Freed from responsibilities and guilt from the past, the two began to dote on each every day. Jiang Li did and get whatever Margarette like as long as it was within his capabilities and vice versa. The two treated each other as equal in everything. Each party doing their part and sharing back as much as they were given, whether it be trust, love, knowledge or material things.Jiang Li saw the change in Margarette and thought that the wait was worth it. He was glad he did not accept the system"s offer to leave the world impulsively. Had he been carried away by emotions back then, he would have missed seeing Margarette"s transformation and he would have been too unfair to her.
Many things happened after that.
In the first few days after their ascension, they were frequently visited by the various G.o.ds. Surprisingly all of them were with a mild temper... except the "Leader", Araqiel, and the Fallen Angel, Yeqon, the latter loved to laugh so much and seemed to be easy-going but was hated by Jiang Li for always looking longingly at Margarette.
Jiang Li rejected being canonized as the G.o.d of Frost. As he knew a local G.o.d was nothing but a stronger magician, he believed it was not appropriate for him to bear the t.i.tle.
Margarette copied him and did not accept the t.i.tle G.o.ddess of Darkness. The epithet was very tacky anyway as if it was suggesting she was involved in something shady.
Following that, they stayed in the Mu Continent for two decades to establish a small country. Then when their firstborn, a son they named James II turned eighteen, they pa.s.sed the throne to him and made him the new ruler.
Three days after the coronation of the new king, the two irresponsible parents decided to run away from there, journeying from country to country, meeting various people while pretending to be mortals.
They watched as the king of Holon failed his attempt in ascending to be the G.o.d of Fate.
They were still in Holon a couple of years later, when the aged king pa.s.sed the throne to the Queen"s son before declaring he was to enter a recluse life with Agatha. Francis IV actually saw them from afar and wanted to speak with them, especially Jiang Li, but the two vanished from there in the middle of the ceremony, reappearing in another state. He never managed to speak with them since then and so now, only heaven knows what he wanted to tell Jiang Li.
The journey of the couple continued, until they got outside of the continent. By Margarette"s request, Jiang Li brought her first to the land of Huaxia to see for herself a culture she only saw before in Jiang Ying Yue"s memories. There, they witnessed a few notable events in that region such as the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the emergence of the Three Kingdoms. In fact, Zhuge Liang was personally taught by Jiang who unscrupulously pretended to be Pang De Gong, a famous philosopher of that time. Margarette chose to establish a sect consisting only of witches and female Gu masters.
They left the eastern side two decades later and traveled to the Western continent where they witnessed how religion slowly became the center of everyone"s lives. Later, their past time, apart from journeying to beautiful places, turned into watching the major developments in the various kingdoms and comparing them to their motherland.
As Jiang Li "predicted" and said to the priests of the Church of Wisdom before when he pretended to be a divine messenger, almost everything Mu went through also happened to the western continent. But maybe because the outer world was a bigger stage, the wars and conspiracies here were bigger and more brutal.
After a few centuries, Margarette got tired of watching all of these happened so even though there were many more things to see and visit in the upper mainland, they left and checked out the various islands in the south before going back to Mu.
A deity could practically live forever unless killed so if Jiang Li had wanted to, he could have stayed in that world for ten thousand years.
However, he knew he had missions to complete. The system too kept reminding him that he had debts to repay. This was why when the G.o.d of Plague ran amok outside, Jiang Li chose to stage a death battle with the annoying Fallen Angel to make his departure believable.
He got his wanted results later on. Exchanged with his life, the infamous Black Death that spread a thousand and three hundred years after his ascension ceased. But when he died, Margarette chose to go to an eternal sleep too, saying there was nothing more for her to live for since both her husband and son were now dead.
Rare moment of peace came after that.
There were still many years before the two successive world wars. As the Mu continent gradually became more modernized, the rest of the world were still in their Dark Age, the medieval period.
Because the impact of the Black Death had been very dreadful to the surviving mortals, the Ice G.o.d who confronted the G.o.d of Plague became a very respected G.o.d, his tale included by all the churches in their canons and holy texts. His ethereal G.o.ddess wife, called the most beautiful woman in all of history, was also frequently brought up in conversations.
But while their fame reached the point of rivaling the reputation of some of the old deities, the two short-lived couple became the ultimate weirdoes in the eyes of their fellows.
…
Jiang Li opened his eyes and found himself in a rundown room with nothing but a bed and a large wooden box inside it.
"Where am I this time?"
"Host, this is a new setting, similar to Selena Tang"s world when it was in the 1930s."
Jiang Li thought for a moment then nodded. Afterward, he stood up and inspected the situation outside the window before checking the contents of the huge box.
While he was doing these, the system did not forget to announce the number of points he gained, that was five thousand points courtesy of that world being an official one. It then gave him time to process the plot in his mind and viewed the memories of his current body.
"In summary, host, the world is reminiscent of China in its republican era. Both the leads are like slave performers in a circus who wanted to escape from the grasp of the evil proprietor. The villainess is the unpretty daughter of the circus owner destined to die on a huge fire started by the leads on the night they staged their escape."
"As for you, your ident.i.ty was that of a commoner young man working at a bakery whose only appearance in the plot was when he watched the fire-breathing performance of the male lead.
"I"m an extra, huh… The goal this time is pretty obvious - to prevent the circus owner"s daughter from dying in a fire."
Jiang Li read the details for the second time then wondered if there was a glitch in the system for it sent him to a fairly easy world.
The five months he was given with was spent in continuing daily tasks. He baked, he sold bread, and had been a righteous citizen under Grandpa Miao"s rule.
When the killer fire broke out in the nearby circus, when he found out there was no magic in this world, he simply fetched the villainess from her room and took her out of the place. The ordeal had not been difficult for him since the past five months were more than enough for him to restore some of his martial arts.
He did not stay long in that place after the incident. Why? Because a day after he arrived, he found out that Margarette was his older biological sister there. And not only that, she had long entered the monastery! No matter how much he fancied the girl, there was no way he could corrupt her into leaving her faith or entering an incestuous relations.h.i.+p with him. That was why he left.
The mission journey continued.
Yet in the next eight worlds that he visited, he found something strange. The missions and plots were easy. There was rarely any outside interference and even if there was, it would only be Dong Lan who had always tried to stay out of his way.
Really, he appreciated the easy five thousand points. The time limits could also easily be dealt with using points if he ever wanted to extend his stay there… But…
"What the heck is happening! In this world too, she"s weird! Everything is weird! Why is she a Buddhist nun again who is related by blood with me!?" Jiang Li was almost getting numbed by this funny chain of coincidences.
He couldn"t hide the irritation in his voice when he inquired about this from the system. For the ninth world, he was sent into a jianghu setting and once again, Margarette"s incarnation was the same with the previous ones. Given this, even though he had just been here for ten minutes, he could already foresee himself leaving as soon as he completed the goal. What the heck? Which b.a.s.t.a.r.d was behind this?
"System! Come out!"
"..." "Why am I receiving your anger again?"
The system wanted to cry and tell him this when it realized the guy was placing the blame on its head. "… Host, She"s a bonafide villainess. You once bullied one of her incarnations badly. Even if you made it up for her after, since that time, you left early again, she thinks you bullied her again. How can she let you off so easily? She"s the one unreasonable, not me."
The child spirit in the void was feeling aggrieved since it was not really his fault. How would he know what happened? Or guess what was going on in that woman"s head? It felt awful not having the authority to inform the paranoid guy that last time, while he did well with teaching her a lesson, he was not really the most vengeful creature in this universe.
...
The system wanted to cry and tell him this when it realized the guy was placing the blame on its head. "… Host, She"s a bonafide villainess. You once bullied one of her incarnations badly. Even if you made it up for her after, since that time, you left early again, she thinks you bullied her again. How can she let you off so easily? She"s the one unreasonable, not me."
The child spirit in the void was feeling aggrieved since it was not really his fault. How would he know what happened? Or guess what was going on in that woman"s head? It felt awful not having the authority to inform the paranoid guy that last time, while he did well with teaching her a lesson, he was not really the most vengeful creature in this universe.