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The Moonstone Chandelier flickered back to life as Shan Na and Lyria watched the residual indigo powder seep into the swaddling of the baby.
She gently placed Luna back in the Obsidian Carved Cradle. As she turned, the hem of her skirt brushed against Leonard's still-unremoved Dark Iron Knee Guards, leaving intricate Ice Cracks etched into the Metal Surface by the frozen magic patterns.
"It's time to officially name this child." Leonard stroked the shattered mirror on his Chest Armor, his Silver Gray Pupils reflecting the pink arms waving in the Cradle.
Aelia noticed his bent index finger absentmindedly caressing the hilt of his sword—ten years ago, when their Eldest Son was born, he had used that same gesture to pass the naming rights to the Astrologer.
Suddenly, Luna let out a cheerful gurgle, her Oujie-like little legs kicking against the Jin Bei embroidered with Dark Night Roses.
Aelia watched as Ice Crystal Fragments fell from the gap in her husband's armor, recalling that night of the Full Moon Feast when Leonard had used those very ice crystals to freeze the birthday cake midway through the celebration for their Second Son.
"Luna Christina Nightingale." The Lord's deep voice startled a Raven perched on the Window Lattice, and at that moment, moonlight pierced through the clouds, casting a silvery glow over the baby's Light Gold hair, turning it into a galaxy.
Aelia pressed down on her suddenly burning Wedding Ring—when San Zi was born, this ring embedded with an Ice Spirit Stone had burned just as fiercely, and Leonard hadn’t returned from the Northern Territory battlefield with a hasty naming note until dawn.
The swaddled baby responded with soft coos, gripping her Father's flowing silver hair. The Crystal Chandelier erupted into a rainbow-like Halo.
Aelia's fingertips trembled; this was her third time witnessing a naming ceremony for a Magic Castle Heir, yet it was the first time she saw a guardian spirit taking on the form of an Emerging Goldfinch surrounding a newborn.
"Let’s call her Luna." Aelia dripped warmed Evening Primrose Juice onto her daughter Mei Xin, watching as the Lavender Liquid bled into a Star Map across the guardian spirit's Wings.
When she touched the Naming Contract handed to her by Leonard, tiny Bing Ling crystals formed along its edges—unlike the one stained with Bloodstain that belonged to their Eldest Son, this parchment exuded the fresh scent of cedar and flowed with Liquid moonlight beneath its Golden Sparrow Emblem.
Suddenly, Leonard's Sword's Ice Spirit Stone buzzed, and he stepped back to avoid Aelia’s hand reaching for his armor. "The Northern Boundary Barrier needs reinforcement." The clattering sound of his Xuan Tie Wristguards startled the sleeping guardian spirit. The Goldfinch’s tail feathers brushed away three Iris Petals from Aelia’s hair—petals she had just prayed over for San Zi’s academic success earlier that morning.
As the Castle Bell Tower echoed its seventh chime, Qin Si appeared in the shadow of the archway holding a Gilded Box.
Aelia gazed at her husband disappearing up the Spiral Staircase and reached out to catch falling ice crystals.
The coldness melted into a micro sandglass, with fine sand falling at a speed three times faster than when San Zi accidentally triggered the Time Magic Circle.
"Madam, this is the deed to Morning Dew Manor left for you by the Lord." Qin Si opened the Midnight box, and three Ice Crystal Butterflies fluttered out from the Contract Scroll.
Aelia gazed at the serpent pattern that flickered on the butterfly wings—identical to the Curse Totem encountered by the Second Son last year in the Misty Forest.
Suddenly, Luna's cradle emitted a crisp sound like Feng Ling, as the guardian spirit Goldfinch gently pecked at the edge of the deed with its beak.
Aelia bent down to pick up her daughter, catching a whiff of the glowing moss scent mixed with cedar's cool fragrance lingering in the swaddling cloth.
She held the deed up to the moonlight, where ice blue liquid seeped from the back of the parchment, gradually revealing a secret script visible only to those of the Night Song Family bloodline: "Given to my Little Moon."
When the bell tolled for the third time at Midnight, Aelia entrusted her sleeping Luna to the Nurse.
She removed her wedding ring and pressed it against the Contract Cipher. In an explosion of strong light from the Ice Spirit Stone, Leonard emerged, holding a blue-haired infant before an ice coffin on Leonard's Last Night.
Qin Si gasped in horror—there was a new moon birthmark on the infant's forehead that perfectly matched the mark that Third Young Master Lucius had when he emerged last year during Zhong Gu.
As the Moonstone Chandelier extinguished once more, Aelia's Astrology Dice slipped from her sleeve and rolled toward Luna's cradle.
The hexahedron paused at "betrayal," when a roar echoed from beneath the castle as an ice layer cracked. The guardian spirit Goldfinch suddenly screeched an alarm, shattering the frost that had formed on the surface of the deed.
As Leonard leaned down to gaze at the cradle, ice crystals from his armor's gap fell, casting fragmented light spots on Luna.
He reached out to touch his daughter's curled golden hair, but his fingertip froze in mid-air—San Zi's Lucius used to love clutching his Leonard's Sword while sleeping soundly; now, dust had settled on top of Astrology Scrolls piled high on that child's desk.
"The Moonlight Rose at Morning Dew Manor has bloomed exceptionally well this year." Aelia unfolded the deed from the gilded box, and an Ice Crystal Butterfly landed on the words "Subordinate Mine Vein," shattering into stardust.
She caught a glimpse of the new Frost Flower ring on her husband's left pinky, made from the cold iron material used by the Northern Ice Coffin Clan during their marriage contract.
Luna suddenly let out a laugh reminiscent of Yin Ling, and her Pink Palm burst forth with Rainbow Bubbles.
The Defensive Magic Pattern on Leonard's armor activated automatically, causing Ice Spikes to collide with the bubbles, exploding into fine Water Mist that splattered his Dark Cloak with a mottled leopard-like pattern.
Aelia covered her upturned lips with Ailya, recalling how their Eldest Son had once used Transfiguration to turn her husband's Ailya into a swimming trout during his childhood.
"Truly worthy of being the first descendant of the Night Song Family to awaken the Golden Sparrow Guardian Spirit in a century." Lord wiped away the seven-colored Dewdrop on his forehead, while the crushed Water Elemental Sprite emitted a sound akin to the Sobbing of Second Son's Harp with a broken string.
He removed the short dagger adorned with Ice Spirit Stones from his Waist and placed it in the Cradle. As the blade touched Jin Bei, it suddenly blossomed into a hexagonal Frost Flower—this weapon, which had once severed the head of a Snow Demon, now gently cradled the small cotton sock that Luna had kicked off.
Aelia brushed her fingers along the edge of the land deed marked with Serpent Patterns and casually remarked, "I heard that the Emerald Marsh on the West Side of the estate has recently yielded Starlight Sand?" Leonard paused in his motion of adjusting his cloak; ice crystals falling from the Gap in his armor suddenly formed into Thorn shapes.
Years ago, their Eldest Son had encountered a Magic Backlash while training at Starshine Vein and had since been reliant on a crystal Wheelchair for mobility.
Luna's guardian spirit suddenly flapped its wings, creating a whirlwind that blew the Frost Flower from the dagger towards the Window Lattice.
Moonlight refracted through the ice crystals and cast an image on the wall, revealing Lucius curled up in a corner of the Library of Hidden Books.
Aelia's knuckles turned white as she gripped the Naming Contract tightly; more Ice Blue liquid seeped from the back of the Parchment, gradually outlining the unique funeral Emblem of the Northern Ice Coffin Clan.
"Those ore sands are suitable for Refining Guardian Charms." As Lord turned around, Leonard's Sword swept across three Whale Fat Candles on the candelabrum, causing melted Wax to form a winding curve on the Ground resembling Eldest Son's Wheelchair Track.
His Xuan Tie Wristguards clashed against the door ring, producing a dull sound like a evening bell, startling Qin Si and causing ripples in the Evening Primrose Tea within Silver Tray.
Aelia watched her husband disappear into the Spiral Staircase, while the Moonstone Chandelier elongated her shadow into a shape entwined with Thorns.
She took three Iris Petals from her hair and tossed them into the tea cup. The purple petals transformed into swimming Tadpole patterns the moment they touched the surface of the liquid—this was a tracking technique learned from a black market Diviner during her investigation into the truth behind the Second Son's deception.
Qin Si quietly presented a Soft Cushion embroidered with Dark Night Rose, while Aelia’s Wedding Ring pressed a Crescent indentation into the cushion's surface.
As the tenth toll of Midnight’s Zhong Ming pierced through the Colored Glass Window, Luna’s Cradle suddenly overflowed with Rainbow mist. Within the mist, an Emerging Celestial Chart perfectly aligned with the edge of the Naming Contract, where the Bing Ling resided.
Aelia poured the cooled Tea Soup over the surface of the Gilded Box, and the patterns of Starlight Sand reformed in the liquid into a Northern Territory Map. A location marked with an Ice Coffin totem flickered with a Crimson Red Glow.
A roar echoed from the Castle Cellar, as an Ice Layer shattered. The Golden Sparrow Guardian Spirit suddenly swooped in, clutching Luna’s Silver Bell, heading towards the arched Dome.
Aelia raised her hand to catch the falling Ice Crystal Fragments, inhaling the mingled scent of Cedar Fragrance and faint traces of... Baby Incense in the melting coldness on her palm.
Qin Si closed the Gilded Box, and suddenly, the Ice Spirit Stone on Aelia Wedding Ring reflected a flag of the Night Song Family, swaying amidst a violent storm of wind and snow in the Northern Territory.
She placed the stained Ailya, covered in Starlight Sand, into Qin Si Palm. Just then, three Ravens flew past outside, their wingbeats perfectly masking the soft sound of fabric tearing.
As morning mist climbed up the castle's dripping beast, the Iris in the mistress's hair had quietly transformed into an ice crystal-carved Tracking Talisman. Inside Luna’s gradually solidifying Rainbow Bubble, one could faintly see a Blue-Haired Infant with a New Moon Birthmark on its forehead, oozing out a Blood Pearl.
Underneath the moonlight, Aelia’s Wedding Ring refracted into spiderweb-like patterns of ice cracks, while within the depths of the Ice Spirit Stone, a raging storm of wind and snow gradually coalesced into a clear image of Leonard cradling the Blue-Haired Infant, reminiscent of his last night.
She slammed shut the Gilded Box, causing shards of Starlight Sand to burst forth from its gap, forming a snowflake totem representing the Northern Ice Coffin Clan on the moonstone ground.
“Have the shadow guards take along the Ice Crystal Raven,” said Aelia, snapping her pearl necklace, causing round beads to roll across the ventilation opening in the cellar.
Three pearls embedded with patterns of the Dark Night Rose suddenly expanded into transparent jellyfish, their tentacles ensnaring a reconnaissance raven that had just flown back from the Northern Territory.
Looking at the struggling bird suspended in mid-air, Qin Si recalled how ten years ago, her lady had used this very technique to track down where the Second Son had been abducted.
The muffled sound of the turning Xuan Tie Men echoed from the castle's West Side, as Aelia's skirt brushed against the untouched ice crystals on the Spiral Staircase.
When she touched the door knocker, still carrying the scent of cedar, her Wedding Ring suddenly left a red mark on her ring finger—just like the night when her Eldest Son was cursed and rebounded, when Leonard's armor had pressed a similar imprint into her wrist.
Three Ice Crystal Ravens pierced through the Colored Glass Window and landed on Qin Si's shoulder, their beaks shimmering with the unique phosphorescence of the Emerald Marsh.
Aelia tied a piece of parchment soaked in Evening Primrose Juice to the Raven's talons; the Tracking Spell emerging on the paper bore an uncanny resemblance to the patterns of Luna's guardian spirit Wings.
As the last Raven melted into the moonlight, a roar came suddenly from the direction of the Cellar, shaking Luna's Cradle as it swayed in the Rainbow Mist.
The midnight chime carried with it the Cold Wind from the Northern Territory, causing frost flowers to suddenly bloom on the Silver Tray held by Qin Si.
Aelia gazed at her husband's figure growing increasingly blurred in the Ice Crystal Mirror, her fingertip unconsciously tracing the carved patterns on the bedpost that had splintered during the birth of San Zi.
That night, Leonard's Sword had also emitted an eerie blue light from the Ice Spirit Stone; when the Midwife's Silver Scissors touched the baby's Umbilical Cord, they froze solid like popsicles.
"Madam, the Starlight Sand from Emerald Marsh can cleanse curses." Qin Si poured warm Evening Primrose Tea into a Ceramic Cup filled with Ice Cracks, and within the rising steam emerged a pale face of their Second Son, trapped in a Magic Dilemma.
She deliberately let her Tea Spoon clink against the cup, trying to drown out the piercing cry of Ravens returning home outside.
Aelia's pupils suddenly constricted into slits—Leonard was standing before the Ice Coffin Clan Sanctuary in the Ice Crystal Mirror, his Xuan Tie cloak faintly revealing a swaddling cloth embroidered with funeral Emblems.
As the parchment tied to the Raven's talons spontaneously ignited, smoke rose from the ashes, forming a silhouette of a wooden cabin deep within Cedar Forest. The Ice Bell hanging from its eaves resonated with the Frost Flower shattered by Luna.
"Fifteen years ago, during the Ice Coffin Clan's Sacrifice for the Saint Maiden, they used this Northern Cold Iron Bell." Aelia tore apart a Curtain Tassel; as Gold Thread touched the Ice Crystal Mirror, it suddenly ignited.
Qin Si watched in terror as she saw in the mirror that the door of the wooden cabin had opened, revealing a Silver-Robed Woman cradling a Blue-Haired Infant. The New Moon Birthmark on her forehead perfectly overlapped with that of Third Young Master Lucius from Zhong Gu.
Luna's guardian spirit suddenly let out a mournful cry, as the starlight swept down by the Goldfinch's tail feathers formed the Forbidden Totem on the ground.
Aelia stumbled and leaned against the black Obsidian Pillar. Years ago, she had knelt before the elders of the Ice Coffin Clan, pleading desperately for Frostheart to save her Eldest Son, Twin Legs. At that time, the Sanctuary Dome had also hovered above, adorned with a golden Curse Symbol.
"That woman is... the exiled Ice Coffin Clan Priestess," Qin Si's voice was as faint as a whisper.
She would forever remember that snowy dawn ten years ago when Leonard's sword pierced the throats of three Ice Coffin Clan assassins, only for him to turn and drape his bloodstained cloak over the shivering Silver-Haired Girl's shoulders. That girl was now kissing the Blue-Haired Infant's New Moon Birthmark in the mirror.
Aelia's Wedding Ring suddenly burst forth with a Strong Light, unleashing the raging Wind and Snow sealed within the Ice Spirit Stone.
As the Cold Wind swept away Leonard's Last Night reflected in the mirror, a scene emerged from the Ice Layer on the ground—Leonard cutting his palm and letting blood drip onto the Ice Coffin.
Qin Si clamped her mouth shut—this Ice Coffin was clearly carved from Frostheart, precisely the Holy Relic that Aelia had lost during her miscarriage of Twin Daughters.
Luna's Loud Cry pierced through the Rainbow Mist, and suddenly thorny Ice Roses began to grow around the Cradle.
Aelia mechanically picked up her daughter, noticing that the Lining of the swaddling was seeping a pale blue liquid—similar to the Preservative that had once soaked the bodies of her twins, exuding an identical Snow Lotus fragrance.
"The Lord has taken away the Rebirth Candlestick from Sanctuary," came a voice from the Ventilation Duct, accompanied by the brittle sound of shattering ice crystals.
Aelia gazed at the Raven's tail feathers falling from Palm, their bases smeared with Holy Oil from the Ice Coffin Clan, which was corroding her Wedding Ring. This Holy Relic, capable of breaking the Bloodline Curse, was precisely what her Second Son had failed to obtain even after kneeling in the snow for three days last year before San Ye.
Qin Si sprinkled Antidote Powder onto Aelia's Ailina's Burn fingers; upon touching the wound, it emitted a sound akin to a baby's Loud Cry.
As morning mist turned gray over the eastern tower, the Ice Crystal Mirror suddenly reflected a withered Moonlight Rose on the windowsill of a wooden cabin—this was what Leonard had promised to plant throughout the castle when Aelia was pregnant with San Zi, but it ultimately withered away along with their stillborn twins in his unfulfilled Love Words.
From deep within the Cellar came a brittle sound of crystal shattering as Aelia's Astrology Dice slipped from her sleeve and rolled toward Luna's Cradle.
When the dice landed on "Betrayal," Qin Si suddenly noticed black viscous liquid seeping from the bottom of the Gilded Box. Inside the Dark Compartment, a half-broken arm of a Witch Doll had been stuffed in without her knowledge—its faded Amethyst Bracelet matched perfectly with the old item lost during her Eighteenth Birthday.
Qin Si's hands trembled as she held the Gilded Box, the black slime dripping from the ornate Gap onto the carpet, corroding it into a Scorch Mark resembling a Shedding Snake.
Aelia used a Silver Spoon to lift the broken arm of the Witch Doll. Under the moonlight, the faded Amethyst Bracelet suddenly glowed with a green phosphorescence—this chain, embedded with Ice Spirit Stone Fragments, had clearly been burned in the fireplace along with the Love Poem note on that fateful night of her Eighteenth Birthday.
"The scent of Northern Cedar resin," Aelia murmured, bringing the broken piece close to her nose. The unique Preservative aroma of the Ice Coffin Clan stung her tear ducts.
She recalled when San Zi, Lucius, and Zhong Gu were unconscious, and those ice silk worms that crawled out from their skin carried the same bitter fragrance.
Suddenly, Luna's guardian spirit swooped down; the tail feathers of a Goldfinch brushed against the remnants of the Witch Doll, igniting an Azure Blue Flame in an instant.
Aelia watched as the Frostflower Totem emerged from the flames—it was precisely the Curse Mark that Second Son had accidentally triggered in the Misty Forest last year. At that time, Leonard's Sword had severed Cursed Vines that bore this Ice Coffin Clan Priestess's exclusive sealing Emblem.
Qin Si suddenly clutched her throat and collapsed to the ground; her Moonstone Necklace resonated with the Witchcraft flames.
Aelia tore off a silver chain and threw it into the fireplace. The sparks that flew splattered across the wool carpet, forming a Northern Territory Map. A flickering Red Dot aligned perfectly with the Black Slime seeping from the Gilded Box.
"Fetch Dragon Blood Ink," Aelia commanded, pressing her Wedding Ring against the center of the Frostflower Totem. Emerging from the Leng Guang emitted by the Ice Spirit Stone was a Blue-Haired Infant sucking its fingers—Leonard's Last Night.
As Qin Si trembled and handed over a silver Ink Bottle, she suddenly used a Hairpin to pierce her Fingertip, letting Blood Pearl drip onto the Amethyst of the Witch Doll—this was a Blood Pact Technique learned from a black market Astrologer years ago to break Eldest Son's curse.
Luna's Loud Cry echoed through the corridor as a Golden Sparrow Guardian Spirit crashed through a Colored Glass Window and dove in.
Aelia watched as an Ice Rose clutched by a Young Girl suddenly bloomed; on its Light Purple petals condensed Luna’s image reflecting Leonard cutting his Palm to feed Ice Coffin.
She pressed the bloodied remnants of Witchcraft against the back of a Naming Contract. The Parchment automatically folded into a Raven shape, its Beak pointing towards the Astrology Tower in the castle's Northwest Corner.
"Madam, the guard at Emerald Marsh said..." The voice of the Shadow Guard was suddenly frozen in the vent, an arrow made of ice crystals pinning half of his cloak.
Aelia stirred the cooling Evening Primrose Tea with a Silver Spoon, the surface of the Tea Soup revealing an Emerging Celestial Chart that gradually overlapped with the Rainbow Mist above Luna's Cradle, casting the outline of the Ice Coffin Clan Sanctuary on the wall.
Qin Si suddenly recoiled in terror as the black Black Slime tainted by her Xiu Xie began to grow thorny vines along the floor's Gap.
Aelia threw the Naming Contract towards the vines, and the Raven-shaped Parchment let out a Screech, shattering the dense Frostflower Incantation on the vines.
As the last piece of ice crystal fell to the ground, Luna's guardian spirit suddenly released a Rainbow Bubble, each bubble shimmering with the New Moon Birthmark that bled from the forehead of a Blue-Haired Infant.
"Prepare Cedar Essential Oil for a bath." Aelia tore down the curtains to wrap around her Witchcraft severed limb; the Dark Night Rose embroidered with Gold Thread instantly wilted into Ashes upon contact with Black Slime.
She dipped her Wedding Ring into Dragon Blood Ink, watching as the violent Wind and Snow emerging from the surface of the Ice Spirit Stone gradually coalesced into Leonard and the Silver-Robed Woman standing side by side in Leonard's Last Night—the flower from her hair, a Moonlight Rose, was indeed this year's first bloom from Morning Dew Manor.
As Midnight Cold Wind crashed through the intricately carved wooden window with Ice Shards, Aelia sliced open her left Palm amidst the steaming mist of her bath.
Blood dripped into the Cedar Essential Oil's Shan Na, and on the surface of the bathwater emerged a scene from that night when she was eighteen—Leonard had severed a Moonlight Rose with Leonard's Sword, which now slowly overlapped with the flower at the temple of the Silver-Robed Woman in this memory illusion.
As Qin Si stuffed the dried Blood Pact Parchment back into the Gilded Box, she suddenly discovered that residual ice crystals at the Bottom of the Box's Dark Compartment were spelling out Luna's name.
Aelia gazed at the vanishing illusion on the surface of the bathwater when a Blood Pearl frozen on her Wedding Ring suddenly rolled off, leaving a Crescent Scorch Mark on the teak floor.
When a seventh crack echoed from the direction of the Cellar's Ice Layer, Luna's Cradle erupted in a burst of Rainbow Light; within its Halo, a Rotating Star Map perfectly aligned with the fracture of her Witch Doll's severed limb—just like a key meticulously crafted by the God of Fate fitting into its lock.
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