My Girlfriend is the Nether King

Upon hearing Xie Da's alarmed shout, everyone immediately ran out of the house, including the four Onmyoji who had trapped Chen Hao with the Soul-binding Rope. Just like that, the entire hall was left with only Chen Hao.

Chen Hao broke the Soul-binding Rope that was entwined around his body and then rushed to the meeting hall.

As soon as he entered the meeting room, Chen Hao saw Ye Yuqiao bound to the cross. She was hanging her head low, her messy long hair covering her face. She was covered with scars, and her white school uniform was also splattered with blood, as if she had been severely tortured to extract a confession.

Seeing her like this, Chen Hao was heartbroken!

"Ye Yuqiao!" Chen Hao walked up to Ye Yuqiao and reached out with both hands to gently hold her icy cheeks.

Ye Yuqiao suddenly raised her eyes, shooting out a cold light. Upon seeing it was Chen Hao, tears immediately spilled from her eyes, wetting her haggard face and Chen Hao's hands. She cried, "Chen Hao, I'm sorry, I didn't take good care of those dozen or so children for you, I'm sorry!"

"It's not your fault!" Chen Hao shook his head bitterly. "It's all my fault. If it wasn't for my impulsive act of burning down the temple of the Seven Fairies, the children wouldn't have been taken to the Netherworld, and you wouldn't have suffered here."

After speaking, Chen Hao immediately untied the ropes that bound Ye Yuqiao and then carried her in his arms, rushing out of the Yin Yang Master Association. After leaving the gate of the association, seven Onmyoji outside the association immediately surrounded them.

"Haozi, this girl has a suspicious identity, you can't take her away!" Xie Da looked at Chen Hao with determination in his eyes.

"Get lost!" Chen Hao glanced coldly at Xie Da from the corner of his eye. Thinking of the injuries on Ye Yuqiao's body being the gift of this impatient man, his blood began to burn again, gradually boiling.

Xie Da helplessly shook his head, then turned to the four members of the spellcasting team beside him and nodded slightly. His intention was to signal those four to take action.

But before the spellcasting team could make a move, a bright purple flame shot out from Chen Hao's left eye, directly licking at those four like a dragon's tongue of fire. The four frantically dodged to the side.

With an angry grunt, Chen Hao shouted, "If you dare stop me again, don't blame me for being unkind!"

After Chen Hao said this, no one dared to stop him anymore. Although these people were all deeply powerful Onmyoji, they were only adept at dealing with monsters and demons; fighting and dealing with people were not their strong suit. Thus, they could only watch helplessly as Chen Hao took Ye Yuqiao away.

After leaving the Yin Yang Master Association, Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao got into a taxi.

Seeing the bloodstains on Ye Yuqiao's clothes, the taxi driver was somewhat afraid, but didn't dare to ask any questions.

Once in the car, Ye Yuqiao lay in Chen Hao's arms and said in a hushed voice, "I didn't expect you to master Nether Fire so quickly!"

Chen Hao's brow was furrowed; he said nothing more. He sighed silently in his heart, thinking that all of this had been forced out of him.

A quarter of an hour later, Chen Hao carried Ye Yuqiao into his home. He placed Ye Yuqiao on the couch and took out a first-aid kit to tend to her wounds.

Ye Yuqiao was not seriously harmed, but her right arm had been pierced and bled a lot due to Xie Da's use of a Yin Soul nail. The bloodstains on her body were all chicken blood. Since she didn't have a Yin Soul, Xie Da and the others thought of using a Peach Wood Sword dipped in chicken blood, using the chicken's utmost Yin Qi blood to strike her Yang Spirit, aiming to torment her Yang Spirit to force her to confess her true identity.

After bandaging the wound on Ye Yuqiao's right arm, Chen Hao's expression suddenly darkened, and he scrutinized Ye Yuqiao with a doubtful look.

After a long silence, he reached out his hand to hold Ye Yuqiao's hand, leaned in to kiss her pale lips, and then asked, "They say you don't have a Yin Soul—is that true?"

Ye Yuqiao looked at Chen Hao with an expressionless face, hesitated, then nodded in acknowledgement.

In that moment, Chen Hao's face involuntarily trembled. His grandfather had told him that each person has both a Yin Soul and a Yang Spirit; the Yin Soul generates Yin Qi while the Yang Spirit generates Yang Energy. After death, the Yang Spirit will disperse, and the Yin Soul will leave the flesh. If someone dies with unresolved grievances or obsessions, their Yin Soul will carry Yang Energy, which cannot be taken to the Netherworld.

Apart from humans, most animals in this world are the same, so some Yin Souls might be reborn as animals in the next life, and some animals might be reborn as humans. But there are also some beings that only have a Yang Spirit; these are known as demons. They have only one lifetime, so their lifespans are relatively long.

Could Ye Yuqiao be a demon, as in the legends? Chen Hao wondered.

"Do you suspect that I'm a demon from the legends?" Ye Yuqiao looked at Chen Hao and asked.

Chen Hao nodded frankly. Then, he lifted Ye Yuqiao's hand to his face, kissed the back of her hand, and said, "Ye Yuqiao, no matter what your true identity is, I won't mind. However, I hope you can be honest with me."

"Why don't you mind? Aren't you afraid that I could harm you?" Ye Yuqiao questioned, tearful eyes glistening.

Chen Hao smiled slightly and explained softly, "Because I can feel that you genuinely care for me. Besides my grandfather, you're the only one who has been kind to me!"

A tear, crystal clear, fell from Ye Yuqiao's eyes, running down her smooth, fair face, and dropped onto the couch. Watching the shining trail of the tear, Chen Hao couldn't help but extend his left hand to gently wipe it away; his right hand held Ye Yuqiao's hand even tighter.

What followed was a lengthy silence.

Although Ye Yuqiao maintained an expressionless face, through her enigmatic eyes, Chen Hao could see her deep concerns.

After a long while, Ye Yuqiao sat up, broke free from Chen Hao's right hand, and shook her head slightly, saying, "Actually, I'm not as good as you say. I treated you this way only because I wanted to use the power of the Nether Eyes you possess. There's no need for me to hide anything from you now."

Chen Hao looked at Ye Yuqiao with anticipation, his right hand moving forward unconsciously to hold her hand once again.

"In fact, my true identity is the Nether King!" Ye Yuqiao declared.

"What!" Chen Hao couldn't believe his ears and let out two snorts of laughter, finding it both hilarious and horrifying.

Ye Yuqiao's eyes widened, and her beautiful, handsome face suddenly exuded an inviolable majesty as she said in a low and stern voice, "I am the king of the Netherworld!"

Feeling the compelling chill in Ye Yuqiao's eyes, Chen Hao suddenly started to believe her words. He hesitated and then asked with a trembling voice, "Is everything you're saying true?"

Ye Yuqiao nodded solemnly.

Chen Hao's eyes lit up, and he was completely stunned for a moment. After being dazed for a while, he came back to his senses, looked at Ye Yuqiao, shaking his head repeatedly and muttering, "I don't believe it. The Nether King should be male. How can you be so attractive? Wait, are you male or female? Or are you a hermaphrodite?"

With that thought, Chen Hao immediately let go of her hand, leaning his body backward to distance himself from Ye Yuqiao.

"I am the fourth-generation Nether King. The previous three generations were male, but I am a female."

Hearing this, Chen Hao breathed a sigh of relief. He had held hands, hugged, kissed, and even slept with Ye Yuqiao. If she had said she was actually a male at this point, he would have gone mad. Then, he continued to look at Ye Yuqiao and asked, "If you really are the Nether King, why not stay in the Netherworld as your queen, why come to the mortal world to be my girlfriend?"

Next, Ye Yuqiao told Chen Hao:

Eighteen years ago, in the Netherworld. A mysterious person suddenly broke into the Netherworld's palace and rushed into Hell. After Ye Yuqiao, who was the Nether King at the time, learned of this, she sent people to stop him.

She originally thought it was just a common invasion, but not long after the mysterious person entered Hell, the gates of all eighteen Levels of Hell were blasted open by a powerful force, and all the evil spirits locked up inside rushed out.

At the end of the Eighteen Levels of Hell, there was a gate called the Gate of the Nether King. Locked within, aside from the Ghost King, were three Primordial Demons of the Underworld. These three demons were the earliest existing beings with souls in the Netherworld, as well as the earliest creatures of both the Yin and Yang worlds. The previous three generations of the Nether King spent tens of thousands of years and sacrificed their own Yin Souls to seal the demons within the Gate of the Nether King.

Worried that the Gate of the Nether King would be forced open, Ye Yuqiao hurried to the Eighteen Levels of Hell. Unfortunately, by the time she arrived, she saw the gate, which the previous kings had sealed with their lives, effortlessly kicked open by a mysterious ghost infant.

After the Gate of the Nether King was kicked open, the ghost infant laughed and wanted to leave. Ye Yuqiao wanted to kill the ghost infant, but none of her attacks worked on it, and she could only watch helplessly as it left.

At this moment, the Ghost King, along with his eight Great Law Kings, escaped from the Gate of the Nether King. Just as Ye Yuqiao was about to give chase, Hell suddenly shook violently, and she smelled the scent of the three Primordial Demons waking up!

In her desperation, Ye Yuqiao found Chen Hao's Yin Soul from his past life and placed her Nether King's Heart onto Chen Hao's left eye, then arranged for his past life to enter the Samsara Path and be reborn into the Chen Family of Onmyoji in Y City. She gave Chen Hao her Nether King's Power hoping that he would inherit it and eventually eliminate all the evil spirits that escaped from Hell, as well as the Ghost King who had fled from the Gate of the Nether King.

Afterwards, Ye Yuqiao released her Yin and Yang Spirits; her Yin Spirit became the sealing power of the Nether King that locked the Gate of the Nether King, while her Yang Spirit passed through the gateway to the mortal world.

A few days before arriving in the mortal world, Ye Yuqiao, worried that the Yang Energy in Chen Hao's body would clash with the Yin Qi Spiritual Power of the Nether Eye's Heart, and coincidentally with Chen Hao's grandfather trying to find a way to cure Chen Hao's Yin Yang Eyes by asking around, transformed herself into a Feng Shui master and came to Chen Hao's home. She sealed the power of the Nether King's Heart in Chen Hao's left eye with a seal.

It wasn't until half a month ago, on the day Chen Hao's life span ended, that the soul reaper disrupted the seal on Chen Hao's left eye, and the power of the Nether King's Heart awakened once again.

... ...

"So it was you who were the fortune-teller back then!" Chen Hao exclaimed, finally understanding why his grandfather couldn't summon Old Liu's soul not long ago. It seemed it had been arranged by Ye Yuqiao beforehand.

Ye Yuqiao nodded slightly. After admitting her identity as the Nether King, her expression and tone of speech became cold.

Chen Hao looked at the indifferent Ye Yuqiao, feeling dejected in his heart. He suddenly stood up and walked towards the door.

"Where are you going?" she asked.

"I want to go back and sleep, hoping all this is just a dream," Chen Hao said gloomily.

"Go ahead," Ye Yuqiao said with a gloomy face, looking somewhat angry. She could vaguely feel Chen Hao's aversion toward her.

After hesitating at the door, Chen Hao still opened the door and left. He needed some peace to digest the reality.