After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots' Beloved

Lu Sheng only realized when she was standing inside the elevator that she was calmer than she had imagined.

In past memories, whenever she pressed this elevator button, her emotions might have been anticipation, or perhaps excitement.

But at this moment, she felt very calm. Because she was no longer that child who needed her father's protection, yearning for her father's affection.

Just as Lu Sheng had anticipated, the moment her fingertip pressed down, the button lit up simultaneously, and the elevator started ascending.

She had no idea how much time had passed when the elevator doors opened with a "ding," and Lu Sheng stepped out.

Walking along the quiet corridor, she finally stopped in front of a familiar and heavy wooden door.

This large door... once she had to stand on tiptoe to touch the ring on the door, and now the door ring was merely at her waist level.

However, before Lu Sheng could reach out to push the door, it had already started to open slowly as if it was welcoming her arrival.

Indeed, it was waiting for her.

Lu Sheng walked into the room, finding the spacious room different from before. It was empty, almost devoid of furnishings, appearing extremely solitary and desolate.

The dark layered curtains only had a slightly open gap, with glaring light filtering in, leaving a shadow on the chairs in the Great Hall, and tiny specks of dust trembled in the shimmering light in the air.

The surroundings were extremely silent. Lu Sheng lifted her gaze and looked over, the man on the chair turned around at the same time, and their eyes met perfectly.

Gods do not age.

Over four hundred years had passed, yet the man in front of her looked unchanged. This face was given by the Creator God, embodying the longing of all living beings, with every feature exquisite.

His ink-black hair was tied up, and he wore a white long robe, which accentuated his slender and tall figure, dressed as plain and understated as possible. Those deep black eyes lightly gazed at the girl in the nightdress before him, scrutinizing her.

If Li Zhi is the embodiment of gentleness, with ripples of tolerance in his golden eyes, then this man's eyes seemed to contain the vast universe, able to see through past and future, reality and illusion.

Being stared at by these eyes, even though they were only a few meters apart, she could feel a gulf-like distance.

"You heard everything Li Zhi told me," Lu Sheng spoke.

The tone was one of affirmation.

At this point, calling him father felt somewhat ironic.

The Divine Lord showed no change in expression, merely asking flatly: "Do you hate me?"

Hate?

Lu Sheng felt that she did not hate.

Although when Li Zhi told her the truth, she was very tormented, she actually had a vague sense of it long ago.

Her father wasn't as the world believed, free from desires; he always wore a mask to conceal his true desires.

Separating the Divine Sense that contained desires showed that he had made efforts.

Only when he realized those efforts were in vain, he casually made use of it.

She was the manifestation of his desire, her life and consciousness granted by it. When he wanted to kill her to reclaim what he had given her, there wasn't much to resent.

Lu Sheng's expression was indifferent: "I don't hate you. I just think that at the time, I wasn't strong enough, fully controlled by your desires."

"So I came to find you, not to question or resent you. I came, hoping to make a deal with you."

It seems his little daughter really has changed a lot, the Divine Lord thought.

Knowing her most trusted father deceived, betrayed, manipulated, used, and even destroyed her, she still remained so calm when discussing a deal with him.

Indeed, she was no longer the child who clung to him in fear on that stormy night.

He slightly raised his eyes, his voice calm: "What deal?"

"Li Zhi said you killed me and took back the desire you placed on me. So now, you should be fully filled with this desire."

"I think you must have suffered a lot these four hundred years, because you both love and despise the people. So now you seem... so lonely."

Both love and despise the people?

In a certain moment, the Divine Lord felt the girl before him was indeed the child most similar to him, so she understood him better than anyone.

He continued to ask: "So?"

Lu Sheng said: "So, since the Primordial Spirit has returned, I have regained Divine Power. I hope you can transfer your desire back to me."

Upon hearing this, the Divine Lord showed a rare hint of surprise: "...What did you say?"

He thought that what the girl would request today would be for him never to impose desire upon her again.

"Only I can become the vessel for your desire and share your suffering."

Lu Sheng had thoroughly understood what lay beneath the mask of the person before her, what he cared about, what he feared.

"Transfer the desire back to me. Even if the desire swells and I commit acts of slaughter in the future, you can still have the Six Realms blame it on me."

"The one committing the slaughter won't be you, you can remain the Savior. Worst case, you personally kill me again in the end, maintaining your perfect image in everyone's eyes."

"Nobody will know the true owner of this desire is you. For you, it's only an advantage, no disadvantage."

The Divine Lord finally could not fathom what the girl before him was thinking and asked: "Why do this?"

Lu Sheng lifted her gaze: "After experiencing so much in Hell and the Human Realm, I'm no longer that naive child led by desire."

"Now my self-awareness is strong enough. What you pursue as supreme is not what I want."

"So, I can control this desire better than you. Even dissolve this desire."

"I love people more than you do. Compassionate towards them, I empathize with their pain, and won't seek to dominate others."

Upon hearing this, the Divine Lord instinctively wanted to refute.

How can anyone not pursue supreme power?

Not pursuing supreme power is because you are born supreme; why not experience the life of the lowest human?

But he suddenly realized the girl before him had indeed experienced it.

Reborn using the body of a strangled illegitimate country girl, going to a family that loathed her utterly. Even with such a lowly status and such a difficult start, the girl hardly used demonic power. She never thought of using demonic power to subjugate others, becoming a superior.

"What do you want to exchange for this bargaining chip?" the Divine Lord asked.

Lu Sheng paused, and no one could notice her fleeting dim expression, then she raised her head: "For taking on your desire, I naturally hope you can fulfill one condition of mine. I want you to resurrect Tan Yuan."