My husband fell in love with someone else while trying to bring me back from the dead. When I finally woke up, Jaren asked me what I wanted. I was about to tell him I wanted to finish the wedding we started a million years ago. But in an instant, lines of neon text floated across my vision like a holographic livestream chat. [The Male Lead is so devoted. He became the God of this universe and still didn’t forget to rez the mortal side-character.] [That side-chick is shameless. She’s finally alive and immediately wants a title? Our girl Sera is the one who spent a million years fighting beside him!] [Whatever. Let her come back. She’ll just be a toxic pick-me and get ignored. That’s when Jaren will realize his true love is Sera! Slow burn FTW!] I paused, processed the words, and looked him in the eye. "I want a divorce." 1 Jaren froze. He looked almost exactly as he did the day I died, only more ethereal, more terrifyingly beautiful. "Aria... are you joking?" His voice cracked. He couldn't believe it. [This jealous female antagonist wants a divorce? That makes no sense!] [She’s definitely using divorce as leverage to manipulate him. Gross. Why did the author write such a cheap character?] [Just wait, our baby girl is bringing the kid. Prepare for the face-slapping!] The floating text was filled with vile insults. According to them, my life was just a popular webnovel called Defying Heaven: The God-King's Pet. Jaren was the protagonist. A brooding genius. To save his "White Moonlight"—his first love, me, who died blocking a divine tribulation for him—he embarked on a journey of cultivation with a half-demon girl named Seraphina. They were enemies-to-lovers. Over a million years, they supported each other. Sera confessed to Jaren multiple times, but he rejected her because of his "loyalty" to my memory. But then, during a trial he couldn't pass... He slept with her. To "break through his limits." Twice. The first time, she gave birth to a daughter. Now, she was pregnant with a son. And me? After being resurrected, I was destined to become the bitter ex. I would frame Sera, cause her to miscarry, and eventually, Jaren would hate me enough to kill me with a single strike. My soul would be obliterated. Ha. Hilarious. 2 "Jay-Jay! Sister Aria must be confused from sleeping for a million years. She’s still human, her mortal brain is probably foggy. She should stay in the Sky Palace and rest." A woman in red silk descended from the clouds. Her belly was slightly rounded, and a miniature version of her stood by her side. "Daddy! Uppies!" The little girl bit into a candied hawthorn stick and launched herself at Jaren. "Jinx, didn't we agree? No sweets while your teeth are growing in." A moment ago, Jaren was holding my hand. Now, his arms were full of his daughter. [There it is! The nicknames! Jay-Jay and Jinx! Even their kid uses them. It's canon, guys! Family goals!] [Someone looks like a third wheel. I won't say who.] [Sera is too kind. She’s actually letting the ex stay? My heart hurts for her, she doesn't know the plot twists coming up.] I bit my lip and tried to call him. "Jaren." No reaction. He was too busy flirting with Seraphina. I raised my voice. "Jaren!" He finally snapped out of it. He put the child down, knelt on one knee before me, and pulled out a glowing box of pills. A look of boyish shyness—the kind I remembered from our youth—crossed his face. "Aria, I'm sorry. It’s been so long since anyone called me by my real name. Let me introduce you. Seraphina is my partner on the path to divinity. She didn't mean you were stupid; she just meant mortal bodies are fragile." "So... tonight, I will transfer my essence to you. You’ll become an Immortal like me. We never have to be apart again." I pointed at the mother and daughter. "She gave birth to your daughter. She is carrying your son. And you’re telling me we will never be apart?" Predictably, Sera’s eyes welled up with tears. The little girl started hammering her tiny fists against my legs. "You bad woman! You made Mommy cry! Apologize to Mommy!" [Why is the side-chick acting like a pure lotus? Someone comfort Sera-bear!] [If she wants a divorce, she should just jump off the Abyss Platform. That sends you back to the mortal realm.] [She’s bluffing. How could she give up the wealth of Heaven and eternal life?] I turned to leave. Jaren grabbed my arm with a grip like iron. His other hand caught Sera, who was pretending to run away. "Aria, where are you going?" "The Abyss Platform. I told you. My wish is to divorce you." He frowned, genuinely confused. "Just because I have a child with Sera? You’re that petty?" Petty? My husband fell in love with another woman while claiming to save me. Am I not allowed to be angry? "Let go." I didn't want to be the villain those floating words described. Leaving was the only dignified choice. Jaren actually let go—of Sera. He wrapped his arms around me from behind, burying his face in my neck. "My only wish for this entire journey was to bring you back. If you aren't here, none of this means anything." My eyes stung. Maybe I should believe my Jaren. Not these strange, glowing subtitles. 3 "Daddy! Mommy is bleeding!" Sera clutched her stomach, her face draining of color. Jaren released me instantly, pushing divine energy into her to stop the bleeding. Sera wrapped her arms around his neck. He didn't push her away; he scooped her up into a bridal carry. "Sera is showing signs of preterm labor. Aria, wait for me. I’ll be right back." Premature labor. He was the father. He had to go. I couldn't wish death on an innocent child. Even if it was their child. But a selfish thought clawed at me. If I hadn't died... We would have had children. We would have been a normal, happy couple. "Aria, listen. Sera is just a comrade who happens to carry my heir. Don't overthink it. There is no love between us." My fingernails dug into my palms. I swallowed my resentment. "Okay." 4 Jaren was worried I’d jump into the Abyss. He stationed hundreds of elite guards around a gilded palace and locked me inside. No servants were allowed to speak to me. I couldn't find the Abyss. I lost track of time. [That scared me. Good thing the villainess didn't strike. Sera gave birth to a healthy baby boy! The text says he looks just like the ML did as a baby!] [Does anyone else think the side-chick looks... old?] [One day in Heaven is a year on Earth. The ML has been with Sera for her postpartum recovery for fifteen days. The ex is basically a 30-year-old hag now.] Thirty is old? Jaren and Sera were over a million years old. But they still looked nineteen. I looked in the mirror. Fine lines crept around my eyes. My skin was sallow. I was aging. One day, two days... ten days. I missed my parents. I missed my clan. I never saw my mother get gray hair. I never saw my father grow old. Back then, I was obsessed with Jaren. He needed a divine artifact to start his cultivation. My clan was the only one in the region who knew how to forge them. Nobody believed Jaren—the cursed orphan—could ascend. I knelt in the ancestral hall. I kowtowed until my forehead bled, begging my parents, begging the elders. The only condition was that Jaren married into our family. On our wedding night, the Heavens struck. I used my life to block the Lightning Tribulation for him. He ascended to the Foundation Stage. He stood at the peak of the mortal world. But my parents... they had to watch me die. Dying for a man. How worthless. I didn't understand it then. I thought teenage love could conquer the universe. I couldn't die of old age here. I had to go home. I owed my family an explanation.
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