The Night the Heavens Betrayed Her

The heavens were quiet that night.

No stars glittered in the sky, and the moon, once a guardian of the night, hid behind a veil of sorrowful clouds. The air was thick with the scent of blood and treachery. The grand celestial palace, once a place of divine order, stood tainted by the shadows of betrayal.

Lady Lu Xue Yao, known to the world as Lady Lu, knelt on the cold jade floor of the Heavenly Tribunal. Her long, flowing robes, woven with the essence of the night itself, were stained with crimson. Her once-pristine silver hair cascaded over her shoulders, dulled with the weight of betrayal. Her golden eyes, which once held the wisdom of the stars, now burned with the fury of a caged beast.

The celestial lords stood above her; their expressions unreadable. The Emperor of the Heavens, clad in golden robes embroidered with dragons, regarded her with a gaze colder than the abyss. His judgment had already been cast.

"Lu Xue Yao," his voice echoed through the silent halls, "You, the Goddess of Night, favoured by Buddha himself, stand accused of defying the celestial order. You have become too powerful, a force beyond our control. The balance must be restored."

Her lips curled into a bitter smile. "Balance? Or is it fear? You fear what I have become, what I have always been."

Whispers rippled through the assembly, but no one dared to speak against the emperor. Even those who once swore loyalty to her remained silent, heads bowed in shame or cowardice.

Among them was her own brother.

The weight of his silence pierced deeper than any blade. He stood at the emperor's side, his expression unreadable. His betrayal was the final nail in her coffin.

The emperor raised his hand, and a golden seal appeared before him—a decree of execution. "Lu Xue Yao, for the crime of disrupting the celestial order, your divinity shall be stripped, and your soul cast into the abyss. May you never rise again."

A roar of divine energy surged through the chamber as celestial chains wrapped around her body, binding her to the ground. Her veins burned as her power was forcibly drained, stolen from her by those who once called her kin.

The heavens wept that night.

The celestial lightning struck down, and in an explosion of divine wrath, Lady Lu Xue Yao, the Goddess of Night, was about to be vanished into the abyss.

But even as the heavens turned against her, a quiet promise burned within her soul.

She would return.

And when she did, the heavens would kneel.

But fate was not so easily bound.

A golden light erupted from nowhere. Gasps filled the chamber as an ethereal figure appeared—a woman cloaked in the fabric of time itself.

The Goddess of Destiny.

"You cannot kill her," the goddess declared, her voice like the echo of a thousand lives. "She is protected by one far greater than you."

A deep hum resonated through the heavens. The gods shuddered as a second presence filled the air—one they dared not oppose.

Lord Buddha.

A voice, neither loud nor soft, spoke within their souls.

"You have wronged my child."

The emperor paled. Even he, the ruler of the heavens, dared not challenge Buddha himself.

In that moment, Lu Xue Yao understood. She was not meant to die here.

She was meant to return.

The world faded into darkness as her soul was pulled away—not by the heavens, but by a power far beyond their reach.

The next time she opened her eyes, she would not be Lu Xue Yao, the betrayed goddess.

She would be Lady Luo, the last heir of the fallen Luo Clan.

And one day... she would return to the heavens not as a servant, but as a ruler.

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