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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,
01:34Keep pretending.
01:36You used the whole connected to snake thing to fool Lord Aniston.
01:39He might buy it, but I won't.
01:42Then, 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.
01:54It 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.
02:28So 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 halpy from Cultivate, and protect you until you regain all your
02:58power.
02:59Please forgive me thises, and keep shooping us for the sake of my mother.
03:02I didn't know what to say.
03:04About 100 years ago, Lord Aniston's mother saved me from an eagle.
03:09She 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.
03:32Looking 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.
03:53I limped my way back home.
03:55Before I entered, I heard Tony and Tara talking.
03:58People say snakes are...
04:00Unnaturally gifted.
04:02Is 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 and 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...
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.
05:40She 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.
06:07But 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.
06:26I 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.
06:39Holly 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.
06:56I noticed the black aura over their heads and then closed my eyes.
07:00The 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'd
07:23been 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.
07:52Holly, thank you for saving me.
07:53I'll ask Lord Anson to agree to our marriage.
07:57Tony 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.
08:15However, everything changed because of Tara Smith after several months.
08:21In the beginning, Tony stopped believing that I saved him with my cultivation.
08:26He found a bottle of medicine for neurological disorders and presented it to me.
08:31I actually believed your bullshit.
08:33It was just your scheme to marry me, right?
08:36I 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.
08:42I spat blood in front of him.
08:44He 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...
09:20Don'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.
09:28I 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,
09:36but my injured body wouldn't let me.
09:38I fell on the ground again.
09:44Don't you know immortal power or something?
09:46Go cast a spell on the eagle then.
09:52The eagle smelled blood on me and then rushed over to me.
09:55I just fainted after that attack.
09:58She blacked out.
09:59Can't even take a peck now, Brack!
10:01Get a doctor!
10:06When 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,
10:23and 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.
10:34Why did you touch the guardian's tablet?
10:36You knew I was about to marry Tara,
10:38so you did this on purpose, didn't you?
10:40You 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.
10:54One person shaded her from the sun.
10:56Another waved a fan.
10:58She 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.
11:08They're just to marry you
11:09and to 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.
11:21You 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.
11:33Gradually blood soaked my back.
11:35Flesh tore open.
11:36My consciousness slowly drifted away.
11:39In a daze, I remembered the past.
11:41That year, Tony had been whipped until he collapsed.
11:45Yet the moment Lord Anson agreed to let him marry me,
11:47he laughed like a child, forgetting all his pain.
11:50In this life, even if I'm spowered to pieces,
11:52even if I die a miserable death,
11:53or making way, I might die a ponely wife.
11:56A tear slid from the corner of my eye.
11:59I felt him crouch in front of me, testing my breath.
12:01Tony, do you know what happens
12:03when you break a promise to the Guardian?
12:07Shattered to pieces, a miserable death.
12:11I 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.
12:39Tony felt my breath and assumed I was pretending again.
12:42So he snorted and left with Tara.
12:44Only much later did Lord Anson learn what Tony had done.
12:48He 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.
12:57Please, continue protecting the Brooke family.
13:00The Brooke family was burdened with grave sins from the start.
13:03I shielded you from divine repation
13:06only out of gratitude for your mother's kindness.
13:08Now my tribulation is complete.
13:11I will ascend.
13:12From this moment on,
13:13you will have to face all the retribution yourselves.
13:16With those words, I vanished.
13:19The 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.
13:26It's over.
13:27The Brooke family is finished.
13:35That night,
13:36Tony took Tara for a checkup
13:38and 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.
13:46He turned and asked Lord Anson,
13:48Where's Holly?
13:50Didn't I order her to kneel in the courtyard all day?
13:52Before anyone could answer,
13:54Lord Anson stepped out from the side.
13:56His cane came down hard on Tony's leg to make him kneel.
13:59Lord Anson looked terrible.
14:01You unfilial ret.
14:04I told you long ago,
14:05Holly is the guardian of our family.
14:07The snake was merely the manifestation of her cultivation.
14:11The snake is destroyed.
14:12So is the guardian.
14:14From now on,
14:15no one will protect the Brooke family anymore.
14:18Tony froze.
14:19Then he pushed himself up and laughed.
14:22Grandfather,
14:23don't let her fool you anymore.
14:24I tested her today.
14:26She's terrified of eagles.
14:28How could she be the guardian?
14:30She's nothing but a greedy loser after our wealth.
14:33Everything was made up by her.
14:35And that snake?
14:36Just an ordinary pet snake.
14:39Its 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,
14:47Holly'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.
15:03The day the snake gall was taken,
15:05the moment I collapsed,
15:07my lifeless legs dragged across the ground.
15:10Exactly like that snake.
15:12He whispered in disbelief.
15:13Holly is terrified of pain.
15:16If the snake truly shared her senses,
15:19then this will be...
15:20Panic surged.
15:21He turned to Lord Anson,
15:22desperate for answers.
15:23How could the family guardian
15:24take human form
15:26and become his wife?
15:27Before Lord Anson could speak,
15:30dark clouds opened the thunder board,
15:32indicating a calamity was coming.
15:35If you want to know the truth,
15:37then kneel in the ancestral hall tonight
15:39and see for yourself
15:40whether anyone will protect our family.
15:43That night,
15:44thunder 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,
15:53a bolt of lightning struck
15:54straight into the ancestral hall,
15:55shattering the popcorn's form.
15:57Tony screamed.
15:58The lightning had struck less than a mirror.
16:05He broke down and ran
16:07to the waste incineration plant,
16:09desperately searching
16:10for the snake's remains.
16:11He turned the place upside down,
16:13but nothing.
16:14He then searched everywhere
16:15for my whereabouts,
16:16but still nothing.
16:18After that whipping,
16:19I had vanished into thin air
16:20in the ancestral courtyard.
16:22Tony shook his head in disbelief.
16:24He clutched the jar
16:25he had smashed with his own hands,
16:26staring at the blackened smoke marks
16:28torn 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?
16:35Was Holly telling the truth?
16:37Did I really destroy
16:39the Brook family's fate
16:41with my own hands?
16:43The next day,
16:44when Tara came to the Brook residence,
16:46all she saw was Tony kneeling
16:47in the ancestral courtyard.
16:48In his arms,
16:49he held the jar
16:50that had once contained the snake.
16:51She nudged the shattered porcelain
16:53at 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.
17:02He had knelt in the rain all night,
17:03so he got a fever.
17:04It's different.
17:06That snake shared its senses with Holly.
17:09When I ordered it cut open,
17:10she felt the same bone-ripping pain.
17:12Tara remained unconcerned.
17:14She crouched in front of him,
17:16pulled 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 have been cured.
17:22Feeling the warmth beneath his palm,
17:24Tony's mind cleared for 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
17:34I had been the one
17:34who saved his life.
17:36But in the very next second,
17:39Lord Anson's bodyguard
17:40stormed in and took Tara down.
17:44Tara struggled desperately,
17:46shaking her head at Tony,
17:48silently begging him to save her.
17:50Tony was stunned.
17:51There must be some mistake.
17:52Tara didn't trespass
17:53into the ancestral hall on purpose.
17:55A bodyguard sneered
17:56and slapped a stack of documents
17:57in front of him.
17:58Mr. Tony,
17:59take a look.
18:01You'll understand
18:02why 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.
18:09Tara had never been sick.
18:10She had colluded with the doctor
18:12to fabricate medical records.
18:13All to make Tony
18:14personally order
18:15the killing of my snake.
18:16Tony slowly turned his head
18:17to stare at Tara.
18:18Seeing that there was
18:19no way to hide it anymore,
18:21Tara collapsed helplessly
18:22to the ground.
18:26I was just jealous!
18:28Jealous that Holly had your love!
18:30That in your heart
18:32I couldn't even compare
18:33to that snake!
18:34And you know
18:34I'm terrified of such animals!
18:36I had no idea
18:37that snake was so important!
18:39Tony grabbed her throat viciously.
18:41If you hadn't claimed
18:42you were coughing yourself to death,
18:43if you hadn't forced me
18:45to touch Holly's snake,
18:46how could I personally
18:47take out the go-
18:51Back then,
18:52he had panicked.
18:53He truly believed
18:54that if Tara didn't
18:55take the gall immediately,
18:56she would die.
18:57That was why
18:58he wanted my snake's gall.
18:59At that moment,
19:00he realized that
19:01after extracting the gall,
19:03Tara had even ordered
19:03the snake to be skinned.
19:07Tony slammed his fists
19:08against his own head
19:09in regret.
19:10And that's not all.
19:12We also discovered
19:13that you used
19:14Mr. Tony's identity
19:15to do other things.
19:16Running tabs,
19:17eating for free,
19:18and even engaging
19:18in illegal dealings.
19:20The 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,
19:28luxury 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
19:35of the Brooke family's
19:36future heir.
19:37Hearing this,
19:38Tara's body trembled.
19:42She scrambled forward,
19:44clinging to Tony's
19:45pamp leg
19:45and cow-cowing repeatedly.
19:47Tony, I just wanted
19:48to become your wife.
19:49That's why I lost my way.
19:51But don't forget,
19:52when you were unconscious
19:53all those years ago,
19:54I was the one
19:55who saved you.
19:57Tony's raised hand
19:58froze Medare,
19:59then fell weakly.
20:00But before he could speak,
20:02the bodyguard flipped
20:03the documents
20:04to the final page
20:05and sneered.
20:06You lied to Mr. Tony
20:07for all these years.
20:09Did you really think
20:10we didn't preserve
20:10the records back then?
20:12Tony's eyes widened
20:13instantly.
20:17Tony's eyes widened
20:18instantly.
20:19He lowered his head,
20:20staring at the images
20:21in disbelief.
20:23Before he could process them,
20:24the sound of a cane echoed.
20:26Lord Anson stepped forward
20:27and handed him another item.
20:29Look carefully.
20:30Back then,
20:31you were born
20:32with a short-lived fate
20:33and fell into quimmer.
20:35It is Holly
20:36who break the heaven rules,
20:37who ended you
20:38three days of Devon lightning
20:40to transfer all her cultitation
20:42to new so you could live.
20:44To prevent any after effects,
20:45she even climbed
20:47steer cliffs
20:47to gather herbs,
20:48personally tasted
20:49hundreds of medicines for you.
20:51In total,
20:52she lost thousands
20:53of years of cultivation
20:54and you erased
20:55all of that
20:56just because of a few words
20:58from Tara Smith.
20:59Tony frantically
20:59flipped open the diary.
21:01The early pages
21:02were filled with dense notes,
21:03herbs,
21:03effects,
21:04side effects.
21:05Today's herbs
21:05were extremely toxic.
21:07I fell unconscious again.
21:08I can't let Tony
21:09see the black lines
21:10on my wrist
21:10or he'll worry.
21:12Tony took some
21:12other medicine today.
21:14Luckily,
21:14my blood can detoxify it.
21:16No,
21:16I must hide the cut mark
21:17and I gotta feed it to him
21:19while he's unconscious.
21:23Tears streamed down
21:24Tony's face.
21:25He vaguely remembered
21:26that during moments of clarity,
21:27he had once felt scars
21:28on my arm,
21:29but I always brushed it off.
21:30He hadn't asked further,
21:32so it had been my blood
21:33used 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
21:40a murderous glance.
21:41If you hadn't given me
21:42random drugs,
21:43Holly wouldn't have had
21:44to cut open her arm.
21:45Tara was pinned firmly
21:46to the ground.
21:47Don't be fooled
21:48by her lies.
21:49How could her blood
21:50detoxify anything?
21:51The medicine I gave you
21:53was what truly cured you.
21:55Tony flipped
21:56several more pages.
21:57There were days when,
21:58to test medicine,
21:59I had accidentally
22:00ingested poison
22:01and fallen unconscious.
22:02During those very days,
22:03Tara had secretly
22:04entered his room
22:05and tossed the medicine
22:06bottles under the bed.
22:06Unable to survive abroad,
22:08she only remembered him
22:09when she heard
22:10he was about to wake.
22:11She had kept him in mind,
22:12just in case.
22:13I had only seen
22:14Tara's silhouette
22:14leaving his room.
22:15I hadn't noticed
22:16the bottles beneath the bed.
22:17That was how the disaster
22:19had been left there.
22:22Tony pressed the diary
22:23to his chest
22:24and kicked Tara Smith
22:26away coldly.
22:29Throw her into the snake hole.
22:32She must suffer
22:33from the pain
22:33Holly endured.
22:34And it should be
22:35a hundredfold!
22:37If she survived,
22:38all the evidence
22:39in the Brooke family's hands
22:40would still be enough
22:41to send her to prison
22:42for the rest of her life.
22:43Tara's legs
22:44went limp in terror
22:45as she was dragged away.
22:49Tony stumbled back
22:50into the ancestral hall.
22:52He pieced together
22:53the guardian's tablet
22:54once more,
22:55knelt on the prayer mat,
22:56and begged for divine descent.
22:58Lord Anson used to say,
22:59among the Brooke family,
23:00Tony's prayers
23:01were always the most effective.
23:03Even for the slightest illness,
23:04once he finished praying,
23:06the miracle would come
23:06almost immediately.
23:08But this time,
23:09even after Tony
23:10had knelt in the ancestral hall
23:11for an entire night,
23:13no miracle appeared.
23:14Only then did Tony
23:15finally understand
23:16I was the one
23:16who'd been protecting them.
23:18At dawn,
23:19Tony knelt aside
23:19Lord Anson's bed
23:20and knocked his head
23:21to the ground three times,
23:23solemn and heavy.
23:24Grandfather,
23:25please tell me
23:26where Holly is.
23:27I want to atone
23:28for my sins in person.
23:29After I was admitted
23:30to the ranks of immortals,
23:32I suddenly heard
23:32that someone in the mortal realm
23:34had forged a golden body
23:35for me,
23:35opened a shrine,
23:36and offered incense
23:37day and night.
23:38By heavenly decree,
23:40I descended to manifest
23:41within the shrine
23:42and grant the wishes
23:43of the faithful.
23:44But the moment
23:44I opened my eyes
23:45within the golden body,
23:47the only person
23:47I saw was Tony.
23:49He had been kneeling
23:50on the prayer mat
23:50for a long time.
23:52When he noticed
23:52the statue open its eyes,
23:54he crawled forward
23:54on his knees,
23:55looking up at me,
23:56tears trembling
23:57at the corners
23:57of his eyes.
24:02Holly,
24:03I didn't know
24:03the snake
24:04was your cultivation,
24:05Achen.
24:05I was deceived
24:06by Tara,
24:07that's why I...
24:08I know I've committed
24:09unforgivable sins.
24:11I don't dare ask
24:12for your forgiveness,
24:14but...
24:14could you give me
24:15a chance
24:15to see you regularly?
24:17After ascending,
24:18I had already
24:19severed all mortal grudges.
24:20No resentment.
24:22No attachment.
24:23Forgiveness was meaningless.
24:26If you have no wish,
24:27don't waste
24:27the opportunity
24:28meant for others.
24:32Tony shook his head
24:33frantically
24:33and carefully
24:34pulled a jar
24:35from the corner.
24:35The moment he opened it,
24:37a snake shot out.
24:38It moved
24:39with eerie familiarity,
24:40clamping onto his chest
24:41and biting down viciously.
24:43The snake quickly
24:44slithered up
24:44the golden body
24:45and coiled around my wrist.
24:47I froze.
24:48Tony hastily bandaged
24:49the wound on his chest.
24:51His face was deathly pale.
24:53Snake was raised
24:53with my blood.
24:55I keep it
24:56in the shrine
24:56every day,
24:57letting it share
24:58incense with you.
25:05I was afraid
25:06that one day
25:06you might want to return
25:07but no longer
25:08have a physical body.
25:09So here's a snake,
25:11fed by my blood.
25:12Consider it repayment
25:13for the life
25:14I took from you.
25:15He didn't say it outright,
25:16but his hidden hope
25:17was painfully obvious.
25:19I flicked my wrist,
25:20sending the snake away.
25:22Tony Brooke,
25:23back there
25:24because of you,
25:25I gave Nist ascension
25:26and glowed in vengeance.
25:27But now,
25:28I've never more sins.
25:29I will might have king.
25:31No love,
25:32no regret.
25:33I will love all beings,
25:35but I will not linger
25:36for one person.
25:38I waved my hand,
25:39ordering him to leave
25:40and turn to grant
25:41the wishes
25:42of the truly faithful.
25:43Tony stared helplessly
25:44as the statue
25:45shut its eyes.
25:46Ollie,
25:47please don't go!
25:48You're still my wife!
25:50How can you be
25:51without love,
25:52without regret?
25:57Blood spilled
25:58from the corner
25:58of his lips.
25:59His emotions
26:00surged violently,
26:02triggering the snake venom.
26:03This time,
26:04it happened too suddenly.
26:06He had forgotten
26:07to bring anti-venom.
26:08The last thing he saw
26:09was my golden body.
26:11From Medare,
26:11I sighed.
26:12With a flick of my hand,
26:14I delayed the spread
26:15of the poison.
26:16No love,
26:17and no regret?
26:19Seems you still can't bear
26:20to let Tony Brooke
26:21leave the mortal world
26:22so soon.
26:25Divine Recruciation
26:26has not yet descended.
26:27He cannot die.
26:29I would make him repay
26:30every single strike
26:31of the three days
26:32of heavenly lightning
26:33I once endured.
26:34Soon,
26:35divine punishment
26:35fell upon the Brooke family.
26:37For the accumulated
26:38sins of generations,
26:39heavenly thunder
26:40surrounded the Brooke residence
26:41for seven days
26:42and seven nights.
26:44Skyscrapers that pierced
26:45the clouds
26:45were reduced to ashes
26:46in an instant.
26:47All claimed the Brooke family
26:48had angered heaven.
26:50No one dared associate
26:51with them again.
26:52The Brooke family
26:53stopped commited
26:54until bankruptcy.
26:55Lord Anson was struck
26:56by lightning
26:57and died on the spot.
26:58And Tony Brooke,
26:59without protection,
27:01had to beg
27:01on the streets every day,
27:03cradling the snake
27:03he fed with his blood.
27:05Day after day,
27:06the venom flared.
27:07Using his final strength,
27:09trampled and shoved
27:09by the crowd,
27:10he crawled into the shrine
27:11that enshrined
27:12my golden body.
27:13His legs were crushed
27:14and broken.
27:15His wrists twisted
27:16out of shape.
27:17Blood dripped endlessly
27:18from his chest.
27:19Yet when he saw me appear,
27:21Holly,
27:22after I die,
27:24will I see you?
27:25I didn't answer.
27:26I only repeated calmly
27:28that he shouldn't say anything
27:29if he had no other wishes.
27:31He lowered his head
27:32and laughed bitterly.
27:37I promised you,
27:38if I ever let you down,
27:40I'd be shattered to pieces,
27:41die a miserable death.
27:45I suppose this counts
27:46as keeping my promise.
27:47His ten fingers
27:48were twisted
27:49at unnatural angles.
27:50He looked at me
27:51with pure devotion.
27:52I have a wish, Holly.
27:54Don't chase me away.
27:56He suddenly spat out
27:57a mouthful of blood.
27:58Before he died,
28:00he spoke his final words.
28:02My wish is this.
28:04May Holly Summers
28:05be blessed
28:05with eternal peace.
28:07My expression
28:07did not change.
28:09After Tony Brooke
28:10was carried away,
28:11I continued granting
28:12the wishes of other people.
28:14Over the next hundred years,
28:15the legend of how
28:16I once protected
28:17the Brooke family
28:17spread across the world.
28:19All who prayed
28:20in my shrine
28:20received responses
28:21and returned
28:22to give me credit.
28:23Incense flourished
28:24year after year.
28:25More people
28:26were coming for me.
28:27I continued to protect
28:28this land
28:29from disaster.
28:30I thought I would
28:31never see Tony again.
28:32Until one day,
28:34while on duty
28:34in the underworld...
28:35Holly.
28:37Tony Brooke
28:37is about to be
28:38reincarnated.
28:39Before he goes,
28:40he wants to see you
28:41one last time.
28:42I don't want to see him.
28:46If this karmic tie
28:48isn't severed,
28:49neither of you
28:49will know peace
28:50for centuries.
28:54She pushed me
28:55in front of Tony Brooke.
28:56It was the first time
28:58he saw me in this form.
28:59He looked me over
29:00with joy,
29:01stepping closer...
29:02I'm here to end
29:02our final karmic bond.
29:04Once it's severed,
29:05you will never
29:06remember me again.
29:08Tony wanted
29:09to say something,
29:10but the joy in his eyes
29:11vanished when he met
29:12my desireless gaze.
29:13He sighed softly.
29:15If I don't want
29:16to forget you,
29:17does that mean
29:17that in another life,
29:18we might...
29:19No.
29:22I personally handed him
29:24the bowl of forgetting.
29:25He knelt before me,
29:26begging for forgiveness.
29:28He didn't want
29:29to forget me.
29:30I merely held the bowl,
29:31my face cold and distant,
29:33looking at him
29:34as if he were a stranger.
29:35In the end,
29:36Tony Brooke gave in.
29:37He collapsed to his knees,
29:39lifted the bowl,
29:40and drank the soup
29:41in one gulp.
29:41Before his memories faded,
29:43I heard him repeating
29:44my name over and over,
29:45as if warning himself
29:47not to forget.
29:47Holly Summers.
29:49Holly Summers.
29:50At his final breath,
29:52I handed the empty bowl
29:53back to the guider.
29:54It's severed.
29:55It's severed.
29:55We'll never see
29:56each other again.
29:57We'll never see each other again.
29:59We'll never see each other again.
30:00We'll never see each other again.
30:00We'll never see each other again.
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