bookcurios Chapter 390: Lord of the Moon
Chapter 390: Lord of the Moon
It was a woman wearing a silver-white dress and her long hair was like a waterfall, fluttering gently in the wind.
When I saw her beautiful face clearly, which was cold but with a hint of indescribable gentleness, I couldn't help but admire her.
She was standing quietly in the star-like brilliance, dancing lightly in a plain dress, like a lily blooming in the moonlight, fresh and unworldly, untainted by dust.
At this moment, she was staring at Luo Shu, with a hint of surprise and curiosity in her eyes.
"Who are you? Why are you here?"
The woman's voice was clear and pleasant, like the gurgling of a mountain spring, or like the sound of nature, penetrating the barriers of the soul, making people involuntarily intoxicated and refreshed.
Luo Shu was slightly stunned, then reacted. He looked up and saw that the woman in front of him had a beautiful face and an extraordinary temperament, and he couldn't help but marvel in his heart.
He quickly collected his thoughts, bowed, and said sincerely:
"I am Luo Shu, and I have inadvertently entered this place. If I have offended you, please forgive me, Fairy."
Hearing this, the woman's lips curled up into a faint smile. That smile was like a flower blooming in spring, warm and bright, instantly dispelling the coldness around her.
She opened her red lips slightly, her voice soft and kind: "So it's Daoist Fellow Luo Shu."
"I am Chang'e, the fairy of the moon. It is fate that brings you here. I wonder why you are here?"
When Luo Shu heard the identity of the woman in front of him, he couldn't help feeling a little surprised.
Chang'e? The legends that were passed down through the world flashed through his mind quickly. In Journey to the West, Marshal Tianpeng violated the heavenly rules by flirting with Chang'e at the Peach Banquet, and was demoted to the mortal world and mistakenly reincarnated as a pig, becoming Zhu Bajie.
The Chang'e in front of him was truly heart-warming with her beautiful face and elegant temperament. No wonder Marshal Tianpeng was so attracted to her.
However, he was more puzzled as to why Chang'e did not stay on her moon, but appeared on the sun instead? There must be some unknown reason for this.
Luo Shu pondered for a moment, and then said:
"I have nothing to do, so I travel around the wilderness. I have never been to the Sun Star, so I came here."
"I never thought that I would meet Fairy Taiyin here while strolling around. It's really fate."
He paused and continued:
"But, I don't know why the fairy appeared on this Sun Star?"
When Chang'e heard this, the smile on her face was like a dewdrop in the morning mist, gently brushed away by the rising sun, and replaced by a faint sadness and complexity, as if thousands of years of wind and frost had condensed into an indissoluble melancholy in her eyes.
She sighed softly, the sound was as thin as a gossamer, but it seemed to contain endless stories and sorrows, and her gaze became deep and distant, as if she had penetrated the void before her eyes and saw the unreachable past and future.
"You don't know, and I don't know why either. I always want to stay on the Sun Star for a while. It seems that only by doing so can I calm down."
Chang'e's voice was soft and ethereal, like the farthest star in the night sky, flickering a faint but firm light.
After hearing this, Luo Shu raised his eyebrows involuntarily, and an indescribable surprise and curiosity surged in his heart.
He stared at Chang'e's slightly lonely figure, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart: What is the reason that makes her so inexplicably attached to the Sun?
Suddenly, a memory flashed through Luo Shu's mind, like a shooting star across the night sky.
It was a record of a mythical story about the person in front of him, a long-forgotten past that quietly emerged from the depths of memory.
Recalling that in later generations, Luo Shu had read a book that described the complicated relationship between Chang'e, Xihe and Houyi.
It is said that during the Lich King Calamity, the ten sons of Emperor Jun and Xihe came to the human world to play, causing the ground to dry up and flowers and plants to burn, turning the human world into purgatory.
In order to save the people from the suffering of being scorched by the Golden Crows, Houyi drew his bow and shot nine Golden Crows to death.
When Xihe learned about this, she was heartbroken. She could not accept the departure of her sons.
In extreme anger and sadness, Xihe made an astonishing decision - she severed the connection between her original body and the Shan corpse, reincarnated the Shan corpse into the human race, and transformed it into an extremely beautiful woman, who was Chang'e.
Chang'e grew up gradually in the human world, and her beauty and talent attracted countless people's attention. However, fate made her meet Hou Yi.
The two met, got to know each other, and eventually got married and lived an ordinary and happy life. However, this happiness was short-lived.
Xihe has not forgotten her hatred, and she has been secretly looking for opportunities to take revenge on Houyi.
Finally one day, she found Chang'e and put a pill in her hands.
The elixir shone with an alluring light, and Xihe told Chang'e that if she ate it, she could ascend to heaven and become an immortal, and live forever. In this way, she could live forever with Houyi.
Under the persuasion of Xihe, Chang'e, with deep love for Houyi and longing for the future, resolutely swallowed the pill.
In an instant, her body was lifted up by a powerful force, soaring into the sky, and finally stopped on the distant and mysterious Moon.
Chang'e ascended to heaven and became the lord of the moon, possessing endless life and power.
However, this eternal life comes at a price.
Chang'e found herself bound to the Moon forever, unable to leave this lonely world.
Although she possessed the power and longevity of an immortal, she lost the opportunity to be with Houyi.
Whenever night fell, she would gaze towards the direction of home, her heart filled with longing and attachment to Houyi.
Houyi felt heartbroken when he learned the news that Chang'e had ascended to heaven.
He didn't want to let his wife bear the loneliness and pain alone, so he decided to go to the Moon to find Chang'e.
However, when Houyi arrived at Taiyin, what awaited him was not a reunion with Chang'e, but Xihe's hateful gaze.
When Xihe saw Houyi coming, the hatred in his heart erupted like a volcano.
In order to take revenge on Houyi, she held Chang'e hostage and forced Houyi to make a series of inhuman choices.
For the safety of Chang'e, Houyi had to bow to Xihe again and again, enduring endless pain and torture.
His body was gradually shattered by Xihe's torture, and his soul also suffered serious damage.
In the end, Xihe reshaped Houyi's incomplete soul into a physical body, sealed his memory, and asked him to chop down the osmanthus tree that could never be cut down.
She also gave Houyi a nice name - Wu Gang, to cover up his true identity and past.
Wu Gang chopped wood under the osmanthus tree day after day. His heart was full of confusion and bewilderment. He didn't know why he was here and why he was doing such endless and futile work.
As for Chang'e, she was also cleared of her memory of Houyi and that past event by Xihe, and was left on the Moon forever.
Chang'e became the new Lord of the Moon, in charge of this lonely world.
However, there was always an inexplicable sense of emptiness and loss in her heart, as if she had lost something most important.
As for why Chang'e came to the Sun Star, perhaps it was because she was the good corpse of Xihe from beginning to end.
Because after Xihe and Dijun got married, they lived on the Sun Star. On the Sun Star, she and Dijun gave birth to ten sons together. It can be seen that this planet carries many beautiful memories of Xihe.
Even if Chang'e was reincarnated as a human, she could not escape the fact that she was once the corpse of Xihe.
At this moment, Luo Shu looked at Chang'e's sad and complicated eyes, and his heart was filled with emotion.
"Fairy, don't worry about this."
"Perhaps, this is because the Sun and the Moon were both transformed from the eyes of the great god Pangu, and there is an indescribable connection between them."
“And this kind of connection also makes you inadvertently develop a special feeling.
The past is like a cloud of smoke, like a dream.
Luo Shu thought to himself, what's the point of talking about the things he saw in later generations now?
Even if they are real, the Lich Calamity has been over for so long that all the grudges and hatreds have long since disappeared into the wind, becoming a ripple in the long river of history.
Now, they are in a brand new catastrophe - Conferred Gods.
Luo Shu's words were like a spring breeze, relaxing Chang'e's tense nerves a little.