"But still, he wanted to test her. "Struggle for this love? Even if I subject you to severe torture, are you willing?"
Xu Mohan’s expression changed abruptly, "Father!"
"She hasn’t spoken yet, why the rush? Gu Lili managed to endure it once, can’t she endure it?"
"What is severe torture?" Nan Yuesheng looked towards Xu Mohan.
"Enduring all eighteen layers of hell in turn; if you go, your soul would likely scatter." He couldn’t possibly let her go.
Nan Yuesheng’s face turned pale; she almost didn’t need to think to know the suffering that awaited.
"So, what do you say? If you’re willing, I’ll allow you to be together in the future."
"Father knows she is a human woman, why must you torment her so?" Xu Mohan spoke out, "If father is unwilling, then we simply won’t be together, there’s no need to make things so difficult for her." Thıs content belongs to novel⸺fire.net
Xu Mohan looked at her in disbelief, "What?!"
Nan Yuesheng reached out and took his hand, "I am willing to undergo severe torture for you, I am willing to do anything to be with you."
The Netherworld King was genuinely surprised as well, not expecting a mere human woman to have such resolution. One Gu Li was already enough, and now here came another.
"Fine, since you two are together now, I won’t stand in your way any longer, go."
Xu Mohan instantly breathed a sigh of relief, and the two smiled at each other.
"Thank the Netherworld King."
He held her hand, and Nan Yuesheng’s body stiffened as they left the place, hand in hand tightly clasped.
Back in Wangchuan Mountain, when she awoke, he said, "It’s truly wonderful, all thanks to you. You really are brave. If my father had really punished you, you’d have no time even to cry. After Gu Li endured severe torture last time, she was almost at death’s door, covered in blood. Fortunately, my father was just scaring you, he didn’t really punish you."
"Do you know what I thought just now?" Nan Yuesheng slightly curled her lips, "If I completely died, it’d be my fate sealed. If you hadn’t saved me, I would surely be dead by now, thus clearing up our mutual debts."
"Saving you was just a trivial effort for me, and now because of you, I am no longer forced to marry someone else, that’s a good thing. From now on, you’ll live here with me."
Nan Yuesheng got up and followed him inside, only to discover a hidden paradise.
He pressed a protruding stone, opening a stone gate, beyond which was an exit.
Reaching the exit, Nan Yuesheng gazed at the scenery in front of her, almost moved to tears by its beauty.
An open area with spring water, shade from trees, and flowers...
This place was like a heavenly realm.
She fell in love with it at first sight.
"Can I really live here from now on?"
"Mhm, I’ve permitted it," he added, "You are the only other person aside from me who will live here."
"Thank you..." She didn’t dare to call him by his name anymore, "Xu... Xu..."
"To avoid suspicion, just call me by my name, and from now on I’ll call you Sheng’er."
Her heart felt as if it was infused with a bright moon, "Okay."
"What?!" Long Yubei looked at Xu Mohan across from him, "You and Yue Sheng are together? Isn’t that too fast?!"
"What can I do, my Sheng’er is so charming."
"Yu Bei." Nan Yuesheng spoke up, "I’ve decided to move to Wangchuan Mountain with Ningyi and Mohan."
"You two..." Long Yubei shook his head, "are too crazy."