Although Liu Changxu had long anticipated his parents' deaths, when they truly departed, he was still engulfed by endless grief.
Every memory of his parents pierced his heart like a sharp blade. Their voices, faces, and smiles kept surfacing in his mind. Their once-warm words and caring gazes had now become distant, unattainable wishes.
Time flowed slowly onward, and amid loneliness and grief, Liu Changxu spent three years mourning his parents alone.
During those three years, he cast aside all worldly splendor and clamor, remaining beside his parents' graves to keep them quiet company.
At dawn, when the first ray of sunlight fell over the graves, he would gently brush the dust from their headstones, as though stroking his parents' faces.
At night, beneath the high moon and scattered stars, he would sit beside the graves and speak of his longing and the little details of his life. The wind rustled through the leaves, as though his parents were answering him.
Three years finally passed. With his grief soothed, Liu Changxu bid farewell to his clansmen and homeland with lingering reluctance and affection, then took the Interstellar Teleportation Array back to Hundred Spirits Star.
As the Teleportation Formation activated, he looked back toward his parents' resting place, his eyes filled with yearning.
When Liu Changxu returned to Colorful Cloud Peak on Azure Cloud Mountain, his wives and children hurried out to welcome him before he had even landed.
Looking at his loved ones before him, Liu Changxu felt his longing surge forth like floodwaters bursting through a dam.
Ignoring the presence of his children, he hurried forward to embrace and kiss each of his wives. In that instant, the world seemed to stand still, leaving only their heartbeats and loving gazes.
As his wife Murong Yuyao embraced and kissed him,