Complex sentence: In both stories Heaven takes pity on Zhang Dan's tragic story and instead of becoming a vampirish Jiang Shi, the usual fate of suicides he was made the god of the Kitchen, and was reunited with his wife.
Split into simpler sentences: In both stories Heaven takes pity on Zhang Dan's tragic story. Instead of becoming a vampirish Jiang Shi, the usual fate of suicides, he was made the god of the Kitchen, and was reunited with his wife.