I Hope You Can Forgive Me

If life feels bitter, people might crave something sweet to dispel the bitterness in their hearts.

That's why God of Luck gets to eat lollipops.

Sometimes even gods feel great pain and despair in certain situations.

God is not without feelings or desires, but simply lives long enough and hides them deeply enough. Those unspeakable sufferings and unspeakable difficulties accumulate in the heart day by day, and they must eventually find an outlet.

God of Luck's solution was a lollipop.

When the sweetness melts on his tongue, those surging emotions can be temporarily suppressed, allowing him to reveal his gentle demeanor once more.

In the Divine Realm, the impression of the Gods of God of Luck is probably that he is a god who can bring them good fortune.

Besides that, there seems to be no other opinion.

Oh, right, there's one more thing.

That is the god who likes to appear in pairs with the God of Wealth.

Who made them always walk together? One brings Good Luck, and the other brings God of Fortune. Standing there, they are like two Shengsheng koi fish, and everyone who sees them wants to get closer and touch them.

Especially if you can get that Good Luck buff, that feeling is absolutely wonderful.

As for what kind of person the God of God of Luck truly is, what he likes and dislikes, and what he harbors in his heart, the Gods don't care. After all, they are Gods; how could they possibly lay themselves bare before other gods like an autopsy?

Isn't that just losing face?

Even Gods have dignity, Gods dignity is even greater than that of mortals. Many times, people put on airs, keep a tight rein on themselves, and keep themselves completely covered up.

This is also common among humans.

People are not like they used to be.

In this era of steel and concrete, the cold steel and concrete have also isolated people's hearts. Some people live in one place their whole lives and don't even know their next-door neighbors.

They live across from each other, have lived there for decades, and don't even know each other's last name.

Upstairs and downstairs, we see each other all the time, yet we don't even bother to nod. Everyone lives in their own little cubicle, separated by a thin wall, yet it feels like we're separated by a vast distance.

How tragic this situation is!

But unfortunately, no one can change anything.

This applies to Gods as well as mortals.

Sometimes, the more you are in a crowd, the more lonely you feel.

The more bustling the place, the less you can hear your own voice.

God of Luck, with that lollipop in her mouth, departed from the banks of the River of Time.

Perhaps he was wrong in what he did before.

He had always believed that he was protecting the other person, and that had been the case for a very long time.

Instinctively, I want to be kinder to myself, instinctively I want to protect myself, I don't want to see those dirty things, I don't want to show that expression again, I want to live a happier life, I want...

He simply can't.

But as another God of Wealth for himself, he must protect it well.

This thought took root in the heart of God of Luck, and unknowingly, it grew into an obsession, a kind of inner demon.

Especially after that That Matter, God of Luck's protective instincts towards the God of Wealth intensified.

He knew the God of Wealth's nature better than anyone else; he knew better than anyone else what the God of Wealth would think, what he would say, when he would soften his heart, and in what matters he would act stubbornly.

So he kept out everything that might harm the God of God of Wealth, one by one.

The God of Wealth still doesn't know how many of the troubles that should have fallen on him were quietly transferred to him by the God of Luck.

However, because he knew the God of God of Wealth so well, he didn't let the other party realize this at all.

The God of Wealth truly knew nothing about these things.

At this moment, he is on a mountain in Fulin Town.

The mountain is not high, but it is covered with lush trees, and a thin stream flows down from between the rocks, never stopping all year round.

There is a God of Wealth Shrine on the mountain.

Not far from the temple stood a simple wooden house, with a small vegetable garden in front of it. The fence was crooked and haphazardly planted, clearly the work of an amateur.

Back then, Elena built a simple wooden hut near the God of Wealth Shrine so that she could better serve God of Wealth. She would go up the mountain to cut wood all by herself, and she would not complain even when her hands were blistered.

The God of Wealth saw this and secretly helped the other party cut down the tree.

As a dignified God of Wealth, he naturally wouldn't let the other party know about this kind of thing, especially since the other party had actually made him withdrawn for quite some time.

So he used his Divine Power to secretly place the chopped wood among the piles of wood Elena had chopped, or on her path, pretending it was a gift from nature.

He thought he had been careful, afraid of giving himself away.

On one occasion, he even rolled a log into the stream, letting the water carry it to the place where Elena often went to fetch water, to make it seem more "natural".

However, Elena quickly noticed this.

She's not stupid, how could she not see it?

The cuts on the wood were clean and neat, hardly a gift from nature. Moreover, where in the mountains could there be so many dry logs that "just happened" to fall on her path, all of them the same thickness and length, as if someone had measured them precisely before cutting them?

Some were even more blatant, directly added to her woodpile. A day ago it was only half a meter tall, but a day later it was much taller than her. How could she be so dense as not to notice?

Fortunately, the other party didn't point it out.

Otherwise, the God of Wealth would feel utterly ashamed.

Then, upon learning that the other party already knew, the God of Wealth went all out and built a house with a single click.

This one action saved the other party a great deal of time.

However, what the God of Wealth originally intended to build for the other party was a magnificent house.

Vermilion gates, carved window lattices, glazed tile roofs...

But the suggestion was immediately rejected by Elena. Standing in front of him, she went on and on, saying things like there was no need for extravagance, that the beauty of a mountain cabin lies in its simplicity, and that anything too ostentatious would make one feel uneasy...

The God of Wealth had no choice but to give in and use the wood to build a simple hut.

However small it may be, it has all the essential parts.

The house wasn't big, but it had everything you'd expect.

The kitchen was fully equipped with a stove, bed, table and chairs, lamps, water tank, and trunk. After all, the other party was a girl, and it was really inappropriate for her to accompany him to live a life of hardship on such a mountain.

This is what the God of Wealth was thinking at the time.

Now, the God of Wealth stands before this simple hut once again, lost in thought.

Elena loves flowers.

Back then, she planted flowers all around her little house and his God of Wealth Shrine, watering them daily and pruning them year after year.

Now, many years have passed, and those flowers are no longer confined to the place where they were originally planted; they bloom all over the mountains and fields.

The road stretched from the front of the temple to the back of the house, from the slope to the stream, a vibrant and lively scene.

The flowers remain, but the person is gone.

The God of Wealth stood among the flowers, silent for a long time.

The wind blew down from the mountaintop, shaking the flowers all over the slope. Petals fell on his shoulder and then gently slid off.

He did not reach out to brush it away.

After a long while, the God of Wealth turned and left.

He bypassed the Sea of Flowers and followed a path hidden by weeds to the back of the God of Wealth Shrine.

There are several graves there.

He erected a tombstone specifically for Elena and her family.

The open space in front of the tomb was clean and tidy, without any weeds.

This was specially made by the God of Wealth; no one on the entire mountain would even notice.

Although the mountain is still the same mountain, from the outside it looks like an ordinary desolate wilderness, without even a decent road.

Naturally, no one will bother us.

This was a quiet place he reserved for Elena.

For many years, no one has called him "Grandpa God of Wealth" anymore.

The God of Wealth stood before Elena's tombstone for a long time, so long that the sun began to set and the shadow stretched long.

Then he spoke:

"Elena, I've come to see you. That Matter I did back then went against your wishes; I hope you can forgive me."