Gu Yuena's Silent Accusation! The Corrupted Gu Yue

The door was pushed open.

"My lord!" The moment Tang Yuehua entered, she dropped to her knees with a thud, her voice filled with fear.

"Yuehua deserves death! I did not know this child belonged to you! Had you ordered it earlier, I would have offered her with both hands and shown no neglect!"

She raised a Crystal Card and several receipts above her head. "This is the proceeds from the nine Soul Enlightenment Pills, totaling 34.2 million Gold Soul Coins."

"Yuehua took it upon herself to compensate for the pill this child tested as well, priced at the highest rate of 3.8 Million."

"This child's auction price was one million, and Yuehua dares to waive it! The total is 38 million, all here. Please accept it, my lord!"

Tang Yuehua spoke with humble respect, attempting to quell his anger with a massive sum of money and her sincerity.

Su Ling was left dumbfounded by her smooth, practiced display. Just as he was about to speak, a petite figure crashed into his arms.

At some point, Gu Yuena had broken free from the maidservants and stumbled toward him, her disheveled silver hair plastered against her tear-streaked little face.

"Wuu—!"

A broken, incomparably hoarse cry of grief was forced from her throat.

The young girl clung to him with all her strength, like a drowning person grasping at their last piece of driftwood.

Her little face buried deeply in the hollow of his neck, she trembled violently in silence as scalding tears instantly soaked his collar.

The boundless grievance and terror of being abandoned, abused, and poisoned mute erupted completely at this moment.

She wanted to tell him, to question him, to act spoiled—but all she could make were "Hah... hah..." sounds, like an old broken bellows, heartrending and desperate.

The impact made Su Ling grunt, and a thin stream of blood spilled from the corner of his lips.

He struggled to open his eyes, his Mental Power sweeping across the trembling body in his arms.

When he "saw" her vocal cords, completely ruined by deadly poison, an icy killing intent instantly spread through the room!

Tang Yuehua felt a chill shoot from the soles of her feet straight to the top of her head. It was as though the Grim Reaper had seized her throat; her breathing stopped, her face turned deathly pale, and she shook like a leaf.

Su Ling's Mental Power had never left Gu Yuena, so he had naturally witnessed Tang Yuehua's evil deeds!

It was just that even if he wanted to kill her now, he lacked the strength to do so.

After storing the money in his Soul Tool, he waved a hand, signaling for her to get out.

But the look in his eyes was already that of someone looking at a dead person.

As though granted a pardon, Tang Yuehua scrambled out of the Private Room. Her back was already drenched in cold sweat.

The moment the door closed, her legs gave out, and she collapsed to the floor, gasping for breath.

For that instant, she had seemed to see herself lying in a pool of blood.

Qian Renxue looked at the two tightly embracing figures, at Gu Yuena's dependent and attached manner, at the anger in Su Ling's eyes over Gu Yuena's injuries—anger he had never shown for her—and... a trace of heartache?

She felt like a complete outsider.

At that moment, she truly wanted to disregard everything and cut off Gu Yuena's head!

But she could not.

She was afraid... afraid that the Young Man's final breath would fade away with her.

Gu Yuena buried her little face against his icy neck, her frail body trembling violently as she sobbed soundlessly.

Through hoarse, choked breaths, she silently formed the words with her lips: "Hus... band... hurts..."

Then she lowered her head. Like a little beast seeking comfort, she extended her soft tongue and gently, clumsily licked away the blood at the corner of his lips.

The gesture was humble and utterly without reservation.

Feeling the cool, trembling touch against his lips and seeing the dense, inexpressible grievance and attachment in the young girl's eyes, Su Ling felt as though an invisible hand had viciously clenched his heart, the pain suffocating him.

He laboriously raised a hand and placed it atop her soft hair, his movements gentler than ever before.

Gu Yuena's body stiffened. Then she rubbed harder against his palm, and immense surprise and hope burst from her Purple Eyes!

Yet Su Ling's next words utterly extinguished the hope that had just flared to life.

His voice was hoarse and weak, yet carried an unquestionable resolve:

"You... should go back... The human world... has no place for you to live..."

Enduring the excruciating pain and the sensation of his soul being torn apart, he tried to forcibly activate the remaining Space Power of the Destruction God Armor and send her back to the Star Dou Great Forest!

At the same time, he stuffed a pill into her mouth with his other hand.

"This... Soul Enlightenment Pill... will heal... your throat..."

This was the only compensation he could offer.

The color instantly drained from Gu Yuena's face!

The surprise in her eyes froze, shattered, and turned into an even more piercing despair than before!

She desperately clutched the front of Su Ling's clothes, wildly shaking her head in silence as tears poured forth like floodwaters bursting through a dam.

"No! No! I don't want to go back! Please! Don't abandon me!"

She cried out soundlessly, her lips opening and closing violently.

"I have nothing left! My Main Body abandoned me! I can never return to the world of Soul Beasts!"

"I only have you, Shengyan! Husband! Please, don't abandon me again!"

"I'll be good! I'll listen to everything you say! I don't hate you anymore! I really don't!"

"Please... let me stay by your side... even if... I can only look at you..."

Her gaze was humble to the dust, like an abandoned young beast begging for one last shred of pity.

All her pride, all her hatred, were insignificant before the terror of being abandoned once more.

She clung tightly to him, as though she wanted to meld into his flesh and blood and never part from him again.

Su Ling looked at her silent, heart-wrenching plea and sighed inwardly.

How could he not want to keep her?

But he couldn't!

Gu Yue's Main Body could sense her and descend at any moment!

In his current state, even protecting himself was difficult. How could he keep her safe?

Keeping her would only bring a catastrophic disaster upon his mother and the Su Family!

It would also provoke Gu Yue's Main Body into completely losing control!

He closed his eyes, hardening his heart as the silver light at his fingertips intensified.

At the side, Qian Renxue watched Gu Yuena's humble pleading, jealousy and disgust churning within her.

But when she saw that Su Ling remained unmoved and was even about to send her away, a secret thrill of delight rose in her heart.

It was good that she was leaving... once she left... the young man would be hers again...

Deep within the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest.

The Silver Dragon King, Gu Yue, coiled within dense Life Energy, and her enormous dragon body suddenly shuddered!

Her crystal-clear, beautiful eyes flew open, cold and imposing, devoid of the slightest emotion.

Through the connection with the Split Soul, everything that had happened in the Private Room was projected clearly into the Soul Depths like an image!

She "saw" the Split Soul's dependence as she threw herself into that man's arms!

She "saw" the humble devotion in the Split Soul's silent call of "Husband"!

She "saw" the Split Soul tenderly licking the blood from the corner of his lips, heartbroken for him!

And even more, she "saw" that man—the man who had personally pierced her heart on their wedding night and bestowed upon her an eternally painful death.

Now, with bloodstained hands, he was gently stroking the top of the Split Soul's head!

In his eyes... there was actually... the guilt she had never received... and... a trace of tenderness she did not dare examine too closely?!

"BOOM—!!!"

The resentment, jealousy, unwillingness, and grievance that had built up over countless thousands of years erupted at that moment like a volcano suppressed to its limit!

Why?!

Gu Yue's massive dragon body trembled violently, her violet slit pupils instantly filling with crimson bloodshot veins!

Why were you so gentle to that useless Split Soul?!

She was nothing but the burden I abandoned!

Trash that carried all my weakness and stains!

Why?! Why did she get to have you look at her like that?!

Why did she get the tenderness you refused to give me even in death?!