Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 776

As Shannon mentioned, a childling was born with special abilities and qualities, often associated with wisdom, potential, and enlightenment, making them more mature than ordinary kids their age.

When Zane turned three, he discovered he had a childling's fate from Celeste. She educated him on what that was, secretly made him a substitute childling, and taught him how to use the substitute to ward off maladies.

For a while, he actually lived as healthy as ordinary kids. Yet, to get Celeste's care, he would sometimes pretend to be sick.

Though she was aware, she refrained from blaming him. Instead, she decided to play along and even subtly imparted her unique knowledge to him.

Zane was unsure how she knew all these things, but she was good at it. In fact, nobody in the family knew about it.

She forbade him from disclosing that information to the family, and he obediently complied despite not knowing the reason.

Celeste told him the substitute childling could not shield him from his impending calamity, but she would resolve it for him on the day the catastrophe arrived. Once she dispelled the misfortune for him, he could live like an ordinary person from then on.

However, the unexpected happened.

A mysterious person abducted Shannon, and Celeste never returned. She'd failed to uphold her promise to him, but Zane didn't resent her. After all, she left behind a substitute childling for him.

He survived despite not mitigating the calamity. Just as Celeste wished, he lived a good life.