Lady Yin woke to find it had all been a dream, and could not help bursting into tears.
Li Jing hurriedly asked what had happened, and his wife told him everything that had occurred in the dream.
Li Jing frowned. "Brother Dao Qing already said that Nezha Palace was to be established in the bustling marketplace.
Emerald Screen Mountain is remote beyond measure—how could that work?
It must be because you have been thinking of him so much that your dreams have become muddled. There is no need for doubt."
After hearing this, Lady Yin could only take it as a delusion born from yearning day and night.
Afterward, Nezha came to her in dreams again. He returned every three days, but Lady Yin merely took it for a nightmare.
Before long, after thirty-five days had passed, Nezha had been fierce and valiant in life, and even in death his soul was bold and heroic.
Seeing that his mother remained unmoved, he said to Lady Yin in a dream, "I have begged you for days, yet you have no thought for how bitterly your son died. You refuse to build a palace for me, so I will make your whole household restless."
Lady Yin awoke and realized that this dream was different. She immediately told Li Jing about it again.
Li Jing flew into a rage upon hearing it. "You wretched Nezha! Your mother went to such pains to build you a palace, yet you come to trouble her time and again.
What sort of heart is this?
If it truly is you, then you are in the wrong. You do not remember the grace of your birth mother—how are you any different from a ghostly fiend?
And if it is not you, then let him come again. I will