Signing-In: The Lazy Moon Goddess

The Yue family had finally reunited after all these years. The tears of Mama Yue and the two sisters were strolling down like a waterfall on their faces. The Moon Goddess had only smiled and hugged them back trying to comfort them as usual. The unexpected tear from her didn’t come. It’s not like she couldn’t cry anymore. She was so good at holding back her tears that now her tears can barely fall unless the emotion had exceeded what she can bear, asking her to cry is almost close to impossible.

Everyone actually notices this as well. Papa Yue, the Everlasting Moon Emperor glanced at the Immortal Sun Emperor, Shen Jueyang, when he saw this change on his daughter. His long crimson hair flows like a living lava on his back as the sun glows brightly behind him. The brightness was controlled so as not to annoy anyone. When Shen Jueyang heard Yue Yuya asking about this, he had no other choice but to tell them what he had learned through his investigation. The two men converse through their divine consciousness.

’Jueyang, what is happening?’ Yue Yuya asked. ’Why are my daughter’s emotions strangely stagnant? She couldn’t even cry! What happened?’

Shen Jueyang responded, ’According to someone who had always been by her side, it seems that after her last tribulation which involves her heart, emotions and soul, to complete that tribulation she must sacrifice something. He said tribulation to break through the Tribulant realm needs a sacrifice. Does uncle know about this? I already cannot see through Uncle’s realm, so Uncle must have reached the same realm as Grandfather Yue.’

’Yes. I had indeed reached that level. But unlike my father I haven’t gained any halo yet. It was also thanks to Xue’er that I had reached this stage. She had shared the legacy of the Primordial Lightning God to the Lei and Yue Clans, which allowed me to get to this stage. Maybe because I didn’t sacrifice anything that no halo had awakened yet after reaching this level. According to my father during the tribulation one must sacrifice one important person to achieve it and this sacrifice was in the choice of the chosen person and not the one under tribulation.’

At this stage, the Immortal Sun Emperor would be a fool if he didn’t understand what the Everlasting Moon Emperor meant. Asking your most important person if they are willing to sacrifice themselves for you to ascend? Just how cruel and selfless this sacrifice is.

’During Xue’er’s tribulation she had time travel in the past timeline. If the sealed memories in my mind are right, then we in the Yue family had all met her. I wanted to kill my past self when I had seen how I had treated her as I couldn’t recognize her. Moreover it had happened when she had witnessed the death of our clones.’

’Witnessing our death then waking up in the past timeline where no one can recognize her. You should have imagined how much Xue’er had suffered. Thankfully, my wife even though meeting her for the first time was able to recognize as her daughter and accepted her. Only I had...’

The Everlasting Moon Emperor didn’t complete his word. He doesn’t need to, the Immortal Sun Emperor can guess. What would an emperor who bears the weight of the whole kingdom suddenly meeting a stranger that suddenly appeared in your own home? Suddenly calling you father?

To be an emperor, one had to live in a life full of danger and scheming. Even the most simple thing in life might just be a pay given to you by your opponents. To protect your loved ones, your family, you guard against almost everything you are unsure of. To eliminate anything unstable and with unknown origins. Yue Yuya had just done what he was supposed to do as an emperor. But as a father he failed at that moment and hurt the heart of his daughter. Even though she accepted his apologies later with the pain already dealt it cannot be easily forgotten.

The Immortal Sun Emperor said, ’Uncle, I understand.’

Shen Jueyang only said he had understood but whether he could do the opposite of what the Everlasting Moon Emperor had done was something he couldn’t answer as well. After all, he is the man who had caused the death of his late wife because he is too insensitive of others feelings leading to countless tragedies including his own.

Shen Jueyang said, ’I do not know the details of what had truly happened to her. It seems that after your clones had escaped the death that was meant for you, someone else had made the sacrifice for Xue’er. She is also someone you know too well. Your other daughter of the past. The one who had chosen to be sacrificed instead of anyone from the Yue family was Yue Xuehua’s soul fragment.’

’But in the end, she lived. It was unknown what Xue’er had done and Yue Xuehua didn’t merge completely with her. Her consciousness had remained and even now she still exists inside of Xue’er. Only she would be able to give the answer to what we wanted. Uncle, if it’s you who asked maybe she will answer. I and her... do not have a good relationship,’ said the Immortal Sun Emperor.

Their conversation was cut to this point and in the end, Yue Yuya didn’t get the answer he wanted to hear. The answer to why his daughter seems to have lost her ability to shed tears.

The Immortal Sun Emperor, seeing that the ladies had stopped crying, approached the Moon Goddess and reminded her about the feast which was prepared inside the house.

"Xue’er, how about moving to the dining hall? The feast must have been served by now," Shen Jueyang reminded.

The Everlasting Moon Empress, the Moon Princesses and Moon Princes were so focused on Yue Xuexia that only the Everlasting Moon Emperor noticed the presence of the Immortal Sun Emperor. Mama Yue recognized him and forgave him for what happened in the past only because her eldest daughter seemed to accept him and that he had changed in this life. As for the sisters, even though his hair and eye color had changed, his features were still a bit similar to how they remembered him as the big brother who would come to visit their eldest sister in the mortal realm. It’s just that he is even more handsome than the type their elder sister likes. Mature and handsome yet possessed a dangerous, bad man’s aura. The kind who would only smile for one person which is herself.

"Jueyang, thank you for protecting Xue’er all this time and please continue doing so," Mama Yue said.

Shen Jueyang stopped the Everlasting Moon Empress from bowing her head towards him. If it was his past self he wouldn’t care about them at all. However, it’s different now. He truly has Yue Xuexia in his heart. Her parents are to be treated as his parents. Her siblings will be his siblings. Anything she deems important will be important to him as well. When he decided to love this one woman called Yue Xuexia, he was willing to give up everything for her and accept everything she had.

"Please don’t do that, Aunt." Shen Jueyang said as he immediately helped Mama Yue and stopped her from lowering her head towards him. He looks so scared that one wouldn’t have thought he is the ruthless Immortal Sun Emperor.

The two moon princes and the crown princess were stunned when they saw the Immortal Sun Emperor acting like this. The one in their memories is a cold hearted man who stood above a mountain of corpses of his enemies whether they were men or women had all been trampled by him. He is a ruthless man who cannot even love himself, how can he love someone.

Now that man in that legend stood before them acting more like a human than they are. He no longer just gives them and their family a cold and all farce politeness. He willingly lowered himself and gave them the greatest respect one can give.

Only Yue Yuya can understand Shen Jueyang’s change and thoughts. Even though he didn’t grew up oppressed in his youth and have a loving family, faced with the choice to protect the woman he loves and his position as the heir, Yue Yuya gave up the power and fame he was meant to have and chose to become a live-in son-in-law of the Yue Clan.

The Ancient Moon Clan after the Ancient Moon God was born was stripped of their rights to have male descendants as their yang turned to yin to wield the Moon Element. So all descendants of the Ancient Moon Clan will be female unless they marry another family with a powerful Yang essence.

No normal man from a powerful family would be willing to change their family name to his wife’s family name. The more powerful a clan is the more proud they are of their bloodline and name, but the ancient moon clan is one of the oldest clans in the Immortal realm and one of the powerful. The Ancient Moon God had a child and as expected was born as a woman. Her name is Yue Lili. The Moon Goddess’s Mother.