Jade Pendant

"Hmph, what important matter? Are you here to flaunt your seventeenth son?"

Lin Xingheng had once had friends all over the world, but now, the dead were dead and the departed had departed. The closest friend he had left was Xia Huainan. Everyone said the two had an abysmal relationship, but once upon a time, they had been friends who would lay down their lives for each other. "Huainan, my path is about to break."

And whose fault is that? Are you blaming me for it?

"You severed it with your own hands, yet now you come to my residence to wail at the funeral? On the day your son is celebrating his great joy, which one of your wives is sitting beside you in the seat of honor today, receiving a bow from my niece?"

Xia Huainan possessed a Fire Spiritual Root, and his temperament was just as fiercely righteous, hating evil as though it were his enemy. Back then, this fellow had loved his wife as dearly as his life. Yet who could have expected that once his beloved died, it would not even be a case of the tea turning cold after the guest had gone—by the following year, he had already taken a new wife. Though she had not been formally wed as the City Lord's wife, in Xia Huainan's eyes, the man surnamed Lin had changed his heart and shifted his nature. And afterward, he had even... forget it. Xia Huainan could not be bothered to speak of it.

"Yes, with my own hands..." Lin Xingheng's voice was not sorrowful, as though he were merely speaking of something utterly ordinary. "Forget it. I know you do not like hearing this, so let me speak of something you do like."

"No matter what you say, I