Ten peaceful, golden years had flowed past like clear spring water over smooth river stones.
On the first morning of Month Ten in Year 18 since the Frost-Pine Awakening—the official Tenth Anniversary of the Family-Protected Universe. A crisp, sunlit autumn breeze drifted through the blooming pomegranate and osmanthus trees of the Frost-Pine Courtyard at the center of the Supreme Origin Heaven.
Standing on the wooden veranda outside the kitchen door, thirty-five-year-old Gu Changsheng (Rank 10 Peak Supreme Dao-Father) stretched his shoulders with a contented sigh.
Even after ten years of reigning as the supreme creator of all realms, not a single thread of silver had touched his thick dark hair. He was still dressed in his favorite clean dark-blue Frost-Pine cotton shirt, his trusty Seven-Wolves leather belt, and his well-kept kitchen apron with a white dish-towel tucked into the waist.
Right beside him, Empress Luo Qingxue rested her cheek lightly against his shoulder. Her long, moonlit silver hair was pinned up in a warm domestic bun with a carved wooden pomegranate hairpin that Gu Changsheng had whittled for her. In her slender hands she held a lacquered wooden tray carrying five newly folded golden paper cranes:
[Dad’s Home-Cooked Dinner Call Talismans (Rank 10 Family Priority Edition)]!
