Noon, twelve o'clock.

"Knock knock knock!" The sound of knocking echoed.

Ye Yuqiao, who had been sitting on the sofa deep in thought, got up and went to open the door. As the door swung open, there stood Chen Hao, his face brimming with a smile.

"Your majesty the Queen, are you hungry?" Chen Hao asked with a light chuckle. He reached out to touch Yuqiao's abdomen and said, "Let's see if you've gone hungry."

After a light snort, Ye Yuqiao's furrowed brows relaxed. While pinching Chen Hao's cheek, she complained, "Jerk, you've come back so late!"

Chen Hao laughed heartily twice and entered the room, closing the door tightly behind him. Then, he spread his arms open and gently embraced Ye Yuqiao, sighing, "We had such a long meeting just now, and in the end, no one could determine what was going on."

Ye Yuqiao stepped out of Chen Hao's embrace, furrowed her brows again, and said, "I encountered something strange just now. I felt something unclean trying to control me through the mirror. It might be because I don't have a Yin Soul, so it didn't succeed."

"Ah!" Chen Hao exclaimed, looking at Ye Yuqiao with concern, urgently asking, "Your majesty the Queen, are you alright?"

Ye Yuqiao smiled and shook her head. Chen Hao's anxious care made her feel warm inside, so she reached out and took his hand, her expression suddenly serious, "What's even stranger is that the force emanating from the mirror felt like the Nether King's Power."

"The Nether King's Power!" Chen Hao was startled. Immediately, an image flashed in his mind:

Back in the Mirror Realm, when he was using the Eyes of the Nether to confront the lady ghost in red, the lady ghost suddenly knelt on the ground and cried out in a lost voice, "The power in your left eye is the Nether King's Heart! Your Highness the Crown Prince, you once said you would use the power of the Nether King's Heart to protect us mother and son!"

After recalling this, Chen Hao quickly said to Ye Yuqiao, "Yuqiao, quickly look into my thoughts through the connection of the Netherworld's Heart."

Ye Yuqiao closed her eyes; Chen Hao recalled the scene from his mind.

When the image ended, Ye Yuqiao suddenly opened her eyes, shining with sharpness. After pondering for a moment, she looked uncertainly at Chen Hao and sighed, "That red-clothed female ghost might be the mother of the Shadow Demon!"

"The mother of the Shadow Demon!" Upon hearing this from Yuqiao, Chen Hao was surprised. Involuntarily, the gray shadow flashed in his mind, as well as the devoted Wind Girl, symbolizing freedom. Pausing for a moment, Chen Hao looked at Yuqiao and asked in bewilderment, "Didn't the mother of the Shadow Demon die a long time ago?"

"Let me think this through properly!" Ye Yuqiao said, gripping Chen Hao's arm tightly.

Chen Hao nodded, keeping silent, not wanting to disturb Yuqiao's train of thought. While Yuqiao was frowning in deep contemplation, he quietly admired the breathtakingly beautiful face before him.

"How can someone be so beautiful!" Chen Hao couldn't help but marvel inwardly, and as he did so, he couldn't help feeling elated, for this heavenly beauty in front of him was his girlfriend, who had just admitted her affection for him a few days earlier.

"Annoying! Someone is trying hard to think, and you're grinning smugly there!" Ye Yuqiao suddenly interrupted Chen Hao and pinched his cheek. "Don't be too smug, maybe in a couple of days I won't like you anymore!"

"I was wrong!" Chen Hao chuckled and embraced Ye Yuqiao again. "Let's think about it together, I'm so clever, I'll definitely help you come up with something."

"Okay!" Ye Yuqiao readily agreed, "Tell me, why do you think the Shadow Demon's mother is in this mirror?"

"Sucked into it!" Chen Hao said offhandedly, "Then she was sealed with a spell, and then, that's right!"

Chen Hao suddenly looked astonished

Following that, he covered Ye Yuqiao's cold cheeks with his palms, lifted her face slightly, and said excitedly, "Didn't Wang Chuan cast the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation a while back? Although the formation was disrupted by me at the critical moment, it must have also impacted some seals, just like with your secret crush back then!"

The secret crush that Chen Hao mentioned was referring to the zombie Qin Shang who had appeared a few days ago.

Hearing Chen Hao say this, Ye Yuqiao became indignant, pushing Chen Hao away and stepping back. She raised her finger at Chen Hao and angrily said, "You jerk, I didn't even settle the score with you for kissing your ex-girlfriend last night, and now you have the nerve to mock me!"

"Ah, Your Majesty the Queen, I was just joking!" Chen Hao pleaded with a sullen face. He took a step forward, first grabbing Ye Yuqiao's hand, which was pointing at him, moved his head close, gently bumped his forehead against hers, and said with a soft laugh, "I was wrong, okay? Don't be mad!"

Ye Yuqiao suddenly opened her mouth to bite Chen Hao's arm and snorted, "If you dare to spout nonsense again, I'll divorce you!"

"Divorce!" Chen Hao's gaze turned blank. After two seconds, he chuckled, his nose touching Yuqiao's, and he laughed, "Does this mean you admit that I'm already the king's man?"

Ye Yuqiao clenched her fist and punched Chen Hao's chest, saying nothing more.

After a brief silence, her face flushed with a provoked blush. Her hand climbed from Chen Hao's arm to his face, pinching his warm cheek and saying, "Naughty, alright, be serious now, continue with that matter."

"Mm!" Chen Hao nodded, "Where did we leave off?"

"You were talking about Wang Chuan casting the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation," Ye Yuqiao said with closed eyes, her voice shy as her face was still blushing. "However, legend has it that the Shadow Demon's mother was just an ordinary woman. Her spiritual power shouldn't be as profound as the red-dressed female ghost in the mirror."

"Didn't you say you felt the presence of the Nether King's Power?" Chen Hao explained, "Maybe the spiritual power in the red-dressed female ghost isn't hers but comes from the fetus inside her – the Yin Soul of the Shadow Demon!"

As he spoke, Chen Hao startled himself, realizing he had unintentionally stumbled upon the most crucial clue. Thereupon, he figured out a lot of things.

"Your Majesty the Queen, I am truly brilliant!" Chen Hao exclaimed delightedly, "Now give me a few kisses as a reward! After you kiss me, I'll keep telling you."

Ye Yuqiao's eyes widened, and she looked at Chen Hao with a dazed smile. Then she lifted her head and kissed him on both cheeks, and said tenderly, "Alright, continue!"

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