Shen Youling's imagination ran wild.
She tiptoed to Lin Tang's bedroom door. The door was not locked; it was not even fully closed. Shen Youling leaned in, about to peek inside.
"What are you trying to see?"
Lin Tang's voice suddenly sounded from behind her.
"Ah!" Shen Youling gasped and quickly spun around.
This guy! Just a mont ago, I sensed his aura on the bed. How did he suddenly get to the living room? Can his martial arts even let him pass through walls?!
"I... I wasn't trying to see anything. I just ca back to look around. What, am I not welco?"
"It's not a question of being welco. You're lurking around in the middle of the night—that's what's suspicious!"
"Who's lurking? I'm your wife. Isn't it perfectly natural for to co back to my own ho?"
"Oh—so you do rember you're my wife!"
"Stop being sarcastic!"
They spoke as they walked toward the sofa. However, once they sat down, they fell into an inexplicable silence, unsure of what to say.
And so, they sat there rigidly, all the way until dawn.
During that ti, Shen Youling could not help but reminisce about everything that had happened since she first t Lin Tang. There had been crises and fear, conflicts and anger, misunderstandings and sha, joy and sorrow...
As the first rays of the morning sun shone through the window and landed on their faces, Shen Youling spoke softly, "Lin Tang, could you propose to ? Just once."
"Hm? What did you say? I didn't quite catch that," Lin Tang replied, jolting awake from a doze and wiping the corner of his mouth.
"...If you didn't hear , then forget it. I'm leaving, hmph!" Shen Youling's expression turned cold, and she stood up to leave.
SNAP!
Lin Tang's hand shot out and clasped her wrist.
"What now?" she asked irritably, turning back to him.
She saw Lin Tang looking at her up close, his gaze tender and a half-smile on his lips.
Shen Youling: "..."
An inexplicable nervousness fluttered inside her, and a blush crept up her face.
"Youling!" Lin Tang held her hand, speaking earnestly. "I hope you will marry..."
However, he had not even finished his sentence.
Suddenly, the entire ground—the buildings, everything—began to tremble, alarming the whole of Jiangbei.
"Ah?"
"Is it an earthquake?"
"Run!"
Whether they were already awake or still in bed, everyone instantly scrambled to get outside.
However, it was not just Jiangbei that was trembling. The whole of Central Earth, indeed the entire planet, began to shudder as if struck by so great shock.
Fortunately, the tremors were not severe and caused no casualties. But even such a slight, planet-wide tremor triggered unknown changes.
The sky above changed color. Across the world, invisible energy fields fell into chaos as countless spatial rifts constantly ford and shattered.
Lin Tang stood holding Shen Youling, while Lee Encai guided Shen Qiushi as they and many others gathered in the public square.
He gazed into the distance, his vision piercing across the vast expanse. He could vaguely see another massive dinsion slowly rging, overlapping with the mortal world.
That space was filled with the eerie, ghostly aura of the Nine Netherworld. Countless monsters and skeletons assembled into massive armies, roaring fiercely and poised to strike. An overpowering miasma of malice, murderous intent, greed, and hunger emanated from them.
"What's happening?" Shen Qiushi exclaid in a panic.
Shen Youling and Lee Encai exchanged a look. They had clearly expected this.
Then they heard Lin Tang slowly say, "The Underworld has begun its invasion."
"What?"
"It's starting already?"
"What do we do? What do we do?"
Hearing this, everyone in the crowd panicked.
A bitter smile touched Shen Youling's lips. The Underworld's invasion... It couldn't have co at a worse ti. Not a mont sooner, not a mont later. It had to be now. Is this fate playing a cruel joke?
Lin Tang's gaze swept over the crowd around him, resting on Shen Qiushi, Wu Xinyu, and other friends and acquaintances before finally landing on Shen Youling.
"I'm sorry, I can't propose to you now, because I've decided to go to the battlefield. After everything is over, I'll co back to marry you... Will you wait for ?"
"I will. Of course I will!" Shen Youling nodded vigorously.
Logically, she should have been shocked to hear Lin Tang declare he was going to the battlefield to fight the Underworld. But now that the mont was here, she found it strange that his decision felt so... natural. It was as if this was his mission... his destiny. There was a ti she had despised him for relying on his martial arts to solve every problem with brute force. But now, her perspective had completely changed.
As for herself? She was only an interdiate-stage Qi Practitioner, strong enough to handle a few ordinary people. Fighting monsters from the Underworld? That would be suicide. She had no intention of going to the front lines. She would continue to lay low, cultivate quietly, and strive to grow stronger. Of course, if the front lines were breached and the monsters reached her, she would have no choice. She would have to fight to the death and take one or two down with her!
"Good son-in-law, weren't your martial skills crippled? Why are you..." Shen Qiushi said frantically, trying to stop him.
Lin Tang smiled. "I'm sorry, Grandpa. I lied to you. My martial skills were never gone."
Shen Qiushi: "..."
Before he could say more, Lin Tang and Shen Youling exchanged a look that seed to span a thousand years. The next mont, he took Lee Encai's hand.
WHOOSH!
They soared into the sky.
"Ah!"
"That..."
"Isn't that Lin Tang, the most famous kept man in our neighborhood?"
"And that's Lee Encai! The one with a figure better than a model's. We've seen her buying groceries and cooking a lot lately..."
"How can they fly?!"
"You an they were powerful experts all along?!"
"Real hidden masters have been living among us this whole ti?!"
Countless people gasped in amazent, watching their figures ascend into the clouds.
Shen Youling also stared blankly as they drifted further and further away, tears streaming from the corners of her eyes.
She whispered, "Lin Tang... my husband... you have to co back safe and sound..."
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