Chapter 243: I am the King, You are the Queen (The Finale)

The Xu family's ancestral hall was a place where time itself seemed to slow. The air was thick with the scent of aged sandalwood and cold stone, a solemn fragrance that had seeped into the very grain of the dark, polished wood over centuries. Rows of ancestral tablets stood in silent judgment, their golden inscriptions glinting faintly in the austere light. Here, every word carried the weight of generations, and every decision was etched into the family's history. At the head of the long hall...