Bai Jue was just coming back from the west sea but once he came back he have to see a goddess being all high and mighty, making the celestial guards kneel down. Being down here for so long but has yet to see them be rude to the guards
"Who dares to exert their authority towards the four guards!?" he asked
"Greetings to high god." the guards said to him and he nodded
"Who dares to exert their authority towards the four guards!?" his voice boomed and the four of them bowed down in greeting to the voice but Hou Chi's head was starting to hurt and since she didn't know who this person was, he might as well be an important god and will probably lecture her for being a snob.
"Greetings to high god." the four of them said to the person behind her but Hou Chi scratched her head without looking back at the man behind her
"Who are you to be so high and mighty in front of these celestial guards?!"Bai Jue asked her but she still stood there with her back toward him
"The goddess didn't do anything wrong." the guard in red said as another guard also jumped in to defend her as well
"That's right, it was us who were in the wrong." the guard in blue said to him yet it only seemed to anger him more, as he demanded that she talk
"I demand you to tell me who you are!" Bai Jue said to her and he could hear her sigh before she turned around to face him
"I am the winter goddess and who might you be?" the woman said to him but he was no longer there with them, the memories of her from the past flashed through his eyes. The face of the woman that he loved was staring back at him but her eyes and hair were not how he remembered her.
The back of the woman standing there was of a woman with white hair, one that seemed so familiar to him but he told himself that his lover could never be so haughty. Yet when the woman turned around to face him. Bai Jue would never forget the face of his lover whom he longed to see each and every single day.
It was her, he knew that it was her who was standing right in front of him but he froze up and when he came to it, she was gone.
"Who-where did she go?" Bai Jue asked the four gods
"That was the winter goddess of the nine heaven; Hou Chi. She was asking about the winter section of the spirit realm, that's probably where she is headed." The guard in blue said to him and he nodded as he quickly walked through the spirit realm gate as well; heading towards the winter section of the spirit realm.
Bai Jue rushed after her, he didn't look for her for too long since she was unfamiliar to the spirit realm and she also stood out since her hair was not one you would see much around the spirit realm other than the spirit realm but even then her silver hair was not pure white but it was not grey either.
Bai Jue has never paid attention to the goddesses or gods around him or their news or else he would've seen the paintings of her and the other three season goddesses.
"Hou Chi!" Bai Jue called out to her by the name that the guards gave to him earlier, the goddess stopped in her tracks as she turned around to see who it was that called out to her.
He could see that the goddess was not happy to see him but he was over the moon to see her again.
"Look here, I-" Hou Chi said to Bai Jue but before she could say anything to him at all, he pulled her into his arms, holding onto her tightly.
"I've missed you so much." Bai Jue said as he hugged her closely but as he was holding onto her, she used magic and within seconds she was gone from his arms.
"I think that you've got the wrong person." Hou Chi said to him and turned away from Bai Jue, making her way back to where she was heading but Bai Jue followed behind closely since he was doing nothing to harm her or the others in the spirit realm; she could do nothing but keep her distance from him while she make her way towards the winter section of the spirit realm.
After the two walked for a while, Hou Chi turned around to look at him
"Please leave me alone, don't follow me." Hou Chi said to him but he smiled at her
"Who says that I am following you? I am heading to find my students." Bai Jue said to her and continued to walk past her and made his way towards the winter section of the winter realm.
Hou Chi couldn't do anything but walk behind him from a distance since the way that he was heading was also the way that she was heading.
To the mortals winter is cold but to the spirits, goddesses, and gods; they do not feel the season changing or the temperature of each season.
Each section of the spirit realm has guards standing guard outside of the gates into each realm, while the common area of the spirit realm is the trading section of the spirit realm.
"Greetings to the high god." the winter guards greeted him and he nodded
"And who might that be?" the guard asked him and he smiled at her
"This is the winter goddess, Hou Chi. While she is in the spirit realm, she will be my guest." Bai Jue said to the guards and headed into the winter gates as she walked in behind him.
The guards said nothing to her as she walked up to them nor did they tried to stop her at all, Hou Chi just walked in.