[Man Faced Demon Spider]: Tang San! He's no human! Tear him apart! Tear him apart! Tear him apart!!!
[Titan Giant Ape]: Right! He's no human!
[Titan Giant Ape]: Tang San once promised me and Da Ming that after becoming a god, he'd protect Sister Xiao Wu and make sure she was happy forever.
I believed him. Da Ming believed him. Sister Xiao Wu believed him, too.
[Titan Giant Ape]: But how did Sister Xiao Wu die in the end?
She didn't die in battle, and she didn't die of old age. She died of sorrow!
Someone who possessed half of the Asura Godhood, whose body was immune to every disease and whose divine soul could withstand ten thousand calamities—how could Sister Xiao Wu possibly have died of sorrow?
[Titan Giant Ape]: It's ridiculous! Sister Xiao Wu sacrificed herself for Tang San once, and that still wasn't enough. After coming back to life, she had to sacrifice herself for him again!
Xiao Chenyu quietly read every message, then sat in silence for a long while.
He had a rough idea of which point in time this Er Ming came from.
It was already the era of Douluo Continent's fifth installment, Rebirth of Tang San.
In that timeline, Xiao Wu died in the Divine Realm and reincarnated as someone else on another plane.
Tang San started over on that plane, reminisced about the past, and continued his legend.
[Xiao Chenyu]: Er Ming, in the timeline you're from, Xiao Wu really did die.
[Xiao Chenyu]: She reincarnated as Mei Gongzi on Falan Planet—a completely new person, with a new identity and a new life.
[Xiao Chenyu]: Though she later awakened her memories of her previous life, I think that, essentially, she was no longer the original Xiao Wu.
[Titan Giant Ape]: Avenger, you know?!
[Titan Giant Ape]: Right, Falan Planet! Mei Gongzi!
[Titan Giant Ape]: Da Ming and I didn't know at first that she was Sister Xiao Wu's reincarnation. We only sensed it later.
[Titan Giant Ape]: Da Ming and I also know she's no longer our Sister Xiao Wu.
She speaks to me politely. My Sister Xiao Wu would never look at me that way.
[Titan Giant Ape]: What chills me even more is that when Sister Xiao Wu reincarnated as Mei Gongzi, she became stronger, and Tang San also grew stronger indirectly through his connection to the Asura God Sword.
It was almost as if... as if Sister Xiao Wu's death itself had been part of his plan.
Dying once wasn't enough. She had to die again. Every time Sister Xiao Wu died, he grew stronger.
[Titan Giant Ape]: Avenger, tell me: was Sister Xiao Wu being used by him?
[Xiao Chenyu]: ...
Xiao Chenyu couldn't say Er Ming was wrong.
Anyone who resented Tang San would naturally interpret his every action in the worst possible light.
And honestly, even Xiao Chenyu himself thought the claim that Xiao Wu had "died of sorrow" in the Divine Realm was a monumental joke.
If anyone had died of sorrow, Xiao Wu shouldn't have been the one.
That fat Ma Hongjun hadn't even died!
Bai Chenxiang hadn't been able to go to the Divine Realm.
Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Oscar all had their wives with them in the Divine Realm.
Ma Hongjun was all alone.
After becoming the Phoenix God, he spent his days weeping. That was what you called dying of sorrow.
And yet he was still alive and well.
Xiao Wu had a husband, a daughter, and close friends. How could she have died of sorrow?
It was just bizarre.
Unless she hadn't "died of sorrow" at all, but had died for some other reason.
For example, God King Tang needed a stronger "sheath," and the old one was no longer enough, so a new one had to be forged.
[Titan Giant Ape]: So I'm begging you, Avenger. Stop Tang San from meeting Sister Xiao Wu, and don't let them end up together!
Not in this life, and not in the next!
As long as Sister Xiao Wu didn't get involved with Tang San in this life, those tragedies wouldn't happen.
She wouldn't sacrifice herself, she wouldn't become a sword sheath, and she wouldn't die of sorrow in the Divine Realm.
[Titan Giant Ape]: I'm not asking for anything else. I only want Sister Xiao Wu to live a good life.
"This..."
Xiao Chenyu was at a loss.
It was no small request.
Xiao Wu was one of the most crucial people in Tang San's fate.
More important than a Soul Bone, more important than the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, even more important than the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline.
Just as he was worrying over it, a familiar, playful voice sounded in the group.
[Will of Douluo Planet]: Avenger~ Do you want a wife?
"Hm?"
Xiao Chenyu froze.
"Why bring that up now?"
What did that have to do with anything Er Ming had just said?
Xiao Wu's tragedy had barely been discussed, and this one was already trying to sell him a wife?
[Will of Douluo Planet]: Hehe, I happen to know where Xiao Wu is right now~
[Will of Douluo Planet]: So, here's the question—Avenger, do you want a wife? (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧
"Huh???"
Xiao Chenyu's eyes widened. He understood the Will of Douluo Planet's meaning almost instantly.
So this thing wanted him to steal Xiao Wu away!
Snatch her up before Tang San met her?
What kind of way was that to put it—"Do you want a wife?" Like it was offering him a cabbage.
"Damn, isn't this basically stealing Tang San's wife?"
"Isn't that a little too despicable?"
Though he'd just dug up Tang San's mother and planted her in his own backyard.
Though he'd tricked Tang San into slapping himself and calling his own father a dog on the hill behind Holy Soul Village.
Though he'd swindled Tang San out of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and planned to start his own sect.
Though he'd also taken the Soul Bone Tang San's mother had left him.
But stealing someone's wife—that was a whole other level, wasn't it?
But before Xiao Chenyu could refuse, another voice rang out.
[Goddess of Life]: Chenyu, I agree with the Will of Douluo Planet's proposal.
[Goddess of Life]: Go find Xiao Wu and pull her out of Tang San's fate.
Xiao Chenyu was truly stunned now.
Even his godmother wanted him to steal someone's wife?
The dignified, graceful Goddess of Life, who would even correct someone for saying "sleep with his wife," was now personally telling him to snatch Xiao Wu away?
[God of Destruction]: Don't misunderstand. Your godmother isn't telling you to marry Xiao Wu.
Though if you wanted to, she probably wouldn't object.
The important thing is to change the future in which Xiao Wu meets and falls in love with Tang San.
[God of Destruction]: Xiao Wu is a key part of Tang San's fortune. In the future, she'll become Tang San's Asura Sword Sheath and provide crucial support for his Dual Godhood.
Without Xiao Wu as a vessel for his soul, the rules of the Divine Realm won't allow him to inherit two divine identities.
[God of Destruction]: Without Xiao Wu, Tang San will have a hard time inheriting the Asura Godhood, and his fortune will suffer irreversible damage.
[God of Destruction]: This isn't about stealing his wife. It's about cutting off his lifeline!
[Goddess of Life]: Exactly.
[Goddess of Life]: Rather than calling Xiao Wu that child Tang San's beloved, it would be more accurate to call her his sacrifice.
From the moment she sacrificed herself for Tang San, her fate was bound to him.
She came back to life only to become his sword sheath. After serving as his sheath, she died of sorrow. And after reincarnating, Tang San still used her as fuel to grow stronger.
From beginning to end, her life had burned for Tang San. She'd never lived a single day for herself.
[Goddess of Life]: Saving her from Tang San would be a good thing.
[Goddess of Life]: She and I were once close friends, after all. Now that I know the truth, I truly feel she was treated unfairly.
As for whether Xiao Chenyu and Xiao Wu ended up together, the Goddess of Life didn't mind either way.
She wasn't the sort of mother who insisted on arranging a marriage for her godson.
Of course, if Xiao Chenyu could marry several women someday and give her a large pile of grandchildren, that would be even better.
When it came to that, she held her husband and godson to different standards.
For her husband, she only wanted him to love her.
But for her son, the more wives and children, the better. More children meant more blessings!
But when she thought of Xiao Qi—
That little girl who had once ridden on the God of Destruction's shoulders to pluck stars and woven garlands from the Flower of Life.
A pang of sorrow stirred in the Goddess of Life's heart.
That child was gone. Her own father had erased her with his own hands.
And... there was no guarantee she would ever return.