Chapter 40: Gu Quixan, A Sinister Ploy
— 3 days later —
After 3 very eventful days of touring the grand Capital City of Quixan, Valley Master Yu’s joyful mood lasted all the way up until it came time for her to see her father. A cloud of sadness hovered over her, making Zar feel a bit awkward.
He had no clue what to say in a situation like this. Or if he should say anything at all.
But when they got out of a golden carriage outside the gates to a massive palace in the center of the city, he realized that he made the right move. The expression Valley Master Yu was making while the Royal Palace attendants guided the both of them in was all he needed to see to know that this sort of pain was not meant to be shared.
After being walked up several extravagant flights of stairs and passing by hundreds of rooms, Valley Master Yu dismissed the Palace Attendants. She needed not their presence for what lay beyond the diamond-framed door in front of her.
*Creak—*
The moment she stepped inside the room, her feet creaked against the floor, not due to lack of structural integrity, but because of what the dismal sight before her did to her.
On a large singular bed placed at the far end of a spacious room, there lay an old bed-ridden man. His cheeks were sunken, his limbs thin and frail, and he wore a deep grimace on his wrinkled face.
Clearly, he was in a lot of pain.
"Father..."
Looking at Yu Quixan’s side-view in passing, Zar saw none of the joyful woman he accompanied for the last 3 days.