Son of Heaven and Commoner

The groom and the bride's mother were both stunned by the child's words.

"What?" the best man exclaimed in shock.

The groom's sister muttered, "They're crazy. They're all crazy. What's even real anymore?"

The bride's father frowned deeply and said nothing.

Yin Ge stared fixedly at the child, uncertainty churning in her heart. "Did you just say that you're the Son of Heaven?"

The child's eyes brimmed with tears. "Yes, big sister. I'm the Son of Heaven."

At those words, everyone fell silent.

The groom and the bride's mother, who had been fighting over the identity of the Son of Heaven, instantly became the center of attention.

"Liar!" The groom flew into a rage. "You little brat must have colluded with that bitch to frame me!"

"I'm the Son of Heaven! I'm the Son of Heaven!"

The groom was extremely agitated, but the bride's mother showed no fear at all. Her calmness was almost abnormal.

Looking closely, one could even see relief on her face.

That unusual reaction immediately caught Yin Ge's attention.

Yin Ge directly asked the bride's mother, "You're not the Son of Heaven?"

Everyone's attention was drawn by those words, and their gazes turned toward the bride's mother.

The bride's mother pressed her lips together and said something earth-shattering. "I'm indeed not the Son of Heaven."

After saying that, she let out a breath and even patted her chest.

Yin Ge and the best man exchanged a glance, both seeing shock and confusion in each other's eyes.

"I knew it! I knew it!" The groom sounded as though he had finally been vindicated. "You finally admitted it. You're not the Son of Heaven at all—you're the killer!"

The bride's mother did not even look at the groom. Instead, she pointed at the child. "He's the Son of Heaven."

In an instant, the smile vanished from the groom's face. "At a time like this, you're still being stubborn? If he's the Son of Heaven, then what am I?"

"Of course you're the killer!" the bride's mother replied without hesitation.

"Heh." The groom sneered. "You don't seriously think anyone will believe your nonsense, do you? If you're not the killer, why did you suddenly try to steal my Son of Heaven divine authority?"

"Now that you can't keep pretending, you're actually trying to slander me?"

Everyone looked at the bride's mother, their eyes full of suspicion.

Noticing this, the bride's mother hurriedly explained, "I said I was the Son of Heaven because the groom accused me, and no one stepped forward to prove my innocence. I had no choice but to do that."

"Now that the real Son of Heaven has stepped forward, the groom's lie has fallen apart on its own. That's why I admitted that I'm not the Son of Heaven."

That explanation was not enough to account for her earlier behavior.

The best man asked, "Then how did you determine that the groom is the killer and the child is the Son of Heaven?"

"Right, right. How did you know?" the groom's sister asked.

"Of course I know!" The bride's mother shot Yin Ge a glare before continuing. "Because I possess the Commoner divine authority. If the Son of Heaven discerned me, he would definitely know that I have divine authority and that I'm a good person!"

"The groom kept claiming that he discerned me, yet he kept saying I was the killer. There's no way he can be the Son of Heaven!"

Hearing that, everyone was dumbfounded again.

"W-What? What kind of divine authority is Commoner?" The groom's sister's eyes widened in astonishment.

The bride's father was equally agitated. "Damn it, what the hell is this? I really can't tell anymore."

Because the groom and the bride's mother had been arguing over who possessed the [Son of Heaven] divine authority, no one had verified the others' divine authorities yet.

So they had not seen the other divine authorities written on the slips of paper, nor did they understand what the [Commoner] divine authority was.

Yin Ge immediately stepped forward and looked at the bride's mother. "Wait. You said you're a Commoner. Then do you know what rules Commoner has?"

"Of course I do." The bride's mother sounded confident. "Commoner's rule is Shattering Jade. It allows me to perish together with someone."

Yin Ge's heart skipped a beat. That statement matched the Commoner rule written on the paper.

In other words, the bride's mother was very likely the Commoner.

The best man understood this as well, so he immediately looked at the groom. "There really is a Commoner divine authority. What do you have to say?"

The groom's eyes darted away, and he stammered as he spoke. "S-Say what? That bitch is lying!"

Though he still refused to admit it, anyone with eyes could see that his voice no longer carried the certainty it had before. It was even trembling.

The best man could not help asking, "You said you discerned the bride's mother and determined that she had no divine authority and was the killer, right?"

"Right," the groom said stiffly.

The groom's account contradicted the bride's mother's.

The best man looked at the child again and asked a crucial question. "Kid, you said you're the Son of Heaven. Then who did you discern?"

Yin Ge had already formed a guess. She felt there was a high chance the child would say he had discerned her.

Sure enough, the next moment, the child raised his hand and pointed at Yin Ge. "I discerned this big sister. She has divine authority and is a good person."

Upon hearing that, the others all fell into thought, but Yin Ge's face showed no surprise.

She had long noticed that the child had deliberately been following her. Later, she had even shifted around slightly and changed positions several times to test him.

The child had indeed kept close behind her the entire time.

More importantly, before that, she had barely interacted with the child at all.

Normally, the child had spent the most time with the bride's mother, so he should have instinctively followed her rather than Yin Ge.

Therefore, Yin Ge suspected that the child had been following her because he had used some kind of rule on her, or because he could confirm that she was a good person rather than the killer.

Combined with the child repeatedly trying to speak with her, she suspected that he was very likely the Son of Heaven and had discerned her identity.

However, the groom and the bride's mother had been at each other's throats at the time and had repeatedly interrupted the child. Everything had been too chaotic, so Yin Ge had suppressed her doubts.

But now that the bride's mother had admitted to possessing the Commoner divine authority, everything seemed to have become clearer.

Then he... Yin Ge looked at the groom, her eyes filled with deep suspicion.

Judging from the clues gathered during the incident, along with everyone's dispute over the Son of Heaven divine authority...

The groom was indeed highly suspicious.

Thinking of this, Yin Ge looked at everyone and asked, "Is anyone else the Commoner divine authority? It's not too late to step forward now."

No one stepped forward.

In other words, there was a high chance that the bride's mother possessed the Commoner divine authority.

It was not absolute, but considering all the circumstances, the bride's mother truly seemed more like a good person than the groom did.

Yin Ge looked at the groom.

Soon, the others came to the same realization and all turned to look at the groom.

The groom gritted his teeth. "Why are you all looking at me? That bitch and the brat colluded to frame me! I'm not the killer—they are!"

The best man could not help saying to the groom, "Did you forget the Commoner divine authority's rule?"

"If the Commoner dies, Shattering Jade will inevitably be triggered."

"In other words, if the bride's mother dies, there's a high chance she'll take you down with her. You'll still die then."

"Even if we identify her, you won't escape if she dies."

The bride's mother immediately nodded, agreeing with the best man.

"Are you really the Son of Heaven?" the best man asked again.

By this point, cold sweat had already appeared on the groom's forehead, though he had been so adamant before.

He swallowed and spoke with difficulty. "I'm the Son of Heaven. I really am the Son of Heaven."

The bride's father was utterly confused. "You say you're the Son of Heaven, and the bride's mother says she's the Commoner. Then why did you say you discerned her and found that she had no divine authority?"

The groom glanced at the bride's mother. Seeing her staring at him mockingly with her chin raised, he clenched his fists tightly, only to loosen them helplessly again.

"N-No, it wasn't like that..." the groom slowly said.

But before he could finish, his eyes widened as though he had seen something horrifying. He stood frozen in place.

What was going on?

Yin Ge frowned, but she quickly noticed something was wrong.

It was not just the groom. The others were also staring behind her with terrified expressions.

The bride's mother suddenly screamed, then stopped just as abruptly. Her mouth remained wide open in a screaming pose, while her body seemed to have been frozen in place...

At the same time, a chill wind swept past.

Yin Ge shuddered, as though she had been frozen stiff. She could not move at all.

The next moment, a familiar dripping sound came from behind her out of nowhere.

"Drip!"

"Drip!"

"Drip!"

Yin Ge's pupils contracted, and every hair on her body stood on end.

The bride had come!?

Yin Ge instinctively wanted to run, but only then did she realize that her body seemed welded to the spot. Aside from her arms, she could not move at all.

Worse still, the bride behind her seemed to have started walking.

One step, two steps, three steps.

The footsteps and dripping mixed together, moving from behind Yin Ge to the center of the living room.

The bride, dressed in bloodstained clothes, appeared before everyone. She stopped, then opened her blood-filled mouth wide.

"Who!?"