On the wedding day, my wife was abnormal

The Chess and Cards Buddha looked at the maddened Lin Zhen and sighed deeply. His complex gaze swept over the unusually twinkling stars in the sky, especially the brightest, centrally located Purple Star, which exuded an imperial aura. "Alas, it's a pity that Purple Star is shining brightly and the Imperial Star has returned to its place. If this child could be born, he would surely clear the sky and usher in eternal peace... Alas... Perhaps this is all right, all right."

He muttered to himself, his words filled with endless regret and awe for the unpredictable mysteries of nature.

The light of the Purple Star Emperor appears particularly dazzling against the backdrop of the solar eclipse.

At this time, Shangguan Wan'er, who had been silent beside him and was also Lin Zhen's wife, walked forward.

Her face was also pale and there was worry in her eyes, but compared to Lin Zhen's rage and despair, she seemed calmer.

She gently grasped Lin Zhen's cold, trembling hand and said softly, "My dear, now that things have come to this, there's no point in rushing. These unfounded tales of quacks are just for show, not to be believed. Even if this child truly is not meant to be in this world and cannot be kept, it doesn't mean you and Sister Qingxia will never have the blessing of having another child. Let's wait and see what Dr. Sun says."

Her words were soothing and carried the composure of a woman from aristocratic family. She tried to give Lin Zhen some weak but real support in the endless darkness.

Lin Zhen grabbed Shangguan Wan'er's hand tightly with his backhand as if he was grabbing the last straw, with such force that she frowned.

He nodded heavily, his eyes fixed on the tightly closed door of the delivery room, as if he wanted to burn through it.

Every minute and every second of waiting is like being tortured in boiling oil, and every second feels like a year.

Time ticked slowly by in the dead silence and heavy breathing.

Finally, after an unknown amount of suffering—

"Squeak-"

The heavy door that separated life and death was opened again from the inside.

The one who came out was Dr. Sun.

This old man, who had seen life and death and was highly respected, was now staggering. On his wrinkled face, turbid tears kept flowing, soaking his gray beard.

His eyes were filled with sorrow, exhaustion, and a deep sense of powerlessness. Even more shocking was the fact that in his arms, he was holding a tiny baby tightly wrapped in plain brocade.

Everyone's heart sank to the bottom and stopped beating instantly.

Doctor Sun walked in front of Lin Zhen, and every step he took felt like stepping on cotton or the tip of a knife.

He handed the small swaddling clothes to Lin Zhen, tears streaming down his face, his voice choked with sobs, "Sir, I have tried my best, but I was unable to save my lady's bloodline. I feel guilty towards you..."

Lin Zhen's body shook violently, and he seemed to be about to fall, but miraculously he stood firm.

His bloodshot eyes were fixed on the swaddling clothes, and like a puppet that had lost its soul, he slowly and stiffly stretched out his hand and took the small, lifeless brocade package.

It feels cold, heavy, yet light to the touch, like holding a handful of cold ashes.

His arms were shaking as he subconsciously held the child closer and rocked him up and down gently.

I estimate it weighs only four or five kilograms.

He carefully lifted a corner of the brocade, revealing the tiny face of a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes.

This should have been a very handsome, chubby boy with clear eyebrows and a straight nose. Unfortunately, his skin was a dead blue-gray color, his eyes were closed, and his mouth was slightly open, but there was no sign of life.

This life, which should have been born fresh, withered silently like a flower that was destroyed just after it budded.

"Son, son..." Lin Zhen's voice was so hoarse that it was almost inaudible, like a traveler who was about to die of thirst in the desert.

He lowered his head and put his cheek against the child's cold face.

The scalding tears could no longer be held back and burst out like a dam breaking. A drop of burning tear, carrying the father's heart-wrenching despair, fell accurately on the child's cold, gray little face.

"Son! Wake up! Son--!!" He let out a shrill roar like a dying beast, calling out over and over again to the flesh and blood that would never respond to him.

The overwhelming grief was like a huge wave that completely drowned him.

At this moment, the chess and card Buddha, who had been paying close attention to the child, suddenly flashed an extremely sharp light in his seemingly compassionate and calm eyes!

He rushed to Lin Zhen in a flash, and regardless of Lin Zhen's distraught state, he leaned closer to look at the dead baby's face.

When his eyes swept across the baby's grayish-blue face, it was as if he saw the most incredible thing in the world!

His old eyes, which were always half-closed and looked mysterious, suddenly widened!

His pupils shrank wildly due to extreme horror, and his old face was filled with incredible shock!

"This... this... how is this possible!!" The chess and card Buddha screamed in shock, his voice so sharp that it changed its tone!

He completely forgot Lin Zhen's identity and status, and all the etiquette and rules, and fell into a frenzy of incomprehensible horror.

He suddenly stretched out his skinny hand like an eagle's claw and grabbed the soft and equally cold wrist of the dead baby in the cradle. He raised the little hand to his eyes and eagerly looked at the palm lines of the baby's soft palm.

Upon seeing this, the Chess and Card Buddha’s eyes widened even more!

The eyeballs almost popped out of the sunken eye sockets!

He looked at the lines on the tiny palm that should have belonged to the dead fetus, as if he saw the biggest secret and the deepest horror in the world!

His body began to tremble violently and uncontrollably, the fingers holding the baby's wrist trembling constantly, and his voice was shaking like a broken bellows: "This... this child... this child..."

Just as this earth-shattering exclamation was barely uttered, the shadow covering the sun suddenly reached its peak—a total solar eclipse arrived in an instant!

The last ray of light between heaven and earth completely disappeared!

The entire courtyard, the entire city, the entire world seemed to be covered by a huge, thick, indissoluble black curtain!

The daylight turned into absolute dead silence and darkness in an instant!

Everyone's eyes were instantly filled with darkness, and they couldn't see their hands in front of them!

The icy wind, like that blowing from the Netherworld, blew across the skin, bringing bone-chilling cold and inexplicable fear.

The exclamation has not yet sounded in the darkness—

"Wow--!!!"

A loud, piercing cry of a baby full of primitive vitality, heart-wrenching, without any warning, suddenly and earth-shatteringly exploded in this all-devouring, absolute, suffocating abyss of darkness!

The crying sound clearly came from the cradle in Lin Zhen's arms, which should have been cold, dead, declared dead by everyone, and without any signs of life!