At the bottom of the lake, Gu Ning watched Gu Rou slowly stop and stand under an altar.

She raised her head slightly, like an elegant white swan, her eyes fell on the high altar with a somewhat self-deprecating smile.

"Do you know what this is?" she asked softly without turning her head.

Gu Ning jumped down from the Qinglong Jiao, walked to the front of the altar in three or two steps, and looked up.

On the altar is a gorgeous and smooth sculpture of a goddess.

The goddess points to the sky with one hand and holds a zither with the other, with a gentle expression and compassion for the world.

There was a faint smile on the corners of her lips, but this smile was inconsistent with the expression on her face. The corners of her lips seemed to be neither raised nor curled, and the strange arc formed a mocking and weird expression.

It was as if he was tied alive to the altar. Even though he was scared, terrified and desperate, he still had to force a smile.

"Goddess Qing Mei." Gu Ning answered without hesitation, "But..."

Gu Ning hesitated slightly, and looked at "Gu Rou" who was looking at him leisurely, "You are the Green Charm Goddess, right?"

Qing Mei nodded, "But I am no longer a goddess. I am just a lonely soul imprisoned here."

A self-deprecating expression appeared on Qing Mei's face, and her gaze returned to her sculpture.

"Ten thousand years ago, on the altar, I became people's life-saving straw." There was a sadness and despair in her eyes that Gu Ning could not understand.

Such emotions almost annihilated Qing Mei instantly. She stretched out her hand tremblingly, posed like the sculpture, and murmured, "The same woman appeared again today..."

A huge sadness filled the air. Qing Mei suddenly jumped up and stood on the altar. Then he chopped the sculpture with his bare hands, and the sculpture trembled violently.

Then it collapsed in an instant, revealing the petite female skeleton beneath the huge sculpture.

Gu Ning's eyes suddenly fixed, and he looked in surprise as Qing Mei carefully took the piano down with both hands and carefully blew away the remaining dust on it.

"It's been ten thousand years..." Qing Mei laughed, "I finally got the person I wanted to wait for."

After getting the zither, Qing Mei laughed happily, then jumped down lightly with the zither in her arms, looking at Gu Ning with sparkling eyes, "Do you want to hear a story from me?"

Gu Ning nodded obediently: I am confused but I won’t say it. I am just an emotionless machine that listens to stories.

Qing Mei stroked the harp in her hand with a loving look, and after a long while she slowly spoke.

"Once upon a time there was a goddess. When she was bathing in a small valley, her clothes were stolen. She searched everywhere and finally found her clothes under a big tree, along with a gentle man."

"The young man held the goddess's clothes, looked at her cautiously, and asked softly, 'Excuse me, girl, is this your dress?'"

"The goddess was immediately enraged. She had never seen such a shameless man who stole a woman's clothes and yet could still dress so elegantly. So, she slapped the man on the head without saying anything. The man was shocked but could not dodge. When the palm wind fell, he raised his hand and threw the clothes forward, and then he fell headfirst."

“Give it back... give it back to the girl..." The man smiled as he fell to the ground, his gentle eyes filled with admiration.

Qing Mei paused, and a smile unconsciously fell from the corner of her lips, "How stupid! If he used his clothes to block it, he wouldn't be able to bear the slightest injury."

"So, the goddess was moved by this?" Gu Ning continued. If so, the plot in the storybook would appear.

"Yes, the goddess was moved. She had never seen such a stupid man, nor had she ever seen such a simple and gentle man. It turned out that the clothes were taken away by a villain, but he discovered it when it was taken away, so he chased after him and took the clothes back."

"Isn't it a particularly beautiful story?" Having said this, Qing Mei stopped talking and looked at Gu Ning with a dim gaze.

Gu Ning curled his lips, met Qing Mei's gaze, and paused before saying, "Does the goddess really want to hear what I have to say?"

Qing Mei didn't say anything, just looked at Gu Ning quietly.

Gu Ning spat softly, "Didn't the goddess ever think about why that man saw someone stealing clothes?"

Qing Mei paused.

"When I saw someone stealing clothes, didn't he also secretly lurking on the shore and peeping at the goddess bathing?" Gu Ning showed sarcasm.

"Moreover, according to the storybook, he is just a weak man who can't even tie a chicken. How could he possibly beat that villain? And he can appear in front of the goddess in one piece, gentle as jade and elegant... All of this is just a shallow deception."

Gu Ning looked at Qing Mei, "From the beginning to the end, it was just a scam to make the goddess fall in love with him out of guilt. He must have something to ask of the goddess."

As soon as the words fell, the entire lake became silent. Qing Mei's face was covered with tears, but she still stammered and said, "But the goddess is not a fool. Why would she believe him so blindly?"

Gu Ning made a bold guess and carefully verified it. "First, the clothes were definitely not stolen by the man, because the goddess knew that he didn't have the ability to do so. Second, it was probably a strategy of internal and external cooperation. The goddess loves the world, and once the goddess makes a mistake, the goddess will make up for it. To make up for it, they will spend time together day and night, and spending time together day and night will give rise to feelings..."

"Not to mention... the man who appeared according to the goddess's preferences?" Gu Ning looked at Qing Mei's expression, sighed softly, and concluded, "In short, love makes people blind."

Hearing this, Qing Mei slowly shook her head, "It's not love, it's... submission."

She said with a look of pain on her face, "When they were together day and night, the man would always get hurt in order to please the goddess. He got hurt again and again, and the goddess saved him again and again."

The power of the goddess comes from the gods and millions of believers. Without sincere admiration, her power will be exhausted one day.

What’s more… every time he was injured, he was on the verge of death, and the goddess had to use the power of origin.

"His injuries became more and more serious, the goddess consumed more and more divine power, and the price she had to pay became greater and greater. Finally one day, that price was the reversal of heaven..."

The tone suddenly became sad. Qing Mei raised her head and held back the tears in her eyes. "So the thunder rolled and roared down. In order to make up for her mistakes, the goddess asked for heaven's punishment. Then she found out that the person who carried out the heaven's punishment... was that man."

"How could this happen?" Tears fell down, and Qing Mei finally couldn't control her despair. "The goddess can't figure it out, but the man is full of divine power, destiny and spiritual energy that she has never seen before."

"He is just an ordinary man, how could he obtain the power of heaven?" Qing Mei murmured, tears streaming down her face.

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