Chapter 357: Lady Yao and Heir Su Reconcile and Return to the Capital
Lou Zixi had never harbored any grand desires.
He had never once crossed that line from beginning to end.
As a child, coming from a poor family, in order to study, he followed an attendant up the mountain to gather herbs. Once during a heavy downpour, to escape the rain, they took shelter in a ruined temple in the mountains. He was a pitiable sight, but when he looked up, he saw a statue of a goddess gazing at him with a faint smile, her face gentle.
That small decrepit temple was like an umbrella held up by the goddess statue, sheltering him from the wind and rain.
However, on an extremely cold rainy night, the temple collapsed, and the statue shattered, buried under the mudslide.
Later, he broke his leg, fell disgracefully in a filthy alley in the rain, water splashing, the cold piercing his bones, and his heart filled with utter despondence.
He thought, perhaps his brief life would come to an end in this Refugees Alley, unknown to anyone, unable to fulfill his mother’s, father’s, and grandfather’s expectations to revive the Lou Family.
Until a pair of clean embroidered shoes came into his view, soaked by the water, and above him, the relentless rain suddenly stopped. He looked up to see under the oil-paper umbrella, the fair and clear chin, and higher up, a pair of delicate, kind, and benevolent black eyes. In that instant, it was as if he saw the goddess statue of his childhood.
He seemed to have seen a living goddess statue.
Even Manager Chai didn’t know that in his heart, the Princess Consort was like the goddess statue he saw as a child, the Heavenly Immortal who had descended to the mortal world in his heart, one who should not be offended by anyone.