!" Tang Jing roared at Ye Yuqiao and then violently shook off her hand before heading into the mountain.

Chen Hao followed closely behind, shoving and tugging along the way.

Suddenly, Tang Jing's feet slipped, and she tumbled down a small hillside. Her vision gradually blurred until she finally passed out.

..

"Tang Jing, Tang Jing!" a series of urgent shouts came.

Tang Jing slowly opened her eyes and saw Ye Yuqiao's hypocritical face in front of her. She sat up with a jolt, pushing Ye Yuqiao, who was kneeling beside her, aside angrily and said, "Stop being so phony, I'm leaving now!"

"Tang Jing, what's wrong with you?" Ye Yuqiao immediately approached Tang Jing and asked, tugging at her.

"Let go of me!" Tang Jing bellowed, tears streaming down. "I hate you, I hate all of you!"

Having said this, Tang Jing shook off Yuqiao's hand and dashed out of the tent.

When Ye Yuqiao followed out of the tent, Tang Jing's figure had already disappeared into the misty mountains.

Immediately, Ye Yuqiao ran to another tent and shouted loudly at it, "Chen Hao, Tang Chao, this is bad. Tang Jing suddenly left; you need to wake up now!"

After a long while, none of the three – Chen Hao, Tang Chao, and Xie Xiaofeng – woke up, only the continuous rumbling snores could be heard from inside.

In desperation, Ye Yuqiao had no choice but to open the tent and poke her head in. She climbed onto Chen Hao and leaned close to his face, gently patting him and urging, "Chen Hao, wake up, please wake up!"

Seeing that Chen Hao did not respond, she increased the force slightly with her hand.

Chen Hao still showed no reaction!

Then, Ye Yuqiao closed her eyes and, through her connection with the Nether King's Heart, called out to Chen Hao in his dreams. Even so, there was still no response from Chen Hao.

Ye Yuqiao frowned deeply, lost in thought. After a moment, her eyes flashed, and she muttered, "Could they be haunted by a nightmare? Tang Jing suddenly getting up and leaving in anger, could it be that her dreams were manipulated by a 'nightmare soul,' causing her to misunderstand me?"

After thinking it over and feeling that something was amiss, Ye Yuqiao immediately left the tent, intending to find Tang Jing and explain the situation. She guessed that the 'nightmare soul' had created the misunderstanding because it feared Chen Hao and wanted to cause division between the five of them by sowing discord, thus making it easier to eliminate them one by one.

But just as she was about to activate the Nether King's Power within her, Tang Chao suddenly burst out of the tent.

"Did my sister run away because of you?" Tang Chao asked anxiously.

"Tang Chao, listen to me explain, you've been..."

Ye Yuqiao had not even finished speaking when Tang Chao angrily interrupted, "Just tell me, which way did my sister go?"

Seeing that the extremely anxious Tang Chao had lost his rationality, Ye Yuqiao's face darkened. She pointed in the direction Tang Jing had gone and said, "She went that way!"

After hearing this, Tang Chao immediately leaped into the air, vanishing into the night.

"Sigh!" Ye Yuqiao let out a helpless sigh, feeling very anxious, as she knew that Tang Chao would definitely not find Tang Jing, and both of them might encounter danger.

At this very moment, she could only hope that Chen Hao would wake up soon!

At that time, there was more movement inside the tent..

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