Aldrey approached Aldrian with a smile, and after he stood near him, he spoke again.
"How are your wives? Is there any problem?"
"No, Father. Everything is okay," Aldrian replied.
"That is good to hear. I was really worried, as this is the first ti I have seen Sylphia show such a reaction toward you."
"We already talked about this matter and soothed her worries. She is a truly caring woman, which is why she beca slightly upset." Aldrian said.
Aldrey nodded and then fell into silence, enjoying the night sky together with Aldrian.
"Would you like to accompany for a night talk, son?" Aldrey suddenly asked.
"It would be my pleasure, Father," Aldrian replied without hesitation. They then sat on a bench located not far from them.
As they sat side by side and looked at the sky, Aldrey opened his lips.
"In the past, at this very ti after midnight, before your mother and I were trapped inside the secret realm, we sotis exchanged ssages using pieces of paper that we sent through our trusted people to evade our families’ detection. That period was truly full of struggle, even just to communicate and relieve our longing."
"With the poor relationship between the Flacrest and Rivas families, I had already prepared for my father to exile from the family, just so I could be with your mother. Yet here we are, still maintaining good relationships with our families and having our own little family."
"Sotis, I still cannot believe that I now have a family with the woman I love. And now we even have you, and then Celestina, our little angel. If I told my past self at that ti about my current life, he would probably think that I had already gone crazy."
Aldrian smiled upon hearing that, and Aldrey continued.
"Sotis, I am afraid that it is only an illusion or a dream. That when I wake up, I am still inside the Flacrest family’s mansion, your mother is still in the Rivas family, and we have to exchange ssages using pieces of paper again."
Aldrey then paused, causing the atmosphere to fall into silence once more.
"Father, actually, I am really curious about how you and Mother fell in love with each other. How could two successors of two families that did not have a good relationship beco attracted to each other?" Aldrian asked after a few seconds of silence.
Aldrey could not help but smile upon hearing that question, and his gaze toward the night sky turned reminiscent. His mind was brought back to the past, to when he was still a young master full of idealism.
"Well, the ti it took for your mother and to develop feelings for each other was not short. It took years, and there were many unpleasant encounters."
"We were already indoctrinated by our families, just like other successors of noble families, which caused us to hate each other. We had a few chances to fight, and I have to tell you that your mother truly earned her title as the Blizzard Witch through her strength. Even I did not dare to underestimate her when she beca serious."
"She is one hell of a woman."
Aldrian and Aldrey chuckled at the sa ti. After that, Aldrey continued.
"However, as ti passed and we t many tis through various circumstances, we started to develop different feelings instead. The hate and all the doctrines I carried from my family were slowly replaced by curiosity and attraction."
"Moreover, with our family territories bordering the devil territory directly, sotis we helped each other fend off devils trying to infiltrate our lands. Sotis, I found your mother in difficult situations and helped her, and she also helped when she found that I was in trouble."
"You can imagine, with this kind of dynamic interaction for years, of course my feelings toward her would change. Until at one point, I started to think, ’Yeah, this is the woman that I want to spend all of my life with.’"
Aldrey chuckled.
"So who was the first one to confess love?" Aldrian asked.
Aldrey looked at Aldrian, and with a proud expression, he pointed at himself.
"Of course, it was ."
Aldrian raised his eyebrows and smiled. "You are so proud about it?"
"Of course. That ans I was much braver than your mother. This kind of thing also beca the subject of our rivalry. At that ti, I knew your mother’s feelings, but she did not say anything about it. I just went all in and confessed my love to her when we t again at the border between our families and the devil territory."
"Well, although my decision to confess was also influenced by the rumor that the First Prince of the Doria Empire at that ti was interested in your mother, I still felt like I won this one."
Aldrey then sighed with a smile and looked at the sky again.
"And after that, our journey filled with struggle as secret lovers began, until through the twists of fate we were trapped inside the secret realm within the Everlasting Silent Forest." He then looked at Aldrian.
"Where we were finally united and able to have you, our lucky star," he said emotionally.
Aldrian did not say anything. His father continued while turning his gaze back to the sky.
"The mont you appeared in our lives, I felt that my life was complete, and your mother felt the sa. I no longer thought of anything else as more important than you and your mother. I was ready to sacrifice myself if it ant that you and your mother could live comfortably."
"The ti inside the secret realm was one of the happiest periods of my life, aside from the ti we spent here. Watching you grow from a baby into a toddler and guiding you in cultivation were monts that always filled with pride and joy."
"My son was truly a genius and different from others. With the commotion you caused at birth, with the appearance of the dragon and phoenix, we already knew that you would be different from other children. We believed that you were ant to beco a great person, soone others would look up to. Soone who would grow to be even greater than your parents."
Aldrey then looked at Aldrian with a smile filled with a father’s pride.
"And you truly beca a great person, soone countless others can only look up to now. You also beca the one who made it possible for your mother and to unite as a family without facing trouble from either of our families or from others. We even have Celestina now."
"I am truly thankful to the heavens that you ca into our lives, that you beca our son. Sotis, your mother and I even joke and ask ourselves, did we really deserve to have you as our son? Aren’t you too perfect for us to be your parents? What kind of great deed did we do in our past lives to have a son like you?" Aldrey chuckled and released a breath.
"Well, we simply cannot help feeling that way. You are too outstanding to have co purely from our flesh and blood. All those signs, all of your achievents, we know that you are truly different from us, who are far too ordinary."
"Moreover, you matured much faster than other children. You seem to know many things and act on your own. It is as if you are an adult inside a child’s body." When Aldrey said this, Aldrian’s heart skipped a beat.
However, he kept looking at his father.
Aldrey, who had been staring into Aldrian’s eyes, then turned his gaze toward the garden in front of him.
"You know, Aldrian, sotis in recent years, I have dreams, or perhaps they are visions. In those dreams, I beco a different person, living in a different world. In that world, I am also a father, and I have a son."
The mont Aldrian heard this, his heart trembled.
Is this going to be what he already guessed?
"The dreams feel so real that every emotion I experience inside them feels like my own. And in those dreams, I live with my wife and my son, who, strangely enough, feel familiar to ." Aldrey paused slightly as he looked at one of the flowers in the garden.
"It is like my wife in those dreams is your mother, and the son is you. Even though they have different faces and we live different kinds of lives, I am certain that my wife and my son in those dreams are your mother and you."
"When I told your mother about my dreams one ti, she told that she had experienced the sa thing. We were truly stunned. We knew that this was not normal, and we knew it was so kind of sign, a sign from the heavens."
Aldrey then looked at Aldrian, smiling.
"As we thought about it carefully, we suddenly realized sothing and accepted it as a fact. With all those visions, with all of your greatness, with all of your achievents, and with how you have acted all this ti, we know that you have your own purpose, one that we have yet to understand."
"Everything you have done feels planned, not rely the result of fortunate events. And we rembered the mont when you showed us your vision of what you experienced in the core region of the Everlasting Silent Forest, when many divine beings prostrated themselves before you. In the end, everything connected."
"It seems our son is a grand character, soone extraordinary in his past life, and across many lives, we are the ones chosen to beco his parents."
Aldrey’s smile did not fade, but Aldrian’s heart was already pounding rapidly at this mont.
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