Simulate the universe, starting with speedrunning Greek.

If you're worried that they might get angry and attack you, it's better to reveal your identity early on and use your status as a member of Artemis's family to protect yourself.

Night suddenly shouted, "How long are you going to keep up this pretense? Respected Goddess of Love and Beauty!"

I don't know what I have that you would like to like.

But I am not your beloved Anidos...

Please take a good look, Goddess... as a servant of Artemis, the goddess of the moon.

My heart is already filled with my goddess, and there is no room for any other deity.

He declined Aphrodite's offer.

When Venus heard Night mention her Moon Goddess's retinue, she was clearly stunned.

Previously unnoticed, and with the blessing aura of the Roman land constantly enticing and attracting Venus, upon closer inspection, she immediately sensed the blessing of the moon goddess Artemis, and even the blessing of the god of light Apollo.

？ ！！

How could he be favored by two gods at the same time?

If I include myself, then there are three of us.

Although her identity was exposed, Aphrodite didn't care much—she simply transformed herself back into her magnificent, beautiful, and sexy slit Greek dress.

The goddess Aphrodite, whose temperament instantly becomes noble, elegant, and charming, appears here.

The moment the divine beauty was revealed, the power of beauty was subconsciously activated, and Ye was almost powerless to resist, instantly captivated... her consciousness sank into an abyss.

Until the blessings of the Moon Goddess and the Light Goddess shone simultaneously, suddenly activating divine power to clear the alluring authority from Ye's body, Ye, who had just woken up, took a step back.

Even the siren's song couldn't seduce him, and just now he had absolutely no resistance, sinking directly into the goddess's otherworldly, bewitching beauty, which seemed to have reached the pinnacle of the planet.

Confronting the embodiment of beauty head-on, the night was undoubtedly instantly overwhelmed.

The night was filled with an overwhelming sense of aggression, and my back was covered in cold sweat.

That's too dangerous!

Is this what God is?

At this moment, noticing Ye's state, the goddess of beauty slightly restrained her powers and asked Ye curiously, "How did you discover my identity?"

And who is Adonis?

When Venus asked the Night Adonis for his name.

A hint of surprise flashed through Ye's mind.

The other party doesn't know Adonis?

The Greek man whom Cupid was most fond of, and who seemed to have truly fallen for him more than the casual flings of his other lovers.

Speaking of the existence of beauty.

The two most beautiful women in Greece, as officially recognized, are Helen and Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, one the most beautiful on earth and the other the most beautiful in heaven.

However, there is no ranking among men.

There are many legends about handsome men, such as Narcissus, who was so handsome that he became depressed by a pool because he couldn't fall in love with himself, and died from his own handsomeness, eventually being transformed into a daffodil by the gods.

There was also Anchises I, who slept with Cupid and fathered the hero Aeneas simply because of his handsome face.

But none of these people's beauty reaches the level of being bewitching.

There was a man in Greece who said, "If beauty is a sin, then I am unforgivable."

He is Adonis, the son of evil.

Because Myra, the stunningly beautiful daughter of the King of Cyprus, was so beautiful that even the goddess felt threatened, thus arousing the jealousy of the goddess of beauty.

Unlike Helen, who had Zeus as her father, Myra was naturally cursed by the goddess.

Of course—Helen was also quite toyed with by Aphrodite, but she wasn't cursed to her face.

After being cursed, Mira fell in love with her father. Mira secretly met with her father at night, and when her father learned that his lover was his own daughter, he was so angry that he wanted to kill Mira.

But Myra was pregnant, and she fled in a frenzy, becoming a myrrh tree.

Adonis was born from this tree.

He originated from the malice of the goddess of beauty, and was the product of his mother's incestuous relationship with his father.

His very origins are a symbol of evil.

But in the end, this evil also came back to haunt the god of love himself.

In the future, the god of love fell in love with this child, and after he was gored to death by a wild boar—it is said that the moon goddess took revenge on the god of love for killing her own follower Hippolytus before, and in turn killed the person the god of love loved.

Cupid even went to the underworld to plead with someone, but there were rumors that Persephone, the queen of the underworld, had also fallen in love with Adonis.

Driven mad by that bewitching beauty.

Even Persephone, the dignified and composed queen of the underworld, could not resist that bewitching beauty.

She is not the type of person who would have an affair because of her appearance.

One can only say that Adonis's beauty does indeed carry a hint of original sin.

Even Aphrodite, to prevent others from discovering the child's beauty, would hide him in a box when she was not around, entrusting him to Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld, for safekeeping.

Persephone was also misled during that time, which led to her refusal to let the deceased Adonis return.

Because of this legend, Adonis, the god of plants, after negotiations, spends four months each year on Earth with Aphrodite and four months in the Underworld with Persephone.

This is the reason for the alternation of spring and winter.

Of course, this part of the myth overlaps with that of Demeter, the Earth Mother Goddess.

Mythology also records that every year when Persephone returned to the earth to visit her mother, Demeter, the earth goddess, was in a good mood, which caused the earth to turn into spring.

After her daughter's passing, the grieving Earth Mother Goddess caused winter to return.

Regardless, Adonis's importance to the god of love is self-evident.

Aphrodite probably doesn't spend that many days a year with her legitimate husband.

But the god of love doesn't recognize Adonis at all?

If I remember correctly, the story of Adonis takes place around the present day.

Even Helen was involved in the myth, helping Aphrodite intercept Adonis.

Is that how Adonis's story ends?

No, just now Night said that the sense of déjà vu was too strong, and told Cupid not to mistake him for Adonis and play some kind of love-at-first-sight drama.

Wait, Adonis is actually myself?!

Chapter 74 Anchor Points in the Transition from Myth to History: The Shared Fate of Greece, Rome, and Babylon

Night: "Don't you know Adonis? The god of spring plants, son of the king of Cyprus."

Aphrodite: "Who is that?"

The current King of Cyprus has only one daughter...and no sons.

Aphrodite felt somewhat lost.

However, the impact on Ye Xin was even greater than on her.

The King of Cyprus has no sons, only daughters?

Is it that nothing has happened yet? Is Mira, who was cursed by Cupid because of jealousy and forced to fall madly in love with her father, still living the life of a princess?

Aphrodite seemed to have eyes that could see right through people's hearts.

She looked at Ye meaningfully, then suddenly spoke: "Adonis...is related to me, isn't he?"

What did you see, child of Prometheus?

The words here do not actually refer to Night as the son of Prometheus, but rather specifically to those who, like the sage Prometheus, seem to possess the ability to see the future and make prophecies.

"Let me think—Is Adonis's birth related to me?"

Ah, in all of Greece, you are the only one who has ever interested me, my dear hero.

"If Adonis truly exists in this world, then there can only be one you..." Aphrodite confessed passionately.

certainly--

She felt that she had truly fallen in love with the child at first sight.

It wasn't infatuation, but pure affection. As night fell, Aphrodite felt an even stronger, more passionate and delightful aura.

It seemed as if it was meant to be born from her, containing her future love for this child (Rome).

It is not simply romantic love between a man and a woman, but a deeper and more profound love, like a mother's love for her child, like a lover's love for their lover, like a dreamer's love for their dream—that is the world she envisions.

The sight of such a tiny person standing before him made his gaze unfocused, as if he were seeing the distant future.

In such a world, there would be no more filthy male gods chasing after her, no oppression, no tyranny; she could become the most innocent and carefree goddess, bringing peace and freedom.

There are new students there...

Speaking of herself, Aphrodite felt that her fate was extremely tragic.

The birth version used by the goddess of love in this world is that she is the daughter of the great god Zeus and the ocean goddess Dione, Dodonna.

Although both were daughters of Zeus, she was not as fortunate as Artemis to receive Zeus's pure blessing and favor at an early age.

They are not as powerful as Athena, who could defend everything with strength and wisdom.

Persephone married a powerful god, while Hades, though somewhat gloomy, was handsome and well-protected the Queen of the Underworld, and didn't have as many scandals as his other two brothers.

As the goddess of beauty, she was coveted by almost all the heroes and gods of Greece and was the first to be coerced by Zeus.

That disgusting man, as a father, tried to harm his daughter by marrying her off to his ugly brother, the god of fire, Hephaestus, because she refused.

The goddess of love naturally wouldn't allow the ugly forging and the god of fire to touch her. That narcissistic and arrogant man not only liked her, but also Athena, and had absolutely no self-awareness about his own strength and appearance.

But after marrying the god of fire, the goddess of beauty, who had originally refused to submit to Zeus, began to be involved in various scandalous legends.

What could cause such a dramatic change in a person in a single day? Did they give up entirely?

Do not--

Only Aphrodite knew how much she had struggled all these years to prevent others from coveting her.