Her little bundle was nothing more than a child, nothing more than a child!
These past months, even if he pretended to be strong, he must have been scared deep down, right? After all, he was just a small child who had left his mother!
"Wah! Mother, I don’t need the Illusory Sea, I actually don’t need the Illusory Sea, nor to kill anyone... but... wah... I also brought soone out... Mother... I brought you a father... He’s sick! Sick to the point of dying... Wah... I dragged him and escaped, lots of people are chasing us, so many are looking for us! They even stepped on my toes, wah... Mother, I’m so scared..." The little child recounted in fits and starts, crying heart-wrenchingly.
Yet, when Gu Changsheng heard those words, she imdiately stiffened like a log!
I brought you a father!
I brought you a father!
Father...
This sentence echoed over and over in Gu Changsheng’s mind, shattering the joy of reuniting with her little bundle into pieces!
Father...
In her past and present life, she stood at the top of the Pyramid, controlling the wind and calling the rain, with boundless splendor. If there was anything she regretted in her life, it was her parents!
She, in fact, had always lacked parental love!
Thus, when Mr. Ban Shan wanted to take her in as his foster daughter, she agreed without hesitation—she was truly happy from the bottom of her heart at that ti!
But now, the gap that had always been there in her life was being filled in such a way!
She was actually scared!
Imnsely scared!
"Who did you bring... Who did you bring out?" Her red lips trembling lightly, Gu Changsheng took a deep breath before mustering the courage to ask.
"Grandpa! My grandpa, your father, Mother! Mother, this ti it’s real! It’s your biological father!" Upon hearing this, the little bundle imdiately stopped crying, batting his large eyes as he spoke.
"Then... where is he?" Her heart tightening, Gu Changsheng bent her head to look at the little bundle in her arms, murmuring her question softly.
"Uh... where is he?" At this question, the little bundle imdiately started looking around, and then, with a drooping face, he stuttered, "The Old Handso Guy said you were on this mountain, so I ran over here. I think, I think I left them behind... wah... Mother, I didn’t an to, I just missed you so much, wanted to see you so badly, that I forgot about them..."
Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled.
You can’t escape, you can’t hide! After all, you can’t escape or hide!
If that’s the case, then face the storm head-on!
"They, who are they? Who else is there?" Detecting sothing amiss from her little bundle’s words, Gu Changsheng imdiately asked.
"The Old Handso Guy and the Old Devout Woman!" The little bundle replied imdiately, clinging excitedly to his mother’s clothing, "Mother, Mother, the Old Devout Woman is so powerful! She can control the wind and summon Skeleton Ghosts! She fought off so many bad people! Mother, she’s really, really amazing, although she doesn’t like to talk to people..."
Looking at her little bundle’s drooping face, Gu Changsheng curved her lips and smiled bitterly, "That Old Devout Woman, is she the one with a Skull Head cane?"
"Yes, Mother! How amazing you are! How did you know?" Upon hearing this, the little bundle imdiately nodded.
"Because Mother has seen her before..." Gu Changsheng lowered her gaze.
"Mother, that Old Devout Woman is my Old Handso Guy’s wet nurse. She’s really, really amazing! She can carry the Old Handso Guy, and I can’t, I can only drag him along..." The little bundle hung his head low and pouted, feeling dissatisfied with his inability to lift up his own Old Handso Guy.
"My little bundle is still young! When my little bundle grows up, he’ll be able to carry him..." Gu Changsheng closed her eyes, comforting the little bundle, and then cast her gaze towards the dark void in the distance, murmuring softly, "Yaoyao, he... what kind of person is he?"
"He? Are you talking about Grandpa, Mother?" The little bundle blinked.
Gu Changsheng gently nodded.
"Grandpa is the Old Handso Guy! Mother, the Old Handso Guy is really handso! His eyes look like this! His nose like this! His mouth like this! In short, the Old Handso Guy is so handso and good-looking, he gives off a really comfortable feeling! Uh... like a Spring Breeze!" The little bundle gesticulated while excitedly describing, then his little face suddenly drooped, looking quite aggrieved, "But that an Old Devout Woman tied up the Old Handso Guy in a dark room, with such thick iron chains, and force-fed him dicine. The Old Handso Guy was already in bad health, and that Old Devout Woman made him cough up blood all day long. I’ve used up all the lifesaving dicine you gave , Mother, and he hasn’t gotten better... Mother, you will save the Old Handso Guy, won’t you? You won’t let him die, right? He’s your father, Mother, you will definitely save him, right?"
Watching her little bundle go from gesticulating to current extre anxiety, Gu Changsheng’s eyes suddenly moistened. She shook her head slowly, speaking softly, "I don’t know, I don’t know if I can save him..."
She could save a person, but not a life!
All of this had slipped from her control. How could she make promises?
Success lies with man, fate with heaven! What if her plans conflict with heaven?
What should she do? What could she do?
"Mother, how could you possibly not be able to save him! You are so, so powerful! The Old Handso Guy is such a good person, you must, you must save him! He is your father, Mother! His na is Taitian, Wuchang Taitian! It’s different from the na on the ancestral tablet at ho, Mother!" At this, the little bundle beca even more nervous, urgently speaking up.
At these words, Gu Changsheng’s stance wavered, nearly losing her balance.
Gu Taitian!
Wuchang Taitian!
Fenghuang Ruoshui!
Li Ruoshui!
Hehe... what a ridiculous coincidence! How ridiculous she was to consider these as re coincidences!
This isn’t coincidence! It’s destiny!
She seed to have never, ever escaped the capricious hand of fate!
No escape, no redemption!
Gu Changsheng turned woodenly, looking towards the ditating Little Monk Bu Jie not far beside her, speaking in a careful, even fragile voice laden with hope, "Shang Xie, Shang Xie, can you save him, can you save , can you save all of us, right?"
Right?
Upon hearing this, the ditating Little Monk Bu Jie slowly opened his eyes that seed to understand the ways of the world, gazing at the woman in front of him brimming with hope, the unmistakable compassion in his eyes, he brought his hands together, bowed his head, and chanted in a low Buddhist mantra, "Amitabha, this poor monk... this poor monk does not know..."
This was the first ti, that even Little Monk Bu Jie responded with hesitation.
Hearing this, Gu Changsheng almost stumbled, and had it not been for the little stead bun hurriedly stepping forward to support her, she would have certainly fallen to the ground.
She understood Little Monk Bu Jie! He either remained silent when asked, or he gave answers that could resolve everything!
Even he is uncertain!
Even her family’s cheat-like existence is uncertain!
What could she do?
At this mont, Gu Changsheng suddenly felt an overwhelming sense of powerlessness!
She did not know what a Defiance of Heaven Tribulation looked like, but she had heard the Divine Soul of the Dandan Bug ntioning it, an existence even the Dandan Bug feared! How defiant the Dandan Bug is, and even it fears, who in this world wouldn’t be afraid?
"Mother, what’s wrong?" The little stead bun, seeing her suddenly beco so fragile, might not understand the reason, but he quieted down exceptionally, his chubby little hands gripping his mother’s, his round eyes filled with worry, he asked softly.
"Mother is fine, Mother is waiting, waiting for him to co to see ," Gu Changsheng shook her head with a tragic look and whispered. After a while, she finally gathered her spirits, raised her hand to stroke the worried little head beside her, with a bitter smile, she said, "Yaoyao, you did well, and you used Illusory Sea well. That person, he’s the one you must save! Even if it costs a lot of blood, he must be saved! He is your grandfather, your biological grandfather! He is... my father, my biological father!"
Even at the cost of everything, even at the cost of life, she would save him!
Because, in past and present lives, he has always been her father!
He’s the unpredictable old man from Old Handso Guy’s mouth!
Gu Changsheng lowered her gaze, she had already lost her mother in this tiline, she absolutely would not watch as she lost her father too!
Absolutely not!
Even in death, she would not!
"Mother, Old Handso Grandpa is really nice, he would hold to sleep, tell lots and lots of stories, feed , and teach to read. Mother, you will save him, right?" The little stead bun upon hearing this first nodded, then spoke again full of hope, "Mother, I already have a grandpa, but I still want a biological grandpa, am I being too greedy?"
"No! You are not greedy, because Mother is even greedier than you!" Gu Changsheng responded, shaking her head defiantly.
Even her foster father could not fill the void of the blood connection she lacked, that kind of familial bond!
She has always been so greedy, desiring to grasp more!
From afar, the rustling of feet treading on leaves could be heard.
The sound was neither loud nor soft, but it reached Gu Changsheng’s ears without missing a beat!
She could clearly hear the breaths of two people, feel the presence of two people approaching from far to near, she could even hear her own pounding heartbeat, feel the undulations of her chest!
He, after all, has co!
After a brief reunion with her son!
He finally arrived!
Across lives, the one man she could never ask for, is slowly drawing closer to her...
The day of your reunion as father and daughter, is the ti the Defiance of Heaven Tribulation descends!
The words of Little Monk Bu Jie suddenly resounded in Gu Changsheng’s mind, like a thunderclap, shattering her pretense of strength!
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