"Old Bones, is everything you said true?"
Years Weird stared intently at the White Bone Emperor before him and asked.
He did not ask simply because he disbelieved the White Bone Emperor, but because what the latter had said was truly too shocking.
"If you're asking me to cast my gaze across the river of time and space and directly see the future, I can't do that."
"But Niece Die was standing right in front of me. How could I possibly have seen wrong? Isn't that an insult?"
The White Bone Emperor's voice carried obvious displeasure as he responded to Years Weird.
He paused briefly, then made as if to flip the table. "If you really don't believe me, why are you still sitting here? Go on, leave, leave!"
"All right, all right. I misspoke just now, okay? I apologize."
Despite the White Bone Emperor's table-flipping display, Years Weird was inwardly delighted at that moment and did not take this little matter to heart.
As he hurried to soothe the White Bone Emperor, Years Weird poured him another cup of tea and presented it to him with both hands.
He could hardly have been more deferential.
"Fine. Since you're acting like this, I'll forgive you for now."
The White Bone Emperor was clearly the sort who responded well to being humored. He looked at the tea offered to him, then at Years Weird, before taking it with one hand.
"By the way, about Xiaodie's husband you mentioned..."
Although the Weird Bride's increased strength, especially the improvement in her Rule Ability, made Years Weird extremely happy, he was clearly still very concerned about his daughter's husband.
After all, a father feared nothing more than some blond-haired scumbag tricking away his precious little girl, whom he cherished so much that he feared