LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN TIGRESS

Xing"s hands holding the urn tightened. Seeing their Prince in bloodied apparel, everyone gave way and Xing stood in front of the big throne where the ruler of the Heavens was seated.

" I did not kill my ancestor because he was your enemy", Xing made it clear and her face had a little contempt making the Heavenly Emperor frown in anger.

Is she mocking us since that mortal always had one above us? Even when he died, he gave a big blow to our realm by closing the portals!

"Give his blood so we could unseal the portals", the Heavenly Emperor commanded.

Xing as the one who never cared about authority just smirked.

Guess that was a big blow to their ego!

" None of his blood remains since I burnt him", she spoke politely but her voice had a pride in it.

This spell must need his own blood to unseal and even her blood is useless it seems.

Either my blood is useless or no one dares to ask for my blood. Either way Xing didn"t care. Her master face his life for sealing the portals and she had no intention of reopening them.

"There is some left...", she looked at her robes, "And I dare anyone of you to try and get it", she smiled politely. But her tone had a warning undertone.

"It is settled then!", Fei Lian who always protected her tried to soothe their Emperor from punis.h.i.+ng her brash behaviour.

"It"s time for you to decide once and for all", the Heavenly Emperor looked at her deeply.

"Are you going to accept your role as our Prince or not?"

Realising her not even thinking before answering and about to refuse, it was Mazu who interfered.

" Our Council has decided to not involve in human affairs anymore. The portals closing only aided us. So it is time for you to decide which side you"d be on. Do you want to spend the rest of your life in the human realm or the Heavenly realm? It can be one or another. Our Emperor even made concession for you since you have helped us a lot and almost pa.s.sed the trials. You can bring your husband to the Heavenly Realm once his life in the human realm ends and both of you will live the life of the G.o.ds", she paused and Xing who was observing Mazu could see her blue eyes filled with grievance and it seemed like she really wanted Xing to decide to stay in the heavens.

"Didn"t Chenglei"s life in the human realm already end and that"s why we had to go through the trials?", Xing asked.

What are they planning now? Is this part of the trials?

"This life.... He still has three lives left", G.o.d of fate answered her.

So if I choose to live in the Heavenly realm, I have to wait for Chenglei to finish his three lives?

And will he have other women in his other lives?

If I ask them would it be too obvious that I"m being petty and jealous?

Ahh! He cannot have other women!

"Who opened the portal to the netherworld?", Xing asked since they seemed to not care about that and to change the topic. That only means they are covering for one of them.

"Our people got almost hurt. If not for my Master Yuan, those dark souls would have devoured our people", she added, " Why are you leaving that lecher without punishment?", her tone reeked of righteous anger. How can a G.o.d do such irresponsible acts and yet allowed to continue.

"We cannot touch him", the Heavenly Emperor added. Even if he dies, he will reincarnate as himself and he will have all the memory intact and it would only give him more reason to enact vengeance.

"Fine...he threatened my mother"s soul and I worry what he might do to my Master"s soul. My master has paid for his sins and even when he died, he helped our realm. I cannot let him suffer in his next life", Xing really didn"t want them to suffer.

"Lu Shusai has only one more life and so does your mother", the G.o.d of fate answered.

"Then you should compensate him for his good deeds",Xing brazenly asked for favours.

"What did you decided about the thing we asked of you?", the Heavenly Emperor asked her and Xing just looked back at him unmoving.

I"m not answering until I get what I want!

"What do you suggest?", the Heavenly Emperor who knew of her childish tantrums gave in. He is thousands of years old and it won"t look good if he acts as an equal to her in childishness.

Also, he has to give in a bit since he knew the G.o.d of death did cross the line this time.

Also her mother"s souls suffered some injustice in the underworld too until he recently interfered. He wanted to not let this powerful Prince know about her mother and he decided to cajole her by granting her wishes.

"Give a peaceful and happy life for my Master with his wife together in their next life. As for my mother, I want my father and mother to have a long and happy married life with my brothers as their sons - Haru, Rijun and Kouki. All of them should be blessed with fame, fortune, love and happiness", Xing didn"t hold back. She did forget to add her supposed brother. She didn"t know much of his past but the other three would like to have lovely parents like her father and her mother.

The Heavenly Emperor looked at the G.o.d of fate and as he signalled that there won"t be any problem in writing their fates as she asked.

"Granted", he slapped the armrest as it was a promise.

Xing sighed in relief. All of those she knows love her a lot and this would be her gift to them.

" And the other thing?", the Emperor asked. Everyone knows what she"d say. But they still wanted her to stay in their realm since there was never a Prince as powerful as her.

"My trials and your interference?", she asked. She is not going to give them her answer before she clears everything else first.

" We have stopped interfering with you a long time ago", the G.o.d of fate answered.

"We still have many misunderstandings", she said. How could there be many misunderstandings if the G.o.ds aren"t interfering?

He thinks I have another man!

" The mind of a human brings troubles by itself",some G.o.d in the crowd said and Xing felt like she was slapped.

So our problems are made by ourselves? No one interfered?

If so, if we talk it out properly, our problems will be solved?

"But he still cannot hear me when I confess and he is not confessing to me", she asked confused.

How is this not interference?

But if it is not interference of the G.o.ds, then that should be..... This is the trial... Confessing to each other! . Wait... He is unable to confess to me because of the trials too?

Only then did she realise the trial is for both sides to confess to each other.

"This is our trial?", she asked happily since she figured out the trial. Once you know what the trial is, it would be easy to go from there.

Xing didn"t get any reply for that and only a question - whether or not she is willing to stay in the Heavens or not.

" No", she was about to say it. Why would she want to live forever worrying about everything and solving troubles? The Heavens aren"t that peaceful as it is told and they have a lot of power struggles, scheming and betrayals too. Why would she be willing to stay there? And that too involving Chenglei?

Chenglei!

The thought of him gave her heartache but still she was not willing to lose him.

If it is not the G.o.ds" interference, he thought cheating on him on his own accord?

He doesn"t trust me?

But...

She still wanted to go back to him.

"If you decide to stay in the human realm, all connections to you will be cut off from our realm and you won"t be able to contact or meet anyone from our realm. Also you"ll have to seal your powers so you won"t be able to use it anymore. And more importantly you will be like any other mortal and every boon given to you by the G.o.ds will be taken back", the G.o.d of earth spoke. Xing had never seen him talk and him talking surprised her.

But what he said did cause ripples in her heart that had already made a decision.

I won"t be able to meet Fei Lian anymore?

She looked at him and he had a gentle expression in his face and without him saying a word, she could understand him.

Little one, decide for yourself. I"ll support you whatever it is...

Mazu was mouthing, "Stay with us".

So the choice is I have to give up everything I have to live my one life with Chenglei in the human realm or I could wait in the Heavenly realm with all my powers for Chenglei to finish all his lives.

What should I decide...?
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I love my powers and I have gotten used to the G.o.ds these days.

And I love Chenglei. I cannot see him with other women.

If I choose the former, I lose my contact with G.o.ds and if I choose the latter, I"ll have to see Chenglei falling in love with some other woman?

It"s simple isn"t it?