Hearing Sun Wukong ask who he was, Gungun perked up. Now that was a good question.
At once, he clasped his hands behind his back, thrust out his great belly, and smiled as warmly as a spring breeze. "I am the Supreme Emperor of the Nine Palaces, Most Virtuous, Enlightened, Exalted, and Revered, Who Established Heaven in the Netherworld."
Then he looked at the monkey before him and asked a question whose answer he already knew. "And who are you?"
"Supreme... what Emperor? Never mind. Listen up!" Sun Wukong leaped a step backward, then pointed a thumb at himself. "I am Sun Wukong, the Handsome Monkey King of Water-Curtain Cave on Flower-Fruit Mountain, the Heavenly Court's newly appointed High God, Keeper of the Horses!"
Gungun: "..."
Keeper of the Horses... High God? Did those two titles even belong together?
"Oh, right, you're an emperor too. Have you seen the Heavenly Emperor here in the Heavenly Court? Do you know where he is?" Sun Wukong suddenly remembered that he had come to the Heavenly Court not to become an official, but to see the Heavenly Emperor and beg him to annul the little white snake's Martial Matchmaking Contest result, so she would no longer have to marry that Iron-Eating Beast she barely knew. He stepped forward again and questioned Gungun.
Gungun blinked and said unhurriedly, "We are he."
"We are he? Who's he?" The monkey looked utterly baffled.
"Me," Gungun said.
Sun Wukong recoiled another step in fright. Looking at Gungun, who wore nothing but Linen Shorts and a white Large Pearl Necklace, he asked for confirmation. "You're... the Heavenly Emperor?"
"Mm. You're the Sun Wukong who stormed the Dragon Palace and made trouble in the Underworld?" Gungun pointed at Sun Wukong and asked with a smile.
Sun Wukong instinctively puffed