"Ah, serving on duty in the Heavenly Court was truly too difficult."
Inside the Matchmaker's Palace, a thin old man clad in a bright red ceremonial robe sat in his round-backed chair, sipping tea brought by a young attendant as he wiped the hot sweat from his brow.
Just now, he had finally dealt with a heavenly general who insisted that he help link him up with an immortal maiden from Jade Lake.
Could those threads be tied however one pleased?
Even if he was the Matchmaker, he could not carelessly alter another's fate.
Though there were indeed many ways to operate behind closed doors, it still depended on who was being linked!
The Matchmaker had spent considerable effort fooling that heavenly general into leaving, leaving him drenched in sweat from exhaustion.
He had to refuse without displeasing the other party, and without offending the person being pursued...
This job of the Matchmaker was truly far too difficult.
Most marriages formed naturally, while a small portion were bestowed by Heaven.
As the Matchmaker, he indeed possessed some authority to alter them, but those Golden Scissors and red cords were treasures of Heavenly Dao Merit. They truly could not be moved recklessly!
Even for the marriage of a pair of mortals, mishandling it would not only damage the merit he had painstakingly accumulated, but also invite punishment from the earnest, responsible, and energetic Your Majesty Jade Emperor...
What was a naturally formed marriage?
In the rear hall lay a nearly endless, wondrous realm. Within it stood countless tiny Clay Figurines. Any living being in Heaven and Earth who needed to marry, whose destiny fell within the three fixed marriages of Heaven, Earth, and Man, had a corresponding little clay figure here.
Marriage was the foundation of rites and the basis of