novelzi Chapter 181- Astarra's Dilemma
Chapter 181- Astarra's Dilemma
"It was just a joke," Avendial paused to dust off his clothes, noticing the soft expression on Rivia's face that suggested her world had come crashing down.
This realization led him to suspect that a significant misunderstanding had arisen from his words. He clarified, "I was being sarcastic; use your common sense. I would have been only four years old when Lin was born. How could I possibly be his father?"
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"Oh, Ahem, yes, correct." The first to respond was Aria, who, despite her initial doubts, reflected on his words and began to question her own understanding.
She had seen the status and then thrown his comments back at him, realizing he didn't typically joke around—aside from the occasional teasing.
For a brief moment, she had taken him seriously, but now she understood how illogical her reasoning had been.
Rivia shared the same sentiment as she averted her gaze, nodding as if to concede that Avendial's reasoning was sound, acknowledging her own unfounded doubts.
"You both need to use a little common sense," Avendial added, shaking his head as he made his way out of the place. Two men clad in black suits, members of the Sertsul family, awaited his orders.
He provided them with the instructions they needed.
His first command was to change Lin's clothes to the Santa outfit he had worn earlier. Simultaneously, he sent a message to the Sertsul family, directing them to manipulate the news channels to showcase the stories he wanted broadcast the following morning.
After all, this entire operation was aimed at achieving the desired results stemming from all this planning that had taken his time today.
From her future body, she received another thing: the seeds of a man.
This was unacceptable and confusing, as it appeared that her future self was about to get pregnant by some man, and her past self had even, with that strength, also received those seeds and become pregnant with a child.
It was humiliating. At the same time, she tried to find out how and why her future self did that.
But it seemed she could only communicate with her future self ten years into the future—not with the one from twenty or more years ahead from whom she had transferred her strength.
So the future self, with whom she was communicating, also had no idea how it happened. However, she was able to guess from the child's traits that he possessed silver hair and striking pink eyes, just like Marquess Avendial Croceaus.
The more humiliating aspect was that this Avendial person was just a four-year-old child at that time.
It was a flabbergasting revelation, making her dismiss the notion entirely, prompting her to decide to leave the Ronen family and the kingdom of Thaloris. She noticed that her hair had begun to turn blue over time, which was pink initially.
This led her to claim it was some kind of disease. With the ability she got from the future, she was able to change her hair color and most of the features of her upcoming son into one of the Ronen family's traits—pink hair.
Considering she herself was going through the phase where her physical features were changing, she isolated herself in Free City, waiting for her strength to saturate and her physical body to finally settle down, and once the Tower arrived, she would have made her way directly to take control of the Ronen family.
But somehow, Marquess Croceaus came out in Free City.
"Sigh, what a hassle." Astarra herself didn't have any opinion of that child, considering there was an age gap of 20 years between them, but at the same time, it was too uncomfortable for her to accept that her future self even thought of sleeping with another man who was 20 years younger than her.
Nor could she get an answer presently.