"There was nothing I could do. I could only accept my fate. But what made me angriest was that even after I was cast out of the Heavenly Court, the Jade Emperor still wouldn't let it go. Afraid I'd make a comeback, he ordered the Hēng and Hā Generals to send me to the Animal Path and have me born into a pig's body. Luckily, a benefactor helped me along the way, allowing me to retain my memories. In the end, I cultivated myself into this neither-human-nor-ghost-like state." Zhu Bajie recalled that painful time. The endless darkness of the cycle of reincarnation had left him trembling. If he'd known it would come to this, he would have taken his Eighty Thousand Water Army and joined Sun Wukong in overthrowing the Jade Emperor.
"So that's what happened." Ye Chen had never imagined the truth would be like this. He hadn't expected the Jade Emperor, supposedly the wise ruler of the Three Realms, to be such a despicable man. Surely no one would believe it if word got out. "What happened after that?"
"Afterward, I was reborn. Thanks to my benefactor, I didn't drink Meng Po's Soup, and I came to the mortal world with my memories and cultivation from my previous life. I kept cultivating, but I still couldn't return to my peak. Eventually, I came to terms with it. I might as well stay here in the mortal world and enjoy myself. What's wrong with that?
"Soon after, I came to Gao Laozhuang. I've been living here for quite a few years now." Zhu Bajie sighed.
"That still doesn't give you the right to take that young woman by force." Sun Wukong felt some sympathy for the fat man, but he couldn't let him ruin someone else's happiness just for