Qiao Jun looked at her gently. "It’s alright. I’ll still be alive. I’ll just... be weaker. I can grow my soul back. Maybe in a hundred years, I’ll be whole again."
But Yu Holea shook her head strongly. "If you try to do that, I swear, I’ll divorce you!"
Qiao Jun froze. "What?"
"I an it!" Yu Holea said firmly. "Don’t you dare risk yourself like that. Not even for . Not even for our daughter."
Qiao Jun gave a soft, helpless smile and nodded. "Alright... I won’t. I promise."
Watching them, the master frowned. Then he opened his mouth.
"There is another way," he said.
Qiao Jun quickly gave him a look. It was a warning....Don’t say it.
But Yu Holea turned to her master. "What is it?" she asked seriously.
The master hesitated, then sighed.
"She can be reborn," he said. "In her original world. The place where her soul ca from."
Yu Holea’s eyes widened.
"If she’s reborn there," the master continued, "she’ll face her demon in that world. And if she overcos it... she can co back. But... she won’t be your little girl anymore."
Yu Holea stood frozen. Her heart ached.
"She’ll return as an adult," the master added.
Qiao Jun closed his eyes.
Even though Qiao Yun wasn’t the kind of daughter who laughed and ran into their arms or called them "Papa" and "Mama" with a chubby smile... she was still their child.
Their only daughter.
And the thought of sending her away... of not seeing her grow up... was too painful.
Yu Holea held her chest, trying to calm her beating heart.
She didn’t know what to say.
And Qiao Jun... had no words either.
Seeing that neither Yu Holea nor Qiao Jun could answer, the master gently said, "You don’t need to decide now. You can wait. Maybe you’ll find another way."
Yu Holea slowly nodded. "There must be another way. I won’t give up."
But ti flew by. A whole year passed.
And still, they found nothing.
During that ti, life continued. Qiao Li and Ou Lin finally got married.
After many fights and many talks, Ou Lin had won Qiao Li’s heart back. Their wedding was big, and even though so people were surprised, many were happy for them.
Even the eldest Qiao brother found his true love again.
She was his college sweetheart, his moonlight, his white moonlight. They had broken up in the past because of a big fight and misunderstanding.
But fate brought them back together at an event. After talking things out, they reunited and chose to never leave each other again.
As for Yu Holea, her father, Yu Lin, who had hurt her mother and their whole family, tried to reach out to her.
But Yu Holea coldly ignored him.
He didn’t raise her. He didn’t protect her. In her heart, he was not her father.
Even her siblings agreed. He had no right to ask anything from them.
Yu Sicong, as a final act of "rcy," sent Yu Lin to a ntal hospital.
People said it was rcy... but it really wasn’t. That man didn’t show rcy to their mother. He forced her to do terrible things and gave away their sister. He deserved worse.
anwhile, Yu Holea and her master traveled far and wide, reading ancient books, eting hidden experts, trying every thod they could find to save Qiao Jun.
But all the answers said the sa thing: either soone had to sacrifice a soul, or Qiao Jun had to be reincarnated.
They were getting more and more tired. More and more hopeless.
Then one day, Yu Holea received a call-type ssage from Goddess City.
She was too busy to care. Her daughter’s condition was still not fixed, and she wasn’t in the mood to deal with anything else.
But the call kept ringing.
Finally, with a frown, she picked it up.
A woman wearing a phoenix mask appeared. It was Goddess Phoenix.
Yu Holea narrowed her eyes. "What do you want?"
Goddess Phoenix looked at her for a mont before saying, "I heard about your daughter."
Yu Holea stiffened. Her voice turned sharp. "Do you have a solution?"
Goddess Phoenix paused. Then she said, "She’s just a daughter... Can’t you move on?"
Yu Holea’s face turned cold in an instant.
"If you called just to say nonsense," she snapped, "then you should’ve never called at all."
There was silence. For a long mont, Goddess Phoenix didn’t speak.
Then, finally, she said, "I found a way to help. I can help your daughter reincarnate."
Yu Holea frowned. "I can do that myself. I don’t need your help."
But Goddess Phoenix gave a small, bitter smile.
"Don’t reject before hearing the full offer," she said quietly.
Yu Holea hesitated. She wasn’t sure what Goddess Phoenix really wanted, but still, she asked, "What’s the benefit?"
Goddess Phoenix straightened her back. "I can let one creature go with her. A helper. Soone who can protect her in her new life."
Yu Holea’s eyes lit up. "Anyone?"
Goddess Phoenix nodded. "Yes. As long as it’s a beast or an animal. Not a demon, not a human, not a soul. And it must lower its power by ten tis."
Yu Holea didn’t even need to think. She clenched her fists, looked straight at Goddess Phoenix, and said, "Fine. I accept. But don’t go back on your word."
Goddess Phoenix looked at her deeply and nodded.
"Thank you," Yu Holea added softly. "And... I forgive you."
Goddess Phoenix didn’t say anything. But Yu Holea noticed sothing strange. Her smile wasn’t joyful; it was sad. lancholic.
Yu Holea didn’t understand.
Why... did it feel like Goddess Phoenix was saying goodbye?
The call ended.
Far away, in the Goddess City, Goddess Phoenix stood quietly, still staring at the empty space where Yu Holea had been.
"You’re crying again," a kind voice said.
Goddess Phoenix turned slightly. The forr Goddess, the one who had ruled before her, stood there. Her eyes were warm, and her smile was full of sadness.
"I’m not crying," Phoenix whispered, but her voice shook, and a tear rolled down her cheek.
The forr Goddess didn’t say anything. She just reached out and slowly removed the mask from Phoenix’s face.
As the mask fell away, her face was revealed.
She looked almost exactly like Qiao Yun...Yu Holea and Qiao Jun’s daughter. But older. More graceful.
Her features were still young, but there was sothing powerful and ancient about them. Her eyes were the sa as Qiao Yun’s, but they held centuries of sorrow.
If Euphoria had seen her, she would have been shocked. She would have realized in a second, this wasn’t just so kind of goddess.
This was her daughter.
Or maybe... a future version of her.
The forr Goddess gently wiped the tears from her cheeks.
"She didn’t recognize you," the forr Goddess said softly.
Phoenix shook her head. "She wasn’t supposed to."
"But it hurt, didn’t it?"
Goddess Phoenix stayed quiet for a mont before finally nodding. "Yes. It did."
The Forr Goddess looked at Goddess Phoenix and asked softly, "Do you want to tell Yu Holea everything? About who you really are? About what she’s forgotten?"
But Goddess Phoenix quickly shook her head. "No," she said firmly. "She’s already done so much for ... I don’t want to ask for anything more."
The Forr Goddess stared at her for a long mont. Her eyes were filled with a mix of sorrow and pity.
She knew how much pain Goddess Phoenix was hiding behind her calm voice.
There were so many things Yu Holea had forgotten, mories sealed away, tilines rewritten, destinies changed. And maybe... maybe Yu Holea would never rember that this girl in front of her, this calm and distant "Goddess Phoenix," was actually her daughter.
Her first daughter.
The Forr Goddess gently patted Goddess Phoenix’s back and whispered,
"Don’t worry. Once all this is over... you’ll be reborn too. This ti, you’ll be born again as their second daughter. And maybe then... she’ll rember you."
Goddess Phoenix tried her best to smile. She nodded slowly. "Okay..."
But inside, her heart still hurt.
Yu Holea’s cold eyes from the call still stung her deeply.
She didn’t an to bla her mother, after all, Yu Holea didn’t rember her past lives. She didn’t know who she truly was. But it still hurt... to be treated like a stranger by the one person she missed the most.
In Yu Holea’s very first life, after being discovered by the Yu family, she rose up and beca famous in the dical world. She was gifted, smart, and hardworking. She beca a true expert in dicine, helping many people. It was also because of her that the real Yumi died and the witch’s plans failed again and again.
Her parents, Yulin and Mrs. Yu, finally divorced. And during that lifeti, Yu Holea t Qiao Jun. He fell deeply in love with her, and they eventually got married and had a daughter, (Qiao Yun)Goddess Phoenix.
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