Looking at the bamboo flute, Chen Hao's heart violently trembled for a moment, feeling as if he had seen the flute before. He examined the weathered bamboo flute in Ye Yuqiao's hands and furrowed his brows in confusion, asking, "I've never learned to play the flute from a young age, how could this be my flute!"

"This is the flute from your past life!" Ye Yuqiao said sorrowfully. As she spoke, she pulled away from Chen Hao's grasp and took a step back, pausing before she continued, "Eighteen years ago, if I hadn't promised you to help you find your martial sister in this life, you would never have agreed to be reincarnated as the current Chen Hao!"

Hearing Ye Yuqiao say this, Chen Hao was astonished and exclaimed, "So there was such a matter! This means that you knew me from my past life and didn't just randomly choose someone to entrust the Nether King's Heart to in a moment of desperation."

At this moment, Chen Hao thought of a question that the sand demon incarnation of the Ancestor of the Nether King had asked him in the Demon-Sealing Scroll a few days earlier — Do you really think she would be the kind of person to casually entrust something so important to a stranger?

Now it seemed that the sand demon was right; Ye Yuqiao was not someone who made decisions lightly.

While Chen Hao was still pondering, Ye Yuqiao suddenly held out the flute to him, with a somewhat cold tone, "Before you reincarnated, you entrusted me to keep this flute safe for you. Now is the time to return it to its rightful owner."

Chen Hao did not take the flute but instead asked, "What kind of person was I in my past life?"

"You'll know once you take it!" Ye Yuqiao said, looking at Chen Hao with tears shimmering in her eyes. "I've sealed your past life's memories inside this flute. As long as you close your eyes and play it, you'll remember your past life and, also, your martial sister who you can't stop thinking about!"

After speaking, Ye Yuqiao thrust the bamboo flute into Chen Hao's left hand, then lowered her head, not wanting Chen Hao to see her tears.

Seeing Ye Yuqiao's heartache, Chen Hao's heart could not help but quiver. He hesitated, then slowly extended his right hand, caressing Ye Yuqiao's face and wiping her warm tears. Although he still did not know what exactly happened in his past life, he had understood one thing from the words Ye Yuqiao had spoken and her emotional reactions — he had deeply loved the woman who had just called him "martial brother."

Just as Chen Hao was about to say a few words of comfort, Ye Yuqiao suddenly lifted her head and moved forward to kiss Chen Hao.

Caught off guard as he was, Chen Hao quickly immersed himself in the kiss.

While kissing, Ye Yuqiao's sobbing voice echoed in Chen Hao's mind, saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I've been too headstrong! It's time for me to give you back to her!"

"Chen Hao, Yuqiao!"

At this moment, Tang Jing and Tang Chao walked out of the hospital.

Immediately, Ye Yuqiao ended the kiss, pushed Chen Hao away, and ran off.

Only then did Chen Hao realize that his face was wet with Ye Yuqiao's tears.

"Chen Hao, why did Yuqiao leave?" Tang Jing asked from behind Chen Hao in confusion.

"We had a quarrel!" Chen Hao turned back to look at Tang Jing and Tang Chao and lied, his eyes falling like a cloud of gloom. At this moment, he couldn't help but speculate whether Ye Yuqiao's refusal to admit her liking for him, her persistent denials, was because of a promise she had made eighteen years ago before his reincarnation?

It seemed that he would first need to recall his past life's memories to understand why Ye Yuqiao had repeatedly said she hoped he would not resent her, and let him fall in love with her. Chen Hao thought.

"Chen Hao, where did you get that flute from?" Tang Chao asked at this point, sensing a chilling murderous aura and Sword Qi emanating from the instrument as someone accustomed to martial training.

"Ah," Chen Hao showed panic, then stammered an explanation, "I found it! Just now, someone passed by us, and then, then there was a flute on the ground, yes, yes, that's what happened!"

"Someone?" Tang Chao frowned, "Are you talking about Man Qingting, the campus belle of our school?"

"Man Qingting?" Chen Hao thought of the woman who had called him "martial brother" not long ago, and now that he thought about it carefully, she indeed was a great beauty! However, she still fell short compared to Ye Yuqiao.

"Argh!" Tang Jing pushed Chen Hao's back hard, saying anxiously, "You jerk, your girlfriend has been driven away by you, and you still have the mood to discuss other beauties with my brother! Go chase Yuqiao now!"

"Exactly!" Tang Chao echoed, then pushed Chen Hao forcefully again. "Leave the rest to me and my sister; you go apologize to Yuqiao quickly!"

Twenty minutes later.

Chen Hao returned to Ye Yuqiao's home, and seeing that Ye Yuqiao wasn't there, he sat on the sofa and picked up the bamboo flute.

Having never learned to play the flute, he could only hold it based on his impression of watching others play, and this unfamiliar feeling made it awkward for him.

However, when the breath from his mouth flowed into the flute's holes and produced a faint sound, his hands suddenly took on a standard correct position on their own, and his fingers moved extremely skillfully between the holes.

A song of sorrow from a thousand years ago then began to play.

Chen Hao's eyes, unable to help themselves, closed tightly. Immediately, a bone-chilling cold swept through his body, and images began to emerge in his mind.

Before the images could become clear, Chen Hao first smelled a whiff of blood, followed by the mournful cries of crows and the roaring of wild beasts.

After a long moment, the images became clear. The first thing that caught his eye was a splash of fresh red blood and the corpses of a middle-aged man and woman. The sight of such a bloody scene startled Chen Hao.

Suddenly, a flood of memories surged into Chen Hao's mind.

After sorting through these memories, Chen Hao learned that in his past life he had been a ten-year-old boy named Ye Heng, and the middle-aged couple who had been pierced by arrows were his parents from that past life.

Ye Heng's father, Ye Changsheng, was the leader of the Yan Ge Gang. A few days ago, he had taken his wife to visit her father's house and unexpectedly encountered an ambush on the way back home. If it weren't for his parents using their bodies to shield him in their dying moments, Chen Hao's past life as Ye Heng would have already been shot to death by the flurry of arrows.

At that moment, the curtain of the carriage was drawn back, revealing a familiar face. Chen Hao immediately remembered that this was Ye Changsheng's subordinate, the head of the Azure Dragon Hall, Lu Kang.

"Are they all dead?" A voice drifted from outside the carriage.

Lu Kang looked at Ye Heng for a long time before turning around and loudly saying, "The family of three is all dead!"

"Haha!" Laughter then echoed throughout the hills and valleys.

Chen Hao was shocked as he realized that Ye Changsheng had been betrayed and ambushed by his own people.

After bowing slightly to Ye Heng three times, Lu Kang closed the carriage curtain and left.

"What a complex human nature, huh?" Chen Hao couldn't help but sigh, "Is he really a bad person?"

Suddenly, Chen Hao felt a surge of intense hatred and anger growing inside him, as the ten-year-old Ye Heng in his previous life had planted the seeds of vengeance in his heart.

To Chen Hao's surprise, seeing his parents dead before him, Ye Heng did not cry! He just sat there, stunned in his heart.

Night fell.

Ye Heng still sat motionless in the same place, his parents' corpses in front of him now turning blue, and the blood inside the carriage had coagulated.

"Ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling!" The sound of a horse's bells came from afar.

The sound of horseshoes was getting closer.

Not long after, the carriage curtain was lifted.

"Man Qingting!" Chen Hao recognized the person lifting the carriage curtain at once.

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