Chu Yuan - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

The day I left the Nine Heavens was Ah Yun’s hundredth birthday banquet.

For an immortal, this age is still that of an unformed fledgling.

He had the appearance of a ten-year-old child in the Mortal Realm.

The entire Heavenly Realm was celebrating.

Even in my most desolate corner of the Heavenly Realm, the sound of music could be heard.

A Celestial Maidservant threw a plain dress in front of me, her head held high with arrogance.

“The Lord has granted a special dispensation, allowing you to catch a glimpse of the Young Lord at the banquet.”

Ah Yun had been taken away by Canglan the moment he was born.

In these hundred years, I had seen him only a handful of times.

Under the Celestial Maidservant’s contemptuous gaze, I picked up the dress.

She muttered under her breath:

“After all these years, she’s still so persistent, trying to seduce the Lord.”

Everyone in the Heavenly Realm knew the story.

A hundred years ago, Immortal Lord Canglan returned from his tribulation in the Mortal Realm, bringing back a pregnant mortal woman.

When Jinfan, the Saintess of the Flower Realm, learned of this, she left in shame and indignation.

Canglan was famous in the Heavenly Realm for being cold and self-controlled.

He was deeply in love with Jinfan.

The Immortals assumed that the mortal woman must have been shameless, plotting to use the child to elevate her status and ascend to immortality in one leap.

By doing so, she had ruined the fated union between Canglan and the Saintess.

She was utterly loathsome.

The celestial music drifted through the air as the banquet reached its peak.

Disguised as a Celestial Maidservant, I served the Nectar with lowered eyes and a submissive posture.

-This was the opportunity Canglan had given me to see Ah Yun.

During the feast, someone suddenly took the Nectar from my hands with a frivolous air.

He laughed drunkenly.

“I think this Celestial Maidservant’s features actually bear some resemblance to that woman.”

That period of tribulation in the Mortal Realm was Canglan’s taboo.

As soon as the words were spoken, the Immortals fell silent.

Only Canglan remained unmoved, his expression unchanged.

“Fu Xuan, watch your words.”

“Regardless, she is Ah Yun’s birth mother.”

Ah Yun had been very happy today.

However, hearing these words, he began to cry and throw a tantrum.

“Ah Yun doesn’t want her to be his mother!”

“Ah Yun wants Auntie Jinfan to be his mother!”

Jinfan took him into her arms.

She looked at me with a gaze full of pity.

“Your young son is crying right in front of you; can it be that you are truly unmoved, Sister?”

The Immortals were in an uproar.

Countless condemning glares stabbed at me from all directions.

With teary eyes, Ah Yun pointed at me.

“Father Lord doesn’t like you, and Ah Yun doesn’t like you either!”

“Go away!”

The banquet had descended into chaos.

I stood there in a daze, my mind a complete blank.

The last time I had seen Ah Yun was decades ago.

It was just like today.

He was high up on a platform, surrounded by Immortals.

I was hidden in the crowd, catching only a fleeting glimpse.

Back then, he had just learned to speak.

In his babbling, the word he called out was “Mother.”

How ridiculous – that one word, “Mother,” had made me stay in the Heavenly Realm of my own free will, trapped for all this time.

At that moment.

Canglan looked up and gave a cold, sharp reprimand.

“Leave at once!”