Who Stole My Eggs?

Feng Yi, ever thick-skinned, sidled up to Tiandi and tugged at his sleeve. “Heavenly Father, come on, let’s go! The human world is so much fun. I heard they have lantern riddles, and groups of girls go out on blind dates. With your looks, you’d charm all the girls in no time!”

Tiandi glanced at Huo Yao and coughed lightly. “What do you think? Do you want to go?”

Huo Yao, as always, replied earnestly, “I’ll follow your arrangements.”

By now, though Huo Yao still carried the innocence of a boy, he was taller than Tiandi. His growing figure increasingly overlapped with the golden silhouette Tiandi had once known in the land of void.

During their time in the void, Tiandi had never clearly seen Huo Yao’s face. But now, standing before him, Huo Yao looked exactly as Tiandi imagined him. This was the figure of the one who had accompanied him for tens of thousands of years.

Tiandi’s heart stirred. He silently resolved that when Huo Yao grew up, he would confess everything. He would tell him about their past. He would finally confess his feelings to Huo Yao.

Since Huo Yao had no objection, Feng Yi sincerely invited him again. Tiandi said, “Okay, let’s go to the human world and join in the fun!”

To visit the human world, they had to head to that first-class prosperous and wealthy place—the capital.

The happiest person was Feng Yi. He always loved joining in the fun. As soon as he saw the glowing lights everywhere and heard the laughter filling the air, he immediately got into the mood. Before long, he disappeared into the crowd.

Wu Xiao didn’t want to come in the first place. He didn’t understand what was so interesting about those broken lanterns and paper. After a brief stroll, he ran off to the ghost world.

Originally, the four of them came to play together, but half of the group ran off in less than half a day, leaving only Tiandi and Huo Yao.

Huo Yao followed Tiandi leisurely and seemed to be enjoying himself. But Tiandi began to feel uncomfortable. Alas, the lover he had waited for so long was finally by his side, yet he didn’t remember him. Worse still, Huo Yao had a youthful, innocent face that made it impossible for Tiandi to let go. It was so confusing—so utterly confusing!

A surge of people passed by, and someone bumped into Tiandi, causing him to stumble into Huo Yao.

“Heavenly Father, be careful,” Huo Yao said, holding Tiandi’s shoulders with both hands.

Tiandi took a deep breath, pushed Huo Yao’s hands away, and walked to the side, pretending to concentrate on the lantern riddles hanging from the tree.

No, he couldn’t stay alone with Huo Yao any longer. He was afraid he might lose control and behave worse than a beast!

What Tiandi didn’t notice was that after he walked away, Huo Yao stretched out his hands toward him. Watching Tiandi’s attention shift to the lantern riddles, Huo Yao slowly let his hands drop, lowering his head slightly.

“Young master, young master!”

Huo Yao looked around and saw a wizened old man sitting behind a fortune-telling stall, smiling and waving at him.

When the old man noticed Huo Yao looking his way, his smile grew even more enthusiastic. “It’s you! Come here, young master!”

Huo Yao glanced at Tiandi, who was still engrossed in studying the lantern riddles, and then walked up to the old man.

The old man said eagerly, “Sit down, sit down quickly. I can see that the young master has an extraordinary aura. Today is a good day; let me read your fate.”

Huo Yao replied, “I don’t care, thank you,” and turned to leave. But when he turned around, he realized there were many people gathering around him.

At this time, Tiandi was also attracted by the excitement here and came over, “What’s fun here?”

An aunt said, “You are from out of town; you don’t know how powerful our magic fortune-telling is.” She pointed at the old man. “This is our living deity. He wants to give this young man a fate reading for free. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!” She advised Huo Yao again, “Listen to Auntie. As long as this living deity gives you a fate reading, it will bring good luck to you. Isn’t that even better?”

Living deity… Tiandi and Huo Yao exchanged a knowing smile. They were deities among deities themselves, so why would they need mortals to tell their fortunes?

Naturally, Tiandi wouldn’t let go of the excitement and was curious about whether this living deity was truly capable. He pressed Huo Yao’s shoulders and made him sit down in front of the fortune-telling stall. “Then let this living deity take a good look.”

The old man stroked his beard and asked, “What do you want to ask, young master? Is it about your future or your marriage?”

“Let’s go about his future,”

“Marriage,”

Huo Yao and Tiandi said at the same time.

Huo Yao turned his head and looked at Tiandi, his ears turning red.

Tiandi tried hard to maintain the smile on his face and said reluctantly, “I forgot that you’ve grown up.”

The old man exclaimed, “Okay, let’s count it as marriage!” He took out a blackened lottery ticket and handed it to Huo Yao. “Shake it three times.”

Huo Yao took the bamboo cup, shook it three times, and one stick fell out.

The old man picked it up and began stroking his beard without saying anything.

Tiandi stretched his neck to take a look and found that there were no words on the stick. Oh, there was nothing! Wasn’t this just a scam?

However, the onlookers didn’t seem surprised and patiently waited for the old man to interpret the stick.

The aunt from earlier said enthusiastically, “The signatures of our living deity is always wordless stick. Only he can understand them. Just wait for his interpretation.”

The old man pondered for a long time, then put down the stick. “The dumb stick can’t be solved. The little old man missed it. I’m ashamed, I’m ashamed!”

The crowd erupted in confusion. “A dumb lottery? So, it’s a dumb lottery that can’t be solved? Master, are you lying to us?”

“Yeah, are you avoiding saying anything on purpose?”

The old man closed the stall amidst the uproar. He waved his hand at the crowd. “Move along, move along, I can’t solve it!”

The crowd muttered and dispersed.

Tiandi said to Huo Yao sourly, “It’s normal for living deity to fail when telling fortunes for real deities. But tell me, who do you like? Can your father help you propose marriage?”

Huo Yao replied bluntly, “Don’t worry about it.”

Tiandi fumed. This heartless person! He had been protecting him for so many years, and yet he secretly had feelings for someone else. Bah, how shameless!

Tiandi swung his sleeves, raised his feet, and left in a huff. Marriage? Consulting someone to calculate marriage? What nonsense!

Huo Yao stood silently in front of the fortune-telling stall for a moment before asking the old man, “Did you really not figure it out?”

The old man stood up and bowed his head. “My eyesight is so dull that I failed to recognize the Great Thunder Deity. My deepest apologies for the disrespect.”

This living deity was truly a living deity. Huo Yao asked, “Are you…?”

The old man stroked his beard. “Yue Lao.”

Huo Yao blushed. “That stick…”

Yue Lao said, “It’s just a playful trick to entertain mortals. Nothing more.”

Huo Yao nodded, said nothing further, and got up to chase after Tiandi.

After Huo Yao walked away, Yue Lao picked up the lottery stick he had drawn, his expression turning very strange.

After a long pause, Yue Lao sighed. “I need to quit drinking. How could there be such a marriage sign? I must have written this when I was drunk— ‘Marry my own father and have children’… This is unbelievable. Absolutely perverted!”