Life and Death Are Not for People to Decide

"...Why are you shouting so loudly?"

"Old Man is here!"

"Heaven, are you dissatisfied?"

Verdant Green Maiden stared coldly at Damn Heaven. Upon hearing her question, Damn Heaven furrowed his brow and cursed, "Nonsense! Do you even know what you've done? Don't think that just because you're now the Mount Tai Holy Mother, you can do whatever you please!"

"I could have chosen not to do whatever I pleased."

Verdant Green Maiden nodded. "But all of this was forced by you... or rather, by them. The Book of Fate... they forced me into it!"

"I don't deny that what I did was impulsive, but I don't regret it!"

"You want to hit me?"

After Verdant Green Maiden finished speaking, Heaven fell silent.

Seeing his silence, Verdant Green Maiden laughed again. She stepped forward and asked, "Dear Heaven, did you come down here to... punish me? How do you intend to punish me?"

"..."

"Aren't you just being unreasonable?"

Heaven looked utterly helpless.

Ever since she had undergone her tribulation and become a Jiao Dragon at the end of the Han Dynasty, when had Heaven ever punished her?

It had long since gone all in on Verdant Green Maiden!

He practically wanted to put her on a pedestal!

Seeing Heaven's helpless expression, Verdant Green Maiden smiled, stepped forward, pulled him down from Rich Flower, and patted him on the shoulder.

"Alright, alright!"

"In any case, I won't do anything monstrously evil!"

"I will protect all the living beings under heaven!"

"So... you should have nothing else to say, right? Or do you truly think I should let them manipulate me? If so, then I've truly misjudged you these past several centuries. I thought you and I were on the same side."

"..."

Heaven was speechless.

After a long while, he finally