"Two years after my father brought my mother back, they got married in Liuyun City. Although my father never knew my mother's true origins, his feelings for her were never impure or reserved."
"I was born in the third year of their relationship, Yuanba was born in the fourth year, and in the seventh year... my mother's profound strength and memory suddenly recovered overnight."
"Then, she left, abandoning my father, me and Yuanba. She left very resolutely, completely severing her ties with my father, and did not take anything with her. She also asked my father and us to forget her forever and never look for her..."
Speaking of this, Yun Che could still sense Xia Qingyue’s sadness. He sighed softly and said, “Qingyue, she is not heartless or cruel, but she has to leave. Otherwise, once her aura is detected, it will bring great disaster to you.”
The woman he loved so much and who he announced to the world would soon be crowned as the Queen of God became another man's wife after losing her memory and had two children with him... No man could remain calm when faced with this result. The more he loved Yue Wu Gou, the crazier he would become. Moreover, he was the Moon God Emperor.
The consequence of being called by him would almost certainly be the killing of Xia Hongyi, Xia Qingyue, and Xia Yuanba.
So, she had to go and could never come back.
“I know.” Xia Qingyue said faintly: “Besides that, there is also the love… and guilt towards my foster father.”
Yun Che: “…”
"My mother said that she lived a peaceful and happy life with my father for seven years. My father loved her, and she really loved him too. During those years, she never thought about regaining her lost memories, and was even afraid of it... She was afraid that the awakened memories would destroy her happiness and peace. But... When all the memories were restored, everything turned upside down."
“…” Yun Che just listened quietly, feeling a heavy sense of suffocation.
The Moon God Emperor loved Yue Wu Gou, and for her sake he stopped taking concubines, built the God Queen Palace for her, named her “Yue Wu Gou”, and wanted to make her the Moon God Queen, announced it to the world for her, and completely broke off with the Star God Realm for her...
Xia Hongyi also deeply loved Yue Wu Gou. The seven years when Yue Wu Gou lost her power and memory were the seven years when she was the weakest and most helpless in her life. During this period, Xia Hongyi accompanied her. She married Xia Hongyi and gave birth to two children for him...
Yue Wu Gou was undoubtedly lucky, as she had two men who loved her deeply...but when her memories were revealed, this luck turned into heart-wrenching cruelty.
She had to make a choice.
Choosing Xia Hongyi would make him feel guilty towards Yue Wuya forever, and would bring great disaster to Xia Hongyi and his two children.
If she leaves Xia Hongyi, she will never see her husband and children again...
It is indeed an extremely cruel choice.
As for Yue Wuya, she knew that she was no longer qualified to choose again and was filled with only guilt and shame.
"Back then, after leaving us, my mother didn't actually return to the God Realm. Instead, she... found a quiet place and wanted to end her life. Because she felt that her existence would only bring disaster to our family, and she no longer had the face to see her adoptive father again."
Yun Che: “…”
She had clearly done nothing wrong, yet she became the biggest sinner… Yun Che sighed deeply in his heart.
“But, in the end, she gave up on committing suicide and returned to the Moon God Realm. This was because she wanted to take one last look at my adoptive father, or… it would be best if she could die at my adoptive father’s hands.”
"Even if she didn't commit suicide and her adoptive father didn't kill her, she actually didn't have much time left."
Yun Che was slightly surprised: “You mean, your mother…”
Xia Qingyue slightly closed her eyes, not wanting Yun Che to see the pain in her eyes: “She suffered a severe injury back then, and lost all her profound strength. Her vitality was depleting every year. During those seven years, she gave birth to me and Yuan Ba, which also took away almost all of her pure divine energy. She would suddenly recover her profound strength and memory in the end, which was actually a kind of... last moments of life.”
“…” Yun Che was stunned and speechless.
Xia Qingyue's mother had always been weak, and this was probably known to the entire Floating Cloud City. Back then, when Xia Hongyi mentioned her, he had also said that she was extremely weak, and even had difficulty walking when her condition was serious. She also suffered a difficult birth when giving birth to Xia Qingyue. Even Xia Qingyue was cold all over and had a weak breath when she was born. If Xiao Ying hadn't tried his best to save her, she might have died at birth.
This was also the reason why Xia Qingyue was betrothed to "Xiao Che" at birth.
Including the last moment, when Yue Wugou left, the reason Xia Hongyi announced to the public was that he died of frailty and illness... No one had ever doubted this.
“My mother originally returned to the Moon God Realm quietly, but for some reason she was discovered by others and fanned the flames, causing great damage to my adoptive father’s reputation. My mother thought that my adoptive father would resent and hate her even more, and perhaps even kill her himself, but…”
She gasped softly and said, "He told my mother that 'immaculate and boundless' was his lifelong vow. It was not because she had an immaculate divine body, nor because she was 'unclean'. Being able to come back again was already a great gift from God to him."
Yun Che: “…”
“That wasn’t just empty, hypocritical talk.” Xia Qingyue said softly, “After my mother returned to the Moon God Realm, everyone, including the people in the Moon God Realm, thought that she was imprisoned by her adoptive father, and that she lived in darkness every day under his wrath, and that she might even have been tortured to death… But in fact, over the years, she had her own little world, with many maids who accompanied and cared for her, and my adoptive father would visit her almost every day to keep her company, and every once in a while, he would use his own strength to extend her life, and the Moon God Realm’s top-level elixirs were also used by him generously on my mother.”
"If not for this, my mother would have long since passed away, and I would never have seen her again."
Yun Che was deeply shocked.
His impression of the Moon God Emperor also completely changed at this moment.
The "Yue Wu Gou" incident that year caused the Moon God Emperor to endure a great deal of humiliation. Even Yun Che, who had just arrived in the Eastern Divine Region, knew about it. It was even called the biggest scandal in the history of the Moon God Realm.
Even a man with a strong endurance would find it difficult to endure such humiliation, let alone the King of the Realm. He released all his anger and resentment on Yue Wu Gou, and in the eyes of everyone, it was completely justified... even though they knew it was not Yue Wu Gou's fault.
But, the Moon God Emperor... treated the returning Yue Wu Gou just as he did at the beginning.
Yun Che asked himself, if it were him, would he be able to do it...
"After my mother passed away, my father fell ill several times a year. He would cry quietly and sit in front of my mother's portrait for a whole day... So, I swore since I was a child that one day, I would find my mother, so that my father would no longer shed tears, and our family could be reunited... I was obsessed with the mysterious way for this goal."
“Finally, in the Moon God Realm, I found my mother, but I also had to face my foster father. I once rebuked him, disliked him, resented him, and even hated him. It was because of him that my parents had to separate, and our family could never be reunited again… But later, I slowly learned everything from my mother. I saw with my own eyes how well he cared for my mother, and I could no longer hate him.”
"I am even willing to acknowledge him as my 'adoptive father'."
The Moon God Emperor saved her life, saved Yue Wu Gou's life, and used his own dignity to allow Yue Wu Gou to truly spend the rest of her life in "Purity". How could she hate him? How could she hate him?
“Moon God Emperor… uh, does your foster father know about the Profound Sky Continent and Uncle Xia?” Yun Che asked tentatively.
“I don’t know.” Xia Qingyue said: “My mother refused to mention it, and my foster father only asked once and never asked again.”
They would never let the Moon God Emperor know about Xia Hongyi, and when she returned to the Profound Sky Continent in the future, she would never mention the Moon God Emperor to her father... Perhaps, letting Xia Hongyi live forever in the longing for Yue Wugou would be the least cruel outcome.
“Then is your mother… okay now?” Yun Che asked again.
“…” Xia Qingyue shook her head slightly and said nothing.
Yun Che felt a slight pain in his heart. The sudden recovery of his profound strength and memory back then was already a last gasp of life, but until now, it has been more than twenty years... If it weren’t for the Moon God Realm’s incomparably vast resources and the Moon God Emperor’s unreserved support, if it were any other place, perhaps Yue Wu Gou wouldn’t have been able to hold on until now.
But it seemed that Yue Wu Gou was completely exhausted, and even the Moon God Emperor was powerless to save the situation.
Yue Wuya, the Realm King of the Moon God Realm, one of the Four God Emperors of the Eastern Region, a man who stood at the pinnacle of the Primal Chaos, could be so infatuated, so tragic... even humbly in love with a woman.
The God Emperor is, after all, a man of flesh and blood and a heart.
"So, is this wedding... to fulfill your mother's last wish?"
“…In the end, the one who completed the wedding ceremony with my adoptive father was not me, but my mother…” Yun Che now finally began to understand and comprehend what Xia Qingyue said.
She gave Xia Hongyi seven years and a pair of children. At the end of her life, she wanted to leave it to Yue Wuya...
Unexpectedly, Xia Qingyue shook her head.
“Do you know why my foster father specifically asked me to show up before the wedding?” Xia Qingyue asked.
These words made Yun Che slightly stunned.
No matter in the divine world or the underworld, no matter what level of wedding ceremony, the woman will cover her face throughout the whole process, either with a bright red veil or a jade bead curtain, and the man will only take it off after they finally enter the bridal chamber.
At least in his three formal wedding ceremonies, except for the one with the Little Demon Queen when he "married into the wife's family", the other two were like this.
As for Xia Qingyue, she showed up in public before the wedding ceremony started.
At that time, the Moon God Emperor had let Xia Qingyue come out to meet everyone under the stimulation of the Star God Emperor’s words… Thinking about it now, it seemed like… it was a deliberate move that went with the flow.
“Did you do that on purpose?” Yun Che asked.
"Yes. It is to make everyone remember my aura, especially my glass aura. And that should have been my only appearance. After the wedding ceremony begins, I will use the method of 'moving stars and changing the moon' to temporarily transfer my aura to my mother, and then my mother and my adoptive father will complete the wedding ceremony."
The Moon God Emperor personally went to the Vanishing Moon Celestial Palace to remind Xia Qingyue to be “prepared”, which meant that she had to be ready to “move the stars and change the moon”.
Yun Che was filled with emotion. Even if the Moon God Emperor wished a thousand times, he could not publicly marry Yue Wu Gou again... because he was still the Realm King of the Moon God Realm.
He could only helplessly resort to this method of concealing the truth to fulfill Yue Wu Gou's last wish... perhaps, it was also his greatest wish.
At the same time, since Xia Qingyue possessed the “Glass Heart”, she could also wash away the humiliation that the Moon God Emperor had suffered in the past, and at the same time announce to the world that the Moon God Realm would be protected by the Heavenly Dao from now on.
The humiliation that the Moon God Emperor suffered back then was because of Yue Wu Gou. As Yue Wu Gou’s daughter, Xia Qingyue must have been extremely willing to do so.
But why did she shake her head just now? And why did she say before that this wedding was not only for the people of the world to see, but more importantly for the Moon God Realm to see?
“At the same time, my ‘Glass Heart’ can also help me wash away the humiliation my adoptive father suffered in the past, and also allow my mother to let go of the biggest knot in her heart.” Xia Qingyue gently told Yun Che what was in his heart, but then she said something that surprised Yun Che greatly: “But these are not all of this wedding.”
“Another important purpose is to allow me to… legitimately… succeed the Moon God Emperor.”
Yes, Yue Wu Gou’s complicated plot, and the complicated wedding ceremony in the Moon God Realm, all have this as their ultimate goal~* The strongest thigh of the pretty boy Yun Che is about to appear...
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