The Lady's Temple, the Lady's Temple...
Since it was a temple dedicated to the Lady, didn't that mean-
Any "Lady" could enter the temple?
That one casually spoken sentence sent the village chief into a complete breakdown.
"No... that's impossible!" His eyes bulged as he flailed his arms wildly in the air, his hoarse voice turning shrill. "That's impossible!!!"
With a trembling finger, he pointed at the "Bride Maiden" slowly entering the temple. "How could she... how could she be a 'Lady'!?"
No one answered his question.
The villagers, who had looked so vicious before, as though they wanted to devour them alive, now huddled trembling in a corner. Their heads were bowed, and they didn't dare look in "her" direction at all, looking for all the world like helpless little lambs.
While the villagers were too distracted to deal with them, the four coffin bearers hurriedly told the three inside the temple to pick up a few incense sticks from the floor that hadn't been trampled in half. They needed to seize this opening to worship the "Bride Maiden" and finish their mission as soon as possible.
Whether people were worshipping her or pointing at her and demanding answers, the "Bride Maiden" showed no reaction.
She was looking up at the Maiden Statue on the raised platform.
A trail of bloody tears slowly trickled from the corner of her eye.
"You've been waiting a long time for this day, haven't you..." Standing behind her to one side, Bo Yi spoke softly.
She slowly turned her head, her red eyes stained with bloody tears fixing on Bo Yi. But he wasn't afraid in the slightest. He simply kept his head raised, gazing at the lofty statue above. "Back then, did she watch you like this too..."
"Watching as your arms