"Buzz, buzz!" A roar echoed in Chen Hao's mind, and his consciousness became blurry again!

He didn't know how long it had passed.

When he opened his eyes again, just like the previous two dreams, Tang Chao and Xie Xiaofeng were not by his side.

"Could this still be a dream?" Chen Hao murmured to himself.

"Ugh!" At that moment, the painful scream of Ye Yuqiao reached Chen Hao's ears.

"Chen Hao, Chen Hao!" Soon after, Ye Yuqiao's anguished and hoarse scream tore through the air from outside the tent.

Chen Hao furrowed his brows and spoke to himself, "Isn't this exactly like the dream I just had? Could this be real this time?"

Without another word, Chen Hao got up and left the tent. Just like in the last dream, Ye Yuqiao was entwined by a silken ribbon held by a celestial maiden in white, holding a rabbit.

However, what was different this time was that upon seeing Chen Hao emerge from the tent, Chang'e exclaimed in astonishment, "How did you wake up?"

As soon as her words fell, Chang'e and the silken ribbon around Ye Yuqiao both instantly turned into streaks of cold white mist, drifting away into the forest.

"Are you really trying to escape or just putting on an act for me to see?" Chen Hao guessed secretly. Still, he then unleashed a purple fire dragon from his left eye that chased after the dissipating white mist.

"Ahh!" After a piercing scream, the white mist gradually scattered under the assault of the Nether Eye's Fire.

At that moment, Ye Yuqiao, who had nearly been suffocated by the layers of silken ribbon wrapped around her, gasped heavily, swaying unsteadily in the wind that suddenly grew more fierce.

Seeing this, Chen Hao quickly approached and held Ye Yuqiao's waist, as soft as the gentle breeze.

Falling into Chen Hao's embrace, Ye Yuqiao looked up at him with a resentful gaze and said with a slight pout, "You finally woke up! If you hadn't, I would have been strangled to death!"

"Don't say anything first, let's kiss!"

As he spoke, Chen Hao kissed Ye Yuqiao.

After a long while, their lips finally parted.

Chen Hao hugged Ye Yuqiao even tighter and said with excitement on his face, "This feeling is right!"

Ye Yuqiao's cheeks were already flushed, and by the light of the flickering bonfire, her immaculate profile was stunningly charming.

She shyly lowered her head and whispered, "What feeling are you talking about?"

"This is the feeling of my Yuqiao!" Chen Hao explained. He then conveyed to Ye Yuqiao about the series of dreams he had just been through. Afterward, he leaned forward, pressing a kiss to Ye Yuqiao's forehead, while holding her even more tightly, as if trying to merge their bodies into one.

Chen Hao said, "You are my one and only Yuqiao; no one in this world can replace you!"

"Who is your Yuqiao!" Ye Yuqiao hummed softly. "Just now, I was about to use the Nether King's Power to kill that gossiper, but then I thought of you lying inside. I was so angry in my heart. So, I just gave up and thought, if you never woke up, I'd just be strangled to death!"

"Since when did you become as willful as me!" Chen Hao said with a light laugh as he looked at Ye Yuqiao. Suddenly, the dream of that wedding ceremony resurfaced in his mind.

In an instant, Chen Hao's expression turned gloomy.

"What's wrong?" Ye Yuqiao asked.

"I just dreamt that I was the best man for a stranger's wedding. At first, I thought I was the one getting married, but when I saw the bride wasn't you, I felt terrible!" Chen Hao explained. Finishing his words, he took Ye Yuqiao by the shoulders, turned her to face him, and said with a mournful look to her, "Ye Yuqiao, I've made up my mind—if my bride isn't you in the future, I would rather remain alone forever!"

Ye Yuqiao looked at Chen Hao with a dazed expression. After a moment, she suddenly threw her arms around him tightly, leaning her face against his right shoulder before her tears could fall.

In her line of sight, she saw several leaves that the autumn wind had just shaken from the branches drifting away, filling her heart with the bitter sadness of an impending separation.

Chen Hao gently pushed Ye Yuqiao away and held her tear-chilled cheeks tightly in his hands, asking, "Ye Yuqiao, will you make me happy for life, or will you leave me to be lonely until the end of my days?"

Ye Yuqiao blinked her eyes and let out a faint whimper.

Not long after, she suddenly tiptoed and kissed Chen Hao.

"I like you, I want to make you happy for life!" Ye Yuqiao said.

However, she only said this in her heart.

"Mm-hmm, mm-hmm!"

After Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao had kissed for a while, the sound of Xie Xiaofeng's cough suddenly came from nearby.

Immediately, the two parted.

"Brother Chao, Tang Jing, I think we've fallen into some kind of trap, it wasn't these two who deliberately sent us three spare wheels away!" Xie Xiaofeng joked. After speaking, Xie Xiaofeng turned and pretended to leave.

"Where did you three go?" Chen Hao, who was still clueless, asked.

At that moment, Ye Yuqiao looked at Chen Hao, her complexion a bit shy as she said, "Just now, the four of you were all invaded by a nightmare spirit in your dreams!"

"So it was the nightmare spirit!" Xie Xiaofeng sighed, "No wonder everything looked so real!"

Chen Hao also nodded his head in sudden understanding, and remarked, "That explains it, no wonder I kept falling into layer upon layer of dreams!"

"You're different, you had it much worse than them!" Ye Yuqiao said somewhat schadenfreudely as she looked at Chen Hao, "They were only invaded by one layer of dream, but you were trapped in an endless nightmare."

Chen Hao blinked blankly and asked, "Why is that?"

"Because they didn't want you to wake up," Xie Xiaofeng explained as he approached Chen Hao, a look of displeasure on his face. "Or rather, they wanted to deal with each of us one by one before you woke up, and deal with you last!"

Chen Hao laughed heartily twice, proudly and excitedly saying, "It seems that I am widely known here as the biggest threat!"

Xie Xiaofeng gave Chen Hao a sidelong glance and murmured with narrowed eyes, "That's only because I, Xie Xiaofeng, have been too low-key usually. And, if you had seen how ferocious Tang Jing was just now, you definitely wouldn't think so."

After speaking, Xie Xiaofeng yawned and said tiredly, "I'm so sleepy, we've been climbing the mountain all day, and I don't know if I managed to sleep just now."

"You better not fall asleep again." Right then, Tang Chao, holding Tang Jing's hand, walked up behind Xie Xiaofeng and said, "Be careful or you'll get entangled by the nightmare spirit again!"

Having said that, Tang Chao's expression darkened as he turned to Ye Yuqiao and apologized, "Ye Yuqiao, I'm sorry about earlier!"

"It's okay, it's really okay!" Ye Yuqiao replied with an embarrassed smile.

"What's going on?" Chen Hao asked, eyes wide in confusion, then pointed at Tang Chao and said, "Brother Chao, you didn't take advantage of my girlfriend while I was asleep, did you?"

"Is my brother that kind of person!" Tang Jing looked at Chen Hao somewhat angrily. Then her expression changed to mirror Tang Chao's just a moment ago, as she apologized to Ye Yuqiao with a disappointed tone, "Yuqiao, I'm sorry for misunderstanding you."

"It's really okay!" Ye Yuqiao replied with another awkward smile. Unsure how to handle the situation, she now stood very close to Chen Hao.

After a brief awkward silence, Xie Xiaofeng chuckled twice, then asked, "Judging by the shape of the mountain, I estimate it will take us another day and a half to reach the peak of Jade Summit. How can we stand it without sleeping?"

Right then, Chen Hao suddenly felt a warm sensation in his chest.

"I've got it, I'll summon our family's old friend and ask, it's sure to have a solution."

"Your family's old friend?"

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