Hera's modern life - chapter 7

Hermes seemed to be very excited to play as an innocent good boy. After an arduous plan to pretend to be my cousin, he blew a gust of wind and flew away with his small wings on his shoes. My protest and anger from beginning to end were ignored. Yes, I am a Goddess, and he should obey my orders. But Zeus’s words were higher, no, maybe the most top priority, even execution level.

Well, no one could beat Hermes in a debate. He was the eloquent God, and even Prometheus couldn’t reason with him. I had never been good at arguing with others. I prefer to solve problems with violence. All of this was because of Zeus! He made me this way! How kind and gentle I was before I married him!

“Shameless old monsters, thieves and swindlers of asylums, like to peek at the dead flies, why not lead the undead to do their jobs, run out to make waves and do great things!”

While walking, I cursed him in my heart. This guy had never been against me. As early as tens of thousands of years ago, Hermes was not as pure and cute as his looks. Could you count on the morality of a guy who had stolen from Apollo when he was a child? Zeus was very fond of him, so even when he took his wand, he forgave him.

{Hermes stole Apollo’s cattle when he was a child. He’s God of thieves. Messenger of Zeus.}

“He just wanted to joke, why bother being so serious.”

Every time someone proposed to punish Hermes, it was no big secret that Zeus would always help him to get out of trouble. In the long run all the gods understood Zeus’s partiality to him. Don’t think that I didn’t know why Hermes could help him report the happenings as fast as the wind. Without him, Zeus’s road of crime would not have been so smooth. This father and son pair was savage!

I didn’t think it before, but from the viewpoint of human beings, God was such a selfless guy. Looking back at what I did in the past, I couldn’t help but shudder. At that time, I saw human beings like dirt. What did I want to do with them? The poor girl, what was her name, Antigone? She boasted in front of me, and I retaliated. God, I used to be such a terrible woman. It was no wonder why the large group of female warriors of Amazon had made me a patron.

Thinking carefully, except for Hephaestus, even my children were not willing to take the initiative to get close to me. They also preferred to be with other gentle Goddesses. So every time Zeus found a new lover, I would always be the last one to know. The pain of betrayal by my husband, coupled with the anger of being deceived by my children, I think that made me like a violent menopausal woman.

The more I thought about it, the more I got depressed. I swear I would never go back to Mount Olympus, and destroy my life as Han Xiaole!

Desperately, I returned to the hotel where I stayed. Wang Li had finished eating her breakfast and was sitting on the balcony drinking juice. I messed up her memory, so she could not remember those about my marriage and bigamy. She smirked and raised her glass.

“Hey, you came back so soon, didn’t the blond guy give you company.”

“Oh, don’t compare the pure me to your hungry self. There is nothing between us. I directly told him to get lost.”

Tired, I sank on the sofa inside the room. I felt that my future life would turn into a nightmare.

Quietly lying for a while, I said, “It’s almost half a month, and we should go back.”

Wang Li dropped the magazine and looked at me, “What’s the matter with you, from elementary school, you have wanted to go to Greece, you finally got your wish. It’s not too bad to stay for a while! Our plan is for a month.”

I pulled my hair. I couldn’t tell the truth to my friend. Yes, I especially liked Greece since I was a child, probably because I dreamed of the blue sea and the white stone temple. At that time, I was still stupid and naive to imagine that I might live in Greek all my life. If at the moment I smiled and told Wang Li that I was a Goddess, and had been married for a long time and even gave birth to four children, she would laugh and spray the juice on my head and say that I was stupid.

“Hey, Xiaole, the handsome guy just… you won’t be stupid and want him?”

Wang Li was tempted to ask. I took at least a minute to reflect what it meant and glared at her,

“I said that I don’t. How can I do anything wrong to Dongzi? We will get married soon!”

“That’s good, Dongzi is a good man out of print, you must not be confused by the beauty.”

Wang Li sighed and put her legs on the coffee table then continued, “And with a handsome guy, one can play for a while, but a husband should be honest and gentle. Besides, Dongzi is not bad. You have to compare him with that kind of special product to feel secured.”

I smiled in sarcasm, with the time I spent as a Goddess who lived for a thousand years. Knowing Zeus was stinking, I was confused into marrying him. If time could go back, I would instead marry Hades – Although he had no interest in me…

“How good is Dongzi, Xiaole, if you don’t want him, remember to leave him to me,” Wang Li joked. She always thought that Dongzi was the best man in the world. Hence she often joked that she wanted to snatch my love. But I firmly believe that she would not do this. Let alone a human being; she wouldn’t kill a fly. Anyway, I still think she was more honest than too many Goddesses.

“Ugh.”

When I thought of Hermes, I didn’t know what to do. I buried my face in the sofa cushion. Now that I was a Goddess, I could do anything I want… But why didn’t I feel happy? Was I instead riddled with endless troubles?

“Where to visit today, Parthenon?”

Wang Li grabbed a travel guide and flipped a few pages. I think she might regard this strange performance of a good friend as a premarital phobia.

“No, who is going to see the woman’s temple?”

I bit my lips, I hated Athena. I had always been in the wrong position. In the dark, she had done a lot of things against me. I felt unhappy when I thought of her.

Wang Li looked at me strangely and wanted to say something, but she didn’t have a chance to talk, because the closed door was slammed open from the outside, and three girls rushed in together and saw me lying there on the sofa and shouted in unison, “Hera, why are you still here! Come back with us!”

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