Fortunately, I Did Not Disgrace My Mission

Those who knew Guardian Supreme Chiyang mostly knew that he and his wife Nalisha had been deeply devoted to each other.

Chiyang was a man and had the usual flaws of men, but while Nalisha was alive, he had never brought any woman from outside back home.

The Empire encouraged childbirth, and Chiyang had children outside as well, but he had never brought those descendants home to raise.

He had never been stingy with money toward those illegitimate children, but he would never do anything that made his wife unhappy.

After Nalisha passed away, quite a few women maintained relationships with Guardian Supreme Chiyang, but he never remarried.

In short, he was not an absolutely faithful husband, but his feelings for his wife had been genuine.

To ordinary people in the Empire, there was nothing particularly admirable about such a marriage, but Chiyang was a Supreme.

Supremes stood at the pinnacle of society and had countless admirers. Ordinary marriage contracts basically held no binding power over them.

Compared to most Supremes, Chiyang's restraint was already quite rare.

So when he said that, he truly meant it.

But Paranoid snorted coldly. "My property somehow became a relic left behind by your dead wife. Is having a little shame that difficult?"

This time, he had called it my property.

However, Chiyang did not notice that, or at least showed no obvious reaction.

He merely stated flatly, "Nalisha left me very few things. Before she passed, she repeatedly told me to guard this item well."

Paranoid became angry when he heard that. "Do you believe I can send you to keep your dead wife company?"

Chiyang pressed his lips together and did not answer—insulting his deceased wife was something he could not accept.

In any case, before they found the item, they were