"Forgive me, forgive me!" she murmured to herself, pressing her palms together and softly chanting, "Amitabha."

Then, with a thud, he kowtowed three times.

The forehead touches the ground, producing a clear and devout sound, as a sign of reverence and apology towards the sacred.

"May the Bodhisattva above forgive my son's unintentional mistake!"

Her voice trembled slightly, but it was full of sincerity.

Before he could finish speaking...

A sudden crash shattered the temple's tranquility, and the Buddha statue seemed to collapse slowly under the weight.

This scene made Ye Lanyin's heart jump into her throat again.

Upon seeing this, Qu Dapeng reacted quickly, stepping forward and steadily catching the Buddha statue that was about to fall to the ground.

He turned to look at Ye Lanyin and comforted her:

“Madam Lin, please get up quickly. This Buddha statue may be old and in disrepair, and its placement is slightly off. You don’t need to blame yourself too much.”

[Hey, the old man doesn't look old at all. He's practically brand new.]

Old man, are you afraid of my mother?

Lin Wanwan's inner thoughts shocked Ye Lanyin once again.

She was just an ordinary mortal, how could she frighten the Buddha statue?

She shook her head, dismissing her doubts, and assumed Lin Wanwan was just joking.

“Brother Qu, I visited this temple of the goddess when I was a child. I remember there was no Buddha statue here back then. How come there is one now?”

Qu Dapeng shook his head, "Mrs. Lin, I'm not really sure either."

"Actually, the Temple of the Goddess is indeed quite peculiar. This phenomenon also occurred once a hundred years ago, which I heard from my mother."

“At that time, a Buddha statue appeared out of nowhere next to the goddess. That Buddha statue was a male god.”

"At the time, the people thought that the Buddha statue was the disciple of the goddess, but a few years later the statue disappeared and the goddess stopped appearing. So the people stopped coming here."

Qu Dapeng looked at the deity and felt a pang of pity.

Hearing him say these things, Lin Wanwan felt a pang of pain in her heart for some reason.

She burst into tears.