Chapter 407 - Father and Son Aligned (1/2)

Translator: StarReader

Editor: Elitecoder

“Oh no, Gu Santong is behind us!” Yun Shuang cried at the incoming small red light.

With her being the Holy Maiden and High Priest Yun Xuanji’s granddaughter, she knew of Gu Santong. He was truly a savage to push even the likes of Zhuo Fan back.

Now watching him dart over, panic overwrote everything.

Zhuo Fan only had a wide grin, slowing down and taking a dive for a glade. He put Yun Shuang down and waited for Gu Santong.

Yun Shuang looked at him lost, [Does he want to measure his fist with Gu Santong again?]

Gu Santong landed and ran into them.

His savage display just moments ago had Yun Shuang shaking, thinking he was now aiming to smash them to bits.

But Zhuo Fan’s calm was infectious, easing her worries. [This man is that confident in taking Gu Santong’s power?]

Ah!

Yun Shuang saw Gu Santong get closer and closed her eyes, not wishing to see Zhuo Fan pulverized.

But the rumble never came. All she heard was giggling.

“Dad, I missed you!” Gu Santong held Zhuo Fan’s neck.

Zhuo Fan patted his back with a quiet smile.

Yun Shuang peeked once, then her eyes bugged out.

[What is going on here? They’re on opposite sides, they just threw fists at each other back there, yet now they are kin? If they were so close, why did they do all that show of savagery?]

Yun Shuang was a pure lady, never able to understand Zhuo Fan’s slick and devious nature at work behind the scenes. All she could do was stare in space, at exemplary parenting at work.

Zhuo Fan brought Gu Santong over with a smile, “Shuang’er, can’t you tell? He’s my son.”

[What?!]

Yun Shuang wobbled, on the brink of collapse from shock. A great Divine Dragon, the best in Tianyu, Invincible Scamp Gu Santong, was his son?!

That was more than breaking news, that was capital. Even the emperor would be speechless.

[Since they’re related, has the emperor lost it by sending the son after the father? The two can now team up and tear the Imperial Palace apart.]

Zhuo Fan shook his head at the dull Yun Shuang, reintroducing his son, in detail.

Now she realized their relationship.

“But just now you…” Yun Shuang frowned.

Zhuo Fan grinned, “I only went with the flow, enacting a little drama for everyone. But I didn’t expect the emperor to be on the same page with me. He wanted me to be the scapegoat in this chaos and I wanted to bear the brunt, breaking the stalemate. What a coincidence we both wanted it at the same time. Otherwise, Yongning’s marriage proposal wouldn’t happen at the same time as the second prince’s.”

“You mean it was all fake?” Yun Shuang’s heart thumped.

Zhuo Fan explained, “Yongning’s marriage was an obvious taunt from the emperor. Even if I accepted it, he’d come up with other ways to get a rise out of me and break all pretense. While the second prince’s proposal was my idea to break pretenses in my own way. The stalemate would be blown up, with every faction out to get me, but in fact the best stage for each of them to get their share!”

“Oh… I see.”

Yun Shuang bobbed her head still phased out, “Then what you did to me…”

“An act as well, please don’t mind it. It was only to let the others see that I had a perfectly good reason to flip out, or doubts will sprout making the next phase harder.” Zhuo Fan nodded.

Yun Shuang darkened, her heart sinking.

She was a pure and unaffected girl, always abiding by her ancestor’s teachings, never knowing love, but had fallen to despair when it struck her hard in the form of Zhuo Fan.

Now Zhuo Fan was telling her that everything was fake and her budding love shattered to pieces.

Yun Shuang watched the two giggle away and the bitterness only grew.