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According to the original plan, the role of Madam Qi as adoptive mother was far better suited than Qi Haoran’s role as master for binding Qi Xuansu with chains of gratitude.
Thus, Zhou Mengyao’s original intention had been to personally assume the role of adoptive mother.
However, handing the role over to Madam Qi posed no real problem. Even if there were to be any backlash, it should have fallen upon Madam Qi rather than Zhou Mengyao, the mastermind operating behind the scenes.
Yet the course of events developed in a way entirely beyond Zhou Mengyao’s expectations. Instead of directing his hatred toward Yao Qi, Qi Xuansu had set his sights on Zhou Mengyao, intending to pursue this matter with relentless determination.
Something had clearly gone wrong along the way.
Zhou Mengyao had also realized that Madam Qi had been meddling behind the scenes. After all, the selection process had been entirely Madam Qi’s responsibility. It was Madam Qi who had picked this unremarkable little boy from among the many children of the Wanxiang Daoist Palace and decided that he would become the key figure of their plan.
Even the name “Xuansu” had been chosen by Madam Qi, claiming it was in memory of a deceased old acquaintance and saying that the child resembled that person.
The reason Madam Qi held such significant influence...
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