The three of them embraced, easing the heavy ache of missed time, while Lucius stood in the distance, watching the scene in silence, his expression as proud and aloof as ever.
Had anyone been watching from afar, they would have caught a distinct air of bleak loneliness in that retreating back.
Just as joyous as he had been upon first hearing he would be going on a business trip with Wenxiu Lord, that was how intensely Lucius now envied those two redundant interlopers.
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