The beloved baby has a space

Chapter 801 Peeking into Fate
Perhaps because she hadn't spoken to anyone for a long time, and after holding back for a while, Ouyang Wangning casually pulled Ayu onto the steps and sat down next to her.

They started talking to themselves.

She said the person lying in the coffin was Princess Ruan Ruan, who had been missing for a long time.

Over the years, by a twist of fate, she ended up on an island outside the region, and by another twist of fate, she became a goddess, and the surrounding area was renamed Goddess Island.

"I bet you have a lot of questions you want to ask, right?"

Ayu shook her head, just about to say, "Actually, there's nothing I want to ask," when her head suddenly felt heavy.

Ouyang Wangning patted Ayu's head, just like an older sister stroking her younger sister.

"Baby, she looks about the same age as your mother, not like your sister."

Speaking of which, who is actually whose older sister?

No, if the person in the coffin were your own mother, she would look younger than the person in front of you.

[Your mother is truly dead. She showed no vital signs, and although she appeared to have died recently, her age doesn't match.]

[I need to use my brain now.]

Tuanzi also turned into a curious child, bombarding Ayu with questions.

Ayu quickly reassured it in her mind: "Don't think too much, we're all here now, we'll find out soon."

It no longer matters which of the two was born first, because Ouyang Wangning is already quite a bit older than Ayu in appearance.

She doesn't look like a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl; she looks more like someone in their early twenties.

“Little Ayu, what I’m about to say might seem unbelievable, but it’s true.” Ouyang Wangning pointed to the still-burning lamps and said with a smile, “I was born in the same month and year as you, but now I’m thirty-three.”

【what? 】

Tuanzi was even more surprised than Ayu.

It frantically searched the database, but all its information came from searching; it had very little experience and couldn't analyze anything.

Ayu remained calm: "You look to be at most twenty."

Ouyang Wangning winked at her and asked, "Is that all you care about?"

"Hmm." Actually, I don't care much about even that.

Ouyang Wangning sighed: "I'll tell you eventually anyway, so I might as well take you to see it."

As she spoke, she opened Ayu's right hand, palm up, and wrote something on Ayu's palm with her index finger.

He lightly ran his finger across his waist, as if he had scraped against a sharp weapon, and blood began to ooze from his fingertip.

Ouyang Wangning placed a drop of blood on Ayu's forehead, and then blew a breath at Ayu.

Ayu immediately felt her vision begin to blur.

【precious!】

With a cry of alarm from Tuanzi, Ayu collapsed limply to the ground.

Before losing consciousness, Ayu said to Tuanzi, "Don't panic."

She instinctively trusted the woman in front of her and didn't think she would harm her.

When Ayu opened her eyes again, she found herself in a gray world, with only a golden river in front of her.

Many river lanterns float on the river, drifting downstream at a leisurely pace.

Some lights were dazzling, some were dim, and some were even about to sink to the bottom of the water.

Before Ayu could ask a question, Ouyang Wangning said, "This is the River of Fate. The floating lanterns represent the fate of living beings. If the lanterns are normal, it means that the living beings are alive. If the lanterns sink to the bottom, the living beings will disappear from the world."

"Why did you bring me here?" Ayu was genuinely puzzled. In fact, she had many questions ever since she arrived at Goddess Island.

Ouyang Wangning was in no hurry and led Ayu along the riverbank.

Ayu tried to summon Tuanzi, but received no response, thinking that this must be a magical closed space-time.

“Little Ayu, you have never seen us, but your mother and I have seen you many times, right here by the River of Fate,” Ouyang Wangning said. “The fate of living beings is predetermined if we do not interfere with it; birth, aging, sickness, and death are all predetermined. We cannot easily interfere with the fate of living beings, because we ourselves are very fragile. Once we interfere with the fate of other living beings, we will be swept up by fate.”

It turns out that back then, there was also a rumor in the Western Wind Kingdom that "whoever obtains this woman will obtain the world," and that rumor came true for Princess Ruan Ruan.

Even though Princess Ruan Ruan was deeply loved, she could not withstand the covetous eyes of other countries.

The person who "kidnapped" Princess Ruan Ruan was actually a fortune teller. He predicted that destiny would fall upon Princess Ruan Ruan, and that a chaotic war would break out among the four great kingdoms of the east, west, south, and north, resulting in the destruction of all four kingdoms.

After the four kingdoms are destroyed, this continent will fall into a five-hundred-year-long war, with countless deaths and injuries, and less than one in a hundred surviving.

In fact, besides Princess Ruanruan of Xifeng Kingdom and Princess Yongchang of Chang Kingdom, Beixing Kingdom, Nanyu Kingdom, and Dongmo Kingdom also have their own sworn-in individuals.

The northern kingdoms were the first to fall into chaos, but the first to perish was the Eastern Desert Kingdom.

Meanwhile, Princess Yongchang of Changguo disappeared, the Youlong clan of Beixingguo, who were fond of human sacrifice, came to power, and the royal family of Nanyuguo were killing each other.

When it came to Princess Ruan Ruan, she chose to leave Xifeng Kingdom and follow the Fate Master to find a way to break the curse.

During this time, her whereabouts were exposed, and she was hunted down by other countries. On her escape, she fell in love with the Fate Master and became pregnant.

Later, the Fate Master paid the ultimate price for one last calculation, predicting that Princess Ruan Ruan's child would be the cause of ending the chaos. However, before he could calculate anything further, he died from a deadly poison.

After that, Princess Ruan Ruan gave birth prematurely to the weak little Ayu. Han Zhi, the palace maid who had accompanied her on her escape, offered to give her daughter to Princess Ruan Ruan in order to conceal the fact that the princess was not her biological daughter.

Princess Ruan Ruan fled from place to place in Chang Kingdom, and one by one, those around her fell ill and died. When she finally reached Goddess Island, only she and Ouyang Wangning remained to depend on each other for survival.

At that time, Goddess Island was desolate and inhabited by a group of cannibals.

Princess Ruan Ruan accidentally opened the Gate of Destiny and came to the River of Destiny. By observing the destinies of others, she gained extraordinary abilities and wiped out the cannibals, leaving only the remnants to escape by jumping into the sea.

“The River of Fate can see the past of all living beings, but those who peek into fate can never leave this five-mile radius for their entire lives, and will suffer the backlash of time. The more they peek, the deeper the backlash, until there is no more lifespan to be reduced.” Ouyang Wangning looked at Ayu deeply. “Half a year ago, Mother’s lifespan was completely consumed by the backlash. It was also half a year ago that I took over her position as Goddess.”

Ten years ago, Princess Ruan Ruan foresaw that Xiao A Yu was destined to die young, and she also saw everything A Yu had endured at the Xie family mansion.

From the River of Fate, she saw Ayu buried beneath the snow-capped mountains, her small body torn apart by wild beasts.

All of this caused Princess Ruan Ruan unbearable pain and overwhelming self-blame.

She learned to change her fate without a teacher, and thus, Ayu, who was supposed to die, had her time reversed.

Her breathing, which had stopped in the snow, resumed, albeit faintly.

The crack created by the reversal of time attracted a mysterious force from beyond the heavens.

"At that time, your mother didn't know what had gotten close to you, but she checked your destiny lamp countless times and found that your fate was becoming more and more stable, so she was finally relieved."

Ouyang Wangning could never forget that her mother's body was visibly aging.

Her face was still young and beautiful, but wrinkles appeared on the back of her hands overnight, and her hair turned gray more and more. She dyed it black with medicine every day.

At first, Ouyang Wangning was also jealous, jealous of the girl who had never spent a single day with her mother, yet was loved and protected by her mother with her life.

Until she also secretly peeked into the lamp of destiny and saw her sister's past.

Her mother, Hanzhi, did not take good care of her, and she even had a vague feeling that her mother hated her.

She knew that, in Hanzhi's mind, no one could escape such a pursuit. No matter how hard the princess's daughter lived, she still survived; but her own daughter had lost her life. It was only natural for her to hate her.

But Ruan Ruan Niang was always very good to me.

Gradually, Ouyang Wangning let go of her resentment. She often accompanied Ruan Ruan Niang to look at Xiao Ayu's life through the River of Fate.

If you only peek into your destiny without trying to change it, the backlash will be much smaller.

The cost of altering one's fate is something almost no one can afford.

But Princess Ruan Ruan was willing to pay the price for the sake of the common people.

"Do you see those lights outside? Each one represents a creature whose fate has been spied on, and whose destiny has been altered."

Ayu thought of the lights outside, which seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see.

"Did she change it?" Ayu couldn't bring herself to call her "mother" for a moment.

Even knowing that the other person has actually been protecting them all along.

"Yes, she was invited by the Gate of Destiny, and her talent for changing her fate is exceptionally high." Ouyang Wangning's tone was full of admiration.

"Can she withstand altering the fates of so many living beings?" Ayu had never experienced it firsthand and didn't know what kind of backlash would result from such a supposed change of fate.

However, she remembered that when she saw Ouyang Wangning earlier, she was making a lamp and coughed up blood after she finished.

The backlash will likely be severe.

"If altering the fate of living beings makes the human world a better place, one can receive some divine compensation, which can be considered as compensation for extended lifespan. However, in the end, the backlash will always outweigh the compensation," Ouyang Wangning said. "In the face of fate, humans are no different from other cats, dogs, or even flowers and plants. But altering a human's fate is very difficult, while altering the fate of small creatures is extremely easy. Most of those lights outside belong to other living beings, which is why they seem numerous."

Saving a ferocious dog might make it docile and unlikely to change its ways for life. But humans are different. One moment they might be good, and the next they could be a ruthless villain who slaughters an entire family. The entanglements of cause and effect, of fate, are too heavy to control. Therefore, when Princess Ruan Ruan was alive, she often altered the fates of other beings.

Ayu asked, "Can I have my fate told?"

"Aren't you afraid of the backlash?" Ouyang Wangning glanced at her. "You also have many strange abilities. You don't need to pry into your fate to live a good life."

Ayu: "Is it inconvenient?"

“There’s nothing inconvenient about it. You just need to silently think of the creature you want to spy on, and its life lamp will automatically appear in front of you—regardless of whether the creature is currently dead or alive.” Ouyang Wangning reminded, “You can see all of the creature’s past and future, but do not try to spy on the future, and do not attempt to change the past, otherwise you will suffer a backlash.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Ayu coughed up a mouthful of blood, which landed in the golden river.

The river flowed gently, melting away the blood, which vanished in an instant.

A single life lamp, which had been submerged at the bottom, suddenly and slowly rose from the riverbed. Its weak light became much brighter, and it swayed and swam away.

Ouyang Wangning's eyes widened as he caught Ayu, who was about to collapse to the ground: "Silly sister, what did you just do! You didn't actually glimpse your destiny in such a short time, did you?"

Ayu wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and grinned, "It's nothing, I just saw the lamp sinking and reached out to grab it."

Meanwhile, in the distant Jiangsai region, Wang Wulang, who had just died from being pierced by a thousand arrows, suddenly sat up in bed.

Before the group of people who were crying loudly around him could react, blood from Wang Wulang splattered onto their faces.

As blood gushed from his mouth, Wang Wulang said, "Hey, what happened to me? Wait, what happened to you guys?"