Old Ape's Heart Was Bitter

"Are you the Great Sage?"

Corpse Burning Room.

Ma Fei picked up a small wooden stick and went bang, bang, bang, knocking Old Ape on the head three times as he rested with his eyes closed.

Irritation flashed through Old Ape's heart. He opened his eyes and shouted with an incomparably firm expression and tone, "I am!!"

Seeing this, Ma Fei shook his head in disappointment. "Sigh~ You aren't."

The next day.

The scene repeated, but Wang Tie Zhu took Ma Fei's place.

The fire poker went bang, bang, bang, knocking Old Ape on the head three times.

"Are you the Great Sage?"

"I am, I am, I am!!" Old Ape's tone was even more resolute, so resolute it carried a trace of madness.

"You aren't." Wang Tie Zhu shook his head and left.

Another day passed.

The scene repeated once more, with Ma Fei back in his role.

The small wooden stick struck Old Ape's head again.

"Are you the Great Sage?"

"I'm not, not, not!" Old Ape's tone remained as it had always been; only certainty had been replaced by denial.

Ma Fei sighed. "Sigh, you really aren't."

Old Ape inwardly: I XXX~!@#￥%￥your ``mom@#$%##@eighteen~~

After cursing, he truly felt like he was about to cry.

He had tried every answer, and every one had been wrong—or rather, none had earned recognition.

Whether he answered yes or no, whether he answered with two or three yeses or nos, or even switched the one asking and answering, none of it earned recognition.

Old Ape did not know why.

In the Corpse Burning Room, Old Ape had food and drink and had even been released from the beast cage. Other than being unable to leave the Corpse Burning Room, he was basically free, yet his heart was bitter.

Because