"What on earth is going on? Why is Father so certain that the child isn't his?"
Hearing this direct question from the young master, the butler looked embarrassed and stammered. His reaction only piqued Xia Lin's curiosity even more. "What exactly happened, Grandpa Butler? Tell me quickly!"
The butler sighed and said hesitantly, "Young master, I'll tell you, but you must keep it a secret."
After hearing the butler's answer, Xia Lin understood. When Xia Lin was only four or five years old, the count actually wanted to have a child with his stepmother, but they had been unable to conceive. So the count secretly visited an oriental doctor alone. The doctor told the count that he had fertility problems and would never be able to have children. The doctor also comforted him, saying, "Sir, you already have a son and a daughter. There's no need to be too sad. Moreover, your sexual functions are normal."
This was the reason why when the count returned home and heard his stepmother happily tell him that she was pregnant and that it was definitely a boy, he flew into a rage and kicked her hard. For a man who couldn't have children, it was a great humiliation to come home and find that the woman in his house was pregnant!
"Later, the lover was also found. It turned out that the former mistress, seeing that she couldn't conceive for a long time, thought it was because the master was getting old. So, in order to give birth to a male heir and seize the master's property, she found a young and strong man..."
Xia Lin twitched the corner of his mouth. "She was really asking for trouble!" Well, it didn't really matter to him. He didn't care about the count's property, nor did he care about the count as his father. However, when the count died, his property and title would be taken back. It was quite tragic. Or maybe not. Perhaps after the count calmed down, he would realize that his younger sister was actually his real daughter and would take her back.
After learning the true story, Xia Lin told Grandpa Butler that he would soon go on a trip with Lusarin and didn't know when he would be back.
"Young master, why do you want to go on a trip? You just got back. It's really not safe out there. Young master, why don't you wait for the master to come back and discuss it with him?"
Xia Lin shook his head. It wasn't that he really wanted to go on a trip and had a choice. He was going back to the Demon Realm with the Demon King Lusarin and had to go. If the count came back, he would definitely not agree. What could he do then?
"No, I've made up my mind. Don't worry, Grandpa Butler. I just want to go out and relax. After all, the experience of being sacrificed was really terrible."
When it came to the sacrifice, Grandpa Butler was also indignant. "Thank goodness those who framed you have all been punished. It's the gods' punishment for them!"
"All been punished? What happened to that bishop?"
The butler felt relieved when talking about this. "He had faked the oracle too many times. An angel came down from heaven to convey the gods' anger and instantly killed the bishop."
Instantly? Just like in the Demon Realm, there was a hierarchical system in the Heavenly Realm. So there were ordinary angels as well as powerful ones like demon generals. An angel who could instantly kill a fairly powerful bishop must be as powerful as a demon general. Just as the Demon King had seven great demon generals, it was said that there were also seven great archangels beside the gods.
However, unlike in the Demon Realm, angels in the Heavenly Realm were not allowed to go to other worlds casually, or they would be punished. So the chance of encountering an angel was much smaller than that of encountering a demon.