Lord Shadow

Chapter 1752: The First Attempt At Changing Fate And Destiny

Instead, of going to the veil now, he approaches that bead.

Like always, the closer he came to the bead, the more he could feel and see the cause and effect of these beads.

But now that he had deep knowledge about cause and effect he could see some anomaly. Beads that have no cause and effect.

Anomaly.

Incongruity.

Or something that humans like to call...a miracle.

And once again, he look at the bead of the man who in the first part of life lived a happy life, with a perfect wife and a beautiful daughter.

Suddenly Azief laughed. ”Everything come full circle” he thought to himself. Because he now understood something. And as he understood it, he could not help but laugh.,

Why this man?

There is countless of beads.

Right now, Azief wanted to change the fate of this man.

But why this man?

Because he had seen the fate of this man before.

And now, he is here again. And he sees this man again and his heart is moved to want to help him

And this was the cause and effect of him and this man.

He pities him in the past and now he is here and he wanted to help

If he did not see this man and see another person fate and destiny at that time, would he be here today, trying to help this man change his fate?

Even that......even the act of seeing this person fate is fate and destiny.

And because he understood this contradiction of cause and effect, Azief could not help but laugh.

No one knows whether he is laughing a happy laugh or otherwise.

Once again, he sees the perfect life of this mortal who lived a happy life.

All of those decades, from him meting his wife, to them welcoming their daughter all of it seems to be just a second in his eyes but in his eyes it was like he had been there with him for centuries, like an observer, like someone who is watching a television series.

He knows that the second part of this man life will be filled with sorrow.

The daughter would be involved in a hit and run.

He would then later fell into despair, and in his despair, he neglected his wife.

His wife and him both handled the grief differently.

The deeper the love, the deeper the hurt.

He would later then got divorced, drown his sorrow with alcohol and it is only later after experiencing all kinds of heartbreaks, and as time passes, he would die of old age alone, haunted by the memory of his daughter. ”What happens to his wife though?”

Azief thought and he looks at another bead and in the bead it shows all the experience that this woman would endure.

Unlike his husband she tries to pick up the pieces.

She tries to fall in love, but each time, she is haunted by that feeling.... that she does not deserve love after what had happened to her child.

Just like the father blamed himself, the mother also blamed herself for what happens to her child

She tries to understand the world that let her daughter died but she could not.

She tries to understand that she is not at fault.

But even then she could not understand it.

She lives her life, lost.

And she tries to find love again.

But, what kind of love could compare to that perfect first love?

What she had with her husband is one in a million kind of love.

It is that love that was so perfect, like it a match made in heaven

And nothing could compare.

Because of that she knows what she had lost. She lost not only her child, but her beloved, her friend, her pillars and her everything.

She lives her life quite well.

She had a job.

And every once in a while she would laugh.

And she rarely cry in her sleep anymore

But, she never fall in love again.

When her death approaches her, she was surrounded by friend.

And she only wishes she could see her husband and child again after she is dead.

That is her life.

A tragic ending for a perfect couple.

Azief heart stirs a bit.

It is hard not for the heartstring to not be tugged.

After all, it might only just be a few second in his eyes but it was like he was there, all from her divorce to her death.

It was like he is her spectre, observing and just looking at her life ”These kind of people at least......deserve a happy ending. The good should be rewarded and the evil should be punished. That should be the operation of Heaven”

He mutters.

And if he wanted to change it he need to go to that other bead.

Azief did not take long to recognise the bead.

The bead is just beside that man bead.

And Azief focus his gaze look at that person bead and once again he sees that woman. A woman who live a life of bad choices.

All around her are avenue to bad choices.

Pitiful, detestable, but she always had a choice.

Which is more than some people have. Some people....mortals, donʼt really have a choice at that time. She....however could choose.

The system of the world at that time, allowed her to choose.

Instead, he chooses a choice that break apart a perfect couple, that killed a child and that angers heaven and earth

She is pitiful at first, and then she only become detestable. Azief might have become more nuanced in determining right and wrong

He acknowledged that sometimes the answer to a question does not always end with black and white but grey

But there is also some question which answer is very simple and direct. And this one is that simple answer.

Azief punishes based on what the perpetrator has done and not what he wished he would do.

Some people believes rehabilitation is possible. And Azief is not a fan of that but that doesnʼt mean he does not believe it could not work.

He believes it could work if the system is right.

Create a system, make sure the system is set up properly and rehabilitation is possible.

But some people, some people are mad dogs.

And mad dogs needs to be put down before they cause harm to people.

Some people could not be rehabilitated. Because they donʼt want to. Character determines destiny.

And it is the same for the good and the bad.

That is their character and so, they should not expect to have the same treatment as someone who do good.

Instead, in a world where even evil is tolerated, then where would kindness, noble values be put on?

If evil is repaid by kindness, then how should one repaid kindness?

And Azief right now would act on behalf of heaven to resolve this anger and complete this cause and effect.

He look at this woman life. And it is not a pretty life.

A bad neighbourhood, with death, vices of all kinds surrounding this woman like some kind of magnet.

Azief see her learning to steal.

And then rob.

Bully.

Hit people.

She burns stuff. And then she burns buildings.

She enjoys the chaos. She enjoys the pain.

And yet, she is still just a child.

Nurture won in this case.

As nature, she was a blank slate. But there is always that inclination of humans to follow a certain kind of retuning to a blank slate.

No, it is more like an innate nature to go toward light and good.

Why did he knows this? When he sees the Wheel of Rebirth and Reincarnation, when he met the Creator, he saw souls.

It is a curious thing but each time he has the opportunity to see soul., at each time of these occasions, he accumulated certain understanding toward the soul

And he could see that in the soul there is his primordial nature that tended toward creation.

Every soul

In the beginning all of them are in a blank slate. And each one in the beginning tended toward good

They are not born good. That is not the point. There is always capacity to do evil. But the innate nature of human is wanting to find that good.

Then the world interfere. External factors intervened. Certain mistakes, and certain choices clouded this innate nature and until a certain point, this nature is buried completely.

There is a propensity to good

As for her, she is following the path of ruins

She follows riot and she is the mother rebel of them all. She took all she learned with stride and pride.

That pitiful woman began to become detestable. The more evil thing she does, the more evil she become

Once certain lines are crossed, other lines become easier to cross.

This has always been the case.

She made all the wrong choices for all the wrong reason.

She learns all of these bad things and never look back. If only.....she could stop and look back and think with his heart instead of her mind....then maybe...this could be a comeback. >>