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"Was that woman called Wuji?" I asked curiously. Seeing Yun Wanxi crying as she shook her head, I sighed in relief. Wasn't Wuji supposed to be my first love? Could there have been some misunderstanding?
Yet just as I still held on to a sliver of hope, Yun Wanxi shattered it with a single sentence: "Father, she's called Xingyao..."
My brows drew together. "Xingyao's original name was Wuji. The two names are simply different."
"Ah? Father, is there some reason behind this?" Yun Wanxi asked, somewhat baffled.
"Wuji... forget it. There's no point bringing it up. What's done is done." I shook my head with a bitter smile. Back then, Wuji had been an adversary I met during the Celestial Cosmos War. He had originally been male, but after I defeated him, he returned to chaos.
At the time, Ling Xian had accepted the mission of turning him against his side. Afterward, through a series of interventions, he had transformed Wuji into a woman. That fellow had truly been unequal to the task—by some strange twist of fate, he had actually fallen in love with Wuji in her female form.
Li Guxian and I had done everything we could to break the couple apart, finally setting things right. I had thought the matter was over, but who could have guessed that it would ultimately affect Yun Wanxi as well? It truly was a tangled karmic bond.
Yun Wanxi was the victim. She was my disciple and daughter-in-law. Yet no matter how complicated Xingyao's identity was, she had ultimately given birth to my grandson. That made her my daughter-in-law too, did it not?
I couldn't favor one over the other simply because I had met one first. So sometimes, all I could do was offer advice.
"Father,