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In the late autumn air, yellowed leaves spun like withered butterflies through the sprawling palaces of the Jade Capital's imperial court.
One of them drifted gently into a still pool, sending ripples across the surface that startled a couple of koi swimming beneath.
The fish scattered, their tails flicking silver arcs through the water, adding a fleeting breath of life to an otherwise desolate courtyard.
A middle-aged man in richly embroidered robes stirred as if waking from a dream, his gaze fixed on the surface of the pool, now once again calm and lifeless.
This was Li Xuan, fourth-generation head of the Li Clan, now its former head.
He had been confined deep within the palace for nearly three months.
But this wasn’t imprisonment in the true sense. As someone with extraordinary abilities, if he truly wanted to leave, no wall could hold him.
Yet the tide had turned. Even if he left, where would he go? Flee to another country and become a mere thug for hire? What a joke.
So, while the palace didn't hold him captive, his own mind did.
And all of it was because of his son.
As he brooded,...
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