"No!" Ye Rong suddenly took a step forward, her body straight, her eyes fixed on Old Master Shao.

Even Shao Yue'er was slightly taken aback by these words, and then she saw Old Master Shao slam his hand on the table with a loud bang:

"If you don't like it, then get out of the Shao family right now! Yue'er is a member of the Shao family. I only married her off to you because I love her! Otherwise, do you think you, with your status and position, are worthy of our Shao family's eldest daughter? You can leave now, but Yue'er is physically weak and needs the Shao family's special medicine to recuperate. She absolutely cannot leave the Shao family without permission!"

One sentence instantly softened Ye Rong's hardened heart, and her fists clenched tightly.

Yes, he's right. He had thought about taking Yue'er away from the Shao family forever, but Yue'er's body couldn't function without the Shao family's special medicine. He could only stay with Yue'er forever, trapped in this corner of the Shao family!

But if he leaves, what kind of world is it without Yue'er!

Ye Rong's clenched nails dug deep into her flesh, her eyes widened in fury, and she barely managed to reply in a low voice:

"Okay, I agree to hold the wedding at the Shao family's house, and I promise you that I will definitely stay by Yue'er's side."

Ye Rong already knew that Old Master Shao would not let the matter rest so easily, so she had already sent people to make preparations.

On the wedding day, the Shao family's gates were kept tightly shut, and no one from any walk of life in the capital knew about the wedding or attended it.

The Shao family compound was brightly decorated and filled with pleasant music. Ye Rong had already dispatched countless subordinates to secretly infiltrate the Shao family compound to prevent them from setting up any schemes.

But as Shao Yue'er drank the nuptial wine with him, the Yue'er in his eyes suddenly suffered severe abdominal pain, blood flowing from the corner of her mouth, and collapsed into his arms. At that moment, he felt as if the sky had fallen, and he collapsed, tightly holding Shao Yue'er in his arms:

"Yue'er? Yue'er, what happened to you?! Don't scare me!"

Shao Yue'er, nestled in his arms, frowned deeply, looking incredulously at the cold-faced old man, unable to utter a single word.

In that instant, Ye Rong felt as if all the blood in his body was surging, and the emotions of anger and collapse seemed to be crushing him.

Bang! Amidst the chaotic gunfire, Ye Rong was instantly hit by several bullets!

His bloodshot eyes glared angrily at Old Master Shao, only to see Old Master Shao holding a gun, smiling faintly as he said:

"I knew all along that you were ruthless and powerful. How could you not send people to my Shao family? That's why I replaced all the servants in the Shao family with my trusted men beforehand. I knew your people had infiltrated!"

"I've been secretly battling you for over a decade, and you've managed to escape my clutches countless times, so how could I possibly let your wedding day, the best day of my life, slip by? You will indeed have everything you put in your mouth checked on your wedding day, so I never intended to poison you; instead, I poisoned Yue'er's cup. What I wanted... was for you to collapse and go crazy!"

When a beast loses its mind, what ability or strategy can it possibly have?

Old Master Shao was waiting for the moment when Ye Rong would lose his mind; all he cared about was Shao Yue'er's life.

But he was different; he only cared about Ye Rong's life!

"Ahhh..." Ye Rong's throat erupted with a devastating scream, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes!

Old Master Shao predicted that the beast would become violent and arrogant after losing its mind, which would be its most vulnerable moment.

But little did he know that Ye Rong had already transformed into a demon from hell. After losing his mind, the repressed and sinister person became a mindless killer, seeking revenge and causing rivers of blood.

That night, the Shao family compound was filled with the sounds of killing and screams, turning the entire compound into a sea of ​​blood.

A subsequent fire, as if burning away all the hatred, obliterated all traces of it.

He originally wanted to live the happy and carefree life that Yue'er described, but in the end, he became the person he least wanted to be.

Once you take that step, there's no going back.

The painful memories returned, and Ye Rong looked at Rong Muhua in disbelief with bloodshot eyes: "No! That's not how it is!"

"Rong Muhua, where are Yue'er's funerary items? Tell me, where are Yue'er's things?!"

He clearly remembered that he had personally hidden Yue'er's funerary items here all those years ago.

This place is a top-secret forbidden area, both to the outside world and to the four major families. It would be the safest place for Yue'er's things to be kept here. But when he opened the place again after so many years, Yue'er's things were gone!

His Yue'er is gone, and these things have become his only obsession. For so many years, he has wanted to get them back!

But now, he can't find it; he can't find Yue'er's things at all!

Rong Muhua's voice turned completely cold: "Wasn't it you who took the Emperor-Slaying Alliance from me back then? Wasn't it you who personally placed Yue'er's funerary objects here? If I'm not mistaken, your occupation of the Heavenly Mystery Alliance wasn't actually for the so-called wealth. You just wanted to use the Emperor-Slaying Alliance's underground secret chamber to permanently preserve Yue'er's body."

The temperature here is extremely low, and it is equipped with special devices, making it even more difficult to be discovered by the outside world. It is simply the perfect place to preserve items.

However, this is only an ideal situation!

Where in this world can a corpse be preserved permanently so easily?

Based on the equipment installed here, ten years after Ye Rong brought Shao Yue'er in, Shao Yue'er's body should have begun to decompose!

With his beliefs completely shattered, Ye Rong frantically accelerated his pace of revenge against the four major families. Five years ago, when Shao Yue'er's corpse had completely decomposed, that was when Ye Rong went mad and was preparing to take the four blood jade rings.

Because he wanted Shao Yue'er to be laid to rest in peace, and because he wanted to take back Shao Yue'er's burial items so that he could be buried with her!

However, despite his meticulous planning, he failed to anticipate that the place where these funerary objects were stored was actually a hidden underground trap chamber.

When he entered this place, he was safe and sound.

But when he leaves again and closes the stone door, a great fire will erupt from the trap chamber, burning everything to ashes.

"This secret room was used to lure the enemy in, trap them here, and then use fire to force them to surrender." Rong Muhua's cold voice was devoid of any emotion. She looked at Ye Rong with a detached expression, her eyes filled with complex emotions.

“You seized the Heavenly Secrets Alliance from me, so you don’t actually know the full extent of its internal structure. When you left here, the funerary objects you stored here should have been completely burned. How could you possibly find them again?”

Ye Rong felt a loud boom in his head, as if his head had been struck by a huge muffled thunderbolt.

In that instant, lightning struck overhead!