“Silly child, now that you two have become siblings, I can finally put my mind at ease. It’s time for me to leave.” Old Xiao sighed, groped for the edge of the bed, and stood up. He looked up at Mo Tian and quickly grinned. “I knew it was you, my king. I have been guarding this jade bed for you all this time. Now I can finally return it to you.”
"Give it back to me?" Mo Tian turned to look at the jade bed, but was puzzled. "Is this jade bed mine? I have no idea. It looks very ordinary."
“I used to think it was just a healing device, but the day before yesterday, a line of words suddenly appeared on the jade bed. The words told me that the jade bed was waiting for its master, and its master would appear today.” Old Xiao straightened his back and let out a soft breath. “I knew it. This jade bed fell from the sky, and I couldn’t find the mystery of it. It turns out that I was just a guardian.”
"Oh? How can you be so sure it's me, Uncle?" He stepped forward towards the jade bed, stood next to Old Master Xiao, and looked at his profile.
"Your Excellency exudes nobility, and I am honored to have you here. When you came in just now, this jade bed seemed to come alive, emitting movements that I could sense beneath me." After saying this, Old Xiao relaxed his slightly furrowed brows as if a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders.
"So there was this little incident." Mo Tian reached out and gently stroked the smooth edge of the jade bed with his fingers.
"Meow!" A strange scene unfolded beneath his feet: a wisp of blue light appeared, connecting the jade bed to Mo Tian's finger. Upon closer inspection, a small blue cat could be faintly seen emerging from within the thick jade bed...
Blue Cat? Mo Tian raised an eyebrow, subtly withdrawing his finger. The blue cat disappeared, and Mo Tian exhaled, trying to calm his emotions.
"Dad, so you already knew who he was all along." Qiao Mei's heart stirred, recalling how Mo Tian had referred to himself as "I, the Emperor."
“Yes.” Old Xiao nodded, sighing silently. “Since I went blind, I’ve become even more observant of my surroundings. Things have come to this point, and I no longer want to hide anything. You are indeed not my biological child. I was unwilling to accept this, so I used illusion magic to conceal your true identity. My child fell into the demonic path, and you, by chance, swapped my daughter.”
"I'm getting more and more confused, Dad. Are you out of your mind?" Qiao Mei asked in surprise.
“Dad isn’t confused.” Old Xiao sniffed, swallowed hard, and took a deep breath. “Dad wants to thank you, thank you for always being my daughter. It’s just that from now on, Dad can’t take care of you anymore.”
"Dad, what exactly are you trying to say?" Qiao Mei was getting anxious; Old Master Xiao's words were really quite inexplicable.
"You'll know some things in time. I want to ask you for a favor: if you ever meet my daughter in the future, please, for my sake, give her a break. I would be eternally grateful."
"Dad, what nonsense are you talking about? What makes you think I'm not your daughter?"
"Just because of you, you suddenly changed your original nature,"
"What kind of reason is that? Do you really want me to be that ugly, fat idiot?"
“No, of course Dad wouldn’t want you to become that kind of person.” Old Xiao shook his head, tears streaming down his face. “It’s just that my daughter didn’t have that ability, so only today do I understand, child, my daughter was switched with you in that accident. It was all fate!” Old Xiao groped his way forward, reaching his hand out of the stove…
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