"When I was young, I once played hide and seek and hid in my brother Fayi's study, back when he hadn't yet become a king..."
"Dr. X, please come in." Fayi's face carried a trace of sickly pallor as he invited a man with silver-gray short hair and an unusually tall stature into the study.
Dr. X handed Fayi a bottle of green potion, "This potion is made from the leaves of the World Tree, and it prolongs life when drunk."
"Thank you, Dr. X, please take a seat." Fayi took the potion but did not drink it immediately; instead, he put it away.
"I've come this time for the Offspring System," Dr. X said. "How has His Highness the Crown Prince thought it over?"
"Why not speak to my father, the king, but come to me instead?"
"Your father will not live much longer, and this is fate."
"We can change our fate against the heavens!"
"That cannot be changed. Just like the Dingshi Vine, when its time of death arrives, it must die, otherwise the world will collapse and calamity will ensue."
