Home at last.
Xu Lai returned to Haitang Court. It was already late, and his daughter Yiyi and son Ping'an were fast asleep in their rooms.
Xu Lai took off his clothes and immersed himself in the hot spring pool in the backyard, his head submerged in the water, trying hard to empty his chaotic thoughts.
It was a full half-hour before Xu Lai sat up from the water.
He saw a woman sitting by the pool, her feet dipped in the water, hands resting on the edge. She smiled at him and said:
"You're back."
"Wife..."
Xu Lai was taken aback. He could have sworn he sensed that they were all asleep when he came home.
"I dreamt you came back, and when I woke up, it turned out to be true."
Ruan Tang gently entered the water, swam over to Xu Lai, and asked, "You have something on your mind."
Xu Lai let out a self-deprecating laugh.
How could he not have something on his mind?
He had become entangled in a Karmic Tribulation.
Not just one or two souls' Karmic Tribulation either.
