"Answer me, Mom!"
This is how you lie.
The names of children were completely made up. You can probably tell from the lazy resemblance. I just mashed Arza's name a bit and boom, instant emotional anchor.
As for the Book of Primordial Kings… yeah, that was kind of truth.
Morvana's family really did inherit that ancient thing and she had been obsessed with cracking it open ever since she became matriarch because of her curiosity and ego, the two most reliable poisons in existence.
But here's the fun part, the book's existence was known only to the matriarchs. Not even the Demon King knew about it. Which means… by mentioning it, I basically just dropped a nuke in her trust radar.
In the novel, she never managed to open it until she handed it down to Arza.
And then Arza… vanished.
So, yeah, I had no clue what the book actually held.
But if I could weaponize her guilt, make her mourn imaginary grandchildren and fear her own curiosity, then why the hell not?
