"Mr. Jiang, you must have come at this time for something important, right?" Hera had us sit down, and servants immediately brought over two cups of wine—the familiar taste of Moonlight Brew.
Jiang Xiaohui took a sip. "Fine wine!"
I glanced at him. "What makes this wine so good?"
Jiang Xiaohui paused. "It tastes good!"
I shook my head helplessly before looking at Hera. "We ran into Hades earlier, and he was locked inside that cage by Hades. If I hadn't rescued him in time, he probably would have died."
Hera frowned. "What? You were actually able to rescue him from the cage?"
I nodded. "I originally came to ask for your help. I thought perhaps only you could break that cage. But the situation was too urgent. The cage could actually shrink on its own, and I thought that by the time I brought you there, he would already have been crushed to death."
Hera gave a bitter smile. "Even if I had been there, I couldn't have helped you. Forget me—even if Zeus had been there, unless Hades himself was willing to open that cage, no one could break it. That was the Hell Cage. Only Hades himself could open it."
As she said that, she suddenly froze in shock. "No, that's not right. You couldn't possibly have opened that cage. How did you rescue him?" At her question, Venus and Hermes both looked over. Even that little guy stared at me curiously.
I shrugged. "Of course I couldn't break the cage open either. But I could return to before he was locked inside it. As long as I could stop him from being locked in the cage, the rest was easy."
Hera narrowed her eyes. "Going back to before something happened and preventing it from happening may