"However, upon your birth... it was truly exhilarating, for you were naturally endowed with all seven orifices clear... Such a condition, amongst billions of beings, might not even occur once in a thousand years. Therefore, I made a trade with your parents. I granted them many, many things in exchange for... once you came of age... when I needed you, they would offer you up to become the new Guardian."
"You're talking nonsense—" Lei Leian couldn't help but cry out.
"Haha, what is so impossible about that? Your father's excessive thirst for power—how could he refuse to exchange his own daughter for absolute power? And your mother, using you as a sacrifice in her place, would certainly be willing. Though she loves you very much, it seems she loves herself even more..."
