A single remark from Tsukimi Sake seemed to have broken through Jin Jianglang's defenses.
Yes, if one day Xiao Xiang met someone she loved, would he cut her thread and turn her into a puppet incapable of love?
"Of course not..." Jin Jianglang slowly rose and shook his head. "When your threads were severed, I was still a child. I couldn't protect either of you. That is the greatest pain of my life. If Xiao Xiang meets the right person one day, I will protect her, no matter what. After all, he might be our only 'brother-in-law.'"
This Lineage was already full of brokenhearted people. Only the innocent, carefree Xiao Xiang remained everyone's hope.
Whenever despair overtook them, all they needed was one look at the lively Xiao Xiang to find themselves smiling.
Yes, though the past was steeped in despair, at least the future still held promise.
If even Xiao Xiang became a puppet one day, this dark, cold Lineage, devoid of any trace of feeling, would become an enormous tomb.
It would imprison them all, leaving them unable to escape forever.
Shiranui, the Elixir of Immortality, Xu Fu.
Not a single person in the Lineage had seen Shiranui. Not a single person had seen the Elixir of Immortality, and certainly no one had seen Xu Fu.
Yet these three elusive phantoms had imprisoned the Shiranui Household for over a thousand years.
Tsukimi Sake nodded slightly, a hint of joy appearing on her face, along with a trace of helplessness.
"Brother, we love you as you are now, not a version of you stripped of all feeling."
Jin Jianglang gave a bitter smile, then said, "Even so, with the word 'Lineage' weighing down on my head, I..."
"Don't worry," Hanamitsuki and Tsukimi Sake said in unison. "If that day