The Eighteenth Prince, whom Xuan Shiba had entrusted with great responsibility, had fallen. Ao Bing, the Third Crown Prince whom Ao Guang had taken such pride in, had finally passed away after struggling for decades, just before his father obtained the sacred item that could have saved him!
Fate truly toyed with people.
Xuan Shiba had no time to grieve. Before the news could spread, he hurriedly strengthened every defense within his kingdom, striving to minimize the fallout caused by the Eighteenth Prince's death!
Ao Guang, meanwhile, was utterly devastated. The convictions he had held throughout his life collapsed in that moment. Holding his son's cold dragon body, he wept silently!
They could not understand why Heaven had chosen to punish them so cruelly!
They had just experienced the greatest joy of their lives, only for reality to smash them to the ground and trample all their hopes into pieces!
What they understood even less was that the consequences before them had been born from causes they had planted themselves!
Did they really think they could make things difficult for a Child of Destiny, earn Xu Kun's hatred, and still retreat unharmed?
Luck was an unfathomable thing!
Under the passive effect of the law of karma, everything that happened seemed as if it had been arranged by Heaven itself!
No one would connect these events together, not even the Child of Destiny himself!
After being tormented all night by Hao Jian's earth-shaking snores, Xu Kun swore that if he ever let Hao Jian sleep with him again, he would be a dog!
But Hao Jian, who had slept wonderfully and woke refreshed, objected to Xu Kun's reluctance.
His reasoning was perfectly sound!
"Auntie just left. You're all alone now. As your brother, how could I watch you drown in grief?