After my father attained immortality and ascended, he used his immortal power to put my mother on trial.
He said she sold tofu by day and worked as a prostitute by night for money, and that she was guilty of being vile.
The immortal weapon in his hand beat my mother until her flesh was a bloody ruin.
He said she stole and caused his beloved commandery princess to die, making her guilty of theft and murder.
My mother was down to her last breath.
At last, my father handed the immortal weapon to the commandery princess beside him, who had ascended too, and told her to punish my mother in the name of heaven.
But the princess struck with such force that the weapon’s power broke my mother’s body into countless pieces.
My father glanced at me and called six-year-old me a “little whore.”
Then he and the princess flew off together into the heavens.
After they left, countless golden bolts of lightning struck my mother’s shattered bones.
Gradually, I watched those bones turn gold too.
My mother came back to life. Her whole body glowed as she smiled and picked me up.
“Yaoyao, I’m taking you home.”
