Chapter 1286 - The Truth Behind the Wedding (1/2)
“Two years after my father brought my mother back, they got married in Floating Cloud City. Even though my father never knew my mother’s true history, he had never felt any complications or reservations towards her because of this.”
“In the third year they were together, they had me. In the fourth year, they had Yuanba. In the seventh year… my mother suddenly recovered both her profound strength and her memories over the course of one night.”
“After that, she left, leaving behind my father, leaving behind Yuanba and I as well. She had left with a heartless determination, completely severing the destined bond of marriage between herself and my father. She also did not take anything with her. She instead wanted my father, wanted us to forget about her forever, and to never ever go looking for her…”
Even when she said these words now, Yun Che could still sense Xia Qingyue’s deep sorrow. He gave a soft sigh before speaking, “Qingyue, she was not being callous or heartless when she did those things. It was because she had no choice but to leave. Otherwise, the moment her aura was discovered, it would only bring down a huge calamity on all of your heads.”
The woman who was his one true love, the woman whom he had grandly announced to the entire universe was going to be his future god empress, had become someone else’s wife and had even given birth to two children with that man due to her amnesia… There was no man who could maintain his composure when faced with such a result. The more he loved Yue Wugou, the more crazed he would become—to say nothing of the fact that he was the Moon God Emperor as well.
Being found by him would almost certainly result in him killing Xia Hongyi, and even Xia Qingyue and Xia Yuanba as well.
Thus, she had no choice but to leave and she would never be able to return either.
“I know,” Xia Qingyue said in a melancholic voice. “But other than that, there were also her feelings towards my foster father… and her guilt.”
Yun Che, “...”
“My mother told me that the seven years that she spent together with my father was a period that she felt very safe and happy. My father loved her and she truly did love my father as well. Those years, she had never once thought of getting those lost memories back, in fact she was even afraid… Afraid that her reawakened memories would shatter her current peace and happiness. But… the moment she recovered all of her memories, everything was turned upside down.”
“...” Yun Che was only quietly listening but even he felt a heavy stifling sensation settle on him.
The Moon God Emperor had loved Yue Wugou. He had not taken any more concubines because of her, he had built the God Empress Palace for her, he had given her the name “Yue Wugou”, had planned to make her his Moon God Empress, had grandly announced her to the entire universe, had completely fractured any and all relationships he had with the Star God Realm over her…
Xia Hongyi had also deeply loved Yue Wugou. The seven years that Yue Wugou had lost her strength and memories were seven years where she was at her weakest and most powerless. During that period of time, it was Xia Hongyi who was by her side through it all, and she had even married Xia Hongyi and had two children with him…
Yue Wugou was undoubtedly a fortunate soul to have met two men who loved her with all of their souls in her life… But the moment the fog over her memories had been lifted, this all turned into heart-rending cruelty.
She had to make a choice.
Choosing Xia Hongyi would cause her to wrong Yue Wuya now and forever, and it would also bring down an enormous calamity on the heads of Xia Hongyi and her two children.
Choosing to leave Xia Hongyi would mean that she would never be able to see her husband and children ever again…
It was indeed a most cruel decision.
Furthermore, she knew she no longer had the qualifications to choose Yue Wuya ever again, the only things she was left with in regards to him were her guilt and her shame.
“After she had chosen to leave us all those years ago, my mother actually did not return to the God Realm. Rather, she… was looking for a quiet and secluded place, a place to die. Because, she felt that her own existence would only bring calamity to my family. And in regards to foster father… She felt too ashamed to ever meet him again.”
Yun Che, “...”
She had clearly done nothing wrong, yet she had somehow become the biggest sinner… Yun Che let out a deep sigh of sadness in his heart.
“But, in the end, she gave up on ending her own life and returned to the Moon God Realm. Because she wanted to see my foster father one last time, or perhaps she felt that… it was best if she could die by my foster father’s own hands.”
“But even if she did not kill herself and foster father did not kill her, in actuality, she did not have much time left.”
Yun Che was mildly shocked at those words, “You’re saying that your mother, she’s…”
Xia Qingyue sofly closed her eyes in order to not let Yun Che see the deep pain in them, “Ever since she was severely wounded all those years ago and lost all her profound strength, her vitality was actually being whittled away every year. Those seven years during which she gave birth to Yuanba and I also caused to lose nearly all of the Stainless divine aura she had left in her body. In fact, when she had finally regained her profound strength and memories all of the sudden, it was actually akin to… the final brilliant flourish of a dying sun.”
“...” Yun Che was struck completely dumb by those words, he could find no words to say in response to that.
Xia Qingyue’s mother had always had a weak constitution and this was something that the entire Floating Cloud City probably knew about. All those years ago, Xia Hongyi had mentioned this and he had also mentioned that her body was extremely weak, and when her condition was serious, even walking would be difficult for her. She had even had a difficult birth when she was giving birth to Xia Qingyue and when Xia Qingyue was born, her entire body was icy cold and her aura was extremely weak. If not for Xiao Ying using all his strength to save her, perhaps she would have lost her life during that birth.
Moreover, it was also for this reason that Xia Qingyue had been betrothed to “Xiao Che” from the moment she was born.
Coupled with that last event, the reason that Xia Hongyi gave to the public regarding the departure of Yue Wugou was that she had passed away from a weak constitution and a serious illness… This was something that nobody ever had any cause to doubt.
“My mother had originally quietly returned to the Moon God Realm, but for some odd reason, she ended up being discovered by other people. This added fuel to the fire and caused my foster father’s reputation to suffer great damage. My mother had originally thought that Foster Father would hate and resent her, or perhaps kill her himself, but…”
She softly drew in a breath before continuing, “He told my mother, ‘stainless and boundless’ was a vow he had made that would last a lifetime, and it was not because she had possessed the Stainless Divine Body nor was it because she had become ‘impure’. To him, for her to be able to return again was the greatest blessing that the heavens had bestowed upon him.”
Yun Che, “...”
“Those weren’t just hollow and empty words.” Xia Qingyue continued in a soft voice, “After my mother returned to the Moon God Realm, everyone, including the people of the Moon God Realm itself, had expected her to be locked away in some lightless place suffering under foster father’s wrath, or maybe she would even be tortured to death… But in truth, over the past few years, she had her own little world and many maidservants who were there specifically to take care of her and meet her every need. Furthermore, foster father went to meet her and accompany her almost every day, and every so often, he would use his own power to extend her life. He also did not hesitate to use the best medicinal pellets in the Moon God Realm on my mother’s body.”
“If not for all of this, my mother would have departed this world long ago, and I also would definitely not have been able to see her again.”
Yun Che was deeply shaken by those words.
It was also at this moment that his impression of the Moon God Emperor completely changed.
The “Yue Wugou” affair that had happened all those years ago had caused the Moon God Emperor to suffer such great humiliation that even Yun Che, who had not been in the Eastern Divine Region for very long, had known about it. In fact, this scandal could even have been termed as the greatest scandal in the history of the Moon God Realm.