She became a god

Xiaozhu Peak, deep within the Purple Bamboo Forest.

The young man, dressed in bamboo green, lay on a red bamboo bench, casually plucking a falling green bamboo flower from the air, and smiled at the red-clad young man beside him. "Most people dream of fame and fortune, but I love the tranquil beauty deep within the bamboo groves."

The boy in red laughed and said, "I have always admired your ability and excuses for avoiding leisure."

"No, you're wrong. I'm not avoiding leisure; I'm pursuing happiness. I want happiness and freedom, not leisure."

"If one weren't free, how could one be so happy and carefree?"

The boy in green shook his head. "As long as a living being is pursuing a goal that she genuinely approves of and admires, she is happy and at ease in the process of pursuing it."

"You have a point, but not every living being has the opportunity to pursue happiness."

"Why? As long as you want it, you have a chance. Rather than saying there's no chance, it's more accurate to say that she doesn't want a certain kind of happiness as much as she thinks she does."

The boy in red said, "You're still too young. You don't understand. Sometimes, happiness and responsibility can't be had at the same time."

The boy in green frowned. "Does this responsibility have to be borne by everyone? Can't it be transferred to another living being?"

"Of course, but other creatures are still too young and cannot yet shoulder that heavy responsibility."

The boy in green relaxed his brows and smiled, "Then let's wait until the responsibility is transferred before pursuing happiness!"

The boy in red nodded, then suddenly grasped the hand of the boy in green. "Zhouzhou, will you accompany me in pursuing happiness?"

They stayed with me until Qingluan grew up enough to take on the position of clan leader, and until I could step down as demon lord... They stayed with me until I shed my burdens and could do what I truly wanted to do, and pursue my own happiness.

The boy in green tilted his head and smiled, "You're so strange. Aren't we happy right now? We've already reached the finish line, yet you still want to ask about the process."

The young man in red felt a pang of sadness. Feng Lei was the one who was happy now, but she was more than just Feng Lei.

How should she answer the boy in green's innocent question?

Before Feng Wei could think of an answer, the boy in green exclaimed, "Ah! Our bamboo rice is almost burnt!"

The green-clad youth frantically tried to salvage the bamboo rice, completely forgetting that she was a cultivator. She preferred to do it herself rather than use a spell, something that could have been accomplished with a simple magic spell.

Fortunately, the bamboo rice this time was not much different from the previous ones.

At least that's how Feng Hui sees it.

Ye Qingzhou, however, thought differently. Her brows furrowed, she sullenly sighed, "Oh! My food, it could have been so delicious, but now..."

Feng Sui couldn't help but laugh at her, "Aren't you really going to consider taking up culinary arts as a side skill?"

Ye Qingzhou shook her head firmly, "I enjoy cooking occasionally, but it gets boring if I cook every day. I cook for fun, not just for the sake of cooking."

"Furthermore, the current culinary training system is very unreasonable. A culinary trainee's skills are only recognized by the culinary association after gaining public approval. Cooking delicious food and cooking food that everyone finds delicious are two different things!"

Does being able to cook mean you have to cook for all living beings to prove your culinary skills? When did the number of diners become the sole measure of a chef's ability?

"Diners can only be an important standard for measuring culinary skills, but they should never be the only standard, because diners are a variable with a strong subjective element."

"I don't want to be a God of Cookery, I don't want to cook for many living beings, I only want to cook for the living beings I love."

"Of course, you can also interpret this as me having a threshold for diners, and not wanting to share the food I cook with every diner."

Feng Wei said, "The threshold for chefs to serve diners is usually money. What is your threshold?"

Ye Qingzhou rested her chin on her hand and said proudly, "Of course I like it!"

"I'm happy to share food with anyone I like, and I don't want to share with anyone I don't like."

Feng Rui asked with a smile, "So, who do you find pleasing to the eye, and who do you find displeasing?"

"I don't know!" Ye Qingzhou shrugged. "Preferences change too. For example, I might find you very pleasing to the eye now, but one day or at some point, I might find you unpleasant."

Feng Rui pursed her lips and said after a long while, "You are not allowed to look at me with displeasure. This period is forever."

Ye Qingzhou smiled slyly, "Are you ordering me around? Is there a reward?"

"Yes. I will give you the golden apple tree..."

"Oh! Really? No taking it back! Give it to me now!"

"I haven't finished yet. At our wedding, I will give you the golden apple tree."

Ye Qingzhou pouted, "Tch, you're just teasing me again."

Feng Hui's brow twitched, and she almost couldn't help but confess everything.

It's true, it's all true.

I really want to give you the golden apple tree.

It's true that I want to marry you.

"Zhouzhou, actually..."

"Drip drip!"

Ye Qingzhou frowned and cursed, "What the hell?! Are you sick in the head?! You keep sending messages!"

Clicking on the jade slip and opening it revealed 99+ messages; Ye Qingzhou's face turned green.

"Why is Su Mingzhu sending me so many messages all of a sudden?"

"What? Ji Cunxi has returned to Yu Kingdom? That's great news, but do you really need to announce it so many times?!"

Ye Qingzhou continued scrolling down, "Ji Cunxi wants to revise some of the doctrines I formulated? As the saying goes, a new broom sweeps clean. But she can't just come back and start by targeting me!"

Looking again, Ye Qingzhou's brows furrowed even more deeply.

Ji Cunxi not only wanted to revise the doctrine, but also wanted to recall those who had been dismissed from their posts.

She revises doctrine as if she has new ideas, but what does it mean to recall those she dismissed?

Is Ji Cunxi really my good friend as everyone says?

If they are truly friends, why would they go to such lengths to overturn their own policies?

Ye Qingzhou couldn't understand it, so she asked Feng Rui, "Do you know why Ji Cunxi had to undergo tribulations and reincarnate?"

Xiyu told her that Ji Cunxi had offended the Demon Lord and the Underworld Lord.

She might have remembered the details of things in the past, but now she can't remember them at all.

Over the years, Ye Qingzhou has slowly recalled some things from before she lost her memory, but most of them were insignificant.

The most valuable information was about the Zhao Sect and Su Mingzhu, but she couldn't recall the information about the cultivators that was so important to her.

Feng Hui answered Ye Qingzhou's question succinctly, "Ji Cunxi's ideas are too foolish. She advocates that all women should enjoy equal resources and opportunities, and demands that women must be inclusive of all women, otherwise they are not loving women."

Ye Qingzhou was taken aback. "She thinks too highly of women. She doesn't see women as a real species at all. As long as there is a group, there will always be differences in strength between individuals, and the distribution of resources will inevitably be impossible to be completely equal."

"Conflicts and contradictions are bound to arise between individuals due to differences in resources, ideas, and so on. When conflicts escalate, they will manifest as aggressive words and actions. When one party is hurt by the other, it is impossible not to feel resentment."

"If an individual acts in a way that violates some of the group's basic shared beliefs and interests, must the other individuals in the group also tolerate her?"

"This is completely contrary to the nature of living beings!"

Feng Rui nodded, "Naiveté taken to the extreme becomes foolishness. I thought she would change, but I didn't expect..."

"Anyway, if she comes to me again... my sister wants resources, and my sister will absolutely not give them to her. Why should the strong have to give up their surplus resources to the weak for free?"

……

"Why should I? Because we're both women!"