"Disaster! Disaster!"
Matchmaker Yue's white hair was disheveled, his brow knotted with worry. A great pile of brocade silk lay spread across his desk, while he held dozens of broken red threads.
Matchmaker Yue was also known as Old Man Yuehe or Old Man Under the Moon, and he governed marriages. During the Investiture of the Gods, he had once tied the red thread between Long Ji and Hong Jin at Immortal Elder Fuyuan's direction.
But things had changed now. To prevent the tragedy of Cheng Tang's time from repeating itself in the mortal world, Long Ji had intervened to deal with an earthquake, only to discover that it was merely flooding caused by Wuzhiqi. She had therefore thought little more of it.
On her way back to Chaoge, a sudden inspiration struck her, and she decided to visit the Heavenly Court.
Her ambitious father, the Heavenly Emperor, could hardly do nothing after seeing that she had escaped her confinement and even entered Chaoge as a consort. Long Ji wanted to take the opportunity to gather some information. After making a few inquiries, she visited Matchmaker Yue to make sure of her own marriage bond.
Naturally, Matchmaker Yue would not let Long Ji tamper with the red threads he had already tied. In the ensuing tug-of-war, the threads snapped.
"I..." Long Ji blushed slightly, feeling rather embarrassed. She had only meant to secure the red thread binding her to King Zhou more firmly, never expecting to snap other people's threads.
"Oh, my princess, just look! This one belongs to Tianpeng, this one to Feng Bo, this one to Emperor Donghua, this one..."
Matchmaker Yue listed them as though counting his household treasures, his heart aching more with every name. Holding up the brocade silk, he pointed at it and said,