After nine lifetimes of reincarnation, the yandere villainous heroine descends.

"Hehehe... Hahaha!"

At the heart of the storm, a series of morbid giggles suddenly rang out, sharp and tinged with a chilling madness.

The next moment, a figure rushed out against the storm—Fifth Qinghan's lips curled into an exaggerated smile.

His exquisite face was distorted by madness, and his eyes were filled with a fanatical obsession that threatened to destroy everything, as if he had just stepped off the edge of insanity.

Despite his formidable strength, Fifth Qinghan had suffered numerous injuries under the combined onslaught of the three women, with blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.

If the three women hadn't been hesitant to act rashly, and hadn't been mindful of Shen Shuchou beside her, the full force of the three emperors' attack would have already brought her to the brink of despair.

She stared intently at the three men who were closing in, her eyes filled with even more madness. Suddenly, she reached out and grabbed Shen Shuchou by the throat!

Just as Pei Rou, Jiang Qianqiu, and Hu Baibai were about to press their advantage, they froze instantly upon seeing this, their expressions changing drastically.

"Fifth Qinghan! What do you want to do? Release your master!"

Fox Bai Bai shouted urgently, its nine tails swaying uneasily behind it.

"You bitch! Release the master right now!"

Jiang Qianqiu was surrounded by black lightning, but he dared not make a move for fear of harming the innocent.

"I want you dead!"

Pei Rou's hand, gripping Ting Chunyu's, bulged with veins, and her crimson killing intent surged again, yet she restrained herself from stepping forward.

Even Luo Shisan, who had been holding back, could no longer stand idly by at this sight. He flashed forward and quickly approached Fifth Qinghan, his eyes as cold as frost.

"Hehehe..."

Fifth Qinghan's gaze swept over the faces of the women, each with a different expression. The cold laugh that escaped his throat became increasingly grating, carrying a morbid sense of satisfaction from controlling the situation.

"Hehehe... Are you all scared?"

She glanced coldly at the group, her fingers unconsciously tightening their grip. Shen Shuchou's Adam's apple bobbed slightly.

Then, she turned to look at Shen Shuchou, who was being choked, and her originally cold tone suddenly softened with a gentle, spring-like tone, as if the frenzied woman from before was just an illusion: "Husband, are you afraid?"

Shen Shuchou stared directly into her eyes, where a near-destructive madness surged.

But deep within the madness lies a barely perceptible fear, like the futile struggle of a drowning person's fingertips.

For a moment, he was so dazed that he didn't even see the hideous woman in front of him.

I just remembered that little girl from a long time ago, who always hid in her room, only daring to put her little head on the windowsill and secretly peek out.

At that time, her eyes only showed timidity and a cautiousness towards the outside world.

Shen Shuchou's resistance to Fifth Qinghan stemmed mostly from her almost pathological madness.

But he overlooked the fact that beneath that mad exterior lay a cowardly heart.

Even though this heart has become a demonic, egocentric one, it still cannot suppress the deep-seated cowardice and unease.

In Fifth Qinghan's own view, he had never made a mistake in his actions.

She simply wanted the love in her heart, born of timidity, to belong entirely to her and to continue peacefully with her.

"You're still so timid."

Shen Shuchou's voice was calm and even, yet it was like a fine needle that precisely pierced the most vulnerable nerve of Fifth Qinghan.

Her face twitched almost imperceptibly, the loss of composure so quick it was like an illusion.

Then, she curled her lips into a smile, her tone deliberately teasing: "Husband, are you... begging for mercy, or are you afraid?"

Shen Shuchou gently shook his head, his gaze calmly falling on her face: "You're not afraid of me."

He paused, then continued with a hint of melancholy in his voice, "What I'm afraid of is you. You've never been able to escape your sister's shadow; you're trapped in the cowardice within your own heart."

At this moment, Shen Shuchou truly saw that he had never truly understood Wu Qinghan.

She still lived in the shadow of Fifth Shushuang, still bound by the cowardice in her heart.

He once took her hand and tried to help her overcome her timidity, but he failed to truly guide her to find her way, which ultimately led to this repression and her current madness.

Moreover, at that time, he was limited by the system, so there was only so much he could do.

Later, due to his resistance to her madness, he gradually drifted away from this understanding.

Only now, when he caught a glimpse of fear in the depths of her madness, did Shen Shuchou belatedly realize that all her extremes were nothing more than a struggle born of extreme cowardice.

Fifth Qinghan's pupils suddenly contracted. Shen Shuchou's words were like a thunderbolt, shattering her frenzied pretense and causing the fear buried deep within her to surge like a tidal wave.

Her expression shifted dramatically, first the madness faded, revealing extreme fear, which then twisted in an instant, giving rise to an even more morbid obsession.

"You're lying to me! You're trying to lie to me again!"

She shook her head violently, her nails digging deep into Shen Shuchou's neck.

"I'm not afraid! I'm not the one who's afraid... I don't believe you! You're the one who's afraid! You're trying to trick me into letting you go... No... I won't believe you anymore!"

"Hehehe... Husband, if I can't have you, no one else can!"

She suddenly burst into laughter, a laugh so sharp it sounded like shattering glass.

"Die with me! I want to see just how many people your heart can hold!"

Before the words were finished, a clear "ripping" sound resounded through the starry sky—the sound of flesh being torn apart.

Shen Shuchou felt a sharp pain in his chest. When he looked down, he saw that Fifth Qinghan's hand was like a sharp blade piercing into his chest.

This scene was so familiar that it made his heart skip a beat.

Immediately afterwards, a cold hand gripped my heart tightly, and excruciating pain instantly swept through my entire body.

"Gotcha... I gotcha..."

Fifth Qinghan murmured, her face splattered with warm blood droplets. The blood slid down her cheeks, making the fear and distortion in her eyes even more horrifying.

"Hehe...hehehe..."

Fifth Qinghan chuckled softly, his laughter sticky like unyielding phlegm. He clenched his hand tightly in Shen Shuchou's chest, squeezing out warm blood foam between his fingers.

"Look, your heart is beating in my hand... It's trembling! It's afraid of me!"

Fifth Qinghan licked the blood from the corner of her lips, her eyes gleaming with a mixture of greed and despair: "Husband, look how obedient it is... This way it will belong to me forever, no one can take it away... and you can't escape either..."

This scene unfolded in the blink of an eye, and the remaining women watched helplessly as blood splattered, feeling as if their souls were frozen solid at that moment.

"I'm going to kill you, you bitch!"

Pei Rou's furious roar almost tore the starry sky apart.

Seeing this, Fifth Qinghan's lips curled into a cold, dying smile, and he was about to crush the burning, beating heart in his palm—

"Sizzle!"

Enraged, Pei Rou unleashed her full power, unleashing a blood-red blade of light as fast as lightning, instantly severing the arm she had impaled on Shen Shuchou's chest at shoulder level! Blood gushed out like a fountain.

Almost simultaneously, Jiang Qianqiu's black lightning spear pierced through the air and fiercely penetrated Fifth Qinghan's body from behind. As the lightning exploded, her body trembled violently.

Severely injured, Fifth Qinghan was no longer able to restrain Shen Shuchou, whose body fell like a kite with a broken string, warm blood gushing from the hole in his chest.

Fox Bai Bai reacted swiftly, sending a massive fox tail sweeping across with a gust of demonic wind, attempting to catch him as he fell.

Luo Shisan, who was standing nearby, also rushed forward, his toes barely touching the ground, trying to catch Shen Shuchou first.

But just then, a loud "clatter" sound, like chains dragging on the ground, suddenly rang out.

Several jet-black chains suddenly appeared out of nowhere and struck, moving even faster than Fox Tail and Luo Shisan.

In an instant, it tightly bound Shen Shuchou's body, dragging him into a black shadow, and disappeared into the vast starry sky in the blink of an eye, amidst the shocked and angry gazes of the group.