My name is Gloria...
I'm not a naughty child..
Anyway Mama said I'm a good child. I was born in 33 heaven from the King & Queen of gods. But Mama always says Dad is not a good man to idolize in my young mind...
Mama said...
"Darling... your dad is a good king, general or whatever good thing he is.... remember... he's not a good material for a husband.. don't say I'll marry a man like dad when I grow up....ever..."
"Why Mama?"
"Your dad already had three wives when he pursued me... Saying he didn't love them and I'm his true love.. He pushed the original wives aside and gave me the queen's crown.."
" Even if I'm the benefited one, it's not the right thing to do... Even if they have no complaints, it's not fair... Why did he get married if he didn't love them? Shouldn't he wait for his true love if he can't live without it? Why should he still want true love if he's already married?"
"And he said to me that he gave them the titles because they're already married to him... but he won't ever touch them again... how laughable "
"Why should he deprive them of a husband to rely on? On what basis? He is the one who cheated but they're being punished...Becoming widows with husband... alive"
Mama said she has both love and disdain for dad. Love his unwavering love ever since he said "I love you" to her but disdained & disgusted his unfaithfulness to his marriage..
"What if it's me in their place? What if it's me that had to endure this unfair treatment?He didn't divorce them but he abandoned them physically and spiritually..You know darling, I'll just kill him and become a real widow..."
Actually, it was normal for nobel and powerful people to have a lot of wives, husbands, concubines, lovers or whatever here in heaven or mortal worlds(regardless of gender).
It's all about merits & position in heaven... and.. it's all about money & position in the mortal realm..
Therefore, it was perfectly normal for dad himself and his subjects' thinking, he could marry or disregard his wives as long as he could provide and be responsible for their needs .... as he was a high ranking noble in mortal realm and king of gods in heaven...
But Mama was not the normal one...
She was also the high ranking noble in mortal realm and princess of Asura realm...She had her pride too...
Mama said..
" If I were a man, I could have many wives like your dad...or if not for your dad messing with me, I could still have husbands and concubines like these goddess...I was also a high ranking nobel too... just like your dad.."
Mama said those words with gritted teeth...
Mama also said...
"But I'm not like your dad. I won't impose things which I dislike on others... I'm a believer of faithfulness in marriage... A pair of lovers..for a lifetime.. I just want to be the only wife of the commoner rather than the one of the many wives of king.."
" But I'll never be....."
Yes...ever since dad's love bloomed for mama...she had no way out.. I asked..
" Why don't you do the same to him Mama? Bottling things up is not good for mental health.. "
And Mama glared at me..
"Do you think I don't want to? But your dad is the king of gods. Who in their right mind dares to cuckold your dad? And if I were to cheat, I'd have to cheat with a better one. I can't lower my standard just to best him... but where is the better one? You say.."
I didn't know Mama really meant it or not. She didn't avoid my dad even if he arrived in the middle of her trash talking about him.
The smile pasted on dad's face for his wife cracked. How could he still smile hearing the thoughts of his beloved trying to cuckold him ... as soon as he entered her palace door?.. Heartbroken.jpg
" Beloved Queen... If you are dissatisfied, just vent to me. Don't teach the child crooked. What if she becomes more willful than you?"
"I'm just teaching my darling how to recognize scum man. Can't teach? Do you want your daughter cheated by a man with a harem? What if this man has too many pieces of heart to love? What if this man had other women before or after he cheated your daughter's heart?"
" Who dares? I will strike that scum with my Thunderbolt Vajra. I'll hack him to pieces. No no...queen...but that doesn't mean you should use me as a teaching material. Please leave me some dignity as a father. okay?"
"Hi..dad"
I flashed a smile to my dad. Dad rubbed my hair and rained down kisses on my face.
I know dad didn't behave this way to any of his children.
Mama said it was because dad loved her... so he loved all the things related to her. And I was the crystallization of their combined divinity.
My three elder brothers and four elder sisters were born by pregnancy in the mortal realm from dad's three wives. But I was born in Heaven.
Gods & Goddesses never get pregnant. They had to combine divinity with their chosen partner to get an offspring.
" Our child is still young. Queen...Can't we talk about this slowly? And please don't use me as a negative teaching material again. I've corrected my wrongdoings over three lifetimes... Didn't you say I'm forgiven?.."
Dad sounded utterly helpless.
"Forgiven doesn't mean forgotten.. okay? You said you didn't touch anyone but your harem is full of beauties. And the child is still young? I can't prevent you even when my brothers come down to the mortal realm and educate me starting from three years old..."
"Except for three consorts, others are just empty titles. You know I've never been to other places. Even these consorts have to come to my main palace and they're only allowed to talk about the princes and princess..."
Here we go again..
These useless bickering...
But dad looked happy...
He thought it was mama's jealousy materialising....
And I only have one greeting sentence in their whole conversation ... Geez..
It hurted my young single heart...
Dad got Mama to formally marry him only in Mama's fourth life... Mama ran away from him the whole three lifetimes..
Can't get her love when Mama is the city lord's daughter experiencing mortal life in the mortal realm...because he is a married man with three wives..
Dad ascended to heaven after this life...
Therefore, to confuse the King of gods who was searching for her in the afterlife...she halted her ascension and asked her father, the Asura King, to send her to the Beast realm...
But...contrary to her expectations.. that king of gods found her and pestered her for a lifetime again..
To make her angrier, her whole kingdom was kicked out of 33 Heaven by this man...The Asura kingdom was the native of 33 Heaven. When the king of Gods and his subordinates ascended, they didn't interfere.
The 33 Heaven was vast...
The Asura didn't want to occupy the whole realm... The development of these gods was too fast... As they developed, they wanted the whole realm....
When the two kingdoms became equal, the kingdom of gods started diplomatic relations with the Asura Kingdom.
The Asuras were an immortal race with innate divinity. They didn't need ascension to become immortal.They couldn't be killed but die only when their divinity is used up.
The gods were immortals with merits. They needed merits to ascend.They couldn't be killed but died only when their merits were used up.
Thus, waging wars is useless.The gods from mortal realm are more cunning than the unsuspecting Asuras. They invited the whole upper echelons of Asuras for a drinking festival.
The festival lasts for a week. Nothing happened till the sixth day, so the honest (not) Asuras let the guard down. Then the whole lot of drunk Asuras are kicked down to the lower realm.
Be it Asuras or gods,they could only get down to the lower realm.None could go up...After kicking Asuras down, the King of God took the sole ownership of the realm and closed the connection between the two realms...
When the Asuras wook up from their drunken state, the whole kingdom had to rebuild at the lower realm.
As the man who is pursuing the daughter while tricking her whole kingdom, you can see how deep of a pit my dad dug for himself....
After this lifetime, she hid in the mortal realm again...as a daughter of a poor potter.
She didn't believe he could find her if she lived an ordinary life...
But...she was... busted...
again...
So she decided to go back to the now Asura realm to seek the protection of the whole family....
After this backstabbing accident, the whole race became more warlike. Because they are a divine race and their strength is on par with the gods... the lower realm's ownership falls to the king of Asura...
From then on the whole realm was in a closed state with the sign " Dogs and Gods are not allowed to enter"..
Then Mama comes of age to choose a divine champion.
The Asuras chose the champion with fate. They send invitations for the ceremony. In the ceremony, the adult female Asura would condense the champion flower with her divine power and throw it across the participants.
If the flower falls into the participant's palm, they're fated....and no one can divide the couple...
Dad sneaked into the princess's ceremony in disguise with the cover of invited guests....snatched the flower....snatched the princess... and ran away before anyone could understand what happened...
The championship was protected by divine law... So Mama had no choice but to marry that enemy of her whole kingdom....
After that marriage, the Asura royal family could do nothing. But the father-in - law and four brother- in - law swore to annoy this bastard.
So the kingdom of gods had to engage in small-scale war every three or five days...They fought in a drop of the hat...
And that king of gods had to accept the challenge of his five in - laws and get beaten up occasionally.... it's not painful or itchy but really really annoying...
Who else could he even blame? It's retribution...
He got what he paid for..
As a creation of combined divinity, I'm the native of 33 heaven...
Means...I don't need to ascend or descend...
But 33 Heaven's power system relied heavily on merits. There are no innate gods and goddesses like the Greek system. You need merits to ascend.
Gods & goddesses are territorial...
The titles, power, positions and accommodations all depend on your merit. If the merits are insufficient to grant you territory or a palace of your own when you ascend, you'll ascend into another god's territory.
Thus become this god's attendant. Your merits determine your position. Be it maids, dancers, guards or whatsoever....
You can imagine how much merit my dad had to collect to rule the whole realm...
Dad's throne is a soul bound artifact that appears automatically after his ascension to Kinghood.
And this throne acts like a pager. Whenever there was something my dad needed to pay attention to while sitting on the throne, the soft cushion under dad's butt got hard and hot.
You know what?
I feel uncomfortable while thinking of this throne.... I feel like this throne is kinda indecent....improper...
Blink.. blink..
Today this indecent throne is acting up again...
Dad was still not ready to ask the nearby officer for investigation, so the messenger came running...
" Your Majesty, your majesty ...urgent... it's urgent "
Looks like the messenger is quite frightened. The gods don't have short of breath or a need to calm the heart, but this messenger is really shaken...
"Calm down...what happened?Did my brother - in - law challenge me again? Since you looked quite frightened, did the whole family come? "
The King thought hard but found nothing that could scare him...except for that in - law family of his...
" No your majesty... it's the four dukes...the four dukes...they...they..."
The messenger swallowed hard. He wanted to answer the king but started to stutter...
" A new fairy ascended today.. Her ascension place was exactly in the overlapping boundary of the four dukes.."
" It's just a fairy, not even a Goddess. Why do you have to be so scared? Just give her ownership to a senior and be done with it.."
"But...but..your majesty..
That fairy is too beautiful... so..so..no one wants to give in...and...and.. they are fighting now.."
" What?"