Who Paints the Eyebrows of the Devoted Lovers - Fair Sun and Gentle Wind, Yet Beware the Shadow-Shooting Worm

"I must have been blind before..."

In recent days, Meng Zhang, the Water Marquis who had once awed the South Sea, had grown increasingly like a mortal in temperament. With powerful enemies bearing down on him and pressing closer at every turn, he suddenly began examining his private affections deep within the Jade Coral Woods.

Holding the maidservant whose cheeks still bore faint traces of tears, Meng Zhang suddenly felt, as though a flash of inspiration had struck him, that perhaps he had long since possessed what he had pursued so tirelessly.

"Snow-skinned Lingyi"? "Beauty unrivaled across the four seas"?

Those phrases, which had once sent a dazzling halo flashing through Meng Zhang's soul whenever he recalled them, now became worthless poisonous weeds beside the sweet, utterly accommodating Moon Lady before him. Her gentle, lovely face seemed a miraculous medicine, suddenly restoring a true sense of direction to this long-fallen overlord of the South Sea.

"One day, I will show you what the South Sea Water Marquis truly is!"

In that single instant, the thoughts that had hovered indistinctly in Meng Zhang's mind for so many days finally became perfectly clear. At last, he understood that he had fallen to his present straits only because those northern villains had pressed him relentlessly. Who could understand his painstaking intentions? Everything he did was for the living beings beneath heaven! And that crafty old Lord of the Clouds, despite all the secrecy surrounding his undertaking, still seemed to have caught wind of it and guessed something of the truth. Relying on his own foolish, shallow understanding, he actually sought to stop Meng Zhang's magnificent achievement-an undertaking without precedent or successor, one that would endure as long as heaven and earth and shine alongside the sun and moon-

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