After the connection with the Nether King's Heart was severed, Ye Yuqiao could no longer know what was happening to Chen Hao.

She opened her eyes and pushed Zhao Chong away, trembling with her red, tearful eyes as she said, "Zhao Chong, we've been tricked, we fell for Tang Jing's scheme. There probably wasn't any secret between her and that Yuqiao, she just said that on purpose to lure me in. Then she summoned Xie Xiaofeng and set up an ambush at her home to catch us like fish in a barrel."

Zhao Chong's eyes turned dim, his face filled with even more shame. He looked to the side and sighed in a very helpless tone, "I didn't expect that we would both fall for her trap."

"Chen Hao already knows the truth, what should we do? He's going to come back soon, bringing someone to prove it," Ye Yuqiao cried tearfully, feeling very scared as she had no idea what to do.

She was afraid of what was about to happen, afraid of losing Chen Hao, and even more afraid that Chen Hao would look at her with eyes full of loathing.

Zhao Chong's eyebrows furrowed deeply, his eyes filled with pity and compassion for Ye Yuqiao. He sighed deeply and after pacing a few steps, said, "Perhaps we can deny that the owl demon was sent by us."

"But will Chen Hao still believe our words?" Ye Yuqiao said, "He has already frozen the Nether King's Heart, and I can no longer sense his thoughts."

..

..

A quarter of an hour later, a strong burst of Yang Energy suddenly appeared on the Huiyin Mountains.

Ye Yuqiao was shocked and said to Zhao Chong in a panic, "Chen Hao is back, I need to get back to the tent first."

After saying that, she turned into a gust of hot wind and left, and faintly, she could hear Zhao Chong's sigh of helplessness.

Back in the tent, she immediately climbed onto the bed and burrowed into the covers, pretending to be fast asleep.

After a while, Chen Hao's footsteps approached the tent.

Listening to those slow, heavy footsteps, Ye Yuqiao's heart pounded faster and faster, almost bursting out of her chest. The nervous her felt an urge to cry but whenever the sorrow rose to her throat, she bit her lower lip and forcibly swallowed it down.

"Whoosh" The sound of the harsh cold wind suddenly rose as Chen Hao pulled open the tent door,

and then the noise lessened as Chen Hao entered.

However, for a long time after that, the tent was terrifyingly quiet, making Ye Yuqiao feel suffocated.

Because the Nether King's Heart had been frozen, she lay on her side with her back to Chen Hao, unable to know Chen Hao's thoughts or see what he was doing.

The only thing she could do was to listen carefully with her ears for any movement in the tent.

However, how could she, in her anxious and unsettled state, calm her mind and listen carefully to the sounds around her?

After a long, long while, other than the sound of charcoal burning in the fire pan, there was still no excess noise in the tent.

What is Chen Hao doing? Ye Yuqiao really wanted to know. She wanted to pretend to turn over naturally in her sleep to see what Chen Hao was doing. However, the guilty her found her body to be extremely stiff; her whole body felt as if it had been filled with lead, not to mention turning over, even breathing was difficult.

She was close to crying out.

She just endured the painful torment.

Some time later, it seemed that daylight was already breaking outside the tent, but Chen Hao still made no move.

Finally, lying on the bed pretending to be asleep, Ye Yuqiao couldn't stand it anymore and sat up, turning her head to look at Chen Hao and asked with a trembling voice, "Why are you just standing there?"

"So you knew I was back all along, and you've been pretending to sleep," Chen Hao said, "I've been standing here because I couldn't think of how to start."

Ye Yuqiao was very annoyed and blamed herself silently for not keeping her cool, thinking that Chen Hao was standing there watching her as a way to torture her, not realizing it was for this reason.

It seemed that Chen Hao wasn't as angry as she had imagined.

"I..." Ye Yuqiao found herself at a loss for words, having originally intended to pretend she was completely unaware of the facts, but in the end, she inadvertently gave herself away at the critical moment.

She bowed her head, unable to stop herself from bursting into tears.

After watching Ye Yuqiao cry for a while, Chen Hao slowly walked over and sat down by the bed, asking in a cold tone, "I think you know a lot about what's going on. First tell me, who exactly are you?"

"Chen Hao, I..." Ye Yuqiao looked up at Chen Hao. She had intended to struggle, but seeing his face, cold and indifferent as ice at that moment, she fell into despair.

Consequently, she cried even harder.

As she wept, Chen Hao's icy face twitched slightly, and his eyes showed a trace of anger and impatience.

"Who are you, really?" Chen Hao asked again, his cold voice filled with oppression.

"I am Ye Yuqiao," she explained, "but I am a Nether Soul Body."

"A Nether Soul Body?" Chen Hao's brows furrowed.

Ye Yuqiao nodded, then lifted her head and attempted to reach out and touch Chen Hao's cheek.

Chen Hao leaned back, his face showing disgust.

"Chen Hao, please don't treat me like this," she pleaded.

Chen Hao's eyes bulged, and he said coldly, "As far as I'm aware, the Nether Souls of people from the Netherworld are attached to Yin Souls, and they cannot survive independently with just a Yang Spirit like people in the mortal world."

"The Netherworld Azure Bird combined its blood with my Nether Soul, and its blood contains an ancient power that allows me to live apart from the Yin Soul."

"So you are indeed that woman who transformed into the firebird," Chen Hao said with a frown. According to what he knew so far, the Nether Soul Body of Ye Yuqiao before him had once saved her life.

With that thought, a corner of his cold heart began to melt away the ice.

Seizing the moment of Chen Hao's distraction, Ye Yuqiao suddenly grasped Chen Hao's hand, threw herself into his arms, and sobbed, "Chen Hao, I am also your Yuqiao, please don't cast me aside."

Chen Hao intended to push the Nether Soul Body of Ye Yuqiao away but found himself hesitating.

In the end, he didn't push Ye Yuqiao away, but instead, he asked, "Where is the real Yuqiao?"

"I'm not fake!"

"You know what I mean!" Chen Hao snapped irritably.

"I have imprisoned her in a place, the same scene that you've been dreaming about lately."

Chen Hao's heart trembled, and he felt very annoyed with himself. It turned out that his intuition and heart had been hinting at him all along, yet he had failed to notice, letting the real Yuqiao suffer in the fire for so long.

Suddenly, he pushed the Ye Yuqiao in his arms away forcefully and stood up, saying, "Give her back to me now."

"No!" Ye Yuqiao shook her head, "Chen Hao, you are mine, and I won't give you to her. She has had you for over a year, and I've had less than a month."

"What do you think I am!" Chen Hao finally erupted in rage, "Do you see me as a toy to be fought over between you and her?"

"No!" Ye Yuqiao cried, shaking her head, "I see you as the most important person in my life, my love for you far exceeds hers! I can break any rule and tradition for you, I can give up anything for you, but she can't!"

"But I love her!"

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