"So, what did his father exchange him for?" Xie Yuhua's voice was soft, and no emotion could be discerned.

"What changed..." Red Eyes fell into recollection, then slowly said, "Too many times, where to even begin..."

At first, the father didn't believe it either, thinking it was a trick. But the Little Maitreya faction said that Lingxiao was born with good fortune, that he had done good deeds in his previous life and had great blessings. They suggested that the father could give half of his blessings to try, since giving half wouldn't have any impact anyway.

As a result, the father actually exchanged half of Ling Xiao's good fortune for ten consecutive victories.

How ridiculous! They only managed a ten-game winning streak.

Perhaps feeling he had lost out, and also thinking that Little Maitreya was really useful, the father wanted to make another exchange. The father wanted to keep winning, but Little Maitreya said that having only half a body of good fortune was not enough, and persuaded the father that Lingxiao had a happy family and a smooth love life, so that the father could exchange this for it.

The father felt that love was too far removed from this embryo, and since he could choose to abort the child at any time, he had no scruples and traded Lingxiao's love for it.

Later, Ling Xiao grew up and learned to walk. His father became a gambling king, winning every time he gambled. But that was all he did. He was so obsessed with gambling that he neglected his business, causing his company to plummet. He didn't want all that trouble; he just wanted to find a shortcut to solve the problem.

So he made another exchange with Little Maitreya, this time exchanging his affection for Lingxiao.

But Little Maitreya said that since his father first used Lingxiao to make an exchange, there was no longer any kinship between them. He asked his father to exchange for something else, but his father didn't know what else to exchange for. So Little Maitreya exchanged Lingxiao's offspring with him.

Actually... even if my father hadn't changed, there wouldn't have been a problem. As long as the funds were available, we could have overcome the difficulties in less than a month. But my father didn't even hesitate and changed directly.

The mother quickly learned of this, but instead of stopping it, she thought the die was cast and, like many others making the same mistake, secretly made a trade with Little Maitreya. She exchanged Lingxiao's lifespan for eternal youth to keep her man's heart, at the cost of Lingxiao not living past 20.

As he spoke, his red-eyed expression turned indifferent.

"Can't live past 20... But Ling Xiao is already 20, isn't he?" Wu Xie muttered to himself.

"Go into the tomb. To prolong life," the young man said.

"So, Ling Xiao knew all this from the beginning, which is why he went to the tomb to prolong his life?" Xie Yuhua asked, her eyes red.

Red Eyes shook his head and said, "He didn't know. He went down into the tomb because he heard from others that there were things in the tomb that could prolong his life. As for what I'm talking about, I only found out later when I read my father's diary."

"Then... Lingzi... is there no way to break this?" Wuxie didn't know what to do either.

Red Eyes shook his head and said, "I don't know. Maybe he found a way later, but he wouldn't tell me. After all, I'm just the part he doesn't want."

As she spoke, she grasped Jieyuhua's hand with red eyes and whispered in his ear, "I am about to disappear. Whether you believe it or not, if you want your emotions to no longer be erased, there is a three-headed Bodhisattva statue in this underground palace. Go there by yourself, but don't bring Lingxiao with you. There is a scripture under the Bodhisattva statue. Burn it. Once it is burned, that thing will never erase your emotions again."

"Whatever you do, don't bring Ling Xiao along."

'Ling Xiao, this is all I can do.' The red-eyed man disappeared after saying this, but Ling Xiao still didn't wake up and fell into a complete coma.

Jieyuhua called to him for a while, but seeing that Lingxiao didn't respond at all, she looked at his dry and chapped lips, gave him some water to drink, and smoothed his hair.

This time, he chose to believe Red Eye. He believed that what Red Eye said was true, and that the sorrow he felt when looking at himself was genuine. If, as Red Eye said, their ending was tragic, then he was willing to do something for their future.

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