Huai Falls for an Old Friend - Chapter 10

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Bonus: The Heavenly Dao’s Perspective

A thoroughly unserious bonus chapter from the Heavenly Dao’s point of view.

Son, your old dad is very disappointed in you.

I took one drunken nap—one!—and somehow you lost the daughter-in-law I’d chosen for you.

Are you trying to make your dad die of rage?

How am I supposed to show my face in Heavenly Dao circles after this?

Big Brother says a lonely Child of Destiny is the best kind. So his boy cultivated the Emotionless Dao and severed every feeling and desire.

Second Brother’s boy was betrayed by everyone, hardened his heart, and cut himself off from love.

Third Brother’s Child of Destiny first tasted love, only to discover that his fiancée had gotten together with his younger brother. Heartbroken, he also ended up alone.

Fourth Brother’s boy built himself a harem, but not one of those women was his true love.

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Well, I refused to accept that rule.

My Child of Destiny was going to have a splendid career and a happy, loving family.

The new God of War, born from the light of Heaven and Earth and the essence of sun and moon, was the daughter-in-law I picked for myself.

And so powerful, too!

One of you was already invincible. If husband and wife joined forces, wouldn’t the entire little world remain peaceful and secure?

That was why I personally tied a red thread between the two of you.

Son, your dad was at fault as well.

I shouldn’t have trusted you so easily.

I should have gone next door, asked your aunt for some steel rebar, and welded that red thread shut.

How did you ruin such a perfect childhood-sweetheart romance?

Your future wife was wonderful.

I knew you always said the opposite of what you felt, but she didn’t!

Why did you keep spouting all that nonsense?

Later, she spent longer and longer gazing after you, so I thought the matter was settled.

Off I went, delighted, to boast to Big Brother and Second Brother.

Big Brother opened a wine he’d treasured for years. I thought we might as well drink your wedding toast in advance.

I indulged myself once. Just once.

When I finally woke up again, my great big daughter-in-law was gone. You had lost her.

Don’t blame your dad for not helping you.

I only just learned that your future wife had seen through everything long ago.

To tell you the truth, if you hadn’t been born first, she might have stolen the title of Child of Destiny right out from under you.

I helped you once. There absolutely will not be a second time.

A marriage ordained by Heaven!

And you still couldn’t make it work?

You truly are destined to die alone!

Such a wonderful daughter-in-law. How did she end up benefiting another family?

From now on, the two of you can treat each other as brother and sister.

That little black dragon has no shortage of fortune around him, but you are still your dad’s own son.

That fluffy little fox was supposed to be my granddaughter.

Actually, this works, too. I suppose I can lower myself to being her maternal grandfather.

Still, I cannot stand that little black dragon’s smug face.

What do you think, son? Should I curse him with two fox daughters who look exactly like him and a black dragon son who looks exactly like your little sister?

No, no. Forget it.

Your dad wants adorable little fox furballs to play with in the future.

Son, you can sit alone on the high dais of the Nine Heavens.

Your old dad can’t help you anymore.

Son-in-law, move those claws aside and let your old dad pet our darling babies, too!