Mushroom Man

As expected...

Ao Miaoyin ultimately couldn't refuse Wu Liang.

Admittedly, she really didn't want to be a burden to Young Master Wu.

However, when Young Master Wu said that she was his most important family member and he didn't want her to leave, Ao Miaoyin no longer had any thoughts of refusing.

She didn't want to let Young Master Wu down, nor did she want to hurt him who had sacrificed so much for her.

Ao Miaoyin knew clearly that her chronic illness could not be cured.

Sooner or later, she will pass away and her soul will return to the underworld.

In this situation, all she wanted was to spend the rest of her life with her beloved, to spend this last period of time together.

This is both to avoid leaving any regrets for myself and to repay what I owe to Young Master Wu.

She wanted to accompany Young Master Wu through this most difficult period of suffering, and with her sinful and broken body, she would try her best to make Young Master Wu live a good life.

Once Young Master Wu finds his true love, the perfect match who can accompany him to the end, she will naturally give up her place.

It's likely that she had already died from her incurable illness by then.

She accompanied Young Master Wu through the hard times, while the good times were reserved for his true home.

In this way, it shouldn't be considered a burden to Young Master Wu.

Ao Miaoyin looked at Wu Liang tenderly, as if she wanted to remember his appearance at this moment.

This is so that even after she dies, her soul can remember this precious memory.

And all of this came from Ao Miaoyin's true heart.

Throughout the entire process, Wu Liang did not employ any unpredictable tactics or manipulation of human nature.

That's why, when Wu Liang sensed Ao Miaoyin's burning heart through the Human Heart Mushroom, he was momentarily speechless.

He understood that Ao Miaoyin's heart was named... Love.

Wu Liangneng could clearly sense that Ao Miaoyin's love was extremely humble.

This is a kind of love that willingly sacrifices itself to fulfill the needs of others.

Knowing that her life was nearing its end, Ao Miaoyin prepared to spend the rest of her life with Wu Liang, even to the point of becoming a wedding dress for another woman.

Little did she know that Wu Liang didn't love her at all; he was just using her.

If in the future, there really is a woman who can bring Wu Liang greater benefits.

Without even thinking, he would definitely abandon Ao Miaoyin without hesitation.

That's right, Wu Liang is such a ruthless person.

Even he himself didn't know when he had become so heartless.

Is it because of the memories of the Blood River Ancestor?

Wu Liang was filled with mixed thoughts and feelings.

However, he quickly became cold and ruthless again, suppressing the bit of kindness that Ao Miaoyin had awakened in him.

Without a doubt, he and Ao Miaoyin were destined to be together but not to stay together.

Ao Miaoyin is a kind and good girl, but also a silly girl who only cares about others and not herself.

She met the wrong person at the wrong time and in the wrong place.

If it were the original extraterrestrial demon Wu Liang, perhaps the two could have truly achieved a harmonious union, their strength capable of breaking metal, and created a legendary tale of a divine couple.

Unfortunately, there are no "what ifs" in life...

Ao Miaoyin's love is destined to be a love that keeps her in the dark, a love that only burns itself to illuminate others.

We were destined to meet but not to be together; it was fate.

Most lovers in the world do not end up together, but rather in tragedy.

And all of this was arranged by fate.

That is why the legendary Love Mushroom harbors such intense hatred and resentment towards the Fate Mushroom.

This point is also recorded in the "Biography of the Mushroom People: The Dark Moon Volume".

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The Tale of the Mushroom People, Chapter 3, "The Dark Moon". Legend has it that long, long ago…

On the dark moon, he walked through the underworld, found the Bewitching Spring, and drank the Bewitching Soup.

Because of his momentary greed, he became bloated and enormous, trapped in the cage called Heaven and Earth.

In the mortal realm, there exists a clear river that symbolizes the boundary between life and death.

This Qinghe River is the complete opposite of the Bewitching Spring.

People who drink the water of the Qinghe River will be alert every day, need no sleep, and have their fatigue swept away.

At that time, there was only daytime in the world, and the sun hung high in the sky forever.

People thus remain clear-headed in the face of danger and hardship by drinking the water of the Qinghe River.

The owner of Qinghe was a little girl who was transformed from a drop of sweat that flowed from the sweat of the mushroom people as they walked on the earth.

The little girl fell into the Qinghe River as soon as she was born.

The bottom of the Qinghe River is clear and empty; no one comes here. Loneliness has accompanied her since birth.

She had no friends and could only entertain herself, so she named herself Princess Qinghe.

Faced with loneliness, she could only combat it by drinking Qinghe water to stay awake.

One day, Princess Qinghe swam to the depths of the Qinghe River and discovered a crevice there.

This crevice connects to the Bewitching Spring; these two seemingly opposite places, one awake and one bewildered, are actually intricately linked.

Princess Qinghe was very curious about this, so she looked through the gap into the underworld where the Bewitching Spring was located.

And by sheer coincidence, she spotted that towering, majestic giant.

The giant's head reached for the sky, his feet were stuck deep in the yellow mud, and he looked dazed and confused, unable to extricate himself.

Without a doubt, this giant is none other than the eclipse of the underworld, forever trapped in the Yellow Springs because of the bewitching potion.

Huiyue was Princess Qinghe, and this was the first person in her life she had ever met who was so special.

Powerful, robust, majestic, exceptional...

This was Princess Qinghe's first impression upon seeing Huiyue.

She inevitably became curious about it.

So, Princess Qinghe would come here every day to secretly watch the new moon.

Gradually, her curiosity grew, attracting the Curious Mushroom.

"Since you are so curious about him, why not try to understand him and satisfy that curiosity?"

The curious mushroom craved the truth and knowledge, so it spurred Princess Qinghe to satisfy its desires.

Princess Qinghe agreed wholeheartedly, and thus began to actively learn about Huiyue.

Curious Mushroom sought out its partner, Thinking Mushroom, to help Princess Qinghe.

With the help of Curious Mushroom and Thinking Mushroom, Princess Qinghe learned about Huiyue's deeds.

It turns out that Huiyue is the left eye of the Mushroom Man, a lonely ghost trapped in the Yellow Springs, a pitiful person whose loneliness resides within him.

The more Princess Qinghe understood Huiyue, the more heartbroken she felt for Huiyue's plight.

She was already feeling unbearably lonely and suffering while trapped in Qinghe.

Living here, at least she can see the living people who come to fetch water every day.

As for Huiyue, she has been alone since birth and can only endure the loneliness of death.

Princess Qinghe felt sorry for Huiyue, and at the same time admired her.

The waning moon is accompanied only by solitude, yet it can travel all the way to the end of the Yellow Springs.

He endured countless hardships and trials, and neither the Valley of One-Sidedness, the Mountain of Burial Souls, nor the Ridge of Destruction could stop his progress.

How could Princess Qinghe not admire someone so tenacious and undeterred by death?

Yet this upright and indomitable man, after mistakenly drinking a potion of intoxication, became trapped in that world in a daze.

This was unacceptable to Princess Qinghe...

At this moment, she made up her mind to help Huiyue escape from the Yellow Springs! (End of Chapter)