The Ice Empress Seized the Future

Outside, Chen Ling stood quietly, patiently waiting for the Illusion Realm to end.

Before long, the restless aura around the Ice Empress gradually calmed. Her cultivation settled at the state it had been in before the four-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation arrived, exactly as Chen Ling had expected.

Just like last time, the experiences within the Illusion Realm surfaced in his mind one by one, even as an immersive first-person experience.

A stunned look appeared on his face, and he could barely keep a straight face. After watching it all, he no longer concealed himself and slowly emerged from the void.

Though it differed from what he had expected, the result seemed even better. The odds of success were also far better than trying to persuade her himself.

Heh heh heh, Ice Empress, you wouldn't want anything to happen to the Snow Empress, would you?

Upon the Jade Marrow Bed, the Ice Empress sat silently. She remained dazed and vacant, unable to escape the shadow of the Illusion Realm for a long while, her eyes filled with deathly stillness and sorrow.

It was the expression that only appeared after being cuckolded—utterly despairing.

For ten years, she had lived like a gloomy little rat.

For a full ten years, she had curled up in a corner and silently watched the Snow Empress spend every day and night with the man named Chen Ling.

Whenever she wanted to reveal herself and approach them, an invisible force would forcibly suppress her. Like a powerless wife, she could only watch helplessly, unable to do anything.

She watched the two marry and have children, spending day after day crouched in the shadows listening outside their walls. That life lasted for a full ten years.

Even after the Illusion Realm ended, the Ice Empress's mind remained trapped in