System: After the fortune telling, my cultivation level skyrocketed.

"Are you sure you want me to say it? I'm not afraid of divine retribution and I can speak my mind freely."

Chen Xuan looked at the Three-Element Hermit and said.

"As long as the Taoist priest can see it, then there is no harm in saying it. Having cultivated for three lifetimes, the punishment of heaven and the tribulation of lightning are already commonplace for me."

Chen Xuan nodded, "Then I'll tell the story."

"183 years ago, a young lady from an official family was out for a stroll when she saw a stray puppy that had fallen into a garbage pit. Although the young lady was of noble birth, she did not look down on it and sent her servants to retrieve it. At first, the young lady thought it was just a good deed, but after the stray puppy was rescued, it bowed to the young lady."

"The young lady found it amusing, so she had the servants clean the puppy and take it home to play with. That's how the puppy entered the official's mansion. Although the young lady was in her prime, in that era, she should have been married long ago. However, the young lady was active and full of curiosity about the outside world. She strongly resisted the arranged marriage by her father. So whenever she encountered such troubles, she would go to the servants' courtyard to complain to the wet nurse and, incidentally, play with the puppy she had picked up."

"That puppy wasn't an ordinary stray puppy. At the end of the dynasty, the government was corrupt and natural disasters were frequent. After being abandoned by its mother, the stray puppy crawled under the bridge to eat corpses in order to survive."

Chen Xuan shook his head inwardly and continued, "Humans are born with the Dao body, but at that time, many children died due to natural disasters. Children who died were not qualified to enter the ancestral graves, and there was no money for a grand funeral. So many dead children were wrapped in a tattered piece of clothing and thrown into the bridge hole."

"That stray dog ​​lived under the bridge to survive, because people often abandoned their sick or starving children there. At first, it was overjoyed to see adults coming, and it couldn't understand the feelings of the adults who abandoned the bodies, nor could it feel their emotions."

"He just instinctively knew that there was food again."

"But one time, it had a flash of inspiration and wondered why humans cry. It then consciously observed the adults who disposed of corpses, and gradually it slowly awakened its spirit and gained human-like thinking and consciousness."

"Because it can feel, and because it was also a cub abandoned by its mother, it was in great pain, but hunger made it even more painful, because it wanted to live."

"It eked out a living in pain and darkness, living cautiously. Later, fewer and fewer people dumped the bodies, and it didn't know what was happening outside. It had been living in the bridge hole ever since it came to the bridge."

"Later, it was so hungry that it could only tremble as it left the bridge arch. It was afraid of the passersby because it knew that it had eaten their children, but it was too hungry."

"When it passed a garbage pit, it smelled the temperature in addition to the stench of corpses. This smell fascinated and intoxicated it. Coupled with its extreme hunger, it began to carefully scoop up the leftovers from the edge of the pit. However, it accidentally fell in. The garbage pit was filled with water. It was terrified and struggled in the sewage while making noises."

"Just as it was about to sink into the sewage and drown, it suddenly saw a group of people surrounding a girl on the shore. The girl had long hair, wore a red dress, and had light makeup. It was captivated at first sight. It didn't know what was wrong with it or why it was like this."

"It cried pitifully at the girl, longing to be rescued."

"The good thing is, that girl is like a star in the sky, she has been saved."

"After it came ashore, it learned to bow to the girls like the adults who disposed of the bodies. But the girls didn't expect that they would not only have it cleaned but also take it home. That was the first time it had ever eaten real food. There was no stench of corpses or decay, only sweetness."

"It was incredibly grateful to the girl, and her image was forever etched into its heart."

"After that, every time he saw the girl, he would bow to her to make her happy, knowing that she liked him doing so. At first, the girl was indeed very happy and even asked the servants to give him good food. But as time went by and he grew up, the girl also grew up. Several times when the girl saw him bowing, she no longer smiled, but instead had tears in the corners of her eyes. He was very confused, so he could only stay by the old servant's side and lie sadly listening to the girl's complaints."

[Nanny, I don't want an arranged marriage! I don't want to marry that wicked man! Waaah...]

"Miss has grown up and reached marriageable age. Master has surely chosen a worthy son-in-law. Miss, I think you'd better not defy Master."

No, I asked around about that man. He's a womanizer, has nine concubines, and I'd be his tenth. I even found out that he forcibly took some of them.

[Nanny, you raised me from childhood, you wouldn't want me to suffer like this, being abused and mistreated by him, would you?]

【I, Bai Luoyu, will never agree to this ending. Nanny, I'm leaving this place, leaving this home. I'm only telling you this, so please don't tell my father.】

"After the girl finished speaking, she turned to look at the stray dog ​​that had grown up and was lying on the ground, and said that she would take it with her and that it would definitely protect her."

"The stray dog ​​is also happy because it really loves its owner, but it can only spend so little time with its owner."

Chen Xuan said, "However, things did not go as planned."

"Because that very night, the wet nurse secretly told the master of the Chang family about this secret."

"The master was furious. In the late years of the dynasty, the government was corrupt, foreign enemies were invading, and there was a lot of exchange of interests. To put it bluntly, my daughter was just a tool for me to save my own life. As long as it was worth it enough to ensure the continued prosperity of the family, I might as well give her up."

"Later, the young lady was confined to her room and could no longer leave the house."

"The stray dog ​​was very anxious, so it could only run to the window every day to find its owner to relieve its boredom and amuse it."

"Once, when a stray dog ​​was teasing the female lead, she said with a downcast expression, 'My family is not as good as a dog. If someone takes me away, I will marry him, no matter who he is.'"

"The stray dog ​​was already an adult at that time. It had been eating corpses since it was a child and had long since awakened its spirit. Over the years, it had been cultivating in a daze, worshipping the moon, and so on, and had already acquired some skills."

"But at that time, it never felt love for the female lead. It only knew that it should be good to her and make her happy."

"However, after the mistress said those words, it instantly understood that the reason it wanted to be close to her was because it liked her and wanted to be with her forever."

"One sentence elevated the stray dog's spirit once again, and it gained basic human-like thinking. It began to work on saving its owner."

"In seven days, it dug a tunnel from outside the gate with its claws. It didn't stop when its claws fell off, and it didn't stop when its claws were bloody and mangled. Finally, it dug through to the room of its beloved."

"However, what happened next..."

Chen Xuan shook his head and sighed, "Later, the wild dog lay on the woman's corpse, shedding tears of blood, howling at the sky, and vowing that it would cultivate into a human being and wait for her to return in the mortal world for ten, a hundred, or a thousand lifetimes."