"He was so heartbroken until he fell into despair and unintentionally he owes your stepsister a favor. That was why he accepted your father suggestion to marry her" He whispered secretively while his eyes gleam with revelation.

Senja eyes were open wide and her jaws slightly open. Who would have thought, behind his calmness and emotionless feeling that he always gave off, he has mellow dramatic like heartbroken stories.

"That cold man like him had been heartbroken? He actually knew what despair is?" Her tone was raised slightly. Elder Dam abruptly covered her mouth and gesture her to keep it low then Senja nodded in understanding.

"He just appears like that if he was with his subordinate. He is a commander of millions armies after all, he has to be strict and dominance. However…" Faint smile appear in the corner of his lips and his voice became mysterious.

Senja looked at her grandfather expectantly, wishing to discovered different side of this man. And then elder Dam continues still with his low voice. "… However, he is a shy and kindhearted man"

"…" Senja almost choked on her saliva.

My dear grandfather, from what perspectives your judgement is come from? Are we talking about the same person?

"I know you don't believe me"

Of course I don't, shy and kindhearted? Those words are too much.

"I know him since he was child. I am the one who trained him when he first time stepped in the military compound and taught him to hold a sword. He just seven years old at that time"

"Seven years old?!" Kids in my era is playing gadget at that age. But, he was actually playing with sword in military compound? Is that normal in this era? "He was too young to learn martial arts, wasn't it?"

"Normally, the age to training in military is 14 or 15 years old. But, he came to me willingly and asked me to trained him"

See? He wasn't normal since he was a little kid!

"I got confused by his request. Like you said, he was too young. But, I couldn't help but feeling proud to have both princes of this kingdom be my disciple. After I got permission from emperor that Tianyou would trained in military at his early age, I was very eager to trained him everything that I knew and he never disappointed me"

There was indulgence and satisfactory in his voice upon talking about Xiao Tianyou, his black eyes gleam with anticipation of excitement. He was like talking about his secret treasure that he very appreciated.

"And what kind of story behind his heartbroken? Seeing his status and capability, actually there is woman who capable enough to reject him?" It's true, with his status as a prince even if he has 2 noses who would dare to turned him down?

"No, no rejection" Elder Dam shook his head sadly. "His wife was passed away 5 years ago"

"What? He was a marriage man?" Senja stunned upon hearing this revelation.

"Yes, he was"

"What happened to his wife? Was she sick?"

Elder Dam shook his head again and the air around him turned gloomy. "It was a tragedy. His wife was being murdered by a powerful clan"

Senja head turned dizzy, life in this world simply a mess. The more she knew the more shock she was by the revelation.

She never has been thought that something horrible like that will have happened to him. "But how? He is a war demon right? How could be someone managed to kill his wife? Aside from that, he is also from imperial family" wasn't the security for them very tight?

"At that time he wasn't known yet as a Demon war, he was a brilliant general from the east. In anyway, he was offended misty cloud clan"

"Misty cloud clan?"