Chapter 367 – There Will Always Be Someone Who Accepts You, Just Like Us

Several days later.

Within these few days, the Southern Clan Alliance occupied Tongjun City to rest and recuperate. Under Hu Shan’s call and persuasion, other clans from the north also continuously poured in to join them.

They had basically reached an unprecedented scale of resistance, and the beast clan army was on the verge of marching.

And during these few days, Ning Yechen had been relaxing leisurely in a courtyard, lying comfortably on a rocking chair, accompanying his wife and child.

Although he had come to the Beast Realm to investigate, it was also equivalent to taking his wife and child on a trip. He was in no hurry to end this journey. Besides, he also wanted to see what a certain someone was up to…

On the other side of the courtyard, Xiyao stood at the doorway, her eyes staring blankly at Luo Hongye, who was riding on Erxia and playing happily with Luo Ruying.

After several days of recuperation and treatment, the injuries on her body had improved slightly. Although the black spots on her body still oozed blood from time to time, at least it was no longer as severe as the festering and worsening before, and it was not as painful.

Watching Luo Ruying and Luo Hongye, mother and daughter, playing together, a strange feeling couldn’t help but arise in Xiyao’s heart…

During these few days together, she had discovered that Luo Ruying and Luo Hongye were practically inseparable. Luo Ruying would play with Luo Hongye, hold her and feed her, and when she was tired, she would let her nestle peacefully in her arms to sleep…

It showed her a mother-daughter relationship she had never seen before…

So, a mother and child can play together like this, and she can snuggle in her mother’s arms to sleep…? Why did Mother never treat her like this…

Xiyao couldn’t help but feel a sense of envy in her heart, and she involuntarily blurted out:

“How nice…”

“Hmm? What’s wrong, Xiyao?”

Luo Ruying happened to hear Xiyao’s soft murmur, and walked over with Luo Hongye in her arms to ask.

“N-Nothing…”

“It’s just… I think your relationship with your child is really nice, that’s all…”

A trace of panic flashed across Xiyao’s expression as she averted her head and replied in a low voice.

“Of course, that’s because Ye Ye is my child.”

Luo Ruying smiled gently, lovingly stroking the little cheek of Luo Hongye in her arms.

Sensing Xiyao’s desolate and lonely expression, she spoke again to comfort her:

“If your mother were still here, she would definitely treat you the same way.”

However, she never expected these words to make Xiyao instantly lose her voice in anger.

“Impossible!”

“People like that would only abandon me, they wouldn’t even care if I lived or died!”

“Because their child is just an ugly monster infected with Woe Demon Poison!”

Xiyao said, looking down at her own black-spotted arms, her expression fierce and angry.

Luo Ruying and Luo Hongye, mother and daughter, looked with astonishment at the suddenly enraged Xiyao.

This was the first time since she began treating her that Luo Ruying had seen such an angry and terrifying Xiyao. Usually, she had always been modest and polite, and somewhat taciturn…

Xiyao also realized that she had suddenly lost control of her emotions, almost to the point of her cultivation aura bursting out, and she hurriedly apologized in a low voice:

“I’m sorry, I was impulsive…”

“Please just pretend I didn’t say anything.”

“It’s alright.”

“Xiyao, can you tell me your story?”

“Your parents… did they abandon you?”

Luo Ruying, holding Luo Hongye, sat down beside Xiyao and asked gently as she looked at her.

Xiyao averted her head, originally not wanting to answer this question, but she couldn’t resist Luo Ruying’s gentle gaze that was intently waiting for her answer. In the end, she still reluctantly nodded.

“My parents abandoned me when I was born…”

“Because I have a Woe Demon Poison body that everyone fears…”

“A person infected with Woe Demon Poison since birth…”

Hearing this, Luo Ruying was for a moment at a loss for how to comfort her. Once infected with Woe Demon Poison, the only result awaiting one was death…

For Xiyao’s parents to choose to abandon her, whether for their own safety or because they couldn’t bear to watch her die in pain, was understandable; she couldn’t say any words of blame.

But in the end, abandoning their own child, this point was an indisputable fact.

Luo Ruying looked down at the nimble and cute Luo Hongye in her arms, gently stroking her head. If her own child were infected with Woe Demon Poison, she probably wouldn’t be able to bear abandoning her.

“Just as you said, Xiyao, perhaps your parents really did abandon you, but perhaps they also had some unspeakable reason, and that’s why they had no choice but to do it…”

After a moment’s thought, Luo Ruying still tried to comfort Xiyao in a soft voice.

Xiyao snorted coldly, her face full of disdain.

“Hmph… unspeakable reason…!”

“I only know they abandoned me!”

“That! Is the final result!”

“But you still miss them in your heart, don’t you?”

“In your coma, you kept calling for ‘Mother’…”

Luo Ruying sensed the monstrous hatred in Xiyao’s heart, and couldn’t help but furrow her beautiful brows and ask with confusion.

“You’ve misunderstood…”

“The one I was calling was not the person who abandoned me!”

“I was calling for the mother who adopted me!”

“Only she is my mother!” Xiyao explained with disdain.

How could she possibly call the people who abandoned her ‘Mother’! Because of them, she had lived a very ‘fulfilling’ life since she was a child!

She grew up in a mass grave. To survive, she did everything; to survive, she ate everything! It was because of them that she was who she was today!

The thing she hated and regretted most in her heart was that after she had achieved some success in her cultivation, the pair who had abandoned her had long since died! They didn’t even give her the chance to take revenge with her own hands!

Luo Ruying hadn’t expected Xiyao’s hatred for her parents to be so deep. Just as she was about to comfort Xiyao again, Yue Qingyou had already arrived.

“Madam, the medicine you were decocting is ready.”

“Alright, thank you for your trouble, Qingyou. I’ll go right now.”

Luo Ruying put down Luo Hongye, who was in her arms, and stood up, preparing to get the medicine.

This decoction was specially for Xiyao. Although its effect wasn’t great, it could at least reduce her pain when her body ached.

Before leaving, Luo Ruying couldn’t help but stop, turn back, and leave Xiyao with a few words:

“Xiyao, I know you hate your parents very much, and I can’t persuade you to let go of the hatred in your heart.”

“But since they have already passed away, why not forget the past and start a new life?”

“People are afraid of you, but there will always be someone who accepts you, just like us~!”

After speaking, Luo Ruying gave Xiyao a gentle smile and turned to leave. She really didn’t want to see a young woman like this live the rest of her life in hatred, only to finally pass away in the pain of the Woe Demon Poison’s outbreak.

Xiyao stared blankly at Luo Ruying’s departing back, her heart a mixture of emotions.

Easy for you to say…! Apart from Mother, no one has ever been willing to accept her! She doesn’t need anyone else’s acceptance either! As long as Mother is by her side, it’s enough!

I just need to take Luo Hongye, and I can immediately return to Mother’s side…!

Xiyao’s eyes secretly glanced at Luo Hongye, who was sitting beside her, taking out two large fruits from her immortal ring while swinging her little legs.

Luo Ruying had left, just leaving the child by her side…

Isn’t this an opportunity?

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