Holly Summers, an ancient snake immortal, sacrifices everything to save the man she loves—only to be betrayed. After losing her power and nearly her life, she cuts all mortal ties and rises to godhood. But when the truth is revealed, it’s too late—his betrayal leads to ruin, and their love ends in eternal regret.
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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.
00:57They destroyed its coal.
00:59They 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, you'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.
02:06She 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 thises, 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.
03:40I'm no longer a guardian.
03:42I've saved the brooks from so many disasters,
03:44and I've sacrificed my cultivation to save Tony.
03:47I think we're pretty much even now.
03:48Just 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...
04:00Unnaturally 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.
04:09However, 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.
04:40I don't think Holly was trying to scare me or something.
04:42But the gall of her snake did help ease my coughing.
04:45I 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.
04:54You know there's a connection between me and my snake.
04:58If you boil it, I 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.
05:21I 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.
05:32You'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.
05:44The 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.
05:51The 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's 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.
06:11Then 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.
06:48After 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.
07:17Ten years ago, Lord Anson knelt in the ancestral hall and begged me to save Tony, because he'd
07:22been in a coma for a while.
07:24Originally, 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.
07:51Holly, 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.
08:07After 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.
08:56After 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.
09:24When I got to the cage, my whole body hurt.
09:27I lifted my head only to find the eagle from before.
09:31Tony opened the cage and let the eagle out.
09:33The fear of the natural enemy wanted me to stand up, but 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 pet 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, and 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, so 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 and 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, a 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 gravers 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, this 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, he laughed like a child, forgetting all his pain.
11:49In this life, even if I'm spowered to pieces, even if I die a miserable death, or making way I
11:53might 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?
12:06Shattered to pieces, a miserable death.
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, to repay the Brooke family's life-saving grace.
12:29You sacrificed yourself to block calamity a hundred times.
12:32In recognition of your gratitude, you 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, watching my body slowly turn transparent, sobbing 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 rapation only out of gratitude for your mother's kindness.
13:08Now my tribulation is complete.
13:10I will ascend.
13:12From this moment on, you will have to face all the retribution yourselves.
13:16With those words, I vanished.
13:18The nearly hundred-year-old man slammed his head against the ground again and again.
13:23All he saw was white smoke dispersing into the air.
13:25It's over.
13:26The Brooke family is finished.
13:35That night, Tony took Tara for a checkup and only returned after confirming her coughing
13:39wouldn't worsen.
13:40As he passed the garden outside the ancestral hall, he found my blood from earlier that day
13:45was 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, Lord Anson stepped out from the side.
13:55His cane came down hard on Tony's leg to make him kneel.
13:59Lord Anson looked terrible.
14:01You unfilial ret.
14:03I told you long ago, Holly 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, no one will protect the Brooke family anymore.
14:17Tony froze.
14:19Then he pushed himself up and laughed.
14:22Grandfather, don'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, Holly's health kept dislining?
14:48Every knife you ordered onto that snake was a knife cut into Holly herself.
14:52How could you be so cruel to the wife you begged for with your own suffering?
14:56Tony's mind went blank.
14:58Fragments flooded back.
15:02The day the snake gall was taken, the moment I collapsed, my lifeless legs dragged across
15:08the ground.
15:09Exactly like that snake, he whispered in disbelief.
15:13Holly is terrified of pain.
15:15If the snake truly shared her senses, then this will be-
15:20Panic surge.
15:20He turned to Lord Anson, desperate for answers.
15:23How could the family guardian take human form and become his wife?
15:27Before Lord Anson could speak, dark clouds opened into the underworld, indicating a calamity
15:32was coming.
15:34If you want know the truth, then kneel in the ancestral hall tonight and see for yourself
15:40whether anyone will protect our family.
15:43That night, thunder shook the heavens.
15:45Tony desperately pieced together the fragments on the floor.
15:48Barely, he assembled the word guardian.
15:51The instant he placed it on the table, a bolt of lightning struck straight into the ancestral
15:54hall, shattering the problem once more.
15:57Tony screamed for the lightning and struck less than a mirror.
16:05He broke down and ran to the waste incineration plant, desperately searching for the snake's
16:10remains.
16:11He turned the place upside down but nothing.
16:14He then searched everywhere for my whereabouts but still nothing.
16:17After that whipping, I had vanished into thin air in the ancestral courtyard.
16:21Tony shook his head in disbelief.
16:23He clutched the jar he had smashed with his own hands, staring at the blackened smoke marks
16:27torn into the ancestral hall's eaves by lightning.
16:30He looked down at his hands and murmured hoarsely.
16:32How is this possible?
16:34Was Holly telling the truth?
16:37Did I really destroy the Brook family's fate?
16:41With my own hands?
16:43The next day, when Tara came to the Brook residence, all she saw was Tony kneeling in the ancestral
16:47courtyard.
16:47In his arms, he held the jar that had once contained the snake.
16:51She nudged the shattered porcelain at her feet with her shoe.
16:54It was just a pet snake.
16:56Why did you go all the way to the dump to get this broken jar back?
17:00Tony shook his head.
17:01He had knelt in the rain all night so he got a fever.
17:03It's different.
17:05That snake shared its senses with Holly.
17:08When I ordered it cut open, she felt the same bone-ripping pain.
17:12Tara remained unconcerned.
17:14She crouched in front of him, pulled his hand, and pressed it against her chest.
17:18But if you didn't get the gold for me, my coughing would never have been cured.
17:22Feeling the warmth beneath his palm, Tony's mind cleared for a brief moment.
17:26He thought Tara was right.
17:28Tara was the one who had saved him back then.
17:30Even if I truly was the guardian, there was no proof I had been the one who saved his life.
17:36But in the very next second, Lord Anson's bodyguard stormed in and took Tara down.
17:44Tara struggled desperately, shaking her head at Tony, silently begging him to save her.
17:49Tony was stunned.
17:50There must be some mistake.
17:52Tara didn't trespass into the ancestral hall on purpose.
17:54A bodyguard sneered and slapped a stack of documents in front of him.
17:58Mr. Tony, take a look.
18:00You'll understand why we took her down.
18:03Tony lowered his head and saw photos of Tara with her attending physician.
18:06The bodyguards had already confirmed the truth.
18:08Tara had never been sick.
18:10She had colluded with the doctor to fabricate medical records.
18:13All to make Tony personally order the killing of my snake.
18:15Tony slowly turned his head to stare at Tara.
18:18Seeing that there was no way to hide it anymore, Tara collapsed helplessly to the ground.
18:25I was just jealous.
18:28Jealous that Holly had your love.
18:30That in your heart I couldn't even compare to that snake.
18:33And you know I'm terrified of such animals.
18:36I had no idea that snake was so important.
18:38Tony grabbed her throat viciously.
18:40If you hadn't claimed you were coughing yourself to death.
18:43If you hadn't forced me to touch Holly's snake.
18:45How could I personally take out the gall?
18:51Back then, he had panicked.
18:53He truly believed that if Tara didn't take the gall immediately, she would die.
18:56That was why he wanted my snake's gall.
18:59At that moment, he realized that after extracting the gall, Tara had even ordered the snake to be skinned.
19:07Tony slammed his fists against his own head in regret.
19:09And that's not all.
19:11We also discovered that you used Mr. Tony's identity to do other things.
19:16Running tabs, eating for free, and even engaging in illegal dealings.
19:19The Brooke family's reputation and Mr. Tony's name have been completely ruined by you.
19:24The documents contained joint complaints from multiple establishments.
19:27Luxury boutiques.
19:29High-end restaurants.
19:30All records of Tara scamming goods and meals under Tony's name.
19:33She had even sold unapproved pharmaceuticals in the name of the Brooke family's future heir.
19:36Hearing this, Tara's body trembled.
19:42She scrambled forward, clinging to Tony's pamp leg and cow-cowing repeatedly.
19:46Tony, I just wanted to become your wife.
19:49That's why I lost my way.
19:50But don't forget, when you were unconscious all those years ago, I was the one who saved you.
19:56Tony's raised hand froze Medare, then fell weakly.
20:00But before he could speak, the bodyguard flipped the documents to the final page and sneered.
20:05You lied to Mr. Tony for all these years.
20:08Did you really think we didn't preserve the records back then?
20:11Tony's eyes widened instantly.
20:16Tony's eyes widened instantly.
20:18He lowered his head, staring at the images in disbelief.
20:22Before he could process them, the sound of a cane echoed.
20:26Lord Anson stepped forward and handed him another item.
20:28Look carefully.
20:29Back then, you were born with a short-lived fate and fell into quimmer.
20:34It is Holly who break the heaven rules, who ended you three days of Devon lightning to transfer all her
20:40cultitation to new so you could live.
20:43To prevent any after effects, she even climbed steer cliffs to gather herbs, personally tasted hundreds of medicines for you.
20:50In total, she lost thousands of years of cultivation.
20:54And you erased all of that just because of a few words from Tara Smith.
20:58Tony frantically flipped open the diary.
21:00The early pages were filled with dense notes, herbs, effects, side effects.
21:04Today's herbs were extremely toxic.
21:06I fell unconscious again.
21:07I can't let Tony see the black lines on my wrist.
21:10Or he'll worry.
21:11Tony took some other medicine today.
21:13Luckily, my blood can detoxify it.
21:15No, I must hide the cut mark.
21:17And I gotta feed it to him while he's unconscious.
21:22Tears streamed down Tony's face.
21:24He vaguely remembered that during moments of clarity, he had once felt scars on my arm.
21:28But I always brushed it off.
21:30He hadn't asked further.
21:31So it had been my blood, used to detoxify his body.
21:34And that mysterious medicine.
21:35Tony clenched the diary tightly.
21:38His jaw tensed as he shot Tara a murderous glance.
21:41If you hadn't given me random drugs, Holly wouldn't have had to cut open her arm.
21:45Tara was pinned firmly to the ground.
21:46Don't be fooled by her lies.
21:48How could her blood detoxify anything?
21:51The medicine I gave you was what truly cured you.
21:55Tony flipped several more pages.
21:57There were days when, to test medicine, I had accidentally ingested poison and fallen unconscious.
22:01During those very days, Tara had secretly entered his room and tossed the medicine bottles under the bed.
22:06Unable to survive abroad, she only remembered him when she heard he was about to wake.
22:10She had kept him in mind, just in case.
22:12I had only seen Tara's silhouette leaving his room.
22:15I hadn't noticed the bottles beneath the bed.
22:17That was how the disaster had been left there.
22:21Tony pressed the diary to his chest and kicked Tara Smith away coldly.
22:36If she survived, all the evidence in the Brooke family's hands would still be enough to send her to prison
22:41for the rest of her life.
22:43Tara's legs went limp in terror as she was dragged away.
22:48Tony stumbled back into the ancestral hall.
22:51He pieced together the guardian's tablet once more, knelt on the prayer mat, and begged for divine descent.
22:57Lord Anson used to say, among the Brooke family, Tony's prayers were always the most effective.
23:02Even for the slightest illness, once he finished praying, the miracle would come almost immediately.
23:07But this time, even after Tony had knelt in the ancestral hall for an entire night, no miracle appeared.
23:13Only then did Tony finally understand I was the one who'd been protecting them.
23:17At dawn, Tony knelt aside Lord Anson's bed and knocked his head to the ground three times, solemn and heavy.
23:24Grandfather, please tell me where Holly is.
23:26I want to atone for my sins in person.
23:29After I was admitted to the ranks of immortals, I suddenly heard that someone in the mortal realm had forged
23:33a golden body for me,
23:35opened a shrine, and offered incense day and night.
23:38By heavenly decree, I descended to manifest within the shrine and grant the wishes of the faithful.
23:43But the moment I opened my eyes within the golden body, the only person I saw was Tony.
23:48He had been kneeling on the prayer mat for a long time.
23:51When he noticed the statue open its eyes, he crawled forward on his knees, looking up at me, tears trembling
23:56at the corners of his eyes.
24:01Holly, I didn't know the snake was your cultivation, Achen.
24:04I was deceived by Tara, that's why I...
24:07I know I've committed unforgivable sins.
24:10I don't dare ask for your forgiveness.
24:13But could you give me a chance to see you regularly?
24:16After ascending, I had already severed all mortal grudges.
24:20No resentment.
24:21No attachment.
24:23Forgiveness was meaningless.
24:25If you have no wish, don't waste the opportunity meant for others.
24:31Tony shook his head frantically and carefully pulled a jar from the corner.
24:35The moment he opened it, a snake shot out.
24:37It moved with eerie familiarity, clamping onto his chest and biting down viciously.
24:42The snake quickly slithered up the golden body and coiled around my wrist.
24:46I froze.
24:47Tony hastily bandaged the wound on his chest.
24:50His face was deathly pale.
24:52Snake was raised with my blood.
24:54I keep it in the shrine every day, letting it share incense with you.
25:04I was afraid that one day you might want to return, but no longer have a physical body.
25:08So here's a snake, fed by my blood.
25:12Consider it repayment for the life I took from you.
25:14He didn't say it outright, but his hidden hope was painfully obvious.
25:18I flicked my wrist, sending the snake away.
25:21Tony Brooke.
25:22Back there because of you, I gave nests to Sension and glowed in Vangin.
25:26But now I've never more resumes.
25:28I will my dickling.
25:30No love.
25:31No regret.
25:33I will love all beings.
25:34But I will not linger for one person.
25:37I waved my hand, ordering him to leave, and turned to grant the wishes of the truly faithful.
25:42Tony stared helplessly as the statue shut its eyes.
25:45Oli, please don't go.
25:47You're still my wife.
25:49How can you be without love, without regret?
25:56Blood spilled from the corner of his lips.
25:59His emotions surged violently, triggering the snake venom.
26:02This time, it happened too suddenly.
26:05He had forgotten to bring anti-venom.
26:07The last thing he saw was my golden body.
26:10From Medare, I sighed.
26:11With a flick of my hand, I delayed the spread of the poison.
26:16No love, and no regret?
26:18Seems you still can't bear to let Tony Brooke leave the mortal world so soon.
26:24Divine Recruciation has not yet descended.
26:27He cannot die.
26:28I would make him repay every single strike of the three days of heavenly lightning I once endured.
26:33Soon, divine punishment fell upon the Brooke family.
26:36For the accumulated sins of generations, heavenly thunder surrounded the Brooke residence for seven days and seven nights.
26:43Skyscrapers that pierced the clouds were reduced to ashes in an instant.
26:46All claimed the Brooke family had angered heaven.
26:49No one dared associate with them again.
26:51The Brooke family's stock plummeted until bankruptcy.
26:54Lord Anson was struck by lightning and died on the spot.
26:57And Tony Brooke, without protection, had to beg on the streets every day, cradling the snake he fed with his
27:03blood.
27:04Day after day, the venom flared.
27:06Using his final strength, trampled and shoved by the crowd, he crawled into the shrine that enshrined my golden body.
27:12His legs were crushed and broken.
27:14His wrists twisted out of shape.
27:17Blood dripped endlessly from his chest.
27:19Yet when he saw me appear,
27:21Holly, after I die, will I see you?
27:25I didn't answer.
27:26I only repeated calmly that he shouldn't say anything if he had no other wishes.
27:30He lowered his head and laughed bitterly.
27:36I promised you, if I ever let you down, I'd be shattered to pieces, die a miserable death.
27:44I suppose this counts as keeping my promise.
27:47His ten fingers were twisted at unnatural angles.
27:49He looked at me with pure devotion.
27:51I have a wish, Holly.
27:53Don't chase me away.
27:55He suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
27:58Before he died, he spoke his final words.
28:01My wish is this.
28:03May Holly Summers be blessed with eternal peace.
28:06My expression did not change.
28:08After Tony Brooke was carried away,
28:10I continued granting the wishes of other people.
28:13Over the next hundred years,
28:14the legend of how I once protected the Brooke family spread across the world.
28:18All who prayed in my shrine received responses and returned to give me credit.
28:22Incense flourished year after year.
28:24More people were coming for me.
28:26I continued to protect this land from disaster.
28:29I thought I would never see Tony again.
28:32Until one day, while on duty in the underworld.
28:34Holly.
28:36Tony Brooke is about to be reincarnated.
28:38Before he goes, he wants to see you one last time.
28:41I don't want to see him.
28:46If this karmic tie isn't severed,
28:48neither of you will know peace for centuries.
28:53She pushed me in front of Tony Brooke.
28:56It was the first time he saw me in this form.
28:58He looked me over with joy, stepping closer.
29:01I'm here to end our final karmic bond.
29:03Once it's severed, you will never remember me again.
29:08Tony wanted to say something, but the joy in his eyes vanished when he met my desireless gaze.
29:13He sighed softly.
29:14If I don't want to forget you, does that mean that in another life, we might...
29:18No.
29:21I personally handed him the bowl of forgetting.
29:24He knelt before me, begging for forgiveness.
29:27He didn't want to forget me.
29:29I merely held the bowl, my face cold and distant, looking at him as if he were a stranger.
29:34In the end, Tony Brooke gave in.
29:36He collapsed to his knees, lifted the bowl, and drank the soup in one gulp.
29:41Before his memories faded, I heard him repeating my name over and over,
29:44as if warning himself not to forget.
29:49At his final breath, I handed the empty bowl back to the guider.
29:53It's severed.
29:54We'll never see each other again.
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