Three ex-husbands and a marriage

Divine Lotus Goddess

Jiang Meng jolted awake and found herself back in Bai Xiao Wei's body. The dream was weirdly realistic and disorientating. For a split second, she stared blankly at the surrounding wooden walls in this small space and wondered where she was. Only when she saw Mother Bai's bruised face leaning against the carriage wall and heard the woman's soft snores did she accept that she has awoken. An unexpected calm blanketed her pounding heart and put her at ease.

Bai Xiao Wei covered her mouth and snuffled a snorting chuckle. The irony is not lost on her. This fictional world is now her reality and despite it all, it is still better than being in that dream. She slapped her face gently, hoping to forget the dream and the terrifying white dragon, but her mind continues to be preoccupied with endless questions. Jiang Meng is her real name in her original world, but since she has transmigrated into all these lifetimes, she has almost forgotten her true self. The little girl in her dream was also named Jiang Meng and looks like an exquiste version of her original self when she was a child. There is no wonder that she feels an odd connection and familiarity with the character.

That connection stops there because the setting of the dream is too foreign and magical. A white dragon is a supreme mythical creature in Chinese mythology. From her limited knowledge, there should be four dragons, each an emperor of one of the four seas. They control the weather, rain, snow and sunshine. In essence they collectively control the fate of the world. The people used to pray and burnt offerings to the dragons in times of drought, floods and famine. Symbolically, a dragon is important to her people and is the symbol of the emperor. But no matter what, dragons are just mythological creatures that has no heart nor desires, so a white dragon that could talk and abuse his spouse is unheard of.

So why is the little girl named Jiang Meng and why is she dreaming these strange dreams?

The carriage continued to roll along towards the Southern Provinces at an unstoppable pace. The driver is well trained and rides silently without question. Unless the ladies inside the carriage needed to stop for whatever reason or the horses needed a break, nothing else can make him lose momentum. Bai Xiao Wei tried to stay awake for the remaining journey to ponder the unanswerable questions but the exhaustion of the last few days had caught up to her. With just a hint of security in the unpredictable Xiao Shi, the adrendalin is rapidly drained away and replaced by an unreinable tiredness. Combined with the constant rocking of the carriage, her eyes grew steadily heavy and soon she found herself drifting back towards the cloudy ephemeral place and the little girl who is her namesake.

Jiang Meng looked at herself in the liquid pool of reflections and practiced a smile. There was no light in her eyes despite the heaven defying beauty that reflected back at her. Her eyes is empty, devoid of emotion as she gazed up at the unbounded and endless sky. Just like time, there is no limits to the sky. It stretches endlessly, expanding when each new life is created, no matter how lowly or how prestigous the created. The universes continues to expand to accomodate whichever Being that is created equally, allowing them the opportunity to make their own mark on the collective history of time.

She smiled bitterly, she should be glad about her own creation but she resents it.

As a high born immortal, the granddaughter of the Creator, the Sun Emperor and the Goddess of Immortality, she faces an eternity of endless power and potential. By rights, Jiang Meng should be the most fortunate being who won the lottery of creation. A direct descendant of the most powerful Beings in existence. Laden with a prestigous heritage, innate power and unlimited potential, grace and beauty, she had it all. To top it off, her mother's sister is married to the strongest dragon, the White Dragon, Bai Longwang. The one of the only four dragons in existence. The same ones who had held up the world to allow the Creator to expand the universe into an unending loop. Eternity, an eternity of life, birth and death for all creatures, demons, plants, animals, spirits, humans and beings. The same loop that creates and ends worlds in controlled chaos.