Today's third update: Chapter 3403! 3/4!
The Lord of Huang remained motionless within the radiant glow, like a towering, unscalable mountain that revealed not the slightest trace of his true emotions beneath it.
Yet in that unseen depth, how could Xu Kun's heart possibly remain calm?
He was sincerely delighted that Hao Jian and Su Xiaoxiao had finally gotten their wish and conceived the fruit of their love. That sense of comfort was like a warm current, soothing the loneliness in his heart brought on by their long separation.
Beyond his happiness for this brother as close as family and Su Xiaoxiao, whom he regarded as a younger sister, a faint, somewhat childish smugness rose irrepressibly in his heart. Second Dad, Second Mom, you're about to become grandparents...
His thoughts drifted away, as though crossing time and space to return to Jiangnan Base City, the place that had raised him.
He could imagine how overjoyed the forthright Hao Zhong and the gentle, kind Chen Gu would be upon hearing this news. Their faces, marked by the passage of time, would surely bloom with their brightest smiles.
In a sense, this fulfillment was also a belated act of filial devotion from Xu Kun to the two elders who had treated him as their own since childhood and showered him with endless love and warmth.
Ever since he had first risen to prominence in Jiangnan Base City, advancing triumphantly until he was swept into the heart of the conflicts among the myriad races, the number of times he had met Hao Zhong and Chen Gu had become few and far between.
He did not even dare dwell on how heartbroken those two elders must have been when news of his "death" reached them... At that thought, waves of bitterness and guilt