When the Netherworld Emperor returned with the ghost girl Xuanyin, my mother was adding the final medicinal ingredient to the Meng Po Soup.
Everyone in the Netherworld said my mother was blessed. She was just an ordinary mortal, yet the Netherworld Emperor had chosen her while she was on her way to reincarnate. It was a fortune that many lifetimes of good deeds could never earn.
But my mother said:
"Mortals always have to be reincarnated. If your father ever betrays me, I'll jump into the River of Forgetfulness and reincarnate, so he'll never find me again."
Later, my divine father betrayed her.
The Black Impermanence, who had loved me for a thousand years, fell for someone else, too.
So my mother and I jumped into the River of Forgetfulness and reincarnated, so they would never find us.
