CH 29

Ch 29 - Second Generation Ancestor x Illegitimate Child: Really Learnt

A few grey clouds hung on the horizon, resembling the burnt ash residue of a cigarette, lifeless.

The room, which was blocked from the light by buildings, was like a blackout box, there wasn’t even the light of a single street lamp, let alone that of the gloomy, pale moonlight.

It was as if Lin Sui was trapped in the middle of the sea, surrounded by vast darkness on all sides.

When one’s sight was useless like this, the other senses became infinitely amplified.

The ice-cold chain slid along with the movement of his arm, and Lin Sui discovered that the imprisonment he was experiencing was not at all like how he’d imagined it when he first woke up.

He had thought he was wearing a collar, but in fact that cold touch extended down from the sides of his neck, it was actually crossed chains in the shape of an ‘X’.

Yan Qin was softer than him, even if he’d acted like this and gotten to this point, he was surprisingly still unwilling to restrain him by the neck.

“You’re skilled.”

Lin Sui leaned back, tilting his head in Yan Qin’s direction, his tone complex and hard to make out.

“It was the young master who taught me.”

Yan Qin approached Lin Sui and grabbed the golden chain on Lin Sui’s body, flattening it against him neither gently nor heavily.

That, to European natural theologians of the 18th century1, was the existence of God’s useless design on man, sending feedback to the subject according to its neurological perception, and also receiving the corresponding reaction.

Like a plant breaking through the ground, and like a flower blooming at the top of a branch.

Yan Qin’s voice was reverent and humble, yet conveying a hint of brazenness and arrogance.

Carrying an unclear and unspoken anger, as cold as if it were being used to bind the dead.

Yan Qin expected that Lin Sui would not be too flustered or angry, he was far more cunning than people imagined, and his soul, hidden underneath his arrogant skin, had a certain kind of calmness and confidence of one who could see through everything.

The more he was like this, the more he wanted to make him fall.

To see the arrogant weep, and the dominant beg for forgiveness.

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1 Natural theology tries to argue for things like the existence of God based on reason and cognition. The most famous example of natural theology in the 18th century was the Watchmaker Analogy, which states that intelligent design is proof of an intelligent designer (if there’s a watch, there must be a watchmaker). Top.

2 I think this refers to literally “tearing” cn characters apart into their radicals (smallest components), which often give clues as to the meaning/etymology of the character. Top.