A woman teases her baby granddaughter, who is laughing. The woman tells the baby that she was once free and innocent and laughed for no reason. Later she threw away her foolish innocence to protect herself and taught her daughter, the baby's mother, to do the same so she will not be hurt. The baby gurgles again. The woman thinks that the baby is the reincarnation of Syi Wang Mu, Queen Mother of the Western Skies, who has come to.....
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