Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 1104 Angang Heiyue's Life (Part 1)

Continuing on, you'll find all sorts of records. The notebook contains not only family history but also personal notes from family members throughout the generations.

Many of the essays were handwritten, perhaps because the author was in a very intense emotional state while writing, resulting in a lot of cursive writing and making the handwriting too messy.

Xia Shou felt that this was the reason why the man who searched for these books failed to correctly assess their value.

If it weren't for Xia Shou's special ability [text description] having a peculiar use in this kind of place, it would have taken him quite a while to decipher the handwriting.

For example, the book that Xia Shou is reading now was left by the head of the family before the last generation. It was written very recently, around the time of Kanae's great-grandfather, and should be the father of Angang Kurogane.

In modern times... it was of great intelligence value and may even have influenced Angang Heiyue's life, ultimately turning Angang Heiyue into what it just became.

Such a family must have some kind of family goal. If we can find out what that family goal is, we can figure out what this family is up to, and we might even know the secret of the back mountain.

Xia Shou opened the yellowed notebook, still stained with tea. From the contents of the first page, he could tell that the author had not just started writing; it was likely that he had been keeping a diary for some time.

—[I finally married Hanako, the woman I loved, but due to family rules, Hanako could never have my child.]

But being able to be together is enough for me in this life. After all, I am a member of the Angang family and bear the family's mission...
[Kurogake and Rinna have grown up, it's time to talk to them about this. After all, it's uncertain whether they can have children who can inherit the family business. I have six brothers, but only Yuko and I are qualified.]

Because my parents married too late, my mother kept having children, and the later the pregnancy became, the more difficult it was to have a safe pregnancy for ten months. By the time I was born, my forty-year-old mother had died in childbirth.

Not being able to see my mother is a lifelong regret. I have always longed for maternal love, just like my worldly friends.

However... perhaps it's a good thing that I don't have a mother, because I've heard that children of the Angang family have never received parental love... since they weren't born out of love, as descendants of the Angang family, all they can get from their parents is respect.

In order to avoid repeating the same mistake, it's time to get Kuroe and Rinna married.

Having a baby is a big deal...
[Damn it! How dare she disobey me? How could I have given birth to such a daughter? Doesn't she have any sense of honor for the Angang family?]
Freedom? You dare talk to me about freedom?!
There is no such thing as absolute freedom in the world!

Money, power, strength, and a healthy body—did she think these were things she was born to enjoy?
Those bunch of stupid rich kids in the mortal world all know about political marriages! They know that's the only way to maintain their family's status, but Lina doesn't!
She actually told me that she had someone she liked and couldn't be with her brother.

What a joke! Did I ask them to be together? I made it perfectly clear that I only wanted her to give birth to a child for Heiyue who was qualified to inherit the family business. This is the awareness and responsibility that every member of the clan should have!

Chastity? Damn it, does bearing a child for my brother mean I've lost my chastity? I never said she wasn't allowed to pursue love.

The prerequisite is that she gives birth to a child! As long as this is accomplished, I don't care which man she goes to, just like when I was with Hanako. The Angang family has never had a tradition of forbidding women from having male lovers.

But she actually wants to remain chaste for that guy! Her chastity doesn't belong to anyone, it belongs to An Gang's family!

[…]
[I'm so angry! I'm so angry! This kid actually spoke up for Linna, and even said that it would be okay to find other members of the branch family.]

He couldn't possibly be unaware that it would further weaken their already thin bloodline. The An Gang family had reached a point where there was no room for indulging personal feelings! Last time I broke Linna's leg, and it seems I'll have to break this kid's leg this time too.

It's all my fault. I spoiled them too much during their childhood. I wanted them to develop a bond from a young age, but one of them didn't realize it, and the other doted on his younger sister to such an extent.

Unreasonable!

[…]
My patience has run out, but thankfully he agreed. Although he took advantage of your love for Linna, I had no choice. You should be aware of this.

Today I met the guy Linna likes. Humph, a penniless mortal, a pretty boy.

After that, let the hypnotist hypnotize Linna and let Kuroe temporarily imitate the kid's every move. That should be enough. As for the kid... let's just kill him to prevent future troubles.

Anyone who dares to seduce a woman from the Angang family deserves this fate.
Xia Shou tried his best to capture the more important parts, while quickly glancing at and skipping over all the other trivial daily complaints.

He had no interest in the bizarre daily life of An Gang's family; all he cared about now was things related to An Gang Heiyue.

In the latter half of the book, the author rarely mentions this matter, as if it had indeed been resolved satisfactorily.

When Xia Shou saw the follow-up to this matter again, it was in another notebook, and the time span was five years later.

Linna is dead.

How could she... How could she do this to me? I've already apologized to her! How could she hurt me like this?

Good heavens, hasn't she seen through it all in the past five years? Her love for that pretty boy is fake, otherwise how come she didn't see through Hei Yue's disguise in five years?
Hasn't she been very happy these past five years? This shows that even without that gigolo, she and her brother could have lived a good life together!

Was being deceived really that hateful to her? She's laughed the most in the past five years, and she's so grateful to me as her father, praising my open-mindedness so many times.

And what about Kuroeku? Does she deserve Kuroeku's trust?

Hei Yue imitated that good-for-nothing for so long just so she could be happy! And yet she still cursed her own brother so horribly in her suicide note!
Linna, don't you have a heart...?
What to do? Of the children Kuroe and Rinna had, only one had a clear bloodline, but one person cannot have offspring.

I already told that kid! It'll be found out sooner or later. I told him to have a few more kids in the first few years, but he actually said Linna wasn't ready yet and that there would be opportunities in the future.

Doesn't he know that he'll be seen through sooner or later?

Now that Linna is dead, there's nothing more we can do but find a suitable replacement from the branch family.
[Today, when we separated, Masahiro said she was willing to have children for the Angang family, but why did she specifically say she wanted to be with me and not Kurodake?]

This child seems to have something on his mind.

Never mind, the bloodlines were already somewhat weaker after the family split, and Zhenling was already one of the best among them. Since she so firmly rejected Heogaku, then it's just a matter of this old man having to step in.
(End of this chapter)