Today's fourth update: Chapter 3592! 4/4!
"Of... of course." Xu Kun hesitated slightly, his voice a little deeper than before, but he ultimately gave an affirmative answer.
"Really?" Xu Caiyi's eyes instantly lit up like stars ignited in the night sky. She unconsciously leaned closer and asked eagerly.
"Then... then could you tell me what kind of person my father... really was, in your eyes?"
At that moment, even Xu Buwan, whose emotions had been churning, temporarily suppressed the turmoil in her heart and fixed her gaze tightly on Xu Kun.
She held her breath as though awaiting a crucial judgment, trying to catch more evidence that could verify the wild conjecture in her heart from every word and every inflection that followed.
You want me... to evaluate myself?
An indescribable absurdity and self-mockery flashed through Xu Kun's heart.
Yet, when he met his daughter's eyes—untainted by any impurity, filled only with longing and curiosity—all his complicated thoughts seemed washed away by that clear gaze.
He fell silent for a moment, as though dredging the truest fragments from the river of time.
At last, he slowly spoke. His voice was calm, yet it seemed to contain the weight and insight of life and death.
"Him..." Xu Kun's gaze seemed to pierce through the barrier of the Huang Domain and fall upon the infinitely distant void. "He was a... mortal who spent his entire life trying to become someone 'omnipotent.'"
The words were soft, yet they fell like a boulder into a deep pool, stirring layer upon layer of ripples that would not settle in Xu Buwan and Xu Caiyi's hearts.
"Hm...?"
Xu Caiyi tilted her little head, obvious confusion appearing in her crystal-clear eyes.
She could not immediately understand this seemingly contradictory yet weighty assessment—a mortal trying to become