My lady, don't be angry. I'm letting you touch my big tail.

Joey also realized that this was a maze.

She said softly, "Just follow her through this maze, after all, she'll eventually reach the place where the monster is behind us."

"Hmm~ I'll listen to my wife!"

The flower-dyed fox's big tail stretched out, and she hugged and stroked it, rubbing her little face against it.

It even couldn't resist licking the fur on its tail with its little tongue.

Then she asked, "Sweetie, are you very tired?"

"Not tired."

Hua Ran thought, "After I get off this sedan chair, I'll give my wife a loving kiss!"

Soon, after circling the small village five times, the sedan chair in front of them drifted towards the end of the woods.

Joey and his friends knew this road well because it was the way they came back.

Sure enough, the sedan chair floated down the cliff.

Joey reminded her, "Hold on tight."

Then I went down with the flow.

This time, however, the sedan chair did not enter the cave halfway up the mountain, but went directly to the bottom of the mountain.

The fog there was so thick that visibility was less than a meter; if you stretched out your hand, the fog was so thick that Qiao Yi couldn't even see her fingertips.

"System, locate the sedan chair."

"Okay, baby~"

Joey looked at the electronic screen in her consciousness space and followed the red dot forward. Suddenly, with a "thud," her forehead hit the transparent barrier, and she stopped in pain.

Hua Ran had already rushed out of the sedan chair.

"My lady, where did you bump into? Be careful!"

He opened his arms and pulled Qiao Yi into his embrace.

"Come here, let me blow on it for you."

Qiao Yi didn't feel disgusted by Hua Ran's excessive pity for her; on the contrary, she felt a sweet warmth in her heart.

She touched the barrier again and said, "This barrier can only be entered by people with pure Yin energy or spirits. Such sophisticated magic further proves that what's inside is not simple."

Hua Ran felt a dull pain in her abdomen.

He frowned, trying to suppress the feeling, thinking it would probably pass in a while; he couldn't let his wife know.

Because he was a spirit, he didn't know why he suddenly had abdominal pain.

Joey then tried to figure out how to get in.

The system couldn't help but suggest, "Hua Ran is a pure Yin spirit; he can go in by himself."

"No, absolutely not! What if something goes wrong?"

The system scoffed, "What could possibly happen? He's so strong. Don't forget you saw his true form with the Demon Mirror; he's enormous, comparable to a Titan."

Just as Joey was about to retort, she felt her sleeve being gently tugged.

When consciousness returned to reality, she saw Hua Ran clutching her abdomen and slowly squatting down.

"Hua Ran, what's wrong?"

"N-nothing... Ouch!"

Hua Ran tried to hold his breath, but a sudden abdominal cramp made him unable to hold back and he cried out.

Joey noticed something was wrong and crouched down to check on Hua Ran.

When I reached out and touched it, my hand was covered in sweat, cold sweat.

"Hua Ran, where does it hurt? Why are you sweating so much? Have you been enduring it since earlier?!"

Too much criticism, too many questions.

But there are only concerns about exports.

Joey pulled Hua Ran into her arms, looked around, and pressed his head against her shoulder.

"Bear with me."

Despite saying that, Joey immediately raised her finger and straightened the limp paper sedan chair, letting Hua Ran sit inside.

Hanazono actually felt nothing about her surroundings anymore.

He was in excruciating abdominal pain, his head resting against his wife's chest, already in a semi-conscious state.

But he still despises himself in his heart.

In this unfamiliar place, how can I allow myself to get into trouble? What if a monster comes out and attacks my wife, and she can't protect herself?

But Hua Ran could not withstand the pain in her abdomen and fell into a coma.

All he could see was darkness, and he felt lost in the darkness.

"Where is my wife... Where is my wife?"

Hua Ran just realized that he was looking for his wife!

"I remember fainting. Could it be that I was under some kind of spell?"

"Won't the wife be in danger? No, I have to get to her side!"

"Wife master!"

Hua Ran kept running forward.

There was only darkness ahead; nothing could be seen.

Suddenly, a white figure appeared beside me, also running.

He turned around and realized that the person was himself.

The man cried out, "My lady, my lady, don't go! There's a way, there must be a way! I won't let the heavenly punishment fall! You can't be reincarnated anymore, we won't have a fourth life!"

Hua Ran asked in confusion, "What fourth life?"

He chased after the person who looked exactly like him, watching the arc of the white veil that swept across the room, feeling only unease at the thought of not being able to grasp anything.

"Hey! Where are you going?"

"Hey! Who are you? Why do you look just like me?"

The blackness dissipated.

Hua Ran felt a beam of light and immediately raised his hand to shield his eyes. When the light dissipated, he saw himself in white standing in front of a small house, his reddened eyes carrying a relieved smile.

He said, "I can smell my wife's scent... my wife, are you going to give me a surprise?"

After saying that, he pushed open the door and entered.

His smile immediately froze on his face.

There were three corpses on the floor inside the house, with the wife lying in the middle.

Even though Hua Ran didn't understand anything, she knew that he was the mistress of the house.

He rushed over, wanting to embrace his wife.

The man in white got there first.

"Why...why did you leave in such a hurry...you didn't even tell me why! You promised me you would spend my birthday with me before we made any plans, was it all a lie?!"

The man in white kept touching his wife's forehead with his lips.

Hoping for a miracle.

I hope the wife will wake up.

He kept talking to himself.

"You said you would give me a birthday gift that would make me happy, and you said you wouldn't make me cry!"

"What are you doing now? Say something! Answer me!"

Hua Ran felt a pain in her heart, as if it were being cut by a knife.

It was as if all the emotions associated with the white-clad woman had passed through his mind and heart.

As the man shook his wife, a cloth bag rolled out of her arms.

The man in white, whose eyes were already filled with tears, trembled as he opened the cloth bag. Upon seeing a plain men's hairpin inside, he broke down in tears.

The note that fell to the ground contained only one line of small writing.

I long for my husband, that he may laugh joyfully year after year, and that his heart may never grow old.

The man in white ignored the note.

He simply held his wife tightly, repeatedly saying, "I don't want the birthday gift anymore! I don't want it... I just want you back, my wife, I want you back!"

When Hua Ran looked at it, she felt as if she were the one crying.

He reached up and wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes, and the scene in front of him changed.

What was presented to him next was another scene.

Hua Ran, dressed in white, walked to an abandoned underground palace. The surroundings were dim, but he didn't care. He lay barefoot on the stone slab, staring blankly upwards.

"My dear... I've hidden your body well, no one else can find it. I just don't know... if there really is another world..."