584: Accurate Calculations_3
Shang Che’s gaze was slightly cold, “I’ve told you before, if…”
Shangguan Yi said, “Then the next Family Head will inevitably be my child with Wan’er…”
Shang Che sneered, “She might not be willing…”
“I will wait until she changes her mind…”
Shangguan Yi, with his head lowered and body bowed, spoke with a resolute tone that brooked no doubt.
Shang Che’s brow twitched slightly, but in the end, he said nothing, only speaking indifferently, “I understand…”
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The atmosphere in the study was somewhat stiff.
Shangguan Yi did not wish to stay long, so he stood up to leave.
“Yi’er…”
Shang Che called out to Shangguan Yi, hesitated for a moment, and his tone softened a little.
“You must understand, it’s not easy being the Family Head…”
“In a Tao Cultivation Noble Clan, one bases on the clan, must understand pros and cons, calculating losses and gains. Being indecisive and overly sentimental will not do.”
“A Cultivator’s life is very long, no matter how deep the fondness, over time, love will fade, and people’s hearts will change…”
“As the Family Head, you must know what is the most enduring, what is the most advantageous.”
“You must also be resolute, make tough decisions, only then can I convince the ancestors to entrust the millennia-old Shangguan aristocratic family into your hands…”
Shangguan Yi said silently, “Father, I understand.”
Shang Che glanced once and knew his son didn’t understand it at all.
He felt somewhat irritable, but, deeply cunning as he was, he only suppressed his feelings, sighing:
“Think about it more. Yu Er is your child, a legitimate descendant, but he is also just one among the many disciples of the Shangguan Family. You need to weigh what is more important.”
Shangguan Yi’s face showed pain, but he said nothing, performed a respectful salute, and withdrew respectfully.
Shang Che looked down at the Jade Slip and after a long time, raised his head, gazing at the spot where Shangguan Yi had stood, reflecting on his troubled expression, feeling a mix of anger and frustration at his lack of competitive spirit:
“All my life I’ve been a ladies’ man, passing through a sea of flowers without a single leaf touching my heart, yet the son I produced… how could he be… such a lovesick fool…”
“He looks like a talent, but he’s so lacking in ambition, thinking only of his wife and child every day…”
Shang Che’s brows were deeply furrowed, filled with dissatisfaction.
After a long time, he sighed and spread out a Map.
On the Map was the entire Qian State.
Now a series of routes had been outlined, after Calculation with the Compass, they turned into profound Heavenly secret Patterns, yet they had no beginning or end, unknowable where they started or where they led to.
Only a trace of savage, ancient aura remained.
This was the handiwork of those who had taken Yu Er away.
Shang Che’s gaze turned solemn, his expression as still as water, muttering to himself:
“From arranged marriage, birth, to death… all calculated, eh…”
“Who has such a grand strategy?”
“To deceive our ancestors, to use the only legitimate heirs of the two great Noble Clans, Shangguan and Wenren, as a sacrifice…”
“What… do they want to offer sacrifice to, what life and death do they want to defy?”
Shang Che felt a chill deep in his bones…
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In the Gu Family compound.
Dressed in palace attire, Wenren Wan was preoccupied with thoughts of Yu Er, but once she stepped out of the door, she was again lost.
“Search… how to search, where to search?”
Yu Er had been abducted, and it was very likely that he was no longer in this state boundary, perhaps not even in Qian State…
Hopelessness grasped her heart, along with profound powerlessness.
The Cultivation World is vast and boundless.
She didn’t know how to perform Calculations, nor understood the Heavenly Secrets. Finding Yu Er was like looking for a needle in the ocean.
She also deeply despised herself, regretting why she hadn’t pleaded with the old ancestors to learn the complex and abstruse spell points of Tao Cultivation.
If that were the case, she might now be able to calculate Yu Er’s fate on her own…
Even if her Divine Sense exhausted, even if her Sea of Consciousness ran dry, even if…
Wenren Wan stood silently for a long while before coming back to her senses. She looked around disconsolately, pondered for a moment, then called the Wenren Family’s guards and asked them to drive a carriage and take her out of the city.
No matter what, she would talk after leaving Qingzhou City…