Bahe City, the city guard garrison within the city.
"Where's Captain Xia? Wasn't he supposed to be on duty with the men today? Why haven't we seen him?" A group of True God soldiers gathered in a corner, chatting.
"His wife gave birth. He rushed home just now," said a soldier who knew the situation.
"Captain Xia's child was finally born." The soldiers immediately became interested, though what interested them was something else.
"I heard Captain Xia and Commander Gongsun had agreed that if the first children born to their families in the future were of opposite genders, they'd become in-laws. Is that true?" a True God soldier hurriedly asked.
"I heard that too, but it seems Captain Xia broke the agreement."
"Is that so? Why did I hear it was just a rumor?"
"I asked around. Captain Xia's unborn child was a son."
"Commander Gongsun's daughter stayed in her mother's womb for over a hundred years without being born, while Captain Xia's son was born after just over twenty years. The difference is way too great."
With nothing better to do, these True Gods gossiped away.
Just then, a figure emerged from behind the barracks, startling them so badly that they scattered like startled birds.
"It's Commander Gongsun."
"Go, go, go."
Watching the True God soldiers disperse, the tall, lean middle-aged man with a pale beardless face and crimson eyes showed a trace of chill in his gaze and snorted coldly.
"After all this time, people are still talking about this."
He was Commander Gongsun Wuchang.
At first, he had been delighted to see Xia Jihe, his former superior who had once looked down on him, suffer such a setback.
But later, he had become displeased.
The thought of tying Xia Jihe's lowborn, poorly gifted brat to his own