Chapter 324: Heaven’s Blessing
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“Shi Yun, if I kill them all, will we return to where we started?”
“Shi Yun, please, just give me one more chance, alright?”
“We have a son and a daughter, a loving marriage… Surely, we can live happily together…”
“My eldest son is a top scholar, my second son a general, my third son an aspiring scholar, and my daughter a princess. My first wife came from a scholarly family. I should have had the most blessed and fulfilling life…”
Lu Yuan Ze clutched his head with both hands, his face twisted in madness as he wailed, “Shi Yun, let’s go home, shall we?”
“Look, look! This is our wedding robe from back then. Do you remember? You embroidered it stitch by stitch!” Lu Yuan Ze gazed at her mournfully.
Rong Che stood in front of Madam Xu, his expression cold and dignified.
Shi Yun, her red bridal veil covering her head, stood silently behind Rong Che.
Her voice was clear, her tone unwavering. “Yes, I embroidered our wedding robe stitch by stitch. My parents cherished me dearly and never wished for me to endure the hardships of embroidery, so I was never taught needlework.”
“But you once said…”
“I don’t wish for you to exhaust yourself, but if I could wear a wedding robe made by your hands, I would be the happiest man in all of Northern Zhao.”
“Just because of those words, I worked day and night, my hands pricked and bleeding. That wedding robe is stained with more blood than I can count… Did you ever spare a single word of concern?”
“And yet…”
“During the day, you knelt beside me and bowed before the heavens as my rightful husband, but by nightfall, Madam Pei, seeking to humiliate me, called you away.”
“She wept, saying that although she could not marry you, she wished to wear a red bridal gown just once. And so, while wearing the robe I embroidered, you performed another wedding ceremony with her!”
“Lu Yuan Ze, you truly sicken me!” Shi Yun’s voice turned icy.
Bowing to the proper wife by day and drinking cross-cupped wine with a mistress by night—how ridiculous, how vile!
Lu Yuan Ze’s face twisted in panic. “Shi Yun, embroidering wedding garments is a tradition for every woman. I merely followed custom…”
“Madam Pei deceived me! She tricked me! I know I was wrong! Madam Pei is already dead, everything is over!”
Rong Che lifted his chin. “Who says women must be the only ones to embroider wedding garments?”
He had fought countless battles, severed heads with his own hands, yet he had never once held a needle.
Now, he spread his hands, revealing faint traces of needle pricks.
“Shi Yun’s bridal robe—I embroidered it!”
“Who decreed that only women should do such work?”
“It was simply that you refused to do it.” Rong Che looked at Lu Yuan Ze with undisguised disdain.
“The heavens sent the finest woman in the world to your side, to bear your children and respect your elders. Shi Yun’s virtues are known throughout the land. Yet, you alone failed to treasure her!”
“You are unworthy!”
“Shi Yun is my wife! You will not take her!” The mistake of losing her once had been enough for a lifetime of regret.
There would be no second chance for Lu Yuan Ze.
Tears streamed down Lu Yuan Ze’s face. “No… This isn’t right… None of this is right… Rong Che isn’t supposed to be here…”
His gaze fell upon Lu Chao Chao.
His hand suddenly shot out, pointing at her.
“No! No! Lu Chao Chao shouldn’t exist! She shouldn’t be here!”
“She wasn’t supposed to be born! She was fated to die at birth!”
“It’s all because of her! Everything is wrong because of her!”
“Who is she? Right, who is she? She must be a demon! A demon! She was born under the fate of an early death! She was always meant to die!” Lu Yuan Ze howled, his finger stabbing toward Chao Chao in a frenzy.
“Madman! Raving lunatic! Who would curse their own daughter to an early death?!”
“Speaking nonsense! What do you mean Lu Chao Chao isn’t here? She’s standing right in front of you! Are you blind?!” The gathered crowd shouted furiously, aghast that he would utter such a curse upon his own child.
“She’s not… not my daughter. My daughter was drowned at birth. She is not mine! She must be a demon! Burn her!” He shrieked, his memory in complete disarray, pointing at Chao Chao with crazed eyes.
“The once-glorious Marquis Zhongyong’s Manor… Reduced to this. Who would have thought that just three years ago, Marquis Lu still carried the demeanor of a refined scholar? Now, he has gone utterly mad, unable to recognize even his own daughter.” The court officials sighed.
Only Madam Xu’s palms were slick with sweat, and Lu Yan Shu and his brothers exchanged a glance, their breathing slightly heavier, their gazes cold as they looked at Lu Yuan Ze.
Because they alone knew the truth.
This was no nonsense.
No empty ravings.
It was fact.
The reality of their past life.
Bad news: Lu Yuan Ze had been reborn.
Good news: He had returned to a moment where nothing could be salvaged, and the sheer futility had driven him insane.
Clad in wedding robes, Lu Yuan Ze burst into crazed laughter and dashed out of the gates. “Heh… Northern Zhao belongs to me now…”
“Even the emperor is beneath me…”
As Lu Yuan Ze disappeared, sighs filled the air.
“He was given the best hand but played it to ruin. If not for his obsession with keeping a mistress, the Marquis Zhongyong’s Manor could have been glorious today.”
Lu Yan Shu secretly asked Chao Chao in a hushed tone, “Chao Chao, did your friend receive your wedding invitation? Are they here for the feast?”
Lu Chao Chao scrunched her small face. Her wedding invitation had been stolen!!
She had hidden it under her pillow, but it had vanished without a trace.
She had questioned all the maids, and no one had entered her room!
“Not coming, not coming! They’re a big dum-dum! Why would they come?! Hate them, hate them the most!” Lu Chao Chao bared her tiny teeth in a milk-fierce scowl.
Then suddenly, she sniffed the air lightly.
Huh? A scent of heavenly law?
The aura of the Heavenly Dao!
A Southern Kingdom envoy stood in the courtyard. “When does the banquet begin?”
Then, his expression froze.
An overwhelming pressure engulfed the surroundings, sending chills down his spine.
Ming Lang trembled violently, sweat pouring down his face.
Nan Mu Bai’s teeth clattered, making a chattering sound.
“What… is this?” Nan Mu Bai’s voice shook.
“Heavens! Look at the sky!” a guest exclaimed in joy.
The once clear, cloudless sky was suddenly bathed in radiant hues.
A mighty dragon’s roar echoed across the heavens, followed by the ethereal cry of a phoenix.
A golden dragon soared, its form twisting through the heavens, and behind it, a seven-colored phoenix trailed its magnificent tail, singing in harmony.
“Dragon and phoenix in harmony—an auspicious omen!”
“This is a divine blessing! The heavens themselves are celebrating this union!”
Countless translucent lotus petals rained from the sky, melting into the bodies of those who touched them.
Flowers bloomed upon the earth where the petals landed.
Birds flocked in from all directions, chirping joyfully overhead, as if offering their congratulations.
Xiangliu trembled at the courtyard gates.
The aura of the Heavenly Dao!
Nan Mu Bai stared blankly at the people of Northern Zhao.
“Ignorance truly is bliss… This is the power of the Heavenly Dao!”
“Even gods tremble before it. Yet they celebrate…”
“Do they truly believe the Heavenly Dao has come to bless them?”
“What a ridiculous thought!”
I’ve been wondering since before, what do the Phoenix and dragon and whatnot do once they’re done flying around auspiciously? Go somewhere else? Disappear?
Its a chinese novel, so most probably anything you can imagine. For me, id like to imagine that once they are gone out of your sight, they disappear, leaving the growth of vegetation and whatnot.