The Wife You Discarded Just Became Your God

He said our mountain vow never counted. My own son said I embarrassed him. So I burned off my arm, tore up the marriage contract, and stripped the charm that kept him alive. The night he wed another, I bled his baby out alone.

Then the temple bell rang — once, twice… nine times. A phoenix tore open the sky. The "peasant wife" they'd crushed for a hundred years was the goddess their kingdom had worshipped for three hundred.

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