"Ha ha ha, Exalted One, what did you think of my performance?"
Within the Great Ancient God's heart, Chai Asi's smug voice still rang.
While fawning over Yuan Mengji and lavishing him with praise, the boy was secretly mocking him to the Great Ancient God's face.
He called Yuan Mengji stupid, called him naive, said these noble young masters had merely been born well... apart from good luck, there was nothing good about them.
His chatter came down thick as raindrops.
He had actually grown used to talking to the Great Ancient God whenever the mood struck him—asking about confusion in cultivation and life, showing off his growth and progress, sharing his wild and wonderful ideas.
Perhaps because he needed slumber to recover his divine power, the Great Ancient God often did not respond.
Yet Chai Asi would still talk to himself, happily entertaining himself.
He had never seen his parents since he could remember. When he was still very young, his grandfather had been run over and killed by a carriage right before his eyes. He had always grown up alone in that old house... so he did not really know that this was how children from many ordinary families showed off their growth to their parents, hoping to be praised.
"Everything you said... was an act?" After a long silence, the Great Ancient God suddenly asked.
"Of course, ha ha." Delighted to receive a response, Chai Asi grew even more cheerful. "Could I really submit to that big idiot? Blindly confident, utterly clueless—who knows where he got the nerve. He even thinks he rules his subordinates with grace and authority!"
"That is good." said the Great Ancient God.
"Ah, no, one thing was true." Chai Asi said with a grin. "Marrying Yuan Xiaoqing—that part was true."
The Great