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00:00Tony's crush had been coughing non-stop.
00:02Hearing that, according to an old folk remedy, Snake Gull could ease coughing.
00:06He had people cut the snake from my waist in half and extract the ball.
00:09My cultivation of power I had accumulated over tens of thousands of years vanished in an instant.
00:14I stared at him, cradling what remained of the snake in my arms.
00:18You know what I am. Once the snake disappears, I'll disappear too.
00:23However, Tony just laughed and skinned the snake right in front of me.
00:27Only Lord Anon would believe something like that.
00:29Don't try to fool me. It's just a snake. I'll get you another one.
00:35Overnight, my hair turned completely grey.
00:38I rushed to visit Lord Anson with my snake in a sealed jar.
00:41I've saved the brooks from the last disaster.
00:44I've repaid the favor of saving me 100 years ago.
00:47Now my body is ruined. I can't protect you now.
00:50So I'm leaving.
00:52Some smoke came from my snake like it was disintegrating.
00:55The doctor shook her head.
00:56They destroyed its core. They know how to kill a snake for good.
01:01Sorry, I can't save it.
01:03Then I put the two halves of my snake back into the jar.
01:05I could feel every sensation my snake endured.
01:08The pain still tore through my back, as if I myself had been cut in half.
01:12Lord Anson supported me and kept blaming Tony.
01:15I've told him many times.
01:17You're connected to the snake.
01:19How could he dare cut it open just for the gall?
01:22I moved forward in great pain, with numb legs.
01:25Tony definitely knew I could feel what the snake was feeling.
01:28But he still cut my snake in half without hesitation.
01:31Seeing me fall to the ground, he actually rolled his eyes and said,
01:35Keep pretending.
01:36You use the whole connected to snake thing to fool Lord Aniston.
01:39He might buy it, but I won't.
01:41Then, he asked them to dig the gall out of my snake.
01:44He said nothing, seeing me on the ground in great pain, and threw the body of my snake back to
01:49me.
01:50You're definitely not some supernatural being, since you claim the snake contains all your cultivation.
01:55It must be nutritious.
01:56If it can stop Tara from coughing, I'll get you a new one so that you can fool Lord Aniston
02:00more.
02:03Suddenly, the butler came to the veterinary hospital.
02:07She gave me a cardboard box, saying Tony asked her to deliver this to me.
02:11In unbearable pain, I opened the box, only to find an eagle flying out.
02:16It seemed to have smelled my snake, and then flew straight to the jar.
02:19I covered the jar with my body, and tried to cast a spell.
02:23But nothing happened.
02:24Only then did I remember that all my cultivation was already gone.
02:27So I had to protect the jar with my body.
02:30Everyone knew the natural enemy of snakes was eagles, including Tony.
02:34Though I had already been in human shape, the fear was still in my bones.
02:38The eagle kept pecking me until Lord Aniston had his guards kill it.
02:42I almost fainted on the ground.
02:44Then the respected Lord Aniston knelt in front of me all of a sudden.
02:48Holly, I really didn't expect Tony to do such outrageous things to you.
02:52Since you're our family guardian, I'll drown you a hulpie from Cultivate,
02:56and protect you until you regain all your power.
02:59Please forgive me this is, and keep shooping us for the sake of my mother.
03:03I didn't know what to say.
03:05About 100 years ago, Lord Aniston's mother saved me from an eagle.
03:08She took me back home, and bound up my wound, to repay her kindness.
03:13After I cultivated and became an immortal, I came to her and promised to guard her family.
03:18To save Tony, I forcibly transformed into human shape.
03:21However, my cultivation stayed with my snake form.
03:24But now, my snake was destroyed by Tony.
03:27My cultivation had all gone.
03:29I couldn't protect the brooks anymore.
03:31Looking at Lord Aniston kneeling in front of me, I felt more determined.
03:35I did promise your mother to protect the brooks.
03:38But now I really lost all my cultivation. I'm no longer a guardian.
03:42I've saved the brooks from so many disasters, and I've sacrificed my cultivation to save Tony.
03:47I think we're pretty much even now. Just let me go.
03:52I limped my way back home.
03:55Before I entered, I heard Tony and Tara talking.
03:58People say snakes are...unnaturally gifted.
04:01Is that how Holly satisfied you?
04:03She's not a snake or something.
04:05And you know, I'm only satisfied with you.
04:07I stormed in.
04:08However, Tony just ignored me and kept kissing Tara.
04:12Tara was somewhat shocked when she saw me in my gray hair.
04:15She pushed Tony away and started coughing.
04:17Tara seemed to be calling me a monster, but I couldn't hear her clearly,
04:21because her coughing left her gasping for breath.
04:23Tony frowned and patted Tara.
04:25All of a sudden, he rushed over and slapped me.
04:28How the hell did you make your hair gray?
04:30And how dare you come to scare Tara?
04:32He stepped on me and stared at me.
04:34Tara on the couch looked somewhat smug.
04:36She faked another cough, pointed at my jar, and said,
04:39Come on, Tony. I don't think Holly was trying to scare me or something.
04:42But the gall of her snake did help ease my coughing.
04:44I bet some snake soup could make me feel much better.
04:48Suddenly, all of us three were looking at my jar.
04:51I had to hold it much tighter.
04:53Tony Brooke, you know there's a connection between me and my snake.
04:58If you boil it, I will...
05:00I will feel boiled too.
05:06He didn't even let me finish, and just took my jar away.
05:10Then he asked the butler to cook my snake, as fast as she could.
05:13Very soon, I started feeling burning.
05:16I had to pinch myself to shift my focus away from the unbearable burning feeling.
05:20But it was not working.
05:22I could still feel it even when I was in cold water.
05:25Tony stormed in and grabbed my gray hair.
05:27He asked if I dyed my hair on purpose, and said he was gonna expose me or something.
05:31You've always been fooling Lord Anson with your lame tricks,
05:35and claimed to have saved my life with your cultivation?
05:38Tara told me the truth.
05:39She bought me some medicine abroad, and let me take it when you were away.
05:43I just can't believe it.
05:45The whole family actually were okay with you locking me up and keeping me away from medicine.
05:49Tony forced me out of the cold water.
05:52The burning feeling came stronger, so I had to curl up on the ground.
05:55He just stared at me like he didn't even care.
05:58You know about Guardian, right?
05:59Which can protect my whole family.
06:01If I hadn't believed that you'd saved me, I'd never have married you.
06:04Tara is my love, and she should be protected too.
06:06But you?
06:08You don't deserve it.
06:09I looked up at him for a second, then closed my eyes and laughed.
06:13Tara had destroyed the Guardian itself and yet she still expected protection?
06:17You want her to replace me as your wife?
06:22Funny.
06:23Hours later, the snake soup was served.
06:25I sat alone in cold water, biting down on something and clutching the bathtub to distract
06:30myself slightly.
06:31They started cutting and eating my snake, which I could also feel at the same time.
06:36I almost fainted from it.
06:38Holly Summers, just drop your act already.
06:41You stole Tara's position to be protected, but I only took your pet snake.
06:45Do you really have to act like that?
06:47You're only making me sicker of you.
06:49After reprimanding me, Tony continued enjoying the snake soup with Tara.
06:55I noticed the black aura over their heads, and then closed my eyes.
06:59The Brooke family had been cursed actually, and I was protecting them with my cultivation.
07:04But now I had lost the last bit of my cultivation, so the curse on them would come back soon.
07:09The Brooke family had made a living by fishing, which was once regarded as a sinful and cursed
07:14trade.
07:14To repay their kindness, I promised to protect them.
07:1710 years ago, Lord Anson knelt in the ancestral hall and begged me to save Tony, because he
07:22been in a coma for a while.
07:25Originally, Tony was destined to die young.
07:27But to repay their kindness, I used my cultivation to keep him alive.
07:31Year after year, my cultivation kept going down.
07:35And to save Tony, I forcibly transformed into human form.
07:39Because of that, I had to endure lightning strikes for three whole days.
07:42I almost died from that.
07:44When Tony woke up, he saw me beside him, with a snake on my waist.
07:49He didn't seem scared and even petted it.
07:51Polly, thank you for saving me.
07:53I'll ask Lord Anson to agree to our marriage.
07:56Tony said he didn't care about my status.
07:59He kept begging Lord Anson despite being lashed.
08:02He insisted on marrying me.
08:04That was almost the most exciting moment for me during all those years.
08:08After we got married, Tony learned that the snake was really important to me.
08:12So he cherished it and even cooked for it.
08:14However, everything changed because of Tara Smith after several months.
08:21In the beginning, Tony stopped believing that I saved him with my cultivation.
08:25He found a bottle of medicine for neurological disorders and presented it to me.
08:30I actually believed your bullshit.
08:33It was just your scheme to marry me, right?
08:35I woke up just because of Tara's medicine.
08:38He took the snake around my waist, threw it on the ground and stepped on it.
08:41I spat blood in front of him.
08:43He didn't stop at all.
08:45Even wanted to throw my snake out of the window.
08:48Without the snake, I bet you can't fool Lord Anson again.
08:51Then he just dropped my snake.
08:53I had to stay in bed because my legs were broken after that.
08:57After my hair was dyed black, the butler pulled me out of the bathtub.
09:01Ma'am, Mr. Tony bought a pet for Ms. Tara.
09:04He says you're familiar with pets, so he wants you to help.
09:07The burning feeling came again, and my leg problem reappeared.
09:11I fell at the threshold, and my ankles swelled.
09:13Every step forward was great pain.
09:16The butler suddenly pushed me downstairs.
09:18When I stopped.
09:19Don't blame me, ma'am.
09:21Mr. Tony wants you there in two minutes.
09:23I'm just helping you.
09:25When I got to the cage, my whole body hurt.
09:27I lifted my head only to find the eagle from before.
09:30Tony opened the cage and let the eagle out.
09:33The fear of the natural enemy wanted me to stand up,
09:36but my injured body wouldn't let me.
09:38I fell on the ground again.
09:43Don't you know immortal power or something?
09:46Go cast a spell on the eagle then.
09:51The eagle smelled blood on me and then rushed over to me.
09:55I just fainted after that attack.
09:57She blacked out.
09:59Can't even take a peck now, Brack!
10:00Get a doctor!
10:05When I woke up, my legs were wrapped in thick layers of bandages.
10:09My arms were so pale they were nearly transparent.
10:12I knew my time was running out.
10:14I forced myself up and went straight to the Brooke family ancestral hall.
10:18Then I smashed the guardian's tablet.
10:20I could no longer protect the Brooke family,
10:22and I would no longer accept their worship.
10:25The next second, Tony Brooke rushed in.
10:28His gaze locked onto the shattered fragments around my feet.
10:31In an instant, he grabbed my shoulder.
10:33Why did you touch the guardian's tablet?
10:35You knew I was about to marry Tara,
10:37so you did this on purpose, didn't you?
10:39You didn't want her to live long.
10:41You just want her to cough non-stop till she dies.
10:45He ordered the servants to drag me outside
10:47and forced me to kneel in front of Tara.
10:49I lifted my head.
10:51Tara reclined lazily in a chair.
10:53One person shaded her from the sun.
10:56Another waved a fan.
10:57She looked relaxed and comfortable.
11:00Not the slightest trace of illness.
11:02Just as I was about to question it,
11:04a whip sliced through the air and struck my back.
11:06My knees buckled, and I collapsed to the ground.
11:08We're just to marry you onto the Brooke family
11:10gravers to 300 lashes.
11:16Now that I've decided to divorce you,
11:18you'll suffer the same pain before you leave.
11:20You have some divine power, right?
11:23If I survived 300 lashes,
11:25this should feel like nothing to you.
11:30The whip came down again.
11:32Gradually blood soaked my back.
11:34Flesh tore open.
11:36My consciousness slowly drifted away.
11:38In a daze, I remembered the past.
11:41That year, Tony had been whipped until he collapsed.
11:44Yet the moment Lord Anson agreed to let him marry me,
11:47he laughed like a child, forgetting all his pain.
11:49In this life, even if I'm spowered to pieces,
11:51even if I die a miserable death,
11:53or making way I might die a ponly wife.
11:56A tear slid from the corner of my eye.
11:58I felt him crouch in front of me, testing my breath.
12:01Tony, do you know what happens when you break a promise to the Guardian?
12:10I smiled and then closed my eyes.
12:13A white light exploded in my mind.
12:15A vast, ancient voice resounded like a great bell.
12:23Holly Summers, a mere snake,
12:26to repay the Brooke family's life-saving grace.
12:29You sacrificed yourself to block calamity a hundred times.
12:32In recognition of your gratitude,
12:34you have passed the divine trial.
12:36You are verily permitted to ascend.
12:38Tony felt my breath and assumed I was pretending again.
12:41So he snorted and left with Tara.
12:44Only much later did Lord Anson learn what Tony had done.
12:47He knelt before me,
12:49watching my body slowly turn transparent,
12:51sobbing as he begged.
12:52Holly, I've already had craftsmen prepare a golden statue for you.
12:56Please, continue protecting the Brooke family.
13:00The Brooke family was burdened with grave sins from the start.
13:03I shielded you from divine repatiation
13:05only out of gratitude for your mother's kindness.
13:08Now my tribulation is complete.
13:10I will ascend.
13:12From this moment on,
13:13you will have to face all the retribution yourselves.
13:16With those words,
13:18I vanished.
13:18The nearly hundred-year-old man
13:20slammed his head against the ground again and again.
13:23All he saw was white smoke dispersing into the air.
13:25It's over.
13:27The Brooke family is finished.
13:35That night,
13:36Tony took Tara for a checkup
13:37and only returned after confirming her coughing wouldn't worsen.
13:40As he passed the garden outside the ancestral hall,
13:43he found my blood from earlier that day was gone.
13:45He turned and asked Lord Anson,
13:48Where's Holly?
13:49Didn't I order her to kneel in the courtyard all day?
13:52Before anyone could answer,
13:54Lord Anson stepped out from the side.
13:55His cane came down hard on Tony's leg to make him kneel.
13:58Lord Anson looked terrible.
14:01You unfilial ret.
14:03I told you long ago,
14:05Holly is the guardian of our family.
14:07The snake was merely the manifestation of her cultivation.
14:10The snake is destroyed.
14:12So is the guardian.
14:14From now on,
14:15no one will protect the Brooke family anymore.
14:18Tommy froze.
14:19Then he pushed himself up and laughed.
14:21Grandfather,
14:22don't let her fool you anymore.
14:24I tested her today.
14:26She's terrified of eagles.
14:27How could she be the guardian?
14:29She's nothing but a greedy loser after our wealth.
14:33Everything was made up by her.
14:34And that snake?
14:36Just an ordinary pet snake.
14:38Its gall couldn't even cure a cough.
14:41Lord Anson slapped Tony.
14:42His cane slammed against the ground.
14:44Didn't you notice that after the snake was harmed,
14:46Holly's health kept dislining?
14:48Every knife you ordered onto that snake
14:50was a knife cut into Holly herself.
14:51How could you be so cruel to the wife you begged for
14:54with your own suffering?
14:56Tony's mind went blank.
14:58Fragments flooded back.
15:02The day the snake gall was taken,
15:05the moment I collapsed,
15:07my lifeless legs dragged across the ground.
15:09Exactly like that snake.
15:11He whispered in disbelief.
15:13Holly is terrified of pain.
15:15If the snake truly shared her senses,
15:18then this will be...
15:20Panic surge.
15:20He turned to Lord Anson,
15:22desperate for answers.
15:23How could the family guardian
15:24take human form and become his wife?
15:27Before Lord Anson could speak,
15:29dark clouds opened the underworld,
15:31indicating a calamity was coming.
15:34If you want to know the truth,
15:36then kneel in the ancestral hall tonight
15:38and see for yourself
15:40whether anyone will protect our family.
15:43That night,
15:43thunder shook the heavens.
15:45Tony desperately pieced together
15:47the fragments on the floor.
15:48Barely,
15:49he assembled the word guardian.
15:51The instant he placed it on the table,
15:52a bolt of lightning struck
15:54straight into the ancestral hall,
15:55shattering the top of one's form.
15:56Tony screamed,
15:57and he pushed the lightning
15:59and scrubbed less than a mirror.
16:05He broke down and ran
16:07to the waste incineration plant,
16:08desperately searching
16:09for the snake's remains.
16:11He turned the place upside down,
16:13but nothing.
16:13He then searched everywhere
16:15for my whereabouts,
16:16but still nothing.
16:17After that whipping,
16:18I had vanished into thin air
16:20in the ancestral courtyard.
16:21Tony shook his head in disbelief.
16:23He clutched the jar he had smashed
16:25with his own hands,
16:26staring at the blackened smoke marks
16:27torn into the ancestral hall's eaves
16:29by lightning.
16:30He looked down at his hands
16:31and murmured hoarsely,
16:33How is this possible?
16:34Was Holly telling the truth?
16:37Did I really destroy
16:38the Brook family's fate
16:41with my own hands?
16:43The next day,
16:44when Tara came to the Brook residence,
16:45all she saw was Tony kneeling
16:46in the ancestral courtyard.
16:47In his arms,
16:48he held the jar
16:49that had once contained the snake.
16:51She nudged the shattered porcelain
16:52at her feet with her shoe.
16:54It was just a pet snake.
16:56Why did you go all the way
16:57to the dump
16:57to get this broken jar back?
17:00Tony shook his head.
17:01He had knelt in the rain all night,
17:03so he got a fever.
17:04It's different.
17:05That snake shared its senses
17:07with Holly.
17:08When I ordered it cut open,
17:10she felt the same
17:10bone-ripping pain.
17:12Tara remained unconcerned.
17:14She crouched in front of him,
17:15pulled his hand,
17:16and pressed it against her chest.
17:18But if you didn't get the gold for me,
17:20my coughing would never
17:21have been cured.
17:22Feeling the warmth
17:23beneath his palm,
17:24Tony's mind cleared
17:25for a brief moment.
17:26He thought Tara was right.
17:28Tara was the one
17:29who had saved him back then.
17:31Even if I truly was the guardian,
17:33there was no proof
17:33I had been the one
17:34who saved his life.
17:36But in the very next second,
17:38Lord Anson's bodyguard
17:39stormed in and took Tara down.
17:44Tara struggled desperately,
17:46shaking her head at Tony,
17:47silently begging him to save her.
17:49Tony was stunned.
17:50There must be some mistake.
17:52Tara didn't trespass
17:53into the ancestral hall on purpose.
17:54A bodyguard sneered
17:56and slapped a stack of documents
17:57in front of him.
17:58Mr. Tony,
17:59take a look.
18:00You'll understand
18:01why we took her down.
18:03Tony lowered his head
18:04and saw photos of Tara
18:05with her attending physician.
18:06The bodyguards
18:07had already confirmed the truth.
18:08Tara had never been sick.
18:10She had colluded with the doctor
18:11to fabricate medical records.
18:13All to make Tony
18:13personally order
18:14the killing of my snake.
18:15Tony slowly turned his head
18:17to stare at Tara.
18:18Seeing that there was
18:19no way to hide it anymore,
18:20Tara collapsed helplessly
18:21to the ground.
18:25I was just jealous!
18:28Jealous that Holly had your love!
18:30That in your heart
18:31I couldn't even compare
18:32to that snake!
18:33And you know
18:34I'm terrified of such animals!
18:36I had no idea
18:37that snake was so important!
18:38Tony grabbed her throat viciously.
18:40If you hadn't claimed
18:41you were coughing yourself to death,
18:43if you hadn't forced me
18:44to touch Holly's snake,
18:45how could I personally
18:47take out the go-
18:51Back then,
18:52he had panicked.
18:53He truly believed
18:53that if Tara didn't
18:54take the gall immediately,
18:55she would die.
18:56That was why
18:57he wanted my snake's gall.
18:59At that moment,
19:00he realized that
19:01after extracting the gall,
19:02Tara had even ordered
19:03the snake to be skinned.
19:07Tony slammed his fists
19:08against his own head
19:09in regret.
19:09And that's not all.
19:11We also discovered
19:13that you used
19:13Mr. Tony's identity
19:14to do other things,
19:16running tabs,
19:16eating for free,
19:17and even engaging
19:18in illegal dealings.
19:19The Brooke family's reputation
19:21and Mr. Tony's name
19:22have been completely
19:23ruined by you.
19:24The documents contained
19:25joint complaints
19:26from multiple establishments,
19:27luxury boutiques,
19:29high-end restaurants,
19:30all records of Tara
19:31scamming goods and meals
19:32under Tony's name.
19:33She had even sold
19:34unapproved pharmaceuticals
19:35in the name of the Brooke
19:35family's future heir.
19:36Hearing this,
19:38Tara's body trembled.
19:42She scrambled forward,
19:43clinging to Tony's
19:44pamp leg
19:45and cow-cowing repeatedly.
19:46Tony,
19:47I just wanted
19:48to become your wife.
19:49That's why I lost my way.
19:50But don't forget,
19:51when you were unconscious
19:53all those years ago,
19:54I was the one
19:55who saved you.
19:56Tony's raised hand
19:57froze Medare,
19:58then fell weakly.
20:00But before he could speak,
20:02the bodyguard
20:03flipped the documents
20:04to the final page
20:05and sneered.
20:05You lied to Mr. Tony
20:07for all these years.
20:08Did you really think
20:09we didn't preserve
20:10the records back then?
20:11Tony's eyes widened
20:12instantly.
20:16Tony's eyes widened
20:17instantly.
20:18He lowered his head,
20:20staring at the images
20:21in disbelief.
20:22Before he could process them,
20:24the sound of a cane echoed.
20:25Lord Anson stepped forward
20:27and handed him another item.
20:28Look carefully.
20:29Back then,
20:30you were born with a
20:31short-lived fate
20:32and fell into quimmer.
20:34It is Holly who
20:35break the heaven rules,
20:36who ended you
20:37three days of
20:38Devon lightning
20:39to transfer all
20:40her cultitation
20:41to new
20:42so you could live.
20:43To prevent any
20:44after effects,
20:45she even climbed
20:46steer cliffs
20:47to gather herbs,
20:48personally tasted
20:49hundreds of medicines
20:50for you.
20:50In total,
20:51she lost thousands
20:52of years of cultivation
20:54and you erased
20:55all of that
20:55just because of
20:56a few words
20:57from Tara Smith.
20:58Tony frantically
20:59flipped open the diary.
21:00The early pages
21:01were filled with
21:02dense notes,
21:02herbs,
21:03effects,
21:03side effects.
21:04Today's herbs
21:05were extremely toxic.
21:06I fell unconscious again.
21:08I can't let Tony
21:09see the black lines
21:09on my wrist,
21:10or he'll worry.
21:11Tony took some
21:12other medicine today.
21:13Luckily,
21:14my blood can detoxify it.
21:15No,
21:16I must hide the cut mark.
21:17And I gotta feed it
21:18to him while he's unconscious.
21:22Tears streamed
21:23down Tony's face.
21:24He vaguely remembered
21:25that during moments
21:26of clarity,
21:27he had once felt scars
21:28on my arm.
21:28But I always brushed it off.
21:30He hadn't asked further.
21:31So it had been my blood,
21:32used to detoxify his body.
21:34And that mysterious medicine.
21:36Tony clenched
21:37the diary tightly.
21:38His jaw tensed
21:39as he shot Tara
21:39a murderous glance.
21:40If you hadn't given me
21:41random drugs,
21:42Holly wouldn't have
21:43had to cut open her arm.
21:45Tara was pinned firmly
21:46to the ground.
21:46Don't be fooled
21:47by her lies.
21:48How could her blood
21:49detoxify anything?
21:51The medicine I gave you
21:53was what truly cured you.
21:55Tony flipped
21:55several more pages.
21:57There were days when,
21:58to test medicine,
21:59I had accidentally
22:00ingested poison
22:00and fallen unconscious.
22:02During those very days,
22:03Tara had secretly
22:04entered his room
22:04and tossed the medicine
22:05bottles under the bed.
22:06Unable to survive abroad,
22:08she only remembered him
22:09when she heard
22:09he was about to wake.
22:10She had kept him in mind,
22:11just in case.
22:12I had only seen
22:13Tara's silhouette
22:14leaving his room.
22:15I hadn't noticed
22:16the bottles beneath the bed.
22:17That was how the disaster
22:18had been left there.
22:21Tony pressed the diary
22:22to his chest
22:24and kicked Tara Smith
22:25away coldly.
22:28Throw her into the snake hole.
22:31She must suffer
22:32from the pain
22:33Holly endured.
22:34And it should be
22:34a hundredfold!
22:36If she survived,
22:38all the evidence
22:38in the Brooke family's hands
22:39would still be enough
22:40to send her to prison
22:41for the rest of her life.
22:43Tara's legs
22:43went limp in terror
22:44as she was dragged away.
22:49Tony stumbled back
22:50into the ancestral hall.
22:51He pieced together
22:52the guardian's tablet
22:53once more,
22:54knelt on the prayer mat,
22:55and begged for divine descent.
22:57Lord Anson used to say,
22:58among the Brooke family,
23:00Tony's prayers
23:00were always the most effective.
23:02Even for the slightest illness,
23:04once he finished praying,
23:05the miracle would come
23:06almost immediately.
23:07But this time,
23:08even after Tony
23:09had knelt in the ancestral hall
23:11for an entire night,
23:12no miracle appeared.
23:13Only then did Tony
23:14finally understand
23:15I was the one
23:16who'd been protecting them.
23:17At dawn,
23:18Tony knelt aside
23:19Lord Anson's bed
23:20and knocked his head
23:20to the ground three times.
23:22Solomon heavy.
23:24Grandfather,
23:25please tell me
23:25where Holly is.
23:26I want to atone
23:27for my sins in person.
23:29After I was admitted
23:30to the ranks of immortals,
23:31I suddenly heard
23:32that someone in the mortal realm
23:33had forged a golden body
23:34for me,
23:35opened a shrine,
23:36and offered incense
23:37day and night.
23:38By heavenly decree,
23:39I descended to manifest
23:40within the shrine
23:41and grant the wishes
23:42of the faithful.
23:43But the moment
23:44I opened my eyes
23:45within the golden body,
23:46the only person I saw
23:47was Tony.
23:48He had been kneeling
23:49on the prayer mat
23:50for a long time.
23:51When he noticed
23:52the statue open its eyes,
23:53he crawled forward
23:54on his knees,
23:55looking up at me,
23:56tears trembling
23:56at the corners of his eyes.
24:01Holly,
24:02I didn't know
24:02the snake
24:03was your cultivation,
24:04Achen.
24:04I was deceived
24:05by Tara,
24:06that's why I...
24:08I know I've committed
24:09unforgivable sins.
24:10I don't dare ask
24:11for your forgiveness,
24:13but...
24:13could you give me
24:14a chance
24:15to see you regularly?
24:16After ascending,
24:17I had already
24:18severed all mortal grudges.
24:20No resentment.
24:21No attachment.
24:23Forgiveness was meaningless.
24:25If you have no wish,
24:26don't waste the opportunity
24:27meant for others.
24:31Tony shook his head frantically
24:33and carefully pulled
24:34a jar from the corner.
24:35The moment he opened it,
24:36a snake shot out.
24:37It moved with eerie familiarity,
24:40clamping onto his chest
24:40and biting down viciously.
24:42The snake quickly slithered up
24:43the golden body
24:44and coiled around my wrist.
24:46I froze.
24:47Tony hastily bandaged
24:49the wound on his chest.
24:50His face was deathly pale.
24:52Snake was raised
24:53with my blood.
24:54I keep it in the shrine
24:55every day,
24:56letting it share
24:57incense with you.
25:04I was afraid
25:05that one day
25:05you might want to return
25:06but no longer
25:07have a physical body.
25:08So here's a snake,
25:10fed by my blood.
25:12Consider it repayment
25:13for the life
25:13I took from you.
25:14He didn't say it out right
25:15but his hidden hope
25:16was painfully obvious.
25:18I flicked my wrist,
25:19sending the snake away.
25:21Tony broke.
25:22Back there because of you,
25:24I gave Nist ascension
25:25and glowed in vengeance.
25:27But now,
25:27I've never more sins.
25:28I will might have king.
25:30No love.
25:31No regret.
25:33I will love all beings,
25:35but I will not linger
25:36for one person.
25:37I waved my hand,
25:38ordering him to leave
25:39and turned to grant
25:40the wishes
25:41of the truly faithful.
25:42Tony stared helplessly
25:44as the statue
25:44shut its eyes.
25:46Ollie, please don't go!
25:47You're still my wife!
25:49How can you be
25:50without love,
25:51without regret?
25:56Blood spilled
25:57from the corner
25:58of his lips.
25:59His emotions
26:00surged violently,
26:01triggering the snake venom.
26:02This time,
26:03it happened too suddenly.
26:05He had forgotten
26:06to bring anti-venom.
26:07The last thing he saw
26:08was my golden body.
26:10From Medare,
26:11I sighed.
26:12With a flick of my hand,
26:13I delayed the spread
26:14of the poison.
26:16No love,
26:16and no regret?
26:18Seems you still can't bear
26:20to let Tony Brooke
26:20leave the mortal world
26:21so soon.
26:24Divine Recruciation
26:25has not yet descended.
26:27He cannot die.
26:28I would make him repay
26:30every single strike
26:30of the three days
26:31of heavenly lightning
26:32I once endured.
26:33Soon,
26:34divine punishment
26:35fell upon the Brooke family.
26:36For the accumulated
26:37sins of generations,
26:39heavenly thunder
26:39surrounded the Brooke residence
26:40for seven days
26:41and seven nights.
26:43Skyscrapers that pierced
26:44the clouds
26:44were reduced to ashes
26:45in an instant.
26:46All claimed the Brooke family
26:48had angered heaven.
26:49No one dared associate
26:50with them again.
26:51The Brooke family's
26:52stock plummeted
26:53until bankruptcy.
26:54Lord Anson was struck
26:56by lightning
26:56and died on the spot.
26:58And Tony Brooke,
26:59without protection,
27:00had to beg
27:00on the streets every day,
27:02cradling the snake
27:03he fed with his blood.
27:04Day after day,
27:05the venom clared,
27:06using his final strength,
27:08trampled and shoved
27:09by the crowd,
27:10he crawled into the shrine
27:10that enshrined my golden body.
27:12His legs were crushed
27:13and broken.
27:14His wrists twisted
27:15out of shape.
27:17Blood dripped endlessly
27:18from his chest.
27:19Yet when he saw me appear,
27:21Holly,
27:22after I die,
27:23will I see you?
27:25I didn't answer.
27:26I only repeated calmly
27:27that he shouldn't say anything
27:28if he had no other wishes.
27:30He lowered his head
27:31and laughed bitterly.
27:36I promised you,
27:37if I ever let you down,
27:39I'd be shattered to pieces,
27:40die a miserable death.
27:44I suppose this counts
27:45as keeping my promise.
27:47His ten fingers
27:47were twisted
27:48at unnatural angles.
27:49He looked at me
27:50with pure devotion.
27:51I have a wish,
27:52Holly.
27:53Don't chase me away.
27:55He suddenly spat out
27:56a mouthful of blood.
27:58Before he died,
27:59he spoke his final words.
28:02My wish is this.
28:03May Holly Summers
28:04be blessed
28:05with eternal peace.
28:06My expression
28:07did not change.
28:08After Tony Broke
28:09was carried away,
28:10I continued granting
28:11the wishes of other people.
28:13Over the next hundred years,
28:14the legend of how
28:15I once protected
28:16the Broke family
28:17spread across the world.
28:18All who prayed
28:19in my shrine
28:19received responses
28:20and returned
28:21to give me credit.
28:22Incense flourished
28:23year after year.
28:24More people
28:25were coming for me.
28:26I continued to protect
28:28this land from disaster.
28:29I thought I would
28:30never see Tony again.
28:32Until one day,
28:33while on duty
28:33in the underworld.
28:34Holly.
28:36Tony Broke
28:37is about to be
28:37reincarnated.
28:38Before he goes,
28:39he wants to see you
28:40one last time.
28:41I don't want to see him.
28:46If this karmic tie
28:47isn't severed,
28:48neither of you
28:48will know peace
28:49for centuries.
28:53She pushed me
28:54in front of Tony Broke.
28:56It was the first time
28:57he saw me in this form.
28:58He looked me over
28:59with joy,
29:00stepping closer.
29:01I'm here to end
29:01our final karmic bond.
29:03Once it's severed,
29:04you will never
29:05remember me again.
29:08Tony wanted to say
29:09something,
29:09but the joy in his eyes
29:10vanished when he met
29:11my desireless gaze.
29:13He sighed softly.
29:14If I don't want
29:15to forget you,
29:16does that mean that
29:17in another life,
29:18we might...
29:18No.
29:21I personally handed him
29:23the bowl of forgetting.
29:24He knelt before me,
29:25begging for forgiveness.
29:27He didn't want
29:28to forget me.
29:29I merely held the bowl,
29:30my face cold and distant,
29:32looking at him
29:33as if he were a stranger.
29:34In the end,
29:35Tony Broke gave in.
29:36He collapsed to his knees,
29:38lifted the bowl,
29:39and drank the soup
29:40in one gulp.
29:41Before his memories faded,
29:42I heard him repeating
29:43my name over and over,
29:44as if warning himself
29:46not to forget.
29:46Holly Summers.
29:48Holly Summers.
29:49At his final breath,
29:51I handed the empty bowl
29:52back to the guider.
29:53It's severed.
29:54It's severed.
29:54We'll never see
29:55each other again.
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