"Wh-what? His mark is... abnormal?"
Li Fu exclaimed as the physician was giving his evaluation of Li Fu's newborn nervously. He pushed the physician aside and rushed towards the room where his wife gave birth. The wife was, as expected, sleeping peacefully.
It had been five hours since the newborn came into the world, but only now did the physician find the time to examine it. For some reason, he got much more jobs than he usually did, resulting in lack of time to address each one instantly. The Zhou clan, of course, was his priority.
The first-ranked minor clan, the Li clan was much lower ranked than the first-ranked major clan, the Zhou clan. Even though they were both big clans, the disparity in both their strength and wealth was not something to be ignored.
Even if he wanted to go and examine the Li clan head's newborn first, he had an obligation to prioritize the higher-ranked ones.
Initially, Li Fu harbored malicious thoughts towards this physician, but now that he discovered that his son was potentially a marked genius, he couldn't care less about him. His face was now filled with joy as he saw his baby's mark. It was very weird, with a part of every single mark appearing on it.
The baby was not sleeping, like his mother. Instead, he had an indifferent expression on his face, as if he was used to being born.
"Oh, Bai er...!"
This baby's given name was Bai, and naturally, his surname was Li like his father's.
Li Fu was overjoyed and couldn't wait to announce it to the rest of the city. With his son being a marked genius, surely the city would support the Li clan, making it rise even more through the ranks!
However, even if he was getting impatient, he knew that this news would be bad to some of the clans, especially the ones who don't have good relations with them, the Li clan.
As such, he needed to wait until this son of his was strong enough to defend himself so that none would be able to assassinate him. But given that his son was a marked genius, this was just a matter of time.
Rushing out of the room, Li Fu paid the physician more than they agreed on and asked him a request.
"Keep this matter a secret, or else..."
The physician nodded his head rapidly, not even daring to oppose the man in front of him. Even though the physician had a slightly higher position than the commoners, he still couldn't compare to the clan heads' position, not to mention that of a major clan!
.....
Night came.
The Zhou clan was celebrating the birth of the newborn baby of the clan head with an unorthodox method - drinking in this tiny pub. Tiny for them, at least.
Coincidentally, the physician was also there, complaining about his wife. He was obviously drunk.
"Him again?"
"He just won't stop..."
The owner of the pub was standing behind the counter, serving wine to everyone ordering. He, of course, noticed the physician's incessant rambling. This time was no exception.
Another drunkard conversed with him. This was the one that always asked about what he did earlier.
"Hey, hey! Yo-you examined some... some babies, right?"
As always, the drunk physician would answer this drunkard for some reason.
"Yeah..."
"Whose babies did you examine?"
