The next day:

Waking Xue Yang up was a disaster. 'He sleeps like the dead!' Yingyue thought annoyed, as she shook him.

"Wake up!!" She screamed.

Wangji was trying not to laugh at her struggle as he bandaged up his arm securely. It was still bleeding, but the pain had lessened.

Yingyue also had a strip of bandage going around her face, covering the wound on her cheek.

"Xue Yang!! Wake up before I throw you into a tree!!" Yingyue yelled.

"I'm up!!" Xue Yang yelled as he bolted up. And promptly collapsed. "Okay I didn't mean that fast" Yingyue said, smiling.

"That was cruel don't you think?" Xue Yang looked at her, slightly miffed. "The reason I wasn't waking up was because it was a communication dream!"

"Huh? That exists?" Wangji asked shocked.

"Yeah it does, but I didn't remember" Xue Yang said, scratching his head absentmindedly.

"The dream was all dark, but I could hear a voice. She said she was the goddess of love, and showed me the location of her palace. She told me I should be able to teleport there if I just imagined the location she showed me."

"You sure?" Yingyue said raising her eyebrow.

"50/50 chance my friend!" Xue Yang replied cheerfully.

Wangji thought about it for a second and said, "Take the chance, otherwise we will have to travel more and take a boat to the island, which will take more time."

The two agreed with him.

"So we ready to meet the goddess of love?" Xue Yang asked, extending his hands to Wangji and Yingyue.

"Let's gooo!!" Yingyue said, as she and Wangji grabbed onto Xue Yang.

But unlike Yingyue's teleporting, they dissolved into black smoke.

"My teleporting is not like that?!" Yingyue said amazed.

Xue Yang just shrugged and strode towards the bright coloured doors in front of them.

The second the doors opened, they were blinded by the bright marble floors and columns, that were covered with gold leaf.

A figure covered in white sat on a throne at the end of the hall, sitting casually, draped over the seat.

Wangji took the first tentative steps forward with Yingyue and Xue Yang trailing behind him.

They all bowed before the figure.

"Stand up," a soft , commanding female voice said.

Yingyue looked up and was met with bright icy blue eyes.

Black ebony hair that ran down her back like a river.

She let out a small squeak that was heard by her companions.

Wangji just gave her a teasing smile and Xue Yang grinned at her wiggling his eyebrows suggestively.

A gentle tinkling laughter was heard as they turned to the goddess.

"I know what you're here for," she said standing up and slowly paced the hall.

"You want me to help you get your beloved's spirit back to his original body" she said pointing at Wangji.

"Am I right?" She asked turning to face them once again.

"That is correct lady Ai" Wangji whispered. "Well of course I'll help!!" She said happily.

"But one condition," she paused, turning and giving them an eerie smile.

"I want your daughter in this timeline to marry me once she is of age"

Wangji's hand clenched tightly into a fist. Keeping his voice level he asked, "Why?"

"Well... ehh..eee this is awkward to explain but..."

The goddess stuttered. "I'm not only the goddess of love, but I'm also secretly the goddess of time and universes. The reason this is not said in anything is because I would have been pestered with prayers of people asking me to change something for them." She continued slowly.

"When I was helping my best friends, I got thrown down to earth, a curse that had been cast on me turned me into a black and white bunny. The way to break it was for me to fall in love, because the caster thought it was ironic that I was goddess of love, yet I never once fell in love in my immortal life."

"I was rescued by a young girl, around 14, who picked me up and brought me back to her parents to heal the wounds I had gotten from trying to survive.

The parents that night told the young girl their love story, which was full of such pain and suffering that I resolved to rewrite it once the curse was broken. But while I was a bunny, the girl grew on me. She was a bright part of my life stuck as an animal, she had stars and wonders in her eyes."

"And that was when my curse broke, in the middle of the night, while she was sleeping. I blessed her with some of my powers. I sent a corpse with a spell on it the day after her 16th birthday to send her back in time to save her parents from their pain and her unborn older sibling."

"You-you were my bunny YingYang?" Yingyue asked, tears trailing down her cheeks.

"I thought that she had died!" She continued.

"I'm sorry I caused you so much pain Yingyue, my love, I never meant to" the goddess replied softly. She held out her arms, and Yingyue fell into them.

"Thank you for giving us this second chance lady Ai" Wangji said, who was touched at the goddess' story which quelled his anger.

"My lady, could you perhaps help me remember who I was?" Xue Yang asked once Yingyue had stopped crying.

Ai gave him a sinister grin.

"Your parents are my best friends, the king and queen of the underworld."

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