Epilogue 1 - When Jin Mi was a Book Boy (Part 1

( Hi, I just notice that I didn't, I didn't give out the part when Jin Mi went to Heaven as a bo. I will be giving the Epilogue 1 through 4)

Time: In the hundred years when Jin Mi first went to the Heavenly Realms and was Phoenix's book boy

"What is that?"

"Ah?" I had fallen asleep while grinding the ink slab when I immediately opened my eyes wide at Phoenix's sudden question. I gave an impression full of energy as I looked at him but I saw that his brows were slightly furrowed as he looked at the lower right. Following his gaze, I saw a small book being squashed by one leg of the table, its weak and thin appearance radiated a pitiful feeling. Of course, it was a little familiar.

I suddenly remembered that I had tried to transform the book table this morning and originally wanted to turn it into a turtle... but who knew that after I chanted the incantation, not only did the book table fail to transform, it leaned on one side and became lame in one leg! Luckily, the limp was not too bad so I placed a few books under its leg such that it immediately returned to its usual straight stable self. Who knew that Phoenix's eyes would be so sharp and he would immediately spot it from one glance...

A thief need not have a guilty heart. A guilty heart need not necessarily be a thief. So, I very boldly said, "Naturally, it's a book. It's more stable with it."

Phoenix looked at me with a raised brow and with a lift of his finger, the books flew out from below into his hands. I saw the brushes and ink slab immediately fell down from the book table as it slanted to one side - luckily my eyes and hands were fast and I quickly caught the table to stabilise it.

Although seeing this heavy book table was about to break my slim wrist, the poisonous bird Phoenix did not care. He flipped one of the books and read out loud, "A Courtyard Full of Amorous Spirit?" His face darkened and he lifted his head to look at me, flipping a few more pages in the book, his expression continued to become heavier... finally, he slammed the book on the table and stood up, "You used such a book to support my table?"

Ah? What's wrong with the book? I lifted up my head and saw the page the abandoned book was opened to, ah, it was only a drawing. Why did you throw such a temper? Unless... he disdained the fact that the spring pictures* were not detailed enough? To give in to him, I added, "Second Highness, if you don't like this book, my room has many more for you to choose from."

"Jin Mi!" Phoenix narrowed his eyes at me and actually lifted his hand to hit the table - it was like adding frost to the snow, I felt a pang of pain in my wrist and finally could not hold onto the table. I heard a cacophony of sound and my body was also pulled along, and actually blearily fell into Phoenix's arms.

I moved and tried to climb up, but who knew that the belt strap of my robe got hooked onto something on my body and with one force, I heard the ripping sound of fabric. I had teared a hole at the waist of my robes.

"Ah....." I heard a sound from behind. I pathetically turned back - an attendant had brought a snowy beard old God at the door and both of them stared blankly back at Phoenix and me, then at the mess on the floor, an expression of wanting to say something but could not as their feet were half raised across the entrance opening.

"Don't move," Phoenix commanded into my ear as his hands supported my waist and pressed me into his embrace.

The old God's moustache twitched and then twitched again, finally, it turned red. Lifting his head to look at the sky, lowering his head to see the spring books on the floor, he said, "Spring has arrived... arrived..." Speaking incoherently as he turned his head and walked off.

In the midst of the spring wind, the pages full of amorous pictures were flying.

Phoenix and I looked at each other - small eyes to big eyes for a short moment. If the enemy did not move, I would not move. The wind brought the strands of hair that had fallen from his sides passed my nose, suddenly, I had an ominous feeling.

As I saw Phoenix's dark face come closer and closer to me, it was so terrifying I could not move... who knew, finally, he raised his hand to pinch my hair and said coldly, "How long do you plan to lean on me?"

It shocked my back full of goosebumps. I hurriedly and randomly pressed my palm for support and stood up. After I stood straight, I saw that Phoenix's brows were furrowed and his colouring was a little pale, "You....!"

I? What did I do again? I gave him a bewildered look but saw that his face was black as he looked at my hands, he spat each word out by each word, "You -- Get -- Out!"

Of course, I did not expect a bird like him to be as kind and generous as us fruits, but I never thought he would be so aggrieved with me till this stage...

The second day, he transformed me into a pair of chopsticks. To be used to hold food but not be able to eat food - it is to want to cry but have no tears.

The third day, Chang'e from the Moon Palace brought her jade rabbit to visit. With a point of his finger, he changed me into a big fat radish! When the jade rabbit saw me, it immediately wanted to pounce over. Luckily, Chang'e hugged it tight or I would have definitely lost my life to a rabbit. After having a stare battle with the jade rabbit for two hours, I finally realised why Old Carrot Immortal was so scared of rabbit. Rabbits were truly the fiercest beasts in this world!

The fourth day, the cursed Phoenix changed me again into a drum. Being held in his hand, he knocked me till I almost fainted then he let me go.

The fifth day, the sixth day, the seventh day, the eighth day... it was only until the eighth day that he let me off. To act so ridiculously, I decided I would not bother with this bird anymore.

Later, when I happened to cross the sky bridge, I heard one immortal attendant secretly whispering to another, "I heard that a few days ago, Second Highness and his book boy at his book table... mutually cultivated... and actually broke one of the legs of the book table..."

The other immortal attendant was so shocked that his eyes were wide and his mouth agape. He gasped, "To be so bold and violent!"

I raised my head towards the sky, with the sun burning bright, to be so bold indeed.

*I wrote before in the main story that "春" means spring and also passion. The term "spring book" is an oblique way of saying "sex".

Epilogue 2: Dragon Boat Festival/ When Jin Mi Was A Book Boy (Part 2)

Our fruits also have backbones. Since Phoenix ignored my wishes and transformed me into a drum for eight days, I decided not to deal with him again. In the days where I no longer grind the ink slab for Phoenix, the sky appeared brighter, the water bluer, even the willow catkins that flew in the wind appeared cuter and more vibrant than before. When I was bored, I would watch the opera with the Moon God, hear him criticize the "spring books", the time flew by fast.

There was only one thing that was not good. Although the days in which I did not have to watch the mood of Phoenix's face were perfect springtime, but I was no longer taught divine spells. My already low divine powers dropped even further than before, and thus I decided to abandon the dark and follow the light and come under the tutelage of the Moon God. I asked the Moon God to teach me some secrets to increasing my divine powers and he happily agreed.

The Moon God very formally placed several different sizes and thicknesses of sewing needles before me, and said, "To thread needles is one of the basics of divine meditation. Think about it - if you can't even thread a sewing needle, how would you be able to properly use the heavy divine instruments? Thus, a good sewing needle is a necessary equipment for a successful god." Following which, the Moon God happily described all the sewing needles he treasured and kept, and very generously offered to let me pick one needle and would teach me how to thread it with red thread immediately tonight.

[The joke is that the Moon God's divine powers mainly lie in connecting lovers with a red thread, hence he would prize sewing needles so much!]

I deeply did not understand - the Moon God's eyesight was originally not good, but he would choose to thread the red threads in the pitch black darkness of the night under the glow of a small lamp.

When I asked him, the Moon God's eyes curved with his smile as he explained, "I feel more inspired by the night. The black night gives me a pair of black eyes, and I am fated to use it to catch illicit affairs!"

However, divine powers were fated to have nothing to do with threading needles and illicit affairs. I learnt to thread red threads with the Moon God for a total of ten days - my divine powers did not increase even a little bit but my eyesight was really starting to go crazy, everytime I saw a place with a hole, it was like I was possessed and I tried to think how I could thread a red thread through it.

Just as I was mulling over whether I should continue to learn under the Moon God, I heard that in two days Phoenix's palace would be having a celebration for the mortals' Dragon Boat Festival*. It was to celebrate some person's bravery for jumping into the river and rising to become a god. Phoenix had praised his literary skills and invited him to his palace and thus asked his attendants to celebrate as per the mortal customs of the Dragon Boat Festival.

This was nothing extraordinary but I heard that there will be rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival - the mortals' rice dumplings were made using banana leaves to wrap glutinous rice and fragrant meat or bean paste in a triangular shape, but the dumplings in the heavenly realms naturally could not be the same as the mortal dumplings thus Phoenix with a flip of his sleeve had declared, "We will wrap divine strength."

Divine strength! Shiny dazzling divine strength.

There were many different types of fillings for the dumplings in the mortal realms, there were lean meat, salted egg yolk, chestnut, apricot seed..... naturally, the dumplings in the heavenly realms also had to be differentiated. The most modest dumpling would wrap one year's worth of divine strength, but there would be numerous of them. As the years' worth of divine strength increased, the number of such dumplings would decrease. Finally, there was the Emperor Dumpling.

It contained five hundred years of divine strength.

Five hundred years of divine strength!

That was the total period of time when the Great Monkey God was pressed under the palm of Buddha Grandfather. If I could obtain this Emperor Dumpling, I could be spared so much difficult training. Thus, I immediately decided to return to Phoenix's palace to participate in the Dragon Festival festival and grab the Emperor Dumpling.

The doors of the palace opened early on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. I mixed into the crowd and entered. There were several green dumplings on the table as rumored - but all of them looked the same, how would one be able to ascertain the divine strength they contained?

Although I did not have the Great Monkey God's eyes which could immediately discern the true nature of things with a glance, but what I lack in gifts, I made up for in diligence. I thought, I shall just keep eating, who knows if I will eat until I eat the five hundred years dumpling!

However, there were too many gods, immortal attendants and immortal goddesses, I only managed to grab twenty dumplings. Still, this was much more than what most have grabbed. With great satisfaction, I carried the dumplings and went to the back garden of the palace to eat them in peace.

I ate one year of divine strength in the first dumpling. Although it was only one year, I thought the taste was really not bad, soft and sticky with a fragrant scent, it was worthwhile to eat it even if there was no divine strength in it.

I also ate one year of divine strength in the second dumpling. This caused my heart to be a little uncomfortable, but there were still eighteen chances right?

The third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth... with a bloated stomach and gritted teeth, I ate the final one...

The heavens were unfair! From the first to the twentieth, all of them were the same - so even though I ate until I was almost choking, I only gained twenty years of divine strength.

My heart was unwilling and I carried a stomach full of dissatisfaction back to the main palace. All the immortals have departed. I tried to find out which lucky little god had received the Emperor Dumpling but only received the news that no immortal had received it, only that the Little Red Boy, son of the Demon Bull King had received a dumpling of one hundred years of divine strength.

In that moment, I could not be bothered to be jealous of the Little Red Boy, my heart immediately calculated - based on this analysis, the Emperor Dumpling was still uneaten, thus I still had a chance! I tried to find out where the rest of the dumplings were.

I was met with a disdainful response, all of the dumplings were long gone. Good things were naturally eaten, who would take it and not eat it?

That was when I found out that the Second Highness did not eat it. He only asked his attendant to place it in his study.

There is no dead path for a person with a willing heart!

I saw that Phoenix's study radiated a light glow and hesitatingly knocked on the door.

"Come in," Phoenix's cold voice with the fragrant smell of dumplings floated through.

I pushed the door open with anticipation and immediately saw a complete dumpling on the table. My heart rose higher in excitement and thought that Phoenix did not look like such an eye sore as before. Of course, if he would give me this dumpling, he would really be the most perfect male in all of the six realms.

"Jin Mi greets his Fire Highness," I obediently bowed.

In the misty fiery glow, Phoenix lightly lifted the ends of his long narrow eyes, seeing it was me he lowered his gaze and continued to look through his books. After a while, he slowly opened his golden mouth,"I heard that you have entered the tutelage of my Uncle."

"How can that be? His Fire Highness must have heard wrongly. To have his Fire Highness personally teach Jin Mi is my life's blessing, how can I enter the tutelage of another?" I very seriously denied this matter.

"Ah," Phoenix lifted his head to look at me, softly gave out one word and then silence.

I very naturally and familiarly started to grind the ink slab, if I did not display my loyalty now, when could I?

"Tonight, I am only reading and have no need for the ink," He held the scroll with one hand and leaned languidly on the chair back. I did not know if it was my mistaken perception but I thought I saw his thin lips lightly curving.

I gently placed down the ink slab and listened to him speak, "The night is dark and my stomach is a little hungry. When don't you use the spell I taught you before to warm this dumpling so I can eat it."

I panicked and immediately told him, "The mortals' dumplings are very awful to eat. There is a strange smell from the banana leaf wrapping, the glutinous rice is too soft and vastly less nice to eat than the normal rice. A rice must have backbone, what kind of rice is soft rice! Plus, this dumpling is too big, you will choke if you eat it late at night."

Phoenix narrowed his eyes, his dimples appearing and disappearing, "Based on your words, I really want to find out what this dumpling taste like. How awful it must be for you to be so pained."

Seeing his hand reach out for this dumpling, without even thinking, I hurriedly stretched my hand and placed it on top of his hand to stop him, "If your Fire Highness is hungry, I will immediately go to the kitchen and personally made a plate of hibiscus pastry** for you. I guarantee that it will be hundred times more delicious than his dumpling, and you won't choke when you eat it, ok?"

I looked at him steadfastly with hope, but who would have thought not only did this bird not answer, his face had a dazed expression and I couldn't tell what he was thinking. I followed his gaze and realised that he was looking at the back of my hand. In my worry that he would not agree, I flipped my hand and both my hands wrapped his hand in my palms, I gave him a shining look of loyalty and asked again, "What does your Fire Highness think?"

I did not know if it was the flickering of the flames, or it was my spoilt eyesight from threading too many needles, I actually thought that Phoenix's cheeks had a rush of light colouring. But, he looked at his hand that was wrapped in my palms, avoided my gaze and his voice seemed unnatural as he lightly agreed, "Ok."

What a beautiful voice from heaven!

I pushed away his hand and quickly carried the Emperor Dumpling out of the door, "I shall remove this dumpling. Fire Highness just wait a moment and the hibiscus pastry will be immediately delivered."

I was so worried he would regret it that after I walked out of the door, I started to run with the Emperor Dumpling.

Heaven has not forsaken a person with a willing heart! I forced the dumpling down my throat. Indeed, it had five hundred years of divine strength! I was so happy, my dreams that night had the sweet fragrance of glutinous rice.

Of course, the saying that "Happiness breeds Sadness" is not without merit, for I was so happy that night that I completely forgot about Phoenix's hibiscus pastry...

It was only a small plate of hibiscus pastry but that small-hearted bird bore a grudge and punished me to make hibiscus pastry for a whole year! Plus, he won't eat it in the morning or in the afternoon, thus I couldn't sleep properly for a whole year! Often having to make the hibiscus pastry in the middle of the night.

And, whenever Phoenix eats the hibiscus pastry, he would eat it with an especially heavy and serious expression, truly despicable and detestable! The gaze from his phoenix eyes as he looked into my eyes especially cause me to grit my teeth with hate!

Phoenix called this "using merits to make up for my fault".

But, because of Emperor Dumpling, I decided not to be as small-hearted as the bird.

Authors Little Fact and opinion.

* On the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the Chinese celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival which commemorates the suicide of a great poet, Quan Yu, into the river. He was exiled and accused of treason. The locals respected Quan Yu so much that they rushed out in boats to rescue his body and this was the start of the dragon boat races. They also threw balls of rice in the river to stop the fishes from eating his body and this was the origin of the rice dumplings. Thus, during the Dragon Boat Festival, the Chinese will eat rice dumplings and participate in dragon boat races. My favorite parts of Heavy Sweetness are Jin Mi going on her endless quests for divine strength and happily trying to swindle divine strength from the world. And of course, Phoenix wrestling with his feelings towards a completely shameless and impervious Jin Mi. Enjoy!

Heavy Sweetness Ash-Like Frost: Epilogue 3: Testing Pills

"Where are you going?"

With the Moon God's arm warmly round my own as we headed out, I suddenly felt cold sweat break out from my back from an icy cool voice.

As I turned my head back, I saw Phoenix standing behind me with pressed lips, the Phoenix who was supposed to be in his study. In that moment, I suddenly felt an awkward lightness in my heart. After hawing and hemming for a while, I suddenly remembered that I have not done anything wrong - only that I often felt shorter by about a three inches by his stature, so I raised my head and patted my chest and said, "How scary! I thought I was 'caught cheating in bed', scared me to death...."

Half of Phoenix's face immediately turned dark.

The Moon God was so frightened that he loosened his grip on my arm and said, "We are innocent. Whiter than the egg white! Nephew, you have to believe me!"

The other half of Phoenix's face also turned dark.

The Moon God and I nervously watched Phoenix as he took in a deep breath, as if managing to control something, then he slowly opened his mouth, "Jin Mi, I once said that you can avoid using phrases that required four words (*chinese sayings like proverbs)".

"But....." I looked at the tip of my toes and murmured, "But, I feel, I feel that if I use more of those four word phrases I'll... I'll appear more learned, elegant, and people will respect me..."

Phoenix stretched his hand up and pressed his forehead, he said very seriously, "I don't think 'caught cheating in bed' can express elegance".

"Then how about 'Red Plum Over Wall' (meaning a wife being unfaithful)? Or 'Planting Flowers and Grass' (means to mess around with love)?" I felt that since we were husband and wife, naturally everything can be negotiated, this would reflect our harmonious relationship, thus I spoke in a humble and conciliatory tone.

Who knew that once he heard my words, the green veins in his forehead started to throb and he coldly said, "From now on, you are not allowed to use any four word phrases! You will be allowed to speak only after you figure out their meanings!"

Sigh, a man's heart is like the needle on the ocean floor. I really could not understand and gave him a recriminatory look. At my glance, his face immediately softened and he coughed before stating, "If you want to, it's not impossible...but when there's outsiders, you should refrain from it a little, ok?" After he finished, he seemed to deeply regret his change of stance and lightly furrowed his brow.

"Outsiders?" The Moon God's face turned gloomy, "Phoenix, are you saying I am an outsider? Ah, men turn unfaithful when they age. To think that you used to be a little bird whose first coat of feathers have not yet shed and how you loved to play in my manor. Now, you draw the line so clearly, I am so sad... so very sad!"

I immediately felt that these words were very familiar.

Phoenix just acted like he did not hear anything and interrupted midway, "Where was Uncle planning to bring Jin Mi?"

The cold desolate tones of the Moon God's complaints immediately stopped. His ability to emote and then stop was amazing. Phoenix narrowed his eyes and slowly lengthened his query, "Yes?"

The Moon God immediately replied smoothly and honestly, "Tai Shan Lao Jun has prepared a new pill. It was just completed today! I'm bringing little Jin Mi to take a look."

"That's right," I added, "Tai Shan Lao Jun and Moon God has invited me to go test the pill today."

"Test the pill?" The ends of Phoenix's eyes lifted, "Test what pill?"

I suddenly realised something and so became silent.

But, who knew that Moon God would happily answer, "The Unfeeling Pill." Ignoring Phoenix's expression which immediately turned completely dark, the Moon God continued to add firewood to the fire, "You know that Lao Jun is completely addicted and mesmerised by the process of making pills - he believes that there is no pill in the world he cannot create and no pill in the world he cannot resolve. However he never knew that there was a pill that could cause someone to destroy all emotions - he immediately felt that this was a huge blemish on his reputation, so he gave his all to create a pill like the Unfeeling Pill. Who knew that he has finally produced one! He does not know yet if it works so he has invited Jin Mi to try it."

"You agreed?" Phoenix looked at me, his face completely ashen.

"Yes," I answered in a voice as tiny as a fly. Seeing Phoenix's face, I hurriedly added, "You know how I am more experienced since I ate one before..." Who knew that Phoenix's face turned even scarier until I did not dare to continue.

At this moment, I really wished I was a fly so I could fly away.

"Return to the room," After saying these words, he turned towards the inner house. He turned again, seeing that I was still standing at my original position, his eyes narrowed and he coldly added, "What? Unless you want me to carry you back?"

Scared me to death! I immediately lifted my legs and followed after.

"Don't go! Don't go!" The Moon God cried, "Phoenix, you don't have to be so anxious, Lao Jun created many pills. Why don't you come along? I guarantee that everyone can get one pill!"

"No need," Phoenix said lightly and closed the door.

Then, he quickly turned his body and I was so frightened that I quickly hid under the covers of the bed, "This... Phoenix... today's weather is very good... very good... why don't we mutually cultivate..." I only knew that after mutual cultivation, his mood would become very good and patient, he would agree to all my requests, no matter how much divine energy I asked for, he would agree... I wonder if it would work today...

"Jin Mi! I really want to strangle you to death at times!" Seeing how he has slowly forced me to the edge of the bed, I really thought that in a fit of anger, he would take back all the divine energy that I had tricked from him, but who knew that he just let out a soft sigh and finally embraced me in his arms, "You really... ah, rotten wood that cannot be carved."

I couldn't help being angry, so what if I'm rotten wood? There's still an unpicky moth like him who could not let me go and always wanted to bite me.

Of course, finally, we still went into the deep discipline of mutual cultivation... but how come it seemed like it was only me that got trained?

Pitiful me who had to accept his revenge - after a few rounds, he finally let me off as a strengthless me laid in his arms.

"Actually, Tai Shan Lao Jun had prepared the Unfeeling Pill and also the antidote together. No worries that it won't be resolved."

He opened half an eye and cruelly squeezed me in his arms, "Even if he prepared a pot of antidote, you are not allowed to touch it half a bit!"

I really felt that at this moment there were four words that would perfectly describe him, but I remembered how he had warned me not to use four-word phrases, so I decided to let it go.

I could only silently murmur in my heart: 'Treating Trees as Soldiers'*.

* A phrase that means you are so suspicious that you even mistake the trees as soldiers.

Heavy Sweetness Ash-Like Frost: Epilogue 4 - Tang Yue

Since the previous time when I failed to go for the pill testing, Phoenix had completely grounded me. It has been half a month since that fateful day. No! I should say it has been fifteen days, a whole fifteen days, he really is too domineering and I am really too pitiful. Those who can see will be sad, those who can hear of it will weep.

I was in the study and grinding till my face was about to drop into the ink slab when I heard a small demon announcing from outside, "The Moon God requests an audience with the Great One's Mistress. May the Great One give his directions."

One phrase and I became furious. Why was the Moon God finding "the Great One's Mistress", why did the demon seek "the Great One's directions?" This was truly overlooking my presence! Of course, I could only be angry in my heart... habit was indeed a frightening creature.

"No audience," The Great One cleanly spat out two words. His head did not even raise up and he continued writing.

"Yes," The little demon retreated. Quickly, he returned, "Reporting to the Great One, the Moon God said...said... there needs to be a reason for not being able to see..."

Phoenix steadily paused his brush, he still did not raise his head and said, "Mistress is pregnant and needs rest." The little demon received his instructions and left.

I was actually dozing off when I suddenly stood up in shock, "When did I get a baby?"

Phoenix raised his head, lightly looking me in the eye and replied, "Soon." I suddenly felt my forehead turn black.

In half a moment, Phoenix finished writing, then he personally carefully pasted it on a parchment, then personally hung it in the middle of the bedroom, facing the head of the bed.

I looked at it. On the paper were four words dazzlingly written - "Heaven Rewards Efforts Justly". Thus, not only did my forehead turned black, my face also became black.

Indeed, the frequency of our mutual cultivation increased rapidly. I did not know what was the true meaning of mutual cultivation, but I knew that the consequence of mutual cultivation was a baby that would cry day and night. Thus, I became melancholic - melancholic in the day and night, melancholic when cultivating, melancholic when not cultivating.

Later, it was not clear why but Phoenix also started to be melancholic, and finally he became depressed, eating little and not really sleeping. Seeing him sad, I became sadder, it really was melancholy adding onto melancholy with no end...

Finally, there was a day when we did not mutually cultivate. He sat at the top of the bed and looked seriously at me. He looked for a long time, looked until all the hairs on my back stood up straight, then he finally opened his mouth, "Jin Mi, I'm going to ask you something, you must honestly answer me."

I immediately obediently agreed, I almost wanted to swear to heavens that just as long as he stopped being so mercurial, I would tell him all he wanted.

Who knew that he could not open his mouth for half the day... I had never seen him so hesitant. I was truly surprised, I did not know if he was preparing to divorce me or preparing to marry a concubine, such thoughts flowed through me and truly gave me a shock. At this moment, he finally opened his mouth, "Jin Mi, do you not want to give birth to my child?"

Ah, it was not about a concubine, so I relaxed and answered, "No."

Hearing this, Phoenix's expression became much better and his uptight body seemed to relax, he quickly added, "Then why do you seem so melancholic since the day I said you were going to be expecting soon?"

Oh so it turned out to be about this. I honestly replied, "I have pre-natal depression."

It was now Phoenix's turn for his face to darken, "What does a fruit like you need to be depressed about?"

Why can't a fruit be depressed? I was furious.

Only after I suppressed the anger in my heart did I said, "I am really very troubled - I'm not sure what thing will I give birth to."

When the word "thing" came out of my mouth, it was as if I saw a burst of red lotus flame shoot out of Phoenix's head, and hurriedly added, "Look, my father is water, my mother is flower, and thus gave birth to a frost flower like me. The previous Heavenly Emperor was a dragon, the Heavenly Empress was a female phoenix, and gave birth to a male Phoenix like you. Night's mother was a koi, but Night was a dragon fish. The Moon God and the Heavenly Emperor came from the same father but the Moon God is a fox.... thus, I was really unsure, I am a frost flower, you are a male Phoenix, what kind of fruit would be born? So, I was really really really troubled!"

Phoenix lost himself in laughter and I could see his dimples appear. He lifted his hand to flick at my forehead, "Unnecessary worry! You will naturally know when the time comes." Thus, Phoenix had truly removed all his worries.

And so, my hardship days returned, my poor waist...

Heavens indeed rewards the labor justly. In half a month, I was pregnant. From pre-natal depression it became pre-birth depression, I was worried every day, truly scared that I would give birth to something strange, for example the Moon God or Master Pu Chi...these were some examples of the height of strangeness.

Five years later, I finally developed from pre-birth depression to post-natal depression. Not because of anything, simply because I delivered a baby whose real self is a white egret.

What is a white egret? The white egret is a type of water bird - water bird! What a species of bird that lacks strength - even a Phoenix was better than a water bird! I wanted to stuff him back in and deliver all over again.

But Phoenix was very happy, and I had never seen him smile so widely before. Even on the day of our marriage, he was only reservedly happy, not so expressively happy like this.

He has always known my heart well so he placed his arm around me and comforted me, "Our children and grandchildren will have their own happiness." Grandchildren? I was already so troubled by one son, how can I dare to think of grandchildren!

But, every time when I looked at his small face that was white and soft like the glutinous rice, when he used his little hand to wrap around my finger, when I heard his innocent laughter, my heart became at ease - I felt that the white egret was the purest most beautiful bird in the world. Even a thousand or ten thousand eagles cannot rival one feather from his snowy wing.

What's more in this black bloody Demon Realm, to give birth to such a pure and holy white egret, can be counted as rising from mud but not being stained?

Phoenix gave him the name "Tang Yue". It sounded familiar to me and I only remembered later that it was the name of the family shop I was born into when I was a mortal.

It was then that I realized that Phoenix was lazier than me.