Perhaps because all the supporting actors performed too brilliantly, the audience's thoughts were completely carried away.
So they ignored Ji Fei, who had been standing at the edge of the stage, coldly observing everything.
It wasn't until Ji Fei appeared, running a sword through the Emperor Lord who had just been pouring his heart out to the Goddess, that everyone suddenly woke up.
Oh right, it was previously established that Ji Fei came from the human purgatory and ascended through cultivation.
So that line, "I am the countless wronged souls who died because of you!" suddenly made people's scalps tingle and their hearts surge.
Not to mention the people at the scene were caught off guard, the netizens watching through screens were even more unprepared, with exclamation marks filling the screen.
"This plot twist nearly broke my back!"
"I've been wanting to kill these two love-struck idiots for a while now."
"If Sister Fei hadn't acted so quickly, I would've reached into the screen myself."
"The world is about to be destroyed, and you're still here hugging and crying, talking about stupid love questions. It's truly speechless to the extreme. All I can say is, well killed!"
"Although this comparison may not be appropriate, but if you look at the livestream of the waiting area, Sun Mo's expression... I'm sorry, but I laughed."
Even though he knew he shouldn't lose composure, Sun Mo's expression management still failed.
His face was ashen, his expression twisted, as if it was really them performing a deep emotional scene on stage, only to be suddenly stabbed by Ji Fei, turning all their supposedly touching actions into a complete joke.
It was too damn humiliating.
Although he knew it was just acting, who could endure such humiliation? The fact that he didn't storm off in anger was already his greatest patience.
And such a Sun Mo naturally aroused sympathy from some of his fans.
"This is too much, what did our brother do wrong to be targeted like this? Ji Fei and Qin Zhao's hearts are too dirty!"
"Let's be objective, why can't immortals fall in love? Why must the Emperor Lord sacrifice his love for the sake of the world? Why must the Goddess sacrifice herself? Stop with the moral coercion! You don't know how it hurts until it happens to you."
"Exactly, if you're so capable, why don't you sacrifice your own loved ones?"
It must be said that the fans of the male god group and the fans of immortal romance dramas were not easily defeated.
The stage performance continued.
...
The Emperor Lord naturally wouldn't die from just one sword strike, but he was severely injured and fell into the Goddess's arms.
The Goddess anxiously used her divine power to save him, looking at Ji Fei with sadness and confusion, "What are you saying? What wronged souls?"
Ji Fei stepped forward and slapped her directly, "Still pretending not to know?"
The Goddess's cheek was struck askew, but she still wore an innocent expression, looking at Ji Fei in disbelief.
Ji Fei grabbed the Goddess's neck, forcing her to look back, as if using immortal arts to make the Goddess see the sins they had committed.
On the big screen, all the tragedies flashed by quickly.
The Goddess's face turned pale, her pupils trembling, tears streaming down her face, then she shook her head frantically in denial, as if unable to face it.
"I didn't know it would be like this! I really didn't know," the Goddess cried out.
Ji Fei slapped her again. "You still say you didn't know? You were once a mortal too, how could you not know? Or did you also start seeing them as insects, so you simply didn't care?"
The Goddess shook her head in denial. "I'm not... I really am not. I am the Goddess, the Goddess loves all people, I..."
"Fine, you're playing deaf and dumb, aren't you? Then earlier, when the Emperor Lord killed so many people to force you out, why didn't you come out?"
"I was preparing to sacrifice myself to save all living beings! I couldn't let the Emperor Lord stop me." The Goddess seemed to suddenly find her confidence.
"Then why didn't you hide until the end, secretly go to sacrifice yourself? Why did you only come out when he was about to kill the Demon Lord? How come you weren't afraid of failing halfway then?"
This question directly left the Goddess speechless, her lips trembling.
...
This part of the plot was almost the same as what the male god group had performed, so when Ji Fei threw out these soul-striking questions...
Whether at the scene or online, everyone felt as if they had been struck by lightning.
"I can't believe I didn't realize this problem earlier!"
"Damn, you keep saying you're the Goddess, treating all living beings equally, but when mortals were being killed you didn't show up, yet when the Demon Lord was about to be killed, you were suddenly forced to act?"
"If you had persisted in hiding until the end to complete your mission, I could still respect you as following the great way."
"Exactly, if you don't persist to the end, weren't all those mortals killed by the Emperor Lord earlier just a joke?"
"Not just a joke, they were merely pawns in their love game. Look carefully, isn't it like the male and female leads having a lovers' quarrel, the female lead runs away, so the male lead torments a bunch of pawns, and when the female lead has no choice but to come back to save the remaining pawns, and for this, they expect us pawns to be grateful? It was an undeserved disaster to begin with."
"I can't believe I was moved by that kind of plot earlier. My God, I feel sick."
"Hypocritical, just hypocritical. Sister Fei, slap her good!"
At this point, even the opposing fans couldn't come up with any favorable arguments, and could only weakly say: "The Goddess didn't know the Emperor Lord would be so ruthless... When she found out, she could only try to protect those remaining."
"The Emperor Lord here had already fallen into demonic ways, how could she not have anticipated this? It's just that those sacrifices were insignificant in her eyes!"
The performance on stage continued.
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"I really didn't mean to, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." The Goddess's expression was remorseful, unable to defend the calamity caused by them, but the next moment, seeing the Emperor Lord continuously coughing blood, she anxiously tried to heal him.
Ji Fei immediately put her sword to the Goddess's neck, "You still want to use your divine power to save him? Is this what your divine power should be used for?"
The Goddess looked at her lover with grief: "He was originally the noble Emperor Lord of the celestial realm, it's all because of me that he temporarily fell into demonic ways, the fault is not his."
"The fault is not his? Have you asked those living beings he slaughtered?" Ji Fei's tone was icy, "What right does this evil demon have to be saved? He neglected his duties, indulged in love, for his own selfish desires, in a fit of anger, caused corpses to float for thousands of miles, bloodied the world, killed innocents indiscriminately, and became tyrannical and vicious."
The Goddess trembled all over from these words, but refused to stop her healing hands, "He only developed an obsession because of his love for me."
Ji Fei sneered and said: "Is your love measured by the number of lives lost to prove how deep and unforgettable it is? You're truly sick!"
Ji Fei seemed too lazy to say more, picked up the Emperor Lord and walked away.
The Goddess anxiously hugged the Emperor Lord, "What are you going to do?"
"Evil demons must be eliminated, sacrificed to save the world!" Ji Fei said coldly, then directly kicked the Goddess away and threw the person into the mist on the stage.
The Goddess immediately became extremely anxious: "No, why... Please don't hurt him, sacrificing to save the world is my duty."
Ji Fei sneered: "So you still remember that this is your duty. The Heavenly Way let you descend to the mortal world, only asking you to do this one thing well, and you couldn't even do that. You're useless!"
Watching the Emperor Lord disappear into the mist, in no time at all, the world returned to peace.
The Goddess broke down crying, unable to save her lover, and finally began to question the ways of the world: "Was I born just to be sacrificed? If so, then let me be sacrificed, why let the Emperor Lord take my place? Without him, how am I supposed to live on alone?"
Just as she was saying this, Qin Zhao, now dressed in white robes, appeared again, similar to the state of a soul returning in the previous scene. After all, immortal dramas love this kind of setup, so there's nothing wrong with them using the same trick.
The Goddess immediately cried tears of joy, but before she could rush forward to welcome their final happy ending, Ji Fei threw out a chain, which wrapped around the Emperor Lord's neck, imprisoning him.
"It's not over yet!"
