Hanrui raised his hand and gently patted Xiao Wu's head, calming her from the existential dread after his revelation.
'Bad master, but his hand feels so warm,' Xiao Wu thought, closing her eyes in comfort as she unconsciously began to purr.
". . ."
Gu Yuena, still in Hanrui's arms, and Hanrui himself stared speechless at her purring.
Noticing her gaffe, Xiao Wu glanced aside, cheeks flushed crimson in embarrassment.
'Did my head pat level increase or something? What next, my head pat can put hulk to sleep?' He thought speechless at her reaction.
"Well, should I continue? Or are you about to start honking next? I can wait if you want—your purring is pretty cute, but I'd be curious to hear your 'honk' too," Hanrui teased.
Gu Yuena smiled at her fiancé's antics while Xiao Wu shot him a pleading look, silently begging for a change of subject.
Hanrui shaking his head started the story again.
"Well let's continue, but before that I'll have to say sorry because, your luck has run out.
After you were brainwashed by Tang hao with his story. You were dropped off back to your 2 brothers, where you spent a few years until Tang san just about needed a soul ring at level 59.
And came looking for you after he got information that Bibi Dong is on the hunt for you. After some back and forth of drama you successfully sacrificed yourself to him.
Since the mission failed the spirit hall group left, Tang san took away your rabbit body that was left behind after your sacrifice, your soul bone and left after promising your two brother's, that he won't use your soul ring often to preserve your soul.
Spoiler alert, he uses it the most and you even actively protect him, erasing most of your true self and memories in the process.
So you are officially dead. Tang san carried your rabbit body around and eventually succeeded in resurrecting you, but the you with your memories altered still you?
I don't think so, the soul is unique, while the 'Memories' shape and mold our personality.
So the moment you lose your memories, you are a different person."
Xiao Wu who listened until then started tearing up again. 'I came out to play and take revenge against Bibi Dong but ended up falling in a catastrophe called love.' she thought.
Hanrui put Gu Yuena to the side and stood up and took Xiao Wu into his arms and patted her back.
"You don't have to worry about it, little rabbit. You are my maid now I'll protect you." He said as she hugged him tightly and sobbed in his arms for a while before calming down slowly.
Gu Yuena furrowed her brows as she thought about it and couldn't help but look at Xiao Wu.
"Would I become someone like that for you?" Gu Yuena suddenly asked Hanrui who was comforting Xiao Wu.
Hanrui raised an eyebrow as he turned to stare at her, then without warning he gave a chop on her head with his right hand while still hugging Xiao Wu who stopped crying and started greedily basking in the warmth of his hug in comfort.
'Master's hug is so warm, just like mother's. No more than Mother,it's so comforting I might fall asleep standing, and I feel tingly in my stomach, I wonder why.' Xiao Wu thought.
Gu Yuena getting chopped on the head by Hanrui glared at him while covering the spot he hit with both of her hands while pouting.
But seeing Hanrui still staying at her with a 'I'm not impressed' look she caved and thought about it again and muttered."Stupid question?"
"Of course it is. Do you think I'll let one of my own sacrifice themselves for my sake? Especially my own woman?" he said, staring at her making her blush in embarrassment while Xiao Wu snorted in jealousy.
"So, for how long are you going to take advantage of your master, little rabbit." Hanrui teased Xiao Wu as he noticed her reaction to his banter with Gu Yuena.
Xiao Wu's face and neck turn red in embarrassment at being exposed so she buries her head in his chest, a little while longer before calming down her racing heart and stepping away from the hug.
Hanrui, noticing her situation, snickered but let it go in the end.
"Anyway, where were we? Oh that's right your resurrection.
Tang san and his gang, including you, go to the Sea God Island where everyone gets their own trails and rewards.
Your resurrection is one of Tang san's Sea God 9 trials as the inheritor of the Sea God.
He completes the trials and resurrects you. And then your two brothers convinced by his 'character' , sacrifice themselves to him as well.
Giving Tang San's 'Clear Sky Hammer' 2 -hundred thousand year soul rings and their soul bones.
He eventually becomes the Sea God but dies due to the spirit hall having 2 God's but gets unfairly resurrected by the intervention of the Gods.
Shura God uses you as a sheath for Asura God Sword. So Tang san can use both Asura and Sea God divinity.
While on paper it's sharing a single godhood. But you don't actually have any power. You are just a placeholder.
Every single one in your original Shrek 7 team has their own godhood, except you."
Hanrui shook his head as he felt disappointed at the unfairness that she had to go through. Just because she is a soul beast. While Xiao Wu clenched her fists in anger.
'That Tang san, how dare he go after my brother's, I'll definitely teach him a lesson if I meet him in the future.' she thought completely ignoring the godhood part,as if it didn't matter to her.
Gu Yuena, knowing the real reason for Xiao Wu not being granted her own godhood, remained silent.
Hanrui continued shortly after to give time for Xiao Wu to digest the information. "After staying in the mainland for a while you leave for God Realm with Tang San. .
Shortly after moving into the God Realm you will have your first child, named Tang Wutong.
She is just as mischievous and playful as you if not more. But her arrogance is definitely higher than yours. Even Ning Rongrong doesn't come close to how arrogant she is."
Xiao Wu who is just about calmed down and raised her head in pride, knowing her daughter inherited her traits, but hearing about her arrogance her face stiffened and her lips twitched.
'Did my future self and everyone spoiled her so much?' she thought.
"Tang san 'foresaw' danger to douluo continued, so he made a 10000 year plan." Hanrui continued.
"He Used your own daughter as a dog leash to chain the son of luck appointed by the douluo plane.
How did he do it? He literally cut your daughter's soul in 3 parts, sending one to clear sky sect to live as Wang Dong'er without her original memories and heavily sealed and even his own consciousness planted in her soul sea so she doesn't go out of his plan.
the second one merged with the Auspicious beast. While he kept the last part which has the original memories of your daughter."
(A/N: i didn't read dd2-dd5 so i draw conclusions from what i read from fanfics at some stuff, so do notify me if I'm wrong about something. Like now, in summer fanfics I read it as 2 equal parts. In others it's 3 parts.)
"He engineered the situation and dragged all three , son of luck—Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er and Wang Qi'er —the Auspicious Beast to Qiankun asking Love valley and tortured all 3 of them.
Wang Dong'er killed herself for Huo Yuhao , Wang Qi'er sacrificed herself for Huo Yuhao. Tang san took this opportunity to stitch your daughter back in one piece.
While Huo Yuhao is successfully trained. Your daughter on the other hand got her memories slightly altered, so her arrogance is back again but she didn't hate her father for literally killing her.
You won't say anything on the matter completely believing him.
While soul beasts got their luck stolen and fallen into decline. So you are branded with the infamy of betraying your kin."
Xiao Wu who was getting angrier and angrier the more she listened about her daughter's experience suddenly turned pale hearing what happened to the Auspicious Beast.
She turned her head stiffly to look at Gu Yuena, the ruler of the Soul Beasts, who was sitting there sipping tea, and gulped as her thoughts spiralled.
'What should I do? Does she blame me? Will she kill me?' she thought terrified.
Seeing her like this Hanrui sighed and pinched her cheek, getting her attention he said "relax,she knows it's not your fault, so she doesn't blame you."
Hanrui, noticing her trembling body, gave her some water and watched as she gulped down like a thirsty camel in a desert.
After she calmed down a little he continued.
"And then there is your son, but let's not talk about him. This involves my fiance and you might die." He teased but quickly changed the subject so she doesn't get a panic attack again.
"Later you get an 'incurable disease' and die and be reborn on a different planet.
I think you're named "Mei Gongzhi" there. But I doubt the authenticity of the disease
It most likely has something to do with you holding a godhood that is not yours for too long, or Tang san saw an opportunity to grow stronger and wanted to use you as a test subject to reincarnate there, or both.
Well I don't know the complete details because I didn't read that story but from what I learned you got your memories back and fell in love with him again and followed him to God Realm again.
So,that's your story. What do you think? Are you feeling fortunate to be taken away by me or unfortunate that you couldn't follow your 'original' destiny." Hanrui asked Xiao Wu playfully as he concluded the story.
Xiao Wu fell silent for a while as she organized her thoughts. Then she bowed her head to Hanrui.
"Xiao Wu sincerely thanks Master for taking her in. Xiao Wu will do anything the Master orders without question." She declared as she came to a conclusion.
"Master, it's true I became a God in that future and had a family but in the end, it's not love, mother talked about, this Tang San's Love,is manipulation and control.
Although I don't understand love myself, what Tang San does is definitely not it.
I'd rather die than be anywhere near that man." She continued.
Hanrui nodded his head in approval. "Glad you still have your head intact and haven't contracted the "Love-Brain Syndrome" people of this world suffer from.
It rarely appears on men,as most of them tend to be like tang san and his father, manipulative.
But we can see it on almost every woman in this continent, which is playfully named the "Love Continent" instead of Douluo Continent they use it more often."
Both Xiao Wu and Gu Yuena looked at him confused and puzzled and asked him simultaneously.
"Master/Hanrui, what is this "Love-Brain syndrome" you are talking about? And why is the Douluo Continent called the Love Continent."
Hanrui, who is pondering what to do for the day, looks at them startled at their unexpected question.
"Is it really that hard to future out with your brains?
Love-Brain syndrome means, loving someone so much, you ignore their obvious lies and manipulation you will otherwise recognize if you are of sound mind and body.
There are many examples for this and Xiao Wu you are one of them. Yuena, you on the other hand, killed your boyfriend and died so, you are partially immune?
As for the love continent, it's just a jab at the fact there are so many love-brained people in this continent." He finishes.
Xiao Wu re-examines her behaviour in the story and turns pale but gets patted by Hanrui, calming her while Gu Yuena, annoyed at the mention of her future self pouts and turns her head away.
Seeing her like that, Hanrui laughs.
"Xiao Wu go train on becoming my maid" he commands as he hugs Gu Yuena to comfort her, Xiao Wu takes her leave.