This was the most peaceful night Qiao Suinian had ever slept.
The struggle for survival and the carnage after the apocalypse felt like a dream, and he felt as if he had finally woken up from it.
Qiao Suinian pushed open the door, and Ji Jinlan was already waiting for him at the door.
"Suinian, you're awake? Come and eat, your dad and brother are waiting for you!" Ji Jinlan said with a smile.
"Okay, coming right away." Qiao Suinian looked at her Haoye Dragon Staff and Skull Staff, then thought for a moment and decided to leave them in her room instead of bringing them out.
Qiao Chuxu and Qiao Yueyue were already waiting at the table. The dishes on the table were extremely plentiful. Although there were only four people, sixteen dishes were served according to the standard of eight hot and eight cold dishes, and the ingredients used were extremely precious.
This meal would have been an extreme luxury even before the apocalypse, let alone now in this terrifying post-apocalyptic world overrun by alien races.
"The New Year is here? Please sit down. Now that everyone is here, let's eat first. We don't have many rules in our family."
Qiao Chuxu waved his hand, and soon servants came over with bowls and chopsticks, but they did not hand the chopsticks over; instead, they took them in their own hands.
"Young Master, what would you like to eat first?" A young woman dressed as a maid asked gently, holding chopsticks.
"No need, just give me the chopsticks, I can do it myself." Qiao Suinian was a little embarrassed; he had never experienced being served meals before.
Seeing this, Qiao Suiyue glanced at Qiao Suinian, chuckled, and said in a low voice.
"You bumpkin!"
"Qiao Suiyue! How dare you talk to your brother like that!"
Although Qiao Yuesui's voice was low, it could not escape Qiao Chuxu's ears, and he immediately glared angrily.
“What, did I say something wrong? Isn’t he a country bumpkin?” Qiao Suiyue stubbornly raised her head.
Snap!
Enraged, Qiao Chuxu slapped Qiao Suiyue across the face.
"You bastard! Your brother suffered so much outside before finally coming home, and you're still saying things like that? Get out of here!"
Qiao Suiyue covered her face, staring at Qiao Chuxu in disbelief.
He couldn't believe that his father, who had always doted on him, would beat him for someone who had only been around for two days.
He stared intently at Qiao Chuxu, his face contorted with rage, and said viciously.
"Fine, I'll get out!"
Qiao Suiyue got up and left immediately. As he left, his eyes were filled with resentment as he looked at Qiao Suinian.
"Why!"
Qiao Chuxu sighed softly.
“Suinian, your younger brother grew up with us and we spoiled him. Don’t take it to heart.”
"It's okay, I don't mind." Qiao Suinian nodded, not saying much. In his eyes, Qiao Suiyue was like a rebellious child who hadn't grown up.
"Okay! That's good. Are you hungry? Eat up, don't just stand there. Jinlan, you eat too." Qiao Chuxu waved.
At the dinner table, Qiao Chuxu chatted with Qiao Suinian casually, mostly asking about Qiao Suinian's experiences over the years.
As Ji Jinlan listened, tears streamed down her face as she looked at Qiao Suinian with heartache.
She could hardly imagine how much suffering was contained in Qiao Suinian's seemingly casual words.
Qiao Chuxu was also somewhat moved. After a moment of silence, he suddenly looked up and said.
"Sui Nian, you obtained the things beneath the forbidden area of Kyoto, didn't you?"
Qiao Suinian paused for a moment, then nodded.
Since Qiao Chuxu had wiped out both the Gu and Li families, it wasn't difficult to get information out of them about their past actions of jumping into the forbidden area of Kyoto.
"Could you tell me what's down there?" Qiao Chuxu pressed.
The huge crater that suddenly collapsed in the forbidden area of Kyoto was investigated by almost all the forces in Kyoto, including the four major families. However, everyone who went down into it disappeared without a trace. It would be a lie to say that they weren't curious.
"Below are countless abyssal corpses, and what those corpses guard is a heart, a corpse heart."
As soon as she finished speaking, Qiao Suinian took off her shirt, revealing the shocking dark purple lividity on her back.
As time went by, the lividity on Qiao Suinian's back increased, almost covering his entire back, and there was a faint tendency for it to spread to other places.
"hiss!"
Qiao Chuxu and Ji Jinlan only glanced at it before they both gasped in shock.
Ji Jinlan reached out with heartache and gently stroked the livid spots on Qiao Suinian's back.
"Does it hurt, child?"
"It doesn't hurt, it's just a little ugly," Qiao Suinian said with a smile.
The reason he exposed all the lividity was to see if the powerful Qiao family had any solutions. If so, they could resolve the matter as soon as possible. After all, it wasn't right for him, a living person, to let the lividity grow wildly on his body.
"A perfectly healthy person... has developed lividity..."
Even the well-informed Qiao Chuxu stared wide-eyed in disbelief, his expression turning serious.
"Suinian, wait for me! This matter is beyond my control. I need to talk to your uncle to see if he can help you resolve this!"
After finishing his meal, Qiao Chuxu got up and rushed out of the house in a hurry.
The uncle he mentioned, Qiao Suinian, is his older brother, Qiao Chuyang, who is also the successor to the next head of the Qiao family.
Now that the head of the Qiao family is getting old, Qiao Chuyang basically takes care of most of the small matters in the family.
Soon Qiao Chuxu returned with Qiao Chuyang. Qiao Chuyang was a middle-aged man with a commanding presence, exuding the air of someone who had held a high position for many years. His features bore a resemblance to Qiao Chuxu's, and he possessed an imposing presence even without anger.
After Qiao Chuyang walked in, he didn't speak to Qiao Suinian. Instead, he walked up to her and examined the lividity on her back. Then he frowned, a cold glint in his eyes, and spoke.
"A living person with lividity? Fourth brother, are you sure this is your long-lost son?"
“It’s absolutely true, brother, Sui Nian is indeed my son! Brother, please see if there’s any way to remove the lividity from him!” Qiao Chuxu nodded, a hint of worry on his face.
Upon hearing this, Qiao Chuyang's face immediately hardened.
"What can we do? It's against the laws of nature for a living person to develop corpse spots. Fourth brother, I don't care if he's your biological son or not, I'm telling you this now: this person cannot be included in the Qiao family's genealogy, let alone be recognized as an ancestor! If a monster with corpse spots appears in our descendants, the Qiao family can't afford to lose face like that!"
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