"Why did you deliberately let that useless Sky Dream Ice Silkworm escape?" Ice Empress asked in her clear voice, unable to hold back her confusion.
Snow Empress, standing beside her, also looked on curiously. Xu Lanqing didn't tell her, and she didn't pry, maintaining her complete trust in him—a picture-perfect, virtuous wife. But she couldn't help being curious.
Xu Lanqing toyed with a small piece of vibrant green metal, brimming with life.
It was an unexpected bonus. He hadn't expected Snow Empress to extract a piece of Gold of Life while drawing out Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Spiritual Origin. It was priceless treasure.
"Do you remember that person... that god from six years ago?"
Xu Lanqing spoke casually. Looking down at the sprawling Duke Mansion in the distance, he thought about how Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had taken Huo Yuhao away.
As a prince of the Sun Moon Empire, while the other boy was the son of a duke in the Star Luo Empire, they were destined to be enemies from the start. Though the boy hated Duke White Tiger to the depths of his soul, he had been raised by his mother and would never betray his country.
That was why Xu Lanqing hadn't held back and had kept that woman's soul. It might come in handy someday.
There was a saying that "a man's grudges shouldn't involve his family." What he'd done was hardly ethical—it could even be called unscrupulous—but he didn't care. He'd done plenty of bad things already; one more wouldn't make a difference.
"You mean that god?" Ice Empress paused, then her gaze turned cold.
How could she forget? That day, Snow Empress and Xu Lanqing had nearly died in Sunset Forest, all because of that god who had meddled in the mortal world. She