"Where is Yuqiao? Was everything I did before just a dream!"

Just as Chen Hao's heart began to harbor terrible suspicions, a familiar voice suddenly sounded in his ear, "Haozi, what will Grandpa do alone if you leave?"

That was Grandfather's voice.

Upon hearing this long-lost voice, Chen Hao first felt a warmth, then horror.

Because everything seemed to be developing in the direction he had feared.

He found it unacceptable; the hardships he and Ye Yuqiao had endured to finally be together was just a beautiful dream he had before dying.

Not until another voice sounded did it overturn Chen Hao's suspicions and ease his worries.

"Chen Hao, you can't leave. You promised me that we would become the most outstanding Onmyoji in the world together, that you would take me and Grandpa to travel the world, and that you said we would grow old together!"

This voice, filled with inconsolable grief, was Tang Jing's voice!

Before the car accident happened, he and Tang Jing were not familiar, so why would Tang Jing be so sad for him?

"What in the world is going on?" Chen Hao was utterly perplexed.

"Chen Hao, Chen Hao!" Suddenly, an urgent voice resonated in Chen Hao's mind.

Upon hearing this voice, Chen Hao was on the verge of tears. He knew this voice too well; it was the most melodious voice in the world to him, undoubtedly Ye Yuqiao's voice.

Being able to hear Ye Yuqiao meant that everything that happened before was real, Ye Yuqiao truly appeared in his world.

Suddenly, a blurry vision shot into a glaring white light, and Chen Hao closed his eyes.

When he opened them again, the familiar, beautiful face of Ye Yuqiao appeared before him.

Chen Hao's eyes widened, then he looked around. The room was filled with a red festivity atmosphere, and the red candles on the table were still burning, emitting a warm, cozy light.

"Yuqiao!" Chen Hao sat up abruptly, then opened his arms and embraced Ye Yuqiao.

"Did you have a nightmare?" Ye Yuqiao gently patted Chen Hao's back, softly consoling him. She could feel that Chen Hao was trembling at that moment.

"Yuqiao, I dreamt I went back to three years ago, to the day of that car accident." Chen Hao gasped for air as he spoke, his voice extremely uneven.

"But what happened in the dream was different from what actually happened! I dreamt I died, I heard Grandpa's voice, and I also heard Tang Jing's voice. She seemed quite familiar to me."

"Take a deep breath, don't panic!" Ye Yuqiao continued to gently console, "It was just a dream."

"It's not just a simple dream!" Chen Hao's tone was very certain, "That feeling was just too real, as if it really happened to me."

That said, Chen Hao closed his eyes, reconstructing that dream scenario in his mind. Ye Yuqiao, through her connection with the Nether King's Heart, saw that dream.

Afterwards, Chen Hao hugged Ye Yuqiao tightly, saying, "Yuqiao, see, I was right, wasn't I? This was no ordinary dream, it was as if I experienced it in another dimension altogether."

"Right!" Ye Yuqiao's eyes flashed with a strange light as she thought of something important.

"I remember that the shadowy figure in your mind once told me he was what you were supposed to become. And it was all because of me. I placed the Nether King's Heart above your left eye, changing your destiny forever. Had I not done that, . . ."

"Then I would have been a genius Onmyoji, famous at a young age, dying young and wise. And Tang Jing and I would have had a bond over three lifetimes, but in this life, we are destined yet divided. Just like in that dream, I died at the age of eighteen. Tang Jing was my girlfriend, so she would be very sad!" Chen Hao continued from where Ye Yuqiao left off.

At that moment, he remembered something: in the ancient city, when the man in black had possessed him, he had mentioned that he was also called Chen Hao.

"Could that be the shadowy figure's memory? Just like you guessed earlier, he is another Chen Hao from a different dimension," Ye Yuqiao said with an embarrassed smile, thinking her idea was absurd.

"I remember the shadowy figure told me before possessing me that if I wanted to know the truth, I should find the people of the City of Yin and Time."

"Weren't you visiting Hua Shan recently?"

Chen Hao gave a hum: "He told me then that Tai Shan and the City of Yin and Time were secretly working on a plan. The key to all of this is the ghost baby who traveled to the Netherworld with Tai Shan twenty years ago, kicking open the Gate of the Nether King!"

"It was precisely because of that ghost baby opening the Gate of the Nether King that I transferred the Nether King's Heart to you and sealed the gate with the Yin Soul," Yuqiao explained. "All the changes started from that event!"

"Yes, exactly!" Chen Hao nodded. "Tai Shan brought the ghost baby to the Netherworld, clearly aiming to have it reincarnated as a human. And the baby kicked open the Gate of the Nether King in order to create chaos between Hell and the Netherworld, allowing the ghost baby to slip into the Samsara Path unnoticed. That way, no one would know who it reincarnated as, right?"

"That ghost baby easily kicked open the Gate of the Nether King, the strength it possessed is unimaginable. I wanted to keep it, but none of my moves were effective against it!" Ye Yuqiao recalled as she spoke.

"If our guesses are right, that ghost baby shares the same birth date as I do!"

"That's an important clue. Maybe you should tell Hua Shan and ask him to help find the whereabouts of that ghost baby."

"Let's find Hua Shan later," said Chen Hao. "Right now, the most important thing is to take good care of you until our child is born. Then we can worry about other things."

Chen Hao didn't want to investigate the ghost baby at the moment because he was apprehensive about the abilities of the ghost baby and the people from the City of Yin and Time. He didn't want to bring danger to Ye Yuqiao or their child.

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A month later, Ye Yuqiao was more than five months pregnant.

Unlike most women, she had no uncomfortable symptoms but had a huge appetite, eating a lot of meat daily. Despite this, aside from the noticeable bulge in her abdomen, her body didn't change much.

During that month, Chen Hao was constantly in the Netherworld, meticulously taking care of Ye Yuqiao. To ease her mind during pregnancy, he even took over the affairs of the Netherworld for her.

His only wish was for their child to be born smoothly and safely.

However, an unexpected tsunami shattered his hopes.

The tsunami occurred in the mortal world, above the East Sea on the east side of the East Country.

When the tsunami struck, Chen Hao was in the room, softly telling a bedtime story to Ye Yuqiao in his arms.

Suddenly, with a "boom," a loud noise directly transferred from the mortal world to the Netherworld, causing the entire night sky of the Netherworld to shudder continuously.

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