Chapter 302
Gritting her teeth, Xia Si took a deep breath. "If—and I mean if—I let you have me and bear your children, will you grant me my total freedom?"
Lin Hui stared at her, stunned, unable to follow her logic.
"Yun Xiazi told me you still don't have an heir, which bodes ill for the entire Clear Wind Dao," Xia Si said earnestly. "Therefore, if I bear your children, I'd become the sect's greatest contributor. You'd have every reason to grant me my freedom then!"
"I..." Lin Hui was speechless. He knew the Clear Wind Dao had more than its fair share of lunatics. "Those are just rumors."
"No, I'm completely ready. Come—let me try and give you one!" Recalling Liu Xiao's condition and the outside rumors that the Dao Master's overuse of aphrodisiacs had rendered him infertile, Xia Si's expression grew solemn. "The Madam's constitution is too weak—far inferior to mine. I can absolutely give birth to an heir that meets your requirements!"
She had finally worked it out. Since she could never overtake Lin Hui in a direct confrontation, she might as well take an unorthodox path. The Dao Master's strength lay in his terrifying comprehension and natural aptitude. If she relentlessly bore his children, even one in a hundred with aptitude comparable to his—combined with her own powerful constitution—would produce an expert more terrifying than the Dao Master himself.
Corruption was coming. The Dao Master was destined to perish by it; her child would become the greatest hope of inheriting the Clear Wind Dao.
The more she turned it over in her mind, the more Yun Xiazi's suggestion felt like her only real path to surpassing Lin Hui. When the time came, an aging Lin Hui on the verge of Corruption would face her child—a youth rising like the midday sun, magnificent and unstoppable. The lingering dread that had long pressed down on Xia Si's heart finally found somewhere to go.
"You need to sort out your thoughts and figure out what you truly want," Lin Hui said, entirely at a loss for words. "In three days, you are free to leave."