Chapter 69: The Devil’s Cave

“You took over my house, you ate my food, and you’re leaving without even a thank you?” Lü Yang shot a glance at Yi Ya, who had stopped, and casually asked her.

“How do you want me to thank you?” Yi Ya tilted her head and looked at Lü Yang.

“Give me a hug.” Lü Yang smiled as he looked at Yi Ya. At that moment, he really had no bad thoughts about her; he just wanted to hold her.

Yi Ya looked at Lü Yang for a long time. Surprisingly, she finally nodded at him. “Okay…”

Lü Yang stood up and walked a few steps toward Yi Ya. He opened his arms and pulled her soft body into his embrace. Yi Ya did not reach out her arms but let her body go limp, allowing Lü Yang to hold her. Then she rested her chin on Lü Yang’s shoulder and closed her eyes.

Lü Yang held Yi Ya gently. His heart felt purer than ever before. His thoughts drifted back to the noisy, cheerful times he had spent with the two sisters—the warmth and happiness that soaked deep into his bones.

After experiencing the horrors and dangers of the Mysterious Domain, Lü Yang cherished all the happiness he could have even more. To protect this happiness, he would not hesitate to give his own life.

Somehow, Yi Ya fell asleep just like that.

Lü Yang carried Yi Ya into the bedroom and laid her on the big bed he once shared with Yi Yi. After covering her with a thin blanket, he sat by the bed and watched her for a while longer before finally getting up, leaving the bedroom, and closing the door.

…

At the same time, in the Li Family compound.

Inside a small Western-style building.

Zhang Min lay on the bed completely naked, with her legs spread wide.

Li Guoqing was also completely naked, standing beside the bed.

Looking at what was right in front of Zhang Min, Li Guoqing felt a sense of fear, as if he were facing a deep devil’s cave that was about to swallow everything he had.

At this moment, Li Guoqing looked very discouraged because he could not enter.

The harder he tried, the less he could get in.

“You can do it. You definitely can.” Zhang Min had almost run out of patience, but she still kept encouraging Li Guoqing with her words.

Li Guoqing clenched his teeth and moved closer again… But once more, just like Yu the Great controlling the floods, he passed by the entrance three times without entering.

Yu the Great passed by his home three times without entering, but he still managed to control the floods. Li Guoqing passed by the entrance three times without entering, but it caused Zhang Min’s flood to overflow uncontrollably, with no way to stop it.

“Ah…” Zhang Min let out a long sigh. They had been married for seven or eight years, but they only had one short year of good times. However, after that incident, Li Guoqing suddenly became unable to perform, making her life increasingly difficult afterward.

Zhang Min was born into a scholarly family. Her parents were both university professors. Their special education gave her an intelligence far beyond ordinary people from a young age. At thirteen, she was admitted to the university where her parents taught. By twenty, she had earned dual doctoral degrees in law and economics. At twenty-one, with her parents’ financial support, she started her own law firm.

It was also that year that she met Li Guoqing, a third-generation official. One was young, beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous; the other was handsome, wealthy, and came from a powerful family. The moment they met, sparks flew, and they soon entered into a happy marriage.

At that time, Zhang Min had no previous romantic experience. She took her first love very seriously and remained fiercely loyal. She vowed to love only Li Guoqing for the rest of her life, and she received the same promise from him.

Zhang Min married into the Li Family at twenty-two. A year later, like all young wives, she happily became pregnant. Through connections, they found out it was a healthy baby boy, which delighted the couple. However, during the fourth month of her pregnancy, she heard shocking news from her close friend Chu Xuan—news that hit her like a thunderbolt.

It was an unforgettable night. After careful planning, Zhang Min burst into a hotel room with some people and pulled a naked Li Guoqing off another equally naked woman. She even took out a pair of scissors she had prepared earlier, intending to cut off Li Guoqing’s thing, which was stained with another woman’s fluids, right then and there.

She didn’t actually cut it off, but Li Guoqing was scared out of his wits. He had always been timid by nature, and after that incident, he developed a strange problem—his thing simply wouldn’t rise anymore. At the time, Zhang Min actually thought it was for the best, as it would stop him from fooling around outside.

That incident dealt a tremendous blow to Zhang Min, almost destroying her, and it broke her heart completely. The gentle and virtuous woman she once was changed drastically after that. In her anger, she went to the hospital and terminated the pregnancy. Afterward, she poured all her attention into her law firm. To this day, she had become one of the four most famous lawyers in Guishe City and also served as the legal department director at Yida Group’s headquarters.

It was precisely because of the anger she held over the years, along with her continued surveillance of Li Guoqing and her battles of wits with various forces within the Li Family, that Zhang Min transformed from a smart and beautiful woman at the time of her marriage into a scheming, strong-willed, and combative woman. Of course, many powerful women grew up this way.

Over the years, due to the vast difference in intelligence, Li Guoqing was completely defeated by Zhang Min. Countless weaknesses were firmly gripped in Zhang Min’s hands, stripping him of his last shred of male dignity and making him utterly submissive under her control.

Time could dull everything. The pain Li Guoqing’s infidelity caused Zhang Min gradually faded as the years passed. With her huge professional success and as she approached thirty, the physical needs that had been suppressed by heartache and anger suddenly grew stronger and stronger.

Moreover, as she got older, Zhang Min didn’t dare delay having children any longer. So, starting two years ago, she urged Li Guoqing to seek medical help everywhere to treat his problem of being unable to enter.

She initially thought he was just frightened and shouldn’t have any physical issues. But she didn’t expect that psychological problems in this area would be even harder to treat than physical ones. Added to that, after so many years living under Zhang Min’s high-pressure intimidation, Li Guoqing’s psychological issues had long merged with his physical ones. Zhang Min’s dominance had unknowingly become Li Guoqing’s biggest nightmare; he simply couldn’t muster any courage in front of her.

Over two years, they had seen countless doctors with little progress. Some time ago, Zhang Min found another renowned doctor for Li Guoqing. She had held high hopes for this treatment, but Li Guoqing’s performance tonight shattered her last bit of hope.

She knew perfectly well how devastating her sigh would be to Li Guoqing at this moment, but she truly had no patience left for him. A woman with extremely high intelligence and great career success, a woman approaching the prime age of thirty, yet unable to enjoy the ultimate pleasure in life—it was driving her almost insane.

Life was still so long. If things were like this now, what would she do in the future?

“I…” Li Guoqing heard the disappointment in Zhang Min’s sigh. It made the little male dignity he had left vanish completely in that instant.

“What use are you anymore! Are you even a man? Just cut that thing off! Become a woman instead!” Zhang Min recalled the past events again, and anger welled up inside her. She no longer held back with her words.