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Great Qian Prosperity Year 3166—Third day of the second month.

Early spring~

It had only been half a year since the Celestial Human Banquet of the Changning Wang Family.

This season, with the spring rain drizzling, seemed to shroud the Wang Family in a layer of gloom.

This year, just after the New Year, the second-grandfather of the fifth generation, Wang Xiaohui, passed away peacefully, leaving this world forever.

This was the first clan member to die since Wang Shouzhe became the patriarch.

His second-grandfather, Wang Xiaohui, was born in the Year 3060 of the Daqian Changlong Calendar and was 106 years old at the time of his passing.

In theory, the lifespan of second-grandfather Wang Xiaohui was already quite high, much higher than most people.

Yet his passing still brought considerable sadness to the Wang Clan Members.

Wang Shouzhe sat in the courtyard, watching the full display of spring and the falling rain, his expression seemingly in a slight daze.

"Husband." Liua Ruolan leaned gently beside him, offering soft comfort, "Birth, aging, sickness, and death are all part of worldly nature. Husband has already done everything he could for second-grandfather, even obtaining a Longevity Pill to extend his life. In fact, over these years, second-grandfather was always holding on, holding on until the Wang Family became a Seventh-Grade Noble Family, and only then did he depart contentedly."

"Ruolan, I understand the reasoning you’ve shared." Wang Shouzhe sighed, "I’m just thinking, all these years we’ve been striving so hard for the development of the Wang Family, what is it all truly for?" 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"Has husband figured it out?" Liua Ruolan brewed a pot of Cloud Mist Spirit Tea with him, "This is young winter’s, just picked from the Cloud Mist Cave. Knowing you love to drink this fresh tea, I brought back thirty percent of the yield when I visited my family some time ago."

Wang Shouzhe held the Cloud Mist Spirit Tea, gazing tenderly at Liua Ruolan: "Of course I have figured it out. The reason I strive to develop the family so fervently is that I want the family members to live on, to live better, to live with more dignity. Just like you, my wife, if possible, I wish to live with you forever, to love each other until the end of time."

"Husband." Liua Ruolan’s cheeks reddened slightly, her eyes misted with a layer of touched emotion, "No matter when, husband’s romantic words never get old to me. To be married to you is the luckiest thing of my life."

"Your words are equally moving, my wife. To have married you, is to have found the true meaning of life," Wang Shouzhe took her hand.

"Husband, don’t be like this, the children are still around," Liua Ruolan coquettishly rolled her eyes.

Beside them.

The children, who sat obediently aside, responded with utmost calmness.

The eldest daughter Wang Liyao, who had grown into a lovely young lady, held a two-year-old, just weaned, younger brother Wang Zongrui in her arms, her bright and exceptionally graceful face utterly unmoved.

It’s no surprise, their parents never miss a chance to share sweet nothings and display their affection. It’s been nineteen years already, how could they not be used to it?

The children were nearly being made to feel queasy by it all.

Yet the two of them still delighted in it, seemingly never tiring.

"Sister, I feel like I don’t even know how to love anymore." The sixteen-year-old eldest legitimate son Wang Zong’an muttered softly, "If someone spoke such love words to me, my first reaction would definitely be to want to throw up."

"Me too..." Wang Liyao said with a twitching eyelid, "The key is, after hearing it for so many years, it’s always these few formats. You’re great, husband, you’re amazing... and then something about the greatest luck..."

"I think it’s okay." A five-year-old little girl with a sweet voice said, blinking her eyes, "Daddy looks so gentle when he speaks romantic words."

Then Wang Liyao and Wang Zong’an both gave her a look: "Yueyue girl, you’re still too young. Give it a few more years, and you’ll grow numb, then gradually disgusted."

It was quite apparent, that the little girl, carved like jade, was Wang Shouzhe’s second legitimate daughter Wang Liyue.

"Heh, what do you few understand?" Wang Shouzhe nonchalantly turned back and said, "The love between your father and mother is to set an example for you all, to create a healthy, positive, and optimistic native family atmosphere. You truly don’t understand parents’ hardships..."

"Hardships?"

Liua Ruolan’s eyes swept with a hint of the unusual, "Husband, could it be that living with me is very hard?"

"No, no, no, I was just casually educating the children..." Wang Shouzhe was startled, hurriedly defending himself.

"Casually only to reveal true intentions, we have been married for twenty years. Even if husband is tired of the old and seeks the new, this wife understands completely," said Liua Ruolan softly, "Speaking of which, it’s still my fault. I should have found a few concubines for husband long ago..."

"Don’t misunderstand, my dear... Yaoyao, speak some words on your father’s behalf."

"Oh, I almost forgot." Wang Liyao stood up with the youngest brother in her arms, flusteredly said, "I have to go to the academy for the entrance exam soon, and the homework assigned by Master for the future is not yet completed. Father, mother, I, Liyao, take my leave first."

After saying this, Wang Liyao, holding the child, performed a light leap, her body drifted into the air, flying off into the distance as if riding on clouds and mist. Her ability to traverse the air in such a manner showed that her Profound Qi was thick and continuous, far beyond just entering the Spirit Platform Realm.

"Sister, wait for me, I also need to study and train," Wang Zong’an also picked up the little girl Wang Liyue, and with a few agile steps on the roof, soon disappeared.

He had just reached the Ninth Layer of the Qi Refining Realm, with "quite a distance" still from the Spirit Platform Realm, so his stance was naturally not as graceful as his sister’s.

Almost in the blink of an eye, all four children had disappeared.