"Father-in-law, I don’t want to leave..." Enrida’s hot tears rolled down.
Guoguo sat on the side with a carefree expression, gnawing wildly on a yam, with no trace of the pain of two wives about to part from him. Instead, it was Ruona, the old lady acting spoiled, crying like a tearful person, while cursing, "Richard, you heartless bastard... even your son you want to drive away... I won’t let it go... I’ll fight you to the end..."
"Don’t give me that crap! The thing I hate most about you guys is pretending to be pitiful. Aren’t you a bit too old for this game in front of me?" Liu shook his head coldly, staring at Enrida, "My dear daughter-in-law, you’re a Tyrant-level boss of the Abyssal Realm, did you conquer your empire by crying? According to the Poison Flame Demon King’s personality, what’s there to fear about not having mana? Just find a place to quietly cultivate. Why come to me seeking a sense of security?"
"And you!" Liu shook his head, glaring at Ventéclair, "Don’t even start with me on that time travel cliché crap you find in those cheap knight novels! I ask you, since you’re supposedly from time travel, and Ruona and I already know about the divorce in your stories, of course, we would prevent it! So if another Ventéclair emerges because of that, then who are you? Am I going to have two sons that are the same person?"
"For fuck’s sake! You guys are really treating me like a monkey. If it were my past temper, I’d have taken you out already!" Liu cursed angrily, "But anyway, we’ve known each other for so long. There’s got to be some feeling there, and I don’t want to be too harsh. Just stay away from me and never come back, and I won’t have to worry anymore! As for you wreaking havoc on another continent, or becoming kings there, I couldn’t care less!"
The elder Andulan looked in from the door and, seeing Old Liu spitting out rough words, shook his head and retreated.
"Why are you driving me away? Didn’t you say before that you wouldn’t?" Axianu stubbornly raised her head, her unyielding gaze fixed on Old Liu.
"Are you genuinely stupid or just pretending?" Liu shook his head with a laugh, "The way Guoguo treated you back then, I admit was wrong, but so what? Do you expect me to kill him as an apology? Is that possible? I’ll be honest with you: many people do bad things on impulse. Who the hell walks around with the intent to do bad things all day? There are many injustices in the world. If one lands on you, you’re just unlucky! Blame yourself for being too arrogant! I don’t have time for your reasoning! I’ll only give you nonsense to listen to! Take it or leave it!"
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"I never apologize to women!" Liu shook his head in surrender, "But since I’m now the Dragon Land Lord and we’re of the same race, I can apologize to you on Guoguo’s behalf for everything in the past."
"Apologize, my ass~ this chap’s just asking for it~" The little parrot rolled its eyes at Old Liu.
"Have you made up your minds, my children?" Liu shook his head lovingly, stroking the little parrot’s head, and glancing at the three dejected creatures, "Whatever your purpose for coming, I’ve been merciful enough to you. Don’t test my patience and sanity too much. If the Feilengcui Lord doesn’t want anyone living to walk out that door, it will be done!"
"Father-in-law, if I spill all the beans, can you let me stay?" Enrida’s pitiful face instantly switched to a calm, experienced look. Paired with a young girl’s body, it was truly bizarre.
"Can’t guarantee it!" Liu shook his head. He really had no interest in digging into Enrida’s background. This daughter-in-law had been on Aegean longer than Elder Cruyff. With her intelligence and resume, anyone trying to find out her origins would be in for a wild goose chase.
"I’m a powerful monarch-level presence in the Abyssal Realm, summoned to the Aegean Continent back then. I stayed deliberately," Enrida said to herself, "Because I wanted to bring all my subjects to Aegean, leaving the dark Abyssal Realm!"
"A grand dream." Liu barely contained his laughter. Mighty beings summoned to the Aegean Continent had only one route: either a malicious ritual or some godly summoner’s inter-dimensional Summoning Technique. And these mighty presences, to remain in Aegean, first had to destroy the summoning ritual or the summoner, because when the cooldown ended, they had to return home—no exemptions allowed by the dual-direction time-space markers.
"Back then, I mingled with the Elves because I wanted to learn to make magic teleportation arrays from the Aegean Continent. Space Magic didn’t exist yet, and the Elves’ Wind Magic had the highest achievements in long-distance teleportation at that time," Enrida continued, "But after learning, I found cross-dimensional teleportation extremely difficult."
"No kidding!" Liu got a bit impatient, "This magic common sense nowadays is known even by kids! You’re at least a dynasty of a Demon King, with subjects numbering in tens or hundreds of thousands. Wanting to move them all to Aegean, is that even possible? Use your brain for a bit!"
"Actually, there are other tyrants from the Abyssal Realm with the same idea. The dark Abyssal Realm is truly unfit for living. Our demands aren’t high, just enough to enjoy a bit of sunshine and moonlight!" Enrida’s words made Old Liu feel a sense of déjà vu.