Its value may be second only to that of a biological father.
But now that the child's natural father, Conchobar, had been dealt with, in other words, the man before him was now the highest-ranking father!
Even Fergus, who had raised Cu Chulainn to adulthood, had no choice but to cede his sharp edge before his stepfather, Jiang Lu, and back away from the splendor of that morality.
Although he was the foster father, his affinity with Cu Chulainn as a father-son pair had always been higher than that of Conchobar, the incognito biological father, something he had always been proud of.
But overnight, everything had changed.
Fergus was in Connacht, while Jiang Lu was right beside Cu Chulainn. Now having become an even higher-ranking father, it was inevitable that his father-son affinity with Cu Chulainn would drop from the top rank to the second rank over time.
How could he bear this?