I did not become the Patriarch of the Gu Clan.
Even from the moment I became the Young Lord, part of me hadn’t wanted to become Patriarch.
But in the end, you could say that was someone else’s doing.
Isn’t that so?
Whether I had the resolve or not—
In the end, I should have become Patriarch. I had lived a life that led to that. Even if I said I didn’t want it, it was ultimately something I ought to have done.
I had lived a life that could only arrive at that thought.
Even if it was a shitty life, I should’ve accepted it.
Kick up all the midday rebellion and deviation you want; in the end, I wouldn’t change and I’d climb to that place.
And so—
I would take the seat of the father I resent. That’s the life I lived with in my heart.
But with the appearance of the Heavenly Demon and the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult, everything twisted.
The Heavenly Demon tried to kill the Divine Sword—no. Back then, the Young Sword Venerable.
And I entered the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult in her place.
Thus I drifted away from the Gu Clan, and with the Young Lord’s seat, I grew distant from…