My Substitute CEO Bride (Nash Calicraft) novel Chapter 1611

Johnathan had bought high-quality coffins for Lydia's parents and organized them for a grand funeral. Lydia was deeply grateful and insisted on repaying her benefactor. She even took off her clothes and climbed onto Johnathan's bed, but he refused Lydia's repayment.

During that time, Lydia was melancholic and felt like her life belonged to Johnathan.

Helpless, Jonathan allowed her to become his apprentice and taught her the ways of medicine. Gradually, Lydia recovered from the pain of losing her parents and regained her innocent and carefree personality.

She spent her days accompanying Johnathan to gather herbs in the mountains and visit households to treat the sick. Those were the happiest times of Lydia's life.

However, the good times did not last. Two years later, while accompanying Johnathan to treat the county magistrate, a major incident occurred in the village. The villagers unearthed a bronze coffin from a well, from which a thousand-year-old zombie emerged.

The village was plunged into chaos, with rivers of blood running through as panic gripped every inch.

When they returned to the village, there were no survivors left. Lydia cried uncontrollably while Johnathan was filled with indescribable pain. As Lydia recalled the scene from years ago, tears welled up in her eyes.

Nash frowned. "So, my master didn't have any cultivation at that time?"

Lydia smiled bitterly. "I only found out later that he was tempering his state of mind to break through the Tribulation Realm. He wanted to experience the ups and downs of mortal life—the joys and sorrows, the seven emotions and six desires—to enter the Tribulation Realm!"

"What happened after that? Did he abandon his previous efforts just to eliminate the zombies?" Gwendolyn asked, the plot unfurling in her mind.

Lydia shook her head. "We buried all the villagers, and then he took me to a town to open a medicine shop."

Three years passed in the blink of an eye. Lydia turned 21, growing into a graceful and elegant woman. She became the most beautiful woman in the town. It was said that beauty often attracted trouble, and being too beautiful would naturally draw the envy of others.